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Overall Kiznaiver was watchable and I did not get bored with it enough to push it off to another season, Although Trigger has great animation and their stories are original, (not based off of manga or an original series), however the story this time around was offensive on a personal level witch lowered my overall enjoyment of the anime.
I do like Trigger's stories because they do tackle problems in Japanese culture that most mangaka can't because they're worried about staying serialized. In Kill la Kill they discussed feminism and societal corruption within capitalist systems, which they did wonderfully, and the story was obviously thought ... through very thoroughly, however this time with Kiznaiver they spoke of teens emotions, and although all of the studio's members were obviously once teens, I don't think any of them ever experienced growing up with Autism, nor did they contact anyone who did to try and understand it better.
SOOOO the basic plot of Kiznaiver is seven students becoming connected in order to TEACH the characters Sonozaki Nori and Katsuhira about how to PROPERLY SHOW THEIR EMOTIONS AND INTERACT WITH OTHERS. Although the other characters don't share their emotions with others properly either, so the whole thing just becomes a learning experience for all of the teens on how to properly interact with others and deal with their sin. Yes they call it sin. Each character has something in their past that makes them act a certain way around others, that gets in the way of them properly interacting with others, and Trigger decided to call it that character's sin. So basically Trigger thinks that anything that gets in the way of people interacting with others must be something freaky in their past, that is JUST IN THEIR PAST, and that they should just GET OVER IT.

OOOooh you were born DIFFERENT and sent to a lab to be lab rats. (AKA you were born AUTISTIC, kids from our generation did not get the proper treatment they deserved because adults didn't understand autism completely yet, and they still don't. So you were abused for your facial expressions as a child because they were different, until you just stopped showing emotion in public. SO WHAT? Oh its still concurrent, like anytime you accidentally show emotion in public, you look up to see someone near by that you either don't know, or is a classmate that you have to see everyday looking at you like there is and always will be something wrong with you that you can't fix?) GET OVER IT. And if you don't? well... You look like those vegetable kids that can't like think, in our opinion.

OOOooh you were fat as a child! you still feel ugly and insecure about yourself, and act a certain way because you think it will make people like you better, oh... are we trying to get you to do the exact same thing by telling you you need to act more smiley and social and interact with others as if you were happy. GET OVER IT. And if you don't? well... those girlfriends of yours that you amuse with your speech and your charm, well... they like this other sexy kid better!

OOOooh you wrote an artsy yuri-esque manga, in middle school. well... **** you! We're TRIGGER and we're super jealous because we could never come up with a story that would actually get serialized and published with out us having to run around begging for funds. And that friend of yours... Well... She's DEAD from some random disease that you don't have to be constantly in intensive care for since its not curable! GET OVER IT. And if you don't... Well your a YURI!

OOOooh are you a meat head deliquent kid that skips class frequently and doesn't have any friends and so you get attached to MCs' easily, enough to break into their apartment and start to crush on their female friend. Well... your scared of dogs! not as tough now are we? not going to ever beat me up for my lunch money again are we? GET OVER IT. And if you don't... Well we're going to make you wear glasses and you're going to be one of those quirky characters that wears glasses despite being a stupid-head.

OOOooh are you rich? enough to afford hair dye and loli styled insane outfits? Well... SCREW YOU! I bet you just wear those outfits to look MO-E~<3, for BOYS! GET OVER IT! And you know what? the boys still don't like you, YOU'RE ANNOYING!

OOOooh are you the MC'S childhood female friend? OOOooh do all the boys like you? well... Not the one that you like! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Not going to GET OVER him are we? well we're going to make you an emotional sack of potatoes, and you're going to get mashed and explode every single episode!

OOOooh are you an attractive delinquent kid that skips school completely everyday while we have to study? well... You're going to be a frycook later on! And you know what? I bet that you're not even out there having fun! I bet you're just a hikkikomori that masturbates all day at home! Well GET OVER IT! seriously you're even more unhealthy then those autistic kids. At least their not suicidal... and EMO!

