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Mar 22, 2016

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Kotoura-san Review:

Kotoura-san is not an anime you would expect (in a bad way). The beginning of this show is misleading, so if you guys expect a fresh engaging drama anime from this show than I suggest you guys not to watch this show.

The show starts off strong, sad, and a very well executed drama with a great visual representation about Kotoura’s past. When Kotoura was still a child she was able to read people minds, because she’s still a child that still doesn’t understand anything she keeps revealing people deepest secret, which makes other people to hate her, all of her friends left her, people ... calling her monster, she’s being bullied nonstop, and the most painful one is when her parents abandon her. Somehow she managed to live through all that painful memories and just keeps on living, alone. One day she founded an abandon cat which she decided to care for it, but in the end the cat was taken away leaving her alone again. What happens next is probably the most memorable scene in anime, she finally breaks and just screams, screams and screams. What makes this scene great is that after all that painful turmoil that being buildup, somehow she managed to live through all that, finally she just couldn’t take it anymore and she just let it all out. But these aren’t the only reason why this scene is great, the scene goes something like this; it was raining, she was told that the cat was taken away, she just stands there in the rain motionless, the camera slowly zooming in on Kotoura’s eyes, her pupils getting smaller making her eyes all white, and finally she lets out a soundless scream (this is where the music drops in), screaming and screaming she’s even stop for a brief second but then she continues screaming. This scene is sad and its freaking amazing, I will never forget this scene.

Now here’s the disappointment of this series. From dark and psychological approach, the show suddenly change after a happy moe upbeat OP starts playing. This is probably the most painful thing that an anime ever done to me. guagdisudusif (my forehead wrote that) all of those dark, sad, dramatic, and psychological theme just gone, and suddenly the anime turns into this typical cliché moe romance slice of life show, WHAT THE HELL!!!

Well that’s enough about my rant, now let’s talk about this anime’s slice of life, is it good? Well surprisingly it is. The show is surprisingly fun, hilarious and very enjoyable. Watching Kotoura’s growth overcoming her sadness is great, with the help of her friends supporting her is really heartwarming to watch. The romance is also great, it wasn’t force and there’s an actual great romantic development between Kotoura and Manabe. The comedy is hilarious, with Kotoura’s mind reading ability it makes the comedy fresh and fun to watch. But there are also some episodes that are cliché, corny and boring (beach episode), and at episode 9 – 11 the show suddenly changes into mystery, detective genre which turns out bad and then in episode 12 it returns into slice of life again, what’s with these inconsistent genre?

Now for the characters, Kotoura is definitely an interesting character especially after that prologue. Manabe is this idiotic character who always thinking about perverted stuff (this is where the gags come from), but he is a really funny and likable character. Yuriko is the president of ESP club, at first she just wants to use Kotoura as a tool to prove the existence of ESP but over time however, she recognizes how selfish she is being, and instead befriends Kotoura and the others. Moritani is the character that I hate, because her character is just forceful, she’s one of those character that you should hate at the beginning but later on they become a likable character. But it just doesn’t work with her character because all she did was feeling jealous with Kotoura and Manabe relationship, felt guilty and ask Kotoura forgiveness for what she did to her, that’s it. Kotoura’s mother also has the same case as Moritani, but her character are done much better than Moritani’s, and Kotoura’s mother only have short screentime.

The music in this show is pretty standard nothing stands out, the OP is pretty average compared to the ED, the ED is much better because the tone is right and it’s emotional. The only soundtrack that I’m impressed with is the prologue, the prologue runs about 10 minutes long and it only uses one track for that whole 10 minutes, impressive.

The art style is pretty average but its fitting for moe show like this. But then again this is not the case for the prologue, the visual is really creative, unique and memorable and the usage of color pellets for the prologue really fits the tone.

So in conclusion, Kotoura - san is a great slice of life show but it’s a letdown after what we’ve seen in the prologue. It makes you wonder how the show would be if they keep using that dark and sad tone for the whole show. I would recommend this a watch for those people who loves moe romantic slice of life comedy show but I wouldn’t recommend this show for those people who expected something new and fresh.

