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What a wacky group this is! Post apocalyptic donut cats living where humans cease to exist! How can it be so BAD. Truly stinks!

I bet the manga is very funny and cute, but this anime was junk. The animation is was very bad cgi (except for a very well animated mecha) and the movement feels very off and uncanny. The plot so random and feels like you’ve dropped into a conversation and walked away before it was done. Every episode is so disconnected and random, which can be fun- but not for this. I want substance, I want to know what made these creatures, what ... drives them!

Alas, you won’t get any answers or satisfaction from this. Your child might find it funny and goofy, but honestly the violence and undertones make it inappropriate for the age group that I could see it appealing to.

I’m going to go read the manga now and I bet I’ll love it.

I don't use 10 lightly. An anime has to be top tier, absolutely great. Usually a really good anime for me is 8 or 9. But this anime, though it's not my usual genre, was heart wrenching and thought provoking. I'm going to provide little to no spoilage in here, and break it down in a fairly short review.

Instead of giving any synopsis here, which I'm not supposed to do anyway, I'll say: watch episode one. This will give you the general plot laid out simply and quickly. If episode one isn't enough to draw you in, maybe this isn't the anime for you.

The Story ... is not horror or drama, it's something in between. Some moments were a gut punch, I was sobbing crying. One moment you feel a sick sense of "this is hopeless" then you wipe the tears and say "i know they can do it". I like that this is more realistic than some anime. It's not happy endings and everyone gets away unscathed. But also, it's not one of those "who dies this week?" like Attack on Titan (or Game of Thrones, haha).


What I love about this story is that it's not a usual amount of scary, it isn't a constant fear of a long painful death. The life cycle of those on the farm is not bad or scary, and I believe mom honestly just wants a happy life for the children until it's their time to go. It's more than most of us could ask for. This is a wonderful plot point that has you thinking. As you learn about what role Mom really plays, how she got there, and how the children all play into this sick game the demons have made, you learn to feel empathy for the antagonists (Mom and Sister Krone).

The characters have some typical tropes, but all around are likable and enjoyable.

The intro and outro are beautiful, they really play up the excitement of the show. The voices are great in the sub. Not overly annoying, as voice actors portraying children can be.

The art is unique and interesting. It is modern, yet has some reminiscence of earlier anime, especially Moms face. It reminds me of many 80's and early 90's anime I grew up with, sharp nose and those caring/scary eyes.

Spoiler zone:

The whole point of this series in my eyes is "what makes a fulfilled life?". Would you rather have the perfect childhood, never knowing hunger or suffering. Then once you are 6-12, before knowing the world, before hitting puberty, you die quickly and painlessly. Or would you rather struggle, live in the "real world" of this planet, either fending for yourself in a world you aren't sure is hospitable towards humans? Or become a cog in the machine, birthing children to be eaten? Or raising children like they are your own, handing them off to be eaten? All so you are allowed to survive longer. What makes a fulfilled life, is just "surviving" enough?
I think the fate of the children isn't as scary of sad as others have pointed out. But freedom is something we all crave, so let's hope these children can make it in the unknown outside world long enough to have a fulfilled life.

I'm so very confused by all the love for this anime. I'm shocked. Here's my honest minimal spoiler review:

Let me go ahead and point out: I'm not a fan of romance. I do like video games, and I'm the perfect age to ride the nostalgia train of this anime.

But, I just don't get it. (VERY SMALL SPOILERS AHEAD) The plot is a dumb little boy and a smart little girl. DUmb boy is only good at games, failing in school. Little girl intelligent and from a nice family, but is physically abusive and very violent, but never speaks. He speaks out loud verbally ... dissecting what he thinks her actions mean. They both play games, bond over it, but he's a young brat that doesn't realize he's building a relationship (he just sees her as a rival). She moves. Two years later another girl enters his life, less of a gamer. She shows interest in him romantically, but he is young and dumb and doesn't see it. Time progresses, other girl comes back, romantic drama ensues. (END OF SPOILERS)

STORY: 4/10 The story is a fairly generic love story, I don't see the appeal. If you like love stories maybe you will enjoy this. It just isn't for me.

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: 4/10 Meh. Dumb boys grow up, girls learn how to be a little more forward. It's average anime character growth, nothing ground breaking here.

ART: 1/10 Absolutely the worst CG anime I have ever witnessed. It is not my cup of tea. It makes me feel sea sick trying to watch it. They don't move fluidly in their space, the faces look like decals slapped to a vinyl figure, the hands are always awkward. HATE. The cuts between old games and this CG nonsense breaks any attention I had for the show. I don't feel immersed because of the breaks. I honestly think if the art was traditional anime I would enjoy this series a lot more. I'm not going to dwell on this, may you will like it.

SOUND: 8/10 I love the sound! The opening and ending tracks are beautiful. Voice actors are great. Not ground breaking, but it's good stuff!

