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Nov 25, 2017
Do you find yourself perpetually disappointed with comedy-based anime? Great, because that's how you're supposed to feel.
You fear that you will once again be disappointed, but fear not, for yours truly, the most resourceful general in nerima has come to flip the entire dang game around, together with his rowdy pals.
This is a story about truth, betrayal, trust, male bonding and struggles towards seemingly unatainable goals, and it just so happens to be absolutely hilarious.
Story
You'd think this would be a normal harem/ecchi shitshow with the setup, but it's not.
five guys get into a formerly all-girls high school and are thus the only boys present at
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school.
Five sexually frustrated males who most likely spent their life at all boys schools finally find themselves in a utopic situation, but things soon go awry. As they attempt to peep into the girls bath they get exposed and are sentenced to one month in the campus' very own prison. This is where the scheming begins, as all of them, driven by their own agendas, try to break out of prison, and raunchy, hilarious antics ensue as their once individual motives and struggles eventually intertwine and unite in a beautiful friendship bonding.
What makes this anime stand out from every other comedy anime is that it is heavily plot driven and serious, and the comedy is a secondary element which revolves around the seriousness of the plot, whereas most comedy anime are made in the style of "daily life of highschool boys" where no further contextualization is given and all it is is just random clips you're supposed to laugh at despite not having established an emotional connection with the characters, and here's a big heads up for the oblivious anime industry: IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY. Establishing deeper emotional connection to the characters and a clear cut story is CRUCIAL for a comedy to work, which comedy-based anime as a rule of thumb always fails to realize. Jesus, we might as well be watching cat vids on youtube. Luckily though, this anime successfully does all of the above, and brilliantly so.
Art
The art is on point and fits the shows mature themes perfectly, what else can i say, very well done.
Sound
Sound? Who gives a hoot? it was fine is suppose.
Characters
This is where the show truly shines. Each character is multifaceted and very well developed, each with their own distinct, eerily creepy personalities. whereas in your average anime comedy each character is just a walking gag with no depth whatsoever. The characters are so well fleshed out they could rival the characters of NHK ni youkoso.
Enjoyment
This anime is an unencumbered pleasure-ride, not because of the ecchi, in fact, for everything BUT the ecchi. It takes you on the journey of a lifetime and does things no anime you've ever seen do. The show is very unpredictable and it will take you by surprise and have you laughing your ass off when you least expect it.
The eerie creepiness of the characters, the serious plot and equally serious artstyle, the raunchy brilliance of the hilarious antics, it all makes for a heavenly combo that i cannot get enough of.
I wish for a bright future with a similar, dare i say deconstructionist, approach to comedy.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Sep 14, 2016
as per usual when i am extremely overworked and pulled so many all nighters in a row that i no longer wish to exist i want to roast something. today i will roast one of the most hyped mainstream shounen battles of all time, FMA in da hood straight outta compton.
my thoughts overall can be expressed shortly as: entertaining enough that i didn't start spacing out and daydreaming for 5 minutes before realizing that i have to rewind.
i kind of want to compare it to d.gray man. i'd like to think this is what d.gray man would have looked like if the author actually used
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the ideas and setting in an interesting way instead of making it into a one pattern snorefest.
so it is about two brothers who do alchemy. their mom dies, they try to revive her and end up losing bodyparts/whole body. they then start working for the corrupt military, responsible for some genocidal war, and it turns out the ones pulling all the strings in these wars are artificial humans, called homosexomonculus or something, and of which the original homo-thing was created from, we don't get to know, only that van homoheim added his blood to it. the original homonculous has very vague, if any at all, motives for his creating of philosophers stones by destroying nations. as far as i know none of this is explained and it is thus hard to take seriously, he only blabbers on about "oh silly humans how pitiful they are blablabla insert generic grumpy old man muttering".
give him some warm milk and an alt-right newspaper subscription and send the bastard to the retirement home i say.
if your mind isn't boggled by above it is pretty great. well structured, the pacing is top notch. quality entertainment
TL;DR artificial human/homo-thing wants to destroy/consume god by gathering philosophers stones by destroying nations and killing all of its inhabitants, for reasons unknown.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Aug 9, 2016
to put it short and simple: this should be called suicide prevention: the anime.
existence is absurd, we humans are afraid of the unknown, therefore we fear existence as much as death, because all of us know that we don't know anything at alll. questioning your very existence itself and other forms of misery makes up a huge part of our lives, at any given month in time we probably feel either extremely depressed or deal with vague/intense mind numbing anxiety 90% of the time. this is where this anime comes in.
i haven't felt as warm, bubbly and generally content as when i watched this show.
