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Oct 26, 2021
WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAIN SPOILERS
Continuing from my previous review, I'm gonna analyze the positive and negative aspects that this second part offer us. So, let's begin:
POSTIVE ASPECTS
1. Joe Yabuki: Once again, the writer did an excellent job with him for this part. Not only improved the written with him after the Rikiishi's fight, also, thanks to the interactions with the other characters, we knew much more details about him. For example, when Noriko offered him to stop being a boxer and do any other things like normal people do and then he proceeded to explain his life philosophy, which is really interesting to analyze. He
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wanted to fight until reach his limit (white ashes), and this is something that can be applied in real life, of course, not at the level that Joe did putting in danger his life but giving our all in anything we do.
Other example is the case with Yoko, where, like the case of Rikiishi in the previous season, he showed his obsession for fighting against the world champ until the point of reject her love proposal despite all the thing that she did in order to help him with his boxing career.
To conclude this point, one more example is the case with Danpei, where he showed another facet of his obsession ignoring his advices in order to keep boxing in the bantaweight division. At the end, Danpei accepted the fact that the personality of Joe and his obsession will be nearly impossible to change, so he decided to keep supporting his boxer until the end.
2. Carlos Rivera: Thanks to him, Joe Yabuki regained his motivation to be a boxer. Unlike other characters, which only purpose in the shows is giving a new tool, power or objective to the protagonist (aka plot devices), we met his background, his motivations to be a boxer and his competitive spirit. After his fight against Jose Mendoza, where he ended being crippled, he looked for Joe to see him and fight him back and when he found him, one of the saddest and most beautiful scenes occurred because of how well anticipated and executed this meeting was tnanks to the well developed relation between them before the incident against the world champ.
3. José Mendoza: Unlike the manga version, the anime did a better character development with him. Not only showed his background and motivations to be a boxer, which is the anti-thesis of the Joe's motivations, also we knew more about his perfectionist thinking and his worries to be an exemplary family dad. This helped a lot with the development of the fight against Joe, which I consider to this day the best anime fight I've ever seen. Despite that Jose won the fight, he ended with a white hair as a symbolism that he doesn't have anything left despite retaining the world title.
4. The ending: Definitively my favorite ending in this medium, not only beacuse the spectacular final fight presented but, also, for closing in a amazing way the character arcs of both Joe Yabuki and Jose Mendoza showing what happened to them after the fight being consistent with their life philosophies. In adittion, the conclusion of the character arcs of the rest of the cast after the final fight is also something worth mentioning.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS
1. Joe Yabuki weight cut: Like in the previous part, now is the turn of Joe of have suffering trying to reach the weight limit for the division, but this case was even worse that the presented with Rikiishi. Why didn't Joe had the same weight issues after his fight against Kim Yong-bi? I don't know. It's like the issue was presented to create tension and, after that, the writer forgot about it. We never saw this issue again which, also, contradicts the happened with Rikiishi, because, for every fight under his normal weight, he needed to do this weigh cut, and this plot hole was dragged until the end of the anime.
2.The fight against Harimau: The preparation for this fight contained a plot hole and, also, some conveniences. It is a coincidence that just when Joe was going to travel to the USA to see Jose Mendoza, he met Yoko and Harimau. The worst part is that Yoko mentioned that she knew that Joe was planning to travel to the USA. How she knew that? Mystery. It was planned by the same Joe and he never mentioned this to anyone except Danpei and Nishi. This convenient situation led to the fight with Harimau that ended up aggravating Joe's punch drunk syndrome. In addition, the way Harimau fights and the reason of him being a boxer knowing the box rules established in the first season could be debated if you ask me.
Curiosity: This one can be considered or not a plot hole depending on the perspective that we analyze it. During the fight against Kim Yong-bi when the Korean executes his Chom-Chom against Joe, if we follow the real life boxing rules, the referee should have stopped the fight in this moment because Joe wasn't defending himself during the consecutive punishment that he got (TKO), however, if we follow the boxing rules established in the anime, this part was never mentioned. So whether or not to consider this a plot hole is up to you, dear reader.
CONSCLUSION
Like I mention in my first review, Ashita no Joe is a great anime, easily a top 10-15 of the best anime ever created, however, I don't consider it as a masterpiece at all. Despite that, it's still being one of my favorite anime and I believe that everybody need to watch this show, at least, once in their lives.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Oct 26, 2021
WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAIN SPOILERS
This is considered as one of the best anime ever, and I can say that it's statement is partially true. What this anime had to offer us? Let's find out together in this review. I'm gonna make a review for each season of this franchise, so let's start with the first:
POSITIVE ASPECTS
1. Joe Yabuki: By far, one of the best protagonist ever created. We saw him start being a street boy with no interest in anything in particular. Unlike other anime/manga, where once the main sport, power or ability was revealed causing a convenient rewrite of the protagonist so that the
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story can be given, Joe turned down being a boxer at first, which was much more organic and enriched the story and the character. the transition of him being an street boy to a professional boxer was excellent. After commited a lot of crimes, he was jailed and, then, he found his biggest rival (Rikiishi), which he realized he couldn't beat with his current fighting knowledge. This is the point where he, finally, decided to be a boxer.
