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Feb 24, 2025
I was about to drop this anime on episode 1, but then I saw the scene with the fish girl and decided to stick out for a bit longer, hoping she would stay together with the MC.
This was a horrible decision. In the end, they not only don't stay together, but the fish girl chooses to stay with the shark man instead, which had previously beaten and imprisoned her and was pretty much the "irredeemable bad guy" in the story.
My feelings for the aquatic female aside, this anime has many bad aspects and a few good ones. It remembered me of another bad anime called
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RD Sennou Chousashitsu and of an actually good anime called Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio. If you liked the whole "aquatic world with submarines" theme, then just watch Arpeggio instead of this monstrosity.
Anyway,
The good:
- Aquatic environment, with sunken cities and the such
- Nice combat sequences which resemble Last Exile, Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu and Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio
- Good 2D art (the scenery in particular) and animation
- Good music
- 4 episodes, so it is straight to the point
The bad:
- Horrible CGI
- Unecessary CGI use
- Nonsensical plot: the "mad scientist" was a bad guy just because he wanted to, pretty much. They don't bother explaining it fully
- Straight up Stockholm Syndrome-fueled netorare in the end. They showed us a cute character, but blueballed the viewer all the way through by not deepening her relations with the MC (and then making her abandon him in favour of her abuser)
- The last episode is a MESS, and for a good 10 minutes the entire dialogue is made while the MC and his friend point a gun at the antagonist, in a cringey, overextended way.
- Cringey scenes, such as when the mermaids sing and all the scenes inside the demihuman ship
- The MC is an obnoxious, rebellious chainsmoker
- The girl is annoying
- Too much shouting
- Inconclusive ending
Seriously, there was only one interesting thing about this anime and they absolutely destroyed it in the single worst possible way. My goodness.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Feb 15, 2025
I had a feeling this anime would've been bad due to its sudden and nonsensical rise to popularity. After a while, I gave in and decided to give it a chance.
Frieren looks and feels like many recent hits, such as: Bocchi the Rock (same director), Oniichan wa Oshimai, Mushoku Tensei, Chainsaw Man, Dungeon Meshi. And one interesting thing about all of those is that their popularity was highly fueled by Twitter, and they all had similar social media presence and development. They're exactly like what you'd expect from an anime popular amongst modern Twitter users, that is, they feel alien. And this was very obvious
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here in Frieren.
The story starts with this drama about not giving attention to you friends while they live. Then you have a scene of Frieren crying on her friend's funeral. Then you have a scene of one of her friends getting old and bedridden. Then you have some moments about adoption and parenting. Then you have Frieren spending months on end writing a book. Then you have Fern making Frieren wake up early because she "has to". Then they go watch the Sunrise as if it was something life-changing. This anime plays like some kind of "Facebook life-lessons video", just like Mushoku Tensei (sometimes). I don't think anyone actually into anime would enjoy this. It's like you're watching a Soap Opera.
The anime is prude, sterile, slow. It's as if it was made for your grandma. They even try to sneak in some attempt at fanservice, perhaps to keep the appearances of being an anime, but they land like a feather, unnoticeable.
The plot is based on the boring-as-ever Demon Lord defeat. The races are generic and DnD-like. Magic is shallow - no explanations for anything. Same for the worldbuilding, it's just some simple and cliché stuff and most info is thrown on your face without regards to understanding. I mentioned Soap Operas and grandmas, but here's another excellent analogy: the anime feels like you're talking to someone in neuro-depressants. A sluggish, monotone, distant, psychologically castrated person, whose body may be there, but the spirit isn't.
I couldn't bother watching more than 5 episodes of it. This will be buried and forgotten as the uninteresting and alien anime that it is, which only got popular because some people arrived really late to the party and this was probably the first relatively serious Seinen anime they've ever watched. This was chosen because it is ever so slightly less dumb than the bottom quintile of anime that some seem to insist are the only ones around (because they can't bother searching). This was chosen because it's harmless, westernized, unrooted, pointless.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Jul 23, 2024
Karas: The Prophecy (first 3 episodes) are notoriously better than Karas: The Revelation (last three). The first three episodes are so good, so dense in amazement and skill, that you have to take a moment to breathe and relax in between them. You can't just watch it all at once.
