I usually don't even bother with this kind of show, it's dull, stupid, you can see the twist coming from a mile away, the characters are boring, the plot is ripped off from somewhere, a strong 0.
Now that we scored Rakudai Kishi and other clones not worthy of any kind of attention in one shot, it's time to dig deep into the very fucking foundation of anime baby, Shakugan no fucking Shana.
Now this thing here is an absolute masterpiece in every regard, the story is generic as hell and that is exactly why it's good, it doesn't try to twist the medium to get a
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new thing, it doesn't try to deconstruct it. It kicks it in the god damn gut until it cannot breathe and then it strangles it. This show aint that violent or graphic in execution, as a standing piece however, this dude is a commando. My main man Yashichiro Takahashi was blessed by Jesus or his choice of religion's top gun to make the absolute best dude-is-actually-deus-ex-machina-and-has-best-girl show.
Now I could go into so much more detail about the fantastically simple yet terribly effective world this show encases, the fucking awesome everything, the top cliches used at the best times ever and intro at the beginning of each episode that is cool as fuck.
But no, I'm going to go into how well it has aged. You know, when you write something this good in nipland, everyone will jump on the bandwagon, you could probably hate on Shana for starting an absolute clusterfuck train of terrible copies and failed plagiarizations under different names(mind you, if there's two differences in all it means nothingl, a copy is a copy, like Rakudai is of basically everything, and that show that aired the same season, which is like releasing your album about the same time Michael Jackson drops Thriller in the '80s, you'll fuck up your sales)
Now if you're coming that side of the road that started watching anime in 2016 or 2015 or 201x (god have mercy), if you started watching this stuff after having watched Seirei Tsukai or some other thing, boy you are gonna be in a world of pain trying to remember which character is part of which show. But here's the catch, that's because you've probably watched 20 shows (about as much as every anime expert by the way) so you'll immediately talk smack.
Thing is, this series is so damn good that basically every anime the following year copied it in a form or another, Shana started a generation mane sure, it killed one unfortunately (and I think Kugyuu's career with it) but look at all the bloat you've got today on the charts. And who you've got to thank for that? Shana.
Shana is this story about this dude who aint a dude really but then he goes on a super cool journey with Kugyuu to save the god damn world.
Dude, you don't understand, this thing beats the BOJANGLES out of anything that gets released still, it has that good almost no budget pastel background, the ten on a scale nine voice acting, kataners, (she looks like fucking Blade in the first ep dude! all she needed was them glasses and every vamp in a 10km range would've shat itself. Anime shit.) This show is the very epitome of balance in the sense that one episode you're like "dude hell yeah rip him to shreds" and the next you're like "noooo monica don' rip him he did it for LOVE" and that's where this show is absolutely spectacular in writing. Literally everything is driven by the power of love, you think that anarchist was violated as a child by his dad who scalped injuns as a hobby? Nome Sir, he loved too hard. It just does amazing things for that time, worldbuilding is revolutionary, the execution is flawless, background characters get proper roles and don't fade in the eternal blackness of the background(!!!), plot assets are re-used, it has PACING BRAH(and filler, for good measure).
If you want to travel back in time to a time where anime was fucking anime and not hired korean drawers(someone'll point out how koreans worked on the animation, imma funk you up) this is your time machine. It's set to stop in the year of our lord Jesus Christ 2005, the year when all things were right in the world and God was in his heaven. It gets better every episode, the typical elements are thrown into a blender with so much love and care you'd swear the author was caressing them while the blender was on full speed, overclocked, on fucking fire baby. This show will rock your socks off, you'll have to call the cops and keep you away from screaming like a girl every time someone does something because they're all as fabulous as Dante (with the right hairstyle), they all have STYLE, the EXECUTION dude. Flawless in so many ways it's almost infinite how much praise I have for this title.
Ten, that's it, ten, if you don't like it you can choke on a wing ding dingaling down yo throat.
Oh yeah, the show used all of the budget on the OP so it looks kinda choco (read: vintage, japan was in a recession), but it still holds up and atleast it doesn't look as bad as that piece of hipster trash Ping-Pong. So give it a shot, you're doing yourself a favor.
A shot with watching Shana, not Ping-Pong. Ping-Pong is gutter trash.
The music is good shit good shit like all anime except for Ping-Pong. It has better writing than most of the shows today, especially Ping-Pong.
Characters are fleshed out in the sense that they haven't been deprived of food six months before the drawing of the show, like in Ping-Pong.
Oh and it reeks of vintage goodness, unlike Ping-Pong which only reeks of choco, by the way Ping-Pong gets a zero from me, I don't wanna do a review for it since I already showered.
If anybody downvotes this I will scalp you, let the people see the truth. Shana best girl, if you like Yoshida I'mma bring monicas and fight you in a cage.
Dec 31, 2015
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I usually don't even bother with this kind of show, it's dull, stupid, you can see the twist coming from a mile away, the characters are boring, the plot is ripped off from somewhere, a strong 0.
Now that we scored Rakudai Kishi and other clones not worthy of any kind of attention in one shot, it's time to dig deep into the very fucking foundation of anime baby, Shakugan no fucking Shana. Now this thing here is an absolute masterpiece in every regard, the story is generic as hell and that is exactly why it's good, it doesn't try to twist the medium to get a ... |
