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Dec 11, 2020
Uzaki-chan is a fairly standard romcom with a simple basis of a loner getting harassed by his overly energetic underclassman who wants to hang out. This kind of story has been done many times before and will be done many more times, so why should you watch this one? It's pretty fun.
It's very easy to dislike this anime, maybe you're just not a fan of silly romcom anime, maybe you feel infuriated because Uzaki's breasts are large, maybe you think she's annoying as hell. If you do think things along these lines, I wouldn't recommend bothering,
Uzaki isn't an incredible anime, it's just pretty alright.
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The jokes are pretty funny, although a handful of them are somewhat ecchi, the characters work, although they may not be the most unique or interesting, the show looks and sounds pretty good, although it may not be too memorable. The show isn't the kind of thing you should sit down to expecting some amazing tear-jerking romance anime with funny moments, it is a show where the comedy aspect overpowers the romance aspect, which is mainly present as a nice, sweet aftertaste to the silly jokes. The silly jokes themselves could be very hit or miss, it depends, do you actually like romcom humor? The jokes mainly consist of Uzaki and Sakurai being pushed into uncomfortable and embarrassing situations by either the fault of one of them or the various supporting characters who exist only to put them in these situations, the latter probably being the best in terms of comedy.
A lot of people seem to have a problem with the show due to Uzaki's annoying attitude and how she pushes Sakurai to do things with her when he would rather be left alone, having actually watched the show, I feel like I can safely say that he doesn't really mind all that much, being bugged to do things with Uzaki, he finds her as annoying as many of the viewers do, but if he really, truly, wanted to be left alone, he could pretty easily make her go away. It is shown in the anime that he actually does enjoy her company, but maybe you, the viewer, do not, and if that is the case, I would suggest just not watching the show. Ultimately, Uzaki and Sakurai care a lot about each other and worry about each other, I would say that there is an actual amount of development between their relationship as well.
In terms of what I like about the anime, there's quite a bit that makes it feel worthwhile to me. The jokes are pretty funny, the chemistry between Uzaki and Sakurai, while it may seem to be very little at first, is at least decent. There are a few emotional moments that, while not incredible, were at least a little bit touching to me. The animation is fairly good, the soundtrack is okay, the opening song is nice. There's not much outstanding to say about this anime, though I do definitely appreciate that it takes place in college and work settings instead of the much overdone high school and middle school settings, definitely makes the atmosphere a lot more comfortable and relatable to me.
Uzaki-chan wa Asobitai! is a fairly fun anime, and if you just want to have a laugh at funny embarrassing romcom shenanigans, give it a try! I definitely enjoyed it, and will be watching season 2 as well.
(Uzaki-chan's design actually is pretty good, it's okay to say you just don't like tits and short hair, nobody will judge you.)
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Dec 11, 2020
"If we could put into words every second someone lives on, we feel ourselves live on."
I grew up listening to this song, maybe hearing it for the first time not too long after it released. I was very young and impressionable and full of thoughts and doubts about the world and the people around me, I wasn't really sure of anything. Around that time I would've been in late middle school or early high school, having few friends, little people to talk to, and only online communities and media, as well as books, to really interest me.
I think I didn't fully understand this song, when
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I was young, it didn't make a lot of sense to me. I remember reading comments stating that it was about suicide or tragedy along those lines, and maybe in a way it was, I'm still not sure. I only really remember this then indescribable emotion the song gave me. The relatively monotonous singing of Miku's in the video, the simple, inoffensive sound of it. It comforted me greatly. The lyrics were confusing, and I know back then I loved confusing things, I was a silly little kid who wanted to know more about the world, so things I didn't understand pleased me greatly. I must've listened to this song, mesmerized by its simple and cute video, countless times.
Today, probably about 8 years later, I decided to rewatch this video, give it my full attention, and sing along with Miku, of course.
Today, I can tell you exactly why this song meant so much to me then, and why it means even more to me now.
"I'm looking for meaning in life."
The lyrics aren't as hard to understand as I remembered at all, maybe I was just stupid. No, I was childish, I couldn't understand this song because I think to understand this song I needed to be older. This song is about, or at least, what I feel it is about, is finding a reason to live. In a subconscious way, I probably understood this to a degree as a child, and as someone who, at the time, didn't really have a reason to live, I marveled at it.
