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Fujinuma Satoru (29) has a unique ability he calls "Revival", that sends him back in time in order to prevent tragedies. Apparently he can't control it, so every time Revival gets triggered he must be particularly aware of his surroundings, finding something odd or out of place that may potentially cause a disaster. One day he is taken 18 years back in time in order to prevent a traumatic crime from happening, and he starts to investigate a series of murders of children that took place in that time. A silent classmate, Hinazuki Kayo, is one of the murdered, and Satoru ... now relives his preschool days with a goal in mind: save Kayo, changing the future.


STORY

A synopsis aims to explain the basis of a series, in order to give the viewer a direction in understanding what's happening, and what is the main conflict. There are some cases, though, when the synopsis is deribelately wrong and fools the viewer so they can feel the surprise of revealing the actual plot (certain magical girl anime for example). There are another cases where the synopsis feels a little... odd? Loosely justifying main plot elements, hopefully explained and well justified as the series progresses so you can read it again and say "wow, it actually makes sense!". Too bad Boku Dake ga Inai Machi didn't do that.

The plot looks promising as hell. Even though the time leap technique as the main plot element is a little overused nowadays (you have Steins;Gate and Re:Zero, for example), the twist now was that Satoru couldn't control it, and as he sometimes didn't know what was going on he faces the unpredictability of the future (and the past too!).

So I said "the time leap technique as the main plot element", right? That's what it seems at first but... was it really? I felt that at some point the ability was completely forgotten. I hoped that Revival was an ability that would've been triggered a large amount of times in the series, but I recall it was used like 4 times. This is some serious waste of potential in my opinion, and a HUGE plot hole. Some abilities or big plot elements in manga or anime never get fully explained, but you can sometimes forget about justifying it and just enjoy them as the characters make regular use of it. But when it is sporadically used and most importantly, feels out of place, it just HAS to be justified.

If you have played Life is Strange (I'm so sorry but) you know that Max has a similar ability to rewind time, preventing bad things. This may be the only supernatural thing that takes place in the entire game, but as it is the main weapon she has against "destiny" you can just accept it and continue playing. Here Revival is also the only supernatural thing that ever takes place, but its little use and exploration (and negligence) feels like a complete waste of potential, and later in the series I felt like a particular triggering of Revival destroyed any form of justification that it may have had, but I'm trying not to spoil anything. So ok, Revival does not get explored but... why?

Leaving the Revival matter aside, another problem the plot has is it solidity. As the series progressed a question started to bug me: Why Kayo? Why most of the plot revolves around her? Ok, she is a silent melancholic girl that gets murdered first and he was Satoru's classmate. The story says: Satoru once saw her alone in a park the night she was murdered, so he lives in regret of not having taken her home, and now that he's taken back in time he can save her. That's a valid reason! But what about the other victims that were murdered after her? If Satoru's true goal was to prevent the serial killings from happening, why do the remaining victims feel unimportant? Is it because they're not the silent type? Why is Kayo the only victim whose "past" gets explored? Don't get me wrong, I liked her development, my complains are that the other victims are not given that much protagonism as they might have gotten. Even they could have created more sub-plots in order to explore those characters so I don't get the feeling of "who are these kids and why should I care" later in the series. You know... why?

The last thing I'm going to talk about is the villain. This might be a little bit spoiler-ish (as if I haven't been spoiler-ish so far) so you may skip to the next section if you want to. You know those villains that do bad things just because they slept badly? Somebody stole their choo-choo? Or just felt like becoming a villain? The story suffers from a rather psychopatic villain. Here they do get a justification of why do they do the things they do (do be do be do). This explanation takes... a prologue of an episode. Another good source of plot material would have been exploring the villain, having an entire episode about their past, their reasons, you know, like stories usually do. The anime has just that. The prologue of an episode. I still don't know how it is enough for the viewer to get to know the villain in such a short time. So, great, they kidnap and kill children and that's OK (...well, it's actually not but you get the point) but... why? (Now, as I have read, in the manga they DO get an entire chapter just about them. Why was this not included in the anime?)


