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Sep 20, 2025
I am going to be more lenient with my rating since I respect Garnt for pursuing a creative path outside of being a content creator, especially when there no monetary incentive behind it. I don't rate everything extremely high, I consider a 6/10 being a decent show. I think I'll be doing him a disservice by not giving an honest review so here we go.
Baan is a 20 minute, 1 episode anime short-film. Unfortunately I don't think the creative process was in line with the run time it was given. A lot of times, less is more. The story had too many layers to give
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it a smooth transition from a beginning to the end. Obviously it's not going to get a prestigious studio that does the best work in the industry. But with the occasional abrupt transitions and jumpy flow of scenes due to the story telling, the results is a disorientating film to watch.
Knowing him, being a big Isekai fan he would want to do something like this. But in a 20 minute short film, the end result is going to be lackluster. I don't know the actual cost of hiring a mangaka artist, but maybe doing a manga would be better in terms of planning and budget. A webnovel is barrier free creative endeavor that only needs a platform to share your work.
This seems like the classic problem of trying to run before learning to walk, but I see the attraction of wanting to create something on screen. It must be visceral to see your work realized in animation.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Sep 2, 2025
As a romance genre enjoyer I tried my utmost to like this but no, I give up.
Every time a character like Waguri is presented I feel like my sanity is being questioned. Do you think I am going to instantly simp for a girl who's too good for the world without even earning anything? This seems to be an ongoing issue where girl characters are becoming blatant low effort waifu bait. Do people actually think girls like this exist?
There's nothing charming about any of the characters. If they aren't there filling their troupe they are plotting some sort of feel good one liner. Romance stories
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that take themselves seriously like this one does is at it's best when they blend realism with fantasy, but none of the characters behave or act like real people. Everyone is emotionally receptive and understanding and do not diverge beyond the melodrama mold. What's even the point anymore? Waguri and Tsumugi might as well ring the wedding bells because they seem to be emotionally mature and expressive enough to get through anything beyond outright cheating or tragedy?
Best way to describe this is a series of misunderstanding of a one-dimensional cast. That also for some reason thinks they're Wind Breaker sometimes, which I also dropped.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Aug 9, 2025
This is the first time I deleted a review and rewrote it, because of how upsetting it is.
Let's get one thing clear, this Donghua does not represent the webnovel in any shape or form. They made so many changes to the events and the over arching tone of the series that at this point it's difficult to say that any of this is cannon. The Beyonder fights makes zero sense because they've been using fake abilities for the sake of making the animation more exciting for almost every fight scene. Leonard is a Midnight Poet, he's meant to be a supportive dream manipulator with slight
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physical enhancement, anything beyond that is just bs. He's suppose to be in stasis when trying to pull someone into a dream and can't chain them into a combo like how they portrayed it in the Donghua. What he's been doing is equivalent to Klein doing divinations mid-fight and predicting enemies moves during battle. The vines that can wrap up enemies and has physical properties are completely made up and has literally ZERO relevance to his Sequence. The comedic elements in fight scenes are also so strange and it just goes to show that the director is ego tripping, putting his own spin on everything.
The Tarot meetings is VERY important to the development of the story and the amount of times they were out right skipped or speed ran is ridiculous. They don't even feel integral to the story at this point, almost like a pre-roll ad mid episode with how poorly it's integrated.
Also the way they handled the mystery aspect of the adaptation is so insulting. The first episode dedicated to the "mystery", they outright spoil everything! The biggest mystery this entire time is who green lit this adaptation? Cuttlefish should be ashamed to stand idle and let his work be tarnished like this. The adaptation has been a major flop in China, and it wouldn't surprise me that the subsequent Seasons getting cancelled with how much money they burnt.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Jul 8, 2025
I disliked this movie because it focused around a gross ass dude instead of a female character battling out for best girl.
Jokes aside, I thought this was a pretty good arc and a necessary one. Sakuta is so use being the remedy of all the girls' trauma that I wouldn't be surprised that this movie wasn't the most well received. I am also not very emotionally invested in Sakuta as a character, he's also dating my wife, so I am conflicted.
Sakuta's situation isn't given enough attention and I respect that the author took the risk to do an arc dedicated to him only. He had
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it tough and there's valid reasons for resentment, hell through out the series I thought he was getting screwed by his parents and he's just chilling. Forced to grow up due to both parents failing you is shitty. The dad is mostly to blame to be honest, his actions were extremely selfish and somehow Sakuta was fine with him and places the blame on his sickly mother. When he finally accepts his currently living situation, he's thrown back into the messy family dynamics. Of course he wants to be a family again, but this could be seen as another stressful situation where he too will have to adapt to. They were definitely grasping at straws though to give enough reasons for Mai to be there if at all beyond the couples dynamic at the start. Kaede would had made the most sense as the supportive role, but they needed Mai's face to sell tickets.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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May 28, 2025
I didn't write a review for this originally because I wanted to forget the time I wasted reading this but a certain event brought back bad memories of this.
