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Feb 24, 2017
Story: 8
Art: 3
Sound: 7
Character: 8
Enjoyment: 3
Overall: 6
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Kuzu no Honkai is a special case for me. I'm personally a sucker for drama and romance anime, so naturally I'd see this as right up my alley. However, the more I watched it, the angrier and more saddened I became. Saddened not because of the plot, but because of the animation that just doesn't do this anime justice. At first glance, anyone can tell this show has detailed and brightly colored art. At first glance, anyone would say the animation is good. However, that isn't the case. The colorful animation might work in stills, but the way the
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anime handles the animation is deplorable. If I could pick one phrase to describe how the animation affected my watching experience, I'd pick "immersion breaking." Kuzu no Honkai likes to use layered panels over the frame. This is the main gripe I have with Kuzu no Honkai. Many people would look at it and think "moving manga" and they wouldn't be wrong. It's exactly that, but done poorly. It's not quite moving manga in the aspect that it changes nothing and just animates the panels already given, but rather it's the overlapping. When writing a romance drama, the most important thing you need is immersion. You want your audience to be invested in your characters and what happened to them. But most importantly, you want your characters and world to feel real. This is where the animation plays. The use of manga-like panels breaks the immersion and stomps on it's dead carcass. By placing the panels over the frame that's actually taking place, the anime is telling us that the anime is indeed an anime. That might sound like common sense, but imagine watching a really good drama. Imagine watching something terrible happening to your favorite character. You're invested, you care about them. You don't think of them as a bunch of drawings being moved in quick succession, but as a human being with emotions. By making the world around the characters feel fake, the characters will feel fake too. I can't stand to see panels that are just zoom in shots of the character's face if they're already in the shot(it would've been better with just a jump cut). My connection with this fictional world is broken. That isn't the only thing wrong with the animation. This will also do with the panel format. Sometimes there will be not one, but two panels on the frame. Written down, that doesn't sound too bad, but in action it's even worse. It's two different frames layered ontop of another frame. This means there are three focuses of that shot. Once all three frames are introduced, the worse thing you could do is reuse one of the frames so the audience is thinking about which frame is the one talking instead of what's going on in the anime. That might sound like a nitpick, but it really just adds to breaking my immersion. This next one is also a nitpick. The color pallet is a little iffy. Kuzu no Honkai uses this bright pallet. I personally don't think this works well with a romance drama of this ilk. I think it'd work better with a darker more desaturated pallet to match the emptiness of it's characters. Speaking of the characters, they're excellent. Well, except for the loli and the teacher. By episode 6, I forgot the loli existed and the teacher bitch just felt comically evil. "I slept with the man you love, muahahahaha!" The other characters actually have some humanity injected into them. They have human-like emotions and relationships with people. Now I'm going to doubt many people made it to the end of this review, brushing it off as "just some guy nitpicking" but to anyone that made it down here, thank you. A lot of people might be thinking "How can the animation bring your score down so low?" And to that I say, it's all in how much I enjoyed it. The immersion is very important to me, and if it's broken I no longer enjoy the show. I know 6 may be harsh, but it's honestly how I feel about this anime. Kuzu no Honkai, in my books, will remain a solid 6.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Sep 11, 2016
Cowboy Bebop is outstanding in every way. The only aspect it fell even a little short on was characters, but it was practically unnoticeable. The premise is a fantasy that I'm sure many people had wished were real since the discovery of other planets. The premise of humanity colonizing other planets in the solar system and bounty hunters roam the seas of space to catch criminals opens itself to a plentiful amount of settings to place your characters. Paired with it's stunning art that'll be sure to hold up forever, the plot and setting never cease to amaze the eyes. The sound in this show
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is astounding. With it's classic opening, Tank, and it's jazzy soundtrack. It's simply like candy for the ears. Now here's what I was saying before on falling flat somewhere. The characters in this show don't go as far as they could've. But that doesn't mean that they aren't still great. They're still charming, lovable, and leave an emotional attachment even after finishing watching. This sets up one specific part of the show that still hangs with me and will continue to hang with me as long as I remember the name "Cowboy Bebop." This'll contain a spoiler, but i'm not sure how anyone hasn't finished Cowboy Bebop yet or had this spoiled for them yet. Skip to this
