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May 12, 2025

Jujutsu Kaisen 2nd Season (Anime) add

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Spoiler

Brief overview: A Shonen, supernatural and action adventurous series that is about the war between sorcerer's and curse spirits.

Story 9/10
This season is like an all our war between the sorcerers and the curse spirits. The tone and everything is much more serious in season 2 then season 1 where major battles occurred frequently, but there is occasional comical moments from time to time to light up the mood. At the beginning of the series, it is focus more on Gojo's high school years where he was doing all sorts of mission to support the academy. It talks deeply about the relationship between Gojo and Suguru ... especially on how Suguru turned out to be in the way he currently is. There are some other supporting characters to add in the content in their younger years such as Nanami, Haibara, Shouko and more to add in the fun. After that, it then turned back to modern day story of JJK where the city of Shinjuku has been attacked by the curse monster and buildings and civilians were caught in the massive battles between the sorcery users and monster. So if you like action adventure, Shonen, destruction, and hard boiled fights, the story do provide a massive amount of it.

Animation 10/10
Excellent animation and huge step when compared to S1. S1's animation is a little darker, and denser in animation when compared to S2, but in S2 the animation is much more colorful, brighter, and most importantly better fight scenes. However, there are scenes where the fight is extremely good, but is weirdly darker than other scenes. This do happen occasionally throughout the series, but doesn't kill off the excellent and well animated animation for S2. There is a lot of well animated destruction scenes specifically on the building's and it is very similar to OPM style where buildings is commonly destroyed that is massive and over the top fight scenes between the characters which can bring a lot of all out vibe. However, you definitely will see a lot of massacre in S2 where civilian casualties are extremely high and a decent amount of torture scene do occur from time to time.

Characters 5/10 (Spoiler)
Holy fuck, the way the characters handled in season 2 is almost like massacring the whole JJK characters in the series. It's not at the level of trash like Akame ga kill where every character is predicted to die from the worse way as possible, but its more like the new characters introduced in season 2 dies as fast as the second they just got introduced. Perfect example is Kokichi, Riko and the twin sister Nanako and Mamako. All those character is either introduced at one episode and dies in that episode or appeared in a couple of episode then later just to die. So it's a feeling like a massive rocket just launched, but at the middle of its launch. It suddenly stopped working which this can apply to the JJK S2's character because most of them die as quick as they just appeared and it's quite a missed opportunity as most of them have a interesting story just to have it suddenly ended out of nowhere. Don't get me wrong, those characters are certainly good characters and all have their goals clearly stated in their ambition such as the twin sisters revenge, Riko's desire to live, and Kokichi's goal to eliminate the major enemy before he dies. However, what I want to say is I left wanting more content of those character's instead of suddenly killing them off so quickly and they could've been better used or served in the story elsewhere. The villains do have more screen time and content shown in S2, which for any fans of the villains is certainly a big win to those that liked them. Other major characters like Satoru, Nobara and Megumi do have loads of well told backstory and side content as well.

TLDR:
Generally the story is well told with many great backstory included such Gojo, Itadori, Megmumi and Nobara. This season many of its battle has taken place in the city of Shinjuku which the animation has captured beautiful fight scenes and massive destruction of the city which can bring a massive amount of enjoyment for anyone that enjoys an all out fight with high quality animation. The character in the other hand are great with each characters providing a interesting story, but the main problem is that many of its character introduced so quickly just to die as the second they got introduced.

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May 1, 2025

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu (Anime) add

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Brief overview: It's about Satako who doesn't want to study.

