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Nov 29, 2022
Bleach is just your typical generic shounen. The beginning wasn't that bad and soul society is the best arc the series had to offer, but after that it becomes a repetitive, boring mess. The author's lack of imagination is astounding. So we have a whole arc about Ichigo and the gang trying to rescue rukia and guess what the next arc is about? Ichigo and the gang trying to rescue Orihime... The power system was interesting at first but then it got boring quickly. Ichigo vs Byakuya, Ichigo pulls out his hollow mask. Okay. Ichigo vs Ulquiorra, this time he transforms full hollow out of
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nowhere. Ichigo vs Aizen. Aizen too strong need to train in the room of spirit and time, a concept which was not a thing at all until it happened. Asspulls are this show's specialty. How does that relate to what we've seen in this new arc you say? Well now it appears that Ichigo is also able to use quincy techniques. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT RIGHT?!?!
Another problem I have with this show aside from Kubo spamming deus ex machina, is the fact that characters are used as a plotdevice to keep the story going. There's this Chojiro guy who nobody gives a flying fuck about, who apparently is a very important character with his death causing Yamamoto to go nuts. No buildup, no tension, just a flashback with him talking to Yamamoto and that's it he dies and we're supposed to believe that Yamamoto is mad and sad about that. The problem with chojiro is the fact that up until that point in the story, he had the same role that the trees in the background have. He was just there to fill the screen. There is absolutely no way for me to take his death seriously.
It's seriously a pity that this season is so colorful yet I feel like bleaching my eyes after watching the episodes.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Sep 29, 2022
A show that completely deviated from what was supposed to be a psychological drama, and turned into.....I don't know what. If there is anything that I like about this show, it is the fact that it doesn't even try to take itself seriously. The character introduction was enough to show that. Each character had a wall of text right next to them, with some vague descriptions about their hobbies and personalities. The author has already made it clear that he doesn't care about these guys. What matters is the premise of the show right? The thing is, this show has no premise.
The show clearly is
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not about how money can ruin friendships, and all it takes to know that is to watch the first few episodes. We have a psychopath of a main character, who apparently has killed people in the past. We have a girl who's been bullied to the point of trauma and needed money to stop her bullies. We have a guy who's actually taking part in these games for the second time in order to avenge his father, and holds a grudge against one of the girls in the group. Most of the main characters do not act or behave like normal people, and their friendship is questionable at best. The trauma girl tells Yukichi that he's the one she considers close to him ( not the other three). Tenji claims that he holds a grudge against the other girl for ruining his friendship with his old friends. What premise would you expect when these guys are not even close friends, or have their own reasons for acting the way they do? Not to mention how the games themselves are constructed specifically to make our main characters argue and fight with each other. Literally one of the games consists of writing nasty stuff about your friends. They're not even trying to be subtle about it. It was done in Kaiji, but in a much better way because the end result was what made Kaiji's "friends" betray him, not the actual rock-paper-scissors game.
I've been cackling during the first 6 episodes due to the random unexpected twists, as well as the incredibly weird dialogue. Shibe literally tells one of the girls something like " you sure seem innocent for a virgin", right after it was revealed that she used to date men for money. And we're still meant to believe that these guys are close friends? What even was the point of that statement by the way.. is it implying that a virgin is innocent while someone who's not considered a virgin is..Nah must be just me. They certainly didn't think too much about it. Well no, because after a few more episodes we've got another quote along these lines " Women are capable of putting on an act to get what they want". And it's funny because later on our male main character starts shouting and screaming, acting as if he lost the game while he actually predicted it and was just...putting on an act to get what he wanted. Not only the author seems to have something against women, he goes on to contradict his statement by giving what he considers "exclusive female traits" to male characters. But he has no other choice, because acting to get what you want is not a gender exclusive trait in the first place. The most annyoing character in the series for me ( aside from angry basketball guy ), is one of the women who does the social commentary. She literally says the most general shit that you've probably heard more times than you can count before watching this show, and always begins with "Humans are prone to...". You get the idea, she's not a human, she's an observer of human nature.
