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P.A works is a well respected anime studio with their ability to create original anime that is not a light novel adaptation like many other studios ( *cough* A1 *cough*) such as sakura quest, shirobako and angel beats. The anime which I will be reviewing today “Nagi No Asukara” (A Lull In The Sea) is no exception with the original story from the studio and an amazing anime overall.

Nagi No Asukara (Or NagiAsu from now on) is a story which follows the story of our 4 core characters: Hikari Sakishima, Manaka Mukaido, Chisaki Hiradaira and Kaname Isaki that lives in a village under the sea ... called Shioshishio that are forced to study in a school on the surface after their school was forced to shut down. You could say this is a coming of age story with a love HEXAGON relationship but eventhough this is probably one of the most complicated love drama I’ve seen in a long time, P.A Works did this drama right.

Unlike most drama, NagiAsu is one of the few drama anime that I feel attached to every character (except for the extras of course lol). P.A Works has made every character have enough screentime to help develop their character and make us feel closer to them, to know about their feelings and thoughts. This makes the anime has multiple leads with their own story not just one protagonist like most anime. The pacing in the first few episodes was a bit slow but it was to focus on the world-building aspect of the anime, how everything works, the story behind the Sea God, Shioshishio and the town on the surface.

The animation of NagiAsu is phenomenal, within 5 mins of watching the first episode, I was completely in awe of the world that P.A Works have made, the character animation they made is really solid throughout and the water animation was great as well. I really love the attention to details in this anime. Though most people won’t notice it but besides the animation, the sound element plays a pivotal point in the story progression as well. The echo that every character makes under water, the piano, guitar OST of the anime, etc. At first, I skipped the opening and ending sequence, however, the OPs/EDs grew on me after time and became more emotional the more I watch through it.

Overall, this anime is for people want to see beautiful scenery and a drama anime that was done right. It utilized many elements of anime to make the viewers connect to the characters, making them feel for the characters, not only just the main characters but for the world the people living in it.

Hanebado (or the badminton play of Ayano Hanesaki) follows the story about Ayano Hanesaki, a “prodigy” at badminton who have given up on the sport due to personal reasons, and Nagisa, the captain of the badminton club of Kitakomachi High who have been training day and night to become the best player in Japan.

The first thing that drew me into watching this anime was the style animation and the realistic aspect that the anime take on the sport. The style of animation really shines through especially in the opening for the anime and also the amount of details and players movement in the badminton matches. ... The animation quality is, in my opinion, the best of the summer 2018 season and even a contender for best animation of the year.

The character development is also a strong point of this anime. Nagisa was a really good character with a lot of character developments in the first few episodes and the writer also did a great job in developing the side characters as well with most side characters given a small part in every episode or even an entire episode to develop their character without losing focus on the main characters.

However, this anime is not without it’s shortcoming. I know that the anime is also called “ the badminton play of Ayano Hanesaki” but don’t forget that Nagisa is also a main character in this anime. They put so much focus on Nagisa’s character development to push her to the side to become a supporting character in the middle part of the anime. This is the reason that most people don’t like the plot of this anime but they did rectify this later on in the TOURNAMENT ARC. One more other thing that I wished that the anime could have add more is Connie and Hanesaki interaction after the tournament arc.

This is an anime that I'm sure many of you have heard about. Maybe hearing about it through various anime reviews with many people praising it for it's writing and called the anime of the winter 2018 season. But for me, I watch this long after the season has ended so I didn't get hyped and enjoyed to the fullest in my opinion.

The anime is about a group of 4 girls going to Antarctica, which is very much in this universe, and their journey they took to go there. This anime speaks to me even from the first ep as we are introduced to ... our main character, Tamaki Mari (Kimari), who realized that she feels like she is wasting her youth and I'm sure that everyone has at least had this feeling once in their lives. I somewhat saw myself in Kimari, someone who is just waiting for that one thing to push us over the edge but never stop waiting usually. But in this show, Kimari met someone who had that push, the motivation to pursue her ambition and am not going to let anything and anyone to stop her, that is to go to Antarctica, and for Kimari, that was her push to go on her journey. The anime really portrait their journey very close to real life. Anyone who has been on a trip with their friends knows fully that nothing goes exactly according to plan and the episode in Singapore really shows that and by the end of that episode their bonds have solidified through their experience and finding out something new about themselves.

After finishing this anime, I had a feeling of emptiness, bittersweet feeling inside myself, I didn't watch another right afterwards but I let this feeling sink in and understand how much this anime has affected me. If you have reached this section of my review then you surely you know that I highly recommend this anime and thank you for reading this long review of mine.

This is my first fully writen anime review :

Classroom☆Crisis is a very enjoyable show with a slow start

When i first start wathing this anime a few months ago , i put it on hold after the first episode because i felt that the story seems too boring . At the start of this month i decide to give this anime a second shot and it did supprise me.

First , the frist few episode start of very slow with introducing the character and setting . After that, the story start to unravel with each episode better or as good as before .

Story :8/10
The story resolves around ... the elite class A-TEC and the main protagonist "Kiryuu Nagisa ". The story is good overall but i wish it had more details

Art and sound : 8.5
The Art is nothing special because the art feels the same as a normal mecha anime.
The OST was very suited for the anime . The opening and ending was very good .

Character: 8
The mains was very well developed but some other student don't have the air time to shine
Enjoyment and Overall : 10 and 9

This anime is not perfect but it is a very good show if you gone past the first few episodes . The anime has very good character development although slow paced at first . The sound and art is above the average mecha anime.

Ore no Imouto is very good anime but after watching 3 OVA eps ruined the show for me . This is my personal opinion so you may disagree with me.
Here is warning , if you think the ending of oreimo season 2 was good or ok then you should know that either the OVA will ruin the show for you (like me) or you will very enjoy the ending of the show and the light novel in general.
For me , everything gone bad since the ending of the first OVA episode. But i continue watching it because i want to know ... how Kirino and Kyousuke would deal with this problem and indeed i regert deciding watching the OVA before asking anybody if it was good or not.