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Feb 9, 2025
Is this really all that "one of the best new-gens" have to offer? I get that we are in the character introduction part, but the part of meeting and defeating hit-mans in 1-2 episode just feels like plain boring writing from an old show. So far shin is the only interesting character that actually has depth to him and emotions. Sakamoto is cool and all, but not more outside of it.
Animation/Art - The art style looks old and cheap, with a sort of shading over it, looking like a 2010 anime. Animation has it's moments during fighting, but it never really seems fluid enough
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when it comes to hand to hand combat. For a show with pretty plain characters and story, you would think more time and effort would be put on the actual action animation, but not really.
Plot - It feels cheap as of now, with "guess that next hit-man that we will give one episode and just throw them away is". I get that Sakamoto is that guy, but surely there must be someone to humble him out of retirement. As it's only 6 episodes, I can't be as harsh on the story cause it only just started. But I would like to see a darker tone to it in the future. All the villains, except hard-boiled just felt so one dimensional and was gone before we got a chance to see them. Especially episode 6 was horrendous in my opinion.
Episode 6 - This episode alone took my rating from a 8 to a 6. With an episode that felt like simple filler in a long running show. No actual tension and just a unlikable character sobbing over everything and being a complete dumbass (Couldn't even remember his name....). I don't care how good he is with a sniper, there is no way in hell he would survive in normal day to day life as the person he is. I felt more emotions towards hard-boiled and his backstory. If episode 6 is actually chapters from the manga and it keeps going in this direction I'm not sure I will keep watching. It felt like sloppy writing just to introduce another main/supporting cast that had no enjyoment to them and to yet again show off how cool and overpowered a retired hit-man is. Lu also just feels like the boring female shonen girl just to be on the sidelines for the male audience without anything else to add. This was prolly the worst episode in a while that I've stumbled upon.
Still, it is very early in the show and I've heard good things about the story for future seasons, but the question is. How many plain episodes like ep 6 can you have before it starts feeling like a "ooooh you missed out on one good episode cause you didn't watch these 25 boring ones", I truly hope they can show some good writing and depth and not let the fighting carry it.
So as of now, I just can't recommend it. It feels like any other generic shonen show without and sort of flair to it. If the manga is like this, the anime atleast needed a demon slayer treatment to be talked about more.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Dec 7, 2024
FLCL was truly ahead of it's time with both animation, but also creativity shown throughout just 6 episodes.
I will still be leaving it on mixed feelings as it might not really be for everyone, but it is without a doubt worth a watch solely for the classical feel.
I had such a hate love relationship with the overall crazines that was taking place with the switching from anime to manga panel was great but went on for faaar too long. Also really enjoyed that they could dwell into deeper meanings about growing up and struggling to find yourself and feeling stuck in a single place.
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as i said, if you are a person that can't really handle overstimulating craizines in anime, this one is not for you!
Mainly why i give it a seven is cause they could've gone into more depth with characters and also toned down the creativity to some extent. It was still an enjoyable watch that aged well into today's anime adaptation, still think the story itself could've been made better but the anime without a doubt elevated the source material.
Bonus points for the insanely good music!
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Dec 5, 2024
The autumn arc sold me!
Such an interesting power system with great characters and even better world building. One big flaw the anime has is the pacing feeling almost unwatchable, to the point where i actually dropped it once. The amount of flashbacks from one episode ago and bombarding us with black screens conveying the time and date was rough to watch (idk maybe the time and date as a big importance in the future but for now it serves no purpose but to be annoying). But outside of that the powers felt refreshing and had good explanation behind them and the dynamic between Fuko
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and Andy was perfection!
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The whole concept of being on a time-loop doing trail and error until they achieve the right ending is so good (Hopefully not dragged out in the future) and the story Akira has was both sad and beautiful at the same time, him sacrificing it all to achieve the only future where they can actually defeat god but at the same time seeing all these heroes that he made up in his manga in the flesh must have felt worth it all in the end. Both seeing Akira's backstory and parts to Andy/Victors flashback was executed to perfection and has such a satisfying ending to them. Victor realizing what Juiz did unveiling this alter ego (Andy) was the only way of them to actually stand a chance against god and i think victor realized just that after their fight and was content in letting them go cause it was the best option for all of them.
I'm looking forward to the future of the story and how the combination of undead + unluck will be able to take down this entity. Animation was good but the pacing need tremendous fixing for a season 2 imo!
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Nov 14, 2024
Breaking the shounen norm!
After episode 7 i can with confidence say that this is a one of a kind adaptation.
I have already read all of the manga, but when a studio like science saru can show such passion and love to a work, adding almost double the content that was in the manga (and I'm not talking filler). You can clearly tell that it will be masterpiece of it's own.
Dandadan might start off as this one crazy journey exploring the unknown of both aliens and ghost, but it is so much more than that. At first glance it just looks like any other type of
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shounen with amazing fights and action scenes. But juggling close to every single mainstream genere in one show. As the likes of romance, action, sci-fi, comedy and mixing all these generes in such a perfect way and even brining us heart wrenching amidst the action romcom that dandadan is. Dandadan feels like this fresh breath of air that the type needed.
Usually I can never score a first season of a long-running anime a 10/10 but after seeing the passion and love the science saru put into it and even exceeding the manga it is without a doubt a masterpiece of animation and story telling that the studio gave us. The future is looking very bright if science saru holds on to dandadan!
For the love of god, give dandadan atlest 7 episodes, to get a feel of what the series is, and if you are not hooked instantly on the story after that, then it's just not for you!
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Oct 14, 2024
With a truly horror start to a series with unsetteling aspect around every corner, with amazing art to support it. However, as the story continues it looses it's charm as a horror series and just turns more into a apocalypse-style series which dose not fit it at all. I also feel like the story is the most lacking in here, as it felt like the author just drew what came to mind without really thinking of future chapters.
I can still respect the ending of this ancient city being part-alive and sooner or later will consume the townsfolk above it to grow (possibly with their
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souls being devoured for it). But it really lacked any sense of a red thread through the story, with the only one actually being normal being her boyfriend, which slowly went more insane by the days, the rest of the cast could just go around casually after all the horrors they've witness earlier, like what?! did junji forget what they have witnessed and forgot to change them through the story?
Truly a strong start to an unsettling story which slowly spirals down to not having the same horror feel as it is known for. Last 6 chapters didn't hit for me, still enjoyed the open-ending aspect and loved the art that junji-ito could conjure with a pen and paper, still without a doubt worth giving a read as it still stands high as a horror manga!
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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