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Jun 1, 2016
*****SPOILER WARNING*****
Having heard a lot of good things concerning Magi, I started watching it with a lot of enthusiasm, thinking it'd be another masterpiece, but I was disappointed to find that I'd been wrong.
Despite strong characters, strong backstories, eye-catching art and a good IDEA for a scenario, I found Magi to be severely disappointing. Though the general idea behind the scenario has potential, that potential is unfortunately very poorly exploited. The first four, maybe five episodes are interesting. In a way. But then the second main character, Alibaba, suddenly has a turn in ideas, decides to tag along with the very guy who killed his
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father and made him believe he was his friend just to get information out of me. He loses self confidence, lets himself be led along by half the town without resisting, becomes scared of everything... WHAT THE HELL?? Very little explanation for his motives are actually given. Perhaps the explanations for this are given later, but after holding on to the anime for the last three episodes with boredom on my face, I'm afraid I won't be finding out.
I also tend to find the soundtrack inadequate, both in nature and in pacing. Seriously, why use classical music? I get the point of having Arabic music because it fits with the setting, but why CLASSICAL of all genres?? It completely breaks the pacing of the scenes it accompanies.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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May 26, 2016
In my opinion a completely underrated anime. Though the written resumé really didn't particularly catch my attention, I caught on as soon as I started watching it. I completely recommend Noragami!
Characters: 10/10
The characters are really well designed and all of them have complete backstories that are important to the plot of the anime, which is great.
Soundtrack: 9/10
The soundtrack is amazing, the start generic my new second favourite after Guren no Yumiya (Shingeki no Kyojin), and punctuated by some kind of Japanese Raeggae-style music that sounds amazingly well with the action scenes.
Story: 9/10
Great plot ideas and scenario development, though I really wish we'd gotten a bit
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more of an insight into Bishamon and Yato's story.
Art: 10/10
Amazing graphics, diverse and appropriate at all times. The demons' eyes were especially fitting to create a anxious-feeling in the viewer.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Jan 7, 2015
So ever since I started watching Naruto - I've read the manga, and only recently decided to give the anime a go - I've been, for some reason, unconsciously comparing it to Shingeki no Kyojin - my all-time favourite manga.
After the first episode of Naruto, I gave the show an 8. It was good. I'll give you that. The majority of anime don't get any more than a 6 from me usually. Shingeki no Kyojin, after the first episode, also got an eight. But I only changed that 8 to a 9 after the tenth Naruto episode, while Shingeki no Kyojin's eight turned into an
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immediate 10 after the second episode. Now, why is that? I'll try and explain.
Firstly: sfx and music. The atmosphere set up in Shingeki no Kyojin by the music accompaniments is absolutely flawless. In Naruto, I find that those things aren't as good. Some of the sfx and music are cliché. A lot of the 'touching' moments are filmed in such a terrible way that I couldn't decide if the show-makers intended us to understand it an a parodied way or a serious way. Maybe that's just me. But oh well, we all have our personal opinions.
Secondly: characters. This may be because I've read the manga previously, but I feel that the characters in Naruto, from the very first episodes of the manga, are very predictable, excepting a few choice moments. In SNK, there is no such thing. Every new development is a surprise. Every twist, every turn of the wrist and every trip decision comes as a complete shock.
Thirdly: direction of plot. One of the first things we hear Naruto say is that he wants to become the next Hokage. Since the show is named after him, we can safely assume, even from the first episode, that he will surmount all the coming obstacles and ascend to the position of Godaime no matter what obstacles lie in his path. I like the show, I really do. BUT THAT'S BORING. I don't like 'predictable' things - one of the reasons I prefer Shingeki no Kyojin. With SNK's plot, and with its developments, we have no idea whether or not killing the titans will ever be achieved. The main character's - Eren's - goal is to discover the outside world, and to do that he has to destroy the titans. He has no choice in the matter. It's that or getting killed. But with the number of deaths within the main characters and supporting characters, we could just as well safely assume that he'll get killed himself before he can even find out what the heck it was that his father left in his basement. Hell, even as I speak, Eren is being held captive in some rich guy's basement and about to be eaten by one of his best friends. And there seems to be no possible way out of it. A lot of the fans agree that it's possible he - the main character - will die. Naruto dying? Not possible. Never even considered. There can be no NARUTO without Naruto.
Fourthly: this last one is personal taste, but I tend to prefer really serious mangas/animes with very few comic relief (Sacha and Connie are two of the only comic relief characters in SNK, while ALL of Naruto's characters provide comic relief), heavy plot, manipulations, intrigues, and whatnot. I find that Naruto (the show, not the character, because Naruto Uzumaki is one of the characters I relate to the most in any anime) has TOO much comic relief, and takes TONNES away from the beauty and intensity that could be the show.
There's more, but I can't think how to put it into words. I tried my best not to give any SNK spoilers. No names.
Hope this is helpful to anyone who's been thinking the same thing or was looking for a comparison of the two. If you want to contact me to talk about this, or for any other reason, actually, then do! I'd be glad to meet someone new.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Oct 26, 2014
Okay. I don't know where to start.
