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Hokkaido gals are super adorable is a beautiful manga, with a story from the everyday life of a boy named Tsubasa, who comes to visit Hokkaido. The fun begins when he meets Fuyuki (Minami), another teenager who quickly became attached to him, forming a close friendship. Along the way, they are joined by other comrades, such as Akino, Rena-Senpai, Matsuo, etc.
Therefore, the characters are very well stylized, the external and internal aesthetics are presented in a superb, subtle manner, thus presenting each character's individual traits, each in turn conveying ideas and feelings.
I was very surprised by the story, a simple one of its kind, but ... I appreciate simplicity in relation to beauty. This manga is pure art, in which the author put precious time and soul, every detail being oppressed by it. The story is to my taste and fits my kind of ideas, perspective and so on.
This manga is among my favorites, I laughed, I was amazed by the author's transition from the first page to the last, I enjoyed every moment of the manga, I cried, I was happy to see Tsubasa with his friends. The drawings are much better done nowadays and I respect Ikada a lot for the work he has done. This manga has something very special, it is part of everyday life, a set of values ​​that we acquire in society. I really liked the alternation between romance and comedy.
Almost a year has passed since I started the manga, and I can't believe it's over, it's only logical that this should happen, but I still think about those exceptional moments of young Tsubasa. Thank you Ikada!!!!

The fact that I finished GitS today is magnificent. I really liked the film, at such applied standards you can tell that he worked hard on it. The year it was launched is just a number and I realize that anything is possible regardless of time and space. The film is a work of animation, story and sound, also inspiring my favorite combat game (Oni Bungie).

Certainly all this in a super movie with action, adult cast and much more, of course, the movie is an art in the anime industry and should not be forgotten by anyone. Transposing the Cyborg world into such a ... good story will turn out exactly the same Gits, but this one has something special, the complexity.

For the story I will give it a 9, even if I liked it a lot, honestly the action was here and there but at the right time, of course. The action scenes every time came in wonderfully and attract you to watch more and more.

The animation is superb for '95, the characters and the background say they are part of the real world. They are so well made that you can't believe it was made in that year, the style in which it is made, simply brilliant. 10/10

I can't say more about the audio and characters, they are superb, they are so well executed that you have nothing to comment on this chapter. 10/10

GitS will remain and is an anime worth watching, for fans of such genres, of course you must be of the minimum age required for viewing recommended by stream apps or legitimate sources.

Terminator 0 Review

Another new series I can say presents an exceptional story with good and complex characters, who think rationally and carry out their actions according to their own will.

First, I will deal with the story. This is one of the stories that I liked very much, from the perspective of a time-space, past-future ample and concise, I was amazed by this fact, only I did not like the death of Malcolm, I will give the story a 7, 5.

Second, the characters are superb, each with their own goal, especially Malcolm, who has become my favorite character through a certain circumstance. These have something special, ... special compared to what we have seen in the new animes. 10 from me for these.

Thirdly, and lastly, the animation and the soundtrack are brilliant, it gave me an experience learned from an Oscar film, that's how it felt, especially that brilliant soundtrack, too good 10/10.

All in all, I briefly covered what I could, from the story to the audio and animation, simply a brilliant anime, the story was not on my side at one point, but it deserves 9/10.

After finishing Devilman: Crybaby I can draw some strong conclusions.
The anime, at first, seemed very strange to me, in the sense that the animation and the interpretation of the characters was completely different from what I was used to. After about 5 episodes, everything starts to make more sense and take color.

『The story』
The story is very interesting. The way of transposing some macabre ambient forms in the background of the story, an apocalyptic tone in which humanity is simply destroyed, are downright fascinating and makes me think that the story has a 9 from me.

『The characters』
These are diverse, from the best to the worst. Demons, ... humans and so on. Ryo and Akira was a perfect but different duo, both of them having their own tonality. One is colder at heart, and another is warmer, caring about those around him.
9/10

『Sound』
I have no comments for this chapter. The sound is very well represented, some OSTs are brilliant and this fact delights me beyond words.

Overall, Devilman: Crybaby is a dark, violent anime that tends to bring macabre and sinister forms, but somehow, the color and interpretation of the action diminishes them and they are lost easily, easily....

I recommend it to everyone which respects R+ rating, it's worth your try!!!

