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Despite me not being a very shameful person that doesn't have problem with liking trashy incest shows full of loli fanservice and thus making it often questioning my life decisions, this one is far too much even for me to handle.

Oreimo had everything above but it also had more to say. If you ignore the shitty ending it was a very enjoyable show with decent characters and development in which they put all the trashy elements for us to enjoy - and it kinda worked out (till last OVA ofc). Eromanga is only that trash and nothing else.

Characters are blant with no development ... just for a sake of being there, story is missing, whole "12 year olds writing novels" thing feels retarded, MC is freaking Ki-ri-to (yup, as they couldn't make MC more generic and dense, they even hired Kirito VA) and yes, our imouto had a major upgrade with result of the most cute and unrealistic girl ever - shut-in loli imouto that draws eroge and loves onii-chan [did I mentioned that THEY ARE NOT BLOOD RELATED, for some reason show likes to remind you this] - yeah, they are still pussies for not going full incest but atleast we have all the trash as compensation.

That's it. And don't get me started on other girls. Especially Mrs. Filthy Frank "Ore wa ochinchin ga daisuki nandayo". You know who is gonna win this so what is the point of having any classic harem "competition". Hint - SHE IS NOT BLOOD RELATED TO KIRITO-JESUSU. In the end even (unlike in Oreimo) the main romance isn't very developed.

There is no development or explanation why they end up liking each other so much. It's like author knows that you have been through that in Oreimo so they just skipped to the part where they just want to f-ck each other. WHICH IS ALL RIGHT BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT BLOOD RELATED. Please help, this is autistic...

[Light spoilers ahead as of EP 7]

Kuzu no Honkai is a very mature (basicaly soft-core porn) romance anime set in high school (duh!). In very first episodes you can notice that this is not your average slice of life rom-com with very light and mostly only hinted actual romance.

First impression that this show made on me was quite good, good enough to write my original 9 out of 10 review where I praised finally handling romance rom-com differently. It isn't most genious story out there, simply two high-schoolers having kinda weird crushes so they decided to be each other's substitutes. The way how together with ... fantastic art and music portlayed it was unique at least. The cast doesn't act as 12 year olds blushing and getting embarrased. Well, actually there is not a lot of anime having so much of intimacy as this.

But is this alone enough for a good anime ? Nope.

After first episodes made you feel very excited about all the possibilities this anime could go, as each new episode, I got more bored and dissapointed. When I initially praised anime for it's way of handling romance, I don't know that this will be only thing handled here and how poorly when inital suprise of "wow they actually kissing" wear off.

I mean seriously, you won't find anything else here. 100% of runtime consist of static characters just talking or thinking about who to f*ck, if they are not doing so. Super-clever looking monologue doesn't help making story deeper than this.

It also won't help that initial pretty innocent premmise of woman MC "I like A but I can't be with A so I will seek banging in B" became in the middle "...So I will date B but I will meanwhile I go to bed with C because why not (yuri FTW!) and will try to f*ck D and make him fall for me and meanwhile A and B..."

It's simply a nonsense. It's so artificial, so unnatural that you quickly stop care about them. Because they simply can not exist in our world. I can more identify with those generic rom-com situations that I was making fun of in my first review. Characters are simply the worst. Almost every one of them. Not just one antagonist, they all just morons thinking only screwing everybody around (literally and also metaphorically). No fun, no develompent, any plot that would hold up that romance. That's also the reason why I don't have much to talk about besides this.

At the end, I must give credits for trying something different, for very good first episodes and for unique art and sound. That's it. As a manga reader, I know that this will go even futher downhill. So if you like this premise and you are masochist, then this is for you, otherwise you are going for mediocre ride at best that won't give you anything that other soft core and hentai can't.

SAO 2 - Even though it really doesnt have much in common with that name, tries to follow-up with our lovely Jesus-kun and his very decent harem in this by many unwanted continuation of by many considered great first half of SAO 1. If you expect another original setting and promising ideas like from first half of SAO 1, you will be dissapointed, but still overall it keep some quality that makes this show still watchable, even though story wont stuck in your head for more than you watched it unfortunately.

