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A very nice anime, might I say.
In my subjective opinion, its art style is a little bit lacking.
The sound design is pretty good, although I did recognize quite a bit of the SFXs from either some video games or the SFX packs they probably used.
The story is paced quite well, the final episode felt like a final episode, rather than a couple of episodes mixed and rushed together into one and the pacing throughout the story was done well with little hiccups, at least ones I noticed.
It's a good anime, with a pinch of drama and a little bit more gore ... than you'd expect from an anime like this.
Where it failed frequently in my opinion, was with doing things in moderation.
Without spoiling anything, I'd say that quite a few moments in the anime were overly exaggerated, over the top, or just -
Sudden.
What the anime executed really well IMO, were subtle and not-so-subtle twists or plot points and how they're presented to you.

Now, I know that I'm supposed to keep the review subjective, but I already failed that so-
This is one of the few anime I plan on rewatching in the future, coming from me - that's pretty high praise.
Good stuff.
Happy.

Warning:
I don't have much to say, and this is my subjective opinion.
Take this with a ginormous grain of salt, and if you want to see something that actually makes sense, there are tons of reviewers in the review section that wrote exactly that.

Oreigairu is one of those shows that makes you feel extremely stupid for enjoying it.
It's so simple, so hardcore-ly stupid and cliched, but it feels fun.
This is subjective by the way, I found it stupid but not in a negative way.
It has the most overused kind of school-SoL arcs but it manages to deliver on them. It has the most stupid but at ... the same time most fascinating character writing that it's jaw dropping. The main hero aknowledges a lot of cliches he finds himself in, he aknowledges his flaws AND he's proud of them? This is not a unique case, but it definitely made me smirk a few times.

In short, this has been the most fun "idiotically smart" show I have watched in a while.
Do NOT get me wrong though, this show is NOT the best I have watched BY A LONG SHOT.
It isn't filled with harem idiocy, and it isn't filled with incest.
And it's not even bad by itself either, it's awesome.
But it's just so annoyingly stupid but smart at the same time, that most of the time I was trying to not laugh at the idiotic way everything was expressed, then suddenly trip on an actually logical meaning hidden behind something.
The anime was like an argument with your friends, you're just standing there, angry at eachother, and then suddenly one of your friends pulls out such a great roast that you can't help but pog along with everyone else in your group.

In short, Oregairu is a very fun anime, it's far from the most meaningful and I really find it hard to believe that one of it's genres is drama. Sure there were some dark things squeezed in, but the sheer amount of fun idiocy supressed it all.

Some clarification. (Optional, but if you're already imagining curbstomping me through the ground with counter-arguments then this is probably important to read.)

[I found almost zero negative things about oregairu, there were some shortcomings but they were minor enough that I didn't really care.]

[This review is coming from an idiot, keep that in mind please.]

[Subjective opinions god-damnit!]

[This show isn't really stupid, it just gave off that idiotic vibe. So I really don't mean anything major by it.]

[PLEASE, READ OTHER PEOPLE'S REVIEWS! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?]




Thank you for your time.
I recommend this anime.

Woah...
Warning:This is my subjective opinion, and I am in no way a professional reviewer.
It's fine if you have a different view on this anime, i'm just gonna splurge my feelings about it here, where it's the most convenient place to do so.

Hyouka was a very short-lived, pleasant yet hard to get your grip on show.
Seriously, it did have the more-than-usual for SoL anime episode amount, it still felt confusing on what the length of the show should've really been.
This was one of those anime that I always put aside instead of binging.
I once binged multiple seasons of a show 17-hours straight, but Hyouka isn't one ... of those for me.
It's a very nice, not really but kind of warm experience.
It's friendly and intriguing, yet like Toradora couldn't get a grip with me at first, this anime didn't grip me at all.
It was interesting, and I kept returning to it, but it was more of a "sunday evening" scenario where you have nothing else to do.
It's really interesting and friendly, but it doesn't have the grip for me.

Hyouka actually managed to lure me in.
Seriously, the characters are fun and varied.
They're the usual friend group that you see in SoLs all the time, but every one of them had their spice that mixed in well with the dynamic of the group.
If I wouldn't have looked at the genres and the description of the anime, then I probably would have never seen the mystery element of it coming.
It's so subtle yet so obvious.
It naturally co-exists with the way that the anime presents the Slice of Life genre, that it's almost scary.
I usually don't watch mystery by myself, but gee did this anime manage to deliver more than needed from that genre.
Sure, the Holmes series, or some other anime might involve mystery in a more interesting way, maybe focus on it more.
But what I loved about Hyouka, is how well it integrated the mystery genre into the whole pot.

