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You're right, Kingdom is Rated 17+...it's Seinen, haven't heard of Altair before, art looks nice, I'll try that thanks!

I once watched 4 episodes of Arlsan Senki, I didn't like it, so dropped it, does it get better later on?

I can understand about growing old, although I'm 29, the only anime I watched this year is Kingdom and half of Frieren, couldn't get into anything else, same with games, bought PS5 2 years ago, completed only one game till now (Spider-Man)

Imagine rating Girls und panzer movie a 4 but Bnha 8, peak clown moment lmao

c'est vraiment fou. les gens perdent la tête à cause d'une seule critique mais merci.

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Hey. First of all, thank you for reading my review and also for respectfully replying to it, providing some real arguments to what I say.


On the first point, I don't know if I didn't make myself clear or you read too much into it, but regardless, I want to assure you that I am not offended by "immorality", such as slave owning, rape, crime, incest, you name it. Hell, I just finished a manga where the MC killed, raped and bullied many people and I still enjoyed and appreciated it because it actually tackled these actions from the perspective of both the criminal and his victims. My main problem is that the story feels directionless, it feels like it has nothing to say with it's story and characters in terms of it's themes and time period. I simply see no reason to care for yet another poisoning or yet another assassination, it's just there for the purpose of mystery, i suppose. I guess it is something, but not nearly enough. I just don't see anything respectable or likable about the characters, especially the main character, since she has no real struggles and feels too inhumane for a 17 y/o, she only cares about her poisons. Of course, not every story needs morals or themes, looking at comedy or historical stories that want to realistically portray those times, but if it wants to do that, I believe it needs to focus more on those aspects. That's where the frustration came from, there were many things that didn't make any sense and were just brushed off as if they weren't important for the workings of the story. Also,you should be careful with the source material argument, I'm simply critique what the anime is, not it's source material. Still, I appreciate that you gave me more context, but I still believe that the anime should have spent more time on setting up its world and characters, although it still probably wouldn't help the MC too much, due to the MANY complaints that I had about her that I believe are the essence of her as a character that I feel don't work since I am deep into psychology and understanding humans (and because of that, I can't simply accept an emotionless and genius 17 y/o that has the problems that I already mentioned and the story doesn't address it).


"you can't describe the historical context as a strong point if you dont have a clue what this historical context entails and what actual History was like."
Alright, this is a fair argument, although, by the "strong point" part, I meant the simple idea of having this place and time period as the setting (which, while I don't really care about originality, I still believe it's a setting that really works and can be properly explored). I should also make clear that I clearly stated in my review that I am not aware about the historical context and also why I believe it should have been explained more (not many people are probably aware of it's history, although this is just what I think, I can't be sure). Sure, not every story should be made for everyone and that is a fair point, although in historical contexts I do believe that we still need a bit of an introduction and a way to set the story in order to understand the rules that it abides by.


About the Jinshi part, while I was ok with him, the image I have of him really is different from what you describe. I see him as a goofy character that like to tease his crush, but I can also see that there is some darkness behind him that has potential, but I still critique what I see, not what MAY come later.


On the last point, I believe I already made myself clear. Show as much lack of morality as you can, but please tackle it, show us what these characters actually think and live and give them time to shine, don't use it as just some tool to pass the time and to show us just how great our protagonist is.


Have a great day, I'm always open to discussion, as long as it's done respectfully and by using arguments

Thanks for stopping by!

Hey! Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, MAL sends so many notifications i usually just ignore them so i completely missed this!


Yea i thought Detroit Metal City definitely had good promise, but I wanted the MC to like, actually start having some character growth. No problem where he started, but i wanted him to *actually* start becoming a hardcore dude outside of his concerts.


As far as my top 10 goes, thats not really current, its been a while since i updated it. Just glancing at it, i'd probably edit FLCL, Samurai Champloo, Baccano and Darker than Black out... maybe. Depends on what id be comparing them to. I think FLCL is the weakest on my 10fav list, and Baccano is only on there cuz the english dub's voice acting is hilarious. But i added that on there maybe a decade ago lol, could prob change it

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Well, Silmarillion is unfamous for being hard to read. I've always treated it as a mythology supplement rather than a story on its own.

Hi,

even if it's intentional, it's still an unfortunate mess. While Tolkien has interesting story and characters in a world that also happened to have an intricate worldbuilding, after the first part of Juuni Kouki the characters and the "story" feels more like devices to infodump worldbuilding rather than the worldbuilding complementing them.

I thought ViVid was season 4? Is it just some alternative timeline or am I just misunderstanding your statement?

I guess what I meant by masterpiece is in the isekai genre, not many stories can stay as grounded as Honzuki with it's story if you know what I mean? I've read a decent amount of novels but not really any true novels like you are saying so we may have different opinions on what masterpiece means.

I did see your review and thought it was good. Actually, I also saw you reviewed Juuni Kokuki, I've been thinking of watching it so thanks in advance for the recommendation.

I haven't finished the third season yet but so far I don't think S4 looks that bad just from what I heard, at least I hope not haha.

I also see you like Ascendance of a Bookworm, the anime was great but that novel is a masterpiece. Good taste.

Nice favorites, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha is awesome. =)

Yeah, Japan will probably stick to all those old customs for a long time. Which is sad but nothing we can do about it. Just support what passionate stuff we can.

Oh, I have seen some of Kamichuu. I wasn't super into the story but yeah the animation was quite stunning. I have seen Lyrical Nanoha. Looked visually quite great as well.

Yeah, the whole seasonal aspect of show after show after show is really bad. Mappa, for example, are just taking on too many shows and it spreads their animators and free lance animators thin creating overwork.

Yeah, this makes sense too. It is a mindset that needs fixing in general and honestly I doubt we see it anytime soon.