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Well, unlike other reviewers, I have some actual respect for the intelligence of those watching this short film. Are racist stereotypes involved? Yes. Does this mean you're doing literal violence and harm to actual human beings by watching this film? No.

Anyone with half a brain can distinguish between different aspects of any creative work. This is an important historical artifact and can be evaluated on a variety of metrics. One can still appreciate certain features of the film without condemning the whole. And a thorough analysis involves such holistic consideration. Otherwise, how does anyone even read anything from the entirety of civilization's beginnings to, say, ... five years ago? If you can only condemn works that don't fit your exact current worldview then you are mentally a child.

Love or hate this film, at least evaluate it on more than what you learned on Twitter the other day.

This is an incredibly sad short film about the impossibility of belonging in a society that will never accept your existence as you truly are. It's frequently described as a horror anime, but if you're looking for scares or gore this short film won't offer any of that. It will, however, probably make you pause for a bit and consider what you just experienced.

I really appreciated that the whole creative team behind this story committed to a very specific vision, one that isn't likely to appeal to a broad audience. The music is simple but evocative, and it complements the melancholy story quite well. ... I'm glad I took a chance on this.

I will, however, say that the animation is woefully subpar on every level. Please don't let that dissuade you from giving the movie a chance. I would, however, say that I would have increased my score if it didn't look so cheaply done. That being said, I hope that the people who worked on this get much better funding in the future. They deserve it.

Non Non Biyori is always great at eliciting a range of bittersweet emotions along with an incredible sense of calm and serenity...plus just enough humor to keep things fresh and unsentimental. This OVA is no different, and my only disappointment is that we may never get any more stories from this incredible little country town.

The first part of the OVA is devoted to homework, and the second to Nattsun's desire to start a badminton club. When you find out why she was inspired to do this, it's an especially sweet moment...but then again that entire half of the OVA is packed with great material. ... Not every character gets to shine in this single episode, but there are lots of cameos to at least ensure few characters are overlooked or forgotten.

Stay until the very end to get a small ray of hope.

It's always sad for anything in Non Non Biyori to end, but don't forget that you can watch everything again from the start. This OVA means that you have one more small gem to add to that rewatch list, and for that I'm thankful.

This was not a good show.

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS

If you want to watch a bunch of annoying children and a cultist handle some low stakes adventures on a space station, feel free. There are two absolutely intolerable social media influencers, a kid who's also some kind of secret agent, a bunch of useless adults...and a comet. Just wait until you find out about that!

The plot, such as it is, involves throwing random situations up in the air and hoping they land. There's no sense of real danger and everything is played out as comedy. I'll give the writing credit for addressing realistic situations that ... might occur in a crisis on a space station, but when half the time is spent on childish antics, it's hardly as if you particularly care.

The art is pretty nice, but that's all I can say. If you're under the age of 12 then I'm sure this would be fun. Otherwise it's laughably simplistic and offers the viewer nothing of substance.

This is a manly anime about a very masculine private detective who likes boxing, women, drinking, betting on the ponies, and other things that make a man a real man. Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous. If you want to watch a somewhat entertaining Japanese anime take on old American hardboiled detective stories then please feel free to check this out. It's lacking in story quality and the animation is...rudimentary...but they do get the atmosphere right. It's a decent adventure through late night bars, shady meetings with sketchy clients, some solid male bonding accomplished through violence, and a bit of casual sex on the side. As long ... as you're not expecting a satisfying conclusion to the story and just want to be distracted for 45 minutes then this is just fine. But I really can't say it actually deserves a decent score given the overall cheap feel of the production and lack of interest in coming up with a decent script.