Story 4/10
I shit you not, the title above explains the whole story.
The first season of the Higurashi reboot is sorta like a remake rather than a reboot, but for this seasons it is a proper reboot that has an interesting story concept about learning and growing up. However, what it turns out is a story about Satako that keeps fucking up Rika life and destroying the once beautiful story of Higurashi into dust. For season 2 it followed where season 1 reboot left off, and this time is more focused on Satako's side of the story ... during their high school years. Basically, Rika and Satoko are inseparable friends and vow to stay together, but when they got into High school, it is in the city and required a huge amount of dedication and time to study. Satako hates studying and barely made it into the high school that Rika dreamed about living in for so long. Eventually, Rika started making more friends and fit well into her new life, meanwhile, Satako is struggling to fit in. Despite how much Rika tried to help Satako out to make her fit into her new life. Satako's answer is, I'll say this loud and clear, "SHE JUST DON'T WANT TO". As much as I want to say that's all the content for the literal story, which many parts of the story just don't really make any sense. The perfect example is the scene where Satako and Rika notice that Satako predicted the future of the box that contains a hand that is about to punch her. At first, they used this at the beginning of the season and acted like nothing had happened. UNTIL they reused the same scene towards the end of the season, just to have Rika finally realize that she is the real culprit behind all this. They could've used those bits to enhance how Satako missed the old days to Rika instead of leaving it blank like that. (Spoiler ahead) From here on Satako met another goddess who grants her the ability to go back in time, and it is the same one as Rika. At first, she is using that ability to try and persuade Rika into staying or work things out in her village. However, Rika is persistent about leaving the village and Satako basically keeps killing herself to rewind time to try and make Rika stay. Eventually, no matter what she does, she starts killing Rika first before killing herself to trap Rika in the village years so that Rika can never escape. At the end, basically both of them acknowledge the situation they're in and goes there own separate ways. The story had a lot of potential, but is too focused on Satako messing things up and forcing Rika to stay in the village. They should've included some important and meaningful content, such as describing that some people like Satako are just not used to the new life and have been living the old life for so long. They should've taken inspiration from the film Inside Out, as it perfectly illustrates that change in life is hard for some people. They should've made a scene of Rika and Satako arguing about the current life they're in and Satako crying, expressing to Rika how much she missed the village. This would've made the story way more compelling than just tossing all those abominations at us.

Characters 5/10
I'm a bit conflicted with the characters because some character like Satako's uncle can represent that people can change from bad to good, and Satako, who is the main protagonist can represent that some people are hesitant to change. This sort of brings the Frieren and jobless reincarnation vibe about learning and time. Some people can redeem themself like Satako's uncle, which throughout his story shows a great example of how people can learn from their mistakes if you just give them a chance, but for Satako's side she should've been a bit more, if they could've given more context about learning and friendships. She needs to represent someone who is hesitant to change and is not ready for the new world because she has been living in that tiny village her whole life and only knows Rika who is the closest to her. However, what we got instead is Satoko not just messing up Rika's life and also destroying the beautiful story of Higurashi, by manipulating the characters and exploiting the plot, which makes this character so hated in this season. It's not at the level of god-tier trash like Ousama game because other characters are still well written in the story, but its still very close when it comes to Satako itself.

Animation 8/10
The animation is pretty good for the most part, but didn't captured most of the horror moments like how the original did. They did the gruesome part pretty well, but in the end lets be for real. Who the fuck cares about gore or bullshit like that, it just makes the anime harder to watch. They should've focus more on the horror than the gore because horror is the reason that keeps the audience interested in the series. Series like Another and Shiki all have this phycological effect of uncertainty, spookiness or someone that is watching behind your back which is a very carefully crafted animation to have that phycological effect and they should've use that to make the atmosphere more unsettling.

TLDR:
If your a fan of the original ones than I highly don't recommend you watch this because this season is basically Satako destroying the story and characters on what was once perfectly build on. It had a massive potential about explaining the journey of learning and growing up, but it didn't give enough content towards that side because is too focus on Satako's selfishness.

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Apr 3, 2025

Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte (Anime) add

Not Recommended

Brief Overview: It's a detective mystery series that is about a doctor who is solving murder cases.

