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I will divide this review into 2 parts: the 1st part will be a heads up on what to expect from Maou Gakuen no Hangyakusha. the 2nd part will be the review.

I will try my best to update this review as often as possible. Small warning: I'll try to make this review without major spoilers, but I can't guarantee it.

Without further ado, let's go onto the heads up:

1, Maou Gakuen is set in the devil king academy, where devil king candidates study and prepare for devil war in order to win a throne from the current devil king, killing other candidates in process. Devil kings are chosen by 22 major arcanas (Names are inspired by tarot cards. Arcanas choose their candidate like a boosted gears choose their wielders in DxD). We are following the 1st ever human devil king candidate, "Lovers" Morioka Yuuto.

2, Maou Gakuen has ecchi elements and consists of good amount of fanservice ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). If you dislike fanservice or ecchi, then it is likely you won't enjoy this novel, but feel free to give it a shot, it might surprise you, or not.

3, If you are a fan of Highschool DxD, then I can recommend you to try Maou Gakuen. You will find similarities between DxD and MG, but both novels have their own unique identity.

4, MG is from Kuji Masamune (author of Masou Gakuen HxH), so if you liked his works, then you will probably enjoy going into Maou Gakuen.

This concludes heads up, now onto the review:

Art:
Every Maou Gakuen volume usually has 4 colored illustrations and around 10 uncolored illustrations. They are very good quality and I'd say it is a very healthy amount of illustrations, so a big plus from me.

Let's talk about story:
Morioka Yuuto has been chosen by Arcana of lovers as the 1st ever human candidate for the devil king throne. Yuuto joins Ginsei Academy, where devil king candidates study and prepare for a war, training and building their peerages. 1st day in Ginsei Academy Yuuto meets Lizel Himekami, she helps Yuuto during his conflict with a devil student, later joining Yuuto's peerage as his queen with ambition to make Yuuto the 1st ever human devil king.

So far I do really enjoy the story's structuring. Events in MG world, most of the times has meaning it, there aren't really any "pointless events" ( isolated event that adds nothing to the story and usually just eats time), there aren't "one-shot fanservices/flexes" (Events that exists just to show off MC, make him look good with no real addition/impact on story). Through the reading, I felt every action usually had its reaction or consequences, which is a really good sign.

I do like story pacing, it is very easy to read and I think MG has done very good balancing between action and "normal life".

I like Yuuto Ecchi intercourses with his peerage members, hope MG will do better than DxD in this aspect and those intercourses won't become repetitive.

Now, onto the characters:
Maou Gakuen no Hangyakusha has 4 protagonists:
"Lovers devil king candidate" Morioka Yuuto - Yuuto has a very caring personality. Whole new world has opened for him with Lover's arcana. Yuuto is meeting new friends and adversaries.
"Lovers queen" Himekami Lizel - Lizel is more of a mentor person in the peerage, she is helping Yuuto with his training and also understanding of devils and their society.
"Lovers princess" Yuugaoze Miyabi - Miyabi possesses a very provocative persona, she often flirts with Yuuto.
"Lovers knight" Koiwai Reina - Unlike Lizel and Miyabi, Reina is an Homunculus. She's the youngest of peerage.

I found MG protagonists and characters in general to be entertaining and so far I only found 2 or 3 minor characters to appeal to me as bland or just boring.

Side characters are actually useful and have an impact on the MG world. Sometimes I found anime side characters potential to be just wasted as they have little to no impact in their series. Maou Gakuen has done a good job developing and keeping their side characters interesting and fun.

When it comes down to character development, MG does a good job, protagonists get very good development and even side characters get spotlight, so no problem here, but I do have a small issue with the quantity of "tragic/sad" backstories Yuuto's peerage gets. I think characters with sad backstories can enhance the overall feel of the series, but sometimes it tends to be overused and you really start to care less about the characters in general. Yuuto has 3 members in his peerage, 2 out of 3 have got a "sad" backstory to them and it is likely Lizel will get a sad backstory as well. For me personally it's a small negative, but I think few or none will really mind it.

