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Simply too simple and bland.

SSSS.Gridman is really another Mechca anime genre that fails to deliver any good plot or even likeable characters at all. Now, I'm not saying all Mechca anime is bad because that's true. There are some good one out there... but there is more bad than good. SSSS.Gridman has such a simple plot. Kaiju comes, transform into Gridman, and done. Rinse and repeat pretty much. They might add a bit more "drama" to the mix but the formula wouldn't change since it's so simple. I'm not saying "simple" is also bad, anime such anime "Yuru Camp" is so simple but so satisfying ... to watch because the characters make up for it. I see a lot of people be like Rikka is different or something about her is special. What in the hell are you even looking at? She's literally those typical character where she value friends and whatnot and will do her best to save those relationship ties that she has with them. And trust me, Yuuta isn't any better. This anime is literally a cover of a book with no story inside of the book itself.

Subject to change but I don't think it will.

You guys need to realize this when I’m writing this review while finish episode 12. This is no doubt one of the best anime for Winter 2018. I’ll explain why and of course like most of my reviews I’ll make it short as possible so it won’t be a strain to read.

I’m sure most of you guys will think it’ll just be a simple plot with 4 girls going an adventure to Anartica and having fun. Oh man, you can’t be anymore wrong. This anime isn’t just a simply going to Anartica but actually Anartica isn’t even really the main focus of the story. What ... makes this anime so great is how they made the Characters grow with each other associating of going to Anartica. This makes it so great because it isn’t just a cliche bland story and the character development is so perfectly paced that you can relate to the characters. The characters you realized isn’t as happy as it seemed and how they are really running away from their problems until one helps out the other. It’s such a heart warming anime but it’s also hits you really hard when you lessen unexpected esp in Episode 12. The animation is beautiful and always been consistent and the music really fits the scenes so much. I’ll really honestly recommend this anime to anyone that wants to enjoy seeing characters weakness and growth while hitting you with the feels unexpected. Truly the dark horse of winter anime 2018.

I honestly just want make a simple but enough review for Violet Evergarden. I was one of those people that honestly didn't give in the hype of the anime when the trailer and episode 1 came out. I simply stay neutral because I know if you expect something more out of it, you'll simply JUDGE it more than the actual anime due to high expectations.

When I was reading the reviews for Violet Evergarden, I see a lot of the people calling the story trash or it's slow. I think these are the people are the one that hypes it before it came out. I think ... the story is simply relaxing to watch. The pacing of the anime can be slow but I can explain why they're going to that route. Many people thinks Violet is a robot girl in which SHE'S NOT a robot btw. I don't even know why people makes reviews and get that wrong. Violet is a girl that simply don't know any emotions due to the fact that she's been used as a tool for war for her life. She simply didn't know what are emotions are and only knew how to kill. She lost her arms in the war and got mechanical arms. This is where I found the story starts to be interesting. She wants to be a "Doll" (who writes letter to people) and want to learn and find the hidden emotions that people and she has. She want to know what's the meaning of love and how is it feel to be loved. Every time she goes on adventure, she learns people's emotion and understands how people feel. While she SAVES other people EMOTIONALLY UNINTENTIONALLY, she's actually SAVING herself. You'll understand what I mean if you actually took the time to watch the anime. This is why the pacing is so slow for the anime. You can't expect a fucking person with no emotions to know understand the difficulty of emotions in 2-3 episodes. The story is simply relaxing and it's worth checking out.

If I do have to critique the series though, I'll have to say that they should have more episodes or find some way to wrap the series up because I don't think this anime should have a second season due to how the plot works. I hope they find a way to give a good ending that wraps the series up.

Is it good? Not really. Is it bad? Not really.

Imouto sae Ireba Ii is one of those animes that people will probably think it's Eromanga Sensei rip off or whatnot but in-reality it's nothing like that. The anime is more of like a chill laid back slice of life anime that really isn't taken too seriously. It doesn't have a complex story nor the best character development ever but I think it's not as bad as people make it out to be.

Story 6/10:

Like I said, the story isn't complex or anything. There should be a Slice of Life tag for this anime because it's literally ... just that. Romance? Barely any romance in the story. There is bit of romance from time to time but it's doesn't deserve it's own tag since it's not the MAIN focus of the story. The story is simple, it's pretty much about Itsuki Hashima a light novel writer that is trying to make it big in society. He pretty much always hang out with his friends which are also similar in the business. I will talk about the characters later on but that's pretty much it. Every episode is just a new day for Itsuki to hang out with his friends. They either talk about their work or they do fun things together like playing games or drinking and eating. After a few episodes, it shows internal conflict with each character and show their hidden emotions but I felt like they should had expanded on it. If they expanded on it and actually show more conflict with each other the story would had a greater impact on the series. That's just the main flaw of the story, there's not much to it because they didn't expand the conflict of each character emotions which kind of makes it bland and kind of useless.