If I had to put into words what made the last episodes not as good as the first ones, I'd say it was due to the rather cliché, dumbed-down enemies and scenes. There are too many action scenes, too many battles, and the police officer turning into a demon and killing everyone was so bloody it
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became a bit comical. I didn't like those machine demons at all, they look stupid. The last battles with Eko were also more of the same, not only regarding the anime itself, but also regarding other media. You basically knew how most things were going to turn out and big tentacles destroying city is just too old of a story nowadays. The whole thing remembered me of Devil May Cry 5 (not in a negative connotation, since DMC5 came way after Karas, it's just an observation).
That said, I wouldn't call The Revelation entirely bad, it was just not nearly as good as The Prophecy. I'd give them a 4.5 and a 9, respectively. The ending was nice, too.
There are lots of references from japanese mythology, and the anime really takes it seriously. For instance, when Yurine calls Karas (One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. And it is ten. Sway. To and fro, sway) using her incantation, the bell rings exactly 3 times. When a new Yurine is born, the bell also rings exactly 3 times in the same timing. Despite being called "demons" in the subtitles, Youkai are shown not to be inherently bad. They just seem to, well, live and roam both realms, mostly as observers. The snail boy was pretty cute.
Yurine isn't one person, either. Each city has its own Yurine, and I really liked her (or rather their) design(s). Each Yurine has different eye and hair colours, different symbols on their goggles, on their makeup/tattoos, etc. Each city has its own Karas too, although we are only really shown one other Karas, a girl. I'm not sure if they tell which city she is from, and if they do, then I don't remember. Also, in case you didn't get it: Karas comes from Karasu, which means Crow.
The anime has a clear and strong influence from Batman. It's all over the place, from the way the city looks to some of the background tracks used.
The story does feel nonsensical at times, as if random. It's not bad, in fact I think it's a part of how they wanted the anime to feel: as if you were watching a story that has already started, and whose reasons, factors and agents are not completely understandable to a recently arrived observer. Considering the emphasis put on the Youkai and mysticism in general, it feels fitting.
I only truly felt confused when they showed Otoha's past as a Yakuza, since it wasn't clear at all whether that was talking about his distant past, or his post-Yurine-death period.
The anime has an unique visual style with particularly elaborate male characters, and mostly plain female ones. It almost feels like a Josei at times. It also has these notoriously large lips and some realistic looking characters, which are often just straight up ugly.
Impressive 3D visuals and animation, especially for the time. You rarely get such high-framerate CGI action sequences today, so it being made in 2005 is an impressive feat.
Eko, the antagonist, has understandable motives for his actions. Considering he has lived for centuries as the Karas of Shinjuku, it's not hard to imagine he'd be profoundly disgusted and sad at how humans have developed. In most religions, gods have destroyed humanity for less. That said, he was still a weakly written character.
The anime should be cliché, but for some reason seeing the character transform into a plane, a motorcycle and a car isn't dumb at all in Karas. It all plays out really well. In fact, Karas has some of the best action sequences in anime, down to the most minute details.
We are shown, in a post-credits scene (episode 6), what appears to be a person standing before Eko's boots (which didn't evaporate with him when he died, and fell through the cracks on the ground). Seems to be indicating a sequel, which didn't happen.
I wasn't even going to write a review, but I could only find 16 year old reviews, so I took the responsability to write a new one. Turns out I had way more to say than I had initially thought.
My final score would be something between 7 and 8 for the entire anime, but, as I've mentioned before, the first part is easily a 9, and the second one is more of a 4 or 5.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jul 22, 2024
The main reason why I'm giving Yuru Yuri this low of a score is the fact that the relations between characters are straight up annoying. The character themselves, at times, seem plain evil and it's simply not enjoyable to watch this anime at all.
I can list some of those moments, which are plentiful throughout the show: when Kyouko keeps being punched by the others, Yui in particular, for the littlest of things; when the Council President gets mad at Kyouko for being better than her and threatens to destroy the Amusement Club; when Chinatsu keeps mistreating Kyouko in favor of Yui, which is a
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plain boring character and it's painful to watch that since Kyouko really admires Chinatsu, in what feels like some weird version of Netorare; when they don't let Kyouko have her ice cream (not to mention spending all the time going shopping, preparing and baking the food, when even before all that Kyouko was already extremely hungry); when Kyouko is given even more homework for forgetting to bring her own... I could go on and on, and that was all just in the first 3 episodes I could bring myself to watch.
