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The series does start with premise of sister turning her older brother into a girl by made up drug in order to reform his life. How would that ever work? I’m asking myself the same question. After one or two episodes this idea is put aside for slice-of-life with bunch of girls … including Mahiro the older brother, who is now a middle school girl [1]. Gender bender element resurfaces occasionally throughout the series. It is not the type, where the main character goes back and forth between having female body and male body a lot [2]. Slice-of-life aside it has some wholesome moments and it has... See full review

I consider this series to be the best GL/shoujo-ai isekai fantasy at least when it comes to the manga adaptation. It finally got its anime adaptation. The first five episodes are perfect. It combines some existing tropes in very enjoyable and refreshing manner. The story follows princess Anisphia, who is the reincarnated protagonist from our world. She is obsessed with magic research pursuing her dream of becoming magic user, despite the fact she is unable to use magic. She is very my pace character constantly troubling her parents and people around her. Her essence is chaos so to speak. Her would to be... See full review

As I’ve said in my review of the first season the second season has to evolve the characters and relationship. It does that noticeably. It could do bit more imho. The paisen is becoming more proactive and bit better at reading Nagatoro. It’s very slow relationship evolution. I enjoyed interactions of characters in this season especially between the two main characters for the most time. The second season does introduce Nagatoro’s older sister, which teases Nagatoro in similar manner. It’s fun to see Nagatoro get bit of her own ijiri. There are few other new characters as well... See full review

The fourth season of Danmachi is the best season so far. The second part of the season follows Bell and Ryuu in deep levels of the labyrinth as they have to fight fatigue, injuries and hordes of difficult monsters while they are trying to find way back to the surface. The stakes are high and everything is quite exciting. Ultimately the story focuses on Ryuu and resolving her past. There are flashbacks which release the tension of the survival element. Ryuu also shows her more vulnerable side and grows much closer to Bell. Sadly, she likely doesn’t stand chance, because Bell’s primary interest is... See full review

This is mostly wholesome show from its design including downright musical scenes. It’s almost perfect kids’ show with fun adventures and wholesome moments except some romantic comedy elements, which do feel more suitable for older audience. What the show is about? It follows young boy Iruma as he finds new and better life in daemonic realm, where he was brought in by Sullivan. Sullivan is powerful daemon, who bought Iruma from his parents to have him be his grandkid. Iruma enters magical school in daemon realm, where finds friends and has various adventures. Iruma is very good boy even to the... See full review

The story of young man that never got over his chuuni fantasies or rather he evolved them. After his reincarnation into another world, he becomes very overpowered protagonist in his own made-up story, where his actions and desires are dictated by what he thinks is cool and fun. Coincidently his made-up story not only shows to be real, but becomes basis for establishment of powerful secret organization with devoted followers. The story combines hilarious situations based mostly on completely different objectives and viewpoints of the MC and other characters especially in his organization. This combined with... See full review

This review is for the whole Jojo part 6*. If you watched Jojo since the beginning up to this point this part follows the same style established in Jojo Star Crusaders. This includes Jotaro Kujo, who is yet again a rather minor character in this part. The Jojo of this part is his daughter Jolyne Kujo. I have to say I really like her character and design. She manages to pull off shounen protagonist that Jojo operates with. Her character arc was enjoyable. She is very similar to her father. This part brings bunch of new and not so new things and puts them more at the centre. One of such examples would be Foo... See full review

Jojo without Jojo and this time in Italy with gangsters using stands, which didn’t exactly raise high expectations in me. The main character for the part 5 is Giorno Giovanna. Son of Dio or Johnathan Joestar, because he was conceived after Dio got original Jojo’s body. He is very capable, determined and resourceful, but in all honesty the story focuses more on the group effort led by Bruno Bucciarati. This part of Jojo has lot of good fights, but most of the comical/parody element is miniscule compared to all previous iterations. There are some truly bizarre moments such as baby head stand [1]... See full review

Joutaro is back, but this time he is more side character for new main character Josuke, illegitimate son of his grandfather Joseph, and group of guys, who become his friends. The fights have the same stand system from previous seasons, but the overall visual style changes. The story keeps similar pattern of encountering new stand users, but it is quite different. The whole series is set in just one city and each surviving stand user is reoccurring character. It has still Jojo feel to it and some whacky bizarre episodes such as invisible infant, mysterious Italian restaurant. It adds various things never... See full review

This series is not simple as it may seem. Initial impression is very cliché harem sex comedy. It isn’t simply just that. I watched initially only the first two episodes and didn’t continue until the season ended. In the first half it is harem sex comedy. It has the trope of living with main protagonist. After this is established, each girl has her dedicated episode. Those episodes begin from mundane to really outlandish [1]. Especially Karin’s episode was on whole different level of absurd. However, in the episode eight is reveal, which flips the story [2]. Still the end is rather... See full review

