being forced into a war and losing friends every day is one of my favorite kinds of stories

this shit made me read 11 huge volumes worth of the light novel. i don't think anything else in this entire list is capable of doing that

niino's story (ep 8) is actually really lovely and was the first thing i was actively paying attention to since like episode 2. things generally start picking up pace episode 9 onward and the last half of the show is pretty good! the first half's a drag though

and even still the only thing i like about acca is niino

i watched all of acca for mal anime watching challenge and for that alone

ep 3 check-in: desperately want to drop this || ep 6 check-in: got better but why hasn't the character the entire ending is based on showed up for longer than 5 mins total and/or spoken to her supposed love interest || got pretty alright by the end

tuned out by ep6. not to sound like an annoying 86 stan but this does seem like EXTREMELY discount 86. and i know this came out earlier, it doesn't matter

the first half is the most annoying thing i've ever watched so when actual emotional scenes started happening i just wanted for everything to end already

boring

not very memorable

why video game adaptations kind of inevitably struggle to work. you can see how all of it was playing out in-game: this is where a tutorial starts, this is where story battle begins, this is where a new waifu is introduced. it's not all bad, necessarily, but it doesn't really work without the game element of it all.

watched ongoing with a friend and every time a new episode came out we'd go GOOFY BOSS! GOOFY BOSS! and then live text each other how absolutely wild the bl is in this non-bl show. if you like the idea of two guys being domestic and adorable together while pretending it's a normal collegial relationship, this is for you

non-chronological storytelling definitely made the anime messier than it needed to be. great story, made me want to read the ln, but also made me google "baccano timeline" so yeah

unnecessary but kinda cute

check the trigger warnings before starting this

i'm not a furry officer i swe-- (gets shot)

ep 10 12.04 ryou cat ears (very important)

the ending is,,,, yeah. also, what was the point of making it about a "series of disappearances" and not just one kayo if the authors are very uninterested in making a proper detective anime? this would be so much better if it was just 6 episodes about saving kayo from some random kidnapper guy

i'm very sorry but i sincerely do not care about the animation if the story doesn't do anything for me and NOTHING was done for me here

just fun, man

truly one of the endings of all time

anime fans hype this little movie up bc it's dark or whatever and like yeah, sure, but imo not much darker than western kids' movies of the time period.

1:24:00 hug adorbs || i can't not mention that the main thing keeping the leads apart is uh. the threat of incest which is uh. yeah, the fact that it *is* in the first place is the main issue i have with this movie. the only issue, actually, because the rest of the anime is mad cute and adorable. it's not at all fetish-y, pretty lighthearted and eventually resolved, so i'm not super mad about it, but yeah, kinda uncomfy ngl

the gore was very good looking, the rest was just okay

damn ma boy got cucked real bad press f

iconic but idk man, didn't really click

came of as kinda pretentious ngl. tries to be a real psychological/philosophical thing but never really delivers. most of the time this is just boring

not sure what the fuck this was actually

the devilman running style >>>>

the animation is lovely

second half of episode 7 was actually really cool

just a very gory and porny incest harem vehicle. something tells me anime fans saw blood and nudity in 2004 and thought !!holy shit that's so cool and edgy!! and propelled this show into absolutely undeserved legendary status

a disease runs in my blood stream and the name of the disease is evangelion personality disorder (you acquire it when you watch eva when you're 14 and it permanently imprints on your mind. there is no cure)

unbearable cringe

idk how or why i watched this and not brotherhood but idc this slaps regardless

this anime taught me that i can barely stand moe bullshit, no matter how interesting the rest of the show is. the cutesy day-to-day life is integral to what the show's going for and it wouldn't work without it but i found myself fast-forwarding through some of the scenes. just really not for me

loop 7 but worse in every way

gay people exist in the gbc verse confirmed in episode one

hananoi has that male yandere flavor to him despite not being one. the art is a struggle sometimes, esp episodes 9-10, but it's cute

"this would be better if the pedophile guy wasn't here" is a phrase i say way too fucking often about anime (this is a very suiting anime for this kind of character to be in, but i'm still miffed)

kinda dying midseason on me (after finishing it: it did't get better)

ep 8 10.30 world ends

god this gets so freaking boring halfway through. the lack of plot really hurts this, because most episodes would be perfectly fine if they were intertwined with episodes from the og season

i like blatant sad backstory vehicles??? huh i guess so

one of the first animes i've watched because the internet is a cruel place with a sick and twisted sense of what's a good recommendation to give to an unsuspecting person

so high up mostly because the manga is one of my most favorite things ever

killua is my child he's my son he's my poor little meow meow and his friendship with gon is a national treasure || ep 135

