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NOTE: This was originally a post among r/Toonami's Post-Series Analysis as a review there. The original post is linked here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Toonami/comments/4jersz/dimension_w_final_thoughts_thread/

Well this was a quite a letdown.

I mean I liked the first 4 episodes of the series, the inital premise was promising, and I find Kyouma, Mira, and Loser to be fun characters. But I found things went downhill with that 5th episode being so convoluted that I'm still not sure what the fuck happened even with one guy giving me a wall of text explaining to me what happened.

And sadly, I felt as if it never really recovered from that episode. It wasn't bad ... enough that I would drop it and/or skip it all the time after that on the block like I did AGK, SAO2, or an average filler episode, but it was still a rather mediocre experience that made me care less and less with each episode that aired and it sometimes went back to making me question what in the flying fuck am I watching. It's ending did little to help me care either and its after credits scene just left me wishing that the series was more like that. At least I liked the OP(What little they played on the block) even if between this and Gangsta, Stereo Drive Foundation does seem to be stuck doing underwhelming shows.

On the plus side, at least the series is short so it doesn't overstay its welcome and it does somewhat prove that some 12 episode shows can work on Toonami in the future like say My Hero Academia, One Punch Man, Madoka Magica, or maybe even No Game No Life. Sadly, I don't think Dimension W is on the level with those shows.

So in conclusion, I didn't think it was terrible but I definitely feel like it wasted its potential in what could've been a cool sci-fi anime like Psycho Pass or possibly Darker Than Black. But Oh Well, I still liked it better than Akame Ga Kill(the show Dimension W replaced) though, Just hope the show that replaces Dimension W is better.

NOTE: This was originally a post among r/Toonami's Post-Series Analysis as a review there. The original post is linked here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Toonami/comments/4e4qje/postseries_discussion_thread_parasyte_the_maxim/

I'll have to say if there's one show that made me happy that I came back to watching Toonami, It's Parasyte!

Seriously, Right from the first episode I was enjoying it so much so that I was re-watching it pretty often online before the second and third episode came along. I just loved seeing how Shinichi is handling this situation of having a parasite on his right hand and and later deciding to fight against these other parasites. Hell, I didn't even mind the dubstep soundtrack that ... other people were complaining about and the gore never marred my enjoyment like it did a few reviewers, then again I was able to watch Hellraiser and The Thing without any problems so I guess that helps. I will admit however that the dub has a few hiccups and a few of it's philosophical messages don't always work in my eyes, but I still find this to be an amazing anime that caps off on a really good and conclusive note.

In fact, It's likely gonna be one of my Top 30 if not my Top 20 favorite anime in my opinion. Now to wait until the entire series comes out on Blu-Ray so I can re-watch it all I want. But I guess I'll rewatch it at 3am until then.

NOTE: This was originally a post among r/Toonami's Post-Series Analysis as a review there slightly edited for viewing here. The original post is linked right here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Toonami/comments/46u2o8/postseries_discussion_akame_ga_kill/

BTW: Incoming Spoilers For The Series

I'll admit that I have a bit of a history with this show. I first heard of it from a college friend saying she hated it because the other friend that recommended it to her because it gave her a bunch of likable characters and killed them all brutally and horribly and proceeded to show the first episode to me and all of her other friends. I laughed it off seeing the bland protagonist and ... the sudden dark tone shift and just looked up on TVTropes that in the end, they indeed killed all the main characters except for the title character and was just gonna forget about it like that since if I wanted a dark anime, I'd just watch Berserk.

However, things changed during the summer when my interest in anime had risen due to going to an anime convention and when I was considering returning to Toonami, and this show was gonna end up replacing Kill la Kill. So I read a few reviews citing the shows pros and cons and used this anime as a jumping on point to get back into Toonami and from there, It basically explains why I'm still watching Toonami to this day currently and why I ended up frequenting r/Toonami. So I guess that's one thing that I owe this for show for then even if I'm not the biggest fan of it.

Now onto my actual thoughts on the show, I will admit that my initial flaws with the series being with bland protagonist Tatsumi and constant tone shifts keeping from being deeply immersed with the story still stand. However, I do think that the comedic scenes are rather entertaining and the action scenes are fun to watch so I was able to enjoy it in "Popcorn Flick" kind of way initially. However my problem with the constant tone shifts ultimately came to a head after a certain event in episode 17. I will admit when I saw this when I read ahead in the manga, It fucked me up big time in an emotional way. I mean it really could've been one of the best scenes in a better written manga/anime. But here, It instead just made me put both the anime and manga down as all of the shows initial problems became clear as fucking day to me.

Really, the scene could be better fit in a show like maybe Tokyo Ghoul, Deadman Wonderland, or ESPECIALLY in Berserk. But in a show that makes dating sim jokes and has villains talking about getting EXP, It comes off as extremely jarring. Not to mention that instead of making me want to root for Night Raid more in overthrowing the empire, It just makes me wish for Guts or Kenshiro or The Elric Brothers to come in and do the job for them because as much as I had some enjoyment with the group, I don't find Night Raid to have that many great characters which is mostly due to them not having as much depth to their characters and when they do get depth, then they might as well be one foot in the grave unless you're BlandMC Tatsumi or Akame(who while a pretty interesting character on paper, can't save the show either as she's forced to work opposite BlandMC Tatsumi sinking her along with him).

So with that, I find that both this anime and manga really overstepped it's bounds when it came to the dark nature it was trying to make, which doesn't work because the story just isn't that well written. This is because like Seryu, It's basically stuck between two ideas that are in complete conflict with each other more than anything. One side wants to be a fun shonen anime like Fullmetal Alchemist or Soul Eater, The other wants to be like the anime version of Game Of Thrones and it doesn't come off as natural. The writing suffers as a result of this mismatch meaning that all I can really do is just enjoy the anime/manga for the action and comedy that are in some scenes which withers out due to the series constantly killing off characters you like in once again, a failed attempt to be like Game Of Thrones. Maybe if this show were more tonally consistent, kept the dark tone, develop the characters more without killing them immediately afterwards, and were better written overall, It could work in a similar manner to something that Gen Urobuchi usually does with his work like with Psycho-Pass, Fate/Zero, or even Madoka Magica. But as it stands, It instead makes for a half-baked mess that feels like Fullmetal Alchemist and Berserk haphazardly stapled together and(for the anime's case it seems) doesn't seem to come up to anything satisfying in the end.

With that, All I have to say is that I hope things turn out a little better for you in the manga Tatsumi because either way, I don't care about this series anymore........

NOTE: This was originally a post among r/Toonami's Post-Series Analysis as a review there slightly edited for viewing here. The original post is linked right here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Toonami/comments/3wor9m/postseries_discussion_thread_michiko_hatchin/

I thought it was alright, as I viewed it as Thelma & Louise if it was done by the people behind Cowboy Bebop.

I'll admit that I enjoyed some of the action moments that were in the anime but while the drama was decently written, I wasn't fully into it. Mainly because in comparison to Bebop, I didn't really care for the setting and also while the characters were decent, they don't compare to the ones in Bebop in my ... eyes. Still, It was rather impressive seeing Monica Rial trying something different playing the spicy latina Michiko since I mostly see her range is mostly set to either Bulma or Stocking.

Other than that, I thought it was a decent anime with a nice ending to counteract some of the bleak moments and flatout downer endings that occurred in the series but not something that I picture myself watching again.