this anime is criminally underated, can't really give this my proper review since it's been a while since I watched it, but i'll see if i can get my friends to watch this over some time and i'll write out my thoughts then

-tbh, this season really picked up the slack of where the other seasons where lacking. if this show was like this for all 5 seasons, i'd recomend this show in a heartbeat

SPOILERS:

so if i where to give my big big gripes about this show, it's the fact that our protagonist bends back to the whim of traditional society for literaly nonsensical reasons, every godamned season

season 2: you could literally marry the in universe equivalent of elon musk and do whatever the hell you want, but, you refuse because of the fact that the guy doesn't want to have a family, strange but fine, you do you

season 3: become an actually popular idol, where you can leave your shitty office job and get a chance to live your dream. (this one also gets a pass because of the knife scene)

season 4: hire back your (explicitly written) chauvinist boss into your job you got off of another one of your windfalls, because it's soooooo sad that the dick who's been putting you down constantly because of your gender got layed off from the company

(side note: the narative gives WAAYYYYY too much fucking credit / leniance to this literal PIG who demeans and harasses women every scene he's in. yuck. )

season 5: literally have the chance to become a fucking senator for an entire governmental district. nop, i just like my tradtionally shit office job too much

actual fucking stockholm syndrome dude.

i really do like the top MAL review for this show: "the batman arkam knight of anime"

so the elephant in the room, the 3D is not great compared to a lot of other anime that blow 3D out of the water, but compared to what i've seen from stuff like Berserk 2016, the best I can say is the 3D here is functional. Like it literally does the bare standard it needs to to not look completely and utterly shit.

outside of that, honestly the show reminds me a lot of tokyo ghoul, and if you're looking for a show like that with the same vibe, watch it first, then come back this if you can bother to watch through the series, nw if not tho, this very much is a skippable show.

what can i say, it's a classic. honestly just watch it. it's an iconicaly legendary flick

i hold this show in a pretty high regard

the premise is a very apt one, to hold the narative demands of a 50 episode anime

SPOILERS:

the only thing that was weird with the ending, i wished the final scene where they finally kill off the teacher could have had more stakes, but also i kind of get the feeling that it was written to be more of an emotional endpost, so I can understand how it was written in that vain too

i'm gonna be honest, the only reason young kid me decided to watch this is because it was on toonami, and bryce papenbrook (kirito's ENG VA) also voiced the protaginist in this

is it good?

i'll be honest you could probably waste a couple of days on something better but it's not the worst shonen you could watch per-say

spoilers?

it's also a little funny, the magic system in this show revolves around memorizing bible verses to exorcise demons, and it's kind of funny that since one of the protagonists doesn't know the correct verse to exorcise a demon, mf literally reads the bible from the begining for +6hrs. while his friends fight the demon to find the right verse

UPDATE:

holy shit this show is still running? wow ok.

the author of this show self inserted themselves as the chicken

pay close attention when the chicken starts talkin :)

the plot here compared to the first season just goes fuckin wild man damn

i heard from someone that the 3rd season of the show from what they read in the manga just gets even more nuts, and i really hope the narative can take more insanity without breaking

i attest that this show was the begining of my decent into madness.

if you time traveled back and told my ass not to watch this fuckin show, my ass would have a masters in something useful, and by 2050, all the cancer would be gone

anyways no it's good you get to read all of my pedantic bullshit ranting here! :D

also uh, if you actually cared about the anime, here's a clip from it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dRD7uhjUyQ

if that disgusted you - congradulations you have a life and can succesfuly skip this show!

if you where laughing your ass off - ... welcome.

so i'm very mixed on this show.

i'll say out the gate that I really am not a big fan of organized art, so take this bias when i talk about my experience with the show but

i mean coming from 'murica where art school is kind of the unofficial post secondry that everyone likes to clown on, watching teenagers compete to enter an art school, feels very goofy to me

so that aside, i really often felt like the show tries to apply the formula of something like food wars, where the chef struggles and succeeds to make a dish and learns in real time. and with the actual art making scenes, it becomes very hit or miss.

So where food wars would write something like: " i need to add some paprika to this chicken to create the missing flavor ", and I'd be like yeah ok i get it, Blue Period would write something like: " i need to add more texture to this composition to capture the essence of my creation ", and i'm just left honestly kind of confused.

And mabye the crux of why this is an issue for me, is I really don't want to "get" art, in the way that the traditional organized art sphere makes you feel bad for not doing.


What i really like though while i was watching it, is unlike something like a food wars, where literally half of your characters are just cutout troupes, the characters written here i really like, and they feel very human.

I say, give it the standard 3 episode go through, if you like it it's short and sweet, so go for it.

also OP is an actual banger, i really REALLY enjoy it!

gonna be honest, a little let down by this one. plot felt like a paper thin excuse to animate a wacky beast world. but it's also animated by trigger, so at least in my book, they can get as many excuses as they damn well please, they're a talented studio.

if you're looking for the netflix show that is trying to execute what i think this show wanted to - just watch beaststars

my favorite of the MHA movies I've watched. honestly feels like a contained and extended well animated episode of the show. If you know anything about shounen movie adaptations *cough cough* naruto *cough cough* one piece... you'll know having a movie that acts like this is an absolute dub.

mabye i'm just a bit miffed that this movie doesn't quite mesh in with MHA like the other one, and this is more of just like a shounen big movie, but i mean if you're into mha, still go for it, it's a well created film regardless

interesting ass concept. think like wolf of wall street type investment gambling mixed up with jojo stand battles, runnin for a solid season.

