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Sep 26, 2022
TL;DR:
This show is hot garbage. It... has a followable story? but every step of it is a disaster. If the road to Miami is as messy as running over chickens, crashing into a McDonalds, and leaping to your death in a lava pit, then I do not think it's a road you should sincerely take. And that's giving the show too much credit for trying to look interesting.
Also, if you need any more indication that this is a show not worth watching, look at how dead the discussions are and how I am the first legitimate review of the series a full WEEK after
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it aired. The community speaks for itself.
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"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get." -Forrest Gump
...what the fuck? I mean, what in the fuck, why in the fuck did I watch this, and how in the fuck did this even get made? My dear god, where do I even begin?
The storytelling in this anime... it's pure genius. Whoever wrote this anime wasn't just high, he literally came down with a case of corporate greed asked himself "Okay, what is the worst possible storyline I can conceive in order to make my three minute anime look (keyword: look) interesting while also sponsoring these local businesses?" And that makes it sound like the writer actually had a plan. Seriously, it's so bad that it looped beyond the "so bad it's good" territory back to pure agony.
I mean, listing the plotlines of three of the most coherently sound (and entertaining) episodes, we got literally watching three minutes of trivia, a dream sequence, and retconning the entire purpose of the show. If that doesn't say anything, I don't know what will.
Not to mention that the animation in this anime is just bad. It's not Ex-Arm bad, it's just... bad. Like, there's a difference between laughing at a horrific abomination of a failed experiment integrating 2D and 3D animation, and watching an anime use a default splash animation that doesn't even align with the character's head. It's the kind of bad that you just feel awful laughing at, because you know there was 0 effort put into the product and laughing gives it more credit than it ever needed.
The literal 5 tracks in the OST was not the worst thing my ears stumbled upon I guess, which is really not saying much because the few times it legitimately annoyed me (see: season 1 using the same intro song YES THERE'S A SEASON ONE CALLED "Urawa no Usagi-chan" AND IT IS SOMEHOW MORE BORING YET BETTER THAN THIS FUCKING GARBAGE) paled in comparison to the sheer atrocities of everything else.
Look, this shit is pure garbage. If I had to guess, there was even less effort put into the production of this anime than Mars of Destruction, and that one deliberately cut corners to fit the animation budget of seven dollars. But instead of packing a boring storyline with some hilarious moments, this anime packs some of the wildest storylines with the most boring execution possible. Like, I kid you not, they put a literal advertisement in one of the episodes. A LITERAL AD. THIS ANIME IS ONLY 3 MINUTES LONG. HOW AND WHY THE FUCK?
I would compare this anime to the "if you don't share this with 10 other friends, you will die" email spam that happened many, many years ago. Because watching this alone will make you suffer horribly, but watching your friends suffer through the sheer garbage is probably the most sadistic fun I've had.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Jul 10, 2021
Odd Taxi is an odd case. I watched in recommendation of Gigguk's video, and seeing as I was already watching the most underrated "anime" of the season, I saw it as a challenge to the fantastic manhwa called Link Click. And so that's how I binged 13 episodes in one sitting.
Let's start with its best aspect: the dialogue. People have compared this anime to Tarantino movies quite a lot, and just by the first few episodes, it's easy to see why. Tarantino likes to give people unique dialects (sometimes switching dialogue styles between interactions) and sometimes add in quirky topics to "bring" a lot of
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character out. This gives the dialogue a next level of authenticity, with the drawback that not a lot of story will happen. Odd Taxi replicates this style well. Since this style is not commonly used, it does give a unique feel to the anime.
However, it might've done it a little too well. For the first half of the series, Odd Taxi tries to set up its characters with Tarantino dialogue, while ever so slowly building the story. It's so slow that I claimed nothing was really happening. And while the dialogue is good, it's not engaging or charming enough to really see into the characters, much less engage you for five episodes straight.