Overall Kiznaiver wasn't a complete waste of time because of the animation and it's worth it's bit in humor as well , I just didn't like it too much, and I don't think anybody who was remotely similar to any of the characters at any point in their life would enjoy being made fun of in this way either.

At first it might seem like that Mirai Nikki is just another anime about a survival game but watching it after also reading the manga, it seemed like it was actually allegorically about Yuno, or any young girl, doing what she wants with her life. A lot of the violence is metaphorical for Yuno simply disagreeing with those that disagree with her life choices. Each character is rather simply designed on purpose to highlight Yuno so that what the author is trying to get at is more easily seen. It still is hard to see though, my first time reading it, I thought it just ... existed for comedic purposes. So even if you are not interested in girls and them standing up against their parents +the world/society for what they want to do with their lives I would still recommend it for laughs though the violence might not be suitable to everyone.
I'm now going to describe some of the characters and how they relate to Yuno and why I think the story is about what it is. There won't be spoiler content, just characters names and that Yuno must defeat them.
In Japan mandatory education ends after middle school, when children are 15.
Yukki is a young 14 year old boy who is a little odd, ( he's kind of special), He speaks to himself and his imaginary friend, and eventually his mother purchases a cellphone for him to have more conversations with his friend in saved text messages, he does this through out the school day and describes his surroundings to his friend who he sees as the time lord, his teachers let him do this in class. No one expects anything from him, including his single mother.He is one of the kids that teachers don't "focus" on because they don't believe he should continue on to high school, that he should just start working, (aka fry cook).
Yuno is basically Yuuki's opposite, she goes to school and is in the same class, however she is the top of her grade and is good at everything, sports etc. She is an adopted child and her married guardians are very well off. They DO EXPECT a lot out of her and she is under a lot of pressure at home. However Yuno's desires for herself are more simple, she will probably be forced to go to high school and college despite this.
Yuuki and Yuno are the same in that they both have no idea what to write on their career survey that is presented to Japanese middle school students towards the end of their 2nd to last year in middle school, so that teachers know what high school to recommend to their parents. (Yuno had a disagreement with her parents before this)high school is kind of like community college in japan, different schools cater to different career paths, liberal arts, sciences, etc. especially the private ones in Tokyo.
To put it simply Yuno doesn't want to go to school, Yuuki has a crush on Yuno, when Yuno's parents put her in a barred cage (that is metaphorical for her parents not letting her do what she wants to do), Yuuki's friend becomes real and uses time to help Yuuki save her. In this route though after he leaves her out of the cage alone, Yuno becomes evil,(in that she will crush anyone who tries to put chains on her or get in the way of what she wants to do with her life.) some time things happen, Yuuki doesn't remember this on route where the story starts.
Yuno's simple idea of her life is that she is very focused on marriage and love.Yuno begins to focus on Yuuki and her cellphone diary turns into a stalker one.
The first character that Yuno must defeat after the game starts is #3,
he is their school teacher and he is represented as evil because Yuno is trying to escape the route where her parents and everyone around her forces her to continue with school. She ends up NEEDING Yuuki's help in defeating this character.
When Yuno need's Yuuki's help it is the author talking about Yuno's weakness in her feminism because girls that don't get their degrees usually need financial help from men, and if say her marriage with Yuuki isn't perfect then she is in trouble possibly later.
I will talk about #4 and #9 together. #9 is the holder of the escape diary and is a terrorist, of FEMINISM, she escapes things that try to hold her down, which is the main subject of what the author is trying to say about women and the way they should live their lives. #4 is the holder of the investigator diary, he is a cop, and also an enemy of #9, and feminism.
#5 and #8 also get grouped together. #5 is a small evil menace toddler, #8 is a heavyset woman who so CHOOSES to spend her life raising orphan children. Yuno is in love and desires marriage but that doesn't necessarily include children. She NEEDS Yuuki's help to corner both of these diary holders.
#6 is also a girl from a well off family, like Yuno, her parents put her in a traditional wooden Japanese Jail where she is later hurt, similar to Yuno's barred cage, however the parallels between the characters end there, since This girl is a blind bat and cannot see, how what her parents did for her wasn't good for her, since they gave her a temari ball, which represents the extras that children in well off families receive when they are young which will most likely convince them to pursue high earning careers like their parents so that they can continue to have these extras. The way this girl gets hurt suggests that the author really is putting down the type of girl who obeys her parents or any type of child who follows blindly especially when it isn't a good situation. (ouch I'm in college, I'm one of these)
# 12 holds the justice diary, he has a prince/power ranger complex, where he sees himself that way. He is actually a misogynist. #6 is only partially blind because of her foolishness, the author makes #12 literally blind because of the way he sees women. I'm basing this part off of the scene where he hurts in some way #9th (the feminist terrorist) and then immediately asks her if she finds him attractive/cool.
#7 is a couple who are in love and related to the orphanage that #8 cares for. However the love that they are in is not the marital love that Yuno dreams of but the more common love that it is hard to get away from these days with it being broadcast-ed everywhere by the media the way it is. Yuno struggles to defeat these two and what she sees as a lesser form of a relationship, but eventually with Yuuki's HELP she does so.
#10 and #11 are both older men and represent father figures, #10 because he is the dad of another of their classmates, and #11 because of the relationship he has to the orphanage and to Yuno's parents, and because he is a powerful politician. Yuno defeats #11 by herself because she needs to in order to move on.
Although I didn't realize it at first this story actually has some depth to it and it is also humorous. I liked how the art improved in the anime vs the manga, because usually it is the other way around, and also the openings and ending themes were enjoyable although the english lyrics in the 2nd opening were laughable, it was fun singing along to.
I would also recommend Big Order the new show also by the same author, it is instead metaphorically about U.S. Marines getting the heck out of Japan and that the world needs to stop blaming Japan for the things they did during WW2 since its been like 3 generations now, guys.

