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Hidden gem of Funny, Silly, yet High quality production asf

This anime felt like those rare slice of life anime with unnecessary hard action scenes, animation, and musics genre. If you've watch thing like maid dragon anime before and like it, this is surely the one for you next. If you haven't tried this type of anime, I would suggest you give it a shot.

Recommend for: Unsuspecting, Funny, Silly, cute, Production quality, wholesome and relaxing.
Not recommend for: If you want a serious anime or no in the mood for this rn

FULL REVIEW:
First of all, let me talk about the production quality. This anime got a VERY ... GOOD production. In all terms of animations, voice acting, sound design, and musics. This got high above the average bar. With it very vibrant visuals, and fun atmosphere. This anime production is perfect and even more for what it intends to be. [Animation, OST, voice acting 10/10]

Next is the comedy. This show comedy mostly lean on to the unsuspecting type. Which in my opinion is the best type of comedy, and depends on you if you like it or not. The characters could do some of the most obscene stuff, and even something that a slice of life or CGDCT genre wouldn't normally do. With also some of conventional comedy. The animation also play well into the comedy style, with goofy faces and over exaggerated motions. [Comedy 10/10]

Now for the rest of the stuff. The characters, its pretty ok. It's a slice of life comedy anime, and the character is pretty almost 1 dimensional, but it does it job [Character 7/10]. The world building is pretty interesting, and occasionally play into the comedy enriching it even more, so pretty well [World building 8.5 / 10].

The pacing is pretty good for a comedy, leaning toward the faster side, with around 4-5 scenario per episode. [Pacing 10/10]. Lastly the writing is also good and normal [writing 9/10]

In conclusion. Its a very fun, funny, cute, unsuspecting, unhinge sometime, and eye candy show. With pretty funny writing, scenarios, character, and world building, and very well done animations and sound directing. I would recomend if you want some fun chill anime that's still somewhat interesting to follow.

My rating as a comedy slice of life: 9.8/10
My rating as an overall anime: 8.57/10

C R E A T I V I T Y. Is the word that define this anime.

This anime remind me of those classics western cartoon, like tom and jerry, with its comedy. You never knew what dumb out of pocket stuff they gonna pull out, and its genuinely refreshing in the anime comedy space right now. With the support of very well done and perfect for the show good animation and sound directing. This is one of the best comedy show this year.

FULL REVIEW:
First of all, let me address the creativity. The comedy creativity in this show is, lets say unique in the anime space. ... It is not parodying other stuff, it is not just character interaction, its not just sexual, but most of it is from the playful vibrant animations, sound design, and the most unserious random out of pocket scenario ever in anime. [Creativity and Comedy 10/10]

Next is the directing. This play VERY well to my point above. The pretty good vibrant and lively animations, make this show not pale. With also the goofy and somewhat classical orchestral style of sound directing, is what make I said its kinda like tom and jerry or Mr Bean. The animation is good most of the time, and they also know when to spend the budget for the extravagant scenes and goofy scenario. There's some simpleness yet funny comedy that I can't quite explain to it. [Directing, animation, sound direction, music 10/10]

Now about the characters. While on the surface they are pretty stereotypical, and pretty basic. One is carefree happy go lucky, and one is the gloomy serious type. However, they work VERY WELL in this anime. Perfectly crafted for the style they are going for, making for a very enjoyable time watching they interact etc. Some of the love and fan service scenes is also a nice sprinkle from time to time.
[Character 8/10]

Now for other stuff. Pacing is quite well, with around 2 - 3 core scenario per episode, perfect for these type of comedy anime. Writing is also pretty good and felt natural.

Overall, I enjoy this anime quite a lot. The creativity of its comedy is pretty refreshing, the directing and production is such a pleasent candy to the eyes, and the writing and character are fun and satisfying.

My rating as a comedy: 9.2/10
My rating as an overall anime: 8.79/10

Himari (blue hair girl) hard carry this show, and there's nothing else to it.

I will keep this review short and informative. Himari is the only hard carrying in this show to kept it out of a mid rom-com anime. She's one of the better female MC in a rom-com character in a long while (since Megumi from Saekano how to raise a boring girlfriend). The dept to her character is very interesting, and the studio directing, writing, animations, and voice acting portray her perfectly. Everyone else in this show so far is very generic rom-com character that you would found in any other rom-com anime.

