K4N44 wrote: 3q672x

𝐌𝐨𝐛 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐈𝐈

𝟖/𝟏𝟎

𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭, 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥.

Watching the whole series season 2 was the best one imo.

Goddamn another reminder that I haven't updated my completed list in almost 5 months xd

Anyways, I'll just go off one of the last things I set as completed on my list: Anitore! XX Specials. Worthless trash full of lewd shots in a pathetic attempt to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Even a complete horndog like me doesn't go for this shit, I have standards. Wanna hear anime girls breath and moan for 4 minutes? Here you go, buddy. There is some amount of value that can be attributed here for its (cheap) use of x-ray, but whatever value it has, it isn't much.

I have it as an entry barely qualifying for a 3/10 on my list for whatever reason (for some reason I give Anitore! so much leeway...) -- I think I'll lower my score down to a 2.

K4N44 wrote: 3q672x

𝐌𝐨𝐛 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐈𝐈

𝟖/𝟏𝟎

𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭, 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥.

Second one exceeds the first in my opinion.

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Maybe action fight scenes isn't your shtick.

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Inou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de 6/10

Notes:
Aside from that one legendary scene, the anime is just pretty alright. I felt like they didn't bring out the full potential of an interesting premise and the characters aren't really that well-developed but it's still a fine watch.

K4N44 wrote: 3q672x

𝐒𝟏 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝟐 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐛𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞... 𝐨𝐫 𝐢 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠

Knowing that I think you'll probably really like season 3.

Re:Zero was definitely a 5/10. The first season was pretty good. But when they got into the second season, it felt like it was alive for too long.

DannyWanny13 wrote: 423755

Re:Zero was definitely a 5/10. The first season was pretty good. But when they got into the second season, it felt like it was alive for too long.

IMO the second season is better than the first

Jangsoodlor wrote: 616554

DannyWanny13 wrote: 423755

Re:Zero was definitely a 5/10. The first season was pretty good. But when they got into the second season, it felt like it was alive for too long.

IMO the second season is better than the first

Yeah man like we got Echidna that's more than enough

Stomiks wrote: 65184i

Jangsoodlor wrote: 616554

DannyWanny13 wrote: 423755

Re:Zero was definitely a 5/10. The first season was pretty good. But when they got into the second season, it felt like it was alive for too long.

IMO the second season is better than the first

Yeah man like we got Echidna that's more than enough

Every first season is better than the second season.

Aireunaeus wrote: x6j51

Stomiks wrote: 65184i

Jangsoodlor wrote: 616554

DannyWanny13 wrote: 423755

Re:Zero was definitely a 5/10. The first season was pretty good. But when they got into the second season, it felt like it was alive for too long.

IMO the second season is better than the first

Yeah man like we got Echidna that's more than enough

Every first season is better than the second season.

Imagine watching an anime for the second season insead of the first one

I AM VERY SMART wrote: 6mm2j

Aireunaeus wrote: x6j51

Stomiks wrote: 65184i

Jangsoodlor wrote: 616554

DannyWanny13 wrote: 423755

Re:Zero was definitely a 5/10. The first season was pretty good. But when they got into the second season, it felt like it was alive for too long.

IMO the second season is better than the first

Yeah man like we got Echidna that's more than enough

Every first season is better than the second season.

Imagine watching an anime for the second season insead of the first one

nahhh that definetly wont be you 💀

Aireunaeus wrote: x6j51

I AM VERY SMART wrote: 6mm2j

Aireunaeus wrote: x6j51

Stomiks wrote: 65184i

Jangsoodlor wrote: 616554

DannyWanny13 wrote: 423755

Re:Zero was definitely a 5/10. The first season was pretty good. But when they got into the second season, it felt like it was alive for too long.

IMO the second season is better than the first

Yeah man like we got Echidna that's more than enough

Every first season is better than the second season.

Imagine watching an anime for the second season insead of the first one

nahhh that definetly wont be you 💀

Yeah hahahahaha...

Aireunaeus wrote: x6j51

Stomiks wrote: 65184i

Jangsoodlor wrote: 616554

DannyWanny13 wrote: 423755

Re:Zero was definitely a 5/10. The first season was pretty good. But when they got into the second season, it felt like it was alive for too long.

IMO the second season is better than the first

Yeah man like we got Echidna that's more than enough

Every first season is better than the second season.

I don't get that logic at all

Mashiro no Oto 7/10

Notes:
I really loved the shamisen scenes captivating you and the story of setsu finding himself and "his sound," but the ending left us at a point of suffering without giving us proper closure. It would've been fine if there'd been another episode to finish it but it really irked me that it didn't.

manga, message to adolf, 8/10

pretty damn good, if my rating were objective this is probably a 9/10, but due to the things I had irl I had to read this manga very spread out which made me enjoy it a bit less, however it's a really good and engaging drama

Ousama Ranking: Yuuki no Takarabako 6/10

These may be a hit or miss but when they do they hit hard. Especially those ones that further give context to the events of the first season and deepens our understanding of each character we've come across so far. It kind of makes it easier to get more immersed in the story when season 2 comes out.

