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Oct 11, 2024
**there are spoilers, but they are tagged and very avoidable**
Before I explain my issues with the manga, I want to say that I appreciated the unique artstyle and somewhat unique setting. The aesthetic of the manga is certainly novel. However, this is where my praises end. I did not enjoy reading this manga.


For one, this manga suffers from incredibly poor pacing. Not only does it take forever for plot beats to happen, but the manga is extremely repetitive. Parts of the story are shown, narrated, and then reflected on by the characters. This causes the point of some scenes to be explained three times, which ...
Aug 10, 2024
I’m going to convince you to read Pandora Hearts.

The power to change the past– If you had the chance, would you take it?

Pandora Hearts tackles ideas of loss, trauma, the importance of our pasts, as well much more. It’s tackled so respectfully and thoughtfully that it allowed me to reflect on my own past. I’m sure we all have something we wish we could change. A person we wished we never met, a person who we wish we got to talk to once more, and Pandora Hearts allows people to reflect on that.

But wait, who cares about all that philosophy stuff?
Is it fun to ...
Jul 22, 2024
This anime is a really cute story about two very close friends!
It was so touching how they crossed the divide just to be with each other, and even gave up what they treasured most! I wish I had friends this close.
My favorite wholesome and platonic moment is when they bite and undress each other!

Jokes aside, I think people's inability to recognize gay people, as, well, people who can exist, is one of the phenomena commented on in this anime!
This anime offers social commentary on a variety of issues in a way so blunt I felt like I was getting hit by a brick. I thoroughly ...
Jul 22, 2024
MILGЯAM (Anime) add
Preliminary (25/? eps)
Spoiler
**WARNING: THIS IS VERY LONG**

I’m done with MILGRAM.

One of the main reasons I was drawn to MILGRAM is that I really liked the music videos conceptually. I think that portraying character’s mental states in abstract ways with subtle symbolism is very fun and cool. I like playing the “nuance detective”, and I think MILGRAM can raise some interesting subjects and discussions about morality. However, while I’ve enjoyed MILGRAM for the lesser part of a year, I can’t enjoy it anymore.

After watching the “second trial report” video, I’ve realized something– MILGRAM is the pinnacle of an audience giving too much credit to the writers, and I’m ...
Jul 22, 2024
“I'm in Love with the Villainess” has some surprisingly good and enjoyable social commentary. This anime really took my heart by storm.

There’s an aspect to falling in love when queer that, at least for me, makes more generic love stories simply unrelatable and foreign. The tale of a girl and boy falling in love with each other is the expected experience, it’s a norm that’s pushed onto people. There’s an aspect in so many romances about how people feel this is their fate, and that it’s something they’ve always dreamed about. It’s inherent to the story, I think. But if, say, you’re a girl, and ...
Jul 22, 2024
I wanted to like Lycoris Recoil, but I found myself disappointed.

Lycoris is a comfort show masquerading as a more complex one. The dystopia is not meaningfully examined, and the problems with it are scape-goated onto a “return to monkey” anprim idiot. For the main two characters, I could ship it, but they are a little generic, as are all the characters. The existence of Kurumi’s character, in particular, makes me want to commit hate crimes.

It’s fine to write a silly show about cute girls doing cute things, but seeing Lycoris Recoil’s set up and promises of more exciting complexities while having characters dodge bullets on ...
Jul 22, 2024
**I explain elements of the plot but nothing big that really counts as a spoiler**
I went into Demon Slayer with an open mind. While the animation and music is objectively good, the story itself left me in immense pain.


1– I have problems with Nezuko’s character.
Nezuko, younger sister to main protagonist Tanjiro, becomes a demon in episode one. Because of this, Tanjiro sets off to turn Nezuko back into a human.

This premise could work, however, at every turn, Nezuko’s lack of agency is very upsetting to me. For one, while Tanjiro sets off on his grand quest, he never once asks Nezuko if she wants to ...
Jul 24, 2023
Spoiler
If you watched the series, watch this movie
If you haven't watched the series, watch the series, then watch this movie.

Watching this movie was one of the most memorable experiences of my life.

When Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku started playing, and a car wash appeared, the emotions evoked are too grand for words. I was not prepared. No one was perpared. How could we be?

The true brilliance of the line "Are you surprised? It's a big mistake to think you're the only one that can turn into a car. I'm a car now too!" left me in tears.

This Movie gave me the ending to Utena that ...
Jan 8, 2023
Fight Song (Anime) add
This is a song by eve.

In the release of the video on Eve's channel: The video has pretty colors that go hard. It follows Tobin, and there is a story with highs and lows. Even though I don't understand Japanese I could follow along without understanding the lyrics.

There's characterization through the way the characters hold themselves through the scenes that is fun. I like the characters. The music also goes hard.

This song is also used as the final ED to chainsaw man. The visuals there are also super fun. I like seeing characters I like doing silly stuff.

Overall this song goes hard.
Dec 22, 2021
Hi. I probably have grammer errors. But I'm really tired and I don't feel like fixing it. Hopefully it's still legible.

Hastune Miku Future Delivery is a story where Asumi is found my Asimov, a delivery robot, and asks them to 'deliver her' to a person in her memories (Hatsune Miku).

Art 8/10: The art isn't anything groundbreaking, and the eyes on the faces were jarring for me at first. However, the artstyle grew on me as the characters were still expressive, consistent, and expressed the story I felt they were trying to tell well.

Characters 6/10: There are a few characters. Two main ones, one ...


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