"--" mark for when the spoiler ends. My favorite and at the same time least favorite part of this show is when Spike dies. His death is set up all too perfectly that I hate whoever sat down and wrote it. The entire show made us become attached to Spike to the point that I even felt like he was a close friend. So when he passed in the ending, it dug deep. It does it even better with how it's timed too. With a couple episodes of build up to Spike confronting his past. It slowly sinks into you that Spike is not going to come back. The characters in the show also slowly come to terms with this as well as they say their last goodbyes to Spike when they never wanted to part in the first place. Everyone that knew Spike(except Ed and Ein) know that someone they never thought they'd become close with is leaving in such a cruel way. Then to top it all off, the show ends on a shot of Spike's smile as he lies on the ground lifeless with the final words appearing on the screen. "You're gonna carry that weight" Powerful words that'll stick forever. -- Cowboy Bebop is a ride of fun, action, and lovable characters. It honestly does deserve it's crown that the fans gave it. There isn't a single person who shouldn't watch this show, even if they somehow don't like it. This show rightfully deserves a 10. That's about it. Until next time, see you space cowboy.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Aug 20, 2016
So recently I've been told my reviews are biased and unfair, so I'm going to try to write this with the least bias and unfairness I have. Highschool DxD is a special show. It's a show constantly praised for it's ability to, how the fans call it, "mixing 'plot' and 'plot.'" Which is basically saying that this show didn't do what every other ecchi show did with shoehorning plot into ecchi, but instead shoehorned ecchi into plot. It's not like this doesn't work, in fact it works very well. The plot is strange at first, but the viewer will quickly get used to it. My
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problem is with the ecchi. It just feels like what I said just before. It's justt shoehorned in ecchi. This show will throw around ecchi like no tomorrow. In one scene, you'll see Rias undressing for the shower, then you'll see someone undressing to seduce Issei, then it's back to Rias coming out of the shower naked. But then there's an intense battle, but the clothing is from Senran Kagura, and it tears off like tissue paper. (I actually really like Senran Kagura for obvious reasons) So the battle is no longer a tense battle with real dangers, but I just see a battle with some tits flying around. Riveting. Some people might argue that if the ecchi is good, then it shouldn't matter. Right? Well, the ecchi is pretty meh. It's not that it's bad, and I'm sure it got better as the show gained more popularity and pumped out higher quality seasons, but that's not the season I'm here to review. The ecchi is average. It doesn't wow me with it's immense detail, it just is ecchi. I'm not saying it's terrible, it just got stale with every scene featuring at least one tit. This part is going to be biased, so you can skip to the next marked part if you don't want to read it. --- It also doesn't help when the girls all look like toothpicks with balloon tits. It doesn't look too appealing at all. I know people like slim girls with large features, but they actually look like toothpicks with balloon tits. --- (back to regular review) The ecchi isn't the most praised part of this show, unlike most other ecchis. This show does something most ecchi shows don't, and it should be applauded. It was able to write a good plot with the ecchi. The plot works. It functions. It does the unthinkable. It makes the plot good in an ecchi tagged show. I actually enjoyed the plot, I thought it was interesting. Even better, it matched good characters with this plot. They didn't go very far with them, and I can't blame them it's first season, but they were good nonetheless. Then the plot is matched with some decently good music, and I can't help but enjoy even if slightly. That's the end of my praise with this show, thought. Although, it had these good things, it wasn't my cup of tea. I have an even better metaphor for it. It's a cake with shitty icing on it, and the cake flavor isn't my favorite. Like, carrot cake with lemon icing. I'm sure some people taste it was chocolate cake with strawberries on top, but I just don't like it. I don't hate this show, I simply don't like it. But even if I don't like it, I'm not the god of anime by a long shot. If you like ecchi, watch this show immediately. And if you have already, make sure to watch the other seasons. This show has plenty of promise, and I'm sure fans of this type of show would eat this up like a delicious cake. I'll end this with a solid 5, low 6. It's good, but I'm positive it'll get only better from here.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Aug 19, 2016
I have a friend that really enjoys shows that have the tags ecchi, harem, and school in it. And at one point, I did as well. One day a few years ago, he recommended a show called "Familiar of Zero" because he can't read Japanese for shit. I never got around to it, because I used crunchyroll mobile which didn't have the first season of this show. So a few years pass and I decide to watch this show because I literally do nothing else with my life. So I watch this show, and I don't think I've checked my phone more in one sitting.
