Souryo to Majiwaru Shikiyoku no Yoru ni...

Alternative title: 僧侶と交わる色欲の夜に…

Type: Tv

Episodes: 12

Age Limit: R+

Tags: drama, romance, josei, (hentai?)

Mio always dreamed about kind boy from her school, she wanted to know more about him so it was a luck that he appeared at school reunion, but sadly he became a monk. Mio decides to drink away her sadness, because there is no chance to know him more now, is it?

Well this anime is kinda deceiving. Guy likes the girl so he is using her for his plesure, she is extremely shy (/dumb) and don't mind it. He take her home and talks like she is his fiance againt her own will. She likes him but is not sure if he likes her. That's probably all. Nothing deep and for me it felt more like hentai than josei. I mean sex scenes every episode taking almost all running time. Not that I mind it but it's kinda confusing waiting for josei and getting something very hentai-ish XD

Animation and art is actually very beautiful. It has nice colors, it's pretty smooth. It just looks good.

Soundtrack. Well there is not much of it but it was able to estabilish some mood even for so little time.

Characters. Kujou is manipulative. Mio is dumb. Nothing more about them, seriously. He is using her but talks how much he loves her. She is trying to look like she don't like it but does nothing against it. I don't know if I'm supposed to like this kind of forced relationship but I've seen it so many times in hentai or read it in books for adult woman that I'm very tired of this unoriginal repetitive shit. Give me something new!!

Overall. Nothing interesting. As hentai not so bad because there are bits of the story but it's not inovative in any kind of way. At least it's very short.

Rating: 5/10

Yuri!! on Ice ep 1 Review

Hi guys!
This anime was pretty hyped so I decided to look at it =)
So far it has some nice potential

Thanks for watching

Orange

Alternative title: オレンジ

Type: Tv

Episodes: 13

Age Limit: PG-13

Tags: romance, shoujo, sci-fi, time travel, drama, school, slice-of-life

Trying to repare your mistakes and change future by sending letters to your younger self, well that's surely more interesting than your average shoujo romance.

Well Orange is pretty slow-paced and sometimes I've just felt like it could be a little more faster. It has also very nostalgic and summerish easygoing feeling which works well in contrast with Kakeru's depression. When something is sweet and cheerful, serious matters just hits you even harder. The whole time travel and playing with alternate dimensions/realities is done good but I was a bit disappointed by the final revelation about how was it even possible. That just felt kinda weak and lazy.

Art looks loveable and sweet, Animation was okeyish but during some episodes quality dropped pretty hard and background details just loked horrible. But still it was nice to look at it and it helped me to immerse into the story.

Music and soundtrack was good, maybe sometimes too much awkwardly cheerful for my own taste but still I didn't felt too much forced by it.

Characters are most important part of this story, it's more about their feelings and coping with problems and how they are facing the possibility of changing the future. I must say that characters acts very realistically, they could be bit annoying but in real life nobody is perfect too. Naho might have been too irritating with her unability to change some events or actually do something, but I guess it was because she was extremely shy and yeah it was hard not wanting to slap her sometimes. Kakeru was internally tormented and it manifested in his actions too, he was suddenly sad or mad and it was hard to predict his actions. It was natural for me to feel sad about him, to feel like he might shatter anytime. And Suwa, that adorable cookie Suwa. One of the most coolest, protective, nice, lovely and warmhearted character I ever met in anime. To see him prioritize the happiness of the girl he loved over his own was heartbreaking. Sadly the whole story is more about this trio (Naho, Suwa and Kakeru) and their complicated relationship/love triangle even there is more people in their group. I would just like to see and know more about the others.

Overall. Heartwarming and heartbreaking piece with loveble characters which do have mistakes so they feel real. Probably one of the best shoujo I've seen in a while.

Rating: 8/10

Kotetsujou no Kabaneri

Alternative title: Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, 甲鉄城のカバネリ

Type: Tv

Episodes: 12

Age Limit: R-17+

Tags: action, horror, drama, fantasy, post-apocalyptical, steampunk

In this post-apocalyptical world people live behind walls and travel only with trains because beying outside is extremely dangerous. Unknown virus changed people into monsters which are hard to kill and eat human flesh. 

