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Dec 10, 2019
8 of 24 episodes seen
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1
people found this review helpful
Preliminary
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| Overall |
5 |
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8 |
| Animation |
6 |
| Sound |
4 |
| Character |
3 |
| Enjoyment |
5 |
Such a disappointment. But truth to be told, this is as much a disappointment as this anime had potential, a real potential. The story is enticing, with a carefully crafted scenario toward magic that gives something almost new to consider.
Unfortunately, the anime in its whole is lacking in its execution : the characters are undevelopped (quite boring, in fact), the art is just average but the worst of it comes with the rhythm : This anime is absolutely unable to reach a peak, or reaching a climax for the most spectacular scenes and situations that its story provides, which crush every bit of excitement
that was born from it. And that makes each episodes fall flat, every time.
Such a disappointment, really. To be fair, if you have nothing more exciting to watch lately, maybe you should give Rental Magic a chance, but I still think this anime should have a modern remake, as long as it could grant this anime the heights that it honestly deserves.
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Nov 19, 2019
26 of 26 episodes seen
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1
people found this review helpful
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| Overall |
7 |
| Story |
9 |
| Animation |
7 |
| Sound |
7 |
| Character |
4 |
| Enjoyment |
7 |
Chinese Harry Potter. This is somewhat how I felt watching the show at times, because of the nice and well-thought adventure and story, in a beautiful and complex world : a believable world.
Now the problem is, to get there, the viewers have to ... cultivate (^^') an incredible amount of patience.
Because this show is also a perfect exemple as to why a carefully craft story can be crushed by its production nefarious flaws. And there are numerous, these flaws. Here's some example : in a video player, one episode is about 20~24 min. From these 20 min, remove 3 min for opening theme+previous
episodes resume, then remove 1 min for useless interludes and finally remove 5 to 7 min for product placements and ending theme (and I'm not joking, I've timed the thing).
Honestly, this take a fair amount of patience, and maybe must even take your stubborness out in order to watch this 3d production.
But at times, you wil be rewarded with somptuous backgrounds and scenes, straight out from a video game (special mention for the time the hero is trying to "sense" the world surrounding him). And while I hate the 3d aspect of the characters (not so bad actually, it's more of a personal opinion), I can't deny the tremendous amount of work behind these characters, background and scenes which in turn must explain why we have to endure the pathetic and obvious products placement.
So... you've been warned : while I think Douluo Dalu is worthy of your time, you will have to struggle past the scenes made with an economy of CG in mind, and deal with the product placement scenes badly integrated into the show. Despite all that, Douluo Dalu might be one of the best chinese 3d anime production so far, even if far from perfection.
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Apr 26, 2019
12 of 12 episodes seen
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1
people found this review helpful
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| Overall |
7 |
| Story |
8 |
| Animation |
4 |
| Sound |
6 |
| Character |
5 |
| Enjoyment |
7 |
While not exactly very good, 3d kanojo real girl can quickly become an induced craving anime, and can affect you in some subtle way. Its constantly changing pace, but doing so with a careful approach that will not get too confusing (quite rare in a romcom), and which reflects the thoughts process of the protagonists.
Midway, it creates an elegant and refined setting to provide a simple but not cheap romance, seemingly without arrogance. Typically the kind of anime that makes you think just when you're about to take a break from it ...
"come on, just one more episode".
Unfortunately, from all that, this show won't
get exactly any better. For starters, its execution is far from flawless. Take the characters for example : I can understand a romcom don't exactly need outstanding graphics, but you could make sure at the very least that the main female lead could not get confused with her friend (and vice-versa).
And it's not stopping at characters drawings clones. The show clearly lacks boldness, quite frankly, from his debut to its ending. Here's another example : being shunned as an otaku, the male main lead is most of the time seen as a gross, ugly boy. But ugly, really ? Is he ? Then why Takanashi is supposed to be a lady killer when his features are not that far from Ito ? To me they all look like pretty people if nothing else. All that to say that the supposed "gap" - be it exterior or interior - between the characters are not that obvious in any way, which in turn makes this anime tropes quite more obvious. Maybe it's not as important a theme as it is in "Ore Monogatari!!" or "Lovely Complex" (both which heavily relies on exterior looks/appearance issues) but since the otaku theme (even if we're not talking about exterior aspects issues here) is reminded all over the show, I was expecting more clashes on this particular subject.
