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What do you get when you mix Ado's incredible voice, Megumi Ishitani's flawless directing skills, and the stunning character acting sakuga animation of Masami Mori? You get a Masterpiece like this music video.

Unlike the MVs for the other 6 One Piece: Film Red insert songs, this video presents an entirely unique set of characters and a very original art style, which is used to great advantage by Mori, whose character animation often prioritizes the weight and depth of it's subjects. His highly recognisable style, which is praised highly by many in the sakuga community, is heavily prominent in this video, giving the characters an incredibly ... natural flow and realism to their movements. What's more, Mori's storyboards for this video are incredible, and assist in cinematically presenting a great amount of emotion and beauty in just over 4 minutes.

Megumi Ishitani is best known nowadays for her work, directing One Piece episodes 957, 982 and 1015 (regarded as some of the best episodes in the series). Her incredible directorial abilities are on full display in this video, and many interesting choices are made to give the video a special photographic tone. These decisions, with great credit to Nagisa Nishida, include the unique aspect ratio and color palette. All in all, the visuals of this video are remarkable.

Much can be said about Ado's performance of "Where the Wind Blows," and it's easy to praise the lyrics, pacing, instrumentals, and especially Ado's own phenomenal singing voice. If you haven't watched and listened to this music video and song, do yourself a favor and do it. now. it's available right on youtube, and it's nothing less than a masterpiece.

Finally, Eleceed has it's own MAL page!
When I found the official release on Webtoons in 2020, i'd never even heard of it before - but, being fairly bored, I decided i'd spend the rest of my day reading it. I'm pretty glad to say that i've never regretted my actions.

This story is fairly simple, but engaging - Jiwoo, the wholesome, positive energy is it's protagonist, and we follow his journey into the complex world of superpowered people known as the "Awakened". But he isn't alone; the deuteragonist, Kayden, is known as one of the stronged Awakened ones alive, but unfortunately for him, he is ... forced to place his conscience into the body of a cat, leading him to rely on Jiwoo for help.

Over the story, various kinds of abilities are introduced, and with superpowers comes superhumans, who make up the wide range of characters that make up the story. Each of the main characters are given a great deal of depth and development after their introduction, and the story is constantly introducing interesting new plotlines, characters and obstacles to overcome - many characters are known as "affiliated", being members of larger organisations that help to build the world of Eleceed, both within Korea and internationally.

The Art is amazing - fights are colourful and impactful, and the character designs are unique and consistent - its amazing how chapters are released just 7 days apart. One of my favourite things about the fights has to be the panelling - everything is clear and easy to understand, even during the fastest moments of combat.

Eleceed has an amazing balance of it's various tones - it is often quite lighthearted, with many hilarious moments that have made me laugh out loud, but they never get in the way of more intense or emotional moments. It's always engaging, in many ways.

Eleceed, in short, is a fun, exciting, hilarious, powerful story with great characters, colourful art, an interesting story and, most important, is INCREDIBLY entertaining. I always anticipate the next chapter, its very fun to read. 10/10

Pokémon: Koko (AKA Secrets of the Jungle in the international release) is an amazing movie.

Story: 7/10
The story is pretty good for a Pokémon movie. The story between Koko and Zarude is surprisingly compelling, and gets fairly emotional at it’s climax. Ash took a backseat for the movie as it focuses on it’s Koko, although he also gets several nice moments (whether he’s talking to Koko about parenthood, or having a cool battle with Pikachu). The antagonist was the main downfall of the movie however, and could’ve been explored better - if he had not tried and failed to be a “twist” villain then I feel ... as if he could’ve been a lot more enjoyable. Celebi was useless too, it just kinda appeared at the end. But overall the father-son storyline was really great.

Visuals: 10/10
The visuals were INSANE. Non-stop sakuga, amazing character acting. The background art was great, and I loved the character designs. Both the town and jungle are colourful and lively. The CGI was good, but the robot CGI was “too good” - it was overdetailed, and stood out compared to the characters around it. But overall the visuals were beautiful, and this was easily the best looking Pokémon movie.

Audio 8/10
As usual with Pokémon, the audio is incredible. Each insert song is memorable and atmospheric (I specifically love “Really Mysterious Creatures”) - the soundtrack is great and fit the movie wonderfully. The sound effects are pretty nice too, but nothing outstanding.


Overall, the movie is great and definitely worth the watch. It’s heartwarming, exciting, wholesome and a visual spectacle. While it has a few issues in it’s story, it’s still compelling and tells a nice message. It’s very enjoyable, and lighthearted (while still having several dramatic/sad moments).

8/10