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May 14, 2021
Okay, now this is a certified epic gamer moment.
Real talk, this is the kind of manga that reaffirms my taste in the medium of anime as a whole. I absolutely adore stuff like this; balls to the walls action that isn't afraid to not take itself to seriously, but has the unique quality to tell a meaningful story with interesting characters alongside the chaos and insanity, not in spite of it. It's not perfect, but it does everything it sets out to do phenomenally and that has to be worth something.
Story 8/10: It's a zombie survival story, the fact it's a zombie apocalypse is a
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good jumping point because everyone is already familiar with it, but it's also a crutch because everyone is already sick of hearing them. The actual whole world ending thing takes a massive backseat to the characters just having a grand time doing whatever they feel like, and the impulsive, warped priorities of pretty much every character in this manga retell a story that's usually: "live to fight another day," instead as: "live everyday like it's your last." It's an almost disgustingly optimistic and upbeat smorgasbord of blood, guts, and pure insanity; with the only goal in sight to seize everything life has left to offer in the face of the rapture itself. Overall, an extremely interesting take on a remarkably stale genre, it's oddly inspiring and I'm very impressed.
Art 8/10: It was good, does a great job for setting the tone of any scene, but idk this is a little hard to talk about objectively. It doesn't go for anything to crazy in the artstyle department, but the zombies are genuinely really well drawn and absolutely terrifying, in stark contrast to the cheerful and upbeat nature of the manga any time they become an immediate threat to our characters. Also, some animals are also depicted as being zombified which is totally awesome; a zombie shark is both the dumbest and coolest thing I have ever seen get a full page illustration. Everything else is really well done and overall just has a very high bar of quality it consistently adheres to.
Characters 10/10: While not perfect, this story is definitely more character driven than plot driven. The plot sets the stage for the characters, and this manga takes that cardinal rule of story writing and runs wild with it. The characters are amazing in this manga, all of them. The chemistry between everyone is nearing the upper limit of perfection, and I don't really know what to say from here. For how goofy and campy this manga is, the main cast has extremely impressive emotional depth and feel scarily real, which is astounding that your able to connect with them so strongly when the manga is constantly trying to portray them as being over the top all the time. All the characters in this manga, not just limited to the main cast, aren't fighting to survive, but fighting to truly live. Everyone is sick and tired of just surviving, they've been doing nothing but surviving since the day they where born, and it took an apocalypse for them to finally be free enough to dream of being alive.
Enjoyment 10/10: This is what the cool kids call an "absolute banger." This slaps, I started reading this at like 4 in the morning last night, and pulled an all-nighter to catch up to the English translation. This is a massive clusterfuck, and I love me some organized chaos; it's by far my favorite kind of entertainment.
Overall an easy 10/10: An overmilked setting painted on an ridiculously absurd canvas that somehow masterfully captures a cast of wildly unrealistic but eerily human and uncomfortably relatable main leads, as they live out their wildest fantasies without a care in the world while said world is ending around them. It has this indescribable X factor about it that makes it's characters, as outlandish as they may be, pop out and just simply feel human. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Apr 17, 2021
This is definitely one of the dumber things I've ever taken the time to watch, and I laughed way to hard at way to many ass jokes. It's like if Death Note overdosed on toilet humor and had a one night stand with High School of the Dead. The entire show is way better than it has any right to be.
Story 9/10: Whoa there buddy, your giving this a 9? Yes, yes I am. Arguably the best part of this absolutely glorious fetish ridden clusterfuck is it's thriller story; and no, I was not exaggerating when I compared it to Death Note. Without spoiling anything
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beyond the first episode, the general premise is an all girl boarding school (for some reason) decides to allow a trail run of 5 guys to join. They of course decide to go peeping and get locked away in the (which they have handy for this sort of offense, of course) on campus prison to serve out a sentence of one month.
