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4 episodes shorts making this "part 2" more of an OVA.

One thing I noted about this collection was, oddly enough, marketability. Hear me out.

I visited Japan earlier this year and not one but two of the episodes of this OVA were made specifically for a pop up event. The ghost hotel and the cafe. Both used for seasonal cafe pop ups in tokyo.

They were also heavily featured for merch.

The shorts themselves were... fine... The characters didn't really act like themselves so it lowers the score but for anyone looking for a morsel to tide them over, it exists at the very least.

To summarize this review: This show is Isekai trash, it can be the fun popcorn kind of trash though.


To start off, the main premise of the show is a lie.

Premise:- Class loner got the left over garbage skills when the whole class got Isekaied. He is doomed to be forever alone and survive with his odd skills.


Reality:- the sarcastic prick got all the basic 101 isekai skills starting with identify and fire magic, the "loner" skill only comes into play to remove any male competition from the show as from episode 2 this is a harem now.

The isekai aspect is very basic to where they ... start in generic forest #634 AND STAY THERE until he levels up to OP status. In fact MC doesn't run into his classmates until he establishes said OP status... classmates who also stayed in the same spot in the generic forest for weeks and did nothing, not even change their clothes apparently.

The whole plot of this show depends on the MC being the only one with two brain cells, everyone just standing there doing literally nothing until he arrives to save them (are they NPCs?), girls needing a man to tell them what to do even though they are totally awesome skill and level wise.

Yeah this show is pretty bad. Some of the jokes are funny though and since this is a gag show you can have fun with it or at it's expense. It's not offensive or hateful at least, but, there are far better better shows in this genre so it's a hard Not Recommended.

Cocoa Fujiwara the author and illustrator of the series passed away at age 31 in March 2015 leaving the series unfinished. The third and final volume of the manga was published a full year later after consulting with her family so as to serve as the finale.

The anime, made a full decade later in her memory, is a sweet romance that makes fun of the usual magical girl tropes.

Mira is our straight laced lieutenant. Just think straight A honor student, class president, five million afterschool classes, calculating kind of guy. Now make him a simp and you got it! For some reason his reaction ... is to always throw his credit card at the girl lol!

Byakuya is our wilting flower of a magical girl. Soft spoken, gentle, feminine, stupid. Now throw in perpetually broke and works every job under the sun (and moon!). You got it!

The forbidden love trope never gets old but here the series does lean more on the "moe" factor to turn Mira into a simp defender. It's very upfront about it too so you see his reaction coming a mile away which just adds to the fun.

Normally I hate the wilting flower trope but the anime is very aware of the genre tropes and actually plays them up so it's more of a shared joke with the viewer than anything.

It's sweet and at 12 minutes per episode doesn't over stay it's welcome. Also it helps that the feelings are mutual, in most shows the female lead will act oblivious throughout, having the feelings returned was far better. My one complain is that the show doesn't really end but sadly that can't be helped considering the circumstances.

So this movie really is a minute long, well, one minute and 27 seconds if you count the credits.

A drunk salaryman walks into the toilet, uses it, stumbles out.

The next person to walk in goes through all stages of evolution from dino to ape to human before walking out WITHOUT using the toilet. Feels like a step back somehow.

It's random, it's crazy, it's a bit too artsy.

Animation is fluid though the sound was annoying.

it was funny in a "lol random" way but so bizarre that the weird factor overtook the comedic aspect, by a mile and a half!

A bit of a downgrade from season one HOWEVER that means the show went from excellent to pretty good so I can't complain too much.

Season One was 12 episodes each clocking in at 3 minutes.

Season Two was 24 episodes at 12 minutes each. This was probably the reason behind the downgrade.

Season one had to be concise, trimming the fat so as to fit in the plot, character arcs AND showcase both the trail's beauty and the experience of the climbers.

Season two had more time to fill so decided to add the fat and focus on the "slice of life" aspect of the show. ... We end up with the classic teehee boobs, panty shot, girls naked in the bath. Not as a fanservice scene mind you but as an entire episode plot center. Very meandering and unnecessary.

The show is at it's strongest when it returns to the main focus of mountain climbing and the moments of friendship between the girls. At it's weakest when it attempts to confirm to expected norms, aka anime shows need panty shots & boobs to keep the viewer's attention OR that every woman needs to wear frilly clothes or she's not a woman... I really hated that episode...

Encouragement of Climb consists of 12 episodes each clocking in at 3 minutes.

Usually anime shorts like this consists of little sketches that are either comedic or fan service-y in nature. It's very rare that a show can contain the storyline within that amount of time and still be a proper one with arcs, character development and plot.

It also highlights the beauty of the locations mentioned (mt Takao specifically) and pays attentions to the details of both the climbers and the trail.

I can't believe this also counts as a point but it allows children to be just that, children. They look like kids, ... act like kids AND they don't suddenly flash their panties or get over sexualized when they're KIDS. I feel like 99% of all recent animes can learn from this.

Princess Tutu is one of those rare shows that can be classified as "hidden talons".

One that looks benign on the surface and then grabs you in it's claws when when you're not expecting it.