I decided to do a review on "A Silent Voice", an exceptional film worthy of such a high score, very well done, with well-polished and defined characters. I liked not only the way in which the idea of ​​the film was put to the test, but also the way of thinking of the characters and their behavior towards society. "A Silent Voice" is not a simple film that you see and say "it may be a poorly made film, or that it repeats other ideas from various animes", but a real mosaic of suspense, drama, emotions, combined feelings with some characters totally directly proportional to ... the story. It progressively anchors you in the story, you feel at a certain moment that you are the one taking control of the action, at some moments you have the impression that you want to change something so that everything turns for the better. And so begins a story that can be framed and filtered in the modern era, of the indifferent society in which the world lives, indifferent to all those around it, a world in which social chaos, miserliness, hatred towards fellow men is in full bloom all the time. So I will slowly introduce you to the story, introducing numerous spoilers to discuss certain important themes that have gravitated throughout the film.
Let's take it gradually, and I'll start by pointing out some important details that happened in the film, during the entire film rather.

[The story]
For me personally, the story is a very successful one and managed to impress me to the point of tears, this approach to disability marked by an entire petty and cruel society, where everyone looks out for their personal interests, and has nothing to do with those around them , they are bullies, vagabonds, spend the night wildly, spend time in bad circles and so on.
These small details still build a society with a bad training of individuals, starting from children to adults. This connection with the film is a little different, here the bad boy is Shouya, a careless kid who doesn't listen to anyone, does whatever he wants, breaks the school rules, effectively like a current uneducated child. But all this led to a certain point in his life, everything started to fall apart from under his own feet, starting with the arrival of a new colleague at their school, named Shouko-Nishimyia. However, the poor girl suffers from a problem, she can't hear, and in this way she prefers using a notebook to be able to communicate with those around her. Shouko ends up being tortured, assaulted every day by Shouya, everything being a game for him (he throws her notebook into the water, teases her by yelling at her, wets her with the hose, threw sand in her face when she confesses to him become friends, he rips off her hearing aid leaving the poor girl with a scar, blood running down her hand <<here this scene totally shocked me>>, etc). Shouya's friends always had fun watching Shouko suffer, how she falls into pain and suffering from the cruel and crazy world she lives in, despite the disability she carries on her shoulders, her mother decides to transfer her to another school to escape of possible harassment and aggression, both physical and mental.
The fact that Shouko always kept her serene and beautiful smile on her face, even if she was tormented and bullied, is truly amazing. As proof of the existence of an "iron heart" and a warm and gentle soul. Arriving at another school, in the absence of Shouko, Shouya gets bullied in turn by his friends, with whom he spent a lot of time before, as proof there is a life lesson in this, the way you treat people will come back to you once and once upon you. In turn, he is mocked, wet, beaten, his notebooks are scattered in the water and so on. After the passing of the years, Shouya sees himself in high school, growing up and realizing what he did in the past, and his conscience did not give him peace at all, so he decides to commit an unclean act, that of committing suicide by jumping off a high bridge, but it fails. My mother, finding this out, desperate and very worried, reprimands him saying that she will burn all the money he has earned, Shouya promising that he will not do such suicidal acts again, but in the end the money is burned, and Shouya takes it all over again with this. However, if Shouya's mother paid the sum of money to Shouko's mother for the damages of the destruction of the numerous hearing aids caused by her son, Shouko's mother's hatred towards Shouya is still felt to a point. From what I said, the two (Shouko and Shouya) grow up, thus reaching high school, but one day when Shouya wanted to enter the classroom where he learns sign language, he sees a girl very familiar to him, that was Shouko. He has some discussions through signs, and realizes that all this time Shouko wanted to be Shouya's friend. Bewildered and confused, Shouya tries hard to see Shouko, but a small presence has its place, "a boy" (a girl who turns out to be Shouko's sister) who claims to be her boyfriend, does not let him absout at all for Shouya to enter the room. In this way, Shouya is completely exhausted, trying to face his own self and his dilemma in relation to his friends, for him, all of them are just "permissions" as he proves in the discussion with Nagatsuka, his new friend, who was "saved" by Shouya from a guy who didn't give him peace. But throughout the film this feeling of true friendship is very emphasized, because Nagatsuka really has a close bond with Shouya and cares a lot about him. Back to the little "boy", Shouko's sister continues to not let Shouya meet her, but one day, Shouko runs away with Shouya to a bridge, where Shouya hands her a notebook from the past, but on different embarrassing sentences were written on it. In the end, the notebook is dropped in the water, and Shouko without hesitation jumps after it. Now is the perfect moment for Yuzuru (Shouko's sister) to avenge her sister, taking a picture of Shouya while he also jumped off the bridge after Souko. Yuzuru posts the picture on a social network, and for this gesture she is thrown out of the house by her sister, and Shouya is temporarily expelled from the school.
