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Jan 23, 2026
Elfen Lied slams one savage philosophical question in your face from the very first minute:
What the hell actually makes someone (HUMAN) when the difference between monster and victim vanishes completely and you genuinely can’t tell who you’re supposed to be afraid of anymore?
The good, this is why it’s still burned into people’s brains:
It doesn’t just mention heavy shit, it chokes you with it: fear & hatred of anyone (different), revenge cycles that never end, loneliness rotting into murderous rage, the desperate search for someone who won’t abandon you in a world that wants to erase you, society treating the (other), like a plague that needs
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to be exterminated.
You swing wildly between pity, disgust, heartbreak, tiny hope sometimes all in the same damn scene. The mystery and oppressive atmosphere glue your eyes to the screen.
Soundtrack is straight up legendary. (Lilium) still hits like a emotional freight train years later: the whole OST builds dread and sorrow perfectly. Violent scenes are animated with real care creative, brutal, stylized gore that actually serves the tone.
The bad, and these parts make me want to punch the screen:
The fanservice nudity is a fucking disaster. A small part is used for vulnerability and trauma and actually works. Most of it? Gratuitous, brain dead padding. Feels like the writer screamed “the story isn’t strong enough quick, throw in more tits every five minutes!” It’s cheap, insulting, and actively hurts the serious themes.
Those goddamn eyes. Huge, shiny, sparkly moe bullshit eyes that belong in some trashy shoujo romance not in a series full of child murder, rape, and flying heads. They turn dramatic moments into accidental comedy and completely break immersion. The rest of the art is solid to good for 2004, but those cartoon eyes are an unforgivable crime.
The ending rushes like it’s late for a train and leaves major threads dangling in the most frustrating way possible (classic incomplete adaptation syndrome).
Story: Killer atmosphere + raw emotion + philosophy that actually lands. Keeps you hooked despite the flaws.
Characters: Lucy or Nyu carries insane emotional range terrifying to heartbreakingly childlike to broken. Supporting cast feels real and damaged, not just props.
Music: One of the strongest aspects. Full stop.
Visuals and Animation: Excellent in violence and mood. The eye design is the one colossal, facepalm worthy fuck up.
Final verdict:
Elfen Lied is messy, flawed, over the top, and unforgettable. It earned its permanent spot in people’s hearts because it was many viewers’ brutal gateway into (serious) anime, and the raw feeling and atmosphere still crush you. The studio took a chaotic, badly paced manga and somehow made a more focused, emotionally devastating version actual alchemy.
(I DO NOT RECOMMEND THE MANGA AT ALL). The anime is clearly superior better emotional impact, stronger atmosphere, perfect level of mystery. Stick with this version.
8/10
Minus two full points for the pointless boob spam that feels like a desperate grab for attention, and for those ridiculous shiny cartoon eyes that have no goddamn business in a bloodbath like this. Still a dark classic that deserves respect.
Answer to the opening question?
Humanity isn’t skin, innocence, or even species, it’s choice.
Do you answer pain with empathy, or do you keep feeding the hate machine until everyone turns into a monster?
Elfen Lied doesn’t give you comfort or easy answers, it just forces you to look straight at the question while it tears your chest open. Brutal. Beautiful. Impossible to forget.
Thank you for reading, I hope you have a good day full of happiness.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jan 22, 2026
Drop Review: Sentenced to Be a Hero (after 3 episodes dropped and never looking back)
This anime is aggressively mediocre in ways that actually make you angry.
The tiny positives (because I have to be fair for five seconds):
The core concept criminals forced into endless resurrection loops as disposable (heroes) fighting demons has a faint glimmer of dark irony that could have been interesting. A couple of gore heavy fight scenes have decent splatter effects and some voice actors sell the pain convincingly enough that you feel a flicker of disgust, which is, something.
Everything else, straight demolition:
The story is painfully generic and lifeless.
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It grabs a mildly intriguing premise and then immediately smothers it under layers of predictable dark fantasy cliches, zero world building effort, and stakes that feel completely artificial.
