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Jan 2, 2024
For all those hack Hollywood writers that desperately try to portray a Strong Independent Womyn Who Don't Need No Man by writing them as Adamantine Plot Armored characters with no flaws, I suggest watching this as an example of what being truly strong is.
Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (literal translation is Pharmacist's Soliloquies, but they went with Apothecary Diaries, just as good) is the story of the daughter of a pharmacist, raised in a pleasure quarter in medieval China, also known as the brothels quarter, who gets kidnapped and sold out to the Imperial Palace.
Through the knowledge she acquired from her father, and a lot of wit
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and observation, she quickly understands the medical causes that befall the members of the imperial court, and tries to secretly save them from the poisoning that they are inflicting on themselves and their children. Afraid of being brought into trouble, she passes hidden messages and quietly tries to inform people without being noticed.
This fails, because Kusuriya isn't at all about one with brains and a bunch of idiots around her. On the contrary, she gets found out by her peers in the palace, gets recognition for her efforts and intelligence, and starts to discover the intrigues and mysteries, both medical and interpersonal, that run throughout the Inner Court where the Emperor keeps his concubines, each vying for the role of becoming the future Empress. Kusuriya is about her and us discovering all that is going on between the numerous complex characters of the show, and understanding their motivations and hidden actions.
Kusuriya is brilliant because it is filled to the brim with very well written, very intelligent and memorable characters, from the main heroine to the minor, one episode characters, it is full of emotions and intrigue, of creativity and discoveries. It is using the (ancient Chinese) medical field as a stepping stone to delve deep into human intrigues and personalities, of political relationships as well as how hard people can try to do what they need to do to get what they want. It manages to strongly step into death, suicide, ills and the fouler sides of humanity, without any excess in edgyness nor any restraint. It'll talk about rape and syphilis, regrets and lies, poisons and ignorance, without hiding anything or giving a single drop of poor taste.
It's also, as the visuals tell, a very girly anime, it's colourful and filled with flowers, which contrasts extremely well with the ugliness that is its main subject. They describe the Inner Court, a place of high courtesans seeking to become an Empress, as not so different than a brothel itself, and talk about the condition of the women there with a beautifully cruel poetry: "A flower will eventually fade. A flower that doesn't give fruit will be cast away."
Kusuriya manages to be filled to the maximum with memorable and unique characters, with intrigues and detective work, doesn't hide any of the ugliness of the human condition, and entirely shines at being heavy in its subjects yet lighthearted enough that it's never out of mood to watch.
The anime also does a lot of justice to the manga, which is rare. It is visually appealing and manages to keep intact 95% of the source material.
I've highly recommended the manga for years and can easily highly recommend the anime without any hesitations.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jun 1, 2023
Following on the brilliant Kaguya-Sama, and with its public reputation preceding it, I had high hopes for Oshi no Ko.
These hopes weren't met, although that's not really surprising, since doing two masterpieces back to back is extremely rare. However, I can't say that Oshi no Ko would've earned a review if it hadn't come from an author I already knew and loved.
Oshi no Ko isn't necessarily poor, but "mid" sort of comes to mind. This isn't due to any art or storytelling problems per se. It's an identity problem, and the pacing problems that it constantly breeds.
Oshi no Ko starts with a fairly chaotic first
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part/prologue, which jumps around between characters and timelines, there's confusing flash forwards on several occasions, numerous quick "mini stories" that are supposed to introduce characters to us, but none of these characters get enough time to build a proper personality. They're both slightly too long to be short and too short to deliver a fully self contained story, so they just feel like you're juggling from one situation to another, from the doctor, his patient, his other patient, their situations, etc. Then the Occult starts happening and more mini stories with fast forwards happen.
This entire prologue sequence ends with a captivatingly tragic, and very well put together moment which I won't spoil, but has rocketed Oshi no Ko to fame when the anime came out. This was a catalytic moment for me, as I was drawn very deeply into the manga and felt emotion in a way that rarely comes to me. I immediately couldn't stop wolfing down the pages, and wanted to know the sequel to this event.
Over one night, I read 50 chapters (and woke up late for work). The next day, I finished the rest.
I haven't had any proper sequel to the event, nearly 120 chapters in.