The story, also, showed happy moments where, for example, he finally felt that he was part of a family (he's an orphan), and the satisfaction of being acepted by who he is, which was an great message that the anime offered in this particular scenes.
Also, he is the original and, to this day, the best underdog. He reached the achievements that he made by his own effort, nothing was gifted to him unlike other anime, where, in order to defeat the enemy of the moment, the protagonists recieves power ups outta nowhere in order to beat them. One scene in particular that I really enjoyed about this premise, it was the way that he forced the box federation to enroll the Danpei's gym inside it. The moment he made the cross-counter against Wolf Kanagushi showed that he could also be resourceful, an attribute that he apparently did not possess and the execution of his plan felt very organic.
Finally, the writer did a great job showing his downfall after Rikiishi's death. We saw him in his depressed stage losing a lot of fights for the trauma created, he went to a ilegal fights with no hopes on tomorrow and, then, watching the Carlos Rivera's showtime (it weren't fights to be honest), he regained his motivation and it was satisfying see him fight again after this bad moments.
2.Rikiishi: If Joe Yabuki is the best underdog, Rikiishi is, definitively, the best rival. After stopping Joe from escape to the jail, we saw him, indirectly, encouraging Joe to beat him, where, it a very sutile and organic way, he started to care more about Joe and be better than him. This care got to the point where Rikiishi underwent an inhumane weight cut (which I will talk about later), in order to face and defeat him. The anime showed very well the consequences of this level of obsession that many people, without realizing it, have. After his death, Rikiishi stilled be relevant in the story and in the growth of Joe as a boxer and as a character, which shows the excellent job made with him.
3. Danpei: He started with a dream to convert Joe in the greatest boxer, however, Joe didn't have this interest in the beginning. I appreciate how Danpei never gave up on him, knowing the dark past that the old man had. I enjoyed the interactions between him and Joe. It wasn't like everything that Joe plans to do is law and he just follows the current, the anime showed the conflicts between them, the resolutions and how the friendship between them increased thanks to this. This is a maturity writing level that not many shonen have.
4. The rest of the cast: I can say that they did a good job with most of them. We know about who are them, their motivations and reason to be in the show (that are different from the Joe's one), and their grain on sand in the plot and it's development.
As you can see, I only talked about the characters, and it was because this anime is about them more than the box. Everybody moved the story with their decisions and not the otherwise, which is something that I'm very thankful with the writer. It was needed more than 30 chapters to see Joe finally having his first proffesional fight, showing the huge work made in the characterization and the narrative flow.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS
1. The jail's arc: In this arc, there was a lot of conveniences involving Yoko. For example, it's a casuality that Yoko and her grandad were box fans, it's also a casuality the relationship that she had with Rikiishi in that moment, but, the worst part of this is the fact that Yoko always had to visit the prision where Joe was jailed. It was so necessary that convenience level? Mystery. Without this conveniences, the story would have taken another way.
2. Rikiishi's weight cut: Why did the Shiraki gym let Rikiishi to make 2 times this inhuman weight cut? It wasn't supossed that this is a high level gym and, with this, the protection and security of the boxers are more guaranteed? If we analyze this, all the weight cut part is, in realistic terms, a nonsense. Fortunately, the anime showed the consequences with his death, which saved these mistake from being something worse.
3. Animation: Yes, I know that we're talking about the 70's, so the animation budget was limited during that period, however, it ended being awkward to watch, at least, during the first episodes. The anime improves this aspect with the advance of them.
4. The ending: It was anticlimactic. I know that this was fixed in the second part, however, talking only about this first part, it didn't give a good impression after that epic fight against Carlos Rivera. The writer could have shown instead a ending where Joe continues his training to compete in the worlds league and give more hype to the audience.
CONCLUSION
It was a great experience watching this anime despite the mistakes that it did. Definitively the best sports anime. And it get's better in the second part. So, wait for my next reiview where I'm gonna write about it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Oct 16, 2021
WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAIN SPOILERS
This is one of those manga that has divided to it's readers. Some of them think that this is a masterpiece, others, that it's mediocre or maximum something passable. For this reason, I decided to read it in order to determine who side has the reason. I'm gonna divide this review in two parts, where we gonna analyze together the positive and negative aspects of this manga. Let's begin:
POSITIVE ASPECTS
1. Realism: I really enjoyed the topics that this manga offered. This topics includes terrorism, the issues with the prostitution and drug addiction, genocides, racism, territorial issues and the goverment corruption, all
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of them executed appropriately showing the impact of them in the story and the characters involved. The manga can be somewhat crude with the way in which the characters suffer and die from these topics, although that is the grace of it, showing us what are the consequences of these issues without mincing words, something that many works do not dare to do, or even censor part of them. To make an example, the first part of the manga was presented in my country, Peru. They showed how the terrorism made their cocaine traffic, causing a lot of slavery and, also, the massive migration of people from the provinces to the city of Lima, which increased prostitution and drug use here, also, how the goverment (minsteries in this manga), took part of this to obtain much more economical benefits from the current situation.