"He loved his native province, and the mythical landscape of his fiction, known by the generic neologism, coined in a poem in 1923, as Īhatōbu (Ihatov) is often thought to allude to Iwate (Ihate in the older spelling). Several theories exist as to the possible derivations of this fantastic toponym: one theory breaks it down into a composite of I for 'Iwate'; hāto (English 'heart') and obu (English 'of'), yielding 'the heart or core of Iwate'. Others cite Esperanto and German forms as keys to the word's structure, and derive meanings varying from 'I don't know where' to 'Paradise'. Among the variation of names, there is Ihatovo, and the addition of final o is supposed to be the noun ending of Esperanto, whose idea of common international language interested him."

wow i sure wish miketsukami was written by a better writer, that's a very interesting idea for a character right there

peak

sincerely GREAT and funny

when a lot of ambition meets very little of everything else (the animation is the least of its problems)

it's. a bit difficult to describe what is it that is exactly wrong with the show past episode 15, once anno leaves. the production starts to suffer from worse animation, there's too much focus on secondary characters and tonami exists, yes, but there's also this weird feeling like the show is suddenly sped up? like it doesn't even have time for itself anymore and it can't wait to be over. the series has had a fast pace since the beginning, sure, but the scenes always had the necessary weight that is lacking now. the bgm, which was the highlight of the first 15 episodes starts feeling out of place and cuts jarringly in and out. the recaps become unbearable, there's no reason a 26 episode show should have three of them and a filler ep. sigh, so much missed potential. i wonder just how bad the production must've been for the last episode to turn out the way it did. i guess i'm at least thankful that it's a gainax show, so any holes in budget were patched with Style (tm)

on one hand, this is stupid, kind of degenerate wish fulfillment. on the other, it's kinda cute ngl. also, the author is a woman and it makes the wish fulfilment aspect kinda funny.

i hate sports and i want to punch haiji in the face

this is so fucking funny i have no shame

turns out i like the thing that everybody likes! shocker

boring and predictable. there are way better options if you want a romance where someone dies of illness at the end (it's not even a spoiler like it's so obvious)

i thought this was hilarious, but, like, mostly in an embarrassing way? i don't know but this stupid ecchi incest show wasn't dogshit terrible. it's not GOOD either, but there's something incredibly funny and charming about in a grossly degenerate sort of way

fumbling a premise so good this badly should be a crime

will never be able to rewatch it. also, incredible score

dealing with real psychological problems in an anime-typical dismissive sort of way. the play they're making slaps though

bad bad t/s romance (and i'm not even all that opposed to t/s this one is just bad), epic emotional climax that feels unearned and out of left field, uninteresting characters. beautiful gowns though, beautiful gowns.

whoever said this is like apothecary lied through their teeth, this is painfully boring and flat on all fronts

the romance (or the set-up for it) is a bit lacking but the rest is so freaking good. no words.

watched this in the movie theater and the second the lights were turned back on my friend said "and that's it? there's no conclusion?" and i wanted to throttle her

"i have a lot of respect for this man, he taught me many useful skills and i care about his wellbeing. i will, however, use his sister's terminal illness against him if i have to" - now THIS is girlbossery i can get behind

i have tender memories of my time in the fandom but the show isn't really all that good aside from the 3rd years' drama

oh god uhmm

i have the honor of being one of the very few people who doesn't like the finale and thinks the season actually got worse once the furry girl showed up

ep 1 15:24 great animation

my favorite genre: tgw (Things Get Worse and never better)

fixes the pacing issues the og series had - we now get to That One Moment in 40 minutes instead of three episodes, for example. whatever it was that they did cut seems to be completely unimportant and i honestly wonder if we should recommend people watch the movies instead of the tv. the new animation is gorgeous. literally fixed all (already minor) complaints i had with the tv series, making this perfect in every way (not even joking hhh)

i fucking love madoka man

girlie thinks she invented lesbianism fr fr

i expected it to be more... dark? gritty? serious, at least? i guess the cover fooled me into thinking this was something this is not. just an okay children's series, nothing less and nothing more

no but tell me why once komari's club bullshit arc started i began to lose interest lol club bullshit really is my cryptonite

would've dropped at ep 3 if this wasn't for a mal challenge

i tried finding someone else to blame but maybe jin is a great songwriter but terrible storyteller and that's it. bad story told in an absolutely asinine way, the songs are the only redeeming quality and even they are sometimes played in the background while the characters spew complete nonsense dialogue over them (not to say anything about the rearrangements and covers being just plainly worse than the originals)

