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extremely great manga
but not a 10/10

the issues and bad executions:
1- the main character clearly saw his mother pushing the boy, i don't mind the gaslighting but a mere 2 panel of the mother denying it, isn't gonna cut it (it's like saying "the hero and the villain fought and the hero won, the end!")
2-after she says "this whining bitch isn't my son" in court, there is no justification for the son to be mistaken that his mother might still love him, nor any justification to want her love anymore, it's over so for the rest of the story i really couldn't relate to him, his ... mother is clearly evil and that's the issue why say "i'm finally free, thank god!" in court when few panels before she was crying and searching in the street to find his beautiful boy?! this is a contradiction in storytelling not a contradiction in her emotional feelings toward him, if in the court she would try to protect him or something similar, maybe it would have made a lot more sense (the real reason it's a 9 and not a ten is because of this)
3-i appreciate the girlfriend wasn't a way to save him and a tool for happy ever after ending but him "choosing his own mom" over her was stupid, it would have been so much better if he would stay away from her so her mother doesn't bother her, also i didn't like the "we kissed and i cum" part, like was that necessary? like i'm sorry if you are writing a masterpiece don't reduce it to hentai, this is either a psychological horror featuring a son and his relationship with her mother or a (yandere, reverse NTR, shota, milf) hentai, take your pick
4-after dropping him when he was a BABY, she goes to check up on him and i still would have bought it if she looked concern like "wtf did i just do" but she says "pffff... whatever let's go home so i think about giving you pork or bean for breakfast"!
5-i hate everyone in this story besides the mother and the boy and the girlfriend for being "pure type", they has zero depth whatsoever, his "friends" are just "yeah we are the bullies haha the bully face haha", BUT TO BE FAIR maybe the author was thinking why wast time on secondary characters? let's just focus on the prize and not waste anybody's time WHICH I GREATLY APPRECIATE but this is still laziness "i pushed you hahaha", this keeps getting repeated again and again and again, like sorry, this is annoying
6-maybe someone thinks this is a mere story and there is no moral message here but unfortunately there is one, should we really close our eyes to the evils she does because "she had a rough time"?? like buddy, news flash, we all have rough time, it's not an excuse to torture your children, so i don't get why he takes care of her when she is old, is this what we are supposed to do with such a mother? in real life you don't heal you scars at the end of the chapter and be peaceful, you just learn to live with them, the psychological damage is done, and nobody ever truly "heals", you just learn to live with it

this is still a 9/10 for me, these are ALL the issues for a 150 Chapter manga, so it did fairly good for such a story, i really loved the character of the mother, it does worth reading it

You’ve probably heard it before:

“A masterpiece that inspired generations of strong female characters. A philosophical giant in anime that challenged gender norms…”

Whenever I see praise that over-the-top, I get suspicious. Usually, good feminist stories get criticized even by feminists for being too real, too messy. But this? This had the glow of untouchable “progressiveness,” which to me is a red flag.

And sure enough, by episode one, I had my doubts confirmed.

Utena shows up in a boys’ uniform (kind of), dunks on the entire male basketball team, and defeats a trained swordsman with a wooden sword — all while winning ownership of ... a mysteriously submissive minority girl who barely talks. The girl literally lives to serve whoever beats her master in combat. Symbolism? Sure. But also pretty damn weird.

If your world is built on the idea that women are oppressed, but then the main character is a woman dominating men left and right, then what oppression are we talking about? How can there be a patriarchy in a setting where the lead girl crushes every man in her path with zero consequences?

Utena wants to be a prince, but… she’s already stronger than every prince around her. The show tries to be deep about this, but it ends up looking more like a contradiction than a subversion.

A better feminist character is someone like Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables, or Judy from Zootopia — characters who face resistance, grow through it, and earn their place. Utena just shows up already elite.

The middle chunk of the series is padded with “duel of the week” episodes — random students challenging Utena to win back the so-called Rose Bride, as if she’s some kind of Pokémon. There’s incest-coded storylines, emotionally unstable characters, and symbolism that often comes at the cost of any believable dialogue or plot logic.

There’s a scene where Utena starts wearing a dress. Her friend asks, “What’s this?” Utena says, “This is normal.” Her friend shouts, “No, baka, this isn’t normal for you!”
And I’m just sitting there like: Was this line written by a Twitter thread?