Story 4/10
First off, the story is super rushed and have almost no build-up for most of it's case. It is about a director from a crime medical department that is in charge to investigate the deceased victims body on how they got murdered. When their is a case, most of the story within that case is always briefly explained at the start and the type of story telling that the director wants to express is always trying to save the best for the last part. However, what we got ... instead is a story that hasn't given enough polish, build-up and rushed content because when it comes to it's crime cases at the beginning most of it's mystery are either generic, boring or don't really lead towards a interesting point. The series plays it too safe with it's story and crime cases because to keep it short is all about other people hating each other and killing them out of hatred or manipulation to some kind of wealth. However, in the real world crimes can be from bad to worst and to make this series interesting they should've taken some kind of inspiration from serial killers cases like Jack the Ripper or necrophile like David Fuller. They should've use those cases as inspiration because those two crime cases represent crime can serve more than just hatred and be used as pleasure, religion or some fucker doing it as a ritual shit to build-up the story on.

Character 5/10
The character is ok, but the background of the MC does not make any sense. This is because the MC is the director of the medical department, but throughout the story she is showcase in the frontline doing detective work. What I mean by that is that it does not make sense for her to do a detective work because she is a director and wouldn't a director's work mostly be a leader type of role such as managing and organizing with other superiors at the offices? It would've been something more interesting if she has the portrayal like commander Erwin Smith from AOT. The character of the MC is just both too blend and typical that would've been suited towards a detective, but the problem is she is not a detective, she is a director and she needs a personality that develops a strategy something like leadership, manipulation, trickery or trapping an opponent to make multiple difficult and critical decision on the battlefield which Erwin shows a great example on how a leader should be. She behave and acts more like a person working under another one which is not how a director acts. The rest of the supporting characters are forgettable and average and most of their story are stretched too thin. This is because they didn't give enough development on the emotional, angry or horror moments which makes the character forgettable.

Animation 6/10
The animation looks fine at best and most of the scene looks blend and a little janky when it comes to the movements. However, one thing for sure that they did it right is when the MC detective mode is on it looks very cool. Other is either plain or average animation.

TLDR:
Just go watch detective Conan or Kusuriya. It is the same genre and way better series than this garbage because this series is super rushed and in some case extremely cliche with its story and character that makes almost no sense.

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Mar 14, 2025

Sakamoto Days (Anime) add

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Preliminary (8/11 eps)

Brief overview: Basically Mafia version of OPM

Introduction
Sakamoto was once an infamous hitman who was super famous in the underworld for his unstoppable success in assassinating his targets. All his missions are always successful, and he never has any trouble dealing with his targets until one day, he meets his one and only at a convenience store and decides to settle down and have kids. Years later, the hitman has discovered Sakamoto's identity and now he is again at the hunt, but this time he needs to protect both himself and his family.

Story 6/10
I'll be straight, the whole story is basically a rip-off from One ... Punch Man, but now as a retired Mafia/Assassin and the jokes are super repetitive and boring. At the beginning, the whole story is really good by introducing the world of Sakamoto, where he once was an infamous hitman that is known for his outstanding success and invincibility, who is never defeated. However, one day he fell in love and decided to retire and settle down, and got fat because of years of inactivity. Shortly, he got discovered by a former colleague, who is now an enemy that is trying to assassinate him. Eventually, towards the end of the encounter, Sakamoto decided to let him go, and they became companions. After that, the whole story quickly falls off because it is more or less the same style of storytelling, and it is all about protecting his companions and families or trying to prevent a catastrophe from a hitman. It is an action-comedy based series where the main character is invincible, who is trying to protect his companion and family, therefore, if you like protagonist who is invincible, then you may like Sakamoto. However, the story and jokes are not at the level of One Punch Man, which is mostly good to mediocre in story-telling, and jokes are great at the start, but gets repetitive very quickly.

Characters 6/10
Yes, it's one of those stupidly invincible over the top protagonists who is insanely strong like Saitama that no one can stop him. This time is in a much more believable setting as he is not one-punching anybody, but had to use a specific tactic to fight against his opponents. Other characters all have a good starting point of a story, then quickly became decent characters within this series.