For it's age the art is surprisingly beautiful and the animation fluid, the music plays a huge part in this show... I mean it is about ballet so that's hardly a surprise.

Two things you should know about this. The darkest hour, is pitch black. Practically a blackhole!

Secondly, while it presents it's self as swan lake... it's actually another fairytale. I won't spoil it because this one hits hard but lets ... just say it's one of the unhappy ones.

A parody of the power rangers is up against generic evil organization. Completes with kids cheering them on and watching the "episode" of the battle on TV.

The twist here is that it's a rom-com between the red ranger and one of the princesses of evil corp. Also that they're both cinnamon buns. Since love in the workplace is against company policy (yes for both of them) they decided to date in secret and keep up appearances as nemesis.

Overall this was super cute and it had a few nice messages regarding a supportive relationship. The one super cringy aspect of it was the power ... ranger parody, that... that was painful. And I hate that they kept repeating the transformation sequence like it was sailor moon episode, it just hurt more and more each time.

Plot & writing = 7/10
Plot wise there really isn't much to this beyond the premise. A pure hero & girly villainess dating in secret and attempting to achieve the milestones of a normal relationship. I am giving it extra points however because instead of going for the low hanging fruit in a few scenes they decided to make the relationship a supportive one where each party respected the other's choices. That included the choice to make a few mistakes. It's something you don't often see in anime.

Art = 6/10
Honestly that was the show's one weakness. I wasn't really a fan of some of the choices made like the odd way the light hit the rangers clothes, I get that they are saying it's plasticky and shiny but that just looked bad. Also Desumi's weird eyes was... a choice. Not a good one but a choice.

Characters = 7/10
Nothing new here. As mentioned the mains are cinnamon buns and the sides are rather tropey in nature. It was all serviceable though without any standout be it good or bad.

Fun Factor= 7/10
This is a romance first and foremost. The premise of it happening inside a kids show (all behind the scenes) lent itself to comedy but did feel superfluous at times.

Overall = 7/10
This is a cute a show about a cute couple. The rest is all window dressing that lends itself to comedic moments.

Ever had a knee jerk reaction just from a show's opening?

That's Taishou for me. A story about a sad boy being sad and the /manic pixie/ dream girl that "saves" him. I grew up in the 90s and early 2000s. This genre was practically invited back then and it completely saturated the market back in the day. I guess Japan, like Disney, really is 20 years behind trends...

Now the catch here is that she's a granny. Nope, that's it. Think of the ideal grandma, the sweet one that does all the housework perfectly, makes the best food and can sew. Yeah, now place ... her in a childlike body and you have this show. Because heaven forbid we don't infantilize women. Sorta made worse by having the boy practically tower over her, I get that tall = handsome is most Otome stories but this just looks like a pedo entrapment show!

The rest is what you'd expect from this kind of story really. /manic/ is loved by all from the start, super happy all the time even when it makes no sense for her to be and she saves sad boy by bringing him out of his shell. In return sad boy is handsome, super tall, rich, gets good grades and is the author's ideal only with better hair.

And here is the issue I have with this trope. The characters are empty. Sad Boy usually feels more real since we get his inner monologue in stories like this but Manic doesn't really have her own identity, she is whatever will make sad boy happy (bra size included!). It makes sense that she was "bought" for him now doesn't it... By the way I find it problematic that this premise is ok in this day and age. It's a common one is BL to force the couple together but in a supposed romantic show??? There is some lip service paid towards this but that's all it amounts to, lip service.

It gets a few points since some of the situations are cute. Also the old timey 1920s aesthetic is charming and does work with manic's grandma persona. Over all it's not too bad but if you're not into this specific trope then you won't like it.

Thanks, I hate it.

Humor is subjective and to me this one didn't go far enough in any direction to even qualify for the comedy tag.

Here is the premise:-

Japanese teens are always Isekaied so why break tradition, a goddess summons one to be this world's savior in a very Konosuba like fashion. Dude is OP and he just makes up the rules of this world as he goes to maintain OP status. The end.

And this is why this show doesn't work.

Wants to be a parody like Konosuba BUT blows through the tropes due to OP status instead of actually doing something clever or unexpected. ... So not a parody so much as a power fantasy.

Wants to be a comedy and tries to make the goddess the butt of the joke same as Konosuba BUT it's the "hero" degrading her over and over all while using her & actually hitting her. This is not funny, it's just abusive and the only one looking bad here is the hero.

Wants to cash in on the Isekai genre while being a pick me, aka "I'm not like other Isekais"... no, you're worse because others at least put the fun parts on screen. Generic as it might be other shows have world building, character arcs and plots. This one has all the good parts OFF SCREEN. Because heaven forbids we actually see those. It's just bad writing 101.

One other problem with the show is stakes. It wants to be a comedy while having the same stakes as a drama, down to that teen angst of an ending that every emo kid dreams about when they're 14. You can't have it both ways, the drama dampens the mood of a comedy while the comedy makes it so I can't take the drama seriously.

At first I was going with just bad, as in a 4 and maybe mixed feelings since humor is subjective. After that horrendous ending though it's down a point. It really came off as if it was written by a teenager during their emo phase, one that failed his writing class at that!