ART

I'm not much of a fan of today's drawing style. Those round eyes and rabbit-like teeth are just too "happy" and don't suit a particularly mysterious series like this one. Animation, by its side is fluent and 3D CG (like some scenes with the movie tapes and all) is nicely done. Fun (?) fact: The events that take part during Revival are shown as a movie (an even more "panoramic" layout). Backgrounds are good as well, and sometimes are the shining point of the series (certain beautiful scene involving a christmas tree, for example).


SOUND

The soundtrack fairly fits the mysterious atmosphere of the show and the lighter "comic relief" parts. There are no memorable tracks that I can remember though.

A weak point of the sound are the sound effects: This series tries so hard to be like a movie (this is a recurring theme in the Revival scenes as I stated earlier) that it uses VERY! LOUD! AND DRAMATIC! sound effects. You know the sound that is sometimes used in suspense movies that sounds like what is recorded when you blow in a microphone? Those inaudible 20Hz sounds added for uneasyness? This series overuses them, to the point that I felt my headset tremble. They are used at good times though, but they were just too loud and recurrent.

Voice acting is well done, except for adult Satoru. His 29-year old attitude needed him to have a lazy voice but it lacket dynamics, the voice that was given to him was too flat and his despair screams were loose.


CHARACTERS

Characters are another big issue for the series, the main problems being Satoru, his friends and the villain (in other words... most of the cast).

Adult Satoru's actions are weird. As if he didn't put much thought in half of his actions only to take a turn for the worse. For example in the main event he gets framed for a crime he didn't commit... and he runs away from the scene. Why? Wouldn't doing that only make him even more of a suspect?

Child Satoru feels like a totally different character, even more mature, perceptive and astute, despite being a kid. The relationship he mantains with his classmates are child-like, even if one of them feels just too mentally mature for his age (justified). Most of them are background characters that don't get much attention and have little to no influence on the plot.

When the villain was announced I felt insulted. The series throws just too many hints in your face as the series progresses, making it lose all the mysterious traits it had. "Too easy, too obvious". As I said before, the villain is an injustified and weaks character that never gets any kind of development.

Satoru's mom is a good mom. A motherly mom. A mother-like character.

Background characters are rather normal, not having very much relevance in the plot besides effing up some situations sometimes.


ENJOYMENT

Boy, did I enjoy the first half of the series. The first episodes caught me really fast and I was enjoying the series at the very edge of my seat. I was right to give it a 8/10 or 9/10. But then the show destroyed its plot. I really dislike these kind of series, the ones that throw everything they had carefully built for quite an amount of episodes and throw it into the trash, those that waste most of its potential offering a plot filled with holes and discontinuity. This kills the man and make its score go down for me. I recall spending the last 4 episodes asking myself the same question over and over:

"But... why?"


SO IN SHORT:

Story: 2
Art: 7
Sound: 6
Character: 4
Enjoyment: 5

Overall: 4/10

I'm open to discussion. Remember this is my opinion and I'm willing to hear others'. If you have read this far, thank you.

Lastly, I'd like to share a quote from a game I mentioned earlier with a similar plot.

"Isn't that too easy? Too obvious?"
-Mark Jefferson, Life is Strange

Kobato is a young girl with enigmatic origins who, in order to fulfull her wish, must heal the broken hearts of people. With the company of the stuffed animal Ioryogi she deals with the troubled and after healing their hearts, a bottle she has is filled with... candy?

===STORY===

The premise "in order fulfil her wish, Kobato must heal the broken hearts of people" hints to an episodic series with traces of actual plot unraveling once a while. This is true for the first half of the series, focusing on Kobato walking around town finding people to heal. Filled with (very) lighthearted comedy and fair drama, this ... is a good introduction to the series, but I have to recognize that its episodic nature kept me away for a while (I'm not very much of a fan of episodic series), and it was somewhat difficult to me to keep watching these repetitive and predictable episodes.

