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PROLOGUE:

Is this manga worth your time? The answer is... depends.

If you looking for a substantial content which can be a plus to your manga list inventory, then the answer is "NO".
If you looking for an easygoing slice of life manga and you don´t really have anything else to read, then the answer might be "YES".


---- GENERAL, CHARACTERS, STORY

... The story is pretty simple, Nanako is a beautiful married woman who starts to take care of Shirokuma-sensei, an ero-mangaka woman.

From now on, they start to share a special relationship as the story follows the daily life of both mostly inside Shirokuma-sensei´s apartment.

- The start is strong and solid (1/3 half), it´s more immersive and feels fresh, quickly developing their relationship as it mixes well some light/natural fanservice scenes along the way - Rate 7/10
- From midway (2/3 half), it starts to get somewhat boring and the intensity of the scenes cool down a bit - Rate 6/10
- Finally, the last couple of chapters (3/3 half) are kinda meh and nothing really interesting happens. Additionally, the scenes do not feel fresh anymore. In general, this was a disappointing last half - Rate 5/10

You could say that this is a yuri bait manga, which is more likely to be. Or maybe implicit yuri.
At first, the chapters/scenes leads you to see a potential love-romance at the end of the tunnel, but it ends up with a sister-like relationship note.
Feel free to interpret your own way, though.

Often I forgot Nanako was married. The husband never appears, by the way. He´s one of those "imaginary" husbands xD

--- CONCLUSION:

Don´t read this with high expectations. This manga is nice just to pass time as you enjoy how simple yet lovely Nanako can be to Shirokuma-sensei.

Needless to say, this manga is not for those who is looking for a male character or who is not into relationship between women.

PROLOGUE:

This manga ended with 50 chapters (web version). For reasons, this page/entry is just about the physical version of the manga, which has 4 chapters.

----- GENERAL, STORY AND CHARACTERS:

This is a shoujo-ai / yuri manga. It´s not implicit yuri, nor yuri bait nor wishy-washy yuri. It´s yuri and shoujo-ai on its true/explicit form.

The story is simple yet beautifully done as it follows the love relationship between Heath (a monster/beast girl) and Lily (human). Not only I would recommend this for yuri fans but also for those who are indifferent about yuri.

Side characters are nice and you might be able ... to feel for them just as much as you will feel for Heath and Lily.

This manga shines by providing us beautiful emotions and feels on the simplest scenes. It´s wholesome; emotional.

Whether or not this was intended by the author, there are couple of messages between the lines: some you will notice; others you will just feel; and some will probably pass by unnoticed.


----- ART:

Art quality unfortunately oscillated throughout the manga. From solid good art to fine-ish and even to just an enhanced sketch.

Still, this should not be able to affect your enjoyment as the content outshines the art.


---- EXTRA, PERSONAL OPINION, CONCLUSION:

In my opinion, this manga is a masterpiece (10/10) up until the end of chapter 48.

So what is the problem with the last two chapters?
The answer is simple: All of sudden a huge time skip leading to a rushed ending.

Unfornutely, Bocchi Kaibutsu to Moumoku Shoujo is another awesome manga that suffered from a rushed ending.

Just as misplaced flashbacks, big time skips are something I hardly support exactly because they can be also used as an excuse to rush end a series.

Consequently, some things were left unanswered and suddenly most of the characters were gone as we will never know what happened to them. Too bad.

A step down compared to season 1.

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Season 1 is more enjoyable as the protagonist (Naoya) engages into a harem relationship. The build-up is what made it specially exciting as both parties accepted the harem aspect as they try to conciliate their emotions.

Season 2 on the other hand focus more on the 'drama' aspect. The comedy is still there, but it´s not as funny as it was since it keeps repeating itself over and over, nor it blends well with the 'drama' as they suddenly shift from drama to comedy and vice-versa.

I have dropped this show after episode 7, but out of curiosity I checked ... out episode 12 as I couldn´t believe the WHOLE season would be about about Shino trying to mess up with their relationship (and thus everything season 1 built up). Yes, you read that right.
Shino´s excuse is that she wants to help her friend Saki with her relationship since she (Shino) does not agree with the two-timing or that they are into a harem relationship. Turns out that she was just using that as an excuse to be close to Naoya cause in deep she -obviously- liked him.

