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Otome no Harawata Hoshi no Iro is just another one of your slapstick harem "comedy", where the comedy part dies out after chapter 2.

The only thing remotely interesting about this is the fact that aliens came to earth and solved our problems for us. That's basically the last thing you'll find remotely unique about this.

With how boring the was, the only name I remember is Mirika, the first member of the harem, who had a personality in chapter 1.
The Main character of the story, is a pseudo-dalai lama. His whole personality is based off on the fact that he's racist without any ... reason whatsoever. And because he has no reason to be racist, he's racist only in name. He's the second coming of Jesus who somehow got his hands on his first pornmag but says he won't ever mingle with those vile female specimen.
Then we got a loli with the archetype personality, the yandere with tits and hot bod archetype, and the typical student council having the nuke codes in school.
The most interesting of the bunch, the MC's best friend, doesn't get much screentime and has the most realism inserted into him but alas.

The art is somewhat decent, but with so many doujinshi artists getting the fame nowadays, it's really not something to brag about. It's good, but it's not great. The only advantage this has over doujinshi is somehow someone gave this a greenlight.

I read this for the heck of it cause I saw a panel in some group. The first chapter looked decent enough to read the second one. Then it just got boring. The only reason I continued is so that I can just be done with it. So basically, I enjoyed nothing.

A slapstick harem that follows the slapstick route after chapter 1, decent art and archetypes for characters. Wouldn't recommend.

Saraba, Yoki Hi deals with the taboo topic that has been played for laughs in most harem romcoms, incest. It deals with the subject for what it is and doesn't try to downplay the seriousness of it in the end coming up with punchlines such as "oh but they're not blood-related."

It's not a fluffy romance by any means but it's not downright heart-wrenching but there are times you'd wish the characters laid their feelings bare. You'll cry and you'll be happy with the characters though you have known this all could come down crashing because the foundation of everything lies in a pretend play. The ... pretentious act of a brother and sibling relationship they kept playing for 15 years yet that's how their relationship began. It's difficult to try and rationalize feelings. It becomes more difficult when you realize how wrong it is to feel that way.

"Is incest so bad? If they don't have any children and if no one knows of their past, would their relationship be acceptable?" I despise the notion of incest, more so when it is played for laughs like you'd see in many writings. Despite that, reading this, all I wanted was for Akira and Kei to find their happiness. A relationship of tears and smiles, of caring and being cared for, was theirs' any different from other people, except the unchangeable fact that they were born under the same roof. As I read further I found myself enjoying it much much more than I had expected.
A story that makes you feel the emotions the characters do and all the more anxious to know what happens after, is what I'd call a good story and this is exactly that.

Another World, a spin-off to the movie Hello World, give the necessary character development the movie couldn't show.

As far as storytelling goes I liked this more than the movie. The spin-off dealt the story-telling in 3 different episodes each starring Naomi as he gets to where he is in the movie. Before moving on to the story and the characters, I'd like to highlight areas in which the spin-off was better than the movie.

A major drawback of CGI anime movies is the movement of individual characters on screen. Sometimes the character models can feel a bit too unnatural than they already are when placed in ... a scenario that requires rapid movements or vivid expressions. Due to being a 10 min short for every 3 episodes, a major blunder was avoided. Since there were no need for.. (i forgot the word will edit if I remember) large animations? yea, the frames looked good. The backdrops were all beautifully animated, tho CGI models did ask more to be desired.

Moving on to narration. Now, this is a rather subjective topic as much I may want to objectify it. People like different styles of narration and that's understandable. The 3 episode shorts each asked for different narration styles. If I would differentiate it, it would be as follows: 1)Despair 2)Desperation 3)Hope
I know it may sound weird but hear me out.
Oh yes, SPOILERS AHEAD.
Episode 1 deals with Naomi's coming to terms with his weakness and relying on books to help someone he knew he couldn't himself. After finally seeing her smile once, his world gets shattered by some random ass thunderbolt in a matter of seconds. The slow score at the starting of the episode along with Naomi's narration helps set the scene for the backstory. Now here's where it gets weird. IDK WHY THE fuCK they used a dubstep right after that. BUT FINE. The slow-paced scores throughout the second ost help set for an awkward meeting between two people. And a high-low set for when they're happy.

