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Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch of Mercury is an anime without great pretensions, it understands that it is not about great philosophical, geopolitical and military themes and that is why it becomes a good anime, because it does not try to be greater than it is.
The problem this brings is that Gundam has always been about the great dilemmas of war with a pacifist message in most of its works, which makes this particular one fail to represent the name of one of the biggest franchises in the world that is Gundam, with predictable, futile plots that is teenagers piloting genuine war machines.
So it ... is an anime that entertains by the animation and by the shallow and easy to understand characters, which ends up becoming a good way to enter the saga for those who do not care so much for philosophy but for MS duels.

Summing up, as an action anime it is pretty cool with many times dragging, but if you compare it to a classic gundam this anime seems to be very poor and empty in its discussions.

Despite the controversies, mushoku tensei brings a new face to fantasy anime, more specifically the subgenre tensei, even having the premise of redemption with a new life, being able to start all over again, even with this generic idea the anime still stands out, it stands out exactly because of the execution the way the story is passed brings a sense of discovery and adventure, you just like Rudeus is discovering a whole new life in a new world, with much desire and effort to be able to feel alive again.

The mixture of charisma, soundtrack, animation and curiosity, makes you dive into this journey, ... always wanting to know how it will end, and the journey definitely has a very sober sense of progression, without big jumps of personality, without many conveniences for character development, everything is done slowly, for you to realize how the characters become mature with time and with the adversities that the author puts to be overcome.

Another mention I would like to make is the duality between his body and his mind, after watching the anime I think one of the beauties of the work is how the mind of a mature man who has gone through traumatizing and degrading experiences is portrayed as childish, making an allusion of how the character even alive from a physical point of view he is dead from the human point of view, thus his body as strange as it may seem is somewhat related to his mind.

Well with respect to the more objective leaving the subjectivity, the animation and soundtrack are spectacular, pleasing to the eye and ear, the story even being introductory fun and holds the viewer, and the characters have many defects and many qualities like any human being, the author fails in the main when he puts as a complete pervert, but otherwise the work is relaxing and very promising.

I well understand the anger of many, but I wanted to bring a less aggressive view and I hope I succeeded. In the end I recommend that you see it, if you are very bothered by this issue, I would just like to say that it is more present only in this arc, going forward it becomes less frequent, well that's it, see it and draw your own conclusions.

The nostalgia of children's times is a strong and deep feeling, which is very well represented in this beautiful animation, where the director manages to pass how simple life was and how even the little things, like kicking a stone, were enough to amuse you and make you happy.
To strengthen this memories the soundtrack is very light, following the movement of the stone and the child, the animation is simple, but it is like this to represent the simple.
The anime manages to pass what it proposes, which is to remember the past and the childhood. A good and short experience for those ... who seek something different to watch.

Issak brings together two distinct battlefields, the Japanese and the European, bringing a clash between two Japanese snipers, who venture out as mercenaries while one of them seeks his revenge, with everything going on in the ancient Holy Roman Empire in the 17th century. The way in which the author approaches the battles shows that he had a lot of study of him, to bring about such realistic clashes. Issak is a perfect work for history fans, in which they will be impressed with the correct traces of European armor.

Now the downside, Issak fails to try to bring in interesting characters, with the group around ... him being often boring and embarrassing. Issak often proves to be much more than meets the eye, a combatant who leaves his specialty and begins to command and masterfully help the troops, as a man with little education as he has so much military knowledge is a question in which not yet has been answered.

Issak is a very entertaining manga that will please those who appreciate military history, good drawings, action and revenge. Now if you are looking for complex characters and an elaborate story I don't recommend Issak for you.