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Feb 27, 2025
One Piece (Anime) add
Preliminary (764/? eps)
I've been following One Piece for over 15 years now. Sure, I've been on and off, but unlike many long-running series like Attack on Titan and Naruto, which lost their appeal for me over time, One Piece has at least stayed consistently good.

However, the fact that it's only consistently good—but not great—is why it went from potentially being my favorite battle shonen and a top 10 anime to just a very solid but overall exhausting series. I can't watch more than a batch at a time before needing a long break, especially post-time skip.

I know One Piece is often compared to Dragon Ball, but for ...
Feb 26, 2025
Mixed Feelings
The controversy surrounding the recent Higurashi GouSotsu series was amusing to watch because I purposefully chose not to watch them. I’ve always felt that Higurashi is the type of series that shouldn’t have had any side stories or direct sequels that take place after the last episode—because of how conclusive it was.

For those who don’t know, Higurashi Rei was the first set of side stories following the main story of Higurashi and Kai. Episodes 1–8 of the Higurashi visual novel and their anime adaptations (Higurashi Season 1 and Kai, or Season 2) were overall great psychological murder mysteries with a Groundhog Day-like scenario, and the ...
Feb 26, 2025
The Tales series is probably still my overall favorite JRPG series. I love its mix of action-based combat and surprisingly deep character development. That said, the series has had an interesting history of anime adaptations—from Eternia’s anime-original story to Symphonia just covering its main story beats, Abyss being a mostly solid adaptation, Vesperia acting as a prequel, and Zestiria being a weird mix of adaptation and anime-original content.

Before all the modern adaptations, there was a four-episode OVA of the original Tales game, Phantasia.

The best way I can describe this OVA is… quick fan service. The fight animations are solid, and for the most part, it ...
Feb 25, 2025
In my Rewrite Season 1 review, I mentioned how it was a decent way for the anime to settle on an original ending that, surprisingly, still fit within the universe due to the rewrite setting. Season 2 not only explains why that ending makes sense, but in a way, it also aligns thematically with the main ending of the original Rewrite visual novel.

It's hard to talk about this season—or the series as a whole—without spoilers, but I'll do my best.

If you jump into Rewrite Season 2 (Moon & Terra) right after watching Season 1, you might be confused. There are random flashbacks to events that ...
Feb 24, 2025
Rewrite (Anime) add
I suppose I should get my biases out of the way as soon as possible. Despite being a huge fan of visual novels, I’m far from one of those typical haters who claim that most visual novel-to-anime adaptations suck. Quite frankly, I don’t expect modern anime budgets or modern viewers to have the time to sit through a 50+ episode anime that fully adapts a 50+ hour visual novel. Even if they're watching weekly, that’s a huge commitment. The only exception most people make is Clannad + After Story, and that’s only because people simp for Kyoto Animation. When JC Staff adapted Little Busters!—which had ...
Feb 24, 2025
Mixed Feelings
Ever since Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series by LittleKuriboh came out, it seems like every semi-popular anime has to get an abridged series eventually. Unfortunately, I think Dragon Ball Z Abridged laid out a really cringe, loud, unfunny, tryhard humor style template that basically every abridged series since has followed.

I will always maintain that LittleKuriboh’s wit and dry British humor is the whole reason abridged series even work. Making fun of the silly stuff that happens in the show he’s abridging works because the actual show is hard to watch—especially these days.

In theory, this Yu-Gi-Oh! anime is supposed to advertise the cards so Konami can jip ...
Feb 23, 2025
The original Planetarian visual novel by Key was one of the first I ever read in my 15+ years of being into visual novels. I've gone on record saying that while I like Key in general, their stories can get pretty predictable with their endings and often feel bloated in terms of length. Planetarian, in a way, is the complete opposite—it's a very short story, not even written by Jun Maeda, yet it still feels distinctly like a Key work.

I thought the original visual novel was just okay. There was a bit too much text, and the visuals didn’t really convey the planetarium aspect it ...
Feb 23, 2025
Mixed Feelings
Back when I was still relatively new to anime in the early 2010s and active in various online communities, there was this popular show that everyone was hyping up: Bakemonogatari. People especially seemed to love this tsundere/kuudere purple-haired girl. Naturally, since a lot of my online friends were into it, I figured I should at least give it a try. While the anime had its moments, I can't help but feel that not only is the show itself way overhyped, but the main heroine… I just do not get the love for her at all.

Hitagi Senjougahara is the first major heroine you meet at the ...
Feb 21, 2025
Mixed Feelings
I like Little Busters. I like its emphasis on friendship, I think the humor is generally funny enough, and I think it balances comedy and dark drama fairly well. You know what I don't like about Little Busters? The fact that it continues the Jun Maeda and KEY trend of having a deus ex machina ending—but also how its supposed friendship theme is kind of a half-lie.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. Despite that angry first paragraph, I’d still say I overall like Little Busters: Refrain. The core of the series is still there—a friendship-focused story with some surprisingly dark melodrama at times.

However, gone is ...
Feb 20, 2025
With how much love the Clannad anime by Kyoto Animation gets, I’m surprised the Little Busters! adaptation by J.C. Staff doesn’t receive similar appreciation, despite doing almost the exact same thing Clannad did. Both took on the Herculean task of adapting visual novels with over 50 hours of content, both developed by Key and written by Jun Maeda. In some ways, Little Busters! is even more impressive because it actually manages to adapt all the routes instead of just most of them, even if J.C. Staff had to use OVA specials for the Ecstasy routes.

Structurally, Little Busters! Season 1 follows Clannad’s approach almost exactly—mixing common ...


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