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Jan 25, 2022
To make things short, this anime is a complete waste of time. That's basically all I have to say about this pile of garbage.
This show is so lacking in content that I don't even have to mention all the bad things about it, since basically all about it is a negative aspect except for the animation and sound. It's way easier to name the few positive aspects it has.
As expected from an anime of this kind (garbage time wasters for thirsty beta males), the story is nonexistent, the setting is mundane, the main character has no personallity, the other characters are plain archetypes, the romantic
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aspect of it goes nowhere, the comedy is unfunny for anyone with a mental age over 15, and it sold because of the fanservice.
If you're like me and you want a good story or memorable characters, there are dozens of other anime to watch, don't waste your time with this one.
That's basically all I have to say about it. The only reason why I'm not giving it a 1/10 is because it's not particularly offensive or harmful. Otherwise, it has nothing of value in it, so I'll give it a 2/10 (and I'm being generous).
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Jan 6, 2022
Monogatari is one of those series that people often praise as a deconstruction of its genre. Well, that's what it may look like to some, but when I watched and analyzed Bakemonogatari, I realized that it doesn't have anything that sets it apart from any other series of its genre beyond superficial elements.
Since I have very few things to say about it and I want to make this review as short as possible, I'll just name the two biggest flaws I found in Bakemonogatari right away.
1. Uninteresting story. It has no main objective, no main conflict, no message, and no overall plot. The entire season
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feels like nothing has happened since most of the time is wasted on fanservice and pointless conversations. In other words, it lacks content.
2. Terrible characters. To begin with, the main character does not have a personality or a goal to make him interesting (as you would expect from a generic harem lead). If that alone weren't enough to make the entire show a waste of time, there's also the fact that all the girls are harem archetypes with nothing particularly interesting about them. Their backstories are basic as hell and their interactions are simply boring (especially those pointless conversations that have nothing to do with the nonexistent plot). Not to mention that the girls are also used in many fanservice scenes (and no, just because those scenes have visual symbolism doesn't mean that they aren't just fanservice scenes).
In conclusion, if you're just looking for interesting visuals, cute girls and pointless conversations, you may like this show, but if you're like me and you care more about the story and characters than anything else, you should stay away from it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Dec 21, 2021
Steins;Gate is (at the moment of writing this review) the highest rated Sci-Fi anime on MAL, as well as the 4th highest rated anime in general. It's often considered as a masterpiece by many mainstream reviewers and casual watchers. However, as you may have guessed because of the overall score I gave to this show, I have a different opinion than the majority.
I'll start naming the positive aspects I find on this show, but don't expect me to explain myself too much because I'm trying to make this review as short as possible.
1. The directing is great, as expected from the director of Texhnolyze.
2. The
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art and animation are pretty good. OK, I'm not really a fan of the character designs, and at times the colors are so dark that you can barely see anything, but at least I can say the character designs of the show are easily recognizable, even iconic, and the animation is consistently good most of the time.
3. The music is good, not particularly memorable (except for the OP and ED), but it fits with the tone of the series.
4. Some of the concepts are interesting. Despite thinking that a good time travel story with a serius tone is something extremely hard to do right because of how complex it would be to handle the implications of time travel in a realistic way, I can still give Steins;Gate some credit for at least trying.
5. Okabe and Kurisu are both good characters with interesting character interactions and a gradual development through the series
Unfortunately, those are all the good things I can say about it, now I'll start with the negative aspects that make me consider this work as a mediocre one.
1. The characters. To make things short, there are two types of character in this anime; the archetypes with no real personality and the main couple (Kurisu and Okabe). Yeah, I know that most of the characters from the first group are a bit fleshed out through the story, but they don't actually have a proper development or even a characterization outside of their respective achetypes and end up feeling more like jokes than characters
Compared to Evangelion, that's a huge downgrade.
2. The story constantly ruins its own progress, over and over again. Remember what I said about the minor characters not having a proper development? Well, that's because every time the story gives one of its characters a chance to develop and eventually reach a catharsis, all of that is screwed up because the main character will just go back in time and undo everything. In other words, the very premise of the series prevents the secondary characters from having a proper development, and that keeps happening until the very end, making the entire series feel like it was all about 2-3 characters.
3. The stupid logic of the show. Since the anime is so praised as an intellectual masterpiece, one would at least expect some kind of logic despite the anime literally starting with a bunch of antisocials discovering time travel by putting bananas on a microwave; and that's the problem, Steins;Gate has a complete lack of logic. The butterfly effect in this series works as the author wants it to work, and that's why this show is so full of plot holes and convenient situations.
I would mention an example of this, but it would be a spoiler. For those who have watched the show, do you remember the whole vegetables thing? That's what I'm talking about.
In conclusion, Steins;Gate has interesting concepts, but it fails to present them properly, falling into pretentiousness and mediocrity.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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