This isn't due to a lack of the story advancing, although that's certainly a slow story. But the real issue is that as soon as the starter event is done, and we get into the manga proper, it devolves instantly, and never turns away from, a somewhat "mid" teenager story about the showbusiness world. By "mid", I really mean "middle ground" here. It's a bit shounen/monomyth story, with the protagonist needing to reach the heights of showbiz. It's got a lot of shoujo touches, lots of girls, lots of girly things. It's kind of a social commentary with a lot of text à la Akasaka Aka, but also about simple personalities/teenagers trying to survive in showbiz. It's...mid.
No particularly strong style comes out of it. This sadly applies to the characters, who neither delve into cartoonish hyperbole like in Kaguya, nor in great subtlety or complexity. The motivations are simple, a lot of characters are very one note. Including the main ones. The fact that Oshi no Ko is also not a comedy deepens the problem. An occasional joke is thrown yes, but the general pacing is fairly slow, novelty is rare, situations are long, story does captivate but never really amazes. It's not very funny, or entertaining, or has great moments. It's mostly just showbiz situations handled with some charm, some intelligence and a lot of commentary.
Between the start as a tragedy and the followup as a very "shounen/shoujou/monomyth/social commentary"(so "some of everything"), the identity feels very lost. It's like you can remove the entire prologue, restart the story as "2 kids with a tragic past" and lose very little. Or you can keep the whole showbiz story, but then the main tragedy needs to not have hiatuses of 30 chapters.
The pacing thus suffers, and through and through, it feels like an earnest story, but that has too many styles mixed together. It just feels...like a full course meal where everything was served at the same time. There's little "wrong", but also next to nothing that's really remarkable. What was remarkable was unfortunately at the start, and was already quite difficult to follow.
The manga is still alright and deserves to be read, but I wouldn't ever put it above an 8 even if the ending was magnificent. Which is still very fair, but again, if it hadn't come from Akasaka Aka, I'd probably not even have bothered writing anything about it. Ultimately, this feels like a manga that wants to be "good" at everything, art, cutesy, drama, commentary, emotional investment, but it's just ending like a ratatouille. Lots of stuff in it, but little taste that actually comes out. It's more like a long, fairly pleasant, but unremarkable soup.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jun 15, 2019
This is porn.
This is definitely porn.
But then...why is it treated as a normal anime?
This should be on Hentaiheaven, not on MAL...
Well perhaps because in the past decade anime has slowly lowered itself to more shock value or base appeal than it used to. We live in a post Eromanga Sensei world after all.
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But ES was abysmal to the point that it deserved its own specialised laboratory to try and understand how we could have fallen so low.
Nande Sensei no Mune wa Itsumo watashi no Hana wo Dakishimete is just porn.
Remember when To Love Ru was advertised as a proper anime, despite it being porn? It was advertised as anime because it was strong enough to pass as one...to some. As far as I'm concerned, it was just porn with the guise of a plot and a romance subtext that hid the harem/porn/teenager power fantasy about as well as a white sheet covers a pool of blood.
So after To-Love Ru, after Maken-ki, after probably a few dozen I've very willingly let pass: should your penis watch Nande Koko ni Bokki ga Kuru?
No.
It's not even worth a good snake polishing.
The art is good. Yes. There's the beginning of something there.
And that's all there is. A beginning. There is no story, fun, sexiness or anything, it's a porn that pretends to be a comedy and is neither funny nor arousing.
Shimoneta, To Love Ru, Shokugeki no Thousand Orgasms, they all have used a great pair of boobs better than this, either to be funny, either to give your pants a stretch test.
If anything, the manga has the same art and is way less of a tease. Still not worth reading.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Jun 6, 2019
"I can't believe we're getting an anime adaptation. An obvious fetish manga like this..." - Senko-san's author when it was announced.
だとねえ...
So what is Standard Anime N°14523325 with Extra Fluff Housewife?
It's a fetish manga for fluffy animal lovers and how they rejuvenate the soul of an overworked salaryman suffering The Salaryman Life.
It's...not much more really. It's a fantasy of coming home to a loli elder with huge powers of fluff and housewifiness and a dash of sexual attraction on the side.