The story centers around the mind games and mental gymnastics of the student council versus the prisoners, as they devise ways to escape and the student body devises ways to catch them red handed. Somehow, it actually manages to give us a strong, suspenseful story without getting rid of its GOOD locker room humor; I have no idea how, but this show makes them work better when combined. For how dumb of a story this is, it takes itself surprisingly seriously and is more than able to back it up. I was gripping my seat in anticipation for what happens next while laughing hysterically the entire time.
Art 8/10: Why is this so good? I don't need to see ass in this level of artistic detail, but if some Chad at J.C.Staff is going to spend 200 hours on the most realistic digital interpretation of one to ever grace my monitor, I'm certainly not going to look away from it. Real talk though, the art is a cut above the 2015 standard, but when it actually tries to, it can shoot up to god tier in short bursts. It'll frequently change the art style and significantly punch up the quality to highlight tension in a scene, it does it a lot but it does it well. Other than that, the character designs are average, the animation is alright, and whoever made Andre needs a raise.
Also, as a quick side note, I'd highly recommend watching an uncensored version of this if you can. No, it's not just because of the tits, but because I've seen parts of both and the censored version takes up like 3 times more screen area than it ever needs to and it gets really annoying really fast.
Sound 8/10: The intro, like everything else in this show, is way better than it has any right to be given the nature and content in this anime; the outro is alright to. Other than that, the background OST is good, it does it's job and does it fine. Not really much else I can say here, writing about the music and art of a series is really hard if nothing about those areas stood out to much.
Character 7/10: This show is not for everyone, and it's characters highlight that point more than anything else. Their shallow, overexaggerated, underdeveloped, act irrationally, and are constantly horny all the time. Thank god that all of those horrible qualities are perfect for telling the story Prison School is trying to tell. They work for the story, but have very little substance beyond that.
Enjoyment 10/10: Boobs = funny.
But like actually, the story was incredibly gripping by itself, the ecchi was just the icing on the cake that I didn't even know I needed till I had it. The ecchi in this show is pretty much used exclusively to add tension and humor to a scene, and rarely reduced to cheap fanservice. I didn't even know I was into this kind of stuff till I was already enjoying it.
Overall 9/10: Holy shit, this is so funny I legitimately cannot stop laughing. This show takes itself very seriously and extremely not seriously at the exact same time and is able to do both at once. The pacing was a little fast, and it ignored development of it's characters to move the plot along quickly, but it never felt rushed. Even the scenes that came across as slightly forced still carried an incredible amount of surprisingly well made tension, and I couldn't take my eyes off this spectacular made ecchi Death Note parody.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Apr 12, 2021
Iron-Blooded Orphans, or as the cool kids call it, Code Geass's dyslexic younger brother in space. All jokes aside, I loved this sleigh ride, and if MAL didn't have a backward system of cataloging different seasons as separate shows altogether, I would review the entire series at once to do it justice.
Story 9/10: Nothing wrong here, a continuation of the plot of the last season after a time skip, it picks up where things left off without missing a beat. I’m not gonna lie, it was a bit of a slow burn at first, but after a few episodes, it really kicks it back into
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high gear. It raised the stakes and all around is a decent political drama with plenty of spectacular action scenes. No plot holes large enough to be noticeable, nobody does anything quite stupid enough to break your delicate immersion, and it’s full of more than enough twists and turns to keep you engaged.
That said, there is a lot of world-building left out of this universe. IBO is disconnected from any of the main timelines of the classic Gundam universe, and it’s also a good introduction to anyone unfamiliar with the franchise, so when they mention events that are fairly universal in all of them like the Calamity War they shouldn’t expect that people will intrinsically understand without explaining it a little more.
Still, the amount they did give was good enough and everything else story-wise went over pretty well. Overall, this is much, much darker than the first season, but if you have the stomach for it you in for a fantastic ending.
