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Sep 14, 2023
Mixed Feelings
I think one of the biggest hurdles for people getting into this is that it's a 3D animated movie compared to a traditional 2D anime but that has never really bothered me so I finally decided to give it a try.

The story isn't overly unique, think The Matrix mixed with Elysium. Humanity stretched Earth to its very limit with overpopulation and global warming, so much so numerous different plans were made for the continuation of mankind. One of these was a giant orbital space station where humans would be scanned onto a huge computer system and live in a virtual world. This however created a ...
Sep 14, 2023
I only know about Street Fighter in passing, fighting games really aren't my thing. I went into this thinking I would know at least a handful of the characters but I always remembered it being a grounded compared to other fighting games like Tekken with its random God-seed/Demon-seed thing it did. It got to the point where characters were constantly talking about dark chi and becoming Super Saiyans that I realised I was wrong.

If you aren't a fan of the game, I think you'll find this pretty impenetrable as a movie even ignoring everyone suddenly having magical powers. Characters are mentioned with such weight and ...
Sep 10, 2023
If you are someone who highly values style in an anime, especially in regards to lighting of scenes and the general soundtrack, you'd likely get more from this movie than I did. I also want to make the disclosure that the DVD I found for this only had EN dub and no subtitles available, so certain issues might be addressed better in the JP original or EN sub.

The movie is set in a dystopian world where pollution savaged the Earth and to allow humans to survive, "ancestors" designed a living city but barred the majority of survivors from entering it, leading to many thousands of ...
Mar 26, 2023
Exception (Anime) add
Spoiler
Exception is unwatchable, even at 1.5x speed as people recommend to try and get past the awkward, slow and stilted animation style that they're going for.

I only decided to watch this after how bad "Make My Day" was so I wanted a bit of background on the studio and it's somehow far worse than even that trainwreck of a show. At least Make My Day was sometimes funny bad and had a fairly decent pace to it even if it occasionally crashed into a wall, this show is so slow paced that if a competent studio had worked on it, they could've got it out ...
Feb 21, 2023
Spoiler
I don't think I've ever tried so hard to like a show and it's one of those anime I find myself walking away from and wondering if its high score is only because of the incredible animation quality and soundtrack, because it can't be because of the characters or writing.

This feels like the Michael Bay equivalent of an anime and weirdly fitting for the story of the Sound Hashira Tengen because it's all flashy and no substance at all.

The story follows immediately after Mugen Train finished, with Tanjiro attempting to speak with Rengoku's father and little brother to pass on his final message to ...
Feb 18, 2023
Make My Day (Anime) add
I've watched the first few episodes of every anime in Winter 2023 and without a doubt this is the worst anime released this season.

I know for a lot of people they're going to write this off immediately because of its pretty awful CGI but there are a lot more issues than just Foodfight level CGI characters and animation. I don't know if they had two teams working on it but some shots look passable while the next will look like a fan project a 12 year old made on Youtube.

The story is nothing special, humanity wants a super rare mineral, finally find a planet that's ...


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