When the story actually gets going, it's very clear from the start that the writer had an end goal in mind, and everything is set up to make the end goal work. In that sense, the story is quite good. However, some of the storylines were not as interesting or even fell flat for me. It takes so long to get the story to even start, and trying to juggle so many story arcs... sadly some of them were going to fall flat. This goes for the characters as well.
I binged all 13 episodes in one sitting. And now that I have, I can finally see the flaws in recommending this anime after the runtime is done. Odd Taxi is a mystery anime to those that take its time to learn the mystery. The faster one gets through the anime, the less time one has to figure out the mystery before it is revealed. By the time Gigguk uploaded the video and recommended the anime, I was already too late.
Overall: 6/10. Decent end and decent dialogue, but the pacing is quite slow, mediocre story, and meh characters. It is in an ironic spot where you want to binge it to get through the slow pacing, but you shouldn't binge it too quickly so that you can figure out the big mystery.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Mar 29, 2021
I watched season 1 back when I was a freshman. A friend of mine was telling me about this manga that he was obsessed with called "The Quintessential Quintuplets". Now even a naive child like me in anime could tell that this was a harem, but I knew nothing of the genre but lewd thoughts. My friend insisted that the story was good, and so when the anime came out, I decided to watch it.
I hated it. Every stupid scenario played out practically the same way with no meaningful plot development whatsoever. The difference I find with Quints S1 and We Never Learn was that
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We Never Learn at least embraced their stupid antics to be stupid. As far as I remembered it, the plot established themselves as "The quints hates Fuutarou" on day 1. Then stupid antics happen with Fuutarou and the quints, but the story wants to take itself seriously like it's supposed to be a dramatic moment. And in the end, nothing important happens. It was awful. I gave it a 3/10, noting that the only saving grace the season had was the last episode, when something actually happened. There was great potential for the characters, so I was hoping maybe... *just maybe* I can trust Swift's word. His tastes might be different from mine, but I know him enough to know that something felt off when I gave the season such a low score.
First off, FUCKING FINALLY. It took a while, but the "hidden potential" actually came into fruition. Though I admit, it was a gradual incline. In those several episodes, I finally realized how I have approached the series incorrectly.
If you watch the Quintessential Quintuplets rooting for the MC, it's going to suck. Like, really suck. I don't watch harem animes to judge a "best girl". I judge primarily around the interactions between said MC and girl. And in the first 20-ish Quintessential Quintuplets episodes, all of those interactions suck. The MC is by far the worst character in the entire show, imo literally dragging down the girls whenever he's in the scene. It's only until mid-late season 2 that he does a complete 180. The real focus of the series is... well... it should have been obvious. It's the quintessential quintuplets. Whenever they are interacting with each other rather than the MC, the dialogue and the drama just gets much better. And here's where we get my favorite season 2 improvement: more girls-only interactions.
And it seemed like the author learned a thing or two from that. The girls-only interactions transition to what becomes the most impressive aspect of Quintessential Quintuplets: the dynamic relationship between the quints and the MC. The author could've taken the easy route and developed them "similarly but with different personalities" and fans would probably be fine. But instead, each character gets a chance to develop their relationship in vastly different ways by exploiting the quints' vastly different personalities. So not only do each Fuutarou x Quint interaction feel fresh and refined (beyond the first half of the season), but also any duo Quint x Quint interaction as well. It's a weird thing to describe, but if I were to try and sum it up: they took cookie cutter personality traits and Celested them into such dynamic intricacy that it becomes fresh, complex, dynamic, and interesting.
Apart from the characters, the story works for what it does, the graphics are fine, the OP/ED are good (Hot take: ED works better at 1.2x speed.), the soundtrack works... yeah I don't have any major feelings on any of them. You're basically watching the Quintessential Quintuplets for the quints.
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Overall: Do not go into this like a standard harem. A standard harem will give you stupid antics with the MC. The real focus of this particular harem are the girls. And if you retract your prejudice that "harems do not give meaningful characters," you'll be presently surprised at just how dynamic their character interactions can be.
