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Dec 30, 2024
Parallel World Pharmacy is one of the best isekai i've seen in recent years. Good animation, good soundtrack, well written characters, an intriguing premise, and solid world building can all be found in this gem of a show.
The story centers around a pharmacist who passes away in his sleep from overworking at his lab. He then reincarnates into the body of a 10 year old boy named Farma from a long noble lineage of outstanding pharmacists and gains the blessing of a god to practice medicine all he likes in this new magic and science filled world of his. It's quite interesting to see his
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adventures in introducing this new world to modern medicine and truly developing the level of patient care he longed for in his past life. It was a joy to watch he and his companions grow and shape the medical field and i would love a season 2!
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Dec 30, 2024
This is less of a review and more of a warning to my future self and those like me: just do yourself a favor and drop this slop. It's borderline self harm to keep attempting to watch it hoping that it will get better.
This show is so pretentious and up its own ass with how smart the characters are that it fails to realize that every single character is stupid. Like painfully stupid. Their deductive reasoning skills are garbage and the characters are so edgy that it makes SAO look like gold plated writing by comparison. save yourself the time and frustration of dealing with
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these overconfident arrogant brats and just go watch Death Note or something. I've been following this show since about 2020 and have had to take literal years in between seasons because it is so frustrating. Every single character is irredeemably stupid and cocky. The animation also isn't that great in my opinion. Save yourselves the headache
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Dec 30, 2024
My Happy Marriage: a show you have to have a certain level of maturity and be a romantic to get.
I will be completely honest: on the first watch of this show, i didn't like it at all. i though it was boring, the characters too wooden and stuck in their archetypes, and the magic caught me off guard. I believed that Miyo especially was a bit annoying because i just wanted her to stand up for herself instead of sulking everywhere feeling nothing but pity and self hatred. I honestly thought this was some fan fiction by a middle school girl looking to escape her
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own reality. Upon the rewatch of this show a year later, i realized that i have a deep admiration for this show. I realized that i originally didn't enjoy it because I saw too much of myself and past struggles in the main character Miyo and was seemingly projecting my own depressing world view and thoughts onto her because she is a bit of a blank canvas for most of the show. The characters are still a bit stuck in their archetypes in my opinion, but i feel like with my own growth and understanding of myself, i've come to love them and this show more.
I previously said that Miyo is a blank canvas. I believe this was a deliberate choice. Many victims of abuse similar to hers are taught to be what their abusers want from them whether it fits their personality or not. I think this was the purpose of making her more bland. As the show goes on, little by little we see her develop her own opinions and personality even being able to come forward on her own to open up about her past and ask things of people. I think those who haven't been through it may not fully understand what kind of victory that is. Kiyoka is every hopeless romantic girl's fantasy and i don't think there's anything wrong with that at all. He's mean when he needs to be, but is caring and gentle with Miyo. Their growing love over the series is truly beautiful to see.
The magic caught me off guard in my first watch, but honestly is a pretty interesting aspect of this cinderella-ish story. I do wish it were explained a bit better, but i'm sure we'll get that in season 2. I also think there's also nothing wrong with this being more of a self-insert show. There are so many shonen especially that are shameless self inserts and get praised so the romantics deserve something too. I think this anime is beautifully animated and has a gorgeous story. I can't wait to see season 2 coming in a few days!
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Dec 30, 2024
Mashle: a perfect example that sometimes the heart of a show and a great soundtrack can be more important than plot or depth.
Honestly, i watched the whole show in one go so this is less a review of the second season and more of the show as a whole. At first this show annoyed me. It seemed to be more or less Harry Potter but with more eugenics, an extremely OP mc, and less good character and story writing. Mash (the mc) is a very one note character. He likes cream puffs and his loved ones. He's seriously as dumb as a doorstop and extremely
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dense borderline purposely obtuse. What teenager can't open a damn door without breaking it because every single time he doesn't know if they're push or pull doors??? He's overconfident to a fault and yet is so ridiculously overpowered to the point that he's constantly validated for it. Quite frankly, these gimmicks stop being funny by episode 4-5 of season 1 and just become deeply annoying. He does however have two redeeming qualities in my eyes: his kindness and fierce loyalty to protect those who are not as strong as him. This brings me to the main thing i love about this show: Noblesse Oblige.
The main takeaway from this show is the concept of Noblesse Oblige: the inferred responsibility of privileged people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privileged. Or simply put, the strong were given their power to protect the weak. I will admit that i'm fully biased about this, but it truly is what i love most about the show. There are so few people on this earth and in this show that still follow noblesse oblige and it's heartwarming to see even such simpleminded characters stick to it so fiercely. Noblesse Oblige seems like a lost concept to many in this day and age even in anime, so it does make me happy to see it.
The villain of this show is honestly just cartoonishly evil from what i can tell so his fights get boring. The fights in general get boring because we know how OP Mash is and it ruins the stakes of each fight. To be quite honest, that aspect of the show is almost more annoying than the characters or obvious Harry Potter rip offs. Truly the only thing that kept me watching and enjoying this show was the very fun opening by Creepy Nuts and the heart in it.
