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Aug 23, 2024
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3 Seasons. 2 Films. 9 Years in the making… Hibike! Euphonium isn’t just an anime, it’s an experience; beginning with Omae Kumiko’s first year of High School and ending with her final performance as President of the Wind Ensemble (Music Club) in the third year of High School.
Kyoto Animation is not particularly known for the most fulfilling endings, in fact, most of their anime end on cliffhangers, leaving fans still desiring a continuation years after their broadcasting has finished. I mean, just look at ‘Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu’ and ‘Hyouka’. Both series’ broadcasting has finished long, long ago, yet they still have dedicated fanbases that ...
Jul 1, 2024
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Well, well, well. The so called 'Battle Of the Garbage Dump'; the fight between generations, the fight that has been teased ever since Season 1 finally happened. What can I say? The pacing absolutely destroys this film. They did Shimizu and Tanaka so dirty, they've got no screen time. The theatre definitely added to the experience, at the beginning of the film, when the lights were dimming, some guy shouted 'Eren Yeager' in the most lunatic ass voice ever and I started shitting myself laughing; and some girls sitting next to me started crying. Considering this was a theatrical film release, I really wish there ...
Nov 2, 2023
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The slice of life genre has always been plagued by a significant issue, that mainly being the lack of character development for side characters. I believe this is due to time constraints anime studios have, an anime studio is less likely to focus on a slice of life anime when there are other, more popular anime they need to adapt, which studios generally consider more important,thus giving a slice of life show a 12 episode runtime or, even worse, a movie adaptation. And even if the source material is much longer, they compress it, focusing only on key characters and story events. We’ve even ...
Aug 22, 2023
Steins;Gate 0 (Anime) add
Mixed Feelings
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The Steins;Gate 0 anime is not an adaptation of the Steins;Gate 0 Visual Novel. It would be more accurate to call it a re-imagining of the story.
In the Visual Novel, there are 6 different endings (routes), written by different authors. You may visualise it as each ending being a piece of a puzzle, and only once you finish all endings, the picture becomes clear. Of course, this is impossible in the anime medium, so they combined different parts of each of the routes to make a singular timeline. Unfortunately, this leads to the anime having a few loose unresolved plot threads. For example, in ...
Jun 15, 2023
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According to the Cambridge dictionary, the verb "To Watch" means: "to look at something for a period of time, especially something that is changing or moving". So, by that definition, Oreimo Season 2 OVA is not something you "watch", because you are not "looking"; You are observing in pure awe an author's descent into madness.
The author that created the source material of this anime is Mr. Tsukasa Fushimi . Since his debut in 2006, this man has only written two series: "Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai" and "Eromanga Sensei". You would believe that after spending 7 years writing Oreimo (2006-2013) ...
Apr 30, 2023
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"I am going to keep on living... as Hajime Hinata." - Last words in Danganronpa 2
And in this stupid anime he's back to being Izuru Kamukura GG 10/10 plot consistency
I just love that the DR2 cast is murdering helpless brainwashed mercenaries. They don't even stop to consider: "Hey, maybe instead of killing these guys we should try to turn them back to normal." Absolutely fantastic morality.
Also, who the hell will enroll at the new Hope's Peak Academy after the actual apocalypse was started there.
The former Remnants of Despair take responsability for the Future Foundation killing game, which works out just great because the main ...
Mar 11, 2023
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Sword Art Online has always been focused on Kirito. In seasons 1,2 and 3 the show revolves around him. But this movie is special. It's focused on relationships. The relationship between Kirito and Asuna, as well as Asuna and Mito are, in my opinion, the peak of Sword Art Online so far.
Mito and Asuna have a special relationship, because they knew eachother in the real world. Mito truly feels upset with herself that she left Asuna to die in "Aria of Starless Night". The fight between them is great. Great animation, great use of flashbacks. What Kirito said to Mito about Asuna needing support from ...
Nov 26, 2022
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**This review contains spoilers**


'Sword Art Online' is the "black sheep" of anime. Just a mere mention of it is bound to start some controversy. To understand why, we must go on a journey through time.
The year is 2012, and 'Sword Art Online' just started airing. And you absolutely cannot escape it, even if you don't watch anime. You go online, people are talking about it. You go to school, you overhear your classmates talking about it.
But why did 'SAO' get so popular? There isn't really a definitive answer. I personally believe it was because the story was really easy to follow.
Ten thousand players ...
Oct 30, 2022
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**THIS REVIEW CONTAINS STORY SPOILERS**

An above-average attempt at transforming one of the greatest visual-novels of all time into anime format.
Studio 'Ufotable' did everything they could, considering that this is half of a 30 hour VN route compressed into merely 12 episodes.
One word I would use to describe the fight-scenes: Amazing. The animation is fantastic and beautiful, the way Saber's sword moves is excellent, and realistic of physics. Although Half-Hour battles are compressed into 4 minute fight scenes.
An example of this is the battle against Souichirou. In the visual-novel, this is a heart-wrenching fight, when he started throwing those punches I truly believed ...


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