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Jun 11, 2022
Deeply confusing and unpredictable in a bad way. Fails to address the key issue driving the conflict in the story.
I detailed some other issues in my review of the first season, but the key issue is that the entire series is written like a prequel to this season, but at the same time does not always appropriately foreshadow what happens in the final season. The overall tone of the show does not reflect its ending.
Without going into details, the nature of the ending is (spoiler) perfect, super-mega happy ending. This ending is inherently problematic, as it feels deeply underserved, highly unpredicted, and against all foreshadowing
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the show offered. Further, this ending is inherently problematic because it does nothing to provide a reasonable solution to the core issue driving the conflict: ghouls eat people. The last time a mildly reasonable solution to this issue was on a small scale back in the first season, and then never again, not even for the ending. The fact that reason for all the conflict in the first place is rather casually swept aside leaves the ending a bit meaningless. There's no resolution without a solution. But the show has it's Episode III star wars super happy ending regardless of any reason.
Also, the number of people that get impaled in the stomach throughout the course of the show is absolutely absurd, you could make a drinking game out of it or something.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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May 10, 2022
Out of all the anime I've ever watched, this one I understood the least. I spent the entire time watching it in a state of genuine confusion. The show seems to dance around some hidden meaning but it never reached me. Characters frequently take action that seems meaningless to me. The entire time it feels like an intricate, overarching story is being built but it never bears any fruit. The deliberately elusive storytelling, the jumps in narrative, the failure to reach any satisfying conclusion, it's bizarre and impossible for me to grasp.
To accompany this whirlwhind is numerous issues. The soundtrack, while arguably appropriate, is
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grating and unnerving, making this difficult to watch anime even harder to enjoy. The story draws attention to several characters just to kill them, but none of them feel meaningful in the end. The psychological aspect is certainly there, but without a clear & concise story and meaning to hold on to it feels like it's there just to upset the viewer.
Overall, the entire season fails to hold itself up. I wouldn't ever want to watch this again, and although I'm moving forward to :re in search of answers, I feel like I've made some sort of mistake.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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May 7, 2022
9/10: Dragon Ball Super: Broly is absolute proof that Dragon Ball is a bad anime.
To put it simply, DBS Broly did more in 100 minutes than the anime could do in two season's worth of episodes. The animations, the fights, the relentless speed at which the story progresses once it gets going, it outshines the rest of the series by far. The fight scenes encompass 40 minutes of the film, and they're remarkably good. Very little of the empty meaningless vanish/clash/repeat fighting that makes up the majority of the anime, every attack is unique. Some of the supers were mesmerizing and fantastic, the best I've
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seen from this franchise. The pacing is fantastic, over the course of what would be about four episodes of anime, an entire arc is finished, beginning middle end. After slogging through the boring mess that was Super, this movie made me painfully aware that Dragon Ball COULD be compact, well animated, and focused more on the fighting that supposedly makes it what it is. If you have to watch Dragon Ball, watch this movie. It's the best of the series I've seen, and it's not even close.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Oct 17, 2021
I'm about 700 episodes in, and still watching, but I can't recommend this anime to anyone. There are lots of reviews that paint a picture of why this anime is so good, so I'll skip over that (those reasons are valid) and highlight why I can't recommend this anime. I'll speak in general terms and avoid spoilers for the most part.
The pacing is wearisome, to say the least. It's so slow, in fact, that for the average arc has a higher number of episodes than source chapters. For example, the Dressrosa arc is 101 chapters in the manga, and 117 episodes in the anime. One
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Piece as a manga already has a fairly slow pace, so having every chapter stretched out over 24 minutes (less than 19 typically if you discount the intro and recap every episode) really draws it out. Ultimately the problem is the serialization and weekly deadlines: the pressure to produce a chapter (and later an episode) every week forces the author to use less detail, outsource, and draw out sequences and the story overall. We've seen this issue in Naruto, Dragon Ball, and of course, One Piece. One Piece is a product of the environment it's created in, and that environment is one that demands a chapter and an episode every week, one that demands a quantity but not quality. Because of this, One Piece as an anime has loathsome pacing: often reusing animations, drawing out already drawn-out sequences, using unnecessary and drawn-out flashbacks, and a large amount of recap, and a small amount of filler arcs.
For an idea of pacing, the aforementioned Dressrosa arc is 117 episodes, with one episode every week coming out to 2 1/4 years. This arc is canon but it's importance to the overall progression of the story (the group's circumnavigation of the world, search for the One Piece, and Luffy's goal to become King of the Pirates) is not proportional to its length. Ultimately Dressrosa is not much more than an obstacle in the path of our heroes, the ultimate villain of the arc is ultimately a subordinate of a greater villain. There is important story developments throughout the arc, don't get me wrong, but again, the length of the arc hugely outsizes its overall importance to the story. Most story arcs are like this; the heroes defeat a villain, only to have that villain rapidly replaced by a greater villain in the same or similar role.
Overall this pacing diminishes all the other positives of the anime, making it impossible to recommend.
I will continue to watch it, but mostly because I have invested ~700 episodes worth of time into it (it's kind of a curse). I find this anime is best watched in the background while you do homework or something that requires a moderate amount of attention, kind of like a Twitch livestream or something. I often watched unpausing/pausing it while playing GTA Online due to the game's large amount of time spent traveling between points. Other than that I don't recommend it. If you're a fast enough reader try the manga instead.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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