The show flows calmly but decisively from the set up of people and places into a lovely episodic format that is the main attraction of the series. Backed up by a noticeably bittersweet world building, even the most glaring defects on the plot lose most of their importance for me, making me say the story is nothing short of wholesome and entertaining.
Art and sound are meticulously crafted into a media that simply works. They transported me to a world that the producers clearly intended to show.
While the individual stories on the characters tend to be simple, they're very empathetic in a real life way. Making
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Dec 8, 2019
Plastic Memories
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Nothing about Plastic Memories stands out positively.
The set up is completely foolish. Welcome to the company where highschool dropouts pair up with hyper realistic robots to recover other robots just before their programmed catastrophic error happens. Oh, and you'll be living with your opposite sex robot btw. The plot is as cliché as can be. "Oh no! Robot deactivating other robots has feelings!" The characters are uninteresting. Their personalities and actions as original as the colors in a pack of M&Ms. Isla could be the photo of "cute anime damsel in distress". Sound and artwise there isn't much to be critic about, it's as expected from a modern ... 
Dec 8, 2019
Kimetsu no Yaiba
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Just to get done with the obvious part: the art-style fits the show amazingly and I've yet to see an action scene in anime with such a good styling and soundtrack as the one which happens in the latter half of this.
The story isn't anything special, it's a recipe as old as story telling. Underdog gets beaten down, endures because he has to protect someone special, gets power-up and wins. I feel this will become more problematic on latter seasons/movies, but for now it worked since the show was mostly sustained on the great production and only needed the plot not to fuck up too ... 
Dec 8, 2019
I find Toradora unreasonably likeable.
The art is as acceptable as it can get and the sound offers nothing spectacular. The show starts on the wrong page, as a story about a violent girl bullying a very generous and patient boy. The initial bullying dropped onto him is so over the top that it's off-putting. Quickly though, the plot tones down on that and get on the typical rom-com direction. With the ending being evident on the very first few episodes, the interest ends up being "how" rather than "if". And while I think the series could've used less forced drama and more character development, I still ... 
Dec 8, 2019
Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso
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The art style and animation first felt somewhat "uncanny valley" due to the weirdly executed lips and movements, but I got used to it in a couple episodes. I ended up feeling that it gave a uniqueness to the characters, especially the sickly ones.
While it surely has a decent soundtrack, I don't think they fit it as good as they could have, especially when overlapped with inner monologues. Having a generic (quite danceable) pop as an intro to a series revolving around classic music is a missed opportunity. The characters outside the main boy have basically zero engaging development. We're basically told who they are and ... |