Animation 7/10
The animation is good, but not visually amazing like One Punch Man, because most of the time is all about the fights between the characters. Yes, sure those fights and actions are good, but One Punch Man had both amazing FIGHTS and DESTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENTS in its animation. So in OPM you're seeing a lot more in both high quality fights and the destruction of buildings, water, and cities. In Sakamoto, it feels like you're only seeing a fraction of the animation from One Punch Man because the action scene is not visually impressive or colorful, it's just fast paced.

TLDR
The story is about Sakamoto, who is now a retired hitman trying to protect his family and companion. The characters are average, but if you like the invincible type of protagonist, then you most likely would like Sakamoto. And the animation is good for most of its action, but lacks flavour like artistic background visuals or detailed fights towards its animation.

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Mar 11, 2025

Nisekoi (Anime) add

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Brief overview: It's about two couples who are forced to be couples in order to keep peace in their neighbourhood.
Review will be based on the whole series, up to season 2
9/10 for the whole series

Introduction
Raku Ichijou has big dreams when he started high school. He wants to study hard, go to a prestigious University and establish his own corporate empire. However, after his first day of High school, he is suddenly forced to be in a relationship with a girl called Chitoge as both families are from a rival mafia family. If no peace is settled between the two of them, then chaos and ... war would occur between both factions. Therefore, both of them are forced to be in a pretentious relationship.

Story 9/10
The story is about Raku, who is having a peaceful life with big future, dreams, and is suddenly forced to be in a fake relationship with Chitoge. However, his heart is set towards Onodera, but due to the family circumstances of both Chitoge and Raku, they are forced to be in a pretentious relationship as both families are rivals Mafia groups, however, their parents, who are the leaders of the family, are good friends to each other. In order to keep peace, the Mafia group needs to know that both Chitoge and Raku are in a relationship, so both groups can have a peace of mind. Afterwards, the story is more of an additional content added in, and the whole style of the story hasn't changed that much, which is about Raku that keeps getting dragged into other girls' situations and is forced to play by their rules. It is a school-based harem drama that is heavily based on romance and comedy, which doesn't have that deep and serious type of relationship narratives like Fruit Basket, but more towards a fun and comedic side of romance narrative. So for anyone that just wants a light-hearted and not too much thinking anime, then this is for you.

Animation 9/10
If you have seen the style of Studio Shaft. They like to be very creative and dynamic with their animation, where most of the scenes they draw are always colorful, unique, and dynamic with their background. You can see it has heavy inspiration from the Monogatari, Madoka, and Arakawa, where they usually add a 1 second scene within some of their anime to keep the animation fun to watch. That one second scene you'll usually see a lot of fan service, such as boobs, underwear or for the most part artistic decoration on the characters visual. Overall, the animation is very beautiful and well drawn that anyone wouldn't have a problem watching it.

Characters 8/10
The characters are well written for the most part. As I have explained pretty much everything at the story section, the characters are pretty much that. They are made for fun and comedic entertainment, and have a well-written premise that slowly connects their past. One problem is that when more characters are introduced, it does feel overwhelming to know all the characters' stories, and the pacing of the story does feel a bit rushed, and not enough independent content is shown for the characters because most of the time we only saw the characters together, not independently.

TLDR
If you're looking for the dumb fun romantic type of story, then Nisekoi would be for you as it has good animation with a dynamic background and a decent amount of fan services to keep the harem alive. The characters are well-written for the most part, but a bit rushed towards the end as there is not enough screen time for some of them.

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Mar 6, 2025

Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka (Anime) add

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Brief overview: Basically Dragon Quest that is set primarily in a dungeon.
Review will be based on the whole season until season 5.
8/10 for the whole series

Introduction
Bell is keen to go on his first journey on a dungeon exploration with his goddess as a back-up support. However, throughout his journey, he is too weak and understrength with the lack of party members. Therefore, he would need to take one step at a time in order to set up the most epic dungeon in his career.

