NOTE: Watched till episode 6
Series in one sentence:
The most unlikeable person on Earth has to deal with the most unlikeable people on Earth.
Series in more sentences:
Two high schoolers are hit by a tram and violently die on the spot. They find themselves in the room of an apartment immediately after, inhabiting some strangers and a giant ball. The strangers reveal they've all died and can't leave, until the ball gives them an assignment that allows the winners to be given the chance to return to the land of the living.
After the majority perishes, it's back to normal for the main characters, but normal life comes with problems as well.
Very interesting story, but the people in this are so unrealistically shitty, it doesn't make watching this entertaining in any way. To have the main character also act like this is worse, because why should I give a damn ass about someone who's a damn ass? His heavily underappreciated friend should've been the main character, he's the only one in the anime who has any decency, and that he's this set on being a hero thanks to the younger version of the asshole boy is a tragedy, but an acceptable plot for future character development.
But as I flew through the episodes, the boy failed to charm me even once, and I became less set on waiting for this supposed development.
When the anime begins, we're introduced to a perverted creep with the ability to fantasize about naked girls unprovoked and give himself an ill-timed erection over it. The moment an actual naked girl spawns in his arms, he lusts after her for episodes long, without even caring what she's like. She has big breasts, therefore he wants her. Brilliant. And this absolute fool of a girl lets the piece filth fondle her at one point as well, even though she's in love with the friend and has no reason to give up her virginity to this pathetic loser. She was considering it, though, and that's scary. Did she think to owe him because he allowed her to stay at his house for one night? What the flaming cunt is this anime?
He even says to himself that he doesn't know her, yet he buys condoms for this stranger he knows isn't in love with him and he never bothered to build a relationship with. Nauseating characters like him should not exist -not as the main character, not as the "hero" who's life we should care about. And I don't care about this fuckwad's lame life and disgusting thoughts, I wanted to follow his friend and what he thought and how he was planning to succeed.
I imagine he received more development further on, but I don't have the energy to keep watching more of this to find out.
Besides the main character, you get to listen to the thoughts of random people as well, and it's the most sickening dribble I've ever heard. And their personality matches.
A homeless man falls onto tram tracks and bystanders just stand there thinking "I'm not gonna help, lol, but hey, maybe we'll see a guy get run over!". Later, a teenage girl takes out her phone to take pictures of a boy's head being popped clean off, just in case we weren't disturbed enough.
The responses people give to traumatizing events are otherworldly in Gantz. When that one naked girl is dragged out of the room by some mob guy cliché who randomly decides to go rape her, everyone allows him to drag her off and afterwards accepts her screaming. Then the only good guy in this dump-ass show saves her, and our main character has the nerves to complain inside his head about how the girl doesn't care for him, while he "helped". Spoilers: the little bitch only watched.
This incident is never mentioned again after that and the girl calmly stands in the presence of her attacker. Any other woman would be seeing Vietnam flashbacks and put a distance of exactly a million miles between her and the guy, but I guess rape isn't that big of a deal. She basically let the main character attempt to rape her just a few episodes later and who am I to doubt a strong female character like that. It's strange behaviour for someone who died by killing herself. She must've felt tortured enough once to end herself, but now she embraces life and this shit does nothing to her, like a real strong ex-suicidal teenager would! Good job!
The abundance of bitterness, perversion, and casual immorality the human race in Gantz exudes makes it impossible to sit through what is otherwise a cool concept.
I just can't anymore with this, fuck off, Gantz.
Series in one sentence:
The most alert police force in the world keeps arresting a tall child for holding hands with little girls.
Series in more sentences:
Two siblings are born with a growth defect and have to deal with the consequences of their appearance every day. The sister has dwarfism and appears to outsiders as a 10 year old attending high school, while her simple 10 year old brother looks like an attractive young man.
I felt generous grading this.
There are supposedly three seasons, first two are called "Do" and "Re", but I watched "Mi" first, since Crunchyroll presented it to me first and as a seperate series. Which it is, I guess, when looking at the art style and whatnot. I liked it for the most part, but here the sister has a pursuer who is an unapologetic pedophile, and I hate it. The series doesn't need actual pedophiles, the people the brother and sister hang out with create enough weird moments.
