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Mar 28, 2022
The whole anime can be summed up in 4 words: "a worse Darwin's Game"
The characters are given powers are are forced to engage each other in combat, which has been done before plenty, however this example is pretty bland. The characters with the more interesting abilities are side characters and it all devolves down to the main character using his somewhat interesting ability. However, since his ability requires him to manipulate what others think to use it, the whole anime just devolves into a nonsensical mind game where it's like:
"haha! I knew you were going to think that therefore I planned ahead and made
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preparations"
"oh I knew you were going to make those preparations so I prepared to counter your preparations"
"I knew you were going to prepare to counter my preparations so I prepared to counter your counter to my preparations"
until the viewer is just there like "yup, he's the main character, he can't lose".
Like what many others think, the beginning and end were lackluster at best. The ending was particularly unfulfilling, with a setup for a next season, though I doubt I'd want to watch the next season. A lot of the available powers we see are strong but boring, which is good if you're a player, but as a viewer I'd want something more interesting than useful. I can't interact with any of the powers myself what do I care about their efficacy in battle? There are 2 main abilities we're shown: arm cannon and quintuple physical abilities. One turns your arm into a big gun and one makes you stronger by a factor of 5. Both are useful but bland and they're so often shoved in our face. With the only limit being the creator's imagination, I find it hard to think of a reason why so many powers are so bland and why so many of them are reused. If you want a comparison of what a creator can do with custom powers, look to the nen system in Hunter x Hunter. The creator took time and created a lot of unique abilities and even though the Enhancer category of nen users boiled down to just "I make myself or something I have stronger" that was made up for by their applications and personalities.
Speaking of characters, we barely get any character development for the main character and almost nothing for our side characters. One of my favorite side character's back story was fully explained with a 15 second flashback. I'm torn because I usually hate when the story focuses too much on side characters, but with almost no representation, it barely feels like any of the side characters exist outside of MC's story. Some of the characters have a lot of potential, but the main group doesn't have a lot of potential, they felt like they were made to be self-inserts.
This anime also suffers from the 3D animation struggle. It's much easier to animate a fight scene using 3D animation rather than 2D, but it feels jarring and ugly a lot of the time, and this anime is no exception.
All-in-all it's just bland. Not really anything that makes it bad other than a lack of things that make it good. There are plenty of good anime out there so why not watch something with a lot of charm or character over an anime that's just here. It took me so long to finish this anime because it's hard to come back and finish something when there were other anime I preferred to watch in my dwindling free time.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Sep 25, 2020
This season had a serious issue with pacing. The first half felt extremely fast, a pace that made it hard to enjoy. The second half felt properly paced... until the last episode. Otherwise it was just about the same as the rest of the series: Fancy foods, flashy scenes, clothes optional. I've seen that this is the final season and it feels like there's nowhere else to go besides another contrived conflict within the Food Wars Cinematic Universe, so the ending has left me disappointed. If this truly is the end I wanted much more than I was given, I wanted something else. I would
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go into detail, but that would be very spoiler heavy, but if I was the creative drive behind the events of this season I would have definitely changed the brackets for the BLUE's finale. This one is the weakest of the seasons IMO, it is practically the same stuff with different people and dishes so I don;t have any complaints about the general content of the season, it is what it is even though it isn't very different from previous seasons. The pacing issues and ending really did a number on it for me though.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Aug 29, 2020
This series as a whole has been a great ride to go on, while the majority of its individual elements are just about average, the culmination and the characters have made the series stand out for me.
Very few anime have managed to bring me to write a review for them, but this one has done something special. I wish there was a new feature on MAL, letting us choose a favorite episode much like our favorite anime. Episode 7 is one of my favorite things I have watched. The break from the usual antics and going deep into left field causing me to step
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back and think "did I accidentally start watching something else?" however the episode played it completely straight and it was so refreshing amongst all of the heavy themes in the show. In context and out of context the particular scene is worthy of praise.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Oct 24, 2018
While overall I liked this season a lot, I felt it took much too long to get to the good episodes. The first 6 episodes of the season felt underwhelming, and I found them too long and drawn out. After episode 7 started, I started to enjoy the season a lot more. The fight scenes were great to watch, seeing Ains be his normal overpowered self was much more exciting than the daily lives of the residents of Carne village and the Great Tomb of Nazarick. The second half of this season really saved it for me as I first thought that it had drastically
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became worse than its predecessors, but ended up not being as bad as I feared. I would have ranked this season much higher than the first two, but considering half of it was lost to what was basically just a really long section of background building that could have been much shorter. Without it there would be a lot of questions later on in the season so I appreciate the background building so I wouldn't be staring at me screen like a dope.
Still worth the watch, but if I were to watch it again, I would skip straight to episode 7.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jan 11, 2018
Eromanga-sensei was an anime that I've heard many stories about before and finally decided to watch just to experience the horror for myself; in a good and bad way this anime was not what I was expecting. When I started, I expected the whole show to be an extremely perverse sis-con, and it was never as perverse as I had expected it to be despite some moments being questionable at best. Sadly about half-way through, plot holes started springing up everywhere. As I continued watching i was just left thinking how and why. When disregarding the plot, or lack thereof, it is stripped down to
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a show that's fun to watch for what it's worth, a rom-com with a harem and a sis-con. In the end it became a sinking ship I couldn't stop laughing at.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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