A Certain Magical Index II repetitive plot with very disappointing ending.

Score Calculation (out of 10)

1. Base score: 7
2. Touma punching things uwahahahaha: +5
3. Repetitive plot for literally half the season: -12
4. le Ending: -10
5. Misaka Mikoto: +15

Overall: 5/10.

Dr. Stone: New World 8/10

What can I say? It's good.

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Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight - 8/10

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My latest anime and actually my favorite is Vinland Saga. Super recommended!

eblf2013 wrote: 3l2l1q

Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight - 8/10

Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight Movie
8/10

One of the most mind-fucking anime I've seen. Surprised that this is not considered Avant Garde.

No game no life: it is literally what i was expecting but it made me laugh so 7/10 is fair

two mangas i've read recently, but before, I want to explain how I rate things

5/10 is the bare minimun, if I finised it, it's at least a 5/10
6/10, it has an extremely big flaw, but it wasn't actually painful to finish
7/10, flaws that ruin a lot of the experience to read, not good but not really that bad, can be no flaws but still really just didn't really got into it at all
8/10, manga with almost no flaws I can tell, except that for some reason or another, I just didn't vibe with it
9/10, manga that I did personally connect with, but smaller in ambition, so a manga that I liked, that tries doing something smaller and just nails it, that is a 9/10
10/10, manga that either has been extremely enjoyable to read or just highly transforms the way I see the genre or medium, mangas that are very experimental or ambitious that's ends up doing it perfectly, stuff that you're still thinking about months after you end


MagMell Shinkai Suizokukan: 9/10, fishmanga, it's just a cute SoL which main objective is trying to teach you about fish, does this well, really liked it, it's still ongoing but i'm now caught up, really cool

The Horizon, (manhwa) 7???/10, for a little bit of context, I was looking for manga to read, I wanted to explore more genres, so I went looking for shorter mangas on genres i'm not the most familiar, and then, I found this manga called the horizon, it's one of the highest rated mangas of all time, and I think that it is in the top 3 highest rated manhwa, at least on myanimelist

I want to really like the horizon, I get what it's trying to do, however, there is just a manga I cant quite get into, if you read the first 5 pages you get what type of manga this is, it's the type of manga that's highly psicological, where a lot of scenes are not actually real, but explains the character mentality, has very few text because the enviroment a lot of the abstract art transmits the message and energy of the manga equally or not better, the plot is just a device to try to push a philosophical message

I want to say that this manga at a technical level is absolutely perfect, the art is really good, and the way it can say so much with so little text and runtime, it's truly a great archivement, however, the text that there is (which again, is very little)... just didn't actually seem that good?, like, the language just seemed off, I think this is a scanlation error but whatever, it's the way I've experienced this manga, and it's something that affects my enjoyement of it

The manga is divided on a few small arcs, every story arc is a little scene, with a clear enviroment and characters, and each tells a story about morality, one arc talks about how the value of life isn't something that is set in stone, but the value of a human life depends purely in the spectator, so someone can see someone else as low or as high as they feel it's accurate, another arc may talk about at what point self defense is guaranteed, why do we feel like we have to defend ourselves

I can appreciate the characters, the enviroments, everything, but the actual message it's trying to push, I don't know, it actually just didn't make me thing that much, these are not radically new ideas, it's portrayed really nicely, but it's not a philosophy that i'm not familiar with

and I think this is the problem I have with this manga, as I said, the plot of the manga is just a device to push the idea, however, if you dont quite interact with the idea, then all the character moments and a lot of the scenes just doesn't feel that emotionally charged, making this a experience way blander that what it's supposed to be

I asked if it was a me problem for not reading it right, for not understanding it right, however, no, i've just watched a couple of video analysis on this manga, and most of them talk about how they already in chapter one were feeling things, however, I just never reached this connection with the manga

It's not a genre that i'm too familiar with but still, I dont think that is the reason why I didn't vibe with this manga, i've read mangas that even if they have a wildy different imaginery and style, has the same structure, of mostly being philosophical, and the plot just being a device for the idea, and I've enjoyed those way more than this one, and I dont get exactly why, it's something i'm still thinking about

I don't know what to feel about this, I can understand why this manhwa may be amazing, but it's not something I connect with, and that kinda hurts, if this story grows on me on the months to come, and I start to feel it more, I might raise it to a 9, however, if not, I just may lower it to a 7

updated: lowered it to a 7 at least for now

Black Clover 0/10

i only watched 5 minutes and asta wont ever shut up

Railgun T 9/10.

Honestly, pls watch railgun

Kaaruumii wrote: 3j4z6v

Black Clover 0/10

i only watched 5 minutes and asta wont ever shut up

I dropped it for that same reason goddamnit.

manga, Rojica to Rakkasei, 9/10, really good psychological SoL, somehow tells a very heavy story while keeping a extremely happy atmosphere, which I think is pretty unique

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Kaaruumii wrote: 3j4z6v

Black Clover 0/10

i only watched 5 minutes and asta wont ever shut up

When people say "it gets better" they really, really mean it with Black Clover. Asta's screaming pretty much completely dissipates over the course of the first 40 or so episodes. His VA also steadily improves over this time. If that's all you're concerned over in Black Clover, the rest should be more than tolerable, as you'll find more than just a generic shounen in this show.

