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Jan 13, 2025 Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai (Anime) add Not Recommended I'm confused. Everyone is saying this was a great anime that fell apart in the last 3 episodes. That is absolutely NOT what I think. The final three episodes are the only half-way decent part of this show. The first 8.5 episodes were just an absolute nothing burger. They left me with absolutely nothing to latch on to and made me feel numb more than anything. It's not that there was something wrong with it. Try as I might I couldn't find anything to fault it for. It does everything right, but nothing well. I guess you could fault it for some inappropriate fan-service and yuri-bait, but ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 29, 2023 Migi to Dali (Anime) add Not Recommended At the start I was barely engaged enough to keep watching, by the creepy image of two identical blond boys. By the time I got to episode 8 though the joke was wearing thin and I was only continuing out of sunk cost. The fundamental issue is that this series is a mix of a very anime plot, and the story throwing as many absurd things as possible at you. The animeness of the plot really undercuts any investment because it draws your attention to how this is a work of fiction you've seen before. It also extends to some of the visual and audio ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 18, 2023 Tearmoon Teikoku Monogatari: Dantoudai kara Hajimaru, Hime no Tensei Gyakuten Story (Anime) add Not Recommended Preliminary (8/12 eps) It's eminently watchable thanks to the comedy not good enough to make you laugh. Ultimately all this show does well is consume time without friction. Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 24, 2019 Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko (Manga) add Recommended Preliminary (185/? chp) Slimes are great. What I love most about this series is the slime research. The realisation that the alcohol slime keeps demanding more expensive liquour, the medicine slime steals the mushrooms the protagonist is farming, the metal slimes dangeorusly roll around, the army of 3000 slimes makes the protagonist OP at toilet cleaning, and an army of 5000 slimes trained in martial arts doing battle against a horde of goblins. The character component gets a 10/10 solely because of the slimes. Every great moment in this series is related to slimes (or at the very least the cave the protagonist inhabits). The issue is that the ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 14, 2019 Slime Taoshite 300-nen, Shiranai Uchi ni Level Max ni Nattemashita (Manga) add Recommended Preliminary (72/? chp) Isekai is a genre with great potential. A staple of isekai is an OP protagonist, but what's holding most series back is that they fail to understand the appeal of it. "Our protagonist is OP, so the villain should be OP too" is the standard school of thought. Having an OP protagonist is the primary prerequisite of an action/slice of life story, because otherwise the action takes up too much space in the story (usually the majority) and the tone is just generally off. Add an OP villain and the only thing affected by ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 4, 2019 Candy Candy (Anime) add Not Recommended Preliminary (7/115 eps) Through millennia of evolution, the sound of a crying child has been genetically engineered to be the most insufferable noise imaginable. Of course, in Candy Candy it's not nearly as grating but it tries to be and the characters are crying all the time. It's more realistic that way, but it's not in service of any goal. The anime is from the 1970's and hence so are the concerns it addresses (whatever those are). Insufferable realism is meaningless here. Oh, and it looks and sounds awful, especially the sound of crying children. It has it's moments and Donald Trump does make an appearance, but it's largely utterly insufferable. Read more Open Gift Report |
