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Abunai Sisters is like Disney made their next movie inspired by Paris Hilton's or Kim Kardashian's lives. Not kidding, this anime is based on two japanese sisters who are famous because...Well, is that kind of celebrities, that didn't sing, act or even are models, they're just famous. Okay, let me be honest, i despise thta kind of people, that are famous only for the gossip, and how they make the rest of the humanity waste their attention with them.

So, with a premise like that, we got two sisters who are vain, shallow and self-absorbed. They give us a good reason to root for them? The ... answer is no, absolutely.

There's a MacGuffin, the Boobie Stone (the screenwriter wasn't very creative, let's be honest) that granted them beauty to be famous, and an old hag that looks like the one from Spirited Away, want to steal it. The show's "plot", if we can call it that, is the hag's attempts to steal it and fail, over and over. Exactly the same in ten episodes, three minutes each one. At least it's short.

The voices are annoying and high-pitched, and the dialogue is force and stereotypical, with the characters saying lines that no one in the real world will deliver, and without any sense of subtelety. The two MCs talk constantly about how hard is to be a celebrity, and how fabulous they are. Someone could defend thissaying is a satire, but this dialogue is played straight, you don't see any intention to criticize that style of life.

The villains are simply ridiculous, without any grace. They're not funny, despite they constantly fail to have a competent plan, always being so obvious it's frustrating. But don't worry, because our two "heroines" are so stupid that they need their boobies to start jiggling to realise it's a tramp. Yeah, you read it right, their boobies works as alarms that jiggles when the plot thinks it's convenient to sense danger, despite the audience already know it. This is one of the laziest plot conveniences i've ever seen in my life.

Now it's time to everyone's favourite part to citice about this show. I think i won't say anything new if i told that the CGI animation is awful, and the character desings, atrocious. Everyoen has complained about the protagonists breasts' sizes, but i think the main villain's assistant won the prize to the worst designed character. The worst part? This was animated by Production I.G., that normally eve their worst titles, like Guilty Crown, has outstanding animation.

I doesn't surprise me this is considered one of the worst anime ever made. A deserved title, without any doubt.

Yaoi is a genre which is basically animated gay porn for female audiences. But, for some reason, authors try to pretend they're not just two animated dudes fuckin' each other. No, they like to pretend they tell love story, that most of the cases end up being disturbing, glamorizing rape and abuse, or being completely unrealistic.

In which category this title falls? Fortunetly, the last, which is the less offensive. Don't get me wrong, there still guys that jump over other guys, and kiss them and touch them without consent, but at least they're not drugged, or enslaved. Yeh, ethical standard in yaoi are pretty low.

So ... we got two guys, one brunette and the other blonde (i don't care enough about the characters to learn their names) which were porn actors and now they want to make more serious movies, and that's because they do basically the same that they do when they make porn, just this time people won't see their genitalia. So they have sex in their audition, something pretty suspicious, and that happens to you in real life, start to suspect. They fall in what the anime wants you to believe is love. But it isn't, is your typical on and off, toxic relationship, based on the most shallow reason you could ever had to fall with someone. Both are hot and have good sex. I don't think somene will last too muchin a relationship based in those two reasons only.

The first episode is basically that. Two guys screaming at ech other fullfilling the space netween sex scenes to gives us some conflict and fail miserabily on it. They are completely uninteresting, unsympathetic, act like morons and finally, decide to live together. Or better said, one breaks into the other's apartmet and said since that right moment, they're gonna live together as a couple. And then the next episode starts with that same guy cheating with another woman and being caught by the paparazzi.

The second episode, trust me, manage to be even worst. The cheating subplot, which is never brought up again after the brunette forgives the blonde, is the minor of the problems. We met our antagonist, who's the villain with the motivation that makes less sense since Master of Martial Hearts. That's right, i compare this to Master of Martial Hearts. It's that bad.
He was an actor that has to go overseas after a gay scandal destroyed his carrer in Japan, and has come back after years, and wants to destroy the relationship between the two MCs and damage homosexuality's public perception despite he's glad society has become more accepting towards openly gay actors. This would be like in X-Men suddenly Magneto and Mystique had a plan to exterminate mutantkind.

