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Apr 8, 2025
Shingeki no Kyojin is a series that is one of a kind. It's a masterpiece in its own standing and has both excelling writing and visuals to match. Since first watching Eren roll that boulder to cover the wall in season 1, I have followed this anime with much interest as the makers of this anime have dedicated the series to be just as well carefully crafted.
I could make an individual review of each season, but I'd rather just make one for this ending.
Attack on Titan started with 2 of the strongest seasons in anime without any signs of showing flaws. From the
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first episode onwards, it seems that this anime truly had the love and attention it deserves. The manga knew it was a goldmine, and the anime producers knew that they had a golden classic.
The crazy part is that none of this is too ambitious to write. The anime is truly a 10/10 human work of art despite it's shortcomings.
I would say, the first season is practically a perfect run, as close to perfect as you will ever get. Same with the second season. The third season is where the series begins to show signs of drag and boring segments. Even so, the ending of season 3 went back to a 10, as well as most of season 4. From there, I could only describe that this show really gets confusing in its serial catalogue. Part 1, part 2, final, the finale, etc. Well just say, Attack on titan has seasons 1-5 plus the ending. Yeah, that's a bit easier to group.
From season 4 onwards, this anime shows a mix of both 10/10 masterpiece episodes and 5/10 'meh' filler episodes.
Flaws:
In the end, looking at AOT today, I can still say that as a whole its rightly a 10/10 anime. But the flaws are always going to be the plot writing. I have a theory that the creators thought about the start and end, but only partially. Like, they gave a few hidden foreshadowing in the beginning, but the end was mostly improvised. It wouldn't be too outlandish as this is primarily a shounen anime where cool stuff happens first and writing/ plot comes second. Like, remember in the early seasons the plot was the titans are a result of a supernatural 'girl meets devil' story to later be 'titans are actually people' story? Yeah, I remembers.
All I'm saying is that I think people give the creators too much omnipotent credit when they could have easily just changed the story to shape the ending during production. The start and ending of Attack on Titan is almost a literal reflection that MAYBE there was some recons that happened.
This is why some later episodes felt flat, because it just seemed like the creators started a big action story, and later decided how to fill those gaps in the plot. They did this by having characters, like LEVI, that lose their individuality and just unite to fulfill the main plot, introducing new characters just for the sake of a new plot(the Marleyans), how they forget about Annie's crimes, how they introduce the royal family, how they just keep giving Eren more and more powers as the Attack titan.
If you asked me, I'd say the charm of Attack on Titan ended with Reiner and Bertolt's secret on the wall. Sure, it led to the most intense part of Season 2, but man did it burst a balloon with the main plot. After that, the main story seems to spiral into further and further "but wait actually" moments that felt like cheap recons in consistency.
This is an anime about 3 main protagonist, that eventually become dull and empty vessels for the main plot. This anime is awesome to watch, but ultimately even the best shows can be sullied by poor direction. Even so, this anime is a unique masterpiece.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Mar 31, 2025
Heaven's Memo Pad is as a 10/10 Anime as much as other popular shows like Stein's Gate,Gosick, and Angel Beats. It's almost criminal how low a score this has on Mal.
Maybe it has a 7 score because so many don't watch passed the first prologue episode? Or maybe people just saw a bad dub version? All I can say is, wow, way to miss out.
This anime has an amazing lovable cast, an engaging mystery series, and writing that is so good it spills into the storyboard and pacing.
I won't spoil too much, but I will say a lot of anime does a water-down version
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of outside concepts, like religion, but HMP does a pretty good job and not taking religious text too much out of context and rather uses it as a compliment to have open dialogues about ideas and self reflection. This is how you do proper writing, by providing a theme(heavens memo pad) and being consistent to it.
HMP has writing that is at times poetic, with characters that have real reflections, and scenes that reveal true sentiment. I could write a whole blog about each reference, but in short, HMP is just a good and well made Anime whether in single episodes or as a whole.
Each episode either way has direct relation with one another because of how they grow the main character Narumi, or continue the consistency of the secondary characters and their best traits. This is an anime that for once you don't care about trivial things like "who is Alice" and more about "how will this affect Alice as a person and the group."