Later, we find out the prince Utena idolized is kind of trash, and the Rose Bride character flips loyalty the moment Utena loses — which undercuts any emotional bond the show was trying to build. But again, symbolism over substance. It wants to say something, but it forgets to show it in a way that makes sense.

By the final stretch, things go full chaos mode. There’s taboo-breaking content (which I guess was edgy in 1997), awkward relationships, and plot twists that seem more interested in shocking the audience than making a point. Episode 38 tries to wrap it all in some kind of moral about agency and love, but it lands like a brick in a swimming pool.

Final thoughts:
Utena tries to be profound and progressive, but it ends up being clumsy and pretentious. the show wants to be respected for its ideas without actually earning that respect through coherent storytelling. For a series that preaches revolution, it sure feels stuck in its own symbolism.

this is a sad sad day
i wish i would have never have to say this about a Re:Zero series but man what a garbage this was
this series started well, up until episode 8 it was fine, subaru was in suffering and stuff

but after the delay in airing the animation, it somehow became the worst fucking thing you could have think of
the fight with regulus was so fucking bad, he is the strongest enemy and couldn't kill or pose ANY difficulty for subaru?!!! not even once?! the only difficulty for subaru was ski on ice part!!

the way they find out about his lion's heart and weakness ... was so bullshit, subaru realized it from mere "little king" title, that yeah, he stops time and shit even though his wives don't know about this power!!
how the fuck did subaru find out reguluse's wives are tied to his heart?
it could have been so easy to handle this
for example make regulus to not go too far away from his wives, this would give the clue that the wives are more than sex slaves but no, subaru just find that out, out of thin air

the motivational speeches are fucking pathetic and we get around 16 of them in this fucking anime, like dude we are here to see subaru in pain and agony, who the fuck do you think the target audience is?!

again, so fucking disappointing, Re:Zero was famous for keeping you on the edge of your seat but this one simply make me not care

i typed top 10 philosophical anime, this name came up so i thought let's give it a shot
i'm not sure this is the case but it seems like this anime is inspired by Martin Heidegger
there were themes of "thrownness or falling in the world", "anxiety from existing", "care", "guilt",...
it can't be a coincidence, the Haibane is a symbol of Dasein
the anime captures the theme okay but unfortunately the story isn't that great because the dialogues are trash, it the same old unnatural conversations you hear when empty characters talk, "i believe in reki", "reki is reki, isn't it reki?!!"

again, you can get tricked by thinking ... this anime is great because it has philosophical topics but it is a fucking ANIME
the priority is story-telling, it's character development, which we don't really have in this anime

the guilt rakka feels isn't really felt by us about existing and being useless, rakka is a horrible character, an actual NPC, nothing interesting about her, the only character worth mentioning is Reki, but even she didn't do a great job, it was just okay

this anime reminded me of "Shinsekai yori", in that anime characters got "developed" based on survival, you knew them by how they "reacted", but ultimately they were empty and all of them were the same personality, they are what writers call "character type", you don't see a human, you see a "type", like "angry dude" or "yandere",...

this anime suffers the same thing, the characters are just types, they don't have actual human conversation or reaction

it's funny because before this anime i read Tolstoy's opinion on good art and he mentions that using the world or history of a country that your characters are in, is a form of cheating
for example, if i write a book where the MC lives in Ottoman Empire and instead of focusing on my story, i start by describing how Ottoman culture was back then, i'm cheating, i'm using history to keep you entertained, and this will keep you entertained but not because of my story but because of Ottoman history, it's cheating
the same thing happens more or less in this story
there is this weird wall and how you shouldn't touch it, how you shouldn't talk to those plague mask guys (which the anime never explained why)
these are fascinating world buildings but how do they help with character development, or even the plot?
well, they don't
did the walls have to exist for the story to function? these are random facts that are thrown at us

overall i was watching this bored all the way till the end but it wasn't bad enough for me to drop it

i wanted to give it a 5 but because of trying to be philosophical, i give a 6

what the fuck did i just read?! good prank though, you really played with my emotions really well
there are SOOO many things wrong with this trash of a manhwa

Character Review:
1-Joon (Main Character)
he is a pos, he is leading on 3 girls at the same time which is evil, he also keeps playing with the emotion of his wife by constantly going to concert of his ex-girlfriend
ALSO he constantly is saying "HEY, are you cheating on me with your manager" when he literally keeps hugging and holding hands of other women!! fuck this guy

