Mar 21, 2023
Kitsutsuki Tanteidokoro
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I was hoping this was going to be a good detective series with lots of hot dudes in it. However by episode 2 they are in the sex work district and the whole of episodes 2 and 3 are making a joke of sex workers death. I guess we can't have a detective series without murdering a sex worker. Their lives are so worthless aren't they? We spend 2 episodes here doing a "but what if..." with all the characters. One even mentioning the murder might have been committed by a cat. As if her death was jsut some game for a bunch of men
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Mar 19, 2023
This whole movie is just propaganda for the JMSDF. Every turn they praise how great and wonderful everything is on the ship. Including the food. (Military food ain't that great.) the JMSDF however would like to inform you that they'll allow women on board ships REAL SOON! Even Aegis Destroyers! We promise! To cover up the sexism in the military. Not that you'd want to join the military.
The whole plot of the thing is about spies and military data and how _that_ country is bad. (country not specified.) Really it takes way too long to find the culprit and there's a LOT of red herrings going ... 
Dec 29, 2022
Mushikaburi-hime
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A simple story of the awkward princess becoming betrothed to a prince and the trials and tribulations that happen as a result. It leans into politics a bit however it isn't a fantasy story. Which is what I liked about it. No other world main hero, no magical chosen one powers. Just a simple story about a princess to be that actually READS and learns and uses that to solve problems.
The greatest drawback of this anime is how abbreviated things are from the books. There's a lot cut out about her reading about stuff and knowing things. It just seems she pulls it out of ... 
Dec 26, 2022
Scared Rider Xechs
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What's good about this anime is that it's a sentai, but aimed at a female audience.
Which puts off the 4/8channers because it's not aimed at them even thought they have a billion isekai, sentai slave women anime aimed at them. The female character isn't a doormat which puts off the rest of the channers and the otoge audience that likes the main girl to be abused harassed and basically have no agency. She's actually proactive and knows how to do her job and doesn't need men always saving her nor telling her what to do. All the guys are actually decent, thought Hijiri pushes it. The anime however ... 
Mar 29, 2019
Meiji Tokyo Renka
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Tokyo Renka
This is one of those otome game anime where the "one true path" male is almost garbage and every single other guy is 10x better for her. To get the "true" ending however you have to play his path, and this anime is a good summary of how it goes. You just want to keep yelling things at Ougai and tell her to just dump that possessive bastard. The one good thing about this anime is that the story is mostly slice of (supernatural) life and not one where the hero has to do any form of fighting or anything considered masculine, where she suddenly ... 
Jul 3, 2018
Kyoufu Shinbun (2014)
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The year is 1974 and Kigata Rei is haunted by a newspaper that is delivered every night at midnight. This is heavily based on the manga including the art and the pacing. Older manga tended to infodump A LOT whenever it got the chance as the artist wanted to make sure that the readers were all on base. It's similar to the way it's done in Light Novels to where paragraphs are dedicated to explaining everything before finally getting back to the story. This anime is no different. Most of the episodes are nothing but exposition on spirits, astral projection, yetis, psychic powers and UFOs.
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Jun 21, 2018
Wizardry Zeo
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TL;DR misogyny, transphobia, terrible story
I love the Wizardry series. It's a nice 3D Dungeon RPG from the 80s that even today has only gotten graphical updates. A software created in the 80s and then adopted by Japan. This story however has little to do with Wizardry even though it's supposed to be in the "Wizardry Renaissance" universe. We have our OP male main character, who can't ever be defeated once her pull out his sword. The healer who... is out of the picture when the fighting starts, a male ninja who of course has a soft spot for women and another ninja who... really does more ... 
Sep 27, 2016
This Conan movie brought to you by J-League! Play Soccer kids!
In this movie Mouri Kogorou murders a small child in drunken confusion. I shit you not. He stops an ambulance and that may have lead to the death of a small child. Which is kind of important to the plot, but HE certainly doesn't dwell upon it. This is also the movie where Conan messes up all over the place and gets sloppy. I don't know if they were trying to be a little more realistic, but he seems to have trouble making the jumps and perfect landings. As such the ending takes a bit more ... 
Sep 27, 2016
This film proceeds exactly like the few other films before it where Conan faces off against the perpetrator alone and gets shot at a few times. However this movie seemed the most mundane. You think the bombing of the tunnel and the dam are going to be some huge thing, only it's because someone wants to drain the water to find his diamonds. That's it.
The rest of the movie more or less plods along with a death here and snow antics there. Even the start of the film turns out to be "not such a very big deal" and only marginally related to the case ... 
Sep 20, 2016
This was certainly better than movie 13 and certainly felt like a movie, but Movie 8 it is not. Still it just didn't feel a thrilling as it could have been. Maybe it's because it start to repeat the same "Conan stares down the villain and get hurt a bit doing it." It's predictable. Also the mystery didn't really feel that mysterious. Even adding Kaitou Kid didn't ramp up the excite factor. Kid was really only there to be a Heiji stand in and have gizmos to help Conan. He really doesn't do much past that. Also at the end there Ran so could have
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