oh man

The main character got raped by the girls when they were children. Wow, that's Japanese.

Kind of reminds me of staying at my grandparents house as a child. Neat.

We really are in Gintama Hell

This was fun to watch. It's a unique setting, it doesn't have that many anime tropes, there's no fan service, and it takes itself seriously. Thankfully, it avoided being over the top edgy.

It becomes difficult to keep track of all the characters they introduce. It would've been better to cut them down and focus on the most important characters.

This was one hell of an audiovisual feast.

Safe, contemporary, "retro" junk food. I just ate a whole bag of doritos in 5 minutes and feel sick now type watch.

Story is boring. Think of the most generic shounen samurai scenario, that's the story. Blood and gore doesn't make this a good adult story. This is literally a children's story, a toddler bedtime sleepy-bye story. Why the fuck should I care about anyone in this story? Why waste so much fucking time on this? (hint: to save budget)
Basically, what I am trying to say is FUCK those literally pointless 10+ minute long flashbacks. I hope whoever wrote this shitty story has an extremely bad day today.

Music is boring, I was expecting a lot more. They hype it up a little more than the usual anime.

The Afro Samurai (character) is boring and his backstory is gay. I just want to see this fucker cut things, I DO NOT CARE about his tragic backstory and how cruel and ice cold the world is... Why should I take anything in this story seriously considering how ridiculous some of the situations are? Why does this Afro Samurai need the most cliche sob story since Naruto/One Piece/Gintama?

And that annoying ass gray hair motherfucker can eat shit. He's so obnoxious. 2 minutes of him babbling about nonsense every time he's on the screen with NO reaction from anyone listening.
He's either making (un)funny jokes (Feels adlibbed) or telling the viewer what is going on (Helps if I'm not watching I guess).

Animation is awesome during the fight scenes, it's all extremely dynamic and well done. If I didn't appreciate really good animation like this, I would not give any of these shows the time of day.

Just watch Samurai Champloo, it's the same but better in every way unless you like the desaturated colors in Afro Samurai, then I recommend Samurai Champloo with a desaturation filter over it.

I'm sure glad I don't understand Japanese because I'm sure all the music I listen to is sappy high school drama love shit.

I like how the protagonists have a revolving cast of characters like the antagonists do. That makes it stand out from the usual super power monster of the week show. The way abilities can transfer between people is a nice change of pace too.

That being said, some abilities clearly don't do what they've been said to do. The scissors supposedly can cut through anything... except when purple hair needed to die to orange hair. The armor suit couldn't be penetrated by anything... until Bulet needed to die with his superior. If the established rules need to be broken to force story progression, then what's the point of the rules in the first place? If the author was skilled enough, he could've avoided writing himself into plothole after plothole.

The characters are empty. They're just husks for abilities to fill in. When anyone dies, there's nothing there for me to feel. Bols is an exception to that though, very well written for anime standards (ironic because he's an enemy). Aside from him, the antagonists were so over the top cartoony evil it was almost comedic.

Every time jokes were tossed around, it felt jarring, out of place, and pointless. Certainly not the worst I've seen though.

Incredible themes and art direction. Beautiful scenery and a haunting soundtrack. Very memorable, essential watch.

Oh boys.

Neat, kind of mesmerizing. Melancholic and haunting.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

This was amazing when I was half paying attention to it.

The atmosphere is beautiful and the music is relaxing but the animation is weak, the characters are one dimensional, and the jokes are generic. This would've made for a great PS2 JRPG (something like an Atelier game).

I love how the OP synthesizes the introduction of the episode's story with a bunch of nice B-roll imagery while also being accompanied by an angelic and melancholic song (Ep 4, 11). Masterful!!! No doubt anyone revisiting this series some years later will be overwhelmed with emotion despite the show being pretty basic and dull. That's pure style and absolutely no substance right there.

I hate how the last two episodes just explained what was going on with the underlying plot. I was able to pick up the pieces here and there throughout the show and it was cool, mysterious, and more subtle than most anime. But then they jam it in your face at the end and go "DO YOU GET IT YET?" just to make sure everyone's on the same page. Flashbacks, exposition, staring directly at the camera and explaining things. The typical anime/manga writing devices. The worldbuilding is still paced really well but I'm suspecting they'll just dump the lore (that you should already know if you're paying attention) on you for an entire episode straight in a later season.

Yeah, I'm with whatever they said in this episode. Peace and love and boats and water. It's all good.

