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My overall score for this is a 4/10, and I'll explain why in more detail below, but TL;DR is watch if you wanna see OP cute anime girls shooting things with no real plot to speak of, plus a general lack of genuine characterisation. This is really an anime that you need to turn your brain off to watch, or you know, let your neurons fire at underaged anime girls, whichever tickles your fancy.

Plot/Character Development Problems: (warning, lots of these)

So let me talk about the plot. It's very difficult to summarise, because there really isn't one. We're introduced to Takina right at the start, who ... is dismissed from the main DA branch because she disobeyed orders to save her comrade and kill her captors, who she was supposed to take alive. Now the obvious lesson from this would be that "she saved her comrade, so she was right, or at least this was a conflicted action or something to sacrifice the mission for her friend". Maybe we'll see some struggle about this later. Spoiler alert; you don't. Now normally with anime you're trying to promote some kind of moral here, so maybe a more sensible one would have been to have her make the call to hold and let her comrade die, or open fire and accidentally kill her comrade for more impact. But nope nunnadat here, just cute girls doing supposedly the right thing that really amounts to all of no character development in the end.

Then she gets shipped off to an alternate branch where the carefree Chisato is, the supposed top Lycoris for her impeccable ability to dodge bullets somehow (yeah anime whatever). Clearly a punishment for her actions in saving her comrade, so maybe this is meant to paint the DA in a bad light so that there is some judgement going towards the way the organisation treats their operatives as expendable assets. Nope, Takina is too busy trying to get reinstated to think about the DA's actions in picking little girls off the street and making them shoot people in the face, Chisato is too busy being an irresponsible carefree kid who somehow does everything right regardless, the Sensei (ex trainer for the DA) is too busy running his damn cafe, and the other characters are just wallflowers for the most part. So we end up here, and we don't really see anything. This is basically turning into an aimless slice of life with no real objective or internal struggle to really concern ourselves over, essentially no "drama" to dramatise the situation. We do get to see some development of Takina learning to open up to her new friends, but that's about it.

Now we do start to get some interesting foreshadowing about the main villain "Yoshi-san", but his motives are so blandly poor that even at the end when all is revealed I'm just so disappointed by his half-assedness. They even go on to continue to idolise him in Chisato's eyes, despite then knowing that he saved her life to keep her gift for murder in the world, so really then he had absolutely no real emotional impact on her life. They kind of went there when she had to shoot him with a live round, but he didn't even die from her so really nothing happened. The second main villain, or the guy who actually becomes the villain, Majima, only shows up like halfway through the show, so really not sure what they were going for here. Majima was a more compelling character from a villain standpoint, as he's the one to judge the DA's actions in covering up all the bad things in society and spreading lies to create peace, but falls short in the terror department because they made the main character's powers so OP. While he was interesting as a character, he isn't set up in any meaningful way; instead he gets blasted immediately by the DA's normal little girls on his first appearance and honestly just ends up looking pretty unimpactful, so much that when he became the final villain I couldn't help but laugh at how unthreatening he was.

Many more scenes and actions in the show go on to make no sense; such as once when he invaded Chisato's house and held her at gunpoint. He literally takes a potshot at her from point blank and she dodges it, so was she in any danger to begin with? What about this scene was supposed to be threatening? There was some novelty in how he just puts down the gun and starts talking about movies, and then later in the final battle stops halfway to give her a drink, but while those scenes were funny well, they didn't really do anything. Him breaking into her safehouse and then threatening her felt entirely and utterly pointless. It didn't instill any fear of "I know where you are" or "I can get to you". He just showed up for a mildly threatening chat and then left. I liked that they talked a bit about their ideologies when they took that break in the final battle, but that was too little too late. There's much more to talk about, that sucks, but this is getting really long so let's move on.

