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Nichijou feels like it's a show that's not meant to be watched as if the creators only ever had the intention of various clips being reaction gifs for people to casually use in messaging.
Unless you're a Japanese schoolgirl you're not going to find anything in this show relatable.

Each character in the show feels so unimportant that I never did end up remembering any of their names. Most of the humor can be categorized as LOL XD RANDOM with little substance, or generally, them overemphasizing the intensity of any given #relateable moment as a joke. The doctor and scientist baby duo are the worst of ... all because, while the creators are actually trying to be funny with the schoolgirls, the duo isn't even trying to be funny it's just trying to be cute, and when you force "cute" that hard it's just boring.

There's nothing in this show that annoys or bothers me but perhaps even worse, I don't really feel anything at all towards it, it's just boring. Honestly, I can hardly remember much of anything that happens in the show.

If you don't get bored while watching the first episode, or if it's cute enough for you to look past boredom then you'll probably like all of it and if you did get bored on episode one, feel free to quit, the rest of the show is basically the same.

He doesn't draw hentai so I don't really know why it's such a big deal that he has to hide his career, but it'd also be hard to make the show as pure and wholesome as it is if it were hentai.

Though this piece opens up a chasm in my heart of my lost love and the child I never had, it's a poison I took with joy. Beyond a selfish romantic needing love, this is that of a father's boundless love for his daughter, Hime. There is no forced drama, only an intense overwhelming sweetness of what can only be considered the most wholesome ... content to exist in media, laced with a somber tone of a missing mother, and a vague future.
Though the show very clearly reaches into your heart to pull on its strings as it hints toward the end, by the time you arrive at the finish line you'll openly weep and be happier for it.

I wish only that this show were longer, I can't think of any other show similar to this in being only pure wholesome content, almost completely devoid of drama. Something to make me forget the general heartache that is, living.

Anime as a medium has finally peaked, a mortal that I am, I foolishly believed that all anime must exist within the human constructs of earth and the heavens above. The Abunai Sisters sit in their own plane of existence their ethereal beauty casting a tiddy shaped shadow on the rest of the industry.

As I watched this treasure of animation I found the synapses in my mind were gradually rewired to best enjoy the bodacious antics of our two stars. Nothing else dares to come close to what can only be described as pure animated bliss. Nothing else is worth watching, every television in my ... house constantly plays this on a loop, my wife, my kids, and even my dog Carlito jr. have left me, yet I am happier for it.

If mankind truly does have a purpose in this universe, it is to watch the Abunai Sisters.

Deadman wonderland is a decent anime held back by the burden of carrying one of the most insufferable MCs ever, Ganta.

Ganta is just.. ugh, faced with literally any obstacle his strategy is anime gasp, internal self-deprecation, and then use the only move he knows, only to be saved by plot armor. If only in that Nagashi massacre literally anyone else was chosen to live other than Ganta. Even the voice acting for Ganta, while somewhat less annoying in Japanese, is only tolerable enough to get you to the next scene without him in it. Said best by Shiro herself "Ganta has always been a useless ... kid".
With that said, pretty much every other character and voice acting in the show is decent though. Genuinely no idea what they were thinking with Ganta.

The show also puts too much stock in revealing their big plot twists, except that they also give way too many hints beforehand making them very obvious, to the point where you may think "was I not supposed to already know this?".

The majority of the show is a lot of good dumb fun but it takes itself too seriously, it shouldn't try to be any deeper than it is, a superpower fighting anime, with gratuitous violence, gore, quite a bit of plotholes, and an insufferable chosen-one MC.

Beastars is what happens when you take the ham-fisted allegory in Zootopia designed to help children understand racism, and combine it with the "do I wanna eat her or do I love her" theme of the Twilight Saga. Now how could they go wrong with that...

Set in a world that has clearly no thought put in it, made by lazily tossing anthropomorphic animals into 21st-century human japan, just without humans. We have our male lead (god, I had to look up their names even though I just finished watching this 5 minutes ago) the tall, skinny, too noble for his own good,but also bad boy, ... generic heartthrob Legoshi, and the small (because, size difference kink), pure white(literally, they reference her being pure white in like every episode), female self insert, Haru. Starring together in a world where they're the only people that aren't racist, oh sorry that's right it's an allegory, specieist. Except, unlike in Zootopia, it's more than unfounded racial tension, in fact, even our wouldn't-hurt-a-cricket male lead Legoshi, is seconds away from murdering Haru the first time he sees her, because.. "instincts". Also worth mentioning is the other love interest of our female self insert character Haru, the suave, popular, deep down oh so sad and broken, but they made him racist which means he's the wrong choice, Louis.