So, villains:
When it comes to villains, I always have high expectations, so how did MG fare? I fear it will go down the DxD route and just have a new major villain every volume, basically it will prevent MG to have any real memorable villain.
Volume 1: Well, our 1st villain is devil king candidate of "World" Line Aspite, as a 1st villain he was okay, he wasn't groundbreaking, but he did his job and my overall rating is "OK", he didn't die, he was just defeated.
Volume 2: 2nd villain is a candidate with arcana of "Devil" Mitshuishi Ibiza, he has mind control ability and I did enjoy his laid back persona quite a bit. I think he was better than Aspite, but he lasted only one volume and was devoured by black mist, that signals candidates can no longer fight and are sent to devill world and can never return.
Volume 3: Volume 3 introduces a devil group led by Joudougahama Lost from shadows, who possess "Death" arcana and to no one's surprise he's a very interesting character. Currently, I rate him as a gray character, he didn't show any hostility towards Yuuto. Main villain for volume 3 is candidate with "Tower" arcana Takakuzure Marios, he's a very eccentric character. On his own Marios isn't really that interesting villain, he has interesting design, but he cannot shine on his own, but thanks to Lost making him to look like the leader of his group, while weakening his forces which led to his defeat by Yuuto and later death by Lost, Marios entertainment value was high. Marios is a decent villain, but Lost really added a big enjoyment value to Marios and this volume in general.

Volume 4 (27.10.2020): I finished volume 4 and it was quite exciting. Volume 4 was more of vacation/training 'gone wrong' volume with Yuuto attempting to raise his mana limit as much as possible. We are introduced to new characters as well as 2 new devil king candidates. There's a lot of fighting, I think I would prefer if volume 4 went with a bit more peaceful route as volume 3 was also packed with tons of action. Lot of sexy scenes happened. There's a bit of a 'twist', I am looking forward to an explanation on how that 'twist' was even possible to happen.

To sum it up, I am very happy with the volume 4 and I am looking forward to volume 5.

8/10 it is still, I like it, I really do so far, I might even like it more than DxD novel, but it's too early to call that, hopefully future volume will keep on delivering.

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Warning: You can buy Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai manga on Amazon. I had another source for reading, but most likely, manga isn't translated to english.

If you somehow found this before "Sin" anime and you don't like any form of ecchi or ecchi jokes, then this is not for you.

If you are here for nudity, I should warn you: I've read the censored version and I am not sure you will get uncensored titties when you buy it from Amazon or any other site, just a small warning (you can correct me if you find the proof).

It's really short, so let's not waste any time:

"Sin" manga is like "Nanatsu no Bitoku" shorts, but this time we see devils interacting with humans. It has some ecchi moments, some comedy moments and you will probably enjoy it, that is if you enjoyed anime and it's special episodes. If you found this manga somehow before anime, then I can't guarantee nothing.

6/10, it is worth reading (and by reading I mean look at the pictures and stare at japanese in my experience), it won't consume that much time. It has only 6 chapters and no sequel coming, so there's no way I can rate it higher.

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I swear to god, whenever I watch a Netflix show there's always nudity in it, don't get me wrong I don't complain, but it's an interesting fact that flew by my head when I was watching and it is completely irrelevant to this review, but it will anyway.

Now without further ado, let's jump onto the review. This review will be more talkative as I played Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen and I will talk about my thoughts about what could have been done better and things I like and dislike.

Dragon's Dogma has only 7 episodes, once I learned about it (day of release), I pretty much knew to have little to no expectations, because seven 20-30 minute episodes cannot possibly make a good adaptation of Dragon's Dogma.

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Dragon's Dogma is an RPG game, a game that is about going from being absolute nobody to becoming an absolutely overpowered "God Gamer" in the entire universe. This journey is slow, but you grow, you get new OP gear that becomes useless 2 hours later when you find even more OP gear. You learn about the world, you meet and sometimes even befriend interesting characters. You cannot achieve something like this in 7 episodes. In order to get 7 or 8/10, DD would need at least 24 episodes so it can be decently explored and explained. But if Netflix wanted it to be real attempt in breaking into anime industry, something special, something beyond 8/10, Dragon's Dogma would require at least 60 episodes minimum and also way bigger budget and more experience.

Artstyle/Scenery: 6/10
Unknown and inexperienced studio was decided to be animating DD and it's inexperience or just lack of time or lack of budget is definitively seen through DD. There are scenes that look really amazing with some really good attention to detail, but there are also scenes, where Ethan and Hannah are just walking around wilderness that is just static, no movement at all, no animation of trees or grass moving. For 2020 it is not good standard to have static scenery.

Characters: 6/10
Ethan and Hannah are the only ones worth to talk about:
Ethan is an Arisen, he lost his wife, family and all his friends to the dragon. I think Ethan was decent protagonist until the "Rage Arisen" thing came (will talk about it in Story), there's not really much to talk about Ethan, he is "sidequest type" (person who has a main goal, but gets sidetracked whenever foes appears) and sadly he uses same equipment through story, I wish he got at least some legendary armor or weapon before the dragon fight, so it would as some sort of progression and not just go with "common", "un rare weapon" against dragon.
Hannah is okay, she is a pawn. Pawns don't aren't bound by human feelings. She can use magic to enhance her arrows or use "Fire Boon" on Ethan's weapon or other spells. Hannah is very smart and overall I like her character because she pretty much fulfills my expectations from pawn.
Other characters either appear in 1 episode and die or never appear again, so I think I don't need to mention anyone else.

