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Jul 5, 2026
Neon Genesis Evangelion is unenjoyable due to being extremely depressing.
Meanwhile, Mars of Destruction is so bad in all aspects that it may come as hilarious for regular viewers.
It is a very generic plot about female teenagers being made to fight with aliens, and the only male one is forced to wear a mecha suit by his father. Besides that, there are some plot twists for a story that wasn't shown in the 20 minutes of duration it lasts.
The animation itself is terrible for its time, being released in 2005 but looking like something made a decade before, at least. Most of the characters have
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the same faces, and the teenage girls are only distinguishable by the random hair color.
It is especially notable the lack of movement of the characters and scenes that affects the events of the story itself, making the characters incapable of evading attacks or using their hands.
Personally, watching Mars of Destruction was much more enjoyable than most average anime: the absurd aspects and bad quality are made clear since the very beginning, and it only last 20 minutes. Comparatively, it is common for animes to have very interesting first episodes but throw those interesting aspects out of the window for the rest of episodes or seasons.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Jun 28, 2026
Second season makes clear that Jigokuraku has always been just another generic shounen.
- Main characters are sidelined to make room for twenty backstories for every secondary.
- Every character has only backstory and is one-dimensional.
- Full chapter flashbacks for characters about to die.
- The show constantly tells you that they are about to die, they are dying right now, but the end of the battle solves blood loss, being a punchcard, having your throat slit, and other similar trifles.
- Battle commentarists are useless. Do something else if the situation is so life-threatening.
- Everything is shown, explained, or hinted as being one thing, only for it to
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be something else or just unimportant.
- Whole chapters' worth of details about the mystical power is useless when characters can just become stronger with emotions.
- They had the great idea of skipping the plannification to keep the viewer tense, but then explain it as they do it via flashbacks interrupting the action scenes. If the plans were no secret for the characters, why treat it as secret in the first place. There is no tension when deaths are arbitrary anyway.
- Random explanations that try to sound intelligent but are just stupid: you're telling me that a master of mystical power who has lived 1000 years practicing and controlling his power suddenly forgets to control and check his own power because "flashing lights make people lose their sense of time"... And it was obviously explained in a flashback why this works: it is because the mystical power-up transformation just happens to be a videogame ability with constant mana-consumption and a fixed duration, and it just so happens that the transformation into a monster keeps the same human perception/nervous system somehow... Quite convenient.
But the thing is that the transformation has a completely closed helmet, and all users of the mystical power can 'see' without eyes anyway.
- The number of copypasted lines from other generic shows is uncountable, the number of repeated scenes and sentences is mindnumbing, and the quantity of flashbacks surely made me lose my sense of time. They have to have saved quite a bit of money this way.
- There was clearly enough time in this second season to complete the story with a final showdown, but they just added even more tertiary characters to milk the cow dry.
This seems to be another 10 years of terribly used scenification and theatrics in anime due to the rules of 'cool looking' and 'easily sellable to teenagers'.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Apr 15, 2026
It is a science-fiction action movie that takes itself seriously, getting by without the widespread abuse of 'comedic' cliques and self-aware characters. It is, in fact, an action movie, so don't expect the annoying shounen flamboyance.
The plot is straightforward, a conflict between self-preservation against self-sacrifice. The protagonist, the sister, the administrators, and the liberators have a tendency to protect themselves first, while the antagonist, the brother, the yakuza, and the vampires (mention Jami) give up their safety for what they consider more important. Of course, it is not an absolute pattern: for example, the protagonist decides to protect the sister at some point despite being
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portrayed as someone who is always escaping, while, for the antagonist, his own feelings are an additional driver besides his race's prosperity.
The characters always stay in-character, and their personal stories and purposes are crystal clear. Simple characters are infinitely better than those with inconsistent or meta behavior.
The animation is quite good overall, even though it could improve with a couple more fps. Particularly, the details in the dynamics of every movement felt spectacular; it can be seen how the arm struggles to exert force (e.g., when blocking a punch from a weak position or shifting a heavy weapon to aim while wounded), the way the protagonist balances with the prosthetic leg, the facial expressions, and the movement of hair (although it is mostly mop-hair, but each mop-strand moves adequately). Also, the action scenes are not overly slowed down.
Finally, there is no forced superliminal or moralistic message, which is always refreshing.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Apr 13, 2026
·Art: good.
·Setting: the whole town and the people inside have become a timeless mirage after an explosion at the steel factory. This world is constantly breaking apart, while the smoke from the factory tries to mend its fissures. Beyond that, the people there continue to live almost normally.
·Story: somehow, a girl from reality enters the mirage. The workers at the steel factory keep her hidden for some reasons (not panicking the townsfolk for one, creating a cult for another, the usual stuff), but make a teenager girl (FemaleMC) take care of her.
FMC eventually gets a teenager boy (MaleMC) involved, who of course tries to
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save the girl and return her back to reality through the fissures. Unfortunately, it doesn't work, and the story devolves into a very mild teenager romance until the end of the story, where they can return her to reality through the train tunnel (because she arrived in a train).
