It holds my interest, but only because I want to know who the mystery twin is. I mean it's also not bad on it's own for the most part.

I liked the second season much more than the first. Even though it dragged a bit the ending was satisfying.

It felt like a really long epilogue. I didn't dislike it. It was good. I wouldn't watch it again though. Itsuki and Nino were my favorites. I can't stand Ichika and i've felt that way since season one.

unsatisfying. guy has a hero complex but it's not as annoying as some other harem's I've seen.

I don't even remember finishing this but i do know that the pacing wasn't for me.

I didn't expect this anime. The protagonist is witty and charming and clever but she lets her emotions lead her. The romance element is also nice. If it was made for an older audience i'd give it 10 stars.

originally rated 3 but that's because i didn't know how otome animes work. Because they're games and you're supposed to have more control of the path you want to play yeahhhhh and the mc is stupid in the anime which is annoying...
So i ranked it higher but still low because the story relatively sucks in this form.

boring, one of those horror anime's where there's no logic to the moves of the characters it's just a frenzy of pointless

I kept wanting it to be blue lock. It wasn't bad but eh

Did I fall for the characters? Absolutely.
The manga is so vividly implanted in my head it feels like I already watched it. I'm so excited for season 2. This is one of those animes that gets better as the plot moves forwards and all those little disappointing moments are set ups for new moments in the future. I want to see more of my favorite characters though.

Re-watch early August 2024
Re-watch October 7 2024

the ending was disappointing they montaged through a lot but it was still good

The competitive stuff was kind of hard to take in but I found the themes interesting. It was very one directional for the plot but I think that was the point. It was good for what it was.

every episode made me cry... why tf

I can't stop thinking about this anime. It's a little unsatisfying and there's nothing extremely interesting about it but the concept is just great. The way they handle RPG is great and the characters are very lovable.

rewatching 10/18/2022

I didn't want them to end up together. I don't like it when a show presents and alternative partner that's better fit but then has them make choices in a way that pushes their main couple closer together. They were both perfect for the other sisters :/

it was a little boring and hard to follow, not because it was complicated but because it wasn't. I sort of liked the concepts of moral gray that had you enjoying people who were adversaries.

I really liked Noi and Nikaidou a lot
Ebisu made me uncomfortable
I don't know if I'd watch a second season.
But I might read the manga because Noikaido
I also rated it as potential on my grid but it gets a 6 here because bad doesn't fit the rating

It was cute - not as fan servicey as people made it sound? Makoto and Rin are wonderful. All of the characters are enjoyable.

It drags a little but it's slightly enjoyable.
There's a discomfort in this series.
I don't think it will or even has aged well and I wish they would have updated it.
I still enjoyed most of it.

I really like the characters in this anime.
I don't like that tohru is more treated like a tool than a real person but I still really like a lot more elements of this story.

this shit was heavy and for why? I liked it but damn...

this is so cute and i love the slow burn
Akari is my favorite
manga manga manga

I like it a lot, genuinely i liked all of the characters. It was so good! the eh rating is because of the cliffhanger

It makes you want more and yeah this manga has been going on for l... years and they just now 2022 introduced the first couple and i don't even think it's a couple they tease in the og cast? so like... CUTE and wonderful but i'm not going to get shipping satisfaction here heh

okay so despite the clear evidence that this was the fantasy of a man with self esteem issues since the main character was a garry stu
it was really really good
top notch ecchi
i want more

tw: child abuse, csa
This was done really well and I find it sentimental. Some kids need adults in their lives who aren't their family, to treat them with respect and love them in a non romantic way. And that is what he did. If it changes in the sequel (if there is one) that won't change how he helped her as a teen, nor will it corrupt why he did it.

I really liked this. It would be nice to have more.

the characters were diverse in personality it was just really really good
so much fanservice... so much fanservice
also a little sa...
Rewatched February 2021

This anime was great! I loved the whole knock on society and religion thing. There was a lot of nudity but it was funny like a stereotypical anime xD great great great
second watch february 2021
It's okay, it's good but it drones a bit

Likeable Characters
bad plot :/

:/

I liked it. It had a similar vibe to solo leveling but it was better because found family. I want more but not enough to read the manga probably.