Really, really okay show. Doesn't excel at anything, but isn't that bad either. Kinda comfy.

My first anime. We all have to start somewhere.

Aimless, nonsense, little context, etc

ADHD the anime

To be 16 again... What a time. 👴

Nice and simple. Gore, action, good animation, crazy fights. Nothing more, nothing less. Badass.

A little too fast paced and I'm not that interested in motorcycles or racing. But I can tell this is well done.

INSANE!!!! This is great. Action, violence, gore, mech suits, demons, stupid dialogue, martial arts, boobs. Awesome!!!!!!

This shit is awesome. I have no idea why people hate it.

These two guys are really good friends haha :)

Definitely something to watch if you like anime that is so bad it's good.

Exploitation of the highest caliber. A dog licking a woman's vagina kind of watch (Episode 4) or perhaps an eel rubbing against a woman's vagina kind of watch (Episode 10).

c'mon man. Really? had to have a little kid in the crowd watching? ruined the whole thing.

The very definition of "fine". Kind of boring.

Cool screenshottable imagery. Absolute shit everything else.

I absolutely love the nonsense in this show. So much insanity in every episode, it's nonstop. The only major gripe I have with it is the straight man trope. Remove most of Beauty and Gasser's lines and this show is basically a 10/10. The English dub did a fantastic job too, even localizing some of the jokes while keeping them funny. Feels like the English crew put a lot of love into it. Some good songs too, Soften's theme is incredible and out of place (in a good way). First OP and second ED are unskippable. Loved playing rock paper scissors during the intermission too, no matter how childish it felt. Too bad it ended on a cliffhanger.

Pretty fun battle royale. I liked that the author chose to write in a middle aged man as a significant character. Some pretty good fights with good animation. OP is classic buttrock. Cliffhanger ending.

Half boring, half fun punching and silly one liners.

This could've been better if it was longer. Certainly a nice death game cartoon at least.

What??

It's hard to believe people actually thought California was a land filled with hopes and dreams, not despair and misery.

This was kind of like a City Hunter episode.

Vegeta hauled ass in this one.

Neat. Almost forgot it was anime.

OK SO IMAGINE CHAINSAW MAID.. BUT A LITTLE MORE SILLY. Good job.

CHARGING... GO!!!!!!!!!

Stupid and shallow. Maybe I'd be impressed if I was 15.

Beautiful artwork, great animation. Story is a bit slow and mediocre, but fine. Characters are okay too. That's about it. Nothing special about it.

Kind of romantic, kind of accurate depiction of New York.

Super mid motorcycle anime. Featuring a Supra.

The characters are fine but one dimensional. The comedy ranges from meh to hilarious. The animation is phenomenal. The music is good. There's a lot of melodramatic fluff in the story. It's episodic with no continuity. This is pretty fun overall but there's really nothing profound in this show.

Reminds me of Lupin quite a bit.

racism, pizza hut, orange

eats coo's poo

This is high quality boring. I'm sure everyone who was involved in this went on to do more important animation works.

This shit is anime!

Super stylish, very moody. I didn't like the overall arc at all, very melodramatic. The episodic episodes were the meat of the show for me. Episodes 20 and 17 are extremely memorable. The soundtrack is so good, the fight scenes are choreographed incredibly well and the characters had pretty good chemistry.

Lupin special if it got infinity yen budget.
ALL spectacle with an average and coherent story.
So many stunning fight scenes, this one was a real treat :-0.

This is solid evidence that the 70's didn't end overnight.

Kinda funny, kinda not. It's pretty crazy and surprisingly competent. There's little to no straight-manning, just funny stuff.

Episode 5 and episode 7 are great. Very funny. The rest is fine.

True love for the art. Of drawing. Pretty cool.

Not very funny but not very unfunny. Way too much femdom shit that happened for no reason (See Prison School for a good example of femdom done right). Otherwise I can't remember anything else about this

More femdom and more mediocre comedy

Shitty writing, shitty and generic characters, stupid plot that progresses illogically. Has as much exposition as Jojo but it's somehow even more pointless. So many plot holes and inconsistent/nonexistent rules. The fact that the MC won his first battle through sheer luck should give you everything you need to know about this show.

Horrible characters. Plot armor out the ass, people only moved/used their power/survived when they felt like it. Shitty melodrama. Incredible pacing issues.

OP is a guilty pleasure. Leg break scene was unintentionally hilarious.

Good animation, cliche concept done well. I enjoyed this but I'm sick of the badass old man trope.

Time to get really autistic.

