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tl;dr
"Dahlia in Bloom" is a low-budget anime with average art and animation, though the character's eyes and emotional expressions stand out. The isekai aspect feels unnecessary, as it doesn't impact the plot at all. The world-building and the magic system, particularly the creation of magical tools, are well-executed. The characters are nice but underdeveloped, especially the side characters. The story starts strong but loses momentum after episode six. If you enjoy shows like "Ascendance of a Bookworm," you might like this one.

The review:
This anime has a low budget, and despite that, they managed to create something enjoyable.

The art is a low-mid tier, the eyes of ... the characters are the only part of the art that is really good and noticeable especially how the emotions are shown through their eyes; and also maybe some foods and the background, it's not bad and not good either, it's just in the middle and sometimes lower. The overall animation feels average at best, and I didn't like that they reused some scenes over and over again, like the leaf on the window, but it's not a big deal so I don't really care. The OST is sometimes noticeable, but not so often, so I can't say good things about it.

The setting especially the isekai part feels unnecessary and useless, I don't understand why they make it as Isekai when it doesn't have any influence on the show at all. Dahlia's past life in Japan is mentioned so briefly that it barely influences the story. The world-building, however, is done well. The magic system is shown in interesting ways, especially the creation of magical tools, which is a strong point of the series.

The characters are slightly above average. While they aren’t fully developed, their personalities are distinct enough to understand and feel them a little. However, I felt that they didn't do just to the side characters as some of them play a really big role in Dahlia's life. The show barely touches on their life and personalities while the characters themselves impact Dahlia a lot.

The story begins strong, steadily building intrigue in the first half of the show. Unfortunately, by episode six, the pacing slows down, and the plot feels like it loses momentum. While the show remains interesting, it lacks the same drive that made the earlier episodes entertaining.

Overall, I enjoyed the show, it's interesting and I didn't feel bored by it. However, some people might get bored by what I find enjoyable. The show focuses mostly on the creation of magical tools and is similar to "Bookworm" by the vibes it gives, which is something some people find boring. If you watched "Bookworm" and didn't like it, there is a high chance you will not like this show either.

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The anime starts with a decent premise, art, and opening music, but by episode two, it loses its appeal with rushed character development and cringe moments. The original setup of a gay and straight man living together gets destroyed when the straight character suddenly becomes overly "gay," undermining the potential of a balanced story. The fast-paced relationship development feels unnatural, and the emotional impact is more cringe than genuine. Overall, the first episode is promising, but the series quickly worsens, which makes it hard to recommend beyond that.

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The animation is not bad, standard animation, so there is nothing to add here. The ... art is nice, but there is nothing new here either. OST, I didn't feel it that much, but I managed to watch it only up to episode three, what I did like was the opening music it was really good. The story was original for a BL at the beginning and hyped me pretty much, but it got all destroyed by episode two and from my understanding, it completely shatters down later on. The emotional impact is weird, I didn't feel anything besides cringe, together with my sister with whom I watched this show. The characters are pretty basic, I can say the only character that is true to himself is Hisashi and his character development from the three episodes is nice. The relationship of the MC is going way too fast which feels unnatural, cringe and weird.

Overall, I enjoyed the first episode, but can't suggest you watch it above that tbh. I'll write my thoughts about the anime below, with possible minor spoilers, so read it if you want to know more.

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This anime was disappointing. I watch BL only with my sister, so when we both saw that the anime has a lot of great voice actors we were pretty interested and thought this anime would be great.

The first episode was good, however, closer to the end it became weird. I liked the idea of just two dudes, one gay and one straight living together. This anime could show that gay and straight can live shoulder to shoulder without any issues, but instead, it went for the ultra-weird BL and destroyed everything it was building in episode one.
Overnight the straight dude becomes gay even gayer than Hisashi, by doing that they destroy the whole idea of both worlds living together side by side and instead plant an idea that if a straight person lives with a gay they will become gay themselves (like the joke of catching a gay virus from Carl in Mr.Beast team) -_-

The second episode was too cringe, I and my sister cringed so hard. She said it was one of the cringiest BLs she had ever watched in her life, it was horrible. We hoped that what happened in episode two was just a dream, but nope it was not a dream. This anime had so much potential, but all this too-fast development just collapsed it. My sister said they usually do it in Yaoi, but not in Shounen Ai, so from her words, it felt like a weird Yaoi instead of a Shounen Ai.

