(Average) As Miss Beelzebub Likes

NOTE: I stopped at episode 7.
 
Series in one sentence:
Beelzebub is kaka.

Series in more sentences:
A young demon is assigned to be Lord Beezlebub's assistant, but learns she's not the stoic ruler he thought she was. While having the desire to have someone cool and masculine to look up to, he can't deny there's anything wrong with being cute. The two are quick to grow fond of each other.

This is one of those shows that begs you to drop your IQ, and otherwise will do it for you. None of the episodes handed me an exciting plot or brought something new to the table in terms of story. It had the feel of a toddlers show, but with close-ups of cleavage, naked muscular men, and drooling pedofiles in bushes, so.. a typical anime, not intended for 3-year-olds.
But what teenager or adult would like this? I felt so impatient and dumb sitting through these Sesame Street storylines. The "surprises" the show hits you with I've seen a million times before, done better.
 
The overall plot is cool on paper, but that's the only compliment I can give. Everything and everyone in Hell acts normal and overly cute, and I guess that's the entire joke; you don't expect that to be the case. But what's the point. Hell looks and functions like Earth and its residents are normal, inoffensive human beings, with the occasional 0.1% freak that has animal "ears" poking out from their head.

It would've helped the series if we saw the assistant guy work his way up to becoming this girl's right hand man, and THEN we'd learn she's a lazy wuss. And only her, not every new character we come across. Liking cute and soft things is not a personality trait, so why repeat it.
Have these demons look like actual demons, the world look like actual Hell, and everything in it be awful and intimidating like Hell should be. And insert some magic and fighting scenes, because this series isn't convincing me that Beelzebub is anything but a fragile child who can't even get a book from a top shelf.

She crushed a bar of chocolate once, and that's the only portrayal of her power I've seen.

What I basically watched was the life of a young aristocrat in politics, being looked after by her assistant butler in modern, every day Japan. This whole Heaven and Hell business didn't need to exist and I'm not invested enough in these characters to keep on watching to see if anything worth while will happen further on.

(Average+) My Hero Academia

NOTE: I watched this series in English

Series in one sentence:
Morty Smith gets the ultimate superpower handed to him and still fails.

Series in more sentences:
In a world where people are born with superpowers, and heroes and villains are a real thing, one aspiring hero learns at an early age he won't be able to follow his dreams and is "quirkless"; a normal human being with no gift.

One day, he comes across his idol and the most respected superhero in the world, who sees potential in him. Their meeting opens up Izuku's chance to go to hero school and train to become the best who ever was.

What an awesome story that'll likely jump the shark soon. I was disappointed by the direction it took concerning the main character as well.

Batman taught us that you can be a strong and feared hero without having actual powers, and I thought the show was going to take that route for Izuku. After all, people who didn't put trust in him did so because he was quirkless, so why prove them right by giving Izuku a powerful quirk? The only reason he made friends at school at all is because he showed off his powers. His kindness and selfless heroism were secondary.
It would've been a way more touching story if he rose to the top as a normal person, by physically training himself and being clever. There's this semi-background character in the anime who keeps herself busy with making robotic accessories; I think this role would've suited him.

I do think the story made right by making him struggle to use his power, but I found the speed in which he learned to control it to be fast and sudden. One day he cripples himself and the school nurse warns she won't heal him if it happens again, the next, he basically already has it under control before he's even taught the technique on how to do so.
How was he able to practise by himself, jumping on walls, if he couldn't show the same restraint when it actually mattered? And how can 5% of his power destroy a building and blow people away early in the show, but later it won't even knock out a single person?

As for the villain of the series, or rather his successor, what an absolute whine baby. He looks intimidating and weird, but he talks like an entitled 13-year-old and is a failure. I can't understand for the life of me why the big boss wants him to take his place. Because of the twist that's revealed later on; to spite the people who care about this? A foolish reason.

Season 4 in general tired me out and was a mess. It had an excellent cliffhanger, but it wasn't at all a follow-up to the majority of occurrences that happened. It brought the series back to the point, but came out of nowhere. The forgotten main story was probably dug up as to convince the audience to come back for season 5.  
Most of the episodes I didn't care for. Preparing for a school festival isn't a logical conclusion to the horror that happened prior, the short villain plot that came with it wasn't interesting until the very last moment, and the literal last-minute focus change to the new nr. 1 hero in Japan, Endeavour, was nice to have after this bore fest, but you see.. I don't care to see that guy get glamorized.

He's a domestic abuser. A character that doesn't deserve sympathy, let alone from his wife he used as a birthing machine and then drove to absolute insanity with his abuse. She's stuck in a madhouse because of him, and has been for years. Is there no realistic law enforcement in this world? Endeavour is a criminal that should've gone to trial for the way he treated his family, but here he is, out working as a proud crime fighter. Because he leaves behind some fucking flowers for his mentally destroyed wife so now and then, there's more to him? Wow, so misunderstood, look out, true love over here. Omg, I hope she takes him back, cute.
None of his neglected children should watch him fight on television with honesty and hopefulness. Disgusting. I don't like where Hero Academia is taking things with this character.

So yes, I'd say season 4 was the worst, but the director was intelligent enough to have things get picked back up with the last 2 or 3 episodes. I know I wouldn't return for the next season if it hadn't.

There's so much time-wasting going on in this show; none of the filler episodes are any fun. They're infuriatingly boring. The way Izuku grows his power is also clunky and there's little consistency. Many of the characters that had a more prominent role at the start get less of an appearance as time progresses, and that's difficult to avoid when you keep throwing characters on the screen. Even Izuku gets drowned out by these crowds.
Wasn't this supposed to be HIS story, HIS journey on becoming the nr. 1 hero?

My Hero Academia is dangling on the edge of being average, but I won't and can't forget how good the early episodes were.