All these facts led to the closeness between Yuzuru and Shouya, and her feeling of contempt towards Shouya diminished. Shouya received her at his house to stay the night, but he even accompanies her to a bridge, when suddenly Shouko's mother appears to have come towards him, slapping him across the face and returning home nervously, telling the girls not to is still around him. Shouya's regret for his "unhealthy" lifestyle decreased drastically, and he began to understand things differently. He meets his former classmates. First with Ueno who turns out to be just as funny as the people around her, making fun and laughing at people, then he takes Shouko with him to find Sahara, another friend from middle school, who was very close to Shouko. During this time, the relationship between Shouko and Ishida (Shouya) began to blossom, both of them going out together for various activities and outdoor walks, communicating through signs, and in all these meetings it is Shouko's time to tell Shouya what she feels for he. Well, I think this scene is downright "fatal", it destroys your heart and you will feel your soul draining through you. The fact that Shouko tried to tell Shouya "I love you", and that he could not understand what she wanted to convey, then referring to the moon, is heartbreaking for us as viewers as well as for poor Shouko, who she was disappointed by the fact that she did not manage to carry her feelings towards the loved one to the end.
Thanks to Shouko's presence, Shouya makes more friends, whose imaginary X's on their faces have fallen, these X's representing Shouya's imagination, the way he closed in on himself and detached himself from the real world, falling into depression, believing that society looks down on him. They started going out on various dates, spending time together, but after going to an amusement park, Shouya realized after a long time what it means to have real friends. Ueno, the arrogant and cunning girl, takes Shouko and they both go in a big wheel, Yuzuru catching the conversation between the two girls on the hidden camera, shows Shouya the conversation between them. Ueno humiliating Shouko, telling her that she remained the same, always apologizing and keeping a "superficial" smile. Shouya comes to the conclusion that Shouko must love herself, as she is. Shouko's mother's birthday had also come, so the two sisters thought of bringing Shouya to help them make the cake. Here their mother seemed to start not being so distant from him anymore, and somehow they continued to go out together. In fact, they went out together to the fireworks festival, and Shouya went with Shouko's family there. Beyond these, we are also presented with a death in Shouko's family, her grandmother dies in her sleep, and she is left with only her sister and mother. Before this event, Shouya is discovered by his friends that he was a bully when he was in middle school, and this distanced them from him for a period. Now let's go back to what I said earlier because this fact is related to the given mention. The festival was still going on, and Souko tells Shouya that she's going home to study, so he agrees, but he's also sent by Yuzuru to fetch his camera. While entering her house, Shouya notices both the camera and Shouko, but for a few seconds he didn't understand exactly what the matter was, so after a few frames he sees this suite on the edge of the balcony, which worried him very much Shouya. He doesn't think long and runs as fast as he can to stop Shouko, who, possibly, wanted to commit suicide in her turn. Souya catches Shouko in time, so he saves her, but unfortunately he falls into the water.
In the end, he remains unconscious for a period of several days, but one evening he leaves the premises of the hospital where he was hospitalized, then he finds Shouko on the bridge where they spent their time feeding the carp (every time these scenes seemed very beautiful to me). There they have a sincere conversation, and Shouya asks Shouko to help him love himself and overcome this barrier of suffering. Besides all this, the parents of the two come to an agreement, Shouko's mother asks for forgiveness and Shouko falls to her knees as well, but the most annoying phase throughout the movie was when Ueno hit Shouko's mother, which we deduce an act of lack of education at the level of her behavior. It didn't seem fair to me, for a child to hit an adult, not at all. Despite all the drama suffered by Shouko and Shouya, finally Ishida reconciles and asks for forgiveness from his colleagues whom he reprimanded then ls pod, now with a smile on their faces, they forgave Shouya and welcomed him with open arms as on a "new man". At the end of the film, we can highlight the accented tone of how Shouya accepts himself and puts aside the feelings, experiences and negative energy that he carried with him until then. Realizing this, he became free, without any particular regret, he no longer looked down and stopped plugging his ears, as he always did. His self became clean, he felt fulfilled and the fact that he asked for forgiveness from all those he hurt, saved himself, became another man, a man who accepts his self and loves the people close to him, so in the end we see the transition between Shouyo from the past replaced by a happy and fulfilled one from the present. Every time I watch this ending I cry a lot, when I see Shouya crying because he has fulfilled his purpose, I get goosebumps and realize how important it is to be a loving, respectful person in a degradable society. (10/10)

