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Dec 30, 2024

Tokyo Ghoul:re (Manga) add

Mixed Feelings

**Heavy SPOILERS below.

I absolutely love Tokyo Ghoul and I wanted to love :re just as much. And I did, up until the Clown Siege Arc i.e chapter 98. Starting from volume 10, the quality drop is spectacular and it keeps getting worse and worse and worse.

Where do I start? The one point that I don't see people bringing up while discussing the shortcomings of this sequel is the lack of death. It's bizarre how nobody, absolutely NOBODY among the main cast dies once the quality starts downgrading. Just how many times has Naki 'evaded' death? Hell even the Ape and Dog were brought back and ... for what? They were literally fodder for the 20th ward battle and were wrapped up nicely with a final cup of coffee but nah. They were alive allll this while and just, JUST for the sake of killing someone (because war, duh) they killed those two offscreen in the last arc. Tell me, who cried over those two? No-one. Infact, I instead chuckled a little.
You're telling me over the course of 6 volumes, when there was mostly heavy balant action (almost double fight scenes than the prequel manga), absolutely NOBODY, NOBODY relevant died? People like Ui or Suzuya Squad members were always in the front lines but every fucking time the enemy went on a spree, the fodder who were in the back are getting their heads flipped around but the ones in the front are unscathed? Why can't we kill off the Moustache Special Investigator or the Creepy Washu Gay dude or, if Ishida was taking his usual risks - someone like Uta? Why has nobody faced the consequences of their actions? Why do we have the legless lady Investigator alive just for some random hospital scenes? Also the gay clown dude didn't die either. Neither did Itori. If you reallllly think about it, the only person Kaneki lost in real-time throughout the story was Yoshimura, and although I don't think this damages Kaneki's character in any way but a few more deaths of his 'loved' ones would tie beautifully with his mental picture, especially when there are soooo many characters that we DON'T NEED. I can name around 10 characters that could easily be killed off and it won't affect the plot even a bit and another 10 characters who deserved to die as a consequence of their actions but instead were forgiven because they suddenly realised that 'oh I was wrong, sorry, mueh mueh :'('
The eye-patch Q is by far the most outrageous example of this. This horrendous character suddenly felt sad and was saved by power of friendship after everything she did because you know, I hAvE sAD paST.
On the contrary, look at my glorious king Furuta, just accepting that he's a crackhead and giving in.
So, the series suffers from this in the second half along with another major problem - everything is too convenient. How conveniently every relevant character who was supposed to not recover, has come back to life, because of, erm, new technology? And while I don't particularly mind Ghoul Amon and Ghoul Takizawa, because their parts are among the only few ones I enjoyed in the later half of :re but I think we could do without, again, conveniently bringing every relevant character who was supposed to be dead, to life.
Tokyo Ghoul was supposed to be a tragedy and like I said, when it was this 'beautiful tragedy', I was in love with the series. And I'm all in for people forgiving each other and making peace but by the end, everyone is best friends with everyone else after a mere hug or a 'I also had a terrible life' or 'Look at these kids, they are orphans, soooo sad'. There should be atleast some tension even if the bad blood is supposedly gone. Forgiving each other and becoming all buddy buddy are different things especially when slaughtering of friends and families are in question.

Anyway, during the last 6 volumes, relevant characters from nemesis group show up conveniently to save the other group in danger. Everyone conveniently realises they were wrong just when the plot needs them too. 'Sorry I raped a corpse which I thought was Kaneki because I was sad :('
Character conflicts stopped existing. Every clash went like, 'I hate you' 'I hate you too'. Fight starts. One character is on the verge of defeat. what is life. Fight ends. Characters make up.
Like, the final page with Yomo and Uta was sweet but what led up to that point was random and rushed, not enough dialogue or development whatsoever.

The last Kagune-form of Kaneki also has no explanation. Previously, there was some sort of context as to why he has such-and-such form, even though most of this comes down to him being 'Kano's masterpiece', also his trauma being a trigger everytime for his grotesque release of kagune. But when he got wings out of nowhere, I couldn't help but cringe through my teeth coupled with 'This time I'll save everyone!!!' Yikes. We playing Naruto now?

Tokyo Ghoul started as a seinen while ending up as hot shounen garbage.

