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Back in Winter 2016, I was looking at the PV for the next season and to be honest, Re Zero didn't get my attention at all. So I started to watch it pretty late, after people started to praise the anime and that's important since it's mean the show must have some good points. In the end, the best way to find out is to take a look and give me an opinion by myself. The one hour first episode was undoubtedly a good idea as they could introduce enough to catch people interest without giving a feeling of frustration or things beeing rushed. The ... fist part was intressting and well balanced so I didn't get bored until Subaru arrive to the mansion.

So after a nice introduction we are at episode 4 and his 22 minutes of cheesy, boring slice of life. I cloud hardly hide my disapointement, the ending song began and I was about to close the media player as Suburu falling asleep but this very pleasant cliffhanger changed everythings. Why ? How ? Who ? I honestly didn't see that comming. At this point I learned something important : watch Re Zero until the last the second. Each episode for this arc add something surprising that hooked me until the end.

With the begining of the new arc, the show's name change to become Rem:Zero. At first we can just laugh at how a supportive character get much more developped that the "main girl" but I really liked Rem's developpement and she is, in my opinon, one of the main reason behind the success of Re:Zero. Of course we could say that she has a lot of screentime but that only is not enough to put her on the throne of "best girl of the serie" or even of the year. Personnaly I think she is worthy of the best female supportive character award. Why ?
Her character devlopement and the way she shines as a support for the main character are the answer. She becomes an important factor in Subaru's every success and their relationship is something rare enough in anime industry to mention it. Looking at those two make me think of the Araragi Koyomi / Hanekawa Tsubasa relationship. Something deep, very difficult to expres with words and maybe a bit spiritual. By the way, please take note that the only time Subaru kill himself is to save Rem, interesting for a guy which is afraid to die.
So yeah Rem grows as a character and the viewer can't help but fall for her thanks to that ep 15. This episode is an important turning point in the series with all the different feeling it addresses. Short but satisfying fight scene, violent death, (super) crazy saddist, some emotional words and a beautiful but sad ending. White Fox doing great here by making a special ending which feet perfectly to the mood of the episode. Of course, since I talking about Rem, I have to speak about ep 18, you agree don't you ? The one is a simple 24 minutes of how to become the best girl. It's hard to belive that having only two people speaking can make a such entertaining moment.
Frist Subaru have a profond relexion on himself and finally realize is own condition which is a bit unusual, painful and satisfying at the same time. On the other side we have Ren which deliver the best love confession I've seen for a while and that super effective title drop add the last piece on this well-build episode with a large panel of feeling. We can praise Minase Inori for her performance (insert song + voice actress).

Actually, could we give these seiyus an award or something. They really did a great job with those characters's voice and I can't imagine watching Re Zero in my native languge anymore. I pity the poor guy who will have to voice Betelgeuse, I mean, Matsuoka Yoshitsugu's performance is just unbeatable. Gambatte random dude.
Also you can't deny the job done by Whitefox. I loved the way they played with openning and ending like poping the opening song in the middle because it's fit the fight scene. Moreover, she show was a 25 ep run without break and we all know that production issues are very likly to happen here but the quality through the end doensn't decrease (well a tiny bit but it's okay).

WARNING spoilers ahead so if you didn't watch the show, stop reading here ! There is three things I want to talk about as they can be concidered as flaws.

First, ep 18 after an awemsome declaration, Rem got rejected. You may say it's stupid, Emilia is useless and Rem is awesome. Subaru is an idiot to still choising Emila. While I agree that Rem, at this moment, is the best logicial choice but love doesn't work that way. Sabaru really loves Emilia and Rem really loves Subaru too. That's why he rejected her and that why she simply anwser "yes". She already knows she'd got rejected but she still by his side. Don't forget that Subaru got rejected frist, Rem ins't selfush enough to accept Subaru's proposition without thinking about his own happiness.
Then you may also say Subaru should killing himself when he is too much in trouble. Seriously ? I mean this would be a cheap trick and would destroy the charm of the story and I don't like that. Look at the two time (1 in anime and 1 un wn) where Subaru killed himself ? For the sake of Rem. And I truly want to belive that there is a symbolism behind those suicides. Hell yeah, he can live without Rem #FanBoyON #TeamRem #RemBestGirl (well sorry about that)
Final point is the end... That I know don't give me this "you don't say / people die when they are killed" look, I have no idea how to say it otherwise. Yeah it's way too chessy. I would loved to see and ending like "We have to tell Rem that we won" ... black screen ... "Subaru-kun... who's Rem ?" THE END. Buuut as the studio doesn't know if they will produce a second season one day, it's way better to don't end on a cliffhanger avoid a frustration of the fan. I can't blame them for that.

