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bobhikes Dec 20
wrote a review of The Eminence in Shadow 2nd Season
Score 9/10

It rare that season 2 exceeds season one but they managed it.  The characters were great and the story line fun.  Even though misunderstanding is the constant gag and you think it will get old they keep it fresh.  We learn more about the world and Cids influence and several more...

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The Eminence in Shadow 2nd Season
  • TV (12 eps)
  • 2023

​Deep within the Lawless City lies the Blood Queen, a Progenitor Vampire, slumbering in her coffin for many moons. An expert at landing himself in trouble, Cid should know better than to go...

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bobhikes Dec 7
updated their review of Tearmoon Empire
Score 7.8/10

This is my stupid but fun anime of the year.  Mia's the only reason I watch this anime but she's such an entertaining character.  She's trying to save herself in the do over but is only doing it for selfish reason's yet it is working.  I would of thought it would get old but they...

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Tearmoon Empire
  • TV (12 eps)
  • 2023

The Tearmoon Empire has fallen. As the flames of revolution scour the land, the empire’s ever-selfish princess, Mia, is publicly executed by way of the guillotine...only to wake up in the past...

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bobhikes Dec 7
wrote a review of Tearmoon Empire
Score 7.8/10

This is my stupid but fun anime of the year.  Mia's the only reason I watch this anime but she's such an entertaining character.  She's trying to save herself in the do over but is only doing it for selfish reason's yet it is working.  I would of thought it would get old but they...

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Tearmoon Empire
  • TV (12 eps)
  • 2023

The Tearmoon Empire has fallen. As the flames of revolution scour the land, the empire’s ever-selfish princess, Mia, is publicly executed by way of the guillotine...only to wake up in the past...

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bobhikes Oct 9
wrote a review of Undead Murder Farce
Score 8/10

My favorite anime of the Summer season 2023.  The dective story's were interesting pieced together well.  The characters were all introduced well and written well even the characters needing the help.  It had a comedy between its main characters that flowed with the stories.  I...

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Undead Murder Farce
  • TV (13 eps)
  • 2023

The 19th century — a world inhabited by vampires, golems, werewolves and other paranormal creatures. Immortal beauty and disembodied head Aya Rindo, along with half-human-half-demon "Demon...

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bobhikes Jul 2
wrote a review of Magic User: Reborn in Another World as a Max Level Wizard (Light Novel)
Score 7.5/10

Another Iseika with a twist, this time max dungeons and dragons powers in a sorcery world.  His powers are different from the Socerers of the world.  In one way much more powerful but with its own weaknesses.  Mainly he needs to be protected while he prepares his spells.  It...

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Magic User: Reborn in Another World as a Max Level Wizard (Light Novel)
  • Vol: 3
  • 2017 - 2018

A hardworking salaryman by day immerses himself on weekends in the pen-and-paper roleplaying game Dungeons & Braves, where he plays his favorite character: a max level wizard. When his real life...

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bobhikes Jun 24
wrote a review of The Ancient Magus' Bride Season 2
Score 8/10

Loved the original Bride, Season 2 was really good in other ways.  It was great to see futher development of the characters.  The school setting was less beautiful but  interesting.  I liked the addition of Lucy and Philomela.  Philomela is the story I am most interested...

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The Ancient Magus' Bride Season 2
  • TV (12 eps)
  • 2023

The second season of The Ancient Magus' Bride.

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bobhikes Jun 24
wrote a review of My One-Hit Kill Sister
Score 8/10

This is just a fun story with good fight scenes. The brother sister love is weird but I don't feel over done.  Some of the characters are weak but the Three Main characters make up for the other's weakness.  Its always satisfying when Asahi realizes his sister only looking out for...

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My One-Hit Kill Sister
  • TV (12 eps)
  • 2023

Asahi Ikusaba is a high schooler who got lost and ended up stumbling into another world. He has inherent knowledge of video games and fantasy worlds, so he had tried to use that to fully enjoy the...

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bobhikes Jun 24
wrote a review of A Galaxy Next Door
Score 7.8/10

This is my favorite romance of the Season.  The couple actually mature throughout the story.  It is a good love story.  The kids and other characters do wholesome things and are cute but the romance is what makes it fullfilling.  Its negatives would be it is overly wholesome...