Funny, Weird, Inappropriate, and Cringe
But if you turn your brain off it's good

i would have liked it more without the rated content simply because dubcon is ... a thing that happens

The story itself is cute, surprising, toxic, mostly weird
More character development would have been ideal but that's not what they were going for
I couldn't begin to assume whose gaze this was made for

Probably not worth a rewatch but it was really good on it's own. I liked the story and the back story.

It showed Nami as treasure hungry which i'm still waiting on a reason for
Zoro showed so much integrity in this I love how he's being developed
Luffy is just cool in his pride and determination. I love how simple he frames all of his actions.
And the back story they used to frame this movie could have been an entire anime on its own that i would have watched and enjoyed.
Good movie.

It was a good story with with likable characters. It would have been better as an arc but that wasn't the point was it

This was a really interesting story i hope it doesn't fall into a forgotten hole because the characters they met were really likable.

had all the elements to be a good anime but just wasn't

This was extremely enjoyable. It was simple, there isn't really a depth to why yet or deep themes or political games. Key word yet. The anime was better than the webtoon I wouldn't mind reading the light novel. I really liked all of the characters except the bad ones. It feels like just a peek into a bigger story so this could go up or downhill.

It was cute, very watchable. I think I've seen it before or maybe harems are just so alike and that's why it was familiar. Aika is the best and none of the characters were unlikable.

I really love the theme and the queerness I like all the girls and Alan as love interests. I like that they didn't go any love routes. It was a little too - everyone is obsessed with her - but that's the genre. I didn't like the idea that people are born with light magic like it seems more like a magic style that you would have to work to achieve.
It was nice that they didn't just forever ignore her former life too.
The ending conflict was a bit eh but it was sweet I guess
overall it was a wonderful show

It dragged a bit, probably because it's to the point where it would be better as an otome exploring different paths than an anime letting each path linger just outside of possibility

What do we expect to see? Men clearly created this world and it's their idea of what a world would look like if women were in charge and the world was designed for women and a dude from our world Isekai-ed his way in?

I'm not okay with how they shaped that because it's not accurate? unless you paradox it and realize the otome in the first place was a world designed by men to shape what they think women want then that checks out and hurts my brain.

Okay i like it anyways though because it doesn't take itself too seriously and it's self aware about most of it's flaws.

rewatched in 2021 January
There is an INSANE amount of mistranslation? or transphobia in the dub. I mean it was made in 2006 but the amount of slurs passed off as casual correct terminology is a little jarring
BUT I mean...
I really want them to modernize this

It started off pretty good but got kind of unsatisfying. The battles are cool and some of the side characters are extremely lovable. I didn't hate it? This is kind of an adhd nightmare with the whole time loop thing. I don't know how he didn't rip his hair out every time he had to relive a scenario.

Lots of thoughts. It reminds me of the promised neverland.

The entire second season was slow plot development and revealing information. A lot happened though but it ended really abruptly in a weird spot.

If i could rate the rewatch value higher I would
this is genuinely the best anime i've ever seen
I could write essays. All of the characters are love-able.

tws for: Loss Grief, Adult Burnout, Adam, Depression, and Existentialism
Because it really is that deep

We're not going to count how often I've re-watched to show this anime to people who haven't seen it

re-watched as it aired each time up to episode 4
Re-watched:
September 29, 2023
September 30, 2023

How can an anime be the perfect level of flirty and wholesome? By having a cast of kind and thoughtful characters. This anime features hyper fixations and neuro-divergent special interests that crush gender norms while still taking in the reality of their impact.

I loved this anime so much

that was lovely. I watched it because of chan and i can see why he loves it so much it's mostly fluff and filler episodes with found family trope and it's funny i like it a lot

it's starting to lag in the pacing but I like it over all
sub is better

For a sports anime this was really calm and wholesome. I liked it a lot, especially the queer coding. This was just a cozy little anime about a girls baseball team.

