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This is my second review I have ever made so bare with it:

Somali and The Forest Spirit is a very niche show it seems, I don't really see too many people talking about it and I think more people should because this show was pretty good! I would say this was the second best show of this season, seconds to Eizouken but I only watched three shows this season.

Story:

The story of Somali is pretty interesting, in the past humans and grotesques lived together, and the grotesques tried to live in harmony and help out the humans, but the humans would get terrified every time they ... would see one, so they would kill them.

Then the grotesques got angry about how humans treated them, so they went to war and hunted the humans down. The grotesques are obviously way stronger than the humans so of course the humans stood little chance.

The story starts out with the near extinction of humans, humans being an oddity in the present, and even if there is a human then it is likely you would just be hunted down and murdered, so you meet a very interesting combo of adventurers, a young human girl named Somali, and a golem she calls dad. This adventure has the two going from town to town trying to find other humans for the golem to bring Somali to, but it is mostly, atleast for this first season just a nice wholesome adventure with the two making friends and seeing the relationship between Somali and the emotionless golem develop.

8/10

Art:

The art of this series is very beautiful, the scenery and towns are absolutely the shows strongest part about this anime, all the colors blend so well and I think that even if you think the story is going no where you just forget about it because the show looks so gorgeous and the animation is good as well, there isn't much to say besides I believe this and Eikouzen are the most beautiful shows I've seen in quite a while.

9/10

Sound:

The sound track was great, not very remember-able but it was still beautiful and I mean everything about the show is beautiful so I should probably stop using that word but that is just what it is.

The intro and outro are fine and suit the show just fine and none of it is really remember-able like I said but it isn't really a downer on the show at all.

7/10

Characters:

All the characters were likable besides this old lady at the end, but you are suppose to hate her so it is fine.

The one thing that I felt was kinda dumb about the characters is THAT they are all likable, they all seem pretty plain and similar. There are four people side characters that Somali and the golem travel with, and just one of them felt different and it was girl that I won't spoil but she was the most interesting in my opinion because she had a goal and she makes you wonder what that goal is.

The other characters are just wholesome, fun, goody-two-shoes characters and it isn't bad, but isn't good either. I like all of them just wish there was more variety is all I am saying. I may be in the minority with this opinion but this is my review so this is how I feel about the matter.

7/10

Enjoyment:

This is where it gets very opinionated and up to what you enjoy in anime. This show is pretty slow, there is a lot of episodic "Why am I watching this" type of episodes and it makes you think about the story and how it will progress from this. I will tell you that the story does progress but pretty slowly. This is definitely a great slice of life anime and a very interesting one, but it is definitely not for everyone and this might be why the reviews of this show is so contradictory.

I rather like this show and enjoyed the cute moment of when Somali worked hard to make the golem a bracelet and the golem cooking for the first time, so on. But for a lot of others, they may find that boring, I understand why, but that is just what the show is. So, please do not watch if you aren't into that.

As for me I give it an 8/10

Overall:

This show was fun and enjoyable, I think that for people that enjoy a good slice of life would enjoy this and it is definitely one of the best shows of the season.

The story is interesting and really makes you wonder how it will all go down.

The art is great and some of the best I have seen, sorta gives that Made In Abyss vibe.

The sound is decent and pretty beautiful.

The characters are good and are enjoyable.

And the show is just a joy to watch! I give Somali and The Forest Spirit a good old, 7.8/10 which rounds to 8/10!

So this is my first review I ever wrote so bare with me this might be all over the place.

Eizouken is great, one of the best series of the season if you ask me and for great reason. One, this season was a bit dry, and that is kinda sad because this was the first anime season that I kept up with, and two this series is actually pretty good. I will review this in segments like everyone does so lets get started.

Story:

The story was interesting. There isn't an overarching ... plot, but instead the story is just a series of stories to progress to the goal which is making the anime that they are trying to come up with at the time, obviously each anime serves a purpose like trying to make a name for themselves or trying to make money, but for the most part they just are trying to have fun when making anime.

So, I think that the story was fun, but that was about it, each character arc served its purpose and the backstories really just served it's purpose, but the story really wasn't what it was going for.

6/10

Art:

The art of this series is probably its biggest strength, the backgrounds of this show is some of the best I have ever scene, the city and how artistic it is and all the bright colors are crack to the eyes, the cartoony tones is a great way to make this show about animation really come to life, I seriously couldn't just move my head away from the screen when the animation segments came on screen, the art is seriously the best I have ever seen.

10/10

Sound:

I don't really pay too much attention with sound in anime, like I can tell if something is bad and if something is fine but I can't tell if it is "amazing" or whatever but this series does indeed have good sound because this series sorta has too, there is a character that specializes in sound design.

You can't talk about sound design without mentioning the the intro, which is great, it became a meme which made it even better and it bops bro. The intro is catchy and every time I hear it, it just sits in your head for quite awhile.

8/10

Characters:

The characters of Eizouken are great, the main characters at least, but the side characters don't get much screen time at all, I can't think of any side characters' names right now at all, not even prevalent ones.

But, the main characters: Kanamori, Asakusa, and, Mizusaki, they are all great and I don't think I heard anyone really talk bad about any of them. They all serve a purpose and Kanamori is my favorite character.

Each character got a good amount of development and screen time which I think is pretty difficult to do when making a story about making anime and I think they did a very good job with the dynamic between each character.

8/10

Enjoyment:

I think that this series was pretty enjoyable overall but the beginning and ending of the series was a little bit boring. The beginning 3 or episodes was kinda meh, and episodes 10 and 11 episodes was pretty slow and kinda boring. But, the ending was good and the mid section section of the show was pretty fun. The pacing was solid and I think that it was pretty good.

7/10

Overall:

I overall really think that series is a must watch, the director is one of the most impressive of the generation and most of the stuff he makes is a must watch so I'd say if you watched any of his other works, which is I believe is Ping Pong and Devilman: Crybaby, then I can't help but recommend it.

I think this series was good and I think that it could be boring at times but it is mostly pretty entertaining and if you are as interested in anime as I am than I think you would be interested in how it is made. I would give this show a solid 8/10 and I would say that I would definitely recommend it to anyone that is invested in anime and watched at least 50 shows.

Please give me as much criticism as possible because I would like to get better at making reviews.