7/10. I give a 5/10 for the first half and an 8/10 for the second. Considering how shit the first season was, the fact that I gave this a "recommendation" score should give an indication on how this season was a breath of fresh air.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Mar 3, 2021
Kaguya-Sama: Love is War Season 2 is a gift. It was truly an honor to experience a masterpiece unfold before my eyes when the world around me sank into oblivion. I could only wish that I would watch this season for the first time again.
Oh, where to start on the praise?
If I'm being honest, I had the unfair advantage of reading the manga ahead of time. Any generic romcom with an interesting gimmick would continue milking their own idea, and at some point it would become repetitive. However, the genius manga creator Aka Akasaka must've realized this, and so (s)he developed a grand plan...
It is
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not unusual for a season to get character development, but it is highly unusual for a rom-com to do so. However, as the story progresses, we can see that the characters are becoming more defined.
Kaguya, the once proud Shinomiya, becomes more and more flustered with her own emotions. Though she is calculative in Season 1, she becomes progressively more and move reactive to the situations around her, showing her true intention: becoming a normal teenager.
Shirogane, the hardworking president, is the true homeboy of the series. Though the anime explicitly says that he is hardworking in school, this season shows through his own actions that he also truly cares for everyone around him.
Chika... sadly is still Chika.
Ishigami... his entire sequence, starting towards the end of the season, is pure art...
In a typical romcom gag show, characters outside of the main ship are usually not developed. But it is here that Aka Akasaka finds a way. As the characters subtlely develop, so does the story. This development is really what makes the last couple of episodes possible. And it is here that I must commend the genius of the storywriters: one for doing an exceptional job selecting the chapters necessary to progress, two for integrating it so well with the Kaguya style of Season 1, and three for making it flow cohesively well in the first place.
The genius is within its structure, but the magic is in the details. Everything in this anime is in itself a passion.
To the voice actors: Every performance was as near perfect as it could ever be. In every episode I was pretty much always blown away by Kaguya's VA, but every character-Shirogane, Chika, Ishigami, Iino, Hayasaka, even the minor ones- all had their fair share of memorable great lines.
To the storyboard: Their work is absolutely phenomenal. All the pacing, all the jokes, and all the story that they managed to fit in is insane. Every single scene is a work of pure imagination and tribute to the source material and all the pop culture references.
To the animators: The craftsmanship, from their creativity of each scene to their transitions, while not as bombastic as ufotable's work, bring flavor and style to even something as minimalist as this.
To the sound design: An underrated part of production, each piece is usually successful at portraying the current mood.
Every little piece is like an instrument to a symphony. And their greatest achievement is how even though individually they are performing a masterpiece, together in harmony they create something magical. In a sense, it all just becomes a work of art. One does not have to look further than the OP to realize this.
In the end, Kaguya-sama was successful with its transition into an overarching story, mainly due to every episode being a hit.
10/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Nov 20, 2020
Yeah so the story's about some girl (MC girl) from drama club that likes this guy (MC guy). The premise started as a joke between the two, with MC girl taking on multiple personalities such as "tsundere-chan", "cool-chan", and "cheeky-chan" (based on the translations I read.)
So pretty much as of ch. 116 (that I binged read from chapter 1 in a night), every chapter is pretty much a "wholesome romance" that's so sweet that I swore I contracted diabetes somewhere along the way. This manga has pretty much taught me what an actual waifu looks like (which apparently... a basic personality that just happened to
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a crush) and god I want a romance rn...
... yeah not much "actual plot" happens but you know, sometimes a sugar factory is all you need.
8/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Oct 28, 2020
For the past couple of months, I have searched far and wide for what is subjectively the worst anime of all time. A search that can only be described as "enjoyable because they're so bad they're good." I have searched through the classics as well as the worst of the seasonal anime trying to find the one that will truly boggle my mind.