Characters are written with the creativity of a malfunctioning AI that only knows three emotions: angry, brooding, sarcastic. The protagonist is the most generic (edgy fallen knight with trauma) template imaginable zero charm, zero surprises, zero reason to root for him.
His teammates? Walking tropes who exist to die horribly or deliver cringe one liners. The dialogue is painfully on the nose: every line feels like it was copy pasted from a bad Reddit fanfic.
Animation quality is embarrassing for 2026. Character models look like they were ripped from a 2018 mobile gacha game on low settings. Fights are choppy, backgrounds are empty gray wastelands, and the color grading is so dull it hurts the eyes.
Soundtrack? Generic royalty free orchestra that tries to sound epic and ends up sounding like stock music from a YouTube (dark souls montage) video.
Pacing is criminal three episodes in and literally nothing meaningful has happened beyond (here’s the premise, now suffer through filler fights and exposition dumps.) It’s not slow burn: it’s just slow death.
Final judgment:
Sentenced to Be a Hero is a soulless, derivative, low effort cash grab that insults both the dark fantasy genre and your intelligence. I dropped it after episode 3 because life is too short to punish myself with this level of creative bankruptcy. Avoid at all costs even if you’re desperate for something to watch, pick literally anything else.
2/10
Half a point for the premise’s faint potential, one point for a couple of okay gore frames. The rest is pure disappointment and wasted server space.
If this somehow gets a second season, I will personally apologize, but I’m not holding my breath.
Thank you for reading, I hope you have a good day full of happiness.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Jan 21, 2026
Paranoia Agent forces you to stare at one brutal, uncomfortable question:
What if the monsters hunting you down aren’t real at all. what if you created them yourself just to avoid facing your own guilt, shame, and the suffocating pressure of everyday life?
The good the few things it actually gets right:
The central idea is genuinely powerful. Satoshi Kon dissects how people escape unbearable stress, trauma, and societal expectations by inventing delusions that eventually consume them. It’s a sharp, unflinching look at denial on both personal and collective levels especially in a high pressure society like Japan’s. The message lands hard: running from reality doesn’t
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make it go away; it just makes the nightmare real.
Character designs are disturbingly accurate these aren’t stylized anime heroes, they’re tired, average looking Japanese people you’d pass on the street. That realism grounds the whole thing and makes the psychological horror feel uncomfortably close to home.
The bad and this is where it completely falls apart:
The execution is painfully weak compared to the ambition. The pacing is glacial entire episodes drag with repetitive shots, long silences, and circular conversations that go nowhere. It’s not contemplative: it’s just boring.
The story structure is a mess: it jumps between characters and ideas without smooth transitions, loses focus, and the “mystery” becomes frustratingly vague instead of intriguing. By the end it feels like it ran out of steam and just threw random symbolism at the wall.
The music is atrocious grating, repetitive, cheap sounding synth loops that actively make the experience worse. One of the most unpleasant soundtracks I’ve ever heard in anime.
Animation and art direction are low effort and dated even for 2004. Stiff movement, ugly color palettes, lazy backgrounds compared to other 2004 titles like Samurai Champloo, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, or even Elfen Lied, this looks amateurish and neglected.
Story:
Starts with a strong premise about mass delusion and societal breakdown, but the telling is disjointed, slow, and ultimately unsatisfying. It promises psychological depth and delivers mostly tedium.
Characters:
Designs are the highlight painfully ordinary and realistic. But the actual personalities are flat tools for the theme. You never really care about them; they just suffer on screen to illustrate a point.
Music & Sound:
One of the weakest aspects. The score is intrusive, repetitive, and tonally off. It doesn’t build tension it just annoys you.
Visuals & Direction:
Kon has brilliant moments of surreal imagery, but they’re buried under mediocre to poor animation quality. Too many static shots, cheap effects, and uninspired framing. Visually underwhelming for something trying to be mind bending.