Note that the animation at its low points is on par or even worse than One Piece's worst animation. While it does have its high peaks, in general the animation isn't anything to write home about (what can you expect from a team of only 10 people lol).

If the Black Clover team wasn't so small (10 people-- amongst those, only 1 director and ZERO in-between animators) and tasked with producing 50 episodes per season all by themselves, this show wouldn't be so shit on a technical level. Story and character wise I believe it's relatively strong, while not revolutionary or particularly amazing, it's more than worth the time for any anime fan. Not a must watch by any means, but pretty good. If you can't look past Asta's voice in the beginning episodes or the shitty animation the whole series is plagued by, I heard that many people who picked up the manga really enjoyed the series, so that's always an option.

I'd say Black Clover is one of the better modern shounen out there from a more narrative, worldbuilding and character-focused standpoint, without all the glaring inconsistencies and baffling writing problems as something like, say MHA. Not saying you should watch it or that you're really missing out on anything incredible, but that giving the show another chance could be a good idea.

TheAngryNerd101 wrote: 3t3b4o

Kaaruumii wrote: 3j4z6v

Black Clover 0/10

i only watched 5 minutes and asta wont ever shut up

When people say "it gets better" they really, really mean it with Black Clover. Asta's screaming pretty much completely dissipates over the course of the first 40 or so episodes. His VA also steadily improves over this time. If that's all you're concerned over in Black Clover, the rest should be more than tolerable, as you'll find more than just a generic shounen in this show.

Note that the animation at its low points is on par or even worse than One Piece's worst animation. While it does have its high peaks, in general the animation isn't anything to write home about (what can you expect from a team of only 10 people lol).

If the Black Clover team wasn't so small (10 people-- amongst those, only 1 director and ZERO in-between animators) and tasked with producing 50 episodes per season all by themselves, this show wouldn't be so shit on a technical level. Story and character wise I believe it's relatively strong, while not revolutionary or particularly amazing, it's more than worth the time for any anime fan. Not a must watch by any means, but pretty good. If you can't look past Asta's voice in the beginning episodes or the shitty animation the whole series is plagued by, I heard that many people who picked up the manga really enjoyed the series, so that's always an option.

I'd say Black Clover is one of the better modern shounen out there from a more narrative, worldbuilding and character-focused standpoint, without all the glaring inconsistencies and baffling writing problems as something like, say MHA. Not saying you should watch it or that you're really missing out on anything incredible, but that giving the show another chance could be a good idea.

noted, will push it back for a while though since i really couldnt get myself to watch it the first time

also thanks for the very detailed description btw didnt expect to see that lol

you see it gets better on chapter 40

honestly an anime must be really fucking good in order for it to be worth it watching so many mid/bad episodes

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

you see it gets better on chapter 40

honestly an anime must be really fucking good in order for it to be worth it watching so many mid/bad episodes

What I meant isn't that it "gEtS gOoD" past a certain point, but that it ever so steadily improves. Black Clover starts off rough with its first 6 episodes, though gradually improves from that point on (the first arc after those 6 episodes not being anything all that special, mostly an introduction / way to establish to the world and main characters). I would consider mostly everything from Black Clover's first 3 arcs as fairly standard quality shounen (keep in mind each arc does continue the upward climb in quality). By around the time the Underwater Temple arc starts is when viewers (from what I've seen) typically start to become more invested, as the antagonists' plot becomes more and more of a focus. It's nothing but improvement from there, eventually culminating into a well-executed "master plan" saga spanning 100 episodes.

Each arc in the series served to not only develop and expand on the overarching plot of Black Clover and its first Saga, but each one serves to do the same with each member of the Black Bulls-- each arc formed around each individual one-- and it fits quite seemlessly, so by the time you're pretty far into the series, the entire main cast has already grown on you.

It's a slow and steady uphill climb, one that requires a bit of patience and investment on the viewer's behalf (ie. their time), but it's worth it. Black Clover never culminates into some grand masterpiece or anything truly spectacular, but rather an enjoyable and well executed show with few glaring problems (especially in comparison with other modern shounen, which to me have come off as demonstrating high peaks but also horrendous downward spikes). The only thing that stays fairly bad is the animation lol. I heard that they even got Narmak (the guy who made the fucking Spongebob fan anime) to animate a section in one of the episodes lmao.

Latest anime I finished would be Nichijou, it was really good 9/10, really funny too. The professor just got on my nerves sometimes lol which is why it's not a 10.

For manga though well I would say oyasumi punpun was good, even though it was super dark. Inio Asano really knows how to write a story 10/10.

Namazu wrote: 2n7370

Latest anime I finished would be Nichijou, it was really good 9/10, really funny too. The professor just got on my nerves sometimes lol which is why it's not a 10.

