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Apr 13, 2024
This is somebody's fantasy, drawn in passable quality. There's not much to the art, the paneling isn't good, it feels like a slog to move from one panel to the other. The art is unremarkable, there's nothing to it that would make you remember it. If you asked ChatGPT to write/draw a romcom, I'm sure this is what it would generate, though perhaps I'm not giving ChatGPT too little credit.
I'm pretty sure I wasted my time reading this but I also don't think it's that offensively bad, if you read this weekly and spent a few minutes on it, I'm sure you wouldn't find it
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awful, just unremarkable. The art is alright. The Main girl tries to be cute. It tries to be a cute series but it's so disconnected from anything real that it's not cute, it's just saccharine. It tastes like somebody put a sack of sugar into a cup and expects you to be satisfied with that. These characters aren't characters, they're 1d pngs on a stick that make sweet noises and experience sweet feelings at each other. There's not much writing to the characters, they're just vectors for the reader to insert themselves into. I'm sure it's intending to be a charming romcom, but I don't really feel any chemistry between the two main leads, which isn't a good thing to say about a romance.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Aug 1, 2018
Chio-chan the anime series is the perfect example of an average adaptation. It doesn't do anything with the manga except worsen the pace.
The voice acting is pretty good, Chio, Manana and Hosokawa are well cast, sounding like you'd expect the characters to. Andou sounds much older than he actually is, even though the tone of his voice matches his character, he still sounds a bit old.
The entire production feels incredibly cheap, with the backgrounds often being dull cutouts that you tend to forget about. There's nothing exceptional about the art at all, but some of the expressions drawn are funny and there are moments when
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you can tell that they put a lot of effort in the artwork.
The pacing is the worst aspect of the anime, the manga was very well paced and all the jokes were impactful and hit the mark just right but the anime feels like it's more stretched out Like it's a few minutes longer than it should be, and I think it would have been so much better if they squeezed in four chapters per episode.
The sound design is also bad, moments that would probably be enhanced by sound effects lack that, and it reduces the impact and sometimes makes the punchline worse off.
The writing is definitely the best part of the series but seeing as the writing is mostly off of the manga, I don't think the anime should be praised for that.
Ultimately the anime is incredibly average, even without any comparison to the mange, the anime doesn't do anything above average, it's just a throw away seasonal anime with a plenty of laughs but not much more.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jul 31, 2018
This is the cinematic version of a "F*ck you"
The movie is a big, pretty piece of f*cking nothing. Nothing happens in the grand scheme of the Chuunibyou series. There are no themes here that aren't tackled somewhere else in this series, but the worst part of it is it dangles genuine character growth in front of you and then it spits on it and sneers at you, "How could you? How could you genuinely expect these characters to develop and change and grow? Don't you know you need to accept all the imperfections and bla bla bla"
Rikka's character arc in this movie is utterly
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ruined, because it would rather pander to it's base and keep everyone's precious status quo than possibly challenge the viewer. These characters are stuck undergoing their Sisyphean task of being the same dull characters they were in the rest of the series.
The idea of Rikka finally maturing and dealing with the adult world in a healthy way is a very interesting one, but the execution is atrocious instead choosing to romanticize her unhealthy delusions because "As long as someone encourages you delusions- I mean loves you for you are, you need not grow" She has grown past the need for these eight-grade delusions, but because the audience hasn't, she will be perpetually stuck as a mentally ill teenager.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Jul 29, 2018
Cells at Work is a mediocre/slightly above-average show that gets by solely on it's gimmick, that gimmick being that it takes place in the body and follows the various biological functions, but with personified cells.
When you first go through the show you might find that it's plenty of fun. The mere gimmick itself got me to episode 4, but the show's writing wouldn't find itself out of place in a stereotypical 5/10 shounen show. It becomes so cliche at point that I found myself cringing a bit, especially in this fourth episode. The show does a lot of fun things with it's setting but
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it never uses it for interesting story telling. The characters are a bit flat and 2dimensional (ha ha) and are about as developed as a loaf of bread.
The animation is alright, it wouldn't find itself out of place among the ranks the average seasonal anime show, but nothing more than that. There was even an example of a clip of animation being used four times in the fourth episode, which just seems incredibly cheap to me. The shots are never impressive and the scenes are never noteworthy. It just seems like a the camera was plopped onto the scene, but never in any interesting ways, which isn't atypical to your standard anime but is definitely a point against it.
If you think that this gimmick alone is enough to stomach mediocre writing, okay to bad animation, decent sound, and flat characters then you should give it a watch. It's still enjoyable regardless and if you think you'll like it based on the concept you will probably like it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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