if they gave this more of a shot and made it a 2-3 season affair with an overarching plot, i feel like this show could have gone far.

that is to say, I wish someone could make a spiritual successor to this show (if it involves NFTs / crypto in any way I will trace your address and skin you alive. )

watching because everyone else is atm - idk if it'll be good but the 12 diffrent OPs/EDs fucking slap


After watching:

so yeah it still does keep the vibe of something like a jujustu kaisen, but I think it takes that in a very cool direction. from what i'm seeing i feel like it's also gonna be a more polished (but longer to come out ) anime, so that's always good in my book, i'd rather wait for amazing shit like something in the vain of AOT, then kind of supar, release it every year / other year type thing

this plot just goes fucking wild. not in a cool intresting way, just a really disturbing, messy, this doesn't feel great way. honestly wanna get into steins gate, but after watching this, i'm really really mixed

like just a brief taste of the gross, there is constant sec shot of one of the characters pissing themself out of fear, that's all i'm gonna say.

not a bad 6ep. romp. tbh felt like this was aimed towards younger teens, but for the 6 episode run time i was able to vibe with it.

-on that note, if you're looking for a great anime to put on for some of your younger relatives / kids, this is a great one to have em watch

oh before i forget, i actally made a long ass review for this:



So recently I've been trying to burn through most of Netflix's anime catalog, half because I'm slightly worried Netflix is going to shit pretty soon, but more importantly Netflix has greenlit some really interesting anime projects in the last decade, and it's always a joy to see what they greenlight

Case and point, on my queue pops up this show, the orbital children, I watch the mini clip, and I think it could be interesting. Glad I stuck around.

For a bit of a preface, this miniseries is a young adult 6 episode series whose dialogue and presentation felt more grounded for a preteen audience. This didn't affect my viewing experience by much, outside of a few characters/scenes, but I only mention as such to ground your expectations before hand. Likewise, if you have any relatives/younger folks that you'd like to share an anime with, I would 100% rec this as supposed to the prototypical "just watch studio ghibli"

The show itself is fairly short, and at least from my perspective, should be watched as a film, as the full air time goes a little under ~3hrs. The option is there though to block it out if the show just isn't moving you.
Past that, speaking of the story itself, the best way I can describe this show, is it falls into the "venture down into the dark deep unknown" type of show. Only corollary that comes to mind for me would be Made In Abyss, and also in a similar vein The Promised Neverland. (additionally, it also reminds me of this anime I watched when I was a super young lad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Who_Chase_Lost_Voices)

The primary premise of the show revolves around children escaping a collapsing futuristic tourist space station, and this is the part I appreciated the most, the action was well paced, and the environments where really interesting to see implemented into the escape

However where the show mostly lost me, was the other premise, understanding importance behind the AI that built the space station.

to give credit where credit is due, the show sets a fairly good baseline, and gives a rough explanation to the importance of the AI in the world they've introduced

however as the show progresses, because the limits of what the AI can actually can ever do are never established

this eventually leads me to become mentally checked out, where the characters are like "oh no the AI can't hack the mainframe" whilst the AI was precisely able to do that and way more in the last episode

oh yeah that and a lot of techno-babble, with not a lot of actual science backing it up, the use the word quantum so much with it meaning nothing, but I suppose that's just the sci-fi norm idk lol

spoilers if interested in watching

The ending kind of suffers from EVA-itus, where the main protaganist has a communion with a higher power the ai and while I suppose there was a deep and heartfelt message in there somewhere, the film throws so many ideas out of nowhere that the end message at least for me was kind of lost, the director knows this and from what I've read he intends to make a directors cut if he ever got the go ahead, so that would be well apreciated

Animation wise, if you've heard of the show Den-noh-coil (I've heard of it but haven't watched it), this has the same director, which is making me intrested in watching his original work. Here, animation is incredibly smooth, which is especially nice for complex motion like this with zero gravity (bonus props, blender was used in the production for storyboarding, major W!)

going with the perks of being a mini film, this movie gets the pleasure of having a 40 track orchestral soundtrack which is incredibly nice!

Overall:
by no means is this a revolutionary series, but the premise alone and the artistry behind it make it an ok watch, especially for a 3hr runtime
like I said before this movie would be a great watch with someone who's younger like a preteen, and is starting to get a deeper taste in media, so definitely watch it with em if you can
final score: 76/100'

so i'm gonna be honest, this movie's a cool continuation of the story, but it kind of elimitated a lot of the stakes that the original ending created

i'm kind of intrested now, apparently there's remake movies that sow code geass into three long movies?

they do remove some elements from the og, but i really wonder if that's for the better

SA warning:
(looking at you lelouche x shirley - uncomfortable near rape scene)

the. fucking. best.

honestly i don't need to explain why this is good, just go in blind, you don't even have to like anime, you'll be fine

which one did it better? this or arcane, for the psyop operation to convince people that the studios behind their IPs are all hunky dory

but ok, if you put aside the fact that it's tied to the disaster that is cyberpunk 2077,

since this story isn't tied to the actual game, except for the setting, i think it does a damn well job telling a story in a self contained medium

SPOILERS:

it's also very interesting to see characters die as fast as something like akame ga kill

this show could have followed the very established archetype where david joins the crew and they go on wacky little adventures untill about ep. 10 /11 when the main overarching plot tells them to get back to finishing the anime

