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Where oh where do I begin with season two of Infinite Stratos? This show is more like Infinite Insomnia and not in a good way. I am on the verge of really seeing if this anime can be the cure or cause of insomnia for anyone with sleep issues. This anime is what I could be described as the ultimate filler anime. Where the anime is supposed to give you something great, but it does nothing to progress the story at all. It's like show the villains, give them limited screen time, and expect the buildup to make you feel like everything was worth ... the wait. For an anime with only twelve episodes as of this review, I am on episode six it feels like 95% filler and the other five percent is the actual story.

I literally have fast-forwarded through the dialogue at points to see where the actual story takes place in an episode to find nothing of substance added. Infinite Stratos is best served if you do not watch it at all, and feel like you will gain nothing but constant irritation and your patience lacking because of too much comedy and lack of substance.

Am I happy that I watched this anime? It's a mixed bag feeling.
Would I recommend this anime to anyone who is new to the anime community? ABSOLUTELY NOT.
Do you have to watch this anime with your door locked, windows closed, and make sure you are not disturbed? Yes
Does this anime really do wonders overall for people? That again is a mixed bag feeling

While, I can't say that I hated this anime I can say that I did not love it overall. Take the information and or synopsis of what you read as true face value. If you go into this anime blind then ... that is on you, and like myself I did not know what I was in store for. While the Interspecies reviewers may seem like a good idea on paper, you are quick to see why it got dropped from being streamed from the number 1 legal anime website in the world.

It is not a bad anime if you are one to indulge yourself in this sort of thing, but for your own safety, sanity, and protection. Watch this alone, and don't give this to a first time anime watcher.

This anime has just not got going for me personally. Like a majority of the animes that I have watched, I have never read the manga overall. I went into this anime blind as a bat, and my expectations were less than stellar. From episodes one to five, it felt like it was the same plot over and over again, Sure you get a character here and there for the plot but it feels like it is a very mundane story, that has the saving grace of an opening and ending songs doing more to make up for a lack of structure.

When I read the ... plot of Call of the Night, I thought it would be intense and have this result of character building. It falls flat like a three day Pepsi from a two liter bottle that someone forgot to put back in the fridge after a party. I am twelve episodes in and this anime is a solid five out of ten for me.

Tis Time for Torture Princess, should be re-titled as Tis Time for Torture Anime Watcher. This is an anime that should have easily been twelve to fifteen minutes in terms of watching. A majority of the story really drags out with the secondary characters, and too much of the time you are really hoping for the story to get interesting and it is not doing so.

Nine episodes in and I had to drop it completely, because this was a rinse, repeat, and feel as if nothing really progresses as a total. This is an anime that you would hope with season two is ... shorter. Less is more, and sadly this anime is not going to be remembered for anything really special.

What is growth if we do not experience hardships, suffering, pain, loss, and lack of motivation. This is what Cheer for You will make you see as a viewer. This is more than CGDCT, this is more than just cheerleaders, this is about real human emotions. That we all as people have had to go through in life to get to that next point in our lives. Through the slow burn that this anime helps build up, you see that no matter how you are in life with success. Success can last for minutes, days, hours, or years. It is how you use it ... to make people's lives and yours as well.

Cheer For You could have easily been a 24 episode anime series, and to get to point A to point B with its pacing where nothing felt rushed. We get to see the trials and struggles of the main characters as well. For me if this anime is not something you can't see the past of character development, and real conflict. Then you are absolutely missing out on an underrated anime.

I will continue to be in the vocal minority of not enjoying, liking, or seeing the appeal of the Spy x Family series. I am so glad that I watched this for free on anime website, instead of wasting my hard earned money to see this in a movie theater. This isn't a "if you don't like it, then do watch it" type of deal. This is more so of an idea that you are seeing too many people being blinded by piss poor character arcs, a not well rounded out supporting cast with the exception of Fiona. To say well this anime is what ... you could recommend to a new anime fan. No the hell it is not, wake up people for the love anime WAKE THE HELL UP. This movie was a glorified episode of Spy x.Family, added with toilet humor. In what day and age do we still need toilet humor is our animes, OVAs, ONAs, movies, or specials at all? It is such a disservice because it made the entire movie so much less enjoyable. I already get enough flack from individuals who I know for not liking this entire anime series. This movie made me feel like season 3 of Spy x Family will not get any better. This isn't supposed to be the norm where an anime gets worse and worse at it progresses. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. The drones of people who go online and defend this entire series from start to finish, just blows my mind. Like, what do consider to be good that this anime is making you not see the flaws.

Don't give me "Well it's a family focused anime with action", all I see is a series that can't decide on what it wants to be. I don't need to sit through even a minute of Damian and his two step stools, Becky, or the school because it's the law of diminishing returns. I am not saying people don't need to hate this anime, but what I am saying is please reconsider that if Spy x Family is good. Then, please reconsider recommending anime to other individuals if this is the standard. There are so many animes out there that don't get a second season, a part two, a third season, or.let alone a movie. Those animes get the back burner, but no Spy X Family. Again, unbelievable. I can't fathom being a homer for this anime. Again, if I went to a movie theater and saw this I would have walked out. This money didn't make me laugh, cry, happy. It made me feel constant disdain, and the only saving grace for this movie was Fiona.

