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To Love Ru

Mar 19, 2011

The anime has a great premise and the first 7ish episodes are very well done, but then the anime seems to run out of idea's and keeps on introducing random characters, who get pumped off at the end of the episode (making that episode pointless); To Love-Ru just has too many filler episodes for me to recomed it, however it has a great lead female and a very funny suporting cast as well as some scenes of subtle character development. More in video review, this review is the first episode of my series 'Sex God anime reviews', I got the idea from B Gata H Kei to do a Sex God and he first appears in that... See full review

4/10 story
5/10 animation
8/10 sound
4/10 characters
5.5/10 overall

Howl's Moving Castle

May 21, 2012

I give the anime high marks for creativity and having some of the best animation in the business, but the anime seems to be lacking a plot and characters to back it up. There is no focus in the story and it seems to be just throwing random events and beings/creatures at us with no ryhme or reason; there are side characters that also go no where and there motivations change in a instant. It's a shame, because we have the world, the set up and the creativity, but we don't have a strong and focused story to go around it. Spirited Away was random, but there was still an overall story and the main focus was... See full review

6/10 story
10/10 animation
7/10 sound
5/10 characters
7.5/10 overall

Candy Boy

Sep 25, 2011

Short, sweet, charming, emotional and funny; Candy Boy has all those things and despite having only 7 episodes the anime gets so much character development across then most animes can do in 12+ episodes *cough* To Love-Ru *cough, cough*. More in video review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH3DZCUklaU BBFC rating - N/A My BBFC rating - 12 for moderate sex references

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9/10 story
10/10 animation
7/10 sound
10/10 characters
9.2/10 overall

30-sai no Hoken Taiiku

Aug 27, 2013

This is a short and fun little series; the characters completely sell it and I kept watching just to spend more time with them. They are all really funny - more in video review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqAzr31gNcI BBFC rating - N/A My BBFC rating - 15 for strong sex references

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6/10 story
6/10 animation
6/10 sound
8/10 characters
7.6/10 overall

Princess Mononoke

Feb 9, 2012

Like Grave of the Fireflies this is one of Studio Ghibli's darkest films - the film is very creative and the story, for what it is, is quite engaging, however what I really don't understand is why do the humans want the head of The Deer God? It doesn't explain what they are going to do with it or why they need it, it just seems like that woman is endagering the humans for no reason and hey they give it back to him and everything goes back to normal, so that whole sequence seemed abit pointless - that's my major problem with the film and the story, but everything else before that was perfect: More in video... See full review

7/10 story
10/10 animation
7/10 sound
7/10 characters
8.6/10 overall

Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru

Oct 22, 2011

The taboo topic of incest is quite frequent during anime's, usually though its more a sub ark, this anime takes this topic really seriously and its just a really emotional anime; it does also dwell into the taboo of people not actsepting it. Yosuga No Sora was the sex side of incest, this is the true love side of incest. Video review - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ParCv6NReE4 BBFC rating - N/A My BBFC rating - 18 for an incest theme

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9/10 story
9/10 animation
7/10 sound
9/10 characters
9/10 overall

Kiss x Sis

Mar 27, 2011

Funny, awkward and really ranchy. Kiss X Sis (OVA) also has a very likeable cast, it is more explicit then the TV series. More in video review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNHQpuA8tR0 BBFC rating - N/A My BBFC rating - 18 for very strong sex references and sex

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7/10 story
7/10 animation
8/10 sound
10/10 characters
8.1/10 overall

Spice and Wolf II

May 12, 2013

The first season is outstanding, but unfortantly not all second seasons turn out like Clannad After Story. I don't think I've ever been so disapointed with an anime before; tha main plot of Spice and Wolf, from the first season was Lawrence taking Holo up north, with threats and stuff along the way, now that worked in the first season because they were constantly on the road and we saw the lovely countryside and everything else this world has to offer, yet this season thinks it's wise to keep everything self contained in two towns, because there's only two story arcs. Also the main charm of the first season... See full review

3/10 story
8/10 animation
8/10 sound
7/10 characters
5.3/10 overall

Origin: Spirits of the Past

May 15, 2011

what a terrible anime, more to be discussed in video review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-SCNS3lLMM BBFC rating - 12 for moderate violence

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1/10 story
5/10 animation
2/10 sound
1/10 characters
0.7/10 overall

Girl's High

Feb 25, 2011

A very underrated anime. Sure the animation is pretty average, but the characters are just awesome and so's the story. More in the video review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sua2HiUWAj4 BBFC rating - N/A My BBFC rating - 15 for strong language and sex references

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9/10 story
5/10 animation
8/10 sound
10/10 characters
8.8/10 overall

Green Green

Feb 25, 2011

This is just a poorly made anime; but I admire Green Green for not being shy about showing us its nudity. Oh and the last episode is a hentai, just thought you should know. Video review time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utwzS9Uk1ro BBFC rating - N/A My BBFC rating - 18 for strong sex

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5/10 story
1/10 animation
3/10 sound
4/10 characters
3.1/10 overall

