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I'll tell you the truth, I enjoyed reading it. But it was not interesting enough for me to actually want to read it outside of the dead hours at work.

The manga is not exactly bad, it's just very very boring. It's hard to stay focused on it unless you're really bored with nothing else to do (and for some reason I wanted to stick until the end, well, I heard it had a good ending that's worth sticking for).

The story is very poor. Nothing happens. NOTHING. I wish I could tell you what happened in the manga but I just don't remember. There weren't many eventful situations that gave a boost to the progress of the story. Everything progressed as slowly as One Piece's anime on 0.5x speed.

That was until a few chapters before the end, where all the cards were revealed on the table.

Even after all the struggle, the ending wasn't... as good as people made it out to be. It closed some corners but...

Who the hell brings a very side character at the very end of the manga and focuses on her instead of our main characters Usa and Ricchan? Geez.

The characters themselves were pathetic, but since they at least were diverse in shticks I kinda liked it... It dragged on for way too long though.

The masochist, the woman with no luck in men and curses everything related to love, the one who likes messing with people and ruining them...

And then there's Usa the pervert who likes senpai, video games and books (93 chapters and that's all I can tell about him).

Ritsu was quite developed, she has come a long way, and luckily she got quite a lot of time in the manga to see her truly shine. She was still a pain in the ass many times though, it made me want to tear some hairs.

The art was beautiful though, drawn well and represented the best scenes super well.

7/10 Thanks for passing me time in the office.

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How to Overlord in 4 steps:

1) Introduce random characters

2) Give them a little backstory and make them take a lot of screen time

3) Kill them "for the benefit of Nazarick" or enslave them "for the benefit of Nazarick"

4) Repeat

We've already seen this format since S2. Do you remember the lizardmen? The giant Hamster? Tuare? Maybe, probably not though. Not even their names.

They took up so much screen time and then become unimportant, it's not interesting anymore.

Unfortunately, S3 follows the same path, and only a handful of episodes are actually progressing the story, while 80% of the anime is "fillers"

I've been told many times that it's for "World Building" but one does not come at the cost of another. See One Piece, and Made in Abyss to some extent. Both have worldbuilding that comes along with an actual story.

We still don't know anything about the "other players" that might've been Isekai'd as well, and Ainz is the same geek who plays like a lord. And ofc everyone wants his D.

There are no more cool adventures of Adventurer Momonga like in S1, it's just "Let's slaughter people because it 'Benefits Nazarick'" now.

Combine it with horrible CGI and here you go, a recipe for disaster.

One more thing, imagine the titans in AoT. They're scary, right?

Now make them in horrible CGI. Not so scary, are they?

And now for the cherry on top, make the exact same goat voice line play every few seconds. Yes, a GOAT voice line.

Wat


At least OP and ED were good.

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Just because the setting isn't highschool doesn't make the anime automatically good.
Golden Kamuy is a combination of a National Geographic/History channel program about the Ainu and rush for gold.

Before the Spring2018 began, I had gone over the trailers of the shows to air this season.
Golden Kamuy presented a nice cast of voice actors I like, an era around 1900, guns, wolves and rush for gold.
Sounds like a pretty solid action anime.

Now, I can't deny that Golden Kamuy had some sweet action, but unfortunately, both the action and the story took a backseat to the "Ainu culture".
I don't know, after watching most of the show, people came and said "The action wasn't the point of the show, but the point was to show the Ainu culture".

Well, I can say for sure that the trailer made it look a lot better than it is in reality. If they showed the "Ainu culture" mostly in the trailer instead of the action and thrill, I doubt it would've attracted as many people.

So, what exactly is shown that I found tedious and boring?
For the first half of the show (and even a bit later), ~7 minutes every episode were about the Ainu Cooking. Take Shokugeki no Souma, remove the Ecchi, remove the competition, remove the Shounen aspects.
We're left with 7 minutes out of ~20 every week of "Oh this broth is so good, the squirrel meat isn't heavy and the chopped bones make it crunchy" etc. etc. etc. Then also don't forget to put "Hinna Hinna" afterwards.

Then, the hunting, and of course explanation how everything works.
"This trap is a barrel with a few nails in it. The foxes come to lick the bottom of the barrel and then get stuck. We hit them with a stick to finish them off"
"It is said that fox pelt is bad luck, [...] you can sell fox pelt for 1 yen, and these animals' pelts for 1 yen too, and this for 3 yen..."

Sorry, but it was just not interesting.

The real plot of the gold rush, along with a few groups all trying to get the big gold prize is.... pretty damn good.
It features a few groups, some are military veterans from the Russo-Japanese war, some are even older but all of them... are interesting. And are voiced by great voice actors.