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If you're into fluffing tails, good. You'll like it.
If you're into abandoning yourself to your work and feeling your soul drained, you might connect with something there.
Think of Umaru-chan except you take out the bitchiness and you replace it with fluffiness. It's a workaholic and a female inside his house. Umaru is annoying but livens her brother's life, Senko is caring and livens her Salaryman's life.
Being a man who works moderately and isn't into furry stuff, all I can say is that it's average across the board and that it's, indeed, an obvious fetish anime. It's not horrifyingly tropey nor unpleasant to look at, and yet it's something I'll watch eating chips and forget as soon as I'll have seen it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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May 25, 2019
I'm watching this because I'm starving for Konosuba...and it's going to be my fix until the movie comes out.
Story: It's in a school. It's mini-episodic. All events are high school oriented and absolutely unoriginal. 1/10.
Well they use the characters in their proper roles I'm guessing, so 2/10. Still so lazy the effort is non-existent.
Art: The chibi works fairly well. Animation is very minimal and lazy too, but hey, as long as it works when it has to (I could watch Aqua being punched by Kazuma probably 10 times in a row)...7/10
Sound: Talented VAs from good shows, and a cute opening. It's overall very solid. 8/10
Character:
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Well as expected, it's always brutally dumbed down for these crossovers. If Persona Q failed at not dumbing down everyone, then I had, rightfully, no hope for Isekai Quartet, and well it brings down the characters almost to their most basic tropes. They did Tanya and Ainz fairly well IMO. I haven't seen Re:Zero, so I don't know about Subaru. And as for the Konosuba team, troping them isn't really a mistake since they are giant tropes anyway.
It's dumbed down, but it could've been worse, is what I mean. Still, 4/10, no miracle.
Enjoyment: 7/10 I thoroughly enjoy every time the Konosuba crew does something Konosuba, and even though I think Overlord is mostly underused, Tanya is pretty good. The relationships are written well enough to be credible and the jokes are far from bad.
Overall: 5/10: No miracle anywhere here. It's another dumbed down, low-animation, no-plot no ambition cash grab. But for a fix of your favorite Isekai characters, it'll give you your fix.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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May 25, 2019
So this was bordering on infuriatingly bad at first, then it went into a sort of generic yet tasteful enough starting Arc 3 (so when you enter Misaka Mikoto's life), and then stood on its own as a very medium quality yet entertaining piece.
Somewhere around the last episodes, particularly the last one, it fell back into infuriating and I started doing the death knell for anime: skipping all the predictable scenes where it's more annoying to hear the predictable speeches and plot points than it is entertaining...
And the main reason for all of that? The writing.
It's apocalyptically bad at first, then dwells in that comfort
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zone of not really original, nor really terrible, then falls back into it for the end of the season.
The dialogue writing comes from an age I had almost forgotten in anime, where you have the protag saving someone who's bleeding, and his choice way of saving him/her is by making an epic morality speech on good and evil while they're bleeding themselves out right next to them...
The world building is almost nil and if you asked me to describe Academy City in my own words, all I could say would be: it's clean, it's got skyscrapers, it's full of teenagers with super powers, and there's someone upside down in a giant jar somewhere in it.
The plot is so freaking generic it's pathetic: guy appears to catch moe McGuffin. MoeGuffin is guarded/is friend to Protagonist. Guy catches/threatens MoeGuffin. Protag finds and beats Guy.
There are undertones of other things I suppose, but if I am going to watch 24 episodes of something, you have damn well enough time to transform these undertones into something.
The characters are generic and none of them are all that fun, the whole experience feels like a bullet point list of anime tropes to fill:
- Overpowered Protag that nobody acknowledges
- MoeGuffin girl
- Science things
- Magic things
- Edgy villains
- Tsundere love interest
- Budding Harem
- No parents (well I guess they appear for about 2 mns of dialogue at some point)
and I expect some point we'll get:
- Oh noes the Big Cheese Villain was secretly our boss all along
Besides the writing being so freaking worthless you could literally draw random names from a dictionary and still end up most times with more interesting ideas, I'm also a little shocked at the general lack of quality.