Ladies and gentlemen, it beings me the utmost pleasure to say that I have found it. The worst anime of all time. For if Ninja Collection is not the worst anime of all time, then God help us all.
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ask ourselves, what is Ninja Collection? Is it really a series of ten 4-minute episodes of ninjas? Who are the ninjas? Are we going to see a collection of them? The answer to all of these questions may surprise you... in which my answer is "I don't know either."
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So what really is Ninja Collection? To answer this question, we must first delve into the foundations of the genre itself, meaning we have to question "What is anime?" Merriam-Webster defines anime as "a style of animation originating in Japan that is characterized by stark colorful graphics depicting vibrant characters in action-filled plots often with fantastic or futuristic themes." In the present day, we might find this definition of "anime" to be inaccurate. Look at any romance or slice-of-life anime and you will find that we have plots that are not really "action-filled" or have "fantastic or futuristic themes". In short, our definition of anime can be broadened to the following: "a style of animation originating in Japan that is characterized by stark colorful graphics depicting vibrant characters." To be an anime, it must be an animation. Oxford languages define animation as "the technique of photographing successive drawings or positions of puppets or models to create an illusion of movement when the movie is shown as a sequence." In other words, animation should create the illusion that something is moving in the first place. This gives us a very broad definition of "animation"; after all, even a rapid sequence of pictures could count as "animation" because of how we perceive time. But that philosophical tangent can come another day.
Does Ninja Collection fit into the definition of anime? A quick look at the season and you'll see that the characters in Ninja Collection move at a pace that averages somewhere around 1 frame per second. You fucking heard that right. ONE FRAME PER SECOND. In reality, the frame rate ranges from 5 frames per second to 1 frame every 5 seconds. The damn thing is so inconsistent that you can't help but remember the horrible anomalies that are the more-than-occasional "1 frame every 5 seconds". How did anyone watching this thought this was a good idea?
To put in perspective, animation is typically done at 12 (unique) frames per second, such as Your Name, Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, and Studio Ghibli movies. That means that Ninja Collection can be about 60 times slower than most other animes you watched! Now if anyone could possibly argue that one frame every 5 seconds can create an "illusion of movement", I would laugh at their face. Thus, Ninja Collection is not really animation. Hence, by definition, Ninja Collection is actually not an anime!
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But we're not here to see anime because of the animation, we're here to see the ninjas, right? It's their story that matters...
Right, the story is fucking abysmal too.
To lighten my pain and suffering, I sped through the 10-episode 4-minute anime at a blazing 4x speed. I am astounded... astounded to say that I was fucking bored to death by episode 5. I actually felt like I wanted to cry by episode 5. Notice... this is minute 5 we're talking about here since I am blazing through this at 4x speed. I swear to God, watching paint dry for 10 minutes would be less painful than watching these 10 episodes again.
Why? How did a 4-minute story-based horror anime somehow manage to make Pupa look like a goddamn masterpiece? We first reiterate the fact that this is a 4-minute story-based horror. Apart from jumpscares, most techniques that result in the "spook" require time. The ever increasing build of tension, the creepy atmosphere, and the sense of impending doom all typically need buildup in order to become effective. Four minutes is far too short to build any effective effect (and going in 4x speed does not help its case.) However, this isn't what pissed me off the most.
What made it unbearable was that all episodes were exactly the same. The story structure is literally: 30 seconds explaining that Tokyo is run over by ghosts (THEY REUSE THE SAME 30 SECONDS EVERY. SINGLE. EPISODE), main character has a regular day, the author presents a slight nightmare, it seems like the character is in deep trouble, then some deus ex machina happens as some random guy does some stuff and we have a happy little ending. Like... the fuck? THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL A FUCKING HORROR STORY? First of all, they change the main character every episode so honestly I don't give a fuck on who appears and who doesn't. It would be fucking nice to maybe... MAYBE kill them off after the deus ex machina shows up for maybe some uncertainty? Like fucking hell, give me SOMETHING that says that these main characters may not make it? But NOOOOOO IT'S ALWAYS SOME DIVINE INTERVENTION THAT SAVES THE DAY. It is brutally annoying and the most BORING way to fix everything. Like seriously, this gave the classic "He's supposed to die here BUT NOOOOOOO SOME BULLSHIT HAPPENS AND HE LIVES" cliche.
