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Feb 24, 2020
Unlike perhaps most people who dislike this movie, I actually really liked the anime and gave it an 8. At first I thought it was kind of bland but it really picked up half way and by the end of the anime it delved into the character's psychology, offered some philosophy to the audience using the characters, and was somewhat ambiguous as to how it ended. Good stuff.
However, if you liked the philosophy and psychology presented in the final two episode of the anime, I recommend you stay away from this. It rehashes some the stuff put forth in Shinji's mind at the end of
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the final episode, but with the twist that he doesn't find the resolve he appears to at the end of the anime and not as well fleshed out.
The rehash of the psychological and the philosophical are even more shallow here, and doesn't get one to think about one's own life as much as some of the question posed by the original. Instead you get to see what happens from the storyline and SPOILERS, it's a story about everyone getting merged into a single source.
I like that they should Asuka as a cocky badass like her character was supposed to be, and I like that it decided to go that extra step to show us how things turned out for all the other characters, but I feel the ending I imagined walking away from the anime's open ending was better.
To sum my feelings up on the movie, I've seen Gun X Sword, Mirai Nikki and TTGL and all of them took the ideas and concepts here and did them better. They probably got it from this movie, but that just goes to show how it has been succeeded by better anime using the same concepts. The movie just doesn't live up to precedent of the anime and ends up being a major let down.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Aug 9, 2016
I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS ANIME DESPITE LIKING IT!
Yeah, you read me right. I liked the anime, but do not recommend it.
Why you ask? Because despite the action sequences, violence, and psychological thriller that made it enjoyable, it's actually a poorly written story backed up by mediocre characters. It's not a mystery.
Higurashi is another anime you have to enjoy with your brain turned off even more so than other series. This seems strange considering it is classified as a mystery. It's not a series you could just recommend to a friend or a general audience member. It's kind of like a slasher movie
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from the 80's. It takes a certain type of person to enjoy it.
GENERAL:
Higurashi is a story about a boy and his group of girl friends living in a town that worships a demon god of sacrifices. Three major families essentially govern the town, and there is a curse that every year at the festival (for the past 5 years) someone gets killed and someone disappears. This can happen to more than one person. Two people, one a photographer and some woman who was researching the town (her job is not important), don't take this curse too seriously and you can guess what happens next.
The story is then divided into what I like to think of as six different arcs. I consider the two episode police investigator to be it's own arc.
THE PROBLEMS:
Instead of the arcs telling a single, coherent story line from multiple perspectives, or even chronologically out of order, the show essentially takes my blurb above about the story and just creates multiple short stories, of which most are only loosely related to one another.
The best way I feel I can describe this, is that this feels more like a compilation of fan fiction involving the characters. Maybe even a series that had multiple writers who wanted different stories and endings that allude to the plot. Sometimes it actually is a curse, other times it probably isn't. What particularly frustrates me is when, in the last arc, (MAY BE SPOILER) they try to wrap them all up together as being alternate takes on the future. A future that may never end until the writers run out of ideas.
The characters are not developed enough to warrant fan fiction. This series is unique in a sense that I feel like I know the supporting cast better than the main cast. The main guy is okay, he's a bit like your stereotype anime hero, but has more guts. The 4 main girls don't have much of a difference in personality. Their outlooks on life are only marginally different depending on their one messed up situation and/or job. Oh and they all have something wrong with them in the head.
So it's like a compilation of fan fictions, of a rough plot, with interchangeable characters who aren't much different except the role they play. Oh and there may or may not be a DM involved.
Yeah, this is the equivalent of an RPG, played out in various different ways with this stand in characters and the random cards they get dealt at the restart of each story. With just a rough plot of our hero's adventures, a new story unfolds. When they pass the baton on to the next DM, they may incorporate some elements of a previous story they liked. This series is not a genuine mystery.
HOWEVER:
IT'S A VERY ENTERTAINING RPG TO WATCH.
Despite all it's flaws, it takes so many twists and turns that when it wants to be engaging it can be. Indeed, my frustration with this series is one of passion and not of hate. I loved arcs 1, 2, 4, and 5 and was content with 3. Had they instead kept it as one story, and worked on the characters a bit more, I think it had what it takes to be one of the best anime out there. It came that close.
The 2 and 5 particularly seemed like they were wrapping everything up. This show was able to take things to the extreme, and actually piqued my interest numerous times and had me actively watching, waiting to see what was happening next. Seeing the psychological health of the characters, and how it impacted the environment around them was interesting. The supernatural element in it made it spooky at times.