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the afterglow only lasted one or two hours, after which i was yet again acutely aware of my crippling benzo addiction and that my sense of self is constantly fading in and out of some sort of depersonalization brainhaze, followed by panic attacks. but those hours were great and happy times.
the story is close to non-existant and doesn't really matter, a very cute TRAP wants to become a mangaka, worships some random mahou shoujo protagonist and tries to cope with being forced into his family business, then some stuff happens, then he has sex and falls in love with someone he met 10 years ago.
ok let me put it this way: you=stupid and depressed. you=watch cute femboy do his thing. you=now happy for arbitrary amount of time but at the same time jealous that you don't have anything like that going for you.
the characters where pretty well fleshed out, or who am i kidding i was too busy imagining getting married to the cute protagonist, whatever his name was, for the sake of satisfying my degenerate fetish brought on by anime.
the sound doesn't matter either, mediocre if anything, not sure if i can recall any soundtrack at all.
i give it a 10/10 overall. let the cuteness of whatever his name is embrace you. put up posters on the wall, buy body pillow and merch to fill your empty broken soul.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jun 20, 2016
this is one of those obscure gems that have stuck with me over the years and had a strong impact on me. close to a masterpiece in my opinion.
seems like it flew below most peoples radar when it aired and a lot of people probably disregarded it as "pretentious" or "preachy". maybe so. but the way i see it it is very thought provoking. most people have an average IQ, most people also think this is pretentious, this makes me think that the reason i think of this as thought provoking rather than pretentious is quite solid deductive proof that i'm the one lacking in
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that department.
anyway the main theme of this anime is basically individualism vs society. we are presented with kingdoms with very different ideologies, where the power and freedom of the individual is more or less pronounced.
as far as i can tell this anime is siding quite a lot with determinism as it displays a lot of people and their futile struggle against their predestined lots in life.
the storyline may be a bit cheesy. on the exterior it may not seem to be much, but it has the sort of minimalism that provokes thoughts of your own and keeps you guessing.
in this series the action is just a means to an end, the storyline is also just a means to an end, what matters is the philosophical questions it brings about in a very broad way, which leaves more opportunity to think. it also includes a lot of political satire, whether this was intended as satire or not is unclear however, which is also one of the beautiful things about this show.
now for the criticism: first off the conflict between noah and zed is a bit rushed. if i had been the director i would have gone a bit deeper into their relationship before being transported. sure you don't want to stretch those sorts of things out too far because people will be bored but i feel the director definitely should have gone into more detail. how the world of "calm" worked. what their everyday lives were like etc. it is a fine line to balance this though, milk it a little too much and the audience gets bored so i understand. but again, this sort of minimalism gives room for thought.
overall it is quite brilliantly structured, we are introduced to new places and characters as a natural part of the main plot instead of taking unnessecary routes around it for the sake of exposition, and at a speed that is not too boring and not too helter-skelter.
and also who wouldn't want to be the protagonist of some epic high fantasy? that's the kind of part of the edgy manchild's heart that never dies.
i'm still extremely addicted to benzodiazepines and going through withdrawals for the fiftyeleventh time, i figured i might as well write a nonsensical review of my favorite anime before i die.
but before that i want to leave you with a message: ku klux klan 4life. that is all.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Jun 19, 2016
hello and welcome to a hungover shitty review.
the author puts forth a lot of good general ideas and concepts. a shounen battle series with exorcists hunting demons who are more like a mixture between machines and former human souls, created by some generic evil fat guy who claims to hate god.
this sort of setting has a lot of potential, so where did it all go wrong? execution. especially the pacing is completely FUBAR. this author may have interesting ideas but has no idea how to express them in an adequate way.