... but damn, with how this show progressed, honestly a lot more intresting, very bold, i like it

aight, this one's a bit of a harder one to review since i actually watched about a third of the show back when i was first getting into anime, but never finished it till now

so in terms of this anime, it seems like the first half is the part that everyone likes, but after the first half people get split down the middle from folks who are into it and those who aren't

i'll be honest, i think the second half is just as good as the first, and overall, finishing the entire show I don't see why some folks get kinda tilted over the second half

like overall, without even saying much, this is fortunately one of those anime where if you can watch mabye like the first 3-5 episodes and get into it, you're pretty much golden, the story's very consistent and intresting

SPOILERS BELOW:

major part i did NOT like about the narative, this might be a bit of a bias since the 1/3 i skipped watching probably explains this but, there are waaaaaaaaaaay too many rules that the death note has that aren't very intutive or easy to understand, and the fact that for like a good part of the show, there are 2 of them floating around only makes this even more confusing

now that being said, when a rule is relevant, they do explain what rules of the death note are actually being used pretty well, so i can't complain on that part, but it does kind of take me out of the actual, solving the mystery part of the anime, so not the worst issue i guess

other than that, like only major thing that was a major dislike

first OP fuckin banger man, it's iconic for a reason

second OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNSmPmcgBho

just honestly kind of cringe, like the lyrics, especially the end bit just remind me of a "it's not a phase mom" tryhard limp biskit song

so if people are bashing the 2nd half, mabye it's because they have to sit through this every episode.

I remember seeing this as a promo at the end of a funimation DVD back in the day and liking the premise from what I remember of it. The only other thing i remember on this show is it has the same director as death note, and that was solid, why not give this a try

UPDATE: (it doesn't dumbass) and holy shit one of the best anime I've seen this year. an existential crisis out of 10

UPDATE UPDATE:

just finished death note, and aparently "light yagami" is actually in like the 3rd episode, gonna rewatch this at some point so cool thing to look back for

SPOILERS BELOW:

so i watched the first few episodes for this on toonami back in the day, i'm gonna be honest in terms of sci-fi this show tries it's best to introduce a pretty cool concept (an alternate unlimited source of energy from an unknown world - Dimension W) and throw it into a scifi world

and don't get me wrong they did that in spades and made a very cool futuristic society

but past that, the thing that gets me is they don't do their homework and the further exploration *behind* the alternate energy source (Dimension W) falls flat mainly because:

-the idea behind how characters interact with it is only explained abstractly at best

-when a crucial element about the source is a big focus in the story, i'm kind of left waiting for the story to technobable up an explanation up for what (Dimension W) is doing, because to me, this location to me is pretty much the shadow realm from yughioh, becuase they both equally make just about as much sense

if you are intrested in a cool scifi action anime, and you honestly don't mind keeping your brain on autopilot for the plot you can still get some enjoyment from the show

yo ho ho... time to engineer wacky Geneva Convention breaking doodads on the high seas and put the "peril" in imperialism

-still waiting on senku to go full Oppenheimer

UPDATE (spoilers?)
- yeah he's kinda...

there is a tournament arc which in which the time in universe that it would occur is about 48 minutes

the entire arc takes 20, 30 minute episodes to resolve, so in total, it takes 10 FUCKING hours to finish this tournament

it's like they looked at the frieza fight from DBZ and said, damn, that was way too short, we gotta push the goalpost here

and mfs out here complaining one piece is long...

-ok readers note: i have not sat through *all* of DBZ, but I watched all the important arcs on toonami, and i get the jist...

comon cut me some slack here... don't tell me your not doin a similar excuse for one piece or something.

i'm really happy that trigger did made this, since the biggest gripe i had with a lot of their prior stuff untill recently is that it got too formulaic

i'm also thinking this might inspire more DnD based anime which will be cool since it was really intresting watching this one

also if you can, watch the english dub sung-won-cho (ProZD) voices the gnome (https://www.youtube.com/@ProZD)

pretty ok shonen. sets up it's bases well, and kept me decently intrested for more. (see my thoughts for S2)

2nd season turned this show from pretty alright shounen to down right cool as hell show. the plot is well forged, and gets damn well intresting from here. cannot wait for S3

this movie is (not) a well sown out rework of the first half of the evangelion show

the pink lady is (not) the same age as shinji's mom

you will (not) have gay thoughts about the only person who's ever loved you

amazing love letter to FLCL after all of these years. definitely the kind of work i'm glad they put the time and effort in to craft

i feel like this is a classic for the y2k kids, i could argue if you wanted to relive some nostlagia (or if you weren't born then, watching it and prending you HAVE nostlagia for it)

i would HIGHLY recomend just watching brotherhood to behonest for afformentioned reasons below

(if you do decide to watch this version though, you can watch the first 2 filler episodes but NOT the third for reasons i ALSO get into below)

SPOILERS:

so after reading the diffrences between the OG and brotherhood, i can REALLY understand my gripes with the OG anime

so if comicbookreivews dot com is telling it right, the main diffrence in where the stories split is right after the death of major hughes