Story: 6/10
Each episode represents a mortal sin: Pride, Greed, Envy, Lust and etc. I like that there are different tone conclusions to the episodes. Some episodes end on a darker tone even though Ethan had his best interest to help people, other episodes end on a lighter tone, where we find out that the character we thought died actually didn't die. Almost every episode has a boss from DD appearing, which is pretty good fanservice and overall it's not bad, really, but it's just average. DD really needed way more episodes to properly introduce itself and it's world. Instead we get mostly generic characters or when we find someone who can be interesting, he dies or disappears after the episode. In the end it is a bland world with Ethan and Hannah in it.

Now the rage Arisen: I probably know why it was implemented, it is because your "plebeian" character cannot become "RPG god gamer" in 7 episodes without downloading cheats, it wouldn't make sense, so they made him this alter ego to give him huge plot ability boost while his sanity fades away the more he gets devoured in his rage. I hate this mechanic and it ruined Ethan's character for me a lot.

If they just implemented Rift Crystals (pawn legion currency, you earn it after killing bosses and doing quests in DD game) and created a pawn legion merchant to give Ethan OP, I would appreciate it way better than "Rage" Arisen.

Sound: 7/10
Soundwise DD was fine, opening OP was good and that's all I need to say.

Summary: Dragon's Dogma earns 6,25/10, so it is 6/10. DD is not bad and it is worth trying. The main issue is lack of episodes and artstyle lack of attention to detail, you just cannot hope to accomplish a serious attempt at adaptation of an RPG game in 7 episodes.

I can recommend you to try it at least, you might like, I don't regret watching it.

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I'll keep this short, six 3-4 minute shorts. I will tell you what these shorts are about following with my episode ranking list in the end with some of my input. Also, this review will be less serious, because I don't think I really have to be serious when it comes to these types of shorts.

It is fanservice, nudity, lewd stuff, so if you don't like this kind of stuff, then you won't probably enjoy this.

1st episode is about Miu trying out different "battlesuits".

2nd episode will teach you how to become an adult anime woman.

3rd episode will reveal that some women need to pee very often.

4th episode shows Miu, Kuzuha and Chikage in an open hot bath, they do some sexy stuff, then Akatsuki comes and does fatigue relief "stuff"...

5th episode is a slimy episode

6th episode is tentacles and "holy pose".

Now comes ranking from worst to best:
Decent:
Episode 5 - I guess it was okay fanservice.
Episode 4 - You don't hit women Akatsuki...
Episode 3 - I don't have any fetish for girl peeing, but I like Haruko's butt
Episode 6 - Highschool DxD tentacle special episode was better.
Episode 2 - Very educating indeed.

Good:
Episode 1 - Stepbrother fantasising whilst choosing "battlesuit".

Final rating is 6/10. Decent fanservice, but 3-4 minute shorts seems pretty cheap to me.

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“Highness, Piccolo Daimaou has been defeated, we have found out his son has escaped to another dimension, he will not be able to return, we can now rebui...”

“No”

“Sorry sir?”

“Bring him back to our dimension, we will sent our stupidly strong hero”

“But sir, Piccolo Jr. is the only person that is capable of destroying our planet, he can’t come back on his own, why would we want such a dangerous person back?”

“So we can make him pay for his father sins, executing him and luring his remaining demon forces to defeat them”

“But sir, why won’t we use that stupidly strong hero on demon forces, instead of potentially endangering our world?”

I hope you didn’t mind this small dialogue much, but I had to write it, because it represents one of two biggest flaws of Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica: Story and characters.

Anyway let's get into the review. I won't be rating how well Hagure Yuusha represents its Light Novel, this review is solely a review of Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica anime.

\\Spoiler alert just in case//


Art: 7/10
Hagure Yuusha has normal looking artstyle, it is good quality for the most part, but I did notice some less beautiful scenes (or CGI) that really did stand out even for me and I am someone who doesn’t really have that big expectations towards anime artstyle.

Characters: 5/10
Our main character, Ousawa Akatsuki, is a sadly disappointing protagonist. He is a hero, who defeated a devil king and returned to his world with devil king's daughter Miu. He has a very relaxed personality, which is the type of persona I am usually enjoying to watch, but when it comes to his abilities, Akatsuki is like Sora from No Game, No Life. He can do anything, he’s stupidly overpowered, he expects you to do things at a certain time and even if someone secretly helps him from shadows, Akatsuki already knows about it, there is nothing that will throw him off his cool. He saves the day always and by always I mean always, even when it is not his fight and it is time for minor characters to shine, Akatsuki comes and steals the spotlight! His fight with Cockatrice was actually pretty good “last second” save, but from that point on you will start to notice Akatsuki is always in the spotlight, always saving the day, hurting other characters growth because they don’t achieve anything by themselves, their meaning to the story is literally holding up the villain, so Akatsuki can prepare to destroy him or to arrive on the scene.

