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I can't believe that the show can be ruined in three episodes... Well, let's get to the point and I'll try to briefly describe what the problem is in this anime.

Tensei Oujo to Tensai Reijou no Mahou Kakumei should be divided into two parts. The first are episodes 1 to 9, where everything is done incredibly well. The characters can be funny as well as serious, they have their own soul depth. The world of the story is engaging, and there are interesting actions in the background. The main characters are girls, and over time their deep female friendship seems to be sweet, but at ... the same time subtle for the viewer. Most importantly, we are not encouraged by any harem, ecchi or other extreme scenes. We only experience jokes about general relationships. Particularly there are no exposed erotic body parts and even when the scene takes place while someone is naked, they are always carefully covered. Thanks to this, the viewer focuses on the story, not on stupid fanservice, which is not present here. We have fights with opponents and the study of science-magic, which the viewer perceives as the main element and goal of the plot. In other words, everything is well presented and arranged. OP&ED, background music, animations are all at a very, very stable and high level. At some point you may admire this series and feel like its around 9.5/10, but...

The last three episodes came, those numbered 10-12. The previous plot with the princess's younger brother is already completely closed and it seems that in the story the consequences of the events will be obvious for the royal succession. But this is not the case and suddenly our characters change 180 degrees, and we get virtuous scenes with "Slice of Life" type rosters. If that wasn't enough, there is an aggressive lesbian theme without any subtlety, where at the end the sexualization of it is emphasized several times, especially love kisses are shown. So the belief about "beautiful female friendship" suddenly turns into "lesbian love". Apart from this and most importantly, our main character Anisphia goes backwards in the progress in favor of Euphyllia, which makes us feel a huge disappointment as a viewer. Especially since Euphyllia is not as charismatic a character as Anisphia. But in these last three episodes, the viewer suddenly notices that, the following plot is completely hopeless, full of inconsistencies, feel irritating:
- Euphyllia ascends the throne instead of Anisphia, because the nobility did not want to recognize her due to her lack of magic. So why do they accept their lesbian relationship if they are so conservative?
- After the Algard coup, this "evil part" of the nobility should has been exterminated, so why do these nobles appear again?
- Why do the King and Queen suddenly become like NPCs and can't do anything or help their daughter?
- However, if Anisphia was to become queen, it is logical that she should have more opportunities to develop her science-magic (the opposing nobles were already dead). After all, when she was young, she didn't give up the crown because of her studies, but for the sake of her younger brother. And previous episodes was emphasized how suitable she is for this role and that "people in the royal court are gossiping that Anisphia is the best choice." So why she give it up now? Probably only because the authors came up with this idea to justify Euphyllia moves.
- And the last question is, why they didn't just eliminate another the nobility, who tormented Anisphia and wanted to involve her in a new royal engagement. After all, they didn't even have that legal force. Just no sense was there. When some of them were killed earlier, others sit like kings and give orders for the royal family? What a absurd.
In addition to all this, episode 12 is full of spoilers and hastily ends the entire series. In just a few scenes they build flying vehicles... Okay, let's think it was goal but suddenly they created flying dance dresses!? That's ridiculous. I could give this episodes at best 4/10.

From last seasons anime series I watched, Tensei Oujo to Tensai Reijou no Mahou Kakumei was incredibly disappointed. This is because it went from a GREAT and enjoyable tittle, to a SO BAD at the end. And as I tried to explain, this anime was really GOOD in every aspect most of time, but the last three episodes ruined the charm of the characters and this world. If you don't want to be disappointed and you expect a consistent 12-episode series, I don't recommend to watch it. But if you really want because you just like every Japanese animations, go ahead. Remember only that you'll probably have fun most of the time, but the end will be extremely bitter.

To appreciate nine episodes, I give it only or even (up to your opinion) 8.0/10 and I will pretend that I haven't seen the rest, otherwise I would have to lower the score by a few points.

