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Jan 1, 2025
A journey through MadHouse chapter 8: one of the pillars of shone ai.
The central theme of the film is the passage to maturity through love. The story is not limited to telling a common summer romance, it will use all kinds of love that its duration allows. The sexual awakening of a relationship between an adult woman and a teenager, a homosexual love, unrequited love and even a kind of a rather twisted love triangle. The story is made so that you question each of the characters and their actions. That the axis of the story is romance does not mean that everything you are
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going to see will be pretty as we are used to. Throughout the work you will see all the characters involved do both good and bad actions. In the end what matters most is what each character is going to learn from what they did that summer.
The story touches on many themes, which although they have been explored individually today, I am impressed by how brave the story was in touching on these themes in the 80s. I would like to address a couple of themes here so you know what you can expect.
The first theme would be the unfaithful relationship between an upper class woman and an underage teenager. For the time it may have been a common practice, but beyond the fact that the woman took advantage of the child, the relationship left him with more things beyond a broken heart. How to be loved but most importantly how to love. There are many stories about self-love but the fact that the work talks about how to love someone in a dangerous mental state is a message worth analyzing.
The other theme is the stigmatization of homosexuality in the time in which the film is set. It is not about showing us a romance between two men, it is about showing us the consequences of hiding this orientation so as not to bother society. Speaking from the religious stigma that being homosexual was being possessed by the devil, tells us a lot about the prejudices of society at that time. This homosexual romance does not come with the intention of giving us a happy ending in a time where they could not be. It only comes to show us how much times have changed and that it is now more accepted by the vast majority.
Natsu e no Tobira is a film that must be seen for two reasons: the first being its historical weight as one of the works that paved the way for modern shonen ai. The second for all the richness of the plot that it presents in almost an hour and a half of duration. When you finish watching the film, there will most likely be two or three topics that you will want to discuss with people who have also seen this beautiful film.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jan 1, 2025
A journey through MadHouse chapter 7: a film that without the Madhouse seal I would never have seen.
Without this journey I doubt very much that I would have been encouraged to see things from the 80s and much less children's films from this time. Unico is one of those films that tell you that it is better to talk after having given the film a chance. It is a family film that even leaves a couple of morals along the way. The fact that Unico's power is to grant happiness, already makes it enjoyable for children and adults because of the characters it will explore.
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Happiness is something that can only be granted when it is not available. Seeing the scenarios, reasons or situations that can make a person unhappy helps the little ones to assimilate why someone can be sad, angry or irritated. It is an old film, you do not have to wait for the film to do all the work of teaching the children, that work corresponds to the adult who accompanies it. This movie is designed to be watched as a family, so that when a child has a question, the movie can be paused and the adult in charge can try to explain what just happened on screen.
Unico seems to be an adventure planned to have more than one installment. The fact that Unico's adventures are divided by islands makes the stories more enjoyable by being self-contained. The unicorn arrives on an island, meets an entity with a wish, Unico fulfills it and then the consequences of the wish develop, both good and bad. The main plot is not as good as the secondary ones. The premise tells us that the gods want to get rid of Unico because only they should be able to spread happiness. What this creates is just a justification for the unicorn to be moving from the island every time the gods discover where he is. The most interesting characters are those who ask Unico for a wish. When the wish is fulfilled we see the whole development of it to finally find out if that is what was really needed to be happy. In some cases it may be, but in others there is a chance that this feeling has not been found.
Unico is a family movie and being family friendly does not mean that it is something that you can put on for a child while you do other things. It is a movie that is designed to spark the curiosity of children while adults try to direct their curiosity while explaining what is happening on screen. If you ask me that sounds like a very good family weekend.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Dec 30, 2024
The second season of Ron Kamonohashi leaves me with a bittersweet feeling.
The anime starts off on a high note with a super interesting story and showing us what would apparently be the villains of the season or even of the story in general. The problem comes once the first arc is over, when they don't mention these villains again in many chapters and the plot picks up again in the final stretch. The feeling is like being thrown a bucket of cold water, in the end it's not what one expected from what seemed to be an interesting story from beginning to end. It's not
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that the rest of the stories weren't interesting or entertaining, it's simply that compared to what they gave you at the beginning, none can reach that level. On top of that, the final stretch gives you a rather vulnerable version of the protagonist, so the whole part of the mystery and its resolution feels a bit bland.
The mystery never stops being good, each case is just as good as the last, the antagonists/villains have clear and understandable motivations and the resolution of the cases, in many of them, can surprise you with their creativity. Maybe my preference for more intricate stories simply makes me feel a bit dissatisfied with what I've seen in these 13 chapters. Toto is one of the best characters in this anime, if not the best. The depressed version of Ron doesn't quite convince me. I know it was necessary for his development but not seeing him in his confident version made me lose a lot of hope. It's similar to when they tell you that instead of going to your favorite band's concert, you go see a tribute band in an abandoned warehouse.
