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Nov 20, 2025
You're Under Arrest is a pretty solid show. Decent characters, beautiful animation, excellent voice acting and solid music. Sadly its all wrapped around a rather thin and basic plot. The characters are strong, but not particularly memorable or original. They work for what the stories demand of them but overall. Its just lacking anything that makes it stand out.
So why is it so highly rated.
I just, had a lot of fun watching it. If you slog through all four episodes back to back that is the wrong way to do it. Once a week, in the evening with a friend or two. Take
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it as a relaxed, social experience not something to take seriously.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Nov 6, 2025
I'd almost recommend this anime.
Its sort of like Kill La Kill, same amount of fanservice but less aura farming and less yelling.
It's a very basic, cheesy show. The voice acting, animation, music, writing. Nothing is very good. But also nothing is really awful. You can really feel the budget constraints in some scenes but in others they were definitely putting their best foot forward. The final fight scene in the last episode is legit one of the best fight scenes I've seen in a long time.
If you want fanservice heavy, early 2000s schlock you could do a lot worse than Grenadier.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Sep 28, 2025
First off, its not my way to write a review for something I have not finished and isn't done releasing. But I feel I have to write this as a warning for those who like me got introduced to Isshou Senkin as a replacement for another women's MMA manga series called Teppu.
This is nothing like Teppu.
Teppu had a huge focus on the unqiue mental head space of a prize fighter, that almost evil downright sinister willingness to hurt another person and the kind of dark places you have to enter to cultivate it. Isshou has absolutely NONE of that. It reads like a tottally
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different thing. The first chapter is all about setting up an MMA organization, then the second is about chemical weapons???
I'll probably keep reading it, but I'm not really sure who this appeals to. It's a tottaly different beast than what I was expecting, I don't even feel fair to give it a numerical rating. Its just so different from what I came in expecting.
I take back every nice thing I implied, chapter 12 has an Asian steryotype using chi manipulation BS to launch her opponent across the ring. This isn't even a baki rip off, this is some Frank Dux tier nonsense.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Sep 13, 2025
Durarara!! is a very fast paced, very intense anime.
It throws a lot of events and details at you, then suddenly pulls back to add more context while you try to figure everything out. If you can stick with it its a very satisfying show that deeply rewards an attentive audience.
The characters are very well written, they might seem dumb or shallow at first but as you get into things and give them time to grow and gain depth they end up making a lot of sense. There's a lot of re-ocuring themes within them that create a very natural and strong feeling chemestry. Some
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very top notch stuff.
My main problem is the entire last third of the show basically falls flat on its face. Previous arcs were intense mysteries full of danger and suspense. The last one is, really predictable. Its extremely obvious where the last arc is heading and it looses all tension. All the mystery and chaos is gone, you're basically just waiting for the big dramatic final battle that never comes.
It ends with a rather pathetic whimper.
If it wasn't for that final arc I'd probably give Durarara!! an 8 or 9 but I still recommend it. Definitely holds up well assuming you haven't been spoiled.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Aug 23, 2025
Its not normally my style to write a review before finishing a show. But I think my feelings are pretty solid even when I'm only half way through.
Simply put, BlazBlue: Alter Memory has no idea who its for.
It's not for new fans, this is probably the worst possible way to try and get into BlazBlue. Key details are just straight up missing, unless characters are meeting for the first time you won't have their relationship explained ever. Alter Memory speeds through the first game at a break neck pace and misses just so much important stuff. You're better off playing the games if you want
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to learn about BlazBlue.
For returning fans of the games, Alter Memory doesn't have anything new. Other than the novelty of seeing your favourite character/main animated. Maybe if you need a re-fresher on BlazBlue lore? But then why wouldn't you just replay the games?
Alter Memory's animation is lazy. Walk cycles are kept off screen, close up shots of characters holding a single expression are very common so they don't have to draw complex outfits. (Rachel is a really big offender, most scenes with her in them consist of extreme close ups so they don't have to draw her dress.) If you think they are saving money for the fights, you're wrong. Action is at best stiff at worst its rendered as a bunch of coloured streaks across the screen. Episode 2 straight up re-uses an entire fight from episode 1. On the subject of re-used assets. The music for the fight scenes is all remixes of the game's original songs, which means they all sound absolutely banging and are probably the best part of the entire anime. I wish we got this soundtrack released somehow. Several voice lines are also clipped straight from the games, but the sound effects aren't? I noticed a bunch from very cheap sound libraries and even a few Source Engine sound effects.
I can't recommend this to anyone. Like I said earlier, it doesn't offer anything to anyone.
But its also not so terrible that I can bring myself to rate it lower than a four. Maybe a 3.5.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Mar 30, 2025
It's really good, a bit dark and edgy but that's how I like my anime.
Every episode is a two parter, so each arc is pretty self contained. Secondary guest characters get lots of time to be fleshed out which is nice. Even if they are killed off or thrown away at the end of the arc you still get time to come to understand and enjoy them.
I will admit that the protagonist Hei is more than a little cliche but he's well written and voiced enough to still be emotionally resonant. Every other major character is fairly interesting and gets just the right amount
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of spotlighting, the entire show is supremely tightly written with fantastic pacing. The show also runs the full gamut of human emotion, some episodes are crushingly dark and sad while others are much more light hearted. So it avoids feeling overwhelming and never lets you get inured to one feeling or the other.