While watching akame ga kill it was obvious to me at least that it is a WWII allegory. I know that the amount of gore and two dimensional villians might make it seem like the story is lacking, but I think the mangaka purposefully wrote it this way to make his allegory and the characters representative of this allegory stand out more, so that it will take notice more. Most of the characters do not represent a particular country and it is more about the ideas that countries had at the time, some countries still continuing those ideas. Multiple characters represent Japan, because Akame ga ... kill is an anime, and it is about Japan's wrong train of thought during WWII and also the change that was necessary for them to go through, that the author thinks America has yet to experience.
The main "evil," or antagonists in the anime are Esdeath, and the Prime minister.
Esdeath wears a nazi-esque uniform and is representative of fascist idealist countries during WWII which would include Germany and Japan.
The Prime minister represents the emperor's advisers during WWII. The Emperor's character is a child in Akame ga kill, a metaphor for his incapability to rule properly and how he was a puppet ruler.

In an ideal fascist society, everyone is capable of both muscular and mental strength, making the society function a lot more smoothly. However, for many people the strength required for military personnel is simply not possible. The characters Kurome and Akame wear schoolgirl uniforms and are at one point forced to become assassins for the capital. This is representative of male university students who were drafted during WWII, and were forced to become trained killers. One of the main religions in Japan is Buddhism, in which Killing even a bug is a horrible thing. Both Akame and kurome were made female characters to make their weakness more obvious, especially with kurome who is twelve. In a fascist society people who are naturally weak do not do so well. In Japan during WWII, weak or injured men who could not complete the drills during their months of training properly, were promoted, then told that they were to become kamikaze and die for their country. The men would then try to desert, or somehow escape their situation. The men were usually found by their comrades and killed. In the anime, akame decides that the capital is wrong in their thinking and that she can no longer kill for them. She deserts, but before doing so she tries to convince her sister to come with her. Kurome does not go with her because she believes both her and her sister will be captured and murdered by Esdeath. Kurome who is scared she will be murdered by Edeath, who is a firm believer of the survival of the fittest, frequently ingests steroids in order to hide her weakness
Both Akame and Kurome represent the spirit of the Japanese people, who during WWII, were suffering. Akame represents a couragous person who could make a difference if they stood up to the authorities. Kurome is representative of a weaker person during WWII, who for whatever reason cannot escape her situation.
The opposite of Akame isn't the character Kurome, but the character Wave. Before the war he is a sailor and thus the emergence of the capital(Japan) as a fascist society does not effect him in a negative way, so he does not see how the people are suffering. He states at one point that he does not understand why Kurome is scared of Esdeath. Wave is probably the character most likely to save Kurome from her situation but instead, like the rest of the jaegers, he becomes part of her nightmare.