The final part of journey to defeat Dio and save Jotaro’s mother. This is going to be brief review. It has even more toilet humour, farting jokes, which annoyed me bit. A new member joins the group [1]. I wasn’t much excited about that choice and didn’t like him, but the series managed to turn that around bit at the end. The second part follows the same formula. Audio-visually it’s the same as well. Some episodes were really fun. I especially liked the gambler episode. I laughed a lot how he was defeated in the second episode. There were few episodes, that weren’t that... See full review

The story follows young orphan girl Sarasa as she becomes certificated alchemist and opens her first shop in a remote village. I really liked the first episode, but most of the following episodes were rather too dull for my taste. I found out that I enjoy more stories from Sarasa’s past and her interactions with her teacher and mentor Ophelia. Those were the better parts of the show. The rest is mostly about somewhat comical outlandish ingredients gathering or making various products with alchemy and other predictable tropes. It has cute, comical slice of life feel to it. Audio-visually the series is... See full review

This is frustrating, because after reading the manga and watching the anime, something still doesn’t feel right about the series. It’s popular for sure. Let’s put aside cosplaying, because it’s the least interesting element of the series. The key question is are you sold on the coupling of Marin and Wakana Gojo? That pretty much makes the series succeed and fanservice, because most of the series is having either romantic or erotic tension between those two characters and occasional humorous expressions. While there are moments, which seem to make them perfect for each other, there... See full review

The story continues with Jotaro Kujo grandson of the grandson, Joseph Joestar protagonist from the second arc of the first season. Dio is back with the body of the original Johnatan Joestar. I don’t like Dio as a character. He isn’t that interesting villain, because he is almost one-dimensional evil for the sake of evil. However, he doesn’t make much appearance. Yet again time limit is introduced and goal isn’t to just stop Dio, but save Jotaro’s mother. The story of this season is this long journey, where various servants of Dio try to prevent the group to reach Dio in Egypt... See full review

An action shounen people believe they watch for badass guy with chainsaws for hands and head, but in reality, they watch it for the girls, boobs fondling, gore and other fanservice. Let’s talk bit about the story. It’s a present-day world where daemons, monster manifesting specific human fears, for some reason exists. This is never explained, but I guess it has something to do with the main bad guy [1], who doesn’t show up even once. The main protagonist Denji starts as poor kid with debt of his father. However, Denji has cute pet chainsaw dog daemon, which helps him to make money for... See full review

The strange adventure made me feel it’s like shounen series turned up to eleven. Its over-the-top design and twists, overdramatized dialogues and ridiculous exposition baked in every scene led me to thinking it’s at both time cheesy action shounen and parody at the same time. When characters describe in every dramatic moment what is going on, it does become very comical. Even more so when main character starts to predict lines his opponents are going to say just to watch them in the very next moment to say the lines. The story is split into two parts and begins with conflict between young... See full review

The story follows Kirishima young brawler member of yakuza clan, who is tasked to baby sit daughter of the boss. It’s a mix of yakuza squabbles, personal drama and cute little girl doing cute stuff. The whole yakuza side seems pretty timid and PG safe. Especially the main character’s clan are just bunch of nice guys not really doing anything criminal. If they fight, it’s against bad guys. It just exists there for occasional fights and to project bad boy image for the MC as he saves other people from other clans’ thugs. I almost dropped the series after watching the fourth episode... See full review

Because I’m not usually interested in stories about high-school rock bands, I did skip this series initially. It got surprisingly very popular outside Japan so I decided to check it out. The story is about introverted and extremely socially anxious girl Hitori Gotou nicknamed in the series as Bocchi, which is abbreviation for “loner”. Her mental state in this regard isn’t something healthy, but her anxiety and worries are source of countless comical moments. Those are made even better with very expressive visuals rarely seen in anime such as manga stylized, stop motion animation... See full review

Generic harem of powerful beast girls (spirit kin) in settings of getting kicked out from hero party in fantasy world with RPG elements. It’s the type where protagonist is perceived as useless by other party members, but in practice he does a lot for them and is very skilled at whatever his job is. It was at this moment the other party members realize they f… up. It follows one of the variants typical for the settings. In this case hero party members are douchebags including the hero himself, but the main protagonist is overly nice and doesn’t even want revenge. Thanks to leaving party he... See full review

This anime is something truly special. The best experience is just dive in blissfully ignorant what it’s supposed to be about. I strongly recommend just to check the first episode until the very end. Stop reading and check it out. However, if you want to know more regardless, please do continue reading. The first episode is filled with WTF moments even after you realize you are watching maid café and whole Akiba culture being styled behind closed doors as criminal underground [1]. It’s over-the-top yakuza story line with maids, otakus and figure sellers, etc. The story follows small on... See full review

