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Dec 19, 2024
She was a ghost girl, and he was an alien boy: the perfect mix! Dan Da Dan blends Japanese urban legends with hardcore ufology and even throws in a dash of SEX. More precisely, it explores sexual discovery during adolescence—it has a touch of FLCL, I’d say. Eccentric characters, explosive artistic direction with a unique use of colors and camera angles—all of this enhances the quirky vibe of the work. After all, the duo "Okarun" and Momo are constantly facing off against aliens and ghosts. If you enjoy action packed anime with creative visuals, light-hearted comedy and a pinch of drama, Dan Da Dan is
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Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Oct 27, 2024
FLCL is back but nobody asked for it, and for a reason: the original works perfectly as it is. But somebody with money bought the IP and wanted to make a sequel. So here I am writing this review. FLCL Progressive, despite its title, doesn't feature any prog music: The Pillows are back! But not so much, because they have one or two new songs for this, the rest are just re-recorded songs back from the OG FLCL, which is an issue because those songs were written in that time in that context to serve as OST to FLCL, so they don't fit quite well
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in this one, however, they make good fighting songs, the spirit of the original is mostly gone. The other responsible for it is the friggin music mixing, whoever did it didn't know FLCL NEEDS TO HAVE LOUD MUSIC, not just in a barely audible background tone!
Fooly Cooly is Furi Kuri, Furi Furi, Kuri Kuri, like spicy curry! And that's what I felt was missing, the anime is true of a high-quality production, but it's too clean, too "in the industry standards" to be called FLCL. Don't get me wrong, it's not half-assed in animation or direction, but it really lacked that creativity we saw in the first series. Haruko is the prime example of it: She, in the original, has a lot of stretch and squash moments, a very cat-like face, with cat-like expressions. It's still Haruko in Progressive, but she was portrayed way too average, visual-wise. Too... ordinary, as Naota himself said "Everything is ordinary".
Kazuya Tsurumaki wasn't involved in the project directly, but as a supervisor and he suggested " to Terashima-Furuta and Ishikawa that they should try to find staff who were not familiar with FLCL or his other works, and give them the freedom to create something new. This lead to a younger and dynamic staff with limited experience to create something new and exciting as Ishikawa noted" https://flcl.fandom.com/wiki/FLCL_Progressive#Staff
I can get his idea, but they could have used people with more experience. What made the OG FLCL so special was the mix of experienced and talented people and the green light to do whatever they wanted, however they wanted. Progressive didn't have any of it, so options here were limited. To be fair, the beginning of the episodes indeed featured some different aesthetic choices but they didn't last long. Episode 5 was by far the closest they got to the original FLCL idea. I think it's important to note that instead of trying to replicate FLCL, the best course of action is to understand it and apply its creative process to the sequel. Well, at least episode 5 accomplished that.
Speaking of main characters, it's perhaps one of the biggest flaws of Progressive, this kind of character works in lengthier productions, not a 6 episode one. Ide and Julia are far more interesting characters than the main one, especially Julia, who has an astounding connection to Haruko. Despite all of these flaws and the reviewer (me) being a harsh prick, I actually enjoyed this season. It's a solid season in terms of technicalities, but FLCL goes way beyond that. OG FLCL isn't just a well-polished, well-animated short show. It's an explosion of creative minds, coming together, all together in an ordered chaos... to Fooly Cooly.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Oct 25, 2024
What is Fooly Cooly? Furi kuri? Furi kura? Do you do furi furi on the sly? Or kuri kuri? Like spicy curry? Have you ever done furi kuri in the bathroom? Would you rather be a western and do fooly cooly? Is your furi doing well? Have you ever shoved up the kuri? This is FLCL: a chaotic, nonsense action-humor story. Don't think too hard, or your furi furi will melt. Sit back, buckle up and furi kuri! Is coming of age more furi furi or kuri kuri? Maybe both? Who knows? Try not getting ran over in the meantime... or hit in the head
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by a bass guitar. It could swell up to a weird lump, full of... furi kuri.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Oct 20, 2024
Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror had everything to break the Junji Ito curse: a creative and meticulous director, Nagahama Hiroshi, a lot of time so the production wouldn't be rushed, and a safe aesthetic choice: black and white coloring to get as close as possible to the manga style, so hard to replicate in anime. Five years later and COVID aside, the production took 3-4 years to be finished. Now the final episode is out and the spirals in Kurôzu-Cho have taken their toll on this anime, melting it into a spiral of production horror and chaos: Nagahama did a masterpiece first episode, mixing awesome
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lines and hatches with 3d+rotoscoping techniques, giving the episode an eerie feeling about it.