Powers/Anime Logic Problems:

Now the reason I say you need to turn off your brain to appreciate this is because Chisato's power makes absolutely no sense. They say she has extraordinary perception, so she can tell when you intend to fire and where you're aiming. Firstly from logic, we all know that guns are not actually literally point and shoot accurate. All bullets have deviation in the air when fired, hence why so much testing goes into rifling for guns to preserve accuracy over long distances. People also cannot 100% eliminate the effects of recoil, which thus results in small deviations from where the bullet actually flies versus where you're pointing, hence why grouping is important to train to achieve consistency. The only way that her power makes sense is if the bullet literally straight lines it from the barrel to her face, which it will not, and people have 100% control over recoil, which they do not. Of course you could say "advanced society hur hur bullet straight" which is fine whatever. But then the logic again doesn't hold up because she can somehow react to fire at point blank range. Meaning she needs to be able to move so fast she can identify the moment the finger moves to fire, react in time to move her head out of the way of the barrel before it can go off, all of which is not humanly possible. If they'd explained it away with super soldier serums etc. that would have been better, but as it is it makes no sense. I mean you'd literally just need to loosen your hand and fire randomly so the bullets scatter in a nonsensical pattern; good luck to her "bullet line prediction" bull. At least one of them will hit eventually. This fact even gets proven when Takina finally wins at rock paper scissors against Chisato; they explain that if you ball your fist, Chisato can tell if you're going to change away from rock based on your muscle movements (bit of a stretch but sure), so she can make it so she either throws paper if you don't change, or will just throw scissors and either win or draw with you. So that implies she can't perfectly tell whether you're going to do scissors or paper, just that you're going to change to something. So then random firing and letting the bullet paths go brrr would work on her, since if she could actually see the bullets moving then she should have no issue identifying if you're going to use paper or scissors.

Then comes the other conveniently ignored loophole, which I wonder why no bad guy figured out. In order to move at all, one must shift their weight around. Thus logically if you needed to hit this beech, you'd just fire at her head or body to force her to divert a lot of force to move out of the way, then shoot the leg which is now bearing the weight of her body tilted to the side. She won't be able to move that in time. Or better yet, get an assault rifle and fire it horizontally across her body. Even if she reacted to jump, there's only so fast a human body can move through the air, so you'd clip her calves at least. Or if she rolled, then just realign with her as she's coming to her feet; you'll clip her somehow. But anime so you know, girls can move at super speed or some shit. Then you know comes the normal trope of the bad guy being like "yes I will now put you in a position where you cannot move otherwise the guy behind you gets shot". And of course she got out of that unscathed somehow, by blocking the bullets with her bulletproof schoolbag (wow this sounds even dumber now that I'm writing it out). Which again, why? So maybe she can react to block the bullets perfectly. Then why didn't they just shoot right beside her head at the guy behind her so she has to put said bag over her eyes to deflect the shot, then shoot her in the gut when she can't see or something? There are too many logical holes here for me to take it seriously.

Anyhow, there's actually a lot more to say, but I think I've said enough. Thanks for reading, watch this if you just wanna turn your brain off and watch cute girls shoot things. But hey you know, it's a cute girl anime that's pretty popular. If nothing else, just know that the NSFW stuff's gonna be good and is probably out by now. So hey, small victories.

Megalo Box was enjoyable, overall deserving the 8 out of 10. Many things were great about it; pretty realistic boxing, nice balance between dramatization and realism, relatively interesting characters and story, and not losing sight of what it wants to be in the first place.

This is a drama more than it is a boxing anime. And I'm glad to say that it doesn’t try to be more than it wants to be. This is anime whose writers took some fundamental aspects of boxing and stuck with it, took cues from anime like Cowboy Bebop for art style and fight sequences, and created a very enjoyable ... piece of choreography that kept me interested and entertained. It had some of the usual exaggerations of anime, but nothing horrible or excessive, so well done there. They never pretended to be a boxing anime, focusing much more on the drama of the story and character development with boxing as it’s pedestal to present it. Boxing is just the plate; what you should be looking at is the story.

