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Mob Psycho 100 II doesn't follow the rules of the typical fight shonen. It's distinguishable i numerous ways... just like One Punch Man, Mob Psycho 100 has a lot of personality.

What really baffles me is the ease ONE has to create charismatic characters. Every single character on Mob Psycho 100, wether they're important to the story or not, are very unique and enjoyable. Reigen is yet one of the best antagonist I've ever seen on an anime, no doubts about it... I'm glad that this season got to explore a little more about his personal life.

The plot of the anime, like on season 1, doesn't ... evolve until the second half... until then, there are a bunch of uncorrelated short stories that, to be honest, were my favorite part of this season... These episodes are very well written and they really got to present what this anime does best: nonsense comedy and top notch action sequences. The second half disappointed me a little because everything was very predictable and it was really feeling like a cliché shonen by the end.

Mob is a great protagonist and is just so easy to like him... his way of seeing his own super-powers as "nothing special" and his daily struggles to fit in society and deal with his feelings and emotions are one of the highlights of the anime.

Animation is superb as always, the opening is one of the best I've ever seen, the soundtrack is great and so is the ending, the direction and every other technical or artistic stuff.

Mob Psycho 100 II is extremely good, 100% recommended to whoever liked the 1st season. It delivers what you expect: an enjoyable anime that's different from your typical shonen.

Must-watch for anyone who enjoyed season 1.
High Score Girl is extremely simple when it comes to the storyline settings and character's traits but everything is so well done that it's overly satisfying to follow.

If you watched season 1, you know how simple the story is: it portrays how Haruo deals with two girls who likes him, making tons of analogies with his feelings and his passion for videogames. The love story does not escape from the "having guts to confess your feelings" and "harshness of separation" clichés we're all familiar with, but thats not what makes this anime special. It is actually how well ... this scenario develops around the main theme of the series, which are videogames.

As it happened on season 1, season 2 also shows us very with lots of details how the videogame scene grew in Japan among teenagers on the mid 90's. You can tell everything is pretty reliable... that are tons of references that alone makes this anime worth-watching if you like videogames. The insertion of pixelated game characters to represent Haruo's thoughts and the analogies he makes with videogames and his feelings also are very enjoyable. But again, the most interesting aspect of this is to observe how characters play, because it reflects their own personality and feelings. For instance, Ono always chooses buffed characters, specially Zangief on Street Fighter, which shows a deep contrast between her apparent fragile, introspective and docile looks to something as violent and full of rage, implying she has those kind of feelings supressed and uses videogames to relief herself from them. There are lots of other nuances that I wasn't expecting as well.

Ono's sister is a new character that was very welcomed on this season. She's main function is to intermediate Haruo's and Ono's interaction and she serves as Ono's "translator" once she's still very introspective. She's also funny, specially around Haruo's mom when both of them get to disturb him with these matters. Again, characters are as simple as they should be, leaving the anime with this slice of life atmosphere which helps us relate with what's happening.

animation and voice acting doesn't let down at all. The OP and ED aren't as catchy as they were in last season (specially the ED) but they're also nice. OSTs are great as well.

In the end, season 2 is a direct improvement of season 1 in most aspects and everything feels as simple and enjoyable as before. Must watch.

Mousou Dairinin is an unconventional anime. It's unique in a lot of ways and that's actually the best thing about it.

The story seemed to be simplistic at first, following a series of mysterious attacks that are somehow related, but soon it gets clear that that's just the tip of the iceberg. The anime does a lot of sidetracking in an effort to portray and deepen different sizes of the same story. You get to see various distinct perspectives and each one is unique. Because of that, at some points, the storyline felt disconnected and too steady as ... things wouldn't actually progress in any way and you'd watch entire episodes just showing the reaction of newly-introduced characters to the main plot, which are mainly represented through unconventional ways, such as metaphors and visual analogies.