Everything we could have asked for, but he got fired after it and a widely known lame director, Yūji Moriyama, took the job and the results were as expected: a massive drop in quality, lame 3d action, poor background clean-ups, lack of lines and hatches, lack of proper character acting, it all fell apart in this second episode. Things improved in episodes 3 and 4, but they still have some considerable flaws and even their highlights are below the 1st episode. I'd say they're ok episodes, which needed some polishing to be "perfect" (as ok to good episodes, even with all the flaws properly corrected, they wouldn't reach episode 1 quality). To sum it all up: it's a total disrespect to Nagahama's work and artistic vision. He shouldn't have been fired, period.
The story is intriguing, psychedelic, and unusual, not offering much of an explanation for everything. People who've read the manga said it was rushed and I kind of agree with them, although I didn't read it, the manga is 648 pages long, this should at the very least be 8 episodes long instead of 4, so I'm looking forward to reading it and see what they cut. (Reference: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/uzumaki-junji-ito/1103293998).
Episodes score:
1 - 9/10
2 - 5/10
3 - 7,5/10
4 - 7/10
Final score: 7.125
TLDR: Had phenomenal potential, ruined by poor staff management and too few episodes for a manga this long.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Dec 28, 2023
Greatest hits battle-shonen but little lore development
Ok, the first past arc started good, well-paced with some decent lore bits to settle in and it kept like this in the Shibuya arc until it turned out to be a nonsense power-scaling battle show for the fuck of it. So yeah, most episodes were purely made to show climax and fight scenes to power scale, even more, some characters, kill off some would-be-important-fellas, and repeat the cycle.
The overall picture is good if you're into Battle Shonen, but I'd really like to see more world-building and depth of character development instead of nonstop fights for almost 10 episodes.
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I mean, at least Itadori had some protagonism after a while (and that's good), but still, this series needs more balance in between nonstop up-to-the-sky power-scaling fights with gorgeous Sakuga and proper lore pacing.
Speaking of which, we shall thank and hope for the best for Mappa's workers: they are overworked with tight schedules and now are prohibited from talking about their poor working conditions, it was a miracle this anime didn't break and yet, more anime with no decent pause are on the making (CSM movie, new original anime and JJK season 3 was already announced today), so let's pray (and I'm not the religious type)
Leaving aside my criticism, as an anime, this season was overall solid, with lots of sakuga and tension moments, due to the overall personnel hired to do stuff in the nick of time. If you're into battle shonen with little plot development, you're in for a treat. Relive those Dragon Ball moments of when you were a kid but uh with a darker tone.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Dec 6, 2023
Took me a long time to review this season. It's my favorite and the only one I actually think it's at least good to some degree. Well, let's delve into this review. This is originally from my Twitter reply to someone asking for a review. It's FOR ME an 8/10, but being honest and not doing value judgint, I thint 7/10 would be fair.
Although rushed (as all Orphen season by Deen), this one is less rushed than usual, not due to better writing and adapting but simply because the source material of this arc has less pages. Animation improved quite significantly, Considering the
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first season and it's the best looking season of all 4. Has the best (and almost only) sakugas of the newer series and a proper villain, something Orphen lacks quite often, specially during the despair arc (Urbanrama-Sanctuary).
The drawbacks are, logically, animation isn't still on par with the J.C Staff version, so is the direction and pacing, the show still feels rushed and it's the shorter of all 4 seasons with only 11 episodes long, at least 14 would benefit the plot a shitload better But the director still does a half assed job, mostly. The OST is the same from season 1: mediocre. So, I guess it sums up this season 2.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Nov 7, 2023
Pretty much the 1st novel adapted into 2 manga. I'd add some more pages, some scenes felt rushed, but other than that, the best adaptation so far of Orphen is in this manga. Why not a 10, though? Well, along with a few rushed scenes, I didn't like Black Tiger's redesign and the girls in this were a bit sexualized, Cleo is not supposed to be curvy ffs. I don't have much to say about this, to be honest, it's just the best adaptation of the light novel. Read this if you don't wanna read a book (although being nearly 200 pages long, i.e. not
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a lengthy book) or if you didn't like the first 4-ish new anime episodes. You might as well be left uncanny if your only experience with Orphen is the first J.C. Staff adaptation, which doesn't adapt faithfully to all the novels but unironically is the best Orphen anime so far.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Oct 2, 2023
Bread and Butter slapstick, nonsense gag humor: as it should be.