Episode 2:
From the start of the episode to the end, all we hear is tirednss in Naomi's voice. From his way of living to the backdrop, with everything blacked out, it sets the scene for his desperation to shy away from reality. From him rejecting outings to protecting his solidarity, everything points him towards rejecting the reality that befell him as he tries desperately to change it.

Episode 3:
This one starts off with the tone the last one left it with not changing immediately. Well, I guess that's a norm in the media but still it's appreciable. Naomi's silence throughout the episode signifies the despair that he's sunk deep into. Being unable to help the only person he cares about and seeing all his efforts wasted, Naomi's at his breaking point. Tho with quite a few comedic reliefs throughout the episode, Naomi's underlying depression slowly eats him. His anguish hits hard when he questions himself before Ruri. The narration of the episode follows the theme hope, cause despite being head deep in despair, he tries to find happiness in the little things his lab head and assistant do and finally renews his yearning for the day Ruri wakes up in the past that he's unable to accept. Not a light-hearted romance, his love for one person acts as both a curse and a blessing for Naomi.

God that was long.
Now I was gonna go into characters but if you've read until this point, you probably have already watched Hello World and don't need to know that. And it would make this review needlessly long.

I thoroughly liked the history given to Naomi that justified his desperation. I'd say I enjoyed this more than the movie as it gave Naomi the character development he needed and since I watched the movie beforehand, it put a smile on my face to know he succeeded.

"Tell me if we could keep living in the future what kind of happiness would be waiting for us?"
With chapters being released as slow as the consecutiveness of Olympics, this one has a small but dedicated fanbase who'll read it through the winters.
A story about two 'Cleaners', and the story of their growth.
One random day like any other, an emotionless husk gets chosen to be an executioner. He does his job as naturally as breathing until he encounters a special target. A reflection to himself but in someway something more.
While the manga lacks the necessary amount of chapters to flesh everything out, the story ... is in no way rushed. The characters are given time to interact. They grow through one another, though neither has anything to offer. Going from longing for death to wishing time could go on forever.
The art is subtle. Not a stroke is wasted... It paints itself from the perspective of its protagonists, empty and slowly progressing from emptiness to longing.
Even though the slow updates may be a pain, worth a read. Really sad to see a manga with so much to offer be this undermined when worthless isekais get two seasons.

I was not gonna show my hate on SAO but oh well here we are cause there have been many people rating this season of SAO high in their reviews.
I happened to look at some of their profiles and found avg scores of > 8 so ya.
So again here I am, writing a review instead of writing a report that's due tomorrow.

Typical review format cause I'm lazy af .
Story- Painful to watch. Its SAO all over again. I thought this was gonna be a watchable season of SAO but Reki never fails to amaze me. The previous arc of Alicization was not ... so heart-rending to watch cause of Eugeo, someone that had a personality (that gets deleted soon enough but ya) but this season, oh boy. Now we have not one but two edgelords in the series. The antagonist is Hisoka gone wrong and the arc is like a war arc from any shounen jump but here something's different (drums rolls) ITS NOT EVEN REAL wohoo orginalll af. I can't explain more than this, cause there's nothing more than this.
Sound- It's our goddess LISA. Of course, the osts are good. And the sound direction is good as well. Would definitely recommend watching the season with your eyes closed. But if you did that you would miss out on the

Art- Because A-1 pictures are on the mark with those visuals. Along with good CGI. Man I hoped they would mess up so I had something more to rant on about.

Character- Now this is the good part. The characters are just amazing. Amazingly bland wohoo. Every female you'll see interacting with kirito is basically the repeat of the previous Kirito's D squad, Alice is Asuna, Asuna is Asuna and the male supporting cast are just there. Like literally just there to eat fodder and move the plot forward. The thing I find most offensive about this however is, the pathetic attempt at making the viewers sympathetic towards characters ( as they are about to die, and man they fail so hard). The only redeeming cast I guess are the dragons? At least they do their job right.

Enjoyment- 10. No sweat. I enjoyed this series as much as anyone could like ever. This show had me crying laughing and contemplating as I looked away from the screen and looked into the mirror as I realized I still haven't finished my report and instead I was wasting my time watching an anime that's so bad it's good.

Overall- 10. Finger licking good, cause the show has so much edge, you'll cut your fingers open and have to lick the wound as someone eventually calls an ambulance for you and rushes you to a hospital.