My feelings about this work are a bit mixed, I don't know whether to recommend it or not sincerely. On the one hand, I know that if you like mystery and detectives like Sherlock Holmes, you will enjoy this like a kid in an amusement park. But, since I didn't enjoy it the way I initially thought I would, it wouldn't be honest of me to give a recommendation because I don't feel it completely.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Dec 30, 2024
A 2nd season with stumbles but still enjoyable in each episode.
We are not going to lie and we have to talk about the pink elephant in the room. The animation is of low quality, regardless of who is to blame, whether it is 8bit or Bandai Namco, the quality that was given to the work is not what was expected from a franchise that managed to establish itself as one of the best-selling works of its year. As for the art section, I don't think there are any complaints, the designs were improved, the characters gained muscle mass and already had more of a soccer
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player shape. The color palette was used in a very good way and even in this season the colors felt more vivid and matched better with their respective characters. The biggest problem was the animation itself, the movement of the characters and the CGI that was used at times where it looked strange. Many times the playing field seemed to be too big for them, there were many dead spaces or only the same lanes were used or only the game was played within the small areas. Even though this season should have had a bigger budget, there are times when the games look worse than those of the first season. It is clear that moving to a more traditional football and having teams of 11 players takes its toll on them because they did not know how to take advantage of spaces and places with so many elements present on the field.
Having said all the above, now we have to talk about why it is recommended to watch this season. What Blue Lock transmits is impressive. It does not matter if you see four mannequins running at 4 fps, when one of them scores a goal the animation suddenly takes an impressive leap in quality and when you see that ball hit the net, the only thing your body does unconsciously is shout that goal. Nagi's goal is simply beautiful, the whole sequence of him controlling the ball leaves you speechless. Shidou's second goal, that Chilean that fertilizes your brain is beautiful to see. Not to mention that last goal, Isagi's goal that will be immortalized as a spokon's favorite moment for many.
Another positive aspect that must be mentioned is that the studio knew very well how to reflect the festive atmosphere that is lived inside a soccer stadium. From seeing how people arrive, look for their places and wonder who is playing, to seeing how each person lives soccer regardless of gender, age or economic position is a strange way to understand the magic of this sport and why it has so many fans in the world. In that last goal, seeing how it is not the player who shouts it but the entire stadium makes your hair stand on end. There is no way to describe how good the sound aspect was throughout the season. The fact that there was an audience inside a stadium played very much in favor of the story, we could say that it even enriches the experience.
Talking about the last chapter would be unnecessary because we all already know how insanely good it was. That goal by Isagi will be immortalized as a spokon's favorite moment for many and it is perfectly understandable. Only in this section we must not get carried away, one episode does not make a season, so a judgment should not be based on the episode you liked the most but on all of them as a whole.
Without anything else to add, I can only say, Isagi Yoichi, I love you very much.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Dec 30, 2024
It's not an anime with great animation, the story is nothing new and it even comes a little late to take advantage of the popularity of the genre. Despite the above, it's an anime that knows how to take advantage of its greatest strength, making you angry with its characters.
The story knows that it has characters that are hateful and tries to exploit it to the extreme. Whatever the reason, a manic and stalker prince, a saint who has a head more hollow than outer space or a rather naive protagonist that sometimes you don't quite understand her methodology. The story is built so that
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at the end of each chapter you shit on the family tree of the antagonist. It's one of those stories where you get angry with pleasure, where you are satisfied after having taken out the frustration of a whole day. Rekishi ni nokoru doesn't try to be something ambitious or novel. All it wants is for you to have a good time hating something. The advantage is that the hate you direct towards these fictional characters will not hurt anyone, so it is hate friendly for the internet.
Beyond the animation that has nothing to highlight, the biggest negative aspect is the story that tends to stagnate on multiple occasions. There are chapters where you feel a deja vu, as if the event or discussion of the chapter had already been seen in earlier stages of the anime. There are chapters that seem to be more compilations than part of the canon of the story. Between episodes 6 and 9 there is a kind of strange gap where the story does not advance at all and it even seems that some dialogues and scenes are repeated. This part of the anime seems to be a strange kind of endless August, but more overwhelming because there is no kind of loop here.
It is an anime that I recommend if you feel like throwing hate towards something or someone. Its antagonist is hateful to death, you can tell him all your repertoire of insults and still feel that you fell short. Rekishi ni Nokoru is an anime that simply came to vent other people's frustrations.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Dec 30, 2024
A second season that started off generating doubts but ended up consolidating itself as a decent isekai.