It's a shame that the real plot kicks in only around episode 10, and even then it still has the "filler" stuff like before.
For example all of episode 12 was about horse racing, and how the Ainu use fortune telling. We got only 3 minutes maximum of continuation for the clash between the groups after the gold.

The art didn't do justice as well. The controversial "CGI Bears" as well as the "CGI fire" and other CGI stuff just didn't fit well.
I understand the staff wanted to make it look special (If I remember correctly, what's what they said why they made CGI bears) but it just doesn't look good.

If I wanted to commend to Golden Kamuy, it would've been the OP/ED. MAN WITH A MISSION and THE SIXTH SENSE did absolutely an amazing job.

Overall, was Golden Kamuy good? So-so, it depends what you're expecting and what you want to watch. And also, a second season was announced so there's a chance it'll cover the failures or at least continue the story in S1, and not show us almost a full episode about kids playing with a stick.

6/10

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I have to confess, the only reason I decided to watch this anime was because of two words: "µ" and "idol", I thought maybe I'd get some Love Live references here. Ha.

Well anyways, Caligula was pretty much one huge mess. The concept shown to us in the sypnosis isn't so bad, and indeed the concept of being stuck in another world and trying to escape from it- isn't so bad.
But as the story went on, it turned out to be a horrible mess.

We barely get to know what really is happening in the series, and as the story progresses we get more twists that made me even more confused.
Just because there are twists and psychological quotes every episode doesn't make it automatically good.

We get all the backstories dumped into us, making us "feel" the characters, but at the very least we had diversity in the characters.

Oh, and then there are the bad guys, the Musicians, who like the imaginary world but they have to kill the ones who want to escape from the current world- just because.

We've gone for 12 episodes without a clear direction, and only once in a while there was a clash between the "good" and "bad" forces, with no meaning behind.

For some reason, whenever µ sang, everybody went wild. Pretty weird concept to make the enemies "awaken"...

The OP/ED were nice.

The artstyle (on purpose?) was made to be grim, Using the colors of gray, brown and black, you can see the whole anime being "lifeless" and... unappealing.

Conclusion: This anime seemed like an advertisment for µ songs. And no, these aren't "µ's" the idol group from Love Live, but this is just "µ", the inferior idol.

5/10 Feel free to skip it.

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After finishing the first arc and entering the second one, I can already see what SAOA:GGO is all about.

Jumping into the Battle Royale trend while it's hot (with PUBG and Fortnite going strong), there's not much to tell you about the story.

The premise is a battleroyale and that's about it. So what's the problem with it?
Do you know that in team games you are always told to stick with your team? Well of course in SAOA:GGO there are these teams. They are all friends who make a premade team, work as a team, and even they know each other's strengths and weaknesses.
Fights between these teams would be pretty interesting. But then we got LLENN.
Loli? Check
Wearing pink while everybody wear camouflage? Check
Calls her P90 "P-chan"? Check
P-Chan can speak? Check
Super OP even more than Kirito? CHECK

I'm a shounen anime fan, I can somehow be fine with weird powerups but here it's just so stupid. LLENN is pretty much a solo player (besides teaming up with M) so of course she'll go 1vs5.

There are no special tactics, just go in there and swat 5 enemies like flies. Classic.

Now, what if I told you that there is a couple of characters who are psychopaths just for the sake of it? And they don't really seek medical help.

Oh and also, if we're going already for lolis, why not introduce MORE lolis? Don't forget to have one of them have a really damn annoying voice (The blonde girl) like Flora from Asterisk War or something.

As for the art and music- OST is fine, not something memorable and OP/ED are nice which give a SAO-ish feel.
The art is mediocre, many times you could see missing details or just weird teleports of characters like frames were skipped.

That's all there is to it. Basically no story, very OP MC, psychopathic side characters + many loli side characters, but all in all, it's not that bad. I've always been a fan of Isekai/Video games anime, so at the end of the day it depends what you seek. 6/10

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Would you like to get HYPED? Are you looking for some action? Here is the place!

Garo:Vanishing line is a standalone anime, so you don't need to watch the older Garos in order to watch this one. What is this about? Well the sypnosis probably tells it better but in summary: Knights and Alchemists fighting Horrors, making their way to uncover the mysteries of El Dorado.

Why did I like it so much? Because it was great. It did exactly what I was looking for.

Sometimes it feels like shows try to make action anime epic yet fail with some underhanded tactics. Either fights ending too soon, or just not being hype enough. But... Garo did it right.

The combination of the music, art and animation, and the fight scenes in general were well done.