Ok so it's time to give OPM what it deserve. The show was promising and fun to watch at the begining but at the end of the last episode, I had only one word in my head : flat. The story is flat, the background is flat, the characters are flat, tatsumaki is flat and so is Saitama's face. At least there are a good match. It was disappointing. "What I am watching ? Even Bleach and Fairy Tail have better characters and storyline" and oh god I really hate Fairy Tail.
The concept was fine, but one shot everyone is really boring if you ... don't show something else. So let me guess what will happen next ? A new villain will appear, Genos will get destroyed, then X randoms heros will get beatten too and Saitama will do the job and Mumen Rider will get the credits. Such suspense, much originality, very surprised WoW. Doge approuves.

Madhouse saved a part of the show thanks to a very good animation, but once again I was disappointed by Saitama's fight. I had very high expectations since the show can only provides fighs, and once again it was average. The fights are just empty and even the last one was lame. Saitaima get punched again and again taking the hits like it was nothing, just lost in though.... "Oh Gosh hit him already !" Then Saitama wakes-up to blow the guy in one hit. "Okay guys we need a new fight idea" 1) "Make more stupid ennemies" 2) "Saitama wins in two punchs" 3) "what about something that balance the fights ?" ... Get the meme reference ?

So OPM looks like Bleach with poor dialogues, poor storyline, no characters developpement and so on. You cloud say "OPM only has 12 episodes". It's true. But even in 12 épisodes a show needs to bring some background / storyline to be better than just a chain of stupid fights. In this regards, OPM failed. We can say that OPM is a blockbuster and easily enjoyable but don't expect too much.

And obviously, I didn't find it funny at all.

In the end, even Bleach is way better as a Bankai is more impressive than a one punch man.

So Angel Beats!, pretty popular right ? But do you really know the story behind this anime ? As a fan of Key and Jun Maeda's work, I need to talk about them before talking about Angel Beats itself.

Here we start with Key, a japanese compagny which makes very famous Visual Novel like Kanon, Air, Clannad, Litlle Busters... Yes all of these were Visual Novel in the first place and then adapted into animes. What's about Jun Maeda ? He is one of the founders, leading most of the projects, making the scripts and the music. This guy is awesome. But the thing is that ... Maeda is tired of making scripts (he wrote most of Clannad story) and he wanted to concentrate on music. So he left for a short moment Key to make a personal project : Angel Beats!

My point here is to say : Maeda focused on music with this anime, and you feel it right ? Yeah the music is great but the story lacks several things and you can find it a little empty by moments.

The story can be a bit confusing as it start with the main character joining an already formed group : the SSS. There is a lot of people in this group, you can remember their name and most of them will be used for some gags without beging developed. So the first complain is the lack of character development. Same goes for the world in which the story takes place. But did it make me laught ? Hell Yeah ! Did it make me cry ? ...Yeah, on the feels scale : AnoHana < Angel Beats! < ... < Clannad AF (because there is nothing over Clannad AF). So it's not perfect but I enjoyed it.

Quickly the art : Na-Ga and Pa Works did a really nice job, the characters are nice, fight and Tenshi's powers are good too. I mean for an anime which not action oriented, it's great, no complain about this part.

Then the music, because here, it's the real thing and ... well, Ichiban no Takaramono, nuff said. Okay actualy let's talk about Girls Dead Monster, the girl band that help the SSS. Jun Meada wrote every songs. You can say "Annoying J-pop again?", but honestly it worth give it a try (My song, Alchemy, Crow Song, Little Braver, Brave Song...). LiSA and marina did pretty well by interpreting the songs.

Now, Jun Maeda is working on a mangas : Heaven's Door which tell the story bihind the SSS, how Yuripee create the group and why they are fighting. That's cool because all the characters have their background. Moreover, Key released a Visual Novel of Angel Beats! So the anime is just the begining...