So, moronic main characters and villain, what's left? We got a director, which is the most effeminate guy on the show and wants to make a swinger with the main couple but then change his mind because that means his lover, and also cousin who looks barely legal and is te closets thing to an uke this show has, would be touched by someone else. Despite it was his idea and he didn't have any proble sucking someone else's coock in front of him. Yeah, not much better option.

The only character left that stands is the paparazzi, but because he's annoying, without any clear motivation or background, and looks exactly like the brunette and it that makes me think he maybe a secret son.

The OVA was made in 2005, but it looks it was made in 1995. Everything is extremely dated, both character design and animation, and the music is that kind of stuff that will sound in a sitcom, in a n episode were a middle aged married couple will try to make their special sexy night, but they look ridiculous and everythibg goes wrong.

So melodramatic and unrrealistic story, but the saddest part? It doesn't even work in the gay porn aspect. The sex scenes are boring. Another yaoi shows could be more offensive in the sory, but at least they work as animated gay porn. This fails even in that aspect.

Skip this. Please. If you want to see a romantic comedy with the main couple in the show business, watch Love Stage instead. It's far away more funny and the characters are more likeable.

Sometimes, people criticize something saying it doesn't make sense. With anime this happens a lot. You can say that sometimes people just don't get, or didn't want to, but sometimes, when someone says something doesn't make sense, it's because, yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Ai City is a good example.

Imagine an anime whose script didn't have any sense of pacing, without explaining or exposing anything to you jumps right to an action scene which you can get engaged or excited because you're still wondering what the hell it's going on. That's your first scene. Yeah, didn't sound very promising, but don't worry, the rest ... is worse.

But the premise, if it wasn't for the weird story telling, if there's some story to tell here, is actually pretty conventional. There's an evil scientiffic organization that creates superpowered humans, the most powerful one, who's a little girl, escapes, and the organization want her back. Yeah, pretty cliché.

Flash-backs are used pretty commonly on anime, and sometimes can be really helpful to understand characters' motivations, make them more synpathetic and give us clues about the plot resolution. But here? Flash-backs suddenly interrupt, and many of them, until they end, you won't know they were flash-backs, making it even more confusing that it already was.

But the worst part is the climax, when, suddenly, cheap and misinterpreted phylosophy starts to get throw to viewers eyes and minds, showing that the screenwritters didn't have any idea about what really those phylosophy tesis where, which is pretty funny because it's actually really basic. Many animes has attempted to talk about the darkness in human nature, but dear God, this it was the most cheap, clumsy, hammy and poorly-written example.

Evan in the more shallow aspects the movie can't redeem itself. Animation and soundtrack are pretty dated, and even the cheesy nostalgia factor can save the music. Ai City is a pretty obscure title, and it's perfectly understable why. The few people who had seen it rather erase the memories they've watched it, and i'm one of them.

Like Chii on Chobits said wisely on one episode: Pantsu! Pantsu! Pantsu!
Panty shot is when in an ecchi they show you a girl's underwear, just to attract the lowest common denominator's interest. It was used on Rosario+Vampire. It was used on Ikkitousen. Damn, the infamous Master of Martail Hearts used it too. But this is older that many of my generation think. Like many other ecchi tropes, this happened before.

AIka is an ecchi, released on the 90s. It's a 7 episode Ova. The plot is simple: Random catastrophe happened and now we are on post-apocalyptic world (lazy world building), the main and titular character works ... as a treasure hunters, there is a bad guy a with an harem, and she fights them. That's the plot. Pretty simple. Let's face it, this show is not remenbered for its plot, it's remenber for its fanservice.

Edditing it's really important, and in animation, actually pretty underrated, specially when you realised it's harder on animation than live action because the staff must be really careful with what scenes should animate, and what they can do with them. If you see a few AIka's screenshots, you'll quickly realised what the staff's priorities was. Panty shots. Show as many panties a spossible, in every scene. So much that even the most faithful ecchi fans would get sick and tired before they finish.
Maybe i lied a bit, the AIka's plot is not only that. The first four episodes is she fighting the bad guy with a (magical?advanced technology?they never explained it) corsé that, after sexually haressed her, she turned her into a powerful invincible. The last three are the minions trying to get revenge after Aika lost the corsé. But the focus is always panty shots. That's the main problem not just with those OVAs, with all the ecchi genre: Too much focus on fanservice, not enough effort put on story or characters.

