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****SPOILERS BELOW****


Shounen tropes and Shoujo tropes are always at war for the number 1 position at Anime Cringefest.
Anime is very educational.
Shounen tells young boys that if you spot a 'flesh and meat' with tiddies & coochie anywhere near the diameter of your dick, this thing, for 99.9% of cases, will lack any sort of motivation or ideal other than a sole emotion called 'love' exclusive to you/your rival & remember boys, your every 'annoying' and 'get lost' = one blush which fills in half of the circumference of that thing's face. Ofcourse you're allowed to have multiple of these plushies around but it ... depends on your universe/genre/the extent of contact between the writer & a living female. You don't need to press any buttons, the 'Ereh' 'Sasuke-kun' 'Naruto-kun' 'Light-kun' are almost spontaneous. They're pretty handy for the day mc loses his memory or somewhere along the way, the reader/viewer forgets said MC's name for how boring he is.

Shoujo teaches young girls that it's okay for that one 'PERFECT' guy who has no personality other than being 'physically perfect', to touch you without asking & harass you whenever he feels like. It's alright for him to suddenly pull you up close and land a hickey on your waist and lift up your skirt on the second day of you seeing him and kiss you by force BECAUSE, HE'S FUCKING HOT. And because he's everybody's crush but he's paying attention to you and only to you. Don't you dare think about saying 'no' to anything he does to you! Don't you dare. And girl, don't get confused. It's not like you don't reciprocate his 'love' because, you know, YOU DON'T LOVE HIM OR ANYTHING. You're a shoujo protagonist and this guy touches you without consent and is the national crush. You will eventually love him. That's the friggin' rule.

I remember when I was watching 'Yona of the dawn', a particular scene where Hak - the main male lead (a character with a decent backstory and personality), suddenly started licking honey off Yona's hand (For extra context, they're not lovers & Yona likes someone else at that point of the story) after a jar of honey accidently fell on her hands and I remember seeing comments saying 'hot' & 'romantic' but I was grossed out as fuck at that scene. I provide this example, to show that even a good story like 'Yona of the dawn' with actual good characters starts to cower when you decide to include typical overused problematic meta-narratives exclusive to 'shoujo' or 'shounen' demographics. This particular scene was so out of character for said, 'Hak' who in the early episodes/chapters is proved to be very stoic and is shown to respect Yona and prioritize Yona's privacy. And even though he's in love with her, he would never force Yona to feel the same, right? Wrong. Yona, quickly multiply your feelings for me by a leap of 50 folds while I grab your hand and lick it without asking if it's okay because it's so romantic gooosshhh!
Many great shounen and shoujos, have regressed by 100 years, only because of the implementation of these clichès and Kaichou wa Maid-sama isn't even great to begin with. So how bad can it get?

Okay this is becoming too much of a general anime rant. Coming back exclusively to Maid-sama.


NEGATIVES :

- Usui, in the first and only season of Maid-sama is just a stalker with no personality.
- Misa is a tsundere by default and by the rules of anime, she'll fall in love with the guy after he constantly follows her for a span of 8-10 episodes.
- The chemistry is just zero. Plain Zero. They try but it's just SHALLOW.
- There are moments when something romantic SHOULD happen, provided it's tagged 'Romance' but, is instead followed by Usui being a pervert while Misaki starts pushing him away with a ripe tomato face. This same thing goes on and on and on and on and on only for Misaki to say 'You sexually harass me but I love you I guess' during the 100th repeated version.
- There's this typical love traingle guy introduced at the near end and the writer leaves no stones untouched to make it crystal clear to us that Usui is far superior to him in all sorts of 'aesthetic' aspects or that he or no other guy for that fact stands a chance in front of Usui when it comes to our Misa-chan.


FEW POSITIVES:

- That one band in the show. Bruh.
- Art is pretty crisp for something animated in the early 2000s.
- Taking out the context of 'Romance', Kaichou wa Maid-sama! is fun for the most part. Obviously most jokes don't work, but you can still sit through with a laugh every once in between, provided Takumi & Misa are not trying to make sense of their half-assed relationship.
- Supporting cast, even if not that great, some of them are quite okay, like the hypnotizing guy with hoodie or the other maids at the cafe or even the idiot trio.


