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Sep 22, 2024
I really came in blind with this one, the title being the reason I decided to watch the first episode till the tenth and final one for this season before the second. I had the impression that it was going to be about two students living a sort of "normal" slice of life fays and hanging out with friends and engaging with new ones. I was half-right. What I got were two more than ordinary students trying to be ordinary making simple days in an episode engaging, engaging being using your brain to try and figure it all out during a few or more episodes,
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and curious for what the next episode or two will be about.
For an episode about one plot to an arc that may take two, three, or more episodes, I believe the anime does it well with managing them within the 25 min runtimes for each of them. The ones where it's just one "regular" day to an afternoon for them make it feel short, and that's not a bad thing. You're so into what is happening the episode(s) that time passes fast before you know it. Setting is everyday life as high school students that becomes something more with the two main characters and others around them driving the story forward in unexpected ways that haven't gotten me invested since Insomniacs After School.
Kobato and Osanai are the main characters of the story, the former being a student with excellent detective skills, the latter being a sweets-loving student with sharp insight and the ability to act, who try and help each other become "ordinary" following their own personal incidents that brough them to depend on each other. Their personalities may look neutral for most of the episodes but how they express them makes up for it and makes them one of the many anime characters I can relate to and like. As for supporting, Doujima is the one supporting character you'll immediately grow to enjoy having around. The rest of the supporting cast don't have as much presence as Doujima suiince they appear in at least an 1-3 episodes but that's a given with the focus being on Kobato and Osanai, but I believe that may change with Season 2 after the tenth episode.
Overall, this anime about two students trying to become ordinary is worth a try if you want something to watch outside of the "normal" animes you watch.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Apr 26, 2023
It is truly rare for an anime to not only be capable of keeping me invested without falling asleep, but make me feel to the point that I genuinely cry. I haven’t felt that feeling for a long while, and the last anime to do that was Violet Evergarden. A 10/10 is a rare score I don’t give to just any anime. Oshi no Ko is one of those animes.
For starters, the art style and the animation for it was on point with how it looks in the manga. I have no complaints with what I’ve seen from the 90 minute episode, no 3D animation
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to speak of that would make me roll my eyes.
Now for the characters, I won’t go into this much but Ai Hoshino’s desire to be happy as both a mother and as an idol along with her desire to make her lies into truth, mostly towards love, was translated beautifully. The kids of Ai are just as great as their mother, and their desire to support their mother’s career and grow to be just as great as their parent is adorable, and what happens near the end of the 90 minute episode will drive the twins towards their destination in future episodes. What that looks like I am not sure, but I am very eager to find out, and from watching up to the third episode, I am not disappointed but more curious as to how the twins’ stories will go.
Now the music, having the OP sung by YOASOBI and the ED sung by Queen Bee tipped me off on how invested I would be with the anime. Anime with an investing plot with a great music for both the OP and ED is hard to find and come by. There are a good number of animes with either great OPs or EDs, or even both OPs and ED, that flop horribly and don’t really fit with the anime at all. Both songs for the anime fit perfectly with what the anime will be about and be a message to the characters who will drive the story. What I mean by that will require watching the anime yourselves.
Story, a gynecologist meets his favorite idol, Ai Hoshino, finding out she’s pregnant with twins at the age of 16. To support her, he agrees to deliver the babies, only to die by a fan who’s obsessed with her. Instead of ascending to Heaven or go to another world, he is reborn as one of the twins of Ai along with another character, who serves as his twin sister. I can’t go into more without spoiling but I will say that it involves supporting their idol/mother with her career, eventually growing up to have dreams and desires of their own.
Side characters so far are very likable and make me care for them a lot, and so far Kana Arima is one I wish succeeds, with help from the side of course. The director whom Aqua acquaints himself with is a wise and caring figure moving forward and interactions with him are meaningful and hilarious. There are more to be revealed and I am already eager to see what sort of struggles they need to deal with and overcome.
Overall, this is an anime you should watch if you’re in need of something to invest your attention to after so many isekai animes that have invaded the anime industry, whether they’re good well-translated to the screen isekais or absolutely awful isekais. I stand with my decision of giving this anime a perfect 10, and it’s not based on blind direction on a brand new anime the masses would love, but on genuine feelings for the story and its cast of characters that I personally feel for, understand, and connect with.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Apr 12, 2023
Though the episodes are split between the anime and live action segments, this anime is worth watching if you not only want to see the food that’ll make you hungry for it, but also learn how to cook some what I consider to be easy dishes to do yourself, and plan to visit some restaurants in Japan that are shown in the live action segments.
The plot is that there’s a restaurant that serves food to their medieval customers, who eat them up and enjoy them. Its art style is good and the characters are people you’d want to have meals with, unless they are bad
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patrons. There is some plot for each episode regarding the customers, but they are resolved with food made by Taishou, who makes the food, who is helped by his server, Shinobu.
Would I recommend watching this? Yes. The medieval characters are people who are in need of something good to eat after a long day of responsibilities, most of the time, and good food is the solution. The live action segments are also informative and helps you with not only making meals yourself but also find restaurants in Japan you can spend your money on, with moderation or with gusto depending on you as a customer.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Apr 12, 2023
If you love ramen, this anime is for those who want to not only have eating partners in the form of girls consuming the dish, but discover variations of the dish they didn’t know was possible.
For viewing I’d say you’re likely to skip to the part where they begging to eat ramen than watching the episodes as a whole. The story is mainly a girl named Koizumi who enjoys and/or loves eating ramen, but she’s not the main character despite the title having her name on the title. The main character is a stalker simp girl who tries to get close to Koizumi which is
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very bothersome. Other characters include a girl who loves spicy food and a student representative who looks pretty without her glasses on, the two becoming sort of friends with Koizumi, moreso than the simping girl and join her for ramen occasionally.