2-Duna
i hate people who smoke, so right of the bat i hate her, ... she is portrayed as being "strong independent woman"!! MY ASS
she literally decided to suck the cock of the company that blackmailed her instead of fighting back, she said the lawsuit would cost her gazillion dollars, BULLSHIT, no company even in north korea (the best korea after reading this shit) can do this to you, she decided to ghost his boyfriend for around a year or two instead of sharing the problem so that the two of them can fix it together.
she is a cheating lying evil bitch
i tried to give her the benefit of the doubt because of the lawsuit but in the last page she literally says she could give up her career and join MC but that is not her place and that "he would be happy but i would be miserable", if you choose your career instead of your relationship, you are cheating EXACTLY in the sense as if some richer partner has come to the picture and you chose them, it is cheating and it has to be called that
"you are the most important thing in the world, never forget that joon", "promise me you never leave me", "i will always be by your side", "i'll never leave you","i love you so much"
ALL of these quotes are lies and she knew she is lying at that moment, this is why the story is garbage, this is not the Duna that we knew, no way she says "my fame is more important than him" when we know she is constantly afraid that people are leaving her behind

3-Ira
easily the best girl, she was just a little dumb, why do you keep remaining around this loser of a mc! she truly deserved better, the author did her dirty, she became "replacement" for duna, even when she is trying to have a connection to mc, we keep getting flashbacks of duna! even the author knows this is a bad relationship, so why did the author did this?

all the other characters are horrendously bad or redundant
the author doesn't understand what love is, at all, she thinks love is those moment of excitement you feel in a relationship, the author (it's a female), is mistaking lust and crush and passion for love, most likely because she is an empty loser herself, "i love you so much that's why i have to let you go and chase my career that i was blackmailed into but gods please don't let him get hurt so much"! LOOOL

if you think i'm butthurt because of the "sad ending", think again, i'm currently reading Aeneid by Virgil and i cried my eyes out for "Dido", the Dignified Queen who got destroyed by Venus and how Aeneas was forced to abandon her against his wish, that is a tragedy because it's well built, there is no loophole, this my friends is trash

i see people coping by saying the ending was "realistic", well yes it is realistic because retarded people end up in this situation

this is how it should have ended, she should have informed her boyfriend (just like in the flashback) and then they should have gotten married and have childern just like anne shirly, because the entire story relies on moving forward in a relationship, first it was crush, then kisses, then becoming bf/gf, the next step was obvious but "muh career" was clearly the way to go!

a copy without an original
Most of the problems of season 1 is apparent here unfortunately I’ll just do a quick rant and then I elaborate on them below
It’s actually disappointing how people are crawling over each other to hype up pure radioactive nuclear garbage called "Jujutsu Kaisen 2nd Season"
how style and fight scene have become what we mainly judge an anime with, who cares about plot holes? who cares if we get asspull after asspull
all that matters is mei mei is fucking her simp brother, all that matters is kakashi doing the "blue technic", all that matters is the fight scene, look at that badass ... technique kakashi just pulled out of his fucking ass, look how our 0 dimensional main character Yuuji is fighting with all his passion for humanity and finally look at how the heroes give a final speech to the villain about friendship

The thing about the blue technique is that it’s not just a power the character has, it’s a get out of the jail free card, oh you are losing the fight? The villain is smart? Don’t worry you have this hidden technique to save you, which makes you wonder why not use this power immediately? This is the plot hole I’m talking about

In a certain episode a certain ‘nobody’ dies and this was supposed to be a sad thing but the death serves as power fuel for Yuuji to fight evil harder at that moment, that’s it, I’m not upset why he/she dies because none of the characters are developed or are interesting, the incompetent mixture of comedy and seriousness made it impossible to emotionally invest in anything in this shitshow
The asspulls in the show are awful, during a fight someone suddenly gets emotional and it’s power-up time, this is really insulting, I don’t have to explain that this is a cheap way to win a fight against villains, this is overused garbage

