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GENERAL - In Handa-kun we dive into Handa's high school life. While we do nto receive anymore of Naru and the rest of the islanders form Barakamon, Handa-kun is sitll enjoyable to watch as an act of beign a prequel.

So the majority of the comedy comes from Handa endlessly thinking that his clas hates him. With Handa be a well known calligrapher he often gets stares and this leads to him thinking taht they hate him. (Along with other many situations).

While its comedy is nto as great as Barakamon it is still a fun series to watch I was surprised by it ... as I wasn't expecting to much out of a prequel.

CHARACTERS - So the characters are Handa and the Handa squad.

Handa seems a bit different here. In Barakamon he started off more rude and inconsiderate, here he seems more obliviou to what the people around him are thinking. Its somewhat odd to get use to this change in personality.

Handa squad - Overall I would say they aren't too memorable. They do have there comedic bits but aren't anything special as characters.

SOUND - The sound is nto really memorable either it is just your normal comedy slice of life music and does not have a stand out track.

ART / ANIMATION - For a slice of life the animation is fairly solid. Nothing insane but tis a nice art style and animation for thsi type of series.

OVERALL - While its not Barakamon it is sitll enjoyable to watch and worth a watch. If you want to see mroe of Handa then you will get that from here.

SCORE - 7.0
PERSONAL ENJOYMENT - 7.2

When it comes to OVA's and specials its hard to tell what they wlil be like.
Some act as ways to add in a bit more story. Some act as mini brief random situations. Some... falll under the category of pointlessness focusing on the parts of the show no one likes. No Game No Life Specials fall under this category.

It is sad to see something that could've been fun to this. They could've made these specials to act as a way to see more games played out. It didn't have to be part of the story they could've just done random games. This way ... we could've gotten waht is great about No Game No Life.

Overall not worth watching.

SCORE - 3.5
PERSONAL ENJOYMENT - 4.0

When going into Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun Specials at first I didn't know exactly what to expect. When I started to watch them I was saddened to find out they are only 3 minutes long.

So the specials aren't bad themselves they still have the great comedy from the series. The episodes are in essence shorter versions of the comedic scenes in Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun.

While there isn't much here it is something to watch if you want to get more of the Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun comedy.

Due to it being 3 minutes each roughly you will only get around 20 minutes of ... content so about 1 more episode of content. Here is hoping for a season 2...

SCORE - 7.4
PERSONAL ENJOYMENT - 7.8

GENERAL - Okay so I won't cover season 2 as in depth. Much like the season 1 we see 2 major story arcs. With SAO II i'd say that its first arc is somewhat in between the 1st and 2nd arc of SAO. We see Kirito enter a new game that has a new form of death that are going on. When someone gets shot by our villain of the arc they will die in real life as well. Kirito enters the game in hopes to solve this mystery and to figure out how he is doing it and tries to put a stop ... to it.

Next up is this sort of filler arc which serves next to no purpose its just them going on a random quest.

So SAO II is different in 1 HUGE way. The 2nd main arc. In many ways this is what SAO should be. We follow Asuna and we leave Kirito to a supporting roll.
(Again this is something that's a normal thing in SAO Progressive).

In many was i feel inclined to say this doesn't even feel like SAO. You could watch only this arc and very likely find it to be great. As a stand alone story this arc would rank fairly high for me. It has so many great aspects to it that I like to see out of an anime. Character development, emotional moments it does a great job and would be great to see more arcs like this its a refreshment to the series.

CHARACTERS - Okay so for characters... there isn't much to say beyond season 1.

Kirito doesn't grow as a character at all and still sticks to the kind of character that wins all battles.

Asuna however in the 2nd arc gets MAJOR character development and makes her a much more interesting character as we learn more about her.

SOUND - Is just as great as ever. Has some very emotional soundtracks that fit perfectly in some of the emotional moments of the show. Also something I can't mention often is the sound effects. SaO takes time and care with its sound to make it seem more like real life. In games you may get 1 soundffect per attack or movement etc. In this we get sounds with such as slightly moving your weapon and more lastign clanging sounds to make it feel more real. it has great attention to detail in this sense.