From this point on is a comparison to Hajime no Ippo. Don’t read it if you just intend to defend what in your own personal opinion is the greatest boxing anime of all time and insult me without proper argumentation or logical thought process. That being said, personal attacks and autistic screeching incoming. Yes I am well aware you’re bigots, no need to tell me.

To get the autistic screeching and insults out of the way, let’s begin with this. I am a boxer; like a real boxer. Not professional, but I trained in the same gym as my country’s national team. I don't like Hajime no Ippo. Yeah, I don't. Fight me. If you enjoy it, good for you. I don’t. So I don’t watch it. I also don’t go to the Hajime no Ippo page and post “THis aNImE SUx BoLLs HUrHuRdUuur”. Don’t be childish.

Not everyone enjoys an anime with overly exaggerated fights that get draggy and take too long, therefore losing said suspense and turning it into annoyance. It's like dragonball or naruto fights that last like 10 episodes, though not quite to that degree. Either way, it’s not very enjoyable for me to hear jet plane noises during a hyper-exaggerated Dempsey roll and have fists bleed from punching heavy bags because MC is so dedicated, he trained so hard. If your hands bleed punching the bag, you need to get new gloves. If your bones break from training, you need to rethink your training. Feet tendons won’t snap from high speed dodging, and only idiots punch trees and shit to train. Also, he drew his philly shell wrong. Just saying.

Someone previously highlighted to me that the author of Hajime no Ippo owns a boxing gym. Well that doesn’t make him infallible or completely right all the time. If it did, then doctors wouldn’t be policed for malpractice and policemen would never be corrupt or racist. Owning a gym says nothing about your knowledge of the art or practice; the reason why there are plenty of Mcdojos out there, and even if Hajime no Ippo has plenty of training montages stating real boxing facts and tips, it’s all moot if it goes out the windows the moment he writes a fight scene for the sake of drama. There needs to be a balance between dramatization and realism, and that balance is different for everyone’s preferences. I don’t like Hajime no Ippo’s balance. Maybe you do, and that’s okay. But I don’t.

Hajime no Ippo is supposed to be a boxing anime, meaning that I have to hold it to a higher standard of boxing than I would Megalo Box. But even then I think that Megalo box delivers a better standard of boxing representation than Hajime no Ippo in many respects, even taking both of them as boxing anime. Megalo Box as a drama has better boxing than the boxing anime that Hajime no Ippo is supposed to be, and I don’t think it should be that way. If you intend to write about an actual real-life technique, make it more accurate to real life. At least cut out the jet-plane noises. If you create a technique out of nowhere for the sake of the show, then be my guest and do with it as you will.

To end this, I think that Megalo Box is better than Hajime no Ippo because of the balance it strikes between realism and dramatization. I enjoy that balance much more because of it, and everything else about it only adds to that enjoyment. Be that the incredible art and soundtrack, or the nice fights, or the overall character development in general. This is my own opinion, so do with it as you please. But if you insult me in the comments, I will ignore you. Enjoy the show, it’s a worth a watch. Also the ending song by NakamuraEmi is absolutely incredible.

I really can't bring myself to like this anime. There seems to be little reason why the girls are so overpowered as compared to regular human beings...because they are supposed to be regular human beings. Regardless of what you say about training methods, it simply feels cheesy and cheap, with no proper foreshadowing towards any of the characters' so called hidden abillities/potential.

I get that this is an anime that really just isn't meant to be taken with any sense of realism, but at the very least make things look somewhat believable. At least Black Widow's fighting style in the movies looked more believable than ... this. Fact of life, women are physically weaker than men on average. And ignoring sex, being less than half the size of another person with no muscle development leads to very unrealistic and unbelievable fight scenes that feel cheap and overplayed. At the very least, use fighting styles that highlight making up for the physical differences in strength level, rather than having some chick be strong enough to pick up a man that likely weighs around 75-80 kilos with a single hand at arm's length like he's nothing. At least Batman looks like he can do that, she definitely does not. Even John Wick can't fight more than two or three guys at a time, and most of the time he does it with a gun.