The art is average. Every female has the Barbie doll anathomy. The music is average and forgettable, too. One thing that gets my attention is why the characters, if they fight, wear uniforms with squirts so short and tight, when if they wear longer squirts, it would be more comfortable when they fight. But, unfortunetly, writers didn't want to get your attention away for things like characterization, when you can have pantsu.

The main villain has the looks he came from a Kunihiko Ikuhara's show. Her sister who want to bone him, too, specially because incest is her main motivation. His brother's motivation is pretty dull too: destroy humanity to have a world where the only inhabitants are hi and his harem, using the echologistic excuse (why media portray so often ecologist as the bad guys?). Pretty bland duo. The minions are also pretty bland. They are loyal to his master, but we never get a reason, or even a clue, why. It seems pretty unrealistic, that so many women love the same guy and just the sister get jealous, and for someone from the outside. What about all the women his brother has in the ship? She doesn't mind? Well, the answer is, don't try to make things have sense here.

There are not much more interesting characters on the good guys' side. We got an annoying teenage girl, a completely useless male character who appears from nowhere in the last three episodes whose only fuctions are being beaten by his females companions, because Lve Hina says a boy being hitting by women is funny, and dress up witht the female villain uniform, i don't want to know if with some purpose. Also, a boring Aika's love interest who is also a rival, a pevert and a jerk with a hidden heart, but we don't see enough of him or with Aika to get interest on him.

Agent AIka. There was always shitty ecchi shows. The only difference is that now there's more than ever.

Space opera anime is nearly a sacred cow. Poor one who decide to say something but praise about LoGH. But LoGH is not the only one. Crest/Banner of the Stars, Mobile Suit Gundam, Battleship Space Yamato, even Cowboy Bebop is considered by some space opera...all of them are titles that the self-proclaimed anime reviewers has in a high-esteem. But, it's actually possible to exist an anime genre that every title is a masterpiece? Well, unfortunetly, no. Anime is made by men, so sooner or later you'll find some bad title. And here is, Odin.

Odin is, from the starst, forgettable. Your typical story about a human ... crew in a spaceship travelling around the space. Every character is forgettable, from your typical hot-blooded main character that gets away with a lot of stuff because, despite putting constamtly im danger the spaceship and the crew, he "has guts", according to the rest of the cast, but i prefer to say "he has no brain, or common sense"; to the boring stereotypical passive heroine, who appears when the plot needs her and automatically dissapears when not, to appears again if the plot says it so.
Like i said, if someone in real life attemps to do the same things the main characters do here, they would have get rid of him, pretty soon. Here, he's not only easily forgiven, he's also praised for it. For acting like an inmature brat, that didn't consider risk to himself or the people who surronded him, and never face any consequence. That's not a character, that's a wish fullfillment really awfully written in the worst way possible. Because it's possible that some people who like hot blooded main characters that "weren't pussies like in the good old days when anime was good" would relate to him. But characters needs to grow, and made us grow as persons, not just satisfy our self-insert fantasies.

Well, after this reflexive moment, let me get this straight: Imagine every possible cliché on space sci-fi stories you ever thought. There would be here.
I'm not kidding, it would. The evil machine that takes over humanity? Check.
The extraterrestrail advanced lifeforms visit earth and manipulated species genetics? Check. The lost princess from the extraterrestrial civilization? Check.

I must give special attention to the music. Even the soundtrack is boring here. Your cheesy typical 8'0s hair metal, played in scenes it doesn't fit, at all. Or i should said never ending montages instead of scenes? Yeah, never ending montages are a more accurate term to describe it.

So, for its low quality, Odin is the space anime's black sheep. Extremely boring, full of cliches, with unidimensional, forgettable characters, and without any depth.