That added beyond what I think was necessary to the mystery of the story by the cost of slowing the pace of the series. Later on, it gets clear that's the intention of the director. You end up realizing this anime isn't meant to create a really mysterious atmosphere and stimulate the viewer to theorize and try to guess things like "who's the culprid?", but instead, to represent how collective imagination shapes individual's perception of reality. The plot was unpredictable, which is great since this genre tends to be very unoriginal but on the other hand, it used too much fantasy, so I wouldn't actually call it a very intelligent plot, but a creative one... It's a good thing it escaped from clichés, though.

Other unconventional thing about this narrative style was that there was no protagonist. Each episode has actually one character that got more attention than others but that was rotative. Stories about mysteries that seek to create a suspense atmosphere (which isn't the proposal of Mousou Dairinin) benefits from the addition of a strong character, making people care more about what's happening due to this charism link. The lack of a fixed protagonist, although compatible with the chosen narrative style, made the story lose personality.

Artstyle is nice, although it's sometimes inconsistent. The anime abuses of exaggerations and grimaces to portray distorted characters, while others are just 'normal'. This is not a downside, though, as the anime uses this inconsistency even on scenarios when it's convenient, in a very creative choice. Sound is ok but the op is one of the most annoying I've ever heard...

At the end, Mousou Dairinin is an unique anime, it has an unpredictable and creative mystery story, but is too unconventional to be broadly recommended. I personally appreciate how original and creative the anime is, but at the same point, I struggled to care about the story, since it's focused more on social criticism than mystery or suspense... It's an intelligent anime and it sure deserves praising, but it's not very accessible and the only reason I didn't score it higher was because it didn't appeal to my personal taste, but whoever is into dense thought-provoking stories might love it.

Noragami has an interest concept: it depicts god entities as hardworking humanoid figures that submits themselves to a hierarchy system in which fame means everything. Yato, the MC, is a lo-fi divinity that lusts for recognition. It's personality doesn't match to what you'd expect from a god, which is understandable since gods are actually made upon people's desires, so their personality are connected to society's, making them imperfect.
The storyline seemed fragmented... it starts when Hiyori, a college girl, suffers an accident in that famous unsurprising isekai truck running over cliché ... in order to "save" Yato... she then gets the ability to cross between realms and the hole purpose of the story is getting back to normal. However, there are no progression on this matter on the next episodes, with Yato avoiding this issue... instead, we're presented to Yato's realm and his routine of granting people's wishes, seeking for "adepts" and fighting ghosts, which doesn't help understanding the rules of this world in which Yato lives on... we're given an explanation for "do people see Yato and Yukine?" which is "they do, but they don't notice"... this was ok but for this type of genre, it just isn't enough to answer all the other questions we might make such as "what happens to the skate Yukine stole?",... there are a lots of "why's" that aren't tackled and it's just frustrating but yet understandable.
The anime's story has a lot of deviations and by the end of the season, it focus too much on extended fighting sequences that felt unnecessary since there were lots of great episodes with little to no action scenes... Noragami just isn't the type of anime you'd want dragonball-like battles, it was doing just fine without them.
The characters are convincing... they get along very well, are constructed throughout the episodes and have distinct personalities that complements each other's. Secondary characters are also entertaining and remarkable, with the exception of the main antagonist, who's introduced by near the end... his personality wasn't explored at all, being too shallow for a villain. I just didn't care about him and this made the fight even more boring...
Art style is pretty good, nice scenarios, art direction and soundtrack, with great op and ed. Sound is great and so is the voice dub.
By the end, Noragami entertains with its great characters and interesting atmosphere, but lacks a strong and concrete storyline and a convincing antagonist.It focused too much on fighting by the end episodes while it shouldn't have, but it's still a good anime.

Terror in Resonance efforts to be an distinctive anime and it thrives for the most part. It's apparent that a lot of though was put into the storytelling... The main plot isn't anything unique and special... the approach of a secret supremacist government experiment that ignores ethics and human rights leading to a predictable uncontrolled disaster is certainly something everyone has already seen in pop culture. The extent of the story in Zankyou no Terror isn't disposable but doesn't surprise even, as it's combined by recollected concepts over-explored on other "conspiracy-like" plots.

