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Feb 15, 2019
Off model: the anime.
They blew the budget on ep 1 and it's been downhill since.
There's dark magical girl anime, and then there's whatever this is--some kind of anti terrorist task force with magical girls, and they will kill your ass.
So ep 1 opens up with Asuka, some kind of shell shocked magical girl veteran of some terrible magical war where giant stuffed animals literally ripped people and her friends to bits who is now trying to get back to a normal life. The pacing is great, character design is great, it's even believable how the most ordinary things set her PTSD off, and how she's
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afraid to make new friends.
After that we get off track to off model and mundane story and characters. From a beautifully animated MC with great detail to her costume we get gonks who look like they are sons of Rock Lee animated intentionally bad by the Mob Psycho staff. The plot also gets muddled and it feels like it's being edgy for edginess's sake, because the last few dark magical girl anime really didn't drive home the point that when you have world bending magical powers really horrific shit can happen.
Story: 5, nothing new here.
Art: 1, looks like an 80s cartoon
Sound: 5, it's there but you don't notice
Character: 7, great promise with the MC and her friends, but they blew it with no development 5 episodes in
Enjoyment: 5, dark magical girl anime can be fun to watch, especially ones where they use their magical powers to cut through scores of terrorists who gush blood like geysers. Somehow they've managed to make it NOT fun to watch.
Overall: 5, there's so much potential here wasted on a lazy creative staff.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Feb 15, 2019
You're here because of the "tail meme."
Shut up, you are.
What is this anime about?
So there's a princess, Anne/Anna (her name doesn't matter). She goes to a quirky magic school (shut up) despite having enough magic power to already nuke a continent. Why? Because she wants to bang a ridiculously hot Dragonoid girl, Grea.
That's it.
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What, you were expecting insight into the Rage of Bahamut universe?
No, this is HDGDMT--hot dragon girl doing mundane things with Annie/Anne, whatever, the other chick who really wants to bang her and neither of them mind but this isn't a hentai.
The best part is that the anime doesn't care, they know what you're here for and they know that this will be meme'd like crazy. Gif meme fodder the anime.
Anyway, I guess I have to justify the score
Story: there isn't one.
Art: beautifully animated, like way too good for a TV show, like they made it 15 minutes to save up money. Given the terrible off model shit that's been popping up, this is DVD remake/repair quality stuff. The piano episode knocks it out of the park.
Sound: really amazing score, way too good for the subject matter, like a nice steak at a dirty truck stop
Character: thicc dragon girl Ms. Fanservice who gets a thiccness upgrade.
Enjoyment: if this isn't a guilty pleasure anime, I don't know what is
Overall: you know what you're here for, if you don't like it leave seems to be the overall gist of the creative staff.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jan 3, 2019
Do you want a magical retainer that lets you fulfill your S&M fantasies?
Yeah, me neither.
Anyway so this anime is about a magical retainer developed to train dogs, but if people use it, it allows users to enslave others if they win some kind of game of chance in a "duel."
That's pretty much the premise of what winds up being an anime about the worst people you've ever met doing awful things to each other because I guess that's what people into this kind of crap like to do.
It's mostly what would happen if you could take advantage of someone and how much of a jerk
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you would be given the chance. The cast is bereft of likable characters and watching them take advantage of each other puts a bad tase in my mouth--and the anime goes into pretty sickening detail in case you're interested.
It's easy to get burned out on the sheer off-putting nature of the characters that I stopped watching this about halfway through, hoping that they'd just all kill each other.
Art starts out gorgeous, but quickly goes off model. Voice acting is decent, but it seems even the VAs don't seem too interested in what's going on here.
Overall it's disappointing and keeps getting worse the more you get into it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Dec 31, 2018
Do you think Catholic schoolgirl yuri is dumb and completely unbelievable?
Do you think the premise of a guy convincingly crossdressing as a girl to satisfy some ridiculous pact at an exclusive private academy is dumb and completely unbelievable?
Do you think massive nosebleeds are dumb and completely unbelievable?
That pretty much sums up the series, and its sequel.