Her ... character have ups and downs. Imperfections we can see and really "show not tell" well by the directing and its moments. Her dere-dere personality, while also being a bit tsundere, and show her weakness, confusion, and anger, is a breath of fresh air in this genre for a while.

The gimmick, while is not new, is pretty much the first time to be the main point of the show, and that can be interesting. The show also keep the relationship developments very hard to guess, and always twist and turns unlike normal rom-com (in term of predictability), so that's an up for many people.

In term of other aspect, it's ok for a rom-com.
Directing is pretty ok in general.
Pacing is on the faster side but not that fast, which works well with the comedy style.
Animation is pretty ok and on the better side and works well with the directing.
Writing is ok albeit sometime questionable with it jokes, requiring some niche knowledge for the 5th wall breaking the MCs is making, but overall fine.
Sound directing and OST is fine and work wells.

Overall, just like I said, you either gonna love this show or hate it depending on how much you like or dislike Himari, and how tolerable you are to some of the other character actions and writing.

One of, if not, the best drama show we've got in years. A beautiful story, with beautiful message portray from 2 different perspective.

All drama show, after passing the point of how good the production is, will came down to how good the directing is, and how relatable it is to you and its message, to determine how much you will ike it. I think this show done all of that well, and for sure will touch your heart on some aspect. The wholesome, hard fought, and inspiring journey of this anime, is definitely a full on recommend no hold back from me. I will be ... only highlighting the good and what you might need to know in this review, since I think this anime have no flaws.

Recommend for: Directing, Message(+drama), Character, Vibe, production
Not recommend for: if you're a kid, possibly <18 yo (the message might not be as impactful)

FULL REVIEW:
First of all, let me get the directing and production out of the way. This anime is nigh perfect in these aspect. The soundtrack rinse the heart, the animation rejuvenate your mind, the pacing sooth you thoughts, and the directing mellow it all together perfectly. The only thing keeping it away from perfect is 3d skating a bit, but I wouldn't mind it at all since it's hard, but it's already very well made and beautiful. The vibe concocted from this directing is immaculate, the chill times, the serious time, and the enjoying times is portrayed perfectly through these aspect, and I love it. [Directing and production 9.5/10]

Next I want to highlight the characters. All the character in this show is written perfectly. The 2 main character we got have the perfect chemistry and writing. We can see how our kid mc is, at the end of the day, is a kid to her heart, but also with hard motivation and will despite all the setbacks or negative thoughts, that we can root for her. While the male mc on the other hand, also see what we see in her, see his possible younger self, and work his hardest and with passion to help the kid mc to her highest point. The writing is also not one dimensional mostly though also not 5head highly dimensional deep, is deep and thought through enough that it's feel real and relatable. [character 10/10]

Lastly I would like to talk about the message, and in consequences the drama. This, like most drama shows, is the main point of the story. You don't need to be in the skating industry, or even enjoy the sports for all that matter (though you would enjoy this show more if you like it ofc), the message and the drama is the good old follow your dreams and never give up thing. Which while I know most chunk of anime has this as their main message, this one is still one of the best.

This is because we have the perfect 2 main character that play thing message out from 2 different sides (not just one or a group of people in most anime). One where he already passed that point, but want another person to not suffer his past and push her to her fullest, thus along the way find his dream and passion in the process. Another one who just realized her dream, fought for it despite all the pain and conflicts, to make it a reality. I'm sure you audience will either resonate with one of these 2 main characters, and enjoy this beautiful written story on its way. [drama and message 10/10]

In conclusion, this anime is up to high standards in the term of directing and production already, but also with the support of very well written characters, and the 2 MC which portray the story very well from 2 side, to relay the message of the show and shown the journey through their 2 perspective, is a very well worth follow through story, and one I would definitely highly recommend.

This anime lean toward more of a wholesome getting over obstacle style of drama journey, and not soap opera politics style, so beware of that.

My rating as a drama: 9.6/10
My rating as an overall anime: 9.13/10

For something that's been done to death thousands time by now, this is quite interesting somehow.

First of all, let me preface this that, most of this anime can be line down to just another generic rom-com feel good funny goofy haha anime. However most the things they done are quite just aaa bit better than anything else we've seen from the same premise so far, and actually made me quite intrigue, so lets get started on why that is. Also I might be hugely bias since I love short hair female MCs.