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A Galaxy Next Door
  • TV (12 eps)
  • 2023

Since his parents died, manga artist Ichiro has barely scraped by, forced to support his two younger siblings on just a middle school education. He doesn’t even have time to learn how to use a...

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bobhikes Mar 2023
updated their review of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Light Novel)
Score 7.5/10

I read volumes 4, 5 and 6 and that's probably where I'll stop.  It is well written and there is character development but its irratic story telling.  You have 3 chapters with a plot and then a chapter concering something later on or eariler that has happend.  One chapter will tell...

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Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Light Novel)
  • Vol: 25+
  • 2014 - ?

Just when an unemployed thirty-four-year-old otaku reaches a dead end in life and decides that it’s time to turn over a new leaf—he gets run over by a truck and dies! Shockingly, he finds...

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bobhikes Mar 2023
wrote a review of Sexiled: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out, So I Teamed Up With a Mythical Sorceress!
Score 8/10

A different view of the Fantasy world.  A world where sexism is extreme.  The Author started the story because of the real life event of Japanese Medical Schools marking down Female test scores to allow more men become doctors because they believed females will just evetually quit to...

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Sexiled: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out, So I Teamed Up With a Mythical Sorceress!
  • Vol: 4+; Ch: 29+
  • 2021 - ?

Tanya Artemiciov is a talented Mage-class adventurer who just got kicked out of her party by a sexist scumbag. So what's a girl to do? Go to the wasteland and blow stuff up of course! One small...

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bobhikes Mar 2023
updated their review of Reincarnated as a Sword
Score 8.5/10

Overall a generic anime, if it wasn't for the relationship between Fran and Teacher with Fran being obnoxiously cute the anime would fail.  That ending cat suit raised my rating another half point.  In general the story is average with a twist, the Isekaied character is the Main...

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Reincarnated as a Sword
  • TV (12 eps)
  • 2022

Reincarnated as a sentient weapon with memories of his past life, but not his name, a magical sword saves a young beastgirl from a life of slavery. Fran, the cat-eared girl, becomes his wielder, and...

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bobhikes Mar 2023
updated their review of Reincarnated as a Sword
Score 8.5/10

Overall a generic anime, if it wasn't for the relationship between Fran and Teacher with Fran being obnoxiously cute the anime would fail.  That ending cat suit raised my rating another half point.  In general the story is average with a twist, the Isekaied character is the Main...

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Reincarnated as a Sword
  • TV (12 eps)
  • 2022

Reincarnated as a sentient weapon with memories of his past life, but not his name, a magical sword saves a young beastgirl from a life of slavery. Fran, the cat-eared girl, becomes his wielder, and...

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bobhikes Mar 2023
updated their review of Reincarnated as a Sword
Score 8.5/10

Overall a generic anime, if it wasn't for the relationship between Fran and Teacher with Fran being obnoxiously cute the anime would fail.  That ending cat suit raised my rating another half point.  In general the story is average with a twist, the Isekaied character is the Main...

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Reincarnated as a Sword
  • TV (12 eps)
  • 2022

Reincarnated as a sentient weapon with memories of his past life, but not his name, a magical sword saves a young beastgirl from a life of slavery. Fran, the cat-eared girl, becomes his wielder, and...

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bobhikes Mar 2023
wrote a review of Ningen Fushin: Adventurers Who Don’t Believe in Humanity Will Save the World
Score 6/10

  The story is about a group of adventures that were hurt by others and have problems trusting.  They form there own group and become talented adventures.  When they do trust each other they become more powerful.  So they start trusting each other almost imediately.  The...

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Ningen Fushin: Adventurers Who Don’t Believe in Humanity Will Save the World
  • TV (12 eps)
  • 2023

The city of Terene in the Holy Kingdom of Dinez is a melting pot of races and professions: adventurers looking to get rich quick, quick-witted merchants, singing and dancing bards, nobles, holy men...

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bobhikes Mar 2023
wrote a review of The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady
Score 5.5/10

My biggest disapointment of the Winter 23 season.  It starts off with a great 2 episodes and then progressively goes down hill.  There is no character development after introducing the character's.  The animation and sound are good but nothing ground breaking just not bad. ...