I kinda wanted to give it a 4* rating, due to how it made me laugh during the most inappropriate moments that I was supposed to take seriously, however once the forest hide and seek begins, it stops being funny and it gets extremely boring, not worthy of anyone's time. I kinda feel bad shitting on this show due to the unbelievably pathetic writing, but the incel comments make me lose all of that guilt.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Sep 26, 2022
Classroom of the elite is a typical example of a media that should cease to exist. And by that I am not referring only to the anime, but also to the source material, that is the light novel. Do not get tricked by those claiming that the series shouldn't be judged because of the poor anime adaptation, as the novels themselves are anything but good. I've read them all, got into them because of the edgy quote in the end of season 1, and here I am trying to warn you not to get into this clickbait of a series. Needless to say, it did
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surpass my expectations when I heard that a second season was announced and here we are.
If there's anything worse in the anime adaptations compared to the source material, that would be the pretentious quotes in the beginning of the series. They were just bad at first, but to think that they would throw Nietzsche's name there again, is something that I could never expect. If Nietzsche would somehow come back to life and end up watching this anime, I really doubt that he would be able to relate his writings to what this show is trying to convey. We can already conclude that there is nothing intellectual about this show, it's obviously pretentious, but it's not meant to be taken seriously. That much is apparent when you see what occurs in these so rushed yet slow episodes
This season has pretty much the same issues that the first one had, with some technical errors that make it somehow, even worse. I don't even remember what exactly happened in the Zodiac exam, aside from the bullying scene. And I know for a fact that it has nothing to do with me being incapable of understanding this masterpiece of a show, but rather with something else which could be easily described with "plain boring". I swear this is not an anime only thingy for this series, because there are many exams with multiple pages of rules in the novel as well. They want to create this feeling of complexity with the hope that the audience will hopefully forget that the details given were irrelevant and try to focus more on the other not so hard to understand stuff such as copying experiments throughout psychology textbooks and acting as if our prodigy of a main character knows everything about psychology. It seems to me as if this show does not really have a genre so in order to compensate for that, is trying to be like Arceus which is capable of changing into every type in existence. What is this show about again? Is it about psychology? Is it a high school drama? Is it romance? Or is it a martial arts shounen? I can't tell because it seems to have a little of everything, but the way in which it's presented cannot be described with anything other than cringe.
After a bunch of pointless rules in the Zodiac exam, the first memorable thing happens which is Kei getting bullied by Manabe and her gang. Apparently our phd professor Ayanokoji was the one who orchestrated the entire thing, by replicating something known as the Milgram experiment. There are too many things that happen with Ayanokoji in this season as well as in the previous one which only serve to power up the self-insert argument even more. 1) Ayanokoji proves that he is an expert on psychology. 2) Ayanokoji is a fast runner 3) Ayanokoji has an incredible amount of strength 4) Ayanokoji is an expert in martial arts 5) Ayanokoji is an expert in maths 6) Ayanokoji knows English 7) Ayanokoji is an expert in literature 8) With all of these traits combined, the guy was presented as someone who does not like to stand out so it's not easy for him to make friends. It couldn't be more clear that this guy is the role model of many who resort on using him as a mean of escapism.
The Ayano traits that I mentioned bring us to the fundemental problem that this show suffers from. The lack of a realistic setting, despite taking place in a...seemingly realistic environment. Since everything takes place within a school and there are no super powers involved, you would expect the series to be more up to date with what goes on in schools. Instead this show brings you a so called elite high school, funded by Japan which not only has dominated the world economy, but it has enough capital to invest on an entirely new currency as well as private islands for 16 years old kids who are expected to be the future elites of Japan. These kids consist of 1) red haired guy who slams his desk after being politely asked for an introduction by one of his fellow classmates 2) a very troubled individual who seems to despise everyone who knows her past, 3) a girl who's been bullied so viciously, so she has to resort on using other people to defend her, 4) a lab rat who has trouble with social interactions 5) a red haired psychopath who claims he's never had fear, 6) A narcissist, 7) a crippled girl who uses her classmates as a shield, and the list goes on. These are just some of the important characters in the show, and some of them seem more like people who should be locked in prison rather than being accepted in a school which is trying to groom the future elite of Japan. If you've already grown accustomed with this setting, then I guess you would have no problem with a facility which trains kids to the point that they become geniuses in every field in existence. Interesting concept but for what purpose? A plot device is needed to solve conflicts. Everything is resolved with the use of deux ex machina, because there's nothing about this school that would particularly stand out( for good), so they can easily compensate for that by saying "Geniuses have high IQ, problem solved". For a school directed to the supposedly elite students, it certainly isn't doing a good job marketing itself as such.