The isekai genre has been stagnant for years. Having this type of stories where they try to tell something beyond the harem in a fantasy world with a super powerful protagonist is always well received. This season was focused on a war arc, even though one would think that there would be many battles, it was not like that. It was an arc focused more on politics and the development of the links between a lord and his vassals. Consolidating the protagonist as a political force is the intention
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of this entire second season. Which can be enjoyed as long as you come with the mindset that it is a political story and not a war action story.
The animation was the biggest failure of this season. It started out being almost non-existent. At the beginning they were static images without any kind of background. The backgrounds were totally white or only had minimal designs but the white color predominated. At times the lip syncing didn't work either so you had strange chapters that made you want to give up halfway through. When the war started the animation managed to increase its quality but it was only one or two levels, it wasn't anything to write home about either. It only went from being unbearable to watchable. The animation remained weak especially with the scenes that involved horseback riding.
The final stretch of the season is the best thing about the anime. That a child between 10 and 13 years old has to tell the families of the soldiers that they fell in battle is not an easy thing. What the script does well is not justify the protagonist or at least not make you feel sorry for him. Despite his young age he shows the maturity and empathy necessary to lead his people to a better quality of life. I know there are complaints about this story that the protagonist "does nothing." These complaints are far from reality, since the role of the protagonist is to lead, encourage and motivate his troops. He doesn't have an active role in combat, but that doesn't mean that the role he plays isn't important.
The Isekai genre has done us harm and it is thought that every person who is reincarnated in a fantasy world must have combat skills and be the strongest. If you are willing to see a slightly different story, you may find here an anime entertaining enough to keep you hooked for a couple more seasons.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Dec 27, 2024
My first approach to the universe of Rumiko Takahashi and it was more fun than I thought.
First of all, I have to make it clear that I don't care about the original version, I didn't grow up with it and I don't even plan to watch it. So I won't make any kind of comparison because I don't have the knowledge to do so.
In my mind, Ranma 1/2 was always a romance story. In reality, I found more things beyond a love story. Here I found comedy, fights, figure skating, pandas, pigs and so on. This only tells me how messed up Takahashi's mind can
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be, but even so, it's impressive how coherent a story with so many absurd elements can be. Comedy focuses on being absurd, on not knowing what they're going to hit you with next. A story can start off calm, but as it escalates, you understand less and less but you enjoy it more.
I'm not Mappa's biggest fan, not even close. That being said, I was very pleased to see how the studio put a lot of love into this anime. I was already getting used to Mappa's default animation being the one used in JJK. Seeing a work with different animation, with varied colors and details that even a person who has only seen the anime can appreciate. The fact that they made a different intro for each chapter, that they paid attention to the detail of the fights both in the backgrounds and in the movements and fluidity. Speaking of fluidity, even though there weren't many fights or action scenes, all the movements felt as they should. Ranma's movements felt light and smooth, while other characters like Akane or Ryoga felt heavy and destructive. You can appreciate when they take the time to convey so much in a few scenes. For once, I can recognize that Mappa did something with love. That they may have exploited their workers just the same, but they exploited them with love.
The only problem I can find is that they gave us a shortened ending. It seems that the decision that the season would have 12 episodes was made a day before and they didn't have time to make a better season finale. It leaves you frozen, it's not even an ending that generates hype for a 2nd season. It's an ending that leaves you with a feeling of "So? That's it?", which can be dangerous for a work that has earned you such high expectations for everything it delivers.
It's never too late to enter the universe of Rumiko Takahashi, if you've never seen anything by the author and you're curious, there's no better work to start with than this remake. If you're a fan of the original anime, please be happy, live and let live.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Dec 27, 2024
Season 4 and it feels like the story is just getting started.
I have few memories of the previous seasons, but after watching this season I don't really need them. For the first time in many years it feels like the story is taking some direction and starting to define the foundations of the story. The simple fact of starting to give context to characters, shaping the stories and expanding the lore is more than enough to classify it as one of the best seasons of the franchise. The theme of Shura and the demon, section 13 and the primordial demons was more interesting than all
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the content that the anime had given up to that point.
In terms of story and development, it had a fairly large and evident leap in quality. Speaking of the characters, I have never felt like fighting with half the secondary cast as much as I do now. I don't know who thought it was a good idea to let Yukio play Persona 3. Yukio's character was one of the most insufferable, his descent into madness is unpleasant. His corruption is not natural or logical, he just lives making a drama of how nobody helps him, he has no friends and he is alone but when his friends tell him he is not alone and give him a hand he ignores them. Make up your mind, you are not so endearing as to go around begging. Shiemi on the other hand, I don't know who decided this, but between the romance subplot and her vocational orientation the only thing it causes is sleep. While on one side they investigate the dirty laundry of the Vatican, Shiemi is just trying to decide if she wants to be an exorcist or run the family store. There is no clear balance between the stories, which causes you to hate the irrelevant characters more along with their unnecessary plots.
