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Jun 29, 2015
Cipher (Anime) add
Gosh, Cipher is such a strange work.

There's a guy named Cipher, and a guy named Siva, and they're both... twins or something? Nothing is really explained about their relationship to each other or what is even going on in the film. One of them is a movie star making a football film, that's about all I got out of it.
None of the characters are introduced very well (or in some cases at all), as there's very little dialogue in the film, and the dialogue that is there is done through an interview-like style that doesn't actually say much about them or the story at hand.

The ...
Jun 27, 2015
Man... this was just... poor. Really poor.
The animation was really badly done, looking like something some amateur web designer would make in Flash for a web page intro.
The music was uninspired and didn't sound good at all.
The art and design of the whole thing felt very digital and mathematical, everything being created with shapes instead of being drawn by a person...

There really isn't any story to be had here, which I guess is to be expected from a music video... However, they don't even try to tell a tale. This is more like the intro to a web series that doesn't exist... and it's not ...
May 22, 2015
The first One Piece movie was a bit of a surprise. I went into it, expecting a basic, unremarkable side-story featuring the cast of the show. What I got instead was an entertaining pirate tale which stands on it's own as a movie and manages to be well written on top of that.


Characters: 8/10

The characters from the show are in top-form here, all bringing along their trademark personality quirks, and being written just as well as they are in the main series. The new characters that get introduced aren't quite as well written or well designed as the main cast, but they're no slouches, either. ...
Apr 30, 2015
Idol Fighter Su-Chi-Pai II is apparently based on a Mahjong game series by Jaleco. I've never played the games, so I had no real frame of reference going into this.

The plot is thin, but it basically involves the collecting of nine different Mahjong tiles. However, you won't know this until the very end. The storyline throughout the episode itself is slapdash and likes to jump around to different scenes without any real transition or explanation why. It spends most of it's time introducing each new character.

The characters weren't terrible, but weren't anything too original, either. The acting for them was done well, and they were ...
Apr 14, 2015
Route 20 (Manga) add
Route 20 is a manga about one kid who's in a biker gang, and the trouble he gets into along the way. The story is told in a somewhat haphazard way, with things changing left and right, but I feel like that works in it's favor, making the pacing of the manga feel similar to the life of chaos that the main character has chosen. It helps set the tone of the manga well. Each scene is also very nicely done, with interesting, cinematic-like storytelling.

The art is pretty nice, with lots of interesting character designs that are expressive and iconic. There are also some cool ...
Apr 2, 2015
Released after the end of the TV series, this standalone episode serves little purpose and doesn't add anything to the main story.

The reason for this is because essentially nothing of merit takes place in this episode. We watch Kenshin and crew go about their lives, with a few shots of the scenery that go on for a bit too long (almost as though they're stretching for time), and then the episode just kind of ends... without much of a climax.

I'd be surprised if this episode even had a writer. It's much more likely that the actors just got in a booth and recorded some new ...
Feb 18, 2015
Eve no Jikan (Anime) add
Story - 7/10

When it comes to the story in Time of Eve, I felt like it was a pretty original take on an existing formula. That formula being the common "androids are people too" trope that has been present in many sci-fi productions. However, the way the show approaches this concept, having it set in a cafe that doesn't discriminate between humans and robots, works really well. It frames the characters and their interactions in every episode in much of the same way something like the classic sitcom Cheers does.
That might be a bit of an odd comparison, though, as Time of Eve is more ...
Dec 8, 2014
A Drifting Life tells an interesting tale. It falls into many of the pitfalls you would expect from a non-fiction work, in terms of irregular pacing, as well as not having any real arc to the story. However, it still manages to be incredibly well put together despite these shortcomings, and I had fun reading through it.

The tone of the story is often an uplifting and motivating one, with a few darker elements here & there. The whole story seems to work, though, as it feels very realistic. These aren't the trials and tribulations of fictional characters, but actual drama that happened to actual people, ...
Dec 8, 2014
Kemonozume (Anime) add
The story of Kemonozume was very enjoyable. While it does have a lot of standard ideas within it, I feel like it separates itself from them by presenting them in a new, unique manner that comes off a wholly original. Most of the episodes feel like a self-contained tale, while still adding to the overall plotline, and I love that style of doing things. The way the story is presented, in terms of the camera angles and the pacing of everything is also masterfully done.

Most of the characters have some unique qualities to them, but don't do too much to sand out from the crowd, ...
Dec 1, 2014
Manga (Anime) add
Well, geez, here we are again. It's another one of Yoji Kuri's experimental madhouses of a short film. Let's see what this one has to offer.

Much like his other works, this one consists of a bunch of short vignettes that don't have any real purpose to them, make between little and zero sense, and always end with some stupid, pointless gag.

Audio is a mess, and there's no notable characters, either.

The one positive thing I can say about this is that the art is slightly better looking than some of his other work. Sure, everything has a really simplistic design without any interesting details or refined ...


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