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Sakamoto Desu Ga is a gem that shines brilliantly in the Spring 2016 season. Its an amazing comedy that is definetly worth investing your time in. While I wasnt expecting much from this show Its become my favorite series of all time and one I highly reccomend

STORY: Sakamoto is the coolest kid at school who can do everything in the most stylish way possible. While the series follows Sakamoto but its really the story of how he helps everyone grow around him. Sakamoto Desu Ga is episodic and follows the narrative of hilarious short stories of everyone's interactions with Sakamoto. Wether his classmates are trying ... to foil him or help him Sakamoto solves any problem often with the other chracter in that short story becoming a better person because of meeting Sakamoto. The story is amazingly creative in the everyday tasks Sakamoto and co. face wether they're excorsizing a ghost, walking all over the town, or having a sumo match the show presents any task they face in the most hilarious way possible. 10/10

ART: The way you know if a series is well animated is if you dont notice the animation at all and it feels like a living breathing series. SDG does just that it's very well animated with its fluid motions and nice character design. The series isnt meant to be the most amazingly animated work of art like a Psycho Pass or Fate/Zero but it is very nice to look at, and the art especially shines whenever Sakamoto is on screen as the lighting is shown to portray Sakamoto as the Flashiest and most amazing person as possible and they easily succeed. The Sakamoto scenes can easily make you buy into the idea that Sakamoto is the coolest person alive because of how amazingly hes presented.

CHARACTERS: The cast of Sakamoto is very large but offers a very memorable selection of them. I could be here all day talking about how amazing Sakamoto is and thats because I truly believe he is. Studio Deen goes out of their way to make Sakamoto the coolest whether it be their amazing visuals when hes on screen, the Suave music that always plays when hes around, or his amazing feats he is the best character of the series and is absolutely hilarious. Kubota sakamoto's sidekick is absolutey hilarious and serves as the kind of ugly sister to sakamoto. The Three delinquents always get into some mischief, Hayabousa is an absolute badass, Aina is a dual faced flirtatious psycho who is one of the many girls fawning over Sakamoto, Sera is just completely hilarous (ill come back to him in a second). These are all characters ive grown fond of in my 12 ep. run of SDG because they have human emotions and feel like people I could actually meet and be friends with and those are a limited number to not make this review too long. Sakamoto helps all these characters grow inderiectly and it is rewarding too see them do so.

SOUND: The soundtrack is amazing and very Suave reflecting the feel of the series. From the high powered OP to the Cool soundtrack around Sakamoto the soundtrack. Yasuhiko Fukuda gives a great OST and im excited to see what he brings us in the future.

COMEDY: The series is hialrous and is always bringing a great sense of humor. If I had to compare how funny it is to other anime id say its up there with Gintama and Barakamon two of my favorite anime series. The show has great execution and always brings us the most simple situations in a hilarous manor.

OVERALL: Sakamoto Desu Ga was a pleasure to watch and is easily one of my favorite series of all time. From the comedic execution to the great characters there is little not too love. SDG earns a 10/10 for me and a strong reccomendation

I guess this show capped off by ending as poorly as the show had become really disappointed in Trigger but ill get right into my first full review (sorry if there are parts that dont make sense because they're not well explained I tried my best to keep it short but concise)

Art- I guess this is the one that annoyed me the most, mostly because the show started off with really awesome visuals that reminded me of watching Kill la Kill and it helped make THE best opening episode of the season imo until it crashed as soon as episode 3, ... Trigger might've stopped caring but they basically scrapped all their cool interesting color pallets and visuals in exchange for the generic anime look. I dont dislike the generic look either i realy dont but if you offer me a great looking burger, one that i have almost never seen before let me take a bite and afterwards take that burger and slap a turd on my plate im going to be pissed. This was probably the first sign that this show was going to be a shit show.

Story- I figured the story would have issues, before I even started watching and Trigger didn't disappoint as the story becomes a literal clusterfuck. For the sake of spoilers I wont say much but my main issues boil down too
1) FRIENDSHIP CANT FIX EVERYTHING
2) Poor Execution
3) Kizna Experiment makes no sense
4) Trigger didn't know where they were going with this (So to elaborate I think Trigger thought of the concept and the end but didn't know how to move their idea from point A to B. The shows suffers by being episodic and having the most boring middle sequence that i can remember from this season [from what i watched]. And at some point the show decides to go from very upbeat and happy to a teenage soap opera. Plus the only reason Trigger shows Kacchon's distorted flashbacks are so they can dangle the mystery over our head so we have a reason too keep watching)

Characters- The characters are one of the parts of the show I actually enjoyed with characters like Tenga, Yuta (he actually stood out the most to me in the series I loved Yuta wish they used him more), Hisomu, and the two teachers sticking out in particular. However the execution of how these characters were used was horrendous. It boiled down too the story focusing on these fixed love triangles (WHICH THE SHOW LITERALLY TELLS YOU ABOUT ). Plus the lifeless MC Kacchon was literally boring as hell his screen-time was complete cringe, and also just because he couldn't feel pain doesn't mean he would become a lifeless robot. On another note Honoka's arc was pretty dumb and it was her trying to be an edgy hot topic wannabee, The only thing memorable thing about Chidori was the fact that she craved Kacchon's D more than i crave Rasin Bran in the morning, Nico was fun FOR THE FIRST THREE EPISODES then she got shoved in a cage and was only let out to spit nonsense about friendship. Its a shame that this show squandered all the potential of these characters for example Hisomu: He was awesome in his first appearance He seemed dark edgy (and not like Honoka who was blander than a stick) an interesting parallel to the inital cast but then no hes a masochist who didn't want the group to unite for some dumb reason. At that moment I thought ok fine that was funny this will be some nice comedy relief, BUT THEN HE IS SHOVED TO THE SIDE AND PROVIDES ZERO IMPACT ON THE STORY AND BECOMES BLAND AS HELL. Thats really the problem of the show shoving aside interesting characters in favor of Kacchon whos defining trait is that hes the blandest person in a 10 mile radius.

Sound- Really forgettable soundtrack how forgettable...... I forgot

Execution: I keep rambling on about poor execution but how bad is it? pretty bad. So the big problem with this series is that it begins to take itself too seriously and evolves into this Soap Opera with little actual drama for the viewer to care about. It becomes a mess of love triangle drama and such that is overcome by "friendship". The show refuses to flesh out the interesting aspects of any of its characters as if its wants to rub in our faces how good the show could be if Trigger were to think about any actual interesting scenarios for the viewer to be sucked into.

OVERALL: The show lacks the poise that Kill la Kill had and was a major disappointment by Trigger in my eyes. It went from a show that showed so much promise in its first 3 episodes but then went into full train wreck mode. Suffering from lack of a well thought out plot, and bad execution its an anime that fails to shine in a rock solid spring season 3/10