... and *that* explains why the pacing for the original story just felt so damn... off

so don't get me wrong, from that point to the end they do get around to telling an intresting story, but i because relevant plot points are so disjointed in this adaptation it just makes you feel like you're licking the edges of the yoghurt cup for the real essence of the story

like mabye for the worst example

there's an entire episode where whenry learns from some ishbalans that her parents where killed by roy mustang

oh wow that's horrible! i bet in the following episode if she's going back to central she'd at least get a scene where she fuckin talks to mustang

this anime: nope. we're gonna make the next episode after this a *filler* episode where mustang's troops are skawued of a gwhost ( despite the fact that like a good number of them have actually commited warcrimes)

like the guy who is being framed as this untrust worthy person... no he probably still isn't trustworthy but we don't have time to actually write more of the plot, just watch this filler episode and remember that murdering parents thing when the plot needs to adress that later

i feel like some how somewhere there's a directors cut which sows together the pacing togher much better

binged waaaaaaaaaay too much of this show. here's some food for thought

SPOILERS (more or less...) down below:

so overall, this readaptation is MUCH better than the original adaptation, predominantly because it's actually based on the original story from the manga

like i cannot stress enough how much better this story flows when story elements dont just need to be made the fuck up on the fly for this story

mind you, change wise the adaptations have some good changes, but they also do have some changes that to me at least could have been better, i'll run through the ones of note to me:


GOOD CHANGES:

- they where able to condense and restructure all of the really long poorly paced parts of the first show, and condense them into about ~20 or so episodes which is a MAJOR improvement from the first show (kind of like the directors cut i was mentioning for FMA)

- scar feels much more like a significant menance in this show. he doesn't just kind of forget that he's touring a contry which commited genocide against his people, like in the original. as well the story doesn't bend backward enough this time around to give him his redemption arc. it's earned, since in the end, it's scar who eventually comes to the conclusion that he'd rather rebuild the relations to his nation then continue on an endless cycle of violence

- the actual motivation behind the villans this time feels a *smidge* more belivable than "hey we need to rely on the skills of this 14 year old kid to do what we want" (there are still some holes with this plot tbh, i'll prolly get into that later)

- while Hohenheim wasn't perfect in this story, his writing into the plot was pretty well done compared to like the two seconds he shows up in the orignal show

- for the baseline anywho, the new regions / characters did add an enjoyable dimension for the plot

- greed got a very cool plotline! while we're also on that note the "homunculi can be infused in humans" idea was a REALLY cool concept that i wish they adressed more


CHANGES THAT I DIDN'T LIKE AS MUCH

- so while I don't exactly like how the hommunculus where written in the first adapt, since they really lacked crucial elements of motivation, the one element i REALLY liked about them was their one *crucial* weakness - the only thing that can kill them is remenants of the body that they where transmuted from. while i understand that they wanted to go with the homunculi as children thing first and foremost, the reason why liked this one and only weakness element more, is in this adapt, it's really kind of arbritrary when a homunculus is in danger of dying. like the flame alchemist can down TWO homunclui, just by shooting his flamethrower arms enough? what makes him so special? by that logic why didn't he just corner the fuher in a room like the orignal and burn him to ash?

- while the other nations element is REALLY COOL the story really kind of missed a BIG opportunity to i don't know *visit them?* like for the duration of the show xing is mentioned, and the stakes of the two seperate clans depend on this emperor guy. do we ever meet him? nope.

- also for the new baddie's big plan, like how hard would it have been to get 5 sacrifices? like there are so many state alchemists in the capital, and if they just forced mustang to go through the gate, like how TF wheren't you able to do that, well i don't know, TWENTY FUCKING YEARS AGO?



i'll be honest, i'd still recomend this show to anyone intrested in premise, it's still pretty good for all of it's kind of annoying plot holes

the english dub is by far the best dub created in the history of anime

... tbh though, i honestly would just watch the youtube clips, since through most of the episodes the humor is very hit or miss, and the clips show only the hits.

SPOILERS BELOW:

honestly kind of an intresting show, piqued my intrest more than I thought it was gonna at first

i think the setup is pretty good, it's been a while since I completed it, but I think the pacing got a little weird halfway through after it was revealed that there actually wasn't any point in collecting coins, I thought they where gonna keep that arc going for a bit more, it served the plot well...

another weird thing to me is how easily both protags are to start murderin, I mean I understand why, it's a core consequence of the envirmoment that the show wants to produce

...but it's also kind of weird, that very rarely do any of the characters really pontificate on why they had to murder outside of a generic "i know this is wrong but this has to be done" type schpeal, i could be misreading here too

gonna be honest for *me* i would love getting a second season to finish this anime, but i honestly don't know if that's in the cards unfortunately

i was a bit disapointed by this one

so sell is "yakuaza member turned house husbannd" right?

i'm down, get my netflix up, start watchin the damn thing...

mabye it's just because netflix typically doesn't have ONA's with it's regular line up, but I was expecting a bit more than a splash up from the manga

if you like the prompt, and you also enjoy ONA's this honestly is fine for you, go crazy

for me, idk, I think I might just not be a big fan of ONAs in general. so whoops.

truly netflix's own lupin the third...

this isn't that long i'd say give it a watch it's worth your time

saw this amv (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Pj-KXNbA8) and i'm like damn, gotta see what this show is

...

i saw what this show is.

and, eh...

so like i'm not gonna go all out and say that this is a hidden treasure and this is an absolute must watch

but if you get the general premise, delinquent biker (onizuka) becomes a school teacher, the premise from there goes

oh! there is this incredibly impossible scenario that Onizuka surely can't face!

for the next 3-7 episodes they hype up how fucked onizuka is...