This inter-species tension is what the entire show is about, as long as you don't put too much thought into how they live in a completely unsegregated society, with a very real threat between them, and herbivores that never carry guns or any self-defense (that are shown to exist), and... yeah, again, put no thought into the world. This tension in a world that could never exist in the first place is the writing crutch they use for every character flaw, every conflict, every joke, everything, because.. that's all they have, it's the sole reason every character is an animal, and yet the show doesn't benefit from this in any way.

The character design is also the absolute bear minimum work done. There is no consistency in animal sizes, Legoshi (a gray wolf) is the same height as an elephant, and yet there are birds taller than Legoshi. Haru and Legoshi's heights were designed purely with the intent of "what is the maximum height difference we can make between them, that could still work in a sex scene?". Using their same crutch even in character design, there is nothing distinct about any of them beyond, different animals as heads, and heights.

Pretty much all of the character motivations are rooted in poorly thought-out rash decisions based on a single moment's emotions (especially Legoshi and Haru, god they're insufferable), then again, we are talking about high schoolers so that isn't too far-fetched, just unpleasant to watch.

All in all, this is just your generic slice of life, romance anime except everyone is a horny racist furry.

Oh, the little 5-minute side story about the hen that lays the eggs, and Legoshi liking egg sandwiches was fun though, genuinely got a laugh out of me.

On its own, completely separate from the 1st season, this would be a decent anime, but it isn't a separate entity and it can't be graded as such. I haven't read any of the manga so, as others have done, this will be graded entirely on its anime presentation (and will be updated if it needs to as episodes are released).

Season 2 is a completely different show in pretty much every sense, but worst of all by its structure. In the first season, nearly everything that actually happened is due to the blood, sweat, and tears of the children in the orphanage. In season 2, ... the vast majority of problems are fixed by chance/luck, in fact, it's so luck-based I can't think of a single problem where the resolution wasn't by pure happenstance.
On top of every plot development being by luck, it's so rushed that you can't even enjoy what they get right. I'll explain in further detail with spoilers

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The entire first season covers one part of their struggle, escaping the orphanage, but it expounds upon every necessary detail in order for this goal to come to fruition and I found myself on the edge of my seat waiting for every new development.
Season 2 on the other hand, 9 episodes in, a year has passed, met norman, norman has exploded a demon facility and saved several superhero level characters, they have destroyed a town, created a weapon of mass destruction, found a cure to the degeneration of demons, lived in and left William Minerva's safety bunker, converted a bunch of demon killers against their life goal, and found a cure for norman and the other lambda test subjects. Excuse me, what? where did the pacing go? there are several seasons worth of content here if you follow the 1st season's careful pacing.

If this was its own show, I'd probably enjoy it somewhat, but instead, they built this skyscraper of garbage on top of the golden foundation of the 1st season. I expected to be let down because I doubted there was any way to follow what we had just been through in season 1, but jesus christ, this is an entirely different show.

As with other reviews, this is also a review for both seasons, baby.

Space Dandy is an episodic show following our main characters Dandy (a human, maybe), QT (an obsolete cleaning robot), and Meow (a cat-like alien otaku). If you don't enjoy the Dandy way of floating through life after the first few episodes then the show most likely isn't for you, and it's fair for you to drop it.

Each episode resets at the end, which some seem to think removes its stakes, when it really just creates an environment various directors can do/try anything they want in, and the show vastly benefits from this. ... This testing ground of a show does generate a few flops though(looking at you glee parody episode), which could be skipped if you thoroughly dislike them anyway, due to its episodic nature. The majority of the episodes are just simple fun, more relaxing artistic pieces (with amazing music jesus christ) or somewhere in between, built in a universe where truly anything can happen. My only wish is that the show ran much longer, it'd be amazing to have a long-running show constantly having various directors test ideas in this blank slate template offered by Space Dandy.

My main problem with the show is actually its conclusion, where they basically explain why the show can reset each episode and still make sense. This development doesn't really benefit the show in any way though, despite this being hinted at in various episodes beforehand (which was fantastic), actually giving definite answers to explain the multiverse retroactively hinders its previous episodes. There's no longer any reason in theorizing "why" anything happens because the show gives you a catch-all answer.

All that said, personally I find this show a 9/10, with a few episodes I find done so well they're nearly infinitely rewatchable, more objectively the show is probably a 7-8/10.