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15-10-2021 UPDATE:
Watched season 5, incredibly boring, lowered my overall score for this series.

This season is a clumsy mash-up of different storylines and littered with "2 weeks earlier" and "1 month earlier" flashbacks. There are slivers of entertainment to be found, but when it's a chore to sit through a show just to get to them, what's the point.

The main problem this anime has has become very clear to me while watching this season: there are too many damn characters. You can't make them all interesting, and to shoehorn in a sad backstory for every one of them is a cheap move.
I just want to see Izuku's journey, damnit, not all this other stuff. I don't care about the opposition, they were never interesting to me. Even after witnessing a cool awakening from the loser with the chain-smoker snake voice, I still can't say to care.

Not sure if I'll be there for season 6.

(Good) Seton Academy: Join the Pack!

Series in one sentence:
Anime Waifus: Become a Zoophile!

Series in more sentences:
A human boy with a deep hatred for animals attends an animal high school, and finds himself setting up a cooking club with an incompetent wolf girl who dreams of starting a pack with many different species.

This was fun, despite the typical anime perversion sprinkled in here and there. If the creator wrote things a bit differently, this could've been a fantastic informative cartoon for children.
But I suggest you not let your kids watch this.

A world where talking, bipedal animals and humans live together is proven to work, Bojack Horseman is one of those shows, but in Seton Academy, things lean slightly more towards Beastars in the sense the species of these animals are an important factor to their behaviour and culture.
..And for some reason a wolf can grow the size of a giraffe and is one of the strongest predators in an environment full of big cats. A wolf does not have a fraction of a chance against a lion or tiger, Japan. What is up with this preferential treatment?

I liked that these character were like animals, but I'm not 100% aboard with the odd gender differences applied. All males looked realistic, while all females were just human beings with maybe a set of ears and a tail. I've seen less than a handful of female characters that looked somewhat clever, but the rest were just normal girls with nothing going on in their design. 
The sloth -with the best running gag in the show- was one of the biggest offenders.. She has a bit of moss on her hair. That's it. Incredibly uncreative.
And this matters, because the main character hates animals. To hear him shout or scoff at someone that hardly looks like one feels weird.  

"Like I care about an animal's naked body!" he snarls, concerning an "animal" that has the face, skin, and curves of an unsuspicious human girl.

This probably wanted to be a harem show, and for that to work, the girls need to look somewhat desirable. But why? There's really no harem stuff going on. The boy only likes the one other human girl that entered his sad life, and the wolf likes the boy. None of the other girls show romantic interest in him, despite the blush on their face when they first met him.
Maybe another problem is the abundance of characters being introduced. They're fun, but with this many, you can only appoint them the role of sitting in the background. I forgot the cat even existed at one point, and the wolf stopped being interesting to me further in time.

At the end we're introduced to a group of young teenagers from another school that are supposedly extinct animals, but I don't even understand how that's possible. If they're teenagers, that means they have or had parents who produced them not that long ago, but they're talking like their entire species died millions of years ago.
And why are they so dramatic, while a literal T-Rex teacher is walking around on the premise without explanation?

So far my review. Weird logic, unnecessary crotch shots and sex talk, but it kept me hooked. Would watch season 2.

(Average+) Cautious Hero: The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious

Series in one sentence:
SIKSH PAHQK.

Series in more sentences:
A young goddess is tasked to summon a competent human to save one of many Earths under attack by high ranking threats. 

Upon seeing him and his stats, she becomes instantly smitten, but soon learns his behaviour is less than appealing. The rude and overly cautious boy is quick to pick up on the rules, though, and the goddess is often reduced to being the third wheel tagging along.

Another RPG world anime, though this one tries to stand out with its assholish main character and good animation. The facial expressions the goddess makes were pretty Western at times, it was fun to see.

The start was good, near the middle it became needlessly perverse, and at the end the entire tone shifts into something that made everything that happened prior feel misplaced. I truly liked the big reveal, that was some good tragedy, but that one episode where they had to fight off a horny goddess was the stupidest shit and then there's this other scene where the main character is "training" while in a lewd position with another goddess. And it's never explained why and how that training even worked. These kind of things make the ending feel like it belonged in a completely different anime. 
I'm on the fence whether or not these rejected hentai scenes were disrespectful to the main character, as the majority of the series does have a heavy focus on comedy..

But needless nudity annoys my prudish brain, and anime has no chill, man. Drawn-out sex jokes bring down the story and waste everyone's time, and it's the reason why I'm giving this show an average+, opposed to a good rating.

I still had fun, mostly.

(Good) Somali and the Forest Spirit

Series in one sentence:
That nightmare fuel is my dad!

Series in more sentences:
In a world dominated by many odd creatures, an emotionless forest guardian meets a human orphan and travels with her around the country to find a human settlement for her to call her home.
But the human race has a bad reputation and are considered threats that should be killed, enslaved, or eaten. Their whereabouts are only guessed at and the girl has to be watched at all times - but time is something the forest golum has little of, as his role as a living guardian happens to be reaching its end. 

Good, but too short, with a climax that should've been moved to the end of a 24-episodes season. There're many unanswered questions, so a continuation is probable? Then again, I've seen many shows give up around a crucial moment. If it has a manga, then there's no real urgency, it seems. Too early to say, but I'll try to keep my eyes open for new episodes.

Don't know what else to say in this review, honestly. It was, for the most part, what you'd call a "slice of life" adventure, despite some of the action scenes and drama. The show was mainly about how the golum unknowingly developed emotions and "worried" about his deteriorating body, for this girl's sake.
Despite the ending, you know there can't be a happy ending; as the fact he's dying is mentioned every episode and love isn't keeping him intact.

At least, I hope not. That'd be a cop-out. Lee Everett this fool.