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Nov 19, 2016
Finally a high-school anime I enjoyed, mostly because it's main goal is destroying thoroughly all the cliched deceptions and conceits in other animes.
There is near to nothing of actual, life-changing importance that can happen to you in your high-school years, not your first crush or your first whatever the hell it was, not even your friends most of the times.
If you felt inadequate at life by watching all those sparkly scenes where people seemed to find some kind of core-deep connection and became best-friends forever and ever, or by watching all those excruciatingly slow and drama-stuffed love stories that have been so hardly fought
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over you will never ever feel like dumping that person in the future not even if it's best for you because "duh, with all the episodes we've wasted just to confess to each other, like hell i'm going through that again with someone else, I'll stich with this one", it doesn't mean you actually ARE inadequate at life. Actually, it means you're way more normal than any high-school anime drama will ever hope to be and will probably lead a much more balanced and over-all satisfying life.
Our Hikigaya here, he knows what's going on pretty well. He knows what's worth the bother and what's not, and although sometimes he decides to be quite stubborn about everything being NOT worth it, he's right 99% of the times. He decides to be stubborn about it because, although he preaches uite a lot about how fake are the relationships around him and is spot on about it, he too likes to be fake. Not because he doesn't really think what he thinks or because if he didn't wear that mask he would be crying his eyes out at not having friends, but simply because he sees it as the dignified way to go about life and I agree to a certain extent.
He really wants to be the person he looks and so long as you're trying to be what YOU want to be and not someone else, maybe it can't even be called fake entirely.
Because yes, we really needed some hardcore cinism in this particular genre to bring all those other obnoxious and self-serving anime off their high horse.
I think the characters were very well made, especially the main character, and even the annoying Yui turned out to be quite a nice piece of the show.
Sure, most of the times the issues were made bigger than they were, especially in the second season where things tend to take a more dramatic and maybe not so needed turn, but it really manages to convey the character's view of their world, which is what this anime is about in my opinion.
The story was a bit dull, not much going on, it's mainly about insights on life and how the things that seem so perfect in other anime are being defiled here. I'm not really complaining, that's the kind of anime it is and making more important things happen maybe would have ruined the creators' intentions.
Basically, yes, I liked it because I hate the other animes of the genre and this is like my petty revenge on them.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Nov 17, 2016
There is such an amount of stupid in this anime it goes quite simply beyond words, so I will stick to the basics:
Story:
if I thought that romantic animes tend to make everything that happens to those lame drama queen teenagers a matter or life or death, Kimi ni Todoke has gone overboard.
What story, by the way? Is this a story about autism? If it was so at least it would have a purpose and it would be promoting something serious.
Keyword: Misunderstanding that could have easily been avoided and even more easily been cleared from the beginning.
Art is OK, Sountrack was a bit too
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simplicistic and childish but pleasant.
Characters:
Should I laught or cry? There are two characters who are savable and they are Ryu and Yano. Kazehaya is only half savable. The rest is trash.
Sawako isn't just shy, she has problems. She has hallucinations. She lives in a weird limbo, I don't know. We've all had our problems when we were an awkard mess in middle school, some dealt with it better and some just couldn't cope with school mates, but when you finally emerge from the darkness and people come at you with outstretched hands, ready to start fresh like normal people, you don't just stick to your conviction that everyone hates you in face of all the evidence of the contrary.
That only means being stubborn, and Sawako is probably 99% stubborn and 150% stupid (yes I suck at math).
Oh, and another 50% tears, because there seems to be no end to the amount she can shed for no reason at all. And in the beginning? Was the start of a new friendship supposed to be this tragic? Who in the world has cried so much and reached such depths of despair for one single rumour and two people who are willing to give you the time of day? I mean, if that is how she goes about getting friends I'm curious to know how's the rest.
Enjoyment:
NO, I haven't enjoyed myself, and Sawako wouldn't have enjoyed herself either if I'd had the chance to put my hands round her neck at some points of the story. At MANY points of the story.
I feel like I have just seen a bunch of cliches stuffed together and pushed to the tenth power. Or maybe maybe maybe! Maybe this is actually the birth place of many of the cliches that you see in anime these days, the source of all evil. Maybe this is the reason Japanese people think that love is so much of a bothersome burden that if you're not driven by the most powerful and pure emotions you're not even qualified to try.
This is what I call non-educational.
P.S.: the second season is just as useless as the first one and although it LOOKS like it provides closure, it's just another one of Sawako's pointless tiny steps toward finally becoming a normal person, and I can only pity her because if that's how she goes about things then her life will just a nerve-wrecking chain of events that she can barely deal with without crying or passing out or giving herself stress-induced gastritis.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Sep 25, 2016
RE:ZERO KARA HAJIMERU ISEKAI SEKAITSU
Rarely have I ever wasted so much breath insulting anime characters.