Kanako is a lesbian schoolgirl who goes to the same all girls' private school where her parents met (worse than it sounds) to meet her true love and instead of indulging her depraved fantasies is sidelined by hot trap Mariya and her maid, Matsurika. Mariya correctly ascertains that Kanako
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is a threat to the school, herself, and humanity and makes it one of her goals to utterly shut her down before she harms the innocent.
The anime lampoons the Catholic yuri genre (how the writers have no idea what Catholicism is), hot traps (yes there is a pact or something but really Mariya just crossdresses because he and the audience like it), and the entire nosebleed/accidental pervert genre.
Animation, voice acting--especially during the particularly manic scenes, soundtrack, and character design are all top notch. The show tends to get bogged down only when it tries to give us some exposition and background into some of the girls at the academy. The best parts are where Mariya, oddly the straight man here, plays her sadism off of Kanako's idiocy with the help of her stoic maid. The nosebleeds are played straight, with Kanako often at a huge risk of bleeding out, and pretty much every relationship trope is shot down and the show even comments at how stupid each one is.
Also one of the priests is essentially Gintoki with red hair.
If you like Manzai series, Shaft, hot traps, and really really are sick of schoolgirl yuri you're probably really going to enjoy this. It's also aged really well over the years.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Jan 27, 2017
This is an anime set in a parallel universe where demihumans exist and are considered minorities by the state.
It follows a teacher/college student who works at a high school and does his best to get arrested by flirting with underage demon girls... I mean interviewing them to get an insight to their true nature. Clearly law enforcement, teacher conduct codes, and statutory rape have different definitions in that reality.
It's a cringeworthy story as how NOT to behave around those you're tasked to educate and nurture--and also how to get thrown in jail in 99% of the civilized world.
Oh, and apparently Japanese are obsessed with
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Dullahans, this one is nowhere near as fascinating and charming as Celty.
If you want to watch an anime about the awkwardness of coming of age, with the added bonus that your head is not attached to your body and therefore can do creative and perverted things (I shit you not, this is a line from the show), then by all means turn yourself into the nearest authorities.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jan 27, 2017
Ever caught a glimpse of pure genius?
This is it.
Ever watched a giant robot anime and thought to yourself "this is stupid, why doesn't he just shoot him?"
Well, I guess Sunrise got sick of people making fun of their wishy washy whiny preachy robot anime and totally redeemed themselves.
Ange, the titular protagonist, is not a whiny little boy who hates war and cries when she has to pilot her giant robot. She's an unhinged fallen princess who will shoot first and ask questions later. No guns? No problem, she'll use swords, knives, or broken china to get stab-happy without ever getting a good bead on the
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situation, think Archer meets Excel with blind murderous rage thrown in. She's also quick to point out the absurdity of the situation and has enough snark of someone who has landed far beyond the fourth wall. Honestly, listening to her smartass reactions to serious situations and her total disregard for the genre is comedic gold. Her commenting on that this isn't her first time to be publicly executed more or less sums up the character and the tone of the show.
What is it about?
Not-so-magic princesses, Orange is the New Black, parallel worlds, mecha, dragons... and lots of oral sex (lesbian, male on female, female on male... they don't discriminate). There are giant mecha battles set to deafening, cheerful jpop music, stripperific flight suits, increasingly absurd premises, rape... with Ange just shrugging all that shit off and shooting, stabbing, or beating the nearest MFer she thinks is responsible--whether rightfully or not.
There's a sheer brilliance to the absurd violence and plot twists, and there are token red shirt characters you KNOW will die, and their horrid deaths are predictable and almost funny once you get the insane premise of the world this anime lives in.
It's like John Wick, Ange is a destructive force of nature that spends most of her time looking for something to curb stomp--which is whatever you put in front of her. It's a story of revenge where she goes after everyone who wronged her and pays them back in absurdly violent and ludicrous ways. It's an exploitation anime that KNOWS it's an exploitation anime and runs with it like an idiot with scissors. It's a genre defying hot mess of plot holes, stupid plot developments, asinine characterization that is a big fat kancho from Sunrise to its viewers.
The fact that Ange is aware of this, and every snarky comment from her and over the top act of violence only foments this elegant premise. But unlike parody anime, it wants to be taken seriously, and plays it straight.
This level of absurdity is what got me into anime decades ago, and it's great to see it alive and well today.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Jan 27, 2017
This is not an anime about Not Nazis or magical girls.
