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Oct 13, 2024
What's new, Scooby Doo? Nothing. Characters are developed and dimensional enough to not be tropish. The writing is good enough their growing pains feel tangible and therefore believable. But again, if you've seen it once, you've seen it all. We've got yet another forgettable, generic insert character trying to do right by others. Of course this one's about girls, and we can chalk it up to "ethical harem anime:" Let's tend to their feelings as romantically rejected women so we can identify the most viable love interest among them since they're all available. Yawn. Every man's wet dream? Sure. But... YAWN. Don't process hurt women's
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emotions for them. Go find one that doesn't have lingering or ongoing issues, main character-kun. Do better, or leverage your friendships with them to find someone who's actually good for you. Overall, entertaining but ultimately forgettable. 7/10.-
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Oct 9, 2024
My final conclusion is that this show didn't do enough because it tried to do too much.
The entire first season focuses on Major Melize's attempt to reconcile her social standing as an Alba with her military role. Season 2 spends almost all its first half disarming your perception of Gia as the "big bad evil" in its marred reputation as the original aggressor through use of the Legion to conquer other nations. In the second half it tries deconstructing Shin's scarred psyche as a soldier.
Will he reconcile his existential crisis in the face of possibly living through the war?
I don't need to cover every point
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and sub point. This anime tries to do too much too fast. It leaves us with questions. Here are ones that come to mind:
Why don't we see that much of Major Melize in season 2? How has she really changed?
Why is the former empress of Gia getting so much screen time? (She's not that important.)
How is us empathizing with Shin's parallel, the knight, going to build deeper contextual awareness and our investment in the story?
How exactly do the Legion function and operate? (It would have been nice to get an episode of only the legion synthesizing the dead into their operating systems.)
You can tell. This anime really doesn't want to leave its characters flat and underdeveloped. It doesn't want to leave its world building flat and underdeveloped. It constantly wants to prove itself to its audience as worthy storytelling.
But by attempting to cram it all in to 23 episodes, they leave everything underdeveloped. It goes for the jack of all trades, master of none, approach. You get a sense of everything, but never everything itself, like a scratch and sniff perfume sample in a magazine. Not the bottle itself.
To its credit, at least 86 wasn't the complete and utter edgy nonsense that Darling in the Franxx was: a carbon copy of Evangelion missing several chromosomes. But with 86, we get a frankensteined husk of different influences from war stories. I mentioned All Quiet on the Western Front. There are also heavy WWiI influences, with sprinkles of Evangelion.
Yet we never quite get 86 itself. We never get the backstories we need to contextualize our investment in this show. We never get fully developed senses of self for each character on a case by case basis: Just decent entertainment at best.
I will say, now having finished the final two episodes after starting this review: The moment Major Melize reunites with the old Spearhead group was touching. It's what everyone wanted, and they gave it to us.
5/10.-
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Oct 8, 2024
BURIED POTENTIAL - This show could have been a juggernaut in sci-fi dramas but falls short by opting to pace itself in a way that whips up quick emotional poignance that distracts from the world building and character development it sacrifices. Make no mistake, the people who like this show are attracted to the emotional rollercoaster ride and not any other aspects that make shows like Legend of the Galactic Heroes or Made In Abyss best in class.
This show pulls from great books like All Quiet On the Western Front which is shown in the last episode of season 1. If you haven't read
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this book, you should. If you don't read, there's a movie on Netflix. If you have never experienced war, the story will make you think you have by the time you're done reading it. But 86 doesn't elicit that feeling. It just makes you feel bad for the characters and admire Major Milize for the idealistic stubbornness she has for saving those in the 86th district.
The one thing that the show does have going for it is the same thing that contributes to its flaws: everything happens too fast. It's great this often dizzying pace achieves the same effects of how it feels fighting in war where the days and time blur together and before you know it, you're in a different situation doing a different thing, mourning a loss, or nearly getting killed yourself seconds later.
(INCONSEQUENTIAL SPOILER UPCOMING...)
But the price that's paid is that we don't get to see the full backstory of the scientist who helps out Milize after being suckered into help the Major's unit because her childhood friend (that she ostracized) is still alive. We don't see much of the major's upbringing. We don't see much of anyone else's. Just glimpses. How and Why the war started? Glimpses. Nothing that resonates.