My first time reading this was probably 10 years ago now, Junji Itou's Frankenstein left a profound impact on me; but this review will be of my most recent reading of it, about 10 minutes ago.
At the time, I hadn't yet read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and admittedly now I can see that it does fall in the shadow of the original piece. That isn't to say this is bad, in fact, of all mediums I've experienced thus far this is perhaps the best adaptation/retelling.

The spotlight of this adaptation, and unsurprisingly so for an Itou piece, is the spectacular art and design choices. No longer ... must Frankenstein's Monster be cast as a big dumb brute, but of a truly hideous decaying monster just as Mary Shelley had originally dreamed up. Artistically alone this is a 10/10, but it does have its shortcomings storywise. Its short page count (although much longer than Itou's typical short story) doesn't offer enough time to represent the Monster's careful sophistication, still a vast improvement over "scary big guy" in most works, but this Monster just comes off as a vaguely intelligent beast, ruled by emotion.

Though his monstrous appearance may have obscured anything human about him, it'd be impossible to not see his humanity in the end. It's been 10 years since I've read it, and it's still a powerful piece.

If you want to enjoy this fully, please watch The Tatami Galaxy first, otherwise, you'll miss some fun little details, and a portion of the symbolism won't make any sense.

Though technically a movie, I'd separate its contents into 3 episodes following our two characters (the female lead under the moniker Kohai, and the male lead as Senpai); the first 2 episodes following Kohai's tenacious approach to life in a night that refuses to end, and the last being a powerful symbolic take on getting through to someone you love.

Following The Tatami Galaxy, The Night is Short, Walk On Girl's star Kohai, is the embodiment of ... its message, to take life by the horns. With her ceaseless optimism, Kohai doesn't let a single opportunity to live life pass her by without giving it a chance, her character alone is deeply inspirational. With visuals even more brilliantly thought out backed by the most emotionally placed soundtrack, we're transported to that long vibrant night, in Pontocho.

If the first 2 episodes and final act were presented as separate pieces they both would've been improved massively, instead, they connect the two using a glue stick they found on the side of the road, and the movie suffers for it.

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The problem with the final episode: The only union between this and the other two episodes, and where I wish the movie would've taken it, is the lesson Kohai learns from The Director; always pressing forward without taking the time to look back is also going to leave you blind to other opportunities. Luckily (and I cannot stress luckily enough) for Senpai she just happens to randomly decide from this lesson that she's in love with him. There is no reason for Kohai to love the cowardly stalker, that is Senpai, the embodiment of the flaws that The Tatami Galaxy shines on, a man she hasn't shared more than brief greetings with, even so, this is the path the movie takes.

In its own right, this conclusion would be fantastic given its ocean of gorgeously animated, carefully crafted symbolism showing how, despite his own lack of awareness, Senpai desperately pushes away the love which he so hopelessly desires. Only to be saved from his own self-imposed prison by Kohai. If their past was more obscure, as it would be if this piece was alone then it would have worked. Within the context of the movie though, they should've made it either about friendship or fleshed out a deeper connection between them that was previously unnoticed by Kohai.

Despite my ranting, I do it out of love for the movie and the sting of its so transparently lost potential. Just under a 9/10.

There are several important things I need to mention before you start the show.
1.The subtitles are brutally fast, if you're a slow reader don't worry, you'll probably be used to it by the 2nd episode.
2.Although I didn't think this needed to be said, don't take the show so literally, or look for an overarching plot (this is not a slice of life anime).
3. If you're a NEET, hikikomori, or just a general recluse, this show will be painfully relatable, if not, it'll be less impactful, but still provide some meaning.
4. Watch every episode before you judge it.

The Tatami Galaxy immediately barrages you with a stunning ... display of stylized animation and the rapid-fire narration by our MC Watashi. Each successive episode presents another what-if scenario surrounding some of Watashi's decisions as we too, often run through in our heads.
Several episodes in, this theme quickly starts becoming redundant, our only anchor to progression being a few meta-jokes here and there, and the ever-increasing absurdity of each iteration. The exact events that unfold each time are insignificant, their true purpose simply to show us what Watashi truly desires out of life.
As we near the finish line our narrator starts being more honest with us, unraveling the, what should now be rather transparent anyway, blindfold. Then it just ends, leaving a noticeable impact on your heart, or you didn't get it, and write it off as pretentious.

As a heartbroken recluse with no close friend, this hit me pretty hard. Perhaps The Tatami Galaxy is just the push some of us need to stop worrying about infinitely possible outcomes and "Grab the opportunity dangling in front of our eyes."