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Okay, here we go. Hmm, there will be minor spoilers, but I think it won't hurt anyone who haven't watched it (most of it are already in the synopsis).

Story (8/10)
I have to admit that Harmony give us an interesting concept of a futuristic world. In Harmony, humans has advanced to the level that they have defeated disease and aging. A system called 'Watch Me' also guide humans to have a perfect healthy life and follow the social ethics (well, you'll see more feature of this system by watching the movie). The only minus of this 'Watch Me' is your life can be watched by the ... government.

Life with no disease and death is amazing right? It's heaven. Well, for most peole that is. Being watched and trapped by system made Miach, a friend of Tuan Kirie(our protagnist), felt that she lost her identity and freedom. Finally, Miach along with Kirie and one of her friend decided to commit suicide. Tuan was saved, but Miach was reported dead.

13 years later, Tuan becomes Inspector of Spiral (watched from Indonesian subtitle, don't really know the name in English, well, some kind of top world organization that manage world order or something). While being off duty and once again back in Japan, a sudden mass suicide incident that robbed thousands of humans life happened. How could this incident happen in a supposedly perfect society? Is there a connection between this incident and Miach's suicide incident? Once again, Tuan will have to face her buried past and put an end to it.

I have to remind the watcher that this movie has many complex dialogues and the pace is rather slow. That aside, this movie brings us an interesting world and questions what does it mean to be human and explores a complex mind of a human in an interesting way. The movie also managed to serve a mysterious atmosphere that might please people who loves a mystery sci-fi films.

Characters (8/10)
Harmony mostly explore the character of Tuan Kirie, our main protagonist. The movie is seen from Tuan's perspective, and there are a lot of monologues. We rarely get a clear picture of other characters except for one. Tuan's way of thinking and mental conflict is presented well as we can see from her monologues and flashback.

Something that could be praised from Harmony is that the movie managed to give a complex and interesting characterization of Miach from Tuan's flashback and monologues. We see how complex Miach's logic is from her old conversation with Tuan. The movie also built the background of Miach rather well and we can see why Miach developed that strange logic.

Art & Sound (8/10 & 7/10)
I usually don't pay much attention to the animation/art and sound so I'll keep this short. I like the characters design and the shape of the futuristic world. Eventhough sometimes the people on the anime sometimes replaced with CG animation, the movie still looks very good. The BGM managed to build a mysterious atmosphere along the film, but unfortunately there are almost no music that builds an intense situation. Oh, and if you're a fan of Sawashiro Miyuki you're very welcome to watch this show.

Enjoyment (7.5/10)
Seeing the score of Harmony movie is 6.96 on MAL made me doubt the quality of the movie. Even so I tried to watch it and before I knew it I was glued in front of the screen. I'd say my enjoyment is 7.5/10. Could be higher but I'm not really fond of the ending haha.

Overall, 8/10. This movie has flaws and people have different opinions. Still, I hope my review would be helpful to you.

Warning : spoilers ahead. For those who don't want to be spoiled, stay away from this review XD

Well, where do we start?

We all knew that there would be some disappointments after watching this movie. When I saw the title, 'Final', I expect something great. Building a story to a good final arc, and giving a good final conclusion. Well, my expectations was not fulfilled at all. But it doesn't mean this movie was terrible at all, I just feel this shouldn't be a final movie for Sora no Otoshimono franchise. Fans that only follow the anime (including me) would be extremely disappointed.

First problem of this ... movie is.. the story, or I should say the only problem. At first few minutes (around 5 minutes), we got to see amazing and emotional scenes. It was a good start of the movie. After that suddenly we were shown daily lives in Tomoki's house. It makes the watcher eager to wait to see how the story goes until that first amazing scenes happened. But.. unfortunately.. we won't get it. The movie only tells comedic daily lives and interaction between characters until before the emotional final scene.

Just by watching this movie, eventhough I haven't read the manga, I know this movie skipped a lot of chapters. Anime watcher wil really have no idea how the story becomes like that. Honestly, rather than making the movie like that, I think if it would be a final movie, it would be definitely better to adapt the final arc of the manga, even though it would feel rushed.

Okay, leave the negative points behind (and my personal disappointment T.T), this movie also got good points. For the art, well, it wasn't improved from the previous series/movie, I think. Or was the previous movie even do a better job (doubt)? Anyway, the animation was pretty good. But too bad we got no battle scene in this movie. For the sound I think the BGM was good, especially when Ikaros flies to synapse. ED song was good too.

Next, for the characters. Previous characters are back, even Chaos is back. I missed them a little bit. They still have the same personalities. For character development, we don't see much, except that we could see emotional side of Ikaros and I like it.

