Back to jujuestar's Profile jujuestar's Profile

This anime is so terrible that I can't even be bothered to comment on its flaws, because they far outweigh its qualities. It's hard to even find anything good here, since the characters are bad and the script is awful. Only the animation makes it aesthetically pleasing.

The characters are shallow, with no depth. The protagonist is horrible; his personality changes all the time, he commits heinous crimes, and no one punishes him for it. There's no sense of consequence here, because anything that goes wrong in the anime can be fixed by going back in time. It becomes repetitive. When something wrong is fixed, it ... loses 100% of its weight in the plot. For example, the girl's death was recovered from too quickly and easily. Furthermore, all the protagonist's grief and suffering didn't change his personality, except that he becomes a psychopath in one episode, and for the rest of the anime, he never thinks about it again and goes back to being a mediocre high school student.

Nothing here has any connection or depth. They tried to explain the origin of the powers by saying it's something cosmic, just for the sake of it—it was just a shallow Wikipedia-style explanation. It didn't change anything in the plot. Then, they made a soup with several bad and cliché ingredients: character powers, time travel. Except they didn't give it to a proper chef, and it ended up becoming a terrible-quality instant noodle soup.

The last episode is bizarrely bad. There are millions of people in the world, but the mediocre protagonist swears he'll manage to take away everyone's powers. What about the following generations? Besides, the fact that he has everyone's powers makes him invincible—it's very dull. He has no weaknesses, he can't be defeated; it's like Saitama from One Punch Man, but in a serious anime that wants to be dramatic and mature. It's as if the protagonist were a child playing Minecraft in Creative Mode. Terrible.

I'm going to tell you why I've watched this anime three times and I never get tired of it! Well, it was only after watching it so many times that I went to play the game, and now I highly recommend it even if you know everything, because the experience is much richer and more immersive. And don't think you know it all, because the anime rushes through the crimes, and in the game you analyze everything in detail.

First, the unique aesthetic: with so many generic anime where all the characters look identical, Danganronpa breaks the mold by making good use of "overdesign"—where you can ... recognize a character just by their silhouette, their characteristics are so "exaggerated." The girls in this anime were a major focus of my attention because they are so stylish; they really make good use of fashion.

Soundtrack: I AM OBSESSED. Every track and sound effect fits each moment perfectly. It's a delight to watch something where the sound aligns so perfectly with the emotion. Well, Danganronpa has a pattern: investigation moment (a characteristic sound), class trial moment (another sound that fits incredibly well). The sound effects wake you up and make you focus more.

Incredible adaptation: Few works adapt the original so well. I'm playing the game now and realizing how verisimilar the anime is; they are very connected, very faithful indeed. The only thing the anime wasn't able to adapt was the "Free-Time Events," which is where you spend time with the characters to develop them. And this is one of the common complaints, that the characters seem empty. Well, they are indeed underdeveloped in the anime, but you can't deny that they have an extremely unique personality and appearance. Here, it's impossible to confuse one character for another, in either their actions or their looks. Danganronpa takes archetypes and turns them into incredibly standout characters through their main talent (Ultimate).

Some say it's rushed, but if it were a slower anime, it would be very tedious because it lacks the gameplay factor of the game, so I think the pacing was adequate. A 12-episode anime cuts out a lot, but it doesn't stop you from going and discovering more on your own afterwards. Furthermore, the fast pace doesn't give the story time to become boring. Here, the rush was an artistic choice that fit very well, and not a script flaw.

The execution animations chose an unconventional path, and I really like the choice of pink 'blood'. I don't think we need direct violence to highlight suffering and murder. I found it much more poetic to choose surreal paths and different types of executions, and the 'pink blood' was not censorship but rather an artistic choice. Here, death is a celebration, a show on a stage, which is why it's so bizarre and 'censored' by the color pink. It's not meant to be grotesque, but rather, cult-like.