You can tell who actually payed attention to this anime based on reviews of finding it boring or ambigious. This anime always revealed something and if you end up skipping episodes then you miss out on new info and character progressions. Some also bring up that this anime missed out on "depth." I disagree, people wrongly focus on trivial things like "how did Alice get a computer set" rather than focusing on how Alice performed in the anime. This show is so good people stretch to find a flaw like really wanting to know Alice's whole childhood trauma or something.All of which are an excuse for some not to give credit to the actual anime as a whole and what it achieves right now.
This is not an anime that has a missing cliffhanger ending, or an anime that relies on just visuals, fan service, or comedy. This is an anime that has well written base, consistency, and characters. Honestly its rare to find because most anime prioritize visuals and such more than having great writing.
This anime released back in 2011, when production valued for good writing and enjoyment over just enjoyment and archetypes.
Every episode centers back to the cast, which is what makes this anime premise significant. Just compare this anime to Bakemonogatari. Both have "series-like" in episodes, but HMP has an actual story and place not just separate mystery episodes. This has character growth, philosophical showing not telling, and characters that have bonding chemistry. Heck, even the baseball episode is meaningful.
10/10, give it a chance. Enjoy the story, it's one of those rarities and hidden gems in anime.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Mar 29, 2025
Denpa is a fun anime to watch. It's not bad and not great. If I were to rewatch it, I'd probably forget some characters exist because of how bland they could be.
That's not the case for the main girl Erio, her mom Meme, and Ryuuko. You can tell more care went into these characters. But anyway, this anime had really nice art and it just reads as something people enjoyed to make. It's a very calm story with some element of mystery. But like many have said, the mystery itself kinda goes nowhere. That's fine for me. I was more interested in seeing the
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daily lives of these characters anyway.
I have mixed feelings though, some art is nice, but sometimes you get some fan service shots. Either way, I loved the outro song and the general kawaii desu from this show.
8/10 would rewatch when I'm having a bad day.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Mar 22, 2025
"Let him be, he's at that age" -he sure is.
So this is a fun anime about a panty thief, I mean, an insecure teen who can't communicate properly and makes everything worse for himself. Basically, he suffers from Neon Evangelion Shinjii syndrome.
10/10 amazing art and as a whole this anime took a lot of creativity, art, and proper tech to get working smoothly. I am very impressed on how this anime was made in itself. It really shows you right out the gate that this is not your typical main anime character with a certain look. Everything in this anime is well done. By
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the end, I really admired the art direction and wished more animes could try this.
Some anime shouldn't be judged by traditional criteria, especially those like this one that aim to convey an emotion more than just a well written story. That said, I still have to comment on the production, but overhaul, it's clear this anime's primary goal is to carry its theme.
Regarding the story and pace, man was this one of the most roller coaster stories I've watched since KonoSuba. I mean it. This anime will keep you on the edge of your seat by how well new things are revealed and the way the story branches out. There were a couple of places, like the hugging in the stairwell, that could generate some intense meme reactions.
In any case, the visuals, amazing, the story and pace are also amazing. I just wanted to take time to highlight those main saving points before I really criticize.
I'd say the worst thing that this anime does is probably the main character, Kasuga. I mean, at first he is portayed very well and I was curious to knowing more about him. But as the story unfolded, it seemed like Kasuga had less of a personal personality and more of an empty placeholder for whatever the plot (aka Nakamura)wanted.
He practically lost all his own value like "who is he" the more and more he was forced to just do what Nakamura wanted. By the end, we don't see the same book-worm, dude who has friends, and has a motive to like Saeki anymore. We just see, by his words in ep 10, him being an "empty vessel" who can't decide anything. Aka, he becomes a spineless wimp like Shinji. What happened?
In a good story a character has to have depth. What happened to Kasuga as a person? He lost his screen time with friends, his love for books, and his important love for Saeki just so that the plot can keep moving. The real Kasuga would have gotten a grip when he got a second date with Saeki, or when he went to visit Saeki, or even when Saeki found out the main secret. But what happens instead? Kasuga turns more and more into a spineless Shinji that goes against his own motives and ends up forgetting his own pledge of trying to be the person he needs to be for Saeki.
