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I will keep it spoiler free.

Let me start with the concept, the entire plot and the way they built it is amazing. It looks so unique, so fresh, so alluring right from the first episode. It might look like a romance anime from few screenshots but believe me, it's nothing like a rom. It's a hardcore mystery with some classic jump scares and no it's not a horror anime. You get mystery, suspense, thrill, top notch story, one of the best OST's of 2021, and a great immersive experience.

I really like how it handled the time travel concept. ... I wondered why did shaking hand time travel in Tokyo Revengers looked dumb but a high five time travel in Link Click looked so awesome. I think the idea behind the power system makes the difference. TR explained nothing and relied heavily on time travel while Link Click handled it perfectly and explained everything gradually with minimum plot conveniences or plot holes.

Also, the motivation to time travel is intriguing. It's started as public service and not something as a way to save your loved one. Plus the "Past cannot be changed" was very well executed. I think this is the best time travel concept I've seen in last few years.

It has a great sense of realism in it. It's very grounded in general and that makes it even more interesting. The thing that starts as a hard hitting SoL(and believe me I have never seen situations so realistic in animated media ever. It felt like I was watching a story of people I know at all the times) suddenly turns out to be a mind boggling and a well knitted murder mystery with elements of surprise and shock to make it even more interesting.

Overall if I had to phrase it in a single sentence, I would say "It's real enough to keep your interest and intense enough to keep you on the edge."

Overall a solid 9/10

Attack on Titan has various things because of which it's deemed as a masterpiece by many. One of those things is the heavy realism. What looks like a horror fantasy quickly changes its tone and becomes a realistic, modern, pre war setting, psychological drama anime. The duality of freedom and the causes and consequences of long borne hatred are perfectly depicted.

The way the characters interact with others, react to situations, all of it is done extremely well. Fighting for freedom, oppression of a race, politics, war, ask for anything and AoT provides it to you.

One of the most important things is the narration and story ... telling. The amount of foreshadowing and how every piece of mystery connects them together at the end, just makes one wanna wonder about the depth of the plot.

Growth of characters, Eren grew up from being a naive and revenge thirsty person to someone who understands the world more than anyone.

Upto E5 the adaptation has been faithful with very less skips from the source. I would like to write much more but that'd be spoiling for anime onlies.

With that being said now I can claim AoT Final Season to be 10/10 masterpiece.

Well this is definitely a great revenge story(kind off).

It's one of those where you just can't get to hate even a single character.

It's really nice at deceiving you. Tho that thing backfires at a point since it gets repetitive on that note. Well even with that, it manages to trick you into thinking the obvious as expected but delivers the unexpected in the end. The twists are really nice, especially at the end of the final arc.

Glad is wasn't rushed. Slow and steady plot progress and nice character development to each character.

Gets realistic at times, which I am a fan of personally.

Except for that it ... has some unique writing as well. Based on con artists, it covers a lot of areas that are prone to fraud. Like art museum, human trafficking, betting, etc.

Music is top notch. So is the animation. Personally a fan of glossy and fluid animation. Include some nice character designs and it's a visual treat.

Plot: 9/10
Animation: 9/10
Music: 10/10
Characters: 9/10
Direction: Perfect/10

Overall: 9/10

It starts off with a very depressive tone. It feels like a long journey that'll lead to nothing for those kids.

The start can be boring and initial episodes contribute mostly nothing to the main plot. They feel like a batch of episodes to show their childhood.
It's thematically rich and gets deep on ideologies by the end. It more or so manages to deliver what it promises at the start; A dark mystery fantasy with a lot of realism and flawed characters.

It keeps you hanging at times and tries to be excessively smart with all those strong medical terms and some very rare English words.

Just after ... it manages to catch your interest, it makes you excruciatingly disgusted and awkward with yaoi and yuri scenes. They don't last long enough but explicitly showing them feels extremely unnecessary to me.

