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So this is the dumbest sh*t that I ever had read in my entire life!

There is a tale about 3 priests that are visited by the Devil himself and so he asks them; if it was possible to time travel, what would they change in human history?
- The first priest said he would've prevented Adam and Eve from eating the forbidden fruit.
- The second one claimed a more bold statement saying he would've tried to convince the Devil to be loyal to God instead of creating the very first sin.
- The third priest was the most humble between them and so he kneeled and prayed ... to God asking: "O Lord, please refrain me from the temptation of changing the things I can't".

That being said, the most succesful time travel stories are always a way to tell us that despite our knowledge, our struggle and so, the world has its own flow and one fish can not change the course of a waterfall, every action unfolds unexpected reactions and for every achievement you have to offer an equal sacrifice, for example: if you wish to be a master in your craft you will have to offer your time and maybe your health too, translating that for a time travel situation, often when the protagonist tries to save someone who had already passed away they will have to offer another life(frequently his own) to achieve that goal. This is a way to understand that we are no demiurge and reality is no sandbox of ours to play with unscathed.

So where does Tokyo Revengers connect with all this? At the beggining it's just the regular time travel thing that forces the protagonist to take a deep look into his own misery through the past and perceive his own flaws during his life, his powers unveil how pathetic he is and offer him a chance for redemption, so far so good, but halfway through the story it already starts to crumble mostly due to an overly stretched arc, the protagonist takes way too much to evolve and so he is always beneath the situations. Oof when the protagonist finally seize control of his powers and starts to grow he realizes then that it's all for nothing since the main problem that keeps him away from fixing the things is that the antagonist is cursed by his own brother who were the first to time travel in attempt to cure him in the first place(!?).
Well, the thing is that time travel isn't free and takes its toll on you, so at the very end the author decided to override everything before and Deus Ex Machina through the world so the protagonist now can solve everything, save everyone, cure every curse and befriend every villain and turn them into nice pals despite their own nature and past that shaped them, end.


Story: 1/10

Characters: 2/10 - at some point there are some dilemmas that forces the different personalities of the characters to shape them but it turns all to nothing since they are all puppets in the grand design of the author/protagonist.

Art: 5/10 - not bad, not great.

Overall: 1/10

This is one of the most underrated and misplaced animes from last decade, a hidden gem buried by ero-cosplay and the displeasenteries of "cult" people. This is where Evangelion, Brave New World and Jersey Shore(like some other dude already said) meets altogether. Yes, the script have some flaws, and some of them are cheesed to enhance the climax while others are just there poorly written, but none of them really spoil the entertainment of the show.

The world is set in a post-apocalyptic era and is ruled by a former corporation named APE, who is very akin to discrete organisations such as the Masonry whose inner ... shape is layered like an onion, despite their unity and cooperation only a very few holds real power and knowlodge about their final purpose, and so it is even in its deepest circle, whitin the council members(aka Lamarck Club) only three of them know the truth and it's because they're part of the same body of VIRM(an alien entity displayed like some sort of catharism gnosis).
So at the beggining of the show APE is not just an enterprise but it's now a new world order being the absolute government and the religion, controlling every lilttle aspect of the society and its vicissitudes, leading to a society of elders living in the underground who doesn't reproduce anymore, they reached this state for mankind was willingly giving her freedom away to achieve immortality and safety, this was achieved through the exploration of magma energy, that awakened the klaxosaurs who threatened hunan life, the thing is that klaxosaur could only be beaten by mechas piloted by a pair of young male and female humans synchronizing in a very similar way to a sexual intercourse(at this point I know it seems very odd but this is not wasted fanservice), so APE controls the natality by producing humans in laboratories.

So in resume we have an Antichrist government who controls every little aspect of everything, useless natural humans who prolonged their lives by sterilizing themselves and giving away their freedom, babies produced in labs for warmongering reasons, some monsters that attacks mankind and VIRM behind the curtains who promised immanentization of the eschaton but intends to deliver death to all beings.

The history follows a path well known to some older titles from Gainax, the antagonist is hidden in the first arc so the protagonists fight against a decoy or their later allies, in this case APE is presented as the good guys in the beggining only to be known as antagonists in the very end, klaxosaurs were the real allies that are fought earliier.

For me the show really sparks through the side characters and the more slice of life episodes, that depicts despite the fact that APE tries so hard to control mankind(even through hard brainwashing and erasing the past), real human nature is inexorable and we complete each other through our union, in this case male and female, the real victory is when the characters marry each other, start a family and keep growing having multiple babies, rebuilding the world following a more natural order abandoning magma energy, the bionical cities and so. Darling in the Franxx is the case of some serious future reactionarism kinda of thing.

Deus ex machina through cyber-gnosis or simply: Kidou Senshi Gundam Suisei no Majo.

