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My Little Goat is an 11 minute short movie, from the director behind the beloved series Pui Pui Molcar and the director of Inaka Isha. My Little Goat has a wonderful look to it, while managing to be gruesome, almost horrify even for older audiences.

Before going further with the review if you haven't seen the film, be warned that the film has concepts of sexual assault/abuse of children.

My Little Goat has a very simplistic story that turns very horrific. After a wolf eats her children, a goat mother tries to save her children from death via being devoured. After saving almost all of the children, ... the mother is unable to find one, Toruku. After these events, the mother finds "Toruku" and brings him home after being lost in the woods for a long time.

My Little Goat has a touch of innocence to it, while still managing to be very realistic and very dark. With how the film pans out, it links childhood innocence and fantasy with the horrifying truth that some children, that some parents have to deal with in the real world.

*spoilers ahead, be warned*
What made this more real for me was when Toruku is found by, what I can interpret, his brother. The more fearful Toruku gets, the more that we see that to him, his brother is the wolf in his life, and is the same person who assaults him. While this is seen in two instances, when he reveals his scars, and when Toruku is actually attacked, this becomes very surreal and just generally hard to watch until you know there is a good ending.
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The characters play off of each other significantly well. Albeit, there is not much depth to the goat siblings except for the sister goat Toruku gives his shawl to, but the rest of the characters play very significant roles and profundity in background.
The story itself was nice and somewhat pleasing, but some aspects of the film will confuse viewers unless you watch the film a couple of times more. There are certain aspects of the film that I feel like not many people will pick up on or understand until there is a second viewing or even a third.
The art for this film is very lovely. I'm very profound of when directors use different media, clay, paint, etc., in their films. Tomoki is known for his needle-point works in him films and I feel like with this film using this kind of material, it adds more of a specialty to it and refines it as notable because it is animated this way.

Overall, I fairly enjoyed this short films. I originally found the origins of this through a video edit, I liked how the art looked and watching this, this felt very enjoyable and worth showing to people who peak interest in horror.

All Saint's Street is the kind of donghua that you can come back to time and time again and still get a giggle out of and could make your day much better than it originally was. All Saint's Street 2 has the same gimmick as the first season, where you have Neil and plenty of other characters in rather fun scenarios that you can get a kick out of.

First off, the art is absolutely magnificent. The art is very simple (almost like you just wanted to do sketches out of CSP with just one brush), but the animation is VERY fluid and the colour palette ... the series uses gives a rather soothing feel, almost like the cherry on top of a cake you've perfected.

The story doesn't do much to impress, but you have a solid plot that overarchs what the goals are (or were) for each character. Typical demon-king plot note that at the end of the day, you face off face-to-face.

As enjoyable as this series is, I have two main problems.
The beginning of this season felt like I was experiencing deja vu, and almost didn't feel original to start with.

*spoiler and criticism ahead, be warned*

By the second episode, you have Nick trying to summon the Demon King out of Neil. I believe this was another episode that occured in the first season, however it had a different ending than the one in this season. Regardless, I feel like using the same plot-hold for episodes really shows some kind of laziness and you sit there going "I've already watched this, do I need to watch this again?" Despite this, I was still determined to finish it, and I'm glad I did seeing as how that was really one of the only plot-holds that seemed to replay again (besides it being mentioned that Lily wouldn't go to an angel school and would instead transfer).

The other main issue I had was how lazy the ending felt. It felt REALLY GOOD to have each group come together and try and take down the demon king, having every character reminded as to why they're in Neil's presence in the first place. However, this takes a turn when the Demon King side of Neil pops out and starts destroying stuff left and right. This, to me, felt like a genuine cop-out throughout the last episode with Neil facing the Demon King without having any issues, while everything around him is literally coming to ruin. Sitting there, I feel like I'm stuck between confusion and sadness--on one side I feel like bawling my eyes out because of Nick's backstory, the other part of me wants to take a notepad and figure out another way of writing how the ending should have panned out.
Not to mention, while I adore the animation, the art during the last episode feels slapped together and not as smooth or great-looking as other episodes.

Overall though, I understand that All Saint's Street is lighthearted and supposed to be funny, with a couple of added heartstring-pullers just for added spice. ALL SHOWS, no matter how good or bad you think it is will have flaws. All Saint's Street has this kind of charm to it that not a lot of other shows have, which is why I think I overall enjoyed what it produced.

The Vampire Dies in No Time is an anime that bases itself off of a couple of skits per episode, centering around a well-known vampire hunter and a vampire whom he is sought to hunt, but tags along with him and tends to die multiple times just in single episodes.

The start of this anime doesn't really blow you out of the water upon first watching it. I picked this series up after finding it through Funimation, thinking it would be something fun to watch. What really makes the rest of this anime stand out compared to its lack-luster first episode is what it brings to ... the table as a comedy. Typically with an anime that doesn't have much character development to it, you'd expect it to have some kind of downfall. However, the way that each character plays off of each other makes it extremely enjoyable. This anime doesn't take itself seriously, which makes for extremely hilarious scenarios. What I also felt made this anime better was the fact that regardless of if you watch sub or dub, character lines, actions, anything tends to be funny enough to just get a chuckle out of you.

The characters are rather charming just for being as simple as they are. In some ways, I feel like this anime is ironic, seeing as the most complex character is in fact an armadillo, John, which most of the time the viewer can't even understand.

The art is very polished, very vibrant and gives off this cheerful aura that I feel like it should intentionally having being something that anyone can enjoy for the comedy. Regardless, I've given my cent, I'd recommend this to anyone looking for relief from all of the serious series that have been coming out recently.