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The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady
  • TV (12 eps)
  • 2023

When noblewoman Euphyllia is unjustly stripped of her title as the kingdom’s next monarch, the buffoonish Princess Anisphia takes it upon herself to right this wrong. Despite being taken for a...

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bobhikes Dec 2022
wrote a review of Reincarnated as a Sword
Score 8/10

Overall a generic anime, if it wasn't for the relationship between Fran and Teacher with Fran being obnoxiously cute the anime would fail.  That ending cat suit raised my rating another half point.  In general the story is average with a twist, the Isekaied character is the Main...

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Reincarnated as a Sword
  • TV (12 eps)
  • 2022

Reincarnated as a sentient weapon with memories of his past life, but not his name, a magical sword saves a young beastgirl from a life of slavery. Fran, the cat-eared girl, becomes his wielder, and...

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bobhikes Oct 2022
wrote a review of My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (Light Novel)
Score 8.5/10

If you like the anime the story goes into the background characters deeper.  If you don't know the anime, its a reverse harem romantic comdey that has good character development.  The author gives youan occasional chapter with another characters view of the scene explaining what happened...

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My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (Light Novel)
  • Vol: 13+
  • 2015 - ?

After hitting her head particularly hard one day, Duke Claes' daughter, Katarina, suddenly recalls all the memories of her past life: that of a teenage Japanese girl. Just before her untimely death...

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bobhikes Aug 2022
wrote a review of BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense. (Light Novel)
Score 5/10

Got this because I loved the anime and usually the books are better than film but not in this case.  The anime's brillant colors and action scenes put more life into the story.  The light novel is very bad at describing the new power up's and the fight scenes usually just a paragraph and...

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BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense. (Light Novel)
  • Vol: 15+
  • 2017 - ?

IS SHE THE GAME’S LAST BOSS?! Though she doesn’t play many MMOs, Maple has either a natural talent or impossibly good luck, because by pouring every last stat point she has into Vitality...

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bobhikes Aug 2022
wrote a review of Survival in Another World with My Mistress! (Light Novel)
Score 8/10

A unique story where the isekei'd character at first is slave to a more powerful Female lead.  He makes a common sense choice to stay with her not imediate love. Through the first 2 novels physically he is the weakest character but his unique power makes him vauable to the Stronger...

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Survival in Another World with My Mistress! (Light Novel)
  • Vol: 6+
  • 2019 - ?

Kousuke suddenly wakes up alone in a vast forest that clearly isn’t anywhere on Earth. Now he has to find some way to eat, drink, and survive! Luckily, Kousuke also has the power to craft using...

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bobhikes Jun 2022
wrote a review of The Rising of the Shield Hero 2nd Season
Score 7/10

I'm a big Shield hero fan, I have all 22 lite Novels and I knew the Tortoise Arc would be bad, its the worst arc in the light novels as well but they chopped it up even worse.  Just showing the characters and introducing new powers to be used in the future.  The New world arc was so...

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The Rising of the Shield Hero 2nd Season
  • TV (13 eps)
  • 2022

After their battle with Glass, Naofumi and the other heroes have a meeting with the queen and Naofumi is shocked to learn about the seven star heroes. Still reeling from this revelation, more drama...

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bobhikes Jun 2022
wrote a review of SPY x FAMILY
Score 7.5/10

I had high hopes after the first episode and was disappointed.  Best feature is the animation.  My main gripe is character development other than Loid there is none.  Anya is a convience device whenever they need a new development she properly uses her mental ability.  What...

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SPY x FAMILY
  • TV (12 eps)
  • 2022

Master spy Twilight is the best at what he does when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions in the name of a better world. But when he receives the ultimate impossible...

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bobhikes Jun 2022
wrote a review of Healer Girl
Score 8.5/10

My favorite of the Spring 2022 season.  First let me say I'm a musical fan and I loved the varitions of the music each episode.  This is a slice of life musical.  Its main cast are three girls with beautiful voices.  The story is good it probably had more value to me than it...

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Healer Girl
  • TV (12 eps)
  • 2022

The story is set in a world where three schools of medicine are pervasive: Western medicine, Eastern medicine, and "vocal medicine." The healing of illness and injuries via songs is a...