take the first 50 something episodes for instance, more like 50 shades of boredom. literally
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zero to nothing happens in the main story and the purpose of those 50 episodes was to introduce the viewer to a handful of new one dimenshional characters. we are introduced to the noah as well early on but we don't get to know anything about them and for some reason the earl tries to attain this "heart innocence" in the most ineffective way possible instead of sending his OP noahs to smash everything to bits.
so that's a summary of the first fifty something episodes, i was bored to tears. i asked someone on reddit if i should keep going and if it was going to get better. he told me that it would take a 180 degree turn around the 50+ mark. and in some ways it did, but it only went from painfully boring to mildly amusing and the pace was still fucked up. they latched on to the most trivial and boring stuff and stretched it out as long as possible but when things start to happen they cut it extremely short.
or when a certain suspense manages to build up and they ruin it with lame jokes. from 50+ onward i just kept going because i wanted to write an angry review so here it is.
i know there is a new season incoming but i will probably not watch it unless the author has realized his/her shortcomings and teamed up with someone who can actually structure this show in an interesting way.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Mar 29, 2016
take out your blender. add steins gate, subtract the science. add death note, make it less intriguing. add the atmosphere straight outta kanon 2006, subtract the moe. and finally add some tears and a few sprinkles of cheese. mix it all up and you get boku dake ga inai machi.
let me start off by saying i enjoyed this immensely. this was the one anime i had the highest expectations of this season, and it partly managed to live up to it. but it is of course far from perfect.
here come the spoilers.
the first major problem is that they make it too obvious that the murderer
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is the teacher, by episode 3-4 it is painfully in your face obvious, stripping away the sort of "thriller" factor. the teachers motivations for killing people in the first place feel a bit vague and are presented to the viewer in a pretty clumsy manner. this all may make it difficult to take the teacher seriously. the show also tries to be quite a lot of things at the same time, i personally like this sort of thing but can see why some would just find it clusterfucky.
the storyline overall is a bit cheesy too, the whole "going back in time to make everything right" concept is pretty overused.
aside from nitpicking details whoever wrote this has a VERY good sense for tearjerkers, almost on par with jun maeda.
for something to make you cry in a show you have to catch the viewer off guard. not throw it all in your face at once and make you go "oh boy here we go, this is where i'm supposed to cry buckets". slowly build up anticipation, make you guess wrong, tears running before you know it.
i don't know how this is done specifically but all i can say is that i cried, not many shows are able to make me cry, so it did a good job on me in this aspect.
i love good tearjerkers, the original author should instead focus on his/her strength and go full tearjerker. not sure who or what company but i will research later, bookmark and hope for a good future.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Dec 31, 2015
i'm not very fond of "dark" and gritty stuff. this is because my mind is disorderly enough as it is. so when i watched this i was in for a tiny bit more hurt than i wanted, but it also kept me entertained.funny thing to add is that this is also how i subconsciously cope with depression and anxiety, escapism and general avoidant behaviour. does it work? not really. does it keep me from commiting suicide? unfortunately yes.
anyway then i started reading the manga and only got halfway in or so, to the "correctional facility" part. my first piece of advice for those who plan
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on watching this and are cool with gritty darkness or whatever, is to READ THE FUCKING MANGA instead. seriously, the anime lacks a fuckload of depth. not only because it has an insufficient amount of episodes, but also it generally feels like this show is controlled by many puppet-masters (director, original author, manuscript-editor etc) and they were probably lacking in communication with each other etc.
shion has an especially dissonant personality compared to the manga. in the manga he comes off as a bit cheeky and a little less flower-y.
as far as i know this show also has yaoi/BL undertones, but that is not its main theme. the main theme is corruption. corruption of the human mind and how it affects society as a whole.
as for a sort of general message is quite unclear to me, i've never been good at reading between the lines, or let's face it, my intellectual capacity is insufficient.
despite this i'm going to speculate so that you, the reader, can laugh your ass off.