It sounds like typical zombie thing but it had a lot of nice original touches to it which I liked. The whole steampunkish world, trains, weapons and even Kabane were interesting and I was really hooked by it. Well the whole first half of the story worked pretty well but than it was like someone pressed a button and everything switched to shit. I don't need some very extremely detailed details but every story needs at least a little bit of depth to work properly. Also towards the end there was so much unnecessary drama that it felt very awkward and I facepalmed constaneously.

Animation and art is pretty neat, it was one of those spectacular visual experiences I welcome and any action/fightning scenes were really impressive, they also trully worked on choreography a lot and for me that's big plus.

Music and soundtrack, both OP and ED were nicely fitting, overally soundtrack had very (hollywood) movie feeling to me, simply said it was epic, mood setting and download worthy.

Characters, at the start they were interesting. Ikoma was getting through big change and it was enjoyable, Mumei was mysterious and a lot of side characters had their nice own personality but sadly it didn't go past it much after second half. Actually it got worser. Ikoma was no-name and actually decided to do something about Kabaneri which made him stronger and for small amount of time even badass. But then his determination was degraded, he started to do a lot of stupid decisions and became extremely weak. Mumei had a very developed personality with many twists and she felt like a good example of strong heroine but she became extremely naive and horrendously stupid when her brother appeared. I understood her torment, her grattitude toward Biba but even after she realised he was only using her instead of helping her friends she rather decided to get used again. And that's just not acceptable. Well about Biba, he was the most plain, worst and stupidest villain I encountered in a while and everything about him was highly annoying. I even didn't understand his reasons, he wanted revenge which was kind of understandable but killing as many people as possible to only prove that he is evil while there wasn't any kind of motivation was lazy. But the worst thing was probably common people in cities and towns, they always acted like they don't have any brain so they died of some pretty idiotic reasons. In the end I was surprised that humanity was able to survive for so long when they panicked even over some little things and didn't use any kind of strategy.

Overall. This could be a really great post-apocalyptical anime with nice steampunk touch and some original ideas but the horrible work with characters truly spoiled it.

PS: Ikoma and his punk hairstyle won though

Rating: 7,5/10

Boku no Hero Academia

Alternative title: My Hero Academia, 僕のヒーローアカデミア

Type: Tv

Episodes: 13

Age Limit: PG-13

Tags: shounen, comedy, action, superheros, super powers, school

One of those few stories about superpowered characters which is heavily influenced by western superhero comics, also I must say that at the time I watched it I didn't read manga but now I'm doing so and my opinion on Boku no Hero Academia changed greatly.

Story is very simple, typical from-zero-to-hero and with this kind of basis it heavily depends on how it's done. I can't say BnHA worked it worst but maybe it should try more because despite it's original approach with superheroes it's still full of shonen cliche tropes like only main character can save the world and so on. Well storyline is not 100% predictable and some plot twists really got me but if you watched enough shounens you might know what's going to happen next. Also BnHA starts very slowly, I personally don't mind it because a lot of my favourites were slow or boring at the start and got way more better but if you don't have a patience this might be a bit painful for you too.

Animation and art is trully awesome looking, especially during fighting when all different characters use their powers but sadly it has it's own weird moments I didn't liked. So it's really great but definately not perfect.

Music and soudtrack was amazing because it always catches the mood and made me sink into the story more. Good to know that studio is well aware that story about superheroes without epic soundtrack would be a crime.

This anime was definately full of very interesting characters with unique abilities I enjoyed but unfortunately it's more focused on relationship between All Might and Deku then developing others. Some of them just felt bit plain or flat and villains only grazed a surface bit. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed it but Deku's overly crying attitude got annoying by time and All Might couldn't save it alone after that. There also was Kacchan with his very hard-to-understand personality, sometimes I wasn't sure if I like him or hate for what he was doing but as a rival character he was very original and I liked to watch the chemistry between him and Deku.

Overall. It was very good shounen anime and of course it has flaws but I enjoyed the fights and some slight character developments. 

PS: I trully love manga and I'm glad I started to read it because Deku stopped beying annoying, Kacchan just got a huge character development, other characters started to contribute and it has a lot of pretty serious parts

Rating: 8/10

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