Story 7/10
The Isekai genre has been done to death. Some can be considered insanely good and others can be insanely bad. Danmachi ... is somewhere at the middle however it is not a Isekai where some bullshit fucker that died and reincarnated into another world. The story is set straight from the beginning, where you have the main character that is born and LIVED in that world called Bell. If you have played any of those medieval JRPGs it's basically that where the character begins from nothing, then slowly works his way up to something, and the level of dungeons he climbs represents his progress. At the start of the series, it is a little slow, but it does get better towards the 4th season as it goes more in-depth with the characters' feelings and past that they couldn't let go. The series contains a mix of romantic drama, adventure, harem, and action fantasy series that are inspired by medieval Europe. So if you like magic, knights, fairies or fantasy stuff like that, then this is for you, but is more at the action and romantic side.

Characters 8/10
In that world, adventurers would have two sets of characters. The first is the usual adventure that goes hunting in the dungeon, and the other is the god/goddess who is in charge and supports the adventurer's progress by enhancing their magic abilities or status such as HP, durability, and speed. Some goddesses/gods are extremely powerful as they have been building their clans throughout the centuries, and some deities are weak with not much power because they have recently started their career as an adventurer.
For the most part, the characters are average, but average is technically not bad, just good for what the anime is meant to be. They do have a pretty good backstory on certain characters, and most characters are romanticized. The main character can be pretty damn annoying not gonna lie because throughout the series Bell keeps treating everyone like they are better than him and acting like a underling. If you have seen those Harem series like To-Love-ru or Mayo Chiki where all the girls are treated like the frontline fighters and the main character which is a male is either totally useless or a fucking pussy. Bell is that, but at a pussy side of things when he is not at the thick of the action because whenever their is some shit that is either small or big which caused by him he'll apologise a million times even though it's not that severe.

Animation 8/10
Good animation and no bad drawings throughout the series. It's amazing that they can maintain the consistency to season 5, and when there is action, the animators would put in the extra effort to make the fight more entertaining.

TLDR
If you play those dungeon games where there is a fairy, goblins or dragons, it's basically that for the story. The characters are average, but good on what the series is trying to be, and the animation is consistently well drawn throughout the series,s with great action when it comes to the fight.

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Mar 4, 2025

Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e (Anime) add

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Brief overview: Must-watch
It's about a prestigious elite school that can grant all the students that attend that academy a prestigious university when they graduate, or at least a high- ranking job. However, all students are tested through all kinds of circumstances. If they fail to meet the school's criteria, they would have no choice but to be expelled. Therefore, there are many mind games, psychology, and mystery involved in order for the student to succeed.

The review will be based on the whole season, from season 1 to season 3.
9/10 from this point.

Introduction
Kiyotaka, a first-year student, has recently been accepted into a prestigious elite high ... school that can grant all the students a prestigious university once graduated, if not they would at least gain a high level position for any job they desire. Interested in this school life, he decided to attend that school where it would test all its students to their fullest.

Story 10/10
If you like mystery, psychology, mind-games, problem-solving, or detective type of anime, then you are in for a treat, and it's quite similar to Squid Game. The story is set in Japan's most prestigious school that can grant all the students a prestigious scholarship to a well-known university or a high-ranking job position, which can earn them $$$. At first, the school introduced their rules to all students and they must comply with it no matter what. They cannot leave the school under any circumstance, however, there is a dormitory, shopping centres, bribery, and many activities that the outside world has that can be provided into the school. All students will earn a digital currency each month that allows them to purchase all the necessary or self-desired needs, but the currency they earn is based on both their performance and the class performance. With each semester, all the classes will be given various exams that determine their rankings from D to A class. All the exams have all sorts of conditions and rules, and the consequences that each exam gives vary all the time. Some would simply just boost the class's ranking, but some would have to let each class's vote on which student to expel. So generally speaking, it's a very mind-bending anime that tests all its characters to their limit because the school will always provide exams on various scenarios, some are simply to boost the class ranking, and some that make students participate in difficult choices on who to expel. On some circumstances, students would do anything they can to survive within that school, by bribing, falsely accusing one another, or simply hurting them and use them as a tool.

