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Jan 8, 2023
This was a good anime. It was very hyped up and it certainly delivered on the hype. Although, I will say that it left me wanting more. Not exactly in the way that I can't wait for the next season, I am excited for the continutation (I might even have to read the manga), but rather that I feel like it left some things unresolved, and not delivering everything I wanted. "well, duh!" you say, but still idk. I felt the characters were all interesting enough, if not all super developed.
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the characters. Denji and Aki were certainly fleshed out, as was Power, but her motivation seem a little mundane compared to their's. I think I like the evolution of Denji's motiviations from wanting to feel boobs, then to kiss, then to have sex with a woman slowly devolving into nihilism. Definitely called him Yuji more than a couple times. I think Himeno was a pretty good character. Her interpersonal relationships, especially with Aki, were funny and insightful and at times moving. These were all satisfying enough, but Makima was left relatively blank. I guess she is billed as a mysterious(-ish) superior of great, unkown powers and her motivations will become apparent as the series progresses. Not sure this show would pass the Bechdel test, but I don't think the women in this show are depicted negatively, or in a fan service-y way. We caught a glimpse of the other devils and fiends of Tokyo Special Division 4, and I am eager to seem them in greater detail.
The animation is... something. I knew this anime had a large budget, but they seem to have a gargantuan one. Every episode having a different ending credits is wild. The overall style is unoffensive. I don't think I'm too bothered by the very computer-y/digital look of the show. It looks like when an anime gets a movie, and the animation gets the digital treatment. The action sequences are very entertaining if a little graphic. Like I understand that homie has literal chainsaw sprout out of his limbs and head, but I'm just saying it's not my taste. The OP is good, but as I am trying to recall it now, I can't remember it at all.
All in all a very good anime, and I eagerly await what comes next!
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Oct 4, 2022
Ao Ashi was good. Not great, but good. It's simple and follows the main tropes of a sports anime. A hereto unknown, hyper-skilled, especially positive [soccer] savant is plucked from the sticks to play ball in the big city. That being said I don't hate any of those at all. I haven't watched enough for those commonalities to have gone stale. Like I have said in previous sports anime reviews, you don't have to reinvent the wheel as long as it's fun and entertaining.
I liked the art style. Simple, not especially over-stylized, nothing special, it feels comfortable. The animation of action and movement isn't great,
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they don't do anything special, but they also don't overly rely on voice-overs on still images. The characters are mostly uninspiring. The main cast are filled with characters you've seen before, especially the main character, Aoi, who is basically a carbon copy of Sawamura Eijun from Ace of the Diamond. The characters I find the most interesting are Togashi and some of the players from the A-team who we don't know yet. That's not to say I dislike any of the other characters. Like most sports shows, there are few female characters, all of whom (with perhaps one or two exceptions) are defined by their relationship with men, specifically our MC. Would be nice to see a sports anime with more dynamic female characters, I guess it's also on me for not searching those out lol. I thought the first set of OP and ED were good enough, but that being said I don't really remember them.
I liked this show, I really did, but the more I talk about it the more I consider it a lower rating. It watches really quickly, it drew me in to where I wanted to keep watching past my bedtime. If you're looking for a show to watch in a few weeks or while figuring what to watch next this is as good a show as any.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Sep 2, 2022
This was a rather silly sports anime, especially because it involved a less popular sport (at least in the where I'm from). I thought it mixed the actual playing of the sport with regular life of a salaryman/badaryman really well. The character design is not my favorite, I'm still trying to figure out why and what I actually like lol. Oddly, the studio that made this, Liden Films, also animated Tokyo Revengers, a style I also didn't like but which looked different from Salaryman Club. Go figure. The depiction of movement, however was very good. There were, obviously, times when they took some liberties in
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less crucial moments, but overall the animation of action I thought looked really smooth. I wasn't even bothered by the super digital looking slow-motion close-ups of the birdie striking the racquet.
The protagonist, Shiratori, was a mix of Takeru from Run with the Wind and Haru from Free! Stubborn and obstinate, out for revenge on those who presumably wronged him, then swooped under the wing of an outgoing, gregarious senpai who shows him the real meaning of badminton and friendship!
I did reeeeeeallly like that this was a show about adults, however young, with jobs. I feel like so many sports animes focus on school-aged and college kids (not unlike the two other shows I mentioned above). So it was refreshing to be shown a relatively new slice of life. I LOVED the main storyline of salaryman part of the show. Shiratori, a complete novice in the world of business, much less the beverage business, wins a pitch to create a new soda. Hilarity ensues. I frickin' lost it when the badminton team used SWOT analysis on Shiratori's idea. XD Also really laughed whenever the team went out drinking and Shiratori made a fool of himself. Also also really loved that everyone thinks Shiratori's favorite soda is the worst the company makes.
The badminton itself I think is pretty good. I am familiar with the sport, having played it in gym class, but I didn't think the show was either too esoteric or too simple. As a said before the action was illustrated very well. They matches were generally pretty predictably but I have long since stopped expecting the unexpected when it comes to sports anime. That being said, there's an all-time, code geass-level twist in the last match. idc if you don't think it is, but it left my jaw on the floor lol.
Overall not the best but def worth a watch for an fan of sports or salarymen.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jul 10, 2022
i really loved spy x family. it was incredibly wholesome and very silly. i enjoyed all of the characters, each having their own bizarre and funny idiosyncrasies. i like that the storylines are all absurd, but not wholy unbelievable. i like the animation, though nothing groundbreaking, has some very good depictions of motion that look very cinematic (ex. in the aquarium episode when anya shouts 'i'm being kidnapped' and yor chases after her). i like both the opening and ending sequences, the opening looks like a james bond title sequence (i wonder why lol) and the ending looks like it's for a pixar movie (monsters
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inc immediately came to mind)
i really loved this anime, it checked a lot of boxes for me, but it got a 9 because i'm not sure if it's an anime i'll keep coming back to like my other favorites. if i can rewatch it then i will reevaluate the rating. or if the series going forward continues to be as strong as the debut it can improve its already sterling rating.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Jul 9, 2022
this show was ridiculous, the characters were nonsensical and idiotic, all of them. few had their moments but on the whole it was beyond the pale. the show really leaned into depicting women for horny teenaged boys. it was silly the amount of leg work they had to do to find any semblance of reason for literally any action in this show. also didn't like the animation (even without the lurid depiction of women).
the redeeming parts were that the scientists, with the exception of nina einstein (like, what?), were hilarious, and the opening and ending songs were great, even if the ending came in so
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quickly after the final scene that it barely gave the moment time to breathe, if at all
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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May 23, 2022
I love Haikyuu!!! The only bad thing I have to say about the show is that the story is a little basic, but I feel like it's hard to be innovative in terms of anime story-lines. That being said everything else about this show is dynamite.
Though the story is simple, and possibly played out, the characters make still make it very compelling. The skills and capabilities of the players are believable, and rarely strain credulity. I think Furudate did a great job giving every character a back story (some more than others) and having that history inform the characters' futures. The story telling is so
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effective that you find yourself rooting for the antagonists! (see my username lol) It's funny in healthy doses, gets plenty emotional at the peaks, this show makes you fall in love with the characters.
The art is fantastic, one of the better depictions of the human body in motion that i've seen in anime, especially during the game sequences. And though I've never played volleyball, the sound editing seems very realistic XD.
Really I could not recommend Haikyuu!! highly enough. It is an outstanding piece of art.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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