2. Worldbuilding: The manga not only showed the consequences of the major events with the protagonists, also, we saw how them affected the rest of the manga´s world, highlighting the excellent interconnection of the subframes presented. All these subplots are important in the main one. It also shows us the impact that technological advancement had on this post-apocalytic reality through cyborgs, the new distribution of territories in the world as the case of the Propater organization, the reality that most of this territories had and the conflicts between them. I liked how the manga didn't gave completely the reason to any of the bands involved, so we are talking about a mature story and with a true gray morality.
3. Main plot: In this manga, the objective of the antagonist force was to create an utopy where the karma effect disappear and eveyone could live "happy" without any type of fear. This has some paralelism with the main plots presented in Evangelion and Watchmen. The best part of it was that not only the writer presented this concept and how the antagonic force worked on it, but, also, show how some people gave up on their life that they lived at the time and decided, volunteerely, to join to this utopy. In addition, they showed the other side of the coin, with some characters refusing to give up and trying to step forward. The transition between the post apocalyptic reality and this intent to create an utopy was great. It took a lot of episodes, showing the changes and their impacts progresively, avoiding feel like something forced.
4. Message: This is, by far, the most debated aspect of the manga. Many readers go for the nihilistic aspect presented saying that the message of the manga is about that the humanity cannot be saved and people can't do anything about it. I consider this as a wrong interpretation of the message that this manga offers. The way that I interpret the message is that in life there will always be problems, and, to solve them, people need to adapt and overcome them. Naturally, by solving this problems, new ones will appear and this is how the cycle of the continue improvement of humanity works, which I consider to be what life itself is all about, always improve and be better every day. For this reason, I consider the main message of the manga as a very good one.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS
1. Diabolus Ex Machina: Enemies and problems appearing randomly in many moments of the manga. Even at the beginning, we see our protagonist trying his best to survive and, in the next episode, some terrorists, that came out outta nowhere, kidnap him and this how the main plot begins. Elijah is a prey of the same story, it is not that he moves the same with the decisions that he makes as in this example. During the first part of the manga, many of the attacks against our protagonits can be summarized as follows: They do an random activity and, outta nowhere, the enemies go and attack them with bombs and bullets. Where the hell do these enemies come from? Mystery in many cases. How they know the location of our protagonists? No fucking idea. It's like at the beginning of each episode the enemies recieve via fax the script and the location of them. And this doesn't end here, this random attacks are combined with other issues that I'm gonna mention in the next points.
2. Time skip: This is the flaw that damaged the manga the most, not only because some characters were rewritten (highlighting the main characters from the first part of the manga), but, also, for the use that they recieved after that. Let's talk first about Helena. After the time skip, we found out that her romantic relationship with Elijah ended and she decided to go to bed with another guy. Why did the relationship end? I don't know. The explanation was very poor so we can only infer the rest of the details of this event, in other words, we have to do overthinking; and this is not the worst part of it, during the same episode with another Diabolus Ex Machina courtesy of the house, some random enemies appear and kill her. What was the purpose of putting Helena in scene after the time skip? Wouldn't it have been better to kill her in the time that passed and save ourselves such an anticlimactic scene? What do you guys think.
Let's talk now about Elijah, Kenji and Sophia. Many readers complain about that these characters didn't have a significant character development during the second part of the manga and, with this, the plot density went down, and this happened beacuse these characters were rewritten and combined with the plot tools in the form of characters they received, which I will talk about later, they weren't be able to solve the conflicts presented for their own, unlike the first part. In Sophia's case in particular, what was her purpose after the time skip? Well, it was supposed that it was to show her "karma" during the arc in which her unacknowledged daughter kidnapped her, however, the interaction that she had with the daughter was really poor, it didn't show if she had or not some kind of remorse and regret for what was going on, this was wasted potential for a character development.
3. Sex and edgy scenes: There are moments in the manga were this topics were correctly introduced and didn't damaged the narrative flow like, for example, many fights in which Kenji was involved and the first sex scene between Elijah and Helena, where the purpose was to reduce Elijah stress and this was the form of Helena of said him that she forgave him for what he did. And then, we have a lot of scenes were Elijah simply wanted to wet the canoe with the girl in front of him and scenes (mainly in flashbacks), where the purpose was generate a cheap shock with some explicit scenes with a lot of violence.