Final verdict no excuses:
Paranoia Agent has one of the best ideas in anime history, but the execution is so sloppy, slow, and poorly crafted that it sabotages its own brilliance. It’s not “misunderstood genius” it’s a frustrating missed opportunity. If you want Satoshi Kon at his peak, watch Perfect Blue or Paprika. This one? It’s a letdown that wastes a killer concept.
3/10
One point for the sharp core philosophy, one for the realistic character designs, one for Kon’s name carrying some weight. Everything else drags it into the mud.
And the answer to the opening question?
Yes the monsters are you. Paranoia Agent tells you straight: invent excuses and delusions long enough, and they’ll start chasing you for real. Face your shit or let it destroy you. The idea is devastating, too bad the anime itself couldn’t deliver it with any real force.
Thank you for reading, I hope you have a good day full of happiness.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Jan 20, 2026
Sakamoto Days the anime that asks the one question every retired killer probably dreads:
What happens when a man who used to end lives for money tries to live a boring, normal life with a wife, a kid, and a convenience store… and the past refuses to stay dead?
The good when it works, it fucking slaps:
The action comedy combo is stupidly entertaining. Creative, over the top fights that are genuinely fun to watch. Sakamoto himself is hilarious deadpan murder machine turned chubby family man, and the contrast never gets old. The family moments actually hit you in the feels sometimes, which is more
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than most action comedies even try to do. Music bangs hard, especially the Part 2 tracks they pump you up perfectly.
Animation during fights? Clean, fluid, satisfying as hell. If you just want to turn your brain off and laugh at ridiculous violence + dad jokes, this delivers.
The bad and I’m not holding back:
The pacing is bipolar garbage. One episode you’re hyped, the next you’re staring at your phone waiting for something to happen. Filler jokes that land like wet socks. Humor is wildly inconsistent some gags are gold, most are cringe or just lazy.
The fat jokes? Embarrassing, outdated, and straight-up annoying. Side characters are forgettable walking punchlines with zero depth. The adaptation feels rushed and cheap it cuts corners on the manga’s charm and ends up shallower than a kiddie pool. Tone swings so hard between silly and “deep” that it gives you whiplash and makes you not care anymore.
Story:
Fun bursts of assassin nonsense + family warmth. But the slow parts are torture and the plot circles like it’s lost. You’ll skip forward, guaranteed.
Characters:
Sakamoto carries 90% of the show lovable goofball badass.
Everyone else? Background noise. Shallow, annoying, or both. Infuriating how little effort went into them.
Music:
Actually great. Tense, catchy, memorable. The Part 2 soundtrack especially chef’s kiss. One of the few things that doesn’t disappoint.
Visuals & Animation:
Fights look crisp and dynamic best part of the show hands down.
But outside of action? Stiff faces, lazy stills, cheap shortcuts. Looks better than it has any right to in fights, worse than it should in dialogue scenes.
Final:
Sakamoto Days is dumb, chaotic fun that’s perfect when you’re tired and just want something stupid to laugh at. Recommend it ONLY if you need a brain break and mood-lifter. Anyone looking for consistency, depth, or actual comedy timing stay far away. Wasted potential wrapped in flashy action.
6/10
Two points for the fights and music saving it from total disaster.
The rest? Frustrating mediocrity that could’ve been way better.
And the answer to that question?
No. You don’t get to retire clean. The blood always comes back knocking. Sakamoto Days rubs that truth in your face while making you laugh at how pathetic the attempt looks. Brutal, funny, and depressingly real.
Thank you for reading, I hope you have a good day full of happiness.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jan 15, 2026
holy crap, this show will make you sweat bullets and question every bad decision you've ever made.
The big question it slams in your face:
What if one stupid gamble could drag you into a hell where your life, limbs, and sanity are on the line would you fold or go all in?
The good:
This anime nails the raw psychology of gambling like nothing else. It's a brutal dive into desperation, greed, and how far humans will go when backed into a corner.
The tension in those games? Chef's kiss it'll have your heart pounding like you're the one betting everything.
Kaiji himself is a masterpiece
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of a loser protagonist: flawed as hell, makes idiotic choices, but his survival smarts under pressure are genius-level.