CONCLUSION:
I don't recommend this series on a critical level. It's not something you should be showing everyone, and to be honest, it's kind of insulting that someone recommended this based on my interest in Mirai Nikki. In a similar case to Deadman Wonderland, Higurashi had a lot of promise but was overall a let down.
Unlike Deadman Wonderland, I felt that the boredom was more in the middle (Beginning of Arc 3) and not at the end, so it's actually good if you don't mind turning off your brain and just enjoying the f-ed up story(ies) that you are about to watch. Psycopathic Friends, Torture, Pedo doctors, Elder abuse, & Child murder all await your sadistic tastes in this show.
Enjoy, you monster.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jul 4, 2016
I found this season to be better from the last one. Season 1 of R+V was so bad, I had to consume alcohol to finish watching it. It was just a mess of a harem anime.
It seems however, that the creators of Season 2 agreed with me, and decided to create a second season to parody the first. Parodying your own series with your own series, a very bold move.
The series kept the harem in a form of stasis, with catfights erupting here and there even though the main guy is clearly into the vampire chick above and beyond the other girls. The
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characters were dumb, and fought, and the story was all over the place but it seemed like every character in it, when they weren't at the center of the episode, knew just how bad this show was and expressed the sentiment. The Succubus being the one to least give a damn about criticizing the show.
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However, I'm going to give the season some credit on the final episode. It started to move from a silly parody into hitting at the heart of all harem animes.
Both Real Moka and The Succubus Kurumu actually came across as being genuinely hurt by Tsukune's feigned indecisiveness. Real Moka tried to maintain the relationship and attraction between her and Tsukune, but it just wasn't good enough for him because she wasn't the ditz. The character did seem genuinely sad as he just runs off leaving her to stand alone.
Additionally, in the final two episodes, Kurumu lays it all out there as to why she likes him and how she's been with him from the start. She even gets he's not going to pick her and expresses being upset that he never even looked back at her as heads into the castle.
I felt these scenes to be somewhat sad, and indicative of the result of a harem anime. Someone(s) is going to end up heart. I'm glad they briefly touched on this before resetting the status quo. Both of these two had somewhat genuine reasons as to why he should care/be with them. Yet he chooses the stereotype instead.
The witch girl ultimately admits to basically being down for a polygamous threesome with Tsukune and Moka, so I don't buy her romance, and the Ice Girl, maybe because I missed something, didn't seem to be genuinely in to him so much as she wanted to be into some guy.
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the final episodes which, combined with the series being self aware and parodying itself, bumped this show a point above its predecessor.
If the show took itself a bit more seriously in the second series, with a focus on tying up loose ends, it could have at least earned a hard 6 out of 10. A break up of Tsukune's harem, and the character split from episode 11 (you'll know when you see it) would have done wonders. It could have turned into a slight critique of a harem instead of a parody, which given the stereotypical and often blind behavior of the characters, would have served the series well and could have still resulted in a happy ending.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jun 5, 2016
Nothing about plastic models, which is a shame because I would have liked to have found an anime about that. Would I recommend it? Sure.
You have the dirty blonde haired girl who is your standard excited, hyper, strange and awkward character.
The black haired one who gets angry and is meaner than the others, though could be nice and even sane.
The red haired one showed no real personality.
the other characters are strange...and I guess unique to a sense. The anime wasn't bad per se but just kind of weird and aimless. Sometimes things are unnecessarily lewd, and even sexual, but I guess
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it's okay?
Personally I think it's better than the haruhi-chan series. Saying that though, I prefer longer and more effort-intensive animes.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Dec 13, 2015
Deadman Wonderland, great idea, poor execution.
To properly review this anime, I need to review it in three parts. The first 6 episodes, the last 6 episodes and then the entire anime as a whole. Spoilers will be said, but minimized.
The First Six:
Ginta's classmates are completely destroyed by a man in red for seemingly no reason, and implants a red crystal into him. He gets blamed for the murders being the only survivor. As such, he is given a life sentence at a place called Deadman Wonderland which is a theme park staffed with criminals who also entertain guests to gain valuable candies that
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work as a temporary antidote to the poison injected into their necks via a collar they are given.
The prisoners are also able to purchase food, alcohol, cigarettes and other things in the form of points that they earn as well.