Meanwhile the MMC's uncle gets to save the collapsing mirage, by literally working at the steel factory to generate more smoke (analogy of keeping the dream alive, I suppose).
·Characters: MMC, FMC and the other teenagers behave as such; but the adults, besides MMC's uncle and the cultist, are like rocks in the background. MMC doesn't have any notable traits besides medium-length hair and falling in love with FMC.
On the other hand, FMC is quite contradictory in her characterization: she is shown to be a caring person under her coldness, yet she didn't even teach the girl from reality how to talk (FMC was always a teenager while the girl arrived as a child).
Worse is that, at the end, it is tried to be explained like this: initially, FMC didn't want to get close to the girl while taking care of her, because FMC knew she would end up loving/caring for the girl; but it happened anyway, so FMC is somehow a good person.
Even worse, MMC loves FMC even after having the knowledge that FMC had helped in isolating a child and treating her like a caged animal for years.
The worst of all is that everything is swept under the contrived romance, just like the death of classmates in front of them.
Overall, the main message is: one's own existence is proven by one's own thoughts and sensations, and it is separate from the definitions of reality and imagination.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Mar 15, 2026
Before watching, please read the background section in the main page of the anime.
Resume: a bunch of emotionally unstable teenagers are forced to use alien-mechas (Evas) to fight aliens (Angels) to death by a bunch of emotionally unstable doomsday-government-cultists and it goes as well as one would expect.
These are my notes from when I watched the first 9 episodes:
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-The MC is portrayed as shy, silent and reclusive due to his father's coldness. His rationalization is a behavior in response to neglect, based on detachment, observation and logic. It is not immediately destructive to the self nor to others, but it gradually erases emotional motivation. However,
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interacting with other people outside the usual environment can make emotions emerge, especially when one is young and rationalization is not fully embedded.
-The relationship between Shinji and his male classmates is realistic: the guys saying sexual and stupid things laughing, while the MC cares more about his observations and emotions. Asuka behaves like the usual arrogant teenager with a crush on someone older. Meanwhile Rei behaves as if she was groomed by Gendo.
-For now, the relationship between Misato and the ex-boyfriend is one of sexual harassment and emotional manipulation, where the guy explicitly says that he doesn't care about what her words.
-One thing that is very annoying is how everyone berates Shinji for being cautious, afraid of danger and pain, and rationalizing everything, when he is forced to fight to death unwillingly, through emotional blackmail, and appealing to his manliness even though he is a 14 yo teenager with emotional problems that everyone dismisses.
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The first impression is that the goal is trying to solve the characters' emotional and moral problems by building comradeship and trust through life or death battles, while the cultist conspirators meddle secretly for their own gain.
However, by the 20th episode, the cycle of - Angel arrives - fighting to death - emotional and physical trauma - coercion to fight again - has been used and reused, while the characters have only been turning for worse.
By the 24th episode the story context has been lost somewhere in the way, either because of lack of time or budget.
The last two episodes are clearly the work of a penniless team and a mentally depressed author. Repeating the same sentences and images over and over to convey insanity or the search of insight has a limit where it turns tedious.
The Freudian inspiration doesn't help convey any meaning, it's an excuse to the seeming necessity of sexual imagery and themes in anime, especially gratuitous nude female teenagers and disgustingly muddling the meaning of motherhood. I don't mind nudity, gore or death of any age, but it has to serve a purpose in the storytelling.
Overall, in comparison to other so called "masterpieces" like FMAB, Code Geass R2, Monster, or whatever, Neon Genesis Evangelion doesn't even pretend to have a fictional story with fictional characters, it screams depression outlet in form of anime.
Edit: after reading other reviews and the BACKGROUND SECTION in the main page, it seems like the author was truly depressed and intended NGE to show how bad it would be to be put in such situation. If that is really so, then it is a skillful work. Even so, because it is downright depressing, I can't recommend watching it, especially if that context is not put at the forefront for new viewers.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Feb 19, 2026
Another generic anime. 'Cool' and 'uncaring' overpowered MC that was betrayed, 'Heroes', demon kings, magic, child soldi-I mean, goddesses, religion bad, and only one woman in 6 episodes.
World: ehh.
-A medieval military and religious organization fight against a demonic plague.
-Literal photosynthesis magic, storing mana in the body while under the sun. Otherwise magic logic is arbitrary.
-Worst criminals are used as slave labor and resurrected indefinitely. Resurrection causes memory loss.
-Goddesses are magic weapons with human form.
Story: NA.
-There is no story, because the MC is doing nothing and doesn't think.
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-The supposed magic limit and the memory loss after resurrection have only been used as bait for fake stakes.
-The only thing remotely interesting is the military woman unveiling the conspiracy, but it hasn't started yet. Edit: this is, in fact, the main plot, because it is the only plot.
Characters: not human.