Shingeki no Kyojin has got to be one of the most influential, profound, breathtaking study of humanity to be found yet.
What would happen if a group of people were locked up in a restrained place and were forced to face an enemy that was immortal, ten times as big as them, and, worse even, who LOOKED like them? What would happen then, if, after over a century of oppression and constant terror, humanity was given a hope, a single, final hope, in the form of that very mortal enemy?
How do humans react when given a hope that they can't
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believe in? How do mothers react when their children's only possibility for pride, and close to the only future they have, is to go off and die for a cause which is believed to have long been lost? How do children react when their families have been taken from them, and when they do not have in their hands the instruments of revenge...?
Humanity is helpless. Danger did not make it come together; it divided it. Humans cannot win without deaths, and humans cannot win if they remain human - in every sense of the term. What has their world come to?
I have no idea what possessed me to watch this anime. But I do know what kept me coming for more - though I'm not entirely sure if I can put it into words.
Shingeki no Kyojin is not just an anime about the woes and hoes of humanity. It is a metaphorical study of the caged beast. A study, in which humanity has become the beast, and the beast has become the captor.
Story: ∝/10. Everything has been said.
Art: ∝/10. The graphics had me breathless. The fluidity and impressions given by the 3D Manoeuver Gear in particular are absolutely mesmerizing. I felt like I was flying, and it had me dreaming in wonder. Extensive and diverse character designs, coupled with breathtaking landscapes.
Sound: ∝/10. Guren no Yumiya has got to be one of the best anime openings seen to this day. The sound effects in the anime were also halting, and the voice actors are exceptionally good.
Character: ∝/10. Isayama Hajime did an outstanding job in creating his characters. Standing out are Eren Jaeger, the protagonist; Mikasa Ackerman, the genius sidekick; and Levi Ackerman, the savior of humanity.
Enjoyment: Infinity doesn't begin to cover it. To me, it was life-changing. I could not get enough.
Overal: Since 10 here is the maximum rating allowed, I'll settle for that; but it does not do justice to the awesomeness that is Shingeki no Kyojin.
I wish I could write more, but every time I talk about Shingeki no Kyojin I get totally overwhelmed.
A masterpiece of the kind, and of all kinds to come.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Oct 23, 2014
I'm not going to give this a 10, because for god's sake, this is not an oscar-worthy animation. It's hot. Plenty hot. I enjoyed myself immensely, if you know what I mean. But rating this honestly, the 4 OVAs have nothing more for them than hot yaoi. There's no story - honestly, Pico meets a man, they fuck; Pico meets another boy, they fuck and their sister masturbates watching them; Pico and his new friend come along another new friend who turns out to be a boy, and they fuck, too. Nothing spectacular about that.
I love yaoi, I am a hardcore fujoshi, and that is
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pretty much the only reason I watched this. I'm giving it a 6 because, considering how many times I rewatched it, and how much, hum, satisfaction it brought me, it would feel like hypocrisy if I gave it anything less. But as far as I'm concerned, it would just as well feel like hypocrisy if I gave it anything more, simply because this is not an anime deserving of anything more than a 6.
Yes, Coco, Pico and Chico are very sexy. They make very arousing sounds. And they have a hell of a lot of stamina. But that is it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Oct 23, 2014
Princess Mononoke was the second Ghibli Studio I ever saw, and to this day remains one of my most favourite works of all times and styles.
A cross-story of love and hate, nature and humanity cohabiting or failing to do so. The story of the wolves and the spirits of the forest is halting; their determination to fight, each of their respective personalities and their respective decisions as to HOW they will fight, were halting. The Mother Wolf fighting to protect her young ones, her forest, her home, despising the humans and then finally handing her only daughter over to one of them, handing her home
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and thousands of lives over into the hands of one boy...
And a human's struggle, far away from home, with the thing that consumes him, while never fully designating the thing consuming him as 'bad' or 'evil', because he wants, desperately, to understand the suffering that his world is going through. His compassion, his insight, his aspirations, his views on justice...
Flawless pacing, haunting sound effects and music choices, perfect character development, outstanding art...
A spiritual journey, a beautiful trail to follow. In my mind, a work of perfection.
An overall 10/10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Oct 23, 2014
A beautiful story of love, loss and survival, and of the way people change when they are the most in need.
Hotaru no Haka has a slow start, a perfect, peaceful pace contrasting with the violence and cruelty of its events. A broken family, a brother and a sister with nothing left but themselves and their own dwindling hope... Heartbreaking, enlightening, beautiful, halting.
Yet another masterpiece of the Ghibli Studios.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Oct 22, 2014
I'd received pretty good feedback about Tokyo Ghoul these past few months, but honestly the first ten episodes had me more than skeptical about the entire thing. The finale of the last episode is amazing; Ghoul Kaneki is really charismatic. The whole background thing and the scenes between Rize and Kaneki took too much of the episode in my opinion; the time they took up could have been used to show some of what happens later between Hide and Kaneki.
The opening song and final generics were pretty damn cool.
Final rating: 7/10. Disappointing for most of the series, but the last two/three episodes and the Finale
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make up for that a little.
Original rating (after seeing Episode 1): 5/10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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