If there will be a 3rd season, i would watch it. If you want to watch a show with no real stakes and where the mc just punches everything into oblivion, i recommend One Punch Man instead. The comedy and character writing are far better. The reason I recommend this show is because i feel it can teach people a lesson in selflessness and not discriminating against others. Plus i think it's something fun you can put on in the background while you do other things and you won't feel as though you've missed much at all.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Dec 28, 2024
Whisper Me a Love Song: great music, not baiting, and half decent characters ruined a bit by production issues.
It's a common issue nowadays to see decent anime be run into the ground a bit by production, but this show definitely got the short end of the stick. I like the characters although they are a bit one dimensional. The music the bands play is great and I personally would add it to my playlist. I genuinely do like the romance of the main characters and like that we get to see them be together in the show as well. I think as far as yuri
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goes, this is more overt and better in story than a lot of others but it does tend to just stick with being cute and rely on that rather than achieve more character and story depth. The problems start in production.
From what I can tell, the working conditions were not good and it shows especially in the 3D modeled areas and transitions. There are so many scenes that fade into a white screen almost like a powerpoint slideshow transition. The 3D modeling and rendering wasn't done well and it shows a lot during the performance scenes.
Overall, I think this is a good show mainly harmed by the production issues and lack of character depth. As far as yuri go, this isn't bad and I would recommend for anyone looking for a cute show :)
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Dec 28, 2024
Quality Assurance In Another World: an interesting premise with a decent start that lost its footing halfway through.
This show is truly just "meh" to me. One of many lukewarm half-baked shows of the video game genre.
On one hand, the premise of this show is okay in my opinon! Our main character along with several other beta testers (de-buggers) enter a fully immersive VR game to work and wind up trapped for a year with no way to log out. Nothing you haven't heard before, right? Well the difference is that in this show, one NPC (Nikola) comes back to life after dying and requests our
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MC (Haga) to become his apprentice and de-bug the game with him. I think this adds a fresher element to the story and could've been used for good comedy and conflict with Nikola being unaware she is simply a game character.
This however, is where the good things end. The beginning of the story shows Haga and Nikola battling rouge de-buggers who are harming NPCs and other de-buggers. I think the characters were a bit too cartoonishly written when they could've been made much more human. This is a common theme in the show that especially ruins the second half for me. The characters and humor are all extremely flat and one dimensional to me. MC Haga is too stubborn and almost downright stupid at times, refusing to see situations clearly over his grudge against the god-like de-bugger mode. He along with all the other characters have 1-2 defining traits that they stick with and that make up their entire character. A show with a premise as played out as this one NEEDS strong and compelling characters that are loveable.
Circling back to the rogue de-buggers, I truly think that the anime would've faired better had it stuck with a bit of a battler format in the sense that they could've taken more time to handle the de-buggers. The show jumps from one plotline to the next without properly closing or even walking through each one. The pacing being such a mess causes plotholes the size of craters on the moon that then get deus ex machina or completely plot armored away, making any stakes or mysteries in the show fall flat on their face as soon as they're set up. Had the pacing been better, I believe the characters would've had more time to be fleshed out as well.
The next issue I had with the show was the animation. I honestly think they could've played the poor animation to their advantage given the show is about finding bugs in a video game, but i don't think they did. It's not awful by any means but definitely could've been better and did take away from the viewing experience.
Overall, this show is just very mid to me. I believe one could enjoy this show if you want to turn your brain off and not think critically or try to solve the mysteries of it while watching. It was simply average and offered nothing interesting or stimulating. The story does nothing and goes nowhere to the original goal. I almost felt like the entire show was constructed of the filler side quests. I think having a show with filler side quests is all good and dandy ( i do love konosuba after all) but it needs to have far better characters and pacing. The humor actually needs to land as well. This anime either needed to take itself far less seriously or far more seriously. Until then, it will continue being just another half baked isekai.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Dec 25, 2024
interesting premise and semi-decent plot ruined by weird ages and character writing
this show honestly in plot wasn't awful. some of the characters were decently written and the premise was intriguing. the main problem is the plot trying to explain away a very much grown 19 year old man marrying a 10 year old. just disgusting no matter how you slice it. i understand the backstory and reasoning for it to be that way, however what reason does the author have to make it that way? there could've been literally any other requirement for the goddess to possess someone, and yet they chose anyone over 14.
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just seems wholly unnecessary to the story at large and sets the whole vibe of the story back quite a bit. whether or not Jill is mentally in the same age group is irrelevant given that no one knows she went back in time and even then, she was only 16 in her first run so that's still highly questionable. aside from that, the villains seemed almost cartoonishly evil and something just feels missing to me. overall, it could've been a good show but was immediately run into the ground by the writers taking a weird route with the ages.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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