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As a girl, this has to be one of the most awful shows I have ever watched.

Imagine you are a girl, and you get a kazuya living next to you, going to your school, can't get over his ex, black mails you to continue being his gf, all while being so spineless and worthless that he let's a literal bug walk over him when he needs to do any amount of push back when it actually matters.

This would be any girl's nightmare, which this show, with its obviously written by a guy narrative, doesn't seem to realize and thinks is funny.

Not only ... that, but his friends are also just a bunch of degenerate scumbags who openly ogle their apparent friend's girlfriend and make lewd comments about her.

Frankly it's a disgusting show with a disgusting cast of manchildren ruining what could be a perfectly serviceable and fun catfight.

This is a great show that I feel threw away its entire plot in the last 2 minutes of the final episode. Like they've ended the season PERFECTLY, then the writer couldn't control themselves and had to keep writing and wrote the story from a Your Name level of perfect ending to one that is just sadistic, evil, needlessly cliff hangery and lacking in confidence.

It just feels like they had so little confidence that people will come back for season 2 that they decided to write one of the most contrived and unnecessary endings in and ruined a beautiful story from the heart into ... a generic good vs evil story. I went from being extremely excited for season 2 to not even having ANY interest in continuing after the writers showed just what kind of petty people they are to the viewers and the characters.

I won't spoil the ending but all I'll say is that if you want this show to be a 8-9 out of 10 instead of 7, stop watching at the first credits of the final episode.

I'll fight, ANY, CREATURE, Simulatcrum, contraption, refuse that claims this show is not a masterpiece. Just.... just don't even start. Here I am, thinking, Okay, how can a 24 episode Gundam show possibly have a satisfying ending? HOW? That is simply not possible, right? WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG. THE POWER OF NO FILLER. THE POWER OF IMMENSE, JUST MONUMENTAL, JUST EXTREME AMOUNT OF PLOT PROGRESSION WITH EVERY EPISODE. I won't say that this show is perfect, no it is not. LOTS of interesting plot points were not explored. The conflict between Earth and Space, the aftershocks of what happened later in the season. BUT, ... does that matter? NO IT DOES NOT.

MUSIC.

ANIMATION.

ART DIRECTION

MOST CHARACTERIZATION

PLOT

ENDING

ANIMATION

PRIDE MONTH RAINBOW POWER

GUNDAM

10/10

Overall this show is great but it is extremely overrated. I think it is heavily carried by the strengths of the art direction, character design, and characters themselves. The plot itself is nothing to really extraordinary.

I think it commits the common trope within this genre where the actual most interesting character is not the main character, but rather, a manageable character is put into that spot. Makima is the most interesting and mysterious character, but she is elevated to too high a degree that no writer would be able to write a compelling enough story to justify her overall existence, so a relatively tame ... and simple person like Denji is put into the spot light.

I don't like this kind of story, I like Denji and Power but I'm not particularly interested in them since their motivations, when you strip away the veneer, is very simple and pedestrian and after the 5th time of him saying "Oh I just want to date Makima", it is just like "Okay we get it." I didn't feel any personal engagement with his fights since his reasoning doesn't relate to me at all.

On the plot, sometimes the story just bogs down in unhyperbolic terrible writing. For example, in episode 9, we have this team of apparently very competent criminals who just attacked a public branch in a major terrorist attack, deciding to saunter, stand around, chat, doing everything except making a fast and clean getaway.

They were then all smushed by Makima, after which, the survivors are *still standing around chatting about what just happened", so they could be ambushed by Kobeni, who goes from having 100% accuracy shooting behind her without looking to having 0% accuracy when she is actually aiming from a stationary position. There are a tonne of these kinds of "oh so now the plot needs to happen so everyone will now have 0 IQ" moments in the story that, when you see them, are infuriating. it feels like we are watching the writer playing with action figures and making up BS to have things happen to these toys rather than a story that is unfolding in a sensible way.

I don't think this is a masterpiece, I don't think it's the show/story of the generation, I do think it is a very beautifully animated and excellent showcase of what this medium can deliver.

I think Sound Euphonnium Seasons 1 and 2 are perfect shows in that they allow you to connect totally with the various characters, everyone, every story, is given the room to breathe and develop naturally.

That is the biggest downfall of this movie. THis movie tried to cram an entire season worth of story into 80 minutes, and in the end, no one could see their stories develop satisfactorily. It was completely rushed.

Not only that, but the story itself makes no sense competition wise. They played one of the most sophisticated and well executed pieces at literal world class level, and they didn't even ... make the top 3, like, really????? It just makes no sense.