ART / ANIMATION - The animation only gets better in season 2. It has a very appealing art style and in fights it stands out so much more then most series. There is so much movement in them where they could've done more siimple l still battles.

OVERALL - SAO II does its job of both following season 1's format and also adding something completely new for the series. If not anything else the 2nd arc is EASILY worth a watch and I would highly suggest it.

SCORE - 8.1
PERSONAL ENJOYMENT - 8.9

GENERAL - So Sword Art Online... You'll love it or hate it. The premise of it is simple a game is released with a new hardware piece called nerve gear. After the beta test and the full game is released out our male lead Kirito joins on to see the new changes now that the game has come out for the public. All of a sudden there is no logout button. The game creator explains that they are trapped. If they die in the game they will die in real life. The nerve gear is what will kill them in real life and if ... someone tries to remove the headset it will kill them as well. So the game is a MMO RPG. In this game there are 100 floors. The only way they can escape is to get to the 100th floor and defeat the final boss only then will they be freed from this world.

So the story sounds very strong it has great potential so where exactly does it go wrong? Well the main issue is the time skips. We don't reallly get to see many of the floors acutallly being defeated a large part of the show is this slice of life type asepct within it. That isn't a bad thing exactly but it takes a way more tiem form the main sotry of it.

Okay now I do want to cover something else. Sword Art Online Progressive.
Its what SAO should be. It takes way more time to describe each floor and puts a focus on how to defeat the bosses itself and does a great job of making SAO into the story it should be. Now if it is ever animated this will fix nearly every problem that this series has.

Okay so I won't reallly cover the second arc. The premise isn't the greatest it may keep you interested but its nothign amazing and there are some other issues with it beyond that.

CHARACTERS - Okay I will only cover our 2 main leads here Kirito and Asuna.

Kirito is a simple character he is just that person that can win and he doesnt receive much character development. Not the greatest lead for a series at all but hie may be a fine character to others.

Asua starts off as a great character. She was the strong female protagonist of the show. Later on though she becomes a week charcter that always relies on Kirito to save her.

So this takes me back to SAO Progressive. Again even though its not in this anime series itself in Progressive these issues are next to none. The focus is put on Asuna which acts as a much greater lead then Kirito. If there is EVER a Progressive anime these complaints are next to non existent.

SOUND - Sword Art Online has one of the greatest OST's in an anime. It has many soundtracks that you may expect to hear in a real video game and can range from intense battle music to lighter soundtracks for the more slice of life parts of the anime.

ART / ANIMATION - Simply, the animation is amazing. Its bright popping colors and its very fluid animation is amazing and does a great job of showing how great some animation can be. The world of this game is brought to life greatly with its animation.

OVERALL - Well even though the show has many issues I do not feel its something to be skipped. When it comes to a series like this that is ofen overrated or hated you can not often find someone who is in between on it.
While I can see SAO's flaws it still has some parts to it that can be fun to watch.

SCORE - 7.2
PERSONAL ENJOYMENT - 8.0

GENERAL - Boku no Hero Academia takes a new route on the shounen series. Each shounen series tends to have its own sort of "main type of power" (Wizards, Pirates, Ninjas, Hunters etc.). In this series it takes n super hero's.
These hero's have quirks which act as there super powers. These powers can range form simple things to help with an every day task, to the more powerful ones that let them become hero's. These quirks are first seen at a yong age so if there is no quirk then it is likely they flal in to the small percent that will ... not have a quirk. This is where we follow our main lead Midoriya, he falls into this small category and has always dreamed that he will one day becoem a hero. With him having no quirk we see him struggle still holdign on to the hope he can be a hero without any quirk. Suddenly he has a quirk and is set to apply for a hero academy. This is where Boku no Hero Academia all begins.

Now this season of the series acts as teaser of sorts. With its 13 episodes count we don't get much timme to see our characters grow and not too much world building. As this is a problem with the episode amount and not the series itself I can't take anything away from it.