The previous paragraph was just a vent, it is not a negative aspect of the story, it is just a personal grudge. As a negative aspect I would only stick with the issue of the balance of the stories. There is no congruence between what is told in one chapter and what is shown in another. In the end you end up feeling that there are too many chapters in the anime. If you are a person who has already seen the previous seasons, then I would encourage you to see this 4th because it is much better than the others. On the other hand, if you want to encourage yourself to start this franchise today, I would not do you the harm of recommending a story that has just started in its 4th season.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Dec 26, 2024
A story about finding beauty in normality.
Initially when I was told "this is the Yor Forger Maid anime" I was labeling this anime as an action-oriented story. I imagined stunts, choreography, shooting and lots of fights. Fortunately the anime knew how to surprise me, despite the low expectations I had. Although the main character is the typical assassin with superhuman strength, the anime takes this into account very rarely.
It is not a story that seeks to give you explosions and senseless fights, on the contrary it is an anime that seeks to make us reflect on the things we take for granted. Seeing an assassin
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with a sad and cruel childhood trying to have a normal life is something that can be moving. Seeing the life that we consider "normal and routine" through the eyes of a person who did not have the privilege of living this way, makes you reconsider many of the things you currently have.
Things as simple as going to school, adopting a pet, buying clothes, laughing, crying, getting angry, giving a gift or participating in a school festival had never felt so close to me. I had never stopped to think about how nice it can be to have a friend and share a secret, how sad it is to have memories of a family member who is no longer here or how painful it can be to have a broken heart.
It is an anime that tries to get away from the teenage fantasy, of having a harem that follows you, of having superpowers or going to another world. It is a story that seeks to appreciate what we have in this world, what everyone can really do. It does not have the "Chosen One", the "hero" or any other fantasy thing, it only has high school students who are learning to live, but above all to coexist.
I must clarify that despite all the beauty, it only has one stumble. The story is about our female protagonist getting in touch with her emotions. Having an entire chapter dedicated to forcing a romance, when the girl is just learning to smile or be afraid, is like trying to run when she is just learning to crawl. The romance doesn't feel quite right in the work, because the protagonist doesn't know about love yet. It just feels like the protagonist is taking advantage of this situation so that the girl confuses kindness with love.
Aside from the above, if you are looking for a story that is out of the ordinary, where you can reflect or philosophize a little, you are in the right place. Kimi wa meido arrived as an anime that seemed to be generic but ended up being something so normal that it is unique.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Dec 24, 2024
A romance that plays with perspectives.
Goukon ni ittara was one of those animes that I didn't expect anything from but it ended up being one of my comfort anime of the season. The premise is more than interesting, the idea of playing with protagonists who do crossdressing is very fun to watch. It's interesting how they play with the perspective of third parties within the anime. The viewer has all the information and context that the three couples formed are between men and women, but for the world within the anime they are seeing three couples made up of only men. This lends itself to
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misinterpretations, confusions or situations that end up being funny because of how the world reacts to a couple of boys.
The anime handles three couples and initially this was a concern because I thought they weren't going to have enough space to develop them equally. I couldn't be more wrong and it's not only that it plays with perspectives, but it also plays with the pace of love development. Each couple has its own pace and if you're a fan of romance you can choose your favorite archetype and support that couple. We have the couple that develops at the speed of light, with an organic chemistry from the beginning that even feels natural that at some point one sleeps at the other's house. Another couple is the typical "more than friends, less than a couple", the one that lives in an ambiguous territory but still flirts with each other and advances at a firm and constant pace. Finally, for the fans of classic romance, we have the super dense and slow couple that develops at the speed of the production of the 2nd season of No Game No Life. This couple is one of those that would need 4 seasons, 2 movies and 8 OVAs to even hold hands.
A negative aspect of the work would be the character/artistic design of the anime. They feel like simple designs, nothing detailed, despite the fact that the story wants to sell you the girls disguised as boys like Adonis, they really have nothing attractive. It is an anime that shines more for comedy than for the story. At some point you feel like the story is getting bogged down because it focuses too much time on one couple, you guessed it, the dense couple. There are episodes where you wish you could see the other couples progress, but the anime gets bogged down in trying to move the ones that are left behind forward.
If you're in the mood to watch a little-known romantic comedy, this is your chance. The fact that it's not very famous makes it more enjoyable to watch since very few people can ruin the experience for you.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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