There are some other moments where Kyouko is being the annoying one such as when she implies Yui is feeling "lonely" because she's on her own apartment, as if she was unable to feel good on her own (her fondness of being alone could've been the reason why she chose to be on her own apartment in the first place... profoundly insensitive...). Well, Kyouko specifically just keeps being bullied and mistreated during the entirety of these first 3 episodes and it truly pissed me off. Shurako too.
Overall I was shocked by the amount of violence (both physical and psychological) in this anime. Each of the 3 episodes that I've watched kept making me more and more mad. This is not Cute Girls doing Cute Things at all, it's more like Cute Girls being horrible human beings. Not to mention the whole "gag" of Akarin, one of the few actually cute and heartwarming characters, having so little screentime and attention.
Seriously, what did the creators of Yuru Yuri had in mind? This is terrible.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Jul 14, 2024
Last Exile is a garbled mess filled with inconsistencies and plot holes, two problems that are aggravated by the fact that it is way longer than it should've been. The entire story is there just for show.
About that...
1 - Shetland died? Or didn't he? We assumed that he died when taking over the Engine, but then we are shown him and his girlfriend at the wheat fields on the last episode.
2 - Were Claus and others inside the Cocoon when it went to space? What? Did it come back, then?
3 - Lavie cried at her father's corpse... or did she? I'm pretty sure there
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was nothing on that seat.
4 - How did the Guild even find Alvis in Claus' house back in the first episode? The Guild ship sense engines, but their Vanship was turned off for hours at that point.
5 - Just how much time did everything take? Near the end, Claus and Alvis go back to his house. And everything is... basically just like it was when they left. I thought months if not years had passed. The anime makes it seem it was all a few days or weeks at best. Food was still more or less intact, for instance. You'd expect people, animals or mold to have eaten it at that point.
6 - How did Alex Row kill Delphine? It makes no sense. Guilders are way stronger than regular humans. In fact, it seems that he killed her by breaking her spine. With one hand. While he was constrained, weak, deprived of food, water and rest.
7 - So many things are hard to comprehend about the show. Did Claus have sex with Tatiana? With Sophia? Was that the reason why their relationships got so awkward? The anime hints at it at various points in the story without giving any clear explanations.
8 - The battles are also horrible. We're shown, in many circumstances, dozens of Ditish and Anatoray ships getting hit-killed by Guild ships and the such... and yet, somehow, they always have more ships laying around. The battles all fell forced and Deus Ex Machina'd. You see 20 warships, at best, and then they keep getting downed one after the other, and you still have 20 warships left in the end, for some reason.
9 - About that, near the end we're shown the Silvana killing the Guild's main warship with artillery shells. With just a few of them at that. Before such incident, they were only able to destroy Guild warships by throwing dozens of torpedoes inside them with small ships. They were completely unable to deal any damage to Guild warships from the outside (until that scene, of course).
10 - Where even is the Grand Stream anyways? It's hard to understand its position in space. Is it above the sky? Or is it like a specific path in the sky? If the entire upper atmosphere is covered in dense rainclouds, then how does light reach the surface?
11 - Claus and Tatiana spent at least 3 days in the middle of the desert with just a single water canteen. How is that possible?
12 - Just how big is the world, really? It feels like the total landmass of Last Exile's world doesn't exceed that of a small country.
13 - Where do ships get their water, food, supplies? The Silvana does end up docking a couple times in the show... but it's all done in what seems to be a base in the middle of absolute nowhere, in a desert, even.
14 - So, Delphine was able to activate the Exile on her own... uh... doesn't that make the entire story utterly pointless?
Inconsistency is the word. This show is so bad at setting limits and overall letting the viewer understand what's going on. At some point you just give up trying to understand the anime as past information is straight up useless to understand current situations. It gets so extremely convoluted, especially at the end of the story.
Regarding Dio, for instance, we were never informed of the reason why he decided to peacefully stay in the Silvana until much later in the story.
Zero information about the Ditish, too. In fact you even forget they exist for a solid 15 episodes or so. How the hell were they able to make those enormous rockets if they weren't even shown to have any cities?
Inconsistencies and holes extend to characters, of course. Well, each and all of them act like plot devices. They do everything for the plot, hardly any actions are believable or even reasonable. Oftentimes they're just plain annoying: one example of awful behaviour from characters was when Claus (for no reason at all to begin with) was brought to the Guild's Fortress, then all he did there was cry about Alvis and Dio; 2 full episodes of him crying and shouting his friends' names like a helpless imbecile. Painful to watch that. This is also seen in other moments, either with Claus alone or accompanied by Lavie, with them acting like mere whiny, passive bystanders.