In order to truly connect with and care about characters, we need to see strong bonds develop overtime, much like how One Piece does. I'll never fully watch the show or read the manga but I got up to around chapter 132, far enough to know how character building should be done. When all is said and done, the backbone of these characters' emotions feels hollow.
With a show as short as this, sometimes you just have to pick and choose your battles in order to bring out the greatest in a story. And much like the Alba, this show has no idea how to pick and choose its battles.
Strong 6. Light 7.
I'll write a review for S2 to see if I'm wrong.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jun 14, 2024
WHY THIS STORY IS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL STORY IN MAL HISTORY
Storytelling through parallelism is one of the easiest and most rewarding ways to tell a story. This one does so through flashbacks. I've seen comparisons to Kimi no Tabi. This isn't anything like that. Kimi no Tabi was dull and dredged on for its entire run. It's a vibe type of anime for sure, like Lain. However, this is about growth and reflection. It's about learning from the past to become better, meaning to live in the present and not take it for granted.
I don't think Frieren gained masterpiece status with fans because it's the
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best story ever told. The anime hasn't even finished telling the full story. I think it gained masterpiece status because it's emblematic of our time, where everyone's overwhelmed and in a rush to be somebody, or do something great, when all the great things are how you choose to interact with what comes, and come what may.
We struggle with that, and seeing a character who was previously shut down you might say, feels relatable. Unravel the past not just to let go but to move on knowing you can cherish what it teaches you in every new moment you inhabit, and that's what makes this show such a hit.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Jun 18, 2023
Did anyone else find the second part of season one not as good as the first part? The charm is consistent. The character development seems just as consistent. But there's no ramp up in energy. The story doesn't get you closer and closer to the edge of your seat. And while I think that resolving family situations is admirable and infrequent in anime as a whole, which itself is a fresh change of pace, this doesn't necessarily make for a compelling story.
Hopefully everything happening now serves as simple character development as an overall strategy to help us care more about the characters once
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we get deeper into the story. Please understand I haven't read the manga. But there's just something about this story in the second half that feels a little bit too meandering.
Maybe a large part of my grievances have to do with the fact that I'm an adult who has priorities, and when I do have free time, I would rather spend it on content that excites me and makes me feel like watching it is worth it. Right now I don't feel that way eight episodes in.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Feb 21, 2018
HUNTER X HUNTER: Why Gon’s character is so appealing and How Fathers Are a Factor.
[MINOR SPOILERS] APPLY
This is an analysis comparing like shounen to Hunter x Hunter and its main protagonist to the protagonists of these like shounen. I will not include One Piece or Bleach in this article since my knowledge of both is limited.
You know it: dads with unknown whereabouts, the popular training/arena arcs, deus ex machinas, main characters with exponential power growth, etcetera.
Shows like Fairy Tail and Naruto among others share these common traits. However, one show’s got them beat. That’s Hunter X Hunter.
For those of you who have not seen it,
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Hunter X Hunter is about a boy named Gon who wants to become a Hunter, like his father, who he is obsessively interested in but has never met. A Hunter is a person who conducts different kinds of research, to put it vaguely. Each Hunter has different goals. Some search for rare treasures, to put an end to rare curses, and more. They explore and affront the mysterious which in the day to day most are ignorant of. Gon is one of these Hunters. His goal is to search for his dad.
And this doesn’t sound uncommon, right? There’s always shrouds of mystery over the fathers of shounen protagonists. There are the dragons in Fairy Tail, the Fourth Hokage in Naruto, and I’ve never watched past episode 20 of Dragon Ball, but who is Goku’s dad anyway? Regardless, there is a mystery surrounding these protagonists that is seemingly necessary for the development of our heroes. To know their background is to know them in a richer, more intimate way. These shows constantly broach the question, until it answers it, “how did dad pave the path for [insert shounen character].” This question focuses on the path, but really, what occurs in regard to this question is a development which makes the character’s further development dependent on finding dad. This means dad becomes the primary means for anything to happen with our character. So our focus is now filtered through dad. Why? Because it’s all thanks to dad:
Dad made me a dragon slayer. Dad put the Nine-Tails inside me. That’s why I’m special. That’s why I have to find him. I need to learn more. What happened to dad? I need to find out.
Now the matter on our hands concerns how dad affects [insert shounen character’s] existence. The original question then unconsciously becomes, “how has dad shaped [insert shounen character] by paving the path for him?” instead of focusing on the path itself.