The art is nothing to rave about, but it is passable, moreso when the ramen dishes arrive to be consumed on-screen. It makes you want to go to Japan and eat the ramen that you see in each episode, even cook them if you have the ingredients to do so. Would I recommend this anime as a whole? Not really, since it’s only worth watching for the consuming of the ramen dishes in every episode and if you want to get hungry for ramen.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Mar 17, 2023
I love Rosario + Vampire, since it drew me further in to the world of anime and broadened my horizons, even when I started watching Naruto, so much that I tolerated the episodes that didn't follow the manga. If it did, I am sure it'd be rated a bit or even a lot higher than 6.9. It strays off from the manga for most of the season, and the panty shots are too much. I know each female girl, save for Yukari, have nice rears, but I was very much hoping that the series covered more of the manga, since things get very serious in
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Season 2 of the manga, where they learn of Fairy Tale and fight the members of it and show more members of Moka's family.
Art style is beautiful, and the animation is about a B+. In regards to story and pacing, I feel S1 did a good job, however, I felt it should have had more than 13 episodes for both seasons to cover more of the manga. Had it been made in somewhere between 2012-now, the anime would have more to cover. The studio, Gonzo, made the anime, and they worked on Gantz, Basilisk, Kaze no Stigma. They even helped make the music video for “Breaking the Habit” by Linkin Park. Did they not have a large enough budget for a 24-25 episode season for R+V?
Fights weren't very long, but that's to be expected when facing Moka Akashiya's Inner form, though I wouldn't mind them being a bit longer. Had the studio been patient and waited until they had more material to work with or had the budget and passion for the series, we'd probably have it.
Both English and Japanese VAs do a stellar job with giving voice to each character, and I wished the series had a sort of reboot or even a remake of Season 2. There was potential for this anime, but again, the panty shots and the anime original episodes prevented the anime from being something more.
If there was ever a continuation or reboot for this series, I will definitely watch it, no doubt. I'd even like an OVA where R+V and High School DxD cross over. Inner Moka vs. Rias Gremory, that'd be something. Heck even an OVA continuation of R+V would be awesome, like how Kenichi and Hellsing received them, the former continuing where the series left off sort of. Despite some cons I have, mostly the panty shots and the second season straying off from the source, I'd still recommend people try this anime out.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Mar 17, 2023
This anime shouldn’t have existed, ever. I don’t mind isekais, but this one is not one of them. I feel sorry for the Animators, English and Japanese VAs and the music artists for pouring their heart and soul into Season 1 and 2 of this anime. The main character conveniently finds ten fruits of evolution within a dangerous as f$ck forest to make him the ideal version of himself instead of having to run his ass off and use his surroundings to better learn to survive dangerous areas and put in effort to change and be better than who he was before.
I know he’s had
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it rough, but super fruit is too much of a short cut to what and who he is now. The animal girls he encounters in the other world aren’t very interesting and very forgetful to me, enough that I don’t really care for them. I believe he had some, about two, girls he knew in the previous life, who like him and are in the same other world as him, and he didn’t think to try and work his body to be better for them? Working to level up and get strong and change yourself are isekai protags I like. Those who are fortunate to find rare items or have a simple but useful skill to survive in the other world, I can tolerate, but this anime’s protagonist, I cannot, especially when the items are ten super fruits that are again conveniently within the forest he found himself in upon arrival. They couldn’t put these super fruits in different areas of this other world like Toriko and make them a plot where everyone is looking to consume them? Then again that would be ripping off One Piece.
Guy should have died upon arriving to the other world. I can’t imagine a dangerous beast dying from his stench. His flippin stench! If it was any different, they’d have just killed him for sport or something, or drown his ass in a river hoping to wash off the stench. Or better yet he could be like a sort of meat durian to them, he smells bad but could taste good to the dangerous creatures there.
I feel nothing as I see him fighting or helping others to be better than they were before. I can’t see him as a teacher. I know a few teachers from growing up that could do his job better. Two of my four brothers could be better protagonists than him.
When "god" saw that he was abandoned, it gave him "a blessing" called "Complete Disassembly." While other people get maybe 1 or 2 drops from killing a monster, this person gets everything that monster could possibly drop upon its death, including inherent skills and abilities, and a book describing its life and memories. When does a god or God pick and choose favorites, especially when they isekai’d a classroom of students into another world?
I’d like it if the main character was Prompto from Final Fantasy XV. That guy had one OVA dedicated to him wanting to be Noctis’ friend but wanting to be better so to walk side by side with him. He worked to get that body, Fruit of Evolution’s protagonist didn’t, just ate super fruit. I don’t bother using the protagonist’s name because I don’t really care for it. I know the classmates who treated him wrong are the worst, but an anime where classmates are assholes to each other while being in another world would be far more entertaining than this waste of character, especially if the plot involves douchebag isekai heroes dying one by one failing to save that world were a thing, and the residents there were like, “Oh sh$t, we’re dead” and the world dies. That sounds like a better story why hasn’t anyone written a story where heroes die one by one and fail to save that world? I probably haven’t looked far enough into the many isekais that are out.
Overall, this is an anime you’d rather not waste 30 min on. I have no problem with the art, the music, or the VAs, just the story and its characters. Good on the creator for making something that people like that helps support him, but this is equally as worse as School Days the Animation. If I could, I’d get all copies of this anime and bury them in a ditch somewhere like they buried the Atari game ET. For a score, I would rather give it a zero, a 1 out of 10 is too generous for this. I’d even settle for it to be N/A.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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