Princess Rouge is the better definition of mediocre. The story is a harem with the typical plot ordinary boy found amnesiac superpowered girl. This has become pretty common since the Oh! My Goddess' success, but, despite some good examples of this plot that can turned into some great titles (Chobits, Elfen Lied), this is not one of them.
First of all, the characters. Many people say that, to have a good show, you must have good characters. There's actually more things, but have good characters is important. This show fails at that. Your ordinary MC is too ordinary to be interesting the most remarkable thing ... about is that he's an orphan, and all the rest of the characters are bland, since the innocent but so powerful she doesn't know magical girlfriend, to the two sisters, one who is a Naru Narusegawa's clone in character and personality, and the other who at lest is nicer than her sister, and don't forget the awful crybaby annoying human girl who has a crush on the main character, and when he discover he has a girlfriend, she runs and cry, because how he dares to have a girlfriend? She even send her friends to beat him. Hilarious high-comedy, ladies and gentleman.
The humor is pretty Love Hina-style, guy lives with a bunch of girls and awkward things happens, and the male lead is beaten up in a pretending to be funny slapstick way, but it's not even bad enough to criticize it. It's just boring. There's some scene we could call fanservice, but i don't think anyone who could have a bonner with scenes so lame, repetitive and unoriginal.
But this is not only an harem. Much harems and ecchi shows try to hide what they are with a premise to another genre. It's also a fantsy magical girl warrior show, the female lead and her sisters are the lost princesses from the underworld, whose family has been killed and they run away, and the big bad want them to...kill them? release some mysthical sword we never see or get an explantion why is sealed and the villain want it? The fights are as boring as the comedy, and the villains are really uninteresting. The main villain is your typical dark lord we never get what his motivation was, and his minions are really lazily written. We're supposed to care about a villain dude who died in the second episode, but how can i give a fuck about someone who has appeared only in one episode and his story was writting in a really clumsy and lazy way, with clueless flash-backs shown too late to make people empathize.
The art is your typical late 90s style you could have seen at shows like Slayers or Saber Marionette J. The music is that cheesy 80s music that sounds extremely dated, even more if you think this OVA got released at 1998.
Princess Rouge is a pretty obscure and forgotten title. Actually, in the scale of anime obscurity's TV Tropes page, is on level 6, the highest obscurity level possible, and not even the japanese Wikepedia has the title listed in the J.C. Staff's page. But with a good reason. It's that kind of forgetteable. It's not even awful worth it. Just a mediocre show that attempted to try to have a level of success because similar shows succeded.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is probably right now one of the most praised titles on this database, but is this actually deserved?

Well, after an era where moe has overtake the industry, with shows trying too hard to be cute that ended up being annoying, plus the overexpose of those titles, it's no wonder a show that pander to old school anime fans, when the anime was good, and was full of GAR male and manly protagonist and not loser and pussies. But nostalgia is one of the best liars, and actually, the old school anime is, most of the times, ultraviolent OVAs without any substance, with ... idiot plot and unidimensional characters that were just wish fullfillment to people wo dreamed to be real men. Real men, according to sexist ideas.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is one of the most well-remenbered Shonen Jump's titles, along with Fist of the North Star, another GAR manga. Those days, studios made animes they'll know are gonna be successful, because making psychological cyberpunk thrillers with deep plot and though-provoking dialog is fine, but it's even finder made an anime that will sell after the bankrupt many studios had suffered. So, JoJo's was a sure value, it was gonna be successful. And it was, but not only in Japan, where is a loved classic, also here in the Western fandom, reaching really unexpected levels, with fanboys praising it, no one to contradict them and memes everywhere. (Who doesn't know the "It was me, Dio"?)

The plot it's more a collection of sagas, with different protagonists, the mangaka improvises to make sure the fans get hooked up. It's always the same, there's a Joestar male family menber who can control a tecnique named Hamon, which it's actually a superpower working according the plot conveniences in every fight, and has to fight evil immortal vampires. The first anime season is based on the two first anime sagas.

The first one is more idiotic, with characters completely undimensional and a story so cliché you wouldn't believe it: our hero has a friend who turned out to be the villain and join the evil forces because he has a serious big ego issues, and after his fiend betrayed him and kill his family, he's now the chosen one to defeat this evil forces learning and training an ancient tecnique (Hamon). But before fight his archnemesis, he must fight tons of evil minions. Oh, and there's a damsel in distress love interest. Everything is as cliched as i told you.