All this rant but I still rated it a 7. Because, for me, up until volume 10, the series was amazing. I don't mean it doesn't have flaws but the things TG does right (most of it) is just enough for me to love it. The thematic brilliance of Tokyo Ghoul is unparalleled and clearly overshadows the other aspects of the story. And while the characters are heavily psychodramatic and at times very 'edgy' like one would call it but in my opinion this factor plays into the mental confusion of the characters rather than acting against it. Kaneki is a very interesting character and what kept the story special was his psychological battles along with other really great characters such as Suzuya. And ofcourse, my glorious king, Furuta, who kept me reading through this crashing storyline till the end. Also, bonus point to Furuta for being a part of Gintama cult.

While reading the last few volumes of Tokyo Ghoul:re, some moments were definitely 'classic Tokyo Ghoul' and made me tear up, because of how much I wished the story had remained exactly this way. Some of the notable ones being Kaneki's monologues after killing Rize and getting engulfed or the last moments between Amon and Donato, although I thought it was hilarious how a severed head kept talking for like 6 pages straight (lol).

Ishida had stated that he lost interest in Tokyo Ghoul somewhere along the way but wanted to wrap up the story anyway. This is sad and heartbreaking but I suppose it's the authors choice above all. I think this fact also can be strengthened when we look at the art in the last 2 volumes or so. While Tokyo Ghoul never had the best art, it was detailed enough for us to not get confused. The last few fights in :re however, are just black and white lines with blobs of ink in the disguise of fight scenes foregrounded over a page of my infant nephew's artbook.

So, long story short, I'm confused with whether I'd actually recommend this inspite of giving it a relatively high score. The things Tokyo Ghoul:re does good are too good and when it fails, it fails miserably. I love the characters that I love and I love the themes and everything but it really becomes hard to read after the Rushima Operation or, I'd like to say - 'The death of Arima was the death of Tokyo Ghoul'.

So, at your own risk.

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Dec 15, 2024

Fate/Apocrypha (Anime) add

Not Recommended

Apocrypha checklist:

- Neko-Mimi ✓
- Loli (with half of her butt out in her servant costume) ✓
- Boy waifu ✓
- Bland ass protagonist, WhAT Is LiFE, oh nO thE woRLD Is so bAd wHat sHoULd I dO ✓
- Female character who is constantly there to praise and uplift the protagonist when he does something as rudimentary as breathing ✓
- Overpopulation of characters and hence wasted characters for lack of screentime ✓
- 'Cute school girl' Female lead shallowly disguised as some hero with very strong code of ethics ✓
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Oct 26, 2024

Nana (Anime) add

Not Recommended

Funny

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

I really don't understand the hype for this anime apart from the amazing music. The art is very mediocre. Honestly I wouldn't even call the anime average. It's just bad.

Starting out 'Punk Nana' seems interesting, a girl with certain aspirations and struggles, someone you can root for. 'Dumb Nana' is twenty years old but she acts like she's five which would be fine if she later took accountability for her actions but she doesn't. She's all about men. Cry all you want about her growing up later but she has nothing she wants to do, no dreams, no hobbies. Blast's dream is her dream ... & as for herself she doesn't have anything of her own. Honestly if the character in question was a teenager, I'd give it a pass but everytime she whines and makes a mistake and acts like she doesn't understand anything, also her friends around her just 'letting it be' because that's how Nana is - I'm reminded that this is supposed to be an adult character and it pisses me off so much.

Dumb Nana is dumb for the sake of being dumb. So much so that when in a particular scene she says 'I actually love Takumi/Nobu/someone else' it's hard to understand if this is supposed to be 'something dumb' because she's dumb and doesn't understand anything and this will build up to later on, someday in the future, when she'll grow up and be like 'I was wrong, I actually didn't love Takumi/Nobu/someone else'
OR
this is her moment of realisation that she actually loves 'said person'.
You can't really tell. All of Dumb Nana's friends treat her like a 5 year old as well and that's one of the reasons that she never really grows. The fact that a 20 year old with such a childish mindset is surviving in a city on her own with her only focus on romantic relationships is very very unrealistic. Please don't bullshit me as this being deep. She makes so many mistakes again and again and again that an adult shouldn't make so casually in the first place but that's not even the main problem! The worst part is that, all the things she does wrong are brushed off as 'her being childish' and she really doesn't have to 'pay' for anything she does wrong up until the end after she gets pregnant, when she decides to be Takumi's wife but to be fair she never had anything going for her before either, did she? Before becoming pregnant, she used to cook, act like a spoiled brat, spend all day thinking about men and OTHERS' relationships, go to a studio for SOMEONE ELSE'S band practice. She never had anything distinguished as 'her own'. It was always about either having a boyfriend or worse, someone else's thing entirely. After getting pregnant, she cooks, knits, acts like a spoiled brat, and spends all day thinking about BLAST and their dream and If Nana will be able to sing again. What about you girl? Wouldn't you want to be an artist or baker or something?

