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Today, I'm going to be reviewing the conclusion to my favorite anime series of all time. Usually, I just go ahead and talk about everything at once, but today I'm going to format this review differently. Today I'm going to rate every episode individually, and talk about the plot of each of them. So lets get into it.

Episode 1 - Mayoi Hell (Part 1):

This is the beginning of Owarimonogatari 2nd season, and it starts off strong. We see our main character, Koyomi Araragi, searching for the eccentric Mayoi Hachikuji, a ghost of a 10 year old hit by a car ... 10 years ago. During his search, he ends up in hell, and finds who he's looking for there. After an explanation from Hachikuji about her circumstances and everything else Araragi wants to know, Hachikuji and Araragi set out to get to the top of hell, so Araragi can return back to earth. This episode starts the Mayoi Hell arc off very well, and keeps you engaged through and through. It's nice to see Araragi and Hachikuji reconcile and go on an adventure through hell. We also get tons of information on all our questions.

Episode 2 - Mayoi Hell (Part 2):

As Araragi and Hachikuji's journey comes to a close, they find Tadatsuru, a character introduced a few installments back in Tsukimonogatari. They talk for a bit until Tadatsuru gives Araragi a way to return back to earth. On his way back though, he reaches down and grabs Hachikuji without thinking, bringing her back up into the world when she isn't supposed to be there. This is a nice conclusion to this arc.

Episode 3 - Hitagi Rendezvous (Part 1):

It's White Day, and Koyomi Araragi appears at his girlfriend's, Hitagi Senjougahara, house and asks her out on a date, to which she accepts. This arc is a break from all the chaos as nothing bad happens, it's just our main character and his girlfriend going on a date.

Episode 4 - Hitagi Rendezvous (Part 2):

After going to a planetarium, Araragi falls asleep and dreams about Ougi Oshino, a relatively new transfer student at his school, which he knows very well after unraveling the mystery of a classroom that existed and didn't at the same time. He continues his date with Senjougahara, ending it off with a promise to use each other's first names. This was a good arc, which gave us insight into Araragi and Senjougahara's relationship. The dream about Ougi Oshino was very important, as it gives us an insight into Ougi Dark, the final arc of Owarimonogatari 2nd Season.

Episode 5 - Ougi Dark (Part 1):

This is one of the best arcs in the whole entire Monogatari series, according to the community, including me. It wraps up the Monogatari series fantastically in an emotional and happy way. We start off this arc with a meeting between Koyomi Araragi, our protagonist, Izuko Gaen, an apparition slayer, Shinobu Oshino, a 500 year old vampire confined in a little girl's body who lives in Araragi's shadow, Mayoi Hachikuji, who I've already gone over, and Yotsugi Ononoki, a living corpse owned by Yozuru Kagenui. They discuss multiple things, with the first being the consequences of bringing back an already dead person from hell. After discussing for a little bit, the group acknowledges that there is only one solution that doesn't result in Hachikuji's eternal death: making her a god by having her swallow a talisman linked to a shrine in their city. The next topic is what the true identity of Ougi Oshino is. They decide that Ougi is darkness itself, the true embodiment of it. This first episode sets up for a stellar finale to this arc and the whole series.

Episode 6 - Ougi Dark (Part 2):

Nothing worth talking about happens in this episode, as it is just the set up for the final episode. In the end though, Ougi visits the remains of the burnt down cram school in the outskirts of town, where she meets Araragi waiting for her.

Episode 7 - Ougi Dark (Part 3):

The conclusion to this arc, and the whole series. After encountering each other at the remains of the cram school, Araragi confronts Ougi about lying about her identity, revealing that Ougi Oshino is the darkness, and is also Koyomi Araragi himself. The darkness appears behind Ougi in the form of a black hole, and it starts to suck in everything around it. Araragi explains that he created Ougi out of his own self hate, and that Ougi is the darkness that resides inside of him. As the darkness grows bigger and bigger, Ougi applauds Araragi for figuring it out, before revealing that she is sacrificing herself to the darkness to save everyone from the darkness, from herself. Araragi gives one final goodbye. But as Ougi gets sucked up, Araragi comes to the realization that he cannot accept Ougi's fate. Changing his mind, he runs forward and pushes Ougi out of the way of the black hole, and he falls on top of her. After Araragi tells Ougi that he wouldn't let her die, Araragi's old friend Meme Oshino arrives. He reveals that Ougi is his niece, and Tsubasa Hanekawa, another one of Araragi's friends, appears and passes out. This leads Araragi to realize that Hanekawa brought Oshino all the way from Antarctica to resolve this. Araragi passes out, and he wakes up in his bed the next day. After leaving for his high school graduation ceremony, he encounters Hitagi Senjougahara, hi girlfriend, and Hanekawa. And thus the curtains close on Koyomi Araragi's high school life, and the Monogatari series itself.