Recommend for: Character, Wholesome Feel good vibe, rom-com
Not recommend for: drama, troupe-ness

So let me ... start with the production. Overall this show done it quite well. The animation, soundtrack, audio mixing is pretty, but not just that, the directing also cater perfectly toward the style of the show. By that I mean the comedy is quite good just from the directing, pacing, and writing it self, and overall create a generally chill feel good comedy style, which while is not something outstanding, is something that's polish down very good in this show that it's very good. [Production 9/10]

The comedy pacing is also pretty fast, not as fast as a MrBeast video, so no you won't die from shock, but pretty faster than average, but also plus with animation style switch up every time, so overall it blends in pretty good (ex: Kaguya sama love is war speed comedy style), with around 2-4 core story snippets per episode. So if you like that type of comedy, it would be great for you. [Comedy & pacing 10/10]

Lastly is the character, even tho they pull off a shotgun character blast within the first 2 minute, and introduce us real fast, they all somehow felt really real for some reason. I think it's because that they push it naturally, doesn't use them just for exposition, and all of them have a natural feel when use just like how you would interact with them in real life. THOUGH most of them is still a bit stereotyped, so don't expect godlike qualities character. Though it also worth mentioning just within first 3 ep, we already see some pretty natural and well pull off character development, so that's a pretty good thing we can expect in the future (that it wont stay static in term of characters). [Characters 8/10]

Overall, I think this is one of the best rom-com anime this season. It might not have some of the best stellar in any aspect, but overall blends in very well. This type of comedy, the fast paced little snippets rom-com anime (like Kaguya), is also quite rarely pull off greatly to this degree like this show, so I would recommend it highly for that alone.

My rating as a Rom-Com: 9.2/10
My rating as an overall anime: 7.41/10

Good time killer with a new fresh taste.
This anime while of course is no masterpiece or anything, is a pretty good fun, funny, and light headed anime you can watch without expecting much.

Recommend for: Gag humor (comedy), Adult cast, Chillness > characters
Not recommend for: plot, seriousness

FULL REVIEW:
First and most importantly, this anime is a comedy anime through and through. Do not expect deep plots, 5head level character, pristine world building, or eye watering animation. This is something you should watch through out long period (weekly, not binge), as if you watch it through in little time sitting, you will get burnt out and bored pretty ... fast.

The comedy is pretty good, Of course as it's labeled, its gag humor. They done that pretty well with the directing and pretty ok production quality to support that. Also the fact that there's SO MUCH character in this show also help with always not making it boring. The settings is also a bit unique in that it bring in Japan mythologies and believes and magic into it, opening more doors for the comedy to be more diverse as well.

To my next point character. While only the few main characters have some good non 1 dimensional writing, the others have pretty 1 dimensional writing right now. HOWEVER, I think this make for a pretty good and fun balance of things to follow, and things to fill in for fun. This make it a positive. Having some deep characterized in dept story comedy, while also having little gags then and there from random character in the class, is pretty relaxing and not boring.

The fact that it's a adult cast also is a huge positive for me and some of you. Even if it's in a high school settings anyways, the main protagonist being a teacher bring is quite a lot of freshen perspective and open doors for the comedy to be much more than just another "highschool" comedy anime. Also the main protag is quite enjoyable.

Production quality is ok for comedy, it's good enough to achieve it point, while also not bad that u would notice and be put off by it consciously. Pacing is pretty good, and can change the format from ep to ep, like from one big event the ep, to little multiple snippets event like most comedy do.

In conclusion. it's a good time killer to clear your mind, good comedy for all tones, refreshing settings, fun many characters, and is not boring when watch from time to time.

My rating as a chill comedy anime: 9.3/10
My rating as an overall anime: 7.31/10

Mid slice of life at best.
Let me keep this review short a brief, as there's not much to review for this anime other than it being NOT a comedy, but generally just a wholesome slice of life with comedy theming. The type (1 male 1 female MCs live tgt wholesomely, and one of them overcome some kind of burden) that have been done to death by thousands of show before, so this is just another ok one to the addition.

Recommend for: Slice of life, wholesome, chill
Not Recommend for: "comedy", character
mid: production quality, directing

FULL REVIEW:
First of all, let me say that this anime listing as a ... comedy is kind of a lie. It felt more like a slice of life much more. The comedy do exist but just radiate through the atmosphere, how the character interact with each other lightly, and not in a serious tone.