Our heroine, Ousawa Miu is also a disappointing heroine. Miu, same as Akatsuki, starts with a good premise. Miu is a devil king daughter, Akatsuki takes her on earth and begins to live with her, Miu’s father told if he is defeated, he wants her to live with the person he was defeated by, but if he proves unworthy, Miu would kill him, it adds very good tension to their relationship. her character is developed fairly well and it really shines with her fight with Cockatrice, but sadly it is the last moment Miu would really shine. From that point on Miu fades away and becomes ecchi material, existing for lewd scenes with her and Akatsuki to happen. This has to do with Akatsuki being always in the spotlight, Miu alongside with many other Hagure Yuusha’s characters has little to no time to shine and even when she is in danger, we aren’t really worried about her, because we already know that Akatsuki will save her 100%.

There are 5 supporting characters worth a mention, 1st three Nanase Haruka, Doumoto Kuzuha and Izumi Hikage:
At first sight I thought Haruka and her council would become sort of rivals to Akatsuki, but I got immediately proven wrong when Akatsuki made them a laughing stock. Haruka could have been a really good character, but she is in shadow of Akatsuki and when she and her council have an opportunity to shine, Akatsuki comes at the last second to steal their glory, making their effort in vain. Haruka is along Miu and other female characters becomes an lewd scenes material

Kuzuha is class representative, she used to be often in a sad, distancing mood, until Akatsuki helped her with her issue, but from that moment on, she never really got any more spotlight to develop herself and was lowered to sidekick you won’t really notice.

Hikage is introduced kissing and groping naked girl in gym storage.I did found it be quite interesting addition to Hagure Yuusha and I was interested if Hikage will try to advance towards Miu or other girl, but sadly her interest in girls has diminished over the course of 3-4 episodes and never really tried to approach other girl romantically.

Remaining two characters are: Motoharu Kaitou, Hikami Kyouya. Both of them have mysterious backgrounds to them and are keeping Hagure Yuusha interesting. I thought Kyouya was the final boss of season 1, but sadly it didn’t happen, I was hoping Akatsuki would fight and lose to Kyouya, so we could have some real opponent to look forward to and an epic rematch.

Character development: 5/10
Almost every Hagure Yuusha character ends up in Akatsuki shadow and is left with little to no spotlight, most of them don’t grow. Motoharu Kaitou, Hikami Kyouya are probably the only ones that are worth following and there is something to their characters that is to explore. Hagure Yuusha is way too much centered on Akatsuki, putting him in everything that is happening.

Story: 5/10
Akatsuki has defeated the devil king and has returned on earth with his daughter. Both of them are trying to not attract attention to Miu, who Akatsuki introduces as his long lost sister in order to protect her true identity. Hagure Yuusha has two different story parts: 1st part are episodes 1-7.
Episodes 1-4 have a direction of Miu and Akatsuki adapting to their new school and 1st 2 episodes serves as an introduction to Hagure Yuusha, which is pretty solid.
Episode 3-4 has a terrorist attack as a plot point and is again handled well, but the confrontation with the main villain ends up as a disappointment and Hagure Yuusha’s quality worsened from that point.
5-7 are side episodes. There is actually interesting “side quest” between episode 5-6, where Akatsuki gets a cool “magic” motorbike that chooses it’s wielders, but here as well with other occasions it proves no problem for Akatsuki, even though he gets shock from motorbike, it happens to him once and after that he rides it and has no problem at all, which kinda makes the point of motorbike shocking other people useless and it’s really plot convenient for Akatsuki to get that motorbike. Other things that happen in episode 5-7 is Miu picking her new underwear, hostage situation for Haruka to defuse, “swimsuit competition” and that’s it, but every single event I just listed has one thing in common, Akatsuki is in the or steals the spotlights. I know Akatsuki is the protagonist, but he’s literally in everything and not just like a supporting character to do some joke or something no, he must be the main character, even in Haruka’s case where she and her team saves numerous civilians and have one terrorist left to beat, but he has a hostage, so instead of letting Haruka or someone from her team using one some special technique, Akatsuki appears to save the day and steal the spotlight.
8-12 is a promotion tournament and Akatsuki fights with Barnett Phil, a hero like Akatsuki sent from the other world to find and bring Miu back.

