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Mar 16, 2025
If you like Action, good visuals and that feeling of power and coolness that you felt in your childhood when you saw Star Wars, or Dragon Ball Z, or Shaolin Showdown or Megas XLR, then this anime is for you.
Don't expect:
- Exceptional storyline -- It's as simple and straightforward as can be. MC shows up at the last moment, struggles, improves, wins, repeat.
- Complex characters -- Simple 2D characters. Each char has one main motivation or quirk or drive, and that's it.
- Psychological / Philosophical angles (save for a few, which you need a good imagination / empathy to explore to a greater depth than
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what the anime shows you).
Expect:
- Exceptional action.
- Sick animations.
- Good music.
- That feeling that this is so coooool! (As cringe as that sounds).
- Great fight choreography.
- Interesting Fantasy elements.
- Nice art style.
Action and Art is on par with Demon Slayer (different look, but similar quality).
Characters and emotions are below par, below DBZ.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Feb 15, 2024
Jigokuraku is one of the best anime of its season, and possibly one of the most intriguing and interesting one ever.
The first season was interesting enough to make me buy the first manga volume (for the art and for the sake of collection).
While most anime are your cookie cutter simplistic hero vs villain story, whether using an isekai world or not, Jigokuraku is anything but generic. It approaches the human condition and touches on topics that are far more mature than the audience shonen anime is intended for.
Jigokuraku explores the human condition whether it is fear, acceptance, sacrifice, lies and deception, strength and weakness
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etc.
For example acceptance is explored in a touching moment in episode 7 (I won't spoil it for you), but Gabimaru's love for his wife is expressed in a beautiful way, which includes acceptance.
Fear is explored not only from the perspective of the criminals and Yamada Asaemon, but from the perspective of the beings of Shinsenkyo as well.
Sacrifice and regret although explored via a particular character using flashback scenes, is still portrayed well enough for the viewer to form an emotional connection.
And if we talk about the world, the world of Jigokuraku is very interesting, and mysterious, and the visuals, ideas and lore presented are unique.
Action scenes are also pretty good, although not the best in terms of choreography or animation quality. Some scenes are superb, while others leave something to be desired.
Overall, hyped for the second season.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Dec 31, 2023
One of the best pilot episodes of any anime ever!
I don't even care about being too critical and trying to find plot holes and issues, because isn't the point of ART to think, feel and have fun?? This is the feeling I get from this anime.
"I feel the author is making us think about both aspects and try to bring a balance between freedom and enjoyment, and stability and survival." - Me
Read more to find out how much I can over analyze a show after saying that it's just entertainment.
The whole point of this anime is how parents, employers, friends and society in general
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puts pressures on you to "succeed" and what they think is best for you, and how that is antithetical to the true YOU. Break the mold, understand what you desire, what level of success you truly want, what type of results YOU consider to be successful.
While the main character has a bucket list of ideas of what he considers to be "living life to the fullest", the main idea I feel the Mangaka is trying to convey is that we should be doing the asking of those questions to ourselves, we should be experimenting more with our own life to truly find out what matters most to ourselves.
There are several scenes where we are shown that freedom is important, and so is structure and insight. That fun is important, and so is work.
The show starts off by showing a "perfect" individual following everything society tells them to be and how that turns out.
After that, the zombie apocalypse then begins and our protagonist Akira tastes freedom for the first time and relishes it. He goes all out in frivolity and not caring about his life, safety or about gathering resources to survive.
Then, in subsequent episodes, the mangaka throws in scenarios where the lack of structure in what Akira does is also a problem, and the lack of tackling problems in a very systematic manner and not calculating his every move is also something that could potentially be fatal.
I feel the author is making us think about both aspects and try to bring a balance between freedom and enjoyment, and stability and survival.
Here, all these terms are metaphorical. If we take the life of a regular Asian kid (I'm from the Indian subcontinent), we have a lot of expectations on our head when growing up. There's the pressure to do well in entrance exams, there's pressure in doing well in extracurriculars, there's the "pressure from society" of working in a stable job in a well paying STEM field or similar well paying fields such as becoming an engineer, IT pro, medical doctor, lawyer, accountant etc. the pressure of doing as well as your neighbor's brilliant kid, the pressure of making your relatives proud, the pressure of finding a good partner etc. So many pressures, some real, some imaginary, some self-inflicted, some misjudged (and some exaggerated by me).
Overall everyone wants us to be stable, do very well, find a very partner, and live a "great" life in the hopes that we end up doing reasonably well. However, this often ends up putting us in pressure, taking up activities to be safe, taking career paths to play it safe, finding a partner who is a safe bet for everyone (each others' families, and each other) and what all these things do is try to prevent each individual from trying to reach their full potential.
Best is often the enemy of great, and great is often the enemy of good, and sometimes you need only be good to be great -- if that makes any sense (how I manage to say such intellectual thoughts without being drunk or high IDK /s).
So now you might go off trying everything, trying to find something that will fulfill your full potential, trying everything to find something that makes your heart pound faster. But, with this new found freedom and daring, comes the potential to do harm -- both to the self and others. When you are in daring mode, you might end up trying the wrong things like addictive drugs, or extreme sports, which may result in your death, or pain to your family and friends. They may have to take care of a disabled you, they may have to deal with your mental health, they may have to not ever see you because you committed a crime and ended up in jail. When you fuck around, you find out. And because risk goes up, what you find out, may not be good at all.
Which is why we then come full circle in understanding what our parents, friends, and society truly meant. They wanted us to try to be the best, be authentic, but at the same time, get on the path to working a boring stable job. Eat the cake and have it too!
As crazy as that sounds, we can do both. We can have a crack at what makes us tick, while having backup plans for when things don't go well. Just don't have a crack at crack itself.
Maybe it's just a dumb zombie show, maybe I'm being a pseudo intellectual, maybe I'm contradicting myself.
But!
This is what I feel the mangaka is truly trying to convey.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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May 24, 2023
Mushi-Shi is a masterpiece! It is a show with clever art and design, beautiful scenes, and imaginative stories.
The series is episodic and each episode has its own story.
Subtlety is an important part of Mushi-Shi and watching it is like reading a fantasy novel -- it lets your imagination run free. A few of the episode are quite scary even if they contain no horror because of the psychological effect they have on you. If you have a great imagination, this series will be very enjoyable indeed.
Story: 10/10
Each episode has a unique story and uncovers more lore about the world of Mushi.
Dialogues and characters are all
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interesting.
Art/Animation: 7/10
Art style fits the genre and feel that the show is going for, but isn't amazing or mind blowing.
Characters: 10/10
The main character has subtle character development and other characters are also seen in 3D instead of being 1 dimensional simple characters.
I feel this is a great anime to watch for those intrigued by science, detective stories and the paranormal/occult.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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