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Jan 10, 2022
This was a confusing one. Now I don't mean the plot was confusing but that nearly every aspect of this show is great BUT the story. The visuals are spectacular, the sound is great, the characters are alright (for the short time we see each of them), and for the most part it is an enjoyable watch of a show. The moment you put any degree of actual thought into following the story though it all falls apart.
How does downloading combat software suddenly let someone block bullets barehanded, or dodge a firing line of machine guns? Why does the
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story start off about rewriting past events to fix a future that no one knows what problem they are trying to fix even is?
I could go on and on but the gist is this story has more holes in it than a cheese grater. If you can just turn your brain off and watch the spectacle then Vivy is an enjoyable sci-fi anime. If not, and you want something with a ton of depth to bite into, this might not be the right show to watch.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Sep 13, 2020
Inu x Boku SS is a show about an anti social MC slowly learning how to properly mesh with the rest of society after a life of being almost completely held back from said world. It's got romance, supernatural, mystery and a healthy dose of comedy to keep it going. The general idea works for most of the show but about half way through it apparently decided that the supernatural part of the show was no longer needed and was dropped almost entirely for a romance story.
All of the individual aspects of the show were good and enjoyable but none of them
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seem to have anything to do with each other. All of the characters are supernatural beings but it's irrelevant when the story revolves around the MC's relationship with their bodyguard. There are many creative and interesting side characters but none of them are dived into or developed at all. Almost zero tension is built up for the show's only mystery until the last few episodes and then all of the answers are handed out as though it was supposed to be some grand shocker of a revelation.
Good watch for a romance story but the supernatural aspects seem as though they were tacked on at the last minute to get the show more attention.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Aug 17, 2020
Holy cow this one is bad. I went in with low expectations expecting yet another half hearted ecchi with a story tacked on simply to allow more harem characters to be thrown at the MC. Turned out to not only have a terrible story, and worse characters, but it doesn't even do what it sets out to do well! For an ecchi there isn't even much fan service to speak of other than "we drew monster girls, but with big'ol breasts!" The story makes zero sense, with multiple nations going from extreme racism to the point of all-out war for centuries
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to living in near perfect harmony over the coarse of a couple decades.
Yet again, we have 1 dimensional characters that only exist to fill an anime trope with no emotions or reasoning that exists outside of said trope. Childhood tsundere friend? Check. Dumb-struck love rival? Check. Clueless MC who is a genius at one thing and dumb as a rock at literally everything else? Check.
The art is a very strange amalgamation of bad (really bad) CGI for anything that actually moves, and more conventional art for anything that stands still. The only positive thing I can say about this show is outside of the bad CGI moments, the art is actually quite colorful and some of the monsters are drawn in new and unique ways.
In the end, Monster Musume no Oishasan fails to deliver on anything it sets out to do. It gives us monster girls/people in a non-action setting but doesn't really delve into anything interesting about them further than anything blatantly obvious. It gives us ecchi but pretty much only attempts to deliver on this in the form of girls moaning because apparently anything on a monster girl that doesn't resemble a human is "very sensitive." It tries to throw in comedy to keep the mood lighter but all of the "jokes" are basically just tropes being tropes. "Haha look at the tsundere hitting people for no reason again...that's funny right?"
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Aug 8, 2020
This show is bad.
Not gonna beat around the bush on this one, it's just simply bad. Every character is boiled down to only a single trope/trait and then boiled down again until there's nothing left but said trope/trait. Between the MC who is about as bright as a turd in the sun, to the (yet another) tsundere childhood friend who only seems to have 2 emotions (those being either lusty or angry-for-no-reason).
The story is...I'm not entirely sure if there even was a story to begin with. The art is passable. The animation is like 3 different departments were constantly at
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war with each other for which could animate a scene worse. The sound is all stock sound effects used to death everywhere else before.
It's been awhile since I've watched a show so atrocious that it made me wish I was doing just about anything else.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Apr 28, 2020
The story is as generic as it gets. Weak MC doing his best in a squad full of waifus who all follow him for the tiniest of reasons. Some episodes are interesting while some feel downright pointless or out of place with each episode having a core "theme" that it follows. Said themes, however, are often forced and have little to nothing to do with the episodes they are presented in at the start of the show (I'm looking at you Schrodinger's cat episode).
The art is wonderfully done, plain and simple. The characters and phantoms are colorful and very well
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animated. Normally only see this type of animation in movies.
The characters...are pretty generic and stereotypical. No one you haven't seen before, and the only surprising bit about any of them was none of them seemed to fit the tsundere theme for once. On rare occasion someone will act in a manner that a human being would act, but most of the time each character's behavior is molded to fit whatever the current episode theme is.
Nothing seems to make sense in this show. The characters go out and fight phantoms as though they were going on a picnic while several encounters have shown that failing a hunt could VERY easily result in death or worse. Their sensei, for her part, doesn't seem to mind this either and not only sends her students on deadly missions but she doesn't even pay them for doing so! No, buying someone some rice or a BBQ dinner for risking their life several times a day does not count. Characters get stronger or weaker at the drop of a hat for no reason. The story spends tons of time explaining things that end up not even being relevant to anything.
Overall: Musaigen no Phantom World is an empty spectacle. It's got a very pretty paint job, but unoriginal characters, and a story that was not very well thought out.
Side note: Fanservice, it's there, it's nice, it's also pointless. Mai's insistence on groping herself for her powers is quickly shown to not even be required and is just there for eye candy.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Mar 4, 2018
I have one word for the creators of this show: PACING!
I don't think I've ever seen a show that had so little grasp of how pacing should be done in a form of entertainment. One episode we're watching a full war scene where every detail is being focused on with flashy fights, decent choreography, and plenty of magic. The very next will have any battles just skimmed over as "yeah some people died, here's a 5 second clip of people dying." One episode will go deep into the politics and bonds present in the show, then it switches to either skimming over
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important things or it changes back over to thinking it's an action show. Pick a speed, and pick a theme to tell your story, don't just mash everything you've got into a pile and call it a tale.
Story aside, most of the characters are as unbelievable as they can possibly be. The MC Siluca has the loyalty of a squirrel that's found someone with a nut it wants (other MC: Theo). Here we have an extremely talented mage who is already setup for fame and fortune throwing it all away to dedicate their entire life to a random stranger they found on the side of the road...what? Theo is a complete mess of a character as, again, the authors can't seem to decide what he is. Is he naive, is he smart, is he dumb, is he aiming for the top, or is he simply looking to accomplish his goals? You can't make a good character by answering YES to all of the above!
On top of all of this the story suffers from several elements being shoehorned in for no reason at all. Why does Siluca wear revealing clothing? Because she was wearing them at the start of the show and is apparently incapable of ever changing them, despite constantly complaining about them and how everyone else leers at her. Why did we need a sex scene between two people that have never even met before? Yeah, remember the pacing issue? Five seconds of people dying in a horrible battle for territory, but here's a full timeslot dedicated to watching the two opposing rulers banging each other under the moon simply because he asked. No reason, nothing added to the story, guy just walks up and says "I know we're enemies but I want to have sex with you." Who wrote any of this and thought it made a single degree of sense?!
This show is a complete and utter mess, which is a shame as the art is actually pretty good. The crests and clothing are colorful and really add to the atmosphere of the setting. Too bad it's only dolling up nonsensical characters and awkward scenes. The only reason I'm still watching this at all is out of sheer curiosity of where this trainwreck is going to finally stop.
(Written on episode 9)
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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