Art 10/10: Perfect 10. It's dark, it’s gritty, and it's beautiful, vibrant, and breathtaking when it wants to be. From the vast and varied settings to the character designs, to even the smaller details like the logos and random insignia, the attention to detail is very impressive. The Gundam’s look truly unique from anything else in the franchise, and are closer to Eva’s than actual conventional mech designs. CGI is used very seldom, but it’s always used with great restraint and layered on top of classic 2d art that really keeps the flow of the animation going without losing its rhythm. Also, can we talk about the animation? Fucking god tier, THIS raises the bar for how a fight scene should work. It's fluid, it’s fast-paced, and it’s by far some of the best fighting I’ve ever seen. For real, this is smoother and cleaner than even AOT, beyond a shadow of a doubt a perfect 10.
Sound 8/10: It is great, I love it, and you'll love it too. The OST is always on point, and both of this season's intro's slap just as hard as the last season. Not sure what to comment on this, the only drawback I can think of is that a few of the tracks feel like they come close to being overplayed but other than that the variety is good. I certainly wouldn’t change anything.
Character 7/10: I’d like to think that this is simply the hardest part for any show to get right, and that I’m not just a cynical anime critic swamp dweller that whines about character development, yet refuses to socially interact with those in the world outside my parent’s basement. The main characters are strong, the supporting characters and strong, and the villains are mostly pretty strong as well.
However, I think we have a combined issue of the cast being both dramatically larger with the motivation to only kinda halfway develop one or two. They do just justice to the OG cast, it isn’t bad but I could see how someone more critical than me might get frustrated; it could have been better. That said, I think it’s justified due to the sheer body count of this season. Julieta and McGillis are the only characters whose development made me actually frustrated. Okay, McGillis is like a dollar tree version of Lelouch, I have to question if he has stage 4 autism every time he pulls a big-brained 1000 IQ political power play. As for Julieta, it’s a massive spoiler.
Enjoyment 10/10: This was everything I look for in a good show, such a fun ride all the way through with an epic climax that, while not leaving me completely satisfied and left a few things on an open door, was extremely exhilarating and fits the bloody tone of the show perfectly.
Overall, a very solid 9/10: A bloody retelling of Code Geass, with all the political theater pushed to the wayside in favor of violent carnage. While it doesn’t quite scale up to its predecessor of 10 years in basically every department except action, it doesn’t miss the mark by much, and even coming close to a masterpiece like that is great company to be in. This is one of the most enjoyable shows I’ve ever seen out there though, definitely an S-tier mecha seinen worthy of praise, cause there simply just isn’t much criticism I can offer. I loved every second of it, can’t wait for the movie.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Apr 8, 2021
I finished this show right now ago, and the first thing I wanted to do was write this review. Also, yes, Eureka Seven is probably my all-time favorite anime, so prepare so some slight bias here as well.
Before I do anything else, I want to tell you that when this show succeeds, it goes above and beyond, and when it's doing that it comes so so SO close to perfection. That said, It's such a shame that I have to give this an extremely generous 8, and even that is seriously pushing what even I can give it for the shaky execution.
Story 6/10: Okay, I
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know this is rich coming from a guy like me, but the story is VERY confusing; albeit extremely interesting. A bit of a detour before we dive any deeper, because I know this show is going to get compared to Eureka Seven, and I want to get that out of the way now. Eureka Seven is like an inverted Neon Genesis in my eyes, where Neon Genesis has a confusing plot and a fairly straightforward world, and Eureka Seven has an easy-to-follow plot but confusing world.
Xam'd managed to do both at the same time.
I would summarize the basic plot in my own words for the sake of this review, but I actually have no clue what in the fuck was actually going on. The MAL synopsis doesn't really do a great job at summarizing it either, so just look up the synopsis for Eureka Seven, substitute 'Gekostate' with 'Zanbani Mailmen', and go from there. I'll bash about this anime more in the overall section, but ranting isn't fun so I'll go onto the good parts now.