For manga though well I would say oyasumi punpun was good, even though it was super dark. Inio Asano really knows how to write a story 10/10.

nichijou was a 10 for me, punpun was a 5

also, my own recently finished manga

Death note, 6/10: This manga is not good, read it because it was extremely popular and influential but did not like it

Classroom of the elite s1 + s2 was not as bad as I expected. I have seen a lot of cringy fans of this series, that's why I have low expectations for this series. I never read the ln so I will just review and rate the anime. There are a few things that I don't really understand/like.

1. Why everyone really doesn't want to get expelled from the school
2. Why are there dumb people who got accepted to the school
3. Why the writer wrote every character has some kind of complex things from their past (sometimes simple characters are better, and it's not like everyone that lives in this world has those kinds of things)

pretty easy to predict, almost none of the characters feels like human, Takahashi Rie didn't voice any student from 1-D, questionable chess move (I'm still mad about it), but at least I didn't sleep when watching. 7/10

Konosuba Bakuen aka. Megumin spin-off anime: 6/10. Not as funny as the main series. Sometimes outright boring.

Oregairu Kan (season 3) OVA: 8/10. Honestly after finishing a complete hellhole that is Oregairu ss3 a year ago I think that I might wanna erase my memory of this show for good. But after seeing the OVA now I want season 4 lol

Rezq wrote: 1l39k

Classroom of the elite s1 + s2 was not as bad as I expected. I have seen a lot of cringy fans of this series, that's why I have low expectations for this series. I never read the ln so I will just review and rate the anime.

CoTE animation is suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper rushed and low quality and my friend who read the novel said that they cut and rushed a considerable amount of stuffs. But even with all of these in mind I think it's still a good anime frfr nocap.

Jangsoodlor wrote: 616554

Rezq wrote: 1l39k

Classroom of the elite s1 + s2 was not as bad as I expected. I have seen a lot of cringy fans of this series, that's why I have low expectations for this series. I never read the ln so I will just review and rate the anime.

CoTE animation is suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper rushed and low quality and my friend who read the novel said that they cut and rushed a considerable amount of stuffs. But even with all of these in mind I think it's still a good anime frfr nocap.

I really didn't like that anime at all. But I watched only season 1 tho, maybe it improves but eeeeeh.

Berserk (Dropped after volume 12), 4/10: I'm sorry but I couldn't get into this, i've read up until the eclipse, but I didn't really like the plot that much, didn't think it did anything really special, I'm not too much of a combat scene fan either, and the sex scenes just made me very uncomfortable, i've read up to the eclipse, that i've heard it was like peak berserk but I just didn't like it, so I dropped it

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Jun: Shoutarou no Fantasy World, 6/10: I actually was waiting for someone to write in this thread so I could make another post and be happy with it

this is a 2 volume manga, kinda like an anthology, very abstract, amazing play, however, this manga feels very arrogant, sometimes it feels abstract just because the mangaka wanted to, even if the story of message didn't require such abstraction, and it actually deducted from the value of the art piece rather than increasing it


I have another manga i'm about to finish so please someone post in this thread too thx

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Jun: Shoutarou no Fantasy World, 6/10: I actually was waiting for someone to write in this thread so I could make another post and be happy with it

this is a 2 volume manga, kinda like an anthology, very abstract, amazing play, however, this manga feels very arrogant, sometimes it feels abstract just because the mangaka wanted to, even if the story of message didn't require such abstraction, and it actually deducted from the value of the art piece rather than increasing it


I have another manga i'm about to finish so please someone post in this thread too thx

Heh, I'm feeling good that you read it. It's one of my only "three" (so far) fav "manga" (Well, Haruhi is a Light Novel tho but anyway).

Personally I think it was great, to me it was more like a lesson of art or something to inspire people when in an art block. In my opinion it's a great work of art (or rather, metaart) whose view can change depending on the viewer. I personally found it relatable and I even cried in one chapter or two, really.

Ah also, I liked that it barely had dialogue. My attention span really thanked it. I could just let myself look at it.

I was about to give it a 10 but... I felt like it had too many chapters and was getting bored by second volume. Volume 1 was great but... I felt like Volume 2 wasn't really needed.

Erased (Manga): 9/10, Really good mistery manga, really liked it, have no complains about it really, loved the characters, solid story, good art, etc

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(Manga) Not simple, 8/10, 1 Volume drama/seinen/tragedy story, really unique art-style, the story is really good, I dont have any complains with this manga tbh, it's just very solid

(also i've seen you're linking the MAL page on the name, so I think I will start doing the same thing too)

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Yume Nikki, 7/10: a few days ago, I decided to start playing Yume Nikki (The videogame), and if you know anything about this game, you know it's confusing af, i'm trying to avoid using guides that may spoil me of zones and stuff, but, I was feeling kinda stuck in a part, so, I decided to read the manga to see if there was any info I could bring into my playthrough

It did help with this, found one or two things thanks to this manga

now, about the manga quality itself, the yume nikki manga is often very hated since it's not a faithful adaptation, it kinda does it's own thing with the yume nikki world, and honestly, I think this is a perfectly fine to do. When you have a world and universe like the one from yume nikki, writting different stories about it is actually quite interesting, it's just another take on the same locations

I personally did like the manga, it was short, maybe a little bit too short, a bit confusing near the end, but it's not something that has ruined my experience of the manga

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Bocchi the rock anime 10/10 haven't read manga tho. I actually started watching it last year and came back to it recently. I like how it was animated, nice and creative imo and good music.