then in the next episode Onizuka comes in motors revving middle finger raised, and jumps the shark

is this bad? no.

is this too formulaic and kind of boring, thats for you to decide!

i stuck around at least, so mabye you might want to too.

i watched this completely unaware that this was a spin off of barakamon, and i mean it held up

the opener to the first episode has a funny meta sketch

if you're new to anime / haven't watched a lot of shounen type anime e.g: "naruto, one piece, bleach, ect..."

if you're looking for a long story experience like one piece but don't want to spend literal years finishing the show, this is *definitely* the show for you

overall, the show respects your time, and outside i think ONE arc (this is debatable), the pacing is insanely on key

i enjoyed spending my time with this anime, definitely a slice of life type fair which I can enjoy

don't do DnD whatsoever, but to me, it feels like this honestly could just be the campaign with the prompt:

"one player has been granted FUCK YOU levels of power, but the catch is he can't be conscious of his actual power level, letting the fantasy story actually work somehow?"

do also enjoy the very *very* spesific nodding to SEGA properties, very cool to see it involved into the story instead of just a small easter egg

aight tbh i'm a part skipper, but like i'm gonna be real, assuming you've watched a smidge of 1/2, it's honestly not an issue

overall though i think you're in for a treat, since david production really nailed jojo from here to about part 6 (even at that they still did great work),

david bowie murder mystery! (jello apocalypse)

with the netflix takeover, this show did drop the ball a bit, but tbh, it's still pretty well done all being said

if you're binging all the jojo seasons on netflix anyways, no worries, this is still pretty enjoyable nontheless

also no shot they do part 7 right?

so i'm gonna be real, this anime is enjoyable enough, but i'm really starting to get kind of annoyed at the "one punch man" levels of power the proganist is a allowed to get here, it kind of eliminates the greater stakes of the show

like the premise here as a prequel, but it felt like they stopped halfway through, hope they can connect the dots some how, i'd be down to see how it goes from here back to the original show

i'm very happy that they where able to give the first opening chapters of this manga a facelift

i did try and read the first couple chapters of the source material for some comparison and this is definitely day and night (https://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/tower-of-god/season-1-ep-8/viewer?title_no=95&episode_no=9)

i really doubt that they could give this entire webcomic something like the hunter x hunter treatment, but by god i am willing to wait until the sun explodes for them to do so

i could get into this show, but i'll be honest the premise kind of does most of the explaining for why i'm not really into it

"college shut in rents girlfriends from girlfriend rental service"

so like I was hoping idk that over the course of this anime, our protaginist begins to gain back his interpersonal communication skills with the wacky hijinks that renting a girlfriend ensues

...and ideally the anime tries to do this, and we could be done after 12 episodes if the story doesn't constantly try and "will they won't they" with the main rental girl.

why enamor this? there is like not that much of an actual connection between the 2 after episode 12 stops, and let's say for the sake of argument these two can even hitch up at some discernable ending. what's the point, that just doesn't even seem like that great of a union, even for unrealitic anime standards.

not all is lost, watching the english dub Alex Lee dubbed the protaginist and he definitely made the show a bit more enjoyable: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYIxkNZJfcs)

i gotta face the mirror here, i might watch the second season at some unfortunate day in the future, coping and seething that this gets any better but idk, if what i'm describing here doesn't sound that appealing, no need to give it a watch friend

UPDATE:

as of may 2024 i haven't we're gamin.

UPDATE:

october 2024 and i am still far away from this thing

if you can get past op's outfit is only fanservice 50% of the time, and overall the show is kind of a drawn out sex metaphor...

it's way worth it, it IS the premier trigger show, and in my opinion, the one I still like the most after all of these years

i'm gonna be honest, I want to finish the rest of this series, but there is a lot of stuff that I'd need to catch up on, and unless i see something really REALLY neat coming from this show, i'm fine waiting till it reallly strikes me to come back to

ya know i'm gonna be honest they play way too fucking much into the age thing in this fucking show

like you have to be on the other side of anime woman hell to watch this and not feel like actually physically uncomfortable with some of the shit that goes on in this show

the entirety of this godforsaken anime film can be surmised with this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHmFbT8DPX8

there. i just saved you like an hour

only watch this if you wanted to know the backstory of megumin IG?

i'll be real, back when I watched this, this was my first netflix anime, and overall i was a smidge underwhelmed, if anything it was really just giving me kill la kill vibes

(and i'll be honest this might just be a trigger thing, they don't know how to tell any story other than kill la kill)

one positive thing of note i can say here, this definitely would be a good watch for kids if you wanna get em into anime

this is an ABSOLUTE treat for lupin fans anywhere and i think this is an actual crime that it's not talked about more by more than other than dedicated lupin fans

-the design is near pixar level quality
-the plot is a perfectly condensed lupin story
-do not even get me started on the soundtrack!

i suppose it really wasn't meant to be a big thing in american cinema, i mean animated 3d cg pictures are the domain of silly little children watching the tirades of those damned little yellow dancing tumors