Animation: Season One 9/10, Season Two 6/10, Season Three 7/10
The animation for the first season was outstanding and amazing. All the fight school and action is so well animated, and a lot of unexpected fan-service has been added to enjoy the entertainment. After season one hot damn that is one gigantic fall from grace where the animation looks like a predecessor from its formerself and it is so painful hard to watch because the quality and movement are so janky for the most part. This is one of the rarest anime where it started off so well but fell so hard on its animation that rivals Nanatsu No Taizai season 3's animation. If you think that OPM S2 looks like shit, trust me that is only a slight downgrade when compared to something like this. Without being bias, we do have to give the animators some credit as season 3's animation did improve and the animators learned many of its mistakes from season 2, but it is still a far cry from season 1 when 2 and 3 are compared.

Characters 9/10
Everyone in this series acts with their mask on, and when their mask is off, they show their real selves. It's a very interesting character from COTE because everyone is always manipulating one another or not trying to show their real selves. It's more like everyone in COTE is always trying to hide their background because most of them all have tragic or unsettling stories, which is way the characters in COTE are great and not by the book standard because there are so many plot twists.

TLDR
This is certainly one of the greatest anime ever made, which has a story that involves many mind games and characters that has unique personalities and stories. However, the animation did hit a massive downturn eversince after season 1, but it still a very enjoyable anime to watch as the story and characters are still great.

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Feb 27, 2025

Happy Sugar Life (Anime) add

Mixed Feelings

Brief overview: Watch the first half of the season as there is so much content packed in, but towards the end, the story loses its charm.

Introduction
Satou a high school student has been living a normal school life. She behaves and acts like a normal and happy student however deep inside her life she is looking after one thing that is precious to her. Her name is Shio and Shio is the sole reason how Satou experiences love therefore she will do anything to protect her even killing the ones that are the closest to her.

Story 5/10
It is a horror anime that sets its stage so ...

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Feb 25, 2025

Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (Anime) add

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Brief overview: Must-Watch
It's about problem-solving and dying all over again until that problem is eventually solved.
The review will be based on the whole season until season 3.
Final verdict 9/10

Introduction
Subaru is a normal and unemployed hikikomori who has one day been wandering around a convenience store. Until suddenly just out of nowhere he is dragged into a magical world where knights and witches are common. Curious and excited this is where his journey begins.

Story 10/10
If you have ever played one of those visual novel games in Japan or multiple-path/choice storytelling like Fallout or Mass Effect. This anime is heavily inspired by that. However, Re: Zero's ... whole concept heavily aligns with mystery, problem-solving, and choosing the right path in order to progress with its story. The story of Re Zero is very rich as much of the story has a lot to do with the past and future to be discovered. Subaru is a normal guy who possesses no destructive power but has one of the most powerful rewind times abilities whenever he dies. Suddenly out of nowhere he was dragged into another world and met Emilia and instantly fell for her. However, she lacks the empathy of love and he decides to tag along with her and be her knight due to the constant threat of an organization that is known as the witch cult group who is trying to assassinate her. Throughout his journey, he does not have the power to take on his enemies head-on, but he has the power of friendship, analysis, and leadership to work along with them and beat back the enemy as he serves more as a strategist than a typical shonen character who is trying to defeat the villain all by himself.