The story is well knitted. Foreshadowing is nice. Soundtracks are intriguing, perfectly fitting the theme.

It explains almost everything that it creates a suspense for.

Characters are extremely flawed and hence make the story great in all ways. I liked Squeeler and Kiroumaru more than any human characters. In fact hated most of them humans. Why squeeler? He was a great antagonist. "We are not beasts. We are not your slaves. We are humans." This dialogue specially hit hard. He received the worst possible punishment for what he did. The scene where they explained his parallels of getting infants stolen was just sad, too sad. Why Kiroumaru? A straightforward guy with no doubts in his mind. When asked, he straight away told his old plans that he no longer holds onto. Also he was the reason humans were able to win in the end.

This anime is another one that delivers the dark side of human society. I never thought they'd go deep into Eugenics(Yes one those excessively smart words I picked from it. Ffs they couldn't call it manipulating DNA). It was hard to take how the human society enslaved their own kind. It was painfully disturbing to some extent but it has happened in the past just without the use of Eugenics so it kinda made it realistic.

Apart from the usual, the storytelling feels off at times. Direction is 100% not that great as we'd expect from A1 pictures(Look at Magi. The direction is ¹1beautiful). Character feelings and expressions are definitely not well conveyed. You can hardly distinguish a sad face from a face in complete terror. It's only thanks to dialogues that you get an idea of how they feel.

Flawed characterization. They make the story more interesting but it legit makes you hate some scenes. This main girl literally destroyed their only weapon to win against the fiend. This is over exaggeration in flaws. Literally you see your village die and you SIMP over a single guy and risk others? Didn't go too well with me.

With that being said the human psychology and traits, their superiority complex is just greatly shown. Loved that part of it.

It has its own pacing issues but not that big.

Definitely one of the best Adventure Fantasy that I watched alongside Made in Abyss.

Plot: 9.5/10
Animation and Art: 8.5/10
Music: 9/10
Characters: 8/10
Direction and execution: Poor/10
Overall: 8.5/10

Balance: Unlimited starts with no plot. It's just a chad, rich guy apprehending crime scenes with money. It more or so looks like an anime made purely for enjoyment.

But plot grows better and better after 5 episodes and shifts its focus from pure enjoyment to some murder mystery. Honestly it did deliver the suspense really well with number of plot twists and unexpected plot points.

Music was top notch.

Direction was "ehh"! Sometimes characters just stood there as if they had no feelings and didn't care if they got attacked. Action felt restrictive.

Obscure character feelings made it difficult to watch at times but it's not much of ... a problem.

Enjoyment: 10/10
Animation: 7/10
Music: 10/10
Direction: 4/10

Overall: 8/10

Oregairu is a huge rollercoaster. Talking in its entirety, it starts off with a great theme of comedy. Hachiman the self proclaimed loner, is a worshiper of nihilism. Denying any sort of genuineness is his moto. He's filled with edginess. Asserting various quotes at rightful times which more or so sound reasonable from my very subjective point of view is something I adore about the series.

"Efforts will never betray you, but they may betray your dreams". He wasn't wrong there but that doesn't mean there's no value in giving it your all, which he eventually learns as the seasons go on. He learns his ... ideals are not always correct.

Getting caught up in a love triangle with both girls thinking they are being third wheeled by the other is the very intriguing essence of Oregairu. The realism is heavy. The way these characters grow up is awesome. Smallest of decisions change your life and the message was strongly conveyed in it.

Besides that, I got it on facebook under some random post, "Admittance is the first step towards Understanding". This is again a heavily focused point. You can't expect the other to understand without you expressing yourself. And you definitely cannot express without admitting your feelings.

Don't want to keep it too long just that this was a revolutionary series for me personally. I hated rom coms before this and I've dropped a lot of them before. But my faith in rom coms is at all time high after watching Oregairu. It's a must watch for any RomCom and SoL fan.

Overall rating: 10/10 plot wise. Yeah studio messed up a lot, but that doesn't let down the plot.