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Saw this in theatres, so I don't know exactly how long it was, but around the first FORTY or so minutes of the movie is a season 2 recap.

It's been about 2 years, so I get that people need a refresher since a lot happened in the Shibuya arc, but wasting half of the movie on an AMV flashback is diabolical.

The actual movie gives us 2 concurrent fight scenes and barely progresses the story.

Also, the end of the movie flashes the rules of the culling game so fast you don't have time to read anything.

The movie was a waste of time and should've been the ... first 2 episodes of season 3 instead.


Upon further research, it turns out that the content we get in this movie is the first couple of episodes of season 3, so the movie actually is a waste of time. Don't bother watching this money grab; just wait for the season to release.

The story setup is fun: a school club of bowling girls gets sent back in time to the Sengoku period in the middle of a battlefield.

Scenarios played out are what you'd expect from a group in a time travel situation: bewilderment, shock, cultural shift, technological differences, and linguistic issues.
Watching the girls navigate a new, or rather old, world is entertaining as they try to cautiously avoid any actions that might affect the future.
Overall, the show is silly, yet it weaves in moments of reality that remind the characters and viewers where they are. Politics and morals contrast, and heads get chopped off, rolling around like ... a bowling ball.

Unfortunately, the show progressively gets worse. While there are dilemmas and mysteries, the solutions and reasons often feel cheap. Akin to "with the power of friendship", "everyone gets a happy ending", and "deus ex machina".
Rediculous situations arise that are resolved with equally ludicrous answers, with the finale being an unrealistic and nonsensical circus.

The entirety of the show is one big roundabout way for the characters to forcibly bond with each other and fix inter-relational and personal problems that hold them back from succeeding in bowling. The anime was enjoyable enough to finish easily, but not good enough to recommend to friends or rewatch.

The jokes suck; it's just not funny. I'm 3 episodes in and chuckled once. Honestly, surprising that this show is 25 episodes long with how mediocre it is. Having just finished Silent Witch, that show made me laugh far more, despite not being a comedy. The main character's personality was what made it so good. Everything here feels so forced and lame. And the problem with humor in anime is that if the jokes don't land, it's cringe and difficult to watch.

I get that the focus is supposed to be comedy, but the magic is terrible. I was hoping for actual sorcery, not a witch ... that has wizardry as a gag. There are no magic circles, no inscriptions, no chants, no magic vfx. Mage/magic anime tends to either have the hardest and rawest aura incantations that feel like that gif of Gunna writing in fire, or the lamest chants that sound like random German words or reversed audio. This show has neither. The witch says a word and just glows pink for a second, and the magic is activated. Most of her spells so far have been somewhat useful but with heavy drawbacks. The magic is there as a secondary thought, and its only real purpose is to use the downsides to create problems for jokes.

The show strangely feels reminiscent of the mediocre anime around the 2010s. Characters that don't have much personality but rather fall into a forced stereotype. Mediocre/slapstick comedy. The main girl is out of the ordinary, like a non-human with human appearances, such as an alien or a yokai, while everyone else is normal. The boy lives a normal life until the girl shows up and moves in. The parents are never around, seemingly don't care, or are on a permanent, extended business trip. Delinquents with the craziest hairstyles and obnoxious speech, constantly trying to pick a fight with the main characters, but are pathetically weak. Everyone has standard natural hair color except the heroine. Absurd things constantly happen at school, but everyone there acts like it's normal.

The characters are extremely flat and lack any depth since it's the same shoujo/jousei phenotype you've seen before.
The guy is handsome, caring, sweet, showers the girl with words of affection, and yet misunderstandings arise between them as his kindness is misinterpreted. Bonus points if the public perception is that he's cold and misogynistic but is actually kind.
The girl is beautiful but doesn't believe it, comes from an impoverished/abusive/unloved household, fails to accept any affection since they were always told they didn't deserve it, always runs into other characters that mistreat her such as maids or other royal ladies until prince charming finds out, and takes ... nearly the entire season to finally accept herself and his love.