The episodes are only 3 minutes long, but spends its time well. I chuckled many times. The brother is lovely to watch, he is innocently polite, though seeing him getting arrested and tackled all of the time is really sad.
Series in one sentence:
An inappropriate fetish school punishes its male students for being inappropriate and having a fetish.
Series in more sentences:
An all-female school decides to take its first steps into accepting male students, but a small group of virgin boys only attends to lust on the girls, which ends them up getting severely punished.
They're locked up in a special cell and subjected to violence and dirty schemes conducted by the council, who have a hatred for men and wish to have them expelled.
Needlessly perverse, but the story was decent enough to entertain me. "Decent", inside the realm of this show's universe, that is.
Every 5 seconds or so you'll see an unflattering crotch shot or a pair of exposed nipples, so don't bother with this anime if that's something that takes you out of it. I certainly didn't watch it for the abundance of smut. I don't mind a story starring horny teenagers, but this was pretty bad.
Having that said, it's hard to pick a side. The lady guards are violent psychotic man-haters, while the boys are nauseatingly hopeless perverts who do the most disgusting things in order to get a victory in their imprisoned state. But I guess their plans are creatively weird, I liked seeing them try and trick their guards. It's the sole reason I kept watching.
That, and the few normal romances, which were honestly well done, but little of.
I don't regret watching this, but I don't think you'll miss out if you didn't.
NOTE: I watched this series in English.
Series in one sentences:
You think these musicians have talent, but the fact they keep being replaced with a distracting 3D model of themselves proves it's all edited, lewl.
Series in more sentences:
The son of a prostitute has little to look forward to, except escaping into the forest where an abandoned piano stands. When he meets a new student at school who wants become a pianist, the following events in his life lead him to the realisation he too wants to be one.
While initially supportive of him, his pianist friend can't help but feel intimidated and jealous over his natural gift.
It wasn't exciting. Each episode felt like the first of the season, in the sense it introduced new characters and little screen time was given to establishing any relationships. The anime thought it was easier to claim two people were friends than to spend time showing it.
There were alot of director decisions made that didn't go anywhere. For example, characters sometimes comment that the dude looks like a girl, and that's it. Nothing else is said or done. Really weird and unnecessary.
It's also been argued he had a terrible life, but I saw nothing that made me believe that. The way the brothel owner reacts towards him and his hobby was needlessly hostile, but we're only shown two short instances where she gives him a frown. She's hardly in the anime.
Is the boy having trouble with the cookie-cutter bullies at school, then? I don't know, looks like he can take them on just fine and he's hardly their target. How could he be, if these boys are also barely in the anime? Even the main character's friend and this other girl he meets along the way are treated as people we should care about, but they've only shared a few scenes together. The friend even told his class before his eventual departure that he hadn't attended school for that long, then 5 years pass with no contact; how are these two "friends"?
The series is a half-baked summary of a better show. The pieces are there, I can see how the characters and story could've been fun and touching, but none of it gets enough attention to earn this description. I didn't care about any of these people. I wasn't allowed to, they were demoted into background characters the following minute or a mouth to praise the main character with.
The friend was boring and could've been left out, the boy's suffering as a whore's son was not addressed until the end in a rushed clip show, and there were no hardships introduced to make us care in the first place. The boy is a musical Gary Stu; everything he did earned him a pass to the next round or the obsessive respect from his listeners.
Would not watch again.
Series in one sentence:
Being claimed as someone's fiancée the moment he learns you have amnesia isn't weird at all if the guy is handsome and the story treats him as a good guy.
Series in more sentences:
A
young girl is gifted with the power to see and hear spirits, but becomes an outcast because of it. A mysterious street magician then sends her back in time, where this gift is welcomed and treated with respect, though the girl is more busy trying to impress the high-class writer who took her than help his friend find the spirit of a cat he lost.
Her personality swoons many handsome men, though she finds herself most attracted to him and she struggles with whether to stay or go back home when the chance arrives.