Now, for the enjoyment. If this movie was actually an OVA and wasn't a final movie, I could get some good enjoyment. There are some good comedic and touching scenes which I really enjoy. What brings my enjoyment down is that this movie was a final movie.

Well, overall score from me would be 6. I still don't understand why they made the final movie like this. Do they want us anime watcher to read the manga? Anyway, this movie is still worth watching and really really make you want to read the manga (I'll read it immediately after this!!).

Warning : minor spoilers ahead

It was a month ago when I finished cowboy bebop series, and i would say that i was a little bit disappointed. Why would I be disappointed? Well, mostly because many episodes almost feel like fillers, they don't support character development and some enemies just minor criminals/bounties and those villains rarely have interesting characters.

After sometime, I decided to watch the CB movie. And I would say the movie was very good. This movie has the elements that some cowboy bebop episodes lack. Mostly the well developed story and characters(villains).

Story (8/10)
"Which one is dream? Which one is reality? A 'deadman', searching ... for that answer, tries to endanger the society. It is up to Spike and the gang to stop him". Yup, that was pretty much the synopsis of the movie. Like the series, the story presents a sci-fi modern era where humans has lived in other planets. Our MCs (Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed), are bounty hunters. This time, they are trying to catch an unknown terrorist. Unlike the series, which lack episodic story development because they have only 20 minutes duration for one story, the movie has almost 2 hours duration. It really has a great difference to tell a story. The story plot is very well chronologically executed, and not rushed. We got to see a complex investigation, gaining information, interesting background story and past of the main villain, good action scenes, and a nice final conclusion of all of them. The big differences i felt most with the series are this movie presents us a nice built villains, well developed plot, bigger case and conflicts that put our MCs in critical situation, which rarely seen in the series.

Art (9/10)
Considering the time it was aired, I would say the animations are great. The backgrounds are nice and the movements were fluid. But what I like most is the character design. It was unique in my opinion, no moe, and it gives me more mature atmosphere from it.

Sound (8/10)
The sountrack is like the original series, the classic ones. Nice OP and ED. Soundtracks also fit well with the atmosphere of the scenes. Though a few scenes were quiet and don't have BGM in it. Voice acting is also good.

Character (8/10)
We got our MCs back, Spike and the gang, whose characters are the same with the series. Spike being a cool badass, Faye being selfish and ignorant, Jet who is sometimes being the most sane one, and Ed is.. crazy..
What really caught my attentions was the main villain's character, Vincent. A man with an interesting past that leads to his interesting philosophy (which one is dream, which one is reality). To seek his answes he will do anything. Interesting terrorism, which he also left mystery to be solved. Above all that, he also really got some skills to overpower the main protagonist.

Enjoyment (8/10)
Yeah, let's make this one short. From the scores above I'd say I really enjoy this movie. It was a nice watch and it has cured my disappointment of CB franchise.

Overall (8/10)
Cause the majority of above scores i gave were 8s, then my overall score would be 8, which means really good.

Warning :Minor Spoilers ahead
Ok, it's been a while since i saw this anime in top 30 anime list. Looking at the year it was aired I wasn't really interested to watch it. But after some friends recommend it to me and after I read sooo many reviews that give ten to Cowboy Bebop, I decided to watch it. At that time I was tired of animes that show too much moe, ecchi, and other stuff and I'll try the claasic ones. And.. It was..

Story : (7/10)
Ok, it has very interesting setting, a futuristic world where people have started living in other planets. Our MCs here, ... are bounty hunters who have their own unique past. Interesting setting right? Unfortunately, the execution of the story can't deliver it to the audience very well. Cowboy Bebop is too episodic which almost each episode has each own story. And from this episodic episodes, huge conflicts are only in 5 episodes or something ( if I remember it correctly). I wouldn't mind if other episodes are exciting, but most of it are flat and seems useless. You can even throw some episodes away and it doesn't affect the main story. Watching Cowboy Bebop makes me tired of waiting about Spike's past and what will happen to him and Vicious. I have to watch some uninteresting and some useless episodes before i got to see it. It makes me bored. well, but Spike's story was amazing so I think it's worth waiting.

Art : (8/10)
Art is very good. I like the character designs. Animation was amazing and makes me wonder if it really was made in 90's.

Sound : (8/10)
Nice OST

Enjoyment : (7/10)
Like I said before, it is hard to enjoy Bebop because some episodes seem useless and feel like filler. Some episodes are just plain and don't excite me. I can really enjoy only a few episodes.

