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Feb 17, 2025
This is really not interesting: it's lacking both intellectual depth and superficial spectacle, making it a complete snooze that is hard to watch. It's a typical episodic story of encountering people/places with different mini stories to tell that has been done far better by many others. The philosophical aspects are all juvenile and often just contrived nonsense to force misanthropic/wishy-washy morals ('the tyranny of the majority in democracy is unavoidable'(No. The anti-execution minority wouldn't accept a decree to be executed, it's literally the definition of their group, they'd revolt), 'slaves want not to be free but to be the masters'(No, just no. Also, reinventing the
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concept of sports doesn't necessitate death sports. But at least the author managed to headass another way to smooth their brain enough to try to justify genocide), 'We will not leave before the known natural disaster destroys the town tomorrow and then come back and rebuild the day after! We will murder-suicide everyone instead!', etc. And the story itself is mostly just (not like your other girls') world-building/character's exposition dumps interspersed by power(point)fantasy shonen action and emotionless tearjerkers where non-characters die.
The MC, Kino, ironically preaches be true to one's self like the story insists, despite how Kino's entire personality/character/name was simply copied from the person who saved them before literally forgetting everything else. With similar irony, Kino refuses to live life, almost always avoiding involvement in anything to a sociopathic degree (effectively watching people drown in a puddle while choosing not to say anything to help). Kino's entire personality and highest ideal is to be a traveler (read: bystander/sightseer/voyeur) who contributes nothing but juvenile pseudo-intellectual commentary filler for the viewer. As written Kino and the talking bike-partner non-character make for one of the most boring non-character main casts ever.
And don't even get me started on the braindead Coliseum super-powered shonen tournament arc that finishes in a deus-ex-fireball bullet for no goddamn reason, or the bs about MC having never seen flying machines despite how simple the concept is and after seeing tons of hover crafts. There is something so frustratingly juvenile about the plots in this series. It's like the author just wants to make twists like M Night Shamallama and doesn't care about anything else.
The art is uninteresting. There's almost no cinematography outside the OP, just a bunch of generic sideshots of people talking and silly everpresent CRT screen lines to cover up how generically bland and low-effort everything is drawn.
If you like elevator muzak, then this has, like, a boring OP and ED for you I guess, skip. I don't think it has much music anywhere else.
It's almost exactly like a serious version of Jing: King of Bandits by a different author which one would assume is parodying this, however Jing's source material actually came first by 5 years. I didn't enjoy either as they're both juvenile and boring slogs, but that one at least had some spectacle/humor. For something of similar style done well instead of this, I'd highly recommend: Mushi-shi, Girl's Last Tour, Golden Boy, The World God Only Knows, Made in Abyss, even Full Metal Alchemist. It's also very similar to Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina and due to those similarities that one isn't particularly much better.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Feb 17, 2025
The plotline/premise is a lot like Dorohedoro and Undead Girl Murder Farce, except this is incredibly generic shonen action cringe that takes itself way too seriously while failing miserably to actually be seinen. It's a 1-note storyline to kill the generically evil witch yet lacks direction filling its story with pointless and repetitive magic baddie shonen arcs and numerous irrelevant sidestories and oneshots of irrelevant non-characters.
And the characters (especially the MCs) are all cardboard cutouts we learn almost nothing about and what we do learn amounts to: generically evil witch, generically persecuted good witch, generically evil executioners, generically good mages, generically angry MC, etc.
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Shonen trope hell. If it weren't shonen it would actually put effort to have meaningful character depth to give any of it emotional weight.
The worldbuilding is generic fantasy trope cringe. The interactions are contrived. The pacing is terrible with so much pointlessly drawn out action and cringe dialogue to overexplain exposition and feelings stretching out everything with filler within filler.
The plots are juvenile. If you actually consider any of the situations the author sets up you'll realize that it's often contrived as hell and what little information surrounding the character motivations/interactions is idiotic at best and often riddled with plotholes.
Some people claim that the art is good, but past the first few color pages' bait and switch, the manga art is mostly terrible. The way the mangaka draws black haired MC is often hilariously bad, there are meme-worthy low-effort shit faces scattered around the mangaka clearly didn't intend. The art during action also often poorly conveys what is happening.
It's mile-wide inch-deep multiworlds of generic fantasy cringe story, vampire world turned out exactly as cringe and jumping-the-shark shonen trash as I expected it to be.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Feb 17, 2025
The plotline/premise is a lot like Dorohedoro and Undead Girl Murder Farce, except this is incredibly generic and shallow shonen action cringe that takes itself way too seriously while failing miserably to actually be seinen.
These characters are all cardboard cutouts we learn almost nothing about and what we do learn amounts to: generically evil witch, generically persecuted good witch, generically evil executioners, generically good mage society, generically angry MC, etc. Shonen trope hell. If it weren't shonen it would actually put effort to have meaningful character depth to give any of it emotional weight.
The world is generic. The interactions are contrived. The exposition is cringe.