I don't even bother myself to write a full review, but just a tl:dr version.

This anime is pure cancer and pointless. The comedy is super pushed and sometimes cringe and boring. Some people compared it to "Nichijou" - you serious? Lmao.

The first episode is nice, but after that, it quickly falls apart. In the beginning, it was super hyped, however by the release of episode five people almost forgot this anime existed.

I watched it up to the third episode and couldn't force myself to continue, it was bad. What is the point of episode two again? To introduce a new character? They did it badly ... and wasted 24 minutes of my life for nothing. They didn't even introduce the new character as needed, and I felt I wasted my time.

The ost is nice, the animation is average, the art is generic and the comedy is pushed too hard on us it's not even funny. Tbh Skibidi Toilet has a better plot than this anime. Watch this anime at your own risk, you have been warned.

TL;DR
"Girls Band Cry" is a CGI-driven music anime that may "scare" viewers with its animation style, but it's worth giving a few episodes a try. The CGI quality is impressive, with smooth animation and expressive characters that rival 2D classic anime style if not better. While the soundtrack is decent, it lacks variety, and the setting isn't unique. The emotional impact is solid, and while the characters are generally well-developed, Nina becomes an increasingly annoying character which may make the show hard to watch. Overall the show improves over time, making it enjoyable for people who like music anime, with good and mature characters if ... we not counting Nina in, also Hina did nothing wrong.

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Well, it took me a while to finish this series, because I kept it aside. This anime is totally CGI with some minor 2D stuff in it, so many people may drop it after the first few seconds or don't watch it at all. I can suggest you before dropping, please consider watching a couple of episodes. I'll explain later why the CGI here is not an issue at all.

Let's start with the elephant in the room, animation, or the CGI. The animation of the CGI in this anime is on a high level it's better than most 2D animes on the market, I enjoyed it more than a 2D anime. All the emotions and reactions and the smoothness of the characters are shown well. The people behind the CGI did splendid work! What difference is it from other CGI? First of all the animation, it's smooth, while in other works it's robotic and cheap. Second the quality of the models, they are really good! And lastly, they went the non-physic root! What do I mean by that? Usually in anime when they use CGI, they apply to it real-world physics so it looks awful compared to the 2D version, but here they kept the same semi-unrealistic anime physics in the CGI which makes you sometimes forget it's 3D and not 2D!

The OST of the anime is pretty decent, I can't say it's good, because it seems like they reuse the same three melodies, but they do it nicely. Personally, I didn't feel the OST too much, maybe except for the Nina emotions parts. it's a shame to be honest, because it is a music anime and the only OST you remember is the MUSIC itself and Nina's emotions.

The setting of this anime is not so unique, there is literally another anime in the same season this anime came out that has almost the same setting and story as this one. They did a well-done job, at least what they could do with a setting like this. Nothing we didn't see before, nothing new or revolutionary or rare.

The emotional impact this anime leaves behind is decent. You can feel in most scenes what the characters are feeling and in some serious scenes, it feels more serious, or in comedic scenes, you sometimes can get a secondhand embarrassment. I would say it's not super good, but it's decent.

The characters are well-developed, each receiving some degree of backstory. They are not on a 10 level, but like on a 7-8 level. Each character gets at least somewhat of her story shown to us, some characters who are more "main" get more story and some get less. The less important the character in the main cast, the less we know about her story. This is the main issue I have with the characters here. For example, the whole show follows Nina, but I don't find her story unique or interesting. Could be better if they tuned down her story a little and increased the story of the other characters. The anime did a bad job for Rupa and Tomo characters. I feel like because they have joined late to the group they left behind. We get to see some parts of their story in "memories" for a couple of seconds or from their own words here and there and that's it.

The show improved a lot, it went from "I'm not sure I gonna watch it, to, it's so so good! I can't stop watching!"
Overall I enjoyed the show very much, and can suggest it to anybody who somewhat likes music anime. You may have some issues with it later on if you don't like main characters who act super stupid or contradict themselves, but I'll write some of it with a spoiler warning if you are interested keep reading.

