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Jan 11, 2026
The first season of the Chainsaw Man anime had some pretty huge issues and I'm not gonna act like I was expecting the movie to fix those issues but I'm also not gonna act like I was blown away by this (haha get it). Mappa's direction on the series as a whole makes no sense - the manga is drawn in an almost amateur style and the pace is so fast that it ends up having this very chaotic feel to it. By contrast, the anime adaptation looks way too clean and washed out and the pacing is totally fucked. Those things plus the overdramatic
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soundtrack end up totally removing the chaos from a series where the chaos is the main appeal. Take, for example, the part where Reze sings a song on the roof of the school. In the manga, this part takes up about two pages and you'll probably flip through it in less than ten seconds. In the movie they felt the need to include the entire song, so you have to sit there for a minute or so listening to Reze sing. The end result is a totally different vibe between the two versions and given that I like the series because of the manga, I'm inclined to prefer the fast-paced version that isn't trying to be melodramatic or linger on anything for longer than necessary.
The first half of the movie generally suffers more due to this Mappafication or, as some would say, fitting a square peg into a round hole. The second half feels better but still has problems. The anime series relied on CGI way too much and often ended up looking like shit in the most important parts, the action scenes. The CGI crutch isn't used as much here but in its place I did notice a lot of rotoscoping that, again, I just don't think fits the vibe of Chainsaw Man. A series that's playing everything fast and loose shouldn't really care that much about using realistic movements and proportions everywhere.
So overall, I don't think this is a bad movie or anything because the source material is good and the animation looks fine, but it's just kind of disappointing because I feel like an adaptation of the manga could have been so much more if it was more stylized and the pacing was faster.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Oct 5, 2025
Nukitashi’s premise is basically Kill La Kill except with sex instead of clothes. There are a bunch of different characters, there are things that happen, blah blah blah. None of that matters because this is a comedy, so the main question is whether or not the show’s funny. Sometimes it is, but most of the time it isn’t. There are two main issues here. The first is that the extent of the show’s comedy is usually just “Ha ha I said cum” or swapping out some normal thing with something sex-related, so instead of a school athletic competition there’s a school sex-having competition. That’s an
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okay basis, but you need to go farther or else you’ll end up with a lot of wasted potential. There ARE moments where the show actually goes farther, like when the protag gets reverse raped after the sex-having competition and then his wiener gets so big it launches the reverse-rapist in front of a moving bus, and those moments are funny, but they aren’t as plentiful as I would have hoped.
The second issue is that the tone of the anime feels too generic, like if you took out the sex stuff and swapped back in whatever it’s replacing this would just be Generic Seasonal Anime #32 where the protag has a harem of girls with different titty sizes and they go on wacky adventures*. When you have a premise as stupid as Nukitashi’s, you need to play it 100% serious or it just ends up feeling lame. Prison School is a show with a stupid premise where everything that happens is treated as a life-or-death situation, and as a result it is ten times funnier than Nukitashi manages to be. When the show actually does take its retarded situations seriously (like in the reverse rape scene mentioned above), it’s funny. When all the titty girls are standing around and talking about stupid anime bullshit, it’s not funny.
Is Nukitashi actually worth watching? The answer to that is based on how much trash you’re willing to sit through for a few solid moments of gold, mostly around the midpoint of the series. This is one that’s probably best watched with the boys to help power through the boring shit. If you don’t have friends I guess you’re out of luck. Maybe go outside instead of reading anime reviews.
*It’s hard to believe, but there are actually many different anime series that come out every month and people actually watch them even though they’re total dogshit (I don’t watch them but I know this is true through pure intuition)
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Aug 23, 2025
By some perverse act of God, after more than a decade of trying, I’ve finally managed to finish watching Bakemonogatari, so I am now qualified to say with full confidence that it is total dogshit. I fucking hate Tarantino movies and this reminds me of them a lot. Just words, words, words, the characters keep fucking talking and talking but never say anything of substance. Two cardboard cutouts of what I assume are supposed to be people talking and talking and talking. I guess that’s being a little mean to Tarantino, though, because he does occasionally manage to be funny or have something interesting happen,
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but Bakemonogatarai never manages to be either funny or interesting. People often describe it as “clever” or “witty”, which is code for “not actually funny”.
