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To those that were expecting some sort of tied-up conclusion, or even a fanservice OVA... skip this. It is an offensively generic episode detached from the actual anime with little bearing on the story. The ending is even more open than the anime's.

It basically contains 24 minutes of what feels like the cheapest and most soulless plot one could come up with; seriously, it's that bad. If only it was a beach episode, then at least it would make up to its emptiness with fanservice, of which the anime itself had plenty.

So cheap it even reuses the OP from the main series.

Blood Lad is much better than one would expect. But, from the get go, I'll mention one of its biggest strengths, and the unfortunate consequence of it: It has 10 episodes, so it is a short, to the point, and consistently good anime. However, it had a very open and somewhat sudden ending.

Another strength of Blood Lad is the MC: he's not a wimp, physically or mentally. But he's also not overly strong (in fact, for much of the anime he was limted in his power and many times he got cornered or defeated). Which is a relief considering just how many anime of the ... time had copy-paste girly MC's that won everything by deus ex machina/power of friendship, especially in cheap seasonals. When it comes to male characters in general, it's nice to see how well developed and important many of them are.

When it comes to female characters, I liked all of the most important ones: Fuyumi, Bell and Liz. There's plenty of fanservice of the first 2, and plenty of cute moments with Fuyumi and Liz (honestly, Fuyumi is cute at all times, especially when she's talking or flustered/blushing). Both the ecchi and the cuteness are great as well as consistent in this anime (with 90% of the ecchi being focused on Fuyumi).

The story is pretty good and in fact surprised me by how logical, consistent and rather complex it is (for an ecchi anime). I was expecting a much simpler and dumbed down plot.

I also greatly enjoyed the voice acting in this anime. Fuyumi, Liz and Bell, but especially Fuyumi and Liz, have extremely cute and girly voices, all the time. The male characters have the virtue of being voiced by actual men, which made it possible for Braz to have his notoriously soothing voice. Overall, it's nice to listen to the characters. Oh, and there's little shouting in this anime. Pretty much all characters speak in a controlled, civilized, enjoyable tone.

If I had to point out negative aspects of the anime, I'd say I didn't like how the last couple episodes played out. I think the whole Fuyumi kidnapping thing was a bit annoying to watch. The couple of ball kicking scenes too (with Nell/Bell), I don't know why people even make those. And lastly, I can't say I enjoyed the excessive amount of 4th wall breaking/self-aware dialogues.

For a random 10-episode seasonal from more than a decade ago that most people have never heard of, Blood Lad does almost everything well. It's by no means groundbreaking in any way but at the same time it is a breath of fresh air compared to most ecchi anime out there.

As a plus, the subtitles had translator notes. A lost art from the golden age of anime.

DxD was really big back in the day, and many people including me think (or, in my case, thought) that it was a particularly good ecchi with sexy characters and scenes. But, truth is, that's not the case, especially when compared to another famous ecchi of the time with a similar name: High School of the Dead.

To put it simply, High School DxD has mediocre, if not bad, art quality. It looks like any other cheap seasonal of the time. Because of this, hardly any scenes or still images (that appear in the middle of episodes) actually look sexy. They mostly look bland when not ... outright bad because of weird anatomy. Nipples, of which there are plenty, also look odd. This is in huge contrast to the aforementioned High School of the Dead, in which all characters look great, all of the time.

Being a cheap seasonal, the art isn't the only mediocre aspect of it. Everything is mediocre, low effort and uninspiring. Oh, and the MC makes a monkey looking face every couple minutes.

To think that this has 4 seasons is... disappointing.

I don't understand what this anime was trying to convey.

It seems to me that it was trying to glorify:

- Domestic abuse
- Loud, annoying, insufferable, aggressive girls
- Crazy feminism?
- Narcissistic behaviours
- Fujoshis
- The opposite of what the people watching this anime would likely look up to
... - Bad behaviours in general
And much more.

I know an anime that does this exact same thing, and it also disguises itself as a cutesy comedy: Yuru Yuri. Oreimo is very similar to it in that regard.

Basically what happens here is, you have Kirino, an extroverted, loud, annoying, completely narcissistic and cluster B girl which is irrationaly hostile to her brother. It's just... I don't know, disheartening to watch how she treats him? But that's not the worst part. They've made it so that her brother is a pack mule, punching bag, slaving himself to someone that from the first episode onwards doesn't do him any good. She ignores him, ridicules him, punches him and shouts at him repeatedly, and yet he refuses to confront her and keeps playing his good boy role until the end. I simply don't get the point.

There are many scenes and situations that caught my attention for depicting behaviour that goes opposite to what most people that would watch this do and believe in.

First, when Kirino calls her many friends and talk to them via phone in the most "default soulless yapping women" possible. Then, when they show Saori's older sister that's obsessed with outdoor activities and abandons her otaku circle to marry some guy in Greece (something no women that participate in otaku circles would likely do). In fact, they barely even show her doing anything remotely otaku-like in that place - most of the time she's just tending to her assault rifle. The scene in which she's introduced is also odd: she wakes up Saori in the middle of the night for a bike ride to her apartment. And lets not even talk about how she looks.

