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Mar 20, 2025
Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season
(Anime)
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The quality of the animation, the sound design, the music, the voice acting for both Japanese and English, have all been very good. However, almost halfway through the season and lots of story beats are built up only to immediately go nowhere. To be fair, that was also a bit of a motif in season 1, as MaoMao tried to avoid any political intrigues, but ultimately her relationship (for lack of a better term) with Jinshi was what forced her character to be in those uncomfortable situations and deal with them - that's completely lacking in this season so far. Their relationship development was a
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Feb 14, 2025
Gosick starts off with a mix of high and lower stakes mystery cases that aren't deeply involved with the two main characters in the long run, so there's not much motivation to keep coming back for more. But once the two build a stronger bond, and mysteries turn into conspiracies that can put them both in danger, that's when the anime really hits its stride. And on the point of romance, it very much delivers without feeling tongue in cheek or cliché. The anime does a good job of building them up, making you care about them both as individual characters and when they're together.
The ... 
Feb 14, 2025
Majo to Yajuu
(Manga)
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The start of the manga is really good, both of the protagonists are great and their relationship evolve nicely. The art is impeccable, simply put. However, it's a shame that the mangaka lost the plot, direction, and seemingly didn't know where to go next, much like other reviews have pointed out. It's all true.
At some point, it goes into an arc that indicated that the mangaka wanted to force in a story, setting and characters that didn't really make sense with the trajectory that the main characters were following. The manga tries do some out of pocket worldbuilding, introduces (frankly unlikable) characters out of thin ... |