Everything is clichéd, and nothing is unique. A bland, boring, and one-dimensional story. The romance is dry as prince charming immediately falls in love with the heroine and wants to marry her after meeting her once for less than a minute. They've barely spent any time together yet the male lead acts like he's met his soulmate again from countless past lives. There's no build up or bonding with the characters, leaving the romance feeling out of place.

This is the romance genre version of isekai trash. Seen em once, seen em all.

It's ok.

Has some nice and cute scenes, but the heroine keeps falling for the same troubles over and over again which gets reptitive.
It's your run of the mill royalty romance where the heroine gets bullied by other jealous girls.
She is voiced by the same VA as Miyu from My Happy Marriage using the same intonation. I'm honestly getting tired of the soft innocent about to cry sound. This isn't to say Ueda Reina is a bad VA, she's worked on several characters I like, but this specific style she does is tiresome.

Not a great anime, but not too horrible, an ok show to pass time.

Anime only watcher, so I have no clue about how good the adaptation is, but what I can say is that the long recaps at the beginning of episodes are diabolical.

I'm fairly certain almost every episode started with a recap, some as long as nearly 6 minutes. And to top it off, the OP/ED is longer than standard.

I still enjoyed the story as much as the previous seasons, but the attempt to waste screen time is very much apparent and off-putting.

Episode 10 starts after 5:25 minutes of recap... The OP starts at 7:55 and ends at 9:55, meaning the intro is 2 mins long... ED ... from 20:29 to 22:29, also 2 mins long... Which means out of 23:40, 9:25 is wasted, and the actual episode is 14:15 minutes long.

60% of the episode was story and 40% was the studio stretching bullshit.

They clearly didn't have sufficient material for this arc, and rather than making the season 10 ep, they opted to milk the series with 13 ep.

Rock Lady summed up in one word: corny.

Heavy CGI usage and over-the-top animations that simply don't mesh well. Cringy verbal abuse to showcase "hardcore rock punk" vibes, crazy eyed "endorphins" adrenaline, and BDSM images to illustrate one band member's skill dominating the other's.

This show tries extremely hard to give off hype/tense performances, but falls flat.

A new girl joins the band but has no experience playing the piano. They are competing in a band battle in 2 weeks. She is horrendous and is rightfully told to quit by the other elitist but extremely talented band member. They come to an agreement that the pianist has 5 ... days to blow the socks off the elitist so she can remain. Yes, 5 days. FIVE DAYS. F I V E. One week of learning the basics and 5 days to improve.

You can't be serious with this garbage. Someone that just picked up an instrument is supposed to be competent enough to play with musicians who have been playing their whole lives within 5 days. You get your corny friendship and hard work prevails slop, and what do you know, she's miraculously allowed to perform.

I'm 10 episodes deep, yet I barely feel any major story progression other than assembling the band members. I'm still going to finish this show, I don't know why, probably because I put so many expectations into the show based on the synopsis and want to see where this dumpster fire ends.

A good story setup ruined by laughably predictable and infuriatingly horrendous writing.

Spare yourself from watching this trash; there's plenty of better music-focused anime that'll get your heart pumping.

Listen up, fellas, this is peak.

Most ecchi shows are mediocre, but occasionally you find a gem.
This anime is extremely straightforward. You know what you're signing up for before even reading the plot. If you don't like gooner degeneracy, then this show is clearly not for you.

We got the bread and butter self-insert setup: Loser, unpopular guy with average looks at best, somehow gets romantically involved with the extremely hot popular girl that everyone in the school wants to be with.
Except this time, the girl is a sadistic exhibitionist and blackmails the MC. This is a straight up femdom anime.

