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Nov 6, 2021
Honestly, Takehiko Inoue is extremely overrated. Mainly, Inoue stands out, because he draws in a realistic style, which only a few manga artists use. But his work is very stiff, mechanical, and repetitive. Lacking life, style, and imagination. It's a bit hard to explain, but I'll try. First, when it comes to drawing actions or movements of the figure, he is quite subpar and often lacks dynamic. He is fairly good at drawing heads, but I don't think the range of expressions conveyed through them are particularly broad or effective - it also has many blank, hard-to-read stares. That's why, his art lacks life. He
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suffers from a lack of style because of his reliance on realism with relatively little exaggeration / cartooning, and general stiffness. I mean he has a unique style, but it's far less dynamic and not that immediately eye-catching than say, Masakazu Katsura. Also he has lack of imagination, because he conveys only realistic subject matters, and rarely if ever he gets inventive with incidental details, everything is purely functional and minimalist - backgrounds are simple and mostly empty, despite the use of many small lines.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Nov 4, 2021
This is a series I would reread over and over again; not only for how much I enjoyed it, but for how complex and well-written the story is overall. There’s so much going on within the series, and the way the author weaves each plot thread together is fantastic. They really made reading and figuring out each plot thread immensely enjoyable and fun. It also has some of the best worldbuilding in all of manga; and don't even get me started on the characters! This series probably has one of the best casts across all manga. The author does a great job at making you
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love everyone and want to see them succeed in their goals, and even though they’re badass while fighting, it’s those smaller moments in life between them all where they really shine imo. The art style is also fantastic. The rough style compliments the setting and tone of the manga extremely well. Only complaint I can say/think of is how they handled one character in the second half of the series; but it feels so minor that, when put next to all the positives of this series, it doesn't really bother me. This is the closest manga I’ll ever get to a masterpiece next to Akira or Fist of the North Star.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Oct 31, 2021
I thought all the dialogue was insufferable. The characters all spout philosophical bullshit and feel like every single one is a mouthpiece for Asano himself. None of them feel like they actually are interacting with other human beings but just ranting into the void not even caring if it ever even bounces off of anyone that cares. The storylines with the dumb cult, and Seki and what's-his-butt feel like a total waste of time that stretch the manga out to double the length it has any business being and even the main story with Punpun feels like it drags more than it needed to. The
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characters are all unlikable and horrible and disgusting.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Aug 30, 2021
Back in the 90s a chef created a super rare sandwich. You had to taste the flavor, people approach it suspiciously, they start to chew and it tastes delicious at first. Then it turns sour and that's where the problems start because some throw it into the garbage can cursing the chef, and others instead keep eating it hoping that it will regain its flavor first.
But it is clear that it is getting inedible. Some get up to vomit and others are flat-out. Other people with a harder stomach continue to eat with somewhat masochistic feelings since perhaps in the end some sublime flavor will
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come out that will reward them for so much sacrifice. --That it is not only consumed here, says the chef. That here too you do your part, so keep eating until the end.
Some people finished it. They say there is no light at the end of the tunnel, that it was horrible and that did not change. But in the end it was just a sandwich and nothing bad can happen. Ha ha. Error. That sandwich the chef poisoned and disguised it. Actually a fiery poison is going to enter your bloodstream. Here it is all or nothing. Either you die or you are born into the world being another.
Years go by.
The chef (Anno, Tsurumaki, Masayuki) is already old (60 years old) and wants to repeat the trick (Thrice Upon a Time) but the audience is different and he is also another. The first innocence of the people has already been lost. As for the taste buds today they are made to eat shit so there is no chance of getting disgusted anymore, and when it comes to the bloodstream that is already dried up.
Therefore the chef no longer has anything to do.
And as for the chef himself, the same faculties that once elevated him, today they are not even useful for him to climb the step of the bathroom on the first floor.
To tell the truth, the true recipients of this new sandwich were the same as the first time, but only for nostalgia or contemplative delight because age prostrated them and behind are the days when they could have reacted. His lip is only slightly curved in joy.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Jul 4, 2021
Cult film based on the manga, with a very different aesthetic, by Masamune Shirow. Undoubtedly "Ghost in the Shell" has two virtues that it is fair to highlight: its later influence and its zero aging. Let's go into his soul.
As some of you already mentioned, the technical section is quite remarkable. A purely nineties classic animation, in 2D, which I personally prefer to the digitized rigidity of the 2000 era. The accompanying soundtrack is delightful and the moments of both pause and action are well inserted and carried. The theme around artificial intelligence may not be completely original but it brings seriousness and a certain
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message about the robotic evolution of Man. In this sense, it is fully in force despite the past twenty years and in fact the technological flood that is expected here has been completely true. In addition, only by looking at the credit titles we realize that the very "Matrix" was inspired, or copied, from it.
So it seems that there are no hitches but, oh my friend, there are quite a few. The main one: "Ghost in the Shell" has no plot. The plot is very poor and, what is worse, it seems that it is a lot without being so to mislead the viewer from the true subject: what the Puppet Master is and what he wants, a dangerous hacker who is persecuted by the police. Don't be fooled by the political, scientific, philosophical and police elements that fill the hour and a half of footage, because none of this leads to anything solid or coherent. If we omitted the first sixty minutes, the last story would remain intact. Lots of straw for a clear and simple idea. Perhaps too clear and simple.
Overrated.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jun 16, 2021
Because I am one of his few detractors
For two reasons.