4. Plot tools: Lethia and Loji are two characters that, most of the time, their only purpose in the plot was to save the protagonists ass when they needed the most. I'm not exaggerating when I say that nearly all the random attacks against Elijah during the second part of the manga like rockets, bombs and bullets, Lethia quickly detected them and elaborated a plan in order to keep him safe, fucking convenient. Plus, this reduced the tension because we know Elijah isn't going to die thanks to his legged plot tool. In addition, there's an incoherence that was presented with Lethia. If she was capable of detect attacks from a distance, how it's possible that she didn't do nothing when Mana was killed? Mystery. I assume that this ability only worked when Elijah was the character in danger. In the case of Loji, the writer showed us, superficially, her background and that's it. She is only in the story to take Kenji's orders and make last minute saves, she has no personality or goals of her own.
Thanks to this type of characters, it's evident why the main characters of the first part of the manga didn't have a major characterization and development combined with the time skip and the multiple Diabolus Ex Machina.
CONCLUSION
Despite the issues presented in this manga, that where really akward during my reading experience, I consider that Eden it's an Endless World is a good manga with a lot of messages that applies in the real life and it encourages the reader to reflect on them, however, I don't consider it as the 8th wonder of the world like many others do.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Sep 25, 2021
WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAIN SPOILERS
I know that many have already talked about the good and bad points of this anime, however, I want to tell you what's my opinion about it and the amount of mistakes that this anime did in this particular seasson. So, it's time to have fun with the ideas that this show presented to us:
1. Introduction: "This is the history of how I convert into the strongest hero". Since the introduction, the show have already killed the tension becuase from now on we know that the protagonist, in one way or another, will not be killed and/or will be revived like
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in other fighting shonen. Was that introduction really neccesary? Mystery.
2. Deku's flashback: Why in the flashback the writer only show the bad things that happened to Deku? No fucking idea. This is basically, victimization. Deku didn't face his problems and just tried to forget about it. I know this doesn't justify the harassment he received, however, was it difficult to ask, at least, someone for help? I do not know. Additionally, if he wanted to be a hero, isn't supposed that he should have some type of training? What he did in all this time in order to achieve his goal? Mystery. The worst part is that, with the advance of the episodes, we discovered that this flashback didn't have any relevance to the plot. So the show could have easily skipped this flashback and focus in the main story if you ask me.
3. All Might giving the powers: He recognized Deku as a potential superhero for trying to help someone without having any special ability. In this point, the story sounded interesting. It's the underdog premise that, with a proper execution, have given great results like the case of Ashita no Joe, however, later, All Might decided to give Deku his powers negating a great message that the anime could have given to us. What was the purpose of try to make Deku look like an underdog if he gonna receive special powers anyway? I don't know. In addition, All Might have recently met him, he didn't know anything about him and, however, he gave him powers, there are no other people with similar 'good heart' in the world of the series? What makes Deku really special then? This is a big plot convenience if you ask me.
4. Training: Why Deku only trained for 10 months in order to control his powers? Mystery. Other characters have trained for years in order to control their powers and this little kid achieve it in months. This a fucking nonsense is you ask me. To make things worse, later, we will see a lot of covenient abilities that Deku gonna show, like the case that I'm gonna mention in the next point. Also, wouldn't it have been better to apply for the UA entrance exam 1 year later? I don't know.
5. UA entrance exam: It is a great coincidence that Uraraka has been trapped in the rubble so that Deku can show his powers for the first time. It wouldn't have easier that she used her levitation abilities to escape from it? No fucking idea. Deku was injured after this scene and, later, we discovered that he have regenerative abilities. Wouldn't it have been better to show how he recovers in a more organic way by making him learn from his mistakes? I do not know. If the introduction was already killed most of the tension, this part made things even worse.
6. Bakugou: Is there an humanly possible form to explain his irrational hate against Deku? Mystery. Is like a forced way to make a rival for Deku. How is it possible that the teachers find Bakugou's behavior with Deku normal? I don't know. Even in real life, teachers don't go to that level of irresponsibility and recklessness if you ask me.
7. The plan against All Might: How it's possible that the villains didn't know, anticipatedly, the abilities of the students? Mystery. Also, how they pretended to catch All Might sending only 1 Nomu? It wouldn't have been better send more in order to have more chances to succeed? I don't know. This part was extremely convenient in order to maintain all the characters of the main cast.
The good aspects are the soundtrack and the animation that are cool. I'm gonna give points for that.