Really intense games of logic for the first 11 episodes. Absolutely fantastic, great character interaction with motivation on each side. Some characters die too quick but their deaths are surprisingly effective and the actual death sequence is drawn out perfectly. The main character has so many tense scenes and close calls. The music helps increase the tension in each scene, the entire OST blends in extremely well. It's a really exciting thriller that doesn't have any frills that a lot of bullshit anime has. For example, it doesn't have high pitched squeaky voiced anime girls, every voice actor plays their part extremely well (especially L), it has very muted colors, the music is subtle, every character looks like a real person, and there are no bombastic see-who-can-punch-harder fight scenes. I really thought I was gonna make fun of this show going into it. I really thought it would be over the top edgy blood and gore Elfen Lied schlock garbage. But it really isn't.

Then they add a 2nd Death Note user who is a high pitched squeaky voiced anime girl with bright colors wearing a gothic lolita outfit whose entire character is just the yandere trope. Misa is the antithesis of almost every positive point this show has. As the show progresses, she's shown to time and time again ruin any scene she's in. She feels so forced in this show, it feels like an executive came up to the manga author and told him "You need to have a cute female character who loves the protagonist in this, I don't care how, just do it. We need to boost our ratings.". She's a dime-a-dozen autistic anime girl, which is ironic considering Raye's fiance was a well written female with motivation and intelligence, something few and far between in anime, yet she was only a side character. The glomping scene in episode 14 was painful to watch, it was so infuriating and just doesn't make sense. This show has been about logic and reason up until this point. If Misa really cared for and loved Light, she would actually listen to him. Again, in episode 15, she fucks up and meets up with Light while he's hanging out with L. I get it, I really do, I remember Ryuk saying anyone who gets a Death Note has misfortune befall them. This is misfortune. But my god, it is frustrating to watch Misa interact with Light because her entire existence is JUST causing misfortune for Light. She doesn't completely stop dragging the show down even after the 2nd Kira arc because she's a mainstay character now, providing "funny" comedic goofy moments in this serious story about detectives trying to catch a murderer killing hundreds of people. She's such a blight to this show. The fact that she didn't have a shift in personality whatsoever after being confined for 50 days and was led to believe she was going to be executed is proof she's another generic poorly written female anime character.

Though, to be entirely fair, there really isn't much character development in the first place. Which isn't at all what I'd praise this show about or what it tries to be. In fact, almost every anime I've ever watched, including the ones I liked, have little to no character development even IF they're trying. At the very least, in Death Note, they set up characters and their motives really well (ESPECIALLY for something apparently considered shounen). The characters can be described in a handful of words as opposed to most anime characters that could be described entirely with just a single word.

I can rate the first 11 episodes a genuine 10/10. Once Misa is introduced, the show starts to take a dive. Once the Yotsuba group is introduced, the show becomes a lot softer and slows down. That lasts for 7 episodes until the show really starts to kick back into gear. Once Mello and N are introduced, it's fine. The show definitely could've ended at episode 26 but I suppose the timeskip was interesting and all that. I really disliked how N seemed to catch on way faster than L ever did, to the point at which the way he got to his conclusions just didn't make enough sense to me. Mikami wasn't set up very well either if I can recall, he should've been set up way back when Misa was introduced. I didn't understand how the police had 2 notebooks when they were infiltrating Mello's hideout too, it really feels like a massive plothole. I don't know why Light didn't immediately kill Mello either, similar to how he killed the Ray's fiance way earlier. It seemed like the author was trying to force an outcome here with these inconsistencies, the cracks were showing and it's probably good he decided to end it. I just wish the finale was set up a little differently or just properly ended at episode 26.

This was pretty cool up until Kaname said "Hold on.... let me explain why we grow these orchids....." and then the typical anime slideshow exposition dump began. Almost thought I was watching art and not anime up until that point.

Funny in concept, executed decently. I don't like the art direction at all, the bizarre aspect ratio of every shot is obnoxious. Sometimes the jokes are pretty good though.

This is the most early 2000s Japanese thing I've seen in a long time. It's great.

"Hey... You!"

1. Uhh cool?
2. I was too distracted by the vocal samples in the song to pay attention
3. Blink and you'll miss it
4. Toe suckers unite
5. Yeesh
6. Weird and kinda bad

I can't wait to do this next time I'm in Japan.

Now THIS is a twist I can get behind!!!

Best isekai I've ever watched.

Tits out at the end, that's all you gotta know.

Really, not that interesting.