[Characters]
The characters played an important role, obviously, throughout the story I felt very attached to Shouko and Shouya, through the transmission of direct emotions to the viewer, having the advantage of subjectively perceiving the emotions reflected by them. As I said before, Shouko is a nice and gentle girl who suffers from a disability, and for me she was a very well written and developed character. Shouya, from the rude desert became a lover of himself and his fellow men, began to ask for forgiveness and accept the new lifestyle in society. Yuzuru was a very interesting character, he communicated with Shouya all the time, always visiting him at home and doing many things together. Some characters like Ueno and Miki were annoying and did not apologize for their careless behavior towards Shouko, they were some hypocritical, unworthy and very cunning characters, who did not take the blame, and thought themselves superior to those with disabilities, which is an embarrassment and a total scam. All in all, the characters are very well constructed, analyzed at leisure, being complexed with memories and traumas, and the way they overcome them together is fantastic. (10/10)

[Sound & Animation]
I have introduced both sections, sound and animation, because they are well connected and show great success through what he played. The animation is incredibly good, compared to other series, the clarity and fluency of the animation is worth appreciating, it is something detached from another universe, especially the category of character design, and the way it presents facial expressions, gestures, sign language.

To conclude, I can easily say that "A Silent Voice" is a film that is fully worth seeing, offering you a perspective of the way of life that includes good and less good people, the perspective of an aggressor and an aggressed, of a respectful and a careless one. All this is compressed into a conglomerate of ideas and perceptions about modern society, which are inevitably lived by thousands/millions of people. It offers many details and a life lesson, it is more than a simple anime/film, it is a harmless life of a tender child, without protection, left alone with a disability, being meant to live in a society full of wild "animals". The actions of everyone around turn out to be futile towards such people, with problems, and today we no longer know what that love of fellows is, respect for those around us and the way we expose ourselves to the world , the ideas with which we contribute and so on. I want to emphasize in the end that "A Silent Voice" breaks the barrier of a simple cinematographic act thus achieving a fusion between the sad reality of society and self-acceptance, salvation and forgiveness/asking for forgiveness of those in society.

Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal was very good, all action and love, blood and fights. For me, the environment was incredibly good, everything gave me a relaxing state, the animation being very smooth, I literally relaxed watching the 4 action-packed episodes. The characters are well built, each with their own role, both positive and negative.

Shinta (Kenshin) was put in the care of some slave women, but unfortunately they were killed by some bandits one night. A mysterious man named Hiko Seijuurou kills the bad guys and takes Shinta under his wing. So he changes his name, because from Shinta (which was too delicate a name ... for a swordsman) to Kenshin (Heart of Sword). Hiko trains Kenshin and he did not want to lose him, until the day when Kenshin wants to work as an Assassin, and to serve some bad people. Kenshin becomes totally ruthless, killing every victim without mercy, until one evening when he kills some swordsmen, among whom is the fiancé of a woman, who will become his lover, Tomoe. He kills him in cold blood, being only scratched on the face after the fight. Many days passed, and Tomoe and Kenshin got to know each other and were starting to become more and more close to each other. They lived together for a short period of time due to the fact that their hometown, Kyoto, was in danger, and Kenshin and Tomoe lived a simple life in the mountains in a small house. The bond between the two grew stronger and stronger, and Kenshin promises Tomoe that he will always protect her. Eventually she leaves, leaving Kenshin alone, but one of his comrades betrays him, namely I'izuka. He tells Kenshin that Tomoe is the one who spied on him all the time and that he must kill her. Disobeying I'izuka, Kenshin sets out to save Tomoe, who ended up in the residence of a ninja leader, Tatsumi. Kenshin barely passes his bodyguard, being wounded and bleeding, he was going to fight Tatsumi. He takes it and makes a smooth movement with the sword, but at that moment Tomoe jumps to his aid and stops Tatsumi's blow (he has Tomoe's hidden knife), and Kenshin unfortunately cuts her too. Desperate and very angry, he feels sorry for her and asks her for forgiveness, but Tomoe makes another cut on her cheek, a sign that he remembers his first love.