This anime work best as a slice of life. As it's literally mostly about living a life in a house, with a "maid" assassin. This anime overall actually have a light theme, and is very wholesome. So I would recommend this anime if you want something to heal you with wholesome, chill, and calm energy. Even the little "fan service" we got is wholesome and cute kind.

Do not mind/look forward to the gimmick too much. The gimmick of an assassin maid, while do come into play most of the time through her character, won't be that eye catching or inquiring to follow through. At best it does flavor her personality more.

Character are actually pretty straight forward, and 1 dimensional. All character can be describe with just 1 sentence, even the MCs for the moment. So would not recommend for that. Like I can tell you right now the fmc trait is basically "Shy assassin girl that never experienced the world". They try shoving her sad back story too much down your throat, and I think it backfired as now it's her only personality.

Lastly, the production quality is ok at best, pretty average, more toward to lower end for a comedy or a slice of life show. Plus with the directing is ok and average for a comedy or slice of life as well.

I think my review this time is short enough to warrant a tldr conclusion, so that's it.
If you want something kind of similar to this, I would recommend "Mission: Yozakura Family" for basically is this show but better.
So the only reason I would watch this is if you want to kill some time in the background, some wholesome healing family energy, or that the female MC character visual design carry this show by that much.

My rating as a Slice of life anime: 7.3/10
My rating as an overall anime: 6.9/10

One of if not the BEST Philosophical Historical (+drama) Anime ever!!!
This anime literally have no flaws right now, and set out to looking to be like one of the classics and best of all time anime we will ever had. Just from the plot and main memo of the story, being the quest of finding the truth, and the curiosity of human rising against the established oppressive idea, and taking full advantage of it, give this anime a huge up and be a masterpiece.

Recommend for: Thought provoking (philosophy), Historical + Science, Plot, Drama, Character, directing + production quality

FULL REVIEW (+Conclusion/TLDR at the end):
First of all, ... we got to talk about the one big thing that truly separate this anime apart from others, the philosophy. Philosophy isn't something all anime need to do to be successful or enjoyable, but it is the thing that an anime need to have if it want to be one of the classics, and masterpiece of all time. This anime got exactly that. I would not be lying if I say this anime changed my life.

The story set out to portray the curiosity of us humans back in the age where the established oppressive "religion" control peoples believe, and to fight against it using the truth, scientific method, and human determination. This is something that I'm sure everyone with a developed frontal lobe can resonate, and actually found this happening some times in your life. Furthermore if you enjoy science or is in a science field of work (I'm an engineering student), or even more in astronomy and history, you will enjoy this even more. With the pretty accurate scientific terms and events, this can be very informative to you as well. Though normal viewers fret not, this can be very enjoyable just from the philosophical stand point alone, and from these next points I will be pointing out.

Next let me talk about the character and drama. The character(s) is also one of the best trait of this show. The show MCs and supporting character stand for different view point and perspective on the matter of the philosophy and the plot. Everyone have a backstory that's portray through show not tell, and is very in dept, further support my first point even more. This also make the drama much more flavorful, interesting, and gripping to follow through.

Lastly I want to talk about the directing and production quality. Production quality in itself is pretty good. While its very high in standard for sure, is probably not the peak of animation. Though it does play into the directing and story well, and actually does give me many jaw dropping moments unlike even other better animation anime. Directing also play well into all points above, its more on the silence, thought provoking, to dramatic, and jaw dropping moments. Overall very beautiful and play well into the show strengths to keep you invest in the story and have many good memories about it to talk with others later.

One fact to keep in mind is that, the source material for this show (manga) length is perfectly fit with this anime airing scheduled, thus meaning this anime will end within itself. So no milking, and a concise story. Which is already another big up. Making it look like the pacing will keep it nominal pace and enjoyable throughout.

**I think this show have no flaws and thus have only include the better reasons to watch this show in this review.

In conclusion, this show is literal perfection, and will make you question life and have hope in humanity after you've watched it. The philosophy and underlying memo is very gripping, support with some of the best well written character ever, inside a very good and dramatic plot, all encompassed with the top tier production and directing, make this anime a must watch, and likely one of the classics of all time.