Another point I love is that the characters are developed during the trial. It reveals their past, the reason for their execution, and often the reason they were executed as well—their weaknesses, and where they develop skills that sometimes connect to their Ultimate talent. It's very sensitive; no one there is reduced to just being a victim or a murderer. They are simply people with weaknesses that were exploited.

A story with no plot holes and very well-articulated: the ending is fitting. The story has a simple premise, but its development is non-standard and free of script clichés. It's impossible to predict, and it has great moments of tension. A very eccentric and fun anime.

Unfortunately, I decided to rewatch this anime, which was very well-established in my mind since I watched it as a teenager and it left a strong impression on me. I wish I hadn't rewatched it because it's full of plot holes that bother me to the point of ruining the entertainment value, especially the ending.

The beginning is incredible, which is why I believe it's a huge waste of potential. The story is very simple; it tries to become complex over time, and I believe that might be its biggest mistake. The characters are shallow and AWFUL; they have no emotions or personality.

The anime's direction is ... a strong point, but they repeat the same things too often, like the doll jump scares at the beginning (which I like, but they become repetitive and lose their effect, not to mention they are forgotten from the middle to the end). The protagonist and Misaki are so poorly written that they don't care about their classmates' deaths, which doesn't match the environment. They are teenagers exposed to multiple murders and react in a cold, calculated way, getting used to and accepting the curse.

There is also no real investigation; well, there is, but it always leads nowhere. The final revelation comes out of nowhere, without the weight of discovery through the characters' invested time. Mei's eye power is just the author's laziness to explain how they would figure it out on their own. Furthermore, the violence is gratuitous and pointless, to the point of being ridiculous. While the first deaths were impactful, it became such a repetitive resource that I even got used to it and felt no surprise.

The ending, for me, was the great decline of the anime. That senseless massacre, where the classmates turn against each other for no reason. Suddenly, teenagers become professional killers. And even the adults, the mansion owners, who had nothing to do with the curse, become serial killers. That for me is what lowered the score so much. They were attacking each other like irrational animals, not like people who cared about their own lives, since they killed each other out of pure ignorance.

Another thing that bothered me was that the main characters are immune to the curse. I never felt any sense of danger that they might die, and 90% of the deaths are minor characters for whom I felt no empathy because I never had time to get attached to them.

If I could summarize: an extremely sensationalist anime, with no character development, a script loaded with plot holes, carried only by minimally good direction.

Everyone who criticizes this anime first attacks its worst aspect, which is the pedophilia, but I'll leave that for the end and tell you why, even without this horrible and unjustifiable crime, the work is empty and generic.

Horrible, underdeveloped characters:

The protagonist is annoying, foolish, and doesn't act like a child—except when it's convenient for the author. She is extremely infantile all the time, to the point of being irritating, because she isn't an adventurous and curious child, she's just annoying and badly raised. But then suddenly, in the nude scenes, she acts with the naturalness of an adult, and a very strange adult at that. ... Reg had all the potential because his ability is cool, but he is the simplest character in the story. He has the charisma of an NPC; he feels like an extra. He has no motivation, no origin. I mean, I spent the entire anime waiting for an explanation for his existence and got nothing. They don't mature as the episodes go by, and their relationship builds way too quickly.

That woman who appears in the middle of the anime and is a friend of the protagonist's mother was a waste of potential. When I saw her, I thought she would be amazing, given her incredible design, and that she would be crazy, since she lives alone deep in the Abyss. But no, even she has the personality and development of a child. The way she behaves is so strange and nonsensical. Her way of speaking irritates me deeply. The voice acting annoyed me for some reason and her goals weren't clear to me.

The "Best" Character: The best character, or rather, the least bad, was the bunny girl. Horrendous design—I know there's an explanation, but it's very ugly because I hate furry. The personality is flawed, but at least in the final minutes, she had a very well-developed backstory, which was the only moment in the anime I managed to enjoy and actually like the story. But it took too long. By that point, I was already distressed. Besides the child exploitation.