However, there is a secret game as well, a tournament to either death or knockout by people with blood powers referred to as the Deadmen. They get money and candies for participation, but if they lose, they lose part of their body. The promoter promises Ginta that he can avenge his classmates if he makes it to the top of the tournament to challenge the dubbed "Red Man."
This is the story for the first half which seems standard but also interesting as well. A prison/death tournament/revenge/magic weapon story. It was actually pretty good.
The Characters were for the most part interesting, though everyone was generally rude or mean except for Ginta, Yoh and Shiro, but in a way that I found entertaining or at least made sense within context of the story. The three mentioned above function as the protagonists and are alright, though Shiro is too childlike but that's to be expected with anime. First half, easily 8 out of 10 with strong potential to have ended with a 9 or 10 out of 10.
The Second Six:
Boy is this where the story gets railroaded. So now it's a story about a bunch of Deadmen who hide in plain sight, don't take themselves too seriously, are planning a big prison break to complain to officials about the conditions there. Fighting them are a group of Anti-Deadmen, people whom have had notions of mercy and kindness removed from their brains and whose weapons can nullify the blood powers.
So we're now introduced to a mostly dull cast of freedom fighters who the Anti-Deadmen know where they are and just mess with them every once in awhile. Ginta decides to get wrapped up in all this and the story focuses exclusively on these boring and moronic people. No more matches, no more critique of a privately owned prison complex, no more interesting characters. These people and the villains are entirely bland. The people introduced in the first six episodes are given brief cameos, with Yoh being dropped as a protagonist, Ginta flips between being brave, being a pussy, or being emotional. Shiro had an arc that began that really isn't explored. An arc begins with the warden but then is kind of dropped. A few other arcs or people are mentioned but never fully explored. This second half made me want to watch High School Of The Dead again. 3 out of 10.
Overall:
The series came out strong, has a fantastic opening, great premise and interesting enough characters for the first 6 episodes. I didn't like Shiro, but didn't dislike her either but liked everyone else. Once it was set up, I thought it was going to play out to be an action anime that was perhaps critical of the prison system, or just a fun anime setting that was kind of unique. However it dropped that ball rapidly when episode 7 began and this freedom fighter group thing began. There was absolutely no reason to shift gears from excellent set up to generic garbage that a high school writing class teacher would give a C- to with the comments "fantastic premise, needed a lot more effort."
So why am I giving it a 6 instead of 5 or lower? Because if you stop watching at episode 6, then fanfic your own ending, the series would easily be an 8 out of 10. I don't think the series's early creativity, story and characters should be penalized for a lazily written and generic second half. It's still a worthy watch up until episode 6, and should be watched by everyone. Watch after episode 6 though at your own discretion.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jul 18, 2015
This series doesn't really follow a story arc, but unlike other series where it kind of works, it actually hinders the quality of an otherwise interesting story.
It's about a girl called Tomoko who just cannot seem to catch a break. She had high expectations for her first year of high school, but things do not seem to go as planned. She has trouble to talking to people and is also generally ignored by the populace. Whenever someone does try to talk to her, outside of her immediate family, she gets incredibly nervous and shy. The show revolves around her attempts to increase her popularity
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at High School so she can meet new friends, get a boyfriend, and enjoy her High School years.
While this may sound like an interesting underdog story, it has quite a few downsides.
Tomoko receives little character development in this character story. She becomes less nervous talking to people, and gains a little confidence, but never actually develops in a meaningful way.
Her character and her goals also are a little inconsistent. In the first half of the story (Roughly episodes 1-7), one of her primary goals is to get guys to notice and/or like her. It makes sense since her character is written to be extremely sexualized, with even a fantasy scene in one of the first few episodes of her being gang-raped. However, after the 7th episode, she seems to be more interested in getting the attention of girls and even comes across as a bit of a lesbian. This comes out of nowhere and seems kind of odd.
She also seems to be disinterested in getting a boyfriend and more interested in just finding friends but in the first half of the series, she liked being alone generally but was really looking to find a guy. Yeah sure, she always wanted attention, but seemed to have switched from primarily male to primarily female towards the second part of the series.
The Story was deliberately written in the way of not having plot progression. There were many chances for the writer to take the story down an interesting path, only to have it dropped or ruined by the main character who pushes the bounds of suspension of disbelief. The story has no ending, despite building up to one, and the only closure the series has is a vague "Who cares, be happy with yourself."