What stands out about the story is not the plot per se, but ... the storytelling. The direction made it enjoyable to watch with the solid construction of a hooking atmosphere. The conduction of the events and their presentation throughout the anime was exceptional. The presentation of the terrorists acts, the popular reaction to them, the impact on the city, the police perspective... everything is presented so you feel as if you didn't miss any part of it, which is important on stories with expanded cores like this. Information is straight-forward with no deviation and the creation of a tense atmosphere is present when needed. The direction, in general, makes up for the relatively unoriginal plot. I won't spoil the end but I felt satisfied with how things got wrapped up, specially by the daring they had to follow a more "tragic" route, which fit the story well.

When it comes to the characters, this anime does something unexpected, which is not defining a protagonist. Halfway through the first episode is easy to assume that 9 and 12 would, together, be the main characters, but that's not true. Little we know about them for the most part of the anime, as they're very reserved and we don't actually understand their motives. Although Shibazaki isn't a high schooler, is easier to call him a protagonist, as he feels more authentic and comprehensible than the guys. The biggest letdown of the cast is by far, Lisa, one of the most annoying character I've ever seen in an anime. She's firstly presented as an outcast girl who suffers bullying and isn't loved by her own family, thus having nowhere to belong to, seeing refuge on the Sphinx transgression attitudes. My problem with her is actually her stupidity.... Lisa is a character which would be better defined as "useless" than any other adjective. Her main function on the story is getting in trouble through her uselessness and interfering with Sphinx's plans, just like Peach in Super Mario franchise. What's even more incomprehensible is the apparent relationship the anime forces between her and 12. Not convincing at all... 12 himself proved to struggle with social skills early on the anime and even demonstrated lack of empathy with her when theey met for the second time, yet out of nowhere, he starts caring for her and even betrays his own childhood friend and compromises their life goal for her? That felt extremely forced. Lisa is too passive, shows no development at all and her scenes are very irritating (pay attention on her at the football scene towards the end)

The art direction is great, color palette, scenarios, angle variations, fluid animation, character design... this are the things that make this anime seem "expensive". It's very apparent the effort put into making things above average. The OP and ED doesn't let down and the OSTs are very good, adding to the suspense atmosphere of the anime.

Terror in Resonance makes an unoriginal story feel enjoyable to watch with it's great direction and above average presentation, easily getting the viewer hooked. However, poor characters with unconvincing developments extracts the charism of the story, leaving the feeling it didn't explore it's full potential. I would still recommend it, though, as it's still enjoyable for the reasons listed above.

Kakegurui xx does its job as a sequence: it expanded the scenario previously introduced, brought up new characters and got a fresh storyline. Although not flawlessly executed, this second season did what a second season should do.

The storyline is actually simple and is set aside during some episodes so the focus can be directed to what this anime is all about: gambling on a deeply absurd school. The plot of Kakegurui XX is just meant to support the games. It isn't overly simplified though - the ideia of the new presidential election was actually fun to follow. The gambling part is great - each game ... having its own set of rules made things very dynamic. They are very cool to watch, well designed and thought... almost every one containing a plot twist i didn't see coming. Occasionally it would use some character's demise through gambling as a moral lesson or dramatization, but nothing unique.

The core of the cast was maintained. Although there were considerable newcomers, very few got significant screen-time or importance. Rei was the only exception, but unfortunately she was extremely boring and I couldn't care less. The addition of new characters seemed more like a way of having more opponents to Yumeko than a tentative of revitalizing the cast. That's not a huge disappointment because, again, it's clear that the storyline is secondary. The usual characters are exactly the same - there's practically no development on them...

Yumeko is still extremely mysterious, you feel as if you know her as much as anyone else on the anime, which is very few... It's actually a bumper because her background was previously mentioned on season 1 on a very superficial manner, and you would expect them to at least update this but it doesn't happen. As a protagonist, this lack of information makes Yumeko a very unusual MC - even her thoughs aren't shared to the audience. As much as I wanted to know more about her, specially after they mention about her past previously, this type of design was very well done and fit the anime perfectly. Yumeko is clearly not normal, too different for anyone to relate with, so why bother trying? Maybe keeping her as this minimalist girl is for the better.