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definitely one of the better watches of 2022, I really do like how the plot definitely likes to trick you after a couple episodes in

i think the most pressing juxaposition I can probably say off the bat is the pretty *noticable* character design

so yeah you can kind of play it off as a "lol author's a lolicon! XD" moment but to me at least it suits the narrative

i mean with this example idk how many of yalls i'm gonna reach but it's like having one of these litle innocent figurines (https://www.amazon.com/Precious-Moments-162011-Porcelain-Figurine/dp/B01KI2ON8Y/) face inhuman horrors beyond comprehension, to me at least i cannot explain how that fuckin contrast just *works*

see previous review

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so same regard as previous work, yeah the only note that I don't quite know, is I don't know how long this entire anime is gonna take to get to the abyss, I mean I know the golden city is the entire point of this arc, but I really hope manga and anime don't lose pace between one another

if manga really does do the story more justice than anime, I might have to bite the bullet and actually read manga.

for as insular as japan can be when creating stories inside their cultural bubble...

damn! this is an incredible story located in brazil that feels way on point!

hopefully the endings good, just need to remember to watch this damn thing lol

AFTER WATCHING

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so yeah, i'll say in total, it is kind of clever that what they end up searching for becomes less important than the journey, i do like that aspect.

insanely generic, "high school students form club and do X" anime. this "X" is an even more generic, non descript MMO, which means there's not much humor outside "oh hey, this is a joke about a thing that happens in MMO's. laugh."

idk, i mean if you are a sucker for generic, watch high schoolers do thing anime, mabye, but even then why?

so my take on this show, is the first season of it is all you really need to watch to get the most out of it

they really run out of concepts to do with "a superhero that can defeat anyone in a single punch" after ep. 12

this is a pretty intresting romp

i like the concept of the antagonist actually being the rpg menu lol

classic satoshi kon, this is definitely an abstract film, but i don't think that takes too much away from it

gonna be real, humor for this definitely is out there, I mean if you can appreciate abstract comedy, you'll be fine

you might not get the humor for this first go, but if it works how it worked for me, it grows on ya

anything by trigger is a treat, so i gotta give this a proper watch some time

update: it was very nice

by far one of the few isekai's that i've actually watched and REALLY enjoyed, the genre has to literally move a mountain to get me to watch more after all of the insanely mid by products it produces, and this show by FAR hit's off the mark

will add substantive notes for this since i need to watch some recaps for s3

so as a penultimate finisher for an EVA movie, it's not breaking any ground like EOE did. Personally I don't any EVA movie can top EOE.

buuuuuuuuuut... if you view it in the local scope of the EVA movies, it did it's job, and it did it *very* damn well. definitely feels like kind of ending EVA would get if it where a generic mecha anime created in the modern times

-also wtf amazon prime?! buying the rights to specifically only own the eva movies so the netflix goers have to buy a new subscription? smh...

arguably where the show reaches it's maximum levels of excitement, the shift in storytelling is really REALLY well done here

aight, very charged opinions on the ending here but i'll lay my thoughts here for now and come back later too

SPOILERS... obviously

so I could maybe be wrong on this, but I feel mainly that the point of contention for the ending here as a whole predominantly hedge on Eren Yager, and how his plot got resolved from start to finish

i'm gonna be honest, i could maybe see some virtue in trying to connect future eren to past eren... amazing work on keeping a continuity like that btw

but to me at least, the fact that there's even that like future/past thing that "decides" some of his actions feels kind of like a really pointless obfuscation, like I was geninely intrested in what really was the whole point of the yagerist revolt, betraying everyone and everything in the end...

but then just to have it be revealed in the end when in the dream sequence that it's just a matter of: "oh im sowwy there was nothing i could dooooo the future was already written, i couldn't change it :(" is really annoying because it just feels like a copout

-like borderline evangelion obfuscation shit

in total the future/past already written thing doesn't bother me a lot, because otherwise the entire narative was carried so damn well that ima be frank like literally no other anime for a *while* will be able to top

definitely something to keep in mind, a masterpiece of an anime like this definitively is something that I only think I'm gonna see mabye like 1 or 2 more times in my life time

like I'm just thinking in total, this was a {decade+} of time, and a small nation's worth of animators to get a fuckin masterpiece like this to completion, really makes me hopeful that when the time comes again i can see another one of the these literal "titans" from start to finish again

if you haven't watched this already, even if you got spoiled reading this, honestly just go watch this damn thing, it's incredible

i'm gonna be real, i don't know how much i would like this show if i rewatched it. slice of life is a hard genre to get me to like

only watched it in the first place because of the splatoon colab Iamo

like i can't even begin to unload my thoughts on this franchise other than idk, mabye make another ending? surely it will fix all of the critisisms everyone has about this anime.

... (0_0)
yeah i guess that works.

*obligatory hospital joke*

overall this anime continues to surprise me

i did like the boat arc more than the school sections, and to be fair, that's a good chunk of this season, so I can't complain

i'll be honest though with the pacing of this show I can't help but think the ending will get kind of rushed if we keep stopping to babysit anya for like a third of the episodes every season

a shounen staple for sure

... unfortunately the first anime I ever watched

yeah i'll be real, the premise for this series is very cool.

but don't let this fool you! the execution for the entire show after like episode 4 just fucking tanks on retrospect, since the protagist more or less just one shots everything

in general once the story starts running, there is literally no difference between it and an incredibly mid isekai



and overall if you have the misfortune of sticking around like i had, this show just honestly just continues to disappoint you, if a friend recomends this to you, honestly just skip it, it's honestly not worth your brain space

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i like the part where the animators go into explicit detail comically animating two guys attempting to SA actual defenseless women

there isn't an un-edited version of this scene i could find but this does the same vain in explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErfvKCHz3ls

i mean from the limited stuff i know on reki kawihara, this is kind of his thing, there's a "rape" scene every season, but like what the actual fuck? there is the unfortunate rule that fan service just kind of exists in this medium, but shit like this that you do constantly breaks that fucking line into the extreme.