I held Tomoko in various states of like and dislike depending upon her actions, situation, and setting. She is a sympathetic character, someone who we've all been to some extent and someone who we'd all want to help. She also can be selfish, mean and weird. However, I believe the audience wanted to see her ultimately succeed and towards the end, it seems that she might get what she actually wants. The opportunity for a happy ending is ruined by, in my opinion, a poorly taught lesson used as an excuse to show some panties and jiggling breasts.
Saying all I have said, the writer is skilled at writing characters, and the support characters are surprisingly normal when compared to Tomoko and that was a great juxtaposition. The story is well connected, with characters coming back in later episodes, and the episode ideas were interesting enough that it was a hard series to put down. Tomoko is sympathetic, her brother is a realistic example of a sibling, her middle school friend was genuine and at the end, it seems someone actually notices her. It played out fairly realistically and if it wasn't for the writer snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, it would have been a satisfying tale. However it didn't, so it's just an okay series.
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who hasn't watched anime at all though. There was fair too many anime culture references, specifically from the Haruhi series. I noticed an Another reference as well. I probably didn't get all the references myself, so it's probably a series best left to watching later. I think people who have watched more anime than myself might have found find it funnier.
All in all, I am giving it a 6. If this series had followed a more stereotypical story arc within it's context, it could have been great. But changing the character, goal, and completely messing up the ending makes it just another average anime.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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May 10, 2015
I'll set the tone by saying this is not a good anime. I personally give it a 3 out of 10, but I can see others maybe rating it a 4 or a 5. I originally chose this anime because someone on here recommended it to me since I enjoyed Future Diaries. The violence is the only thing these two have in common really.
So what makes it sub-par? Well I think a major point goes into the characters. This was a story where you wanted to cheer for the bad guys, not because they were good, but because the "good guys" were written
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terribly. You DO NOT rely on shock to garner sympathy for terrible characters or use it as a crutch to prop up a character. When you use shock in writing, you use it to raise the stakes, enhance a character or emotionally lead your audience. The shocking scenes that disgust you are there to try to make you feel for the protagonists instead of wanting them to get off the screen.
Lucy is terrible, she murders and tortures people out of spite and yet you're supposed to feel bad for her. I was too busy feeling bad for the imaginary families of all the innocent people she killed to give a fuck about her. The main guy/girl couple are boring and the orphan was OK, but I personally wasn't interested in the character either. These are your protagonists. The "bad guys" are the Corporation that seems to be trying to protect the human population from these psychic monsters (of which Lucy is apart of). While the Corporation has it's share of cruel people working for it, it also has it's share of sympathetic ones. In fact, I say the writer must have loved these guys because he put more effort into them then the people we were supposed to identify with.
It did have it's good points though. The action was good, I liked some of the villains (Number 7 was my favourite) and the setting was well done. What killed it for me was how hard the story did to try to get the viewer to sympathize with the protagonists. The amount of scenes and over-reliance on shock value devoted to this, ruined the anime for me. Maybe for people who are okay with this (or maybe even liked the Protagonists!?) might be able to look past it and give this a 4 or a 5. It's by no means terrible, but I believe the majority of anime out there is superior to this one.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Mar 26, 2015
There are three types of people who will dislike this anime:
1. People who are Genre rigid. This show is action, thriller, mystery, romance, comedy, etc. and often likes to shift from episode to episode or arc to arc. I personally can not place this series purely into one genre
2. People who are looking for a stable story. This show has more of a general story that changes as a result of the game. This is natural given that many characters initially DO NOT WANT to play the game and are FORCED to play it. Naturally, morality is thrown around and a simple story with a
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clearly defined goal isn't present.
3. People who cannot suspend their disbelief over the slightest thing. There are moments in this story where you ask yourself "Why don't they just kill them and be done with it?" which can be frustrating. There are also moments where a character will do something illogical. While these problems sound glaring, they don't take you out of the anime, and simply leave you with a "I wouldn't have done that" thought as the story continues.
If you got past that, welcome to my review of Future Diary. Future Diary was one of the best animes, no series, I have ever seen in my life.
Story:
The premise is this: There is this Time God who only seems to be known my introverts and outcasts. He decides to throw a "to the death" tournament to see who will take over his role of god. Each person is given a different "power" to their cell phone diaries that give them an edge in this competition.
The story is built around this idea initially, with some of the "players" wanting to win and become a god, and others who just want to be left alone.