I’ll try to cut it short. Akatsuki is on a team with the girls, they destroy every competition, Akatsuki repeatedly shows he’s absolutely op. Then we cut to the night and the Student Council challenges Akatsuki. They fight 3 v Akatsuki, but they get destroyed, then Barnett Phil appears, hunts Miu through the woods, has an actual fight with a bully Kenya Onizuka you probably forgot his name and tbh this fight was actually really good and I liked it, it’s only shame that last time we saw Onizuka (episode 4, now we are episode 9 or 10), he was an absolute jerk and we didn’t get to see him up until now. Phil catches Miu, then we get an SAO vibe for a minute, then Akatsuki appears.
Fight between Akatsuki and Phil goes something like this: Akatsuki has an upper hand, puts Phil out of commision, but he contracts some super deadly poison, which turns out to be nothing serious for him to handle he will be ready to fight in few minutes, then we get to see pretty heartwarming scene when Miu tries to warm up passed out Akatsuki who is getting colder by using their naked bodies. But of course, this really emotional scene gets ruined when Akatsuki wakes up and says he was awake all that time they did it, emotional scene ruined just to get cheap laughs.
Phil appears, transforming into a giant dragon, Akatsuki isn’t ready to destroy his opponent, so Miu, her friends and student council come out to stall up Phil. The fight has some really good action and I enjoyed the fight, but once again Hagure Yuusha has disappointed me, when Miu and friends had the upper hand, it seemed they were doing a lot of damage to Phil, but suddenly an explosion occurs everyone except of Miu is down and Phil reveals it was just an illusion and they didn’t do anything to him, making their effort worthless and demoting them to the type of character that exist only to hold the line for protagonist to have just enough time to come and save the day with no real influence on the battle. Finally, Akatsuki comes out, does some fighting and after a while, he destroys the dragon with one hit.
After this we get an epilogue, where the queen from another world prays for Akatsuki to come back and save them from demon armies, so Akatsuki with Miu and her two girlfriends. Haruka and Motoharu go to the other world for some reason too, the end.

To sum it up: Hagure Yuusha has some really good, cute, thrilling, heartwarming scenes and I can see it getting 8/10, but many of those scenes are ruined by wayyy overusing Akatsuki, little to no spotlight for other characters, underdeveloping them and putting unnecessary ecchi actions inside some of them.

Story progression: 6/10
Story is super easy to follow, you won’t get lost, but you will be disappointed with the fact, there is only one story and it is Akatsuki and Miu, other characters don’t really have any story going on for them and serves as a minor support to our duo and it is painfully visible they aren’t getting much attention (I don’t count ecchi scenes in just to be clear), unless they are villains or mysterious characters.

Villains: 5/10
Tanaka: 5/10 - Member of terrorist organization, he was pulling strings behind the scenes before getting confronted by Akatsuki, he had an upper hand over Akatsuki but was put down by Kyouya with ease and we never heard of him again from episode 4 onwards. Very disappointing conclusion, I wished he would escape and serve as a constant threat to school and Akatsuki.
Barnett Phil: 5/10 - Hero sent from another world to catch and bring Miu back, he’s not really an interesting villain, his persona consists of calling others weak and pathetic. Phil is basically a powerhouse sent to serve as an excuse for Kyouya and Akatsuki fight we were looking forward to not happen in season 1.

Girls: 7/10
5 girls (plus more in another world, but they didn’t really appear much in season 1) are worth a mention, so we have 1 pink haired big big breasted girl, 2 medium sized brunettes, 1 loli type and big breasted green haired girl. A bit better variation than in Hajimete no Gal in where I did give 6/10, so I will add a point here.

Sound: 8/10
Pretty good soundtracks and overall Hagure Yuusha sounds well.

Overall rating for Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica is 6/10 exact. Hagure Yuusha isn’t a bad anime and it has a really good potential, but overly focusing on Akatsuki, always putting him in the spotlights, not developing other characters much and adding ecchi to scenes, which could have been really memorable just for a cheap laugh has really hurt this anime a big deal for me.

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I'll keep the review short as it is covering 1 episode only and it is 20 minutes long.

Steins;Gate: Oukoubakko no Poriomania is a special episode following Okabe and his lab members visiting Makise Kurisu in the USA 6 months after Okabe reached Steins;Gate timeline.

If you enjoyed Steins;Gate then it is very likely you will enjoy this episode as well, now onto the review.

As far as I am concerned it wasn't stated whether it is canon episode or not.