Harem animes. Don't like them, especially when the main character has a very clear preference from the start.
Finishing this series feels
like a waste of time, you already know the girl won't pick any of the
other pursuers. Maybe
the dating game it's based on has these guys be an
actual threat, but the anime was straight-forward and without
surprises. The romance was rushed, the harem
aspect a complete fake-out, and the main character's ability to see
ghosts seemed to matter little for the story. But, I liked the way how most men warmed up to her and liked the girl herself.
The relationship between her and the greenhaired artist was more prominent, though, and would've made for a better focus. It was pretty sad to see so many episodes pass by where she didn't look for this cat of his. It became a forgotten subject at times.
Because Mei goes for the first cute guy she meets, those parts showing her
blush at other men's introductions are pointless and inappropriate, but I guess are the remains of the video game. I don't even know why
she likes the writer. He's clingy and overprotective, not to mention he called dibs on a lost teenage girl with amnesia. His eyes lit up the moment he heard the word, like damn, what a predator.
There are multiple characters in the series Mei builds a better relationship with, who have more interesting personalities as well, but she decides within a week or so
she wants to impress and stay with this intrusive gentleman and it's not
making me feel tingly like Inu x Boku SS. Hell, there the boy had a reason to be obsessed with the girl, and even the girl learned they had a past connection. What's Mei and this man's excuse?
And then there's the ending itself, where Mei regains her memories; this gave me a major deja vu. I could've sworn the exact same happened only a few episodes prior, but there she exclaimed with tears in her eyes she wanted to stay with her boyfriend. I roughly watched an episode per week, so maybe I forgot the moon wasn't yet full and she only remembered snippets? But then it still would've been better if that scene was left out. This girl is yo-yoing with herself and her love interest, and that's no way to treat people.
I respect her decision to take the initiative to better her life, but it feels misplaced after all those episodes of her talking about how badly she wants her man.
It had a funny scene here and there, but there's nothing that would make me want to watch this again.
That second credits song, though, it's boppin'.
Series in one sentence:
Woman: *exists*
Goblins: *rapes woman because she exists*
Series in more sentences:
A young man becomes obsessed with hunting down goblins after his village and sister are slaughtered by them, and spends his days waiting for quests involving the simple creatures, earning him little respect from the warriors who fight more important beasts.
After he rescues a beginner from a cave, she decides to stay with him as part of his team. More goblin reports follow and it appears they are becoming more of a threat every day.
The anime earned itself a bad name over all the rape imagery in it, but at the same time, many said it was a good watch. That certainly spiked my interest.
I originally thought the sexual molestation scene from the first episode was a one time thing. I did not expect it to be a character trait of the monsters our heroes are constantly fighting. Seeing girls getting their clothes ripped off is not my idea of entertainment, but I'm more disturbed by the creator's decision to have it be a character trait at all. Like, why?
A curt, serious knight devoted to kill creatures the hero community sees as boring small fry is a great set-up for a story, especially when those creatures prove to be more dangerous than widely assumed. But the goblins' design confuses me.
They are tiny green men -and men only- that don't build anything, but steal, and as some kind of rule kidnap and rape women, whereafter they're eaten or killed. They're described to reproduce quickly as well. How, if there are no female goblins in those nests? Are these human girls birthing their children? How does that work, humans need approximately 9 months to develop an infant, and if these mutants are always born from human beings, how aren't they human by now? How did goblins come to exist if they need another species to give birth to them in the first place?
Also, and it's sad enough that I pondered this, how packed is a goblin that he can make a woman faint of pain? A human is about 4 times their size, if not more. Those little skirts and pants they're wearing didn't show me much.
To turn a monster or villain into a serial rapist is a very lazy way to make the audience dislike them. I would've preferred it if different crimes were assigned to these goblins, there are enough despicable things to come up with that aren't targeted at one group of people. The men didn't get any dicking, after all. Neither did elderly women, so far I understood from the clips being thrown at my face. Only pretty young girls from human-like species were victimized, as if a goblin would be able to recognize female beauty in a species that isn't his own..
