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Solo leveling is one of the best adaptation I saw in the anime medium, unfortunately, it is for a source work that is closer to being an average story than a great one.

I am not a fan of Solo Leveling, I finished the novel, finished the manhwa, and still, for me, it is all quite average. The character development is sloppy, Jinwoo is basically the chad template and have very very few arcs where his past is actually impacting his development, besides just getting angry over it and justify his new stance.

The story is also average at best, I can't really call that writing. ... For me, Solo Leveling in any format, even the novel format, is just a chain of events, one after the other, ramping up the hype and difficulty of the game and finishing in the most basic and average way.

Now, I want to give flowers to that adaptation. For me, Solo Leveling is the only anime I saw that is actually better than its source work.

They went really above and beyond, despite the poor quality of the source work in my opinion. The voice actors are killing it, especially Jinwoo and the antagonists. The animation is crazy good, whether it is the fights choreography or the normal life sequences, the animation is always good. The character design is also very similar to the manhwa, which is great as it is the source work that made Solo Leveling so well known to begin with.

Unfortunately, Solo Leveling is showing that you can have the best studio in the world, at the end of the day, you will be caught on by the source work's quality. And we begin to see that in this season. Rash sequence of events that make it look like the anime was rushed when it's actually written more rushed. Monotone characters that are not evolving at all and stay in their definition so much so that you can almost guess the interactions beforehand.

The adaptation is also not bulletproof, one of the main flaws, they try to fix the bad writing of the author by modifying the sequence of events. That's why you see Chae Hin or the President of the association here and there, and talks about Jeju island. But that's cringey at best to be honest, you are not Oda, if the author didn't foreshadow, the studio shouldn't do it, it just looks fake in the end.

So yeah, I would recommend to watch it because it is a good watch and the studio did a good work globally, but we can already feel the decline due to the source work quality.

This is supposed to be a popular manga ? What is interesting about Sakamoto Days, I wonder.

Sakamoto Days is the story of a well known professional killer, giving up his job because he fell in love with a woman that hates it. He is still OP, has a kid, becomes fat and builds around himself a chill routine as the manager of a small convenience store. The last sentence is the base for all the jokes that happens in the show, and it's really not that funny, if you are above 13 years old.

Already, this anime is giving Spy X Family vibes, which I personally ... hated because it is an anime that just chains useless events one after the other without moving on with the story. And yes, Sakamoto Days is the same.

The story is just setting up that frame of Sakamoto being the target of an organisation, and it is just chaining one killer after the other coming for his life.

How is this considered a good manga ? There is not an ounce of a story. Street Fighter games have a better story.

The character writing is also very low. Each character is basically defined as a Sakomoto believer, or an enemy killer. Each of Sakomoto's sidekick express a blind faith in him for absolutely no reason, and is rapidly put in the follower category in 3 episodes.

The world building has the writing quality of a child story : "There is an organisation that wants Sakomoto dead, Sakomoto needs to defends himself, every killer has kind of superpowers but not really, they are just really strong you know ? "

Is this an anime or a cartoon ?

This is one of the best anime this season, just to tell you how bad this season is. The only good point I found before I dropped it was that we had Gin-chan and Kagura together again, but that ain't no Gintama quality, we are FAR away from that I promise you.

This anime was funny the first episode but started to get exhausting on the second already.

Do you know Teruhashi from Saiki Kusuo ? This is basically a Teruhashi spin-off, without the comedy of Saiki Kusuo. People already hated Teruhashi when it was clearly with a comic purpose, but here, the comedy is of much less quality, so I guess it is much easier to hate this FMC.

Girl is thinking she's the cutest thing in the world, and her objective is to prove her superiority by having her classmate fall for her, because he seems immune to her charms.

It is funny to build something ... around that and that can bring originality to character building, which is the most important aspect on school romance, as you have no world building, neither much story building, as it is basically a school year in Japan.