My positives:
1, Story: We follow recollections of Kurisu memories from Alpha timelines. We get to hear Kurisu, like Mayuri in Alpha timeline has dreams of her experiencing many things, including exchanging kiss with Okabe. Oukoubakko no Poriomania serves as a finale to Kurisu and Okabe romance with humorous input and some 'easter eggs'. The story itself is structured pretty well with humorous moments that works quite well. I think this episode has managed to deliver a good finale.

2, Art and Music: Pretty much same as Steins;Gate, so if you enjoyed anime, then you should enjoy this too.

I didn't find really anything that would be annoying or bad, just few nitpicks here and there.

Overall it is 9/10.

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I'll keep this review short as Masou Gakuen HxH specials are max 5 minutes per episode. I will tell you what these shorts are about following with my episode ranking list in the end with some of my input. Also, this review will be less serious, because I don't think I really have to be serious when it comes to these types of shorts.

It is fanservice, nudity, lewd stuff, so if you don't like this kind of stuff, then you won't probably enjoy this.



1st episode is Aine's dream with some creative use of tube rubbing against her intimate parts.

2nd episode is Ataraxia's commercial with Yurishia. She's trying sexy suits with help of some tools to enhance her sexappeal. Very creative commercial.

3rd episode is Himekawa's episode. In this episode you will learn how to plug a kitty. I don't mind this stuff, but you should watch at your own discretion.

4th episode is Reiri's time. It's sexy bunny time.

5th episode is Silvia's episode. If you dislike (or have problem) children or lolis being in lewd position or doing lewd things, then you should avoid this episode.

6th episode is massive harem time. Lots of tittties all around. Basically all characters from the show are there and all of them are naked.

And now it's time for the ranking from worst to best:
Decent:
6, Episode Nr.5 - Silvia is cute and all, but I don't want FBI knocking on my door any time soon.
5, Episode Nr.1 - Aine's mind is quite perverted.
4, Episode Nr.3 - My mind on the other hand is way more perverted than Aine's.
Good:
3, Episode Nr.2 - Very creative, I liked this episode creativity.
OH MY:
2. Episode Nr.6 - If you love boobs, then this episode is a must watch.
1, Episode Nr.4 - What to say, black haired women are my weakness, combine it with something sexy like bunny suit and you have a winner.

Final rating is 7/10. Some nice fanservice, but I would have preferred at least 10 minutes length, because 5 minute or less shorts always seems a bit cheap to me.

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Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks fight Godzilla, fries it, then gets destroyed by huge bugman, then SS3 Goku arrives and he destroys bugman. Um, SS3 Fusion > SS3, power levels, anyone?

Dragon Ball Z Movie 13: Wrath of the Dragon is a non canon movie, events within this movie doesn't appear in manga.


Let's get on with this review:


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My positives from WotD:

1, Art and sound are in DBZ coat.

2, Concept is rather interesting and movie itself goes pretty well until restored Hildegarn appears.

3, Tapion is rather well written character with interesting backstory, that isn't anything new, but I like his persona.

4, Dragon fist looks cool: Some really sick visuals.

My negatives from WotD:

1, Main antagonist Hoi boiii: How pointless was he. He was here to give our characters Tapion, then he tried to take part of Hildegard sealed with Tapion and after he managed to do that, well he spends 15-25 minutes saying everyone is doomed, Hildengard is the best and in the end he gets stomped by the beast itself. Boring. He's the type of villain, which only purpose is to revive something stupidly strong and get killed by it, but he himself offers nothing to the table. Trash villain.

2, How come only Gohan and Videl fought that Godzilla thing?:
That thing is big as fuck, loud as fuck and you are telling me, no one from Z fighters noticed it? Also at the end of the fight, they see that weird villain and for some reason, they just stand there and do nothing, bullshit and you know it. How come you won't go after the person, who told you to summon Tapion and just happens to be at the Godzilla fight literally after his sudden dissapearance a while ago?

3, Vegeta's 30 seconds cameo: Oh my, we didn't include Vegeta in this movie, let's give him an absolutely pointless 30 seconds, where he gets destroyed, so we can say he's in this movie as well. God, I hate this, I was about to note "where is Vegeta?", then he appeared. I was happy, but he fights Hildengard and lose within 30 seconds. This is not issue with this movie only, many DBZ movies does it, when your villain/monster kicks major ass, just to add tension, well it does not work that way. After seeing it numerous times within these movies, even a child can assume, what's gonna happen. It does not add tension, it only makes it more obvious, what's gonna happen: Goku will somehow save the day.

4, Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks gets destroyed by final form bugman? but Goku one shot him? I am not gonna talk much about this. It was never stated how big of difference between SS3 Gotenks and SS3 Goku is, but the fact Gotenks gets defeated so easily is a joke.

