Apr 15, 2025
Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku?
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This anime surprised me. I thought it was pretty fun. It had good visuals. It was pretty funny. I liked the main characters. The opening was cute. No episode felt wasted, because everything came together in the end. The premise is that after an accident the world is no longer recognizable. Each town has been transformed into something new with a surreal twist. My favorite episodes were the ones where they fought the zombies and when they got to the town where everything shrank. The only thing that was pretty bad about the show was that the girl that they were trying to save has
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Apr 9, 2025
Kill la Kill
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If I only had three words to describe "Kill la Kill" they would be: "Over-the-top," but since I don't only have three here are the rest. "Kill la Kill" is a seven out of ten show with ten out of ten moments, like whenever Mako is on-screen. Other strong points for the series include great character design and a great soundtrack. Aspects of the show that hold the series back include the fact that a lot of the twists do not feel foreshadowed at all yet are still kind of predictable. Also, while the animation quality was probably considered top tier at the time, it
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Mar 14, 2025
I really enjoyed this. I am not familiar with the source material or any of the other adaptations, but as far as I could tell, this was a solid period piece that takes place in the aftermath of the Meiji restoration. I thought the character designs were excellent. I also liked the characters. The world felt pretty engrossing. The openings and closings were also extremely solid. The animation quality was quite good. The only things I did not like is that some of the villains felt a little one-dimensional. There also is not that much action in the very beginning of the show. The first
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Oct 2, 2024
Jujutsu Kaisen
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Answering the question "Is the Jujutsu Kaisen manga good?" is a surprisingly difficult one. It obviously got an anime adaptation with a high production value. It has a great score on MAL, this should be an easy recommendation, right? Wrong. JJK has a few main problems. First, JJK is a story about its villains, not its protagonists which artificially constrains the story telling, while also keeping a lot of the main characters from really having the spotlight or really fleshing out the world building. Second, there are a lot of characters that feel underexplored, and it doesn't help that a lot of characters have similar
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Sep 20, 2024
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Movie
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I did not care for season 1 of Jujutsu Kaisen. I think I gave it a 6 on MAL. I did however like this A LOT. This makes a much better beginning to JJK than season 1. It does everything that JJK does well, better and avoids the stuff that makes JJK season 1 weak. The action was really good and thrilling. I felt more investment in the characters that were present in this film than I ever felt in JJK season 1. If you didn't think JJK was all that after the first season, give this a try. If you still don't like it
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Sep 20, 2024
This review applies to both seasons.
Every once in a while an anime adaptation comes along and really elevates the source material from what the manga was able to provide. Niskeoi is a perfectly fine story in manga form, but the art was not really that good. The anime is superior in every way except for completeness. I do not think the anime skips anything important, so a perfectly viable way of getting through all of the story is to watch the first two seasons and then switch to the manga if they need the complete story. Studio Shaft gave Nisekoi and Nisekoi 2 great animation. ... 
Sep 18, 2024
Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan
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I had so much fun with Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan. The first episode was great, and the show only gets funnier the more anime you've watched. Unfortunately, the show does not quite keep its momentum. If every episode in the series were as good as the first and last episode, I think the op would be as ubiquitous as "Who lives in a Pineapple under the sea?", A good way to think about this show is that it kind of is the Japanese version of Spongebob Squarepants. I liked the characters. I thought the animation quality fit the style of the story, and sometimes there were
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Sep 15, 2024
Dosanko Gal wa Namara Menkoi
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Since this is completed now, it makes for a good read you can just binge if you want. Frankly, the story is unnecessarily long. The best girl doesn't win (in this humble reviewers opinion). My favorite character was Rena probably. To the extent the show tries to be harem, (which it really isn't), it doesn't do a very good job of making you think it can be any girl in the end aside from Fuyuki. This is the ideal manga to read if you are planning a trip to Hokkaido and you want to know what you can do while you are there or if
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Sep 15, 2024
Terminator 0
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I enjoyed Terminator Zero despite not really being a big fan of the source material. I have seen the first two terminator movies and I thought they were pretty good. I just never felt the need to watch any of the others. I thought Terminator Zero did a pretty good job taking the story in a new direction without contradicting the source material. The show had a few twists I did not see coming, and I thought the action and suspense were pretty good. I really enjoyed seeing the surroundings through the Terminator's perspective (like you do in the original movies) in an anime.
The ... 
Sep 14, 2024
Juubee Ninpuuchou
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This had really good action and animation. The characters, were, for the most part, pretty good. It definitely is a "product of its time" with respect to how "edgy" it is, which did not bother me that much, but it also did not really do much for me. I did not really enjoy the ending, because it didn't make me feel fulfilled having watched it. This is very much a "journey" anime and not a "destination" anime. My favorite part is probably the guy with the wasps/bees. This show is best viewed as a time capsule for people who want to understand the "edgy" 90's
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