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May 4, 2014
An anime that is supposedly based more upon Shirow Masamune's original manga, it delievers so much intelligence that is rarely seen in anime nowadays, and some emotion too. Overall, it's one hell of a thrill-ride that does not dissapoint GITS fans like me.
The plots of every single episode are just so well thought out. Sure there might be little off-story episodes, but they all contribute to the entire main plot. The whole entire thing is one confusing mindfuck, in the good way that makes you think on a mental level rather than some confusing nonsensicle thing like certain anime do
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for some supposed "Artist" method, which is fine something but some overdo it way too much.
Enough of that though, the character in Ghost In the Shell are there, yet for some reason they all display such unique roles for themselves that can easily differentiate them. This is only my first watch so I didn't gain every bit of information by default yet. But still, I can just feel the characters are very well thought out as well to play their roles and also drive the story to different lengths! Remember Batou almost killing that one guy he remembered from war, or even Motoko shooting the shit out of that white-colroed mech for getting revenge on Togusa, it's all just pure awesome stuff.
The art simply has such a great style to it. Especially for a 2001 TV anime, it's very well damn good! No, it's fantastical and inspiring to me, and perhaps many other works of entertainment! Sure the character art may be simplified at times, but this is I.G. producing a TV anime, not madhouse producing Yoshiaki's movies like Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust or Highlander: The Search for Vengeance. I.G. really sets one good standard on pushing the boundaries in art, which is shown here in Stand Alone Complex, but especally in Blood: The Last Vampire or that fantastic visual ride, Ghost In The Shell: Innocence.
The OST in Stand Alone Complex, many of the individual songs are really works of fantastic art. Almost every song is just a new feel, a new chapter in something. They’re all unique and quite fun to listen to. Perhaps one of the greatest Original Sound Tracks I've ever heard. Then that would have to compete with Metroid Prime’s OST.
Overall, Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex is one landmark anime that should never be forgotten. Complex plot filled with philosophy, different ideologies such as politics, great action, hard sci-fi feel where many things are given in detail, great cast of characters, rarely any slow pacing, and an interesting ending to top it all off. It truly it something I rarely can say for anything: A Masterpiece.
10/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Feb 18, 2014
Kaiketsu Zorori, based off the children's book series by Yutaka Hara had a very fun anime, even for an older viewer like myself.
Story:
The story is fairly simple: A anthropomorphic fox named Zorori wants to become an evil king and own a castle and marry a beautiful bride to succeed the goals he said to his deceased mother. Although two boars, Zorori, and Noshishi, tag along as his servants.
It's a silly little story, but I rather liked it for the execution of it made it fun to watch in 52 episodes despite it's simplicity.
Art:
The art is actually
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good, nothing much to be said about it but it has a kiddy feel to it and is well-drawn for the most part. It's use of vivid colors and simple background art just fits all in very well.
Sound:
The sound effects were funny and good to say the most. Although the music, such as "Zorori March", was rather fun to sing-along to. So it was pretty fun overall.
Character:
The characters Noshishi and Ishishi may lack character development, but they do serve a purpose to get into Zorori's character depth. It wasn't the deepest, but it was fairly interesting to figure out Zorori and see some of him grow and somewhat develop 3-dimension-ally throughout the series.
The large cast of characters appear at certain times too, such as his rival Gaon, but not much to say there besides a good set-up.
Enjoyment:
I really did enjoy watching each episodes. For all the reasons listed, it just fell in place to my personal interests and had made it worth the watch . All the silliness and some good comedy made me laugh, the somewhat suspenseful parts really got me into it as well.
Overall:
Kaiketsu Zorori is a hit-or-miss thing, but most likely great for children as that's what it was aimed for. For me, it was an anime for just enjoyment and relaxation for it's silly-fun story and characters. I felt it was worth my watch!
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Jan 20, 2014
A great artistic piece done directed by Ryosuke (who also directed Gasaraki and VOTOMS). Upon first watch, Blue Gender became a top favorite for me. Upon second watch, it still was a top favorite for me.
Story:
The story may not be very original with alien bugs vs. humans in a post-apocalyptic world. Starship Troopers had that done apparently, but Blue Gender I felt had executed itself very well. It starts off with Yuji, waking up to an Earth that is overrun by aliens call "Blue". As the story goes on, we learn as much as Yuji does, and see that
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the characters start to drive the story in different ways than the actual story itself, which is a plus. The pacing is pretty quick, with maybe a few unneeded episode, for me that was the one in the desert, although Dice was a good character to meet, but that's for talking about later.
Art:
The art style I really did like alot. It had a semi-realistic art style, Seinin-like and some nice double-shading. Although the art is the lowest point in Blue Gender. Some parts just looked very bland which were very noticeable. And drawing some characters had quite a bit of flaws, with uneven eyes or other proportions, especially from far-away but they did look pretty funny at least, and goes to show that this show came from good ol' hand-drawing.
Another plus though was the designs of the Blue and the Armored Shrikes. They were pretty great and I really wanted to know much more about them, sadly there isn't much.
Sound:
The sound effects in Blue Gender were executed quite well. Great, horrific sounds and crunching and blood splatters, all added to the fun of Blue Gender.
The OST though, that's where everything falls in place. It is fantastic, each piece of music gives a devastating feeling to the atmosphere, giving it a "scary" feel if I should say. This, I feel, is how horror anime should have their soundtrack.
Character:
Now for one of the higher parts of the show: The characters. I felt that everyone was about as realistic as they could be, well at least most.