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The show wasn't necessarily bad, it just was so "meh" that I couldn't help but be bored. It wasn't bad enough for me to have fun laughing at it, nor was it amazing enough to keep me invested throughout the entire series. I have heard from my friend that this show is "really funny" and from other sources that it's a "comedic masterpiece" or so I've heard. I laughed like 1...2? I think I laughed like about 1 1/2 times if you lower my standards for comedy as low as the girls in Kirito's harem would go for the Kiri-dick. I watched this while talking with my friends in a discord chat and my friend was asking if it was funny or not. I replied with a question. A simple question. "Is this show supposed to be a comedy?" There were little to no jokes to it, I don't know why comedy is a tag. I think that's enough bashing on the comedy, I'll move on to a part I actually did like somewhat, maybe, not really, I'm grabbing for anything that doesn't make me look like an asshole for not liking this show. The characters in this show are...decent at best. I've heard Louise is a great tsundere, but I can't find myself interested in her. Maybe she gets better in the later 3 seasons this show somehow got, but that's not what I'm here to review. She comes off as this flat(not the way you're thinking) tsundere that's about as deep as the characters in PSO2 the Animation. She acts like a typical tsundere in one scene, then she shows some dere. Then, she's back to the tsundere. The switch between "tsun" and "dere" isn't bad, it just is "meh." I don't really care about her as a character until far too late into the anime. It's so far into the anime, I'm not sure how weekly watchers even made it through episode 5. Louise isn't the only problem. Saito is as flat as Louise's chest. We don't learn much about him at all. Was he a shut in? We don't know. Was he a functioning member of society? Pfft. Why're you asking me? We just learn that he was walking on the street, and then he runs into a portal thing that no one else can see. Then he's in a world with wizards. That's the extent of all I remember, so if anything more happens, then this show couldn't keep me invested in the plot long enough to even pay attention to the details. Backing off of Saito, we can delve into the side "characters." I wouldn't call them "characters," I'd call them "drawings will voices that move in a fancy way." I can't say much about them. We have a deadpan, a stick with balloons for tits(every highschool dxd girl except Koneko), and then we have conceited guy that does nothing. They don't get enough screen time or dialogue for me to feel anything towards them as characters, much less the people they're supposed to simulate. That's all I can comment on the characters in this show. Now moving onto the plot. The plot is pretty much summed up to "he was summoned into a different world, and now he wants to go back." Then it's hinted that other people were also summoned into this world. It goes nowhere with this for the rest of the series except when the ending hits, and it's kind of satisfying? Then the series pulled an Attack on Titan before it even came out. It shoehorned in some politics to keep the show running so maybe they can keep the viewer invested. I really hope shows drop this shit, because it just prolongs the show and keeps the viewer from watching the interesting aspects they came to watch. Overall, I didn't really enjoy this show(because it wasn't obvious enough). I don't particularly recommend this show to anyone, but if you're bored and want some half assed romance for an entire season to finally(maybe) get into the good parts, be my guest. I originally gave this show a 7, but I think I'll move it down to a 6 upon further inspection.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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May 26, 2016
Me and my friend have been playing pso2 for a bit, and have been quite enjoying it. It's a fun game and seeing that an anime adaptation sounded like a cool idea. So the anime comes out, and I haven't felt anime blue balls this hard since sword art online. Disappointment, disappointment, disappointment everywhere. Why is this plot? What is this plot? How is this plot? This plot is boring and stupid. Study the game because people like it and it's affecting their grades. Is that interesting to you? This is an adaptation of a sci fi game. They could've easily given it a Code
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Lyoko plot where monsters come to the high school, but noooooooooooooooooooooope. Gotta make sure it's as stupid and boring as possible. Heck, they could've made it sao where people are trapped in the game. Or made it actually the story in the game. You know? Something somewhat interesting. Then there's the main character. He's so main character. I don't even know if he's a character. He just is a person who plays a game, and does the work he's told because the plot said so. Play the game because. Write the report because other character said so. I can't even name a single character trait out of him after 3 episodes. All I can make out of him is "Main character" so we can check off main character on our cookie cutter how to make an anime youtube tutorial. And then there's the main girl. I can't say a thing about her either. Other than the fact that she's the council president or something and plays as a solo player in pso2. So she's like Kirito but female. Both are barely passable characters if you stretch it enough and solo play mmos. That's their characters, that's it. Also, in the game she's like amazing at the game and is very popular? And she's a guy in pso2. Someone who's never played pso2 is probably asking "How would you know? It's a giant robot thing." I know because in pso2, the female Cast Members(the robot things) have huge hair looking metal things and actually look like humans. Then Male Cast Members are just gundams. They're gundams. I don't know what else I can say about this show. I skipped ahead to episode 10 and dropped it after 5 minutes because it was just as boring as I remember. They were literally doing a school festival. How much more default generic anime setting can you get? I could probably name 5 anime that had a school festival scene in them off the top of my head. Toradora, To Love Ru, My little Monster, and I think Highschool DxD had one. I don't know, I didn't care enough for an anime with girls who apparently are sticks with tits fighting for something about demons. I'm getting off topic, this anime is bad. Just because an anime has something you like in the name doesn't mean it's good. Don't watch this. Go watch Log Horizon or something if you really want that video game setting.
Apparently my reviews are all bias and unfair, so I'll be adding this part here so it isn't as unfair as it supposedly is. I don't recall talking much on the art of this show. The animation in this show is just about acceptable. It looks like what one would call "anime." It's not the worst I've seen, in fact it's rather pretty at moments. But that only goes for the real world sections of the show. The moment the anime goes into the game, it turns into this terrible looking cg instead of it's acceptable 2d animation. The models' movements look so unnatural and stiff at moments. Along with this, the framerate drops to like 15 fps. Then sometimes it has 2d mixed with the 3d which looks okay, but is easily noticed. I can't lie about the 2d animation being pretty good, but the 3d animation is easily some of the worst I've seen. The sound isn't terrible. I think it might be from the game, but I'm sure I'm incorrect. The parts of the show I stated in the previous part where definitely big contributors to my score, but the animation and sound give this show it's 3. This show is bad, but not horrible. It's terrible, but not disgustingly terrible.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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