Art 10/10: It was amazing, the art was beautiful in some of the panoramic shots, and I was so sucked into the world of Xam'd every time they milked the emotion out of me with the artwork. It legitimately felt like a studio Trigger team traveled back in time a decade to do a sweet collab with studio Bones. The show goes over a lot of locations, but everything I could realistically say about this section, I could say for any other show with really good art. The animation and the character designs were cool as well, the action sequences were fluid and left nothing to be desired. All around, it was great.
Sound 10/10: WOW, perfection. Seriously, very few shows reach this level of perfection with both their choice, timing, and implementation of their soundtracks. I'm not someone who usually sits through the end credits, but with Xam'd I looked forward to it every episode so I could hear the absolute BANGERS by Kylee at the end, and immediately start the next episode so I could hear the FIRE into by Boom Boom Satellites (RIP to the lead vocalist, Kawashima, you will be missed but your work is never forgotten.)
Real talk though, I cannot think of a single track in the OST that missed the mark or misjudged the tone of the show, this is an area of Xam'd that comes pretty damn close to perfection in every way I can think to measure it. The first ending IS perfection though, and if you disagree we can throw hands cause your wrong.
Character 9/10: Wanted to give this section a 10, but the only thing holding this show back is the fact they introduce way too many characters to the audience then they have the runtime to develop. Also, even though everyone in this show knows pretty much everyone else important in this show, we have surprisingly very few interactions between any of the main characters with each other; just a minor frustration I thought I should point out. The writer pull back the reins a bit on their ambitions for such a massive cast, and focus their efforts onto a surprisingly big handful of amazingly written and complexly developed characters. No small feat for only having 26 episodes to work with.
Enjoyment 7/10: The first 13 episodes of this show are an almost perfect easy 10 in enjoyment, and I stayed up till 4 in the morning because I couldn't put this show down. Then the cast all got split up from each other, and it went from being a somewhat confusing but mostly coherent edge-of-your-seat adventure story, straight to being 4 or 5 different B plots strung together with rubber bands and barely kept afloat with elbow grease and the tears of the audience. This brings the pace of the show to an abrupt halt that it NEVER leaves for the rest of it's runtime, and don't even get me started with the cryptic ending and the myriad of unanswered questions.
Around said halfway point, the action and the tension dies tragically, and it gets super 'deep,' and 'introspective,' and 'pretentious,' and a lot of other big fancy words that I won't even attempt to use in a proper English sentence.
Every episode in the second half was 10 times harder to get through. At first, it was because I was waiting for the characters to reunite after an episode or two and get out of their slump so the plot could continue and we could find out more about the intriguing world. Then, it was waiting for everyone's separate character arch to close so we could see them back in the action once they were all 100%. Once that was finished and nothing happened, I waited for the grand finale everything was (I think, the plot was hard to follow) building for and was excited for the payoff of all the good but time-consuming development we've been getting for the last 10 episodes; also maybe some questions as to what the fuck is going on. Then, the final credits rolled, and to my surprise, I was still fucking waiting.
Overall, a VERY generous 8/10: I love the first half of this show so goddamn much that I can't find the words to gush about it in a way that does it justice, even though I don't think it's 100% perfect it's easily one of my favorites if I could isolate just that as it's own season. However, The shift in tone after episode 13 makes it feel like a totally different show in the same confusing and the ultimately unexplained and mishandled universe. I'm not saying that the show did a bad job in its second half, I actually think everything that it tried to do, it did superbly; I'm just clueless as to why they would choose to do THAT with their time.
All of my complaints with this show started when the magic for it ended, and it ended when it turned into a drama and overstayed its welcome long enough to butcher its ending and give an extremely unsatisfying conclusion to 2 of the best characters in the entire show. Had the show been 50 episodes, it might have corrected its dive and written it off as a slow but important arch, but I'm not smart enough to tell you one way or the other.