ENJOYMENT/OVERALL: 2 I think I'm immune to love stories and nostalgia. I honestly don't see how anyone can get past the awful art of this series. After forcing myself through dizziness and nausea of the art on multiple occasions, I just started listening to it/catching glimpses as I did chores around the house. I couldn't devote sit down relax time to this show.

TL;DR: Not for those who dislike romance and shows playing off nostalgia alone.

What happened? Where am I? I feel like Haise Sasaki.
I'm only 5 episodes in as I write this (that's how many are out at the time of writing).

This isn't the 3rd season I expected. Also, I haven't read the manga past the first arc. But I rewatched the first two seasons before starting this one, and I feel disconnected. Like they are picking it up from a different spot all together. It feels like there is A LOT we are missing between end of S2 and start of S3, and it doesn't feel like they are working on filling in those blanks.

Season ... 2 jumped in right where we left off, and all the characters maintained their appearance and animation style. But Season 3... I'm confused as to who is who. I assumed Haise was Ken Kaneki but he looks completely different in style and the way he was animated. Suzuya has died his hair... I guess? Or maybe it was always supposed to be black? Nothing is mentioned about this change. The new characters making up the Quinx squad feel like they are from a different anime all together. The pointy teeth guy, the different style eyes on every one, the Umaru style lazy girl. I could go on, but I'll stop.

The animation looks pretty, the story isn't hard to follow, characters are fine. But overall, this feels like a complete "do over" instead of a continuation of the Tokyo Ghoul anime franchise. Seems like there is an OVA or movie I totally missed that would answer things between S2 and S3, or maybe they are just waiting to clear it up later.

But as the classic youtube video "Tokyo Ghoul in 5 minutes" says: "This probably makes sense in the manga". Maybe if I read the manga all the way I would understand better what the heck is happening and why.

I'll finish the season, it's not horrible, but it's not what I expected. The change in animation and character design are the most problematic for me.

Spoiler Free Review (well, nothing you wouldn't catch from the plot synopsys or first episode:
This anime wasn't for me. For me, personal enjoyment = 4 or less. MAL kept recommending this anime to me. I don't like the knocked down, heart broken detective act. I don't like the orphaned children with sad upbringings doing bad things because they were abused. I don't like the girl who is super sad/runs away to join terrorists but doesn't even have a terrible home life. There's just too many tropes I don't enjoy. BUT....
If you love the cat and mouse type show, every stereotype cop imaginable, and stereotype about ... America being the world police, you will love this show.

Story: Played out, overdone genre. Generic, has some good points. Overall not impressed.

Art: Beautiful, looks great! Flows great, backgrounds match the characters, not weird cgi that sticks out. Overall I really enjoyed the art of this piece.

Sound: Beautiful soundtrack, really enjoyed it! English dub was well dubbed and voices fit the characters well.

Characters: Played out stereotypes, nothing new to offer. Meh.

Enjoyment: Overall, personally, didn't love it. Stuck it out until the end though...so it wasn't in the pile of worst ever anime.

Overall: I gave it a 7 because I could see other people really enjoying this anime. It just wasn't for me.

This isn't going to make sense... I know. (And keep in mind, I don't LOVE studio Trigger, I didn't really care for Kill La Kill). I rated Story/Art/Characters all 6s. But overall I loved it. Why?

The Characters are your typical anime tropes. The ditsy girl that just wants to be normal. The handsome boy that shows up and changes everything. The cynical side character/friend.

The place and time, future japan.

Ok, just imagine every basic anime trope and shove it into a satirical short anime series. That's Luluco. It's dumb, it's silly, it's fast. It doesn't take itself or the genre seriously. The art is ... repetitive a lot, mocking the reuse of scenes. The magical transformation is awkward and looks painful, mocking the transformations of other shows. The shallow love is just that, shallow. They point out the flaws in anime with this adorable show.

Do you want something deep, intriguing, life changing? This isn't it.

Sick of seeing the same overused themes in nearly every anime? This show will make fun of them with you, arm around you, laughing over beers.

I enjoyed it. I also enjoyed Triggers more serious series Little Witch Academia, which shows me they can use these tropes to make something beautiful and wholesome. So maybe once you're done laughing at Luluco and her dumb teen antics in space, go watch Little Witch. If you want your brain to wonder "is this the same satire as luluco, or is this serious?" go watch Kill La Kill. Either way, this is a win for Trigger.

If you are like me, you are jaded and bored with anime. There aren't many dark/thought inducing anime left that we haven't seen. You desperately seek out that high of a good anime once more. This did it for me. I love this show (and if you look at my list, you won't see many 10s, I'm usually very harsh in my ratings).