reki. you are part of the problem.


outside of that bullshit. yeah i mean when i did watch it, it was kind of an intresting start, like an at least intresting way to redefine the "trapped in a VR world" idea, by having our OP have to progress in an MMO with AI players, but boy if you thought that was gonna go anywhere, you can just go fuck yourself i guess

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so basically for the next two seasons, since this ACTUALLY is only an anime which cares about character recognition, we have to see kirito's friends fight in the AI MMO world, instead of focusing on the actually fucking intresting concept of this completely new world

so this intresting world that they built in the last season basically just becomes the pissing grounds for all of the other charcters you know and love / don't really fucking care about too much

the natural prescription if you got severe depression from evangelion

supposedly this is a hidden gem type thing, interesting

POSTWATCH:
-aight, so i'm not gonna say that this show is bad by any means but here are the two things i'll throw before you give it a watch:

i think the biggest complaint that i think everyone can throw at this, is that the scope of the writing was not managed very well. this feels like the kind of show that was written to have 2/3 seasons, executed on that for the first half of episodes, THEN realised oh fuck! we only have one season and about 80% of our deeper end plot is unexplained, and the rest of the anime is built on fixing that. some real OG eva shit right here

also, in terms of the story itself, i could apreciate what it was trying to do, but after watching this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPiN6hQ2asI&pp=ygUTd29uZGVyIGVnZyBwcmlvcml0eQ%3D%3D) , and knowing what the director has done in the past, i can definitely see the critisms it gets wholesale

overall, if you're interested in this, by all means watch! just know you're not gonna get the best final product compared to other kinds of shows in it's vein

amazing show - honestly best if i don't blabber on too much on this show... you just gotta see it to believe it.

it's not *as* bad as everyone says it is but. no if you can just avoid watching this.

if you read manga already then you have the absolute pass to skip this season

if you don't then just start reading, it will save you so much of the disolusionment that anime adaptation of the second season will give you.

post apocalyptic slice of life! didn't know that such a mashup could exist - but yet here this thing is, bangin on all cylinders

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-after finishing it, it looks like they wrote in a hook if they ever wanted to continue "saving the world" or what have you, but honestly if they did that, it kind of misses the point of the list

Before watching:

watched gigguk's spring 2023 anime vid, and he gave this a rec. from premise it sounds like something i'd find cool, so sure thing mr. giga chad

After watching:

SPOILERS... of course.

-ok so after binging like 9 episodes, i'm not gonna say it's like an "expose" in total for idol culture but i'm also not gonna say that the show doesn't really hit hard in some places. i currently understand it like this:

this show alternates between two parts:

Part A - "i wanna be an idol group, let's have a fun cute Bocchi the Rock/K-On adventure"

Part B - "i need to resolve this persistant freudian complex that my greatest love intrest is/was now my mom? while also learning how the japanese entertainment industry is actual hell"

so don't get me wrong, I know that this show needs Part A, but just gonna say that like if Part B got most of the focus I would be way more into the show at any given moment

intresting plot so far, glad we get to see aqua and his extended network of friends get expanded on here

also damn, sure hope weaponizing your inner trauma as a means to an end doesn't feed into that afformentioned freudian complex thing goin on there buddy

after ALMOST finishing:

why is it that the best part of the season (where the actual drama is) is so packed back in like the last 3/4 episodes.

how you play me, play me like a damn fiddle!

decided to stop watching when fucking EVERYTHING was getting revealed

-kinda just want to rewatch from the begining to be honest

i reeeeeealy need to finish this, this is a really well executed show

gonna be real, it's gonna take like a LOT to get me back into concurrently watching this show, with the decreased momentum in pacing, i'm gonna have to skip around until can find a spot that's intresting enough to start watching at again

also find it so damn funny that most of the dedicated fanbase aren't even really intrested in the show as much as they are cutting out their favorite character from the show and making them marry that truck in cars or something damn you guys can be weird...

she out here reping the least known brass instrument with style

props, the euphonium, best instrument btw, meet me at a sears parking lot with your band instrument of choice if you wanna throw hands

damn why did it take so long to get the second season runnin?

it's cool, nontheless

ya know i'm gonna be honest too, i completely forgot most of the relevant world building from the first season, so when they start doing weird shit with orbs i'm just like damn, cool you guys have fun : )

don't ask me why i watched this show

trans girls doing trans things.

(trans rights are human rights.)

i promise i will finish this anime, but they need to license out the dub for the other 2 seasons of this show, it's criminal that they could only get the dub done for a season

see my review on Chaos; Child

i'm gonna be real, this is basically just high fantasy naruto

you can fight me on this, but if you stare at the premise for more than like 2 minutes, this is exactly what it is


... now don't get me wrong, don't take this as me trashing it

i just haven't finished this show since I missed the later airings of it on toonami, and if i wanted to finish it now i'd need to dedicate an insane amount of time. just not the kind of commitment i'm looking for atm.

so i'm gonna be honest, unless for some weird reason you're REALLY into all of the world building that they've done for the extended reboot code geass, honestly this isn't worth your time

spoilers? if you really care? it's not ruining much...

so like verbatim, the show in terms of the plot setup is almost verbatim similar to the original season of code geass, this time NEO-britania takes over japan (*again?*), and this time blonde lelouche needs to reclaim japan. again.