There is such a thick concentration of wrong actions and terrible decisions and dreadful reactions to make anyone cringe. And the most frustrating thing is, after you're over your fit of rage at the screen and have managed to process the stupidity of every character, it will be clear that all those horrible things they do that make you want to kill them painfully are maybe more human than most other anime's reactions and therefore more accurate, which is exactly why they result so annoying, in my opinion.
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anime is annoying beyond words, frustrating and bad for blood pressure, and I didn't like it, but I think it deserves a 6 for the simple fact that I think they have been very good at depicting the ugliness of a regular human's nature.
All the people railing at the failings of the main char are right to do so and have every right to continue, but after some thought I have come to the conclusion that he has been even too good and collected, given the absolute unfairness of his fate. For once (and it doesn't happen often) an anime managed to make me actually consider what I would do if I was in a situation like that and all I could feel was dread. Yeah, I wouldn't have fared any better. I wouldn't have been any less stupid and rash and annoying and cowardly and anything else he has been throughout the plot.
Let's face this, the reason the people who wrote an utterly bad review hate this character is because he is just as lame as the average person, except those moments of enlightenment when he finally stopped being a normal human and took on his anime character attitude, which couldn't be further from what an actual human would do in those situations. (I'm not saying no actual human could be brave or smart in shitty situations, but only that they wouldn't do it with that attitude. You know, that. The drama queen attitude.)
All of this is mainly referring to Subaru alone. The other characters often acted in a way that I couldn't really understand, they were often unnecessary mean to him even though his mere stupidity wasn't enough to justify such a treatment (For example, the cute maid just up and cold-bloodedly butchered him because... what exactly?)
As I said, some reactions were too much, even considering the gravity poor man's unpleasant situation and of the situations that ensued because of his screw-ups. They were just out of place.
The contrast between the extremely comical and cheerful scenes and the excruciating splatter and anguish isn't one of the things I didn't like, on the contrary. It gave an edge to the cheerfulness and made the dark parts even more intense, they were only ruined by an occasional excess of dramatic flair, probably put there to keep teenagers' eyes glued to the screen.
I won't say much on the setting and background plot because I didn't read the light novels nor did I understand a damn thing about why did all these terrible things happened to a poor boy whose only sin was that of not having done anything particular with his life so far.
Unless this power of him is considered to be a gift or something (bbbbbbuuuuuuut no it's definitely the worst curse I've encountered until now and I'm pretty sure I will dream I was poor Subaru tonight, and not in a good way).
So, to sum it up:
Plot: 7 Interesting, controversial, twisted just about enough and almost original (well, for me it's original, OK?)
Execution: 5 Too much flashy drama and too much flashy dramatic
Dialogues: 6 Clichéd. And why do people have to stop and have such lengthy and deep conversations while all sorts of terrible things are happening in the meanwhile that could be prevented if they stopped talking and did something about it?
Characters: 7 Subaru is characterized brilliantly and is all too human most of the times, and for once we can see actual growth and mental evolution that is actually credible in its crescendo. All the other characters are mostly shit.
Art and music: 10 Especially the music, the art is fine
Impact and ability to emotionally involve the watcher: 10
Ok, maybe the math isn't very good if with this grades the final result is still 6, but 6 is still the grade I feel like giving this. I admire all those people who scored 10 or 9 because it means they must be extremely patient and tolerant and can bear with this overall decent show much better than I did.
I will still feel that these three days I've spent watching it are the worst three days of the last month, not because the show was shitty but because it literally fucked my mind and put a chill in my bones to think that someone could actually be subject to that kind of torture.
Now will you excuse me, but I think I need to get some Gintama before I go to bed or I might not sleep so well.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Apr 16, 2014
I made sure I watched it until the end even though I wanted to die, so that people would not say that I hated it just because I missed the best part.
It was crap from start to end, they took a nice idea about a fantasy world that could totally become decent and turned it into the most senseless idiocy about "love", a kid's fairytale with no goal whatsoever.
The best ideas such as enviroment and history were completely skipped and left unexplained, the setting under the sea could become absolutely awesome and they botched it, because instead of adjusting it to the situation
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they simply stuffed a copy of a normal village on the bottom of an ocean with no change at all. They even have stairs. They drink broth. I just don't understand what was the point of such a forced setting.
There are loads of things that I don't understand, but just to say a few: why in the world do people from the sea and from the shore hate each other so much if they don't differ among each other in the slightest? They have the exact same culture and habits, they eat the same stuff, they even put the same designs on curtains; Why the hell should salt fall from the sky? I'm fine with fantasy but you could at least try to come up with some kind of explanation; Did someone tell those guys that they didn't have to go as far as to make every possible pairing? There are fanfictions for that; Just where did the other students of the sea school go? That's kind of creepy, they simply melted away, right?
Oh, and yes, I totally agree that the series did a 180 turn. The characters visibly leveled up in annoyance.
The ending was the best part of them all, it just wrapped things up as uncomprehensible as they were and gave it all that sickly sweet taste that dulls every black hole in the plot to a triviality.
The dialogues were awkward, trite and embarrassing to listen to.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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