Japan sure went wild with westerns from the late 90s to early 2000s. Wild Arms, Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, God Hand... etc

A fun little thingy. That's about it.

I have concluded that Japanese people have absolutely no idea how to write female characters. The women in this show are *shockingly* bad. Almost offensively bad. Easily the worst I've seen in any artistic medium so far.

The story is schlocky shounen garbage. Really generic sometimes. I can feel some Gintama influence in the comedy bits, which is good, but any sort of comedy is immediately thrown away when the cat girl decides it's time to strip. The stripping happens in completely serious fights too, interrupting the flow of the battle worse than exposition dumps.

Really though, the biggest positive this show has is that the fight scenes have well done animation. The art direction is completely inconsistent though and it's very noticeable.

The last fight with his bro was pretty good.

It's been a long time since a show has managed to captivate me like this. The less you know going into it, the better. It's a sci-fi thriller with interesting philosophical ideas and cynical social commentary. Ergo Proxy is just excellent.

This is a lot of... Fun. Whoa. Soichi can stuff a sock in it though.

I wish I lived near a night club that was themed like this.
Instead it's just bdsm sex drug addicted freak loser clubs. boring.

It's kind of silly.

I wonder what hellish, fucked up scenario the funny pets will get up to today.

Episode 7 is a highlight for sure.

Cozy and melancholic. Nicely done.

What a beautiful school! With such beautiful boys!

Even more beautiful boys! Even better than the show!

Feels like I'm watching a WarioWare microgame.

Wow, this is a mysterious, scandalous, and dangerous boy. Ecstacy night.

Great music from a great boy

I'm not even joking, this is awesome.

If you've ever wondered what the homeless do in their free time... Well, now you know.

The moral of the story today is .. uh... um.. Just keep trying? It'll all work out in the end.

They really used the pokeball opening noise 3 minutes and 47 seconds into this television program.

Crazy they got away with 3 of these.

I use my emulator's fast forward button to blaze through these kinds of cutscenes in any JRPGs I play.

Su... Uh.. This Was a Film!

I'm really nostalgic for this show. I watched it during my final high school years. I loved nearly every character even if they're all one dimensional joke factories. It had so many laugh out loud moments. The humor suffers from the Straight Man trope and it can be *hard* to ignore. The show can also become a generic shounen whenever it feels like it and when it does, it does not hold back. It is the most boring, melodramatic, pointless shit. I constantly ask myself "Where did the funny go?" whenever that bullshit starts. It sucks so much.

This is the kind of show that you'd go to youtube to look up the funny moments instead of rewatching... If you can trust anime fans to actually clip the good funny moments.

Less funny, more shounen. Goodish animation though.

I'm deep in this shit.

Even funnier than the previous season of Gintama, this is the peak of the show's run. Still has that unbearable shounen shit though.

Shounen hits hard here but not even the worst the show has to offer yet.

Fun

Where is the funny ??

Here is the funny..

This is so bad, so boring, it makes me angry thinking about how I sat through this shit. Waste of time.

When the timeskip hit, it was so relieving. Finally, all the funny came back. It was so good to see the characters I spent over 200 episodes watching actually just be themselves instead of "Generic Shounen Badass Dude". It's just so surreal seeing every character with different personalities turn into the EXACT same character all at the same time. It's some of the worst writing I've ever seen. It's spitting on the fans of the show and most fans don't even realize it.

Clip showwww.
The new stuff was kind of funny.

The beginning of Gintama .. They put most of this in the actual show later.

Skippable

Thank God it's over.

At least the fight scenes were sort of fun, even if they were just pure fluff. And a big shout out and THANK YOU to Hideaki Sorachi for making the last 40 minutes of the movie funny, that unfortunately blew me away and raised this from a 5 to a 7.

The total runtime for these specials was 48:31.

Subtract the intros, outros, and title/subtitle cards, (12:59) you get a runtime of 35:32.

Of these 35 minutes and 32 seconds, at least 10 minutes are dedicated to dumb fucking melodrama.

So you're left with roughly 25 minutes of funny.

That is 51.52% funny compared to total runtime. Or 70.36% funny if you skip the useless intros, outros, etc.

I'd say that's pretty good for Gintama's standards, especially considering how close to the end it is. Highly recommend.

I don't remember this one as well but I'm sure it had its Gintama Funny Moments.

Pretty good arc but yet again, it becomes shounen shit at the end.

Fun and funny

Sponsored by Marlboro, smoke it up.