Overall, I'm disappointed I couldn't add this to my favorites list. Xam'd would have made a fine addition to my collection.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Feb 20, 2021
Made In Abyss is a masterpiece, and I absolutly love this show. That said, I don't think it's without fault, and even though I still think it's a 10 out of 10, I'm going to spare you the circle jerking and instead highlight the areas that may or may not turn people off from this show. Although, I do admittedly spend most of this review jerking this show off, so just skip to the character section and read from there if your determined to ignore the positives.
So anyways, lets dive into the abyss; shall we?
Story 10/10: Before I get into why this is a 10,
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let me explain how you build a story in my personal opinion. There are 3 main kinds of stories, each one of exponentially increasing rarity than the one before it: You have your plot driven stories like Attack on Titan and Mobile Suit Gundam, you have your slightly rarer character driven stories like Neon Genesis and Death Note, and finally you have the exceptionally rare and exceedingly difficult to actually write setting driven stories like (arguably) Sword Art Online and Spirited Away.
Made in Abyss takes the crown of being possibly the most solid setting driven anime of all time, and is by a massive landslide this show's single strongest aspect. Without going into any serious spoiler territory, the abyss is this absolutely gargantuan and possibly bottomless hole with ancient treasures for anyone brave enough to go spelunking for them. Things get progressively more fucked up the deeper on ventures into the abyss, as well as it being progressively harder and harder to ascend back to the surface the further down you go until it becomes impossible to go back. Due to how dangerous the abyss is coupled with the fact that very few people actually return alive from the deeper areas, (and physically cannot from the deepest) information surrounding the abyss becomes more and more unreliable the deeper you travel, leading to an unapparelled sense of wonder, discovery, and adventure the deeper in the world our characters explore. It's wonderful, I can't stress enough how perfect the world is. Easily my favorite setting in anime.
Art 10/10: I can't tell if the art complements the amazing setting or the setting complements the amazing art. I don't really know how to describe near perfection, so just take a few moments to google "Made in Abyss wallpaper" and go to images. The abyss is vibrant and alive, and every panoramic shot looks like a promotional trailer for a Ufotable show. It's great, nothing bad to say here.
Sound 9/10: It's awesome, while it not for everyone the epic orchestral pieces really complement both the art, and of course, the wonderful setting itself. Just a note for later, complementing the setting is a common trait for everything that works in the show.
Character 8/10: The hit or miss aspect of this show, as is a common stumbling block for a lot of setting driven narratives. Our two main characters, Reg and Riko, somehow manage to be the least interesting characters in their own show. Which isn't saying much, the supporting cast is wonderful, but due to the shows premise of being more or less a one way journey to the bottom of the abyss. Past a certain point, it is physically impossible to ascend more than a dozen meters at any given point and survive using any conventional means. So basically, returning characters are a big fat no unless they join up with the main cast to go exploring, which so far only one character out of the many they've met has decided to do so and is so very frustrating. All the best and most memorable characters get left behind after their short bursts of badly paced screen time, even if they are well written. Lets talk about the MCs:
Riko: Daughter to one of the greatest cave raiders of all time, has always had a thirst for adventure and an insatiable apatite for the unknown. Not badly written by any means, but has an annoyingly positive mindset and everything just seems to fall in her lap when it's imperative for her to survive. Reg has to save her overconfident ass more times than I can count from situations that, sometimes, could have been easily avoided. Her ego is to big for even the depths of the abyss itself to contain. Still, she's a hard worker and I wouldn't go so far as to say she's a Mary Sue, but she definitely finds that fine line and teeters on the precipice of it.
Reg: A cyborg found in the upper edges of the abyss, he's full of weird go go gadget technology and can't remember why he came to the surface or anything else about himself. He's about the same mental age as Riko (12), but he's stupid overpowered. Once he uses his incinerator attack, this unstoppable beam of light has shown no rival in terms of raw firepower, he's out like a light after about 10 minutes for the next several hours. Other than that, he still has a plethora of other odds and ends he uses with zero consequence that essentially make him the most advanced cave raider of all time. Oh, he's also immune to the curse of the abyss, so he can ascend as much as he wants whenever he feels like it. As a character, he's a pretty decent. His morals and mindset are centered around wanting to protect Riko and he's a fairly straightforward protagonist.
