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Dec 15, 2020
System: "What do I think about it? - I think it's __GREAT__."
10 - great // 7 - good // 5- average // 3 - bad
SPOILER FREE -- Beastars is in my opinion a more interesting take on an animal society theme than Zootopia or even the more recent BNL. Unlike Zootopia where predators and preys live decently well together and bursts of aggressions seem like outliers in a somewhat pacific world, and BNL where there's a clear split between humans and animals and again, aggression is restricted to small groups of fanatics on both sides, Beastars doesn't show a "perfect society". In Beastars the
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tension between carnivores and herbivores is real.
Despite carnivores being able to refrain from hunting and calmly attend school with their preys, eating soy hamburgers and egg sandwiches instead of their schoolmates, their natural instinct are there, maybe even accentuated by hormones, after all, they are still in high school.
This is why I don't think this anime is about prejudice as Zootopia and BNL are, as this would imply there's no real reason for herbivores to be afraid of carnivores in day-to-day basis, only your fringe individuals or organizations. In Beastars there're many reasons to fear and the show explores them. They happen through illegal activities or criminal groups, sure, but they aren't distant in a fictional "hidden gang lurking in the shadows-way", they are more like those real cases when you and everybody (including authorities) know "these people are up to no good and you shouldn't get close" kind of way.
The visuals are good for a CG anime, regular movements fill stiff, but the camera rotations are cool and when animations are supposed to be exaggerated, they look good. I don't care about music so, it's probably ok. The OP is nice though.
I thought it was great, a setting we've seen before but treated differently with a dark tone and good character moments.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Sep 13, 2020
System: "What do I think about it? - I think it's __AVERAGE__."
10 - great // 7 - good // 5- average // 3 - bad
Dragon Ball Super is in my opinion the definition of an average anime.
For every fantastic action scene, interesting character interaction, or simply cool concepts you have the same number of bad power scalling moments, fan pandering and unfulfilling resolutions.
The remainder of the show is a boring, meandering and non-committal sequence of plots that start with the serialization of two movies which fans already know the beginning and and, poorly structured tournament arcs that manages to show cool fights, but do
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very little for character and story development; and the obligatory safe ending that (for now) ties in to the 10 year time skip inbetween the death of Kid Buu and the last two episodes of Dragon Ball Z.
The time skip is probably the least of all worries, not because it isn't a mess and cripples any promise of tension on the story, but because Toriyama, without any long term plans or even memory of what he wrote before, can simply pull a solution off his @$$. The same way he conjured up the Super Saiyan God Ritual, the tingling sensation on the back or the Namekian Book of Legends. And of course, the S-cells that haven't been canonised in anime or manga, so Toryiama probably doesn't even remember he invented them.
There's is no reason to rewatch this show. Videos with highlight of the series on youtube should be more than enough to any fan missing a specific part of the show.
One can only hope that in 20 years from now, someone in Toei will decide to produce a Kai version of Super, cutting all the excess (131 episodes of meh), including some of the Manga stuff that worked better (not much really) and delivering a more cohesive and entertaining version of what we have now.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Feb 12, 2020
System: "What do I think about it? - I think it's __GREAT__."
10 - great // 7 - good // 5- average // 3 - bad
Angel Beats was a very surprising anime. I went to it looking forward to an over the top action anime, that didn’t take itself too seriously. At least this was the vibe I got from the pictures I saw.
It started as I was “promised”: a ridiculous premise of a limbo inhabited by high-schoolers armed to their teeth trying to kill an angel, and while the main character is introduced to this chaotic situation, the girl shooting a massive rifle is
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asking him suggestions of names to her resistance group. The episodes that followed were full of non-sensical fun and slapstick, the stereotypical support characters were used as such and poked fun by the others for that, their fully armed combat missions were more about school related matters than the war against the Angel I was expecting. It was super fun to watch with several moments to laugh.
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Then things started to get serious as some characters’ background started to be revealed. Really serious. Limbo is a place for people with unresolved matters in life. Characters have all sorts of grave issues and tragedies in their lives, and you as a viewer, is thrown into one sad story after another while the anime reaches its conclusion.
And this is where Angel Beats distinguishes itself from other anime with heavy emotional moments: it doesn’t feel manipulative. Unlike Violet Evergarden, where the anime tries its hard to have you crying by the end of each episode, using the tragedy as the climax of the story, Angel Beats never ends in sadness. The suffering is used as a starting point to each story, and it gives the viewer enough time and character interaction to not end an episode in a miserable state.
Besides the comedic and dramatic scenes there are a few action-packed moments, and although not the main focus of the series, are well animated and choreographed, adding to the enjoyment.
The whole high-school theme may not be for everyone, and the bits involving the school band didn’t do it for me musically (did it on a narrative level though), but its healthy mixture of dumb fun, drama, heart wrenching moments and action makes Angel Beats great series to watch.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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