CONCLUSION:

If it's as a comedy, you CAN watch it but I'd recommend it only and if you are done with comedic geniuses such as Gintama and Saiki.

As a romance, a huge NO.

In all honesty, this is one of those many many MANY animes which gives it's teen veiwers the wrong message about how relationship and consent works. They tried to portray the protagonist in the light of a 'strong' woman who takes no bullshit but at the same time when she's in the vicinity of the main guy, she makes no deal about him lifting her dress. The irony lmao.

I might be being too salty for one hell of a fictional piece of work but again, I'm just tired of shoujo being ONLY about falling in love and getting turned on after being dominated or harassed. When I was 15, one the few things I was constantly worried about was if I'd get spanked by my mom for drawing a fake tattoo with a sketch pen on my arm. Anyway, don't exactly recommend it but you can watch it, it can be YOUR thing if you resemble anime's idea of a teen girl.

*SPOILERS OBVIOUSLY


Funny how the manga readers argue that the manga is better but turns out it's just as bad. Anime made a few differences but they're both very below average.

Sad how the designs were cool, the girls were doing the same kinda shit the men were doing instead of groveling on the ground 'KUN-ing' the fuck out of said MC's name but what's the point when plot and character development don't exist! I like Akame a bit tho, prolly because she's stoic & super strong idk it mostly works with these two traits together but not saying she's a good character or anything. Esdeath is ... okay too but it's SHOUNEN bitches! - so we got a couple of chics including her just hopelessly in love with a very below average looking & boring MC. I mean, Lubbock was way more charming but no girl liked him. Mmmm SHOUNEN. Meanwhile the mc is like 'oh no *blush* boobs'. Typical. Overall pretty bland show, everyone dies, that too for very weird reasons. I mean they just die. One after another. Quicker than how the teachers steals your paper when you're tying to scribble during the last 30 seconds.. The last fight is kinda cool tho. But Akame got some super six paths sage hack in the end which didn't make sense in the anime but looked cool nonetheless. So it's not worth watching. But watch it if you want. Who cares. I watched it too.

*HEAVY SPOILERS BELOW*

So here's the thing. Attack On Titan was one of my favourite pieces of media up until a few months before the manga officially ended. I'll try to keep it short but I'm sure it isn't going to be. I didn't want to write a review but I changed my mind so after a year here I am. It is a story with no meaning whatsoever. Remember all those metaphors, comrades dying for a purpose, a constantly building hypothetical atmosphere unfolding some unknown mystery which would lead to Eren ending as one of the most complex and perplexing protagonists? About Eren & the ... titans & the tree in paradise & 'everyone is a slave to something' & 'I WAS BORN INTO THIS WORLD'?

- ok Eren, what were you born for? Since you did so much shit, you should already know.

- Dunno man. No idea.

Yep. That what sums up the conclusion. The ending of Shingeki no Kyojin was written in such a way that it had no relevance to all the deep naturism that it has been about all these years. Eren having a no-turning-back reason for doing what he is doing? NO he absolutely has no reason. It didn't matter whether Eren lived on or died like an ass (which he already did lmao), the thing is he wasn't a good character. Not at all. Infact, the writing of Eren's character is the reason for this story's downfall, when, however, the main reason why "THIS MIGHT BE ONE OF THE GREATEST MANGA/ANIME OF ALL TIME" trope was being anticipated WAS BECAUSE of how EREN'S character was 'assumed' to conclude in the future. And that 'CONCLUSION' to Eren's character didn't end as imagined by fans lmao. Whatever was built up was totally flushed in the toilet in the last arcs.

