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This show makes me depressed.

I recently got into b-project when I stumbled upon the app during my daily idol game discovery and almost instantly fell in love with the characters, the beautiful art and the music. I decided to watch the anime because I wasn't too interested in anything that was currently airing and I wanted to learn about the b-project lore. What I expected was a middle of the road idol anime with no particular plot and decent animation. What I got was a bad idol anime with crappy, almost unwatchable, animation and a weird plot that makes no sense in the end. ...

Story: 4/10

While it has some good moments, most of the plot is held together with threads that ignores its past episodes and leaves the viewers with barley any idea of what is going on. For example, one episode will show an emotional moment between two characters or a character finding themselves, and then it'll all be ignored in the next episode, leaving said character or characters back to the one dimensional stereotypes we learned in the beginning. That only happens though, if a character is lucky. Some get barley any screentime at all, and their development is non-existant. Most of the arcs are brushed off for very explicit fanservice and boring dance scenes, that at least aren't CGI.

Art 1/10

If I could give this a 0 I would. The art is bad. So bad that at some points I would purposefully screenshot the stills this show had and would send them to my friends just to laugh at. Even the references on the wiki for this season are hilariously bad. I can only really compliment the fact that this show barley used (if at all) CG models and had really beautiful background art.

Sound 6/10

The music is good. I can't really say anything else because I have most of the music downloaded on my phone.

Character 3/10

I already discussed this in story, but I give it a 3/10 here because I liked Ryuji's arc quite a bit, despite it being thrown out.

Enjoyment 2/10

I literally had a better time just reading the translated stories on the wiki.

Overall 3/10

Justice for Mikado.

It's been a year since I finished part 5's manga so i decided maybe a review of it's anime would be helpful. I'm not gonna include any "jojokes" as the kids call them, but instead I'll be looking at it from a critical perspective instead of a fan's perspective.
First off, the story is ripped directly from the manga but includes extra scenes for fan service, specifically all the scene's involving La Squadra. I'm writing this directly after watching episode 27, so there has been 2 scenes dedicated to fleshing out the side gang of La Squadra, a particularly popular cast of characters in the ... jojo fandom. Some specific parts of the manga have been taken out or reworked to help the pacing of the show, which is understandable and not really horrible from my perspective. The big two I can remember both involve taking out scenes of Bruno, which don't develop his character.
Second, the art. As much as I enjoy Jojo's, I will never fully enjoy the animation that has been adapted from the manga. Some parts are extremely stiff and make it hard to compare each episode to the next. Ever since the character stills were reveled I never really liked how they looked, in comparison to the rest of the parts. I wish that part 5 had an art style comparable to season 1 or part 4, but instead it took the part 3 route of making every character slightly bland with the color choices and look the same with its art style. I do not think that any of the color changes made to the main cast look bad, I particularly like Giorno's pink suit- it is mainly the minor character's colors that hold the anime down from its manga counterpart.
The sound of jojo's part 5 is good. I can't really say much about it because that isn't what I am an expert on, but I can appreciate good sound design and I think that Jojo's excels in this department.
Now onto character. In my opinion writing good characters without them having much personality or anything to do or them being the worst is something Araki does best, but the anime just drags it down. There is not many interesting characters outside of the main cast. Sure every minor character has their quirks, and you can find a large fanbase for said minor characters online, but most of them are one off villains with unique stand that are only written so that Giorno and the gang can't get from place to place super quickly. Part 5 is like a monster of the week show in this way, but with some interesting episodes here and there. For example. the stand battles that have the most unique abilities are more likely to be interesting then two strong dudes fighting against each other. These minor characters don't really drag down the show, though, and simply provide weekly entertainment.
Overall, I enjoy Jojo's bizarre adventure golden wind a lot. Despite having a lot of criticism for the show its one of the only anime I consistently keep up with and being a fan of the series, I'd give it a 10 overall. But being a critic, I'll have to give it an 8. If you're interested in Jojo- go watch it. I'm not gonna preach a "part skipping is evil" mindset but if you need some good fights to watch or just something to put on in the background, I'd highly recommend. Jojo fans will enjoy it and so will newcomers and the show deserves all the hype it gets. So thats an 8/10 and adios.

I wasn't on the hype train for this anime, and I'm so sad I wasn't because I would consider Mob Psycho 100 one of the best anime of all time. The whole show brings a breath of fresh air into what I would consider a pretty boring genre- action anime. Don't get me wrong, plenty of good action anime have come out in the past few years, but none of them come even close to Mob. This anime has a story like nothing else, and that story excluded its not-so-anime art style. I wasn't so sure if I was going to be watching this weekly, ... after seeing the first episode I thought about just binging it in a few days, but one certain event at the end of episode 8 made me think otherwise. This show, despite all the characters it has, makes you love every single character, despite them maybe having one or two minutes of screen time or being what is considered a villain in the mob universe. This show is a masterpiece and if you haven't watched it yet, please give it a try.