the plotline is quite similar to george orwell's famous novel "animal farm". where the victimized become the ones that victimize others. basically boils down to that a yearning for better living standards and more safety comes at a cost. in no.6, safety is guaranteed at the cost of personal integrity. outside in the slums it's the complete opposite.
the anime invites you to speculate over the definition of freedom, but doesn't give any answers. in the final scene we get to see people from the slums and no.6 walk towards each other, we don't get to see what happens after but as i said, i think that's the point.
to sum it up, this anime has a somewhat cliché plotline but adds in other elements (yaoi fanservice) to make up for it. and i can't stress this enough, the anime is severely lacking in character depth compared to the manga. read it, now. i just noticed it's new years eve but i don't really give a fuck, maybe tonight will be the big night where i finally end it all, you're free to interpret that as you wish.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Dec 13, 2015
oh boy this is a special treat right here.
the world is a fucked up and wonderful place. the lines are blurred and the freedom to disregard common sense is beautiful. i love this anime to death and everything it stands for.
for this review i guess it might be nessecary to point out that i am a straight male (ok not 100% but i swear anime made me slightly bisexual).
this anime is largely a yaoi fanservice anime, focusing mainly on genderbending. kinda like harem/ecchi but for girls, or just anyone who is a bit curious and confused. i don't know what i am so i
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guess i'm confused.
genderbending was a concept that i barely even knew existed until maybe a year ago, now i love that shit and i don't know why. i love traps, i love reverse traps too. and at this point i don't know if i'm a virgin because i like this shit, or if i like this shit because i'm a virgin. but somewhere in my brain it feels inherently logical to equate sexual desperation to an increase in sexual perversions.
anyway lets get down to it. our protagonist tooru kouno transfers to an all boys high school, where there's been a secret and several decades long tradition to take the most attractive male students and dress them up as girls to become the rest of the schools mascots/eyecandy. this is sort of an inevitable perversion in an environment where there are no females around and just a bunch of pubertal teens going rampage. which is actually quite similar to my own life situation, except i'm not pubertal and it's just me alone in my college dorm room where only other guys live, and i very rarely go outside.
but enough of my self deprecation. so this school has also found that making these attractive people crossdress impacts the school as a whole in a very positive way, due to the "princesses" cheering etc their sports teams are doing better than they ever would have if not for the school's princesses cheering. they also resolve conflicts with their effeminate mannerisms so everything is peaceful. in return these princesses also get cash money from the student council.
the characters themselves have an exceptional amount of depth for being a yaoi fanservice, seeing shihoudani and tooru on their summer vacation gives you a taste of what their "non-professional" personalities are like, and their family problems etc.
so much praise from my side but here is some criticism. i feel like they could have made this anime into something much more profound by for instance involving parts where the main characters go through identity crisis. due to all their acting, they start to forget who they really are/were, become confused and/or uncomfortable with their gender roles and have no idea what to identify as anymore. something like that, you get the picture.
the concept of vanity is also a large part of this show, quite rarely seen in anime due to most characters being way more attractive than the average 3D person. but in this show the contrasts are vast. the regular people look unappealing and the princesses+sakamoto have big kind looking eyes and shit. and generally are better looking and more effeminate than most 3D women out there (jesus christ since when did i start comparing people in anime to real life people, i have become a monster).
that is enough. just go watch it right now and become a more fucked up person than you were before.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Dec 13, 2015
this is one of the most controversial anime shows out there, so i want to make a review and judgement of it that isn't too clouded by my own emotions.
this is a "troll" anime in the sense that every anime community out there recommends it to anime rookies to traumatize them. it has an innocent title and will seem like a regular romcom at first but (spoiler) ends in bloodbath.
i only watched this show once and that was around 4 years ago but i still feel like i have it fresh enough in my memory to review it.
so this anime is basically about a 15-something
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year old boy who seems fairly normal. starts dating a chick with big tits and after a while he gets frustrated with their relationship since she won't let him touch her breasts. then something something meets another girl called sekai (if i remember correctly) who is willing to have sex with him. and so he does. rumors spread and now suddenly every girl at school wants to have sex with him or he manipulates them into having sex with them in some sort of way. and thus a hardcore sex addict is born and he quickly becomes more and more depraved and decadent in his ways, and seems to have very litte care about having hurt the feelings of the girls that were in love with him. this goes on until they all gang up and decapitate him. after this the first girl he dated floats away on a raft with his detached head as company.