***SOME POSSIBLE MINOR SPOILERS SO READ ON YOUR OWN RISK FROM HERE ON!!!***

I wanted to say a couple of things, to let steam out. It is not a major spoiler, and for some may not be a spoiler at all, so I preferred to write a regular review with a warning, to let people know.
Nina Iseri, I hate this character. Yes, she is the main character of the show and she became increasingly unlikable as the series progressed!

The more the show goes on, the more we learn about her and the more she starts to act like her true self, which is to some degree a narcissistic, and a stupid selfish loser. She always puts herself first above everyone else, when somebody tells her that she is wrong or that what she wants can harm another person or herself, she doesn't care and does it anyway. Literally, the WHOLE STORY OF THE ANIME happens because she acts like that. You will find out close to the end of the story what really happened, and if you like me or Tomo, your blood will boil like crazy inside of you. I was so angry I went for a rent of like 30 minutes before I continued the show.

A lot of the time she gets angry for a character doing something, she did a couple of episodes ago. Like really? You blame her for that when you literally did the same if not worse? Gosh, I wanted to punch her so hard in the face. I watched it with my sister and we both hated her, my sister's hate was even bigger than mine and she couldn't stand her voice or face. We kept watching it thanks to the overall interesting anime and Subaru, Rupa, Tomo, and Momoka characters.

My favorite character is Subaru, she is so cute and mature! Right after her is Tomo, who is also mature and she is the only one who says what I thought about Nina to her face close to the end: That Nina did the wrong thing in school and she can only blame herself as she got the warning and still did it and blamed her friend Hina after that.

TL;DR
This anime is amazing! I can tell you the author at least did some homework before writing. The story is not unique but good, the art is really good, and the OST is amazing. The setting of the world is above average, it is well explained, but nothing we didn't see. The characters are well written and this is the best part of the anime. Don't take the isekai part too seriously and you would enjoy it as much as I did.
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The story of this anime is about a boy who was born as the son of a baron in a small town, he has ... the ability to see people's statistics and potential, and he uses it to find people he can trust and people who will help him in achieving his dream, a country without wars where children can live happily with a smile on their faces.
Despite this anime's adversities as isekai, it doesn't feel like an isekai at all, so some people who are isekai fanatics may not enjoy it and drop it, but they are losing a gold mine; my best guess is the author did the isekai part only to make it easier to appeal to a wider audience.
The anime story is not the original one, but it is well-written. I found it interesting from the first episode when I saw that the author knows some facts about middle-age Europe, so I knew the author did at least some reading before writing. Most shows today know almost nothing about middle-age Europe, and they write about it from what they heard in school or from friends, without even checking if it's true or not, this is not the case, you can see that the author has some knowledge.

The art in the anime is really good and somewhat realistic, by realistic I mean it looks like something that can exist in reality. The quality of the drawing is top-tier, and the details on each thing are splendid. Most anime do simple art without much detail and minimum shades, but this is not the case for this anime. Let's say your eyes definitely won't be tired from looking at the art.

The OST in this anime is amazing! They did a really good job on each composition, and you can feel the OST and notice it in each episode and scene. This anime is more of a "management" type, so the OST doesn't feel too fantasy, and I'm not sure it will be good for D&D sessions, but some compositions definitely can be used for sure.

The setting of the show is above average and the politics are well explained. The author did a good job explaining what each title is and the difference between them, how the politics are working, and all of that. The setting is a continent where one kingdom managed to conquer all the other kingdoms and form a successful and advanced empire; the years in the show count from the day the empire was formed. However, after 200 years, the empire is in bad shape and it looks like everything is going to fall apart unless someone does something to keep it together.

The characters in this anime are well-written and may rival the characters in the top animes. You can feel the personality of each character, their wants and needs, and the anime shows how they come to the place they are right now. The only characters you don't know well are the not important ones and the characters that showed late in the anime.
The main character in the anime is really good, he is not OP and I would say pretty average. He uses his ability to find people who are better than him and help them with their problems and goals, and for that, they agree to serve him. This makes you love the character more and increases the stakes a lot more than your average generic anime.
The only issue I have with the main character is the isekai part, it was made probably to appeal to a wider audience, but it was just unnecessary. The reincarnation doesn't help the main character in any way. It only makes him a little smarter than your average human in this world, and that is it. The author could easily achieve the same by making the kid smarter than average and writing it as a regular fantasy show.