Anyhow, her mistakes are never a 'conflict' she has to overcome but something which is acceptable because she's immature. And she's twenty. She's an adult.

Also throughout most of the series, it's Dumb Nana who narrates the story and whatever she's saying is in reference to the events that just took place or are about to take place and most importantly her feelings. And I kinda like that but later on for the final few episodes the narration switches to Punk Nana and boy oh boy whatever she says during the narration is just random bs. I understand they tried to switch the perspective to the 'other main character' but again, for the sake of giving importance to the 'other main character' and not because PUNK NANA being the narrator will make a lot of sense here. I honestly thought Dumb Nana's narration was nice and they should have kept it. Because Punk Nana's narration goes like "Hey Nana, we were like lovers, I realise if I were a fish I'd swim away forever, with REN!!!!??!? what? Is this about Nana or Ren? Pick your poison girl. Honestly in the last few episodes they wanted the other main character's perspective so much that they forced it even if it doesn't make sense. Not to mention, Punk Nana also switches between Yasu and Ren so much, it's hard to tell which is the one she loves though it's not as bad as Dumb Nana.

By the end, even though none of the characters really grew, surprisingly Dumb Nana is the character I liked. All the other characters were so horrible, atleast DUMB NANA accepts her reality as it is what it is, whatever has happened has happened and I'll give that to her. On the other hand, I grew up hating Punk Nana instead. She's literally the most selfish character ever. Even in last 5 mins of the final episode, Punk Nana keeps persuading Nobu to be with Dumb Nana. Why? Dumb Nana has clearly accepted her reality and Nobu should be allowed to date other women and most importantly, isn't that what the Nana fans preach that the story is about? Reality is harsh right? Definitely not for Punk Nana! She, being a peabrain doesn't understand that and still wants Dumb Nana to be Nobu's bride. Regardless of how much of an unhealthy burden this is going to be on Nobu. I'd completely understand if she wanted them to sort out their misunderstandings and harsh feelings towards each other but that's not the case! Additionally Punk Nana and Nobu are supposed to be like childhood friends? Their dynamic is supposed to be a highlight for actual friendship in the story? But she only wants him to suffer? Only and only for the sake of herself feeling 'comfortable'! I despise this character so so much and it baffles me how much people love her. Yeah she's a cool woman who is rude and obnoxious, wears cool outfits and smokes, I'd see why little girls would be enthralled, but at the end of the day even she's not sure about what she aims for, she questions Nobu 'what is it we're fighting for if not Nana' while he's clearly uncomfortable of doing it all for Dumb Nana's sake because she's not his' anymore - like he should! So yeah, it's all a facade to make the audience think she's a 'strong independent woman' lol. At the end of the day, even she's mostly about her love for her man. But worst of all she's a selfish self-centred bitch who only cares about herself and no amount of childhood trauma justifies being such a shitty friend.

And yeah, contrary to how I felt at the beginning, I actually like Dumb Nana waaaaaay more than Punk Nana though I necessarily don't like any of them on a broader spectrum.

I can only write so much. Other reviews have addressed the other problems. Don't watch this anime. Watch Gintama instead.

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Oct 8, 2024

Hakuouki (Anime) add

Not Recommended

SPOILERS BELOW

There are many problems with this anime but I really want to touch upon a few because I feel so infuriated after finishing this anime.

So if Chizuru was not in this story, would any of the events or situations change throughout this season? No. Absolutely nothing. She's just there to cry and be a damsel in distress just like, you know, every other anime girl? Her being there = her not being there. Every single thing that happened would have happened anyway even if she wasn't a part of it, without affecting the plot, I mean there's isn't much going on to begin with ... but you get the point.