GTO if there wasn't as much stupid ass melodrama, so basically GTO if it was better. It's not too bad honestly.

This is a wild OVA. Lots of sexual imagery, sometimes played off as comedy (and works well when it does). The racing episode had a part that legitimately had me in tears and rivals some of the funniest anime moments I've ever seen. Really fantastic soundtrack.

Funniest, comfiest anime I've ever watched. Super feel good, lovable characters, and great soundtrack. Manages to dodge almost every trope that otherwise would plague anime like this, making it stand above every other slice of life comedy anime immediately. Something else it does, unlike a vast majority of anime, is have actual character development. One of the few shows that compelled me to read the manga.

This is the best anime/manga the slice of life genre has ever gotten and probably will ever get. Literally every slice of life is shallow junk food except for this one.

Give and take.

This is my kind of 'so bad it's funny'. Especially the dub. It's unapologetically so trashy, so hilarious. I can't believe they actually tried to have a serious plot at the end... LOL.

The girls from Green Green molesting each other.

Stock sound effects, shitty animation, stupid plot, awkward dialogue. This has it all. Worse than the TV show, maybe in a good way.

Ok so imagine Green Green but if there was also porn in it sometimes.

Drugs, guns, homeless people, immigrants, exploding cars, corrupt politicians. Just another day in Every American City.

Okay, imagine taking one of the coolest, most badass franchises of all time and then turning into some generic, trite anime garbage. That's this. What a fucking waste.

Marty O'Donnell's legendary score is used in this travesty, so the music is good I guess.

If you need to watch any of these, watch Origins 1 & 2. They literally just go over the backstory of Halo in a pretty straightforward way. No melancholic war story, no silly hijinx, no anime fighting, just... the backstory narrated by Cortana with a sprinkle of anti-war sentiment. Simple.

Funny

One of those fanservice filled OVAs for the people who read the manga.

The animation and art direction are on the cusp of being good, just not quite there.

The music though!! There's some nice music here.

16 year olds will take screencaps of this show and make them into album art for their sick badass vgm sampled sewerslut-esque sadwave breakcore album.

Working part time my ass. There's hardly any actual MgRonald action. We constantly hear about Satan getting promotions and shit but never get to watch him get them. It's all about his dumb ass harem and some demon vs angel shit I don't care about. I want to see him and Alsiel working at the MgRonald. I want to see Satan adapt to the fast food life. I want to see Alsiel freak out after he accidentally rings up the wrong order and begs Satan for forgiveness. I want to see a promo for the new "spiciest buffalo fries" go wrong after Satan spices them up too much with his magic. I want to see a lunch rush get way too out of control. I want an actual buildup to the Sentucky Fried Chicken place opening up and having an entire arc's worth of competition between the two. I wanted a nice, light-hearted, FUNNY season of them working at that damn place. There's too many angels and demon characters. I would've rather seen more realistic human characters, like I dunno, his fucking co-workers?? The show suffers from the Gintama problem where it's a comedy with hijinx but then an arc hits and the dramatic "story" just drags on and on with no substance. It's just complete nonsense with no sense of pace whatsoever.

The characters are a mixed bag. At least some of them are funny but everyone could be summed up in a trope. Bare bones.

This could've been great if the author didn't feel the need to rely on an extremely misguided, boring plot. How you fuck up a fish-out-of-water comedy show is beyond me but the Japanese managed to do it.

"What if we started a podcast?.." the anime.

"What if we did a recap?.." the anime.

All the negatives of Lupin and City Hunter with almost no positives.

I really, really liked how the woman was naked for most of the film.

Lots of action too I guess.

At first, I thought this anime was unapologetically cheap, obnoxious, vulgar, and annoying.
And believe me, it is.

Despite that, I still found it to be really endearing. It's unrelentingly unique, carefree, fun, and has genuinely funny moments. I honestly never wanted it to end. The dub is good.

Fascinating story with eternally relevant social issues humans face during their lifetime. Cool art too.

First 2 episodes were promising then it just shits the bed. Boring as fuck and not funny.

INFERNO COP FACT FILE

How the hell did something like this get made? It's really cool. Really fun. Just really good.

This is humiliating for everyone involved.

Happy Birthday Roman!!!!!!

Someone call CPS on this dude.

That part in one of the episodes where he sprays blood on the small child rabbit girl was absolutely hilarious and the only reason this isn't a 1/10

In the Court of the Tulip Prince.