My primary purpose in writing this review is to convince you that Bouken Shite mo Ii Koro is a waste of your time. Don't bother watching this junk. While it's billed as a comedy, the OVA series is basically a hentai. It's poorly animated, dreadfully written, and relies on sexual assault, coerced sex, and rape for titillation. All of this is presented in a light-hearted manner as if it's the most normal, healthy thing in the world.What's unfortunate is that, in the hands of anyone with a modicum of talent, things could have been very different. A sex comedy about an underdog porn studio trying ... to make it big has a lot of potential for an ecchi anime. In fact, there's one really clever sequence where they're trying to film a scene on public transportation (illegally, of course) and have to flee the scene when they get busted. If they'd focused more on that kind of material then this could have been a somewhat decent show at any rate. Instead, the focus on creepy sex scenarios and juvenile "humor" render it practically without worth. If you're looking for comedy or actually sexy content, save yourself the 135 minutes I wasted and see something else.

Junk Head is an extraordinary achievement of stop-motion animation. Its influences range from art cinema to B-grade horror films and post-apocalyptic video games, but there's nothing quite like it out there. Created almost entirely by one man, Takahide Hori, Junk Head is a journey through a nightmarish underground landscape of ruins, caverns, and decaying industrial infrastructure inhabited by grotesque sentient humanoids and even more twisted and repulsive predators who lurk in the dark.

The story is fairly simple, involving the extremely perilous adventures of a future "human" who volunteers for a dangerous mission into the unknown, His travels deep underneath the Earth's surface reveal a ... phantasmagoric, meticulously detailed underworld with its own social structure, belief system, and far more deadly threats than anyone could desire. Life is cheap in this underground labyrinth and the film doesn't shy away from the many interesting ways in which living creatures can meet their end. Adding to this sense of utter alienation from anything resembling our own reality, the characters all speak in various invented languages made of harsh, guttural sounds. You are relentlessly assaulted with the fact that this world, even though it's still called Earth, might as well be as alien as any planet from science fiction.

Thankfully, Junk Head offers much more than a hellscape of misery and terror. Takahide Hori has a wonderfully playful sense of humor, sometimes dark, often quite silly, and frequently rather subtle. He also clearly cares about the many oddly shaped misfits who star in the film. They're all given personalities, motivations, and often some real dignity. They're just trying to do their best in an environment that's pretty much out to kill them at every turn. The film is never sentimental, but it invests the struggles and actions of the characters with genuine weight and significance. This movie is not just mere spectacle for its own sake.

While Junk Heap is by no means the kind of film most people on this site would expect, I hope it gains a new audience of fans from the MAL community. The film is audacious in the scope of its execution and offers the kind of pleasures that popular entertainment rarely does. Hopefully Junk Heap will encourage some anime fans to delve into other forms of animation storytelling more deeply (I would especially recommend Jan Svankmajer). And if nothing else, maybe you'll have some intriguingly unique dreams in days to come.

This is just a nice, short comedic interlude that's not essential viewing...but it is a lot of fun. In short, Tanya and her unit are stationed in the middle of the desert, Water is scarce and their diet is monotonous. So, in a brilliantly stupid way to improve morale and vary their combat rations, the military high command ships in an incalculable quantity of dried pasta. The rest of the story involves the crazy lengths to which Tanya and her mages go to make said pasta tasty. Mayhem ensues.

If you like Youjo Senki then this is a nice treat while we all wait for the ... second season. It'll give you a few laughs and it looks really nice too. I can only hope we get a few more of these in the future.

Why am I giving such a low score to a movie that so many people love? It's pretty simple: If you have't already read the source material this whole thing is going to be incoherent. Very little is fleshed out or explained, there's a huge time skip, and no relationships are defined at all. I'm syre that this is satisfying fan service for those who read the series, but if you're judging it as a stand-alone anime project it fails completely.

The animation is nice enough and everything else is of good quality, but I can't recommend this if you're anime only like me. It's just ... a bunch of random scenes strung together. It's not a real story.

There's little horror to be seen in this anthology of three short stories involving ineffectual male characters and their interactions with a mysterious woman named Mumako who grants their wishes...with a twist.

The animation style is pedestrian at best, and drawn more like a gag comedy anime than horror. The stories are not in the least bit scary, offering at best a vague surprise in the end, but prepare to be unimpressed.

Basically this is a waste of your time. It's dull, not scary, and the art and music are barely doing the minimum. There are plenty of actually decent one-shot horror releases from the ... 80s and 90s so don't spend half an hour on this one.