I just said that I finished because it would look silly to have my Chapters at like 180/201. You may be wondering you were so close to finishing why not just finish it to give it an honest review? The last couple of chapters I was literally reading and forgetting simultaneously because of how dumb the plot got and how little I cared.
Originally Solo Leveling was just fight scenes and amazing art, then you had characters
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who barely even knew Jinwoo start to be overly emotionally invested in him, so that's weird. Then the entire verse starts simping for him and you start to question whether he's the Shadow Monarch or the Simp Monarch. You have men more infatuated with him than their significant other that they would probably be jealous when Jinwoo takes them to bed because it wasn't him instead. The author of Solo Leveling watched Naruto and saw their ending and said hold my beer, you think you can out do me, a Manwha author at a stupid plot? The moment it became about the plot and not Jinwoo no diffing every adversary in the story, was when it became unreadable.
Reading Solo Leveling early on gives vibes of being young and going to the library and picking up a comic and reading it, it gives that old school aesthetic of just action with zero substance and that's fine, because that's the only reason why I stuck through it as long as I did. It wasn't an amazing series, it was palatable with the art being top tier and I could just block out the cringe of the sea of simps in the series. The author really had a hay day writing this, bro made the most bland character to self insert himself and start glazing himself to the point where the donut is gone and all you have is the sugar coating.
These overly hyped series such as Chainsaw Man, Oshi No Ko, Solo Leveling are being pushed by the readers of the source material and due to the fact that their fandom is so MASSIVE that they're able to spin narratives and mind control people into thinking it's something that it's not. The only series that I can give props to, who had an organic blow up was Demon Slayer because it wasn't popular and in fact the anime throughout wasn't even all that popular but a singular episode put that series to heights that no anime has ever achieved overnight. Don't get it twisted, I don't like Demon Slayers much either.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Apr 26, 2025
Nothing has made it more clear than after watching Episode 4 that To be Hero X is China's first real attempt in grabbing a piece of the pie of global animated series. This is their version of what the Big 3 did back in the day and with the full package in animation, directing, and modernized for today's standards. There's a lot of old school Shonen that has a lot of loyal fans, mostly fueled by nostalgia factors and they may or may not want to admit it. This isn't to bring down other series to bring up To be Hero X, but Mangaka's back
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in the day and even now are forced to prolong their series to make the most money for the companies that releases their weekly issues. As of result the quality is going to be diminished and a lot of fillers are hidden behind convenient plot points. To be Hero X cuts all the bs and in essence the purest form of what Shonen was meant to be. Packaged in a passion project with the most insane budget and animation style we've ever seen, not just in "anime", but animated series in general.
I truly believe this series marks the day where Donghua starts to get much more popular and will force the Anime industry to change for the better. Don't get me wrong, I love Anime and it has provided me with endless hours of enjoyable entertainment, but I cannot pretend that there isn't massive issues currently. Too many shows being made and they're mostly unwatchable and notable franchises being ruined by corporate greed. Competition is good for consumers, and I hope To be Hero X won't only improve the prospects of Donghua but Anime as well.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Mar 17, 2025
I am conflicted on how I feel about Orb. As someone who paid attention in history class, I have a broad understanding of the history that is covered in Orb and it feels a bit like a cheap version with glorified torture and brutality as a means for cheap entertainment. The biggest sin of the series is the over use of shock with killing characters off. In the beginning it was fine, but in Draka's arc it started to feel unnecessary and anticlimactic having character's potential squashed for the same narrative progression.
At the beginning you don't really know where the main focus of the
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story lies, whether it's emphasis on the Church and how they handled with the distribution of knowledge that goes against their holy scriptures, or rather the story of the characters we meet along the way. In the end it's neither, but rather the dilemma of ideology versus the pursuit of knowledge. What are you willing to sacrifice for the pursuit of knowledge? How far does one's conviction go for the sake of their crusade and whether or not there are variables outside the realm of their normal bubble in which can completely shatter it all in a blink of an eye?