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Oshi no ko. The story not as interesting as the manga tbh. At least in other aspect like OP and the casts (especially they got Rie) they got it good. 9/10

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School Days 1/10

Stomiks wrote: 65184i

School Days 1/10

Very heated notes

What the fucks with this show? Every single one of these characters are so horrible and they're becoming even more shittier as each episode goes on. Every piece of dialouge is so awkward and watching them interact with eachother is so fucking horrible to watch through, especially itou. He is actually the worst character I've ever came across in fiction. This asshole can't just stop pulling his dick out and somehow every girl still wants to fuck him despite being known as the biggest piece of shit in that school. And when this fucker's sins finally catches up to him he has the gall to say it's not his fault? Fuck youuuuu. I hated him so much I kept punching the screen everytime he appears.

Good thing that fucker dies in the boat scene, together with sekai too. Did you know how happy I was when both of them died? I was screaming death and murder so loudly my neighbors got suspicious. It's a bit of a shame that katsura and everyone else didn't die, but at least they got two of the biggest piece of shits I've ever seen go to hell.

I have officially found the worst anime I've ever watched. When I initially went into this show, I thought it'd be just some bad slice of life anime but I didn't know it was gonna be a cesspoll filled with burning shit. I've never felt this much mental pain watching a show. Who thought it was a good idea to air this anime? Who thought it was a good idea to write something this horrible? Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be watching youtube videos of people reviewing this show while sharing the same sentiment I feel about it.

So funnily enough, School days is based off a VN, I'll let that sink in. This show was doomed from the start ngl, almost all VN anime adaptions are.

Vagabond, 9/10: I awhile ago Itried to read berserk, I did not enjoy it, and I dropped it in volume 13 (or 12, dont quite recall on top of my head), vagabond, while being in the same genre of action seinen manga, it's the complite opposite to berserk

even if its'a combat/action manga, the actual combats are not the point, the battles are just a step to achieve a goal, become "Strong". And in the actual fight scenes, the actual scenes are short and quick, a lot more elegant than in another mangas too


the only real complain I have ab out this manga is that it's extremely long, it's 37 volumes, the longest i've ever read

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two different mangas, but i'm grouping them together

Hell //// Guyabano's Holdiay, 9/10: These are two works of a mangaka named "panpanya", and they deserve wayyyyy more recognision than they deserve

All works of the author are extremely unique, they're very abstract while still maintaining a plot for each chapter, plot than even if it seems nonsensical at first, you can still follow without much trouble

panpanya's artstyle is extremely unique, the characters art are extremely simple, while having beautiful backgrounds behind them


The actual plots are a mix between an autobiography, (probably) completely made up abstract stuff, and bits of real world, factual information, leading to a extremely unique narrative structure

it's worth saying that all of these mangas are anthologies, there are a bunch of stories that cover multiple chapters, but they're the exception and not the rule, i'm normally kinda mixed when it comes to anthologies, it feels like they often lack the time to really have much emotional impact, and i'm not really a big fan of them because of this, however, panpanya's decide to tell stories which can only be told in this format, raelly overcoming the limitations

problem is, 50% of the manga's made by this author are yet to be scanlated, and there really aren't official translation for most of them, in fact, the first manga i've listed isn't even on myanimelist, and I took probably over a year since I read most of the available panpanya's work to find a place to read another one of their mangas, I've heard another manga of theirs by the name of "Fish Society", has been officialy licenced, so I will just have to wait until a official translation for that manga apppears

panpanya's work is super unique and short, so you probably should give it a try, probably the best anthologies and oneshots i've ever read

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Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey, 9/10, this manga is an autobiography of the journey that the author took since high school until becoming a mangaka, mainly, focusing in a prep school they went to, and the teacher that gave that class, it's an amazing story, the ending hits hard, I really recommend it

Basilisk: Kouga Ninpou Chou

A 6/10 for me. Not a bad concept but in the end it's yet another Romeo and Juliet from start to finish with a TV-MA rating.

two mangas:

Banana fish: 7/10, i'm not the biggest fan of older manga, mainly in this genre, which i'm also not the biggest fan of, and and this manga shows that, this manga itself has a pretty good story and characters, however, some stuff like it being 19 volumes long, and it is too action packed at some moments, making me kinda burn out of it. In fact, I had to originally leave this manga on hold, since I just didn't have the motivation to really keep reading it.

