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The starting episode is amazing, perfect example of a great hook and line. However, the story following has a different tune to it: let me explain. (TLDR at the bottom)

The starting episode shows a famous upstarting idol called Ai Hoshino. A mega fan named Gorou Amamiya who is obsessed with Ai. He got into the world of idols when one of his patients died (as he is a doctor). Later on, Ai comes to his office because she is pregnant and he promises to deliver her babies (she was having twins). Long story short, he dies before he gets to deliver the babies. The killer? ... A stalker of Ai, and he gets away without getting caught.
Then Gorou wakes up as the baby of Ai Hoshino, with the new name Aquamarine. His new sister, Ruby, also had a previous life she remembers. As the episode progresses, so do the characters and at the tender age of around 3-5, Ai is murdered right in front of them. The Killer? The mega stalker, but it is heavily implied that it was the father of Aquamarine and Ruby who pulled the strings (the father was absent this entire time).

The next episode changes the tune of the show. No explicit assumption for the show was laid down in the first episode, but it carried a much heavier air than it does in the rest of the show. Aqua is trying to find his father so that he can make him suffer, and Ruby is pretty much moved on and isn't involved with Aqua's plan at all. Anyways, the next episode blows the whole serious air right off. Immediately it feels like a typical school anime with small high school problems with the occasional serious interruption of the only really serious character on the show: Aqua.
The rest of the episodes follow this theme. Ruby is trying to create a new idol group named after her mother's, and Aqua is entering the world of acting in order to find his father who is most likely involved in the entertainments. The cuts between Aqua and Ruby feel really off in my opinion, as if they were chopping it up in sporadic ways to try and fit it together. It's not the worst thing ever, but it definitely could've been done better.

TLDR: My main complaints is the weird episode structure for the cuts between Aqua and Ruby. Second, the "mood" change in the show after the first episode. You set expectations up, then the second and proceeding episode tear it down. Not the worst, just weird.

NOTE: The show is generally very good, the specifics is what I am mainly complaining about and is why I put the review as mixed feelings. It may not be for you, or it may. Who's to say, but you wont know until you try it out.

Nah bro nah. I was looking for brain numbing things, and came across this anime and thought, "oh nice, an isekai, overdone concept but usually can be very entertaining." It wasn't. Even for brain numbing stuff it wasn't good. The intent of the anime is so painfully obvious it's laughable. Basically, overweight dude is really good hearted, he inherits his grandpa's house and all his things and moves there because his actual family sucks. After awhile, he discovers hidden room with a magic door, opens it, and vuala a different world.

The whole thing is basically trying to make good things, or cool things, happen to ... the main character. Basically, a "do good get good" type of message. Which, idk abt yall, but that just ain't how life operates. Life is distinctly an unfair place, and if it were fair then we'd all be in deep trouble (because despite how much 'good' we do, if it were a fair life then it would also be 'do bad, get bad' and we all do a lot more bad stuff than good stuff).

TLDR: It's just a really badly made anime, the storyline sucks, and the animation is honestly so weird. They try to glorify the MC in ways that just don't make sense and it's really weird more than anything.

SPOILER WARNING:
First of all, for the lazy people out there, a TLDR will be at the end...

Okay, so, the anime has a very slow start to it, and I had to force myself to watch it without looking at the synopsis because I'm not that into sports anime. Low and behold, the sports part to it doesn't actually have much action in it, a little funky animation, but tbh overall not that bad.

The story focuses on the main character, Maki (using his nickname cause who has time to remember their long ass names) who just moved back into his home town. He transfers ... into the school the story focuses on and gives off a vibe of a very nonchalant, mind-my-own-business person. He gets confronted by the Soft Ball Tennis Captain in order to be recruited, to which he was denied, but eventually accepted. They made a deal and a bit of the MC's past is revealed.

Turns out that the MC's dad is abusive, his parents split up due to this fact, and although they split up, the dad still visits from time to time to basically steal money from them. The mother works constantly and possibly determines the risk of aggravating her ex-husband too risky, and so she lets him steal money. The moments where the trash husband would "visit" had me going for the first half of the show, since, I'll be real honest here, nothing real interesting was actually happening.

The story progresses and it turns out that pretty much all of the tennis' members' parents are literal trash bags besides a few. Some kids are adopted and one is struggling with his identity. Those parts were a bit ehhhh, but since I'm into the whole depression, sad, angsty side of anime, I was all for it. My personal opinion, and may very much differ for someone else.

