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May 22, 2025
Mixed Feelings
Spoiler
This review is just of the whole of My Hero, up to maybe season 5 or so? I kind of forgot where I stopped watching. This anime really upsets me, because it so, so close to being something really great.

I think that the world of My Hero is actually really interesting, it reminds me of something like One Punch Man, but a little more fleshed out. The whole symbol of peace idea is cool, and when All Might is gone I find Endeavour's whole arc thing really cool. I think that My Hero usually does the right thing in its story. Most of the decisions ...
May 10, 2025
Mashle (Anime) add
Mixed Feelings
Parody is very hard to define for me, and whilst Mashle is something I would probably define as a parody - its not very good at it. To be a good parody (in my opinion), you need to add something to the content and provide some kind of commentary. Mashle is just exactly what it is spoofing. It doesn't deconstruct common tropes or make fun of anything in a meta way - it just *is* One Punch Man in Hogwarts with a Black Clover plotline, so what?

For one, none of the things that it 'parodies' are related at all, which makes finding common ground to ...
Sep 27, 2024
Ao Ashi (Manga) add
Preliminary (284/? chp)
(This review is as of chapter ~280, because I wanted to get some thoughts down about Espereon vs Seiran and I don't really see my opinions changing much once I've caught up.)

Ao Ashi is probably the ballsiest sports manga/anime out there. The twist (you know what I'm talking about) is iconic and the main turning point of the manga, but I've never seen anything like it. Such a monumental fuck-you as soon as the show begins to hit its stride is pretty much out of the question for most stories, but somehow Ao Ashi makes it so integral that it seems like it wouldn't exist ...
Sep 21, 2024
Preliminary (10/12 eps)
Wistoria is a weird show to watch, and definitely hard to call *bad*. Despite basically all of its basic plot elements being ripped straight from successful new-gen shonen, and an awkward air surrounding the dialogue and undefined, basic world: Wistoria is still competent, and *can* tell a story.

I found that the show was best when it took a step away from the blatant troupes and clichés it likes to build off of. Certain moments/fights in certain arcs did have some interesting ideas and moments, which provided us something different from the bleh up to that point. Sure, these scenes were not exactly well executed, and ...
Sep 16, 2024
Grappler Baki (Manga) add
Spoiler
Ok, 10 is a hyperbolic rating . Baki has problems with pacing, elements of predictability , dialogue and probably a million other things.

But even so, it is some of the most fun I've had reading manga in a long , *long* time. Moments like Garland suplexing a snake, or that panel of Baki crying over an ape (all animal related for some reason...) are so unique to the world of Baki that anything else similar just seems like a cheap copy. From the beginning, the series slowly ramps up in insanity with no sign of stopping, whilst somehow still maintaining that core foundation of martial ...
Sep 15, 2024
Steins;Gate (Anime) add
Just wrapped up season 1 (literally abt 2 minutes ago ) and it ended up finishing a lot neater and tidier than i had anticipated considering season 2 + movie. I am aware that the other two feed back into the ending but it never really dawned on me that that was 'the end' until it started happening. Anyway, review time:

Let me just start by admitting that Steins;Gate is clearly a cut above some of the other drivel that washes up on the shore of the 'seasonal anime' lists and recommendations. That is to say , as far as anime go , this is ...
Sep 12, 2024
Prison School (Anime) add
Mixed Feelings
Prison school is a hard anime to judge , considering that its jokes constantly teeter on the fence between parody and genuine fanservice/pervy-ness ; blurring that line just enough to get away with more than its probably allowed. Despite this , I think I can pretty confidently say that it has a majority of positive intentions and is one of the few anime which has been able to dredge a consistent stream of laughs out of me.

The comedy itself, whilst of course lending itself heavily towards more crass , inappropriate humour, manages not to lose the intelligence required to actually make a joke funny. I ...


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