Character design has its ups (Dio, Lavie, Alex...) and downs (Luciola, Tatiana, Alvis). Some characters are straight up retarded and/or virtually useless, like the MC himself, Alvis, Shetland.
There's also this annoying repetition of the terms "Vanship" and "Immelmman Turn", the latter of which is never explained for the entirety of the show. I've seen many different movements being called "Immelmman Turn".
About Vanships, well, they aren't even aerodynamic to begin with. Their designs don't make any sense. None of their components is explained, either.
We're also not explained why the guild did what it did, nor what were its reasons to do it. Delphine's motives aren't detailed, either. She's just the "all-powerful villain with a narcissistic personality". The Guild is just the "all-powerful religious cult with advanced technology".
If the Guild had the intention of killing all earthlings... then why didn't they do it before? They clearly had more than enough firepower and the mentality to carry it out.
Also, what happened to that Exile Cube at the auction? I couldn't understand that episode at all. In fact, I hardly remember anything about it, because this anime is so bad it feels like a fever dream you can only vaguely recall.
I've also found it of very poor taste the way Claus and Lavie acted like little social justice warriors out of a sudden in some occasions.
I could go on and on talking about the inconsistencies, but I think that's enough. It doesn't help that the anime is so badly told that even though I've watched it all in one day I can't remember much about it.
The anime is barely entertaining, and I almost dropped it many times. The very little that's good about it made me keep going until I was too close to the end, at which point I was watching it just for the sake of completion.
All of that said, the art is great and it has a very unique style. CGI is meh but impressive for the time (2003). OP and ED are cool. The way they show the inner workings of the crew is great. Some moments were indeed a bit sad. But that's about it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Jul 9, 2024
Vampire in the Garden is a great anime plagued by excess action and an unecessarily sad finale. Troughout the last 3 episodes, all that could be seen was an unending chase sequence, with an insistently tragic tone and violent encounters happening every other minute. The anime would have been much, much better had they kept the tone of the second episode for a while longer, and stopped trying to cause chaos every time things stayed still for a little bit. This is a common thing for directors to do, and it reeks of lore bankruptcy, of a last resort to keep the audience entertained -
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a gimmick.
Like, come on, let the characters have some fun, let them enjoy life. No need to have fights all the time. Yet, it seems that no one in the planning board had this mentality. Admittedly, time is rather short when you only have 5 episodes, but that's no excuse for scenes such as the one in episode 5, when Fine straight up abandons Momo to her own luck (by the millionth time) and injects the drug on her neck to "fight off" the few soldiers that are left. It's plain nonsensical - they could have both escaped through the same hole. No need for sacrifices. Fine could have also saved the imprisioned vampire that was drowning next to Momo in the submarine scene.
Also, they've done the whole "shooting Fine in the neck out of nowhere" twice in the anime. Or was it thrice? Anyway, one time is cliché enough.
The eternal chase sequence, as I've mentioned before, is too an annoying gimmick/cliché. At some point, you don't even know why they are chasing after Momo anymore. I bet not even the characters themselves know. It's all mechanical, soulless.
This is all, of course, a shame, due to just how impressive the first episode was, with such a great follow up on episode 2. It could have been amazing. The story was thrown in the trash; the ending was also lackluster, but I was already expecting such a conclusion after seeing episodes 3 onwards. Unless you enjoy tear jerking in particular, that is, then it all works - mostly - well (since there's a rather optimistic post-credits).
Regarding the post-credits, we are shown Momo in what appears to be a lush temperate forest, I would assume around Germany or Austria (due to the architecture). The question is: how did Momo reach that place? She was previously in the artic circle, in the permafrost zone. She had to traverse at least a couple thousand kilometers to reach such sunny lands. That isn't impossible, of course, but quite the journey to do on your own, defenseless. I mean, if anything, you'd expect her to be dead or to the very least permanently maimed due to all the things she went through in the last episode. It was also unclear if the child she's carrying is her own, after all, we are not told if it is possible for humans and vampires to have offspring. I wasn't sure if the scene with her mom in the frozen sea was factual or not, either. It felt like Momo was dreaming it.