The strategies? Mind-blowing cleverness that turns simple games into life-or-death chess matches.
And the themes? Spoton critique of debt traps and capitalist cruelty it'll stick with you long after.
The bad:
Pacing is a goddamn crime. Episodes drag on forever with endless internal monologues and repetitive explanations you'll be yelling at the screen to just MOVE already. It's not "thoughtful"; it's padded filler that tests your patience to the breaking point.
Side characters? Pathetic cardboard cutouts with zero depth, just there to spout cryptic BS or betray someone.
The narrator? Annoying as fuck, spoon-feeding every obvious thought like we're idiots.
And the ending? What a letdown it builds you up then drops the ball so hard you'll feel robbed.
Story:
Pure adrenaline when the stakes ramp up explores addiction and human weakness brilliantly. But holy hell, the slow build-ups are torture; you'll skip ahead out of sheer frustration.
Characters:
Kaiji carries the whole damn show on his back relatable screw-up turned reluctant hero.
Everyone else? Forgettable tools, shallow as a puddle, and it pisses me off how underdeveloped they are.
Music:
The soundtrack amps up the paranoia perfectly tense, gritty tracks that make every moment feel like impending doom. Opening and ending songs slap hard too. No complaints here; it's one of the few flawless parts.
Visuals & Direction:
Art style looks like crap at first elongated faces, ugly designs that scream low-budget nightmare. But screw that initial hate; it fits the grim, oppressive vibe like a glove, making everything feel more unhinged and real. Direction is bold with dramatic angles and metaphors, but animation's stiff and dated lazy in spots, which drags it down.
Final:
Kaiji Season 1 is a tense, underrated gem that exposes the ugly soul of gambling addiction, but it's bogged down by infuriating slowness and weak supporting elements. Not a fun watch; more like a stressful therapy session. If you're into psychological thrillers, dive in otherwise, it'll just piss you off.
7/10
Docked points for how much it wasted my time with filler. Damn good core, but flawed execution.
As for that opening question: Hell no, it's not worth it Kaiji screams that gambling's a rigged game designed to crush the desperate, and walking away is the only real win. But good luck convincing your brain when the rush hits.
Thank you for reading, I hope you have a good day full of happiness.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jan 10, 2026
"Serial Experiments Lain" the most frustrating masterpiece you will ever hate and love at the same time.
The core idea:
What if your entire sense of self is just a fragile collection of data that can be hacked, copied, overwritten, and deleted?
And what if the internet already became God and you just haven't noticed yet?
The good:
It is legitimately one of the most prophetic pieces of fiction about online identity, depersonalization, and the death of privacy.
Made in 1998. It saw the psychological horror of always-online life 15 and 20 years before most people felt it. Respect.
The atmosphere is suffocating in the best
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way. The sound design, the silence, the distorted voices, the feeling that something is watching you through the screen that part is pure nightmare fuel and it's brilliant.
Lain as a character is one of the most hauntingly realistic portrayals of extreme social alienation and dissociation I've ever seen in anime.
The bad:
The pacing is criminal.
Whole episodes where literally nothing happens except shots of power lines and people mumbling the same three sentences.
It is boring. Not artsy slow, not contemplative just straight-up boring.
You will get angry. You will check the remaining time of the episode and feel betrayed.
Most side characters are walking plot devices with the personality of wet cardboard.
They exist to stand in frame and say cryptic shit, then disappear. That's it.
The animation is ugly when it wants to be pretty and pretty when it wants to be ugly.
1998 budget and deliberate ugliness then sometimes it just looks cheap and lazy, not aesthetic.
The ending:
It will either blow your mind or make you throw something at the wall while screaming "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THE POINT THEN?!"
Final:
It's a genius work that is also insufferably pretentious and frequently boring as hell.
Love letter to the terrified kids who grew up with dial-up modems? Yes.
Fun binge-watch? Hell no.
Worth watching in 2026?
If you have patience, masochism, and interest in "what the internet did to our souls" then yes, absolutely.
If you want entertainment run away.
8/10
2 points deducted purely for how much it pissed me off with its smug slowness.
