Jun 11, 2020
Im tired of all the pretentious reviews. Something doesn’t have to be meaningful to be enjoyable. People go into shows like K-On, which is well-made anyway, and immediately dismiss them as ‘cute girls doing cute things’. You see, cute, enjoyable, and aesthetically pleasing aren’t good qualities to have because you can’t just enjoy a show, you have to taste it. Anime reviews are like equally pretentious middle aged people that think different wine tastes different.
Upotte is one of my all-time favorite anime. Not because it’s meaningful or groundbreaking, though I also enjoy shows like that; it was just really fun to watch. I enjoyed every
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second of the cheesy gun jokes, moe/slice of life tropes and their spin of them, epic and intense fight scenes, jokes on the character’s’ nationalities, et cetera.
The characters are actually relatively well-written. Most reviewers just immediately assume that the characters are generic in these kinds of shows and add that to their review, even if it isn’t true because that’s just another part of their missing-the-point arsenal. Each character has many dynamic traits based on their traits as the firearms they’re based off of. The attention to detail and love put into the bits of soul each character has is amazing.
If you come into a show like this to find deep philosophical meaning or some grandiose meaning, you’re missing the point really hard. A large chunk of the people that have watched this show did so specifically to shit on it. It doesn’t make you have better taste if you pretend not to like shows that are enjoyable, you just come off as someone who is insecure about their intellect. My two favorite anime are Fate Zero and the Monogatari Series. Don’t get me wrong, I like something that you can actually think about and appreciate on a deeper level. However, these shows are in almost no way enjoyable in the same way as something that revolves around cute girls doing cute things.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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