This first season, in conclusion, is the future sight of the mess up that the show will be from now on. The underdog premise was really wasted and could have been the best way to make the anime if you ask me.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Sep 15, 2021
WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAIN SPOILERS
When I read the first arc of this manga, I am already imagined that the ending would be 2 possible scenarios: There will be a confession in the last chapter or, by default, they never confess their love to each other. At the end, I was partially right, because the last scenario happened in the first part of the manga. So, what's more have this to offer us? Let's find out. I'm gonna divide this review for each part of the manga:
1. First part: Each arc of this one can be summarized as follows: Our protagonists try to force the other
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side to confess their love, Chika and/or a similar plot device creates a random romantic misunderstanding, both sides try to take advantage of this to win this conflict and in the end none of them do. In order to show you what's wrong with this, I'm gonna take a classic cartoon (Roadrunner vs Coyote), that it has a similar format and episodic mechanic to make the comparison:
a) Objective: In the case of Roadrunner vs Coyote the goal is Coyote catching and eating the Roadrunner in order to survive. Simple premise and makes sense. On the other hand, the goal of this manga is that one of the two protagonists make a love confession. Using common sense, aren't there better ways to make a confession of love? I don't know. Why is always a third person involved in order to advance the plot in each arc? Wouldn't it be better and more interesting to see how the two sides use their wits on their own? No fucking idea.
b) Pretentiousness level: In this manga, they try to present our protagonists as a smart and calculator people because of their strategies. For what reason do they do it? Mystery. Normally, a person is considered smart according to his/her capacity to solve their problems, and, in this case, the main problem is not solved (at least in this first part). It is not like in each arc one of the two sides gets closer to the goal. So they don't have anything smart if you ask me.
c) Bait: In the case of Roadrunner vs Coyote, subtly, the cartoon shows that as long Coyote keep using the ACME brand artifacts, he wouldn't be able to catch the roadrunner. In this manga, the author leaves you hoping that, at some point, one of the two will ending making the confession, being more dishonest in comparisson if you ask me. Despite that the one of the them ended making the confession, this didn't happened in this part, where it was supposed to happen, at least, in the final episode of this format.
As we can see, the mechanics are similar, however, the execution is what makes the difference between them.
2. Second part: The formula, now, in each arc is as follows: Partially remove what supposedly is the original aspect of the manga (comedy), in a attempt to take itself more seriously, take one of the characters of the cast and put the rest out of the scene, make a random and generic story and that's it. Is that really necessary to put out the other characters of the cast in each arc? No fucking idea. There's no need for them to be some kind of middle man in the arcs with romance involved, but they could at least show us some progress in their character development. It is an unnecessary disconnection in the narrative flow and in the character's arc if you ask me. As I mentioned before, the confession between the main characters, indeed, happened, but it was in a storyline that you can find in any other average rom-com. It wouldn't have been better that this confession happened during the most comedic part of the manga? No fucking idea. The reason of why I don't mention the stories of the other characters is because they are irrelevant to the main plot raised here. In other words, they felt like a filler. It was really necessary to make that stories? It wouldn't have better focused more in finish the main story and, after that, go for the other ones? Mystery.
That's it for now. Despite having a good and original idea, the manga ended being a mess up because of a poor execution of the same.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Sep 13, 2021
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I watched this movie telling myself what's the worst that could happen, and this movie surpassed my expectations, however, not all is bad in this life, at least it gave us a lot of material to analyze together in this review. So, let's begin:
1. The first part: The movie start like a generic episode of the original series, even they put an opening. The magical girls had to face a generic witch. Am I watching a movie or an extension of the original series? I don't know. The worst part of this first minutes is that at the end they defeated
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the witch singing and dancing with her, which is contradictory with the presented in the original show. Was the existence of this first part of the movie really necessary? What do you guys think.
2. Kyubey plan: What was the need for this plan? Why did it catch Homura? No fucking idea. Madoka was ubiquitous, so using Homura and any other character was a nonsense. Additionally, Madoka was omniscient, so, it was supposed that she in advance knew this and any other plan that Kyubey tried to use. How is possible that this plan have worked knowing all of this? Mystery. What was the purpose of this plan at the end? I don't know. It was never explained if we analyze this.
3. Witches: How it's possible that the witches exist in the period of the franchise? No fucking idea, because it was supposed that, thanks to Madoka wish in the original show, the witches aren't allow to exist anymore. It means that all this movie didn't have a real reason to exist if you ask me.
4. Sayaka reasons: Why Sayaka wanted to stay in this alternative reality? I don't know. Is like the movie, also, wanted to promote the escapism in this part and how did her noticed that she was in a fantasy world? Mystery. Is like she was rewritten in that point of the movie.
5. Kyoko and Mami plan: If they didn't know, or at least the movie makes it so, that they were trapped in this alternate reality, how could they possibly have created a plan to escape from it? No fucking idea.
6. The final battle: The first part is basically random explosions and tools that came out outta nowhere, what's the logic of this first part? Mystery. If we watch again the original show, most of the abbilities used here didn't have show there.
7. Witch labyrinth: Once it's destroyed, Homura was rewritten outta nowhere and proceed to defeat the onmipresent and omniscient Madoka and took her powers. Why was Madoka in the witch labyrinth? Mystery. Is there an humanly form to explain how she was able to defeat Madoka? I don't know. And the worst is that the author tried to represent her as a demon in her transformation after take the powers, however, how is possible that she turned into a demon? It's all a fucking nonsense. Additionally, it wasn't supposed that she was 100% loyal to Madoka? No fucking idea.