The ending is beautiful but also sad, Kenshin and Tomoe's relationship ended, and I was quite sad about it. They were very good together, and now it remains to be seen what will happen in the main series. All in all it's brilliant!

B: The Beginning is definitely one of my favorite animes. It has a very good story, brilliant music, I really like the ending, The Perfect World. The first time I heard the ending, I got goosebumps, I love it so much. It sounds brilliant, the rhythm is energetic, it gives me a very pleasant vibe, listening to the music many times.

I haven't heard music like this in a long time, especially in an anime. It has its way of surprising me even now, the vocal is incredible and the instrumental also makes its appearance in force. The beginning of the music is soothing and the ... lyrics literally touched my soul. I feel each verse as something unique, a hope, a special energy.

To conclude, B:The Beginning has the most beautiful and brilliant ending in terms of music and lyrics that I have ever heard. I warmly recommend listening to the special music, it's worth it!

I recently finished watching Neon Genesis Evangelion and I can say that it was a very good series, even brilliant, but the ending totally disappointed me, compared to End of Evangelion, this one is much better and this is due to the fact that the film was very weak for me. In the 26 episodes we saw many interesting things, from epic battles with angels to very psychological scenes and a little romance. I will start with Shinji Ikari, a 14-year-old child who is forced by his father or to some extent to pilot Eva-01, as we progress in the story, Shinji becomes a little ... more aware of the situation and doesn't complain so much anymore , he doesn't get so lazy anymore, fighting to save the world. Unlike the movie, here I liked Shinji the most, he has very ordinary moments but not for long, he feels an attraction towards Asuka, trying to kiss her one night. His actions lead to praise from the other Nerv members, even from his father. He is beaten at school by Touji because his sister was hospitalized because of him. In the end, they become good friends and Touji turns out to be the fourth Eva pilot, who disappears. Rei is the first child, having a big difference from Asuka and Shinji. She turns out to be a dummy, rather drawing from Lilith, made to submit to Ikari. I liked her gentleness and calmness, she doesn't behave badly and is quiet.

Asuka, the second child piloting Eva, I absolutely did not like her mean attitude, the way she behaves with people, her friends, even with Misato. She's always bossy, she's selfish, she yells a lot, sometimes she's aggressive, etc. All this is not by chance, watching the movie End of Evangelion I realized that it is not really like that. Asuka went through very difficult moments in her life as a child, her mother committing suicide and her father having to remarry. She deserved a more prosperous life, but unfortunately she didn't have one. For these reasons, she became mischievous, agitated, aggressive. And I changed my opinion a little about her. Misato Katsuragi, the captain and then major of the series, is the guardian of the 2 children, Shinji and Asuka. I liked her attitude towards the work she does, how she orders and her good commanding skills. Somehow she became attached to Shinji, even very much, and we can see that in End of Evangelion they kiss, before she dies, being seriously injured. It's very sad when I think about it. Misato, a dedicated woman, having been together for many years with Kaji, the man she had compared to her father. I find this fact very sad, she could not feel those emotions out of pure love for her lover, but only thinking about her father. Ritsuko, Dr. Ritsuko also has an important role as Misato's and Kaji's University colleague. She has amazing skills in computer navigation, she has full access to the Magi, the entities created by her mother: Melchior, Baltazar and Gaspar. All these three names make up her mother's nature: scientist, woman and mother.

