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I feel like if this show were to be summed up in two words, it would be Criminally underrated

We all know Hayao Miyazaki. Made some awesome films that are still some of my favorites. I wanted to watch some of his earlier works to see if they were as good as the ghibli movies, and future boy Conan caught my eye. I had been planning on watching it for years, but I didn’t know he worked on it. So in the span of about two months (I’m a slow anime watcher I know), I finished the series, and it’s easily a hidden gem. Future boy ... Conan is pretty similar to some of his future works, like Nausicaa and Laputa, but especially the latter. The two have similar plots, the two main characters of both works are basically the same just with a few changes to their designs, and of course, both were directed by Miyazaki. You can say it’s a precursor to Laputa since it came out 8 years before that film did. Now, for my review

Let’s start off with animation. Ghibli films are known for having incredible animation. Heck, everything Miyazaki and Takahata worked on had incredible animation, check out castle of cagliostro from 1979! The animation in that film is unbelievably great! But is the animation in this show good? Yeah! Not the best animation ever, it was a tv series that aired in the 70s, so they didn’t have the biggest budget ever, but for what they had, the animation is good! There are some really good perspective and camera movement shots and really fluid moments and it’s just really impressive, especially considering the whole thing was done with cel animation. Again, not the greatest animated ghibli related thing ever, but it’s still good. I would like to mention something about the art. In the earlier episodes, the design of Lana is noticeably off. It’s a bit hard to explain but watching the show you’ll know something’s wrong. It can be a bit off putting at first, but luckily her design gets better. I also love the shows expressive characters. Every character seems so full of life and a ton of goofy and realistic expressions, especially with Conan, Jimsy, and Dyce

The story is good. Like I mentioned earlier, very similar to castle in the sky, but I’d say that’s a compliment since I loved the story for the movie. The one thing I do like about Conan’s story better than Laputa is that it actually has a satisfying conclusion instead of them laughing and flying off into the sunset, and how you’ve seen how the characters have grown
Throughout the story. It’s incredibly entertaining and easy to get into. The final episode especially is fantastic, but I’d rather leave the viewer to watch it. The Characters are also great! Conan and Lana are incredibly likable and fun protagonists, jimsy was kinda annoying, monsley is a girl boss and some of the other minor characters were really funny, Dyce in particular. The villian however I think is fine, disappointing at worst. A bit forgettable most of the time, but he’s cool in the final episodes he appears in. Music was good too

What more can I say about this show? It’s insanely good! The fact this show has a little over 50,000 members makes me sad, because it’s genuinely one of the best anime I’ve seen, which I wasn’t expecting for a show that’s almost half a century old. Incredible show and I couldn’t recommend it enough. Check it out when you get the chance! Trust me, you won’t regret it

And then he turned himself into a frog. Funniest thing I’ve ever seen

KeroKero chime is probably the most obscure manga I’ve read so far, and I mean, yeah, it’s not perfect, but it’s really cute. The series is about a boy named Aoi who is transported into the frog land by some magician I think and now anytime he touches water, he turns into a frog. He meets a princess named Mimori who I love so much and they go on a journey to find the magic books missing pages in order to lift Aois curse. There’s a lot of other stuff that happened, but ... since I read the entire series in raw Japanese, I might have misread something so I’m not going too deep into it (I can speak a little bit of Japanese and I’m learning kanji right now). The art style is so adorable and I think the characters are decent, though mimori is definitely the best one. I found the manga set online for 20$ and considering that it’s such a rare series, I know I had to get them, and I might be one of the only few people outside Japan to actually own at least one volume of it. Honestly I think it was money well spent as I really enjoyed reading it. My main problem outside of me misunderstanding some things is that it did get and feel repetitive and I can’t say any of the other characters outside of aoi, mimori, and the wizard were great. Still if you’re able to find it, I’d recommend giving it a try, though unfortunately, it’s never been translated before, so it might only be a more enjoyable read if you’re able to read Japanese. Still a really cute read.

Alright so when I tell you I was obsessed with Pokemon as a kid, I’m not kidding. I discovered the Pokemon anime when I was eight and it became my personality for the next year or so. I watched every single episode of the anime that was out at the time, though I kinda stopped at sun and moon, I didn’t grow up with a game boy so I only got to play the ds games with diamond and pearl still being one of my favorite games of all time, I used to to torture everyone I knew with my Pokemon knowledge. The anime was ... my favorite show for a while and since I finally got a gba sp recently and how I almost beat fire red, I thought I could revisit the anime with my mom bevause she also loves Pokemon. She’s never seen the anime but has played the games and plays Pokemon go anything we go somewhere. But is Pokemon good? Well…

Despite me giving it a 7/10, I honestly think it’s a great show (the first season that is, everything else I didn’t care for)

Yeah, Pokemon has problems. The animation is mediocre and reuses animation a lot (which I guess is the case for a lot of retro anime, but it is really noticeable in Pokemon), the characters are ok and can get pretty annoying, it’s repetitive and even though I don’t mind when shows are repetitive but in Pokemon, while the episodes are enjoyable, aren’t really interesting and are only really good when you want to watch the show out of boredom.
Despite that, it has a lot of pros
The characters are incredibly memorable and team rocket is easily the best and while I don’t think ash is a great character, his entire existence gives me so much nostalgia to when I would watch the show and think ash was the coolest thing ever. The soundtrack is great and I get the music stuck in my head a lot, and the Japanese version of the first opening goes hard and my god, anytime I hear the English opening, I basically die of nostalgia. Some episodes and arcs are great and my favorite episode is definitely the one where ash leaves pikachu, it did make my eyes feel watery, but I cry at everything so I don’t know if it’s a problem with me.


Is Pokemon a great masterpiece? No. But is it a good show that I hope kids love as time goes on? Yes. I rewatch Pokemon anytime I want to relive the days of when I wasn’t stressed out about anything and it’s one of the few shows I watched as a kid that really impacted my life. I do honestly recommend Pokemon if you haven’t seen it so you can get a taste of what true nostalgia is like. Not an amazing show, but a good one and it will always have a special place in my heart

“Anime was a mistake, it’s nothing but trash”

The first ever anime folks, and I gotta admit, it’s not too special, but it’s kinda cute. Don’t go into it thinking it will be the greatest anime ever, it’s over a century old, so watch it knowing this is where it all started

Story: Non existent/10
There’s no story other than some guy writes on a board

Art: 7/10
Not the worst art, it’s pretty charming and simple

Uhh, 5/10 I guess. If it wasn’t the first anime ever made, then I’d probably recommend you skip it, but I’d give it a watch if you want to see an important part of ... anime history. It’s only three seconds so you should be fine. Highly recommend if you’re a history nerd like me

Urusei Yatsura is just a really fun and hilarious anime and I don’t have much to say unlike a lot of other anime. For an anime adaptation of Rumikos first manga, it was really well done. Lum is a really solid and cute character, Atari starts off annoying but becomes a better character later on, Shinobu is awesome and she’s one of my favorites, oyuki, Benten, ran, Ryunosuke, and the other girls I love, Mendo is really funny, and I really like ton. Really the only character I didn’t like was Ryunosukes dad. The songs are bops and I listen to them regularly, and there’s ... really no story, it’s just a fun episodic series that’s hard to hate. Urusei Yatsura is really good and I highly recommend it, especially if you like stuff like ranma, or any of rumikos works really