This really just feels like one of those anime that is centered around overpowering characters when convenient and never presenting any real threat or genuine fear for the situations they're placed in. At the very least I'd hoped they'd steer away from the general tropes about love and friendship but I guess the writer said nope. Their villains don't look threatening, their storyline is not interesting, there is no tension in anything that the villains or characters do, and there is no sense of foreboding regardless of the events that transpire.

It really isn't because of any one part of the anime, but more a mixture of all the things from the art style to the music to the story, but this makes this a bag of bad things mixed together and presented to you in a jumbled mess. The story feels like it has no direction, and without a good story there is really little else to make this anime worth watching.

Ultimately, please leave the wanking to when you're alone in your room, and don't place it into an anime. Stuffing 15-17 year old girls that look like they're 12 into skimpy outfits and having them fight crime is really not the way to go to create a real masterpiece in anime. John Wick had no story whatsoever, but still managed to become one of the best movies ever due to wonderful choreography and great action scenes. Having a highschool girl clock someone in the face with an arm half the size of his and sending him flying does not make for an entertaining fight scene. Rather it's still entertaining, just not at all for the reason you're going for.

Honestly, a lot of things that happened in this anime wound up annoying me. In the end, the only ships I wound up caring about were Dobashi and Terai, and Enomoto and Kusuda. The dynamic of Enomoto and Kusuda was nice and sent out a good message, plus Dobashi and Terai were just simple and straightforward, plus totally supportive of each other and communicated well.

The rest were just wtf to be honest. One that came close was Arihara and Yamamoto, but in the end I only cared about that one because Yamamoto is my preferred type of girl.

In the end, I'd give it a 5.5 ... to 6 at best. Maybe it's just me, not shitting on anyone else who enjoyed it, but It didn't work for me. It was something nice to pass the time, but nothing much more than that unfortunately. I did enjoy Enomoto and Kusuda's relationship dynamic, and if there's other anime romances like theirs that have proper resolutions do recommend I'd love to check them out. But just not in this anime. If it was an anime focused purely on their relationship then sure, I might rank it higher and watch it more enthusiastically, but in this situation Hatsukoi Limited just doesn't work for me.

This so far has been great.

Rimuru is not OP for no reason, and he isn't OP in the sense that everyone just dies before him. He learns skills and abilities and trains hard to become a strong warrior to be able to protect his village, and was given strength at the start due to the Dragon Veldora.

The story is entertaining, and it just feels good to read this. It really does. Time will tell how well this mange plays out, but so far it's great and worth the read.

The monsters seem to trust him, and power is relatively balanced between the monsters and other races, ... as well as the major characters in the manga. So he's not stand alone OP. He's powerful, but can be matched. He's also shown vulnerability to physical and extremely fast attacks despite his much greater magical power compared to the physical attackers in the manga. But he's not the most powerful magically either.

Can't wait for the new updates.

This is what I mean by simple. Not easy/cheap/bad, I mean simple.

Like a pure and simple, no big problems sort of romance anime. Simple put, this is a very feel good anime that was very enjoyable.

It was nice to see the characters progress a little out of their awkwardness and into the more comfortable stages of the relationship, and the end, although I would have preferred something more tangible, gave me those little heart tingles that's always nice to have.

Character designs were cute, interactions were cute, I liked that it was simple from start to finish and was just there to exist and give you ... those heart bubbles. This turns this anime into a mixed bag between those arseholes that always want trouble and strife for their characters to overcome, versus those that just want a nice smooth ride.

I personally generally enjoy both, but this was a feel good anime done right.

8/10, because I'm kind of a sucker for these kinds of anime. And according to the ratings, I'm clearly not the only one. To each their own, and this is definitely what I would call "my own" kind of anime.