A relation not to be ignored in the anime is the similarity between Wave's armor grand chariot and Tatsumi's Incursio. Tatsumi and Wave's beliefs are almost identical, which would naturally include the way Wave is drawn to the military and battle. Both of them originally came to the capital planning on rising in the ranks of the military. The first episode and what happens to Tatsumi's friends is representative of pearl harbor, and in the end when Tatsumi is stuggling to save a little girl represents how America sees other countries today. In the last few episodes the word Imperialism is said several times, speaking of the emperor and his actions taken to expand his country, and also of tatsumi. Although Tatsumi is able to realize that Esdeath is evil, unlike wave, it is only because he is on the opposing side. All the other members of night raid, including Akame, have a moment of silence after they kill someone, during which they express sorrow. However more similarly to members of the Jaegers and Esdeath, Tatsumi does no such thing, and is still expressing rage afterwards. Another hint that Tatsumi, although he is the MC, is not a good guy, is that Esdeath is attracted to him.
The rest of the members of night raid represent a multitude of things including La resistance, Najenda, those who were persecuted because of their race during WWII, Mine, and Leone who represents poorer countries during WWII who also suffered. Najenda is missing her right arm because the eastern side of France was taken by Germany during WWII. Mine's name is German and also mocking of Tatsumi(America) who has a relationship with her.
Akame ga Kill is my favorite World War Two Allegory and although it is sad, it is important to watch, also the soundtrack is bomb.

From the first episode you might think that its another shoujo about a CRAZY delinquent boy getting dropped into a studious girl's lap, and might lose interest. However I think Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun is unique in that it doesn't try to make it's lead male into this delinquent boy who happens to be percieved wrong by all of his classmates, and is actually deep down a sweetheart who is a hero with all of his morals in the right place. In Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun Haru (the male lead) is literally an almost sociopath, minus the fact that he hasn't actually killed anyone, yet, and all ... of his classmates have had the time to acknowledge this. Although there are plenty of shonen that have made comedic use of following an "evil" delinquent boy who has messed up morals like beelzebub and kyou kara ore wa, its quite rare in shoujo and I think the story of Shizuku (the female lead) reaching out to this troubled boy (out of obligation at first) is sweet and also hilarious and worth watching.
Often art in shoujo has a particular style that is hard to transfer to anime successfully. However I think its obvious that this anime had the funds to make their art work properly and there weren't as many "chibi" + flowers scenes which are generally often present in shoujo, so it made this anime more realistic and watchable for me.
I gave sound a high score because there are these "classy" characters that go to an expensive all boys school, and every time they show up/mess up/ do something silly it plays this public domain classical music and its hilarious. (they make use of the public domain music because of the lack of funding, it was correctly placed and super funny).
Character wise Haru and maybe also his brother are the most in depth more 3 dimensional characters, who get tens because its hard to write an manga/anime character that is 3-D. The rest of the characters are more two dimensional, however some of them are 2-D for a reason. Shizuku is a girl that does nothing but study, which is unrealistic, however it probably reminds many girls with maybe good but not perfect grades of themselves in high school, who might regret being too serious. Although if there's no crazy delinquent beau around too force you into a less serious strain of activities, there is no crazy delinquent beau around. (There wasn't for me, and I happen to be attending a good college, but like most girls I like to watch anime in which characters, who are either very similar too me, or only have one trait because they are 2-D and thus easy to relate to, get to experience something more romantic.)
I really like anime and manga that are humorous and I tend to not like a shoujo unless it's stupid funny in a good way, I enjoyed this anime a lot and would recommend it to other people.