Gon defies the necessitation for his development and identity to filter through his dad. In order to address why this is so, we first must address Gon’s development.
He has a strong sniffer. He has a lot of patience when it comes to fishing, fishing being a form of hunting many Hunters partake in, I should mention. These qualities come in handy. So Gon is special in his own way. He has two good traits to go on. Everyone has a good trait or two. But, unlike other shounen protagonists, he’s NOT MADE special. He’s not from a different planet with Super Man like strengths. He possesses no powers at the onset of his journey like Natsu. He doesn’t have the Nine-Tails in him like Naruto. Gon is weak.
Gon starts out as literally a regular boy. His weapon in the first fifth of the series is a fishing rod for Christ’s sake. So, he’s a regular boy by all means. Like shounen protagonists, Gon is kinda dumb with a heart of gold, and eventually becomes super powerful. However, Gon’s ability to become powerful is the result of the environment he grew up in rather than what he was imbued with by his father. He grew up close to wilderness. Gon’s from the boonies. He loves animals and nature. He’s ignorant like a country boy who didn’t grow up in the city, but unlike a city dweller, he’s resourceful. And that’s how he is throughout the show. Yes, like Naruto and young Goku, much of how he reacts to situations is very much dictated by his innocent and unprepared personality, but unlike them his only card against obstacles is his expansive repertory of experience from living off the land. Again, he has no special power or background. He’s just a regular kid. It’s not until later on that he discovers and begins learning how to use Nen: one’s life aura which can be used in combat, healing, or anything else normal to bizzarre you can imagine.
For me to further reach those who remain skeptical about Gon being unique, even more special than other shounen protagonists, Ging should be addressed now.
Now, Gon nor the show itself may seem unique due to the “like father like son” dynamic of shounen obviously being part of Hunter X Hunter, nor does he seem initially all that different from his father. Gon grew up in the same environment as his Ging. One could say the same for Naruto, but Gon unlike him has the choice to become a Hunter, regardless of the circumstance, without pre-destiny. Naruto doesn’t have a choice as to whether he will become a shinobi, and I don’t know what I should say about Goku. I suppose he has a choice too. However, considering what we know about Dragon Ball, more specifically Dragon Ball Z, we know that Goku is much needed to combat the threats that face him and the world. This is untrue of Gon. Gon is definitely not a needed character throughout Hunter X Hunter. Sure, he’s a vital component in defeating one of the king’s three royal guard during the Chimera Ant Arc, but it’s easy enough to image someone else who is much stronger taking on that role. He could have simply chosen to not become a Hunter, but we wouldn’t have the same show. So, it comes down to choice. Gon always has choices. His father merely gave him one path he could optionally follow: not one chosen by destiny.
And while it’s true that Hunter X Hunter hasn't finished serializing, it is with doubtful prescience one could foresee Gon becoming the most powerful Nen user to the point he’s the only one capable of tackling obstacles. After all, that was the point of the Chimera Ant Arc. Hunter Chairman Netero, the strongest human Nen user, couldn’t even defeat the primary foe with his skills alone. No one’s so powerful nothing can be done by others.
Gon becomes extremely powerful, but it is with determination and intent, not a Nine-Tails beast inside him or having the genetic superiority of some space monkey. And, we come to find out in the show, many Nen users have some condition which must be met in order to use their powers. It’s not necessarily that a power has a separate counter-balance like kryptonite; rather, the user affects himself through his own use of power. If he doesn’t meet his own condition to use it, or even if he meets a certain condition to exchange with something of equal value, the ensuing danger or consequence is his alone to take on. We see this when Gon changes (which I will intentionally say so vaguely), and when Netero uses Zero hand.
What we know about Togashi, the creator of Hunter X Hunter, is that he really only utilizes the teamwork dynamic. Nothing can ever be accomplished without a buddy, which is what makes Gon so special. Naruto may also rely on his team, but Shippuuden comes to a point where he’s so powerful, everyone else would just get in the way, besides Sasuke. Even then, the two don’t need each other in combat. Each is more than capable of handling a problem himself. What makes Gon interesting is he needs his best friend, Killua, as a foil, otherwise, without the balance of character, he might just become annoying over time as Naruto does which many fans complain about.