The first part is really slow, not that good. The second part is basically perfect in regards to an action anime. Lovable MC, great action sequences, badassery all around. Super enjoyable to watch. Part 1 is 6/10, Part 2 is 10/10

Introducing stands is the most important thing Jojo has ever done. Basically superhero powers without the gay spandex. It's great. Fights start to become heavier games of logic that become incredibly engaging in later parts. Part 3 is pretty basic when it comes to the fights, usually boiling down to whoever can punch harder. Still, fantastic OST, animation, characters, all the works.

The show really starts to drag on here. Part 3 should've just been 39 episodes.

It took some time for me to really enjoy this. Has the best characters out of any other part, really solid OST again, slightly weaker animation. This whole part meanders too much, taking 17 episodes to finally introduce the villain. However, he's probably one of my favorite villains out of any piece of media I've consumed. The ending was disappointing and failed to wrap up many plot points introduced along the way. Still, it was a lot of fun to watch.

Incredibly solid art direction, basically part 3 on steroids. The fights in this part are some of the best in the entire series. Particularly Beach Boy/Grateful Dead and White Album. Yet again, a great soundtrack. Way too much exposition though.

did em dirty

I've never liked the beginning of part 6, even in the manga. It's post-prison break where it really shines.
Unfortunately, the weakest section of part 6 was still pretty damn underwhelming even animated. This isn't like part 5, where some fights were way better than I remembered. In fact, I was really looking forward to Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's my favorite pre-prison break fight, but they really did him dirty giving him the CGI treatment in a lot of places. Not just him, but the objects floating around, White Snake, and the frogs (just in this one fight alone) were all very noticeably CGI.

In general, they're way more lenient with it this part than any others so far. It's really disappointing to see because, I'll be honest, the incredible animation is the glue that holds Jojo together. Without it, I can't even enjoy watching the stand battles, I'd rather read it.

In hindsight, it makes complete sense that this part would look worse given the circumstances around the production and the popularity of part 6 but it still sucks man. I'd have rather waited than get a less refined, more rushed out product. I just hope they really take their time with part 7, or decide to not to do it at all.

At least that opening was Sick as all Hell.

This wasn't too bad. Just a little rough.

C-Moon? Made in Heaven? Hell yeah.
At least the very end was adapted well.

JoJo part 3 if it leaned more into the horror aspect and cut a lot of content. Actually pretty good.

Life is just one big party

The part where she touched his penis: funny.

Excellently surreal and hazy atmosphere. I really enjoyed this.

It was really difficult to find a high quality rip of this.

Anyways, I loved playing Astro Boy: Omega Factor [tm] as a kid, which feels like a very loose adaptation of this movie (and my only experience with the Osamu Tezuka universe) and felt like giving it a shot. It ended up being alright. My favorite part is comparing and contrasting how they reworked the story and characters 20 some years later. Personally, I still prefer the GBA game's story/characters but this wasn't too bad. It felt very scattered, moving from a train murder mystery to a bomb defusal situation to a tribal war. The video game covers even more junk in arguably less time but I can forgive it because it's a video game, I can actually play something instead of staring at my screen drooling while a story unfolds before me.

My second favorite part and what people will probably find the most fascinating about this movie is the gorgeous underwater paintings and scenery. They really don't make em like they used to.

I'm not at all surprised Yuji Ohno is responsible for the OST and (probably) sound design. I heard a small part of the Lupin title sting (that is still used to this very day!) a couple times throughout this movie. That opening is so funky too. Classic Ohno right there. Pretty sure the very same singer also sung an OP for Lupin at some point. Finding all of this out was a REALLY pleasant surprise. I love niche connections like this.

For children by children.

When I was staring at the Haagen-Dazs logo within 60 seconds of the film starting, I knew I was in for a real treat.

I feel like I forgot to watch something before this to get more context, like a TV show, but I don't think I was suppose to. Not that doing that would've made this any better. It still sucked but in a way a teenager might think it's cool.

I'm sick right now, I can't think of anything funny to say. Check back later.

Not as insane as The Flying Luna Clipper but it was still pretty cool.

Feels like 2014 again.

The attention to detail in this show is absolutely incredible. I have never seen an animated show that goes through outfits so casually like this. Animate things I'd never see animated in shows nowadays (lest the animated object in question be turned to CGI). The budget must've been insane.

They avoid a lot of tropes that make shows like this suck. There's no cutaway gags, no chibi, no straight manning, no(t that much) fanservice, neat stories (a tall order for anime), no extremely overused and stale one-joke token characters, actually funny sometimes (in a fun cartoony way rather than a boring over-the-top sexual way), and most importantly, it's fun(!!!).