So we see the students grow and learn how to use there powers to there full effect. These can range from small tasks to team based games to show the different situations they might run into as a hero.

CHARACTERS - So as stated we don't really get much time to developing our characters in the first season here. But our stand out characters are Midoriya, Bakugou, All Might and Uraraka.

Midoriya is our main male lead and acts as the series protagonist. He is a character that you could relate to. he has a nice personality and it is fun to see him grow as a character.

Bakugou acts as our rival of sorts. he seems to not want Midoriya to get into the shcool to start with and is angry when he finds out he did get in. We get a fair bit of development for him and will be interesting to see where his character goes form this point forward.

All Might in the person Midoriya looks up to. He is widely known to be one of the best or THE best hero. His character in a lot of ways is kind of what you would expect from a famous super hero. Also most notable is the character design with the dark shading and edges to him to give a feel of what you might see in a comic book.

Uraraka acts as our main female character. We don't get to see tooo much of her in this first season but has potential to grow as a great character.

SOUND - So the sound is pretty great. It is nice and fits the super hero theme fairly well.

ART / ANIMATION - So the animation is reallly nice with only 13 episodes they can put a greater focus on the animation. With a long running shounen series the animation uslally isn't up to par at all times since its being made every week. This is one of the benefits of the short episode count.

OVERALL -So over all the show is fun to watch. It just would've been better to get more episodes to get a better idea of the characters and this universe. That being said a Season 2 is coming up so it iwll be interesting to see where it goes from here. The show does a nice job of kicking off the series and is nice to see this new take on the shounen genre.

SCORE - 8.5
PERSONAL ENJOYMENT - 9.1

GENERAL - Another follows our lead Kouichi who is a new transfer student to his school The story of Another centers around the fact that it seems the class he is in has a curse on it. More and more strange events start to occur. We follow the class and slowly see the mystery of these events unravel.

CHARACTERS - So the characters in Another aren't the most memorable. They work as characters in the story but over all do not leave a long lasting impression. This is the shows biggest negative to me.

SOUND - Overall the OST fits the show well the ranging ... soundtracks of mysterious sounds to other types of soundtracks works very well and helps to pull out the atmosphere of it.

ART / ANIMATION - So the show has a fairly nice art style and decent animation.
The dark palette of the show is great and really shows the mystery and horror aspects of the show.

OVERALL - Overall Another is one of my favorite mystery horror series. It keeps you interested to the very end where all the mysteries are revealed.
The only real issue with the series that holds it back is the characters. In general tis best to ahve a large memorable cast and this show only has a couple. This did not take away from my overall enjoyment though.

SCORE - 7.7
PERSONAL ENJOYMENT - 8.1

GENERAL - Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu also known as Parasyte -the maxim- follows Shinichi. At first seeming normal but then he changes once our other lead Migi takes him over. Migi is a Parasyte. These parasytes are taking over human bodies to blend in with the world and to be stronger as they themselves are not very storng unless they possess a humans body. By mistake Migi didn't take over his body correctly and thus merged together so they both can communicate with each other and this is where the storry of Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu kicks off.

With this parastye human cross ... they are forced into odd situations as they both of different goals. They are forced to work together since Migi failed to take over his body. The sotyr largely has a focus on trying to stop parasyte from killing them.

With Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu story it is paced in a very good way. Each episode feels like its getting more and more interesting. There are hardly times when the show slows down it just keeps up its speed and continues on and on.

CHARACTERS - The cast of Parastye -the maxim- is a interesting one. The way they handle the characters is also very well done. With this series it is nto very light there will be death so it brings more weight not knowing who will end up dying. If you get to attached to a character then you may regret ti because they might die. ANd the series does a great job of making you be interested and feel for these characters we meet.

So the duo of Migi and Shinichi is a interesting one. As sated they do not exactly have the same ideals but they grow a connection as they are forced into this situation.