I enjoyed watching the anime and talked about what happened in almost every episode. It is pretty interesting, but I enjoyed more of the characters, their story, their development, and how they are working hard for their goals. The politics are nice, but I can feel at least for season 1 that they are focusing more on the characters part. I can say that season 1 is probably somewhat of a prologue to the real story that we will see unfold in the following seasons.

Overall, I recommend you to watch it and don't take the isekai part too seriously, better, just ignore it. Take this anime as a fantasy, and it would be more interesting to watch.

TL;DR
Good animation, a modern OST, and nice art. Despite all these strong points, this anime is disappointing with a weak story, an underdeveloped setting, and a non-existent emotional impact. The OP MC and lack of good character development make it not fun to watch. If you're looking for more than good animated battles, you'll probably be disappointed.
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Well, this anime is a little disappointing. The animation of the series is really good, and the OST is not bad and more "modern." The art feels like it's a generic art, but made better which is not bad at all. The story is that the MC loves magic ... to the point of insanity, however, it loses its charm after the first episodes and becomes irrelevant; because the MC learns so much every new spell we see does not impress him, because he already knows it from the background life. What about the setting? Not explained, they give you a brief explanation about the world and magic and other things, without explaining the actual details.

The show has a really weak emotional impact and borders on the "non-existence" part. You don't have any stakes on the character, because the MC is OP as hell and will kill everyone. The first episode didn't impress me that much, but it was not bad. The show is not improving much and I even say it's quite the opposite, if you look at it from the battle side, yes the battles become better, but overall, it becomes worse.

If you like nice battles with OP MC and really good animation, not bad OST, and nice art, then you'll like it for sure. However, if you are more of an "overall type" which looks not only for battles, but for story, setting, enjoyment, development, and character, it is not for you.

Now to the characters part, it's bad. All the characters in this show border the "non-personality" side. The only character they really kind of opened and at least tried to show is a supporting character "Ren." The MC is generic but not too much generic. He doesn't get blood from his nose when sees a naked girl and so on, which is already not bad for a generic MC. It looks like they tried to make an MC that acts like Tanya from Youjo Senki, and this is the only part I like about the MC, his insanity.

Overall, it's not bad, but I can't recommend it, because of the lack of other things besides the good animation, art, OST, and battles. If they focus more on the story, setting, and character development, it could be a much better show to watch.

TL;DR
Try to watch at least 3-4 episodes before dropping it! The animation and art are really good, and the characters too. OST is nice and they did a good job on it, and the story needs to build up so it slowly becomes better and more serious with a comedic topping on it. I think it would be easier to accept the goofiness of the story if you think of "Touden Laios" (the blonde guy and also his sister) as someone with autism, since he really acts, speaks, and does things a lot of people with autism do.
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I'll tell you my experience with the show, ... maybe someone will have the same issue and could actually enjoy it:
At first, I dropped this anime at episode 1, it was strange and looked boring especially since there was another anime about food that looked as bad as this anime. The art looked nice and the animation too, tbh it reminded me of Friren a little. However, all the food things didn't look appealing to me at all, so the decision to drop it was made. A couple of weeks later, when almost all the episodes finished airing somebody told me that it's actually good if you manage to watch the first 3-4 episodes.

I decided to try again, and really, after episode 3 it became more and more interesting. It slowly built up, the characters started to open a little, you learn new things about each of them and the story itself started to take a more darkish and serious turn. In the end, I really enjoyed it and can suggest you give it a try.

One of the issues I have with the show, strangely enough, is with the "openings - OP's" of the show. The first half of the story is mostly comedy, which little by little starts to take a more serious turn, but the second half is more serious, more darkish, and more tragic with comedic elements to it. However, in the OP's it's exactly the opposite. OP 1 makes it look like a serious show with comedic elements, and OP 2 makes it look like a comedy with a few serious elements to it when in reality it's the opposite. This is why I think OP 1 needs to be OP 2 and the second OP needed to be OP 1, of course with some changes to fit the characters in the show.

It's one of the worst good-looking Isekais I have watched. It's starting nice, but with each episode turns into the hell knows what. The author throws every possible genre into this, starting with isekai, moving to espers, and then Mahou fucking Shoujo. What next? Aliens? Zombies? You can't know, I just dropped it at episode 5 when it became ridiculously stupid.

