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Jul 27, 2024
Give this show a chance! I'm begging you! This might be my favorite anime of the season thus far.
Make Heroine ga Oosugiru is an anime all about the "secondary love interests" that are found in most romance anime. These girls are the "other women" as pop culture would put it, having been friend zoned by their respective love interests. Each of these girls meets Kazuhiko, our protagonist and stand-in for the audience. Kazuhiko is boring, yes, but he's not a bad protagonist. If anything, his mundane nature balances well with the eccentric or over-the-top personalities of the main girls.
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in this show is very well-drawn. The characters have neat and visually appealing designs, and the animation is extremely well done. Even the scenes where there isn't much going on have incredible attention to detail. The background art and the overall scenery is probably my favorite, it's beautifully drawn.
The characters' personalities play well off of each other, which is great, because this is a character-driven story. This leads to engaging episodes, and some funny moments here and there. I"m usually unamused by most anime, as Japanese jokes don't typically land well for Western audiences, but even I found myself giggling at a few funny bits.
Given there are only three episodes out right now, it's hard to say for sure if this anime will continue to be as great as it is now. But, so far, Make Heroine ga Oosugiru is worth the watch.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jul 26, 2024
Imagine you’re sitting down at the dinner table, and your mom just made your favorite meal for your birthday. You’re eating your food, and it’s really good! You have one, final bite of your food saved on your plate, and you're about to eat it, but you're briefly called away to go take out the trash. You do as you’re told, and when you come back to finish your food, for that final bite…
Your dog eats it right in front of you.
That’s the Another viewing experience.
Art: 2/2
The art and animation of Another is effective at telling the story. The blood and gore
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is well done, albeit a little overkill in some scenes. The character designs are alright, and you can distinguish most of the important characters from one another. The only odd thing about the art was how young the adult women of the series appeared. 30 year old women looked about the same age as the 14 year old main cast. Obviously, this isn't egregious, it’s just a little funny. Other than that, the art was nice enough, and there aren’t any good reasons to take away points here.
Plot: 2/3
Another is a very good mystery. It is NOT a good horror series. There is gore, yes, but there is nothing in there that will make your skin crawl, and not much that will make you “scared”. If you are planning to watch Another for its horror, plan to watch something else. However, if you are intrigued by the mystery of Another, then I would recommend it. The series has particularly good world-building, which is uncommon for anime. Learning about the city of Yomiyama and exploring the different parts of it throughout each episode was fun! The storyline was engaging and easy to follow, and there were some nice plot twists here and there. Though there were some loose ends that were never tied up, this didn’t take away from my overall enjoyment of this series.
Characters: 2/3
The characters of Another were good, their personalities played well off one another, and they stood out from each other. They had distinct personalities and ways of speaking. If you were blindfolded and told to guess which character was currently speaking, you would most likely guess correctly. The main cast of characters have their own goals and aspirations, as well as sympathetic reasons for wanting to achieve said goals. Overall, solid characters, Mei and Izumi being my personal favorites.
Pacing: 2/2
There are no notable issues with the pacing of Another. The unraveling of the mystery was paced very well as the series went on, each episode furthered the plot in one way or another, and there’s only one episode that could maybe be considered filler. The pacing, from exposition, to rising action, to climax, was great.
So, what’s the issue? It’s the ending.
Another has a solid beginning, and a great middle, but a shaky ending. When you make it to the climax of the show, what the series has spent 11 episodes building up to, you are left very disappointed. The plot twist at the end is lame, its anticlimactic. There were so many better ways to end such an interesting series, and the writers seriously picked… that!? By no means was the ending rushed, it was timed perfectly, and that’s the most frustrating thing about Another. All of that build up was for… what, exactly? You feel almost cheated by the end, which is a shame, because it really was set up to be a great finale!
In conclusion, the first 11 episodes of Another deserve an 8/10. They were great, and if you watch Another, watch it for the first 11 episodes. But, the ending is so anticlimactic, I can’t bring myself to score it so high.
Overall,
6/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jul 17, 2024
Pink Innocent is a short and sweet shoujo manga from the 2000s. It doesn’t take long to read, only consisting of 10 chapters, and can be finished in less than a few hours if you’re up to it. It’s an alright read, but if you’re looking for something innovative or groundbreaking, you are in the wrong place.
Art: 2/2
The style of Pink Innocent is the best part of this series. If you enjoy the mid-2000s shoujo art style, Pink Innocent is right up your alley. With its cute characters and their expressive, huge eyes, Pink Innocent is the pinnacle of the shoujo art style. The
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main characters are relatively recognizable, and the scenery is beautifully detailed. The art of Pink Innocent is what gives it its charm.
Plot: 2/3
Pink Innocent doesn’t have much of a plot, but I think this was an alright choice. The story is episodic, driven not by the plot, but the characters. Given the small number of chapters, having an overarching plot to the story would be possible, but difficult to pace well. The conflicts presented in each chapter are interesting enough, and the episodic nature of Pink Innocent is fine, given it is only ten chapters long.