The part of this song that I couldn't really understand was the latter half. After Miku's train ride, she is now older, most likely by several years if my interpretation of the MV is correct, she opens the old door, to her past self's room, though the little cats don't seem to want her to. As the lyrics state: "Now, what you were seeing is your own self facing yourself on that day." She's revisiting her past, her past thoughts, her past self.
"I walk because I was born."
Miku doesn't seem to think that she has changed much at all, though she remarks that so much has happened. At the end of the sequence, the past Miku is once again presented with two doors, the door to the future, and the door to the past. The final lyrics to the song, "If I can put into words every second I've lived, I should be able to start walking again.... Like you did one day," I have trouble, still, interpreting. I take it to be something personal to the creator of the song, Powapowa-p, who is no longer with us, having died in 2015, in, from what I understand, an unknown way. I understand, at the minimum, the core of what these lyrics represent, however.
This song is about hope, and about finding meaning, and today I know that that was what the indescribable emotion I got from this song in the past was. Miku has perhaps not truly found meaning by the end of this song, but nonetheless throws herself into the future, quite literally, and hopes that she should be able to start "walking" again, to move forward, so to say.
I know this review is a little silly, so many thoughts about such a short piece of media, but it has touched me more than most media I've consumed throughout my life. The lost feeling that so many of us share, as a child I didn't know if it was normal or not, beautiful art like this helped me understand this melancholy, and today I hold great nostalgia for it. I still only really walk because I was born, and I think that's okay. The world is something worth walking on. Every moment I spend feeling this great, silly sense of being lost, is interrupted with things like this that show me the beauty of the world. It's not necessary to understand where you're going, nobody is truly going anywhere, all that matters is that you go. Go anywhere, see the world, look at art.
Thank you for reading my review, it means a lot to me that others are seeing these words, and I hope you got something out of it. I'm glad to be alive, sharing my silly thoughts and feelings with the world.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Dec 11, 2020
Alice no 100°Cc is a rightfully little-known romcom ecchi manga that focuses on a young man named Aoi Kururi who is the son of a long line of incense-smellers. Due to this, he has inherited the ability to use "onmyou-ji" magic, which seems to primarily have the power to give young women collars that cause them to urinate, and then have to urinate again soon after finishing, until a user of onmyou-ji magic uses straws, perverted fantasies, and tissues to cure them of the spell they are under. As you might have guessed already, the manga much deserves its score and lack of popularity.
The manga
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uses humor that mostly revolves around girls wetting themselves, forcefully removing Aoi's clothes, very open incest, and more typical ecchi humor. The humor is decent, at best, but overall the manga is just not very good. The peeing jokes get old pretty quickly, the weird pervert magic is pretty funny throughout, but I wasn't exactly dying of laughter through reading it. There were a few particularly funny moments towards the middle of the work, but it was largely very, very bland.
The characters are largely very bland, the romantic interest (who scarcely appears whatsoever, and who the MC never makes any advances on) is simply just shy, the younger sister feels inadequate due to her inability to use the onmyou-ji magic that both her older brother and sister can, the main character is a smell pervert and later a pee pervert. The most interesting character was Asuka Kazusa, who seems to be both a total pervert but also a refined character, as the manga points out. The rest are largely uninspired, however.
There's really very little to say about this piece, the art is decent, the "story" is very much not. But if you like reading things that make you think "how did this get published in an official manga magazine", maybe you'll enjoy it, or maybe if you, like the author, really, really like pee. Overall, the manga gives exactly what it sets out to, at the very least, a subpar romcom ecchi about girls who just can't stop peeing their pants, if that's you're thing, by all means do read it, but if you expect literally anything else from this besides a few cheap laughs, if that, and pages practically stained with "Alice's warmth", then read something that's actually worthwhile.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Dec 11, 2020
A gentle breeze blows past, the overgrown grass seeming to dance through it, you can near taste the saltiness of the sea. You're heading towards Cafe Alpha, a lonely, quiet cafe on a cliff overlooking a small beach. You know that on a quiet day like today, you'll be the only visitor. Alpha will take your order, and sit with you while you drink your coffee, talking to you about anything, everything, laughing, getting mad, and maybe after a while she'll just start staring off into space, deep in thought. It's hard to believe that she's a robot, with the way she moves and acts,
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the beauty of her mind, the music that she plays, the way she wistfully looks off into the distance. The last time you visited her, the first time, was years ago, yet she remembered you instantly. Maybe next time you visit, years down the line, you'll be considered a regular...