Enjoyment 8/10: I loved this show, but goddam this is the part of the review where we have to lay into it a bit. The pacing could be much much better, and for a show that's main focus is on exploring it's setting, it rushes through several awesome set pieces at the speed of light and spends way more runtime than it has any right in places it shouldn't bother to much time with. The shows strong point is exploration, so DO THAT. It is mind-numbingly frustrating when the show has 2 or 3 good episodes where Reg and Riko are just journeying through the abyss, discovering new things and stuff like that, and then suddenly they find a reason to bunker down in one area for the rest of the episode when we we're just getting to the good part.
I'd say that the core problem with Made in Abyss is the bipolar redlight greenlight style of pacing, where they move through the setting so insanely fast for a little while and then immediately wait out the next few episodes before doing it all again. The writers know we like seeing the abyss being explored, so they do it all at once to satisfy us and then spend the rest of the time setting the stage to do it again. What they should do instead is just give the fans what they want, and let us explore the dam abyss at a consistent pace so we can take everything in without being bombarded with information. It's the only way to give the beautiful setting the attention it deserves.
Overall 10/10: While I still have some major problems with the pacing of the show and a few gripes with the characters themselves, everything else was executed with a level of perfection and finesse so fine I would be cheating this show if I gave it anything other than a 10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Feb 7, 2021
This is what started it all for me.
This is the first movie that I ever watched that truly lifted me off my feet, sucked me into it's world, and made me never want to leave.
For reviews about stuff I like, I try to highlight the stuff I don't like to make it more evenly balanced and try to weigh the good and the bad more evenly with each other, but I think this review kind of broke my objective perspective a little bit. I just love this movie to damn much.
Story 9/10: Although not perfect, there aren't any major noticeable problems or potholes that I
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can point out. The story does a great job of giving things a reason to happen, and for the most part everything that does happen makes sense in it's universe. The only improvement I could offer would be to make the entire story longer to stretch out the narrative and give the hypersonic speed of the plot a little more room to breath.
Art 10/10: This was made well over 30 years ago, but you could honestly tell me the animation was made last month and I would believe you. The color pallet was beautiful, the character designs where inventive and easily distinguishable, and all the mechanical moving parts were outstanding. Nothing to say here besides amazing.
Sound 10/10: The opening theme alone is enough to give this a 10. I realize this is more subjective, but Girl Who Fell From The Sky is probably my favorite single piece of OST of all time, and it still send chills down my spine when I hear it. The rest of the soundtrack ranges between perfect and perfecter, no complaints here whatsoever. Disliking the soundtrack to this should be classified as a cardinal sin.
Character 8/10: I don't feel they deserve a 7, but anything above 8 just isn't fair. The weakest link in this movie by a landslide. Not because they're bad, but because everything else in this movie stands miles above the bar, even by today's standards. The movie is so laser focused on showing you everything all at once and wowing you with an amazing spectacle of animation and world building, they almost forgot about the characters necessary to pull it off in the first place. It feels like they never have enough time to fully flesh out the characters to the extent I would have preferred, but I won't count that against the movie that hard; it's extremely difficult to do anything even resembling this with only 2 hours of runtime, and they did a great job with what they had to work with. The main characters get the short end of the stick for this movie, and have the common Shonen trait of being the least interesting people in their own story. The rest of the cast was amazing though, but lets talk about the MCs:
Pazu: Teeters between being a gigachad knight in shining armor and a straight up overpowered Gary Stu, and he occasionally makes decisions that don't entirely make sense. However, he never does anything that would actively slow down the plot or wouldn't make sense for his character. Overall, he did a good job, but was definitely not perfect and I could understand why people might dislike him.
Sheeta: A damsel in destress, and moves the plot forward by having Pazu saving her over and over again. She wasn't that bad though, she did things that made sense for the most part as well, had a decent character arch, and great chemistry with Pazu and the rest of the cast.