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The pacing of everything is slow, practically just slow fps sloth dialogue to monotonously overexplain exposition and feelings stretching out everything with filler within filler. (For example: the cringiest scene where MC retardedly didn't kiss the witch to be able to immediately overcome all obstacles because partner spoonfed some dumbass excuse not to, so instead MC is flung out a window while having an entire conversation with the witch about the power of cringe and tryharding drawing out 2 seconds into the most cringe conversation that painfully refuses to end...) (The story randomly jumps into an entire filler arc following characters completely unrelated to the MCs and plot.) (It also takes 1 episode to introduce a plot hole since each witch body has a max lifespan of 200 years, the witch's grandmother was murdered for sealing the fire 417 yrs ago yet her granddaughter witch and her mother witch could've lived for no more than 400yrs combined at the absolute max. So we have a witch dedicating decades of her life to an absurd plot to kill innocent people as revenge for a woman she never knew who died over 200 yrs before she was even born, literally hamfistedly retarded being the very thing she hayes all conveyed via braindead exposition dump mid-fight. All when she could've just done this decade long plan in 1 night from the start but Main Character Syndrome dictates that it must be exactly the night the MCs show up on a job to see her for no reason. The ending mystery involves the exact same contrivance baddies doing the a retarded plot for half a year to betray exactly when the MCs show up when they could've just done it in 1 night from the start.) The writing is unbelievably dumb.
Some people claim that the art is bad compared to the manga, but I checked and past the first few pages' bait and switch, the manga art is mostly terrible. The way the mangaka draws black haired MC is hilariously bad. This anime is frankly good art/animation quality, and the voice acting of the dub has good emotion and all, just sucks the dialogue is mostly exposition.
All that said, this anime is underrated/better compared to most cringe shonen here, probably so must dislike because it opens with a random goofy giant shark running through the city on 2 legs, dumb as hell cringe for no real reason but it more or less foreshadows exactly how cringe the author's storytelling/worldbuilding is. This season ends up being mostly just a pointless introduction that goes nowhere as bait for s2/manga but based on the mile-wide inch-deep multiworlds of generic fantasy cringe story the author set up, I'd assume 'vampire world' is just going to be more jumping-the-shark shonen trash. (*I checked and it is terrible)
It really could've been good if not for the writing. At least it's above the mountains of shonen/rom-com/SoL trash.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Feb 17, 2025
The theme song is 'auvers blue' a meaningless phrase. This foreshadows the show, which is similarly vapid, written/drawn/directed by juvenile manchildren with nothing to say about the few concepts brought up. Everything about it is silly spectacle garbage and childish poop/sex joke level nonhumor children could come up with in a day, drawn at the level of childish sketches like some kind of extremely low-effort western 'adult' animation. The characters are unbelievably boring. The plot is dumb Romeo & Juliet nonromance drama that goes nowhere and doesn't try anything really.
I'd recommend Beastars instead for something that actually has something to say about the topic of
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selfish/selfless desire conflating love/lust through predator/prey romance. Shiki also involves similar themes through vampires/horror far better than this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Feb 17, 2025
Pointless filler anime with no plot and carboard ideas of characters.
It baited marketing itself as similar to the Call of the Night, even ripping off that vampire's outfit, but those aspects were shallow at best and immediately dropped as a bait and switch.
Blue haired Fu bizarrely has roughly the same appearance + behavior and lack of character as Grey from Black Clover, even the same VA phoning it in by just copying herself I think. Deja vu.
Even the details of the punch drama that started the story are never actually explored/explained.
The vampire vtuber aspect gets immediately cut because that would've been more interesting and resolved
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the filler plot in 2 episodes, so instead they start grinding out boring slop to pad the runtime for the rest of the season. The 1million subscribers goal is just a mcguffin excuse for filler vtuber mass-produced SoL slop blindly promoting quantity over quality with zero self-awareness to make any commentary on the subject... because clearly the kind of people making this slop anime are self-inserting hard.
The ending was really dumb.
I can't think of any redeeming qualities to this serialized vtuber brainrot.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Feb 17, 2025
Send this poor, mentally ill/schizophrenic child to a non-quack doctor. That was genuinely what I was thinking for much of the movie, all the more by the end of it.
This movie barely goes anywhere and is almost completely SoL filler aside from a single exposition dump dialogue scene. The plot, beyond irrelevant specifics, is extremely predictable and boring, relying on unearned heartstring pulling. No justice for boat guy's irrelevance to the movie. No point to random fat-shamed character. No point to random exposition dump art-lady. The plot of this movie is summarized in one minute of exposition dialogue and spends the entire rest of the
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movie insincerely baiting a shallow romance while tipping its hand on a pointless mystery that is hard to care about as they present it in the most excessively saccharine way.
Edited to conform to community standards.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Feb 17, 2025
This movie has a shallow plot about a SoL coming-of-age child's story which thrusts all the worst possible things together. It also presents shallow and cringey kiddy romance to pointlessly parallel the shallow excuse of romance that the mc falls into as an adult. Of course neither plot actually goes anywhere. The lack of plot makes it hard to find any of it interesting, ad even the art/music is unremarkable.
In actuality, the movie is an excuse for preaching of city bad, farming good. Follow traditionalism, be good worker, get married, be a stay at home mother like everyone tells you to, etc.