Art 8/10:

The artwork and the animation isn't bad. I think it's probably one of the best part of the series is the art. The artwork isn't complex and have the most depth but it's pretty vibrant and still consistent enough to make it look nice to the eye. There's not much to say about the art but I feel like it's probably one of the greatest strength for the series.

Sound 8/10:

This is the second strongest strength for the series. The opening and the ending is really nice to listen to. It's really catch and something that you want to keep listening to. The ost isn't the most pop out thing ever but the opening and the ending songs really did a good job expressing the series as much as possible.

Character 6/10:

To explain the character, I don't really need to break down each character in-order to explain the pros and the cons because due to the fact that each character pretty much suffers from the same flaws. The character are almost bland but they're not bad either. The series tries to give each character with different humor or fetishes but it doesn't really weigh enough to make them unique as a whole. The first few episodes, it's pretty much them having fun and talking about their work but as times go on the series introduces the character with some internal conflict. There is pretty much 2 internal conflict that the character have. The first internal conflict is romance. Simple internal conflict where A loves B but C also loves B where D loves A but A loves B. Pretty much those triangle love type of shit. This is where I said the romance tag shouldn't be in here because the series doesn't EXPRESS much of it to be the main focus of the series at all. It's express for like a few minutes in a few episodes then it's gone. The second internal conflict is Jealousy. Pretty much Haruto is jealous of Itsuki because he can make better stories or whatnot. I felt like if they expanded on this conflict alone, the series would been so much better. Instead, just like the romance, it appears for a few minutes then POOF it just disappears. I wish they can do a better job of expanding the conflict within the characters or it could had been a way better series and deserve a higher grade.

Overall 6/10:

The anime isn't good but it isn't bad either. This is the type of series is where if you're just bored and looking for a series to watch. There is some funny moments that will make you smile and the goofiness but it's not a series where you should take it seriously at all. It just feels incomplete of a story and wish they could expand more of the conflicts. 6/10

"If you were to die tomorrow, I'd be fine with tomorrow being the last day of my life."
"If you were to live through today, I will also chose to live through today."

*May contain spoilers*

Kizumonogatari One and Two was really the base for this Three part series. Part One and Two explains the beginning of the relationship between Araragi and Kiss-Shot or aka Shinobu. Part one explains on how Araragi found Kiss-Shot injured with none of her limbs. He saved her thinking by giving up his own life, he hopes to reborn as a non-selfish person that is willing to help anyone without doubting ... and without being selfish. This is the backstory on how Araragi becomes a vampire and starts the relationship with Shinobu. This is the backbone of the whole Gatari series which foreshadows and connects to the MAIN series. Part 2 shows Araragi have to fight three enemies to take back Shinobu's limbs back to regain his humanity. I would like to point out that part 2 action was amazing but simply felt a bit lacking since it felt its too short to be on its own.

Part 3 is simply a masterpiece that really wraps this 3 part series of a movie. If you follow the order of the series and actually pay attention to the series, Part 3 foreshadows and connects to the main Gatari series line. You will see how SMART everything is planned ahead and how the story really amazingly connects like a straight line. You will need to have to watch Kizumonogatari before you can watch Owarimonogatari Season 2 in order to understand and see the connections.

The fighting scenes in Part 3 is mind blowing. It's probably one of the best animated fighting scenes of all time. It's art style and how smoothly the animation is simply mind blowing. Every detail in every frame, you could tell that the studio really put effort into the animation. This is not your typical fighting scenes where it lack frames or lost in consistency of animation. Every frame in the fighting scene and the whole movie itself has perfect consistency in the animation and it's art.

