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This show is built around the idea that you like Japanese Riichi Mahjong, and that you like the main character Akagi. If you can accomplish both of those this show is actually pretty enjoyable. Akagi is badass in a way that isn't overly smug and hate-worthy, he just sort of takes set backs in stride and adapts, then mind blasts the opponent on the way out, with or without his winnings. It's super character driven and assuming again, that you like these characters, you can get sucked into the matches and the villains and whatever is on screen.

The show loses me here as far as ... recommending it, because its not finished, the story I mean. Not even the final match is finished, which by the way I could not be asked to find in the manga to get my final read on the match because without seeing it properly displayed in front of me in over it. The manga takes it time, ending 8 years after the show, so like... the latter half of the show isn't really worth watching if you want a proper ending. HOWEVER if you're like me you can get past that fact and enjoy the parts that you can actually take in wholesale, and the other antagonists are enjoyable enough to watch lose, and even Washizu is fun enough.

Also I play a lot of Mahjong and I can tell you it barely helps understanding what is going on. All it really does it let you in on the real game state but the narrator and characters do enough exposition on this to get the gist anyhow so its a moot point. It's a positive to like/know the game because at least then you'd have some idea of what's up at any given time.

Final verdict, watch it if you like a character who does weird wacky, morally grey things in the name of some weird self built in ethos/life philosophy while simultaneously continuing to win despite cartoonish odds. You have to like Akagi to like his show, but to the extreme.

I don't think its much of stretch to say that this season is long anticipated, though probably not for the reasons most would expect for a show like this. Studios go through adversity and challenges but to say that Kyoto Animation went through "setbacks" is like saying the Hindenburg was a setback for Zeplin technology. This show is a blessing truly, and this final part is one of the most solid landings I've ever seen a show make.

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The best part is as always the inter-character dynamics, seeing new roles for old standards, watching as new characters cause friction with old ones, going on ... is pedantic. Everyone is here, helping Kumiko on the final crusade to get Gold at national's and then never touch music ever again, talent be damned. The Exec's notebook was a really cute way of metering out criticism about the band from the protag/narrator perspective and throwing Shuichi into the show without having to give anyone else on the trombones any real screen time lmao. Reina gets to be herself without having to also be on screen doing any thing other than glazing Taki-sensei, and thats fine really because if she isn't doing kind-of-gay-things with kumiko or yapping about Taki then she isn't really on screen anyways. Speaking of Reina and Kumiko have the most tension for 2 people who really have no reason to be so inept at dealing with eachother, short of being a couple this is about as close as we are gonna get minus the two Senpai's from last season showing up and being cute at one another as well. Maybe its just the romance lover in me but I wanted there to be more I dunno. Have fun with your sapphic ambiguity Kyoto animation, and I don't mean Midori x Motomu.

I dunno about everyone else but I really enjoyed the hard reality challenge that everyone had to go through with Mayu and her arc. There was always good spice when it came to the super angry kiddos and Kanade isn't on any other timing than demon timing as per usual, minus her getting benched for Mayu. I'd be hard lying to you if I didn't want the same thing as Kumiko but hard respect to the sticking with your principles even though you had every chance to just have the part and no one would've blinked. But hey you won! GG anyways eh?

Point being while there's not as much up close fingers on instruments this season, you do get every piece of character drama you could want out of a show about growing up, chosing what to do with your life, and finally getting the monkey off Kitauji's collective back.

Watching the trailer of this when it was revealed my friends and I wanted to love this show from the beginning. There's these honestly hilarious bad horror movie like scenes they jumble together to try and make it look like a real spooky time but you can TELL they were just goofing around when they made this show. Something about how well they nailed the lovecraftian writing style of hard racism mixed with "and then the ancient evil did THIS THING NO ONE EXPECTED CAUSE IT WAS ALL AN ASS PULL."

It hits, it does. It really does. If you watch this not taking it ... seriously at all you'll be happy I think. Its actually a great comedy if you watch it that way.

Vitriol for the show and H.P. himself aside this show is disappointing if you actually wanted like horror or something. It starts off spooky, and by the end you'll feel like you tripped and fell, and woke up at the end of another horror movie in the same series but written by second guy cause the first one spontaneously turned into a pitcher of Jonestown koolaid, which everyone involved agreed to drink at the end of the shows production so that no one could ever ask these monsters the most crucial question of all: Why?

Vitriol actually aside it is disappointing because they don't pace it into itself well at all. The ending comes and the child is god. That is really it. She played actual dollhouse with everyone who lived at the housing complex until the white family moved in and invited foreigners to live at the place while they worked or something. I don't know how this loop system works as its mysterious and unknown but that works to horror IRL not horror in a narrative perspective. Not knowing how a fake thing works doesn't make it scary, it just makes it bullshit and confusing if you're being nice and malicious and ambiguous at worst. I may have missed something but I'll be damned if the show doesn't heavily imply that the god child has lived through the deaths of these people multiple times and that this "loop" is somehow different and the white family ruined everything by being murderers. So like fair sure but also huh? Not to mention the whole mystery is obscured by long diatribes of people trying to find something scary only to stumble upon another thing that adds to the mystery without being scary at all? Also god child has a brother who turns into moss and thats also apart of it to too guys we PROMISE WE DIDN'T SHOE HORN THAT IN! oh AND her mom lives in a jar cause shes a fetus.