The main focus of this season seemed to be Kei, the girl who got bullied by people who were set up by our main character, who ends up being her crush, and Ryuuen the main shounen like antagonist who resolves everything with violence because why not. There isn't much to say about Kei aside from the part that the bullying had broken her to the point that she had no trouble spreading her legs for the main character. Don't get me wrong, stuff like that happens, but when bullied by Ryuuen this same girl wouldn't tell him the mastermind's name. Within a few episodes she went from being broken to the point of letting someone **** her, to refusing to answer a simple question while again being vicisously bullied. How did this change happen? It was not explained, but it did happen.
And Ryuuen is again, the typical shounen antagonist that for some reason he's one of the most important characters in the series. Who would have thought that the elite school would have a class full of morons, people who would obey one of their classmates who rules over them as a dictator, without thinking twice? Ryuuen is the leader of class C, an arrogant person who has control over his class because they're too afraid to go up against him. Again the show trying to be smart and involve "politics" as if his class representing dictatorship is an example of good writing. There is another important trait of Ryuuen that many seem to have either ignored or forgotten, and that is his lack of fear. It's already made apparent multiple times in the couple of last episodes, that Ryuuen killed the snake because he didn't feel fear. But when asked whether he felt fear or not by Ayanokoji, he responded by saying that he only felt pain but was unable to feel fear. I don't even know how psychology is considered a genre for this show anymore. Guess what happens when Ryuuen fights Ayanokoji? Yeah Ayanokoji scares him. Finally after a decade, Ryuuen learned the meaning of fear. Took you a while Ryuuen.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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May 4, 2022
I have to admit I was tricked by this show the first time I watched it. I had yet to be confronted with anime series such as monster which uses nihilistic themes, quotes that actually live up to the standards set by the show. I also didn't know about evangelion, a show which goes balls deep into the human's psyche giving an accurate representation of depression, making the characters feel real. I thought that classroom of the elite would end up being something of the sort. A show with philosophical, ethical themes or even psychology.
The first episode opens up with a quote of Friedrich
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Nietzsche, already setting incredibly high standards for the rest of the series. The main character's monologue about equality also stood out to me, as he was actually elaborating on what Yukichi Fukuzawa's quote about equality really meant. It stood out not because it was some sort of mind blowing monologue, but just like the quote of Nietzsche it tricks the viewer into thinking that these are the issues which the show is going to address in the future.
The setting is the main thing that stands out in this show. Each class has some sort of "leader" who is the only student able to take decisions. Most of the students are either complete morons or average students that you would find in any other school and the reputation doesn't matter. For a school that pretends to be the best in Japan, the glaring issues don't stop there. Our class D for example, is made up of defective students. Many of these characters have some sort of issue which I'm not going to spoil in case you decide to watch this clickbait. That's a failed attempt of the author, to prove that this show is psychological. The characters are bland and that "defect" is there just to trick the viewers into thinking that this show has depth and realistic characters. If you think about it, it has none of that. I'm fine with mentally unstable characters as this is not the first show that has attempted that, however I'm having a hard time believing that the best school in Japan would serve as a mental health institution for the low ranking defective students. It's fine if one or two have it but it appears that many class D students aren't normal. The rest are just bad at studying or average in everything they do, again proving that the elite in this school are just a few selected individuals.
I mentioned before that I got tricked by this show. I'm not gonna lie, I thought the series had potential and I went as far as reading the light novel. It appears that the anime changed a few scenes here and there and the last monologue doesn't exactly happen at the end of the exam in the light novel. Which again brings us to the reason why I'm making this review. If you happen to read this, just know that this is not a deep story by any stretch of the imagination. As someone who's read the ln, if you like the anime and decide to read it, don't expect anything like that first episode monologue. The only good thing about the series is the 4D chess here and there which you don't really have to go as far as reading the novels or watching the anime, if that's what you want. Now I don't have any problem with shows which do not have any deep philosophy behind them. But that's not the case with classroom of the elite as it's trying to advertise itself as such, only to butcher the viewer's expectations in the end. If 4D chess is your thing then you might like the series but I still think Death Note is much better in that regard because that's its main appeal and the show doesn't try to present itself as something different.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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May 2, 2022
This novel does not really deserve the score that I decided to give. However the amount of people that consider this a masterpiece is unreal so I'm trying to do my thing to make it more balanced. Normally I would give it a 4/10.