Contrary to the main series, this one doesn't have any world-changing events or deep character development, it's pure and utter chaos and that's what I love about it. Set 6 months before the main events, Orphen is as miserable and angry as ever. He has mainly canned peaches for food and blasts anyone and everyone with magic. Living at Bagup's Inn "for free" (until he actually pays the old man) and spreading chaos across Totokanta City, he has different people around him this time. Constance Maggy, also known as Coggy: is a sloppy
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and incompetent, as Orphen says, police officer who has the aim of a stormtrooper, but instead of laser blasters, she shoots poisonous darts (which she mistook for a muscle relaxant).
Each chapter has a quick, funny, and equally nonsense plot. When you think you couldn't be surprised anymore, the writer clearly said "Hold my beer". I won't get into much detail but you can expect a magic and trickster butler, the old and known to the fans couple of dwarf brothers, Volkan and Dortin, some weird monsters, wrestlers wielding fish as weapons, Orphen demanding pay for his loans by threatening people with magic and of course, he constantly wreaking havoc in the city, so much that people got so used to him doing so they have construction worker teams ready to rebuild asap what he destroyed (even though he could just use his healing magic but nay).
So, if you like unexpected nonsense gag humor, with no plot density whatsoever, this story is for you. And that's exactly why I rated this 8/10: I'm used to Orphen having thick plots and serious turn of events, but this score is also due to the mangaka cutting some content from the light novels, due to limited pages (he said so himself) and the Reckless novels are only in Japanese, so as long as we don't get a translation or learn Japanese, we'll never know how the story completely and truly is.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jun 28, 2023
What could have been a breath of fresh air amidst the sea of questionable quality fantasy isekai turned out to be a generic and forgettable fantasy.
A total of 6 novels were crammed into 12 episodes, volumes 16 to 21*, here they are:
16: Dance Across My Battlefield, Visitors! - 145 pages - 2 episodes;
17: Echo Through My Garden, Gunshots! - 174 pages - 2 episodes;
18: Wander My Mansion, Falsehood! - 186 pages - 2 episodes;
19: Swing Wide In My Sanctuary, Gates! (Act 1) - 170 pages - 2 episodes;
20: Swing Wide In My Sanctuary, Gates! (Act 2) - 212 pages - 3 episodes;
21: The End Of
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Kiesalhima (Unofficial translation) - 208 pages - 1 episode;
First things first: 6 books adapting 12 episodes. This is the most rushed season of all 4 (or 3 if you count it as a second cour of season 3) and I think this last episode should have been a movie. I thought it would be, because Nanatsu had one, just like Sasaki to Miyano, so I thought Orphen, a classic in Japan with over 14 million books sold, would have gotten a movie to at least finish the main series with better material than the episodic anime. I was dead wrong.
There's no way a studio can properly pace an adaptation this long, really. Production-wise I bet this anime was utter chaos, I mean, look at how many revolving staff, especially this last season which had NO PERMANENT DIRECTOR, rather a bunch of episode directors. Good names, too, like, Reiko Yoshida (Koe No Katachi, Violet Evergarden, K-On!) but talented staff are no miracle workers if the episode schedule is this tight if the production is this messy (small studio, rushed adaptation, rushed background scenario, everything is rushed to meet production schedule on time). They did what they could and the result wasn't objectively bad, but mediocre, lukewarm.
This last season was the weakest of them all, even compared to the first one, although it was slightly better in animation and drawing. Anime adaptations are usually made so it can boost the original story sales and merchandising, as well as DVD/Blu-ray discs, but how can an adaptation like this attract people to read the novels if they don't like the anime? Or even buy the Blu-ray (which by the way are only sold in the deluxe format, ranging from 200-300 USD) box?
I am disappointed overall, but not 100% disappointed because season 2 was actually good, season 3 was okay-ish I guess and I expected the finale to be groundbreaking. So, as much as this may sound unadvised, given how bitter this review was, read the novels, at least the first volume. I promise it's way better than the anime. Or you could watch the J.C. Staff anime, although not faithful to the source material, it's a better product, overall.
*It's not quite a 21st volume cuz it was written 6 years after the 20th and it was not planned to be the actual closure of it, but it turned out to be nonetheless. It also doesn't have an English translation, so the title may vary if it ever gets translated.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jun 1, 2023
This OVA is the bridge in between Season 1 and 2, so you must watch it before starting season 2. It was made to fill in the lore gap the novel "Obey My Command, Doll!" (volume 2) left, because it wasn't adapted into this season and it has important lore elements, so they decided to bring in those lore elements from book 2 without having to adapt it into the anime, while bridging both season 1 and 2. There isn't much to say about this episode, really, just watch it before going to s2. The animation is quite the same quality of season 1, same
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Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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