Well, if we look at this entire story in a very different light, everything makes sense. If we consider Eren to be a fucking man-child that is. A whole lot of the world was stomped by him & Paradis was destroyed in the future. Titans never ceased to exist. That mofo doesn't even know why he did what he did and why did this have to happen. The only thing he was drooling over Jiyuu Jiyuu Jiyuu or staring at the sky pretending to be 5 WHEN HE WAS 19. I'd like to think the ending was rushed and the author was trying to wrap things up within a certain period & that's why it turned out to be a bowl of fresh yellow dump. Because it's hard to believe that such a unique story with all the potential in the world was actually no story at all.
Anyway, Eren is dumb and obviously has eight-grader syndrome, I mean, he's so fucking retarded, I can't..
Meanwhile Mikasa is just crying for Eren, kissing a decapitated head like a complete creep (Women with self-respect can't relate). Honestly, Mikasa could have been written well provided she has had a fair chunk of panels devoted to her backstory and awakening and trauma blah blah but nonetheless, her obsession with the hobo psychopath neutralizes everything up to the point where the only remaining thing is a submissive wife. Mikasa has zero personality beyond Eren. She's like a sheep, yk? "Erehhhhhh". Her headaches were teased very often but that detail went nowhere. Armin takes credit for killing Eren instead of Mikasa because OBVIOUSLY girl does have no dignity of her own and she doesn't care about anything other than her dead brosband while Armin is still salivating over 'umi' so he's not capable of doing something useful such as killing the founding Titan. Actually, Armin was pretty okay until the last arc where he becomes ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC. Armin was ALWAYS opposed to what Eren was doing & the reason he agreed to kill his own comrades was because of that reason solely. But by the end he's glad Eren did everything and to make it worse, that blonde-bag even thanks that mentally unstable man-child for becoming a murderer. What? I don't understand this manga. How did it turn out to be like this?
Reiner is, like an absolute creep sniffing a married woman's letter who, by the way, also happens to be a mother & is for some reason extremely gaaayy (happy) whereas the last time we saw her, girl had that "I'm done, fuck my life" face. Ymir we were supposed to believe was representing 'suffering', whose negative emotions was the root of humanity's doom but in the end turns out she was in love. How? Why? No, what the actual fuck? And Jean supposedly marries Mikasa. Seriously? How many L's is this man going to take? Connie would be the most likable out of the bunch even though he had been the least likable throughout the series because you know, everyone regressed so much and Connie's would be the least, so. Pieck is just there, fights a bit, nothing else. Floch is there to be another crazy asshole. And I could go on and on.

But the biggest boulder, even bigger than all the horrible character traits was - the ending + everything that led to the ending. With 20 or so chapters left for the manga to officially end, Isayama was still introducing new plot points. With 499 other unexplained things from past chapters already at hand. For 130 chapters you still meddle around, superficially teasing some supposedly 'mind-blowing-clit-squirting-reveal' in the future and you have like 10 chapters left, I'd imagine it's not going to end on a good note. Not to mention, 139 chapters? Come on Isayama, are the 13/9 symbolisms that important when your story stops making sense? Just 15 more or so chapters and maybe, just maybe we'd have one of the best s stories ever written. But *sigh* It was evident after 123 that everything was going downhill. Cool things were introduced even during the final few arcs like they meant something but nothing was ever explained. ACKERMAN? Who dat?