Nice.

Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online, is honestly a pretty niche anime. It started off strong but kinda died down halfway, but managed to finish decently.

Now take note this is coming from someone who has so far watched every season of SAO, and actually played all the games (except hollow fragment that sucked) because I genuinely enjoyed the anime. I sorta think it's pretty trashy, but there are very likeable things about it and I will say that I am a fan.

No major spoilers ahead until the very end. I'll put a tag before that so don't read that part if you don't want ... spoilers.

The story here is just not good. It just really isn't. The premise and everything else here is perfectly enjoyable: it's just a girl spending her time playing GGO and competing in tournaments. And quite frankly, if they'd just stuck with that all the way through and just made things that way, I would have rated it higher. It's an action anime for christ's sake, it doesn't have to be the god of all anime storylines. But because they decided to go the cray cray route, the whole thing just dropped to a 5 for me. It really wasn't good. They should have kept things simple, but they didn't. Boo for me.

The art was great. The characters designs were cute and likeable and was overall great for me. My favourite character has to be Fukaziroh.

Sound was good, enhanced the scenes and interactions but was nothing to write home about. Did it's job and didn't ever interfere with the anime. Good job sound team, you and the art/animation team seem to be the only ones doing their jobs here.

Characters were bleh. Fukaziroh was fun, LLENN was likeable although the whole "I'm too tall! I hate myself!" is such a stupid trope that maybe only peeves me personally, so I withheld judgement on that. On the other hand, the other characters were sort of bland and boring, LLENN was also kinda not well developed and needed a tremendous amount of pushing that just made her a stereotypical anime mc. I hate Pitohui, like completely. I absolutely despise her, and no matter how it ended or who she is I still despise her.

Overall, 6. Was enjoyable for a span and managed to come back a little at the end, so if you just want something to pass the time then hey, why not? If you want to watch a really really good anime, this is not it.

Thank you for reading this, I shan't blabber anymore unless you want spoilers. Have fun watching if you choose to do so.


SPOILERS HERE

The end fight was nice to see, LLENN was brutal as f*** in that fight I went like "holy crap!" in my seat, which was a real nice change of pace for me. Erm, the whole P-chan talking was just sorta weird and cringy. Not everything she did was cute, so she was kinda meh for me.

Pito was made overpowered in no legitimately tangible way. Unlike LLENN, who managed kills by using camouflage and other tactics, Pito was completely unbelievable in that she ran into a group of guys unarmed and killed like 20 of them. That was plain bull. I get that they're lackeys, and you need to make Pito seem like an insurmountable odd for that final fight, but this is the wrong way to hype up a villain. It made me feel nothing, no threat nor exhilaration when watching her fight, it just made me sick and disgusted. At least M proved he had some real skill. This bitch just pulled a darth vader/matrix/wannabe John Wick and expected that to make me care about her. At least John Wick was some real-ass shit, not this blowhole that Pito is supposed to be. No matter how you look at it, she was just a bad "villain" if you can even classify her as that, and this is what I meant by not keeping the story simple and moving into cray cray territory.

That part, where Pito was tormenting that guy who was being a REAL F****** MAN and saving his comrade was just sick and disgusting. One more reason to hate Pito's guts. M is a total bitch. They're both sick in the head and need to get some real help. I'm studying psychology, and I'll make sure they get the help they need. With a gun. To the face.

I saw the ending coming, though I can't blame them for taking that route. T-S won and I can't say anything to that. It made sense. Though that lesbian kiss at the end was just messed up and unnecessary. Usually I'm not the slightest bit adverse to a little G on G in my life, but this was just sickening. Pito is just plain sickening, and her character should have just been someone like a mentor to LLENN that she was supposed to beat. If Pito had proved to be both brains and brawn who uses real equipment and real tactics to kill other teams to demarcate her as a threat, then this would have been great. Instead, they went the cray cray overpowered route. Bad choice, dropped what could have been a possibly 8/10 action anime to a 6 at best, and I'm already being generous.

