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I was just randomly searching through old seasonals and stumbled upon this 18 minute short known as Fukusuke.

Story:
Fukusuke follows a small frog in a frog society. Or something like that. After a small incident, this frog is left with a condition that only allows him to be upside down. Yes I'm serious. I won't spoil much from this point on however the story follows this frog as his townspeople try to fix this unknown issue. Despite being only 18 minutes, this story has a rising action, a climax, and a resolution that executes it the old fashioned way perfectly.

Sound:
Fukusuke has no dialogue. However ... like old Disney films, you can easily feel what the characters are feeling and easily describe the situation at hand. Fukusuke left me laughing at how stupid the sounds this frog world made.

Art:
The art for this time isn't anything to brag about as you would expect. Don't go in expecting some top notch animation. Since Fukusuke's art isn't what makes it so great. However one thing to note is that it's old nostalgic art is will definitely keep you relaxed.

Characters:
The story follows the main character, the young frog. We meet tons of other frogs and even some god frogs. Since this is only 18 minutes long, it doesn't focus much on specific characters. But characeters like the god frogs with his fight scenes was just so goddamn hilarious.

Overall:
Don't go into Fukusuke expecting a masterpiece, because it definitely isn't one. Fukusuke isn't meant to portray some deep themes either, however, it's definitely something you'll be able to enjoy if you go in looking for a fun wacky story about a frog and his adventures.

I would 100% recommend you watch Fukusuke, it's a short 18 minutes long and will leave you dreaming about upside down frogs for the rest of your life.

Our last crusade or the rise of a new world is a joke. I don't know why the light novel got an adaptation since it would of been best just as a LN since it's a cliché romeo and juliet inspired plot that wasn't cut out for an adaptation from the beginning.

Story:
Like mentioned above, last crusade is a romeo and juliet type character story with the main character Iska being a disciple of the Empire, while big jugged Alice is a witch for the Sovereignty. Basically everyone from the Sovereignty have these elemental/magical powers while everyone in the Empire don't and instead have technology. ... Not only was every encounter predictable, but the story itself was difficult to follow because of how many things were initially going on. Though our 2 MC's were a main focus, the anime never actually explains key components that would of explained situations a lot better and just goes off the rails for the majority of anime. Most of the time it's just the classic, "Oh no here's another unexpected enemy that causes us to fight together!" And don't even get me started on how much plot armor the characters had.

Art:
I believe that if this anime didn't get adapted with good art/animation, no one would be praising it. The colors were vibrant, backgrounds were neat, and fights were quite colorful. Reminded me of SAO art at times.

Sound:
The OP sounded like a goat being strangled and the ED was nothing special.

Characters:
After the story, the characters come next in order of worst things about last crusade. The MC, Iska, is a generic, emotionless, brainless tard. He is the obvious can't get a clue protagonist who get's all the chicks because of all the saving he does. Then comes Alice. To be honest, Alice's enormous melons, jugs, bean bags, whatever, you know what I'm talking about; were the only 2 things that kept me awake during the episodes. However I must say that just slapping enormous volcanoes on her doesn't make her an interesting character. She is the same old Tsundere copied and pasted onto another romance. Not only that, but they had to give her the most cliché tsundere VA as well. Besides those two, every enemy they encountered seemed like a child written final boss created in third grade. Everything from their character designs to talk was so cringe that I couldn't stand watching any other character except Alice and her sister.

Overall:
The only parts of last crusade that I actually enjoyed were the butler and Alice sister conflict part. Since it actually added some flavor into the emotionless mc's encounters. So do I suggest watching our last crusade? No. Our last crusade or the rise of the new world or whatever it's called has no element of surprise, no actual romance progression, and no actual climax. The few main fights we get aren't even seen as crucial to the characters themselves so why should it be to us as the watchers?

If it wasn't for Alice's double quarter pounders, I probably would have fell asleep during each of the 12 episodes. In conclusion, don't waste your time on this unless you're looking for a mess of an anime with 2 very large redeeming qualities.