Instead we are greeted with the power of love taking over everything and everyone. Sorry, What? Just to clarify, I LOVE a good romance. Even in the most brutal of scenarios, love can play the greatest role. But IN THE RIGHT TIME AND IN THE RIGHT AMOUNT. Firstly, Japan's creepy obsession with incest has it's fair share to make people dislike the ending. I mean, maybe not draw your potential pairing in a platonic familial light? Maybe make it clear that Mikasa wasn't legally adopted? Maybe not make Eren and Mikasa grow up like siblings but instead in the same neighborhood? All the while being taken care of by the Yeagers but staying in a different house? But NOPE! let's keep it hanging at the center so that incest lovers are satisfied as well and no sane person can raise a finger about
the incestuous nature either. Secondly, Mikasa's devotion. Nothing new. Typical shounen female thing. The only difference is she is physically overpowered unlike Hinata, Orihime, Sakura but the simping remains deepthroated. Thirdly and most importantly, the theme of ATTACK ON TITAN was never ROMANCE. It was WAR. The MC expresses his love to the girl before he dies? COOL! BEST THING EVER! But that's not what happened? Was it? Turns out, the symbol of the cycle of 2000 years of hatred and tragedy was - a slave having romantic feelings towards her abuser and being in love for centuries AND Mikasa's similar and parallel love for man-child. So, you are telling me, for 120+ chapters it was FREEDOM, FREEDOM, FREEDOM AND SLAVERY AND Eren's fucking trauma which was most surely caused ONLY due to all the memories making him realize how cruel the world is AND the answer to all those was MIKASA's love? Suddenly she's the one having a connection to YMIR. What about Eren? The one who understood Ymir was EREN but Ymir was searching for Mikasa? Why and How. The plot became so lazy at this point that the writer made the protagonist Eren say 'I don't know'. Because nobody does. The author doesn't and he doesn't care either. While I don't prefer the idea of a story with such huge cast of characters being a one-man show but come on. Eren's feelings were left completely unexplored.

The story should have come full circle with Eren's character and NOBODY ELSE, NOBODY. Sure, he could have his individual moments with Armin & Mikasa but Eren's journey should make sense.. But instead, we learn that there's no meaning to him or his existence or his motives. He's made to look like a deluded lunatic who did everything on the peak of his adrenaline boost. He's indecisive to what he wants and what he doesn't. One minute he's like - 'From the day I was born, I have been me bla bla' *insert serious face*, the next second he's like - 'weeehhh mukasahh doesnot lob mehh' & the next one he's like - 'oh you want to know my rationale that led me to commit genocide? My master plan since timeskip? idk man, I have no clue and there's no plan, Genocide just felt sexy' *stares at sky like an idiot*. Eren became the worst thing about Attack on Titan and sadly but pretty unironically Attack on titan is about Eren.

The reason I gave this a 4 is because I love Levi whatsoever. Maybe a bit overrated but he's a good character. Like, among all the relevant characters that survived till the end including main 3, his story was the ONLY one which had an ACTUAL CONCLUSION. Ofcourse, his character digressed too, with the later half SUDDENLY 'only' being about 'Erwin's promise' and not about what it originally was - ALL his comrades and the value of the lives lost and not just ERWIN but we can forgive that I guess. He's a short and beautiful man afterall. Zeke is only other that got me reading, I mean, he's pretty decent too if we exclude the plothole of him 'needing' to die for 'something' to stop. Whatever.

The Art of Attack on Titan is Bad. It gets better with time just like every other manga but it's way below average nonetheless. Sometimes it's so hard to make out the foreground from background and honestly the author doesn't give much of a fuck either. Many pages where there is supposed to be a lot going on in the background, it looks like a scribble from a 3 year old's sketch book. The story was the only thing which kept it going and sadly it also died somewhere along the way. You can just tell, he lost interest and just wanted to move on to his Onsen thing or whatever. No matter how much fans try to justify this 'bad' conclusion, it's clear as day to see that the intent of making it 'good' wasn't there anymore.
Anyway,
to sum it up - We're made to feel we're reading some really dark & philosophical shit but in the end it's just a guy who destroyed the world, treated his friends like shit, went emo and died because well, he was on drugs.

