It's hard to rate this anime because it shines so much in its animation and enjoyment factor.
I liked the anime because it was very entertaining and the art was "fresh", it really keeps the action scenes feel good. But when we are more critical about the series overall, the concept isn't "new" and the story / characters aren't that good or memorable, a side from the artwork and animation of action scenes this plays out like a typical shounen anime, including the "miracles" that everyone somehow survives while the bad guys perish.
You can enjoy this anime if you're willing to ignore the flaws in the
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Jun 30, 2019
Sarazanmai
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Sarazanmai for me is another treasure given to us by Ikuhara. But perhaps one of the ones that will turn away people the most due to how absurd it is and how explicit it is at some points. If you're not familiar with Ikuhara's works, these include "Yuri Kuma Arashi" and "Mawaru Penguindrum", and follow the same formula of telling rather tales about the human psyche by following absurd concepts.
Will Sarazanmai make you uncomfortable? Yes, it will most likely. Will you go "Wtf?" when watching it? You most certainly will, will you question how could someone come up with such things? Yeah. But that's ... 
May 25, 2018
Serial Experiments Lain
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I started watching "Serial Experiments Lain" , by now in the year 2018. I can say that this serial experiments are just prophetic. Reminder, that this series was released in the year 1998. And that's the only word I can use to describe the show: Prophetic. To an extend that some scenes might hit too close to home, some others are eerie. To say that this show is an "Observation between man, information, reality, fiction and technology" would be the simple explanation that does not make justice to how complex, beautiful and again, prophetic this show is.
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