Anyway, this was mosly a critique of the anime so far. But that's not all I have to say. Fact is, Vampire in the Garden is an exceptionally beautiful anime. Few can compare. The art and music are immaculate, the characters are beautiful, the animation is flawless. Its only real sin lies in the story, the errors of which I have already detailed in previous paragraphs.
If I could change Vampire in the Garden, and make it closer to what it could have been, I would double the second and third episodes, and I would eliminate the 4th and 5th episodes altogether. Instead, Momo and Fine would have reached the sunny lands shown in the post-credits. Considering the total screentime is roughly 1:30h-2h, it would have made a great movie.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Apr 8, 2024
Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season is the most absurd conclusion to an anime I have ever seen. For those that watched the very first episodes back in 2013, this nonsensical ending was nothing short of a betrayal, due to how offensively bad it is. As this is a very lengthy review, I decided to separate it in a handful of topics for ease of reading.
Some of the paragraphs were adapted from comments I read all over the internet.
1 - Obsession over the idea of "genocide"
In the last few episodes, we have the word "genocide" mentioned quite a lot of times. The moral of the
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story, so to speak, was that genocide was the worst thing you could do. But just how much sense does this make? Is it really the worst decision, when the only other option is the genocide of your own people? The entire story of Shingeki no Kyojin leads us to believe Marley was going to destroy all Eldians, regardless of whether they stayed put or not. It was, in fact, already in the process of commiting ethnic cleansing by treating eldians as slaves and sending them to kill their own kind in Paradis.
2 - The inversion of the roles of victim and oppressor
The fourth season brought us the point of view of the marleyans. If the previous knowledge we had of them wasn't enough to consider them a disgustingly cruel society, the whole child soldier brainwashing program certainly cleared all doubts regarding that. Yet, the anime attempts to give them an air of humanity, which definitely felt weird after watching the first 3 seasons. How could one feel anything but contempt regarding a country whose pastime is turning people into titans and sending them to massacre their own? There were many discussions on social media about how the eldians were the baddies and that Marley was somehow preventing them from comitting war crimes. In a hilariously subversive way, some lost souls were trying to compare the Eldians to the side that lost WWII. It's almost as if they forgot that the Eldians are, if anything, closest to the jews in a WW2 analogy, and Marley being the german baddies. Which of course is still a stupid analogy, but much more factual than the opposite, since the eldians were the ones branded on the arm with a star, treated like 3rd class citizens and forced to live in ghettos, as well as being subject to blood testings and forced labour.
It was Marley who lost the first war against the Eldians. And then proceeded to build the largest and most militaristic empire in the world. Eldia didn't destroy Marley out of pity. They had the wall titans and the rumbling could end the entire world at any time. Eldia promised peace, Marley decided to enslave the poor defenseless Eldians on the island and treat them worse than cattle. Do farmers feed young calves to dogs out of sadism? (Remember Grisha's sister). Remember how Marley would capture Eldians, make them turn into titans and then kill their own kind for no reason other than torture. Remember how Marley (and Theo Magath) sent little kids to die in the front lines and brainwashed them so hard that even after they were freed they still wanted to help their enslavers. Why didn't Pieck or any other child soldier kill Theo Magath at first sight when they were able to? It was only logical for this to happen. But no, and we all know what happened in the anime.
Also, do you remember how Marley brainwashed Zeke so hard his "conclusion" was that all of his people should be castrated (read killed)?
We were shown gruesome images during the Rumbling that were meant to generate pity and horror, but all of those people would have cheered and celebrated had the Alliance rolled over Paradis in the same way, and killed all the "devils".
Lets also not forget that it was Marley that declared war against Paradis. Twice, even, and Eren was there to witness it both times. He even had the decency to wait for Willy Tibur to say it with his own mouth before attacking him.
3 - Clearing some misconceptions
A) No sane individual would willingly let everyone they know and love die, just so some strangers can live. Just so the "greater good" happens for the greater number of people. That's a sick and twisted concept, because it insinuates that if the majority wishes it, the minority should just die, as it would grant greater good for the largest amount of people.
B) The story was never about ending human conflict. That's unfeasible and ludicrous. It was about bringing justice, peace and prosperity to the people of Eldia, but most importantly peace. The story goes out of its way to demonstrate that there was no other way to accomplish the three of them aside from the annihilation of Marley.
Therefore, Zeke and Eren's plans were the only solutions to those problems, as each one ended with the annihalation of one side (although Zeke's plan would only bring peace, at the cost of his own people).