The issue with this anime is that it does nothing but overuse the same joke over and over again. It's the same trope of having FMC trying to seduce the guy, failing to do so, and blushing at the end to show she's not a total bitch, you know, like the thousands tsundere we already saw in other anime.

It also overuses the ecchi baits here and there, stripping the FMC to seduce the guy she likes but as she's blushing it's alright, she's still not a bitch. I don't remember one episode where we didn't see her in her underwear ?

I am a bit disappointed that it didn't go anywhere else, and when I look at the end of episode 3, I can already see where it is going. It is just gonna introduce more girls that surrounds both the FMC and the guy she's interested in, and create love triangles, squares, pentagones and so on.

In Conclusion, I believe this anime is just a constant loop of Teruhashi skits, with the same jokes, the only difference is that they added boobs to the equation and that the comedy is plain.

Let's play a game.

You live in a world where there is a special type of fruit which can give you a new skill, which is a competence that doesn't need any training or effort to master and gives you superpower basically.
The world is filled with monsters and you can basically die at any time.
You have dozens of those fruits in your possession.
You know that you are the only one in the world who can eat as many as you want with no drawbacks.

What do you do ?

Then what do you think MC-kun did ? He ate one and that's it.
...
Let's play another game.

You are the only one in the world that is able to have several skills. Would you, flex your hidden skills in front of people that hate you or keep it hidden until you can actually be a force to be reckoned with ?

So yeah, MC-kun is a dumb fuck as you could understand.

Then the anime is just a series of cliché chaining one another, his childhood friend gets the skill he wanted to get, he saves the bully who were targeting him to get some respect, he is OP as hell, every woman wants his d, every guy is either glazing him or hating him, you know the drill.

I am impressed on how those trash Isekai are not even able to grasp one way of being interesting. One simple way here was to make him eat all the fruits he could and just go on a neutral route where he does whatever he wants and sometimes he's good, sometimes he's bad. Like Cid from TEIS. You could also make him power drunk and go on the vilain route like the MC from Charlotte. You just have to leave the canvas of shit Isekai, it's not complicated.

Having an OP, dumbass, goody two shoes with similar side characters in his team is just plain and boring.

Dandadan is one of the most overrated anime of this year. Because, again, when you have good animation, every noob out there calls you a great anime.

This is the story of a boy and girl, opening up to each other through their hobbies at first, and the adventure of Dandadan would then surround them with paranormal activities, such as spirit hunting or alien fighting, to basically build up their romance as the first goal I believe.

The execution is very basic. Do you know about those kid cartoons you see on TV, where every episode is its own story and there is no real investment in ... trying to build something with the anime ? Dandadan is the same.

After twelve episodes, I just feel there are no real changes to the story or characters. The minimum thinking and changes they try to operate are very superficial and just seem like baits so that you believe the story is evolving somehow. For me, Dandadan looks like an anime that doesn't want to write a story, but just chain up alien/spirits hunting cases so that the story just continues indefinitely.

Besides characters discovering and knowing each other, you can take any arc of Dandadan and you can watch them in any order.

Would I recommend this to anyone ? No. Because there are so much anime out there with stories to tell, so well-written that it makes you go through real emotions and impact you truly to your core. I just feel this one is a loss of time.

But we got to give props where it's due, it has good budget. They hired two amazing bands for the OP and ED. The animation is above the charts. Then for the more average part, OSTs are not really impactful. Character are quite one-patterned but they still have funny interactions sometimes.

In Conclusion, I see Dandadan as a kid cartoon that was supposed to be adapted for adults (with all borderline sex scenes and violence), but to me it failed to do this. A story is built around a core goal that it is meant to achieve. Dandadan doesn't have that, it has the romance it is supposed to build up as a facade, and just looks random as it pieces this and that story together.

What is the point of investing so much budget in an empty anime like this ?

Blue Box is the basic japanese romance anime there is. If you watched another romance in the anime format, you already watched Blue Box.