There is no plot, it’s a harem anime with the most boring fucking lead in the universe. I watched 15 episodes of this shit and I still have no clue what kind of person Araragi is supposed to be, it’s impressive that someone who talks so much winds up having no personality whatsoever outside of “Uoh cunny!!! Titties!!! Pussy!!! Hair go boing boing!!!” Seeing people talk about this show online might make you think this is actually a really exemplary piece of art, a shining achievement in the world of anime, but the truth, behind all of the meaningless words and wacky camera angles that you can find in any bargain bin art film, is that this is a coomer anime. It’s a coomer anime masquerading as something else, and that’s the absolute worst sin of all. Fans can write fucking 10 page essays about how artistic it is to have a 20-second panty shot at the start or to have the female lead spend half the second episode in her underwear, but at the end of the day it’s still coomer shit. I don’t care. I know you’ve jacked off to at least one of the characters in this show, maybe multiple characters, maybe even every character. Maybe during your annual rewatch you jack off exclusively to the girl whose arc you’re on so that you can feel more connected to the show.
Did I enjoy seeing the big titties on the catgirl in the last arc? Yes. I want it to be clear that I’m giving my honest opinion here. I did enjoy it. However, that is all this show has to offer, it’s like one of those 3-hour Japanese porn videos where everyone who watches it skips all the exposition scenes so they can get to the good stuff, only when you read the reviews for this one in particular everyone is saying “Bro, you HAVE to watch the whole thing, the dialogue and character development is AMAZING.” So you bite the bullet and watch it start to finish and all you’re left wondering is “Why did I trust the opinions of people who watch porn videos?”
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Aug 21, 2025
Takopi is a dark comedy that basically has the premise of “What if Doraemon visited kids with shitty parents?” It’s an entertaining enough watch and the animation is very good, but thematically there isn’t much there so don't expect to be facing any kind of existential crisis after you watch it. I guess part of the problem is that it’s only 6 episodes long so there isn’t much time to develop the themes or the characters or whatever else, and while you could say that’s the fault of the source material there isn’t any law saying you can’t just add new shit for the anime
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adaptation. If this was longer maybe I’d be able to give a shit about any of the characters and not just view them as punching bags for the story.
And boy, what great punching bags they are! Maybe it’s partially because there’s so little time for build-up, but the things that happen to the characters are often so extreme that it’s hard to take them seriously. Like, the moment the character that’s getting tortured by bullies says she loves her dog, you know what’s gonna happen to that fucking dog, that’s the kind of show this is. In the last episode, one of the characters explains to our Doraemon/Jesus stand-in, Takopi, that people can be both good and bad and that Takopi’s a fucking retard for not realizing that. Okay, thanks for telling me that, but I didn’t really appreciate the insult. Except, every single parent that appears in the show is an irredeemable asshole to a comical degree. Shizuka’s parents both abandon her, Marina’s mom needs kombucha or she gets a little kooky, her dad’s in love with a ho and is never home, and Azuma’s mom won’t let him eat pancakes if he gets a 95 on his test. The primary theme the show seems to be pushing is that you shouldn’t be a shitty parent or your kids will have shitty lives, which is fine but the show doesn’t really develop it past that. It gets too caught up in the surface-level events that are happening and beating the shit out of its punching bags.
The ending is also pretty bad, it’s very Madokaesque in terms of just saying “Fuck it” and ignoring the show’s themes to give something cheap and easy instead. I don’t think it’s as much of a betrayal as Madoka’s ending, but it certainly doesn’t give the show any points.
Overall, Takopi is decent enough as a popcorn show but after I press submit on this review I’m probably never going to think about it again, at least until a 3-hour analysis video shows up in my YouTube recommendations (“Takopi’s Original Sin: A Bleak Masterpiece”) and I get pissed off.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Mar 11, 2025
Narutaru is messy, but also very good. The way it was sold to me (and I'm sure many others) was as a deconstruction of the Pokemonesque monster tamer genre. These days that's literally just Pokemon but, you know, back in the late 90s everyone was trying to get a piece of the Pokepie. While Narutaru does have elements of genre deconstruction to it, that really isn't the drawing point of the series, so you shouldn't go into it expecting it to be "Pokemon, but people ACTUALLY DIE!"
What you should expect instead is a sense of total, overwhelming nihilism, like what you'd get in Bokurano
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or even something like Punpun. Horrible things happen one after another but it never feels like it's all just for shock value, there's a very clear sense of direction behind everything. When things are vague or confusing it feels the same way, that rather than being a mistake of the author it's being done on purpose with the expectation that the reader is intelligent enough to connect the dots. Like Bokurano, Narutaru has very strong themes that only really become clear once you've finished the whole thing and thought about it a bit, which honestly to me is a sign that the author knew what he was doing and had a specific goal in mind.