Now the part that made me rate this show higher than I would've and lower than I would've, is the last episode. Maki's tennis partner's (ngl, forgot his name) mom just told him that she was going to divorce her husband because she can't stand the failure that is her son. Like I side, most of the characters' parents are actual trash bags. Anyways, after that, when Maki gets back home, he sees that his mother is not. And that worries him. He sees the envelope used for paying his dad on the table, ripped open and empty. This alights rage in him, not just any rage, cold rage. He goes out and purchases a nice long knife from a store before heading out to his dad's apartment. There, he stands in front of the door, and a thought runs through his mind persistently, "We'll never be free while he's still alive." AND THE FREAKING EPISODE AND SERIES ENDS THERE. I HATE CLIFF HANGERS AND THAT JUST BROKE ALL LAWS OF COMMON HUMAN DECENCY.

TLDR: The anime didn't really know what it wanted to be. The sports sequences weren't all that interesting and the drama was way too dramatized (but I liked it since it was dark). The MC was also a little too perfect, with a few flaws, and I'll admit a pretty depressing backstory (in terms of slice of life). The series was pretty slow, but the little moments made it better. Overall, not bad, but it ends with a cliff hanger, which just makes it a little worse.

Blue Period is very refreshing to watch. As an artist myself, I can well relate to the artistic journey of Yaguchi. It's very different watching your own "journey" through art through someone else's eyes.

Yaguchi starts off as a very conceited, confident, well-behaved honors student. Works like a machine and has no personal touch in anything. Focused solely on meeting "quotas" and others' expectations. A very closed-minded character. He's a very bad match for the art field, since, if you have any experience with it, it usually takes a very open-minded approach to become good. His struggles and hardships as well as victories are all carried ... out well throughout the entire series.
The only reason I did not vote this a 10/10 is because, although I do love making art, I do not find this sort of genre my go-to. It lacks the action I like, but I doubt anyone reading this is even here for that. If I liked this type of genre, I would indeed vote it a 10/10.
Although, since it is an ART anime in traditional art colleges, it does have some models posing in nude. It doesn't show anything explicit, but the painting sorta does. The painting is only on-screen for like, at most, 5-10 seconds at a time, if even that. There is also a pretty long scene where two guys go nude and draw themselves, although in this scene there isn't anything explicit shown. These would be in the last three episodes, and it is not sexualized at all. This is also another reason why I didn't vote this 10/10, since honestly I'm not crazy abt these types of things, but for the sake of storyline I kept watching.

It's not an intensely deep anime, but it is a realistic one. A refreshing one.
Also, can I just say, Yaguchi's freakin character design is just **chef kiss** amazing. Seriously, it's just great.

This was an amazing series. It starts off with a pretty down character, someone who is a bum and with deep depression. As the story progresses, they develop in ways that really exceeded my expectations.

Characters died left and right, but not one of them seemed worthless (okay except for the pervert guy, he can rot in hell). The meaning of sacrifice and living are so outstandingly done and completed that I was left in awe and, ngl, tears.

I highly recommend this to anyone who's looking to read something with a dark undertone but overall very deep and emotional plot. Many times we ... see why it is never okay to give up and why it is of the utmost importance to value life, especially your own.

Tokyo Ghoul is amazing in my opinion. The mood the art style sets, the interactions between characters, and the overall plot are outstanding.

Kaneki is a sweet and caring character. Even though later on he somewhat looses this aspect of his character, he still maintains his baseline humanity. The story really is portrayed well. If you watched the anime first and are deciding whether or not reading it would be a waste of time, I can assure you it's not. The anime sucked. The manga is amazing. I like seeing all the character development and epic battle scenes and especially the times when a protagonist goes ... insane for a bit.

I honestly have no words but outstanding.

Chef kiss.

Read it

I cried the entire time.

I liked the conclusion.

T'was great.

I don't know what all these other chumps are saying about 5 rating or really any other rating below 10. This was a true masterpiece.

I watched it via recording so the my experience was a little worse than if I had just bought it myself. The movie was still outstanding, don't get me wrong, I just can't wait to rewatch it on Netflix without the sound of chips crunching in the background.

Honestly, Violet Evergarden is such a great series that it blows all the other animes out of the water. From the art to the storyline, ... it hits home. The emotions they convey are so closely relatable, at least to me, that I can't help but cry. Don't watch this if you don't want a red face and tear stains. Do if you want quality stuff tho.

Would recommend 100%

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An utter disgrace. Oh? What was that? We're going to repeat Naruto except.... worse? Nine tails became a wussy, Naruto got totally nerfed. Sasuke's sharingan and rinnegan got totally nerfed, not to mention he doesn't (maybe once in a insignificant battle) uses the rinnegan's actual power. Ino basically doesn't even exist anymore along with Sakura except for like one arc. Konohamaru is even more useless than OG Konohamaru who was at least able to take down one Pain. Everyone was nerfed basically and it doesn't make any sense why.

