Mar 8, 2023
Ooyukiumi no Kaina
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This is the most underrated show of the season. The world in which the story takes place is a world covered in a "snow sea" which true to the name looks like snow at the surface and behaves much like an ocean. The giant spire trees cover the world with a transparent canopy and provide societies with water, but for some reason they're drying up and those on the surface are warring against eachother over the scarce resource that water has become. The main character, Kaina, lives in a tiny village isolated from the rest of the world at the top of one of the
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Apr 17, 2021
Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi
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This is a show that touches on several controversial issues, including rape, polyamory, and torture. Most people who love it seem to love it because of the controversy while those who hate it seem to hate it because of the explicitness or dark themes. If you get over both, you're left with a story about a slave who broke free from his captors, obtained extraordinary powers, and uses those powers to exact his revenge and enjoy life's pleasures. The main character Keyaru is intentionally portrayed neither as a good guy nor a bad guy. He's just a person with a goal, and he's willing to
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Mar 25, 2021
There's a reason that the world exists in its current state, a reason that each character acts the way they do, and a reason for the protagonist's problems, and knowing that reason can provide the solutions to the problems which are presented both to the characters and to the viewer. This idea summarizes season 2 of Re:Zero very well.
The first season of Re:Zero introduced many of the themes which are important to the second season. However, it fell into the same pitfall as Evangelion, where traumatic events are actually traumatic and lead to unhappy characters that make the show frustrating to watch. Psychologically accurate, but ... 
Jun 20, 2019
Sakamoto desu ga?
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How much charisma can fit in one body? This is the question "Sakamoto Desu ga?" seeks to answer. It's very obviously not written with the intent of being a cohesive story, creating an interesting fictional world, or following the story of characters as they evolve through their adventures. This show is all about making jokes with Sakamoto's impossibly perfect charisma as the punchline. It does this single thing very well and I enjoyed every episode. However, as with all running jokes, it does get old after a while. One season is plenty of time for that to happen. By episode 8 or so I knew
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Apr 6, 2019
3D Kanojo: Real Girl
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I didn't realize I was watching a shoujo anime when I started watching this. "3D Kanojo" makes it sound like it was written by some socially inept otaku guy who can't get a date. It wound up following the same path as other shoujo anime in that the relationship advances fairly quickly and the majority of the show is about love problems. However, it didn't follow through like other shows. The relationship starts up and moves forward, but it basically plateaus for the rest of the show without any major developments. The interpersonal relationships are relatively simple and the problems encountered by the characters are
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Mar 10, 2019
Incest stuff can be interesting. This one is not. The characters aren't believable in the slightest. There's no storyline to speak of. The art is sub-par. This anime has only 2 selling points: it's occasionally funny and there's a lot of fanservice. So, for each thing it didn't completely fail at, I gave it a point (pretty generous really). That said, I did watch the whole thing, so it's not so bad that I had to drop it immediately. If you're looking for something mindless to stare at, it works well enough.
More specifically on the characters, the main character is portrayed as an irredeemable perv ... 
Dec 8, 2018
Kishuku Gakkou no Juliet
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Since this show is still airing, I can't speak to it in its entirety, but I did watch 6 episodes, and that was enough for me. This show has good artwork and some hilarious one-liners. Beyond that, there's not much to be found here. The characters as just cookie-cutter stereotypes with no real motivations or thought processes. The setting is a school which is divided in two based on which main character each person is affiliated with. The plot is just a bunch of random events, such as a sports festival, where the characters are somehow thrown into conflict, where they obediently stay, using whatever
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Oct 2, 2018
Overlord III
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What started as a typical gamer isekai story has become one of the greatest shows I've ever seen. Even in season one, this show impressed me by how it implemented an internally consistent magic system, where there's none of the "I surpassed my maximum power" nonsense. The strategies used in battle and the negotiation tactics implemented create very realistic situations which are difficult to produce in fiction. With much of the story focusing on side characters who lived in the world before Ains Ooal Gown appeared, it crafts an image of what the world is like before, during, and after its encounters with Ains Ooal
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Jan 27, 2016
Bokura wa Minna Kawai-sou
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I'm not very good at writing reviews, but I figured this anime deserved some acknowledgement. Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou was a serious breath of fresh air in the world of anime. There are so many anime that rely on eroticism, cookie-cutter characters, relationship problems, etc., but this one didn't follow any of those expected trends. Every episode of this show is light-hearted and leaves you satisfied, making you want to savor it more than simply get to the next plot point. All of the characters have their own unique driving attributes, giving the show more depth and intrigue. With most anime of this length, the
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Nov 13, 2013
Date A Live
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I kept seeing posts of Date A Live and I thought the artwork and costume design was fantastic, so I decided to watch it. After a couple of episodes, I realized that unfortunately, the artwork was about the only thing going for the show. So, with that in mind, I watched the rest and got about what I expected. While the storyline had its moments that were humorous and enjoyable, overall, it was just disappointing. If you enjoy a good fight scene with special powers, this show has a few of those, but for the people who want a good, thick plot (not the kind
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