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Feb 17, 2024

Saihate no Paladin: Tetsusabi no Yama no Ou (Anime) add

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This is a decent anime, but it unfortunately suffers from a lot of glaring flaws.

- Firstly, the world building is not very good. In two seasons, we've haven't even stepped out of Southmark. Hell, we've only really been introduced to 5 distinct areas: the ruins where Will grew up and the High King was sealed, the Beast Woods, Whitesails, Torch Port, and the Rust Mountains. It may seem like a lot, but as far as I can tell, these are all around the same area. I would've liked to see more variety, with our protagonist visiting new kingdoms and meeting new people.

- The ... next problem is the character building; a lot of it was very rushed. The ending of the second season was supposed to be an epic battle with the protagonist's comrades, but it fell flat due to a lack of any connection felt towards the supporting cast. Imagine The Hobbit, but you skip 95% of the events that make you care about the characters in the first place and skip right to the final battle.
Menel is the only one most viewers would have any reasonable attachment to, as he had a lot of character development in the first season. The other characters quite frankly weren't fleshed out enough to make me care about them. Reystov had some screentime in the last season, but his character development was nonexistent. All we really know of him is that he's a mercenary who chases glorious battles. That's literally it. I don't know if the source material was more in depth, but the anime did a horrible job of fleshing out his backstory. Gelraise fared slightly better, with a somewhat touching backstory. Vindalfr did indeed have a character arc of sorts, however, it felt very rushed. It felt like his personality switched midway through the anime. However, Robina and Tonio, arguably some of the main cast in the first season, barely had any screentime this season. The first episode featured Robina, but I failed to understand the point of the episode and it felt a lot like filler.
As for the MC, the Faraway Paladin himself, I found his personality this season far more bland and boring as compared to the first season.

- Lastly, the pacing of both seasons feel very....off. It's extremely rushed in some places, slow in others, and it ends up being
an incoherent experience where you're struggling to keep track of what's going on.

Overall, it's a decent enough watch if you're a fan of classic fantasy media. It particularly reminds me of the Hobbit, but obviously falls short of Tolkien's magical writing by a large margin. If you aren't expecting a masterpiece, you'll likely come away satisfied.

Final Ratings:
Animations and Art Design - 7.5/10. Nothing to complain about here, it's very well done except a few CGI scenes of dubious quality. However, those were few and far between.
Sound Design - 7/10
Character Design - 6/10
Plot - 6.5/10
Combat Scenes - 7.5/10
Overall Score - 6.9/10

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Jun 21, 2023

Kimetsu no Yaiba: Katanakaji no Sato-hen (Anime) add

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First of all, I really like Demon Slayer. I'm not a hater or anything, I loved S1, Mugen Train and S2. I'm just really disappointed with S3. I seem to be in the minority here as the MAL score is barely lower than S1. Basically, here is my argument -

Bad pacing - Felt quite rushed. Nothing much to say here.

Plot - Do keep in mind I haven't read the manga, and don't intend to. Maybe I'm dumb, but I don't get the plot in this season. So the super secret swordsmith village, which I may add, is VITAL to the existence of the demon slayers, ...

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