And yeah Duvet still bangs so hard it hurts. Damn you, Lain.
Thank you for reading, I hope you have a good day full of happiness.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jan 6, 2026
The Main Idea: "Dreams Are Free, Reality Is Not"
Everyone has dreams, kids have dreams, adults have dreams, even idiots have dreams.
Someone wants to be a doctor and someone wants to be a pilot and someone wants to rob a bank.
Dreams are free anyone can have one but achieving a dream is not free at all, you pay with effort, you pay with pain you pay by accepting who you are and what happened to you.
Angel Beats is about this simple truth.
Story: "Between Life, Death, and Regret"
The story follows a group of teenagers who lived horrible lives and died in brutal ways. After death, they wake
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up in a strange world stuck between life and death, this world has no sickness, no aging and no hatred, just a school, exams, and time that does not move.
The idea is simple:
They stay here until they accept their past, achieve their dreams, and disappear peacefully. God is mentioned a lot, almost too much but the funny thing is, the anime is not really about God, even by the end, God is never clearly explained, no answers, no big reveal and nothing. Instead, the story focuses on purpose. One character rejects this system: "Nakamura Yuri"
She is angry, broken, and refuses to forgive God for her miserable life.
So she creates the SSS group and decides to fight back.
And yes, the anime starts with teenagers holding guns, screaming about God, and acting stupid, at first, it honestly looks dumb but it’s a trick. These people are not stupid, they are people who died in the most horrific way and did not achieve any of their dreams. Then we meet "Otonashi Yuzuru", the main character. Let’s be honest:
He clearly represents Jesus Christ.
Once he regains his memories, his role becomes obvious, he exists to save others, not himself. The anime also mixes Christianity with reincarnation in a very strange way. Sometimes it works, sometimes it feels messy, but the message is clear: The dreams.
Story rating: 7/10
Characters: "Strong Focus, Big Neglect"
The anime focuses on only a handful of characters:
1.Otonashi Yuzuru
2.Nakamura Yuri
3.Kanade Tachibana
4.Yui
5.Iwasawa Masami
6.Hinata Hideki
7.Naoi Ayato
These characters are handled well, their pasts are clear, their dreams are clear and their development is solid. Yuri’s character development is especially strong, but here is the problem:
Everyone else barely matters, many characters (like Matsushita Godan, Noda, T.K, Shiina and the others) are treated like background furniture, they exist, then suddenly disappear after “achieving their dreams,” without buildup or emotion. This is not poetic, this is lazy. The most interesting character by far is Iwasawa Masami. She achieves her dream without Otonashi’s help. No savior, no speech and no miracle. She earns her ending, that alone makes her stand out.
Characters rating: 7/10
Kanade Tachibana: "The System"
Kanade is not just a character, she is the system itself, she helps souls move on and that’s it. Because of that, SSS sees her as an enemy, an angel sent by God. Her design and role clearly pull from Christian imagery: purity, obedience, order. She is calm, quiet, and misunderstood, and yes, calling her an “angel” is not subtle at all.
Art and Animation:
The animation is clean and smooth, action scenes look good, nothing hurts the eyes. However, some shots are reused, you notice it if you pay attention. They are not major scenes, but still noticeable.
Art & animation rating: 8/10
Dialogue and Comedy: "Surprisingly Excellent"
This is where Angel Beats shines the most, the anime jumps between:
Deep, sad, philosophical talks and stupid, childish comedy and somehow, it works, many anime fail at this, Angel Beats does not. Yes, some jokes repeat, yes, some humor is silly, but most of it lands, and when it hits right after a tragic moment, it somehow makes the pain worse in a good way.
Dialogue & comedy rating: 10/10
Music and Sound:
The music is fine. Not bad, not amazing, not something you will loop on YouTube forever. It does its job and leaves. Sound effects and voice acting are solid.