I got into this novel because of the pretentious quotes in the anime. Well the anime turned out to be nothing more than a clickbait. However that doesn't make the novel any better. Right in the first volume, our main character has a monologue in which he talks about society and equality. He also mentions a quote from the Japanese author Yukichi
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Fukuzawa regarding equality, and begins to elaborate on the meaning behind that quote. That's the most philosophical monologue in the entire series. Many volumes after we begin to understand more about Ayanokoji as a character, and it seems that the author is not really trying to make a point by using different works of literature, rather he's trying to bend these works so they can fit into his completely unrealistic narrative.
The story gets old quickly because it's extremely repetitive. Our class has to deal with exams, but since Ayanokoji is on their side they have nothing to worry about. Most of the volumes just go like that. Not only Japan is investing a fortune in this school, the students themselves are anything but elite. Each class is controlled by an individual who is able to take decisions for the rest of the ignorant students in the class. It appears that most of the students in this school are just your typical dumb fucks that you can find in any school with a low reputation and you don't even have to go as far as taking Japan as an example. So the bad students are really bad. But what about the good ones? Well the very good students do not simply excel in sciences or liberal arts, they are also professional MMA fighters. No kidding, it appears that aside from our main character(who's apparently trained like a soldier), there are many other students who excel in combat.
The characters are one dimensional and bland. Not only that but since our class D students are defective, each one of them has some sort of trait that makes them abnormal. This is nothing but a try hard attempt to show that the novel involves psychology. Kushida is a girl who puts on a mask whenever she communicates with other people. The mask consists of her being nice and outgoing. Her true nature consists of her expressing her hate on those that know about her past, and how she's going to get them expelled. In other words she's a very disturbed individual. Kei, is a girl who's been bullied in elementary to the point that she developed trauma. Her character consists of her trying to "defend" herself by clinging into hosts as a parasite. Another disturbed individual. Koenji is someone with a very inflated sense of self almost narcissistic in nature. He only cares about himself and most of his moments consist of him expressing his selfish intentions. Another person that you wouldn't want to make friends with. Our main character has been raised in a harsh environment so he's also messed up. His intentions are rarely made clear throughout the story and his monologues get very boring when he's normal. I understand that Class D is a class about people with defects, but when many of these students are so deeply disturbed it sounds more like some sort of mental health facility rather than the best school in Japan.
But there are also students from the other classes. One of these guys is very important in the story. His name is Ryuuen and he's bored because he hasn't met his match. That's his main motivation in the beginning. He has a monologue in which he states that he killed a snake by hitting it with a rock as a kid, and that for the rest of his life he's never lost a single fight. Sounds like Beerus who was desperately trying to turn Goku into a worthy fighter so he could have the time of his life. His motivation might sound cool for whatever reason, but I personally find it unrealistic and Ryuuen as a character unrelatable. Ichinose, is the leader of Class C and is characterized by her nice personality. Do you know what makes her different from the rest of the students? She's not just nice, she's super duper nice. The characters are so bland that the author is really trying hard on emphasizing that one single trait they have, in order to make it easier identifying them.
In the latter volumes, Ayanokoji has a discussion with his father in which they debate about education. It appears that the premise here is that Ayanokoji believes that you don't need to undergo his training in order to become better than others while his father doesn't think so. His father believes that only by training in the white room, people can be superior to the rest of the population. And by white room I'm not talking about 511 Kinderheim or anything of the sort. This white room is a magical room( just like the room of spirit and time) in which you can become a genius in every field in existence bar anime. It's a plot device that serves to convince the audience that someone raised in there is even better than geniuses who don't have that "education". Unless you're raised in that room, you can't rule Japan as that's the main motivation of Ayanokoji's father. He wants his son to rule over Japan. Ayanokoji once again wants to prove that you don't need that sort of education to be considered superior. He's right but at the same time the fact that he needs to make his point clear is ridiculous. The white room as a concept would be completely non sensical in real life for his dad to even make an argument. But it works in this novel because that's how ridiculous the setting is.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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May 1, 2022
This novel is the definition of the word overrated and I don't even know where to begin. It is a continuation of year 1 which was slightly better but mediocre at best. What stands out in this particular year though, is the author's inability to properly conclude the arcs. I'll get into that shortly.