Nothing happens, cliffhanger bait every episode where you may think something is going to happen to have nothing at the end but a thought like "She might like me". No actions are undertaken by both MC, it's constantly the same scene happening, a situation gets created where both MC are about to do or say something that may advance the relationship or change the story, and ... they just don't. And it constantly stagnates like that.

The sport is supposed to take a big space here, it doesn't. It's totally at the service of making the characters look good and make it look like the story is advancing when it doesn't.

This. Is. BORING.

This is clearly the work of someone who doesn't want to write anything related to the romance itself, just a slice of life filled up with baits here and there that make you think the situation might change, but it never does.

You end up with a mid anime that is not invested in sports, not invested in romance, and not invested in slice of life neither. Just a little bit of everything without being interesting in each of those fields. Jack of all trades, master of none.

Story: 1
Character: 1
Animation: 7
Music: 3
Frame (everything around the characters): 1
Overall: 2

A waste of time.

Seirei Gensouki is back, with the Harem King himself, Kirito-kun.

As an Isekai, I believe Seirei Gensouki is able to separate itself from its peers in the average bracket, I give it a 7, but not an average kind of 7, more like an enjoyable 7. I would say this 7, is a 7 you can enjoy every week as a good anime to follow up on, not really a ReZero that keeps you at the edge of your chair every episode, but a good vibe anime with some quality in the writing.

First, let's address the elephant in the room, this is a Harem. I personally ... dislike this kind of anime and find it time-wasting and annoying having all those 20 girls taking precious episode time blushing or thirsting over MC because he can breath and walk around. But hey, that's Kirito-kun so it was unavoidable, that's basically a Nen ability at that point.

There are several things I like about this anime. First, it takes an interesting look at Isekai. There are two types of Isekai, one where the MC gets teleported to the world, and one where the MC gets reincarnated into the world. And for the later, I always wondered what happens to the character that already lived in the world ? Seirei Gensouki tries to answer that question by having a duality between Rio, who is the Isekai character, and Haruto, the japanese person who got reincarnated. I think it's a very interesting take on Isekai, with all the clones roaming around nowadays.

Second, the pace is pretty good. The first season spent all its time to get us invested in Rio, with only glimpses of Haruto's character building and ended up on a cliffhanger with Haruto's classmates getting transported to the same world. I think it's really a good move that gives everything it needs for this season 2 to be good. As you followed the life of Rio, he is the MC for you, but this season it gets impacted by Haruto's life. I believe that's a great setup for character and world building, when other Isekai would just throw several character in the other world and it ends up just being the life of Japan but in another world. Here, you are actually invested into the Isekai world because Rio lived in it for a whole season alone, without anybody from Haruto's life.

And finally, third point, I like Rio's character building. He's kind but has a coldness to him, as he lives for vengeance. Not quite a dark sasuke, who will isolate himself and have dark monologs about vengeance and stuff. Rio knows how to live for his new found family and be someone you can count on, but he still has a step back and is focused mainly on getting revenge anyway, that's his drive. I think it's very realistic and much more colder than someone constantly dramatizing their own situation like they are the saddest person in the world.

So yeah, not a great anime, but a good one and a good watch.

Have you ever seen powerpoint football ? Welcome to the second season of Blue Lock.

Blue Lock is the first football anime that gets some recognition since Captain Tsubasa. If in Captain Tsubasa, the players were running 5 kilometers to reach the opponent team's goal, here, you get to hear Isagi's thoughts on the game or the placement of his teammates on the field for half an episode like you are watching an episode of Death Note, while it's supposed to represent half a second of real time in the game.

Blue Lock is for me the biggest robbery of the last few years, and I ... actually respect that. It shows that their technique worked on anime fans. What they did is simple, they invested budget in the first 2 to 3 episodes of season 1, making the animation crispy and fluid, and basically have Kuroko level in terms of game animation and dynamism. Then, they slowly shifted towards CGI for the movements and focused on internal monologs and strategy to save up on animation.

