I would swipe past the Sakamoto Days tab on the Shonen Jump app all the time and think to myself "who would read this? It looks terrible." That was one of the dumbest thoughts I ever had, because Sakamoto Days is a jam and one of the most fun Shonen Manga I've read since Spy X Family (which, ironically, has a similar premise.)
Taro Sakamoto, the titular character, is a fat old man with a wife, daughter and a grocery store. He's also formerly Japan's best assassin. He's since settled down, but when a bounty is put on his head by his former colleagues, it's up
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Feb 22, 2022
Final Fantasy: Lost Stranger
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This is a very generic and inoffensive manga. There's nothing impressive about this, but there's nothing atrocious either.
The story is a very standard Isekai. The setup is so generic that some kind of A.I. could have written it. The MC is a Final Fantasy superfan that lands a job in at Square Enix, but he finds himself far-removed from the games themselves. He's then hit by a truck and sent to a Final Fantasy world with his little sister. There they meet a group of adventurers and learn about the rules of this world. From then on, it's mostly a series of setpieces with ... 
Dec 12, 2021
SSSS.Gridman
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I am absolutely floored by the negative reviews in here. This is the show that got me back into anime after a decade-long hiatus.
The first few episodes may seem like setup for a generic kaiju show, but the story does enough to tweak the kaiju/toku formula and does something new. The characters are actually realistic and likable and the fight scenes are fantastic. The animators aren't afraid to use CGI, which I know can turn some people off but it blends well with the 2D animation. The fluidity and fight choreography is eye candy. If you're a fan of action anime with a great ... 
Oct 10, 2021
This is probably the worst anime movie I've seen. I haven't seen many to be fair, but this still is... not good.
It's a poor adaptation of Junji Ito's manga, and it's just overall unpleasant. It's body horror without any real message behind it. It's also just unnecessarily weird. Walking fish coming on land and turning people into green fart monsters sounds like a low-effort South Park Episode. There is some decent characterization. The main character is likable enough and realistic, but she can't fix this movie. If you like extreme gross outs maybe you'll get a kick out of this, but if you're a ... |