Initially Rafal is the one being persecuted and attacked over his pursuit of knowledge, being his challenge of the current model of the universe, Geocentrism. It's poetic in a way, having him survive and being the thing we thought as evil this entire time, the persecution of scholars over their ideologies. It shows that it's quite difficult to quantify true evil in others' pursuit of righteousness. Is Nowak truly evil for wanting to spread the love of the Lord and to eradicate any of those who opposed his will, or rather it's more complicated than that? Did he just want to maintain the way of life and the blessings graced by his religion? This was a universal concept that could be applied to anyone in the series, even Antoni who was the most sociopathic person in the entire show. Did his view on the importance of monetary growth as crucial for the progression of humanity, stem from a place of evil?
Back to the point on unnecessary brutality of this show. The systematic approach on torture of a child, even as a cartoon is something I don't agree with being shown and was kind of shocked they even animated it. Yes the scene was cut short and Jolenta was saved, but it was quite disturbing to watch. There was also what I thought to be wasted potential, having Jolenta and Nowak realizing who each other were when she got blown up. They didn't need the closure of a final meeting, as brief as it was because so many years has passed and they've already come to terms with their situation. All that was left is the conviction they had for their crusade and having them pursue it to their full extent without anything holding them back. Them seeing and realizing who each other were in the last moment was unnecessarily cruel as they've already given up on a reality where they'd see each other again, considering how conflicted they would feel considering the reason they were separated and the path they took during their time apart.
Draka death was also something that was unnecessary, she was a Woman and a Nomad in the era of oppression of cultures and genders. The hurdle of overcoming the systemic oppression she would face was greater than challenging the Church's gospel. The best she could manage was to send the letter and hopefully watch history unfold. Her chances of survival was already slim without being stabbed to death, let alone the influence she can even have on history. Unnecessarily killed off one of the best character to satisfy the same thoughtless progression that has been beaten to death already, like the character in this show. We get it, passing of the torch, a small ripple created from a seemingly insignificant variable can usher in the movement of progression and the movement of knowledge. Now stop killing everyone...
Oczy and Badeni arc was the peak of this story, afterwards it started to go downhill pretty quick.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Feb 8, 2025
This is my review after reading through 1/3 of the series so far, it's a long series so it'll take some time before I finish it so my opinion can still change but so far it's been amazing.
LOTM is a very unique series, nothing quite like it. The world building, lore and power system is absolutely insane but can also work against it at times because you're going to forget a lot of detail and you're just going to have to get use to just only vaguely understanding lore drops. There are great characters, but LOTM doesn't focus too heavily on character development but rather
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the mysteries of this world and when you get some emotional scenes you are thrown for loop because you're so use to being enthralled with the plot progression that you forget that the MC interacts with a bunch of people who are just trying to make it in the treacherous world they live in where there's constant dangers, whether it's the corruption of society or the mysticism that they are powerless to.
The first volume has some criticism about it being slow but I thoroughly enjoyed it and think that it's a very believable in how it unfolded and the ending was necessary to progress with the story, even if the MC was unwillingly forced to move on from the solace of his usual routine. Then again his feelings over the matter isn't entirely in his control due to his circumstance.
If you love mystery with a gothic horror aesthetic and don't mind gore you'll love this. This is not a power fantasy where the MC is extremely op and cruises through everything, although he might just be damn near in that category because he can seem like the most composed and intelligent person ever at times, while just being an average everyday guy who just happen to get transmigrated.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Dec 28, 2024
You know that saying where your most memorable experience of anything is during the ending? Well Blue Lock is using this to the maximum potential. I don't care what people say about the change in style, I think it was necessary because the first season lacked the energy because the models were drawn way to simple compared to the insane sketches from the Manga panels. With the crispier models it was basically impossible to animate it properly all the way through (you needed a JJK S2 budget) but when they did, you got the master piece we got in the episode 14. They literally
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put all their eggs into one of the craziest and most hype scene in the entire Manga and honestly it paid off. Some how after all the sins 8-bit committed, they ended up winning back the majority of the fandom with a single animated sequence, kind of crazy.
My perception on this Season might be a bit skewed because I am a Manga reader so I've already experienced this arc at it's fullest potential and I am only looking forward to the "high quality" animated sequences of the best moments, and honestly they delivered what I was looking forward to this Season.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Sep 14, 2024
The best analogy for this series is a series of traffic accident on a highway, back to back in quick succession and you can't help but keep watching. Everything is so messy, and raw that you kind of forget that you can write people's relationships in this way and not the cookie cutter happy endings or trauma inducing, etc. I doubt this is the first series to do this concept, but it's so genius and I can't get enough of it. We have a pretty big cast with each having their own charm, and none of them feels like a throw away character, other than
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a few with lesser screen time.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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