And it worked so well, everybody was excited about watching powerpoint football.

But then, here comes season 2. The first three episode of a 12-episode season are mainly CGI-based animation or Isagi's monolog while time is stopped. The animation consist of players shooting the ball mostly. And even calling that an animation is insulting, it's going at 1 or 2 fps, with a lot of explosion and smokescreen, but in the end, it's just a powerpoint right ? I doubt the fans will accept that again.

Now, I read the Blue Lock manga entirely, it's neither bad nor good in my opinion and it's true that Isagi is spending a lot of time thinking about the game. But in the manga, the pace of switching between Isagi's thoughts and actual gameplay is very fast, so it's not really boring.

The anime can't do that because it needs budget. Or else you are just gonna show disgusting CGI bots running after the ball like you can see in some short time frame in the last episode (3rd). That's why they stretch Isagi's monologs as much as they can while people on the field are frozen in time.

In Conclusion, Blue Lock is already average as a source work in my opinion (I rather read Ao Ashi personally), neither bad nor good, so if you lose the animation that was carrying this anime, it has nothing else.

This is ridiculous, another trash Isekai.

-MC gets OP power ? Check
-MC gets a 20 women harem without doing anything ? Check
-MC is a "loner" and is excluded ? Check
-MC complains about having no luck when the plot is literally breast-feeding the man ? Check
-Animation is trash ? Check
-Delinquents are the bad guys ? Check
-Women are sexualized and average 100-60-100 measurements ? Check

... When you want to copy Arifureta and have the whole class gets transported to another world, the starting line is already messed up as you are trying to copy another trash Isekai, that copy pasted another trash Isekai to begin with.

It's like watching the dream of some teenage boy that has been transported to an Isekai, and everything works out fine for him, he gets all the stuff, all the girls, has the power to reproduce anything he sees, lives in a mansion, is the strongest around, etc. etc.

What's the point of having those Isekai clones, where MC is always the type of guy who acts like he wants to act alone, but still gets a small harem of 3 to 4 girls that are basically his slaves as they are all crazy in love with the man for no reason and do anything he wants. It's always the same garbage that have the same story, the same characters, the same tropes and the same 12-episodes streak of nothingness.

When I watch this and then watch ReZero or Overlord, it pains my heart to put them in the same category.

This was an anime I took on the side as my seasonal trash food you know. Well, it was very dumb until the end.

MC is absurdly OP, he always talks about wanting to die as it seems to be his trademark but just continues his story like your typical shonen protagonist. He's meeting one character after the other that shows him favours right away without the need from him to do anything. He's bypassing any trials or difficult situation either with his OP power, or with his bullshit logic. Just because his theme song is running in the background while he's talking doesn't mean everything ... he says is right. This man brings the whole talk no jutsu to another level.

Basically, the plot is carrying this man through the story.

The story is not interesting, we have the classic demon lord threatens to conquer the world but is beaten by the heroes. The only change here is that the heroes, who are transfered people like MC, become the bad guys and try to conquer the world as well. But it doesn't make any difference as you arrive AFTER it all happened, it's just a settings they told you about in the intro basically.

The women characters are all F cup, Kardashian clones, wearing the least amount of clothes possible. Most are fawning over MC and dream of bearing his children for no apparent reason, even though they knew the guy for like, 5 minutes. MC is the perfect example of the meme "Harassment VS Rizz" you know ? Any other character pulling his lines would only make those girls disgusted or indifferent.

Animation is disgusting, powerpoint battle scenes, Dragon Ball Super character expressions.

The same OST, which is the OP, is used in every scene possible, in every form possible, it's like somebody is earning royalties on this and they had to spam it as much as possible.

This is trash, the same trash that we have every season trying to add a small change to the Isekai genre so it doesn't look like a complete copy/paste of what has been done the last 200 times they did an isekai.