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I recently started writing reviews so am not gonna go full on philosophical like most people did.

Usagi Drop is a short anime about a 30 year-old man raising the illegitimate child of his grandfather( a 5 year-old girl). The anime follows the daily life of Daikichi and Rin (the cutest anime character in history) and how Daikichi learns about parenthood and family while Rin is learning about life.

For me, the anime is an absolute masterpiece since it fulfills its purpose. It's simply an anime that will put a smile on your face and a warm fluffy feeling in your heart. The art, sound and voice ... acting performances come together to make the experience of watching Usagi Drop even more beautiful. Making it the only anime I have lost count how many times i watched it.

Shinsekai Yori (From the New World) a catchy title that you will see in all 25 episodes of the anime (to keep reminding you that they came up with a good name i guess). Anyway, it's about a group of children in a post-apocalyptic future living in a controlling society that keeps children in the dark about all sorts of things. The anime is about the search for the truth, weather about the human history or about the current society, and about themselves and their feelings and personalities.

The show starts in a very good way that will get most people hooked, but suddenly it ... gets confusing,rushed and cliche out of nowhere. The first time skip was really confusing for me, as we see that not only the romantic inclinations of the characters have changed, but also their sexual orientations. And i think it went a bit like this:" How do we get people to like the show even if we know we're about the fuck it up? Just hit them with some Yaoi and Yuri so that anyone who dislikes it will be called homophobic and we'll get some high scores and good reviews".

After the first time skip, the show takes a huge detour towards being an absolute failure, it keeps bombarding the viewers with rushed scenes that add to the confusion, a hole lots of cliche scenes with no addition to the story and without even realizing... you guessed it! Another time skip and now the characters are 26 year-old good looking people who are still thinking and acting like 14 year-olds.

This review sounds more like a rant than a real review because Shinsekai Yori is one of the very few anime with a well written original story that could have made an absolute masterpiece of an anime, but it ended up being just another cliche anime that got lots of hype and great reviews just because it looked good and dealt with homosexuality (kinda). It is another example of a brilliant idea executed awfully.

I hate long reviews so i ll make this quick and spoiler free.


The movie is an absolute masterpiece that will make you dying for the second season to air. Made in Abyss the only anime that can make this kind of mixture of cuteness and and darkness and wrap it all up in the most outstanding art and music creating a dream-like atmosphere that will make you live every second of it and end it with the bitterness of waking up from a beautiful engaging dream.

This is my first review btw and i was to submit it but the website asked me to make it ... longer for some reason.