Quicc reminder:
This is my subjective opinion.

Although I do have to admit, the way that the anime ended was kinda like hitting a wall at 50km/h, all whilst looking to the side, not noticing the wall that you're about to hit.
Seriously, the 22 episode count is so specific, that every single second of the anime that I watched, I thought to myself:"Huh, 24 episodes, I still have some time left."
But the ending itself wasn't bad nor good.
It kind-of left things at a dead stop for a while and it kinda gives off the vibe that it's almost encouraging you to continue the story by yourself.

TL;DR
The anime was very interesting, and managed to integrate the mystery genre in to the aesthetic of Slice of Life very well. It was hard to get a grip with it, and it still is, but I genuinely enjoyed watching it as a "sunday evening" time waster.

I recommend this anime.
Thank you for your time.

Warning:
This is my subjective opinion and its pretty late, so this probably will be a speed-review not focused on structural integrity.
These are my feelings for the anime.
Also, I probably should have stated that in my previous reviews for the first two seasons of the anime, but I haven't read the manga yet.

This is Tokyo Ghoul, except not.
It's a great anime, don't get me wrong.
It managed to deliver everywhere.
The sound quality was almost the same, the art was also good enough.
And the characters felt okay too.
... But it wasn't Tokyo Ghoul.
That ruined the :Re experience for me.
Until atleast the 8th episode of the anime, it didn't deliver on the "Tokyo Ghoul" name at all.
Sure the setting was the same, the world was the same, and the gouls work the same way as they did.
But it wasn't Tokyo Ghoul for atleast the first 8 episodes at all.
That was a serious -1 from the enjoyment score.
The anime itself is okay, it's good and fun.
But seriously, I expected Tokyo Ghoul, and instead I got some spinoff.
Again, i'm not one to judge, I haven't read the manga but from what i've seen, it's done a lot better in the manga than in the anime.

Again, I can't stop repeating myself:
The anime is good, but for atleast two-thirds of the show it felt like some spinoff, but definitively not like Tokyo Ghoul.
There were the feels of Tokyo Ghoul, but it also missed the spice that originally brought me into the first two seasons.
It was interesting, but the fact that my expections were too high ruined it for me.

End of review.
After-review notes:
(Very minor spoiler in point number 3, which isn't really a spoiler if you have watched atleast up to ep2, and you have a functioning human brain.)

1.
This is my subjective opinion.

2.
I haven't read the manga yet, and I don't plan on reading it any-time soon.
(I don't mean it like I won't read it, it's just that it will take some time for me to aclimatize from the anime. Tokyo Ghoul isn't something I can read in the speeds that I usually crunch manga, it requires more attention.) So I pretty much have no right to argue on the "story" and "Tokyo Ghoul authenticity" side of things. But please, remember that this is my subjective opinion and i'm talking about the anime, not the manga.

3.
The anime was good, however, it left a really bad taste in my mouth for about 6 episodes, once it got to episode 8, it started to actually feel like TG.
But for the most part of it, I was feeling kind-of disgusted by the bend of Kaneki that is Haise. I grew to like him but he really wrenched the line between the Chad that is Kaneki and the sweetheart that is Haise. In short, the anime was good, but the expectancy of Tokyo Ghoul, and the dissapointment thereafter ruined a good half of the anime.


I would reccomend this anime.
End of review.
Thank you for your time.

Warning:
This is my subjective opinion and I doubt that I am a "proffesional" in any way.
Don't take this review seriously unless you want to see something written from an "average Joe" perspective.
Also, while not a fan of this sequel, I won't be dumping crap on it either.
Most reviewers are almost always critical and negative, I respect that, because they view the anime from a completely logical perspective.
However, I want to atleast try and bring a little naiveness and positive feelings into the mix of overwhelmingly critical and negative reviews.
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Wow, well that was emotional... Huh.
... This sequel from my point-of-view seemed pretty bad to be honest.
It's underwhelming as hell and is as anti-climactic as an anime could be.
One could say that it's because everyone suddenly got overpowered, but let's be honest, no one was really "that" kind of overpowered.
While yes, our main character Kaneki did get a considerable buff, no one was really Isekai levels of overpowered.
Besides, if everyone's overpowered, then nobody is overpowered.
In short, for the first 8-9 episodes, everything felt very underwhelming.
It did focus a little more on the "life" aspect of things, but I don't think that it's what is at fault here.