NOT TO MENTION

Everyone has become totally heartless. Death of Kankuro? Not a single tear and he ... was defending against people weaker than Granny Chiyo. Wasted sacrifice. Kurama's you know what? NARUTO DIDN'T EVEN CRY. He almost went full 9 tails on Nagato for killing Jiraiya who was with him for like three years most and he just sat there and accepted Kurama's who had been with him since literal birth???? UTTER BS. And what's that lame as-heck reason Naruto gave? Kurama would be mad if he were sad. DUDE. It's okay to be sad as long as it's accepted. It's okay to grieve for goodness sakes.

NOT TO MENTION #2

Boruto hates his dad (Naruto in case you didn't know you uncultured swine) at first. He is a brat. Just a straight up brat. Oh no, your dad is ""ignoring you"" by being Hokage? Oh noes end of the world. You know Naruto didn't even have parents and was literally ostracized by the entire village and he didn't complain like Boruto did. And then there's near to no character development. For any of the characters. Boruto stays a brat throughout the entire thing even if he does accept his dad eventually. It's just so awfully written and performed. Not to mention how slow paced it is.

NOT TO MENTION #3

The entire plot for Boruto literally was leading up to a re-plot of Naruto. Awaken the divine tree? Eat the fruit? Ten tails? Okotsuki? A faction that threatened the peace and aided the completion of the mission? Difference: It's stupider. It's like those memes you see of the "Copy my homework but make it look like you didn't copy it" plot. Disgraceful. Disgusting. Create something original man. Oh yeah, and they have like zero emotions in Boruto besides the ones you see right off the bat. At least Naruto had layers upon layers of deep emotions. A scene that's always stuck with me is the part where everything is just overwhelming Naruto and he starts hyperventilating leading to his eventual collapse. That's true plot and story right there.

Would never recommend this to someone who wants to see the Naruto-verse in a good light. Never watch it, never see any memes, don't look at clips, just pretend this doesn't even exist.

Edit: Just so you know I did indeed skip some episodes because of how slow the show progresses. Almost every episode feels pointless and a waste of time. The fight scenes are so underwhelming and the exchanges between people are dry as a sunny dessert that got transported into the sun.

I have not read the manga nor have I actually completed the anime yet. There will be an update on this review once I have. Moving along:

Code:Breaker is a very well done anime. In terms of characters. I really enjoyed watching the MC female lead which is a significant rarity for myself. Usually female leads are overly sexualized or have a character variety of two or three personalities. Not to mention most animes have Male MC Leads. I very muched enjoyed Sakurakouji's personality as well as speech. As for the Code:Breakers, I also found their interactions extremely satisfying. Yuuki and Toki were my personal favorites ... as one is very innocent and cute, while the other reminded me of Chuuya in a way. The others were very well written as well.

In terms of storyline. I would say that it isn't one of the most original storylines but definitely doesn't make it too predictable. I do like the experimental aspect and the mysterious parts to it so far. In short: it's a very well performed anime but can be predicted at times without the most significant plot twists.

Art was pretty good. Although the way that Rei's eyes are so narrow do bother me a bit but as an artist myself that's just a personal preference. Sound was well done for the time it was created in. It definitely doesn't reach That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime but also doesn't go so low as One Piece. A good middle.

Now the part that I've been wanting to mention for forever now.

THE ANIMALS ARE SO CUTE. "DOG" WAS AMAZING. "PUPPY" WAS ALSO EVEN MORE AMAZING. THAT YAWNING TURTLE THAT I DIDN'T KNOW I NEEDED TO SEE WAS AMAZING. I'm a huge animal fanatic (call me heartless but only if they're cute) and it was definitely well done in that part.

I'll update this once I finish the last five episodes but overall this is my view on it. I would recommend this one 100%

Edit: Just finished the show and my overall of this hasn't changed. It's still really great even though the ending left some loose ends, but that just means a season two is nigh. Look it up on google, it says it'll release sometime 2022. Idk, I just hope so because this anime was pretty freaking good. I still love Yuuki the most. Especially when he goes lost. Quality stuff.

The anime was pretty good in my opinion. Yes, it was definitely lacking in some aspects and the plots was all over the place. But I am actually looking at this at a bias point of view.
Although the anime itself isn't outstanding, the storyline and characters are. If you read The God of Highschool on webtoon, you will understand how much the studio messed it up. They changed some stuff needlessly. I still enjoyed the anime and the fight scenes, but was slightly aggravated when they didn't do it according to how the webtoon did it. Also, the anime not starting out with some ... of Mori's school life to see really sets a different tune to the anime.

ALSO THAT LITTLE SONG MORI DOES IN THE WEBTOON IS REALLY CRUCIAL IN THE ACTUAL STORY WHY THE HECK WOULD THEY NOT INCLUDE THAT IN THE ANIME

anyways, overall it was pretty good but lacking. I would give it a shot but only after reading the webtoon.