If you feel like this was jarring, congrats, it was, that's what finishing the show was like.

I picked up this series on the day the manga got uploaded on some manga site forever ago. I followed it for a while and forgot it existed cause it didn't have a way of tracking titles at the time and was pleasantly surprised to have it pop up on anichart when I was looking at what was coming up. I remembered it being good and liking the mechanics of the show a lot, and when I first started it I was hooked again.

I really want to say it stayed good because for a while it DID. But then it didn't honestly. The wrap ... up felt weird.While watching, my friends and I were constantly just kind of blah on character deaths due to the simple fact that they've all probably died 3-4 times and honestly its like... okay? They go back and everyone is okay. Even in the end everything gets reset and Shinpei and Ushio get together which is a nice treat for them but I'm a cynical person deep deep down and I feel like I wanted more out of the ending than I got.

Rewinding slightly my main issue is that the show feels much less like a horror/paranormal/thriller in the middle/end than it does at the beginning which is what really pulled me in. I felt like I stepped into the latter half of a resident evil playthrough where I'm killing all the big baddies one after the other and you get the satisfying payoff of getting payback on the spooky beasty, without the actual getting scared by the spooky beasty too much honestly. Maybe the stakes didn't feel real enough to me, main character luck could have given Shinpei too much leeway when it comes to timeline placements. I dunno I just like it when death sticks and means something in my horror, I understand it though and did finish it so I do have to give it credit for being genuinely watchable, but for me ultimately really disappointing.

This show is awful, but in the best way possible.

Watching this show with friends and memeing/shitposting about it was one of the single greatest experiences I personally have ever had. If I could get the same enjoyment out of it again I would re-watch it but sadly its a bright flame that dies fast. Overall its a bad bad show with dumb characters bordering on genuinely mentally disabled at worst, and criminally oblivious about social and human norms at best.

The "love" dynamics in this show make some hentai plots seem reasonable. Under no reasonable circumstances should any of these women put up with ... the main character's shit like they do, yet for some unspeakable eldritch set of circumstances he finds himself the love interest of a small harem of women who are otherwise successful and normal except for that they find themselves absolutely enraptured by a walking breathing case of autism. Unlike other shows where women just can't say no, the main character finds himself incapable of telling any mildly attractive woman "no sorry im taken and cannot date you". Even if he somehow finds a way to do so, he'll still somehow trip dick first into her cavernous open and waiting vagina "accidentally" and have to add her to the harem of women who could have any other more successful and sane man.

The story is just dogwater, there isn't really one aside from "here is girl, she likes main guy, but he shouldn't date her." and then quickly following a set of wacky shenanigans and wasted time, it ends with "I love you too and we will all date happily in my big brother-esque home of mentally ill people."

Animation is like an easter egg hunt of find the frame. My friends and I found ourselves pausing and dissecting frames and scenes for character faces and models as well as backgrounds and other shit that we could find just because it was so prevalent. A lot of things about this shows art and animation are so bad, I was just waiting for the show to tell me "here is what we spent our budget on" but its like they embezzled the rest of the cash and payed for the show with $5 and a mysterious box that when opened just has some lint and dust in it.

Overall I'd say just skip it, but if you have the ability to appreciate hot garbage and laugh at it then its a good time for the whole weeb friend group to watch.

It's a show about some magic and some bullshit with an episode 1 "twist" at the end that kinda tells you all you really need to know about the show and its plot. I'd like to say I wanna finish it but I really don't as the show plays all its cards early, like someone who thinks they're good at uno but drops every wildcard and +2/+4 they have as soon as they draw them. The twists are foreshadowed with the subtlety of a brick through your kitchen window.

As far as Isekai shows go, its not the worst thing ever and its at least ... got interesting ideas and premises unlike most of the generic garbage that the genre has to offer, but it treads similar paths, almost like instead of walking directly in the footprints of its forefathers it rides a sick 8 speed bike with flames painted on the side through the already blazed trails, while other good shows drive by in their dodge chargers. It's just not dark enough to satisfy and not nearly as cool as it thinks it is.

This show as of episode 4 has become my stupid show of the season. Every season has that one show that is so dumb that I enjoy it and watch it every week regardless of whatever happens in the episode because it makes me giggle a little and could make a great drinking game if you tried hard enough.

The main character is kind of brain-dead and doesn't seem to really be too concerned with all the nearly autistic things going on around him, while his little sister who is our main female lead just kind of likes to exist?

Shes cute, and that's about all ... you can give her as a character; She does provide a great comedic relief every now and again though so I can get behind it.

If the shows story was better this show would be a genuinely good show but so far it wants to be oreimo mixed with bakuman and can't decide which one it wants to follow further.

Edit: Years later I look back on this anime and remember just how I was so starved for content that I gave this show the time of day. It's not really all that bad, but it sure as hell isn't good in any way. There isn't like some objective thing to latch onto with it, its just some actual beta male roping a bunch of authors into liking him, but they're all the highest level of degenerate. If you want dumb shit to watch then sure, but I'd say go for something else really.