I don't understand what is it with women in anime. At first glance when you see 'josei' or 'shoujo' the first thing that you'd expect is a decent female character. But I realised long back that shoujo is always just a weirdly love obsessed mc with bunch of male harassers around her. So, Fuck shoujo. But I never thought even Josei is like that. Because I don't have any experience with watching or reading this demographic so I delusionally expected it to have a good female character that girls can relate to since it is supposedly written for post teen and adult women lmao. And that's like the one reason I picked this anime - The ratings were not that great or anything but hey! atleast it's written for women with definitely a relatable female character! Yaay! Well fuck this anime. I am not acquainted with the visual novel so I don't know how different it is but it doesn't matter. Tbh every character sucks in this story but more or less they add something to the story. Like, if you remove Kondou from the story, it'll stop working. But what about Chizuru? She's basically a filler character. I mean we're not dying for a woman in the story, are we? If you're gonna write a woman as the same blushy, weak, pitiful, crying, soft baby then just don't include a woman, don't make her the mc. Hell, all the best written and almost all my favourite characters in anime and manga are male characters. Because the women that are actually good, you can count them on your thumb. Seinen does female characters the best inspite of being targeted towards men and I'm happy with that, being a huge seinen fan myself. Apart from countable good Seinen women, Miyazaki portrays teen and pre-teen girls the best. But sadly, I sometimes start hoping to see good women written for women and I end up making grave mistakes such as picking up this anime. Sigh. Anyway this show is such a disappointment. The story is already so bad. The characters are already lackluster. Above that the MC is just the worst. Ugh. Also did you know that the men are really hot? especially Okita (ohh good God he's so hot) but Okita Souji is beautiful literally everywhere in Anime and Manga. Oh, that's it. The men look good. Also, did I mention nothing happens in the show? Like, it's hard to understand whether there's supposed to be fighting or is it supposed to be political or philosophical and so there's going to be a lot of talking instead....? What is it supposed to be? Even in the prequel which in comparison is far better than this, they just erm.. talk. They just talk about doing stuff like 'protect the Shogun' and so they go on a mission to protect the Shogun but the protection happens off screen so there's no action, cut to them having food and then talking about attending an 'important' meeting but the meeting happens off screen so there's no tension, cut to them having dinner 'Good work today guys' okay but we didn't see them doing the good work eh? I really am interested in watching or reading about different adaptations of the Shinsengumi but apart from the historical accuracy, the plot overall falls flat. Kudos for trying to add their own zombie touch to this but it ruins the plot even more. Everything is all over the place, also the female characters(one of them turned out to be a boy and a twin) look exactly the same but I guess the generic design is for self insert purposes but whatever. Character motivations make no sense, they make stupid decisions that don't match their personality like Hijikata taking the potion to fight against the other guy which also was just for the moment and didn't go anywhere. It's overall a stupid mess. All the characters are boring, bland, make weird decisions. Don't watch it.

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Sep 22, 2022

Kaichou wa Maid-sama! (Anime) add

Not Recommended

****SPOILERS BELOW****

Shounen tropes and Shoujo tropes are always at war for the number 1 position at Anime Cringefest.
Anime is very educational.
Shounen tells young boys that if you spot a pair of tiddies anywhere near the diameter of your dick, this thing, for 99.9% of cases, will lack any sort of motivation or ideal other than a sole emotion called 'love' exclusive to you/your rival & remember boys, your every 'annoying' and 'get lost' = one blush which fills in half of the circumference of that thing's face. Ofcourse you're allowed to have multiple of these plushies around but it depends on your universe/genre/the ...

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Sep 22, 2022

Shingeki no Kyojin (Manga) add

Not Recommended

*HEAVY SPOILERS BELOW*

So here's the thing. Attack On Titan was one of my favourite pieces of media up until a few months before the manga officially ended. I'll try to keep it short but I'm sure it isn't going to be. I didn't want to write a review but I changed my mind so after a year here I am. It is a story with no meaning whatsoever. Remember all those metaphors, comrades dying for a purpose, a constantly building hypothetical atmosphere unfolding some unknown mystery which would lead to Eren ending as one of the most complex and perplexing protagonists? About Eren & the ... titans & the tree in paradise & 'everyone is a slave to something' & 'I WAS BORN INTO THIS WORLD'?

- ok Eren, what were you born for? Since you did so much shit, you should already know.

- Dunno man. No idea.