Kirino also uses words like "pervert", "otaku" and "lolicon" to ridicule her brother. But... it doesn't make sense. Kirino IS the lolicon otaku pervert. Kyousuke barely even shows much interest in those things at all. Someone like Kirino wouldn't use those words - and this is yet another reason why her character doesn't make any sense. It's an "anti-otaku" that acts like the most otaku person possible. Hell, she's also a model or something, has blonde hair like a proto-gyaru, and is obsessed with shopping. Every "otaku" action she performs feels fake.

Another example of weird characters/behaviours is Kirino's american friend: Ria. She's a sports girl that can't think of anything but running, and is also some kind of magazine model. Like, what is this? A western family drama series or an ecchi anime about incest?

My last example in this absolutely non-exhaustive list is the game club. There's one scene in which they show a fujoshi talking about making their games about yaoi instead because she wants to see "buttfucking", to the horror of the other members, all male except for another girl. Seriously, who is this anime for? It plays like a humiliation ritual.

Another weird aspect of Oreimo is how disconnected the episodes are. Every time I started a new episode I thought I had skipped something because there's no continuity and they introduce new characters as if you had already seen them.

Oh, and the shouting. There's too much shouting in this anime, my ears couldn't take it more than 3 episodes of it.

Overall, very bad. I had watched this back in the day and was expecting something completely different.

High School of the Dead is a bold anime. Here's a list of some of the fantastic and cliché-breaking things that happen in it:

1 - MC kills a thug at point-blank. No attempt at persuasion, no stupidity, no power-of-friendship, no disney hero, no pretending to be a saint.
2 - They kill the zombie kid. In most movies, anime and games, they usually don't even show kids. Another bold move.
3 - There are at least a couple kiss scenes and an implied sex scene. Great, many anime like this go 20+ episodes without a even a single kiss.
4 - All bad guys die. Good characters don't ... waste their time trying to reason with or defend bad people. Clear distinction between good and evil. Very satisfactory to watch, especially the scene in which Saya's father sides with Rei against Shidou, expelling him from the mansion.
5 - The characters are all smart, resourceful and aware of their surroundings. Hardly ever they're stupid enough to put themselves in bad situations.
6 - Stupid people die. No sugarcoating, they just die.
7 - There's a lot of good-taste, unashamed, bold ecchi.
8 - MC isn't a wimp. In fact, he's pretty strong and decisive.
9 - They managed to make a decent ending with no one left behind. No crybait as an attempt to forcefully elicit emotion from viewers like many bad anime do.

If I could list a few of the issues, they'd be:

1 - Too much shouting at times, which is annoying to the ears.
2 - I don't think anyone really liked Rei. They could've made her more likeable especially in the first few episodes which easily make the viewer hate her.
3 - Ending was a bit too open and sudden.
4 - The 4th episode is basically half reap for some reason.
5 - Many episodes have pointless recaps in the beginning.

Overall, this anime is a breath of fresh air. It's well-animated, dynamic, colourful, the art is great all around without any decrease in quality. There's no repetitive music nor anything of the sort. The problems it has are mostly but not completely outshined by what it does well. Frankly, the shouting is the biggest problem as I absolutely HATE characters shouting or talking loudly. If it wasn't for that and for the recaps I'd probably have rated it a 10.

Noragami has a great start. It's funny, dynamic, colourful. It goes for a good 3-4 episodes like this, and then things start to go south. The big reason is Yukine, the single worst and most annoying character in the show. As if his presence wasn't bad enough, the director decided it was a good idea to focus entirely on him and in his "redemption" for episodes 8-9-10.

Seriously, episode 9 is so cringe it's painful. We have Hyori shouting her lungs out and "saving" Yukine by the eternally stupid power-of-friendship persuasion. In fact, there was so much shouting in this episode I had to mute it ... at some parts because I couldn't stand it. And it really ruined my feelings for the show in a definitive manner. Yato should've just released him and moved on - I'm not watching Noragami to see Yato teaching Yukine how to be a good boy and all that. It's ridiculous.

But, above all, it's sad. Because the first half of the anime is really good, and, had they kept doing what they were doing, it would be a fantastic and entertaining 12-episode anime. But they insisted on making all of it about Yukine's emotional struggle (which was already getting annoying even when it had less focus), ruining the anime in the process.

It's hard to put into words what I have to say about this anime. Because I liked it and, at the same time, didn't like the experience of watching it that much, if that makes any sense.

Id:Invaded has the same tone all the way: serious, tragic, intense. There's no escape valve, no calm episode, no distractions. It's just serial killer after serial killer, murder after murder, mistery after mystery. It may sound weird, but I think this anime would've been better had it not been so good at what it intended to do.