8. Ending: What happened to Madoka and the rest after the transformation of Homura? Mystery. What was the purpose or message of this movie? I don't know. Why this movie was created? No fucking idea.
In addition, there was an exposition that consisted in the characters talking and talking without any type of substance. It was really boring if you ask me.
I was, initially planning to put this movie a score of 3, however, with all the nonsense presented and the fact that this movie doesn't have a real reason to exist, it deserves a 2 from my part. At least, the retarded aspects made funny the realization of this review.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Sep 7, 2021
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This is the best season rated of the franchise. It looks like many people loved it. Is this justified? Let's find out. As this was a special season, we are going to give it special treatment. We will start first by looking at the plot holes that the author tried to "fix" from previous sessions and then we will focus on the plot holes from this season.
PLOT HOLES FROM PREVIOUS SEASONS
1. Eren being a Titan: The show revealed us that Eren obtain the ability to turn into a titan after the events of the first episode thanks to his dad, so
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it can be concluded that Eren could have transformed into a Titan since the first season and many issues of the same could have solved without many innecesaries deaths. Plot holes 1 : Author 0
2. Titans: In my first review of the show, I mention that there's no clear reason of why the titans eat humans. Knowing in this point that the titans are, actually, humans, this have much less sense. Plot holes 2 : Author 0
3. Coordinate (Titan's control): In season two, we see how Eren was able to manipulate other titans. How was it possible? Because the mother had contact with a member of the royal family. It is a tremendous coincidence that it was a member of the royal family with whom she had contact and it was more convenient that after this they supplied the serum to Eren. Why couldn't it be another kind of titan? No fucking idea. Plot Holes 3 : Author 0
PLOT HOLES FROM THIS SEASON
1.Historia's Coronation: During this coronation, we watched more flashbacks and more characters with amnesia. It looks like the writer really enjoyed the use of amnesia with Eren and decided to use the same troope with more characters. Also, it's really convenient that the amnesia were for most of the main characters and the Eldians habitants. What was the reason of all this? I don't know. Is like the author tried to rewrite the story in the most forced possible way.
2. Eren's dad: It was supposed that Eren is his dad wouldn't have met after the first episode and how they justified this? Amnesia. It couldn't have more easily to avoid this plot hole and gave the father another role in the story? Mystery. Also, when this happened, the dad had amnesia too. So, why he wanted to go against the king if he, literally, didn't have his memories? No fucking idea. This one was a total nonsense.
3. Armin being the Colossal Titan: Is there a humanly possible way to explain this? No fucking idea, but it's made me laugh so hard. Additionally, how it's possible that he was able to survive after being burned alive? Mystery. A primal example of plot armor.
4. The mysterious basement: The revelation here is that the entire show is equivalent to a race war. In addition, they revealed that the king of that period observed the misdeeds committed by his people and he sent his entire ethnic group to the detour. What a cowardly and irresponsible king if you ask me. Didn't he, at least, try to make a pacific solution or have a counselor that advise and tell him how to fix the wrongdoing issue? I don't know. In the antiquity of other cultures (such as China), the king always had an counselor who, many times, was the indirect ruler of the same. Thanks to this king, the Marleyans want to behead the Erlians to the point of putting them in concentration camps. The anime, also, showed us the old eldians were bad guys and one-dimensional. If they are trying to do an attempt of grey morality, it couldn't have been better that they showed the positive and negative aspects from both sides? Why they showed only the worst? No fucking idea. I believe that the anime should have dedicated more chapters in this conflicts between Marleyans and Erlians in order to show more characterization and justify better the point of view from both sides. The way presented is really empty and immature if you ask me. In adittion, if the purpose of the show was always this example of race war, why didn't he show us this from the start and develop it appropriately? I don't know.
5. Eren against the humanity: It was very difficult to show how Eren progressively decides that he must go against humanity? Mystery. Basically, he came out of scene for some chapters and then returns as a new character, in other words, the character was rewritten.
6. Marleyans: If they were in a conflict against the Eldians, why didn't attack them during the 100 years that have passed? Mystery. Is it that there was not even one person who has had enough of this abuse and has thrown himself at them during all this time? It's all fucking nonsense if you ask me.
7. Fights: I hadn't mentioned this in previous reviews, however, in this season the writer outdid himself. How it's possible that the hand-missile used against Reiner wasn't used against other titans in the previous seasons? Mystery. Also, it wasn't supposed that the cannons were useless against the titans for their regeneration ability? Why it worked here? No fucking idea. How it's possible that Bertholdt wouldn't be able to crush Armin? Mystery. Well, if he actually managed to kill him, Eren and the script would have be mad with him. Why didn't they killed Reiner when they had a lot of chances to do it? I don't know. I suppose that the author felt sorry for him and did not want to kill him at that moment. Why didn't Levi kill the Beast titan? Mystery. I suppose that the author had better plans for that titan and it was not convenient kill him in that moment.
