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"Look officer, I've never been to that place before. I didn't recognize the name, saw some cute girls, and walked in. I swear I didn't know what was going on in there... I don't know why I stayed, man. It was like watching a train wreck. Every single second, my brain told me to look away and run, but I just couldn't. I kept thinking that the worst part was over, and then an other person would come flying out of a window or tea cup. I didn't WANT to look! You've got to believe me!"

Thankfully, they do still have computers in jail, and I've ... been pretty good here.

I'd never recommend this show to anyone, and I'm not sure why I finished it. Nothing of importance happens, all these children are too "interested" in the MC for things to stay comfortable, and even the one chick of legal age gets side-stepped by a child that comes out her breasts. Not even in the DeviantArt or Tumblr way that you'd expect.

It's a trap. It gives you nothing and puts you on a list. Stay away. Also, please go to my GoFundMe and support my bond payments! Thanks!

"What in Oblivion did I just watch?" can have several meanings. Maybe what you watched was so unique that you're left dumbfounded, or perhaps the subject was so terrible that you spit these words out.

I seen a lot of anime, and I don't think I've encountered something like this. A very, very pointless story with almost zero likeable qualities in any of the characters combined. The shopkeep has a mischievous side that I like, and yandere are easily my thing, but these have almost nothing to do with the actual sludge you're asked to go through for the occasional glimpse of something mildly fun. If ... yandere aren't your thing and you dislike the shopkeep, I don't know if it has anything to offer you.

Correction; you might have some fun if you enjoy watching somebody that needs to poop all the time and sets their pants. Without exaggeration, these two things are more core to the story than a single character, setting element, typical story beats, or even goal. This, as far as I'm concerned, is a story about a the embodiment of the "peepee poopoo" meme with a couple yandere for fun. The story genuinely doesn't matter, even at the end.

Run.

Oh boy, this manga. Is this even a manga? I'm pretty sure it is, but it's pretty different from any other manga I've ever read. Regardless, let's begin.

First off, I should say that I am a weirdo that loves body horror. It doesn't freak me out, but it's something I love to see. If it's a fresh type that I haven't seen before, then it definitely gets bonus points. Say what you will about the plot and characters, but this artist draws horror like none I've seen before. While there's an annoying amount of gore seemingly for its own sake, the truly striking scenes are ... the facial expressions that the Jinmen can show.

In most Horror manga, you'll have a mildly interesting idea followed by nothing but repeated gore, probably a ton of sexual violence and some one-note, psychological abuse, and probably a sprinkling of "but we were the monster all along" just to earn the painfully average cherry on top. I'm not going to say that Jinmen completely steps over this very dumb tendency, but it certainly approaches things in a different way. In Jinmen, the horror is most appreciable when there's little to no violence, or even any dialogue, and you just find yourself face-to-face with an abomination made by someone who understood the concept of furries from a completely backward view.

To see what was once a cute animal now give you a look of smug contempt as you remember just how low on the food chain we belong can send a chill down your spine. The artist draws these expressions with just enough humanity to emphasize the uncanny factor of the admittedly dumb base idea, making each new expression and animal another look into the horror of their world. This only becomes more unsettling as you gain more and more clues that these animals(?) not only have human faces, but may be gaining a similar level of intellect, as well. With a revelation that only seems clear in retrospect, you suddenly find yourself realizing that you aren't just dealing with animals that do animal things with human faces, but with new creatures that know what they're doing, and seem to enjoy it.

Jinmen is likely a very personal form of horror, reliant of the individual reader's idea of what is scary. As someone that finds the regular old monster interesting, and gore to be aggressively boring, it built expectations of the average story before throwing something that I do fear, and that few stories truly build upon; distrust of the familiar. Distrust of humans (or rather their faces), along with distrust of creatures we arrogantly assume are below us, makes for some scenes to truly chill you.

So, if you're interested what I've described, I'd highly recommend it. If you're interested in an utterly unique setting and art style, I'd highly recommend it. If you're looking for excellent characterization, relatable characters, or plot... eh, it's just as good if not better than most Horror manga.

Let's start off with a slight warning, if you want to call it that. I read a lot of light novels, but haven't read this anime's light novel version. This matters for two reasons. 1) I haven't seen the original form of this piece of art, but I'm reviewing the anime, so that shouldn't matter, and 2) The matters of repetition are from my experience, which the anime genre clearly hadn't seen so much of previously.

Now, this show has become very popular, and is still very much talked about for being a refreshing take on the isekai genre. People claim(ed) quite often that this show ... was a new take on a tired subject due to the new angles that it took.

I'm hear to state that this is about the hundredth time I've seen this type of show, and so this anime was just incredibly tiring for me. It's a show about a "relatable main character" that dies for a somewhat decent reason, gets reincarnated in another world with game-like elements, and his skills/skill-learning is his path to success. It's a story that relies heavily on the skills, rather than the character's actual ability.

Now, this idea has been done very well before, like in Ark, but it seems to be difficult. The reason for that is that these skills are usually treated as macguffins rather than actual skills. It isn't about what that skill is, how each one affects the holder's lifestyle, and it certainly isn't about using these skills in interesting ways (looking at you, Arifureta). Nah, that's boring.

You know what's much more interesting? Having a skill come up for almost no reason that is so obviously destined for plot convenience or harem shenanigans later that it take you out of the moment. Let's also make sure that it isn't earned through actual work unique to the holder, but instead by doing something millions have already done, like fighting a common enemy type, lying that one time, or in this case, eating flowers.

All in all, this may only bother me because I've seen this done well a few times, and done wrong about a hundred other times. Then, when the anime genre gets it (as if Konosuba hadn't already done a similar thing, and better), it's treated as something great.

Anime fans, you deserve better than this.

Alright, let's start this off by saying that this is my first review for an anime. Typically, whether I love, like, dislike, or hate an anime, I just rate it and keep it in mind for future use, (as recommendations or warnings). This anime is so bad that I COULDN'T ignore this when I saw the high rating this bucket of fish scraps proposing to be a work of art has.

So, good things first. The art is pretty good, and the designs of characters is pretty decent. These elements aren't the absolute best I've ever seen, but they're nowhere near the worst. I never noticed ... any issues with the sound design and choices within, but that's possibly due to the fact that those elements are the least of my worries.

Now, onto the real purpose for this review...

Oh. My. Goodness. How can you even screw up a story so hard? How can you simultaneously be so incredibly boring and yet make absolutely no sense whatsoever? How can a piece of art feel like nothing more than a dead fish trapped in the body of a super model? How can you possibly inspire frustration when almost every single element dulls one's experience so far that staring at twenty minutes of a featureless gray circle for twelve episodes would somehow be more enjoyable?

Another review I happened to notice compared this piece to the standard modern art piece. Sure, there's pretty colors. Yes, it's compared to masterpieces by certain people. There's definitely many people that consider it to be refreshing, powerful, and expressive.

In reality, it's a canvas that's been covered in twenty flavors of gray paint the artist bought at discount price when he tripped and spilled his watercolors. You can talk about the deep meanings and bold choices all you want, but haphazardly throwing random things of the same low quality without any true thought will never be worth the elements individually. That's what this anime is. It an astonishingly thoughtless waste of potential.

Art's nice, though. Would recommend if you're deaf, can't read subtitles, and aren't intuitive enough piece more than a single bit of the story together. Trust me, those two pieces will not fit together, so it's better to not have more than one. I just hope it's one of the decent ones.