I was truly surprised how much I enjoyed to watch this bitter sweet romance between prince Christopher and lady Ellianna. It has heart-warming moments, but plentiful sad emotional moments as the story is seen entirely from the viewpoint of the main character Elliana. She is known for being bookworm. She is well read, kind and feminine soft lady, but very melancholic. She worries a lot and is prone to come to the worst conclusions. She doubts herself after any small mistake and underestimates her value and contributions. This is well portrayed during her inner monologues underlined by appropriate soundtrack... See full review

Mob is back for the third time, but to be honest around halfway into the season I almost dropped it. It became tediously uninteresting at one moment, then it turned around just in the nick of time and it was the good stuff I always appreciated from the beginning. There are two larger arcs in the season, which both have solid strong finale. It’s quite slow for a long time in the beginning of each arc. After all this is the third season and some fatigue in the writing starts to show. At this point I don’t have to explain what the show does as it follows life of several characters [1] mainly young... See full review

I’ve been following manga way before this series got adapted as anime. I didn’t expect much. The reason is despite being somewhat enjoyable adventure journey story there isn’t nothing much special about it. However, I have to say this adaptation is really good. The animation is solid and fights are nice. Another reason is I think, because the beginning is stronger part of the storyline. Some later chapters feel just as more of the same. It helps the anime to take off properly. I have to warn you do not expect intricated mechanics or exceptionally original isekai about a man, who is... See full review

Is this like the best anime of all time? No, not even close, but it’s enjoyable. The story of young man struggling in dystopian future is mostly an action with bit of friendship and it wouldn’t be complete without a love story. It’s pretty obvious from the beginning how the story is going to end [1]. It isn’t kind of ending I would look forward to. What elevates frenetic action is perfectly composed soundtrack and excellent animation. The art style is very appropriate for the series. However, the story has a lot of to desire. It has several timeskips. This was somewhat immersion... See full review

Randomly suggested recap video on Youtube introduced me to this series. The first impression was an action-packed series with superpowers. Now I can say it’s basically X-men story with Magneto as one of the two main characters. If I say X-men story it deals with rift and animosity between “normals” and “ESPers”. There are two main characters. The first is Hyoubu Kyousuke, who is basically Magneto. He is leader of group P.A.N.D.R.A. The first several episodes really highlight how overpowered and cool he is. It introduces slightly the world and it showcases some other characters... See full review

Are your friends laughing at you for watching Chinese cartoons? The joke is on them! This Chinese adaptation of Japanese LN series is very enjoyable. The story begins with young girl being sacrificed to powerful evil dragon in order to bring him on the side of humans against the daemon lord like in the past. However, contrary to the legends he isn’t interested in human problems and he is quite weak creature without any magical powers. Heck, he doesn’t even eat meat to begin with, but the girl is unyielding in her conviction. He has to improvise, but it backfires. Now the dragon has to guide the... See full review

This series is an underdog like its protagonist, which grew so much. The first season left in me impression of the series being rather typical underdog protagonist action series. You know the average shounen kind. The second season moved the MC from the underdog position, but overall didn’t impress me either. The third season introduced interesting dilemma for characters. It was a pleasant surprise. This season was to my unbelieving eyes even more enjoyable than the third. It has heavy focus on the adventures in the dungeon with lot of suspense, action and very dramatic fight moments. I think even... See full review

An obligatory isekai anime for the season number two. This time with different flavour, which is more like the usual thing. The story follows yet again tamer class protagonist as in the Tensei Kenja no Isekai Life. His name is Kelvin. He exchanged his memories for more power so author didn’t have to bother with character having pre-existing history. It means nothing for the story and it gets contradicted pretty quickly, because he still does remember some stuff such as Japanese food. Just an obvious contradiction nothing to see here. Move on. There are further similarities with the other show (Tensei... See full review

Integral part of the plot twist is the main character Chisato is genius in dodging bullet. I mean literary she dodges bullet’s trajectory so enemies can’t hit her. It should be recipe for success, right? …right? Unfortunately, story of secret organization Lycoris with high-school girls shooting people sounds way better on paper, than it is realized in this series. Action segments are well executed, but ultimately utterly inconsequential. Chisato decides for some reasons to use nonlethal ammo [1]. This fact made action segments way too disinteresting for me. It makes encounters... See full review

Ainz Ooal Gown is back after four long years and my anticipation persisted through the season. I was looking forward to each episode. However, there are several issues I had with this season. More than ever this season skips lot of content from the source material. I’m not speaking just of Holy kingdom arc, which is for some reason to be adapted as a movie instead. For that very reason, the last arc of the season is quite out of the context. I’m still stuck far away from those LN volumes anyway as I’m slowly making my way through them. I’m merely observing the things do not make... See full review