It's true that I've recently watched almost only recent anime, so 2018-2019. And going back 10 years ago is a shock in art style and animation quality, yes. But did the voice actors have to be so out of sync with the characters they're portraying? What's with sounding snark while the drawing indicates furious anger? What's with the faces often not meeting the voices, except when the character is a giant gimmick that pretty much always has one mood?
The OPs and EDs are veeeeeery boring and neither music nor animation will stick with me.
The characters could be ok with good writing, but...well, they're at best acceptable.
All in all, I wasted my day watching this. I don't regret wasting it since I have been curious about Toaru and its worlds (so Index + Railgun) for awhile, and it was worth one day to get educated.
But no, I would not recommend something this trite to anyone. If you want to grab a pizza, a beer, and you don't want to watch anything funny, anything scary, or anything too deep, then this is the generic show that'll keep you mildly entertained on those days where you don't even want your brain to think about anything. That's the best I can give it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Apr 7, 2019
For all the commercial crap I've seen in the years I watched anime, which I imagine is far less than what most others here have seen, I still hold the belief that anime can stand head and shoulders above most other storytelling genres because it holds nothing back.
That has proven to be so many blessings and curses, from the onslaught of highly charismatic warrior god 14 year olds and their harem of obedient helpers, to a team of highly armed cyborgs cops exploring politics, society and philosophy to a degree that would make most philosophers blush at the stupidity of their thoughts.
So in a show
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clearly advertised as bunny girl costume romcom that could go into that far-too-visited Harem Zone at any second, why a 8-9 rather than a 4?
Simple really.
Banter.
Words.
Charisma.
You see, I will not dispute whether this is a ripoff of Bakemonogatari, since everyone claims so I'll just have to go see it to verify.
But not having seen Bakemonogatari yet, I enjoyed this simply because it managed to take the best of anime and do something good, even something as innocuous as an extra romcom with a dash of feels.
By "the best of anime", I mean that to justify their thinly-veiled plot devices, they added a magicalo-quantum physicsy that basically makes all the plots work.
Do they really work? No, it's awkward and strange and feels like a poor man's Steins' Gate, but I don't care. None of these explanations and justifications are in any way important and none of them really matter to the plot all that much.
There is a girl that disappears, there is a girl that gets hurt, there is a girl that stops time, there is a girl that does x, and for each, pseudoscientific explanations are given, but they're only a locomotive which pulls the plot forward, and I don't care about an engine tour.
And that's what I truly liked: if you look past the plot weaknesses, all there is in here is a solid brick of banter on top of likeable characters. I enjoyed the protagonist, I enjoyed his sister, his girlfriend, his friends, his bullshit-science-me-up girl friend, his other love interests (wanted or not), I enjoyed everyone in this show really.
It goes to show that with enough effort from the dialogue, any story can at least be enjoyable. And this was very enjoyable, and very well told through the characters dialogue. I enjoyed the banter between them, I enjoyed the attitude, their personalities shone through their words, I think the voice work is excellent in here, the actors truly seem to have been excellently cast for all the main cast.
Give me good characters that express themselves well through good dialogue, give me attachments through their pains, their hopes and dreams, and let me enjoy them pushing and pulling each other through those hopes and pains, and I will be thoroughly entertained.
I laughed at the jokes, I cried at the sad moments, I just got attached tremendously and even though it isn't anything else than another romcom that just animes it up to justify its plot, I got attached enough to the characters's banter and personalities that I'd love to see a season 2 of it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Feb 17, 2018
Denpa Onna left me mostly confused, I felt like it was a mishmash of ideas and monologues that raised questions without answering them, or giving us the material to answer it ourselves. It was overall interesting and kept me posted until the last episode and the special, but while I appreciated it, I didn't think it was a success.
Now the mashing of ideas and concepts is back, this time with a twist.
So in Denpa Onna, Erio Touwa was a character with amnesia that claimed that her 4 months of absence were due to an alien abduction. The show then proceeded to have the main protagonist,
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Makoto Niwa, push towards proving her wrong and have her reassess her situation so that she'd quietly go back to society. At least at the beginning.