Other characters aren't very charismatic and aren't developed either... they fulfill their roles as supporting characters but won't captivate anyone - specially Suzui, whose importance I still don't understand.

The design is well done. Combining gambling elements to erotic appeal was an understandable choice. From figurine to scenarios, the whole setting of the anime doesn't let down. Animation is great and so is the soundtrack, which cleverly matches elements of Jazz and Classical Music, fitting very well this environment of this overly-classy school and gambling. The OP and ED are equally good as well.

Kakegurui xx is an honest follow up to its predecessor, bringing up new elements that felt worthy of a sequence. Although the storyline is still kept aside, the gambling scenes surprises and are enjoyable to watch. Characters are too shallow to relate with and the whole scenario is extremely unrealistic, so it probably won't please "slice of life" fans. The art in general is fantastic and I would recommend it to whoever liked season 1. I personally felt as this was an slight upgrade from the previous season.

I have a quite unpopular opinion on this anime... while very captivating and emotional, Erased lacks on storytelling.
Well, to begin with, I'm very picky with plots about time-traveling... this is just an over-saturated concept on pop culture you would need to be very unique and creative to impress anyone, and yet the very mechanism of the time-traveling isn't explained at all... the anime literally just tells you the main character suddenly goes back to his childhood at a very convenient moment and that's it. The sole phenomenon that connects everything and makes the story possible is a Deus Ex Machina. My point is that ... it just felt unconvincing. I know the core of the story isn't about time-traveling per se, but they didn't even care to make it seem more than a poor excuse.

The story doesn't evolve very well... it's unnatural a lot of the times, as if the everything must lead to a previously written ending rather than following a more acceptable path. By that I mean that there were a lot of times on the storyline that I asked myself stuff like "that's a very bad idea, it would never work out, why don't they consider this and that?" and yet the plot conveniently conveys to the most theatrical pathway... You would ask yourself a lot of questions if you actually pay attention to the story of this anime. There was, although, an interesting suspense plot, witch felt very planned but not well executed.

The characters are ok, they're not great and aren't well developed either but that does not compromise the anime too much. Again, the lack of charism is compensated by emotional sequences, and there are a lot of them, witch is good.
Kayo's background of child abuse felt cheap, but the whole concept of "the city I don't exist" was actually nice... great poem btw

The soundtrack, and the op and ed are great, probably the best this animes has to offer. No complains here.

The artsyle is a little baffling to me but that's just my taste, it fits the anime well.

In the end, this anime felt mediocre, nothing special, not smartly written and with lots of plot holes that were filled with emotional drama.

Okay, I'll start with the most obvious and easy part to review: the controversial animation. Yes, it's worse than it was on the 1st season, no doubt about it, but what I don't agree with what most people are criticizing is how much this affected the anime. We need to remember that the MADHOUSE animation was highly above average, so a downgrade from that does not necessarily mean it's bad now or even mediocre. I guess people just assumed this season would be terrible when the first trailer came out. Yes, that trailer was horrible, terrible editing and all, but that was just a glimpse... ... what happened was that, by the time, the score on MAL was already 7 and something and the memes were all over the weeb internet. I really didn't bother at all with the animation throwout the anime. I mean, it would be great if they were as good as Mob Psycho 100, but they didn't let down. Some action sequences were above average to say the least, and it becomes more apparent as the season goes on. Summing up: definitively worse than season 1 but still well done.

Still talking about the artistic field, you can see an apparent downgrade on the drawing. Characters sometimes lack details and the colorization is far from what it used to be... so that's a bumper. When it comes to sound, I guess we had an upgrade. Sound effects are incredible on this season, better than they were on season 1. They make fight sequences appear much more intense and epic. I really don't know why people aren't talking about this. The op is great too, awesome music from JAMproject (although the visual aspect of the opening is shamefully simple). The ed is nice too, no complains there.