This was an amazing ending and really solidified the Monogatari series as my favorite anime series ever. I recommend this to everyone with a pulse in hopes that they'll enjoy it and love it just as much as I do.

I am only giving this a 1 out of 10 because of the wasted potential. This is a novel idea that could be expanded upon tremendously, yet shaft let it burn in hell for eternity after releasing it as an April fools joke. I am so upset with shaft right now words cannot describe it. My favorite rom-com and favorite anime series of all time in a crossover? It sounds like a dream come true. But no, shaft just wants to take my dream and stomp on it a million times, then throw it into and incinerator and take the ashes and crap all over ... them and then open the gates of hell and throw the ashes down there, for them to be tortured by satan and thrown in endless flames forever. I am very disappointed in you shaft.

I can't even begin to discuss what a phenomenal manga 20th Century Boys is. This manga gave me a feeling I had never felt before while reading a manga, and kept me hooked to the very end. The way this manga is structured is god-like. and the story is nothing short of a masterpiece. All the characters are super enjoyable. There are so many different side plots happening at the same time, but it doesn't ever get hard to follow or annoying. Seeing all the side plots and mysteries and questions all come together in the end is nothing short of a groundbreaking experience. Urasawa ... really hit it out of the park with this one. (Now I just need to finish monster)

Ok, imagine this. Think of the Monogatari series, a wonderful handful of stories with amazing storytelling about a boy who helps girls with apparitions, beings that latch on to other people and affect their personality and everything about them. Now take that amazing series and strip away everything good about it. Now you have Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai.

This series has basically the same premise as the monogatari series, but it isn't apparitions that affect people in this series, it's adolescence syndrome. This syndrome can do basically anything to a person. It can make them invisible to everyone, make ... them lose all their memories, make a clone of them, make them switch bodies with another person, make them the source of a time loop, etc. That concept is novel, but it just isn't right.

We get almost no information on this syndrome. The only piece of information we get that could be remotely connected with this syndrome is that it has to do with someone's mind. That's all. This super powerful syndrome that can literally make a person disappear from existence to everyone else on the planet has no information about it. We don't know a single thing about it.

Then we arrive at this series biggest problem. The filler. You'd think you couldn't put that much filler in a 13 episode anime, but you'd be wrong. The only important and necessary part of this anime is the first arc, episodes 1-3. After this arc, the rest of the series is ALL filler. It has nothing to do with the plot at all and is completely useless. If all this series was was the first 3 episodes as a movie and nothing else, i'd have given this a 7 or an 8. But no. They just had to make 10 EPISODES of filler in a 13 EPISODE anime.

So, basically what I'm trying to say is that this series is not good. Watch the first 3 episodes (I didn't even mention half the problems with this anime, so only even consider watching it if you're into garbage) and then stop. If you decide to watch this, only watch the first 3 episodes and then stop right there unless you like the series so much you're willing to watch 10 episodes of filler.

Normally, I'm not a big fan of series with a female lead. But that doesn't necessarily mean that I haven't watched any. Majo No Tabitabi is one of the series that I've watched that has a female lead, and it was very good despite its subpar plot.

Majo No Tabitabi takes place in a fantasy world where there are 3 different levels of mages. There are the novices which can only use basic magic, the apprentice witches which are the underlings or disciples of the witches, and the witches, which are the highest level of mages and can use all kinds of magic. Now, this isn't ... that original, seeing as a lot of other series have premises very similar to this. But Majo No Tabitabi executes this unoriginal premise excellently, and it makes for a breath of fresh air.