It also lacks a lot of artistic advancements that manga has made in recent times, for example, the manga doesn't play with the s at all, and I love that from more recent manga, the art really doesn't do anything special.

however, even if my personal experience reading this manga was not the best, I would feel bad rating it lower since I know the manga is actually really good, as I said, the story is good, the characters are good, the art is average, but most mangas have average art so that really should not be an issue to most people, the yaoi romance elements worked well, if you like, older, longer action/drama manga you should probably read this one out

also the scanlation I found of this manga was pretty bad and confusing at times
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Sakamoto desu ga, 8/10: pretty nice comedy manga, dont really have any problem with it, it's a quick read, the humor is pretty similar to stuff like kaguya-sama or the igo soccer from nichijou, if you enjoyed that, read this one, as it has some really memorable and really funny jokes

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Sometimes Even Reality Is a Lie!: 8/10, actually read this 2 years ago, didn't note it anywhere, forgot of it existence, found it again, realized I had already read half of it so I just decided to catch out

Really nice cute fluffy gender bender manga, it's full color so it's pretty nice

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two mangas

Subarashii Sekai: 6?/10: this one is a weird one, I did enjoy it while I was reading it, however, when I was nearing the end of the manga, that I was trying to place all the pieces together, I realized that the things I enjoyed about this manga were missconceptions

I had read scenes where I go "ohhh this didn't actually happen but actually just works to express this", but no, that DID happen, which made me kinda dissapointed, even if it's a psychological mmanga, the scenes really dont go that deep

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Yuugai Muzai Gangu: 9.49/10: this manga is so close to a 10 it actually hurts my soul

the story is absolutely crazy, the art is absolutely amazing, the concepts this manga throws at you, the way the characters are written, the way everything is connected, everything is so absolutely amazing

however, with all that potential, you decide to make it into a 4 chapter anthology-like manga


WHY

if honestly this manga went for like 3 more volumes it could have been one of the greatest manga i've ever read, howevver, it just feels too short, the way it hurts my soul seeing such a good plot and concept for a story just not really be used to it's full potential makes me dislike this manga enough where I dont give it a 10/10.

I normally dont read anthologies, I only read one since it really caught my attention, and I can see why it caught my attention because it was amazing but pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee I wish this was so slightly longer please god

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Gishi Sanjin Den:9/10: Another anthology of the same mangaka I just talked about in my last post, this one is a little bit worse IMO, but it's still extremely solid

Saraiya Goyou: 8/10: this isn't a manga that I know a lot of people will like, as it is just dialogue. It's a 8 volume long samuari manga with no action at any point, and the conversations itselfs aren't too dramatic, it's a really slow manga with an unique artstyle. Howaever, I completely agree with these decisions and think they make for a really good manga if you like that

I watched Red Line yesterday and like,,,,,, go watch it?? Now?? Not much story but cool scifi cars and amazing animation 10/10

I finished reading Ana Satsujin a few hours ago and... meh. The last kill arc was good? Kinda? Tbh you can just skip directly to vol 4(?). Good concept executed by a mangaka who was def not comptetent enough to do justice to it. 4/10

Melonnbreadd wrote: h6z4e

I finished reading Ana Satsujin a few hours ago and... meh. The last kill arc was good? Kinda? Tbh you can just skip directly to vol 4(?). Good concept executed by a mangaka who was def not comptetent enough to do justice to it. 4/10

I honestly felt like the last chapters were written by a 12 year old in Wattpad. The beginning was decent but the authour decided to add more arcs just for the sake of adding them.

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Witch Hat Atelier: 9/10, not finished, onyl caught up to it. One of the better fantasy/magic manga i've read, really good plot, really like the characters, the artstyle is really polished and cool, really recommend it

Your Name. 7/10. The art is great and The Soundtrack is equally good. But the story is... meh (Tenki to Ko's better). Isn't worth the hype.

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K4N44 wrote: 3q672x

Jangsoodlor wrote: 616554

Your Name. 7/10. The art is great and The Soundtrack is equally good. But the story is... meh (Tenki to Ko's better). Isn't worth the hype.

𝐈 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭, 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞. 𝐈 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝟖 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭. 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝟓𝟎/𝟓𝟎 𝐝𝐨 𝐢 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐝. 𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲.

I think your name is more about the feelings and atmosphere than the plot, not something you can really objectively review
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two mangas for me

Sousou no fieren: 6/10, I'm really dissaponted by this manga, the plot seemed to be super interesting, going to put the MAL synopsis if anyone wants to read it


a manga about the epilogue of a fantasy story? that seemed interesting, it appeared like it was going to be a very slow manga overall, not really much action or whatever, just those two going to the places, siting there mostly in silence, ing everything that happened, and now that she has more perspective about life, teaching it her to the apprentice

however, this is not the case at all, the manga is a run of the mill fantasy story of this character who is overly OP, it almost seems like a regular isekai without the harem parts TBH

it's probably not bad if you like isekais, but I did not like, however the first 3 volumes are so are kinda cool

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Shimanami Tasogare: 8/10, started reading this manga like 2 years ago, wasn't for the mood for it, and left it in the will read later area until now. It's a really nice drama about the gay experience, nothing really else to say in my opinion

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Real: 9/10: dont really read sport manga, this is in fact the first one i've ever read, it's not finished but I got up to date

Really like it, honestly the whole point of the manga isn't even related to basketball in a way, it's just a manga about each character lfie experience, how they react after getting a disability, and how they go forward in that, more about the internal struggles of each person more than a basketball match, basketball just happens to be something that a lot of characters value very highly

it's also worth mentioning that after I finished reading this manga I realized this is made by the same person that did vagabond, which I read recently and really liked for very similar reasons too

Honestly i'm probably going to check more sports manga after this, because if there are more in this style i'm interested to read them, already started one, will probably write about it here soon

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AIR (TV) + AIR in Summer
7/10

Quite good story but flawed exection.

