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Jan 28, 2025
Another great season. It was quite funny, and the animations and directing continue amazing.
Scissor seven makes the best use of the fact that anime is a visual media that I've ever seen, and this season is no exception. It plays with scene transitions (even the opening works out of that), it is full of visual gags, it frequently alternates art styles, and it has some breathtaking fight scenes. Overall, incredible work on the visual department, I wish more animes would do the same.
Futhermore, my one and only complaint is the plot. It was a bit slower paced compared to last season, mostly because of a
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lack of stakes during the first half of this season, but the plot in general is really nothing to write home about. Even though the anime can deliver some incredible moments, in a macro level there is not much going on. I found myself enjoying every episode, but I was rarely excited to watch the next one, as I was not as invested as I wish I was in the story. And that is because the scenes are amazing individually, but combined they do not amount to much of a journey in my opinion, as the plot structure is quite generic - I could predict almost everything that was going to happen.
Overall, another great season from a great anime.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jan 26, 2025
I enjoy the comedy of this series quite a lot and I loved the first episode. But when the show started taking itself too seriously (aka episode two onwards) I lost all the interest.
The worldbuilding is extremely generic, the production is poor at best, and the good comedy is lost among walls of boring text.
Overall, Red Ranger is some wasted potential. I think this show had a good shot at being a very entertaining comedy, yet it is an action/adventure anime instead - and the writing and directing are miles behind what would be necessary for such an anime.
I can't really recommend this show to
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anyone as it is just a generic low-value isekai with few interesting comedic elements thrown in the middle that are lost amidst a sea of mediocrity.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jan 23, 2025
Interesting story, I think the premise is interesting and the execution is ok, but there are two major issues: the pacing and lack of emotions.
The pacing is slow, that is okay, but it is too slow. To the point that each episode could be compressed to half of its length with basically zero losses.
The other issue is that the two main protagonists are pretty much emotionless. I have never seen two people projecting as few emotions as these two, they are practically robots. And that is painful for a romance story in particular, where feelings are everything.
Also, a deus ex machina happens halfway through episode
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11. I can't get into details without spoilers, but it is quite bad.
Besides that, the translation for this show is quite bad from Crunchyroll, and I could not find a fan translation to English.
Overall, Days with My Stepsister is a solid story, with bellow average production, that results in a bland experience because of its slow pace and boring protagonists. I can't really recommend it unless you are someone who enjoys very slow paced romance anime.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Dec 20, 2024
I think this season was much better. The first few episodes were great; the setting of the entertainment industry was explored very well, besides a few oversimplifications, and I could really grasp the potential of Oshi no Ko. The pacing was good for the most part, and the production was decent. Also some of the drama was great.
That being said, the dialogue and most of the characters are not great. I think Akane is the only character of the main cast that I find believable and enjoyable to watch; the others are too cartoonish and annoying.
The plot isn't great neither, it is frequently dumb. In
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particular, I dislike how the characters act so competitive towards each other during the play, I don't think it's believable, nor does it make a good story. It appears like the show is trying to appeal to teenagers with cheap emotional bits, meanwhile throwing logic out of the window.
Overall, a good season from a mediocre series.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Dec 18, 2024
This is a show that no one will enjoy, save for edgy teenagers. It lacks so much nuance in its discourse and everything is either black or white, and usually senseless.
In this show, the mc has the dream of becoming one of the strongest mages, but he cannot cast spells. Then the show tries to discuss talent, and prejudice towards those without talent; but, to no one's surprise, the mc has a hidden talent and is actually op! And the people that bullied him are plainly evil. Their believes and points of view boil down to antagonistic, without any trace of nuance. Also the hero
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is praised many times during the first episode (by cute girls, mind you) for being kind.
All of this is complete nonsense, and these messages are not even close to how things really work in our world. There is a discussion about talent to be had, the same for bullying, and the same for kindness and what it means to bring value to the people around you. But the show goes as deep in these topics as a leaf floating over a lake.
Also the anime looks weird, the dialogue is cringe, and our beloved duo of expositive dialogue and flashbacks is present at episode 1 already.
That being said, I like the fights; and Harry Potter is fun, and this is basically Harry Potter 2.0, so I guess it could be worse.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Dec 3, 2024
The pacing is bad. It is extremely slow; the story barely crawls forward. This fact is mostly due to how bad the dialogue is unfortunately.
There is way too much dialogue and it hurts the pacing real bad; there are scenes with twice as much dialogue as needed.
Less is more, and the same is true for dialogue; a good writer should strive to tell his or her story with just the right amount of words. There is no need to insult the viewers' intellects by spelling out everything happening on screen.
Besides this, the show is good. There are some other problematic elements: The occasional voice and
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animation desync, a lot of flashbacks, characters acting in cartoonish ways, and some dumb op abilities.
And there are some good elements: Nice animation, cool premise, interesting messages, and a good mix of hope and despair as the main themes of the story.
Overall, bad dialogue is the main problem of Re:Zero and it is not going anywhere.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Aug 10, 2024
Pretty good as always, Konosuba never disappoints. It is one of the funniest series I've ever seen, and the plot works sometimes.
The series is great, but I think the quality of each scene varies too greatly from a 5/10 to a 10/10: there are some scenes that I think should have been played for comedy, but that were played for drama instead, and I think overall the series should embrace more of comedy, as it is not as proficient at drama.