This is an anime about a salaryman with upper level management written all over him pissing off the ultimate HR manager, a god, and winding up as a Magical Girl fighting alongside Not Nazis as punishment.
If you've worked with asshole managers, supervisors, directors, etc. this will be all too familiar. You get promoted to positions you don't want, or can't handle. You want a transfer, you wind up the LAST place you want to be. There are people working against you because they hate you (in this case it's justified) or just because they're inept.
You've
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worked for or with people like these. This is an anime about being a salaryman, but with a really weird setting. There's also no humor, but Japanese don't seem to laugh at the absurdity of employment like we do with Office Space.
Not really sure where they're going with the premise, since it seems to be "penance and redemption" but the setting is so absurd I'm not sure what kind of penance and redemption you can achieve by fighting alongside Not Nazis.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jan 17, 2017
Gotta wonder what Sunrise has been up to lately. Below is an actual conversation between the writers.
Hey, you know that Gundam show we made about Vampire Gundams and immortals? Let's do something even more stupid!
I'm listening...
So you have these two dudes flying robots.
Same robot?
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No, two robots, but they're going to propose, accept, and couple--because they're best buddies!
Like gay sex?
No, nothing like gay sex. One guy is the feisty one, the other is the brooding silent one. They don't get along at first, like when another cute buddy shows up, their coupling goes down, but when they fight with one another their coupling is super awesome and lasts longer.
...like gay sex.
What is wrong with you?
Can we make one of these... buddies a girl?
Get the hell out of my office you sick pervert! Wait, no, we can make some backstory up about time travel and the girl is interested in one of the buddies, but it's not the same girl. And we can just recycle leftover scripts from Gundam Nacho Supreme Fartkontrol Omega Niner Extreme about how the super cool bad guys are chasing the buddies! You know, like every Gundam show we've done since the 1980s. Don't worry, the audience won't notice.
...I wonder if Production I.G is hiring?
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jan 8, 2017
Do you shout at your vacuum cleaner?
Do you want more stupidity in your life?
Do you have any sanity points left?
Do you think Lovecraft would be better with a lot more Kamen Rider and Space CQC?
Sit your ass down and turn off your brain, just not too much, because you will need it for all the references.
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If you liked Nyaralthotep S1, this is just more of the same absurd jokes and premises. After all, who doesn't want, no NEED, more video game and Cthulhu mythos in their life?
Don't expect any big reveals, revelations, or character progression--everyone's pretty much the same and the stupid adventures are just as stupid.
If I can find any criticism, is that Mahiro (the protagonist/love interest) has given up the straight man act this season, which was one of the funniest parts of S1, but also understandable if you hang out with abominations all day. There are also too many callbacks to S1 so it feels like a rehash of the same premise and story lines.
Also Kuko is less rapey--not sure if that's a bad thing, tho.
I will finish by adding:
Joker!
Cyclone!
Joker?
Cy-clone!
Joooohker!
Cyclone cylone!
Jokeeeeer!
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jan 8, 2017
What's to say?
Aloof schoolgirl gets kidnapped by a bats### crazy magical lesbian girl on a hoverboard who REALLY likes her to explore nightmare parallel universes/dream worlds at great threat to their own safety, sanity, and mental health.
There's imagery of nightmares, ruined childhoods, pet rabbits who go all rage mode, Mad Max, fountain orgies... wait what? Anyway they're to go to these worlds for some reason, collect their crystallized essence, try not to die or irreparably harm the psyche of their friends in the process, and fight the Klan.
Yes, the Klan.
As in Ku Klux, those guys with the hoods who have their own magical guy/girls.
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I wasn't really sure what the Klan was up to lately--seems they've branched out.
This is supposed to somehow make sense but comes across as if Kill la Kill and FLCL had a baby that didn't get enough oxygen. Oh, and you'll be singing the closing theme whether you want to or not, that thing is an ear worm.
Yes, I'm sure there's meaning to all that imagery and the pop culture references can be maddening at times, but honestly they're trying too hard to be everything at once (magical girl deconstruction, concept anime, coming of age, an exploration of the mind/madness) and have managed to out Gainax Gainax in the end.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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