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This is no way a 10

8 story
6 art
6 sound
10 characters
9 enjoyment

avg 8

... We follow a series of absurd soccer/football players (in particular in the last episodes) palying through high school female football.

Art and sound are not very good but I loved the characters, the references to real life sport and the love that was put into the sport

It makes me want to watch "lie in april" and anything else the author did.

Going back to this we have a decetely realistic approach to the sport mied very well with over the top characters and comedy in the right spots, even side characters are well made by giving them a catchphrase (muscles for example) and morover evey one serves the story

This is a mess.

It started as a pretty metaphorical anime, not my cup of tea since I'm not good with emphaty but something that had some objective value.

However episode after episode problems began to came out.

I can name 3 :
-the episode of the trans boy crossed the line between drama and comedy, the fact that only gay people fell in love with Momoe was nonsense and the fact that not only the evil professor was a tranphobe but also a rapist was too much to handle in a serious context, and so I loughed and the anime failed.

-episode 11 tried expalining stuff that didn't need ... to be explained.
This was a big metaphor, and a metaphor is allowed to not follow the laws of logic but if you dump an explanation (that however adds close to nothing to the plot) then any error becomes something you can judge.

-episode 12 introduced parallel worlds, and a messy story just to be messy betweeen different versions of the same reality and the dumb idea to take main Ai and make her dress the same as the other one even though they were different, so that we can be confused.


To sum it up this started well but ended up badly, and probably the 13th episode will not save it

This has the same problems as before (look at my first 12 episodes review) and one more: there is no need to fight fairly.
If all the teachers and judges are paid and under the director influence thay can simply say that the food is bad and expel the rebels.
Gosh they could even expel them without any reason.
The facty is that we didn't need such a villain, the series was good enough when the obstacals were harsh teachers, the very competive world of high cousine and other very talented students, there is no space for a totally evil villain in a fight were the wepons are ... subjective (food taste is not absolute) and even more if everythng happens behind closed doors (even diving is subjective but a flawed judgment during the olympics will be seen by many)

Ok, nothing much changed form the previous sesons but the villain that is the reason of the low score.
Nothing makes sense
The fact is that he doesn't have the power to do what he does, I mean he can do it becose he controls the school but the outside world can turn against him at any time: he is not the Nakiri family head so the old man can just talk bad about the new school direction and nobody will consider tham, even more if Alice dad doesn it, and the alumni we knew, and all the food critics,...

This is a strange beast.

They promoted this anime (look at the cover image, or the synopsis) as a spokon abouit gymnastic that would be really cool.
But in 4 episodes the gymnastic was the weakest part with bad animation of the hig bar exercises and lack of screentime.

The actual story seems to focus on the struggles of the MC, a former olympic medalist, and the people around him that have to deal with a career on the decline and some incredibely (the triple summersoult was never done in reality at the high bar) talented youngster.

If they manage to stick actual sport in this the series amy ... go up by at least one point.

Bad sidenote the bird living with the MC

Never ever underestimate the power of the mighty Cruchyroll X Manhwa combo.
ToG was badly paced and with an abysmal wouldbuilding and more plotholes than characters but there was a spark of something.
GoH had a terrible story, random power up, messed up power levels but some smooth animations (not really great fight directing though).

This has nothing, I can't even tell you why it' bad because there is nothing to comment: random fights where the strongest characters don't even lift a finger, paper thin "I'm revaluating Twilight" vampire character, mediocre animations and overall the worst animated thing I've seen in the last year (and only because I'm ... not sure on what I've seen before)