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Feb 15, 2025
The Fable (Anime) add
Mixed Feelings
This anime is an odd one as it is worth a one-time watch for combining multiple different genres, but not exactly because the combination of them is all that great, nor because each one of them is handled all that well individually either.

First, it is a comedy, with most jokes revolving around how the protagonist is unable to adapt to a common everyday life, and some minor ones about his non-sister trolling men. The first type suffers from no other character reacting to the situation in a way that comes off as funny, but rather having some “ah, I see” with a straight face type ...
Feb 15, 2025
Uzumaki (Anime) add
Spoiler
This anime got a lot of shit because of its visuals but honestly, a big part of it feels undeserved. Ok it’s true that there was undeniably a big drop in quality from the first episode to the following ones, and it was made worse because of the anime being in development hell for years and sacrificing even color to supposedly look good, but besides some infamous scenes, the visuals weren’t all that bad. They retained the same grotesque and bizarre look from the source material and nailed a unique aesthetic within the medium. But at the end of the day it’s true that the ...
Oct 19, 2024
Mixed Feelings
FunnyFunny
“As far as I know, there is still more stuff to be adapted, as the novels kept going (and keep going, I think?), but seeing how this entry had a fitting ending with no loose ends, I don’t think that seeing more is really necessary, and I’m not the only one it seems, seeing that nothing else of it was released for five years now.”

This is something that I wrote on my last Monogatari anime review, published on September last year, and then on December I finished and reviewed the manga. Meaning, I called this continuation to existence and every Monogatari fan out there owe ...
Sep 27, 2024
Spoiler
Before I begin, I want to say that I rewatched the first season before starting this one and there were things that I found to be better than I gave the previous entry credit for.

The reasons for A2 are not as mysterious as I said, they are pretty clear.

Also I have noticed in my rewatch that there are details properly anticipated or built upon throughout the whole show, such as the flower, and the final showdown.

The machine life forms resent their creators and that is why they were interested in being closer or more akin to humanity and why they tried to create different forms ...
Sep 27, 2024
Mixed Feelings
I initially started this anime because part of its premise reminded me of Hourou Musuko, a 2011 coming of age and romance anime about two transgender protagonists. But as it turns out the main character in here later on does not see themselves as either a boy or a girl, so I guess we’re talking about a non-gender conforming non-binary protagonist here instead.

I mean this anime still shares some things with that one, such as the main character dressing with feminine clothes half the time and being initially rejected by most people around, and having a supportive parent while the other does not accept them, ...
Sep 21, 2024
Last year, there was an alternative history royal palace political drama, which took me by surprise with its characters and world building.

No it wasn’t Kusuriya no Hitorigoto, which I dropped because it seemed too semi-episodic and lighthearted to match my expectations of it, nor was Koukyuu no Karasu either, as I did not watch that one yet, and it is usually referred as the worse Kusuriya, imagine that.

It was Oooku, which although it had a not very good first episode, and relied more on its setting, plot elements and characters than an actually good story, it was overall pretty good.

This year I heard about this ...
Sep 19, 2024
Disclaimer: This might contain some spoilers

Dededede is a stand out title as far as anime goes, as there aren’t that many about alien invasions and the ones you can find are nothing like it. The closest thing to it that I can think of is Figure 17, as it also combines slice of life with sci-fi, and yet it’s very different to this series.

Of course, if you step out of the medium, the show is no longer original really, Arrival, Contact, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien Nation, District 9, and more, are there to be compared to it, but for an anime, ...
Jul 8, 2024
Mixed Feelings
Human Bug Daigaku is a pretty unconventional series and destined to be a niche title, I think that, in order to enjoy it, you have to fit into one of these categories:

#1 and most important-You don’t mind watching something with straight up awful animation.

From what I understand, this show adapts a webmanga, but not like a webtoon manga, an actual manga that is published on a YouTube channel, and the adaptation tried mimicking the style. If you thought that the recent slideshow adaptations of stuff like the Yakuza Husband comedy was bad, wait till you see this. Credits where it’s due, the studio nailed the ...
Jul 7, 2024
Spoiler
Disclaimer: This review discusses the flaws within the biggest plot twists of the series, so yeah it has spoilers in it.

Since Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers is universally considered to be crap, I would instead like to start with its aspects that I half liked or appreciated:

1-The visuals. Although not great in any particular aspect, it was such a joy to watch an anime closer to twenty years ago in its looks. Darker colours, actual changes in lighting and shading according to the scenes, unlike the vast majority of anime nowadays that are bright all the time. Motions and the rest of the special effects ...
Jul 6, 2024
Mixed Feelings
Henjin no Salad Bowl is simply and essentially Hinamatsuri at home.

This time the premise is not about esper girls but rather an actual fantasy reverse isekai where they fall on our world, and one of them over the male protagonist. Despite the characters using magic, at least the powers have some level of limits and follow some kind of scientific logic, that might be complete bs but it is nice that the author tried to give it a reasoning and keep some sense of groundness regarding the abilities.

From there, the main girl follows the same path as Hina from Hinamatsuri, as she adjusts to the ...


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