Thank you for reading this far, I shan't blabber anymore. Have fun watching if you chose to do so.

In short, 8/10

Animation, soundtrack, story-line all wonderful. The only reason it's not a 10 is because of one or two annoying characters that serve their purpose well, and a conclusion that, while completely fitting and acceptable, did nothing for my bleeding heart that wanted to see a kiss at the end.

Below is a detailed review. Please watch the show and form your own opinions, but do read my review below if you have the time, I really appreciate it. No spoilers involved.


Seishun Buta Yarou Wa Bunny Girl Senpai is, at first glance, what appears to be a generic psychological harem slice of life anime that ... checks off all the boxes for what it needs to become a relatively okay anime. Cute characters, a seemingly deep story, a nice soundtrack, beautiful animation and art style, and well fleshed out characters.

In most cases, an anime like this would be a relative "meh" for me, and I would generally end off the series with a thought along the lines of "pleh", and think: "hey, that wasn't bad." But that wasn't the case at all.

Many people who view this and don't truly understand the depth of what is being discussed here will say that it was alright, and view it like any other slice of life anime that they've seen with characters that play into a general type. Hikigaya Hachiman from Oregairu, Ayanokouji from Classroom of the elite etc. were all splendid characters that generally fit this relatively monotone character that doesn't really care about life and is fine with being alone and misunderstood.

But this is different. The advanced physics concepts discussed here, such as the observation theory or Schrodinger's Cat need not be fully understood to appreciate this anime. This anime tackles many social issues without conforming to the generic anime tropes of one MC who defeats all the bad guys and gets all the girls.

Bullying, amnesia, discrimination, as well as familial issues, all have been addressed through the various characters in this anime, and each in a clear and concise manner. They did not try to create magical solutions for each of these problems, and nor should they, as there is no clear cut method for dealing with things like that. A realistic viewpoint is presented here, and Sakuta realistically solves none of the overarching issues presented. He can do nothing about ostracisation, nor what people think, nor their perceptions of him and the other people involved. He simply can be there for the people he is close to and provide support as they have supported him.

The use of the Puberty Syndrome in the anime is a metaphorical, physical representation of the effects of the overarching issues on the people involved. Be it his sister or the female lead, or even other friends along the way, the use of the Puberty Syndrome highlights the problems that people face and the repercussions of people's beliefs and actions. I can't go into detail about this without spoiling the anime, but the slightly dramatized and personified versions of these issues the characters face help to teach a lesson not only to the watchers, but also the characters themselves as they learn and grow from the experiences they have faced, and come to terms with it and deal with it on their own. Sakuta is not the God MC that girls fall over, he is simply a friend and a close ally that has been supported through his own issues, and is now lending his hand out to those that need it.

Sakuta as a character displays not only growth and maturity of character, but also a degree of reliance on others to help him, just like a regular person. He has proven that he can help solve people's problems, but needs help to do so. He is not infallible, nor is he the one who goes out of his way to help everyone he sees and knows. He is given a proper motive for his actions, and the diversity of obstacles placed in his path was a welcome change for me.

The rest of the characters are well developed, or if they were not then they accomplished their purpose in this work. The animation and soundtracks fit perfectly and were never disruptive to the experience, and in many ways have enhanced it. Good job to the studio and writers for that one.

Overall, this was a stunning anime with maybe not the most satisfying conclusion, but definitely a fitting one that I would like to see more of, especially in the 2019 movie, and maybe even read the light novels should they ever be translated. This was an enjoyable ride, and each character has their own flaws and hubris that they will overcome themselves, with the main character being a fresh change from the stereotypical anime MCs that can solve everything. Sakuta cannot solve everything. Sometimes he cannot solve anything. In the end, the other characters saved themselves, at best he lent a helping hand.

I highly recommend this anime.