But then we have the second half of the series where the unraveling of the plot and the drama take control. There is one point that distinguishes this half from the othe: Kobato's bottle is being filled outside of the show. This leads to a much more obscure facet of the series and the cast, as comedy starts to dissapear and Kobato faces much more serious and dramatic events. This part of the series absorbed me.

The pacing of the story is very slow in the first half, of course being episodic and all the story just doesn't move on at some point; but it's good in the last half, never losing my interest despite of some filler episodes that are basically CLAMP in Wonderland all over again.

===ART===

Even if character design is very CLAMP-esque (you know, lengthy limbs and pointy joints), it never loses shape. Backgrounds were colorful and animation was ok, nothing really out of the ordinary, well executed nonetheless.

===SOUND===

Music is a key ingredient to Kobato. Many events revolve around songs, especially Ashita Kuru Hi (aka Kobato's song), which is a beautiful song of great significance to the plot. Background music is noticeable for going over a wide spectrum of feelings, strenghtening the catharsis in the second half of the series. Voice acting on the other hand is well done, even though the voices of Kobato and Ioryogi become somewhat annoying (too shrill? too exaggerated?).

===CHARACTER===

Of course the most developed character would be the title character, Kobato, the clumsy girl who is forced to experience a wide range of emotions due to her mission on Earth. However, as the hearts she heals give her lessons about life itself, her personality is constantly affected. This is true also for the other main characters, Ioryogi and Fujimoto, whose behavior may seem stoic at first, seemingly stereotypical characters, but being put to test afterwards.

Given the nature of the series there is an insight in most of the members of the cast (even unexpected ones) while heart-healing. However, this episodic nature makes most of the background characters fall into oblivion later in the series.

===ENJOYMENT===

As you may know if you kept reading this review (and if you have, thank you), the first half of the series gave me hard times, but the other half made the series redeem itself.

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So in short:

Story: 7/10
-Slow pacing
-Repetitive and predictable at first
+Good plot development later
+An actual good story

Art: 7/10
-Nothing out of the ordinary
+Well executed

Sound: 8/10
-Annoying voice acting for Kobato and Ioryogi
+Fitting music for a wide range of feelings
+Plot significance

Character: 7/10
-Background characters fall into oblivion
+Strong development of the main cast

Enjoyment: 6/10
-First half is very hard to keep up with because of its episodic nature
+Captivating second half

OVERALL: 7/10

Thank you for reading.

If you're going to watch this series, do it for the mysteries, not the plot.

You know those kind of series that are always episodic and every now and then it gives you a hint that somehow it really has a background story (to never really unravel it)? This is one of those. The basis for everything is Sakurako and her love for bones, being an osteologist. She and Shoutarou are friends(?) and like to unearth bones to add them to Sakurako's large skeletal collection. Oh, and they solve mysteries regarding those bones as well.

I'm having a tough time trying to write about how does the ... mystery come to the pair and what makes them solve it. In many other detectivesque anime the justification is: the MC's a detective, they maybe like the whole mystery stuff or they've /just/ got to solve mysteries in order to survive, I don't know. In Sakurako-san, however, the pair solves mysteries because... they can? There is no tangible justification for the duo to go around town mystery-solving instead of bone-fetching. Those mysteries MAY have a reason to exist though, as Shoutarou says, everytime he goes around with Sakurako they end up finding bodies (or how the title says, there is a corpse under Sakurako's feet).

The point is: There are some hints thrown at you that every mystery they find may have its cause and everything, there may be a background plot that makes everything have sense... and that's it. The "story" never unravels itself.The main cast is basically Sherlock Holmes (Sakurako) and Watson (Shoutarou). One of the things that bugged me the most is that Sakurako is so intelectually "overpowered" that the show loses all credibility, and worst of all, her manner of speaking spoils the mysteries. What I'm saying with the "overpowered" thing is that taking into account that she's an osteologist, most of her deductions don't feel like those of an osteologist but like those of a detective, making the show lose its basis. Moreover her way of solving the puzzles is very anticlimatic, spouting the answers all high and mighty, leaving no room for us viewers to speculate or even try to understand what's going on. This is a very important element that makes detectivesque works interesting: sharing the detective's stream of consciousness and internal monologues with the viewer/reader so that they can feel the mystery being solved. This made the pacing

The recurring side characters are rather average (you even have the classic airhead cop!) and to my taste they didn't have much development other than the episodes that centered on them. Background characters, such as those conscerning one or two episodes at most, are instead well explored when the mysteries revolve around them, and this is other of the few things I liked of the show.

