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Sep 30, 2023
While a lot of anime is lightly veiled wish fulfillment, The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today shows that anime has not yet used every possible combination of ideas in coming up with a somewhat novel premise: What if your cat grew to be the size of a human and became your domestic caretaker?

This show speaks to the overworked single while sidestepping whatever complicated feelings they might have about parents or significant others, getting to the core idea: Wouldn't it be nice to have someone to take care of you at home?

Now I'll be completely straight with you here: This show is largely ...
Feb 17, 2023
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (6/12 eps)
Since the success of Karakai Jouzu Takagi-san there has been a number of shows that have tried to, with varying levels of success, copy its formula - cute girl decides to play around with and eventually fall for shy, awkward guy.

So, how does Kubo-san do in that regard?

Kubo-san is a show about a beautiful, athletic, intelligent, popular girl who likes a guy who is so unremarkable that most people think he isn't present even when they're in the same room; furthermore, she seems to be the one of the only people who's even ~capable~ of noticing his presence at all. Why does this seemingly ...
Dec 23, 2022
Mixed Feelings
As many of you already know, Hoshi no Samidare's anime adaption has been very poorly received, disappointing manga fans around the world. While I understand and empathize with this perspective, I am going to provide a perspective and critique from the point of view of someone who's only watched the anime and knows nothing about the manga. (No spoilers in this review)

To start with, I'll address the most obvious negative issue:

Hoshi no Samidare has some of the worst animation I've seen in years, making some of the most serious action scenes border on comically bad, often breaking your suspension of disbelief, interfering with not only ...
Aug 7, 2020
Preliminary (4/11 eps)
Balance: Unlimited delivers more or less on what it promises from the first episode. Action, detective work, and oil and water police partners coming to see eye to eye. Oh, and unlimited money, of course.

Insofar as police shows go, outside of "One of them has unlimited money," this doesn't stray too far outside the sorts of patterns you'd expect to see, however, a show doesn't need to be completely unique to be enjoyable and well-delivered. The unlimited money quirk is enough to make the show interesting, and the rest of the more "normal" writing in its characters and relatively episodic plot isn't particularly stellar, but ...
Jun 8, 2020
Note: This review takes into account the combination of the first and second seasons as one continuous plot and rates them as a combined work. Read on and you'll understand why I've chosen this approach.

If you like when the underdog surprises and punches above their weight, this might be the show for you.

I watched this series completely on a whim, expecting a lot of lonely otaku wish-fulfillment / pandering. I'll be quite honest, the start of the first season threw a lot of objectively unbelievable premises at the viewer exactly along these lines. Still, despite the predictably unbelievable start, it had some merits. Once getting ...
Jun 8, 2020
If you like the underdog that punches above its weight, this might be the show for you.

I watched this series completely on a whim, expecting a lot of lonely otaku wish-fulfillment / pandering. I'll be quite honest, the start of the first season threw a lot of objectively unbelievable premises at the viewer exactly along these lines. Still, despite the predictably unbelievable start, it had some merits. Once getting past the initial unbelievable developments, the drama and romance aspects that followed were enough to keep me interested and just enough to make me curious about what would happen in the sequel.

And I'm glad I kept ...
Mar 28, 2020
Preliminary (3/5 eps)
The first two episodes are essentially pure fanservice, which drags the score down for me. If you like fanservice, you will most certainly enjoy them more than I did.

If you're looking more for something that hits the "regular" pace of this show, the third OVA gets back into that, starting a story centering around the academy kids. As it ends partway through telling the story, the 4th OVA will doubtlessly continue, and perhaps even on to the 5th.

This OVA isn't really anything special and I doubt that it will significantly change the direction of the plot, but if you really like the show, it's worth ...
Sep 16, 2014
**No spoilers** The Pilot's Love Song is a mix of drama, romance and action, though I would say it leans toward primarily being a drama. The show starts with a relatively easygoing feeling, but gets much more serious by the halfway point and remains so until the end.

The main theme that this series focuses on is the reality of war, which includes the concepts of overcoming fear, accepting loss and the importance of forgiveness through love. There is a fairly decent-sized cast of side characters without being too overwhelming, and there are several romantic interests among them which helps to keep your interest even if ...
Sep 30, 2011
Mixed Feelings
This is a four minute short that basically consists of minute clips of several characters saying what makes Christmas important to them.

The odd part about it is how the...format of the clip is the same for every character, regardless of gender...

Very odd little special. If you like Idiots & Tests, I guess it's worth your 4 minutes?
Jan 5, 2010
Preliminary (1/13 eps)
There are two ways you can look at this series:

1) It's something that's trying to be a serious action series and fails because it's terribly cheesy,
or
2) This is ~meant~ to be a throwback to cheesy cartoons of the 1970s and 1980s, and the cheese is, at least in part, self-satire.

Personally, I lean more towards the second interpretation, and find that the series is accomplishing what it's set out to do. If you don't like cheesy old-school or satire, you're really not going to like this series at all, I'll give you that as a fair warning.

First, you've got the typical daredevil macho hero with ...


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