-The MC is as cliché as animely possible. He was conspired against and sentenced to be a 'hero', which in this case means eternal slavery. His skills are: throwing swords and daggers imbued with unlimited explosive magic, jumping super hard with unlimited jumping magic, and saving people while denying that he wants to save them. Considering that he was part of the military and is nobility of some region, he hasn't shown any signs of planning revenge, social intelligence or political understanding in what's been more than 2 hours, just swords go boom look cool. Edit: he also gets his own unique super secret OHKO sword.
-The goddess is another case of objectification of children in anime, although thankfully much less sexualization. They literally aren't human, just a compilation of behaviors and aesthetics that's considered cute in anime.
-All of the condemned 'heroes' are male and quirky.
-The only woman that has appeared for now is a soldier that dislikes the MC until he saves people, battles in heels, and is inexperienced being near men. Edit: the only one whose gets any kind of story plot.
Art: 7.
-Pretty good, though choppy animations.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Feb 8, 2026
This anime tries to embody a random hypothesis: "What if the ambient electromagnetic radiation on Earth could affect our brains and we could manipulate this phenomenon?"
As any idea, it could make for a good story if the author created a complete world where that hypothesis was true. Unfortunately, the context template used in this anime is our reality, so just inserting this idea forcefully does not qualify as literary work or art, specially if nothing of relevance is explained.
The pace is almost non-existent. In the first episodes the viewers can already tell that there are some "you can't tell the network and the real
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world apart, they affect each other somehow" shenanigans. A bunch of Lain's "What?" alongside philosophical and scientific fallacies episodes later, there is a network God that can't do anything and Lain becomes an omnipotent network and real world God with a teenager mentality.
"What is Lain?" is never answered and the literal Deus Ex Machina that is the end doesn't help making the story interesting.
Also the length could be reduced to 2 episodes if all the 5-second stare after each "What?" were cut off.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Jan 18, 2026
The first half is good and simple, with potential to have a meaningful end. Second half defenestrated the plot.
The dynamics between characters end up being shallow at best.
There is a gradual lack of motivation and emotion that makes the story boring.
At least 10 episodes of: "WTF is happening, oh it was a dream." Who thought this was a good idea?
I understand that not understanding may appear to be cool, but anyone with the gift of reason will tell you this is either a psychedelic trip, the ramblings of a madman, or the super-ego of an author who thinks they are writing a millennium masterpiece while
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not knowing the basics of writing and philosophy. Or maybe they had too much budget for the anime and had to add filler to match the expected duration. Heh.
In general, it is just another work that screams:
"Look how DEEP and PHILOSOPHICAL this is!
"Only the essence of it being backwards in the sight of the mere self can allow it to see itself as the reflection of our eyes in the shallow shadows of the mirror.
Thus, the cause of everything is Kwyjibo!""
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Sep 15, 2025
Excellent animation, alongside the originality of the story, makes Lord of the Mysteries better than most series. However, as a novel reader, some flaws become evident due to the process of adaptation.
Basically no world-building (context of Tingen City), lack of essential explanations (spirituality, rituals, Churches), and no time to assimilate the concepts that are explained.
Most fights scenes are saturated with too many effects and feel cluttered; these are not even battles between multiple powerful Beyonders yet. Some of the shown abilities are inconsistent (shounen-like speed) or not correct (Midnight Poet turning into a crimson shadow, Corpse Collector having ice abilities and being attacked by dead
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spirits), and none is ever explained.
Some cut scenes are introduced as flashbacks when something important happens, which makes one feel like an episode was skipped. I'm afraid this will reoccur consistently throughout the whole series, as the lack of world-building details makes plots come out of nowhere.
The rushed pace makes it look like an episodic series, when it should be a slow-burn with increasing tension in the background while the MC Klein gets used to living in Tingen. This will be more noticeable later in the story, because this is supposed to be the peaceful period of time that shapes Klein's character.
It will be confusing for anime watchers.
Rewatching edit:
Another thing is that bombastic music is overused in every scene of action and mysticism, it doesn't help the overall clutter. It feels like every action of Klein is an attempt at aura-farming with all the chorus.
A random thing I noticed is how many times the pointing gun closeup is used.
In general, it feels rushed, but still better than most anime by virtue of having an actual story, plot and animation.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Sep 8, 2025
Another shounen anime: characters with no personality, good guys don't die, bad guys aren't killed by the good guys, each episode is one fight, nonsensical battles, explaining the character's story just before they die, 4th wall commentator on the random powers, stretching moments ad infinitum, a bazillion characters, the whole world is Japan, general inconsistency, etc.
Some say the animation is good, and the scenarios and characters are indeed mostly* neatly drawn. But the cursed power being a simple flame shape that looks scratched by a kid is sad. Impact frames (randomly changing the colour of the frames with Paint) don't help every 10 second punch/explosion
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feel powerful, nor do the blurry lines feel like super-speed when speed in general is inconsistent.
This is just another generic anime.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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