A. The plot is tricky. You are presented as "very deep" that which is only poorly explained (or unexplained at all). Alas, if the scriptwriters were asked "What is the correct interpretation of Evangelion?" they would have to answer: "None: materially there is none. This was not written by God to test the wisdom of men; we wrote it to make our money and we take it much less seriously than you guys." As Joyce mockingly said about Ulysses "I have put so many keys in it that critics will be 100 years trying to
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discover them all." It is the same trick. As simple as that.
B. The protagonists fight against the monsters and with themselves; their own doubts, fears and weaknesses. The idea is very good, but it is very badly put into practice. They are literally living the end of the world but the possibility that they will kill them or humanity is the only thing that does not scare them. They charge a monster that is swallowing half the city and comes to feel guilty: "Poor little monster, why did I have to kill him? How bad am I, how bad am I!" And let's not talk about the dumbest introspection yet: "Who am I? Why do I pilot an Eva? Why do I pilot an Eva?" (The easiest explanation that they do it to save the world and incidentally their own skin does not occur to them). PLEASE, there is no one who believes it. Very interesting movies have been made about war fatigue and there is nothing wrong with making an anime too, but let's be real for God. That approach is not credible.
I give it a 4 just because the action scenes are good (in Macross I have seen them better) and the design too. And because it has Asuka and Misato, who are two really interesting characters
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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May 28, 2021
“Madoka Magica” is an anime made for adults, a psychological drama and, to make matters worse, it deconstructs the magical girls’ genre, some say. It sounds like if it were a masterpiece, right? Well, no. You need to be careful.
The magical girls’ genre is part of a series of conventions that make this theme somewhat relaxed that serves as a fantasy for girls. However, if we want to take it seriously, the key would be to start from the reality of magical girls and see its logical consequences. That is to say: what inconveniences, dramas, reflections, situations can occur if there were really fourteen-year-olds
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who face monsters. For this, we should use the genre itself, not create alternative magical girls with alternative problems that have nothing to do with the idea of shojo of magical girls that we know.
I do not know if I am explaining myself clearly, but this seems to me very important to discard "Madoka Magica" as an anime that shows the dark side of magical girls. Lie. What it does is simply prime that magical world with random personal dramas, which could be on any other theme, with any other characters. That desires bring despair (why? Why!) Or want to kill each other is not inherent to gender nor is it because they have magical powers; It is because the author has wanted to do it like this to create a story of magical girls seinen that is very serious.
In this way, as seinen of magical girls it is too silly. The absolute lack of communication between the warriors and their selfishness and / or narcissism when facing the enemy are two totally artificial conflicts: talking to each other and collaborating together one hundred percent of their problems are solved. What's on your mind, really? The very psychology of these girls is chaotic: I make myself sick because Pepito doesn't love me; today I'm trying to kill you just because tomorrow we become friends just because; He was kind to me and I am faithful to him for life ..., but beware, saving the world is the least of it, I do it for her and only for her ... Please ...
There is a time travel plot that although you already imagined it is cool, at least as an idea, and that is revealed and developed in the last four chapters, which are the ones that raise a dot to the series. The design of the witches' world, very original, and in sharp contrast to that of the main characters, of a possibly intentional childishness, also has merit.
Anyway, it is nothing spectacular.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Apr 19, 2021
The anime decadence
Re:Zero is presented as an action drama, typical shonen with a shot of fantasy and adventure, but none of these positive aspects make this anime something acceptable. On the contrary, everything turns out to be ridiculous and forced. The women clichés, relationships and plot oblige some kind of attitudes, a style that create a space of slander, of something serious that wants to take control of everything. Between death and death, the dressed woman making delight. How's that not going to be regrettable?
Let's start with the absolute lack of credibility in the plot: you get to another world without knowing why, and
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you don't even ask yourself the reason why? This is just the plot, because the main character Subaru soon discovers that he's acquired a very particular power: he's capable of resetting his life every time he dies. With this power he will help Emilia and will try to defeat his different enemies. Just that here nothing is very clear.
So to say, that «Re:Zero» has a guide dropped at the floor, haphazard, incoherent, with characters that disappear and a plot that seems to have changed without the author knowing what to do. It is very marked in season 2, where the main replies to the most important questions remain unanswered.
Although maybe the worst is the plot itself and its outcome, because in the end everything is a witch mess (but how many are they? What do they want), of witches, of curse, or spells that have no sense (the Sanctuary? Subaru and his power?), of invented books that work as gods ex machina, of spirits with misunderstood deal. A complete mess. Everything is a complete foul: the murderer is a robust young woman with heels; two girls that never take out their dressing gowns; the young claimants to the throne are young girls; an embarrassing harem in which all the girls fall in love with the main character.
Watch out with Rem, there's no stereotype more repulsive than this: the woman that falls in love with anyone, and knowing that he doesn't love her back and will never love her. To be honest, the romance is not worthy, it's a mere fanservice. Subaru is in love with Emilia in a chapter because "she helped me" or something like that. What is more, Emilia is missing 90% of the times in the series.
The best is Puck as a character, who is lovely male cat and has given us the best moments of Re:Zero: the end of chapter 15 of season 1, I recognise that it is gorgeous. Gore tendencies are of bad taste; I admit that I couldn't stand the Bunny immensity and I don't like to see women being tortured. You may be sadistic.
The assestment on the web I cannot understand neither share. To me, it's been a really wicked series.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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