Yeah it got old... and stale......... so... fucking... stale...
Oh yeah, in addition to changing up the main character, they also change up the deus ex machina character every episode... in which by context I THINK are the ninjas. But like... the fuck so the ninjas are now nightmare slayers? Who the fuck are these guys anyway? The answer... is in the Ninja Collection trailers. I kid you not, I learned more about the ninjas from THE TRAILER OF THE ANIME than in the actual anime. I legitimately can't...
(My favorite memory while watching the series came from episode 8. My friend and I were watching through a call when suddenly my mom came in and asked me to test the milk to see if it was spoiled. It took me a couple sips, but I concluded the milk wasn't spoiled. I look back to find I missed the entire episode, and when I asked what I missed, he said "nothing". I replied "Yeah, you're right. Drinking the milk was probably more entertaining then watching that episode anyway.")
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And now, we get to the best part of the anime: the OST. With how god-awful the animation, graphics, story, and characters are, you can... well actually probably can't imagine how low the bar is to be the best category. For fuck's sake, even if the production put the happiest idol song as the ED of a "grim" horror story, it would STILL EASILY be the best part of the season. But to my own surprise when I searched up the song, the full version of the ED does not have a chorus! Ladies and gentlemen, the best part about Ninja Collection is a song... without a chorus.
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It brings me no end in pleasure saying that I have achieved my goal of finding the worst anime ever. There is almost 0 animation. My soul started to hurt after 5 episodes of the story. I learned more about the characters in the trailer than in the actual anime. The best thing in the anime, which is the music, doesn't even have a chorus. There is nothing redeemable in this "anime".
1/10. The actual score should be closer to 0/10 for creating a black hole that made me seriously reconsider how I rate other bad animes.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Sep 9, 2020
Promare is Studio Trigger's 2019 movie that silently hit anime convos around. Like, among the talk with Demon Slayer and Weathering With You, once in a while a friend would say "Hey, are you watching Promare?" or "Hey, did you watch Promare? It's pretty good."
And since I finally have the time to catch up on movies... why the hell not?
This is my first anime from Studio Trigger, and from what I've heard from other animes Kill la Kill and Darling in the FranXX, what I'm piecing together is that Trigger takes on projects that have amazing visuals and epic battle sequences but also consistently hiccups
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on the writing and story. They aren't particularly bad, they just need writers who can not only synergize with the bombastic play, but also has the creativity and flow to give a satisfying conclusion. (In a sense, hire the Mob Psycho 100 writer.)
In a sense, Promare thrives on having a simple story so that has a very straightforward ending and predictable-but-escalating key events. It is also nice that the movie makes the effort to have very distinguishable characters and personalities. The characters and the story are, in my opinion, safe and passable, and really that's all it needed to be. I am glad that Trigger put a decent effort into making a decent story for the action, and though I'll probably forget them in a day, it never had to be in the spotlight.
The spotlight is within Trigger's animation department. Promare is easily one of the most action-heavy centered animations I'll probably ever see. Action scenes easily take up a good half of the movie, and thanks to some fantastic art design and animation, they are easily an awe to look at. I don't know if it was just me, but sometimes the frame rate in the action sequences in the beginning of the movie were inconsistent, or sometimes the action was hard to follow. Nevertheless, the action got much, much better as the movie went on, all the way down to the climatic ending. It is definitely a wild wide from start to finish, but goddamn it was a hell lot of fun.
7/10. A very fun movie to sit back and turn off your brain for its action sequences. However if you're looking for any sort of "plot" or "character", then... I mean what did you expect, this is a mecha-robot-fighting anime lol.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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