This show is great in a lot of ways. It does so many things so masterfully and coming off of the show, it's gonna be hard to forget some of the stronger moments that impacted me emotionally. What? What's that? Why did I give the show such a low score then? Well, if you've been following the discourse surrounding the show, you already know the answer to that! The answer is...complicated.
But first...
Scores suck. Slapping a number on something to superfluously gauge how much you value the show doesn't do the finer intricacies of properly judging media any justice. In other words, I have no fkn
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clue what to give this show. It's best parts deserve a 10! It's worst parts deserve to wipe it from existence along with my shiny new spot on several government watch lists, cuz, if you've followed any amount of discussion around this show and somehow DON'T know what's wrong with it, this show is... ((hold on lemme get a good grip on that bandaid and...)) FOR P*DOPHILES!!
Now that I've shooed off some of the avid defenders of this show, let's do something that'd probably piss off your average English professor and NOT provide any justification for that claim... yet. I wanna talk about the good first.
The story is par-for-the-course slice of life shlock (my favorite!). Main character is turned into a little girl by his older sister with seemingly abundant access to eldritch blood she found lying around because how the hell else is she able to change someones chemical makeup and de-age them? Anywho, he's a little girl now due to his sisters horrifically thought out plan to get him to reintegrate into society. Shenanigans ensue, and it eventually works to varying degrees. But then the show kinda slaps you upside the head with what it's actually about. No, not exploitation of minors (we'll get to that...). It's about family :))
No really. Barring the more dubious aspects of this show, the MC reconnects with his sister, learns how to make friends, and learns from said friends about togetherness, friendship, and f a m i l y :))))) I genuinely cannot believe how a couple of the scenes legitimately choked me up. I'm absolutely AGHAST that my cold dead heart FELT something for some of these scenes.
Talking about music in anime reviews always feels redundant. It's a slice-of-life; it's what you'd expect. Lighthearted jingles with lighthearted instruments. Opening and Ending were catchy. Otherwise, nothing notable.
As for the art tho... this show is gorgeous. Watch any scene, from the most exciting to the most mundane and you'd be hard pressed to not find copious amounts of attention to detail. Characters interactions are full of minute movements that bring them to life and convey their emotions beautifully. The backgrounds are densely packed and often populated with non-CG nobodies. The colors are absolutely fkn delicious. It has this slightly washed out yet still vivid pastel color palette that's easy on the eyes and a joy to look at. The show has random goddamn sakuga for things like filling up cups with water and washing hands. The rest of the show has dynamic, impactful, fluid animation that makes these characters shine like very few others could within the genre. Everything you could expect from Studio Bind, who up until this point was thrown together to animate Jobless Reincarnation- another show with drop-dead gorgeous visuals and an animation team so obviously dedicated to their craft.
Which is where the painful part comes in. Like Jobless Reincarnation, this show suffers from very suspect ecchi scenes involving characters that are confirmed minors that range from "What did they mean by this??" to "Guess I'm no longer allowed within 50 miles of any grade school now." This shows creators knew what they were doing, what they were making. The inclusion of several scenes were kids piss themselves off screen is slightly subtle. Clever camera shots that allow for distant upskirts is much less so. There's no subtlety, however, in the inclusion of several nude scenes, ass shots, close ups of intimate parts of their bodies, sexual fake-outs and the dressing up of said minors in various scantily clad outfits, most notably in the, unfortunately catchy, OP and ED.
It's not an okay thing. It drags down a show that is otherwise such a gorgeous and comfy labor of love with an occasional surprise sledgehammer to the back of your skull reminding you what you're actually watching. Like gold speckled with shit, or maybe gold-speckled shit. I'm not sure. Debate the politics all you want but to me there's clearly something wrong with people who very openly make and enjoy things like that. The only saving grace, if you can even call it that, is that nothing is fully uncensored and no overtly sexual acts ever happen.
SO, going back to my score of three, I decided it based on the fact that MAL labels a 3 as "Very Bad" which is what I would say if anyone were to walk in on me watching it. Them: "Hey man, what's...what's that?" Me probably: "Oh no! This is (3) Very Bad!!" Yeah, like that. Better yet, because numbered scores are cringe, I'll give this show a "$3,000 bail bond for a crime that should've landed me in jail for much longer than it did, but the jury found no sufficient evidence to truly incriminate me beyond possession of illicit material, so instead I walk free for the price of your average checkup at an American doctor". Sure it was cute and excellently endearing at various points, but I'll never live down the shame as "the guy who watched that show with naked kids...again."
Tl;Dr - Great show with fantastic animation and lovable characters with fun and sometimes impactful story beats...absolutely destroyed and marred by its sexualization of characters that are overtly minors.
I can't recommend this show without having a moral crisis, so take that information how you will.
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Mar 29, 2023
Oniichan wa Oshimai!
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This show is great in a lot of ways. It does so many things so masterfully and coming off of the show, it's gonna be hard to forget some of the stronger moments that impacted me emotionally. What? What's that? Why did I give the show such a low score then? Well, if you've been following the discourse surrounding the show, you already know the answer to that! The answer is...complicated.
But first... Scores suck. Slapping a number on something to superfluously gauge how much you value the show doesn't do the finer intricacies of properly judging media any justice. In other words, I have no fkn ... 
Apr 14, 2021
Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi
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Listen, this is a gratuitous self-indulgent r-pe p-rnography; literal hentai with a sloppy presentation that likes to waver from "mediocre production value" to "Sorry, I nutted all over the drawing tablet lol, guess we should call this show '(no) Redo of Animation' ". If anyone tries to tell you otherwise, they're wrong or have standards so low they'd even consider Green Green an absolute infallible masterpiece...or I guess they're into the aforementioned genre of hentai, in which case, who am I to judge?
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