I wasn't really planning to watch UchiMusume this season, as the name gave me the vibe of your everyday typical isekai trash that we see pretty much every season, but to my surprise, the community actually seemed to like it. So at 1:00 in the morning, I open up kissani-, I mean Crunchyroll, binge-watch all the 8 episodes and let me tell you I couldn't have been more disappointed.

With most of the people that watched this anime having liked it so far, I too tried my best to not be the sour one. Sadly, I couldn't find a single reason to like this series ... and give it a score of more than 4. With mediocre main storyline, to badly written characters, from awful character progression or development, as you may call it to lazy art, the only saving graces that didn't make me rate this series any lower are those few and far between wholesome moments that stay true to the core plotline. Let me explain what I mean.

The story is not outright horrendous, but its also not something amazing, being mediocre at best. Basically, an adventure meets a cute little loli in the jungle and takes her in. If it were 2010 this would have been a newer storyline, still mediocre but new. As of 2019, there are few people who have not watched something similar with better characters and execution. Nothing much to talk about here as the writer decided to make this so average, I can't even criticize that. But what I can criticize is the characters. Don't even get me started how badly these characters are written. The mc is your avg op isekai protagonist, but not in an isekai, your female main character is your avg isekai first heroine, the damsel in distress, but in loli form factor and not in an isekai. That's it. The side characters are all some random mobs who just happened to get some screen time.

I probably think the writer was like, "Is our loli lonely? Here you have some friend. Is our protagonist not powerful enough? Here you have some political power. Do you lack character depth? Here you go some character develop- Oh I forgot we don't do that here." I have seen some worse writings but this one does not fare better than them.

The sound acting is actually not that bad. With, of course, Latina being the emphasis. Nothing outstanding but nothing terrible, a simple 5. But oh boy.. the art goes along with the worse of this season. With badly drawn background, to shabby work on the interiors, along with lazy action scenes, I had to force myself to sit through those * episodes. From what I know, the art on the light novel was much much better than the shitshow we have been presented here.

Finally, did I enjoy this? Not one bit. To be honest, UchiMusume was painful to watch. With so much potential out there, someone out there had to go and animate this.

Verdict; Who should watch this and who should not? If you're new into anime and have no baseline at the moment, you could enjoy this anime, or if you're really into lolis being the focus(sarcasm btw) then sure go ahead watch Uchimusume.
But if you're like me, tired of all the recent typical isekai bs and want something good with decent characters. a good story and animated by a studio that actually wants to draw it, I kindly suggest you do not waste your time here.

"Nande Koko ni Sensei ga!?" is this season's delusional parody of what every high schooler would want with their lives, and that in itself is not a bad prospect or anything but the way it delivers it is kind of 'off-putting' at best.

As someone having read the manga (despite the many cliches, bad story tropes, a bland characterization I kind of enjoyed it and I'm guilty of that) I can see myself still hating on this series more so than any other this season. So let's get this review started in the usual step by step judgment.

The art on this show is mediocre at best. ... Honestly, I've seen a hentai series with better art and story direction than this one here. I'm not trying to be prejudged but the story just does not hit me off as something good that I'd want to wait every week to watch the next episode.
The voice actors do a great job on every anime (ahem, blesser of axasdasdxxa) and I respect that a lot.. but sometimes its the opening that makes or break the shows. Here it does the latter and I don't even need to elaborate on that.
The characters are pretty bland containing the cliche traits every 'romance' character does. The author doesn't even put any effort to make them distinguishable. The 4 main 'heroines' are in one word 'bland'. Somewhat better is the 4 main male leads as I would need eight words to describe them as compared to one and those being, 'typical lead', 'pitiful Yankee', shotacon'ed', 'typical-Kaichou'.
You may think after all this, after all the cluster fuck this show is at least it has some redeeming quality since it got an anime adaptation and all but oh boy how wrong would you be. The only reason this series got anime is due to the ecchi scenes and nothing else.
A group of students who are acquaintances, fall in love with their teachers who also happen to know each other. But since its an anime I'll let this slide.
I'd have rated this series a bit higher but the 'romance' tag on this forced me to make this review. With great series such as Kimi no Na Wa, something something pancreas tabetai, spirited away, RE:LIFE and a few novels you may have not read expanding on the shitstorm that love is, this series right here comes and throws that all out of the fucking window.
Because it seems all what love is, is a bunch of erotic encounters with a person you barely know, get sexually attacked on a train, have them such your tits while you're sleeping, a weak and an un-understandable backstory that's weaker than my dick after I ejaculate 5 times in a row.
Whew well, that took some time. and as I was saying, if you had time to read this review till the end, you have enough time to avoid this series. If you wanna get some sort of cancer or tumor you're free to try it but proceed with caution. This was not what I paid the monthly subscription on Crunchyroll to watch but I'm happy that through my sacrifice many others may avoid this clusterfuck of a show.

"Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai" takes a different approach on the general romcom highschool genre of media as it sets itself as a tragedy from the startup. Most people tend to forget about the actual notion of the movie that they criticize the characters and romance aspect for being too 'shallow' as I have seen with other reviews which pushed me forward to write this review.
As mentioned earlier, the movie does focus on the budding relationship between the two main protagonists but its not something as simple as 'romance'. It is more of a complex than such a shallow concept that humans have developed in ... this modern society. It is the act of finding oneself through someone else. A story about a girl scared of dying so much that she had to put up a persona to hide the fact and a boy who, never once interested in other humans, came to care so much for one such girl.

Though it just may be me, Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai connected with me on a personal level, as I too once thought social interactions were pointless.
Putting the story aside for a moment I'd like to talk about other features.
While the art may seem alluring, it's not a masterpiece by any means and sometimes may seem a little flushed out but well that's subjective. The characters are drawn to fit the light-hearted tone that the show seems to give off during the initial stages of the movie. As it progresses to a more emotional stage, the tone of colors darkens to show this change.
Some may argue characters of being shallow but I'd like to reject that false notion. Haruki and Sakura are two people who needed someone in their life to see them for who they were. For Haruki, a person who didn't want to interact with others on a superficial level but wanted to meet people needed someone that could give him the push he needed. Sakura, on the other hand, wanted someone that could provide her support and normalcy even after learning about her condition. Like two wheels of the same cart, two sides of the same coin whatever you may call it, the characters complimented one another in every aspect the other was lacking.
Something as shallow as 'romance' could never describe this story.

Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai is a story of two people, finding the support they needed from each other, the love they wanted, the story of a girl confessing her fears, of a boy finding someone he cared about & a tragic reality they were faced with and for me, a story I deeply resonated with on a personal level.

Had enough of the thots in anime?
Done with PLOTS present for no apparent reason?
Sick of thirsty women and need something to purify your soul?
If so, you have come to the right place.
'Beelzebub-jou no Okinimesu mama' take a turn on the primitive depiction of Hell, establishing Hell / Pandemonium as a colorful place similar to our own human world but where the residents are the outcasts of heaven.
Though, taking place in Pandemonium, the story is a light hearted one which tells us the tales of interaction between Beelzebub (a former seraph and now the ruler of Pandemonium), her assistant Myurim and the people surrounding them.
LIDENFLIMS ... has done a great job in portraying the world of Beelzebub with bright color as it goes in sync with the light hearted theme of the story. The art if not ground breaking or anything but itd hard not to fall in love with the world of Beelzebub. Due to many tropes being considered cliché in today's industry, BJNOM has its fair share but its plot is what I would consider the most original in itd respective season.
The character are not written with a outstanding backstory that eould make you admire them or make you relate with them but they are nevertheless lovable.
Being a romance tagged anime is a bit misleading here. While there are a few heartwarming scenes, I would consider the characters 'wholesome' rather then romantic.
Watching each and every episode you get to see the two MC grow closer together while being oblivious to each other's feelings. The slow paced romance really helps us, the viewers, understand why we come to love the characters. Giving each and every character equal value to the story enhances the overall 'wholesome'ness feels Beelzebub gives. A story of a maiden trying to understand and name the feelings she has for Myurim while handling the daily tasks with the one she has a special place in her heart, makes each and every episode enjoyable and with every smile the Queen of Pandemonium shows, we reach a step closer to purity.

-My opinion only...You have the right to disagree-
Though I have watched only 2 episodes of this 'GEM' I find this as an outstanding creation of the year 2016..
Many good ones have appeared until now but this on stands nearly at the top.(Nearly because of berserk, Re-Zero and such)
The concept of being a high-school student once again to improve the future is quite intriguing(I would like to try it once I get older) and there is comedy at the right moments..
Well that is all I can think of to write right now, and I recommend everyone to watch this...Happy Watching..

Forgive My Poor English and Grammar..