SOUND - The soudn of Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu is amazing. It has so many soundtracks that are memorable. My favorite "Next to You" is one of the best soundtracks I have heard in an anime series

ART / ANIMATION - So Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu was done by MADHOUSE. So as such of course the animation will be amazing. It has great animation in the action scenes and its art style is fairly nice. The darker color choices are a perfect fit for the series and what it is trying to convey.

OVERALL - At first when i started this series I didn't think much of it. I watched 1 episode and then didn't continue it. Then i decided one day to go ahead and watch it all. And now I can say I don't regret it. It never gets dull and has a very interesting story. While some series might have some similar concepts to this Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu does a great job of doing its story within its episode count. It doesn't drag on by adding extra episodes of any sort no filler just a full complete story. I HIGHLY suggest watching this anime.

SCORE - 9.3
PERSONAL ENJOYMENT - 9.7

GENERAL - Barakamon follows Handa a calligrapher who is sent of to an island to become there calligrapher teacher as well as to get away from the city. Handa does nto like that he is being sent to this island but we see him grow as he meets all the different characters on the island.

The episodes are very fun to watch and relax with there is nothing deep in this series sicne its a comedy series but its the fun in seeing the islanders interactions and Handa living there that makes it so enjoyable.

Barakamon is one of the best comedy series that I ... have seen. It covers a decent range of comedy and I feel anyone can find something to enjoy.

CHARACTERS - So instead of covering each character I will go over them all in general. Since this anime takes place on an island the community is like a sall village. Everyone knows eachotehr and we get to see there interactions and all the different personalities the island has to offer. With the large verity in personalities there are many fun and intertaining characters.

SOUND - So the music isn't anything special. It is jsut the normal up beat happy music most comedy slice of life series will have.

ART / ANIMATION - The art style fits the sereis well it does its job to serve a comedy slice of life series like this.

OVERALL - Barakamon was a very fun series to watch its somehting to put on as a way to relax. There are many things taht people can fidn enjoyable in this series and is worth a watch.

SCORE - 8.6
PERSONAL ENJOYMENT - 9.0

GENERAL - No Game NO Life takes an interesting spin o n the other world genre.
This is a over done genre but No Game NO Life manges to take a spin on it that makes it really interesting.

We follow our main 2 leads Sora and Shiro, a brother and sister duo that play video games and never lose and go by the name blank as they always have a blank IGN. This duo is known for never losing a single game. One day they are challenged to a game of chess and win as they always do then they were sucked into the new ... world by Tet. And thats where the story of No Game No Life begins.

In the new world they are sucked into it is explained that the only way to make choices is by playing a games. As such we follow Sora and Shiro as they try to help imanity gain power. Since Sora and Shiro never lose a game you won't focus on who will win but rather how will they win. You don't know how they will win but yo know they will and seeing the way they think and end up winning is always so enjoyable to watch.

CHARACTERS - Apart from our main 2 Sora and Shiro the secondaries include Stephanie and Jibril.

There isn't anything to stand out abotu Jibril and Stephanie is put into the spot of a joke character as Sora and Shiro always messing with her.

However our leads are very interesting there diinamic is very fun. Seeing them winning each game.

SOUND - So the OST is pretty nice there aren't really any soundtracks that I can say stand out but it fits what the show is going for.

ART / ANIMATION - No Game No Life has one of the most stand out art styles I have seen in a long time. Its bright colors and the use of red outlines reallly pops out at you and shows how this new world they are in is supposed to be fun with only playing games.

OVERALL - So the main issue here despite all the positives is the fact that it is only 12 episodes. It would have been nice to have a 24 episode season so we could get more progress in the story. With a series like this we don't know if / when a season 2 will come. It has been announced that a Movie will be coming sometime soon and this may lead to a bigger budget so they can do a season 2.

Overall No Game No Life is a reallly fun series to watch . It is worth binge watching for sure.. Since it is so short you can do this and I Highly suggest you do so.

SCORE - 8.9
PERSONAL ENJOYMENT - 9.2