*SLIGHT SPOILERS

I'd like to briefly describe why this is my least favorite season of all Gintama. Firstly it's Gintama so it was very hard to give a 7 because by the time I got into this season, I was already in love with the series. For me, in terms of comedy and serious arcs both, Gintama has always been a solid 9/10 if not more. BUt out of all the top tier amazing shit till now, this season has been the least appealing to me. Gintoki didn't have much to do this season - that's one major issue I had. But that shouldn't be a ... problem because Gintama has such an amazing and diverse cast right? Well, these 12 episodes weren't the same case. The plot kept shifting from one recurring supporting character to single-arc characters, each sharing their story about why the sky is so beautiful and how it doesn't rain forever blah blah that kinda shit which I normally freaking enjoy but this time it just kept rubbing me the wrong way. None of the fan-favorite characters are there for long - which would have been fine if everything else made up for it. But apart from Jirocho, Hedoro and some hilariously funny parts, I was half-asleep most of the time until the end of the second last episode. Yes Tsukoyo and Kyubei were badass and all since the beginning but all these supporting characters who appeared to grab some screentime were overpowered for the sake of Edo winning against the antagonist group. Most of them weren't weak to begin with but they definitely weren't this strong either. I couldn't care less about that hard boiled guy, he has probably the most lack-lusture personality in the entire show. The most interesting characters were least shown and hence I enjoyed this arc the least. Irrelevant characters bluffing out life quotes and motivation usually works like gold in Gintama but this season continued shifting from the BLAH BLAH of one random supporting character to another after each one takes down a group of random irrelevant villains (ofcourse with Gintoki and co. in background) thus not letting any ONE thing settle down completely. Honestly I was bored to death for most of the season. But since I was able to witness Shinsengumi & Katsura even for a little while and also because the final episode was really good (Gintama-tier), I'll give it a 7. Yeah the last two episodes get the story back in track after pulling it from this confusing mess. I'd definitely recommend to watch this because it's still decent just not AS GOOD AS the rest. Also, Silver Soul Part 2 is great so gotta watch this to experience that and the rest of Gintama!

SPOILERS AHEAD**


Story : 3/10

The story was extremely boring and generic. Guy sees someone kill his father, becomes vengeful and walks the path of revenge and killing, only to stand alone at the end with no friends. Yes, the plot is extremely recycled but you could still pull off the same mainstream story if you hone it to near perfection. Afro Samurai, sadly couldn't do that. I hate to admit it but I was so bored at certain points that I felt like dropping it. Luckily I have an ironclad rule of completing every anime/manga I touch upon no matter how cliché it is (unless it's ... absolutely, I mean ABSOLUTELY unbearable). I feel like a 12 episode length would make the same story worthwhile but 5 eps were too quick and the story felt incomplete at parts.


Art : 10/10

Ooof the art and animation made me watch through this no so great series. I also loved the single hue color palate (which is blue for most parts) - It looks really gorgeous and fits the theme of the show.


Sound : 7 /10

Although Samuel Jackson does a good job, the other voice acting felt really mid to me. OP and ED were great.

Characters : 3/10

The MC was very umm boring? I liked Jinno much more than any of other characters tbh and the white afro guy was very annoying but it worked to a certain extent. I found everyone else quite One-dimensional and uninteresting.

Enjoyment : 5/10

Enjoyed the gore, the animation and the fights. Was quite boring with everything else.


Overall : 6/10

Honestly it's not a show to be ignored. You can definitely watch it but only when you don't have any more good stuff left to watch.

*SPOILER ALERT*

Story: 6/10

Okay so there's no actual plot in Sakamoto Desu ga. It's purely episodic with a cluster of independent plotlines about how people are drawn to Sakamoto perfect-kun due to jealousy/attraction/admiration in an attempt to either impress or degrade him but in the end Sakamoto perfect-kun overcomes all odds & obstacles and shines brighter than your dad's hair gel. The pair of short stories every episode were overall fun with some moments being really really fun while others being meh or extremely cringey.


Art: 8/10
Colors are great. Characters look good (Sadly most of them ONLY look good).

... Sound: 10/10
Ngl the opening is a banger and it's prolly one of my top anime ops of all time. The ending is also very nice.

Character : 2/10
Technically, you can divide the characters in three tiers. 1) Sakamoto 2) Hayabusa and 3) One-dimensional boring piece of crap. I'll try to briefly explain my opinion on each of these three tiers one-by-one.