I won't take your time too long, so... Boukensha ni Naritai to Miyako ni Deteitta Musume ga S-Rank ni Natteta is a story about the importance of family. In contrast to the current extreme feminist offensive in real life, the authors of this story show how important the father's role is in parenting and in his attitude towards children, especially daughters. This not only provides support and shapes morality, but also prevents the emergence of pathologies. This anime beautifully made me believe that there are still normal people in this world and they remember about life facts.

Moreover, the whole storyline is told in a very ... pleasant way. The portrayal of the characters is interesting and each subsequent episode of this anime is a great pleasure to watch. After each plot, there remains a delicate note of curiosity about what is hidden behind the characters, so I count it as a pros as a plot depth.

The sound and animation art have their own style, but they are neither tragic nor revolutionary. The most important thing is that it constantly maintains one established fine level. Thanks to this, the presented anime creates one coherent image.

To sum up, I recommend this anime. Despite the certain overall simplicity, I give it a high rating of 9/10, because I really have nothing to be angry about and it was just a good relax for me as viewer.

THIS IS WHY VINLAND SAGA SEASON 2 IS AND IS NOT PERFECT:

Both seasons are great, the whole Vinland Saga is a brilliantly executed show, in which things like soundtracks and animation are at the highest technical level, but...

Qualitatively, the storytelling in season two was very good, including showing a broken Thorfinn and his mental recovery. However, the problem begins after 12 episodes, where Thorfinn's idealistically extreme pacifism reaches absurd levels. Then at some point there are simply too many of these "flashbacks thinking" scenes, instead of continuing the action. The worst thing is the behavior of Thorfinn, who has no arguments for his attitude. It's ... something like "I wish the world was beautiful and that's it", but how is it supposed to be achieved, especially in the 11th century? The last episode does not help, because in it, Thorfinn does not accept gold when he sails away with friends and a few moments later, on his home island, he wonders "where he will get the funds for the expedition to Vinland". In addition, the meeting with the family is quite "cold" except warm welcome from his mother, or rather I am convinced that it could be better shown and even make the viewers cry (the same about the second meeting with Leif which reactions was skipped in favor of Arnheid's husband plot- this is my only complaint about the implementation by the producers of the anime). Completely in contrast to the subtle episodes 1-23, episode 24 is too fast, made only to show viewers that "he's back, it's okay guys and that's it".

Many people think it's a problem with the writer's strategy execution of the second season, but the truth is probably different. I looked at the source material, which is the manga, and from what I see, the character of Thorfinn continues to go in this naive direction. Despite the great side characters it's just hard to watch him in this condition. After the first half of the second season I expected from Thorfinn to grow up and act smart in those realities, but not more accepting his total absolute 100% pacifist stance and being proud of it, that he doesn't even want to fight with fists (that's what also Einar notices). The main character in such a role is not very authentic in the world presented by Vinland Saga, which from the beginning was pretended to be "historical epic story of the Vikings", not "the power of friendship in another Isekai title" which would be more understandable with such behavior. I suspect this is what confused many people and ending this season in such a state didn't help.

That's why I think both seasons are masterful, but the second season on a scale of 10 gets one point less because of the plot of the main character. Still, it's a great piece of work and I recommend it to anyone (especially to Netflix producers, who should learn from the creators of Vinland Saga, how to show without propaganda or distortion of the source material about the atrocities of society, such as slavery and inequalities).

In the end, I also guess that your judgment of Thorfinn's character may depend on your personality as a viewer, are you more of a realist or an idealist.

I will not waste your time too long... Well, what can I say, the second movie is another great a sequel to this series.

Score: 9 (It's 8.5 but as otaku I will appreciate it and can give full 9 however I would not be surprised if someone gave one point less or more)

In this movie, everything fits together very well. The characters, the background of the story, especially OST, and other elements make it a beautiful spectacle, where it's impossible to get bored. In other words, most are positive sides so I'll focus on a few negative ones.