The thing that makes me angry at the fight scenes is that they are absolutely purposeless, what is it they are progressing in the plot? Nothing! If that villain didn’t show up nothing Would have been missed
it's 10pm and instead of sleeping i'm writing this, i hate you guys so much

i think it's safe to say AOT didn't handle the character of Eren and the Ending well, it was total shit.
and i don't appreciate the dry humor of the-most-reacted-against reviews on this anime because i think many people are too dumb to get that you are actually mocking the anime by exaggerating it's greatness by saying stuff like "Isayama is a philosopher who went beyond reality".
i'm gonna go full conspiracy theory here, ready?
i think after eren started to become a symbol of a great man who will crush his enemies, the current establishment got afraid and somehow forced Isayama to turn eren into a whiny ... little bitch who is an incel, eren was becoming the right wing hero, his race was about to go extinct (just like white people) and he crushed those who opposed him
i really think they either give Isayama a huge amount of money to fuck eren up or they threatened him

in short this anime is as bad as the manga, historia's existence meant nothing, annie falling for armin was cringe and...
i also hated how this anime turned into a time travel bullshit, this is about war so solve it in the battlefield
so yeah i hate it
music and opening was truly awful
animation was bad too
this was a complete mess

i'm actually proud of myself, i used to watch the entire anime even if i saw obvious signs of it being garbage but now i don't waste my time and simply drop it
i love books, i thought i would like this anime even if the mc is 1 dimensional,generic,not having a single fucking personality trait besides reading,mary sue. but i was wrong, in episode 2 i realized it's over, elinna agrees to be married to a prince because she gets access to a special library with rare books and she 'slowly' falls in love with the prince, now that's the plot, first off what a ... whore!, she marries someone not out of love but for personal gain, second off after 4 years the prince is talking to another female character named Irene and elinna realizes oh i love the prince actually! there is no interaction between elinna and the prince, NONE, but what really sealed the deal for me was how in episode 2 Irene out of absolutely nowhere framed elinna for pushing her down the stairs and how prince tried to "solve the mystery" acting smart and all. that was so fucking cringy that i had to take a hot bath
don't watch it, it really is as bad as other reviews are warning you it is

man, this has to be the most boring anime i have ever watched, THE ONLY good thing in this anime is hand-to-hand combat fights
i don't care about ANY of the characters, Motoko is just a smug bitch, Batou is motoko's bitch and Togusa is batou's bitch.

why is motoko dressed like that in a police force environment?? the only reason is fanservice, how fucking stupid are they to not know this anime has a serious tone so wearing a bikini in police station while investigating a national crisis doesn't make any sense

holy shit the plot is boring, the entire time i was like Oh NO here ... comes the Super Hacker that can hack all live media and put his logo of a laughing emoji on face of the people whose brain got hacked

i'm gonna be honest, i didn't understand the plot very well, it was so boring that i couldn't pay any attention to anything, i can't believe i didn't remember a single name from this anime while writing a review, i had to search it for god's sake

i hate the opening song as well, this has to be among the song's i passionately hate, Motoko is 3D and Oiled, so fucking creepy

don't watch this, this is an overhyped garbage

i'm not a big fan of yuri but since this is only ecchi and i was told there is good deal of jealousy involved i thought lets try something new for once so i checked this shit out
if i say the plot is a Contrived mess mixed with asspulls i have not exaggerated
the dialogues are horrible and emptier than the writer's skull

there are random scenes that don't contribute to the story at all for example the drama about the fucking grandpa didn't matter it was just a waste of time

the characters are so god damn empty, what is mei like? silent girl, that's it, introducing ... her father didn't add any layer or depth to her character whatsoever, what is yuzu like? she is gay and that's that, and don't let me start on other characters beside yuzu and mei, her mom, her friends,... they had ZERO depth, not even a single decent dialogue

every girl in this anime is gay or bisexual like wtf

the plot is basically: Yuzu is gay so is Mei, they meet, mei kisses yuzu, yuzu shits herself, yuzu wants to confess but chickens out, Random Person Number 1 enters the scene and kisses mei right in front of yuzu, yuzu shits herself, Random Person Number 2 enters the scene and kisses yuzu right in front of mei, mei pretends to not give a fuck, Random Person Number 3 with her sister enters the scene and wants a threesome while blackmailing mei while licking her ears, both yuzu and mei kick her out, mei and yuzu kiss each other, yuzu shits herself, THE END (roll credits)

it's unbelievable the most liked review for this anime is a recommended type and gives this series 8/10 while admitting all these flaws!!! we really are living in post-Truth era aren't we?

literally everyone watched this anime for the lesbian action, but to my surprise there wasn't anything wild here, only simple kisses

btw the fact that mei totally losing her control while getting her ears touched right in front of her enemy was full retard mode
watch it ,don't watch it , IDGAF