1) Sakamoto : 9/10
Okay, straight up, this story is about Sakamoto and JUST Sakamoto and how good he is at everything. Honestly, I really like their approach towards drawing his character. He's not actually very emotionally invested in anyone. Infact a lot of his activities are rather robotic even though he still shows empathy and kindness to a lot of people around him. Also, here's another interpretation, in the ending it's shown that Sakamoto is leaving the school and is (clearly) lying about joining NASA so it's highly assumed that Sakamoto chose not to be super close or attached to anyone because a sad fate awaits him (Popular Theory : Sakamoto is dying) & he only wanted to be kind and generous to people during his time in school. Taking this as a fact, I think Sakamoto's character was overall perfect. Yes, I'd also write my quiet, composed and good-at-everything character the same way if I had to give him 12 episodes to live his life to the fullest. Keeping that analysis aside, Sakamoto is drawn to be perfect and invincible. He never fails at anything. All the girls go ga-ga over him, the thugs are trying to bring him down & insult him and quite frankly, it works. So, If you can focus on this show only through the main character - Perfect Sakamoto, you can make it to the end, AWAKE


2) Hayabusa : 7/10
This is the only, I repeat, the only LIKABLE character apart from Sakamoto with some fragments of personality. He looks good, he's shown to be witty, a lot aggressive but also portrayed to be a kind and caring brother in later part of the series. The set-up for Hayabusa was great and I liked him every time I saw him on screen but the problem is you don't see enough of him and that makes his entire appearance a bit lack-lusture and mostly INCOMPLETE.


3) The rest of the cast : Overall a 1/10 maybe?
Okay. So the entire supporting cast of the show apart from Hayabusa are just boring, One-dimensional and utterly useless. There were times when I kinda liked characters like Acchan, Kubota and Sera but it quickly faded away due to constantly being shadowed by Sakamoto & the abnormal Sakamoto-fan syndrome that surrounded the cast. Kubota's mother was so creepy and disgusting, it made me want to throw-up. I wish there was atleast one girl with an interesting outlook but every girl in the show is straight up fucking annoying. The intent to everyone admiring Sakamoto was meant to be comedic but how a lot of characters just utter 'Sakamoto-kun' for like 99% of the time they are on screen & nothing else makes them extremely unlikable and cringey.


Enjoyment : 5/10
I enjoyed it. At times that is. But yeah, not all the while. There were a few times I was cracking up really bad but there were other times when the jokes didn't work. Overall it was quite fun until the POV shifted from Sakamoto/Hayabusa to the rest of the cast because all you see is random creepy blushes & 'Sakamoto' 'Sakamoto-kun' and literally nothing else.


Overall : 5/10

For me, it was an okay show. Yes the entire supporting cast suck ass but prolly that is why the story is mostly focused on Sakamoto and not anyone else. If you're keen on watching anyway, I'd say try to ignore the rest of the cast apart from the two characters I mentioned and you can actually enjoy the show without cringing your ass off, well not exactly but that's for the best.

*BEWARE OF SPOILERS

Okay I'll keep it short. I gave it a 5 because of the astonishingly beautiful animation and colors. Otherwise I'd give it a 1. Also, let me remind you, just because it's about swimming, doesn't mean it's a typical SPORTS anime. There are a bunch extremely hot shirtless guys that I absolutely loved staring at, being a straight woman but that's it. The ending is horrible, I get that it was meant to be wholesome friendship thingy, but the glasses guy was memed real bad. It was a complete wtf moment for me considering he's the only one I liked a little as ... a character but all those weird speeches about being part of a supposed 'TEAM' to just completely clowning yourself by sacrificing your position to a weird butthurt egoistic (but hot) guy was pathetic. Also, the main character is bland as hell, the teeth one is obviously annoying. The other three are way better imo. For some reason, inspite of talking about teamwork and deciding to swim and work with each other as the new team, they remain obsessed with teeth guy, especially the MC. I'd say there was potential to turn glasses, shorty and teeth guy into interesting characters but can't do anything about that right? Well in the end they are all hot so watch it for your eyes, not for a rollercoaster of emotions.