On the positive side, the backgrounds are beautiful and vibrant. This is one of the aspects that I really enjoyed of the series, now this is a serious case of eye-candy. Character design is solid and not out of the ordinary, so not out of the ordinary that I kept thinking I was watching Kyoukai no Kanata specials. The soundtrack is fair (is it me or at the start of the series you hear many tracks with lead synthesizers and then never again?... it may be just me), but some of the voice acting (especially on old women) felt forced and fake at some moments.

For me this was barely an enjoyable series, even though the mysteries ARE interesting they are butchered whenever Sakurako solves them, which bugged me and made me lose all interest in keeping watching the series and credibility for the "plot".
If you're going to watch this anime, do it for the mysteries, not for the plot.

So in short:

Story: 3/10
+ Good mysteries
- Slow pacing, lack of unraveling of the actual story, lack of actual story at all

Art: 8/10 it's OK
+ Pure eye candy
+ Solid design

Sound: 6/10
+ Nothing out of the ordinary
- Forced voice acting

Character: 5/10
+ Sherlock and Watson
+ Episodic characters get fair development
- Side characters don't get fair development
- Sakurako

Enjoyment: 5/10
+ As I said eariler, good mysteries
- Sakurako's way of solving mysteries just bugs the hell out of me and made me lose interest and credibility in the series

Overall: 4/10

Thank you for reading.

If you had a chance to relive your youth, would you take it?

The story follows Kaizaki Arata, an unemployed 27-years-old man who is given that chance. After accepting it and taking a pill his body is now that of a 17-years-old adolescent and he must attend highschool again for a year.

This anime is kind of a "deconstruction" of teenage social relationships, mixing that with SOL and a bit of romance-comedy, with the addition that in the cast of youthful adolescents full of energy and love to give there is a grown up dude in the body of a teenager who sometimes acts like the ... voice of experience, trying to relive his youth at his fullest and making his new friends enjoy their youth while they still can, though not making their lives simpler.

Somehow I feel that this anime falls into the same category of Kokoro Connect. ReLIFE explores those relationships from the point of view of a 27-years-old man. The basis for the plot of ReLIFE (the pill and stuff) are rather incredible (as seen in Detective Conan) but it never affects the unraveling of the story. It has its tedious moments of slowness and repetitiveness that I feel are important to get more in touch with the characters, but overall it's fairly good.

Characters are rather cliché (but honestly where do you see characters in a school based SOL that aren't cliché), you have the silent girl, the tomboyish-girl, the laid-back boy, et cetera. Character development is really slow at the start of the series in my opinion and feels very rushed when it actually happens. At some point the development is stationary (the tedious part I mentioned earlier), when the series focuses on the past of some characters. There are little to no interventions of background characters or even side characters that are important for like a half of an episode though. In any case, again, this doesn't affect the unraveling of the plot towards the ending.

The design of the characters is very solid, they never lose their shape nor feel off while out of focus. Somehow the drawing and their reactions feel exaggerated like those of an anime of the past decade (you know, very "anime-ish") and I personally feel that it's pretty nice (sometimes I miss them watching new shows). The backgrounds aren't tough but simple, and visually the series is very pleasant to watch. Voice acting has nothing much remarkable in my opinion, as it's well done but in some few moments the tone of the voice feels uncompatible with the expressions of the character. Talking about the soundtrack I really liked those eccentric piano passages that are played in tension moments, and the rest of the soundtrack fits the atmosphere of a SOL but is not memorable at all, mostly because the whole soundtrack is rather absent for the majority of the series.