People can have their generic flavor of the month romcom slop but man.. So much more effort, love, and care was put into this.

Also every OP and ED absolutely nailed the music choice, but the visuals of OP2 and ED2 are way, way better than the visuals in the other ones. It was cool hearing songs I was already familiar with in OP3 and ED3 too. I'm a big Meiko Nakahara fan.

Alien Vampire Survivors.

This was a very good movie. Not cliche, but very by-the-books. The story beats were standard, broken into clear cut chapters and the pacing was consistent and speedy. Everything was logical and well thought out.

The characters were written well but I never saw much development outside of mostly the girl and some of the boy.. Especially in ways I'd expect them to (The girl never betters her relationship with her father and the boy never quite breaks it off with the manager in a satisfying way). In fact, the biggest weakness this movie has is the amount of minor plot points it has and how they sometimes don't resolve.

I'd have liked this to be more tragic too. I thought it was going to be honestly. That would have brought it up to a 9 easily.

Music and sound design didn't have many standout memorable moments to me (The wind chime sound utilized during key moments is all that comes to mind) but they certainly weren't done poorly.

The artwork was absolutely gorgeous. So many stunning visuals encapsulating the duality of the peaceful rural countryside and the amazing urban sprawl of the city. The fantastical comet scenes were completely awe-inspiring. Some of the most beautiful artwork pulled out of anime. The trip the boy has after drinking the girl's sake was an amazing bit of animated craziness too. Absolutely solid work.

This movie can single-handedly solve the isreal/palestine conflict.

#5 - Millionaire Village
The weakest one, fairly uninteresting. They were still figuring out the art direction here. It's a bit rough. 5/10

#2 - Mutsu-kabe Hill
Very good OVA, little to do with Rohan though. Very grotesque and grizzly. Cool story. 7/10

#9 - The Run
Fucking 10/10. MASTERFUL animation and action. Nonstop insanity for the whole last 3rd of the OVA. Could've been an A+ stand fight against someone who was just forming a stand naturally (really should've been, none of that "reincarnation of Hermes" crap). Pretty good story, if a bit predictable. They reused 3 songs from part 3 in this one too (the other 3 OVAs entirely reuse tracks from part 4) and they all blended in perfectly. Highly recommend to someone who isn't even a big Jojo fan but still loves action shows. 10/10

#16 - At a Confessional
It was fine, lots of weird decisions that I didn't like. The popcorn scene was really over the top, even for Jojo. The tongue of the daughter being where the evil spirit communicated was dumb. I didn't understand the ending but I didn't think about it hard anyways. 6/10

Wow I Wish Every Anime Was This Short

Hot garbage.

Excellent world building, extremely well done episodic stories with connections between each one, incredibly unique art style. This show is a great reminder of why I watch anime.

I'm watching things dubbed from now on.
Not because this was a revolutionarily good or bad dub but because I don't care anymore.

It's like I watched the whole movie already.

Ok we need a little less than 14 characters for an hour long movie.

This is more on the comedy side of 'ecchi comedy'. Definitely a side I'd rather be on.

Did I just propagandized to... about rice?

A lovely song from a lovely boy

The girls do a dance for pedophiles to jack off to. Therefore, this must be a good anime.

This adaptation of Lupin is very dated. Even when comparing it to the 1977 series. Still, this is the foundation for the rest of the series going forward and has some classic stories that get brought up later in the series. If you want context for them, I would recommend watching this but those callback episodes are few and far between.

An amazing reboot to the Lupin franchise that, as far as I understand, has had a somewhat disappointing output since the end of the Red Jacket series in 1981. Slick animation and revamped art direction reminiscent of Space Dandy and Cowboy Bebop, classic tunes mixed in with new tracks that seamlessly blend together, decent episodic scenarios that wrap up nicely. The entire main cast is written really well. I find Rebecca to be a little too obnoxious sometimes and I'm glad she's not a mainstay. The overarching plot is pretty weak and kind of dragged the show down in the later half. It still is a must watch for anyone interested in Lupin, even newcomers to the series. Though if you start with this, I imagine it'll be hard to go back to the earlier series.

More of the same, pretty good one off episodes.

It was ok. Weak animation, basic plot. Not the finest Lupin has to offer.

Gorgeous animation but weak story and everyone is generally out of character compared to the rest of the Lupin series. Feels like a Ghibli film with the Lupin name slapped on the front.