Spy x family
78492739549/10 anya is cute and yor is fire :>
Its not typical anime, the story is just WOOOOOOOOOOWWWW

I watched it as soon as i was able to stream it on a website called Anime Balkan (its a balkan website lol) and I watched it winter 2022 because it was just released. I didin't find much time to watch anime but i'm currently watching oshi no ko so yea :-D

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(manga) Noah of the Blood Sea 100/10 i want to get married to it (very biased i love me me good vamp action)

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Ping Pong: 9/10: I really vibe with this manga, again, like real, it's not really about ping pong, the sport isn't the focus, instead, this manga tackles effort, talent and ion, you could have replaced the ping pong element with anything else and it would have worked, it's a really nice manga, I really like the ending and the overall philosophy of the manga, the art-style is very unique which I like, heavily recommended


Touch: Not for me/10: read because K4N44 recommended, read the first volume or so, eh, didn't really catch my attention much, decided to not really continue it and read something else, the style is very different from the two sport manga i've already read, and seems more focused on the romance aspect, and I dont really know I want to read a 26 volume high school baseball romance rn, or ever really. I don't really add the mangas I just read the first volume and dont continue in my MAL list, so I did not score it

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Aria: 9/10: Really good slice of life, good characters, the world fives a lot to think about, I really recommend it, it's pretty good

Tennis no ouji-sama: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh/10:

the reason why I liked ping pong and real it's because how small and personal the manga felt, in ping pong, the main character doesn't even really care about ping pong, and the story focuses around that, around the difference between pure talent and effort, and how we missjudge people based on that

real is about how is it to live after obtaining a disability, how is it to only have one thing in your life (Basketball), and losing it, and how even if that were to happen, there is still hope in the distance

There was a reason why I didn't really read sport manga before a few days ago, and that is beacuse I exected most mangas to be very shounen-like, where it IS completely based on the sport and is maybe to over the top in the way it says thng

Tennis no ouji-sama is that manga so far, I cant really see in this manga any of the reason why I enjoyed real or ping pong, the first volume and half of the second volume is just playing a high school level match and going WHAT????? THE MADE THAT MOVE????, kinda just reminds me of that tennis scene in death note, and I did not like that scene



So far, I haven't really continued the manga, just moved on to another thing

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Your Lie in April. 10/10. I'm gonna copy-paste my review on MAL real quick




also Tsubaki best girl

i completed berserk a time ago it was a masterpiece, rn i'm reading the manga. FKIN MASTERPIECE!!

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K4N44 wrote: 3q672x

[𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚] [𝐃𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝] 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐤𝐮! 𝟐/𝟏𝟎


𝐈 𝐮𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲. (𝐢𝐦 𝟓 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐬 𝐢𝐧) 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐭. 𝐈 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐧. 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐡 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰 (𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐲)

I read the synopsis. Definitely not Haruhi.

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(Manga) Saint Oniisan: 9/10: wanted to clean my plan to read a little bit, and I had this one sitting for a while, so I decided to read it finally. Saint oniisan is a comedy manga about Jesus christ and Buddha living together in an apartment, and all the funny scenes that come from that, it's note mentioning that this manga doesn't just have jesus and buddha, but other important characters from their respective religions and other religions/mithologies alltogether are present, like zeus or loki

I did not know it was this long, 20 volumes long and still ongoing, but, it was a really good read, honestly, the latest 2 volumes are my personal favourite, has a couple of the best moments of the manga

I recommend reading if you dont mind it being long, really good comedy manga

also, response to k4n44, wind breaker doesn't seem like my thing; i don't really like action except in very specific context and mangas

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K4N44 wrote: 3q672x

[𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗮] [𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘀] 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗺𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝟕/𝟭𝟬

𝐈 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐞

didn't read the manga, but I read the first vol of the light novel and the anime, and I really loved it, one of the best yuris out there IMO

Tonari ni: 7/10: Good 1 volume yaoi by a mangaka I already liked, kinda short, would liked it for it to be a little bit longer, for more emotional impact

Futari no Lion: 7/10: Good 1 volume yaoi by a mangaka I did not know about, same opinion as above

Usuzumi no hate: 9?/10: New manga, started publication last year, this may be one of the mangas with the most ammount of potential i've read, only really behind shimeji simulation

It's a post-apocaliptic slice of life drama, about this girl that runs around and cleans corpses to avoid more deaths, I dont want to say too much about the plot, since there is almost nothing released so far, but HOLY FUCK IT'S GOOD