All in all, they felt like a recap movie for a season that doesn't exist, with a result that feels very contrived to force them to lose.

I really don't think my words can justify just how much I love this show. I related to this story, and every character (Except Asuka) on such a personal level that I have literally no words to describe my thoughts other than that it is the best show I've ever watched in this medium.

I cried more during this than any other show I've watched and it NEVER tried to make me cry. The amount of details and empathy, understand, and emotional intelligence of this is beyond anything I've seen except Violet Evergarden which is also made by this same studio. It delves totally into ... the anxiety, pride, fear, struggle, of being a musician. It also shows the essence of music which is that we only put up with all of this because we love music.

The scenarios are realistic, it is never contrived, there is never any deus ex machina, you know what will happen and it hurts just as much when someone fails or things don't go their way. Even people being selfish, passive, lazy, you are made to see things from their perspective, walk in their shoes.

Sorry I am intoxicated as I was downing an entire bottle when watching the final few episodes. All I can say is that this is a masterpiece, and Kyoto Animation are masters at their craft. No one can tell a story about something or someone or someones like they can.

Finally after the disasters that were the first two seasons, this show finally grows some legs and delivers an engaging plot progression where interesting characters actually stay alive for long enough to have satisfying character arcs.

I enjoyed the political intrigue and subterfuge even if rationally speaking it was kind of stupid and Erwin still has more plot armour than the Armour Titan. The show finally begins to explain some of the mysteries that it kept close to the chest for years and the reveals were not *completely* stupid.

Eren was written out of the story for a long time to allow the story to ... progress, and when he returned, he no longer halted the story whenever he was on screen, but he was a part of it, and dare I say, a somewhat okay participant in the happenings. The same can be said of Christa/Historia, whom went from annoying and useless to not annoying and still mostly but not entirely useless. I loved her warrior queen arc since I always love warrior queens in literature.

Overall I thought Season 3 finally stopped trying to live in the shadow of the need to deliver an awfully paced shock erotica show and decided that the story should actually take center stage, and it really shined because of it.

This show is the embodiment of "I'm 12 and this is deep". The plot progresses via the most monotonous three notes being repeated over and over again throughout the entire season. Something relieving happens, requiem starts to play, something hopefully happens, repeat. The characters ultimately have zero agency or story, whatever they have is just set dressing because their ultimate purpose are all to sacrifice themselves for the most unlikable main character since Shinji and Shirou.

The dialogue from Historia and Eren are some of the most shallow drivel I've heard too. They constantly give these speeches that, when you stop to actually listen to ... it, is barely more meaningful than the hormonal screeching of a teenager.

It is especially bad because whenever these two characters are not the ones driving the plot forward, when it's Erwin, Mikasa, Amir, Berntholt, Reinhardt etc., the show is genuinely enjoyable, everyone are making rational decisions and meeting the to be expected consequences.

Whenever Eren and Historia come on screen, everyone immediately loses their braincells and the writer goes back to dangling these actually likeable characters in front of your face and literally rip them to pieces.

Ultimately, I can see why people enjoy this show, the animation is top notch, the art design is excellent, the premise, and mystery is all extremely compelling. However, that is where the good points end, the actual story being told within this set of excellent characteristics is some of the most predictable and eye-rolling disaster/snuff erotica there is, complete with asinine dialogue that makes you cringe if you actually listen to what they are saying.

This show is excellent for players of the game to help us interact with the story in another way, but as a show, it is perfectly average. Nothing about it is offensively bad, and nothing about it is remotely exceptional either.

This show thus far makes a habit of throwing away major scenes to build excitement such as grand entrances of characters or final stands due to what I assume to be Hypergryph being unwilling to pay the kind of money to animate action.

I genuinely question what this is for, I don't foresee anyone who doesn't already play the game being interested in following ... this on a week to week basis since the show doesn't do anything to justify the minutes upon minutes of exposition, it doesn't give you a pay off with some terrific action. What is the point of a show about Arknights if you decide to not animate 90% of the action?

Ultimately I think again this show is perfectly average thus far, I doubt that at this point most non-game watchers are still even around after the three very slowly paced episodes. Talk about suffering from lack of ambition and vision.

This show is nothing but fun, it knows what it is and doesn't try to be anything but.

The character design is phenomenal, the English voice actors are phenomenal, the action is phenomenal, and the music is excellent. The setting and world is perfectly concise and clear and optimized to deliver the story.

I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this show from beginning to end, it never left me feeling bored and I was totally emotionally involved in almost every person in the cast. This like Zoids Zero Century or a restaurant with a menu containing 2 or 3 items only is a perfect show ... that knows exactly what it wants to do and doesn't nothing but that perfectly.