I love stories that can give me a premise I can get behind and How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom delivers on that front. Forcing the protagonist to use his wit to help rebuild a failing kingdom is such a cool idea. However, the story has a lot of shortcomings that muddies the premise heavily.
The protagonist Souma applies a lot of sweeping reforms to shake up the entire world, this is probably the most fun part of the series as we see why specific changes were made to improve the kingdom. However the way things are presented is not very interesting, actually it
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Jan 1, 2025
The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent had a wonderful first season, the entire set up of season 1 created an awesome underdog plot where Sei had to prove her worth as the Saint. This created a satisfying narrative throughout the entire first season. Sadly, season 2 does not follow up very well on this.
Season 2 asks a very simple question, when Sei is finally done being the Saint what will her life look like after? Its a question that sadly isn't very dramatic, she is currently very happy with her life and now she is going to have the freedom to live an even happier ... 
Oct 9, 2023
Yumi's Cells
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Yumi's Cells is an interesting series that uses its unique premise to constantly get into the characters thoughts and actions. The series has a standout artstyle that blends well with its character writing and comedy. The series has a ton of charm put into it but I would ultimately say its hard to get through.
While the series can be very strong, it does have a glaring issue and thats with the length of the story. At over 500 chapters, you get to experience Yumi's many relationship troubles and journey that ultimately makes you think "wow that was a waste of 100 chapters" after they break ... 
Jan 28, 2023
From what I saw from other review sites and also from just general reviews, this series had absolutely glowing reception. It may have made me expect more from this series than there actually was but I found the series to be annoyingly repetitive.
These sort of manhwas focus on one central hook and explore or iterate on it as much as possible. For The Villainess Turns the Hourglass, the series focuses on the MC basically beating a child into the pavement for a large portion of it. There are things to praise like how she really isn't that good of a person, she truly is a ... 
Dec 27, 2022
Romantic Killer
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Romantic Killer is an interesting show because I feel like its designed to piss you off and then still pull you in feeling satisfied anyways. The animation is very fun all throughout, showing a wide range of expressive movement and fluid character acting.
The show is set up in a way where its super light hearted and funny but you feel an extreme amount of guilt and rage for the situations the characters have to be put through. That is until the last half of the show, which is crafted to re-contextualize the narrative and in a way change your perspective about the situation. The show ... 
Sep 24, 2022
Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo.
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O Maidens in your Savage Season I think is a hard show to describe, I don't think it is bad but I did not find it that enjoyable of a watch. If I had to describe the show in a sentence, it captures a lot of the messy and hypocritical feelings when exploring the topic of romance and sex but it is also frustrating and bloated.
Every character in the series contradicts themselves quite a bit, but I don't think that is a bad thing at all, I think it does capture how insanely unsure the characters are at this point in their lives. They say ... 
Sep 19, 2022
The 101st Heroine
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Lets see, I would call this series kind of wasted potential but with a lot to like.
From the start of the story, you are given a tale thats about turning around societal status and with your own means, carving out a path you want. However, this story is told entirely in a 70 chapter single competition and that leads to the pacing feeling very tiresome. The format of the story is the biggest issue I have with it, the competition aspect is how the story is presented and paced but the most potential would be how things are handled after the competition is over. It ... 
Jul 27, 2022
Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry
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My enjoyment of this series felt really surprising. Its filled with a ton of clichés and some very typical gross anime behavior like straight up incest. However, a lot of that gets quickly dropped for a very awesome character driven story. The story has a ton of awesome action beats that really pulled me in as they explored how characters choose to handle fights.
The MC I would say I enjoyed seeing them fight the most, a lot of fantasy MCs do have something overpowered about them but for Ikki, he more so tries to utilize his own strengths and maximizes his opponent's weaknesses if possible. ... 
Jul 14, 2022
Honestly I am shocked how much a series with a fun character dynamic can take such a quick nose dive in quality.
Spoilers but the last handful of episodes basically introduces a stalker problem that gets resolved in a terrible way. Theres a big message of being able to appreciate your fans because they have your best interest at heart but that doesn't really work when that appreciation ends up malicious. The whole situation does get resolved but not without any damage... that gets heavily sweeped under the rug. The main character who was the most heavily affected by the situation's outcome seemingly doesn't feel very ... 
Jul 4, 2022
I have not written any reviews for any of the previous seasons cause I think the story content and overall execution was fine but for this particular part 2 of the season, its really bad. Ignoring the fact that this is basically another season for an ongoing series, the actual content explored in the story is not worth a 12 episode season.
Spoilers ahead but compared to so many other shows out there, who enjoys a season that amounts to 6 episodes of pure debating and then followed by some one sided action with no in universe tension. It is cathartic to see one sided fights ... |