like i said in the beginning, this is the most hated anime out there, why? because people get their feels hurt and can't stand to watch an asshole get all the pussy. and the general consensus is also that he got what he deserved in the end.
what do i think about this? perfectly normal human emotional reactions, no more, no less.
but to be fair the protagonist is only 14-15 (not sure) and pretty girls are basically throwing themselves at him. what would you have done in the same situation at the same age? and how can you be sure that you would be able to handle the situation in a more calm and composed manner? is your taking the moral highground justified only by the fact that you haven't experienced a similar situation?
our protagonist is in a sense a slave and victim of his circumstances just like the rest of us. an example of how the human mind can fall from grace and showing a worst case scenario. this anime also deals a lot with jealousy which is another toxicity that can make the human mind fall from grace.
this anime generally carries out what it was supposed to carry out pretty well. it is not exactly a realistic and nuanced show, it just shows the worst possible scenarios of teens falling into depravity. that being said it can still be classified as gritty.
i'm not sure if i want to give it a clear score right now, i probably have to freshen up my memory, but my preliminary score will be 7/10. i like anime shows that don't follow the same dead beaten path and template and deal with more mature elements. though i am not a very big fan of gore.
and last but not least a shoutout to that one hater that i have who commented on my profile or something, look at me, i'm making another shitty review despite the fact that you told me never to write another review ever again. get fucking rekt son, i just wrote the shittiest review ever and you can't stop me. i don't know who the fuck you are, but you know who you are, so if you're reading this, fuck you, i love you, my african american friend. knamsayn?
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Nov 23, 2015
shit. i don't even know why i'm writing this but i'm going through benzo withdrawals and other stuff and as long as i write something i feel like my anxiety eases up a little bit.
the first time i watched this anime was about 4-5 years ago, when i was 16-17 years old. at the time i thought "huehue awesome, underdog, can relate, omg cool fighting scenes" when watching it and would have most likely given it a 9/10.
just about a month ago i rewatched this anime and part of me regrets it but at the same time it's kind of fun to laugh at how
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retarded you used to be and crush your angsty teen dreams.
the first thing that hit me about the series as a whole is that any sane, rational adult should be able to see that kenichi is the bad guy.
let me break it down to you: (spoiler warnings)
1. kenichi has a childhood friend
2. they play and get toy badges from a vending machine
3. kenichi trades his friends badge for a girls badge (the main heroine)
4. his friend now wants that badge that he traded, and rightfully so since he was literally the one who bought it.
5. kenichi insists on keeping the badge and goes as far as to beat his friend up, and then even pouring salt on his friends wounded pride by letting him have it. in other words the situation is basically the same as if i would randomly go out in the street, snatch the phone of any random stranger, then beat him up just to give it back to him later.
6. odin (the childhood friend) was obviously traumatized by this experience, so he sets out to get his revenge, and rightfully so. he even states that he wants kenichi to realize that his naive sense of justice will hurt people, and wants to stop him to save others from having to experience the same trauma that he himself went through, in other words he does not only act for revenge but also partly for altruistic reasons.
and then kenichi's outsidership is as overblown as in naruto, we never actually get to see any flashbacks from his upbringing where he was bullied, and we don't really even see him get bullied at all. all we get to know is that people basically called him "weak" and that he didn't have any friends.
kenichi is in other words extremely delusional and subconsciously uses his naive sense of justice to justify beating people up to "blow off steam" from his oh so tragic childhood that we know nothing about.
the ending scene is also extremely rushed and just generally feels braindead.
kenichi: "omg i'm so sad that my childhood friend is gone again"
his grandmaster: "eh fuck that guy, look over there, you have friends already so why care about him"
kenichi: "makes sense, now i'm genki genki again"
that is all i really have to say about this show, to sum it up, if you want some cool action scenes and training montages and you are below the age of 18, then by all means give it a try.
this is all written very hastily but idgaf right now. sue me.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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