Compared to the first movie, I think the ... atmosphere was less interesting. The first movie was a masterpiece and the plot was wonderful. Here most things are more obvious. In addition, the way of defeating the opponents and solution to a disaster on a ship was quite typical for anime, where our girls were a bit too OP (yes I'm talking about a way to defuse the bomb). Also I would complain a bit about the machine-dragon in the theater, because I think that cadres of him was average in my opinion. The animation itself was okay, but somehow he looked too unnatural? On the plus side, compared to the previous movie, we learn more about the world of this story, mainly about the entire royal family and line of succession, which explains a lot and is very interesting.

Overall it's a great show, you can see that the creators put in it a lot of effort. Definitely worth watching.

I will not waste your time and write too long... Well, what can I say, this is a brilliant anime!
While in first season you could have a lot of fun, but there were also disadvantages, here in second season the quality level completely raised in all aspects.

- Great story as a comedy, action and even for crying
- Lovely characters
- Very good storytelling
- Glorious soundtrack
- Epic OP and ED
- Satisfying animation, so pleasant to watch

The second season is a great work, you can see that the creators put in it a lot of effort. I highly recommended Arifureta S2 and would love to watch next sequel!

The third season of Scissor Seven once again raises the level of quality and is really great!
Compared to the first season, it's better in every way. When you watch it, you get the impression of a very well-arranged world and the story behind it. Do you remember Kimetsu no Yaiba? This show from Chinese studio is similar and very enjoyable.

Pros:
- The story plot is excellently arranged. From the beginning to the end you follow it with a pleasure. Side stories end with conclusions, without unnecessarily prolonging the plot.
- Beautiful sceneries, art.
- Developing a MC love story.
- Interesting characters and personalities.

Cons:
- sounds effects in the ... background are improved but still not at the highest level (sometimes sth are missing?)

Personally, I watched previous seasons in Japanese. I believe that for foreign viewers it's the best way to feel original atmosphere. Chinese words are hard to understand in terms of facial expressions. After a few hundred different anime titles, Japanese is as clear as native to me. This season hasn't been dubbed yet (may 2021) so I was forced to use Mandarin. Nevertheless, after a few minutes I got used to it, also thanks to the other positive sides of this anime. I warmly recommend this Cike Wu Liuqi's season.

This episode is really great! Compared to the second season OVA, it's better in every way. No, this is not ordinary ecchi! Honestly, it almost does not contain this kind of things. If you want to see a perfectly balanced comedy then you must watch it.

Pros:
- The story plot is excellently arranged. From the beginning to the end you follow it with a pleasure.
- Brilliant sense of humor, without exaggerating fan-service.
- Enjoyable soundtrack.

Watching this episode, I felt like in childhood when I watched Bugs Bunny. It would even have the potential to be in the form of a movie. I warmly recommend.

This title is placed after the events from the mainline of GGO storyline. Personally, I was hoping to learn something new about this world. Why? Because the first half of SAO II 's episodes were really interesting and I wanted to know more. Sad to say that didn't happened.

I would like to add, that I am a huge fan of most of anime and usually overrated them. Unfortunately to this series, at one point I even felt tired watching this. The first six episodes were pretty good. Another six were avarage. Many of the dialogues were quite funny. But the problem always started when the ... story turned to the character of Pitohui. At moment like that there was a magical distortion of logic and physics, and the narrative of the episodes became chaotic. Really, if I had to point, what downgrades score of this anime, it's mainly character of Pitohui! She is so hopeless, annoying, overpowered for no reason, that she makes to the viewer feel really bad. Behind this character is standing just nonsense. There is a lot to say about other things as well, such as "talking rifle", but it would be a waste of time.

Plus, this ending. When in the real world the main character finally meets the person from Pithui's avatar, we learn nothing. She is presented like, deep talk about her problem of suicide didn't exist in the entire previous 6 episodes at all. I felt like, it was just a PRANK...

Summarizing my short opinion, if you are a fan of SAO then you have to watch it. However, don't expect to learn something new about the universe of this series. These few episodes can be play in the background, when after finished you will say that they were only "fine". To be honest, I had a better time, more laughed and enjoyed with the specials of SAO- Sword Art Offline.