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Jun 24, 2024
Yes the production value has gone down, yes the artstyle changed, yes the new studio uses CGI and real life pictures for the backgrounds every chance they get.

However, none of that hinders the show. it's still the Yuru Camp experience through and through, that much hasn't changed. The Yuru Camp formula is basically unfuckable. The only thing that could really mess with it is its pacing and I can safely say that is still intact.

One cool thing that I noticed is that in the previous seasons there characters were constantly struggling to buy equipment and camping on the cheap, but now with jobs and disposable ...
Apr 13, 2024
Spoiler
Sakura-sou is at its core a standard high school romance/comedy/drama anime, with themes of talent vs hard work, dreams, failure and what it means to feel like you’re surrounded by people impossibly better than you. It took me 10 years to finally getting around to watch it, and it was a pleasant surprise.

Our premise is that Kanda, a regular highschooler with no goals or directions is thrown into a dorm full of eccentric characters, unfit to live with the other students. One of the main strengths of the show is presenting its cast full of quirky, over the top characters. Their anime-style ridiculousness made me ...
Nov 23, 2023
Hi, I was the proofreader for this series for the past 4 years; from chapter 2 till the end (I'm checking Vol. 16 extra as of writing this) If you've read this in any unlicensed site, I was the one to check the translation before it got typeset. So, since I've been with this manga for so long, I thought I'd give me thoughts about it.

This is a light-hearted Yamamoto SoL. Meaning, mostly one-off chapters, generic romance manga tropes, superficial characters interacting by means of standard manga humor, and big foreheads. If you've read Takagi, you've read this one. Do not come into it ...
Mar 22, 2021
Horimiya (Manga) add
Mixed Feelings
Horimiya, Happiness, disappointment, death.

Being a fan of romance manga is hard. The trash heap of mediocrity we have to put up with in order to find the actual good stuff is embarrassingly high. From lackluster characters, no progress, to uncomfortable self insert harems, to the entire shoujo genre, one begins to question, is it really that hard to portray this common aspect of the human experience?

Part 1: Happiness

That’s where Horimiya comes in. Horimiya’s every romance manga reader’s wet dream, second only to being in a real relationship. It single handedly fixes everything wrong with the genre. It introduces interesting non generic characters, establishing their ...
Nov 24, 2020
Our story takes place in like 1780 or whenever was the last time someone above the age of 40 wrote a love letter. Our boy tries to defeat the league right after just getting his starter and get flat out rejected not by the champion but by the guard at the entrance that always performs that useless badge check.

Unfortunately for him Red/Green wouldn't be released for another 200 years or so so no dokokashira door for him. Forced to do things the old fashioned way, he proceeds to stop being the generic male mc from every other romance that everyone hates and hit the gym. ...
Aug 5, 2020
Preliminary (67/? chp)
This is the story of a stalker manipulating her victim sold under the idea of a story about a cute girl in love.

Both the artstyle and the fact that we see a cute girl flustered after each interaction with her victim shouldn't diverge from the fact that she's messed up in the head. And no this doesn't fall under the category of teasing (aka something like takagi-san) because theres a line between playful banter and having a camera installed on the victim's room and having a gps attached to him in order to know his every move.

The story is pretty much that every single ...
Apr 14, 2020
Mixed Feelings
I've decided I'm gonna start writing a review for every show I finish, so this is a first in hopefully a long list.

Lovely Complex is a pretty straight forward shoujo. Its goal is basic, showcase a compelling romance, and it somewhat succeeds at this. The gimmick in this one is that the girl is taller than the guy, not only that but they're both below and above average height, from which they develop a complex from. Fortunately this gets resolved pretty early in the show as it's pretty clear what any normal person would think: it doesn't matter.

The first thing that stood out to ...
Sep 21, 2019
With around ~250 pages total, this Bimajo no Ayano-san is a very pleasant read that you can probably finish in an afternoon.

The premise is as basic as it gets, Ayano-san is a housewife that gets herself into various situations throughout the series, mainly revolving around the fact that she's portrayed as a very beautiful woman, a fact everyone but her and her son seem to notice.

Once you've read one chapter, you've pretty much have read all of them, it really doesn't get any deeper than that. This is not a bad thing mind you. Rather, the enjoyment comes from seeing Ayano going about her ...
Dec 20, 2017
Mixed Feelings
Tired of watching 12 episode shows and getting frustrated because of the "go read the manga lol" endings? Well look no further! This anime is a promotional video for the manga from which it's based from, and boy does it get the job done.

The whole thing is aesthetically pleasing, the animation is nothing special, but the stuff like character design and background art are forceful. From watching this I'd definetly start reading the manga if I wasn't doing so already. The music is your generic mellow J-Pop song, but I honestly wouldn't expect any other type of music from something like this.

The only real problem ...
Nov 5, 2016
Preliminary (5/12 eps)
"They are not even trying"

That's how I would describe this masterpiece, probably the best anime of the year. This show falls into the "So bad it's actually good" trend that other shows have delighted over the years.

But, of course, there's that other kind of people who hate fun and are sucking off of Miyazaki's balls that can't enjoy this type of shows. There are some shows that are liked by everyone, and if you dislike them people will unpolitely write you letters about your point of view (aka they will tell you to kill yourself), but I can honestly say that if you don't ...


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