The execution in some parts isn't as good as it could be, especially towards the end when things start to feel a bit rushed, but like I said above, because I know the author is competent and not just throwing shit in for no reason it makes it easier to see what he was trying to go for. In a way, even through the messiness, I think I liked this more than Bokurano (which was also very good). You can almost feel the overwhelming hatred of the author towards Japanese society in parts, and while Bokurano also carries that hatred, it feels a bit less raw there. Maybe Kitoh mellowed out a little or maybe he wanted to make the story tighter, who knows.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Feb 4, 2024
This is pretty bland and normally I wouldn't have much to say about something so bland, but since it's Made in Abyss there's also a healthy dose of emotional manipulation and loli shit, both of which I find extremely annoying.
Prushka fits the mold of "character you're supposed to feel sorry for" to a T: she looks like a little girl and is completely innocent, then when something horrible inevitably happens to her we get flashbacks of scenes showing how totally innocent she is to make sure we, the audience, know that what's happening to her is really bad and she doesn't deserve it. The
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problem is that as long as you have the emotional maturity of at least a twelve year old, what they're attempting here is pretty transparent and so it doesn't work. The second you see Prushka you know something bad will happen to her, especially considering that they literally did the exact same thing in the previous episode of the anime with Mitty. For all intents and purposes these types of characters are just puppies, and the anime thinks that by torturing these puppies it'll get a reaction out of the audience. In reality this is just the laziest way possible to try to invoke some sort of emotion and when Prushka is finally revealed to have been turned into a flask full of grape drank it just comes off as silly.
Then there's the loli shit, which is an issue that constantly pops up throughout the series. Just when you think they're cooling off on the loli shit, one of the characters gets naked or starts talking about Reg's penis. Is it supposed to be fanservice? For who? This is a rare series where the child characters actually look like children, so when the "fanservice" comes out it just makes me want to groan (out of disgust, not horniness), and it also makes me not want to recommend the series to anyone else. Does Reg really need to get a boner anytime he touches Nanachi? Is it really that integral to the plot? Look, I think boners are just as funny as the next guy, but when the character with the boner looks and acts like a child that's where I've gotta draw the line, that's where it gets weird. I don't want loli poop, I don't want loli piss, I don't want shota cock, I just want to watch a series about people getting tortured and turned into blobs.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jul 24, 2023
The premise of this show is that it's Madoka except trying to be even more edgy without understanding why Madoka is a decent show in the first place (when you ignore the godawful final episode). The first episode is essentially just a series of unfortunate events happening to our protagonist (the most pathetic person alive) and it's hard to take it seriously because it's so over the top. That's basically how the rest of the show goes, things happen but you can't take them seriously because they're too ridiculous or they just don't make sense.
Madoka had the whole thing with the soul gems and
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the wishes and the aliens that made it feel like more than five minutes of thought were put into the premise. In Magical Girl Site, the jannies of some deep web site give magical powers to depressed girls, and they're supposed to use those powers to hurt people, and somehow that makes the jannies more powerful? It comes off as a lot more vague and generic. Maybe the manga does a better job of establishing how the whole system works, but most of the time it's hard not to think about how similar this stuff is to Madoka and how much of a better job Madoka did with the "edgy magical girl" shit. The way the magical powers work is kind of weird, too. They're physical objects and it seems like anybody can use the objects. For example, our protagonist has a gun that teleports things. If she handed the gun to someone else, that other person should be able to teleport things, too. Of course, since this is just like Madoka, using the magical powers shortens your lifespan, so you shouldn't use them too often. Okay, cool.
The problem I have with this is that there's a character introduced in the first episode who has time stop powers, which is clearly the most overpowered power you can get. Introducing something like that so early kind of fucks you over, because now you have to figure out a way to not make "just stop time lol" be the best way out of every bad situation. Supposedly the character with the power doesn't have enough magical energy left to use it without dying, except that isn't actually a copout because she should be able to just hand the device that gives you time stop powers to somebody else. But she never does that. I feel like I have to have missed something, some reason why she never just hands the thing over to the protagonist. It's totally baffling. There are plenty of other things that happen in the show that are like this, where you aren't sure if you missed a detail or if it's just bad writing, but this was the one that kept sticking out to me because, again, they introduce it so early and then barely use it even though it would have helped out in so many situations.