Worst character relationships:

I didn't feel a natural, organic, and progressive connection. Within the first few minutes, they act with an intimacy as if they've known each other their whole lives; it felt very rushed. And nothing changes—not their personalities nor their relationship—over the 13 episodes.

Lack of Justification and Development:

It's not clear why children are used in this story. Why send children to die in the Abyss? There is no development in the story. The anime ends the same way it started. The development is episodic, like a children's cartoon, with no relation to other episodes. The entire anime feels like a video game sidequest unrelated to the main lore. Each episode has a mini-boss to defeat, and these creatures were very poorly explored; they have no history beyond their existence.

Pacing and Forced Elements:

The pacing is very slow. The gore is very forced; it uses violence as a cheap trick because it's incompetent at creating a rich, dynamic world with amazing characters. Throwing in child gore in the last few episodes is useless; I felt no emotion because I didn't even have time to connect with the characters, and I confess I even felt relieved to see the protagonist almost die, she was so unbearable.

My Reasons Why Hunter x Hunter is One of the Best Shounen of All Time

1. Great Characters
The characters are so memorable. The visuals for them are insane, and their personalities are distinct and well-developed. They have layers.

2. The Relationships Between the Characters
The characters are so involved with each other. The relationship between Gon and Killua is the best bond between a protagonist and a sidekick/supporting character ("coadjuvant"). I was tired of seeing all the main relationships in anime being about hetero romances, or just men fighting and competing all the time. For the first time, I saw a genuine, pure, and sweet friendship that felt ... like love. Killua clearly has a more feminine vibe. He is more aggressive, cautious, jealous, and reactive. Gon is the classic, somewhat naive one. The other characters have great and sensitive feelings, too. For example, Leorio was absent for most of the Chimera Ant arc, but when he returned, he clearly showed how bad he felt for Gon, and it moved me so much.

3. Great Character Development
Just look at how much Meruem changed, and how much Gon and Killua grew up.

4. Moments of Great Tension
Every arc has a part that made me think "absolute cinema!"

The Only Problem:
I don't like the narrator talking all the time, and some parts have too much information. There is also a lot of rpadding. But that's classic for almost all shounen.

The story is difficult to follow, with temporal jumps and tone changes that leave the reader lost. Also Punpun and secondary characters lack depth and development, making it hard to connect with them. The conclusion is abrupt and unsatisfying, and make me hate more the characters. Punpun is a hard-to-connect-with character due to his vague personality and lack of charisma, because his lack of emotional response to intense situations is frustrating. Punpun shows no significant growth or change and his self-pity can be exhausting. Besides, Aiko is an underdeveloped character with poorly explored motivations and feelings, she's portrayed as an idealized girl stereotype without ... complexity. Her relationship with Punpun is unhealthy and poorly explored and Aiko seems to have no control over her choices and actions. Additionally, their connection is superficial and not deeply explored, because they rarely communicate effectively.

The art is beautiful, nothing too much but it is charismatic. But when it comes to fights, I can't understand anything. The script is so confusing and boring that even watching the anime and reading the manga I still don't understand anything. Why is this? There is no such thing as coming up with theory and having to watch video, a work must be direct and objective. The characters are very one-sided. Rei is an empty shell with no feelings, Asuka is boring and spoiled, her father is absent. The only source of the 5 points I gave to this manga was Shinji. I think ... he's one of the best characters in anime because he's the only teenager to act like one. it has more defects than qualities. He is very human. and his journey was only to mature the personality, and not the power, as in a shounen. In addition to him being cuddly and shippable with Kaworu, his only possible partner in the midst of uninteresting and hysterical women. You see, one is much older, the other is a brat, and the other is her mother. I think this anime made a very grandiose proposal and couldn't deliver, the proof of this is that it needs internet freaks doing theory and movies to put something that the manga couldn't. It must be the most underrated work I've ever read. but I can understand success, like, depression, adolescence, hot girls and family problems, it's very easy to identify with Shinji. Like, if you have depression, consume it and you'll feel like a failure.