Overall : (7/10)
Overall, 7. It was interesting, but it wasn't exciting. Main concept is very good, but too many plain episodes. Maybe because it's classic, some rate it very high (mostly 10). But I don't want too rate it according to the time it was made. I won't divide anime between classic or not. I was also confused to rate it whether 7 or 8. I chose 7 finally. I think it deserves 8. But to me, 8.83 seems little overrated. But well, for those retro anime fans, I'm sorry. People have different opinion sometimes, right?

I've watched several romance anime, but mostly romcom and ef: A Tale of Memories is just so different. Well, it has seinen genre.

Story (8/10)
The concept of the story is interesting, it is unique and not just focusing on one character. Every character has their own background and story development. The story flows rather slow paced, but it flows nicely. It's not easily predictable and you can become curious of what happens next. The climax before the ending is amazing, and the ending was great. Every character made their decision.

Art (8/10)
Art is great. The background is good and I think the art style is unique. They ... would give different colors depends on the situation. The art style can really picture the atmosphere and situation well.

Sound (8/10)
Sound is good. The BGMs fits the situation well and not only fit but also help to enhance them. OP euphoric field really fits the theme of this anime. Every girl has their own ED song.

Characters (8/10)
Characters are great. It's the strong element of this show. They have their own interesting backgrounds and condition. What they do according their condition and how they develop in it is very well told. Feelings and emotions grow within each episode and it's really interesting to watch it.

Enjoyment (8/10)
Even though ef doesn't have intense humor or action that can be hyped of, I still really enjoy it. I think the development and the flow of the story is the one that make make enjoy it.

Overall (9/10)
What a great show. I think it's one of the best romance anime I've ever watched so far. I'm interested to see ef: A Tale of Melodies as well. I hope the story is as good as 'memories' or even better.

Fate Zero 2nd season is one of my favorite anime. As expected from Urobutcher, this anime is dark and many characters died. Here's my opinion :

Story (9/10)
Actually, the main theme is simple, a battle between 7 masters and their servants to obtain the holy grail which is said to have the power to make any wish come true. What makes it become interesting is the characters background and their development and act in that one simple theme. We were showed their backgrounds, their purpose, and what they protect and treasure most. Well, but it doesn't really have a good end. Oh, and compared to season ... 1, the story is more fast paced.

art (10/10)
I can't say anything except, 'amazing'. UFOTABLE really did it! The animation is superb.

Sound (10/10)
The OP ED was good. But the best is the BGMs. It is not just enhancing the situation, but also building and developing the atmosphere of every scene. It really fits the scenes very well.

Character (9/10)
Character development was superb. All characters have amazing development. We can see some dark side of the MC that would sacrifice anything in order to obtain his wish, also his dark, sad and tearing past. And the main antagonist finally become the real bad guy. We can also see some development of relationship between masters and their servants. Characters development made the story become really interesting.

Enjoyment (9/10)
After watching all those awesomeness, of course I really enjoy it, i'll give it 9.

Overall (10/10)
Well, from previous scores, i'll give it 10. It is a masterpiece. I really love it. I hope the remake of Fate Stay Night would be great too.

Well, I have watched some animes but this is my first review. I just fell like writing it after i Watched this show. The first time i watched ep 1 of kill la kill when it was aired, i don't really like it. I decided to drop it. After sometimes, when it was finished airing, the score shocked my mind. Yes, 8.5. Anime which I thought was ridiculous has scrored so high. I decided to watch it again and finally I finished it. And here's my opinion:

Story (6/10)
The story is actually a simple one. It has 2 main points, revenge and stop the world domination.. ... by clothes, yeah right. Well maybe i think it's odd about clothes and stuff but maybe it has its own uniqueness, oh well.

Art (8/10)
Eventhough the art seems dull and low budgetted, it is actually unique. It reminds me of Gurren Lagann. It has a strong emotion in it eventhough it's not smooth.

Sound (9/10)
BGM was amazing, especially when the battle reach its climax.

Character (6/10)
When some characters are great and have their own points of interest, I found some characters are too ridiculous and annoying. You wouldn't joke when it comes to final battle, would you.

Enjoyment (6/10)
Everyone has their own taste, and I don't really like too much comedy or parody like Kill la Kill. I prefer more serious anime. Because of that I couldn'treally enjoy it.

Overall (7/10)
Well, everyone has their opinion, and I don't really like Kill la Kill. Actually I was about to give it 6, but I think it over again and give it 7. I don't want to just give it 6 subjectively, and I want to mark this anime objectively from every aspect. Still, in my opinion, it's overhyped. Well, maybe Kill la kill doesn't suit me, that's all. But it maybe is a great anime for the one who likes comedy, parody, and heavy battle.