The story of this anime is so f bad I don't even know what to say, it's feeling like a 14-year-old who saw a few Isekais, Toaru Majutsu no Index, and Madoka and decided to write a show of their own without any experience in ... writing at all. The show is not serious, the characters behave stupidly, and the main character is a f loser.
The plot armor of this show is directly from the author's ass, plot points happen only because he wants them to happen and not because of a reason. Characters "teleporting" to needed plot points out of nowhere, all the events are messy af, the OST is mid, the art is fine, and the worldbuilding is bad af.

MY SUGGESTION, if you want to see an almost SAME show or how "Sasaki to Pii-chan" could have been, PLEASE for the love of god or your parents or whatever making you feel good, PLEASE watch:
"Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka wo Tamemasu" or in English "Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement" it is almost the same setting as the first part of this garbage anime (the isekai part), but much much better written and the main character is not a f loser.

Do you know these jokes about women's logic? Imagine you take the women's logic from the jokes and turn it into an anime character, a deaf girl.

This anime has nice animation and not bad but weird art. The OST is not bad either, it's slightly above average in my opinion but better than most anime OST. So why did I drop it and not recommend it? If you are a woman, you will probably enjoy the show, but if you are a man oh boi, you might suffer. I didn't suffer that much even from the YAOI anime that I watched with my sister "30-sai ... made Doutei dato Mahoutsukai ni Nareru Rashii" or "Cherry Magic!" which is a great and fun anime to watch with a girl.

Now don't get me wrong, I love shoujo anime however this anime "A Sign of Affection" which I also read the first volume of the manga (bought on Amazon for Kindle) is not even close to other great shoujo anime out there; because it is too shoujo, so it makes it harder to enjoy if you are a man to so high degree I prefer to watch yaoi instead.

This anime teaches women the wrong things about men. For example, the MC is a deaf girl, who meets a hot guy and falls in love with him almost instantly mainly because he is hot; which is already super strange, I know it's a common trope in anime, but how it's done there is bad. Then we learn that she has a guy childhood friend who is worried about her and even learned sign language to talk with her and joke with her so she can feel like a normal human being. This childhood friend of hers finds out she is talking with that suspicious hot guy (with broken sign language and text messages), and he worries, so he tells her about it, but instead of using some normal logic, she uses women's logic from the jokes and ignores everything.

Later, at night, the childhood friend sees her rushing out somewhere. He stops her and asks what the hell she is doing so late at night alone in the street. She tells him in sign language that this hot guy has asked her to come to him, so she needs to hurry. Her childhood friend instantly becomes suspicious, as any other good friend and a guy should be, so he tells her not to go because it is too dangerous, especially at night and no normal man will ever ask a woman to come to him in such late hour. She again uses the same logic, ignores everything, and runs to the hot guy. Luckily nothing bad happened, because it is anime, but in the real world, it easily could be as bad as you can imagine.

After this episode, I couldn't stand anymore this stupid logic and just dropped the anime. Watch this at your own risk, I guess if you ignore this logic you can enjoy the show, but if not you will probably suffer mentally.

There are a lot of reviews for this anime, so I'll write mine in short. It is a MASTERPIECE you will see once in a decade, like FMAB. Personally, I think it is better than FMAB, but it's my personal opinion.

The art of this anime is excellent, for the world, the characters, and even the side characters; it is just beautiful and pleasant to watch at. You feel like you are in a fantasy world, I haven't seen such a beautiful world in a long long time. The animation is so smooth and the whole world story is explained well, the magic system is so ... damn good and also explained fully. Every character is feeling alive like they have their own lives outside of the main story.

Also, the character growth of each of the main characters is good, especially Friren. You can see and feel how she changes with each new thing she learns, and she learns indeed. She is almost certain will use the new things she learns in the next episodes.

The OST is so good I listened to it in loops after finishing the anime, also if you like D&D you can take the OST and use it in your campaign, it is just a fully fantasy OST, one of the best I have ever heard. The emotional impact is on a high level, you may cry from the first episode and feel what the characters are feeling through the whole series. The battles in this anime if they happened are top-tier, thanks to the good animation, art, and the OST.

Overall I liked it, and it was hard after finishing the series. I felt emptiness, like losing part of me, because I know that an anime on such a high level comes once in a decade, so I may not experience anything so good in the next decade unless they make a new season.