8. Titans rule: There was no other way to hand over the titan power to Grisha? I don't know. This 13 years rule have many contradictions if you watch the show in retrospective. Also, what a coincidence that many titans from previous seasons and episodes died for this rule. Did everyone agree when acquiring this skill? No fucking idea.
Well, that's it for now. What can we expect for the last season? Much more plot holes, attempts to cover plot holes from previous seasons, more laughs and more retarded aspects. I'm gonna wait to the end of the part 2 of the final season to make the last two reviews because it is possible that the author tries to modify some facts of the manga to please his audience. Until then.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Sep 7, 2021
WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAIN SPOILERS
If you thought that the previous season had fun plot holes, with this one you will build a whole circus. Let's keep seeing what's the author had to offer us:
1. Useless sidestories: They introduced us a relative of Levi. What was the purpose of that? I don't know, because we didn't receive any type of relevant information to the plot. It was like a filler basically.
2. Visions: Now, our protagonist Eren can have visions about what is going to happen next, that is, he has now acquired the ability to read the script in advance. How is this possible? Mystery.
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Armin being caught: The pursuit was really fun. One of the bands was quickier than the other when the script demands it. Why didn't make a more believable pursuit? I don't know. The writer has us used to challenging the physics and logic of his series. And talking to the logic, there are more inconsistencies in the following points.
4. Historia: She was part of a royalty that makes her more special and gives her special privileged abilitties. Why she didn't use them in the previous seasons? No fucking idea. Also, the Historia past is basically humanity vs humanity because there are an ability that can control all the titans. Why did was not mentioned in the previous seasons or, at least, an anticipation about it? Mystery. In other shonen, at least, the writers had the decency to show cliffhangers with future antagonists, kind of anticipating there's a bigger threat coming. This one looks like it came out outta nowhere. Now, the show should be called Attack on Politicians in this point.
5. Amnesia: Historia gave memories to Eren, I was freaking out when I saw this scene. Now the author decided to use the amnesia as a plot device. The reason of why this was a plot device is because the narrative flow depends on Eren remembering things. Mamma mia, now Eren is overpowered, has the ability to read the script in advance and can remember things in order to continue with the plot.
6. Founder Titan: By far, the worst plot hole of this season. This guy had the ability to manipulate all the amnesia and memories of a whole race. There are a lot of plot holes with this guy, for example: If he had world knowledge, why didn't he divulge it? I don't know, there should be at least some smart people that can be used this information for a good purpose. If this Titan, suposedly knew the current issues with the titans manipulation, why he didn't interfere? No fucking idea. What has this titan been up to throughout the series? Mystery. If this titan had done something, even if it was something small, the series would have been completely different. I suppose that this titan's will it's like the Force of Star Wars or the faith of Fast and Furious.
7. Victimization: If Eren, by himself, was a character he was not liked by many, now we see him cry and suffer for things that he has not done. Why does he cry for things that were not his fault? I don't know. It makes no sense for the writer to try to make us empathize with someone who is greatly benefited by the script. In many shonen, this same problem also occurs. In addition, Eren received more power ups in this season, like if he didn't receive enough of them.
Up to this point, I wouldn't be surprised if they featured later themes like time travel, Eren being a messiah or a cheap attempt to make him look like a martyr who wanted to save the world. Is this true? Let's find out in the next review where more laughs, plot holes and retarded aspects wait for us.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Sep 6, 2021
WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAIN SPOILERS
Well, following my previous review, it's time to make the analysis of the plot holes and other retarded aspects that this season had. So let's go:
1. Kidnapping: At this point, more titan users are revealed. Why didn't these users show their powers or some anticipation about that in the previous season? No fucking idea. The funniest part is that they revealed this detail by themselves, so what was the point of hide this fact? The writer justified this with a double personality of the traitors. This was a fucking nonsense. Also, it seemed that the kidnapped group had super sharpened sense.
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In other words, it is as if they have read the script in advance and know what is going on in the surroundings. How is this possible? Mystery. In addition, the titans had the ability to regenerate, and wait, this concept gonna get worse with certain character that I'm gonna mention later.
2.Flashbacks: Why did the writer put this flashbacks, most of the times, in the middle of the fights? I don't know. It's too anticlimatic. The worst part is that this show, or at least I think, that it had the objective of shock the audience and making things like that is really contradictory. Why they put flashbacks inside the flashbacks? No fucking idea. But it was really fun.
3. Erwin's horse: How it's possible that this little horse was more fast that the titans? I don't know. This challenges the physical laws and logic established in the previous season.