Characters 9/10
Although cliche, the characters are well-fitted into their role and everyone is balanced out with their power particularly the main character has no destructive strengths. However, he has one of the strongest abilities that allows him to turn back in time to solve the problem that had occurred before. This requires a lot of problem-solving as he is trying to solve the mystery that he couldn't solve.
What's more interesting is that the characters have so many interesting stories and set a lot of premises that will eventually be discovered. I know this is unintentional, but the internet has hyped Rem to an extraordinary extent at the beginning of the series and towards the later bit Rem has mostly been out of the story which kind of sucks, but it is still fair as to balance out the screen time between other characters.

Animation 8/10
At first, the animation is great and ahead of its time. However, as the season went on the animation certainly didn't change, but the problem is the animation is starting to show its age as the anime takes forever to make unlike Mappas Chainsaw Man and JJK the animation is improving at a rapid pace. One thing for sure is that by book the animation looks standard and normal however when there is scenes that involve combat or injury is extremely well animated. The scenes can look really nasty with the amount of blood and gore that is animated within it. So is generally a good animation, but is slowly showing its age as there is barely any improvement to it. As the old saying goes "Why change it when it is not broken" This can apply to Re zero.

TLDR
The story is about Subaru trying to solve out the mystery that has been in his way. Whenever he dies he needs to strategize his tactics in order to move onto the next stage. The characters are all portrayed well and all have adequate screen time between the series and the animation is great, but it is starting to show its age due to the long development of each seasons.

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Feb 16, 2025

Mashle (Anime) add

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Brief overview: Harry Porter + One Punch Man = Marshle
This review will be based on both Seasons 1 and 2.
Season 1 is a little slow, but it gets better when the next season begins

Introduction
In the world of Marshle, everyone can use magic from birth and to prove their ability that they can use magic they have a stripe mark on their face as proof. However, there is a certain group of humans that cannot use it and is visible to the public by not having the stripe mark on their face. Marshle, an orphan that is born without magic is raised by a magic ... user as he knows the same pain of not using magic consistently. One day an outsider discovers that he cannot use magic and therefore he is in a serious life-threatening circumstance that forces him to attend the magic academy and prove to the world that magic is not mandatory in the world with his astronomical strength that rivals magic itself.

Story
Season One 7/10
Season Two 8/10
You may already have heard this from other reviews, but there isn't any other way to phrase it. This is One Punch Man but set in a magic academy with a heavy shonen narrative that is inspired by Fairy Tail. Season 1 serves as an introduction to the series of Marshle where he is born without magic and has been discriminated against him by the world. However, he has been secretly living and training throughout his whole life to the point that he is ridiculously strong and has been discovered by the police. The police therefore gave him a chance to succeed in the magic academy and prove to the world that there is people that exist in that world and can survive without using magic. It has many comedy, shonen, and action moments and it shows the inspiration from One Punch Man, but the quality of this compared to OPM is serviceable, but not quite there at the OPM level. From this point on the story for the rest of the season is straightforward where it is all about connecting rivals, companions, and villains to ruin the main protagonist's life and himself is trying to conceal his identity within the academy of not being able to use magic. Season 2 onwards is still more or less the same as season 1, but less focus on the introduction such as the setting and character build-up. This time the story is deeper and has more action scenes compared to Season 1. If you have seen a Shonen series such as One Piece or Dragon Ball this is when the series is more focused on putting quality into the actions as the story is good, but not enough to keep the series entertaining for a long period of time. However, for Marshle the story and action is good, but aside from that everything is serviceable.

Animation 8/10
The action scenes for Marshle are great when it comes to its animation, but aside from that other scenes can look alright at best.

Characters 7/10
There isn't much to say about the characters. As I have stated above where the story is straightforward this also impacts the character's personality where the character mostly serves its own purpose in the action shonen genre. One thing that is not straightforward is the backstories of the characters which every character has a unique backstory for the most part.

TLDR
As much as I hate to say it Marshle is basically a replicated version from One Punch Man. The series is not bad, but not better than OPM when compared as the story has a slow start, but does get better over time and the animation has good actions however aside from that the character and animation mostly only serves its own purpose in the shonen genre.

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