Light spoilers...

Story - 4

Dont expect any miracles here - It's fanfiction level of writting, a ... lot of dumb one-liners and overall lack of any major point of entire season as whole. The thing is that main driving force in SAO 1 was that everything was "real" - you died in the game, you are dead for good. SAO 2 never reached that feel of constant fear, it just tries it by dumb "you cant log off while in tournament" which is nonsense considering the world now knows better after SAO incident.
So first story arc actually starts pretty promising - new VR game - steampunk setting and new problem - some guy cosplaying Darth Vader is having gun that apparently can kill players in real life. Nonsense, right ? So let's call Jesus-kun, a.k.a. Kirito, the underaged kid to solve these murders because that's how things in Japan works I guess... Anyway, later it turns up that things were much simplier. Kirito finds himself in the GGO as a female looking avatar (because reasons) then runs into his new harem member n.5564. Despite anime tries a lot to care about this harem girl and their relationship, adding a lots of teasing, and most of the time it actually works - the problem is - we have been over this over and over. With Asuna, who is now Kirito's girlfriend and where pretty much romance progresion died in SAO. You knew from the begining of the second part of SAO 1 and so as here that it wont go anywhere with these harem girls for one use. First act ends with Sinon joining harem fanclub, end thats where her part in the whole story ends - just an another girl that comes after Asuna. She did her part as simple emotional bait.
And the main vilan ? I have to give credit to creators, I had some good laugh over there (if that was the intention).

Second act is just a filler, doesnt even worth watching, just so MC can be even more OP as he already is.

Third act is a strange one. It heavily plays on melodrama, so it depends if this your cup of the tea or not. I think melodrama can be done well if is not overused, not where it shoudn't be or where we dont care about characters enough, and this it that case. It's really nice to see different MC for a change - Asuna. The entire plot is about her meeting up with one unknown group of players that really want the beat the boss and "they wont be much around after spring" so they want to do it ASAP. You know something is not right after these "subtle" hints, and you will see the "plot twist" from mile away. I really dunno about this, it just feels kinda out of the place, really forced, just for them to introduce this one character to just later... also there is this sub-plot revolving about Asuna and her mother relationship, pretty generic "do what we want from you, it's for your best" done over and over. Thats it. Also Jesus gets his ass beaten so its not that bad part, it had it's moments, also yuri baiting.
But same goes for first arc. There are good moments, but overall anime just feels all over the place like one gaint messy epilogue to SAO 1 which doesn't know where to go.

Art/Sound - 8/9

Yeah, you cant deny the production quality of this anime. Both beautiful backgrounds of steampunk GGO and amazing musical score makes this really a glorified fanfiction.

Character - 4

Lets start with the our savior - Kirito. Once again (except third act) he is a perfect human being with his own harem, with super skills that comes without much efford, etc... Only change is that the writer tried to give him PTSD, but the result is dull and forced since we have seen him before pretty OK with his past. But anime needed something for him with he can relate to Sinon - therefore sudden delayed minor PTSD that washes away like his harem member into background.

Sinon - introverted girl, having some dark memories from the past, with real PTSD, being bullied in school and having that o n e nice guy (hahah). But she is overall fine and interesting, enough for you to care about her. The problem is that after her work for plot is done, she is put away into harem storage room, where she wont get any more screentime to conclude her relationship and character.

Asuna - Not much to write here. She only acts as girlfriend in act one and in act three she is pretty much blank character, portlayed only as that girl that cares, from who's perspective we are watching the melodrama. They trying also for some character development with her, but it doesnt working very well.

Klein - comedic relief

Harem storage room - bunch of girls left over just being in the background

Nice guy - Sinon's fedora guy, that actually went too far

Gman - Japan's version of evil gman that is using 17 years old kids to do his job

Enjoyment - 7

Its glorified fanfiction with big production value. It's decent anime to watch when you are looking for something simple and you don't have many options.

Overall - 6

+ Great audiovisual
+ Sinon and Asuna
+ Good moments in first arc and its promising setting
- Cheap MC
- Story all over the place
- Most of the cast unused and left over