Animationwise is alright, about average for its era nothing extremely great nor awful. Character designs are generally grounded and basic except for Yin and Kiko, which I think is intended to foreshadow their friendship.
Sound and music is great, especially the intro tracks. Both versions will be stuck in my head for a long time yet. Although I can't say the same about the second outtro which I found frankly annoying.
Also for those who don't like fan service Darker than Black generally avoids it, except for one character near the end who must be naked to use her powers. Everyone else is portrayed fairly seriously and without much room for eroticisim.
Over all this show gets my highest recommendation. Its very well put together and doesn't have anything I feel I'd need to warn potential viewers of.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Nov 22, 2024
If you can get past the fact the first 30 minutes is just a soft core porn film. What awaits you is one of the best James Bond films I've ever seen.
The action is a lot more bloody than what you'd expect from a Bond film. But the plot, characters and everything else would feel right at home especially in the more action focused modern era of Bond films.
The entire movie looks beatiful, even the CGI bits look good and the intro was amazingly well done. Everything just looks fantastic, every character oozes personality in a way that modern computer aided animation just
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no longer does. It also got a great soundtrack full of 80s era synths and blaring instruments that set the tone perfectly for every scene. Even the mandatory sex scenes are at least well scored if tedious to watch.
I do have to dock points for how long it takes to get going, and the sheer amount of nudity is a little off putting at times. But its a solid film overall.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Oct 3, 2024
I'm sure that readers who like a quiet book, where they can just sit down and soak up the art will enjoy Blame! but that's just not me.
Blame! is a very visual story, beautiful art, cool characters and freaky monsters.
Its tough to describe because it is just so visual, one of those "a picture is worth a thousand words" things and if you wanna stare at pretty pictures you could do a lot worse than this.
I realise that sounds quite flippant but honestly, I'm not an art critic. I wouldn't know what to say beyond:
"I like the art a lot and if
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I was only focusing on that Blame! would be a 9/10"
But personally, I need something more than that.
The world of Blame! is fascinating and strange, this agoraphobic mega city that literally stretches beyond the furthest bounds of the solar system. But because the story is so lacking in dialogue its never explained or adressed, I only know the scale of the city because I read it on wikipedia. I really adore this world and the visuals that it gives us, twisted Escher-esc buildings that loop in on themselves. Multi hundred thousand kilometer wide empty spaces that exist to do nothing, buildings where gravity itself randomly flips position, guys in power armor thats modled after fantasy knights. It's just so cool.
So why is it written like a mystery box!?
We know the protagonist Killy is looking for someone with "The Net Terminal Gene" but its never explained WHY he's looking for this person or what this Net Terminal Gene even does. He himself doesn't even know, it's the old protagonist amnesia special.
A classic instant drama trope but since Killy never figures himself out neither do we. What little context for the world of Blame! we do have, paints the city as so gargantuan that it leaves me feeling like even if Killy achieved his goals that not much would change.
We are talking about a place where a basic elevator ride takes 800 hours and where a walk of 300 THOUSAND kilometers is achievable because Killy is, something not human.
There's some good mystery around what exactly Killy is, he's clearly not human. Able to go the full story without eating or sleeping, he's crazy fast and strong, he's got a weird HUD and his energy gun draws its power from his body. But his origins and purpose are never fully adressed. We know he's not "silicon life" or a "Safeguard" because he's able to go places and do things they can't. But the only other human whose able to keep up with him is Cibo, and she cheats via technobable.
Killy's backstory is just a big void meant to make him supperficially cool.
We get far more backstory for his side kick Cibo, but she is equally void of personality or character development. She shows up, we get a bit of history on her as a scientist and she gets a few power ups via technobable throughout the story. But ultimately Cibo just kind of exists to do techy stuff that Killy can't do. The manga equivelant of every female deuteragonist in an early 2000s FPS who just exists to hack computers and pick locks.
Maybe there is some kind of crazy metaphor underlying the whole plot that would just blow my mind if I could grasp it.
Personally, I doubt it.
Given how much effort went into the art I think its safe to say that is where all the author's energy was going and it really shows.
Like I said, on art alone its a 9/10. But when taken holistically, as a marriage of both written and visual art. I can't say I particularly enjoyed Blame!
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Mar 11, 2024
If you played the game, you already know Yosuke's story. So there's no reason to read this manga
If you haven't played the game, then don't read this manga because it's full of spoilers.
It doesn't really add any new context to his character in my honest opinion.
It just rehashes things from the game, but it does it well. Not an awful read, but not one I find myself willing to recommend or re-do.
I also feel that a lot of Persona 4's atmosphere is contained within the game. Within its visuals and music, while the manga recreates some of that it just can't capture the way the
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opening sequence makes you feel or how isolated most areas in Inaba are. And obviously a book can't play music.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Mar 11, 2024
Lets be honest.
This is basically a doujin.
And that's not a bad thing, its most of the reason why I made it so far. But after a certain point all the gimmicks get played out and it stops being fun. There's no real plot or character, just maho girls doing fetishy things. Which when combined with a dodgy fan translation full of out dated memes and phrases like "I stan that" just leaves me feeling bored.
Personally I need some sense of threat or stakes in a series, the world doesn't have to be on the verge of blowing up but I need something. Some kind of
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goal to watch the protagonist strive for.
I would definitely say that I really enjoyed what I read here, its very Kill la Kill. But without that sense of purpose I find my desire to finish the series flagging.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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