She has the power to undo time ... by stripping off one of her lingerie, and the only way people can remember anything is if they've seen her bare breasts. But at the cost of great power comes a great cost. The lingerie she removes permanently disappears every time she does it. To constantly abuse her powers, she needs to be able to reload her double-barreled weapon at any time, anywhere.
She forces our main lead to become her walking closet, whose sole purpose is to carry around a bag filled with her underwear and be ready at any time to tactically slip on her a new pair. Poor bastard.

Situations are so ridiculous and outlandish that they're funny and feel like they came straight out of an adult movie plotline. Everyone around them is as blind as a bat.

But this show isn't just ecchi degeneracy. It has the romance tag, and it upholds that. Through her sadistic toying, her flustered emotions occasionally slip through when the MC does or says something sweet to her. But obviously, he's completely oblivious to a woman's advances, just like everyone watching this show. You get that good feeling of seeing adorable reactions from one character while the other is unaware, the stuff that makes me enjoy romance shows so much. Other cuties show up, but worry not, this isn't tagged as a harem or love polygon so there's no childhood friend NTR fuckery. Romantic progress is real, unlike other shows that are the real femdom anime cause they blue ball the viewer with bait that never goes anywhere after investing 5-10h of binge watching (or if you're a real masochist, 3-6 months airing).

What's more is that the second ED is sung by the VA for Shirogane from Love is War, and one of the cuties that shows up is voiced by the VA for Nagatoro.

An absolute banger hidden gem, and I really hope a sequel gets adapted.

Disappointing.

It starts fine, but becomes extremely boring by the end.
The show shifted towards a more plot-oriented story rather than a comedy parody.
Felt like I was watching another trash magic isekai's final boss battle.
Overwhelming strength, multi-episode fights, long ability explanations with back-and-forth counters, summoning of excessive or gigantic monsters, sappy flashbacks of friendships giving the good guys the power to push forward. blah blah blah.
The comedy runs dry with the same jokes repeated over and over. It was great in the first season, but became excessive this season. You already know the drill: A new foe appears that is considered top-tier, they duke it out, the ... MC struggles a bit at first but then is completely unaffected by their magic, the MC beats the daylights out of the enemy.

Would've rated it a 6, but the beginning was good, so I give it a 7.

I stumbled upon this anime while scrolling through the currently airing shows. I was surprised to see a show with no ratings, synopsis, or reviews, even though it's been "currently airing" for the past two months. Then I noticed the episodes were 42 seconds long...?

Looking up the title online, I was able to find this plot:
"Pheles Academy is a prestigious boarding school that is glamorous and free, but with strict school rules. However, there was a secret in this school that must not be revealed.

Uno, a fallen angel who transferred from heaven, Chris, half cat and half demon, March, made of green apple flavored gummy ... bears, and Yongjin, a shy boy with octopus tentacles. These three unique characters are enjoying their youth, but eventually they open the door to their own world.

The door opens into a strange, alien space that is neither reality nor a dream. Endless white corridors, distorted classrooms, giggling cats.... What will happen to them in this gradually distorting world? What is the secret hidden in Pheles Academy? And will they be able to graduate safely?"

Barely any other info pops up, and no streaming services have this.

I managed to find their Instagram account, which has the "episodes": https://www.instagram.com/dreamphotobooth.anime/

The animation is low budget, and very little info is given besides weird supernatural occurrences.

Is this supposed to be the actual anime since they're titled episode 1 and 2, or are these teaser previews?

One of their posts refers to the anime as Project Ains, which brings up nothing of relevance on Google, even if you add "anime" to the search. The post links to their Twitter account: https://twitter.com/projectains

While writing this review, I saw they tweeted episode 3 an hour ago. https://twitter.com/projectains/status/1933449267068481637

Their Twitter bio includes a link to their website: https://project-ains.jp/

with the "About" section describing the "anime" as a fusion of illustration and animation. From what I can understand, they are taking a single illustration and turning it into a short animation where they bring to life the world the artist had envisioned while drawing.

This seems more like an art project than an anime. Not sure why it's even on MAL. Rating this 2 as I'm not really a fan of the final product, and this isn't even an anime.