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bobhikes Mar 2022
wrote a review of My Dress-Up Darling
Score 10/10

First a warning the first 2 episodes are definately ecchi.  I actually tuned out a bit before I went back but the Animation and characters had me give it a second try and I was definately worth it.  It is actually a very good wholesome romance story.  It has great visuals and a...

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My Dress-Up Darling
  • TV (12 eps)
  • 2022

Traumatized by a childhood incident with a friend who took exception to his love of traditional dolls, doll-artisan hopeful Wakana Gojou passes his days as a loner, finding solace in the home ec room...

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bobhikes Feb 2022
wrote a review of Den-noh Coil
Score 8/10

Its very rare that a TV show, Movie or Anime keeps me guessing as to what is happening who the bad guys are and how it will end.  Den-noh coil did that for me.  It has action, horror and slice of life paced through out the show.  If you are looking for something different and can...

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Den-noh Coil
  • TV (26 eps)
  • 2007

In a futuristic world, the virtual world is merely a layer on top of reality; within it, cyberpets are abundant and information is plentiful, and it is only visible by wearing special cyberglasses...

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bobhikes Aug 2021
updated their review of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Light Novel)
Score 7.5/10

I read volumes 4, 5 and 6 and that's probably where I'll stop.  It is well written and there is character development but its irratic story telling.  You have 3 chapters with a plot and then a chapter concering something later on or eariler that has happend.  One chapter will tell...

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Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Light Novel)
  • Vol: 25+
  • 2014 - ?

Just when an unemployed thirty-four-year-old otaku reaches a dead end in life and decides that it’s time to turn over a new leaf—he gets run over by a truck and dies! Shockingly, he finds...

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bobhikes Aug 2021
wrote a review of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Light Novel)
Score 7.5/10

I read volumes 4, 5 and 6 and that's probably where I'll stop.  It is well written and there is character development but its irratic story telling.  You have 3 chapters with a plot and then a chapter concering something later on or eariler that has happend.  One chapter will tell...

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Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Light Novel)
  • Vol: 25+
  • 2014 - ?

Just when an unemployed thirty-four-year-old otaku reaches a dead end in life and decides that it’s time to turn over a new leaf—he gets run over by a truck and dies! Shockingly, he finds...

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bobhikes Jul 2021
updated their review of To Your Eternity
Score 5.5/10

I really don't get the fan rave about this anime.  There is no story.  Basically 2 to 3 episodes are mini-stories loosely throwing in the main character.  It is so slow developing the main character.  They are dark stories no happiness to them.  There is some character...

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To Your Eternity
  • TV (20 eps)
  • 2021

Dropped from the hand of a mysterious being, a lone orb begins a journey of discovery. With the power to imitate both living and non-living things, it can take the form of objects, animals, and...

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bobhikes Jul 2021
updated their review of To Your Eternity
Score 5.5/10

I really don't get the fan rave about this anime.  There is no story.  Basically 2 to 3 episodes are mini-stories loosely throwing in the main character.  It is so slow developing the main character.  They are dark stories no happiness to them.  There is some character...

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To Your Eternity
  • TV (20 eps)
  • 2021

Dropped from the hand of a mysterious being, a lone orb begins a journey of discovery. With the power to imitate both living and non-living things, it can take the form of objects, animals, and...

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bobhikes Jul 2021
wrote a review of To Your Eternity
Score 5.5/10

I really don't get the fan rave about this anime.  There is no story.  Basically 2 to 3 episodes are mini-stories loosely throwing in the main character.  It is so slow developing the main character.  They are dark stories no happiness to them.  There is some character...

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To Your Eternity
  • TV (20 eps)
  • 2021

Dropped from the hand of a mysterious being, a lone orb begins a journey of discovery. With the power to imitate both living and non-living things, it can take the form of objects, animals, and...

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bobhikes Feb 2021
updated their review of High-Rise Invasion
Score 6/10

Honestly this anime is all over the place.  They needed to stick with one idea and one main character plot and develop them.  The animation is great and there are a few good scenes but there is just as much cringe worthy stuff.  The Female MC and her girl friend fighting to save her...

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High-Rise Invasion
  • Web (12 eps x 24 min)
  • 2021

On the roof of a high-rise building, a young girl named Yuri witnesses a masked figure split a man’s head open with an axe! It’s not exactly an everyday occurrence for a high schooler...

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