Yep. That what sums up the conclusion. The ending of Shingeki no Kyojin was written in such a way that it had no relevance to all the deep naturism that it has been about all these years. Eren having a no-turning-back reason for doing what he is doing? NO he absolutely has no reason. It didn't matter whether Eren lived on or died like an ass (which he already did lmao), the thing is he wasn't a good character. Not at all. Infact, the writing of Eren's character is the reason for this story's downfall, when, however, the main reason why "THIS MIGHT BE ONE OF THE GREATEST MANGA/ANIME OF ALL TIME" trope was being anticipated WAS BECAUSE of how EREN'S character was 'assumed' to conclude in the future. And that 'CONCLUSION' to Eren's character didn't end as imagined by fans lmao. Whatever was built up was totally flushed in the toilet in the last arcs.

Well, if we look at this entire story in a very different light, everything makes sense. If we consider Eren to be a fucking man-child that is. A whole lot of the world was stomped by him & Paradis was destroyed in the future. Titans never ceased to exist. That mofo doesn't even know why he did what he did and why did this have to happen. The only thing he was drooling over was Jiyuu Jiyuu Jiyuu or staring at the sky pretending to be 5 WHEN HE WAS 19. I'd like to think the ending was rushed and the author was trying to wrap things up within a certain period & that's why it turned out to be a bowl of fresh yellow dump. Because it's hard to believe that such a unique story with all the potential in the world was actually no story at all.
Anyway, Eren is dumb and obviously has eight-grader syndrome, I mean, he's so fucking retarded, I can't..
Meanwhile Mikasa is just crying for Eren, kissing a decapitated head like a complete creep (Women with self-respect can't relate). Honestly, Mikasa could have been written well provided she has had a fair chunk of panels devoted to her backstory and awakening and trauma blah blah but nonetheless, her obsession with the hobo psychopath neutralizes everything up to the point where the only remaining thing is a submissive wife. Mikasa has zero personality beyond Eren. She's like a sheep, yk? "Erehhhhhh". Her headaches were teased very often but that detail went nowhere. Armin takes credit for killing Eren instead of Mikasa because OBVIOUSLY girl does have no dignity of her own and she doesn't care about anything other than her dead brosband while Armin is still salivating over 'umi' so he's not capable of doing something useful such as killing the founding Titan. Actually, Armin was pretty okay until the last arc where he becomes ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC. Armin was ALWAYS opposed to what Eren was doing & the reason he agreed to kill his own comrades was because of that reason solely. But by the end he's glad Eren did everything and to make it worse, that blonde-bag even thanks that mentally unstable man-child for becoming a murderer. What? I don't understand this manga. How did it turn out to be like this?
Reiner is, like an absolute creep sniffing a married woman's letter who, by the way, also happens to be a mother & is for some reason extremely gaaayy (happy) whereas the last time we saw her, girl had that "I'm done, fuck my life" face. Ymir we were supposed to believe was representing 'suffering', whose negative emotions was the root of humanity's doom but in the end turns out she was in love. How? Why? No, what the actual fuck? And Jean supposedly marries Mikasa. Seriously? How many L's is this man going to take? Connie would be the most likable out of the bunch even though he had been the least likable throughout the series because you know, everyone regressed so much and Connie's would be the least, so. Pieck is just there, fights a bit, nothing else. Floch is there to be another crazy asshole. And I could go on and on.

But the biggest boulder, even bigger than all the horrible character traits was - the ending + everything that led to the ending. With 20 or so chapters left for the manga to officially end, Isayama was still introducing new plot points. With 499 other unexplained things from past chapters already at hand. For 130 chapters you still meddle around, superficially teasing some supposedly 'mind-blowing-reveal' in the future and you have like 10 chapters left, I'd imagine it's not going to end on a good note. Not to mention, 139 chapters? Come on Isayama, are the 13/9 symbolisms that important when your story stops making sense? Just 15 more or so chapters and maybe, just maybe we'd have one of the best s stories ever written. But *sigh* It was evident after 123 that everything was going downhill. Cool things were introduced even during the final few arcs like they meant something but nothing was ever explained. ACKERMAN? Who dat?