The second one is less cliched, but more narmy. Appears new villains, and some characters from the previous arc suddenly turned into ones despite they didn't showed any signs in the past. It looks like they're gonna have more badass female characters, but at the end of the day that's just a false promise. Female characters are still as passive as always. But what made this second half really awful is the over the top scenes like the killer squirrell, or the way the big bad is defeated. It's not so bad is good. It's so bad it's impossibly stupid.

The characters are pretty frustrating. The hero from the first-half, Jonathan, fits more the traditional hero role, and it's eassier to root from him because he's more sympathetic, but he's so undimensional he becomes bland. The hero from the second-half, his grandson Joseph, he's a less tradiotional hero, and less undimensional, but less sympathetic too, and despite all the chances to develop him, actually he just become stronger, but at the end of the day you don't feel he changed that much.
The secondaries go from idiots for pure plot convenience (Jonathan's father, trusting always people he musn't despite being obviously evil) to just so plain useful you need to pity them (Speedwagon, whose only purpose is commenting the obvious, or Smokey, only there to be The scream by Edvard Munch). But the worst is the first arc's main antagonist, Dio Brando, that' so pure evil, so campy, so succesful in his plans because all the Joestars are so dense, with lots of wasted opportunities to have depth, but no, he just born evil. Just that. And he's obnoxiously egocentric.

The art is pure cringe, defying anathomy and physics. And the so called fabulous posses are just ridiculous, making the sequences laugh-worthy. So, after all the crap i said, you must woonder, why is JoJo's so popular? So acclaimed? My answer is simple. Pandering. It panders to the ones who miss the "good old days", who decide which animes are good or bad. At the end of the day, it's just wish fullfillment, like the harem based on light novels.

Ao no Exorcist anime was pretty dissappointing. So, many people watch this movie expecting something not even good, just more decent that the anime ending was. It turn out to be more than this. It's actually a good movie, far better than the series is based.

This movie is the spin-off/second season's substitute kind of anime movie, like the second Tiger & Bunny movie, or many movies from shonen series, instead of the outrageous recap on buig screen kind, fortunetly. This kind has the chance to tell parallel stories with the characters, letting the creators tell stories they can't tell on the TV show because that ... would be a filler episode, or story arc. Most of this movies doesn't add any new to the story, and people watch them just to see more adventures with their favourite characters. So, most of the times the plot is pretty shallow. Appears an antogonist never seen before, our heroes defeat them, he never comes back. And that would be the easy route to this movi, but the fact is, the writters tell us a story with character driven importance, that helped to made the two brothers Rin and Yukio more consistent characters.

How they made this? The plot revolves around Rin being irresponsible, Yukio being to responsible. But, unlike the TV show, Yukio has actual reasons to complain about Rin, like putting in danger the mission, instead of being the whinny stupid brat that suddenly fears the brother he was raised since he was a child. Made one character likeable, but what about Rin, what progress they do towards him?

Rin is an irresponsible, hot-blooded but good-hearted hero, like the rest of the 99% shonen heroes. But in this movie, we see him grows and mature because he has to take care of Usamaro, a little demon the exorcist found. At the end, Rin learns an important lesson about how bad and good memories are important, and teach Usamaro this lesson.

Usamaro, the little demon, is the threat. This movie actually doesn't have a real villain or antagonist, despite there's a conflict between characters, better written than in most of the anime episodes. He follows the childish logic if bad things doesn't exist, everybody will be happy. But when he does that, he put people in danger. So Rin turns into a big brother figure that grows and take care of Usamaro, while he tries to proof sealing him away is not the best solution.

Unfortunetly, the rest of the cast are the anime characters that are there because they were in the show, and they don't made too much to the plot. People who hasn't watched the anime probably wouldn't know most of them, because they don't have an exposition scene. That's pretty sad, specially with some good characters like Mephisto Pheles doing nothing.

The movie's theme is actually pretty close to the show, because Rin's memories about his deceased adoptive father it gave him his main motivation. So the writters decide to tell a story that actually reflect the best part on the anime.