What about the story? There was a general story line about going to El Dorado. But... It was a bit lacking. Since it was a 2 cour, they had a lot of time to... strech? Some episodes didn't really contribute to the general story line and just showed some cool fights. So basically the story picks up its pace only later on.
While it didn't feel the most original story ever, it was pretty unique. And you don't really need to reinvent the wheel in order for a story to be great.

Sound was amazing, it made every fight scene make me hyped. Also, OP/ED were fine, nothing too impressive but not bad either.

As for characters... There was some fine development. Some getting stronger, or for some we can see the relationships grow stronger.
None of the characters really fall to "cliches" so that was pretty nice.

Overall enjoyment- I didn't watch it weekly. I watched a bunch of episodes every month or two, and this week I binged the last 8 episodes. Binging it all together is a lot more fun than weekly in my opinion. Generally, I enjoyed that.

Do I recommend it? YES I do! If you're an action lover, you'll probably like this.

Bottom Score: 8/10

Bonus part: Since I watched the very first Garo anime, I might want to compare it a little.

Garo:Vanishing Line and the first Garo are pretty different because of the eras. (This one is modern, older one is in the middle ages). Vanishing Line was better.
I felt like the older Garo was nice to watch as well but I don't remember it being as hype as Vanishing line. And I also don't recall it having action fights as great as Vanishing Line.

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Let the time... STOP.

You are now stuck in a world where everything is frozen, except you. What now?

That's basically what Kokkoku is about, Juri and her group is stuck in the "Statis" along with the bad guys of course.

Review will contain minor spoilers, I guess.

Kokkoku started out as an interesting anime, interesting premise. Why are they stuck in the Statis? What is that world? And what is that huge creature shown in the OP (or the ending of the first episode?)

Many questions, some answered, some not, but meanwhile- The bad guys are taking place. Well, they want to research this statis, so they're bad. Oh and they kill people too because why not.

The "bad" people REALLY weren't fleshed out at all, they felt like some random background characters, which maybe was true to classify them as background.

Kokkoku went from a mystery thriller anime of trying to unveil the mysteries of the Statis to.... Let's all fight the bad guy boss!

Well that sounds familiar right? Many anime and stories in general have this, which is fine. But it was nothing like what the premise showed, the start didn't make me think it'll be just going full force forward into the enemy. Oh and just you wait until you see his foolish backstory. It's better you don't know it though.

On the other hand, what I think was nice to see is the strong female lead. Juri, and later on Majima were a nice change of pace. Strong, determined, you don't see that in anime every day.

But... While many remained in the background, those who didn't remain in the background were... lacking.

Takafumi (dad) was always annoying and brought nothing except problems. I can deal with that, as they somewhat tried to make it funny. Well.. It didn't work.

The NEET brother was more on the side, but he didn't contribute anything too.

Makoto, the kid, was always the "prince"/"princess" of this show (aka PROTECT THE PRESIDENT), but oh btw he's also pretty strong it seems, because why not.

Now to the more main characters, It was nice seeing Grandpa in action, reminds me of Inuyashiki. But what was... weird? Is that he knew of this Statis from his father and yet never questioned it. So he was pretty clueless, except some useful abilities (ex: Aegis to prevent being thrown out) and teleport. But that's all there is to him. He's just there to save Juri whenever she needs to get out.

Majima... Gets some spotlight, she wants to protect/save her family, and she's a bit familiar with the Statis, Well I guess that works.

Oh also I want to mention, the OP and ED are top tier.

So... Did I enjoy Kokkoku? Kinda, I can also say that it's better to binge. Would I go out of my way to recommend it to others? Probably not.

It was really good at the beginning, but... failed and fell. Trainwreck. One weird thing after another. And yes that includes the bad guy's back story.
At the beginning every episode went so fast as I enjoyed it, I thought it would be close to AOTS (well after SoraYori), but nah, too many "fillers" if I can call it that.

Disappointment, yet still a honorable mention for the good first half.

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Ok, Let's talk real now.

I didn't come to watch Love Live Sunshine because I looked for some intense and deep story that involves time traveling or... something like that.

I came here looking for cute idols singing, dancing, aiming high and getting there.
And I got exactly what I was looking for.

In Season 2 we didn't really have a "special" story. It's pretty similar to School Idol Project, with the school being at risk, 3rd years leaving and such. But, it felt like it fit to give some background story so I liked it in the end. (7/10 for Story)

The animation and art was outstanding. The CGI dances were executed super well and I have enjoyed every moment watching it.
Of course there were points where the art dropped off, but it was mostly consistent. (9/10 for Art)

Sound- Which includes Soundtrack/OP/ED/Insert songs. That was the real strength of Love Live Sunshine. These were amazing songs and I've enjoyed every single one of them, I listen to them every day because they were so good.

