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Oct 24, 2024
Spoiler
I can see why the series is so highly rated. The music and relationships were the big high points for the series, and episode 7 in particular absolutely soared. A lot of the subtle communication and effective romance that I love are at least present on some level here, even if it doesn't quite deliver as strongly in the end (I'll hand it to the series for not giving us a clean happily ever after, but I find it hard to believe that Riko and Richie just never communicated after that heartfelt train scene, and I felt that Sen's exit from the plot was a ...
Oct 22, 2024
Mixed Feelings
Gundam, especially in the UC timeline, has been very hit or miss for me. Some of its entries are among my favorites, others are baffling misfires, and there's a whole lot of mid.

So, how about this one?

I'll get the obvious out of the way first: the CGI is mostly good to great. Its mobile suit fights look solid and, especially as it gets later in the series, there's a sense of weight to the fights. I don't think it does ground-level views quite as well as previous entries (the gold standard so far is Hathaway), but there's a grit to this and a sense of ...
Oct 20, 2024
FunnyFunny
So much joy packed into 24 minutes. I was grinning ear to ear throughout.

It shouldn't be hard to believe that One Piece can grace us with a one-off special that hits this hard, but it still blew me away. The fanservice was perfectly timed and didn't overstay its welcome, the perspective shifts were awesome and recontextualized a lot of what happened during two pivotal arcs without changing them, the new characters were a joy to watch, and yes, the animation was incredible (checks the team behind it... oh yeah, no wonder - same director behind Where the Wind Blows and instrumental in OP26).

Other studios ...
Oct 20, 2024
Uzumaki (Anime) add
FunnyFunny
Yep, this was certainly... a show that happened.

The first episode was great, which makes this one particularly hard to rate because it's a balance of that with just how far it spiraled down in the next few episodes. Maybe... maybe that was the point? To make the audience feel like they're spiraling as well? If so, kudos to the showrunners: you did it.

I'm sure plenty of reviews will talk about the visual quality, which took a nosedive after episode 1. This was a fraught product in development and it shows, with the budget for this thing nearly drying up after that first episode. It's ...
Oct 17, 2024
It's just what it says on the tin: great.

I watched this show a short time after watching Golden Boy. I'm not going to be comparing to that show, but it had a similar vibe to it, and I think in many ways this is a broader realization of the ideas of Golden Boy.

In many ways, this show probably shouldn't work. When your premise is that Onizuka is becoming a teacher to perv on high school girls... yeah, it's not the best, especially since he doesn't really drop that throughout the story. Hell, a substantial arc in this story involves Onizuka getting one of his students ...
Oct 12, 2024
Spoiler
This is undoubtedly one of the better entries in My Hero Academia’s long run. They did a much better job this season of translating the visuals to the anime, often in similar detail, they covered pretty much everything from the manga as well, and there’s just a lot going on that was portrayed well on the screen.

Unfortunately, that’s part of the problem. It’s not that this season is bad by any means, but it is incredibly uneven and chock full of plot lines that are all either rushed to an end or slowly dragged out to the point of frustration.

It starts off strong. The Star ...
Oct 9, 2024
This was a fascinating watch.

To get some of the bigger picture stuff out of the way first, this show is pretty uneven. That seems to be purposeful, as the goal is to throw not only the audience off, but the characters as well. There are a lot of meta jokes about episode counts and viewership that work in the show's favor, but even though I can appreciate those elements, it doesn't change the fact that the show is very chaotic and occasionally opaque in its approach. Especially as it gets to the middle of the series, I think most audiences will have a split opinion ...
Oct 6, 2024
Spoiler
It’d be easy enough to just say this series is great, and that’s virtually as true now as it was back in S1. It would save me a lot of time because this season is getting virtually the same score as the first season from me, and I have similarly positive thoughts about it. The character moments don’t have quite the same oomph as S1, but they’re still powerful and probably have a stronger emotional base this time around. The animation takes a tick up, particularly as the series gives us some impressive sakuga during the massive play.

I’ve grown to like Aqua more over ...
Oct 6, 2024
Mixed Feelings
Spoiler
It’s easy to like a good spy story with a lot of action and comedy built in, and I do like this one well enough, even if the humor can be a bit same-y at times. Generally, mileage may vary as you go through the early part of the series and I was a bit underwhelmed by the experience, mainly because it’s largely an extended training arc/bonding experience between the Yozakuras and Taiyou, who marries into their family in the first episode. It has a colorful cast of characters and, while Taiyou himself can be a little basic, he’s also embodying the “fish out of ...
Sep 29, 2024
Mixed Feelings
This is one of those shows that started off strong, but its score and my enjoyment of it kept waning as the season continued.

To some degree, that was always bound to happen. This show is treading ground that might as well be a trope at this point, with Will, a magically inert person in a world full of mages, trying to become the very best mage, like no one ever was, to join his girlfriend as a Magia Vander. Apart from the girlfriend part, replace Magia Vander with Divine Visionary (Mashle) or Wizard King (Black Clover) and not much changes. It certainly has a new ...


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