Music rating: 6/10
The Ending: "Emotional, With a Price"
The ending is very satisfying emotionally. Otonashi helps everyone move on. Everyone disappears peacefully, except him, he stays behind. This is where the Christ symbolism becomes impossible to ignore. He sacrifices his own peace so others can have theirs. The farewell scenes are sad and effective, the anime strongly hints at reincarnation. Characters even talk about meeting again in another life, especially Yui and Hinata. So no, they are not erased, they are reborn.
Ending rating: 10/10
Final:
At first glance, Angel Beats looks like an anime about God, but It is not. It is about regret, it is about second chances, it is about dreams you never reached, it tells you something very simple:
Dreams are easy, achieving them is hard, but giving up is worse. The anime has clear flaws, ignored characters, messy concepts, emotional manipulation at times. But it still works. Not legendary, not perfect, but meaningful. And yes it will probably make you laugh, then punch you in the feelings five minutes later.
Thank you for reading, I hope you have a good day full of happiness.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jan 6, 2026
“What happens when heroes stop caring about saving the world and only care about being number one?” That question sounds stupid at first but by the end of To Be Hero X, you realize it’s the whole point.The Idea To Be Hero X is not your normal hero anime. It doesn’t care about justice, saving humanity, or big moral speeches and this show laughs at the idea of heroes themselves. In this world, heroes are not heroes because they are good people. They are heroes because they want one thing only: to become Hero X. Fame, ranking, image that’s what matters and honestly?
That’s what makes
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this anime special.
Chaos & Tone Shifts:
Let’s be clear the chaos, the randomness, and the crazy switches between comedy and seriousness are not flaws.
They are the identity of the show. The sudden jumps between stupid humor and dark or serious moments are exactly why this anime works. It feels unstable, unpredictable, and sometimes uncomfortable — and that’s intentional. If this anime was calm and clean, it would lose everything that makes it unique.
9/10
Art & Direction:
The art style is wild. Sometimes it looks cheap. Sometimes it looks insane in a good way.
The mix of 2D, 3D, weird camera angles, and exaggerated animation fits the chaos perfectly.
This is not an anime that wants to look “pretty.” It wants to look alive. And most of the time, it succeeds.
8/10
Music (One of the Strongest Points):
The music is excellent, no debate here.
Some tracks are so good that I still listen to them by themselves.
Especially “To Be Hero X (X) Main OST FULL”, which is easily one of the best character-related soundtracks I’ve heard in my life and no, that’s not exaggeration. The music understands the anime better than anything else. It knows when to go crazy and when to hit hard emotionally.
10/10
Characters:
The characters are not meant to be deep in a traditional way. They are exaggerated, selfish, broken, and sometimes stupid on purpose. They don’t feel like classic heroes. They feel like people trapped in a system that rewards ego, popularity, and chaos. That’s part of the satire.
8/10
Negatives:
The anime is not perfect. Some transitions can feel messy. Some moments go too far into nonsense and not every joke lands. But here’s the thing: Trying to “fix” these issues would also remove what makes the anime itself.
Final:
so anime To Be Hero X is a chaotic, loud, weird, sometimes stupid, sometimes brilliant anime that mocks hero culture instead of worshipping it. It’s not for everyone. It doesn’t try to be and that’s exactly why it works.
Thank you for reading, and I wish you a wonderful day.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jan 5, 2026
Humanity has always asked the same question:
Does technology and progress come without a price?
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, just like the game Cyberpunk 2077 and the cyberpunk genre in general, answers this question in a very dark way. Progress never comes for free. As technology advances, humans slowly lose their values. Kindness becomes weakness. Trust becomes stupidity. Killing becomes normal, like stepping on an insect. And people without morals become the “normal” ones.
Welcome to Night City.
Accept its rules, or die.
Story and Themes:
The story is beautiful and deeply philosophical. It shows a world full of technology and progress, yet completely empty of morality. There is no real government, no
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real law. Only corporations rule everything.
If you have money, you survive and live like a king.
If you are poor, you have three choices:
die, live below the poverty line, or become a mercenary and do anything for money.
The anime feels like a warning from the future. It asks you to think:
Is progress really worth losing our humanity?