Also I think there were some obvious jokes that the writers missed somehow. There is a scene in which one of the characters brings a
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giant frog to a party and it starts trashing the place, but we only hear it as a conversation in the background while Kasuma is outside the room. Later in the same scene, Kasuma comes back to the room, and this would have been the perfect moment to reintroduce the joke and the giant frog, but it never happened; which is a shame as I think it would've been hilarious to see the frog come back, and a great example of set up and pay off - and there are quite a few similar moments in this season. The same goes for the plot, some moments felt like the plot had an obvious amazing direction to take, but it went the completely other way - which was still good, just not as good.
Overall, I recommend Konosuba a lot. But if you (somehow) don't like this style of comedy, then maybe you won't enjoy the series, as it focuses mostly on comedy.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jul 6, 2024
Season 2 of Otome Game Flag is similar to season 1. The plot is actually better at parts, but the pacing took a huge hit, mostly because there is almost no tension nor stakes in most of the scenes; which causes them to feel dull and makes the viewers scream in agony, praying for anything interesting to happen!
Not only that, but the pacing also suffers greatly because of the flood of flashbacks:
- Episode 5 has 10 minutes and 40 seconds of flashbacks, when as little as 2 min 10 sec would've been good enough to tell the story.
- Episode 6 has a 11 minutes and
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50 seconds flashback, which provides no character development nor plot progression and feels like a filler. There are two more flashbacks on this same episode.
Moreover, there is also a lack of meaningful consequences in here. Some major plot developments happen, but their consequences are brushed aside by characters deciding to not give them much value. I'll come up with a similar example to what happens in the anime, in order to give no spoiler: Imagine if a character was caught cheating on someone by the end of an arc, and everyone tells him how bad it is and no one likes this character anymore. But, by the next time this character is shown on screen, everyone has already forgiven him and they are friends again, as if his cheating never happened.
Furthermore, the same premises from season 1 are being reused here: episode 7 repeats the premise of an episode from season 1 almost to the details; meanwhile the exact same plot hook happened three times by the ending of this season. These are problems because these arcs become predictable, and the pacing is heavily damaged by having such similar scenarios repeating.
The comedy of Flag is still solid, but we cannot take the story serious when it focuses on plot, because all that the plot boils down to is either A) everyone loves the mc that has barely any qualities; or B) the mc with barely any qualities randomly solves a problem because the plot demands so, and not because she actually struggles and had to grow.
Not only that, but the mc has barely any motivations. So, again, focusing on plot instead of comedy is soooo hard for Flag, in big part because the show is so afraid of either changing itself or developing its premise.
Two things that had to happen this season were: A) for the love interests to develop their relationships with the mc (either by creating deeper reciprocal connections, or by finally giving up on her as a love interest); and B) the mc had to undergo character growth: she had to fail at some point in the story, in order for her to realize that she needs to change to overcome the new challenges presented to her. But both of these things are barely even present this season.
Overall, the premise of Flag is really getting old by this point, and the plot is not innovating nearly enough to make up for it. The series still has its strengths, but I find at least half of this season to be extremely boring, and I had to watch multiple episodes at 2x speed in order to not drop the series altogether, so I would recommend to drop the show.
obs: during episode 9, characters started pretending they were in season 8 of game of thrones and started teleporting all around the place...
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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May 8, 2024
Otome Game Flag is quite a good comedy. It is fun, the pacing is okay, the characters are charismatic, the production is okay, the intro is good, and the jokes and comedic scenarios are mostly good.
That being said, I watched from episodes 1-7 in basically one sitting, but the second half of the show was much worse, because the comedy started to get stale and the focus from the series changed drastically to drama
And, unfortunately, Flag does not work well as a drama nor as a romance; mostly because of three reasons:
1st - The heroine's personality. She is just too dumb and it is
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impossible to take her serious;
2nd - How the protagonist achieves so much just because of her compassion. She does not work hard, nor smart, nor strategically. Instead she just solves all her problems by being empathetic and somewhat nice to others, and this makes no sense and also removes much of the investment the viewers could have for her;
3rd - The extreme way most of the cast regards the protagonist is too absurd to be taken seriously. This works perfectly well for the comedic and slice of life aspects of the show; but it also makes the drama and romance very hard to digest.
Overall, Flag is a solid comedy anime that fails miserably when it shifts its focus to drama and plot progression, as the show is unbelievably boring regarding its romance and drama.
It is also worth mentioning that there is a clear disconect between the light-hearted comedy and the high stakes of some of the plot points near the ending of this season. I don't think this is a major flaw, and I believe that fixing other aspects of the show could definitely alleviate this problem
I would recommend watching the show until episode 9, as it is quite entertaining. I would not recommend watching the last arc as it is bland, uninspired, and extremely boring.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Apr 22, 2024
First I must say that the voice acting in here is truly great - the best selling point of the show imo; incredible work.
But, unfortunately, the production is lacking. There is an exaggerated use of still images, and the fights scenes are mostly underwhelming because of the poor production.
On the other hand, the pacing and plot are both hit or miss at times. The story goes from enjoyable with a great pacing, to scenes that should be twice as long, to a sequence of scenes in which nothing is happening. And the same goes for the plot, which fluctuates between overly complex and stupidly simple.
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put it simply, the second season of Eminence in Shadows is more of the first, with some improvements. The comedy is fun, and you should expect the same attitude from the show of doing cool things for the sake of it, and fuck logic and progression; which isn't bad by any means. But, again, there's no reason why the mc must one shot the final boss every time, instead, I would love to see him struggling more during fights.
Overall, solid season, I will definitely watch season 3. But I hope the production gets better.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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