WAKE UP PEOPLE. Please, I ask that you really rewatch this movie and a random episode of Spy X Family it is the same shit. Just one is longer, and just bad. I could never in my life recommend this to a newcomer to anime, and I haven't nor will. This movie was just a huge disappointment, let down, and overall where I see the standard of how anime movies can be the norm. If toilet humor is the course, then that's where Spy X Family: Code White is for me. In the toilet, and as an anime fan this made me feel embarrassed to be an anime fan.

If the following things you like that I am about to list then this anime will be for you:
1) An Aloof Main Character
2) Having a character of the day without too much depth
3) Having some characters around and getting no explanation as to how they are important are
4) Constant teases throughout with the main character not getting any better in her personality
5) A real lack of constant emotions
6) Certain characters being at the top all the time
7) Episodes where they feel like a filler to get along to the next point
8) A catchy intro theme song that only Nana Mizuki can do

Then this certainly is ... the anime for you. Highspeed Etoile isn't going to win any awards in terms of excitement, but it can't pass the checkered flag of what the 2024 anime season needs to be good. The animation is one thing, and I am not asking for MAPPA or even P.A Works here but this is an anime that needed more to give you a proper investment to make it's mark. Less is More as some say, but you need more in order to squeeze together the audience to find a person to root for in terms of sports. If you watch sports like I do, then you will always find that team that you will root for.

This anime fails itself in trying too little in order to capture the audience, the first episode gives you some hope. Then episodes two to four happen, and you are like watching a rinse and repeat. What made an anime like Kuroko No Basket great was introductory, pacing, and seeing that your limits will be met at a point. Highspeed Etoile keeps giving you the characters who are at the top, and when they keep on winning you don't have the same level of investment of characters who constantly lose over and over again. The last minute triumph falls short here, because it comes too suddenly and when it is at the last turn.

Highspeed Etoile is not the worst anime of 2024, but it may be up there in a top ten.

A3! as a whole is very nice, compelling, and has some fleshed out moments within the anime. It is not without fault, as goes into the supernatural into the Winter Troupe portion and it adds things that do not need to be there to help get the plot across in an anime having to do with acting/theater overall. A majority of the characters either are new to acting, have a bit of acting experience, or just asked to join the specific season troupe without anything else. Personally, in this viewers opinion I think A3 could have been a bit more serviceable with a few changes. ... No, I did not play the game that this anime is based on. Here is where this anime has missed the mark in an array of aspects. Now, this is coming from someone who has watched a fair amount of idol animes in the past, so this is just my overall opinion on what I would have done a bit differently. For starters I do agree on keeping the concept of having stage actors who have some acting experience around. My first change would be a handful of the characters let's say about three of them in total where all part of the entertainment industry is in a different capacity. One of them was a male idol since childhood, and was a part of a group that had been around for more than a decade. The idol group ended, and the members went their separate ways. But this one character still wanted to be a part of the entertainment industry, but not many takers wanted him. So, he searches for a new way to find and entertains others and comes across the Makkai Company. The other two would be former people who left the entertainment industry behind who never got those big breaks and ended up being typecast. One because of being a child actor and getting older was a detriment that he was getting bit parts in roles as a result, and left acting behind for a handful of years and got back into it after seeing the stage plays. Lastly, number three was always the supporting role but never got those important lead roles that he trained hard for, and left things behind for many years and only came back to show people that they made a mistake on him by not giving his big chance.

Overall, A3! is a good watch but it leaves a lot to be desired in a lot of potential areas that bring off growth. The same process over and over for each troupe gets exhausting, Some of the characters you can look at, dislike, and will sometimes just get annoyed with after their shtick is repetitive after a while. While the Spring and Summer one can deliver to be a solid 7 out of 10, Autumn and Winter falls into a solid 6 out of 10.

It took two episodes, TWO EPISODES for me to see that this anime is a real chore to get through. If you had to choose between watching this anime or watching paint dry. Please choose watching paint dry because boy oh boy does this anime suck the life out of you for all purposes. The characters are very one dimensional, lack of story at points, and overall a lack of game explanation rules really makes you consider why this anime has a low score to begin with. Read the reviews before going in, go outside, roll around in some mud before you decide to watch ... Liar Liar.

What is one's purpose in life? That is the question that this anime has you wondering even if you are human or AI. How do we continue to evolve as a society, as people, as the world changes, and how do we continue when we hit a fall.
This anime is one where you would think it is a straight up idol anime from just the photo, but episode one really tells you that this a wait and see approach. As the anime progresses you can see how one will become invested, but also see why things could have been taken to a different course of ... action. Sure, thirteen episodes may not be enough for some people to fully invest into this anime. If this anime had gotten a weird number of episodes of like twenty, then I think we are in a completely different ballpark of what this anime can do to drive you to fully sit and watch.

I will say this that this anime started off for me as a solid 6.5 out of 10 with the first two episodes, but after the scenes, sequences, and overall plot it pushed up to a solid 8 out of ten.