I personally LOVE post-apocaliptic slice of lifes, but it's not the biggest market, and post-apocaliptic slicce of life/drama are rare, but damn, this plot is honestly very original, the conflict the main protagonist faces is extremely psychological and honestly I've never seen it in another manga

This manga is a tough read, it's very dramatic, and in the single volume that it has released, it has some very emotional moments

the art is amazing, the dialogue is good, the characters are good, the conflict feels very human, even if it's a fantasy scenario, it's just a really fucking good manga

I wish that there was more released in order to talk about it more, or to talk about this first volume without it being spoilers, I did not give it a 10 since it's still early, but if this keeps going, and improves on this idea, it's actually a 10/10

Haikyuu!! Season 2. 9/10

Animation improved, some interesting characters introduced and drama went slightly hotter, and matches were really exciting holy flick. Not to tell the development some characters underwent and the unexpected wholesomeness this anime has shown so far. Haikyuu teaches you to not to lament yourself over your past mistakes, fear is normal and that you haven't lost till the match has finished. This anime has been lifting up my mood lately.

Not giving it a 10 bc at times it felt corny.

Side note: Man why is Asahi so cute goddamnit.

Serial Experiments Lain: 7/10: Found that there was a spanish dub so I watched it.

Lain has a very dedicated fanbase, I cant just go on , give it a 7, and move on with my life, so, I will explain what do I enjoy exactly about anbime, and why I don't think that lain is THAT good

Lain is an anime mainly known for it's very complicated plot, and the way that the anime obtains this complexity is by purpousely abstracting information to the watcher, so things happen, and there really isn't an explanation to the viewer, the actual plot when you write it down isn't really that out of the ordinary, but the way it's presented is the more original part

Thing is, the reason I like lain is not exactly because of the plot, anmd mainly because of the atmosphere and the themes it covers, however, the fact that the story is so abstracted, kinda limits it IMO, there is a very important plot pont that you can realize it's happening on chapter 3 but they dont confirm until chapter 8, the actual story content is very limited as that content then has to be presented in a very specific way

I've already said this to someone and they were like "Oh you just dont like thinking while watching anime", but that is just not true, thing is, I dont want for the actual story content and themes to be limited by the fact I have to think a lot about it, my favourite manga is shimeji simulation, and that one has two storylines basically, the one you read, and then the one you understand, which is isnsanely more complicated, I just like that approach a lot more

I still think that Lain is pretty good, but I just didn't really enjoy it that much personally

Takemitsuzamurai: 7/10: This ia a manga by the creator of "Ping pong", it shares a very similar artstyle, however, for one reason or another, I quite didn't get into it, which it's a shame because it seems like a very objectively good manga

Umibe no Q: 6/10: Weird slice of life sci-fi drama manga, howeer, this manga has 4 volumes, and I just dislike the last two, dont really like where the author takes the story

Kabu no Isaki: 8/10: Slice of life about flying planes, I think this one is pretty good, the art is great, it has pretty memorable scenes, the characters are good, not too long or too short, it's just a great slice of life/adventure manga all-around, if you're into that, I would recommend it

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Serial Experiments Lain: 7/10: Found that there was a spanish dub so I watched it.

Lain has a very dedicated fanbase, I cant just go on , give it a 7, and move on with my life, so, I will explain what do I enjoy exactly about anbime, and why I don't think that lain is THAT good

Lain is an anime mainly known for it's very complicated plot, and the way that the anime obtains this complexity is by purpousely abstracting information to the watcher, so things happen, and there really isn't an explanation to the viewer, the actual plot when you write it down isn't really that out of the ordinary, but the way it's presented is the more original part

Thing is, the reason I like lain is not exactly because of the plot, anmd mainly because of the atmosphere and the themes it covers, however, the fact that the story is so abstracted, kinda limits it IMO, there is a very important plot pont that you can realize it's happening on chapter 3 but they dont confirm until chapter 8, the actual story content is very limited as that content then has to be presented in a very specific way

I've already said this to someone and they were like "Oh you just dont like thinking while watching anime", but that is just not true, thing is, I dont want for the actual story content and themes to be limited by the fact I have to think a lot about it, my favourite manga is shimeji simulation, and that one has two storylines basically, the one you read, and then the one you understand, which is isnsanely more complicated, I just like that approach a lot more

I still think that Lain is pretty good, but I just didn't really enjoy it that much personally

I'd recommend watching Haibane Renmei, I think it's way better executed than Lain. Pretty slow paced like the former tho.

Quoting from my MAL recommendation: You could consider Haibane Renmei and Serial Experiments Lain as sister anime, due to both being about existentialism, the protagonists are very similar in appearance and personality, there's a heavy psychological element and both also deal with sensitive topics like death or suicide. They're done by the same author as well.

Both anime have opposite characteristics as well: Serial Experiments Lain feels like the darker sister, taking place in a dystopian cybernetic world where everything is connected, while Haibane Renmei is the lighter sister which takes place in a peaceful village, isolated from the rest of the world. Serial Experiments Lain is a very complex anime, while Haibane Renmei is simple and straightforward. One rarely sees two anime complement and relate so well to each other actually.