I'd like to say the plot is is good, but this is where the series dips in quality and is its biggest flaw. Judging of of the premise, I didn't expect this series to have that original of a plot either. I'll say this. Sure, the series has a plot that could be considered original, but that doesn't mean that it's good. The plot for this series is very bland. So we have our main character, Elaina, who grows up reading a lot of books. Out of all the books she read, her favorite one was the adventures of Nike, a famous witch who traveled the world with no real goal in mind, only to see what was out there. This inspires Elaina to become a witch when she grows up and do the same thing that Nike did: travel the world. After growing up, she becomes an apprentice witch and becomes the disciple of the Stardust Witch, another famous witch. Elaina learns from her and eventually becomes a witch, the highest level of the mages. After acquiring her brooch, the thing that signifies that she is a witch, she sets out to travel the world. This plot is not good. The problem is that there almost is no plot. The main story is this series biggest flaw. There is no plot, and the series suffers from it.

Now to the characters. The characters are pretty good. We have our main character, Elaina, who seems nice but can be really sadistic sometimes. I like this because she's not just another generic nice girl with no other character, and I really like this. I like to compare her to Maika from Blend S, but while Maika can't control her sadistic nature, Elaina can and she uses it to her advantage sometimes. Then there's Saya, who we meet in the second episode after she crashes into Elaina while flying. She doesn't bring that many new traits to the table and ends up being one of those "i blame everything on myself and i apologize about a quadrillion times" characters. (Sorry if that was a bad metaphor.) Anyway, she's not very imaginative and ends up being a character who we've seen in countless other series. I would go over all the other characters, but they're all pretty good. I'll just say that.

Well, I'm lazy and I don't want to write anymore so this is the end of my review. I recommend this series to anyone looking for an adventure anime. I enjoyed this series and i hope anyone who reads this review and decides to watch it will too.

Fuck this series. I'm not even going to try to write anything good about it. I'm absolutely disgusted at this series. I don't even know where to start.

This series starts off with some random kid in a cave so dark you can't see anything but his face. It turns out he was betrayed and got thrown down there. Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention that the animation is like someone presenting a slideshow. The animation is god awful and the series itself is worse. Anyway, this kid kills a generic monster and eats it's meat, which turns his hair white and makes him extremely ... op? What the fuck? It's never explained why it does this to him. Well this kid finds some blonde vampire girl who falls in love with him and wants to do the naughty no no with him. They go on a adventure to get back at the person that betrayed them.

Now it's time for the bad stuff. All of the characters except for Yue are insanely two dimensional. They have absolutely no character and are bland as can be. Let's introduce all he characters.

Hajime - Our main character. Fucking generic and 2 dimensional. He's like one of those extremely fucking annoying edgelords with an arrogant personality and is op as fuck.

Yue - The only character that's not dog shit! She's still garbage though. She's some vampire that was exiled from the world for being way too powerful. She's got some personality and she's somewhat funny, which is good. She's madly in love with Hajime, but I don't get what she sees in that fucking pile of dog shit edgelord.

Kaori: Ehh, okay.

Everyone else is fucking generic.

Overall, this fucking show is a fucking worthless fucking piece of fucking dog shit. Sorry for the language. I can't even put all of the reasons this anime is shit. Whatever, bye and never watch this ever. EVER. (ok i wrote this out of anger so that's why theres so much cursing and it's not strcutured well.)

I'm gonna come out and say this before my review. I cried at this anime. Hard. But crying at an anime doesn't necessarily mean it's good. Darling In The FranXX was one hell of a ride, don't get me wrong. There were good points about it, such as how the artwork was pretty good and the story was decent. But it just goes downhill from there. One of the lowest points of this series were the characters. They all felt generic and underdeveloped. None of the characters got much attention or development other than Hiro & Zero Two, since they're the main characters. The events ... felt jumbled up and not really organized well. SO many things were going on at once and it wasn't enjoyable. Another low point was the villain. Through 90% of the series, you thought the kalaxosaurs (or however you spell them) were the villains. But nope! The series throws a curveball and introduces the true villain of the series 4 episodes before the end of the series. Due to this sudden and late debut, they have no time to explain the villain, and so the villain is just a generic evil entity that wants to rule over the universe. It has no backstory, making the villain just as underdeveloped as the characters. Back to the characters, they should have organized the little character development the characters have better because while Hiro & Zero Two have somewhat okay-paced development and relationship, the other characters' are all over the place. Take for example how the gray hair girl just instantly starting loving the other guy for absolutely no reason, and then they want to get married all of the sudden? It makes no sense like the rest of this series. What I'm trying to say is that despite the good points in this series, it fails to live up to other actual good series. It ends up being an unenjoyable (at least to me) mess of events with unenjoyable characters and a generic story.