I don't usually review things in depth on myanimelist because I'm just a jaded jerk. Anime that people praise rarely brings me enjoyment. I put anime on in the background as I do my household tasks (I'm 27, have a job and child/have ... adhd, but also I've watched most of the top/popular anime, so I'm just bored now). An anime has to be amazing in either art, story, or both to get my full attention (this is why I've fallen out of favor with subs... I just don't have the attention span for something that isn't fully filling my dopamine receptors).

But this... this fresh new twist on anime, made me pause it on my phone, finish the dishes, and sit down with it pulled up on my TV. I blew through 6 episodes the first night of watching. Does it have some issues? Yeah. But I can see past all the flaws for the beautiful anime this is.

This isn't Tokyo Ghoul (dark, interesting, but somewhere along the way the interesting plot point ran off while views were left confused and bored), or Deadman Wonderland (dark, intriguing, but cut off abruptly to never be continued with tons of loose ends). Death Parade can stand alone as a solid show in this one season, but leaves enough for a second season to pick up. It never loses track of it's original plot and point. Each episode shows a side to humanity to think about. It's philosophical, poignant, and thoughtful.

The story is original and well thought out (in my opinion, of course).

The art blends a wonder nearly seamless CGI/animation mix, and that is just refreshing!!! I hate seeing a stark difference in the CGI and animation. My only issue with the art is the characters chins. I know this is a weird pet-peeved, but they have no chin (even for anime characters, it's basically jaw line and mouth with nothing in between). The profile view is especially bad, showing how disproportional the chin area is to the rest of their faces.

The intro and outro are beautiful and I fully enjoy them.

Characters could have more depth and backstory, but for a one season /short-ish anime, I think it sufficed. I enjoyed many of the characters and their designs. The different iris of the eyes were very interesting.

Over all the show was well paced, interesting, and amazing. It left me wanting more-but not in a bad way!! I want to see more stories, I want to read this as a manga (which I don't think their is one? I could be wrong) in a "monster of the week" (but dead human of the week) format.

I'm not even going to go into detail about my disliking for this whole show.

No one I knew recommended it. I just kept getting it pushed on me by netflix. Finally start it. Not at all sucked in to this horrible show, I stuck it out. I quit at 10 episodes.

To put it simple and short as I can: This show is so absolutely AVERAGE in every aspect, that I couldn't tolerate it. This genre of "stuck in video game" has flooded the market. You need some major twists to make it special. This wouldn't fly by my standards even if there were ... no other "stuck in video game" plots.

Totally over-rated at a 7 on this site, IMO. Some rate it higher. I just don't understand.

UPDATE: I watched a few more, and to my surprise, the second half (basically second season) was worse! The first plot line resolves and it seems the creators thought "Hmm.. we should end this. Or maybe just start a new MAJOR plot line? Meh, ok." And the standard stuck-in-videogame trope restarts and gets worse. I just don't understand how people like this anime. T.T

This review has a few small spoilers (nothing worse than a netflix episode synopsis).

The English dub is basically crap. The voice of Madoka is terribly annoying. And there were a lot of errors in translation. Not sure if they were on purpose, but annoying nonetheless.

The story is unconventional. Not your typical Magical Girl anime! I started, and one episode in I wanted to quit. I gave it another episode, and I was hooked. It is intensely dark, and quick to kill off characters you care about.

The characters are simple, and easily predictable. But that's to be expected with magical girl anime.

The art ... annoyed me. I did not like the style, but that's my personal taste. The eyes looked dead. Single color, and lines across.

I love that this anime is SHORT AND TO THE POINT! No filler, no junk, just constant story.

The story did have some issues, like the very end of the last episode. You think it's over, but the very end is just a bit confusing and unnecessary. The story was fine where it ended. I would recommend skipping after credits stuff, but now that you know it exists, how could you ignore it? haha.

Overall, I enjoyed it. If it was any longer, I don't think I would have given it an 8. I won't read the manga (or light novel, whatever this is based on... I guess that shows how much I care).

This is my first review for MAL. I HAD TO, because this movie was so amazing. I only watched it because the reviews were so stellar on MAL.

NO SPOILERS HERE!

I gave this 10's in all areas except story (9) and character (8). The reason is simple; it's a bit predictable (if you know anything about dramas), and characters are predictable and fairly simple. But it works! Even through the twists and turns, the simple characters and somewhat predictable story keep you captivated.

From the trailer, you would think it's a funny, silly, body switch comedy. But no... it's a beautiful masterpiece with elements of comedy, ... slice of life, and drama. The art in this piece is so detailed and beautiful. Even when CG is applied at it's poorest, you can overlook it because of how amazing everything is.

The soundtrack is better than average, and not over used like many anime.

Overall, I'm so glad I watched this. I'm fairly emotionally numb, so numb in fact, Your Lie in April didn't make me cry. This film had me laugh, smile, tear up, and have a few tears actually leave my eyes. I loved it. One of my favorite anime films of all time!