*Will contain spoilers now*

The last 20 minutes of Part 3 is probably the best 20 minutes in the WHOLE MOVIE or even the WHOLE SERIES itself. Words can only go so far of explaining how beautiful it is. The last 20 minutes of the series really show strong character development and shows such painful but beautiful truthful emotions to the character. Shinobu wants to be released from the hell that is call immortality and want to die for someone's sake that she truly loves before that. Shinobu wanted to die for Araragi and regain his humanity. This is where Araragi selfishness comes in and didn't let her die. Araragi wouldn't let Shinobu die but made her to live even longer. Chaining her back to her cruel fate. Araragi is trying to be a savior but to Shinobu's eyes it's cruelty. Rending her useless but an empty shell that have to live only by his blood. Shinobu, no.. Kiss-shot is probably one of the most tragic yet but beautiful character in the whole Gatari series. The feeling of her humanity is stripped away from time and immortality and yet the person she wanted to die for his sake is making her live even longer. Tragic but beautiful.

The writing is simply amazing. You can really tell that he really loved writing this series. The details, the foreshadowing, the clues, everything connects in a straight line. This has to be the best Gatari series of all time.

This is an anime you'll either like or hate right away. It's either one.

Story: 5/10

Izumi is a boy that is moving back to his home town from Tokyo and from that moment on he starts to interact with old friend Souma which he met when he was walking around his new school. From that point, he starts to interact with the other people knew and interacting with new people that interact with his old friends aka Souma and Natsume. The story tries to make it feel as realistic as possible and don't try to over dramatic it's characters and the story itself. But at the ... same time, the plot is almost like not there or sometimes its everywhere. When you watch the first few episodes, there is almost no story at all. You don't know what's happening beside Izumi is moving back to his home town. The story doesn't really explain much either. I assume they're trying to be realistic and let you see how the characters develops overtime by interacting but I'll explain that later. The story do start to pick up around episode 6-7 but I feel like that's already too late when the series only have like 12 episodes. It's like a story that has no story. That's why you'll either hate it or love it.

Art: 6/10

The art is not to be praised about but it's not terrible either. The characters sometimes feel flat to the point that there is not much depth into it. The art just feels flat but it's not like terrible either. I just wish they added more depth into the drawing which could raise the score up for this anime.

Sound: 8/10

The music is the best part for this series. The Ending song is really good personally and the Opening is pretty nice to listen to. The ost itself isn't really that great but I guess it fits some part of the story. I guess the OST is a bit bland.

Character: 4/10

I won't go too much in depth for this because it can spoil some stuff in the anime. The character development in this anime is just so PAINFULLY slow. It's so painfully slow that it's almost like there isn't any development at all. The show is trying to make the character and story realistic as possible but it fell short. There is barely any backstory for each characters.. You will barely know the characters backstory which literally makes the character development so slow. The idea of realism for each characters is executed so badly when the PLOT relies on the character development to make the plot itself.

Enjoyment: 5/10

I'm trying to enjoy the series as much as I can. I had watched tons of Anime so much to the point I got nothing left to watch. I watched so many Anime that I gotten to the point I'm too lazy to add it on my MAL list. The series is just so painfully slow but episode 7 did start to get a bit interesting for me to keep watching till the end.

Overall: 5/10

A plot with almost no plot. Realism executed so poorly. If you want to watch something to fill your over post depression of a series you watch or just bored then I guess you should watch this anime. If you love strong character development, strong plot, meaningful plot, or even something you truly want to enjoy then I will say stay away from this series.

Alright, the series ended so why not make a review on how I think about the anime!

Story: This anime is about a guy call Banra experiencing a new life in college. He lost all his memories during his High school life because he got hit at the bridge and fell in the water. He lost his memories but from to time he start to remember. When he was in college he met many new friends and learn new things in life. He learn how painful it is and lonely it is when you lost your memories. It feels like you just reborn into another ... person not knowing your past life. He also learn friendship and love. The story is pretty stable and I think from time to time the story might get little bit confusing or maybe shaky.

Art: The art is pretty amazing, the texture is pretty great. It's pretty smooth, the art matches the genre.

Sound: The opening and the ending is pretty catchy. I like it a lot, it's pretty kawaii for a series like this! The ost does matches with scenes mostly when things get pretty serious.

Character: The character development is pretty stable also. From time to time the characters learn new things. They learn friendship and love over time. Sometimes you just have to let go of your feelings for someone and move on. From time to time Koko and Banri can be annoying but hey everything isn't perfect.

Enjoyment: 9/10 I enjoyed this series a lot. It fill with comedy and love. It teaches you that sometimes you have to let it go or you're just going to end up with nothing. Sometimes letting it go means that you're strong but sometime letting it go can also mean you're weak. I think this anime is a pretty decent anime but the ending wasn't the best ending. I think the ending is pretty predictable so thats why I gave this series 8/10