Sasuke acts as a foil to Naruto, sure, but like I said, Naruto can be imagined off on his own without Sasuke. Gon, on the other hand, needs Killua to save his ass more than a handful of times, whether that’s in a physical fight, mental breakdown or anything other. Both are the shoulder the other leans upon. Hunter X Hunter would become boring without this dynamic. I’ll stress again: Naruto and Goku can handle pretty much everything themselves come a certain point. This is absolutely, indubitably untrue for Gon. When he’s not with Killua, he nearly dies every time, and in the end, he would just become a boring character.
Like his shounen protagonist peers, he has a propensity for selfishness and heroicism when it comes to saving others, which reflects a certain careless optimism paired with a desire to win that costs him dearly in many parts of the series, especially the final fifth of the show. Obviously, most times, it is when Killua is not with him.
This becomes especially apparent during one part of the Chimera Ant Arc. Gon admits how “frustrating weakness [is]”. Even then, Gon continues to struggle through this mentality which gets him nearly killed. He may have the spirit of Naruto and Natsu, but neither character comes nearly as close to death as Gon. For both, positive attitudes are seldom met by dire consequences which cannot be countered and overcome. Nor do we ever see Naruto and Natsu address any overwhelming feelings of defeat. They’re always the “yes-man” backbone of hope. Gon is too, in a way, but he can’t always be right about the outcome of things. No one can. This is what Naruto and Fairy Tail fail to realize. Once Gon realizes he’s wrong about a tomorrow he thinks he’ll see, his ego breaks down and he has no idea what to do. This is when he becomes irredeemably reckless, and accepts death. This is when the show conveys that one’s own actions come at a high price: something else Naruto nor Fairy Tail seem quite able to capture, for the premise of both shows rests upon the principle there will always be a better tomorrow, or a certain future, something untrue for Hunter X Hunter come the Chimera Ant Arc.
Another thing that makes Gon especially interesting is that there is more than one side to him. As mentioned, he becomes a reckless character, and this brings out all kinds of dark and previously untapped thoughts that make his delve into the foray that much more enticing and gut-wrenching. He says things and acts in a certain way that, hitherto, has been completely unexpected. Throughout the first three-fifths of the show, you get to know him, and you think you know him, but then he encounters irredeemable loss and an irrepressible anger that he manifests into the climax of the show which serves as an antithesis to the Gon we meet at the beginning on Whale Island and the Gon we see during the height of his power while he’s at his lowest low mentally, emotionally and morally.
It’s the first time he’s frighteningly serious, his optimism all but diminished. This is what is expected, naturally, of shounen characters like Naruto. They maintain the same mental space throughout their encounters when everyone else loses it. Gon loses it while his resolve and will become stronger. This is a concept very unique to a shounen protagonist. I believe Togashi is the first to separate the will and resolve from the unperturbed state of the ego. Gon is definitely more than perturbed. This leaves the audience wondering on what scale Gon could achieve such a spectacle of recklessness. We are granted that spectacle. You’ll have to watch the show to find out if you haven’t experienced this yourself.
Unlike other shounen shows, everything in Hunter X Hunter (2011) up to the end of the Chimera Ant Arc is Gon’s training arc. This is all in preparation to find his father. It’s unclear whether Ging has plans for Gon, but more than likely, Gon will choose his own path even after finding his own father. I speak from the point the show ends, not the Dark Continent nor successive arcs which continue after in the manga. Even if he does team up with his old man for a while, it’s unlikely he’ll stick around long. Gon will want to forge his own path. Gon’s purpose was after all just to meet Ging. It’s clear why Togashi is having issues writing the manga. Togashi knows Gon will have to develop without relying on his father because of his development thus far not having relied on his father. This brings us back to the first point, which is that Gon is able to achieve his successes on his own, so we don’t need his background to know him in a richer or more intimate way.
In the end, it seems Ging is contrasted more than compared to Gon, because it’s clear they are separate and different from each other when introduced in the last arc of the anime series. Togashi has had Gon forge his own path and it would feel like a waste if Gon’s character suddenly relied on someone else. Besides, there is no connection holding neither Ging nor Gon together.
We’ll have to wait to see what Togashi holds in store for us
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jan 13, 2018
Summary:
Devilman: Crybaby is a masterpiece, revealing the nature of our current human condition in the digital age affected by gross misjudgement and reactionary behavior.