It's hard to put into words the way Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou makes me feel, with its constant beautiful art, most often taking up whole pages or close to it, its amazing use of colors, of silence, of sound, and of smell. The incredibly memorable characters and world; the blend of lighthearted and comfy slice of life in a quiet place where everyone knows each being offset beautifully by the knowledge that the world around Alpha is dying, or perhaps already dead. The oceans continuing to rise, whole civilizations disappeared without a word...
Alpha Hatsuseno. A robot who never grows older, who lives alone at her cafe, which gets about one visitor every three or so days. Her life is melancholic, waiting for news from her owner, who's been abroad for years, watching her young friends grow older, watching time pass all around her, but not for her. The world around her is peaceful, but somber. There's something strikingly beautiful about Alpha, behind her pretty looks and cheerful demeanor, there's an incredibly human feeling to her. The manga does well to present this to you with the use of Kokone, who, as a fellow robot, reminds the reader that Alpha is, in fact, artificial. Kokone is a more normal robot, acting less emotive than Alpha, when the two meet, Kokone is entranced by how human Alpha acts in comparison to her. There's something special about Alpha, the way she puts her emotions into playing her moon harp, the way she acts so carefree and content, the way she casually talks to everyone she meets. Everyone is entranced by her image.
The writing of the manga is superb, and very hard to talk about without also including a discussion of the art. The manga has so many moments where so little is written out in word, but so much is said otherwise, a fair handful of entire chapters with nothing or next to nothing said, Hitoshi Ashinano only using the art to communicate to you the emotions felt by Alpha, or what otherwise is occurring. These chapters may not be the majority, but they left so much of an impact on me, I found myself moved near to tears many times. When actual words are used, they're always used well, interactions between characters give you exactly as much as you need, there's never any unnecessary words exchanged. Alpha's thoughts written out to you have a beautiful feel to them, in many cases being nearly, or perhaps properly, poetic in nature. The manga doesn't shy from exploring the nature of Alpha's artificial intelligence and the way it causes her to interact with the world around her, but it doesn't go too far, it never bores the reader with any technical bits, or anything of that sort. Ashinano's use of words is superb, his descriptions of sounds, smells, and the animation of the world is so very immersive, it really solidifies the setting in your mind. His characters also benefit from this, not one isn't memorable, the friendly Ojisan who's always growing too much vegetables, the elusive Misago and her mysterious ways, the young Takahiro who's very fond of Alpha, or even the little seen characters like Nai and his airplane.
The writing is complimented greatly by the beautiful, breathtaking art throughout the manga. It's hard to really think of any particular part where the art of the manga wasn't at the absolute least good, with Ashinano not at all shying away from using the whole page as a single panel, or from having a lot of blank space showing just backgrounds, the sky, and the like in order to give the work a more gentle, and perhaps more lonely feeling. Speech bubbles, when they are actually used, never really get in the way of things too much, and in general the art isn't cluttered. When color is used, which happens more often than most manga I've read (with at least 1 full chapter in color in each volume), it's used very well, and looks very, very pretty and soft in all cases. It's hard to really describe in words just how beautiful the art is, so instead I will put here some examples:
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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is an amazing, wonderful manga. Ashinano's use of writing, art, characters, settings, and the like are all incredibly well done, there's truly nothing I can say about this piece that is in any way "bad" whatsoever. The work was so extremely touching, emotional, introspective, and beautiful that I started crying when I finished reading it. I absolutely, 100% recommend Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou to everyone, regardless of your taste. It's more than just a simple shopping trip to pick up coffee beans, it's a journey of the self. Thank you for this wonderful work of art, Hitoshi Ashinano.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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