Instead we are greeted with the power of love taking over everything and everyone. Sorry, What? Just to clarify, I LOVE a good romance. Even in the most brutal of scenarios, love can play the greatest role. But IN THE RIGHT TIME AND IN THE RIGHT AMOUNT. Firstly, Japan's creepy obsession with incest has it's fair share to make people dislike the ending. I mean, maybe not draw your potential pairing in a platonic familial light? Maybe make it clear that Mikasa wasn't legally adopted? Maybe not make Eren and Mikasa grow up like siblings but instead in the same neighborhood? All the while being taken care of by the Yeagers but staying in a different house? But NOPE! let's keep it hanging at the center so that incest lovers are satisfied as well and no sane person can raise a finger about the incestuous nature either. Secondly, Mikasa's devotion. Nothing new. Typical shounen female thing. The only difference is that she is physically competent unlike Hinata, Orihime, Sakura but the simping remains deepthroated. Thirdly and most importantly, the theme of ATTACK ON TITAN was never ROMANCE. It was WAR. The MC expresses his love to the girl before he dies? COOL! BEST THING EVER! But that's not what happened? Was it? Turns out, the symbol of the cycle of 2000 years of hatred and tragedy was - a slave having romantic feelings towards her abuser and being in love for centuries AND Mikasa's similar and parallel love for man-child. So, you are telling me, for 120+ chapters it was FREEDOM, FREEDOM, FREEDOM AND SLAVERY AND Eren's fucking trauma which was most surely caused ONLY due to all the memories making him realize how cruel the world is AND the answer to all those was MIKASA's love? Suddenly she's the one having a connection to YMIR. What about Eren? The one who understood Ymir was EREN but Ymir was searching for Mikasa? Why and How. The plot became so lazy at this point that the writer made the protagonist Eren say 'I don't know'. Because nobody does. The author doesn't and he doesn't care either. While I don't prefer the idea of a story with such huge cast of characters being a one-man show but come on. Eren's feelings were left completely unexplored.

The story should have come full circle with Eren's character and NOBODY ELSE, NOBODY. Sure, he could have his individual moments with Armin & Mikasa but Eren's journey should make sense.. But instead, we learn that there's no meaning to him or his existence or his motives. He's made to look like a deluded lunatic who did everything on the peak of his adrenaline boost. He's indecisive to what he wants and what he doesn't. One minute he's like - 'From the day I was born, I have been me bla bla' *insert serious face*, the next second he's like - 'weeehhh mukasahh doesnot lob mehh' & the next one he's like - 'oh you want to know my rationale that led me to commit genocide? My master plan since timeskip? idk man, I have no clue and there's no plan, Genocide just felt sexy' *stares at sky like an idiot*. Eren became the worst thing about Attack on Titan and sadly but pretty unironically Attack on titan is about Eren.

The reason I gave this a 4 is because there are some good characters. Erwin is just tooooo great. I'm so glad he died right when the story was at it's peak. Levi is great too. Maybe a bit overrated but he's a good character. Like, among all the relevant characters that survived till the end including main 3, his story was the ONLY one which had an ACTUAL CONCLUSION. Ofcourse, his character digressed too, with the later half SUDDENLY 'only' being about 'Erwin's promise' and not about what it originally was - ALL his comrades and the lives lost and not just ERWIN but we can forgive that, I guess. He's a short and beautiful man afterall. Zeke is only other that got me reading, I mean, he's pretty decent too if we exclude the plothole of him 'needing' to die for 'something' to stop. Whatever.

The Art of Attack on Titan is Bad. It gets better with time just like every other manga but it's way below average nonetheless. Sometimes it's so hard to make out the foreground from background and honestly the author doesn't give much of a fuck either. Many pages where there is supposed to be a lot going on in the background, it looks like a scribble from a 3 year old's sketch book. The story was the only thing which kept it going and sadly it also died somewhere along the way. You can just tell, he lost interest and just wanted to move on to his Onsen thing or whatever. No matter how much fans try to justify this 'bad' conclusion, it's clear as day to see that the intent of making it 'good' wasn't there anymore.
Anyway,
to sum it up - We're made to feel we're reading some really dark & philosophical shit but in the end it's just a guy who destroyed the world, treated his friends like shit, went emo and died because well, he was on drugs.