Now, provided that you're not expecting too much from the issues forced on the characters and the contrived solutions that emerges from them, 3d kanojo real girl can still be quite enjoyable, sometimes from its soft pace and delicate situations, sometimes from the more serious aspects of life and scenes that follows, along the story. But I honestly still think the title alone is misleading.
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Feb 14, 2019
12 of 12 episodes seen
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1
people found this review helpful
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| Overall |
7 |
| Story |
6 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
9 |
| Character |
7 |
| Enjoyment |
9 |
There's something almost fascinating in this anime. Something crude and perceptible. Something that makes this world described tangible and believable. To me, this is one of the greatest force of this show : a fantasy depicted as a harsh and struggling world where mistakes are not going to be forgiven nor forgotten.
In this world, mistakes will kill you with unescapable certainty. If not worse (or both).
I didn't expect this setting, and while for me it's a good surprise, I can still understand why it could come for others as an awkward, gratuitous and violent ride. And I can't say they're exactly wrong either. Take
the nudity aspect of the show for example : while some people here defends the idea that it is used to further support the harsh reality of this anime world, it would be very naive to dismiss that this is not also an useless naked breast shot viewers bait.
But honestly, this is not that important either way. Past these few scenes, what remains is a carefully thought anime, with some very good attention to some details (and some carefully overlooked), and overall a very different sense of what this fantasy anime tries to achieve and the story it tries to tell. Don't get me wrong : you won't exactly find a story in Goblin Slayer. The scenario is as bland as it can get, and that's because the "story" in this anime is not exactly the story of the so-called Goblin Slayer. The story to be told, in this anime, is the struggling itself. The harshness to overcome (which could be interpreted as the reason why Goblin Slayer is not "named". Goblin Slayer is only the device to face the struggling).
In the end, I think you could be very wrong to entirely dismiss this anime for a few awkwards scenes, and even considering the good amount of clichés and common flaws to the characters (usually just unconsistent and/or simplistic), I still think Goblin Slayer is a show worth of your time, if you're not jailed in your own principles (or if you don't have something better to watch, that works too).
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Nov 12, 2018
18 of 18 episodes seen
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0
people found this review helpful
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2 |
| Story |
3 |
| Animation |
1 |
| Sound |
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| Character |
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A disaster. There is no other way to describe Yaoguai Mingdan. And since I really wish to see chinese animes to shine, I'm being biased and merciful, which should tell you a lot about me calling Yaoguai Mingdan a disaster. But the truth remains whatever we wish for :
This show is a disaster, and there's not a good thing about it, in whatever aspect you look for.
Take the dialogues for example. Dialogs are a good support of information, for the story, the characters, the events, the relationships and so on. Here, dialogs were so poorly thought that they are often used to fill the
sound space. At best, it's a bit confusing but with little or no consequences, but at worse, it's fully misguiding the viewers into believing something that the authors themselves didn't mean to tell.
Hell, sometimes I could have sworn even the characters themselves looked confused at their own sentences !
Ah, but here's something good about Yaoguai Mingdan : The art is funny. Well, it's so poorly animated that it's funny, so it might be an accident of sort but in a way that is still... a good thing, right ?
Still, don't be surprised if it looks like you're watching some kind of a South Park adaptation : some characters seems to miss some axes in their limbs (what's the use for a knee or two nowadays ?), or you will see them moving their legs a bit too fast for the distance they cover. The opposite is also true and it's a common occurence (and I can't stop laughing about it).
With Art comes the story, which is pretty much the best thing about Yaoguai Mingdan, so I can't tell you much without spoiling it (sarcasm mode on : oh, and this could be such a waste ! I mean, sarcasm mode off : I shouldn't lessen the surprises right ?) : Well, it's a mix of asian/western clichés, so along the way the anime itself becomes more cumfortable, like a warm blanket of déjà-vu and ready-to-serve hot drink of past plots...
So now I'm going to be a bit rude : this anime don't lack talent, it's lacking WORK, alltogether. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there isn't any. Maybe it's just lacking because of some external pressure (budget ? delay ? astrological planet alignment ?)