Enjoyment 10(11?)/10: It's one of the greatest works of pure escapism I've ever had the joy of diving headfirst into, to say I enjoyed this would be an understatement. It starts off fast, and ends faster. Everything about this movie bleeds action, adventure, and a childlike sense of wonder, exploration, and discovery.
Overall: 10/10: While I realize it's not everyone's Magnum Opus, you'd have to be made of stone to genuinely not feel anything watching this masterpiece. I saw this movie when I was 10, and I vividly remember this being THE thing that sparked my fascination with storytelling as a whole. Watched this 7 years later, it's still just as wonderful. Do yourself a favor, and set aside 2 hours to bask in the glory of this film, however cheesy it may be.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jan 21, 2021
Wow, I'm kind of surprised this show is resting at such a high rating. I was going to make a review bashing on this show, but after seeing some of the valid praise in the other reviews, I had a change of heart and decided to settle somewhere in the middle. Even though I didn't personally "like" this show, I don't think it's bad per say, and it's something that would normally be right up my alley. Besides, I don't want to become some sort of anime Scrooge.
Story 8/10: The premise, and the story that follows up on it, is probably the strongest aspect of
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this show. Ajin are a group of people that just respawn when they die, they come about randomly, and no one knows if your an Ajin until you cheat death and are suddenly hunted by the government so they can make you their personal infinite lab rat. Some aspects of how they work are never really explained, and they all have these cool looking stands called IBMs they fight with some of the time, but that the story is pretty solid and I have no serious complaints here.
Art 7/10: Meh, the CGI was never bad to the point where it was off putting or particularly immersion breaking, but take my opinion with a grain of salt; I sat through the first 2 volumes of RWBY unphased by the character models clipping through more objects than the framerate. If your a stickler for this kind of thing, it'll probably be a turn off. If you just want to watch your show and turn off your brain, it's not really noticeably bad, it's just serviceable.
Sound 7/10: It was good. The intro was alright, the ambiance was fine, and the voice acting is industry standard. Not much else I can say here, it was all okay I guess.
Character 5/10: Oh boy, this is where I stop being positive. The main character, where do I even begin with this kid? It's fine to have an MC that is nervous, or scared or worried or any other number of negative traits. It's even fine to make him an antihero or paint him as the villain altogether. What's not fine, is making him unwatchable, unrelatable, and unlikeable. He's whiny, he slows the plot down, and he's WAY to much of a dick then what any situation warrants him to be the show will, from time to time, make scenes that force him to be a good person but it just makes things worse by forcing the MC to be out of character. Which sucks, cause the other characters range from being almost as shitty as the MC, underdeveloped to the point where it's actually kind of embarrassing they're even calling it a backstory, to surprisingly awesome characters that honestly feel to good for the people they have to share screen time with. The only reason why this category isn't like a 2 or 3 is because of the main antagonist and maybe 1 or 2 others, he's fucking epic.
Enjoyment 7/10: It's fun, I enjoyed it, but the MC left such a bad taste in my mouth is was hard to really focus on enjoying the show past the first few episodes. As someone who loves this kind of fast pace, high intensity action to the point where I gush about it in every review I give pretty much, this show gives me what I crave to see in an anime and still leaves me disappointed.
Overall 6/10: A good story coupled with a better premise that pulls you into a well thought out plot, complete with an evenly paced story tied together with high entertainment value show. However, as someone who comes from the philosophy of "just turn your brain off an enjoy it" it pushed me to my limits and became undoable when the MC is utterly repulsive to me as a human being in every way.
I recommend this show to those of you who can watch this with a group and shoulder some of the pain the MC will give you, other than that, have at it an have fun.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jan 15, 2021
A sleigh ride from start to finish, although it was unfortunately quite abrupt.