4. Eren being a titan: By far, the worst plot hole of this season. This one alone created several additional plot holes. In my previous review, I've mentioned that were innecesaries deaths during the Levi's Squad appearance. If Eren would have turned into a Titan in that moment, no one would have died, so why didn't do that? I don't know, because according to the established rules of the transformation into a titan, the user needs to be fully regenerated in order to do the transformation and Eren was at his 100% all this time, even in the moment that he made the transformation the first time in the show, it wasn't like some part of his body appeared magically and with that he was just able to make the transformation since that moment. Many people can justify this by saying that Eren was a rookie in the transformation, however the tension and context with the squad was similar, so why here and not in the previous season? Additionally, in the next season, there will be another plot hole that 100% confirmes this one. Also, Eren had the ability to control other titans. Despite that the reason of this was explained in the next season, what prevented them from explaining it in this one? Mystery. It's like the author invented this power up outta nowhere and, later, he had the idea of how justify this when the hype about it have already ended. Talking to the transformation scene, how is it possible that the titan's drastic juices didn't do the least damage to Eren? No fucking idea. How it's possible that Eren, in his human form, was able to open a titan's mouth? I don't know. Another funny aspect was the training before this moment. What was the point to create these strategies if, at the end, the power ups would make the job? Mystery. The writer was able to skip that training and go through the transformation of Eren.
5. Main characters forces: Like the case of Eren, why only him, Mikasa and Levi can defeat other titans without problems? What make them more special than the other characters? Mystery. This trope is classic in other shonen, however, in this one, the author does not even try to justify this and, if he does, it is when this fact no longer has any importance in the plot.
6. The ending: Why didn't the Colossal and/or the Armored appear to stop Eren to put the rock in the wall? I don't know. What a coincidence that the stone was right there so that they can put it on the wall and it is also pure concidience that the stone is just the appropriate size to be able to close the wall. It's crazy how convenient this whole part was.
And that's it for this season. And it's going to get better with more retarded plot holes, more revelations, and more anticlimactic moments. See you in the next season.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Sep 4, 2021
WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAIN SPOILERS
I'm gonna make review for each season of this anime. My focus will be with the plot holes, conveniences and other retarded aspects presented in each season, also, I'm gonna mention some positive points that the anime did well. So, let's start with the plot holes and, after, the positive points:
1. Titans: They kill and eat humans. Why did they do that? Did they need to eat humans to survive? Mystery. And how they were created and with what finality? There will be a lot of plot holes in the next seasons trying to explain this, also, with more revelations about
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additional abilities that we would not see in this season. Also, what a coincidence that the Colossal Titan appears when the population is not ready to fight and when they are, where is it? No fucking idea. From this I can only conclude that there will be tension when the author wants it instead of being something organic and coherent.
2. Eren's Mother: They killed her and we didn't know about her until many chapters (seasons) later. Why didn't, at least, the show explained the relationship that she had with Eren after her death in order to feel more empathy with him? I don't know.
3. Levi's Squad: They appear and the intimidating titans of the first chapters were left as a joke. Why did squad not appeared at the beginning? Mystery. Why Levi didn't mention about this squad, knowing, supposedly, that they can defeat the first titans without problems? Mystery. And the worst part is that many of them were introduced to die quickly without knowing nothing about them and this was used to create drama about characters that I barely know in the next chapters. Also, in the next season there is going to be a plot hole related to this part that could have prevented these deaths.
4. Femenine Titan: It is a tremendous coincidence that this Titan has blonde hair and that there are only 2 female characters with that type of hair and one leaves the scene a large number of chapters. How is it possible that the protagonists have not realized who the titan was? No fucking idea. They, at least tried to make a characterization with her, which is a positive point. At the end of the battle, the Titan froze herself, how did she do that? I freaked out with this scene.
5. More traitors: After the end of the feminine Titan, which was a traitor's, many others were revealed, why didn't they helped the Titan? I don't know. This is, also, an example of the awful pacing of this show. They killed an "important" character and, seconds later, they introduced more enemies because the writer fancied.
6. World building: They gave us the map with the zones that exists in this world and at the end, we only see two. What happen in the other zones? I don't know. Why they introduced a lot of technology concepts if at the end everything is solved with superpowers and magic? Mystery. Also, they gave a lot of additional information about the world with ideas, but we never saw this ideas executed or showed during, not only this season, but all of them. Did the writer forgot about all the information that he presented? No fucking idea. And the wall, if the poblation knew that the wall didn't protect them from the titans, why didn't they planned to go to other place in the world or, at least, make a better reinforcement of the same? Mystery.
7. Mikasa: She's a Yandere that has an obsession with Eren because he saved her once and, then, he didn't give a fuck about her. Why is she still obsessed with him? Mystery. Seriously, how is possible that she didn't notice that Eren doesn't care about her?
8. Postitive Points: The animation, most of the seasons, is great, the soundtrack is beautiful, there's not fanservice in this anime, which is something strange in the modern anime, the steampunk atmosphere is great too, Armin was a decent character and the show present a lot of interesting ideas, is a shame that they didn't were executed correctly.
That's it for know, see you in the next season where will be more fun and will be more plot holes to explore.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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