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Mar 1, 2016

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Gakkou Gurashi Review:

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Here’s what I think about Gakkou Gurashi, Gakkou Gurashi is amazing but it could’ve been done better.

At first I didn’t pay much attention to this series, so I just put it on my watch list. When I finally watched the first episode, I crapped my pants. I watched this show without knowing anything about it, I didn’t know the genre, I didn’t watch the trailer, and I never see any screenshot (the summary is misleading), so it was a real shock for me and it makes me wanting more.

Now here’s the problem with the following episodes, they aren’t consistent. The episodes ... jumping back and forth between flashback and present times, throwing us off from the main plot (“is this still flashback episode?”, “is this present time?”, “wait, this is present time but still in a flashback”, like that). But it doesn’t mean that they’re bad episodes instead they are all great.

The flashback shows the event before it all happens, with Megumi’s and Miki’s point of view, and I loved the way they handle these episodes with a great pacing building up to the climax while introducing us to the characters and how does the climax hit them real hard. The rest of the episodes are the typical moe slice of life show, where some of them are pretty boring but it’s still gives you a few laugh and smiles while deepening the characters.

Now for the characters there’s Kurumi she’s the muscle in the group, there’s Yuri she’s the leader of the group but her character is bland in the anime compared to the manga version (which unfortunate because she’s an interesting character), Miki is the newest member of the group (she’s the only character that doesn’t comes to an agreement with Yuki’s condition at first but as the story progresses she’s starting to accept and tries to help her in a way), Megumi she’s the teacher in the group and I say that she’s the best teacher I’ve ever seen, her love to the students are really admirable willing to sacrifice herself for her student safety, Taroumaru is a dog, at first he’s annoying and act as a liability in the group but later we see that he helped the group several times.

Now for me Yuki is the strongest character in this show her delivery in episode 1 proves that, her insanity doesn’t just affect the group but it also affects the audience who watch this show. It makes the audience on edge and having trust issues throughout the episodes. We also learnt that her insanity is what keeps the group sane (explained in another flashback episode), when they put it like that it makes sense, are you willing to live in a world where the only thing you can think of is to survive? Or are you willing to live in a world where you can smile even if the world is ruined? These reason is what makes Yuki’s character meaningful. At episode 11 & 12 is where her character shines, where she finally overcomes her delusion, we would expect her to breakdown and becoming more of a liability but instead it’s the opposite. She managed to save all of her friends (kind of), she’s willing to fight, she helps her friends overcome their sadness and she even gives us the audience a wonderful message.

but here’s the problem that I have with the final episode, it took the whole episode 11 to build up the climaxes and it ends in a satisfying cliffhanger but later in episode 12 all problems were solved in just around 5 minutes with a solution that are to convenient.

The music in this show are great especially the OP, the OP is catchy and upbeat with a very cheerful visual style but as the show progresses the visuals getting darker, darker and darker accompanied with the same upbeat and catchy song this OP works well. The ED is just there nothing really special only in a couple of episodes where the ED stands out. In episode 1 where they reveal the dark secret of this show it uses a music box as the theme song which is very fitting giving us the audience a sense of dread, confusion, relaxing, and depression all in one that was well done. For the slice of life part, the music doesn’t stand up at all it’s just there to serve some scenes but when the show become darker that’s where the music really hits the nail.

The art style of this show really fits the atmosphere, when it’s dark the color pellet are grayish and dark but when it’s not the color pellet are all bright and colorful. Now for the zombie design is a bit questionable, it’s because they cover the zombies with a purple aura to restrict the violence and gore in the show, which confuses me why since this show needs that aspect. (because the manga is really gory)

So overall Gakkou Gurashi is a great show, that has a great characters, great story, and great execution. I watched the anime first and when the anime finished I read the manga but I didn’t read it too far I just read it to the same point as the show, I want to watch the anime first. The manga for me is better but it has a really bad execution and the anime managed to fix this by adding lots of changes which is great but it also loses its consistency. I recommend people to watch this show, it is a must. it's just that this anime doesn't have enough recognition which i find it really unfortunate (like a few of my favorite YouTube anime reviewer didn't even review this show or mention anything about this show which is disappointing to me)

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