i can never get used to this korean artstyle with huge lips and dead eyes. they all look like fish to me

nice, but ain't all that

the author just wanted to "make something kind" and it shows

if you've seen one story about a child struggling with having a disabled sibling you've kind of seen them all, but this one is nice, sweet and does a good enough job of focusing on Momoko and making her a full fledged character instead of a plot device/abled sibling foil (though she still is both of those things). the bully character is also pretty human and not just a cackling monster so that's nice. this is probably a good movie to show to young kids

i thought teenage angst was very realistically written but the rest was kind of so-so. love the amount of cats though

the story of a millenial girlfailure full of mostly awkwardly-placed polp culture references

omg the male lead's seiyuu can NOT make "heavy breathing while running" sounds for the life of him, it's so bad. and the fl is pretty bad at crying. makes sense, considering they're both rookie seiyuus, but it's a shame it takes me out of the performance. the animation is beautiful though, and the story is my thing, so i can't be too mad

ep 4 1:30 wtf
at times bewitchingly beautiful and at times utterly insane visuals

the dialogue is unbearable cringe. the worst of the dystopia genre

ep 4

only ~8 minutes worth of new content you've got to be kidding me

would be better if they were gfs

very very lovely but didn't make me cry

i didn't notice the dip in quality of part 2 that everyone else did, but i had Big Gripes (tm) with the ending all the same. it didn't affect my enjoyment of the previous 20 episodes, but i sure do wish it was different

some filler, some pretty important stuff. the ouken episodes are a must watch, the rest can be skipped if you're not feeling them

ep 5 check-in: annoying gags, annoying dialogue, everything is super unserious even though the mika/yuu drama seems promising. don't hate enough to drop it, but the hopes aren't very high. ep 12: it got worse

watching at double speed since episode one. this is so bad. the only reason anyone would enjoy this is if they are hopeless when it comes to fujobait or if they've never seen a good shounen in their entire life

insane bonkers premise

the ending was kind of a disappointment ngl :(

ep 3 ~4 minutes in count d does the finger wiggle

slow pacing - i thought it was great and fit the tone well, but some people may find it too slow

good for memes where anime girls hold weapons but not much else. speaking of, here are my favorites : ep 7 8:30 retzel with a knife; 18:52 gekka with a gun

this is basically an animation showcase and the plot is there just because releasing an animation showcase ova wouldn't make any money

very vaguely better than the rest of promare (might be because i find lio cute)

a mess

the last episode was a bit confused but it got back on track by the end. very funny parody of typical otoge/reverse harem/general shoujo tropes

anime for cool people

boring. if you're making a beauty & the beast retelling the beauty should get with the beast c'mon now

READ THE MANGA INSTEAD. the story and characters are great but the production and animation are deeply ass

OH NO THEMES OF MOTHERHOOD MY ONLY WEAKNESS OH NOOOOOO

while this was great, i wished a lot of things were just... different

ep 8 ~17 lain bobble heads // feels kind of weird to rate a cult classic this low but this is not my first rodeo with this kind of thing. i don't want to say i didn't get it because i did see the appeal and what the show was going for, i just didn't really appreciate most of it, sorry.

it's all about how hard something can make me cry

the plot twists in this one are insane

worse than the first season, sadly. the show moves on from it's episodic format and picture-exploring adventures to a crime mystery where we spent the first half of the show bumbling around the police station and the hospital with NO photos in sight, focusing on boring secondary characters instead of the two main ones which are the reasons most are watching in the first place.

funnily enough, i watched this for a challenge item that requested a drama anime with no comedy, but at least half of this show is comic relief lol i wish there was less of it, the more serious bits are by far the more interesting ones. hayate was not very appealing as the main love interest in the beginning but he grew on me later. overall, this was sold to me as one of the more serious mahou shoujo titles but i wouldn't really call this serious. it's a decently compelling magical girl show with some interesting elements but not much more than that

giving nge a ten isn't a cliche if it made you who you are today (unironically) (i am cringe and i admit it)

these bitches are so gay oh my god. utena alone can fit so much gender into herself it'd be enough for a whole show's premise but it's more of a side plot and all the other characters are gendering as hard as they can too. what can i say but peak. || ep 8 21:25 monke saionji

too slow for my liking, also not the kind of atmosphere i was looking for

deeply rushed production and overambition caused the pace to be breakneck. these bitches don't stop talking for a second to try and fit all the plot into 12 episodes. if you like chaos and general insanity, you'll have fun || ep10 16:30 scream