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Jan 7, 2022
One thing that anime tries to do often is imitate western film genres, and while you can have some very good shows that derive from this, you can never beat the originals. 91 days is a decent gangster/revenge show with some anime bullshit in there to remind you that this is indeed an anime. Its clear that the writers took inspiration(a bit too much inspiration) from the godfather trilogy and other mafia movies of the time. This is yet another anime that I feel drops in quality towards the end of the show where the writing really suffers. One death in particular is completely bullshit
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and purely for shock value. The ending of this show was nonsensical and it tried to preach to you that "revenge is not worth" sorta shpeel. Then, there is this crazy character thats only purpose is to well, be crazy sorta like ladd russo. The show just needed a crazy guy. For the most part, I enjoyed the main characters interacting with each other. The best part of this show is watching niro and the protagonist ride around in the car.
This is a decent, short mafia anime that takes alot of inspiration from classic mafia movies. Personally I watched this all in one go, and I do not regret it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jan 7, 2022
This is a very fun anime if you turn your brain off. I enjoyed this one, especially towards the beginning. There are 6 arcs in this shonen, and the quality of the show varies wildly between them. Id say there are 2 halves of the show, with the show massively dropping in quality past the yorknew city arc.
The characters are a little generic but they are fun to watch. Hisoka is by far the best part of the show. He is an unpredictable pedo clown and he serves as a villain I guess? Whatever it is, hes great. The main cast is okay, albiet a
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bit one note. Leorio is fun, but hes a bit one note. Kurapika is just the average revenge arc guy. Killua is likable. Gon, our protagonist is kinda like spongbob but stubborn. His power level throughout the show literally makes no sense. He can keep up with killua in the first arc because hes a child of the forest i guess, and also can beat up larry wheels without the use of nen in the second arc. According to some people hes also some great anti-hero or something??? Like fr if gon is a great anti-hero, then spongebob is the new walter white. I also think that people give too much credit to the "nen" system which to me, seems tacked on and lazy. Its literally your own superpower with "drawbacks" and the show towards the end doesn't even follow its own nen rules with alluka. Its very obvious that the show created nen AFTER the first arc finished because its just a plot hole that NONE of the hunter applicants besides the nen trained ones knew about it when there are nen-ed up publicly broadcasted battles in the major arc after. The phantom troupe is mostly randomly computer generated anime characters, but there are a few cool ones I guess.
The show really takes a plunge when we get to greed island, which was one of the biggest wastes of time imaginable. The villian of this arc was so bland, and the ending of it was dumb.
One of the largest issues of this arc was that it destroyed the shows sense of scale, and this issue is never resolved. There was also large amounts of exposition for a place that will never be returned to since it was in a video game.
The chimera ant arc has the slowest pacing in the show. They strectched maybe like 30 episodes into 60, mindbogglingly slow episodes, especially towards the ending part. This arc wastes your time unlike any other. Morel was in the smoke for like 5 episodes. Random ants appear just for the sake of wasting our time like cheetu. Komugi was also so contrived, it was hard to take the ending of this arc seriously. Ants having people-memories when it was convenient is also some plot bullshit,
The election arc is really boring, as it keeps cutting back to the bard of hunters and literally no one cares about them.
Overall i'd give the first half of this show like an 8, and the second half a 4, averaging at 6. This is one of those shows that gets worse the more you think about it, but if you can refrain from that and just watch the material then it is a fun show. It suffers from some shonen bullshit, such as exposition and narration problems, and battles where they just stand there and explain their tactics to each other and also scale problems, but it kept me entertained and im not going to lie to yall I had fun.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jan 5, 2022
This is the most average shonen in existence. Its amazing, they got a whole team of scientists balancing equations to create the most average show in existence. Average characters, average plot, average dialogue. This is the most conventional shonen ever. It even looks average ffs. The plot is a typical bullied to hero arc, and all of the side characters are exactly how you'd expect them to be. What happens in the plot goes exactly how you think it will go. Well done scientists. You get my 5/10. Its almost refreshing to see a show that lives and die by the norm like this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jan 3, 2022
One Punch Man is a show that has one joke and theme that is only entertaining in the first two episodes. If you are into the "meta-animeverse" and are interested in parodied tropes then go watch this. Heres the joke, one punch man wins every battle without trying. Fun for an episode or two? Sure. A whole 12 episodes is rough. This show really didn't need a second season. The rest of the characters I barely even remember, but just know that they are one-dimensional parodies of tropes in anime.
This anime is a gimmick and its not a gimmick that is possibly entertaining after
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the first few episodes. Atleast its original.
3/10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Jan 3, 2022
The newest shounen cash cow snoozefest with nothing new or interesting to offer. There are a couple of silver linings to this show. The show looks good, the animations are fluid and solid, and I think the artists did a great job with the use of color here. Also whoever voiced purple butterfly lady did a fantastic job and deserves a raise. The main character Tanjiro in particular has a great *visual character design and stands out from the typical shounen protagonist. And that's about it.
It's almost hilarious how poorly written this show is, from its generic plot to its unbearable cardboard characters. The
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plot is that Tanjiro comes back one day to find his family slaughtered(this was a huge LMAO moment but we will get back to the family in more detail shortly). The only person left alive was nezuko who was now a demon. They then go on this adventure to try and convert nezuko back by joining the demon slayers and they go and hunt demons. The premise of this show isn’t awful by any means, but the way it's executed really leaves a lot to desire. I wanted more out of the whole nezuko being a demon thing, but she's just there for being cute and fanservice stuff and whatnot and also for plot points. The rest of the characters in the show are generic one descriptor anime tropes with no depth to them. Inozuke is aggressive. Bowl head is a crybaby and I guess also a pervert(that makes two words!). Inozuke and bowlhead are the side-kicks to the protagonist. They are really annoying and serve no purpose to the plot other than for our shonen to have friends. Teacher man is wise. Tanjiro is a shounen protagonist. They try to make us feel bad for Tanjiro because his family died but the family is so cardboard it's hard to not cringe. Literally no build up or any forms of characterization to any of them.
This moment in the show brings up a sort of larger writer's issue in fiction nowadays. I have a strong feeling that the writers meant for the family death to be shocking. We were supposed to feel sympathetic and yet with the way it was executed, I ended up laughing. First and foremost, the audience experiences loss and grief (not for just death per se) when we see that something is missing that was specific and important to the characters. This is why I roll my eyes at end of the world sequences because the end of the world is not specific enough for me to care. Ok, so tanjiros family was important to him, however we don’t know enough about tanjiro or the family enough to care 2 minutes into the first episode. Nor was the method of death more than just generic “slaughtering”. Not to mention that the family was so generic it was painful to watch any sequences with them in it. Seriously, I heard from the little sister, “I want to be like onee chan when I grow up.” God the dialogue is bad. Cardboard picture family gets slaughtered because plot.
Other than that, the show doesn’t have a scale problem(yet), however the rest is what you would expect from one of these cash cow shonen shows. Randomly computer generated character designs for groups of enemies and groups of generic heroes. No sense of “show, dont tell”. Flat humor. Battles that take too long(and really unimpressive ones at that) where enemies and allies alike blurt their strategies aloud to each other and there is too much internal monologuing. Predictable plot points. False senses of danger.
If you like pretty animation’s and shounen anime(if you liked hunter x hunter, mha, one piece) and have no problems with the anime tropes and one dimensional characters, and you use substances, and or possess the ability to turn your brain off, then this one's for you.
Overall Score: 3/10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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