My review:
Devilman: Crybaby decries the nasty habit of quick reactions in a quick world with no time to think about anything. Proving that makes it the easiest to take the most destructive advantage of ourselves.
The age of the internet. Too much information; too little time to process. We've taken it to a point where with some slang and memes we don't even complete sentences.
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Examples:
“I can't even…” (can't even WHAT?)
“When you can't reach the last pringle… “
(when that happens, WHAT?)
The thought isn't even finished. We don't finish our thoughts anymore. That's dangerous. Devilman: Crybaby demonstrates this with Devilmen. These are people who have been initially possessed by a demon, but win control back in the end, keeping their human hearts. Devilmen are throughout the show viewed as monstrous for the changes they undergo, but are not given the time and energy to be understood. If this doesn't sound like people in our society today, I don't know what does.
[ MINOR SPOILERS]
Many Devilmen cannot initially control their new forms, which results in their mass killings in the show. It's monstrous. They're murderous. Other demons who are not Devilmen are also among mankind, seeking only destruction, and the common people start losing their shit. They turn against each other and risk killing one another, regardless of whether someone is human, Devilman, or demon. Demons are the antagonists, as you've surmised. They wish to take Earth back from humanity, more or less. I'd rather not spoil.
This is what becomes so telling for our digital society and which Devilman: Crybaby executes so perfectly. People in the show take to the internet and instantly begin falling to panic, expressing mass paranoia, resulting in killing without regret, remorse or consideration that they essentially become monsters themselves. They go insane. Stoning, shootings, stabbings. Innocents die. It gets to the point where humans do overwhelmingly more damage to themselves than the demons. This is their plan, to exploit the human weakness of paranoia, lack of trust, and groupthink.
The internet provides the grounds for mass groupthink to spiral to extreme, perilous levels of destruction. The way we experience communication on it conditions us to react and reply simultaneously and therefore explosively. This of course is nothing you are unfamiliar with. But we often think about such things outside the context of ourselves.
Take a second to think about yourself. You've probably done something like that, as have I. Realize how monstrous your reaction was in the moment, and the comment you left on that social media feed.
Throughout the show you see half-baked, mindless comments from people, which speaks to the majority of us in real life, who bash on what they/we don't know and don't understand.
You want your internet opinion to be respected? Respect others’.
At one point, the most beloved character in the show demonstrates love for humanity and for the main character who is a Devilman. She says something along the lines of, so long as you can love, I don't think it matters whether you're human or demon.
People who follow her take to the comments section and start a witch hunt. They find her IP address and show up at her house.
Back our world: No one can take one another seriously. When some expresses an opinion, it's delegitimize with “shit post.”
Redditors are scary. They'll track locations of places posted in pictures. We're not safe from ourselves.
Even though some people in the show relent their monstrous ways, not all do. Some of the monsters, the Devilmen, retain more humanity than their fellow human counterparts who kill indiscriminately and who have not changed into any demon form.
It stems from a severe unfamiliarity with acceptance. We don't know how to accept each other.
Devilmen end up fighting in the end for a fallen humanity, they being the only ones who have retained sanity. It's the main character who stands before a crowd of humans stoning humans as Devilman and asks why they would kill themselves. They don't listen. Is not until children drop their stones and realize how FUCKED it all is. The first child takes the initiative, others following suit with a hug.
Humanity with all its shortcomings can be chalked up to reactionary behavior in a society that gives us no time to think.
The show really had me believing putting down the cellphone, which I'm now typing on, wouldn't be such a bad thing from time to time. I'd rather not suffer from mass sensory overload and give myself time to think things through away from media and others' thoughts so I can better form my own. So, I think I'll do that now.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Sep 11, 2017
Engaging. Entertaining. Elevating.
I've had a falling out with anime over the past year. Nothing was interesting. Nothing was new. This show isn't necessarily either, but it gives a new dimension to the hackneyed shounen dynamic of an underdog undertaking a new challenge in his life as a matter of circumstance which he found he
is surprisingly apt at dealing with.
But this show isn't just finding itself going through the 12 banal steps of the hero's journey like Bleach or Naruto. Such series become trite with repetition. Powers become bigger and larger and we lose the intimacy associated with smaller scale story-telling which ends
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up having larger bearings on audiences. This is perhaps why hero stories like Fate-Zero work so well, which expresses character intent, feelings and reasoning through all their past and present experiences. As a sports anime, this show wouldn't be good if it didn't use repetition as a tool to propel itself into our interest by staying one step ahead of what we're able to keep up with. Slightly more on that later.