That bugged me cause I liked Shino but unfornutely the route they (author-san/producers) had in mind for her wasn´t a nice choice.
Amazed me that even though Saki caught Shino in the act almost making out with Naoya (for example: almost stealing Naoya´s kiss as he was asleep), she didn´t get that Shino was interested on him, for a moment I thought she was just pretending to not have noticed, but nop... turns out that it´s worse than that, she´s so one-dimensional that her character wasn´t able to process/understand that scene right in front of her. And similar scenes like that occurs throughout the anime. It wasn´t good not even as a comedy scene. But that does not resumes to Saki only, every character here is very one-dimensional.

As for Rika, at least in the 1st half, she keeps getting rejected even after all her effort, and that wasn´t funny anymore and I started to feel bad for her.
As for Nagisa, she doesn´t has any remarkeble scene as far as I remember. At least in the 1st half.

That pretty much summarizes this season, at least the first half of it - I don´t believe though that it changed much in the second half. Probably either Shino accept their relationship or joined the harem.

In the end, I couldn´t stand much since everything got unfornutely boring, annoying and repetitive.

Now it´s up to you. Who knows you might end up enjoying; or... who knows this review/opinion will be exactly your thoughts/opinion in a near future in case you decide to give the 2nd season a chance xD

This review is probably meant to anime veterans, but surely newcomers are welcome as well xD

STORY:
- Random girl loves her Otome game, she gets Isekai-ed as the main female character (Rae Taylor) of her favorite Otome game. Rae Taylor instead of choosing the expected/cliche route (the usual cool-looking prince), she chooses the yuri route (Claire François).

Worldbuilding: Fantasy, magic/elements, wands, commoner, nobles, princes, prestigious school - everything in a very superficial level.

CHARACTERS:
- Claire François: Blond hair, blue eyes, "ohahaha~" laugh, tsundere, ojou-sama, proud; high-noble status.
- Rae Taylor: Bubbly personality, blindly loves Claire, happily tanks all Claire´s bully; commoner status.
- Other characters don´t ... really worth mentioning for this review.

-- Episodes 1 to 5 are all about Rae Taylor trying to show her love/affection to Claire François.
Claire bullys Taylor --> Taylor happily tanks it all --> Claire gets confused --> Taylor says "more!", "I love you", "kya~~!" --> Claire gets confused --> repeats cycle. Over the time this starts to get uninteresting and annoying due to repetitiveness and because of BOTH characters (Rae and Claire) personality.

-- Episodes 6 and 7 --> Basically fillers.

-- Episodes 8 and 9 --> Probably fillers (or partial fillers). Some drama involving one of the side characters (Lene).

-- Episodes 10, 11 and 12 --> New female character introduced. You might have guessed correctly here: not only she´s Rae Taylor love rival, but also the one who will give some development to Claire and Rae´s relationship.

IN GENERAL: this anime is unfornutely mediocre at best. Art and animation are very bland making me wonder whether this is a modern anime or not. The only good aspect of this show is that it is yuri/yuri-sh, but wasn´t enough to save the show cause sadly everything else oscilates from bad, average and bland.

Score 4/10 or 5/10 (subjective).

Now, it´s up to you.

Among all the overrated/overhyped animes this season has -if you are running trough this season you probably know which animes I am talking about- there are also the underrated ones, and [Isekai One Turn Kill Neesan] is one of those underrated, sadly.

The title of this anime resumes in just a few words what this anime is about, so yes, this anime has its uniqueness.

Watch this if you are:
- Looking for comedy + Isekai. And finally comedy scenes which weren´t try hard and most of the times a "hit" for me, even if they were light. But I know comedy is very subjective.
- Looking for ... enjoyable and easy going adventure/ride, without having to think much.

Don´t watch this if you:
- Always takes isekais for seriously, expecting it to be exactly how the system of your games works.
- Are not into incest. Maya is a BROCOM and one of the main characters; she is the older sister of Asahi (which is the male protagonist).
- Are looking for strong or overpowered male MC.
- Feel bad or hurt by having girl/female character protecting the boy/male character.