Back when it aired, a common criticism was that the ending was too ... predictable. And indeed it was - Kaeru's identity and purpose was clear in episode 9, and we all had a good hunch as to who John Walker was since the beginning. To that and my previous criticisms I'll add a couple other ones:

First, the police department was way too good at its job. It's like they were omniscient.

Second, the ending, apart from being predictable, was also a bit disappointing. Kaeru's not saved, after all. And, really, why did she walk out of the Mizuhanome anyways, if she was willing to go back on her own accord? If I was the writer, I'd have her killed or something. They tried to paint it as a good ending for some reason, but it really wasn't. I'm not sure what kept them from adding a couple more deaths to such a death-filled anime, but both Kaeru and Narihisago would've been better off relieved of their pain.

Anyways, it's not bad by any means, as I've said. If anything, it's one of the most unique anime out there. The experience of watching it, however, may not make it that good of a choice.

They did it again. They made the story about the emotional struggle of a particular character that's not even a main one.

99% of the movie has interesting developments, beautiful scenery, interesting discussions and amazing battles. And they somehow managed to almost ruin it all with such a horrible ending, for the THIRD time. A hat-trick.

And not only that, but they also did an annoyingly bittersweet conclusion with the death (or not?) of Iona, because... well, who knows, she just disappears, okay?

The two biggest plot holes:

1 - Why did they kill Chihaya Shouzou (MC's father)? The reason is never mentioned. Why did Musashi like him ... so much? It's inferred they arose from the union of Shouzou and someone (something?) else. If so, then who or what? Who's the mother?

2 - In the very last seconds of the movie (post-credits), we can see the pin Iona bought in Vladivostok resting above Shouzou's grave, followed by a scene of Gonzou looking back in surprise, and saying "welcome back". Welcome back who? Iona? If so, well, didn't we just see her fading away into nothingness just 5 minutes ago?

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If you pause the movie at 1:32:11 (just before Iona sends the announcement to all of the Fog), you'd have watched one of the most amazing anime out there. Or around 1:21h and 1:22h, before she merges with Yamato, so you can be spared all the nonsense with Musashi.

Or, even better, you can just forget these two movies exist and stick to the 12-episode Ars Nova. Its ending is already bad enough, there's no need for 3 bad endings in a row.

To start, this isn't exactly a recap movie. There is about 2/3 of recap content and 1/3 of new content at the end. I couldn't notice any meaningful difference on the recap compared to the original, it's basically a streamlined cut of scenes in order for the plot to make the bare minimum sense.

Now, as to why I didn't really like this movie much: it's losing what made it great and starting to become a mindless shonen in which things can be resolved with mid-fight discussions and the magic of friendship.

The anime was already set to go on a bad path judging by episode 12 ... and its power-of-friendship dynamics. And this was reiterated by this movie when Gunzou and Iona tried to sweet talk the new Fog Mental Model in the midst of battle, with energic arguments in favour of happiness, coexistence and the power of love or whatever. But that's not even the worst part of what was once a diversely focused yet still serious and coherent anime: the battleships are now part of a "student council". Oh my god. Why would they do that? I already knew they would introduce this judging by the synopsis, but it still saddened me when I saw it with my own eyes.

I'll not drop it, and will watch the next movie hoping (perhaps vainlessly) they can do something interesting about it, but this was by all means a huge letdown.

This anime is pretty bad. I don't know how I managed to watch the entirety of it back in 2017.

To start, most episodes have way, way too many boring dialogue. More than half the screentime is composed of deathly uninteresting, sleep inducing dialogue. It's maddening.

The combat is... how to explain it... low-effort. It's the same nonsense we see in other low-effort fantasy anime: characters always seem to find an empty spot in the middle of the city to do their fighting. The world is fake, silent, empty. They also stop the fight every 10 seconds to talk for 10 minutes. Attacks keep being stopped on ... the last moment. Remembers me of god-awful Fate.

Characters act like fucking retards. In episode 10, the writing was particularly horrible: MC and Meteora spent the whole episode fighting Aliceteria because she was deceived by Magane into thinking Meteora had killed Mamika. Neither of them stated the obvious for Aliceteria: that Mamika was killed by Altair. Not even Mamika while still able to speak said it to Aliceteria. If Aliceteria had 2 braincells she would've realized what was happening. And at the same time the characters insisted on listening to Magane despite knowing she's a liar. It's enough imbecility to make your head hurt.

All of the fights look like stupid staged events, and all play the exact same: characters magically find each other in the middle of Tokyo, then other characters keep puring in just in time for saving their comrades. And finally Altair appears to end the fight because her time is running out or something. They must think the viewer has dementia.

And, of course, the fact the MC is a weak, feminine looking, useless crybaby. That really sours it even more. It's sad to watch scenes with him.

I think people (including me) rated it highly back in the day due to the bittersweet ending. That's the only explanation I can think of, because, except the soundtrack, Re:Creators is extremely weak.