It's a really cute story and they did a good job at showing peoples hearts and intentions playing on turning enemies into friends and so on. I found it enjoyable.

I remember really liking this anime and actively wanting more. The setting was a little dry but the concept and characters were interesting.

underwhelming and a little boring
Was told it would get better but it didn't

It was good, a good slow burn with a nice happy ending. It did drag a little but all of the characters were enjoyable. It's not common for me to like every character in a show but I did. I love how much time they spent on each personality, especially Taiga.

I just didn't like it. It felt illogical and pessimistic which is realistic in a way that i don't like. It was about a war between humans vs vampires with a french ending. felt very... extreme. there was potential in the lore and the story for something interesting

But the depths both vampires and humans would go to whenever someone tried to cross mingle in a positive way was just, off putting? like you're going to take a whole army across the world to get someone back who chose to go run off with the opposite species? You're going to kill the vampire bride to a human on their wedding day? that's so much energy and sure it's realistic probably but it's kind of just stupid too.

It's a cozy little anime with friendship and simple life tasks with a background of people wanting to hurt the magic girls in a faraway place? I think?

well cliffhanger endings now I have to read the manga

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Although it wasn't ultra exciting or full of big extreme moments to hook you in there was something very realistic about how queerness was portrayed in this anime that I liked.

Yuu is struggling with either being aromantic or biromantic and she vocally works through this coming of age struggle as a frieshman in high school in a way that's realistically not resolved

She feels distinctly separate from her two friends who talk about boys and how they have crushes and it was framed in a very relatable way for viewers who may have ever struggled with any form of aro asexual feelings.

Maki is our aro example set for Yuu to not feel alone and also see that her experiences aren't exactly the same as someone who distinctly knows that they never want something like that for themselves. Because she does want it even if she doesn't feel it.

The depth of Touku's characterization was what really made the story complex. This on the surface perfect girl struggles on the inside with her identity. She doesn't love herself and therefore can't cope with the idea of anyone loving her so she latches onto the first girl who she meets who can not feel love.

None of this is framed in a "maybe you'll change your mind when you're older sweetie" place it's all messy and unclear and frankly something realistic in questioning queer identities. Not all of us know and many of us who like multiple genders struggle deeply to figure out what we want.

There's even a space to see adults in a queer relationship where one of them is distinctly bisexual in a way that is both affirmed and not erased.

And a momentum of a father making a flippant comment that he wouldn't want a gay daughter.

Finally there's Sayaka - a lesbian who knows who she is and remains who she is even after falling for and being dismissed by a girl in middle school who said being gay was a phase for both of them that they needed to grow out of. She faced her queerness and was shamed for it so she latches onto a girl who she know can not return her feelings and despite being similar to Touku vs Yuu, she doesn't seek to want more from Touku because of her trauma and her respect for Touku's needs from her directly. She knows Touku has a deeper side to her that she doesn't want people to see and she fills the role of someone who supports her in hiding it.

But in her own personal way Sayaka has a lot she's going through and a lot that she is denying herself. It's how she's working through her own queerness while she is still young and messy and living in a society that will challenge her.

When I first came out my aunt told me that the queer world wasn't as mystic as I thought. Everyone didn't get a happy ever after - even adults. The queer world was full of pain and distance and sometimes there would be reasons for people to stay apart even if they loved each other. Her favorite movie is called Saving Face (2004) and this Anime reminded me of my aunt's vision and the realistic challenges that happen when coming of age as a queer person.

It's so difficult to find wlw content in western media that isn't hypersexual or just down right traumatic.

I liked that this anime addressed dreaming of love and societal realism in the same breath without drenching the story in trauma or sex. It's okay for us to have normal nice cute sweet love stories that don't drag into intensity. Or maybe that's my demisexual side talking.

Either way, I wouldn't want to watch this again but I like what it was for what it was.

I like it. It's interesting and just suspicious enough to not throw me off the weird tropes.