However, I'm not saying Nana Maru San Batsu comes close to anything of a caliber which I just described. But its niche really shines by incorporating it into an academic-decathlon style that explores the real reason of interest to watch it:
rhetoric, syntax and diction. These three things and more all lead into the way language influences our understanding of others when they communicate with us. Therefore, especially being about a quiz bowl, this show addresses how we respond to questions and interpret them. This becomes the main driver of our interest, making us reflect on what we say and how we verbally express ourselves and are consequently interpreted.
Think of the sentence "I walked into a bar with that son of a bitch." Then, stress each word in the sentence differently each time you say it to yourself. The meaning will be different each time. This show explores that nuance in speech and interpretation. As a result, the audience becomes more aware of conversational stresses in words. We become more sensitive to character speech patterns and the way they interact with each other when they communicate, or attempt to.
If you're not interested in rhetoric, language, etymology, syntax or diction, then you are going to have a bad time. An even worse time if you don't know what most of the things I just mentioned are. This show is essentially a game of words=a decathlon called a Quiz Bowl, and characters have to answer questions faster than anyone else. But it takes it to a whole nother level where things start to get a little mindfreaky, and characters have to play a guessing game of what questions might be in full if the buzzers are to be rung before they finish in full. It stays one step ahead of itself, like any good show should do. Examples: Death Note, One Outs, etc.
Please consider this anime. It's worth the time imo.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jul 19, 2017
The first season made for some of the most interesting developments in anime history, but where the story has gone has ruined the initial excitement and mystique of Shingeki no Kyojin.
Eren has all the trappings of a basic shounen protagonist with no real subversiveness or uniqueness to his role. Mikasa is dull. Obviously, she still needs to be developed more, which I suppose second season is doing, but i just feel like it's doing a really bad job at it.
Mikasa has more facial expressions it seems now than first season. However, it seems as though the drawers are content with her facial expressions
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being enough to convince us she has turned into a full, emotional character who has really made any real development or progress. Despite making some progress with her character, she still hasn't quite hit the third dimension. Her character hasn't committed any action to show for her development or her changing. All the show has done is have the characters reflect on their past, but again, that isn't development. More things are being revealed, but the story isn't taking those flashbacks or insights into the past to progress characters. It's merely using it to unfold the plot; and unfortunately, that's not enough to make a viewer care.
I hope the third season proves different and better than the second.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jan 12, 2015
Story: 7
Art: 6
Sound: 10
Character: 8
Enjoyment: 6
Overall: 7
This is the most awkward anime I have ever had the most vacillating feelings for. PP the Animation is a very pleasant experience for the 11 episode you get out of it, and the character development is quite...unique as well, but when it comes down to asking "what the fuck am I supposed to do with this?", there is hardly an answer that can be settled upon.
First off, the soundtrack is amazing. That is indisputably the best part of this anime, which wouldn't have gotten the ratings it did on MAL without it. But, I've been watching anime for
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a long time people, and I can tell when something is good with or without the soundtrack, and this averages low 7s range without its music.
And the art! How am I supposed to judge that?! At times it was really gorgeous, and at others, really ugly, and every now and then it was ugly in a pretty way. So range for that is anywhere between 6-8. I can definitely say the last frame where Hoshino is blowing bubble gum in the opening is the most disturbing video motion on a screen I've seen in anime to date. One that makes me want to wreck my television screen with his face on it.
Like I said earlier, the most unique aspect is the character development. It's not bad, but I can't say it's necessarily great either. It's completely exotic from what we typically see. It's not too deep, and the atmosphere does literally just enough that we understand our characters without having to know a whole lot about them. We get the "I feel you, bro" vibe from the anime, and it truly unlocks our sixth sense of reading atmosphere like no other show has been able to get us to do before. In doing so, it's one of the most unconventional works in anime on the planet to date.
However, I think it's just sooo across the spectrum that I can't give it anything more than anywhere between 7-8/10 but I don't think it's an 8.7 like the average dictates. I just don't think it's that phenomenal that it deserves to be called a masterpiece or excellent. I think it's really good, and that's all there is too it. I definitely appreciate it though. It's a game changer.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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