It really feels the budget's difference between the Tv show and the movie, because visuals are here some much better that the anime ever has. The soundtrack has also some great tracks, but it's the art the one who shines on. From the start, with the ethnic-look alike images to tell us the tale, to the spectacular backgrounds, without forgetting the impressive demon designs.

One of the big problems is actually the fact many people has to watch the show to enjoy the movie. Just to watch this movie and enjoy the whole of it, i would just recomend watch Ao no Exorcist.

I'll try to be as short as possible, because this show has a lot of stuff i had something to say, good or bad.

Let's start clarifying one small but important detail: this show is a reboot from the Gatchaman franchise, a mythical anime classic most modern fans, including me, haven't seen. Despite that, i don't recomend this reimagination to the classic Gatchaman's fans to check it out. Kenji Nakamura, the director, used the reboot as an opportunity to share his opinions about social media and the current japanese situation.

I won't lie, the idea and his development on the show is really interesting, and ... i don't mind it offers a more positive point of view about how technology influence our lives, a subject is usually portrayed in a more grimdark and pessimistic way, about how dangerous it could be. And i like that kind of stories about how humanity must be responsible. Is something we see in fiction over and over since Frankenstein, and anime it's not inmune to this. Look at Serial Experiments Lain, Fantastic Children or Giant Robo. But i don't mind a more optimistic portrayal.

But how this show portrays politics is just...wrong. We see a japanese prime minester that didn't give a fuck about his country, and we're supposed to sympathise with him when he read people expressing their dislikes? Okay, by the end, he learns the lessonand decide to listen more to his people. But i'm still pissed off about how this show seems to say: People shouldn't complain when the goverment do something wrong, specially if they don't vote. So, in dictadorships, people shouldn't complain because no one votes the goverment. Great message, Nakamura, you denied oppresed people their rights.

I know i just sounded pissed off, and probably it wasn't Nakamura intention to say this. Sometimes, unfortunate implications are not intentional, and they didn't mean to harm anybody. So, let's see what Nakamura really means. The story reminds more to Death Note than Gatchaman. A brillaint boy gets a power by a supernatural being that allows him to change the world. There are important details that made the show differents: Riu is not as morally despicable as Light, and Berg Katseis not just a simple bystander like Ryuk was.

The Gatchaman in this story are important, but not as important they should be. The main character, Hajime Ichinose, is a Mary Sue: always cheerful, everybody, ven the villain, likes her, is chosen by no spparent reason and she became inmediately important in all her teamworks' life, is portrayed as someone that can do no wrong...Also, she's pretty bland, and the voice actress made an awful work, sounding really annoying. Really annoying.
And that's a problem. Half the main cast made their characters sound annoying. Mamoru Miyano has oone of his worst works in this show playing a saddistic, campy gay villain. And Jou Hibiki is a failure as a character in every aspect: is not badass, is not cool, is not sympathetic, and most fangirls ignore him. And he's supposed to be the closest character to the original show, but more complex. It didn't successed.

The other half of the cast is better written, and has more depth. Special mention to Rui, the real series' protagonist, and Utsusu, an example as how you should writte a kuudere character. Started apathetic, but as the series progress, you became more attached to her, while we see how she actually is and feels.

Art is the strongest point in every Nakamura's work, and this show is no exception. The visuals are astonishing, despite some generic character design. The music has some really outstanding instrumental tracks, but the OP and ED are mediocre.

Interesting idea, badly directed voice acting, awesome visuals, is all this show has to offer. Don't watch if you're a classic Gatchaman's fan.

Oh, Tokyo Ghoul 2 season. After this, all the hype Tokyo Ghoul has magically dissapeared. The few remaining fans were or manga purits that claims that Studip Pierrot butchered the story and didn't followed the manga, and a few fangirls that refugee in reducts like tumblr or Goboiano, where they could clmly claim Kaneki is a precious baby that did nothing wrong. But, why? Why Tokyo Ghoul falls down so easily, with just 12 episodes? Well, let's take a look on it.

