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May 16, 2018
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (6/13 eps)
Tadakun has been just watchable thus far, but mediocre-to-lousy writing is bringing it down. Characters this extravagant and scenarios this unlikely really belong in an over-the-top farce à la Nisekoi; they jar completely with the lower-key, more naturalistic tone being attempted. It all comes off as a wild clash of story elements with little serious thought given to reconciling them. The core, Tada-Teresa romance is underdeveloped and under-justified. Teresa acts almost as if she came to Japan for the specific purpose of standing around in the park looking helpless and then falling in love with the first eligible Japanese dude who offered assistance. She immediately ...
Dec 27, 2017
They managed to make a show about vampires completely bloodless.

About the kindest thing you can say for Strike the Blood is that it's not screamingly bad in any particular way. Rather it's uniformly, monotonously bad; bad in every single way that an anime of its general description might turn out to be bad. Now bad shows are a fact of life and nothing to get excited about, but the fandom's toleration and acceptance for bad shows like this is a real shame and only encourages the studios to keep turning them out instead of something actually worthwhile.

SutoBura actually begins reasonably well. True, the first episode ...
Jul 26, 2017
Preliminary (4/12 eps)
Isekai Shokudou is shockingly, relentlessly boring. There's a mundane, quiet restaurant; it has a magic portal that's branches out to a bunch of corresponding portals in a sword and sorcery fantasy world. A rotating cast of fantasy guest characters come through the door. They eat food and then leave. Back in fantasy isekai land, they do have stuff going on; this is explained through direct narration or maybe some clumsy expository dialogue. But it's just back story. The restaurant visit does nothing at all to resolve the off-screen tension (except in one case where the guy's big problem was... he hadn't eaten in a while.) ...
Jan 6, 2017
A mystical gate to another world opens up, and out pours an army of tedious genre bullshit.

GATE's choice to make the Earthlings far more powerful than the fantasy nations should, in principle, have been an interesting one. Combat is consistently one of the most boring and decadently overstylized elements of anime. Instead of a digestible through-line – the reckless charge gradually disintegrates under unanswerable fire, the duelist affects a false opening to bait a real one from his opponent – anime usually gives us visual noise, "badass" dialogue, and arbitrary "dramatic" violation of the author's own, self-devised rules. Taking any of prospect military defeat off ...


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