By the time the climax arrives and shinji is still undecided in the rain about who to listen, I knew it was game over. Not choosing is a choice as well. And Kasuga chose poorly. He didn't pay attention to Saekis devotion and didn't pay attention to Nakamura's red flags. Thus, Kasuga chose C, to lose everyone.
Again, 09/10 anime, just sucks the main character turned out to be such a written wimp.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Mar 21, 2025
I really enjoyed Fortune Arterial. Apparently, that's a controversial thing to say. Who cares if this was during "twilight" era, whatever that means. Anime in this time had a lot of experimental stories too, especially in the supernatural genre. Thus, today this kind of anime actually stands out because not many these days go for a "highschool with vampire" theme. Isn't that ironic? Yet we bash this anime, because of that, but we all know it's just because of this anime's release.
The saying goes, some anime are just too soon for their own good.
This anime was very enjoyable. I enjoyed everything from the
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uniforms to the characters to the unraveling world as the main character learned more.
I'd say, each episode felt like a standard anime show, so I was never discouraged to stop watching. The real reason why I really like this anime personally is because I loved how the characters lingered in my head, each with their impression personalities.
That and the ending of the show is a really sweet appeal in romance. I wasn't expecting such a light-hearted story to really be sincere. I liked this. I wish it had more seasons and maybe more iconic ost tracks. That's really all it needs.
8/10, would watch again.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Mar 21, 2025
"She doesn't know that Akito has no blood relationship with her and believes that they are twins; according to their deceased mother, Akiko will probably sexually assault her brother once she learns this fact." -MAL
So the comedy in this anime is the amount of tease that the main sister suffers on trying to be with her lover, her brother. This anime plays on the comedy of brother-sister relations and the numerous jokes that we are all familiar in this topic within anime. Doesn't matter if it's Sword Art Online, or some other anime, the tease between brother and sister is always somewhat a trope in
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Japan.
But I'm not here to debate the ethics, this anime is itself a comedy with the punchline of a sister crushing on her brother. It's funny, light-hearted, and adoring how often she is shot down.
That said, spoiler warning, it turns out they're not actually blood related, meaning, they're not really brother and sister after all. This anime easily turns from a comedy-parody to a comedy-romance. And it's adorable how she fails to be with the main character.
So why does all this matter? Because under the whole brother-sister jokes, there is an admirable anime with a like-able cast and a fun enjoyment. The visuals are also well made and this anime as a whole perfectly fits into the casual audience radar, even if you're not a big romance fan, you'll still enjoy the comedy, characters, and visuals.
Finally, I really liked this anime, sad it doesn't get more love because of it's choice of parody. At least it's not like other animes where they actually are related. You can't take this show seriously, even after finding out they're not related because the joke is the fun chemistry between them. Some shows have great stories, others have great visuals, this in my opinion has fun characters. That's why I liked it.
8/10 would watch again. Also, want season 2 just for more Anastasia Nasuhara.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Apr 25, 2024
Yugioh season 0 is a wonderful anime to watch even if you never cared about the modern card games. Season 0 is a fun pace show with various degrees of engagement that will quench that thirst of wanting something interesting to watch.
The main cast is very lovable, and the situations that unfold around them are just as interesting in this anime depicting the contrast of good and evil ethics.
By using an element of a game, this show is able to tackle the two together in a surprisingly good philosophical digest, food for thought.
Season 0, by itself, is a fun 20+ series where you often see
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various situational dramas, sometimes depicting real life scenarios, and the punchline of the ethically brave characters triumphing over counter evils, whether its in a societal topic, a personal topic, or a natural conundrum.
The flaws, is that it's still aimed towards young adults, so this anime won't stretch into absolute realism for the sake of its plot. Which isn't bad, but don't expect a serious blood story. Expect a situation where the hero's always win. It's a classic saturday morning cartoon, and I wish the later Yugioh series carried over much of this season, especially the missing friend in the main cast. They need to bring her back.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Mar 26, 2024
Yugioh Dark Side Dimensions is a movie that by all impossible odds should not exist, but it does. A movie that breaks the cliff ending tropes most franchises and anime shows end in. This is the Yugioh movie to satisfy all Yugioh fans of the original story.
If this movie came out in the 2000's, it would be a cult classic. But because it came out in 2016, it does both good and bad in it's modern upholding, though surprisingly, it's flaws don't have anything to do with the actual lore itself, but the direction that the new movie plot went.