Fights while more large-scale, felt more dull for some reason.
New weapons, new abilities, they had all gone to waste because of poor scene-setting and sound design.

It was so extremely underwhelming, the only thing that had me going were a few good points and plot twists coupled with cliffhangers at the end of each episode.
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Now, now then.
Let's try to be positive for once!
While 2/3 of the anime felt underwhelming, I actually found the final 3-4 episodes interesting and emotional.
The fight scenes were actually more energetic, and the character's emotions felt stronger.
The animation was great again and didn't dissapoint.
Character development was very little, though when it did happen, it was impactful to the story.
In general, even though the positive part of the review is a lot shorter than the negative one, I would 97,8% recommend watching this if you haven't yet.


A summary would be something like this:
The anime was good enough, however because 2/3 of it were very underwhelming, it almost ruins it.
I would recommend it, however be prepared to forcefully push yourself to the end. I'm not one to judge if you will like it or not, but I generally enjoyed the ending. I won't say the cliched "It's all worth in the end" line, but I really want to say it. To me, the ending compensated for the rest of the anime.
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This is heavily subjective.
Thank you for your time.

I don't have much to say about this anime at all.
This is all my subjective opinion.

Tokyo Ghoul felt like "the" anime.
I can Imagine that AOT must feel the same way, but I haven't tried watching it yet.
Tokyo Ghoul is the Anime of anime.
The first thing that comes to mind when someone asks me-"What is anime?", are a few of my favourites and Tokyo Ghoul.
Tokyo Ghoul felt like an anime for the purpose of being an anime.
It didn't feel like anything in particular, it just felt like "anime" in the sense of the word.
Never ONCE did I think about what exactly I was watching, all that ... I knew about it, was that it was an anime, and that I liked it.

That's it.
To be honest I would've posted this on r/anime if I wasn't a lazy asshole, so yeah, here I am...
The art was pretty ok, felt jagged at times. But to be honest it is a pretty dated anime.
The sound was actually not that bad, most anime have this "average" sound, while this anime for some reason managed to deliver while only a little, but still above the "average" level.
I'm not going to talk about the story here, but it is pretty interesting and if i'm not wrong, one of a kind. (Creds to the manga.)
The characters were also pretty interesting and attention grabbing, almost each one of them was memorable in some way.

The enjoyment was a solid 9.


Yeah, remember:
This is my subjective opinion.
And yeah, this is a low effort review.
I just watched the anime, and again, this is kinda one of those "obligatory" reviews.
I do want to note that I kind of needed to get this out of my system.

Thank you for your time.

Warning:
This is an extra-short obligatory review that wasn't meant to exist in the first place, so take this with a ginormous grain of salt.
Also, i'm not a professional reviewer and this is my subjective opinion.


This anime was very good.
The Artstyle was what originally brought me into this anime, and it didn't dissapoint me at all.
The story was also pretty good, had it's holes here and there but mostly was interesting enough to drag you into the next episode every time you watched it.
Sound was pretty usual but the OPs and EDs were pretty nice and catchy, one was even epic for some reason.
The characters were ... also pretty nice, most of them very comedic and unusual.
The enjoyment I got out of this anime is a 9/10, if not a 10/10.

In the end, it was so happy that it made me shed a tear, which in my case is pretty rare. Good job!

I haven't read the Novel and I doubt that I will, however it felt like a pretty good anime and I think they made a good job adapting the Novel.
(I know, it doesn't make sense.)

It was nice and pretty comedic, sad at times but generally made me happy and enjoy watching it.

Solid 7/10, wobbly 8/10.

Thank you for your time.

WARNING:
This is my subjective opinion, and this review captures the feelings that I experienced while watching this anime.
I am in no way a 'Proffesional reviewer' and I doubt that I will be one anytime soon.




Tonikawa is like a filler episode.
A good one at that. I'm trying to read the manga right now but it's really hard to get a grip with it unlike the anime.
Tonikawa is basically the dessert you get before going to bed.
... It's very sweet and wholesome, throws in a little bit of comedy and generally makes you happy.
If you're into romance anime and you just watched something which needs to be washed off your soul, then try Tonikawa.
It makes you forget your worries for a little bit and makes you happy.
The artstyle looks a little bit 'amateur' but I think that it still looks good.
It has a little bit of story, however I personally think that it doesn't need a complicated story to be good.
Yeah, there are some hints on how Tsukasa is a little bit 'extraordinary' but it's mostly there for the point of being there.
Again, it's a dessert, an ice-cream that you eat after munching down a bunch of steaming-hot fries.
It cools you down and is very sweet.