Yuji Kaido especially, who flips his personality about 4 times throughout the 26-episode series, was one hell of a fun experience to enjoy. His adaption to such a post-apocalyptic world was also enjoyable to see, and how he had wanted to help out. Of course he questions the political aspects of it and Second Earth, which is something I would personally do as well.
Marlene also undergone much development, with having more of a "heart" as Yuji had at the beginning. She learns from others despite what she was thoughts, questioning if Second Earth was actually any good. It was also an enjoyable thing to see.
I could go on and on, but overall, the characters are great, they lead the story more than the story telling itself, which makes it much more unique.
Enjoyment:
Blue Gender was very enjoyable to me. I love just about every minute of it, even the episodes I didn't like so much, but I still found things to like for reasons stated before.
Overall:
I had tons of fun watching this anime and re-watching it. Great pacing, great characters, amazing music, good art style, all leads to such an enjoyable anime that I can re-watch over once in a while.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jan 18, 2014
Berserk is one of the best anime out there, which makes it high on my list of favorites.
Story
The story, i'm not sure if it is original or not, but it doesn't matter due to how much I enjoyed it. A lone-wolf character who travels alone and it recruited by force to a mercenary band by force. Guts then shows his impressive skills and proves to be a worthy ally, and then the story goes on without dragging on, nor does it become too complex, but still has much depth to it, even in the 25-episode anime.
The way it's done
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and told is pleasing enough to make me rewatch it and still get kicks every time. This, I feel, is how stories are supposed to be told.
Art
The art to this was quite amazing. The muddy-coloring to it, and the semi-realistic models to everything, some good ol' double-shading, it was quite the thing to see. The animation may be quirky at parts though, but very little it reused and most is just exclusive to each scene.
Sound
The OST to this, I gotta say, was very impressive. Just about all of it's OST was enjoyable. Hell, even the opening theme "Tell Me Why" which most fans hated I felt was pretty great to hear. Along with "Forces" heard in the next-episode scenes. Sometimes none was used which is just fine, adds to the artistic style of it's execution.
Character
The main characters are very well-developed. Each having their own back-story which has good emotional depth to them. And in present-day, each execute their actions well and realistically, of course to a certain point, but nonetheless very entertaining in their choices. It adds to the story, and it's as they're actually leading the story, not the story telling itself, which I'm not much of a fan of.
Enjoyment
I found a ton of enjoyment in Berserk. Great story, great cast of characters, it's all so well-done and executed properly to being an inspiration to me. I watched the series twice and were both very entertaining.
Overall
Berserk is one of the greatest anime I've seen. It's story-telling is enjoyable, characters are well-fleshed out, even in 25 episodes, the OST is simply amazing, and the art is great to look at, especially in the manga which is on a different topic, but still.
I'd definitely recommend this anime to anyone.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jan 18, 2014
Attack on Titan, an anime that looks like it would be interesting and revisit the older days of anime, but instead had wrecked itself up too much to even enjoy and take seriously.
Story
The overall plot to it was not very original overall. It was mediocre for the first part, then quickly got driven into a very poorly executed story and tried to make excuses to build itself back up, only to stay and even worsen it.
I was hoping for a humans vs. monsters thing exclusively, but instead the plot-twist where Eren is a titan screwed that up very well, and frankly
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I found very very poorly done. The story drags on too much as well, with long-talks of characters, slow-moving episodes, just anything you'd see in an average Shonen anime. I felt it did try to be something other than a typical Shonen, sadly it tried too hard and became what it was put out not to be.
Of course there were also unrealistic aspects to where I could not take serious, such as Eren killing 3 full-grown men as a child who isn't even a child of war who someone like Guts from Berserk was at least.
Art
The art has some nice effort put into it. The double-shading and double-tinting was something I liked and gave a good old-anime feel, but it still has a dreadful new-anime look to it.
The use of thick outline was just one of the poorest choices I've seen the art in an anime do. What was the point? From far away, the characters looks plastered and painted-over with it. Not only that, just seeing character from far away, or somewhat close is pretty hilarious, of course this is seen in almost every TV anime. Still, the art is nothing to brag about, I didn't like it too much overall.
Sound
The OST to it was one of the better aspects to it. There wasn't a whole lot of interesting music to it, but there were a couple which founded pretty nice. But overall, nothing special in this anime. It failed to impress me as well.
Character
Along with the story, the characters are one of the weakest aspects to it. The characters are thin as cardboard, and have simple goals that seem to blind them from anything else. I feel what they do is unrealistic, such as Eren killing 3 full-grown men, then somehow attaching the knife in 0.5 seconds to a broom.
My memory doesn't serve me so well into the details of characters, but they were very annoying to me for the most part. Even more annoying the Gantz characters who at least had a sense of realism to them by having visible good and bad aspects to them. Attack On Titan does not, just bland, unmemorable characters I barely even remember.
Enjoyment
Being over-hyped, and definitely overrated, I'm going against the majority in saying how much I didn't enjoy all 19 episodes i've watched of this. Very little was enjoyable and impressed me. Even the gore wasn't entertaining for me, everything was executed so awful in almost every way I detested.
Overall
Attack On Titan turns out to be one of the worst anime I've ever seen. I may seem like I'm exaggerating, but for the most part, I am not. I felt 19 episodes wasted me time to where I could have watched some 90's or 80's trashy-but-fun anime like M.D. Geist.
This anime is a perfect example on how anime should not be done, by my opinion but also factually with development on story and characters.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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