In any case, Eren would have ended war anyways since all the remaining people would be the eldians and he had the power of the founder.
4 - Armin's flawed character + Annie
Armin fell in love with the woman that destroyed his hometown, that killed 20 percent of humanity inside the walls, that was responsible for his grandfather's death. The woman that almost kidnapped his best friend and almost killed Jean as she turned most of his comrades into minced meat.
How is that Armin, who is all about peace and against "unneeded violence" (except for when Mikasa's feelings are hurt) could fall for such a sadistic murderer. You can't even feel bad for her as if she was "made this way". Reiner, for instance, was so impacted by his actions he developed a split personality and tried to commit suicide many times.
To add insult to injury, she ends up being the "ambassador of peace" to the island she so mercilessly massacred and would have done it again just to see her abusive stepdad...
5 - Plot holes and nonsensical moments
A) How did Mikasa know Eren was inside his mouth? There is no way she would've known. The founding titan also wouldn't be able to tell her that as she's an Ackerman.
B) How were Grisha and other old shifters able to help the alliance? Since Ymir builds the titans and she is on Eren's side, why would she help the alliance defeat the past shifters? Assuming it was Eren's choice to do that, why was the Alliance even attacked by the past shifters in the first place? It's illogical. The question of who built the titans for Reiner, Armin, Annie, Pieck and Falco from the sand after Ymir has been freed, also comes up.
C) When Zeke died, the rumbling shouldn't have stopped since Zeke was no longer a key factor. Well, he wasn't a key factor for the rumbling in the first place. Eren had gained full control of the Founder when he convinced Ymir in chapter 121. Even if Zeke still had some influence over the rumbling, his death still wouldn't immediately stop the titans (remember the moment when Eren touched Dina: he had contact with her for only a second and was still able to control the pure Titans for quite a while afterwards).
D) How would Eren Transform into the Colossal in 138 if he wasn't in control of the Founder?
6 - The Harbor Battle
The fight at the harbor between the Scouts and the Yeagerists was far too inconsequential. No one from the main cast died. There are 100+ Yeagerists fighting against 7 people. The decisions that were made in the fight don't make sense: Floch orders his people to shoot about 40 thunder spears at Pieck. Why not at the Azumbito ship? That ship should have gone down. Multiple times throughout the show, in battles, we were always shown at least one person from each side getting hurt or killed. Most of the times, many got killed for a marginal gain. And yet, all of this is forgotten during the Harbor Battle. This episode was, by far, one of the most glaring signs that the anime was going in a bad direction. Lets not even mention the moment where mikasa is centered in the frame, pictured as an angelic creature about to kill the ones she was supposed to help. This frame resembles the one in the last movie, when the bird titan gives her "wings".
7 - Some additional comments
In order to like this ending, the chapter 139 must be considered as the only source of truth on the story. It is not possible for someone that watched the entire Attack on Titan anime to consider anything that happened in these last episodes as reasonable.
Every logical person reaches the conclusion that Eren was right. But, perhaps in order to appease to the studio, the creator decided that this cursed team of traitors (scouts) and brainwashed amnesiacs (the children warriors) should kill Eren and effectively commit genocide against their own kind (because they will be forever persecuted as long as they live). What was Ymir's sacrifice for? She waited 2 thousand years for this? The Attack Titan freed his people for this? Did they do all that only to see their own friends and the ones dearest to them sabotage their mission? Such an epic sacrifice, only to see those that share their blood attempt to commit such a grave crime against their own people? Like, seriously? Do you want us to believe Pieck and her friends have such a potent Stockholm syndrome that they not only didn't try to kill Theo Magath at the first opportunity, but also followed him to the very end? It's unbelivable.
All in all, this was the single biggest disappointment in anime history. The entire movie felt out of character. I was there to watch it in real time with some people on discord, and it was an exceptionaly eerie experience. Everyone just wished they could unsee such an abomination. For those that weren't there to see the many discussions that happened afterwards in places like twitter and reddit, it was a total shitshow. Shame on you, Isayama, MAPPA, and everyone involved in this disgraceful conclusion.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Mar 30, 2024
Review for both Part 1 and the 7 episodes I watched of part 2.