The soundtrack, too, fit quite well and was nice. (10/10 for Sound)

Well, we have 9 characters, which is a pretty nice amount. So it'll be hard not finding a girl to your liking. They were pretty diverse in their personalities yet so close (as they're all idols), the development between the cast as Aqours, or as one grade (Ex: Chemistry between 3rd years) and all the "ships" were quite outstanding. I found myself really bonding with the characters, and by the end of the anime there are no girls I hate. (10/10 for Character).

So in conclusion, this anime got a 10/10 from me. And I RECOMMEND IT. Even if you don't feel like going through the "comedy to drama" story, just listen and watch to the CGI Dances and songs, as they were too good.

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Do you know what Juuni Taisen lacked? The music in comedy anime where someone does something stupid. Everything was so stupid here that it might've been better to just make it a comedy anime. And even with that my score would've been maybe 5 instead of 4


After watching all of the show, I want to say that this anime... Had potential. And a lot of it. But it went downhill really fast.

I'm going to talk about the pattern of the anime, which makes almost every episode the same, the poor "border story" and why the anime which is tagged only as "Action"- doesn't do anything interesting with action. Minor spoilers but I do not specify names.

So, when I first saw Juuni Taisen, I got hyped "Another Fate? Sounds cool!" and the story is pretty simple. 12 fighters, 1 wish, fight to death, last one standing (probably).

Where did it fall off? Basically at the end of the first episode, but you only realize it later.

Juuni Taisen repeats a pretty bad pattern for almost every episode.

Show flashbacks of character->Show character's amazing plan how to win->Character dies a random, quick death. (You sit there afterwards and ask yourself what the hell has happend)->Show next episode's title which contains an animal and spoils the next death in the next episode.

I have been watching it and hoping- Will the pattern break? And also, we are spoiled the order of the deaths, I do not want to spoil where, but once you see it and realize and doesn't break pattern and unlikely to.... You lose 80% of the enjoyment.

The border story? None. They fight for a wish, that's it. Oh and there's some guy who started all this and introduces them in the first episode to that Juuni Taisen, we don't know who that guy is (....yet?).

I wanna give props to the music (kinda), the OP and ED were top notch. The soundtrack.. Mostly forgettable.

But the art on the other hand... Went downhill real fast.

In conclusion, my score is 4/10. And if you're looking for a Fate alternative, you better watch Kiss X Sis because at least it's better than Juuni Taisen.

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HEAR ME, I SAY, CROSS THE WALL!

Catchy OP? Check

Amazing ED? Check

Likeable cast? Check

Interesting story? Check

Random filler episode? Check

Princess Principal is my Anime of the Season. When I first heard about it, I didn't come with high expectations. I thought it'll be some generic action/magic anime or a "Cute Girls Doing Cute Things" anime.

Oh, I was wrong. Princess Principal DOES have only female characters as main characters, and yes, they are pretty cute, but the last thing you'll say about them is that they're doing cute things. (Well, that is of course if you do not consider killing people "cute things")

Princess Principal is an episodic anime, each episode isn't related to the one before, and aren't released chronologically. Some of them show history and background of the characters. Most of the anime is like that, but at some point it airs a few episodes in a row which are also chronologically connected.

I wouldn't want to spoil, but there's some kind of twist we see early on which makes the show a bit more confusing, but a lot more interesting.

One of the things that amazed is the setting.
The steampunk setting is presented well. The world, the buildings, the poverty vs the rich, the clothes, the soldiers, the weapons, the cars. All of it looked faithful to the 19th century.

The characters don't fall into the normal anime tropes. We don't have the "tsundere" for example who is just a "tsundere" without any traits.

All of the characters are interesting, likeable and different. All of them are spies (as said in the synopsis) but each has her own fighting style, the way she acts, handles the tasks or her friends and such.

Talking about the art- If you saw screenshots or action sequences you could see that it's a beauty. Looks really good, pleasing to the eye and pretty detailed.

Lastly, the music. One of thr stronger aspects of the show. The Opening song is my favorite from this season, and is a good contender for the best Opening song of the year for me. The ED is pretty good as well, soothing after a tense episode.

The soundtrack (OST) is on point, adds a lot to the viewing experience.

I'm still not sure on my score, I want to give it either 9 or 10. For this review I'll go with 9.5 .

I recommend Princess Principal.

TL;DR Amazing anime, my AOTS. Interesting story, amazing action, music and art. Recommended.

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