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Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for my Retirement

Mar 10, 2024

--Stream of conciousness review May contain Spoilers-- (May be updated later)

This anime covers the Manga from chapters 1 to 37 of (currently on March 3, 2024) 93.
Mitsuha is now an Immortal being and her FIRST ability can let her hop between worlds. As stated in the start of the Manga, this means that she might not be capable of aging anymore, and even if her body might be crushed into a pulp, it would slowly regenerate fully over time regardless of the injury. This also implies she may develop other powers later, but for this season she only has Hop and Regeneration. Those living in the other... See full review

6/10 story
7/10 animation
6/10 sound
8/10 characters
7/10 overall

Build Divide: #000000 - Code Black

Feb 13, 2022

(Up to EP 2 so far): As-I-watch review Ah. As a "Card Game" show, this one is poorly done. It starts out with a "tutorial" that immediately goes about eight stages into the card-battling setup, and doesn't clarify anything that is happening on the field. It migrates from "Oh I have amnesia" to "I remember how to play all the battles!" in under 30 seconds, which is quite disappointing as you can't follow the play structure at all so early. Card energy is never fully explained, it simply exists on the second turn regardless of what each user played before. The... See full review

2/10 story
7/10 animation
7/10 sound
2/10 characters
4/10 overall

The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat

Feb 7, 2022

Very unsatisfying. The first season ends in a way that makes you go "Wait... what? It's ended?", and if you miss the tiny clips AFTER THE CREDITS, you might miss a good chunk of the plot. (No joke, sometimes there's more plotline there than in the main body of 3 episodes, the last episode of the season especially.) The show is mostly beating around the bush with words to describe things, and a lot of exposition dialogue instead of creating a fluid world. It could be because it's just season one, but the author doesn't seem to have a good track record. (Redo of a Healer, if what I read in the... See full review

6/10 story
3/10 animation
5/10 sound
3/10 characters
4/10 overall

So I'm a Spider, So What?

Sep 11, 2021

Review: Minimal spoilers (Pre-Watch friendly)
Notes: Time Skip - 15 years between "Spider" and "Children" arc, many other reviews didn't seem to acknowledge this. Understanding this makes the show easier to view.
Animation: The Last EP was delayed a week because of a bottleneck in the studio. (many reviewers ONLY cared about the visuals for some reason) (((Edit: Reading the Manga up to your point in the Anime is almost a requirement for some items. There are several areas of the show that don't make any sense, that are because they tried to compact the events too far. The anime... See full review

?/10 story
?/10 animation
?/10 sound
?/10 characters
8/10 overall

Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina

Feb 14, 2021

(Up to Episode 4)
This anime heavily feels like a teenager trying to post #edgelord360pimplesdab.
It kind of has a nice plot and flow to it, and the world continually makes sense, but everything just has to have that "pimple edgelord" twist to it for some unknown reason.  If you asked a prepubescent teen how they'd make a garden "edgy" they'd reply "make it a man-eating garden"... yeah... uhm. The side characters follow this plan too. They only have as much personality as the "Edgelord360" needs them to in order to hit on the... See full review

4/10 story
6/10 animation
6/10 sound
4/10 characters
5/10 overall

Bermuda Triangle: Colorful Pastorale

May 18, 2019

This show is light and fluffy, but very much brain-dead.
If you like thinking, don't watch this show. Please.

The buildings are land-based designs.
There are footbridges... with stairs, and ladders. Mermaids don't have feet.
Coffee and Tea dispenses clouds of steam. Water pours inside water?... what?
Why do they need to drink? They live underwater, and the water seeps in...? It hurts to watch.

For example, the plot of the first episode is :The storm tide blew over a chunk of coral tree, and that single, average-size tree was all that hid a massive stadium building from the... See full review

1/10 story
4/10 animation
4/10 sound
2/10 characters
3/10 overall

FLIP FLAPPERS

Apr 24, 2017

It's a good watch if you really don't think about what you're viewing, but if you happen to be an active thinker, and can see where the story is actively cutting into itself, it can be quite an irritation to endure. This anime, kind of rubbed me the wrong way. The characters were vapid, and oblivious to most everything around them, as well as the worlds were cut-and-paste layouts from other anime/manga. The show is riddled with "convenient loopholes" for when their plot doesn't line up with the layout of the story. It feels like it literally backtracks over itself to do this at times. The... See full review

4/10 story
8/10 animation
5/10 sound
2/10 characters
4/10 overall

Rakshasa Street

Feb 25, 2017

This was an interesting anime, to say the least. It starts off very slow, luring you into a sense of complacency by trying to look generic, but as the episodes tick by, you soon realize something is very wrong. The past and future are reeled together in a rather awkward manner through the short episodes, but they reveal just as much as they need to push the plot along. The twists at the end were incredibly obvious when I think back about it... but still, they broadsided me when they finally reached the light. I might actually look up the Manga of this. The story and characters are what really made... See full review

10/10 story
6/10 animation
6/10 sound
10/10 characters
8/10 overall

Phantasy Star Online 2 The Animation

Apr 22, 2016

When I first saw this, I had a little bit of nostalgia toward my own PSO Blue Burst days of yore. Unfortunately I was disappointed by the contents inside. The show feels incredibly vapid, yet entertaining, as it strained me in two directions. Under the action it has a visibly forced layer of "Japanese School is always first". Even as the characters are being attacked by enemy forces, they're still more concerned with how their next quiz will be. They even used an "inspiration for survival" where one character basically said "You can't die here, you still have to organize this... See full review

1/10 story
8/10 animation
5/10 sound
8/10 characters
5/10 overall

Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragons

Dec 11, 2014

 Cross Ange.   (Review after watching up to ep 10) This one is a quite a head scratcher. For those of you looking for mindless entertainment, I suggest you turn away. Your mind will become engaged by the content within, and for many, the content is not something they actively want to think about. Rape abuse and torment are the themes of this show, to make that point clear. Within a “Utopian” world where all crimes can be solved by the use of magic the “Norma” are prejudiced against because they are IMMUNE to all forms of magic. As they cannot use them, and cannot be... See full review

5/10 story
7/10 animation
3/10 sound
5/10 characters
5/10 overall

No. 6

Oct 2, 2011

Story: I'd have to say that No. 6 started out with quite an interesting plot... started being the key word, as a boy gets rescured while being pursued by an ambiguous "safety squad" from the city. The story stays strong with intrigue and suspense.. untill around episode 7, when it begins to fall apart. Around episodes 9, it becomes more and more clear that the animators are suddenly rushed to conclude their storyline...not just conclude but concoct an ending, as if they never planned this far into the show. They do so by placing a supernatural air on the story, and by episode 10, they just dump... See full review

5/10 story
7/10 animation
8/10 sound
7/10 characters
7/10 overall