I've decided to give Mushoku Tensei a chance after realizing it was one of the most famous anime of the past years, with an impressive 8.6 score on both S1 and S2. I had largely no spoilers and so this experience was more or less unbiased. I'm not an SJW nor am I edgy for no reason. That said, Mushoku Tensei is too over the top, with way too many explicit scenes, and some that are overly graphic and disturbing, such as when they beat up Elis or kill one of the
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slave beast girls. Unecessary. But what's even weirder is how the anime tries to mix that with some often bright, often moody family and friendship moments. I'll be honest, I hate cry bait. Mushoku Tensei seems to be trying way too hard to give you some boomer Facebook lecture about the importance of family, more so than it's trying to shock the viewer with out of pocket sexuality. The former was what actually made me give up on the show; I could tolerate the latter. Why is that in every god damned episode do we need to have some Vin Diesel-type moral lecture on how we should protect children and love our family? What's with all the fake smiles, good mornings, good byes and chit chat? Like, what. It kinda feels like I'm on Twitter with just how much this anime is all over the place.
Mushoku Tensei has no compass, no coherence. I won't even bother listing out the number of nonsensical things about it. But one trope that I specifically hated is how the protagonist keeps being removed from places and thrown around elsewhere whenever he starts to get happy and intimate with someone. Elis is an annoying, generic character. Sylpheed was much better and yet she was given a couple episodes and then sent to the pits of insignificance. All this does is generate unecessary sadness and interrupt the flow of the story. Regarding flow of the story, I feel like the MC progressed way too fast in life, to the point it was just silly and rushed.
Regarding the graphic and disturbing bits, it's also hard to ignore the scene in which they show Ghrislaine eating monster poop. Come on, you didn't have to put that in. And stuff like that keeps happening throughout the entire show. The art remembers me of more recent titles like Frieren, and some others like Onichan wa Oshimai (from the same studio), and, weirdly enough, some random anime called Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers. It's hard to point out what this more recent style resembles exactly but to me it feels like a 2D version of CGI. In any case, I'm not particularly interested in it, as it gives me an odd sensation. Overall art was ok, scenery was often lacking such as in the centre of the desert city - which was devoid of a good notion of depth, making the huge skyscrapers (?) look like tiny obelisks from that angle (assuming they are not just some tiny obelisks).
I admit I was interested enough to watch all 11 episodes in a row. But then the formula got old, and I realized the anime was just something not worth investing my time and emotions in.
Also, did they really need to make the MC fat and ugly like that? That's not even common in Japan (being fat). At least make him like a normal NEET. It's just kinda gross.
Ghislaine's ass was a horrendous sight. Why are her glutes solid stone made out of 0% fat when, say, her boobs are as nice of a sight as any other pair of breasts in the series? Again, it was gross.
Music was ok; I didn't like how they made the openings "built-in" the episodes. Characters in general were nothing out of the ordinary, with demons and beast girls being more or less identical to what you would find in any other isekai, such as in No Game no Life. The more animalistic looking demons are not an interesting sight - they're just not anatomically reasonable, even in the realm of anime. Is it that hard to follow something like the Monster Girl Encyclopedia instead of this generic looking horses, avians, pigs? The "god" looking guy remembers me a lot of the one in 100-man no Inochi no Ue ni Ore wa Tatteiru. The pacing and development of the story (including the weird, out of place life lessons) remember me of the little I watched of Chainsaw Man. I haven't watched Ishuzoku Reviewers, but it seems that Mushoku Tensei is somewhat related to it, in spirit at least.
The names they give to styles, places, gods and so on are definitely lacking in creativity and style (why did they name stuff "something-god" all the time?), but far from the worst I've ever seen (Hitsugi no Chaika...). It's bad, but average compared to other anime.
In sum, Mushoku Tensei is fad just like almost everything that gets popular these days, but this time more senseless and risqué.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Mar 25, 2024
Seikai no Monshou is a sci-fi anime for kids. It's clearly held back by outdated art and sound, and despite not looking as bad as some other similar anime I've seen, there was clearly very little work put on the design department (for spaceships, structures, suits, flags, etc). You could say it was a limitation of the time (1999), but back then you already had Ghost in the Shell, Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu, among others. It just looks dated, even by the time it was released.
Maybe I was a bit spoiled by Sidonia no Kishi and its best-in-class worldbuilding, because I couldn't find anything remotely interesting
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in Seikai no Monshou - hardly anything makes sense, it's all generic, from the spaceships to the guns. About the latter, the anime clearly didn't want anyone dying on camera because the laser guns Lafiel and Jinn used were akin to tasers. Some stormtrooper thing. This becomes a matter of laughter in the last 3 or so episodes when it's just shots everywhere but none of them landing, just like in god-awful Star Wars. When they do land, they just stun or sometimes not even that. They're even less powerful than tasers. And the guns look comical, resembling early sci-fi designs which lacked on the realism department.