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Question: "Are they blood related?"
Answer: I do not read the manga/LN so I am not 100% sure, but I am assuming they are blood related, specially because their eyes are pretty much the same and there aren´t hints in the anime that could say otherwise.

Question: "There are explicit scenes between them?"
Answer: If your question means "They Kiss?" or "Do they have sex?". Nop, there is none scenes like that. All of them are failed attempts of Maya xD Poor Maya xD And most of them ends up or is related to comedy.

Question: "Is this ecchi?"
Answer: Tricky question here. It´s not, yet it is. I would not say this is a full ecchi nor bordeline hentai anime - i.e. this is surely not a hardcore ecchi (you won´t be seeing panties shots nor nipples all the times and etc), but the teasing (fanservice) will be constantly there. Of course, there is that episode fully focused on ecchi.

Question: "Is this harem?"
Answer: In short words: Yes, but the harem here is not overused; or you could say it´s balanced? Anyway... the other girls are all nice with enjoyable personality.

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The art and animation are surprisingly very good. This is something that also caught me off guard.

Strong 8/10. Would have rated it 8.5/10 if it were possible.

I believe this show was a waste of potential.

The idea is cool and different. In short, the story is basically about the daily life of Koito (a shrine maiden - 'miko') and Elda (the deity of the shrine).
The cool and different idea relies on Elda, which is an Elf and on top of that a recluse who is into Otaku-things.

The problem is that they didn´t explore much of that uniqueness, and in the end the anime might end up just being 'another one' you will add to your list. For example: If Elda wasn´t an Elf, it wouldn´t change much except for the ... psychological effect that instead of a human she´s an Elf - they ocassionaly and randomly talk about her past (Edo period etc) but it doesn´t add much. She being recluse is poorly explored as well - they just show she´s afraid of going out and of interaction with other people and that is basically it.

-------- OTHERS:

- The secondary / support characters are fine. Honorable mention to Yord which made things more interesting and enjoyable to watch. Ah! There is Koito´s imouto (Koyuzu); the cute reliable imouto ^~^

- The animation is good enough but where this anime shines most is its art, which is very pretty in my opinion.

- Catchy OP music. As expected every seiyu did an amazing job, but honorable mention to Yord and specially Elda´s seiyu.

CONCLUSION: An anime that had potential for more but its uniquness wasn´t fully explored, but it might have a few scenes here and then that you might enjoy, specially if you are looking for a chill / easy going anime.

Basically, this second season was a big filler.

There is no progression whatsoever. This season was most of its time some random stuffs and CGDCT (cute girls doing cute things) - except the very last episodes, which had some little drama/tension because of a cliche uninteresting antogonist.

If you are into "nothingness", CGDCT and if you don´t mind no progression at all in a sequel, then you might want to give the second season a chance. Otherwise you might end up dissapointed. The thrill/excitement you felt in season 1 you probably won´t find much in this season.

Don´t take me wrong, it´s nice seeing cute interaction ... and SoL episodes, and there are cute interactions in season 1. But this season was basically just that and most of it was boring (in my opinion). Season 1 is more fleshed out / balanced where we get to see and enjoy a bit of everything.

I still encourage you to check it out with your own eyes, who knows you might not end up enjoying? I just counsel you to don´t go with very high expectations.

This movie rocked my world, in a bad way.

Some of your answers you won´t find in this movie.

This is a try hard anime. Lot´s of melodramas and cringy scenes. From the series to the end of this movie.
It´s one of those simple animes but they try to make things looks awesome and magical in the end, but fails hard to deliver - actually, at this point I wasn´t caring much on what was happening.

The battle scenes became overwhelming ridiculous. Heavy battleships can submerge; submarines are heavy battleships; fast battleships are submarines; super big drilling attacks; battleships spliting their hulls in two ... so they could use "guillotine attack!" (Yes, it´s exactly what you are thinking). You know, all of the traits of each of those different battleships does not matter at all cause they can do and have the same firepower of any other different battleship. I wouldn´t mind that if this was an easy-going just-enjoy anime. But this is an anime that makes you take it to some serious level.
Iona (401) has a huge plot armor it´s painful to watch. Even when her submarine is at 1 (one) HP left, they won´t be defetead even after getting hit by a super-ultra-big railgun. Don´t take me wrong, it´s not like I wish her submarine to sink, it´s just that they really overused of her plot armor so much that started to bother me good amount.

