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Even though Haikyuu!! is some typical sports anime, it's enjoyable, espeicially when it's about volleyball which is a bit different compared to other ball sports like soccer or basketball that are getting pretty boring now. An example is that in volleyball, the whole team is needed to complete eachother, like pieces in a puzzle, otherwise you wont get any further without the missing/next piece. Anyhow, you somehow feel like your part of the team and really cheer for them. Haikyuu!! really shows and explain alot of stuff too, so you don't really need to know alot about volleyball before watching the show. They've also done ... a nice job on relating to reality because when I compare some of their situations to my experiences I really know how they are feeling, so you can say that it is a kind of slice-of-life anime but in a different way..

Well viewing the anime from my own perpective, I've always had a little intrest in volleyball since I was thirteen but never took the initiative to do somehting about it, but after watching the show, I really feel that I want to start training volleyball even if I'm a little older now, but it's better to late than never. It gives yo the kind of courage and motivates you, that's just what happened to me, however as I stated before, I was already intrested in volleyball so this might not apply to everyone.

The art is nice and the animation has good quality, yet to be honest at first I wasn't so used to the character design itself because it's quite different in a way compared to others that I've seen, but I got used to it after watching some episodes so it's no big deal.. However, the sound isn't really something so special, and the songs aren't the best but it doesn't really effect the anime at all, but it would be nice sometimes to sing/hum good anime songs to get some flashbacks on them and get intrested in watching some major moments from the anime just randomly on youtube or somthing similiar.

The final thing I want to state are the characters. Every character has their own speacilty and are all included equally in the story even though there are main characters. You maybe won't fully see it in the first season but there's also a second season that continues to show that with the other characters. And obviously, in all animes, the characters are always one of the most important things in making an anime sucessfull.

Barakamon is an anime series that shows you the daily lives of islanders in Japan where a city boy goes through a tough adventure. It's not your typical comedy anime, Barakamon is actually quite different compared to other anime comedies. It really shows you how big the diffrences are between cities and islands.

Story: 7. The story isn't so exciting but it's not a big deal because it's the characters that really make the whole thing into a succes.

Art: 10. Well, it's a modern and new anime made in 2014 so the art is very nice and "fresh", and by this I mean both the animation ... and the charactar/anime design.

Sound: 8. It doesn't really contain much soundtracks and music, but I think it's good enough for only being a 12 episode long anime. The voice actors really did a great job making the anime sound realistic, with focus on the kids voices in the anime that actually are acted by kids around the same age. Compared to other "anime kid characters" it's usually adults acting them and it doesn't sound so good and realistic.

Character: 10. The characters are the best thing in Barakamon. They are the sucess of the series making it into something unique. You'll see it yourself while watching it, I don't really want to "spoil" the best thing.

Enjoyment: 9. Barakamon is enjoyable because of it's outstanding comedy and characters, that's all I can say.

Overall: 9. Barakamon is as I have written before a unique and different comedy series that is worthy of watching. The only reason I won't give it a 10 is just since the story isn't so exciting and could've been better I guess.. But it's no big deal as I mentioned before because the real focus is on the characters.

The anime series of Fairy Tail are very fun to watch and are quite amusing, but one thing that really bothers me is the animation and comparison to the manga. The anime doesn't really show how intense and "bloody" the fights are as in the manga which makes the fights seem less "serious", and the anime can have some differences compared to the manga which can slightly change your image of the storyline. It's just that the manga is more mature than the anime, and a reason for the anime not really being so "mature" is that the anime is shown early in the day ... where children can view it. Thus I strongly recommend to read the manga too. However, it's always nice to watch a "living" picture even though it doesn't really complete the manga.

In general Fairy Tail really has a fast pace and directly after 1 chapter jumps into the next arc making it difficult to think back and reflect smoothly on the last arc to make the story clear, meanwhile in the anime it can be a lot of fillers before the new arc starts but can also be the same as in the manga.