The sound is pretty standart, the art feels amateur yet still good to me, the characters are a liiiitle stereotypical yet still enjoyable and the story is basically almost non-existent but it doesn't make it worse.

In short, the enjoyment would be an 8 out of 10, however an overall would be a 7.

TL;DR
Tonikawa is the dessert after some steaming-hot fries, it's very wholesome, cute, romantic and can make you relax for a little while.


After-post notes:

1.
For some reason I don't feel like I should say anything here...
Well one thing is for sure, this is my subjective opinion on the anime and if you disagree then that is fine.

2.
I am NOT a good reviewer, far from it.

3.
If an anime is well-made, then it doesn't need a good story to be good.
I enjoyed it even if the story at first was the most cliched and cheesiest gag ever.




Thank you for your time.
I recommend this anime.

WARNING:
This is MY subjective opinion, I am in no way, shape or form a professional reviewer and I doubt that I will ever be.
This review is going to be shorter than any of my other reviews by A LOT since it was really short and didn't really leave an impact on me.


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Actual review:
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The anime was good.
... But MAN was it lacking in certain aspects.
My main two complaints about this anime are that it was short as hell and that it was too cute.

Basically, the art was good, although a bit jaggy at times. The story was a little cliched but fun.
The characters were cute and very nice.
But when the anime tried to feel mysterious, it failed miserably. Like how the hell am I supposed to feel intimidated by a smug smol fox goddess?
Basically it was too cute, and when the anime tried to deliver on the mysterious scenes it failed because it was too cute.

The anime is very heavy on the kawaii and moe aspect of things, but it's really short and it finishes before it can leave an impact on you.
Basically I would recommend it as the granola bar of the anime world.
It's VERY short but it tastes nice so I recommend it.
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I am in no way a professional reviewer, this is MY SUBJECTIVE opinion.
You are in no way obligated to share my opinions.
If possible, then contact me in some way with logically constructed tips on how to improve my reviews.

Thank you for your time.
End of review.

WARNING:
I am not a professional reviewer in any way, shape or form.
My reviews ARE and probably will be shit for a while.
This is MY subjective opinion and I am in no way enforcing it onto you.
This review will be pretty short, because I don't really have that many emotions from this anime. It's not scrambled and it didn't fill me with emotions either.
(Which doesn't mean it's bad.)

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Actual review:
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This anime was great.
It was pretty slippery at first to be honest, but if you force yourself through it then you can really enjoy it.
The story was pretty cringy but catchy.
The characters were *kinda* stereotypical but nothing over the top.
The art was pretty standart, altough it did show it's true potential in the "fight" scenes.
The sound was even more usual.

Huh...
To be honest that's all I could say.
Sorry but nothing comes to mind.
Huh...
B-B-But that's not because the anime was bad!

Ugh.
The anime was good, the best I could describe it is by using a metaphor.
The anime was like playing a video game on saturday, you get bored and shut down the game, but as soon as you do that you get a sudden urge to play it again.
It's good, it's beautiful AND it's cute. But jeesums does it get boring sometimes.
I do have to admit that it was very funny at certain points.
It made me laugh out loud, and that is an achievement!
It's art is something you would see in a conveyor anime, but as soon as something emotional or epic comes up everything lights up in color and emotion.
There was also an adorable spice of drama here and there.
The emotions were really, really unnoticably but turned up, and the characters themselves even though stereotypical a little, felt alive.

In short, if I had to choose my word to summarize my experience with this anime then it would be this:

The anime was actually very good, however the emotions I got out of it were not very impactful and short lived. That doesn't mean that it is bad though.
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IMPORTANT BUT OPTIONAL AFTER-REVIEW NOTES:
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1.
God heccin damnit am I infuriated.
The anime was good but I didn't get anything out of it. It almost makes me want to give it a 6/10.
It was good but the emotions I got from it were kind-of cardboardy.
The anime was funny at times, and it was emotional. And it was GOOD, but the emotions are very short-lived. It doesn't impact you for a long time. But I guess it wasn't aiming to do that either.
However it was still good! Sorry for making such a dry review!

2.
Goddangit,
SUBJECTIVE OPINIONS FOR CHRIST'S SAKE.
Seriously, take this review with a giant grain of salt.

3.
I am omega-bad at writing reviews, there are plenty of more logically-sound reviews about this anime in the review section.

4.
Please, if you are still here and have read until this point, then please contact me if possible and point out any flaws in a well constructed argument that I canm use to improve.
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End of review.
Thank you for your time.
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