Later parts of the show proceeded to diverge into a harem with a protagonist full of monologues and questions about his friends, with a degree of uncanny that permeated the entire show, like that time when they found an abandoned child who also claimed to be an alien, except this time she was sleeping under the Touwa house. And they didn't think of calling the police or acting or anything.
Between the harem, the main romance, the uncanny, and the general tendency of the show to raise questions about the characters and the plot but never answer them, my confusion was pretty high as to what exactly did Denpa Onna aim to be.
And with this special, it was confirmed that they don't want us to know anyway.
Because with this one, rather than answer anything, we get again a semi-confirmation that Ryuushi is "the girl", but then that is dropped so that we meet Erio, who is also dropped without anything meaningful, before a huge plot twist happens where we go from "everything alien is a metaphor for normal things in life you need to learn to do, young man" to "ALIUMS ARE AMONG US...maybe?"
And again, confusion, what are you aiming for, what, why, how come why the hell why won't you just answer your own questions and instead just wriggle me around like an idiot what why how come.
It's a mess. This entire show is. This episode too. It doesn't end anything. Just raises even more questions without answering any of them. And just like the rest of the show, I am interested, I want it to go on explaining what it started, but since it's the last episode, it clearly won't.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Feb 17, 2018
I'm still not really quite sure what to think of Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko.
On the one hand, you have a generally thoughtful and depth-seeking piece that tries to provide meaning to one's adolescent life through alien and superpower metaphors.
On the other, you have a not particularly interesting, if weird, harem anime comprised of 1 guy, 3 girls + 1 annoying perverse aunt.
The thing with Denpa Onna is that it managed to keep my interest, but provided nearly no fun. It had a lot of attitude and style to its characters, but I didn't really like any of them much. It is, overall, an interesting
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experience, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
It's a complex thing.
Well there are some aspects of it that are plainly good or bad:
-The general art style, voice acting, and execution effort are all very satisfactory.
-The pacing is a bit slow, but it is necessary for all the inner monologues of the hero, which are the meat of the show, and do make it stand out very much.
-The storytelling that constantly colludes an allegated "aliens and superpowers are among us" with conversations that make it sound like the hero is really looking for aliens and superpowers, is a very serious effort and keeps you posted
-The characters reaaaaally aren't that fantastic, none of them, or even good, they're just a step above decent, a twinge above average if you're being generous
-The story is interesting but is all over the place, never giving you a clear vibe for whether we're supposed to ship someone or not, if this is a show that tries to be deep, or if it's a harem with some weirdness
-There is no real value to any story thread because of the aforementioned point, you always wonder if we're getting somewhere, and no, we never are
The gist of Denpa Onna is this: I don't know what they're really going for. What kind of story, what sort of message? There is a lot of value in the soul-searching about adolescent life and the relationships, even if it's a little too wordy for what it is. But is there something they're really going for? I don't know, even after having finished the anime, I simply don't.
Erio is supposed to come back to society. Does she really? Not really, but a bit. She also has an affection for "Itoko" aka Cousin, aka Makoto Niwa, aka protagonist, but is it supposed to evolve into love, or evolve into him becoming her bridge to a successful social reinsertion? I still don't know at the end.
Ryuushi is supposed to be the love interest chuniibyou, and I guess she does become the "main girl", but not entirely.
Maekawa is the possible love interest that will almost certainly remain in the friendzone. But at the end, is she firmly established as a friend or as a love interest? More than the others, but still not entirely.
There are loads of plots that are started but unfinished, thoughts that are expressed but unclear, and questions are raised by the dozens each episode but seldom get answered, by the anime or by us.
And that is the conundrum here: I was interested, but don't know what I was supposed to be interested about. There were creative ideas, but I have no idea what they were trying to express.
Denpa Onna was a mess, an interesting, original mess, but a mess nonetheless. I enjoyed it far more than less deep or less creative animes. But at the end of the day, I don't know what I was supposed to get out of it. For most animes, enjoyment is enough, but there was little enjoyment in this one, as it is burdened by long monologues that don't amount to much, and plot points that end nowhere. I see it as a project that didn't really know what it was going for, or was setting up for a very long run but only had 12 episodes and wanted to show off what it had coming in whatever light novel or manga it was showcasing.