before going into to much else, let me resolve this hang up

personally i think that is actually really really weeeeeird, since like in this time line, the "britanians" and also the "japanese" who used to live in the old oppressive times don't seem to really seem to care that the exact same fucking thing literally happened 20 years ago????

like mabye there's a factor to this i don't know since i honestly didn't feel like watching the recap movies to get like the 5 bits of alternate lore that this world has but still... like this is a pretty significant. no?

i'll be honest they at least did a decent job writing out the MC for this show, there's kind of an intresting plot going on with the fact that blonde lelouche is actually one of the twin daugters of the former emperor, so there's one who's this puppet ruler (that goes nowhere btw) and the actual one who's the MC

like i could go even more into it but honestly being real here, i'll put it like this

if you gave sukuku (lelouche's brother) the geass and made him swithc role of lelouche in the original show, this entire franchise would lose it's ommph factor, since the entire point of the show is that while his actions from some outset may serve a tenious moral good, by no means is lelouche a decent moral human being. this is the key formula here!

this is a show where they gave sukuku the geass. it's pretty close to just generic shonen mecha action now.

i'm gonna be real, this has kind of a black clover / seven deadly sins vibe to me, generic shounen that while it's got ok characters, just goes on for WAAAAAAAAY damn too long, which i kind have already watched enough of in a lifetime

(i'm sorry for the folks who like this show i hope you understand where i'm coming from)

this is like hunter x hunter except all the misteque of the world gets mashed into a dull monster of the week type show, where the main protagonist finds a ugly thing to beat the shit out of, before going back home to loaf around, before doing the exact same thing, rinse and repeat.

zombie apocalypse... but big breast anime waifu

awooga!

passable if you wanna watch it as a bad it's good anime, because the directorial choices are just... yeah

i'm gonna be real at this point, he can stay in the isekai world for all i care i'm kinda over the premise of this show, i've been watching for like WAAAAAAAY too long

so like mabye MABYE i will pick this back up if someone can really sell me on this

but i'm gonna be honest in 2 FUCKING episodes NOTHING really noteworthy happens

gonna be real with yalls - like i can understand the fact that you guys are really into this show but like by the actual time i would hypothetically get "caught up" with this, could actually like no joke here literally be time i could use to get a masters degree or smth

if the one piece is real or not i literally don't care much, and i plan to stay ignorant, thank you very much.

aight insanely cool premise here, and the first 50 minute "episode" was really cool to see

...

but then from there, they kind of turn it into a courtesan drama, where the only stuff the plot cares about is who's taking the throne, and don't get me wrong i think the court drama part is intresting, but i'm honestly more interested in looking at society as a whole being affected by this "reverse patriarchy" like in the first episode, because after a while the court drama really starts to feel like it could just be like 2 or 3 flashbacks instead of 30 minute episodes. the thing is too, we know the kingdom survives, so my suspension of disbelief is already destroyed

also TW, SA:

there was a pretty significant instance of rape in the show that at least from what I can remember I wish was handled better. idk, it was not very nice to sit through

from what i remember of this show, the premise while i thought it was kind of intresting just was not really that great of a hook for me in execution

also this show just kind of takes a fine gander over the fact that ace / aro folks exist ?????????

like don't let that little wizard spec thing fool you otherwise, if you ain't intrested in guys gals or any other pals, you're good :)

ok i got through the first season, watched a smidge of the second and didn't really have much steam after what. not a bad show by any means, just don't really feel like having to sit thru a 20+ eps. tournament arc

this one is cute girls doing cute things except it's actually nuts, saw a couple episodes of this, wanna watch this fully at some point

... so it's finally ending huh?

i think this was from the creator of angel beats, rec was from yt shorts, liked angel beats so this would be intresting to see

so i got thru the main anime, i see this on MAL and i'm like damn son, this story is still poppin? og anime was pretty ballin so I'd be down for another like 5+ movies to watch, kinda like watching EVA rebuild

was interested in this because of directors work on the orbital children, didn't end up liking that one as much, but reviews told me this series would be much more worthy of a watch, as well as carry the themes from that other show, hoping it lives up to that

mabye it's just me but i am fucking hyped for them to make the 3rd season for this show, like the story so much that i'm tempted to read the manga, but i can wait...

honestly i don't think the animation is -

why is this on my plan to watch again?

briefly remember a scattered thing of clips from this one, I think it might be a fun watch from what I remembered, also grats on getting a 2nd season after a 10+ gap lol

this was an anime where the dub goes mad silly, hoping it could rival the likes to the Eng dub to ghost stories

the mage one is getting a spin off? not my first choice in that harem but ok, i'm down for explosion hijinks

this one was a rec from YT shorts, and from what I remember of the premise, like the plot of this was crazy, the kind of crazy i'd like to see go down

cool that this is getting another season, probably would have to rewatch 1st to remember what's even goin on here, this show was wild

this one is a apparently a lost media anime / beer ad that resurfaced recently about a pengiun suffering PTSD from 'nam? i'm down

tbh, expecting this to be kind of generic slice of life, but i mean look at that fox girl! can you really say no to 12 episodes with a face like that

FUTURE ME:

yeah i can say no.

got this one from a rec from YT shorts, tbh this seems like the kind of premise that would irritate me rather quickly, but i'd give this anime the watch 3 test to give it a fair shake

bro what the fuck!

you had SEVEN YEARS!