Characters: 1/3
Despite this story being character driven, the main characters are the weakest point of this series. My least favorite part of this series were the main characters Cocona, the lead girl, never learns anything throughout the story. She continues to make the same mistakes over, and over, and over again. If she had a likable personality, I could excuse this, but she is unbearably immature throughout the whole story. She is unrelatable and unlikable.
Renji, the second protagonist, is better than Cocona by a long shot, but still not great. He’s got interests, like stock trading, and his laptop, but his personality is a little lackluster. He changes slightly throughout the story, and he’s sympathetic, but I can’t really describe his personality. He’s almost like a harem protagonist, he’s bland, and just kind of there. Especially so when you put a guy like him next to Cocona.
Given this story is meant to be character driven, it’s a little disappointing that the characters are so lackluster, and at times, extremely annoying.
Pacing: 1/2
There isn’t much to say about the pacing. It didn’t improve the story, but it didn’t make it bad, either. Pink Innocent is very episodic, a problem is introduced at the beginning of each chapter, and it is solved by the end of each chapter. This is alright, and it works, but it’s nothing special.
In conclusion, Pink Innocent is fine. Its characters were boring and irritating, sure, Tamaki and Haruhi did it better, but it isn’t a horrible read. If you’re bored, and enjoy the 2000s shoujo art style, you’ll get mild enjoyment out of Pink Innocent. I can't say I recommend it, though, as it certainly isn't for everyone.
6/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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May 26, 2024
W: Wish, or Double Wish, is an anime adaptation of a pre-existing visual novel developed by Princess Soft. The anime is short, sweet, and simple. If you go into this anime expecting anything super deep and philosophical, you will be disappointed, because that isn’t what W: Wish was meant to be. W: Wish was meant to be a cute, light-hearted story, and it does this well.
Art: 6/10
The art isn’t anything ground-breaking, but it wasn’t meant to be. Being released in the early/mid-2000s, W:Wish looks like any other anime released during that time period. It isn’t necessarily boring or ugly, just very average. The
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art doesn’t add anything to the story, but it doesn’t take anything away from it, either. If you enjoy a simple, moe art style, you’ll enjoy the visuals of Wish.
Some special effects might be a little outdated, but that’s to be expected, as this review is being written 20 years later.
Characters: 5/10
The characters are alright. As episodes are 13 minutes, there isn’t much room for extreme character development. Side characters are very plain and static, but given they don’t take up an insane amount of screen time, this is fine. The main characters, Juuna, Senna, and Haruhi have a little more depth and character development, but not much. I found Senna the most sympathetic, but also slightly annoying.
Overall, the characters serve their purpose, but they aren’t particularly memorable or super interesting. They’re just… okay.
Pacing/Plot: 7/10
W: Wish’s story is relatively interesting. Juuna, our main character, and Senna, his twin sister, live together after the loss of their parents, an event that Juuna has trouble remembering. Everything seems to be fine, until Haruhi, a girl claiming to be Juuna’s childhood friend, reenters Juuna’s life. This prompts Juuna to try and remember his mysterious past, and that’s where the plot kicks off. I found the story entertaining, and it kept my interest the whole way through. If you can ignore the incestuous romantic tension between Juuna and Senna, it isn’t bad at all.
The pacing was probably the best part of W: Wish. The 13 minute episode run time was a perfect choice for this series. Had the episodes been any longer, the plot would’ve been dragged out, which would’ve made the anime a dull, boring watch, and had the episodes been shorter, the story would’ve made little sense. Overall, my favorite part of W: Wish
In conclusion, W:Wish isn’t a bad watch. It’s something you can watch while folding clothes, or doing homework, as it doesn’t require much critical thinking to understand. While it lacks in some parts, like its characters, it makes up for it in its good pacing and interesting premise.
6/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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May 17, 2024
When you read manga, or consume any piece of media, there’s usually a take away from it all. There is no take away from Mai-Chan’s Daily Life. There probably wasn’t meant to be one, as much as the positive reviews try to shoehorn one in there. If you go into Mai-Chan’s Daily Life and expect some sort of meaning, you will be very disappointed.
I can’t think of a single quality this manga has that makes it worth reading. The art? It’s not bad, but it’s not great either. You can certainly find better art elsewhere. The characters? Flat, static, and boring. I don’t
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remember a single character’s name, with the exception of Mai. Pacing? All over the place, subpar at best, and atrocious at worst. The manga jumps from scene to scene, with no flow or cohesiveness whatsoever.
And finally, the plot. The story is about Mai, a teenage girl who has been sex-trafficked by some unnamed organization, into a mansion where she is tortured and brutalized by clients. Throughout the story, Mai is amputated, beat to death, disemboweled, burned to death, stabbed and sliced to death, decapitated, raped, and abused in every possible way you could think of. That’s it, that’s the entire plot. Oh, she’s also killed by a tiger, somehow.
Overall, the only way you could possibly enjoy this manga is if you were into blood, gore, snuff, rape, shota, loli, torture, cannibalism, amputation… and more! Fortunately, I am not into any of that, so you could say that Mai-Chan’s Daily Life is not for me. Contrary to what edgelords say, there is no deeper meaning to this story, there’s no character development, and there is absolutely nothing valuable about Mai-Chan’s Daily Life.
Garbage fire of a manga,
1/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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