In any case this is a fun and pleasant series to watch, besides everything I really enjoyed the series. The jokes are ok, the drama is nice and the plot is easy to follow along. I highly recommend it if you like SOL with a bit of insight in social relationships.

I would like to have watched this series when I was in high school.

Quantifying:
STORY: 7/10
Art: 8/10
Sound: 6/10
Character: 6/10
Enjoyment: 9/10
OVERALL: 8/10

Thank you for reading.

Have you ever thought about really how horrifying it might be to respawn in real life? Just like you do in videogames. You play your game but damn! made a mistake and now everybody is dead. No problem! Just get yourself killed and try again if you have spare lives, trying not to make the same mistake and then save the world. Imagine this same situation but in the flesh. You made a mistake, and now all your friends dead because of you. You can almost feel the suffering of your loved ones that now lay dead at your feet. And now the reset button ... is getting yourself killed. If you were able to reset time before everything was ruined and try again, failing and watching everybody die again and again, would you endure it until you make it?

Re:Zero, the anime that drove everyone mad with suspense and started the Waifu Wars of 2016. A mixture between suspense, drama, action and comedy, founded over the being-sucked-into-another-world premise. The series that seemed so entertaining and so interesting at first with the addition of a new element: the Reset. As episodes passed, the series grew with mystery and unanswered questions, the action scenes and the drama had everyone at the edge of their seats, and one question arose: Will it live up to stay a good series?

...No. It didn't.

This review contains mild spoilers.

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Story: 4/10

To be honest the story is the weakest point of the anime. At first it seemed like a great mashup between the being sucked into another world (from now on: Isekai) and time travel, then adding the classic otherworldly royalty to the mix, all with a hint of adventure, action and suspense. The problem is that in the anime, Re:Zero never gets the chance to fully exploit none of these elements, and collapses thanks to its own weight.

At the start we have our main protagonist the NEET Natsuki Subaru who, by unknown reasons, gets sucked in to another world. He never wonders why and never shows any interest in coming back, maybe it was a blessing! Ok so, little or nothing is known about Subaru's past in Earth. The instant he is sucked into the world of Re:Zero the only mentions we have to Earth are Natsuki's groceries and his cellphone, elements that he knew how to use very well later in the series. From there on, all the plot transcurs in this new world. What bugs me the most is that exactly, the Earth, the past of Subaru (and the suck) are forgotten completely and play absolutely no role in the development of the plot afterwards. I felt that as a waste of potential (Subaru may have been a lone wanderer from the same world instead and the series would be 95% the same), but not that serious.

At some point in the series I thought the series was going to add harem into the mix (WOW suddenly the MC is living with FOUR WOMEN AND AN AMBIGUOUS GUY) but thankfully it didn't.
The whole reset/timetravel/checkpoint stuff seemed to be the main flavour of the anime and it opened the door to some very interesting and dark approaches to the isekai element. We are used to see Isekai anime as lighthearted comedy-adventure series and in the first episode Re:Zero seemed just like that, but when the Reset element was revealed the series showed some GREAT potential. Thanks to it we're able to compare Re:Zero with other time-travel/reset anime like Steins;Gate, Madoka or Higurashi. What I like about these is that we get to see the cast pushed to the ends of their sanity, acting like you would have never expected to see them act (Mami from Madoka and the whole cast of Higurashi are an example) and then resetting a timeline, leaving us with the protagonist trying to avoid getting to the point they were just in, obviously with a BIG impact in their minds every time a reset is done. Re:Zero achieved just this and it was by far the main reason it had me wanting more and more on the first half of the series.

However, the Reset element in Re:Zero prevented the development of the main plot as we were stuck in time, obviously. With the Maids arc over I thought "wow, so this anime really had a plot!". From the royal election onwards I felt like I was watching a different series. The mystery was gone, the series became another adventure anime. In a sense, Subaru just accepts that he is in another world and can time travel (and WOW he can cast magic spells as well!) and doesn't go further than that.