This all begins to change as personal events unfold that cause people to become more actively involved. Each diary itself has a different and unique power, but the power is unique to the user specifically for the most part.
A lot of people found the ending to be unsatisfying, but to me it seemed more like the logical conclusion with the exception of some minor continuity issues. The only fault in this series typically comes from characters.
Characters:
Imagine someone you love romantically, real or not, obessively so. Imagine you have a journal or diary that confirms at the very end that you will end up with this person. Imagine being in said game above and that person also being a fellow competitor. Imagine that said person is also a bit helpless and will not survive unless you get involved. Imagine your diary also keeps track of what is happening to that person, so you can help them whenever you can.
However, deep down you know that even if you help them, there is going to come a point where it's only going to be the two of you left in the game. This is the MAIN character, Yuno.
Many people wouldn't call Yuno the main character since she is not the focus character. However, the series essentially is all about her and the actions she takes. She is psychologically unstable and is THE definition of a stalker taken to the extreme.
Yukki, her love interest, is essentially a bit cowardly, but has nerves of steel once in awhile that helps keep him and the others alive. He is the focus character of the series, but doesn't really act like a protagonist until near the end. He is more like the "Damsel in Distress" of this series, naively getting himself into trouble. It was a good move for the series to make him the focus character since it makes him more likable and since Yuno has the stronger story.
Yukki's friends are okay. Not much to say since I'd be spoiling the series. Luckily, they only really appear in the series to serve as support when more important stuff is going on, so their lack of development is not painful.
The other diary users I felt were written very well. They all had motivations and different ways of trying to achieve their goals. Some people might feel that they didn't give them enough story, but the story really isn't about them and that is what people may miss and that is why they were written well. Most of the users and their perspectives are told through the lens of Yukki, and this sometimes confuses the audience into thinking they are main characters when in fact they are simply well written support.
What are the problems with the characters? Well, some of the characters act almost too honorably given the situation, and instead of crushing their opposition they may prefer to toy with them instead. Other times, the characters seem to act dishonorably and betray each other. While this makes sense from an emotional stand point, causing Yuno and Yukki's relationship get closer despite understandable apprehension Yukki has with this, it sort of comes across as nonsensical to the character's motivation. In fact, there is so much of this that goes on that it made me feel that only Yuno was reliable and predictable. Which again works from the series stand point but takes away a bit of the realism from the support cast.
Enjoyment:
I really liked this series and the twists that resulted from it. I consumed this anime over the course of a night and the following day, which is to say a lot as to how drawn in I was. The last, 4 or 3 episodes I felt less invested in, but didn't drain from how great the rest of the series was. There are even subtle, one scene or one line incidents that change your perspectives on characters, or the story itself.
I recommend it as a MUST SEE. There are areas it could have improved in, could have made the characters a little more realistic, and could have ended it in different ways to convey different tones. However, I believe the few mistakes or over-sights that were made are worth the sacrifice of building up a stronger emotional investment.
I challenge you to watch episode 1-6 (or 4 at the earliest) and see if you're not interested enough to see what happens next.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Mar 25, 2015
I recommend this series. It has well written characters (both lovable and unlovable) and I found it to be funny.
This series perhaps has some of the best supporting characters I have seen yet terrible leads. Let me explain:
Both Akitsuki and Suzuka are terrible leads for this series. Both of them have no respect for their friends and they both behave in ways that would be unappealing to the opposite sex.
Akitsuki is essentially an obsessive stalker, doing things like peeping into her apartment and screaming at her door that he's never going to stop loving her even though she already rejected him
Suzuka is essentially
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a try hard and a bitch. Whenever someone is nice to her, she goes on a lecture-esque rant talking down to them and whenever someone does something weird or mean to her, she acts normal. She has an obsession with track and field, and also with "having to be right".
Why did I give this romance story a 7 you ask? Well, aside from these characters, everyone else is pretty cool.
Yasunobu is Akitsuki's self proclaimed friend and he sort of knows how to act with the ladies...or at least thinks he does. He has a lot of good scenes, is funny, and offer's Akitsuki advice which Akitsuki manages to mess up. He also acts as great wingman and generally talks Akitsuki up in front of the girls.
Honoka Sakurai is the pinnacle of girl next door. She is shy, kind, eager to please, and tries really hard to get the guy she loves (Akitsuki). Every other male character except Akitsuki knows this and I don't blame them. She tries to take care of Akitsuki and even joins the track team just to be with him.