Best Lupin special I've seen so far. Has the classic Lupin melodrama from the older series but it usually doesn't get in the way of the fun parts.

Decent special, I don't remember much about it though.

oh its special alright

Boring.

Definitely check this out if you've watched everything chronologically up to this point. I wouldn't recommend it if you haven't at least watched the green and red jacket series. It's very on the nose fanservicey, even breaking the 4th wall sometimes.

I remember this being pretty decent.

Pretty simple adventure, nothing exceptional about it.

Imagine Lupin (2015) but just overall better. Better overarching plot, better episodic episodes, same excellent animation, and much better ED. However, the side character sucks. I really don't like the Lain knockoff here, she's really cringey. This part does that "tech-savvy" trend that focuses on new shit like drones and livestreaming and all that. It'll become dated as time goes on but whatever. It wasn't painfully distracting. The only time it gets really bad is Ami's "Hello Underworld" shit, it's so gay.

Loved the chemistry between Fujiko and Lupin here. Really surprised to see them try to pull something out of these characters that had been around for 50+ years at that point.

cgi car...
set in great britain...
this is turning out to be the worst part yet...

In all honesty though, this part feels really schizophrenic. The episodic episodes are all over the place. It feels like the staff took from Monkey Punch's b-sides that he never finished and didn't do much of anything to make them comprehensible. It's definitely lacking. A lot of the dialogue feels really disjointed, coupled with a nonsensically fast pacing can leave me confused sometimes. The overarching stories are unfortunately not any better either despite being given more time to flesh them out.

Regardless, and aside from the CGI cars, this part is usually gorgeous. Great animation all around. Gets a bit more gritty and gory too, which is fun.

Music's the same as always, it ranges from passable to good. The first ending is great by itself, but it feels out of place when the episode ends on a serious cliffhanger.

Lupin's never been a perfect series but this hit below the mark. Not by a lot, but still underwhelming. I can safely recommend episodes 15, 16, 17, and 21. They're all pretty damn solid Lupin showings, episodes 17 and 21 really exemplifying the best of Lupin, so this season wasn't a complete disappointment.

This was a pretty decent sendoff to a voice acting legend...

However, the pacing felt too quick and it wasn't quite as melancholic as I was hoping. I felt like if it had been a 44 minute episode, or even a full special, it would've had enough time to properly revisit Jigen's character to the fullest extent and give Kiyoshi a proper sendoff.

This is premium vintage wine.

There's two lessons to take out of all 50 episodes here, it's that you should never trust a fat, balding, square shaped guy because he will try to commit insurance fraud and never try to commit insurance fraud because Lupin will steal all of it.

I don't remember much about this but it was definitely a weaker special.

Cheesy concept. It's an incomplete episode so it's kind of hard to rate.

Windows 7 is so fast and easy to use. I love Bill gates

Pretty cool, pretty damn cool. Not a lot of substance though.

i dont know what i was expecting

Boobalicious Babes!

Beautiful, haunting, and surreal. All 3 shorts are fantastic.

This is one of Japan's finest.

Actually really, really funny. The early 2000s were fucking wild man.

Mostly crap, nothing remarkable. A little bit funny sometimes but pretty cringe molestation stuff (typical Japan).

It must be really humiliating being a female voice actor in these kinds of shows.

Let's get this guy to direct a full 12 episode 6/10 anime already!!

Magentic Rose - 8/10
Fantastic atmosphere, music, and message brought down by a campy, trite backstory (Eva and Carlos).

Stink Bomb - 7/10
True story of the first Indian to immigrate to Japan.

Cannon Fodder - 7/10
A world where every country has an autistic fascination with a particular mechanical device. And in this movie, we look at the country that really, *really* likes cannons. (Don't worry, I got the nazi part)

This show has some of the most disappointing battles I've ever seen. Terrible execution to a mediocre buildup every fight. Yuno's motives hardly make any sense. Interesting characters die left and right before they can really have time to shine. The only interesting bit happens like 20 episodes in, when the big twist happens but at that point I had to walk through so much shit to get there, I ended up being completely uninterested by it.

Good job shitting on any positives the original show had.

All comedy all the time.

I'm just boosting my completed section to make it look like I don't drop everything.

*makes joke*
"haha b-but also don't do that joke please, haha"

Phenomenal animation, very good pacing and storytelling. Characters are alright, there's plenty of comedic relief. No fanservice, straightforward coming-of-age plot. It's really charming too.