But because I wish for chinese animes to shine, I would still like to give some praise and encouragements to all involved in this anime. While I can't recommand this anime to anyone (unless you're very well prepared), the (very) stubborn viewer could still find himself enticed by - something - about this show (this could vary a lot from one viewer to another). To me, Yaoguai Mingdan was almost a torture, but it could still serve as a prelude for some better work in a near future.
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Nov 6, 2018
26 of 26 episodes seen
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1
people found this review helpful
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| Overall |
7 |
| Story |
6 |
| Animation |
3 |
| Sound |
7 |
| Character |
5 |
| Enjoyment |
7 |
Warning : watching this anime when you're hungry could suddenly increase the business of your nearest local japanese restaurant.
Aside for that, what a pity, really. As a cooking anime of sort, all the ingredients (lame pun intended) were there to take this show on a very good path, but with poor art and quite some questionable cut corners, it actually fails to reach its best.
A pity, really. All the more a pity, for this kind of anime don't usually need the best art to prevail. But awkward and inconsistent art, repeatedly - cheap characters drawings, bad viewing angles consistency for example - don't exactly help
the viewers to empathise with the characters : it's like a constant reminder that you're watching an anime, and nothing more. Keep in mind it's not that bad, but when put
together with the 2nd flaw of the show, the cut corners, (almost) everything falls apart.
So where do the authors cut corners ? As it (often) happens, just a little bit ... but everywhere : from the cheap dialogs, confusing, to the emptiness of the backgrounds, with so little to see apart from the characters that entire scenes could have been located on a desert and the viewers would't have been the wiser. There is very little life outside the characters in this anime, and for this kind of show, it's a very serious flaw, since the slow pace allows the viewers to take their time watching the entire scene.
That said, it's still a soft anime to watch, with nice and somewhat naive feelings, and an interesting twist about food and cooking used as a shield to prevent a kind girl to become herself a yokai dinner. A much-anticipated dinner.
As a conclusion, this anime is a simple and easy watch, and provided that you do not expect anything of it, there's a good chance you could enjoy this little breakfast.
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Nov 4, 2018
54 of ? episodes seen
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4
people found this review helpful
Preliminary
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| Overall |
5 |
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6 |
| Animation |
5 |
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4 |
| Character |
1 |
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5 |
This anime is a mystery. Maybe an experiment even. And we are - the viewers - the guinea pigs. Take the young main hero for example : after only a few minutes of the very first episode, I wouldn't be surprised if you confess it took all your strenght and willpower to avoid screaming at him to - please, oh please ! - just ... shut up.
God he's yelling, this young boy. All the time. Every 10 sec (average, at worst : it's 2 sec), he's yelling because he's happy, because he's sad, because he's in love, because he's hurt, and whatever he does,it
begins with him yelling at something or someone.
And he's the hero. So he's already a painful experience all by himself.
I honestly have no idea what sort of creativity it takes to create a character so uniquely unable to express himself in any other way than yelling.
To add to this incredibly annoying main lead comes the setting : the world this hero and others characters are evolving within. There it becomes better, maybe even a lot better (at last !) because it's a strong world, simple, plainful, with its own rules and the dangers that lies ahead.
But strangely, again, this anime in its whole looks as if it was "computer-generated" : it feels as if an AI had tried to come up with a good setting and script to back up these characters, and doing so by making a mashup of others shows. Unfortunately, with very uncertain success.
And then here lies the mystery about this anime : each episode becomes a standalone anomaly, each episode could get its own MAL score, from a lowely 2 to 3 to an unbelievable 6 or 7 (maybe even a 8, sometimes).
I'm not saying this anime is confusing in any way (on the contrary, it's quite simple to follow), but there's just an incredible mismatch of qualities between each and every episode.
So... should you watch this show ? I don't know. Should you not watch this show ? well, I have no idea either. Did I enjoy it then ?
Seriously, I still have no idea, but I can tell this : I've watched (so far) 54 episodes so this might be watchable (in a fashion). There's no way I would have put up with this annoying brat during 54 episodes without finding something to see for myself,
and maybe you will, too. If you're patient enough.