It wasn't a disapointment, but I feel as confused about it now as I did 2/3rds into the season, except my interest started dying out somewhere around that time. I finished it hoping for a conclusion, I didn't get one, and I'll be left confused. I still don't regret watching it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Dec 17, 2017
Hello Trigger.
I see you've made another Trigger animu with the Trigger art style and the Trigger over the top style.
Wait no, you didn't. You applied your art style to a fairly generic anime story with no over the top-ness. Huh.
Well however you wanna play it.
Little Witch Academia is what happens the eternally bombastic Trigger decides to be more restrained and do a story that doesn't end up referencing Gurren Lagann so much that it ends on the intergalatical scale.
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And unlike the other anime that tried that ( the forgettable Kiznaiver ), Little Witch is SURPRISINGLY VERY GOOD.
After the absolutely entertaining yet very messy and pointless Kill la Kill, who in my eyes cemented Trigger as that studio where all the visual artists go but they have nobody to write a story that actually is worth reading, and Kiznaiver who had a pretty bleh plot and story, and everything else as well I saw from them, I just expected this one-time movie to crash in the plot and characters department when turned into a full fledged double season anime.
Well LWA is good. It just is. The characterisation was far better than expected, there is actual depth that makes sense, and it is as well animated and supported by an excellent soundtrack as one might expect from Trigger. Only the plot takes this down from a 9 to an 8.
Well rather the plot and the (usual?) Trigger pacing. It seems like LWA divides itself yet again into the part that's entirely about world and character building, from episode 1 to episode 14 roughly. Around episode 14 the plot actually starts and it is...bleh. Meh.
Not terrible but it has several problems: one is that it's just generally poorly paced. Episode 14 is something like 10 episodes too late. At the end of the anime, I felt like a lot of time that should've been given to flesh out or build up some of the final battles were just missing.
Two is its very unpleasant habit of not justifying some of the characters' lack of action. Why does Ursula not say ANYTHING against Croix for so long? Being ashamed of her past history does not in any way justify her silence. Just make up a convenient lie, or at the very least ask Akko to be wary, or something. It feels like a plot that can only work because the characters are too dumb/immobile to react to obvious threats.
And three, it's just not a great plot. It has a few nice twists and things I did not expect would go down the way they did, but even that doesn't really make it any good. Just made it go from a very generic/boring plot to a boring plot with a few good twists that amuse.
Apart from the plot, LWA is just overall nice really. I don't really have a "critique" on it for once, simply because every complaint would feel like nitpicking.
Are the characters well fleshed out and developed? Yes. Is the world too? Yes. Does the story make sense? Mostly, apart from several actions or lack thereof from Ursula. Was there a thing that made me wanna stop binging this? Yes I guess, one Ursula stupid moment. But that really didn't stop me long, I still binged the whole thing in 2 days.
So I could go at length into how Lotte and Sucy are sort of abandoned in part 2 and the whole friendship gang of Akko drifts further away to the Constanze team, how the rivalry with Diana is twisted into a great friendship story but how then she feels like she should have been given more screen time(mainly because she turns into a friend late due to the aforementioned pacing problems), I could explain my slight distaste at Trigger seemingly always doing this unpleasant thing of developping the world at length in part 1, then only having an actual plot going somewhere in part 2(again, quite like KLK), I could bitch and moan about how part 1 is my favorite every time and that they would have probably succeeded better in my eyes by doing a simple feel-good anime with no plot, just world building and enjoyable character development and growth, I could bitch about Akko being adorable yet being another Naruto, a loudmouth with no talent who tries real hard but has no real ability, I could have rechecked my lessons instead of spending my entire weekend on this, and then waste more time on a review...
But eh.
LWA just doesn't summon my usual desire to poke sticks at anime things.
It is good. It would be a great 9/10 anime, same as Kill la Kill, if it had had a halfway decent plot instead of a poor one.
It offers a charming, interestingly animated, enjoyable world full of well done characters, and can be showed to children or adults(by which I mean weeaboos) with no restraints.
You should watch it if you have time to spare. Expect above average entertainment, expect above average animation, above average characters, and above average music, and if you're like me, you'll be just quaint with it and walk out of it satisfied.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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