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TL;DR This show would have been great if they'd kept it to their youtube channel.

Trying to appeal to a huge base right out the gate was the biggest mistake - most foreign anime watchers are shonen watchers (see the crunchyroll demon slayer awards) with a smattering of people who enjoy other more common genres. Kaigai vtuber fans are often cringe and toxic....don't read chat in English usually because it tends to make my blood pressure go up. The negative reviews make sense because the people leaving them are 1) anime watchers who aren't into vtubers or 2) toxic kaigai niki's who hate on whatever ... vtubers arent their oshi or oshis friends

The closest "genre" for this show to fit into would be idol.....but 1 song, albeit with lyrical variation, in a season, is not really acceptable for that genre. Every episode should ideally have a song or at the minimum each character should, in order to stand up in the idol genre. It is kind of a school slice of life also but there isn't really much emphasis put into the school portion other than a location for things to happen. Technically a portal fantasy but the real world side is again not explored in any real depth.....

The VA's are great, though it is somewhat obvious from the awkwardness from all but Noelle's, that they are a little new to doing it. Fine for youtube but comes off a bit weird in an anime. I think they all gave solid performances despite that, but solid is not necessarily professional.

The music is good but held down by being musically the same song every episode, every time. It would be fine as a vsingers original but it couldnt be the only song they ever sang, let alone 5 vtubers.....all singing the same song just with varied lyrics.

I enjoyed the show, I enjoyed my time with it well enough despite a few frustrations. I like the characters as vtuber characters...a little less in their anime form since they feel a little hollow without chat interaction, but still they were not terrible. I find it hard to recommend this show generally, but there are a few people I know who I think might enjoy it for what it is, like I did.

I don't like long reviews so I will leave a relatively short one.

This movie is amazing and a spectacle in the sound and animation departments and just ok in every other way.
I like sakuga as much as the next person and this film is full of it. The sound design and action scenes are incredible. Unfortunately this is where anything remarkable about the movie ends.
The characters are one dimensional, the story uninspired and the backgrounds while well drawn are very samey. The CG monsters should have been left out of the movie as they jerk you out of the movie with whiplash from how ... bad they are compared to the fluid animation everywhere else.

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The biggest issue with the movie is there is a lot of weight put on the idea I should care about a character solely because he has an expository dream for 20 minutes worth of runtime. In this dream we are treated to a cliche side-story showing what a nice onii-san he is. TL;DR The dream sequence didn't really get me to identify with, or even care about the character enough. The failure of the dream in making me empathize with said character more than I would for any human, turned what I assume was supposed to be the titular moment of the movie into a "Could you please just get on with it and stop screaming like a toddler?" moment.


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In short the movie is ok. I didn't feel ripped off seeing it. Ok bordering on slightly subpar, is all it will ever be in the scope of film; unless commercial success is how you measure these things, then I guess this deserves a 10.

This is a very poor quality retelling of the first arc of the main series as experienced by some of the side characters. It is incomplete and is most likely confusing to any who have not seen the original. The dialogue is inane and there are a lot of extra cringy incestual moments thrown in for some kind of measure.....

The animation varies greatly from frame to frame and while the character designs are mostly the same from the original the only change that happens is some extreme degradation of quality in motion. Janky running animations and odd stretch effects during pivots of characters are just ... the beginning of the bad.

It is not the worst show I've seen but it is close....

It is a competently put together recap of the series. The clips chosen tell the story pretty well for such an abridged retelling. The sound and art direction were likewise up to par for what I would expect from the team that put this show together.

The execution does however beg the question of why? I understand recap episodes when they are trying to milk production time mid season or when there has been a gap in episode release dates, but a recap the week after finishing what seems like a well tied off story does perplex me a bit. As much as I think ... the quality is among the best recaps I have seen, I just can't get over how strange it was rewatching the story in an inferior format immediately after finishing watching the full story. In short - this is an episode that ends up as less than the sum of it's parts.

I can sum this one up by saying at least they got the title correct in English. The 8th Son........Are You Kidding Me? I actually watched it all?

It is thanks to the abundance of time I have found myself with due to "Rona" that I watched this past episode 1. I do not think there was any aspect to this production can be called better than "poorly executed" except maybe the sound design, which was just ok. The soundtrack was ok for what it is though some of the choices on when music came in left me a little baffled.

The story is a generic fantasy ... isekai cliche fest where nothing unpredictable will happen.

The Characters could have been isekai'd from any other generic isekai/fantasy and arrived in this world a little more braindead. There was no character progress. If anything protag-kun regressed in ability to have a voice as the story progressed.

The animation was mediocre at the best and generally looked like a slideshow at the few times it could have done something to set itself apart from all the other generic isekai trash that has been cropping up. I do not need to go into the quality of what little cg there was.....Berserk 2016 was better.

I did not enjoy my time with this show....that said, I didn't hate it either. I think apathy sums up my feelings and expectations.