First of all I would like to appoint that the pace of this show is somehow compromised to help build a relationship between the characters(it starts slow and later gets rushed), that despite this, end up being very clunky just because some of the characters aren't real persons but intend to be like archetypes or merely someones will(some of the characters are literal homunculus), the post prologue beggining is kinda shady about its aim and attain to some college vibes, mixing the casual life of a brand new student with some transhumanist dilemmas. ... So at the first glance it's not that bad nor that good, but it's enough to keep the viewers interest...

Moving to the second phase of the show; the conflicts from the prologue starts to come to the surface and this is where the show fails so terribly to deliver what we were expecting and instead it is totally eclipsed by the will of Suletta Mercury, every topic raised before turns out to be only a shallow background and all universe bends to the whim of Suletta; no one is held accountable for their actions, no one really pays for their sin or even have to burden with them, all by the power of the "witch" who manages to transcend the gundams curse further and beyond with no consequence, Prospera ends up getting what she wanted through the intervention of Suletta despite wrecking havoc on Earth, so both of the wives can have heavy criminals as their father and mother-in-law. Shaddiq is the one scapegoated to receive all the blame for everything willingly and with a smile on the face as he was destined for this and more than that as he himself chosen this path beforehanded. The old hags from Peil who were supposedly the villains in the last arc got retired to their houses to drink tea like some good gramdmas and Delling Rembran is just a passenger observing the story.

Overall this is just lost potential, during the development of the show there are really some interesting topics that are trashed or simply put aside to force a happy ending around Suletta who at least metaphorically turns out be a mini demiurge that can rewrite the flow of history based purely on personal interest.

After torturing myself and reading Black Clover almost to it's end, this is my take on this; while this is not the worst anime/manga ever(since there is Devilman Crybaby, Re:zero, Danmachi, etc out there), it is definetely the embodiment of pastiche and cliché, the most generic, tasteless, soulless and meaningless work of fiction that I ever saw.

Author said somewhere that Berserk was his greatest inspiration, let's see the ressemblance of it:
- MC uses a big chunk of metal sword
- ...aaaand that's it

Let's compare this to Naruto instead:
- MC is orphan and there is a mistery about his parents, his best friend and rival is also ... orphan
- MC is apparently a total loser but find out later that he's the most overpowered character in the universe thanks to the devil inside him that turns out to be a friendly pal
- His power represents some kind of taboo
- MC biggest dream is to be hokage
- His best friend and rival is a talented natural genius and a introspective person
- MC forces friendship in all sorts of villains
- MC is always the underdog despite being overpowered
- There is even a shippuden moment where MC spend a lot of time training to change outfit and doesn't evolve at all, so he have to train more at incovenient times to fill the gap
- Someone had to kill he's entire clan sparing only the lil sibling for him to be hated...
- Overly stretched story arc
- Even the kabbalah symbolism, lol

This is not even a parody, all of it + copy/paste from other sources and regular fanservice like harem farming and bland characters mixed with poor writing skills to tease zoomers with no culture at all.

The art is not bad, there are some cool designs, but it's not great also, there are some confusing panels, it's nothing that deserves your time appreciating for so long.

Mob (Psycho 100)
Asta (Black Clover)
Saitama (OPM)
Harry Potter (!)

The MC name gives it all, this is not supposed to be very original, it's a parody from Harry Potter that includes some elements from One Punch Man and some other mangas. At the very beggining, I would say the first 20 chapters, Mashle is pretty funny and enjoyable, but as the story goes it turns to be just a tasteless pastiche that clings to the most generic clichés from shonnen genre. At some point Mashle stop being so casual and clowny and presents us with a myriad of artificial characters that are just there to be stepped ... by the MC(but without the former comedy copied from OPM and without any real drama or philosofical dilemma), side characters are there just to pretend that there is a vivid and lively world.

I would recommend like I said only the first 20 chapters, the rest of the manga is just as bad and pointless as it can get.

First of all this show seemed to me more like a propaganda than anything else, its premise is something like Toy Story or the Cogito Virus from Ergo Proxy but instead the androids keep following the laws of Asimov, so they develop their own personalities with their own desires that they only can manifest in certain areas but always attached to their owners good.

There are a few interesting moments in the show for example when 2 androids trick each other into making the other one believes they're humans instead but overall they are all portrayed as one sided good beings bearer of "hearts", it's just ... too cringe how the authors tried to make a androids cause of this, there are other latent conflicts that are just lost potential, they are there but never emerge to the surface, like the problem of humans interacting too much with the androids and the demography decrease, the people concerned with this are fast paced portrayed like some emotionless boomers that just dislikes robots for no reason and even distrust them despite owning them.

The episodes are too short to be boring and most of the time there is nothing appalling too until the end, the very few humans that the show presents us are dull and empty, being no better than the androids as characters, all that's left is a sense of emptiness and unpurpose.