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Jun 5, 2019
While browsing through the list of spring 2019 anime, I happened to stumble upon Fairy Gone. After reading the synopsis, I was fairly interested in the show and decided to give it a watch. Oh, for the love of Haruhi Suzumiya, why. Why did I do this to myself?
I'll start off by saying that the art and music were pretty good. The characters had emotional expressions, and the backgrounds were detailed. The fight scenes were kinda sucky because of the god awful CG they used to animate the faires, but other than that it was fine. The OST was nice, I'll give it that, and
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the opening was fairly catchy.
And now we come to the story. At first, I was genuinely curious about the concept of transplanting the organs of dead fairies into people to use them as war machines. Pretty decent idea. I love dark fantasy like this. But as the show went on... everything just became so goddamn confusing. The anime had so much going on, with so many subplots and central plots and settings and characters and unexplained rules and gradually, it just became...a mess. Also, why the fuck is there a fairy mafia? What the actual FUCK?! In addition to that, why was it suddenly illegal to transplant faires after the war? Is it because it would be dangerous? What was even the point of having fairy soldiers instead of regular soldiers in the first place? So many unanswered questions. This, ladies and gentlemen, is not how you write a fantasy story.
When you are writing any, and I mean ANY, piece of fictional work, you have to lay down basic rules from the very beginning. You have to establish a world with order and a sense of reason, and make sure your audience understands these rules from the very beginning. I'm a writer myself (albeit not a professional one) and I can tell you from personal experience that if you don't have basic guidelines such as these, your story is going to turn into a flaming, messy piece of shit. If you just barf out all of your ideas onto a piece of paper and don't explain/show/come up with a reason how or why those ideas are proportionate and necessary to the story, your audience will become extremely confused and bored (like I was three episodes into this shit.) However, if you also try to cram all of your ideas into one piece of dialogue or overstuff the story with unnecessary plots and details, your story is going to feel messy and bloated. It's a very fine balance that storytellers have to master. It can never be too much, but it can also never be too little.
Fairy Gone has no guidelines, no rules, and reaches such levels of absurdity that I had to sit down and stare at a wall for about five minutes after each episode, contemplating what the fuck I had just witnessed. While characters were also very cliche, with flimsy motivations and weakly defined personalities, the story was what really caused me to hate Fairy Gone After enduring three episodes of this garbage. After the third episode, bored and confused out of my fucking mind, I decided that there was no humanly possible way that I could endure 21 more weeks of watching this. I dropped the show, then came back after three weeks to see if it had improved it all, and quickly dropped it again. I would not recommend this show to anyone.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Apr 27, 2019
When I watch a fantasy anime or read a fantasy story, I want to learn about the world that is being introduced to me. I want to explore the inner depths of everything that is present in this world, I want to know how people survive there, what the rules and guidelines are, but most importantly, I want to see how this world functions in the first place. Made in Abyss does all of this and more.
From the very beginning, the show had me completely immersed in the world and characters. The way we are first introduced to the Abyss (and the world in
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general) is not by a narrator explicitly telling us what it is and how it functions, but by observing by ourselves how the Abyss functions on a day-to-day basis, and how normal humans interact with it. This immediately adds an exciting, yet slightly intimidating, layer of the unknown to the world. The way the show set it up had me craving more instantly, and wanting to understand how exactly everything functioned.
This is what I want to see with fantasy worlds, something that is special in its own way and not just a generic universe with magic and some goblins. The animals and plants that are inside the Abyss are all unique in their own way and seem to actually function and corporate together like a real, proper ecosystem, and each individual layer of the Abyss is exclusive to its universe and always kept me excited for what was happening next. Throughout the entire show, I was constantly rooting for Reg and Riko, anxious for their survival, and apprehensive as to how they would deal with new challenges. The writer was truly a genius and made sure that each part of the Abyss had events that were naturally set up and different for each layer.
The fact that almost all the characters (and both of the main characters) were all children definitely helped set the overall tone for the series. Children are generally curious, and it does make a lot of sense to put them into a world that is filled to the brim with mysteries for them to figure out on their own. Reg and Riko were very compatible with each other, and they were designed in such a way that made them balance one another out. Both of them had very fleshed out and well-defined personalities. The supporting cast was, in general, fairly forgettable, but I enjoyed watching Reg and Riko interact with them, anyways.
The soundtrack was amazing and really fit with each scene. I was constantly listening to the OST weeks after I had finished the show, it was just that good.
The art was breathtaking and complemented the nature of the Abyss. On the surface, the art style was cute and bubbly with characters that had chibi like proportions and faces, however, it could just as quickly turn dark and gruesome. The backgrounds were amazing, and the characters were very expressive and lively.
All in all, the only thing that I was dissatisfied within Made in Abyss was the fact that the ending was open-ended, and cuts off halfway through the manga. Other than that, though, the show was amazing. It was able to deliver a very emotional impact on me and exceeded my expectations. It had great strengths in almost every catogory, and very few, minor weaknesses. It serves as a great example that all fantasy anime should follow, I would absolutely reccomend the show.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Apr 22, 2019
School days is, without a doubt, the worst anime I have had the displeasure of watching in my entire life. Now, if you like this series, I can totally understand why. Not everyone will have the same opinion on a series, and everyone has different tastes. However, this is my opinion, but, this anime is fucking trash. Flaming dumpster trash. Trash that left me disoriented, dissatisfied, and sick when I finished it. Keep in mind that this is my first review, so I might not be very good at it... with that said, let us begin.
I remember learning about School Days from an anime YouTuber
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who said something about it being about a yandere love story with lots of gore. So, being a naive ten-year-old who had just finished Future Diary, I was like, ''Hell yeah! A yandere murder love story?! That sounds like the best thing ever! I'm totally going to watch it!''
I did watch it. It was not the best thing ever.
School Days was just...confusing. Why was this Makoto suddenly acting like a jackass? Wasn't he afraid to even TALK to girls? Why is he suddenly okay to start cheating on everyone he meets and start fucking them from the getgo? Why is Katsura suddenly a psychopath? Yeah, I get it, being dumped is hard and shit, but she was just obsessive for no reason whatsoever. The story just made no sense.
Every character and I mean EVER CHARACTER has the intelligence of a goldfish. Actually, scratch that, goldfish are probably 50 times smarter than these sad excuses for human beings. Everyone in this series has the personality of a soggy biscuit, and everyone makes so many dumb decisions simultaneously that it makes me wonder if this is just an alternate universe where humans have no concept whatsoever of social skills or, you know, basic human morals. I wasn't even happy when everyone got slaughtered at the end because I wasn't really rooting for anyone, and I can honestly say that I hated absolutely everyone in this show. Makoto's a pervy asshole, Sekai's a weak bitch who isn't confident enough to be a decent human being, and Katsura's....just kinda there. Being dumb. The rest of the supporting cast are....okay? I guess? But they still act like idiots. Or maybe that's just how every highschooler on the planet acts. IDK.
Art was awful. I would have rather poured bleach into my eyes and gouged them out with spoons than have to watch this absolute failure again.
Music was trash and stayed stuck in my head for hours on end, repeating endlessly to keep reminding me how shit it was.
I just hate this anime. I really do. I completely regret watching this failure of an animated production. Consider this review a warning to never, ever watch this piece of trash.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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