This movie, if you asked a
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real Yugioh fan, would be easy to list the see the wrongdoings.
-absurd main villain with plot armor powers and convenience.
-a lack of actual dueling throughout most of its screentime.
Like most people say, if you skip through the main villain scenes that were red con placed in for plot armor sake, you would get a very enjoyable movie that looks like a good length film about the original Yugioh cast and their motives.
But instead, you get the main cast always being under shadowed by what the main villain and his absurd god powers are doing.
So, the pros are:
-awesome part in the story that helps finish the main anime of the original cast
-awesome modern designs and fan favorite monsters get their movie fan fare
-awesome animation and aesthetics overall
-awesome first fight between Kaiba and the main villain
-awesome tension about Yugi being asked to do the impossible
-awesome ending fights and plot reveal
Sins:
-absurd villain with plot armor
-every scene around the main villain is boring, including Joey and Bakura
-not enough dueling
Overall, the pros greatly overmatch the very horrible cons. Thus, when you watch this movie, just like in the 2000's you would love the overall movie. Big monsters, huge tensions, amazing art and sound.Compared to the older movies, this was a 2 hour love letter despite its huge mistakes. Someone out there really understood the main cast. Bravo.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Mar 13, 2024
Bakemonogatari is as a stretch to watch as saying the title. An anime that is visual and musical in its appeal, but with episodes that stretch the dialogue to simple back and forths so much, you will need patience to sit through these 15 episodes.
Is it a complex anime? No. It's pretty straight forward in its mission to separate each arc into its own mystery to solve. Bake plays around the detective wordplay as much as the artsy visuals to carry most of its production. Add in a few supernatural buzz themes and a banger OST and you get Bakemonogatari.
I'm no stranger to good rich
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word play, but this anime is just average dialogue, but extended for longer shots.It feels more like a college project than an actual anime show in the way its just too standard in its characters, its strict art guidelines, and its random flairs of attempting to be creative.
The story is where this anime suffers. Don't expect a 15 episode story. Expect a 15 episode series of events concerning the main cast. Although, unlike other shows that leave you wanting more, Bake is like an anime that doesn't care whether you watch the next episode or not. Each arc it covers can be enjoyed on their own, but putting them together, well that starts to weigh like a long and tedious essay. By far, a huge clickbait from its first episode.
The strengths about this anime is that it looks cool and sounds cool with some good dialogue moments between characters. The flaws is that the story has a lose direction, nothing really matters, and this anime becomes a muddy chore to truck through.
There are much better shows that do mystery reveals better as well as shows that do dialouge better. Bake is neither of them. The problem with Bake is that it doesn't take itself seriously. 15 episodes of a light mystery show is what I would call Bake.
As a critic, these are my flaws and strengths I saw in this show.
As a normal anime watcher, I just wouldn't recommend this.
Pros: Senjou is a hot waifu
Cons: shes trapped in a mid lackluster anime
7/10 this anime is more a nostalgia poster than good.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Mar 13, 2024
Whos says art is dead in the digital age?
Paprika is a movie that proves animation and digital are both still alive and valid when done well. Paprika is honestly what modern Ghibli movies wish they had, but lack in today's releases. This movie has the passion that reflects older Ghibli films, but none of that loss in dull execution. Paprika is both smooth, interesting, and artistic. It is 100% a classic on its own.
Paprika is a movie that carries the same Masterpiece work as something found in Spirited Away. Top quality animation, whimsical fiction, and a good story that will keep you engage from start
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to end.
Not only is the artwork in this movie eye candy, but the whimsical creativity will keep you engaged. That same creative passion that people were in awe about Spirited Away and Howls moving castle can be found in Paprika, and its not even a Ghibli movie. Its just an animation with the same heart.
Thus its clear, that Ghibli is not the only one that can deliver a touch of originality, and NEITHER is our digital age the problem, but the only thing that holds back a good production today is the passion behind its creativity.
Paprika can hold that candle where most studios give up on digital master crafting. The Art: 10/10 delightful. The Sound: 7/10 amusing and memorable. Characters: 9/10 actually memorable. Story: 8/10 engaging and touching at times. Creativity: 100/10. Art lovers rejoice.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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