Story rating: 10/10
Characters:
The biggest weakness here is the number of episodes. Ten episodes are simply not enough for a story this deep.
Only three characters truly leave a strong impression:
David, Lucy, and Rebecca.
The anime gives proper focus mainly to David and Lucy, and because of that, their relationship and David’s ending are genuinely emotional and tragic.
Other characters like Maine, Dorio, Pilar, and Kiwi are important for David’s development, but because we did not spend enough time with them, their deaths had little emotional impact. They felt more like NPCs than fully developed characters. This is not because they are badly written, but because the anime rushed everything.
Characters rating: 7/10
Art, Animation, and Direction:
Excellent.
The art style fits Night City perfectly.
The animation is smooth and fast.
The fight scenes, camera movement, lighting, and direction are all very well done.
No complaints here at all.
Visuals & direction rating: 8/10
Music:
The music is incredible.
So good that I still listen to it daily while playing games or going outside. It perfectly captures the feeling of Night City: sadness, chaos, and beauty at the same time.
Music rating: 9/10
Final:
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners asks very important questions:
Does progress improve humanity, or destroy it?
Is your value defined by who you are, or by how much money you have?
Are corporations shaping the future for our benefit, or just to exploit us?
The anime is powerful, emotional, and thought-provoking. My only wish is that it had more episodes. Ten episodes are not enough.
Thank you for reading, and have a great day
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jan 5, 2026
Slavery has always been one of the ugliest ideas in human history. Taking a free human being and turning them into a slave is something deeply wrong, and some of the darkest periods in history were built on it.
This anime takes that horrible concept and treats it as something normal, even worse, something heroic. According to this anime, if you want to become a hero, you must become a slave. That alone makes the entire premise disgusting.
What makes this even more disappointing is that the author is the same writer behind "Akame ga Kill". Instead of depth, philosophy, and strong fights, he completely abandoned all
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of that and went full ecchi. The result is a very bad experience.
Story:
The story is extremely weak.
The main character, Yuuki, wants to become a hero. And how does he do that? By turning into a slave. Since when did slavery become connected to heroism? The plot is not interesting, not creative, and not meaningful.
Making slavery look normal, acceptable, or even cool is a terrible idea. The story fails both morally and narratively.
Rating: 1/10
Characters:
Let me be honest. If you are watching this anime for deep characters or philosophical writing, then you are a foolish person with all respect. The characters here are as shallow as possible. No depth, no growth, no personality. You forget most of them a week after watching.
Some characters are clearly copied from other anime but done worse.
For example, Yachiho is obviously inspired by Kurumi from "Date A Live": similar power, similar vibe, but a much worse version.
As for Yuuki, he barely has a personality. He is just a miserable boy who wants to be a hero by becoming a slave.
Rating: 2/10
Art, Animation, and Direction:
The art is very average and not memorable at all. There is also a strange issue where character faces keep changing. Eyes and mouths look different from episode to episode, sometimes even from scene to scene. It feels like the studio does not know how to consistently draw faces.
The fight scenes are terrible.
The animation and direction during battles are weak, the camera often focuses on the wrong angles, and the CGI is cheap and ugly. Nothing feels impactful or exciting.
One of the most annoying things is how the anime handles power-ups. Whenever a character is about to lose, suddenly they get a new power with the excuse of “this is my secret ability.” It feels lazy and insulting to the viewer’s intelligence.
Rating: 3/10
Ecchi:
Ironically, the ecchi is actually decent. Not great, but not bad either.
What is funny is that whenever ecchi scenes appear, the art quality suddenly improves a lot. It honestly feels like most of the budget went into boobs and asses.
Rating: 6/10
Comedy:
The comedy is average. Some jokes made me laugh, others did nothing. It is inconsistent, just like the rest of the anime.
Rating: 4/10
Final:
This anime proves that general anime taste is slowly declining. The fact that this series got popular enough to receive a second season so quickly is honestly depressing. People clearly liked it, which says more about the audience than the anime itself.
I personally will not continue next part, and I do not recommend it to anyone.
Thank you for reading, and have a nice day.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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