My rating as a Drama anime: 10/10
My rating as an overall anime: 9.7/10

The best mid harem romance ever???
Many people might get put off by this anime stereotypical-ness and things that have been done to death by thousands of harem romance anime before this already in the first episode, but let me tell you dear reader, they are self aware of the fact, and it get better later on, this is much better than you think.

Recommend for: Chillness+Comfy > Fan service > Harem > Gimmick+settings+story > production quality
Not Recommend for: Serious romance
Mid: Character

FULL REVIEW:
First of all let me start off with the DECIDING FACTOR of weather you might like or dislike this show. Many people seem to have ... the tendency to rate comfy, normal, fun shows low, and I get that. However, there's audience for it, and sometime, you just need the comfy show after work to cheer you up, and forget about the hard world a bit. This show is exactly that.

Compare to other harem romance show, this is one of if not the most chill and comfy one ever. While there's a bit of drama, just a bit, at most it's only lasted half an episode, and return the heart warming comfyness later on (at least as of first 3 episodes, you can observe my score under this review compare to the one I written at the bottom later if that changes(get lowered)). With the chilling theme, some fan service then and there, the undertone comedy and chill dialogue, and the very light looking and pretty good production quality, this show can be for you.

Though this might contradict my before point a bit, there's a underlying back story of the male mc and some drama in that department, but I wouldn't take anything more from it as it looks to not that dramatic, and actually will be wholesome, and likely will only be revealed at the end, or not even this season.

The gimmick and settings is also a breath of fresh air from all the school romance we mostly got. It's a shrine setting, with little amount of character, chill atmosphere, further supporting the things I said before even more. The story also look toward the future more than the present, which is something new for romance anime, rather than just encountering stereotypical events in the school, most thing are about the future of the shrine, the characters, and the status quo of the group, and their action work toward that.

Other point such as character right now, is pretty mid for harem romance anime. While not bad for harem standard, and all main character don't have 1 dimensional thinking and personalities. It is enough for the comfy settings, with not too less, but also not too overboard that it got too heavy.

And of course if you don't get the gist from all the things I said above already, this show romance while is pretty in your face, is pretty slow and chill. So don't expect some overly dramatic events and deep story to follow

In conclusion, it is a pretty beautiful show, with comfy atmosphere, story, settings, and characters. Best to watch for chillness, some wholesome healing moments, and don't expect much of it. So if you like or need that kind of show right now, this will highly likely heal your heart.

My rating as a Harem Romance: 8.5/10
My rating as an overall anime: 7.68/10

Dandadan is the best unconventional shounen action show available right now.
This show while may not be the literal perfect in any side, is very good in every thing. Now most of the time anime like this (jack of all trade) doesn't fare well with the audience, but this show make everything count and somehow pull through, with one of the most interesting world, character, story, and production quality

Recommend for: Character > Premise (scifi+supernatural) > romance > Production quality
Not recommend for: "Comedy"

FULL REVIEW:
First of all, let me talk about the comedy. Now the comedy is not bad by shounen standard, the reason I put in the ... not recommend reason is because it shouldn't be your main thing looking forward to in the show. The comedy moments barely exist, but instead radiate through the story by the vibe instead. So while the comedy isn't good enough to make me exhale through my nose, it dose make it more of a chill and fun style anime, so this anime is more on the chill and fun side instead of the serious side.

Now lets talk about production quality. While I don't think it is the peak quality or cinematic-ness as other action shounen show, this one is quite good and very well fit and suited for the show, and play really well into the character, theme, and vibe.

Next, the premise is one of the best reason to watch this anime. As you can se from the synopsis, mixing both ghosts and alien in a modern settings, is quite interesting to see through by itself. Although I would warn that after some episode after the first one, the premise seem to tone down quite a lot, and instead the show more focus toward the next best point.

The Character is THE BEST part about this show. Every main character is not one dimensional, have very interesting story and personalities, and most importantly have very fun and interesting dynamic between all of them. This bring me to one of the unique point about this show.

Romance. Most action shounen anime act like romance is a sin to their shows, thus never include them what soever, this anime though however, have some slow burn romance in our main characters, and make thing much much more interesting and fun to watch. This plays well and elevate all of the point above I mentioned even more.

Overall, this anime literally have a pretty good aspect in everything, and one of the best chill and fun anime in a while. It's definitely one of a kinda anime, and would highly reccomend to at least try it off.

My rating as a Action Shounen: 8.8/10
My rating as an overall anime: 9.5/10