5, Trunks could have been the hero: It would have been traumatic and sad finish, but it would add an immense emotional value to this movie ending and Trunkses sword.

6, Timelines: It's not Future Trunks timeline 100%, but it definitively is not DBZ timeline either. I wish whoever wrote the script for this and other DBZ movies at least did proper research and tried to make them fit.


Summary: Trash villain, generic Dragon Ball Z movies "everyone gets almost instantly defeated, then someone does miracle and defeat monster/villain" happens. Story value on the other hand is really good and it does pretty good job telling that story, but that Godzilla thing is major turn off as it follows the same "be stupidly strong, destroy everyone instantly" template with miracle at the end.


6/10 it is, I was looking forward to seeing this movie and until Hildegard awakened I was really enjoying WotD, so I can recommend you try it, because it has some qualities.

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I'd rather die than merge with you Kakarotto! But Vegeta, you are already dead. Why can't we have this bright Goku in Super?

This movie is interesting, it is the 1st movie I had to rewatch in order to do this review. I have so many mixed feelings, If I were to describe this movie in one word, it would be: Cool! If I were to rate this movie purely out of enjoyment and cool factor, then it is 8/10 easily.

Anyway let's move onto the review. Dragon Ball Z Movie: Fusion Reborn is a non canon movie, that means events within this movie doesn't appear in manga.

Because I am so divided on this movie, I am gonna split this movie into 2 halfs and I am gonna talk about those halfs and say, what I like and dislike.

\\spoiler alert//

0:00 - 25:00
We start at the other world tournament grounds, where Kaios are having an argument between each other about the strongest contestant. Goku and Paikuhan meets in the final and when it's about to get interesting comes cut and we suddenly are in King's Yemma/Enma place.
Comment: I am not a fan of this decision, it's nice to have our main cast doing something, but this cut has literally made this small intro pointless and waste of time.

After watching King doing his job for a while, we see an evil spirit laundering machine with a devil boy that serves as a plot device. Basically, because of his lack of attention and laziness spirit machine gets destroyed and evil spirits devour boy, turning him into Janemba.
Comment: It's kinda meh plot device to be honest.

Dead arises! Gohan, Videl with Goten and kid Trunks are called to fight. After Gohan and Videl defeat some random zombies, Frieza appears with an army. Fight does last exactly one blow from Gohan and Frieza is defeated and his army retreat and this is the last time we see Gohan and Videl until the end. Mister Satan makes small cameo beating down zombies. Meanwhile Goten with Trunks are about to face an ultimate Dragon Ball villain known for his villainous action through the series and it is ...... not Cell, it's fucking Adolf.
Comment: Who though this was a good idea? I mean I like Adolf (in satiric sense!!!), but he has nothing to do with Dragon Ball series. Quick idea: Why weren't Red Ribbon army there, it would have made way more sense than Adolf.

Goku confronts Janemba! 1st form Janemba persona is lazy copy of Majin Buu and if you disliked or hated Buu, then this villain won't be to your tastes likely. Luckily, his attacks and abilities are more interesting than Buu, so that's a nice plus. Meanwhile Paikuhan begins his own verbal fight with a barrier.
Comment: Fight are okay, it would have been great if there weren't an idiot shouting his name every ten seconds. Anyway I don't really have any problem with this part. Shame for Paikuhan though, well at least he didn't end up like Gohan.

25:00 - The end
Goku fights final form Janemba! After Goku lands a solid blow, Janemba turns to his final form and all I can say is: cool! This form is absolutely cool, his abilities are cool, he's just so cool, but he's kinda Jiren the Gay (DevilArtemis Cell vs. Jiren part 2 reference). Janemba is extremely powerful, but he doesn't say a word. He's just a powerhouse, that sometimes screams or laughs with evil tone. The main difference between Janemba and Jiren are theirs abilities, while Janemba has unique and interesting abilities, Jiren has insane strength, just because.
Comment: From visual and enjoyment view, this is a very good fight, Janemba has a lot of unique abilities that makes the fighting scene look fresh even with 291 DBZ episodes.

Kids are fighting Nazi army! This is the reason, why we won't see any Gohan until the end and it is not worth it. Just to clarify, I am not someone, who hates nazis. I don't rate movie differently just because something politically controversial appears on the screen. Even though satiric, nazis has nothing to do with Dragon Ball series, Red Ribbon does, so what about excluding something completely alien to the series and instead add an evil organization, that was crushed by kid Goku in DB 1986?
Comment: Not much else to add, really.

Wild Vegeta appears! He tries to fight Janemba, because prince of all saiyans and get his ass kicked, after he ends up in mountains of needles and after some convincing, he agrees to do Fusion with Goku.
Comment: It's okay. I don't really have anything to comment here, but...