Eden of the East

Feb 25, 2011

Eden of the East has some of the best animation you are likely to ever see in an anime series and the story for what it is, is very intrestingly woven together, even if everything doesn't tie up in the end. However Characters is what makes and breaks an anime, the lack of character development really hurts this anime and most of the characters just seem like tools to explain things or help the main hero; the lead girl character is the biggest tool of them all, she does nothing, that helps the story - she is just the love intrest... Explained more in the video review: ... See full review

8/10 story
10/10 animation
4/10 sound
2/10 characters
6.6/10 overall

Penguindrum

Jun 13, 2015

Can't say I've ever seen a show like this before, the story is really crazy yet held my interest throughout due to the twists and turns that the show threw at me. Video review will explain more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIo3E6wyQqA BBFC rating - 18 for strong sexual threat

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10/10 story
10/10 animation
8/10 sound
8/10 characters
9.5/10 overall

Heaven's Memo Pad

Jan 14, 2015

I greatly enjoyed this little show, despite its jarring tonal problems, one moment its funny, next moment it gets really dark. The characters aren't really that memorable, they aren't annoying or anything, with Alice really being the only one with a rounded personality. More in video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCo9snsY9vU BBFC rating - 12 for moderate violence, langauge and drug, sex and suicide references

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8/10 story
6/10 animation
6/10 sound
6/10 characters
7.4/10 overall

Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage

Jan 14, 2015

Well another second season next to spice and wolf that disapointed me. I thought Black Lagoon was about the Lagoon company partaking in jobs, but that completely gets forgotten in this season, Benny and Dutch taking a back seat to everything, with Rock and Revy being the stars. However the arcs presented in this anime, just aren't interesting except for the twins at the start of the show. The last arc which takes up half of the show is so dull and so uninteresting because I just did not care about this character. Character development is completely side tracked in favour of action. More in video... See full review

3/10 story
9/10 animation
7/10 sound
5/10 characters
4.6/10 overall

Black Lagoon

Jan 14, 2015

Black Lagoon is a whole lot of fun, the action is great, the animation also, but the highlight of the series is the interactions and developing relationship between Rock and Revy. More in video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7xye5bcS-o BBFC rating - 15 for very strong language, bloody violence and sex references

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9/10 story
9/10 animation
7/10 sound
9/10 characters
8.8/10 overall

Perfect Blue

Jan 19, 2014

A really gripping psychological thriller, that constantly made me second guess everything and made me really think about what was in her head and not. More in video review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU6Jl9KopHA (the review follows the end of the Fate/Zero review) BBFC rating - 18 for strong violence, nudity and language

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10/10 story
8/10 animation
9/10 sound
9/10 characters
9.6/10 overall

Fate/Zero

Jan 19, 2014

The things that bugged me in Fate/Stay Night aren't present in Fate/Zero, for starters the show actually checks in on all seven masters and servants who are taking part in the war and shows the viewer what they are doing when they aren't fighting, this in turn gave them more development because I could actually conect to them then and understand them, unlike Fate/Stay Night. More in video review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ6-i4N3Zvw BBFC rating - 15 for strong bloody violence

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9/10 story
9/10 animation
9/10 sound
9/10 characters
9.4/10 overall

Fate/stay night

Jan 19, 2014

While watching Fate/Stay Night I found the actually Holy Grail War aspect of the show to be incredibly dull, due to a great lack of character development for the masters and servants. Why the 8 then? Because the developing relationship of Shiro and Saber was fantastic and over the course of the show they both affect each other in different ways - their romance was brilliant and luckily they are in the show 90% of the time, but getting through all the boring battles and the discussion of the war was a chour to get through: More in video review: ... See full review

6/10 story
7/10 animation
6/10 sound
8/10 characters
6.9/10 overall

Samurai Bride

Jan 7, 2014

Unlike Samurai Girls, Samurai Bride has a really unfocused story and it introduces way too many new characters. The four dark samurai's are very weak villians compared to Gisen in Samurai Girls, however I do like the main characters and that's pretty much why I kept watching, nor is the show ever boring. If you liked/loves Samurai Girls then yeah I mildly recomend this, if you hated it then you probably won't like this one either. More in video review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHqZSP5mWl8 BBFC rating - 15 for sexualized... See full review

4/10 story
10/10 animation
7/10 sound
7/10 characters
6.1/10 overall

Attack on Titan

Nov 8, 2013

SPOILER WARNING!!! Attack on Titan has an amazing premise and that's the only reason I wanted to watch it; when I read the premise I had in my mind that this could be a really heavy, shocking and emotional show. I got that in the first 2 episodes and everything was oh so epic; as I went further it got more interesting and then the shocking ending of episode 5 happened, when Eren 'died'. I was like man, this anime is going to be awesome, they just did a bold thing there by killing off the main character, it's going to be like Game of Thrones man, anyone can die. Fast forward to the end of episode 8; Eren is... See full review