If you like tits, action, action and tits, and tits with action then you've come to the right place my friend. Oh, and their are also guns. Copious amounts of guns with excruciating detail. What's that? You like plot in your zombie ecchi bloodbath shoot em up? What are you, some kind of nerd or something?
Jokes aside, the manga expands upon some of more lackluster areas of the anime, and while I won't go so far as to say it fixed some of my major problems with it, what I love about it
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was stronger in the manga and what I disliked was lessened.
Story 7/10: Eh, it's just The Walking Dead hopped up on ketamine. The edges are trimmed down, and anything perceived to be even the slightest threat to the target audiences limited comprehensive abilities is disposed of and set on fire in a glorious fashion.
Art: 10/10 It's fucking awesome, for being an manga drawn by people that clearly specialize in hentai the art here is still fantastic. You can feel the painstaking passion put into the attention to detail of the firearms and all weapons present in the manga. Was going to give this a 9, but at the end of every volume they have a ridiculous amount of pinups and bonus art of the guns and characters that ties everything off with a bow.
Character 7/10: A chain is as strong as it's weakest link, but the manga pulls itself up by the bootstraps a lot better than the anime did. They start out as blatant stereotypes, but SOME of them ultimately grow and change with the world around them and it's genuinely really satisfying to see. Takashi, our MC, is an alright dude that's not annoying, doesn't act retarded, and moves the plot forward while maintaining a good dynamic with the rest of the cast.
Not the main focus of the show, but there are times when it works. And when it works, it works really really well.
Enjoyment 10/10: I could not put this down. It's constant action and consistent quality, but always moving the plot forward at a pace and in a direction that keeps me begging to know what happens next.
Overall 8/10: I enjoyed this manga and I'm not ashamed to admit it, but objectively speaking I could never give it any higher than an 8 for it's hit hard or miss hard cast and the tragic indefinite hiatus. Watch this if you love action, stay far away from it if you loath fanservice. Either way, I know what I like, and I know that I fucking love HOTD.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jan 13, 2021
Interesting premise and a solid first episode, but the execution was strange and each episode felt progressively more and more boring as less and less happened. I started watching this show cause I found the opening on YouTube (it's straight fire) and that 90 second intro was the peak of my enjoyment throughout the 6 episodes I gave this before I just gave up.
I don't know how to describe this all that vividly, I just really couldn't find a lot of enjoyment value out of this show. The story was okay, the art was nice, the soundtrack was pretty good, but the characters were SO
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boring and my enjoyment from this show was piss poor at absolute best. That said, I tend to like more action oriented shows, so take my opinion with a grain of sand.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jan 12, 2021
Before I even get into this, I just want to say I am a massive Eureka SeveN fan, and it's one of my favorite anime of all time. That said, although this manga is a really good read it's also a somewhat conflicting experience for me. Eureka seveN needs no praise, it's awesome and more or less everything you loved about the show carries over to the Manga. So, I'm going to focus more on my criticism of it, from one fan to another.
So basically the pacing steadily ramps up to hyperspeed in a matter of chapters. It goes over the first few episodes in
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only a chapter of two, and with 26 chapters total it seemed about on pace to do an amazing retelling of the original story of Eureka seveN; then it dives off the rails at 1000 miles an hour.
Now hear me out, it was actually really interesting and really cool, as they basically established really early on that the manga would be going in a different direction and it definitely lived up to that. HOWEVER, it did everything way to fast, it did the first few episodes, skipped over every other arch in the show all at once, and got to the third act before they were barely a third of the way through the manga. Then they took EVERYTHING from the show at once and crammed aspects of it together to create a weirder and much darker Eureka seveN that spends the vast majority of it's story in what would be the final 5ish episodes of the anime.
Don't get me wrong, this is an exceptionally well written manga, and most of the creative decisions other than pacing felt either justified or straight up improvements/expansions of things that the show tried to cover, but even if it's objectively better, it's still not quite Eureka seveN tone wise, and it's just a little bit to radically different in my eyes.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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