Instant Transmission to a place without living being? Just before Janemba bombards the mountain, Goku and Vegeta escape with IT to a cube without living being. This is deus ex machina. Instant transmission follows rules: You need to sense someone's ki to teleport to the place, so how did they escape?

Finally Fuuuu... Are you joking me, they fucking failed? Are you telling me that the two elite saiyans, who knows each other for many years, who fought against themselves and beside each other cannot do this transformation on 1st try. Kids were funny, they are kids and you expect that they don't have required discipline to do it on a 1st try, but Goku and Vegeta? This scene exists to prolong this movie and to give us a cheap laugh and I am not fan of that.

Gogeta vs Janemba! It's a quick work, Janemba doesn't stand a chance and Gogeta does (my No.1 favorite) finishing move, then we get some "romantic" farewell between Goku and Vegeta and the end.

Before I finally end this review, there are some really annoying points about this movie:
1, Timelines: Vegeta is in the other (dead) world, but if this is between Majin Vegeta and final Genki Dama, then why does world looks so peaceful and Gohan, kids and everyone seems in such a normal manners prior to dead rising? The only mention of Buu is, when Goku goes Super Saiyan 3 and says only Buu seen it before. This movie does terrible job to place itself into DBZ timeline in this aspect.
2, Where is Piccolo, Kuririn, Android 18, where is Buu? It is never explained, where was either our gang or Buu at this time. Piccolo cannot be absorbed, because Goten and Trunks would have been absorbed as well and stoned Piccolo doesn't make any sense either, because Vegeta would have been still alive.

Summary: This is all I wanted to say. I like this movie, I really do and as much as I would like to ignore all the negatives, I cannot.

Dragon Ball Z Movie: Fusion Reborn earns the strongest 6,99/10, meaning 6/10. I was and I am still divided about the rating, my opinion just flips back and forth between 6 and 7. Maybe I will revisit Fusion Reborn in future and redo the review. Until that time comes, take care and thank you for reading my review.

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This movie is nasty in a very wrong way. Dragon Ball Z movie: Bio Broly is the worst movie in Dragon Ball franchise and it didn't even have to anger me. I wasn't really feeling any annoying factors within the movie, it was actually a calm walkthrough with the quality speaking for itself.

Nasty, hell I fought vagina demon and it was way less nasty than the bio warriors in this movie.

Anyway, let's move onto the review. DBZ movie: Bio Broly is a non canon movie and it does not appear in manga.

\\ spoiler alert just in case//

My positives from BB:
1, Sound is in DBZ coat
2, Android 18 is actually trying to get her money from Mister Satan after her forfeit: Nice touch, everything before Satan arrives on Baron island was okay, but after that, movie goes downhill really fast.
3, Good main trio: Goten, kid Trunks and Android 18 are heroes of this movie and I enjoy them for most of parts, well mostly Android 18, because I am not really fan of Goten and Trunks "comedy" moments in this movie.
4, This time Goku doesn't save the day: It's Mister Satan and I'll take it.

My negatives from BB:
1, I will bring blood sample from monster that had wreak havoc, almost killed children and caused massive damage to the surroundings of the village they fought, just because I am poor. What a dumb idea, this is a poor excuse to risk destruction and despair of the Earth.
2, Villain design: Dreadful, this is the worst enemy design in all of Dragon Ball, it's not creative, it is repulsive and you only pray you won't see them ever again.
3, Big blob something: Just why? Who thought this was a good idea? I would be rather if they fought in white space, my stomach would be way happier.
4, Where was Gohan, again where was Vegeta with Piccolo and of course Ultra Instinct Videl from Second Cumming? This movie I assume is after Kid Buu defeat, because you cannot fit it between Majin Vegeta and the spirit bomb. We don't see any of them through the entirety of movie, couldn't they sensed Broly or were they fighting someone? Never explained in the movie. Don't get me wrong, it's not like I wanted them to be the main points of the movie, but I wanted them to appear, to do something, help people or anything.
5, Broly is even duller: He doesn't talk or laugh, which is probably a good thing, but the only word he says before he finally dies is Kakarotto, of course he does.

Summary: There isn't much else to say. Art style is the worst in really consistent DBZ movies, but unlike Broly Second Cumming, it comes out little bit better in Enjoyment and character value and even though BB's art is dreadful, small detail in Goku not saving the day for once and fact I enjoyed having Android 18 as a lead character has saved this movie enough to avoid 2/10, because cut these two positives and it's 2 without disscussion.

Dragon Ball Z Movie: Bio Broly is awarded 3/10. Enemy design is bad, that disgusting blob is bad, but small, tiny details kept it above 2/10.

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