This is among the
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worst Studio Ghibli movies in my opinion.
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Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Feb 17, 2025
A poorly written story of filler character drama to convey the very basic concept of escapism.
Meanwhile, the memetic concept of Lil-Slugger and Maromi is maybe only in people's heads but also maybe real, while completely overlooking that the entire conflict of the entire story affecting the entirety of the city gets resolved immediately after fmc arbitrarily faces her trauma instead of resorting to escapism immediately after being confronted with it, and this one act immediately solves the entire memetic problem for everyone else, completely destroying the argument that it isn't a real entity.
Pointless 2D character plotlines that go nowhere and haphazardly thrown in ideas and
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plot contrivances because it's just so cool that random old man is a plot contrivance doing math for no reason and random otaku exists and their dolls are maybe an autonomous ai program plot contrivance to have the police assistant to save the day and then become like the old man doing math for no reason and trust me the author says, this story is very deep because it pointlessly started with the empty ending scene of random escapism-inducing society stuff.
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Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Feb 17, 2025
It's not a bad movie, but it is a bit boring, and barely qualifies as horror, far far more of a drama.
The commentary/exploration of idols/idolization-obsession/parasocial relationships/performance industries/(s)exploitation, oneself/one's persona/other's perception of you, delusion/reality/fiction, mental health, etc. was decent aside from embracing lookism of beauty=good, ugly=evil. Though some of it did seem a bit surface level.
The story itself involved a lot of empty fluff scenes, and overall very little of interest happens other than in proximity to some dancing, SA, and a few scenes of violence.
The plot itself is kinda predictable as only 3 or so options are presented for the narrative antagonisms and most end
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up being shown as such, and an unreliable narrative means most any of the other possibilities could conceivably be true as well.
It was much more cohesive than the similar Paprika, though less visually interesting. I liked this marginally more.
(There's also a hilarious plot hole where the character she's acting as within the meta-show starts off as a non-character sister after the murders are already happening, and the writer guy is stuck on who to make the killer while the show airing, then he decides to have her SAd as justification for her becoming the killer... so the only possibility would be that they did a flashback to setup this random sister as a SA survivor which would be hilariously terrible storytelling in a murder mystery to retcon her character, and kinda makes the meta narrative surrounding that tv show fall apart.)
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Feb 17, 2025
It's a really great fantasy premise, but a really terrible execution on top of being used as a macGuffin vehicle for a terribly cringeworthy kiddy-romance.
It's really rough kiddyschool SoL for much of the first half. The FMC is portrayed in such a 'child-oriented man writing little girl' way, the 'romance'(nonromance) is absurdly forced for the entire movie. She's somehow all at once just a typical idiot who's suicidal, bipolar, autistic, narcissistic, cringe butt-bumping her crush and declaring her love to him constantly despite barely knowing him only through stalking as a cat, etc. She's a lunatic with zero ability to read the room or display
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any competency for the entire movie. This alone entirely robs it of any fantastical charm, somehow being all of the worst aspects of The Cat Returns cranked up to 100, (Watch that instead).
The story is just silly contrivances for the mask macGuffin, and the characters love each other in the end (despite still having almost never actually had a conversation together about anything) just because they're the MCs and she smells nice or whatever (he literally knows nothing about her except in the end that she loves him for (to paraphrase her explanation) 'being a typical guy who pet a cat' and was creepily stalking him as a cat).
The other human characters are all normal (aside from an excess of annoying bully comedic relief non-characters), like shockingly so compared to FMC. Unfortunately none of them actually have any real significance in the story. Her biomother is just as bipolar as the FMC for pointless drama trying to get the FMC in 2 brief instances (and 1 text). This went nowhere in the end, could've just had her die/never come back (and had a theme of FMC dealing with trauma of rejection rather than 'wahhh I'm such a perfect selfless person and everyone else is only thinking about what they want when they try to be nice to me!' goddamn this narcissist) rather than waste time on characters that go nowhere. (They were definitely trying for the theme of 'other's expectations force me to wear a mask to behave how they want me to be rather than how I want to be' but it more just came out as 'communicating what I want is such a pain' the FMC literally wanted to wear a mask to be a cat rather than just be herself and use her words(the opposite of the theme) to take advantage of the Halo Effect and avoid having to actually talk to her crush... The desire of the crush to do pottery, the FMC's crush and relationship with her parents, all of them resolve immediately upon communicating what they want, literally all they had to do was say what they want because these people aren't forcing them to wear masks, they're bending over backwards to try to give them what they want, the main conflict was literally 'ugh why can't they just read my mind about what I want' (but sure, 'wearing a mask is bad, be true to yourself' is close enough to that since both involve doing what you want. except one is narcissism).
The art/animation is okay, but character movements/designs and the settings are all really uninspired. It really lacks any emotional weight.
The ending was also really contrived that the antag didn't easily overpower them and it was so pointlessly drawn out with nothing happening. (They could've actually done something interesting like pull a mask off the mask salesman's face to beat him or something but no, just uninspired macGuffining).
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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