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May 13, 2019
Orange (Anime) add
Mixed Feelings
Spoiled orange juice below:

Okay, so I want to get in and out of this shit as quick as possible so let's just get the easy stuff out the way. The art is ok. It has some nice landscapes and shit that look like a slightly worse version of things you have probably seen before like The Girl who Lept Through Time. So the backgrounds and areas look good enough for a TV show. The characters are kind of muted and bland looking. The women's faces have a tendency to look like drugged out aliens with wigs on when they are at their worst, but usually, ...
Jan 20, 2019
Kaze Tachinu (Anime) add
The Wind Rises is the second Miyazaki film I'll be reviewing and like the first film of his I reviewed My Neighbor Totoro I think this movie has a lot of the same things that made that one great. The reason I am coming back to the Miyazaki well so soon after my last review is I recently re-watched Schindler's List and in doing so I remembered that this film reminded me a lot of that one in some ways. They're both about the same war, about the same side in that war, they're both about real men who are caught up in the in ...
Jan 19, 2019
Mixed Feelings
Possibly giant sized spoils below:

This is going to be similar to my shits about Monster, in that there are a lot of things I like and can praise about this show, but it has a few big problems with it that I think take the title of greatness away from it for me. Most of my review will be focusing on those negatives and I won't be doing a play by play on it or talking about the show at great length so much as I'll be talking about a general problem with it that drags it down a bit as a whole. A lot ...
Nov 18, 2018
Shirobako (Anime) add
Shirobako, A Japanese title meaning "white-bullshit" is an anime about creating anime. It follows a few girls whose jobs intersect the anime industry and some related fields and they're connected socially because they knew each other in a school anime club. You should know from my previous reviews how much I love those school clubs.... Luckily for me the school stuff is kept to a few minimum flashbacks and the majority of the show takes place in the present where the girls and their coworkers waste their lives away creating anime I can eviscerate in a second or two with some well placed smug criticisms. ...
Nov 17, 2018
Monster (Anime) add
Some spoiled brats below, watch out:

So the good:

I don't know if this show is as psychologically "deep" as is commonly memed about, but I'm more willing to believe that here than with most shows with this reputation because it gets the basics of characterization right and despite the story getting somewhat convoluted and jumping from POV character to POV character I can't think of any obvious plot-holes or unresolved plot points. Which given how large in scope this story becomes is kind of a small miracle in and of itself.

I really liked a lot of the show's side characters as is and each ...
Nov 15, 2018
Possibly spoiled milk below, traverse at your own risk:

Kids for once I'll be brief. I mean I can give you a rundown on how this show and its manga reflects historical periods in medieval Europe, Chungoku and Nihon and how it has all these great literary references, mythological aspersions and meditations on power. Despite what people tell you about this though they really don't care about any of that stuff. They can cry that this isn't true and that really they like to sip latte's and talk about the depth of their favorite anime with the finer people in life but really there is one ...
Apr 15, 2018
K-On! (Anime) add
This is a review of both of K-on's seasons, spoilers and stuff warning here.

K-on was one of the first slice of life/school club/girls doing things shows I watched. It was one of the first because I got told by a lot of people on several websites, anime "experts" and lists it was one of the best anime shows ever and I saw it talked about and memed just enough to give it a try. Upon my initial viewing of it, my opinion was that it wasn't the best anime show ever, but that it was the slightest bit above average. I had some reservations ...
Apr 3, 2018
Mixed Feelings
So I have been depressed, latel- my whole life and I cant seem to stop questioning the point of everything I do on a near constant basis. On top of my own internal criticisms, externally I was sent a brilliant question on another website I review things on "Why do you write long ass reviews no one will ever read?" You know I'm not exactly sure why. On the same day I put up a 70,000 character review of something I'll see someone get a million thumbs up for reviewing the same thing but saying "All I hav 2 say es i luved it <3<3<3." ...
Apr 3, 2018
There are some spoilers, reader discretion is advised.

I was wondering what my first positive review on this site would be and I intended it to be something else but I think that review will be more complicated than I initially planned so I was kind of in a rut and then it hit me, maybe the first review where I'm not just needlessly ripping something apart or going off on tangents no one cares about could be a review of the first thing in anime I ever loved, My Neighbor Totoro. So for this review I need to take you back to the past... ...
Feb 10, 2018
Kill la Kill (Anime) add
Mixed Feelings
So I'm starting off this review by talking about another anime show, I was watching a little Darling in the Franxx, like I'm sure a lot of people are on this website currently and I started to remember a thought I had back when I first watched Kill La Kill a show that really makes me think deeply about a lot of issues. Like... Can humans and clothes coexist in a peaceful way? The answer as the show clearly shows us is they can't, which is why I'm writing this in the nude. The second thing it makes me think about is the nature ...


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