First, analyse the problems the manga and the anime first season has:

-Lacks originality. Tokyo Ghoul didn't do nothing new. The idea of a male ... protagonist half-monster that fight those creatures already appeared in Devilman, a manga made by Go Nagai, of Mazinger Z's fame. The theme was took again in Parasyte, a manga from the 90s. In the 2000s, they were released Elfen Lied and Kemonozume, the two most evident examples, in both we have organizations of humans that fight monstrs that kills humans, but these monsters are the protagonist. Actually, in Kemonozume, the monsters eats people too. And just few years after TG's we got Shiki, a show about vampires with the exact same dilemma, monsters that can't live with humns peacefully because they need to kill and eat humns to survive. So, if Tokyo Ghoul didn't have any original content, why it became so popular, even more than all the titles i've said before? Well, that's my next point.

-Emo pandering. I was pretty emo when i was a teenager, and maybe thanks to that, i recognise when something is pandering to the poster child of teenage boys that cries nobody can't understand them. Tokyo Ghoul is basically this. I could compare the show in other elements with the other shows i mentioned, but i want to center in the show own merits, and in the worst reason for his appeal. This show play straight the card "i hurt people because i born like this, but nothing is my fault, but nobody can't get it, and i feel lonely for that". We see the poor, oppressed ghouls, that everyone hates because they need to kill humans to feed themselves, and are persecuted by the evil Inspectors. Sure, this show attemps to avoid the black and white morality showing there's evil ghouls that enjoy killing humans, and the human Inspectors are people too., but the message is still the same.

-Extrem passive hero. Kaneki is one of the most passive heroes i've ever seen. Many people commented how, after the torture, he became such a badass, and i wonder where, where they see it. Kaneki is still beaten the shit out of him by every antagonist it crossed his path, and he didn't make any relevant decision or take any significant action. The only difference now is his makeover. Many people complain about passive shoujo heroines, and sometimes i think kaneki is one of them, that went to the wrong title and genre.

Now, let's take a look on the only anime 2 season's flaws:

-Given screentime to characters that, in the story's climax, play a minor role, or any role at all. Kaneki is the supposed main character, but most of the episodes he's just mentioned, or appears in few scenes. Hide, his human best friend, that gives Kaneki a motivation in the last epiosde to do something (the last scene is too ambiguous to know what's going on) has even less screentime. The characters that more screentime has a re Touka and Amon Koutarou, and i wouldn't mind it if it wasn't because Koutarou only has a brief fight with Kaneki, and we even know if he survived, and Touka whn she finally arrives is too late, and everyone's already dead.

-Incoherent screenplay. In the first episode, Touka fights his brother, and he even bites her. With his teeth. Then Kaneki cames to the rescue, and we saw that Nishi is sitting nearby. I can't help but wonder, if he was always there, why he didn't help her? In the last episodes Touka is running away to the final battle, and despite she lives nearby and she runs since she heard, very soon, the battle has started, she arrived when it's already over, despite she could perfectly had arribe when it just get started. The way the screenplay screw with psychics and time is beyond my understament.

Now, take a look at the characters. I've already said Kaneki is a doormant protagonist, but what about the secondary characters? I won't lie, some of them are interesting, charismatic, or sympathetic, and relevant to the story. But the show centers around Touka, whose subplot about how hard she study motivated by Kaneki could have been removed and we could have been more space to more important subplots. Amon koutarou, from the humans side, is probably the worst choice. He's a massive hypocrite, that killed innocent people just because they are ghouls, and according to this logic are monsters, despite they tried to help kill humans to surviv, and let live actually dangerous ghouls because his organization says so. I don't sympathyze ith him, is nor valid the "he looks like one of the guys from swimming anime".
And the Gourmet... he's annoying, people ship him with Kaneki despite he attemped to murder him multiple times, he's creepy, other characters trust him despite he has proven he's absolutely not trust-worthy...Dear God, he's a walking idiot plot. Fortunetly, he appears less, but damn, it's still too much.

Despite all my complaints, there's some virtues in this show. Like i said there's characters that are really lekeable, and has relevance to the plot, and are the most redeeming quality of this show, specially the coffe's owner and other employees that get little screen time the second season, and actually, it's a good thing they has more screen time.
The animation is probably the best Studio Pierrot made until this date. The problem is the censorship, less than in the forst season, still bothersome, but less, maybe because the audience has already get used to it.