Of course there are more support characters and they all seem well done and likable, especially compared to the main characters.
This show is good if you don't take it at face value. It's funny, and I found myself watching it more to see how everyone around Akitsuki and Suzuka act than those two characters themselves. I think it's a good series that everyone should give a shot watching.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Mar 25, 2015
This is perhaps the worst anime I have ever seen. I thought that FLCL was the worst, but this one simply takes the cake.
Now I am still a noob when it comes to anime as a whole, so take my opinion how you want, but this series made me feel depressed after watching it and made me consider dropping anime in general (even though I had already watched 8 or so series before it). Thank God for ToraDora! and Future Diary for letting me give anime a second chance.
Okay so I am only going to rate this based primarily on Story, Character and Enjoyment.
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The sound and artwork were good in my opinion and they certainly did a good job in that department. However, the story is downright terrible.
Story:
So you have Makoto, a boy on his way to high school who has a thing for this girl Kotonoha, and this girl, Sekai agrees to help him get with her though she has a thing for Makoto. The first half or so of the series seems like a stereotypical romance/drama and you don't see anything wrong with it at first. Then Sekai agrees to let Makoto get some "practice" in physically with her so he can please Kotonoha (who becomes his gf) and that is where the series starts going down hill.
I'm not supposed to write any spoilers, but essentially Makoto takes a liking to "practicing" and decides to do whatever it takes to continue practicing, and not just with Sekai.
Now going in, I thought this would be over-the-top funny. However it wasn't not by a long shot. The follow example describes the emotions you will feel when watching this series:
It's like watching someone adopt a puppy, pet it, feed it, and train it, for a week only to stomp it to death before your eyes. As that Puppy is whimpering cries for help or to hope whomever is hurting it will stop, some other guy comes over and is rewarding the person hurting the puppy.
The story comes across as just excessively cruel. I guess the message is, don't be a player? But it's not like any of the characters learn any lessons from what happens in the show. They just keep doing what they're doing and making things worse.
Characters:
Everyone in this series just makes bad decision after bad decision causing emotional and psychological damage to all characters. Once stuff starts going bad, The 3 main characters; Makoto, Sekai and Kotonoha, never try to do anything to resolve the problems that arise. In fact, all their actions seem to be the exact opposite of what their characters should do. Meanwhile, the supporting cast, shift between trying to help and making things worse. Towards the end though, everybody gives up any semblance or normality and they just end up like the main characters.
Will you like any of these characters? Perhaps. My friend expressed sympathy for Kotonoha, and one or two of the other supporting characters may have motivations or desires that you can sympathize with.
Will the character you like win at all? The answer is a big NO. Everybody in this series gets screwed, some literally.
Do any of these characters stand out? No. You've got the average guy who is a "fast learner" regarding women, you've got the kind of popular girl who befriends with said average guy, you have the shy stereotypical virgin girl, you have the idiot best friend, the childhood friend that was a girl, you have the "cold one", you have bullies, and you have a girl that has a crush on idiot's best friend.
Just because they're archetypes doesn't mean they're bad. But the almost inhuman level of bad decisions these characters make will make your head spin.
The one thing I was left asking after I finished watching this was "Where are all the adults in this show?" There is one brief instance of Kotonoha's mother and maybe the teacher who is teaching the class where they pass notes and that's it. There was not a single mature voice of reason that would have put a stop to something...like I don't know a.....FREAKING SEX ROOM from being operated at the school's festival. That's right, it's an open tradition that whomever what's to shag get's their own room operated by one of the classes. What kind of teacher would be cool with that? What kind of Parent or Principal?
Enjoyment:
This story is what you get when you put a popular guy with no morals/values in with a group of dumb and careless women. By the end of the series, you will most likely hate every character in it (with the possible exception of one or two) and will regret the time you wasted on it.
In real life there are so many tragic stories of people whose lives are ruined from affairs, divorce, drug use, losing their jobs, car accidents, etc. This story comes along to remind you that, with the right set up, the world can be a really shitty place.
I hated this series, and it wasn't because the series was serious. It was because, behind all the layers of misery, this series didn't even have a message beyond "life sucks" because "people suck". It didn't even make an attempt at creating human like characters.
If you want to get anything from my review, I beg you not to watch it. If I can convince one person not to watch this, it will have made the hours I spent watching it and the hour I spent writing this worth it. Go watch something optimistic, adventurous, deep, or comedic but STAY AWAY FROM SCHOOL DAYS!
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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