When it comes to the story, I had mixed reactions... The new characters are great. King is magnificent, Garou is very cool, nicely designed and written antagonist, and Fubuki is charismatic as well. This is expected, as this was plotted by ONE, who has an abnormal ease on character creation. My problem, though, was that Saitama didn't get the screen time I wish he would. He's the main character and yet there are very extended sequences without him. I know ONE was trying to deviate a little the story from Saitama, focusing on the association of monsters and Garou, but it just felt out of place. I don't care for this tense atmosphere the anime tries to create, telling us there's a big menace to human existence and all that crap... in the end we know Saitama would resolve everything with a single punch, so why bother? I mean... isn't that the whole concept of the show? Isn't that why it is so enjoyable? If you create an extremely OP character like Saitama, every menace of the story is automatically irrelevant, and that's really not a problem. The monsters and every evil entity that appeared on the first season was just an excuse for incredible fight scenes and nonsense comedy and not meant to be taken seriously. I think this tentative of making things more dramatic compromised to core concept of ONE PUNCH MAN, which was pure nonsense comedy.

Although I think OPM is not meant to be taken seriously, this season does revitalize these more "down to Earth" aspects. One thing that makes me enjoy Saitama so much is that although he's extremely OP, he's kinda miserable by lack of accomplishment and challenges, which makes him bored. I find crucial having a "down side" to every superpower. The fact that Saitama is so unknown and never gets credits for his deeds makes him even more enjoyable imo. I was fearing that at some point ONE would just bring up an worthy opponent to Saitama, which would make the whole anime lose all of its meaning. I liked a lot the way the anime deals with this side of the MC on the second season. Not gonna spoil anything, but it's something that brought a lot of importance to King as well. The scenes on which both are featured were the highlight of the anime, and made me want more of these instead of watching the Hero's association debating over pointless things. The moral lessons Saitama gives to Fubuki and Suiryu, on which he expresses his views on what it means to be a hero, are also the highlight of the anime to me.

So although the Story didn't exactly follow the path I wanted and the animation did have a significant downgrade, I enjoyed this season a lot. I love most of the characters, the comic relief and the action scenes with random meaningful and more serious sequences in between.
Long story short: not as good as the 1st season but yet highly recommended to whoever liked that. Just come to know OPM is more than a fluid crystal-clear animation and you will enjoy this season as well.

Halfway through the first episode I thought Ergo Proxy was going to follow the same plot you see in almost every sci-fi story that involves the coexistence of humans and machines in society... I mean: at some point, robots acquire conscience and begin disobeying Asimov's laws, witch leads to conflict. In fact, this anime is much deeper and original than that. Everything in the story seemed original to me and also very creative. Ergo Proxy, as I mentioned, makes a point at being unique.
The anime assures you constantly that there are many more questions ... to be answered later on, and it does it firstly by the end of the first episode, just after making you think the plot would be something shallow and unoriginal. Throughout the series, the concept of "proxy", the background of the city of Romdo and the world, the backstory of the characters and their identity... everything is slowly developed and after many plot twists and "wtf" moments, I felt satisfied with how things got wrapped up by the end. I didn't feel like any gap was left, as the anime answered everything it questioned. Ergo Proxy has a dense plot and it successfully develops it completely, which is great.
If someone were to describe Ergo Proxy, the word "complex" would probably come up at some point. Yes, philosophy is present in the core of this anime. Sometimes, this is extremely obvious, such as when auto-reivs (the robots) start questioning their existence, but for the most part, the philosophical root is sublime, almost invisible but yet present. Basically every dialogue can be dissected someway to reveal the application of philosophical thoughts. At some points, the show chooses to get mysterious and speak through metaphors, visual poetry, suggestions and other non-revealing elements of narrative that discusses concepts like "creator vs. creation", "free will and predestination", "love and war", among other stuff. I'm talking "Serial Experiments Lain" level of mindfuck, meaning it's easy to get lost if you don't focus. This was actually something that estranged me a little and the main reason I didn't score it higher... I mean, I enjoy unconventional storytelling techniques, hidden meanings and all that stuff, but I felt it was too much for my taste. Sometimes I made an effort to realize what the show was trying to communicate... in some episodes, if you don't catch all of the clues, it ends up being a complete nonsense.
Characters are great, they have distinctive personality, are charismatic and well developed throughout the anime. It's worth mentioning that without Pino, things would be a lot different. She's very enjoyable and lightens the atmosphere of the show. With Re-L and Vincent, the cast feels like one completes another. Secondary ones are also well-written and charismatic.
The design in general is great and so is the animation for the most part, although in some non-action sequences, I got the impression characters were badly drawn, which created inconsistence.
Something that I wasn't expecting was how little Japanese this anime is. The most oriental thing is Pino's bunny costume (and also everything that happens in the unpredictable episode 15). There are a lot of imagery of Greek sculptures and catholic symbolism, the ending theme is Paranoid Android and the OSTs even use Gregorian chants ... it doesn't feel like you're watching an anime sometimes, which is not a fault, of course.
Overall, Ergo Proxy is a must-watch to whoever is into deep unconventional plots, specially the ones with philosophical backbones. For those who prefer a more straight-forward experience that does not require a lot of interpretation, don't even try.