7/10 story
10/10 animation
10/10 sound
4/10 characters
6.3/10 overall

Tales of Vesperia ~The First Strike~

Nov 8, 2013

*Reviewed from an outsiders perspective as I know nothing about the video game* The story for the most part seemed very slow and I was introduced to things that I had no idea about (like blastia) and some random cameo's from characters I assume are from the game, that go no where. It did pick up though in the second half, the two main characters were interesting and well developed, same with their commanding officer. Animation is great, soundtrack is great; from an outsiders point of view I really enjoyed it, though I'm sure fans of the game will get more out of it. It's just a fun film to me. More in... See full review

7/10 story
10/10 animation
7/10 sound
8/10 characters
7.7/10 overall

Shigurui: Death Frenzy

Nov 8, 2013

Shigurui is vile disgusting trash - the gratuitous use of violence really distracts from the characters and what little story the anime is trying to tell - people have told me that it's trying to resemble the brutal Samurai era of fedual Japan, in that case it works, there's misogyny, there's harakiri, there's rape, murder, everything; but there's no interesting story here, as we follow these two incredibly unlikeable characters. I can't route for these guys, I can't feel any sympathy for them, escpically when they do these horrible things. Violence has to have a narrative purpose instead of just being... See full review

1/10 story
6/10 animation
7/10 sound
1/10 characters
0.8/10 overall

Fractale

Aug 18, 2013

Fractale has a lot of intresting ideas and the world that the anime is set in is filled with mystery and wonder, but the anime seems to lose focus during the middle and even though it 11 episodes, some episodes felt really pointless. More in video review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJbjLQmUFpI BBFC rating - 15 for infrequent strong violence

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7/10 story
9/10 animation
5/10 sound
7/10 characters
6.9/10 overall

Black Rock Shooter TV

Aug 3, 2013

Black Rock Shooter is 8 episodes long, an incredibly short anime, but I spent nearly all of the anime terribly confused and only when it reached episode 8 did everything sort of make sense, but it's too late anime, the damage has been done. The anime seemed to be terribly confused as to what it wanted to be: did it want to be a science fiction anime with alot of fighting? A school life anime that focuses on these mentally unstable school girls? It couldn't make it's mind, so it decided to be both, even though it hardly makes sense. For a fight scene to work I have to get invested with what they are... See full review

5/10 story
7/10 animation
4/10 sound
5/10 characters
5.4/10 overall

Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion

Aug 3, 2013

The first was great and this one slightly improves on the orginal with the continuing story of Rune Balton, as the film begins exactly where the first one left off and this film focuses on Rune re-covering from her wonds in a place called Paradice, then it switches to a rather intresting game of gamberling in the second half. The first one had alot of action and was very fast, while it is the same length as the first one, there is hardly action in it and Rune Balton's revenge starts to become less violent as it was in the first one, but I find it more interesting... More in video review: ... See full review

9/10 story
10/10 animation
7/10 sound
9/10 characters
9/10 overall

Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen

Jul 13, 2013

Trust and Betrayal sores high in every aspect; the story is intresting, the characters have depth to them and the animation is brilliant. I go more in depth in video review (it follows where the Paranioa Agent review left off): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrNvYaJml9Y BBFC rating - N/A My BBFC rating - 15 for strong bloody violence

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9/10 story
9/10 animation
9/10 sound
10/10 characters
9.3/10 overall

Paranoia Agent

Jul 10, 2013

Paranoia Agent is a very confusing and trippy seires, with each episode focusing on different characters leading up to them getting attacked by Shonen Batto; each episode is a self contained story, but never leaving out the detectives who are trying to solve the case. I enjoyed the first three episodes, then it got boring and it really came back in episode 8 - this episode is about three members of an internet suicide pact, with their goal throughout the whole episode being to kill themselves; it's certainly the best and most intresting episode and I'd really love it more if the whole seires was about these... See full review

6/10 story
8/10 animation
8/10 sound
6/10 characters
7.3/10 overall

Samurai Girls

May 30, 2013

I do love ecchi's and harems and Samurai Girls is one of the best I have seen. Not only are the characters (except for Kanetsugu, she was incredibly annoying) all interesting and in their own way like-able but the plot took very unexpected turns and the story got quite dark, when they introduced Gisen who turned out to be a brilliant villan. The animation is also really unique and I haven't seen an animation style like this before. More in video review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB1onliKUcI BBFC rating - 18 for strong sex... See full review

9/10 story
10/10 animation
8/10 sound
9/10 characters
9.2/10 overall

Spice and Wolf

Apr 21, 2013

Spice and Wolf is rather unique for a fantasy anime; it doesn't focus on fighting, magic, action ect it focuses more on religion, trade, economics, money amongest other thing. The charm of the seires is the character Holo and Lawrence, watching them chat and interact with each other is were the joy of the series comes from, they both bring out the worst and best in each other. They're the perfect duo. More in video review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddz1Py8mj2Y BBFC rating - 12 for moderate violence, horror, sex references... See full review

9/10 story
7/10 animation
8/10 sound
10/10 characters
9.1/10 overall