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Art: 7/10

The vast majority of the show is delivered with beautiful drawings and fluid animation (except for the last two episodes, wonder what happened there). Character design is nothing out of the ordinary (just when did anime eyes become smaller and nobody noticed?). For some reason nowadays I feel that every character design is exactly the same with no difference between studios but hey! that's just me. Not many complains here.

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Sound: 8/10

The voice actors did good job interpreting their characters. The OST of the series is pretty good and it does a good job linking shock scenes with the "ha!" choir. The OPs and EDs are really good and have lyrics related to the plot and very well represent what's going on: Redo with its reversed guitar and noisy synthesizers representing going back in time (reset!) and its opening animation which contains itself reversed at the end of it, representing the Reset-centered first half of the anime; Paradisus-Paradoxum has a more mystical feel to it, with the addition of strings, eerie choirs and electronic beats, representing the more adventure-ish half of the show.

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Character: 5/10

Even though for some reason I liked the cast, EVERYONE is a stereotypical anime character, from the NEET boy, the cute princess, the maids, the mascots, the bishonens, the cool swordsman with a dark past, with the eccentric villain and not forgetting the know-it-all loli who speaks in a weird way. Characters get fair development (Subaru with his constant heroic BSOD and Rem being the prime examples) and most characters are justified despite being generic (except for Beatrice's way of talking, that was just cliché).

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Enjoyment: 7/10

Even though no plot gets unraveled at its fullest and despite the generic cast, I enjoyed the series. Why? I just don't know, but the series managed to make me enjoy it.

As you may have read, I really enjoyed the first half of the series, so much that my rating was a 9 with hints of a 10 (maybe too much). My cravings for another episode and for knowing just what was going on slowly decayed after episode 12, when I was slowly accepting the fact that no one was going to explain anything and all the mysteries were going to be kept unresolved by the end of the series. Some say Re:Zero ended in episode 15 and I feel like it was a good episode to abort the series in.

It didn't feel like the plot holes were left intentionally. It felt like somebody gave Subaru the ability to use magic and then everybody forgot about it.

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OVERALL: 7/10

Thank you for reading.
I did this review considering how the series ended and that there is more source material.

COUGHCOUGHCOUGHthisisawelldonezeronotsukaimaCOUGHCOUGHCOUGH.

So this is one of the series that combines almost all the cliches into one anime, but, it does it well. Or something like that.

Story: 7

So we have our tipical "chosen-one" plot, when somebody somewhere in the world gets sucked into another dimension for good. In most series, the chosen one acts like a complete retard, asking everytime what to do. But this anime breaks completely this tradition, and the chosen one practically DESERVES to be the chosen one.
In the other dimension, two kingdoms-or-whatever-they-are are in a "war", and the -apparently- good kingdom needs more attack power, and is forced to summon a person from ... other dimension that helps.
This kingdom, Biscotti, ends up summoning Izumi Cinque, a 13 year old boy with great talent in what sports and athletics means.
Izumi, when summoned, acts like all the chosen ones should do. He agrees to help with the kingdom with his abilities, and doesn't forget that he came from The Earth. Basically, his primary goal is to help, and go back to the Earth.
Story goes on and on.

Speaking about other things, there is a giant plot twist in the middle (that I am not going to tell you) that gets twisted by the plot itself (you know, a twisted plot-twist), but well.

Fact: The battles are a reality show. (Monitored by television, but not like a war, more like American Gladiator)
Fanservice fact: It appears that everytime an important person loses a battle, HER (only her) clothes explode.


Art: 8

The drawing and the animation here is very well done, but not nothing outstanding though.


Sound: 8

The OST is very good, the tracks are well composed and well placed in the anime. But there is a very little lack in the voice acting, where 1/6 of the time the actitude of the voice and the flacial expression of the character doesn't match very well. But nothing very huge though.


Character: 7

Like I said at the beginning of this review, this anime is filled with cliches, and the characters are a cliche party.

(I will list only the important or must-review characters lol.)

