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Dec 17, 2022
I truly and genuinely believe that Pop Team Epic is one of the single greatest pieces of collaborative media of all time. Season 2 upgrades the variety aspect of the show from season 1 into a full-on anthology, with almost a dozen different studios getting to take the reins and tell their own Pop Team Epic-themed story. The show does not stop to laugh at itself even once, continuing from bit to bit without hesitation. Each episode leaves you with a feeling of "oh my god, they really went there, that was incredible" in the best possible way. Multiple of the anthology segments could very
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well be their own shows, especially Here We Go! Biggus McHugeGuy Combination and of course the absolutely spectacular Endless Love. I have more respect for everyone involved with this project than can be put into words. Watch Pop Team Epic.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Sep 22, 2022
God DAMN I hate this show. Sure, the character designs are cool and the fights are...acceptable? but you can *really* tell that Yoshiki Usa and Masahiko Ootsuka have never written a full season of anime before. The chemistry between David and Lucy is *completely* nonexistent, every character death is meaningless, and most infuriating of all, the show doesn't have anything to actually *say* outside of "don't get cybernetics because they'll make you mentally ill and the police will have to put you down to keep everyone safe". Absolutely appalling.
Let's start with Lucy. She's just completely redundant in every way. Need a kickass netrunner for the
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team? We've got Kiwi. Need a love interest for David? We've got Rebecca. Need someone to get David interested in becoming an edgerunner? We've got Maine. Lucy could be swapped out with a sexy lamp and just about nothing would meaningfully change with the story because the other characters do her role but better. She gets virtually no agency and everything she does is purely for David's sake.
The other women in the show barely get to do jack either. Gloria exists purely for the dead-mom pity points. Dorio barely gets any screen time before Maine kills her to show how scary and evil cyberpsychos are. Kiwi sells then gang out then gets murked when she has even a *shred* of conscience. Rebecca spends the whole show pining over David before getting blown in half in order to make David go full cyberpsycho.
The depiction of """cyberpsychosis""" in Edgerunners is disgusting. Fun fact: In Cyberpunk 2077, *cyberpsychosis does not exist*. Every single "cyberpsycho" in the Psycho Killer questline has documents on them proving that they're just having a nervous breakdown because they're in debt or can't make rent. It wasn't the augments. It was NEVER the augments. So, of course, Studio Trigger decides to make an entire show about how being disabled and getting treatment for your disability makes you go crazy. Fan fricking tastic.
The production quality is your standard Trigger fare. It's got their pastel neon aesthetic, their unique character designs, and just looks exactly how a Studio Trigger show set in Night City would look. The fight scenes are interesting but uninspired, enjoyable but nothing to write home about. I do have to give a shout out to the visual effect used for the Sandevistan; it's by far the coolest thing in this show.
I went into Cyberpunk: Edgerunners expecting absolutely nothing and it still let me down. It's all style with negative substance. If you want to watch a neon-lit stylistic anime with better fights, more intrigue, and actual things to say about society, go watch Akudama Drive instead. You'll enjoy it a hell of a lot more than this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Mar 28, 2022
After quite a scare late into the season, Sabikui Bisco has outdone itself to be hands-down one of the best anime of the past half decade. Milo and Bisco's dynamic is delightful, blossoming from an uneasy alliance to as close to romance as you can get for media published in a country where every single one the last fourteen books banned by the Tokyo government for being harmful are about romantic relationships between men. If you like queer anticapitalist stories, this show is absolutely for you.
The visuals and aesthetics are delightful, the inherent weirdness of animal weaponry and mushrooms accentuating the absurdism of a world
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where you're expected to pay to be treated for an illness that can and will kill you. At times you almost forget that the original light novel was first published in March 2018, a full two years before COVID-19 lockdowns began worldwide. The mix of rust and neon feels like a post-apocalyptic take on the traditional cyberpunk aesthetic, with mushrooms bringing a playful yet powerful feeling to our protagonists.
Every member of the Japanese voice cast does a spectacular job, with Hanae Natsuki and Suzuki Ryota playing off each other amazingly while Kenjiro Tsuda absolutely steals the show. Kondo Reina, Tomita Miyu, and Saito Shiro back them up with performances that feel like everyone involved is having so much fun with the script masterfully adapted by Sadayuki Murai. The story loses a single point from me for playing into my personal least favorite trope, but it's written well throughout and has a lot of things it very clearly wants to talk about.
All in all, you should ABSOLUTELY watch this show. Genuinely one of my new all-time favorites.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Dec 18, 2021
MUTEKING THE Dancing HERO is, in my eyes, a masterpiece of lightweight anime. Really the only bit of the show I don't feel is top-tier is the story, which tends to be on the cheesy and shallow side a lot of the time. The cheese is definitely intentional; it's a Tatsunoko remake, and the plot isn't nearly as important as the world it takes place in and the people Muteki meets. Neo San Francisco is filled to the brim with characters who, even without ever being introduced, are memorable and you come to care about as Muteki familiarizes himself with the city he protects. It's
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incredibly clear that the team working on it is overwhelmingly passionate about the show, even if they're tight on money/time/resources/etc. They've pumped so much genuine care into the series that even when it gets nearly incomprehensibly weird I still can't help but love every minute. It almost reminds me of an Ikuni series. The finale, while mostly satisfying, stumbles over itself in a way that just breaks my heart. Overall, I'd definitely recommend that people give this show a watch.
Also, Vivi-nee is the best character and anyone who disagrees can catch these hands.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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