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Jul 9, 2018
12 of 12 episodes seen
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2
people found this review helpful
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1 |
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3 |
| Animation |
9 |
| Sound |
8 |
| Character |
1 |
| Enjoyment |
1 |
Tokyo Ghoul is typically the kind of anime I can't recommand to anyone, and especially not to someone new to anime. The whole show is like a caricature, a wrong idea about what an anime actually can be.
Now don't get me wrong though :
It's still a carefully crafted animation, with nice effects (motion and lights, especially) and a good emphasis towards action scenes and rhythm.
But you will find these traits are also quite common ... in a good TV commercial, which is to me the definition of Tokyo Ghoul : an advertisement.
Think about it like this : what exactly Tokyo ghoul
is answering for ? The only answer I can think of is to appeal or ease some of our youngs anger or doubts. This is still useful, in a way, and a leitmotiv this anime is able to pull off, but doing so by "targeting" the young minds ? That doesn't suit very well with me and to be honest, most of the time I plainly hate this "marketing" strategy, especially when it's that obvious.
So while I don't like to tell that you're "going to waste your time" watching tokyo Ghoul, I'm also honestly unsure about what you could gain from watching it either. To me, there lies Tokyo Ghoul biggest flaw : directed like some kind of a blockbuster advertisement, this anime fails to provide the deepest questions and answers of the incomprehensible story (which is not that bad, actually), and pseudo-cliché characters and pseudo-psychology are not exactly helping. Now, to be fair, this anime at least tries to be bigger than what it is, and if I were to consider the next season, it actually gets better (considering how bad this anime is to me, that wasn't exactly difficult).
So to summarize it all, Tokyo Ghoul is not a good anime, in my opinion, because I can only find some artistic and entertainment values in its visuals and FX exclusively :
Everything else, such as plot, character development, depth, and so on, falls short.
Maybe this anime still deserves a bit better than the crushing score I gave it. And the best way for you to ensure I'm wrong is to actually watch the show (poor you), but then I would still highly recommand that you don't expect too much of this anime : along the way, unfortunately, watching each episode becomes a futility exercice, and trying to make sense of the show in its whole, a boring challenge.
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Mar 18, 2018
13 of 13 episodes seen
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3
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| Overall |
9 |
| Story |
9 |
| Animation |
9 |
| Sound |
8 |
| Character |
9 |
| Enjoyment |
8 |
By far, the dialogs in this anime are ones of the best you could ever find. Brillantly written, these dialogs (and sometimes monologs) are key to fully appreciate this anime.
Fluid, meaningful, and sometimes so snappy that you can - literally - 'hear' the punchlines hit the male main character on its face.
It can be a real pleasure to follow this anti-social disordered young man in its quest for anti-glory, making himself the common enemy of all in accordance to his twisted views on life.
The high-school becomes the battlefield for a change, the only way left for these anti-heroes to evolve into something new.
While
this setting is overall a bit too much romanticized, and if you're not afraid of reading between the lines, this anime should provide some epic and funny punishing jokes mostly directed at our male character (when he's not craving for the cuteness of the very innocent tennis club captain), only bested by a smart cold queen, together shunned by all the others, while they're just struggling, in the end, to be accepted as they are.
Which is, in this anime in particular, but also in real high-school life in general, what it's always all about.
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Feb 10, 2018
12 of 12 episodes seen
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1
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| Overall |
4 |
| Story |
5 |
| Animation |
5 |
| Sound |
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| Character |
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| Enjoyment |
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Lame. In every possible way. It's a real struggle to find anything good about this anime : Action scenes are mediocre, somewhat barely enjoyable at their best. Rhythm is a disaster, especially since the comedy/bromance cut-scenes intervenes at the worst possible time, with not even an once of originality, and all predictable. Was the bromance even necessary to the story to begin with ... ? That could have been - at least - an effective bait, a trap to lure the young girls audience but when it's done that bad, I can only see it as a mockery, an insult to their intelligence.
And the story
is not helping, of course. 3 to 4 episodes are enough to know where the whole thing is going (here's come the convenient monster... yay !).
Mostly, this anime goes down because it's cheap. Everything's cheap. There was no real effort to strenghten the good points (if any) and alleviate the weaknesses.
You can still watch this, nevertheless, if you're in need for a way to spend some time. But there's no way you will remember Donten ni Warau as an unforgettable anime.
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