..Why am I even thinking about this.
I liked the series and the fighting scenes, but it's not something I'd watch again or suggest to others. Would I watch the next season? Probably so, I'd like to see how the story plans to continue after this solid end. I'd love it if they befriended a good goblin.
Series in one sentence:
A lazy bitch forces herself into someone's life, and the victim ends up loving her for it.
Series in more sentences:
A selfish criminal is visited by a young girl stuck in a futuristic pod, who then refuses to leave when freed. Hina appears to have destructive psychic powers, urging the criminal to take on a cautious approach and allow her to stay.
While she's anything but the ideal daughter, he gradually takes on a father role and continues his old life while taking care of her.
Good, but could've been grand. I've never witnessed a show abandon its own plot this quickly.
Things starts out simple: a girl with psychic powers stuck in a metal pod falls into a criminal's living room and the guy has to deal with her from that moment on, but after 2 mere episodes, the psychic powers pretty much aren't mentioned or shown again and we get multiple stories that could've worked out using regular orphan girls.
Another psychic child gets transported to Earth to destroy Hina, but that conflict resolves itself in mere minutes. This poor blonde hitman enters an entirely different adventure of her own after that. Her whole meeting with Hina was unnecessary.
When this girl realizes she can't go back home, she feels forced to quit using her powers in order not to alarm Hina, and goes to live on the streets. She lets a well-meaning homeless man talk her into not stealing anymore, and while the girl enjoys the company of the other hobos and the anime treats the excruciating work she does as a good experience, you realize how traumatized she truly is when given the chance to stay with a normal family. Pretty messed up.
Why couldn't this girl stay with the dirty rich criminal, too? He really liked her.
The girl this man chose to call his daughter is an awful person, an absolute leech. You can say Hina's charm is her lacklustre personality, but without her psychic powers, she's useless to have around. When the anime decided to abandon the supernatural element, I didn't enjoy Hina that much. Some of her scenes are still cute, though.
The blonde girl also stopped using her powers and I have no idea why. In the episodes where she's a working homeless person, she was seen carrying heavy stuff all the time, and I kept wondering why she didn't slightly levitate her baggage to make the work easier for herself.
This anime is a mix of multiple stories and I can't say they fit well. If they had been picked out and cleaned up, they could've been their own anime and a good watch.
This could've been about a dangerous supernatural girl exiled to Earth and in need of rehabilitation that a criminal of all people decides to give, an illegitimate child forced to stay with her shady father, an orphan finding her place within the local homeless community and then given a foster family, a prestige student leading a double life as a talented bartender and quickly reaching the top class, or an orphan with psychic powers being taken in by fighting monks and becoming famous.
But the way things are now, I don't understand what the anime wants from me. What's the focus? Not the psychic powers, that's for sure.
The last episode shamelessly crams in a last-minute story as well, since the animators remembered they had introduced a 3rd psychic girl, who they'd given no further screen time to.
Series in one sentence:
An adult man is so incompetent, a stray cat has to be his mother.
Series in more sentences:
An anti-social guy has to go on after the death of his beloved parents, but his inspiration as a writer and motivation to mingle with the outside world keeps decreasing, until he comes across a surly-looking cat.
Her mere face gives him an idea for a story, though for the sake of it, he needs to keep the cat around. The cat, on her turn, grows to like the pampering, but has to continuously deal with her owner's neglected health.
Thank Heavens this isn't a series where the cat turns into a cute horny girl 2 episodes in. The characters and story were more serious than I expected, as for entertaining. A guy living out his life with his cat doesn't sound like an exciting premise.
It's sad and endearing to see this animal worry herself to death over a human. She shows honest concern for his health and exclaims loudly to want to protect this thing that is 20 times her size. I don't know if realistically speaking cats can recognize when a human is silently struggling, but most of the cat's mannerisms get a believable explanation. And let's not demand realism from a cartoon.
Generally speaking, the first half of an episode follows the human and the second half rewinds everything and switches over to the cat and her thoughts. It was alot of fun.
A fantastic short series, fairly emotional at times, would watch again.