ONE has proven to be one of the greatest contemporary manga authors. Mob Psycho certainly is a point out of the curve when it comes to the shonen genre. If you have ever underestimated this anime because of the eery looks of the manga, please reconsider.
Speaking of the art style, it fits very well the atmosphere the show passes. Filled with nonsense humor and fantasy, you don't bother the distorted look of the drawings, as it actually adds to the uncompromising feeling of the anime. Bones studio did an amazing job with the art direction, keeping the core of ONE's iconic loose character design ... while managing to make everything look professional at the same time. The angle variations, fluid animation, well paced direction, stylized coloration, among other things, makes the show look great. I'm personally not much of a fan of ONE's character design, but I can't argue that they did an incredible job with the art direction.
The story to me was the biggest surprise. I started watching Mob Psycho not expecting much other than an unpopular kid passing through puberty while also struggling with his paranormal powers. In fact, the course of the storyline is way more original as it portrays much deeper subjects, such as how Mob perceives himself as an outcast for having super powers, feeling that it compromises his self esteem as he's not even close to be special without them. This makes him admire his brother, who has much better social skills and cleverness than him. On the other hand, Ritsu, his brother, envies Mob, as he always wanted super powers to get a spotlight. This interpretation of what it means to be special and how each one deals with power and low self-esteem is actually very interesting. Even episodes that are not connected to the core plot of the anime makes you reflect about what meaning it's trying to pass... the one where dimple (Ekubo) was introduced is a great example, as it criticizes social behaviors such as the imposition of looking happy at all times when you're in public, hiding your true sensations while faking to be "okay". All of these "deeper meanings" got me off guard, I was just expecting some nonsense comedy, but Mob Psycho has proven to be much more daring than it firstly seemed. The main plot of the first season, which starts halfway through it, is very simple but enjoyable. The story itself is not where Mob Psycho shines the most, but the very entertaining narrative that makes you hooked, intercalating top notch nonsense comedy with fluid animated action scenes and even some tense, more dramatic sequences. The pace is marvelous, the show knows how to transition from comic to serious scenes and it feels natural.
The characters are extremely charismatic. ONE's creativity to write characters is very surprising. You simply end up liking everyone, no matter how secondary and unimportant to the story they are. Each one has some iconic and original personality traits. Mob is extremely enjoyable, relatable, very easy to support and he carries the weight of a protagonist with ease. It was actually Reigen, though, who I enjoyed the most. His profiteer personality and rhetoric skills felt very cool, specially when you realize he cares for Mob, besides exploring him.
The soundtrack is great, the op looks very nice as it embraces this colorful, almost psychedelic stylized art style. The ed is nice, although it felt to me a little disconnected to the main concepts of the anime. Anyway, Mob Psycho 100 is too great to be judged merely by its looks. Definitively one of the most original and well written shonens of recent years, can't recommend it enough.