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Sep 22, 2022

Sakamoto desu ga? (Anime) add

Mixed Feelings

*SPOILER ALERT*

Story: 6/10

Okay so there's no actual plot in Sakamoto Desu ga. It's purely episodic with a cluster of independent plotlines about how people are drawn to Sakamoto perfect-kun due to jealousy/attraction/admiration in an attempt to either impress or degrade him but in the end Sakamoto perfect-kun overcomes all odds & obstacles and shines brighter than your dad's hair gel. The pair of short stories every episode were overall fun with some moments being really really fun while others being meh or extremely cringey.

Art: 8/10
Colors are great. Characters look good (Sadly most of them ONLY look good).

... Sound: 10/10
Ngl the opening is a banger and it's prolly one of my top anime ops of all time. The ending is also very nice.

Character : 2/10
Technically, you can divide the characters in three tiers. 1) Sakamoto 2) Hayabusa and 3) One-dimensional boring piece of crap. I'll try to briefly explain my opinion on each of these three tiers one-by-one.

1) Sakamoto : 9/10
Okay, straight up, this story is about Sakamoto and JUST Sakamoto and how good he is at everything. Honestly, I really like their approach towards drawing his character. He's not actually very emotionally invested in anyone. Infact a lot of his activities are rather robotic even though he still shows empathy and kindness to a lot of people around him. Also, here's another interpretation, in the ending it's shown that Sakamoto is leaving the school and is (clearly) lying about joining NASA so it's highly assumed that Sakamoto chose not to be super close or attached to anyone because a sad fate awaits him (Popular Theory : Sakamoto is dying) & he only wanted to be kind and generous to people during his time in school. Taking this as a fact, I think Sakamoto's character was overall perfect. Yes, I'd also write my quiet, composed and good-at-everything character the same way if I had to give him 12 episodes to live his life to the fullest. Keeping that analysis aside, Sakamoto is drawn to be perfect and invincible. He never fails at anything. All the girls go ga-ga over him, the thugs are trying to bring him down & insult him and quite frankly, it works. So, If you can focus on this show only through the main character - Perfect Sakamoto, you can make it to the end, AWAKE

2) Hayabusa : 7/10
This is the only, I repeat, the only LIKABLE character apart from Sakamoto with some fragments of personality. He looks good, he's shown to be witty, a lot aggressive but also portrayed to be a kind and caring brother in later part of the series. The set-up for Hayabusa was great and I liked him every time I saw him on screen but the problem is you don't see enough of him and that makes his entire appearance a bit lack-lusture and mostly INCOMPLETE.

3) The rest of the cast : Overall a 1/10 maybe?
Okay. So the entire supporting cast of the show apart from Hayabusa are just boring, One-dimensional and utterly useless. There were times when I kinda liked characters like Acchan, Kubota and Sera but it quickly faded away due to constantly being shadowed by Sakamoto & the abnormal Sakamoto-fan syndrome that surrounded the cast. Kubota's mother was so creepy and disgusting, it made me want to throw-up. I wish there was atleast one girl with an interesting outlook but every girl in the show is straight up fucking annoying. The intent to everyone admiring Sakamoto was meant to be comedic but how a lot of characters just utter 'Sakamoto-kun' for like 99% of the time they are on screen & nothing else makes them extremely unlikable and cringey.

Enjoyment : 5/10
I enjoyed it. At times that is. But yeah, not all the while. There were a few times I was cracking up really bad but there were other times when the jokes didn't work. Overall it was quite fun until the POV shifted from Sakamoto/Hayabusa to the rest of the cast because all you see is random creepy blushes & 'Sakamoto' 'Sakamoto-kun' and literally nothing else.

Overall : 5/10

For me, it was an okay show. Yes the entire supporting cast suck ass but prolly that is why the story is mostly focused on Sakamoto and not anyone else. If you're keen on watching anyway, I'd say try to ignore the rest of the cast apart from the two characters I mentioned and you can actually enjoy the show without cringing your ass off, well not exactly but that's for the best.

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Okay I'll keep it short. I gave it a 5 because of the astonishingly beautiful animation and colors. Otherwise I'd give it a 1. Also, let me remind you, just because it's about swimming, doesn't mean it's a typical SPORTS anime. There are a bunch extremely hot shirtless guys that I absolutely loved staring at, being a straight woman but that's it. The ending is horrible, I get that it was meant to be some wholesome friendship thing, but megane-kun was just pitiful. It was a complete wtf moment for me considering he's the only one I liked a little as a character ...

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