With that said, I think it's safe to say that I highly recommend this. I hate to invoke memes but it's a "we have Madoka at home" situation where it seems like they wanted to make something like Madoka but didn't understand what made Madoka actually good (when you ignore the godawful final episode), so what you get is a Madoka clone with all the edgy shit turned up to eleven. By the way, there's a beach episode.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jul 14, 2023
I finished watching the first season of this a couple of months ago but now that I'm writing this I can't for the life of me recall anything that actually happened in the first season. That's okay, this is the second season, the first season is in the past. Except, surprise, I barely remember anything that happened in this season either and I just finished watching it. I suppose this is why I don't watch slice of life shit, because nothing ever happens in them, but I figured this one could be worth a shot. Well, I can say with confidence that after 40+ episodes
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of this show I still have no interest in slice of life shit. Sorry!
To be fair, I do remember one thing from the first season, and that was the little arc with Kiriyama and his Asuka clone sister. That was actually a pretty interesting relationship and I was genuinely interested in seeing how it got resolved. Unfortunately Asuka-lite is completely absent from this season. I don't think she actually shows up a single time in all 22 episodes. It's a little strange, really, not even getting relegated to background character status but just totally disappearing from existence.
This season does have one arc that's somewhat interesting, which is the bullying arc. I feel like every fucking anime I've seen that involves high school has a bullying arc, but whatever. I was at least interested in what was going on because it felt like some sort of progress was being made. At every other point in the show, it just feels like things happen but none of it has any relation to anything else. Durr hurr hurr that's life for ya, yeah I get it, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Maybe some people enjoy watching the older sister cook something and then have everyone eat it and then they all go "Oishii!" for a minute. Maybe some people enjoy watching that exact same scene play out every other episode. I'm not one of those people, and if I ever become one of those people you have my permission to track me down and put me out of my misery (Yes, I'm talking to you specifically).
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jul 11, 2023
Feels like a parody of the first one. The story is the same general "We have to catch this villain with mysterious motives" plotline that shows up in half of Oshii's movies, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Issue is, GitS and Patlabor 2 were a lot more interesting and I just watched both of those, and by comparison this just doesn't have the extra spice to make it stand out. Batou's the main character this time but he isn't nearly as interesting as the Major, and a solid 50% of the script is dedicated to quoting philosophy. You could ask Batou what he had
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for breakfast today and he'd probably give you a Bible verse followed by a Confucius quote, then that wailing music would suddenly start playing for 30 seconds or so. The first movie actually brought up some interesting ideas about what it means to be human and all that shit, but in this one everything's muddled by the seemingly random quotes getting thrown out constantly.
The animation is also a general downgrade, usually the CG stuff looks fine but there are some cases with like parade floats and birds where it looks really ugly. I'm sure most people would agree that a lot of the appeal of the original GitS is that it's cool. In this case, there is some stuff that's cool but it usually just feels like it's either a retread of cool stuff in the original or it's just medium-level cool. Medium-level cool can't hold a candle to high-level cool stuff like the optic camo fight at the start of GitS or that one scene where the guy's hands split apart and type really fast.
Well, I wouldn't call this a bad movie, the problem is just that the original basically does everything better and this one often feels like it's trying to channel the original but not doing a very good job of it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jul 9, 2023
After watching Redo of Healer with my friends we thought it would be funny to just start watching hentai, so someone (not me) suggested this one. I know it isn't technically hentai, but you kind of know what you're getting into when you read the synopsis. The main issue with this show is that it fucking sucks. Each episode is basically the same, the characters find some new species of woman to fuck and then fuck it and then give a review. Very cool! This continues for twelve episodes.
The sex stuff is sometimes played up for laughs, but not usually, actually I'm pretty sure
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you're supposed to be jacking off or at least have a semi-chub during most of the runtime. Something like Redo of Healer or Prison School is so insane in how it depicts sexual situations that the thought of jacking off doesn't even cross your mind. That is why those two shows are good and Interspecies Reviewers is not. For a show about fucking skeletons and fairies, it doesn't have the balls to go to the extremes that turn anime sex stuff from lame to funny. Nope, instead we get "Today we went to the slime girl brothel. The slime feels nice and cool around your wiener. When she stuck her slime up my butt I was surprised. Eight points!"
So no, you shouldn't be watching this expecting it to actually be funny like the other shows I mentioned. It turns out there's a large subsection of anime out there that exist to be jacked off to, and this is one of them, but it's just self-aware enough that making a "boioioing" sound or panting dog noises any time there are big titties on screen isn't actually that funny. I suppose that's the ultimate state of limbo, not good enough to actually be funny and not bad enough where it's funny to make fun of. Instead, you just have to sit there and watch the titties jiggle and know that if you say anything you'll only come off as horny.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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