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Assassination Classroom has now become my favourite anime of all time. The first season makes the entire thing seem like a pure comedy anime , but anyone who has finished both seasons will know this is not the case. The second season is absolutely amazing , just as you think you know how the anime will end there are 2 huge twists in the story. All of the questions are answered in season 2. Assassination Classroom also has very little filler. When a certain activity or situation does take up an entire episode , it is always for a very good reason or important to ... the story. Do not watch season 2 without having seen season 1 , It will have little to no impact on you and you will probably be quite confused. With 47 episodes in season 1 and 2 in total , the length is perfect. It fits every detail in without falling short and without having a ridiculous amount of episodes. Korosensei's lessons are at times mind blowing and the ending to season 2 is the best anime ending I have ever seen .

Sword Art Online was only the fourth anime I had ever watched. At the time I had a lot of respect for the anime upon my completion , However looking back I am now able to see the many issues with Sword Art Online.

The characters in Sword Art Online are nothing short of dissapointing. I entered this anime with extremely high expectations as I loved the premise. To be fair , my expectations were fulfilled for a small portion of the anime , but after a couple episodes the entire thing began to fall apart worse than an unlawful marriage.

The main focus of every ... episode seems to be Kirito befriending another female player , make her feel love and then neglect them a couple episodes later. This is evident with Silica and then Lizbeth. This cliche is totally transparent and makes the situation feel more faked than a curious college girls sexuality.

The classic Tsundere behaviour of Asuna is beyond noticable at first , which is fine , but then it begins to go ridiculously overboard. It develops quicker than a teen girls breasts , as it goes from Asuna being furious at Kirito for using her real name , to Asuna threatening to kill herself if Kirito leaves her alone for an extended period of time.

Yui as a character is more useless than a knitted condom. She provides the anime and the plot with absolutely nothing and as far as I can see , Yui was a sad attempt to try and push a couple more episodes into this anime.

The stupidity of some of the characters at times during this anime is unbelievable. Asuna does not know how item storage works after a year of gameplay and Kirito lies about his level countless times to fit in but this ultimately backfires.

I have said all that is to be said about the characters of Sword Art Online , now onto the flawed system and mechanics of the anime itself.

The skips that the anime takes between episodes is ridiculous. The worst ones were a six month time period and 28 floors of a leap between one episode , and an 8 month skip between one more episode. They would have been much better off to include more of the floors in the episodes instead of the prick acting that goes on with Yui as this means the viewer saw very little of the floor bosses.

I could write an actual novel about the plot holes in this anime but for now the most memorable ones were the food plot hole and the pain plot hole. Kirito states that ''It's too bad the food here only satisfies your hunger virtually''. However for a good 4 episodes of the anime the characters indulge in all sorts of bullshit recipes from Asunas cooking skills. They then state they are ''stuffed''. As for the pain plot hole. It is made quite clear that pain isnt felt as pain in the game , but yet whenever somebody dies they grimace as their avatar is blown to smitherines.

Speaking of skills within Sword Art Online , they are a bit overdone. We hear nothing of skills in the beginning of the anime , but as it continues we hear of cooking , detective and even a listening skill. (All of which Kirito has mastered because of reasons) . These skills and plot holes combined with the plot convieniences of Clyde and Crystals made some episodes of the anime complete filler , rendering them unwatchable.

S P O I L E R A H E A D

As if the ending of Sword Art online was not flawed enough , as Kirito stands up and walks down the hospital hallway despite having lay inactive for over 2 years... The viewer also had to witness an attempted rape scene at the end of the anime. By the end of this anime my urge for death was strong enough without having to deal with that scene in addition.


Overall Sword Art Online was an excellent anime for about 70 minutes and from there on it slowly diminished into darkness , cracking worse than a failing relationship between an abusive father and his son.

Aku no Hana or ''The flowers of evil'' is an absolutely disgusting creation. I did not notice any charachter development whatsoever. The story follows a perverted young boy who steals another girls panties and brings them home to engage in filthy activity with them. This child is obviously very damaged. The child and his father surround themselves with books , so much so that the house overflows with them. This leaves the mother spiraling into a depression that gets progressively worse as the anime continues.
The poetry supposedly adapted from Les Fleurs du mal is quite scarce. Much of it is changed and so ... it gives it not a modern feel , but a fake one. The flowers of evil manga is a much more enjoyable experience than the anime in my opinion as it goes more in depth into issues raised and is obviously absent of rotoscope animation.

Pokemon The origin is an absolutely unbelievable production. To this day I am unable to comprehend how something could be strung together as badly as this is. First off I was forced to experience this excuse for an anime on youtube as this anime was nowhere to be found online elsewhere, it was more scarce than a surplus in a benefit household. Pokemon The origin is a butchered retelling of one of the pokemon games but which , i have no idea as this ''plot'' seems to twist and turn often . The anime frequently veers off in whatever direction it desires , leaving the ... viewer confused , irritated but most importantly ...dissapointed. The ''story'' follows Red and Blue and some extremely poorly drawn verison of Brock which is frankly quite scary. I was extremely distraught to see that the team rocket uniform was the black version and that there was an absence of team rocket pokeballs.
Overall the anime was rushed beyond belief as what usually would take place over 2 or 3 seasons takes place in a couple of minutes in pokemon the origin. Everything about this anime makes me more suicidal then I have ever been in the past and I can truly say it is the blight of the franchise and that it should be removed from dispersal or else corrected as a full 120 episode season with a new artist.
I entered pokemon Origins with very high hopes as I love the pokemon franchise from the bottom of my heart, However I left the series feeling frightened , violated , dissapointed and quite sick. I had the urge to vomit as I turned off my computer.
I really expected more from the name of such a classic franchise , but as my grandfather once said ... Beggars cant be choosers.