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Jul 12, 2024
A sequal that overcame its crucial flaws in order to deliver a highly entertaining cinematic expereience.

Whilst not to say it has reached the quality of the big name shows, the fight choreography and animation has improved substantially from the first season. Movements and strikes are much more fluid and impactful. Frames are fresh and no longer recycled. Suspense is kept between scene cuts without excessive stalling.

Character designs continue to be unique and flavorful, with the opening fight of this season, featuring Hercules versus Jack the ripper, being one of the best fights seen so far. The backstories are more in depth and covered ...
Jun 27, 2024
This anime is what happens when you take a promising concept/manga, the tell the studio to produce it with a tenth of the budget you initially promised.

Coming from a non manga reader, the entire concept seemed super enticing: Famous human in history fighting powerful Gods in mythology. The anime does a good job in providing flavourful and conceptually fresh designs for well know figures such as Loki or Jack the ripper.

Unfortunately this is almost all the good thing I can say about the anime.

I have heard previously that watching Record of Ragnarok is basically watching a PowerPoint presentation, and it was not wrong. So ...
Apr 6, 2024
Preliminary (6/12 eps)
A reborn demon lord baseline with a nice onee-shota spin.

This anime places a good amount of emphasis on the onee-shota aspect in character design. You can feel from the dialogue that the MC is meant to be this kid who is trying to show that he is capable, and the girls as onee-sans who needs to protect the MC. The anime does a good job to not over-engineer these characteristics, whilst still ensuring they don't lose sight of the dynamic throughout the story.

With that said, it is a shame that the anime seems to be 70% fantasy combat and 30% SoL, with the problem being ...
Mar 20, 2024
Ishura (Anime) add
Warning: very minor spoiler

A fantasy world with stellar worldbuilding. Every character is oozing with unique flavour, from their distinctive appearance and power, to the sometimes explained backstories. There are no background characters in this show, every single person has the potential to be the main character in their own right.

The animation style and fight scenes are passable but nothing noteworthy, but the voice acting is absolutely phenomenal. This helps bring even more to life the uniqueness of each character. The additional design choices such as second names, or the way they chant spells, are also super cool to watch.

This is one of the best anime ...
Jan 29, 2024
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (3/12 eps)
A dude gets Isekaied, and for his power, he chooses to bring his smartphone. I think that tells you everything you need to know about his personality,

Given the long gap since the first season, I have literally forgotten any semblance of plot or character details due to the genericness of the first season. The second season didn't reintroduce any interesting plot elements or character quirks, likely because they aren't present in the first place. Rather it keeps going with a new plot with barely any background or setup.

In terms of world building and storytelling, this anime literally feels like the creator threw a dart ...
Jan 26, 2024
Fro the mangaka of Knight lady, I expected a manga that can utilise and explore unique troupes whilst having in solid worldbuilding. Instead, the content of the manga stop at the title, because the entire manga is *only* about "my new wife is forcing herself to smile"

It's certainly a unique concept, but when you stretch this one idea you have over 100 chapters, whilst adding no substance in between, the manga gets boring very very quickly.

The side characters and world building all gets pushed aside so this one concept can be present in almost every chapter. If you just read the first 10 chapters, you ...
Jan 26, 2024
Mixed Feelings
A sequel that was fundamentally different from the original, not necessarily for the worse, but definitely not for the better.

The original goblin slayer was this gritty, grey world where the party uses their flexibility and resourcefulness to overcome the unexpected threats of goblins. The shock scenes were a perfect compliment to the world building and immersion. It also had its fair share of bond and comradeship moment.

Goblin slayer 2 was fundamentally different. The show focused much more on slice of life and world building (albeit pretty shallow). The artistic direction was changed to better accommodate this, as well as some censorship of violence. We see ...
May 26, 2023
Preliminary (6/14 chp)
Hard to say much due to the limited amount of English chapters, but so far things are looking pretty solid and promising.

There is a storyline that is wacky enough to be comedic but also balanced enough to be enticing. Whilst story isn’t the main focus of the manga, it does a good job of being engaging and reasonable.

But who the hell are am I kidding. This manga is about the *art*. And the *art* is quite phenomenal. You have this Tsudere Oujo-sama and the Kuudere maid. The characters faithfully represent their archetype whilst having enough life and vibrancy to be distinctive individuals rather than ...
Apr 5, 2023
Mixed Feelings
Spoiler
Firstly, copy paste isekais aren’t a negative. Not every anime needs a revolutionary premise like rock collecting on a cyberpunk Mars. This anime has all the good settings of an isekai: OP reborn MC, focuses on “subtly showing off.” Quality Harem that’s not obnoxious nor unnecessary. And to top it all off, this dabbles into the idea of exorcism, which is a super cool concept to explore. Even the most generic show with the above settings can score a solid 8, and bringing exorcism to the mix could give the show an easy 9 or even a 10.

Unfortunately, the show suffers from quite a few ...
Mar 8, 2023
Prima Doll (Anime) add
Mixed Feelings
The show’s visual and design easily sustained a baseline of 9 with full potential to top a 10, but never in my life have I seen it lose all its score’s so fast through each episode.

The bad:

The biggest problem is by far the content. Shallow. Each character’s theme story feels shallow and unfulfilling, and even the main line story has no substance in it. The challenges and sad moment is over forcefully engineered, and each story is just as predictably boring as the next.

The show also prides itself by being heavily music focused. The show seems to have forgotten the fact that the music needs ...


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