Izumi Cinque: Main protagonist. The chosen one, that deserves to be the chosen one. A talented boy that gets sucked into another dimension. In my opinion, this guy was the best character in the whole series, because he doesn't act like a retard when sucked. (Sorry, I just can't say another word, get used to it.)

Millhiore "Millhi" Firianno Biscotti: 14 year old princess of Biscotti. The sucker. She sucked Izumi. Also, she's an idol. Our typical female protagonist that cares for the hero and acts like a sister for him. She's good.

Leonmitchelli "Leo" Galette des Rois: The princess of Galette, as well as one of the most giant tsundere there is, I am not going to tell you why, she just is. (You know, japanese really likes russian people with french names living in an english house)

Ricotta "Rico" Elmar: Lollipop lollipop, oh loli loli loli. She's the mad scientist in the series. Great character though. (loli fanservice ahead, she loses a battle.)

Eclair Martinozzi: You know everytime the male protagonist introduces himself, inmediately the wild Tsundere appears. Well, it's her. (Nothing new here, our typical tsundere we all know).

Brioche d'Arquien: The samurai girl. Energic and fast, like a samurai would be de gozaru.

Godwin Dorure: AAAANDERSEEEENNNN

Vert Far Breton: So, this is a war between dogs and cats. WOULD YOU PRODUCERS TELL ME WHY THERE IS A BUNNY HERE?!

Gaul Galette Des Rois: The brother of Leo, and a cat version of InuYasha, say, NekoYasha.

Yukikaze Panettone: Another samurai de gozaru.

Amelita Trompette: Secretary. And a musical instrument.

Noir Vinocacao: A SMILING REY AYANAMI. PERIOD.


Enjoyment: 7

I really liked this series... in its second half. The first is somewhat lazy, but I personally believe that it was that way to make the ambience for what is going to happen (zomg spoiler).


Overall: 7

Why I liked it: If you haven't put attention in all this review, the protagonist is not a dumbass.

This is a good series that you can watch if you don't have anything else to do in a day. I am not saying that is bad, simply it is not really great, and it is not bad, but I simply rather watching other series than this. Well, it's up to you. You decide. Go.


(English is not my native language, sorry for all the mistakes.)

First of all, I reccomend to watch this anime if you know Spanish and if you know a little of latin and mexicain culture. I did not watch this anime with subs, so I can't tell you how it was in Japan, but in latin america, when this anime was airied, it was amazing. The dubbing is outstanding and the jokes are extremely funny, sort of like what happened to The Simpsons (Latin dubbing is better than original).

This is one of those comedy animes divided into three segments of 7 minutes, each one with a different story. I can tell you: The first segment is ... about ordinary life (sitcom), the second is sort of like romantic comedy, and the third is all about parody. There is no main plot, and the main characters don't have a goal per se.

The characters are memorable. Koni, the main protagonist, is a obese twelve-year-old kid, and still, he is the most famous person in the world, the strongest person in the world, and the incarnation of all virtues in history.
High, his buddy, is eccentric, hyperactive, and he starts a fire wherever he is.
Nari, another buddy, is the richest boy in the world, he can buy anything that was, is or will be in this universe.

And there is the moe-sexy-girl, Moro, who is in love of Koni. She is a exhibitionist, causing nosebleed to almost every human but Koni.
There is no Evil Castrating Dark Horrible Powerful antagonist, but what could be the bad guy, is the boss of an organization called The Bad Guys, and he has two sidekicks. He is known for dating the wife of the armed-man, called "Tal Iván", whose name is a pun of the Talibans.

The art is not so amazing but simple: The extras are drawn with cyan and magenta colors, and there is one character that is a purple man with golden sort-of-like glasses.

The BGM of this anime is PERFECT for this anime, I'm still criying I can't found it on the internetz.

Anyways, I don't think you'll enjoy this anime if you are not latin or if you don't know spanish and don't know about mexicain culture. But if you do, like me, you'll find this anime extremely funny, and you can rewatch it forever.

NOTE: This review is based only on the latin-dubbed version. I did not watch it in japanese, but I don't think it was bad in Japan.