Like, there is no tension, just a bunch of random super-powers appearing out of no where from those battleships and just accept that.

As for characters from the Fog fleet: At one second a player from the red team is now in the blue. This turned out to be so common in this anime that I am starting to wonder if I could say that it´s common me going to my kitchen getting a cup of water.

- Chihaya Gunzou just being there as boring as ever; giving obvious orders and managing to take down every ship they battle against.
- Takao as always wanting to open her legs for Chihaya Gunzou. I couldn´t stand those scenes, had to skip them all.
- 401 (Iona) being the cute innocent girl "don´t obey the admiral system!", but also being hypocritical cause she would do anything or execute any order Chihaya Gunzou gives.
- Kirishima, Haruna and Makie just appeared in this movie to complete the team in the last battle scenes, and that is it. Too bad since in the series they were the group I enjoyed most watching. They had an interesting incident in the series, and that was the best part of this anime.
- Kongou and every other new Fog character, as expected, successfully were converted and convinced to switch sides after they are defeated. Over and over the same thing would happen to each of the Fog character throughout this series.
- Hyuga nothing in special to talk about her in this movie, except that she seemed slighly different - her behavior.
- Every other character are just there.

I was okay with this anime, but this turned out to be painful to watch.
Ah! Last but not least, not enough fanservice scenes in this movie. Actually, almost zero. The saving grace was not here this time.

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CONCLUSION: If you watched, I hope you had fun. If you plan to watch, I hope you have fun.

I will make this as simple as possible, assuming you are watching this anime after long time it was released:

- If you enjoyed the series (12 episodes) good amount, you can easily skip the first 60 - 70 min of this movie.
- If you didn´t enjoy much or at all; or if you plan to watch the movies without watching the series (12 episodes): don´t need to even bother watching the movie.

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The first 60-70 min is basically the recap of the series, but rushed as hell as expected.

The new content is about 30-40 minutes long. Even so, just about 5 min of it actually ... matters, which are:
- The Fog has now a student council (which means new characters and so battleships to be sunken and converted by our "special" priest-captain, aka Chihaya Gunzou). The Fog student council is apparently just copying the school system from Japan. Their objective is to stop 401 (Iona) and Chihaya Gunzou the priest-captain and his crew.
- Chihaya Gunzou father appears. He´s together with the Fog. The movie ends here.

Everything else is the same.
You still don´t have answers, probably in the 2nd movie? Who knows...
As for the art/animation, also the same. Maybe just slightly worse? I am not very sure.

Sincerely, the only good thing of this movie was the few fanservice scenes the new content had.

First you must be wondering why have I read 25 chapters...
Quick answer: Hoping it would get better. Yuri + Hope. And fooled by people saying we would regret dropping this. As a veteran, I am ashamed of myself for being fooled like that. But after this review I am done for with this manga.


[FEW SPOILERS OR INDIRECT SPOILERS AHEAD]


- There is actually NO story. The relationships were already all there. This manga is all about girls making other girls suffer for fun (in a negative way), being it consented or not. That includes physical and psychological pain and abuse. From randomly piercing your ... belly to vomiting. Every opportunity is to make it get worse, literally.

- Expect twisted / toxic relationships. From best lovely friends to "I hope you dissapear".

- One of those mangas in which just 1 out of 10 characters are actually normal and sane.

- Normal kissing and sex scenes only rarely happens because everything I said above is the meta in this manga. Either way, by this point, normal sex and intimate moments are pointless and the positive effect is close to zero.

All of this is not taken lightly or in a comedy way where you can just have fun and enjoy something with a questionable content, because this manga is done in a negative way that is no fun.

CONCLUSION: Unless you are a twisted and/or mentally unstable person yourself who might end up enjoying or ressonating with something like that, stay away from this manga full of negative energy, and hope your curiosity does not lead you to the wrong path.

Ah... I almost forgot. Art is... average at best.