The story is, as you would expect, an incoherent mess. You'd imagine the Abh were something new to mankind in the first episode, but then you're presented with a baron whose father was the son of an Abh woman and a human man (or the other way around), which makes it odd that only a decade or so has passed since both races met. Many other events along the anime point out to the fact Abh and Man were in contact much earlier than initially thought judging by the first episode. About the Abh guy whose father was a human, he also had 50 human vassals in his domain. It is said that his domain existed for more or less 3 generations. But didn't the humans contact the Abh just a few years ago? Did they interact enough in such small window of time to make vassals of each other like that?
Such confusion is intensified by the fact that, somehow, mankind was able to get profficient enough in technology to rival the Abh in the span of a decade. That makes no sense considering just how powerful the Abh were portrayed to be in the first episode. Then again, how were they able to arm themselves so much without any suspicion from the Abh? How are they able to control spacecraft that rivals the Abh's when the latter needs all that fancy tech with biological interfaces and such to ride them? Weren't the Abh a million steps ahead anyway?
When I mentioned the anime had dated art, sound, etc, I forgot to mention how dated the direction itself is. You're always clueless about what's happening, and the badly designed environment doesn't help. It's hard to understand where the characters are, what they are doing, where they are going. It's as if the anime was zoomed in all the time, making it impossible to see the whole picture.
The protagonist is too shy, weak, and honestly pointless. His Abh companion does all of the work, all the time. In any case, for 90% of screentime, they're just talking to each other or fleeing. It's as if you weren't watching the actual main characters of the story.
Honestly, there was hope until the 7th or so episode. When they got to that Baron's ship, the anime became too childish for me. All of the time I was like "please, for the love of all that is divine, do something, fight at once". And they never did. The "fighting" sequences in the Baron's domain can hardly be called fighting because they were pointing guns at each other for half an hour just to run away for no reason, and when such guns fired they were like toy lasers with no damage. Those 2-3 episodes were a painfully slow crawl until they finally got out. Then the story goes even more downhill when they reach the friendly base, communicate with an Abh guard, and by the time they reach the planet, it's all taken over already. How does that make sense? Wasn't the planet inhabited by Abh? Why is everyone human? Also, earlier in the anime, back when they were still in the Baron's, the main characters were told they were 27 hours ahead of the enemy. By the time they were on the spaceship ready to leave the perimeter, they had used up 7 or so of those hours if I remember correctly. Then how did the enemy arrive at the planet ahead of time? And such an enormous fleet too. Didn't the patrol ship Gosroth destroy all but one of their ships anyway? For a viewer that pays attention, nothing seems to add up.
So, back to my first comment, about this being an anime for kids. I wouldn't have liked this as a kid myself, because I had more or less the same level of disdain for nonsensical and backwards sci-fi then as I do now. But it was clearly made with kids in mind, because it doesn't take itself seriously at all. It's genuinely incredible how they managed to run out of ideas and completely spiral out of control regarding the story when Jinto arrived in the planet. Like, this has 13 episodes. It takes some serious skill to mess up like that in a single-cour anime, although I must admit that's not something unusual, and I've seen it happening multiple times. To think that there are 4 more seasons of this... what did they even put on those? For a team that ran out of ideas in 13 episodes, I wonder how they managed to fill up 50 more, and in such short succession. Not even the little fanservice they managed to put in helped, as it was tasteless and bland.
I'd like to point out how ugly most characters are on the human side. The Abh look alright, for the most part, but the humans are all just plain ugly, especially those of the Independence Party (more like Team Rocket or something) that show up later in the anime. Seikai no Monshou inherits a bit of the horrendous designs of the early anime era where everything was more or less a copy of Disney animations.
The anime is also corny, cliché, and cringey at times. It's not the worst thing ever, as it might seem to be judging by the fact I only pointed out bad aspects of it, and I believe there are some good things to salvage out of it. They're just not really worth the time.
As a last comment: I like the idea behind the Abh. Genetically perfected humans tailored for life in space, ageless and flawlessly beautiful. Sadly this anime is a stain on the idea of genetic perfection. The already mentioned Sidonia no Kishi does it much better.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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