The setting already ridiculous in year 1, now gets even crazier with the introduction of the first year students. There's a literal carbon copy of Kenpachi Zaraki joining the school now. This guy is completely nuts and doesn't hesitate beating the shit out of anyone that dares to cross paths with him.
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He also has a history with street fighting and was apparently a very dangerous individual. What the fuck is the school doing?
What's even crazier about this guy is the fact that he had a confrontation with our main character, in which he literally uses a knife(to stab his own leg). "What's the problem if he's stabbing his own leg"? Before that confrontation he beat the crap out of Horikita(a girl) and Sudo. Had he tried to stab one of these guys, they would drop dead right there and then. The school literally accepted such a dangerous individual without keeping him in check. That's because apparently, the student council president decides the rules and if he wants violence, you've got violence. Japan is somehow blowing up its fortune for this school but there's a risk that the students might get killed for no other reason but to increase the probability of getting a good job? Yeah, No.
Speaking of the characters, I've noticed a pattern. You can describe most of these people with one trait. In fact in one of the volumes it was stated that a student from the third year, was the female version of Koenji. They're incredibly bland and unrealistic. Sudo has been behaving like a domestic animal throughout the novel. Our main character always has to mention the fact that he's growing up because of Horikita. Whenever she tells him to stop he stops. Without her putting a leash on him, he becomes aggressive. And speaking of bland characters, I've got to say that the author did try to change that even though it definitely didn't work out as intended.
If you're familiar with the anime then I guess you remember the final exam that was held in that island. Well in the year 2 novels there are two volumes dedicated to another island exam. Before these volumes we were introduced with some students that would play an important role in the future. One of them was a first year student known as Nanase. This girl was introduced in the first volume of this year, and apparently she was sent there to get our main character expelled. Furthermore the exam itself raised the stakes like never before because every student would participate no matter the year. Guess what happens? Utter disappointment.
Nanase was the main focus on the first half of this exam probably to build up some suspense for her confrontation with the main character. And finally when the confrontation does happen, the disappointment sets in and I start questioning the reason why I'm reading this novel. Nanase tries to challenge Ayanokoji in a fistfight. You heard that right she wants to brawl. But that's not the worst part. The fight that ensues is one of the most idiotic fights in history. Ayanokoji dodges every single one of her attacks with no effort whatsoever forcing her to unleash her secret technique known as "boku". If Nanase says boku, she switches her personality as well as her fighting style. Apparently she also hits as hard as a man. From watashi to boku, from a woman to a man, from jiu jitsu to karate, the boku technique knows no limits. Unfortunately for Nanase, our mc had already been trained with Whis before the exam, unleashing his mastered ultra instinct that allows him to dodge her attacks even when she closes the distance. Since she's unable to land a single hit, she goes nuts and starts screaming like Goku back when Frieza killed Krillin in Namek.
The sheer stupidity of this entire volume knows no limits when you consider the fact that this was supposed to be the main event of the first half of that arc. After that, Ayanokoji uses talk no jutsu into making her his ally.
And that's the first part of the exam. On the second part Tsukishiro( the guy who sent Nanase to get Ayanokoji expelled), decides to personally intervene. He decides to throw hands. In the end the fight ends without a valid result and Tsukishiro leaves. Every single conflict in this volume was resolved with fights. Ryuuen and his goons vs Hosen, Horikita and Ibuki vs Ichika, Ayanokoji vs Nanase, Ayanokoji vs Shiba and Tsukishiro and so on. The novel tries too hard to give the impression that it excels in multiple fields yet it fails miserably. Currently reading it has become a chore and there's absolutely nothing to look forward to. But I did have a good laugh during the whole Nanase incident.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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