All in all, the anime is a very good one, it has amazing fight scenes, drama, romance and much more. The essential phase of this anime is the component of details and the progress of things in the story. It's an anime that disappointed me a little with the ending, being meaningless and vague, but it's much better than its movie (End of Evangelion). This was my overall opinion, and I want this anime to be seen by many people, it left a very good impression on me, but at the same time, a disappointment on the part of the ending. In the end, I liked it very much and I am satisfied with the fact that it was something new for which I had huge expectations, but this is not the only reason I am writing, but also from my positive perspective, which is much more pronounced than the disappointment.

Phantom Requiem for the Phantom is a great anime, a show with all the action, scenes from American movies, a whole lot of fantastic things. I really liked Phantom, it is my second favorite anime and I can say that it is worth watching. Inferno is an organization that involves the use of people called Phantoms, brainwashed people, erasing their past and forced to obey orders. Ein is one of the 3 main characters and is part of that category of individuals, being able to observe the lack of feelings that he plays it throughout the anime and thirsts for blood. Zwei, is the second ... main character of the series and is a bit different than Ein from the perspective of the organization. He is convinced that he has a past behind him and tries to make Ein (Eren) also find out his past.

Drei, the third main character of the series (I didn't really like it for the reasons below), a cute girl, but who loses her sister, being killed in front of her, Zwei takes her under his wing and protects her, until the day in which their apartment explodes, and Zwei promises before that he will return to her. This fact does not happen because he believes that Drei has disappeared from the face of the earth. He spends about 2 years in Japan together with Ein (Eren) pretending to be his sister, being part of a normal society, going to school, etc. Until Drei appears out of nowhere, totally changed from a physical and mental point of view, realizing that she is part of Inferno at that moment.

This is killed by Ein, and Zwei returns, killing Helmut in the end, who assumes that he created some more mannequins, Neun being the last. The ending is sad but for me it was a very good one, both characters, both Ein and Zwei die, and the story ends.
I really liked this anime, an extraordinary plot, great characters and a brilliant soundtrack.

I ended up writing a review for Neon Genesis Evangelion (End of Evangelion), the matter is as follows: I didn't dislike the series, on the contrary I had high expectations from it, everyone says it's a very good year, it really is, but I personally didn't like the movie End of Eva and that broken ending. The plot is good but not brilliant, as if the anime has no life, I'm not saying it's boring, it's still from the 90s, but I'm simply attached to the plot.
I was very disappointed when I finished End of Eva, and not because I ... don't like the whole plot or anything like that, it had a really "disgusting" ending. I hate it a lot, a banal ending in which Shinji wants to kill Asuka (my most hated character in the series, but after watching the movie I totally changed my opinion towards her, she really had many traumas and I feel sorry for her, especially in the ending, Shinji wants to kill her) and at the end I shed tears realizing how stupid he is. Asuka says "Disgusting" and the movie ends. The worst ending I've ever seen, I have no words to reproduce the sadness and disappointment that Eva left me, it had a promising start but for me a very bad ending, actually 2. This is just my opinion, honestly it disappointed me very much this thing and there are several phases that literally left me disgusted, such as the kiss between Shinji and Misato, total crap, this movie actually completely demoralized me. In no case, without further ado, this is strictly what I think about the series, the series was good except for the ending, but the movie was pathetic. I'm really sorry to give it such a low rating, I can't do it, but it didn't meet my expectations at all. The fact that the plot was not emphasized at all, the characters remained colorless, they don't have any feelings, Shinji became an annoying and fussy child, Misato makes a huge mistake, Asuka didn't even appear in the movie, I liked that he "killed" the 9 angels sent by Seele, but that's about it. This is my point of view from the perspective of a simple anime viewer, it was a peak but a huge decline, I didn't expect it to break so hard at the end. I'm also curious about the other 4 films, but I don't really have high hopes.
My words: It's so good that it makes it so weak!

[UPDATE]
I'm back with a fairly major update for this review. Then I simply wrote it strictly respecting the thread of the film. But now I can easily compare it between the other rebuild movies (Evangelion 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.0+1.0). Actually End of Evangelion is far superior to Evangelion 3.0, the others are also brilliant, but 3.0 was a joke for me and honestly referring strictly to the grade I gave to that anime, you will realize that I did not like it at all. That film also has a good part on the one hand, that being the grade of the film End of Evangelion. I raised the grade from 4, then to 6, and now I have recalculated everything and it definitely deserves a solid 8. And this movie deserves 10, but I didn't like some scenes at all and anyway it's a very good movie for me!