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Let's try to come back to this...
This time, I am covering these shows:
As everything is calming down and I am trying to find my way around my hobbies and things I enjoy doing, let's see if I can come back to this section as well.
I talked about this show in this part of Wrap-Up, and I remember loving it. I did have mixed feelings, but mostly I decided it was fun and good quality for the year it was made in.
I am slowly getting through, as I am already on episode 6. I have to say, this show is becoming such a pain. Honestly. I cannot keep doing this. The show is more sad than scary, and the live action is taking away from it. It's especially upsetting since the animated bits are so good!
I still have two more episodes to go though, so I am crossing fingers for myself.
6/10
I ended up being very passionate about this specific anime. So here is the link for the official review.
8/10
If you want to read more, you can find the whole commentary here.
I've seen someone rate the episodes (from best to worst), so here goes nothing:
- Cinderella
- Pied Piper of Hamelin
- The Town Musicians of Bremen
- The Elves and the Shoe Maker
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Hansel and Gretel
8/10
6/10
"I'll hold banquet after banquet, forever unchanging."
I ended up being very passionate about this specific anime. So here is the link for the official review.
"When did that promise become a curse?"
7/10
7/10
There you go, another link for a review. Here.
Unfortunately I have to report that the second season was practically the
same. Only that it didn't focus on the supernatural, but the main
character's past. The first half was really strong and the sexual tension
was unmeasurable.
The animation quality dropped SO MUCH and by the end,
it was barely animated - while the art stayed just as good.
Story-wise, everything was way too confusing and I didn't know what was
happening half the time... only for a conclusion to be so... meh. We knew
from the start how it will end, so why did we have to be so mysterious and
dramatic about it?
All the other plots went nowhere really, and it gave
us no story. It was just a "this character's past" the whole 12
episodes.
I am disappointed in this season, but if there's ever another season, I will definitely want to follow it.
The short film played me like a fiddle and I almost died at the purest love there is. Honestly, that made me love the series so much more. That was INCREDIBLE. 8 minutes of pure love... I've been blessed.
8/10 and 5/10 and 9/10
This classic show starts out strong and brings two amazing characters that have a great chemistry together. Even though they went for a classical trope of "I want my best friend happy instead of me", I thought the build up to the two characters dating was well made.
But all of that happened in the first 7 episodes (and more), so the pacing seemed off to me for a story that's 24 episodes long. I couldn't imagine what else they'll show us... and I wasn't exactly excited about just seeing them happily date.
On episode 8, a weird plot was introduced - Takeo is going to have a
sibling. Ok... and? They completely abandoned something they set up as a
huge thing.
And instead, we got another 16 episodes of "she loves him,
and that guy loves that girl" and "one confession for Yamamoto and one for
Rinko". Come oooon.
It just was... boring.
6/10
The Ancient Magus' Bride is a show from 2018 that kept airing in various seasons and ovas until 2023 and hit the charts in all green - becoming one of the more popular TV series that thousands of people have seen.
The problem is, the show is not that good. It's just hitting the regular popular tags, without bringing anything exciting or ground breaking. The story follows a Sleigh Beggy Chise (human with magical abilities), who was left by her family and ended all alone. She gets bought by a creature with skull for a head and takes her for his apprentice.
Elias (the creature) is learning about humans and emotions - while Chise is learning about how life can be pretty. Two two of them build a strong bond that they cannot name, and found family / slow burn romance can begin.
Just from those few sentences I could understand why people love this series so much. The people (TM) disappoint me greatly, because they make the most mediocre series stand out and get too popular, while leaving behind true gems. But this is not what's this about.
The story introduces a new plot line every few episodes, while the story
itself is progressing only softly. The stories told and problems unfolded
are mediocre at best, all things that were done multiple times in every
other fantasy or drama show.
The jealousy, the "I have to tell him right away!", the
miscommunication trope, the "you're pushing yourself too hard!"...
all of that, all the time.
They bring a lot of new characters in the mix (again, every other episode),
but we know only about their sad, tragic backstories, while the characters
themselves are not all that interesting.
While Chise and Elias got only
flashbacks of backstories , we know everything about every other character,
because the show builds on sob stories.
Not to mention that the two worlds are barely connected. While the world building is confusing (Elias' world seems medieval, but the real outside world is modern) and Chise's backstory of "everyone left me" was just the imagination of a small kid that didn't understand what was happening around her. The real story is much more heart breaking.
Neither the art or the animation stands out, so what's left of this story? Until you're curious about endings or determined to finish what you started - nothing. Nothing at all.
Okay, that was harsh. The first opening and ending were amazing, the second not so much. I enjoyed the backstory for Redcurrant and the "old guy". That was really sweet... but the end of that part of the story just fucked it up. And that's that in the terms of enjoyment.
6/10
Another legendary movie from Satoshi Kon. There is nothing I can say that would even come close to describing what a masterpiece this was.
Go watch it.
10/10
The second season followed the quality of it's prequel - nothing extra happened, nothing extra changed. We got a few more new characters and we got a few more new plotlines and dangers. The music was okay, the art and animation was okay and the season wasn't anything special, but still good.
I'll keep watching, I do want to finish the series - but I don't believe this show will bring anything extra new. Staying in your line is sometimes the best thing you can do, and so my opinion didn't change at all:
8/10
This movie is a part of Hibike! series. You don't have to watch anything from the series to understand this, but I guess it does help a little with the characters and their dynamic.
A strong message in a movie that promises not much with it's premise. The art and quality are decreased from the main series - but they look more like a fairytale, or a animated movie which is a big plus, given what this movie is.
I watched it while going to school, on a train and what a nice experience it was.
Ask yourself. Are you Liz or the Blue Bird?
9/10
I enjoyed the first season of this "feel good" "food porn" show. The second season almost killed me though.
It was boring, dragged so much, the characters that were introduced were either boring or just... ugh. And the only plot point they had seemed to pass in the last ten minutes of the show, which is tragically little.
I will have good memories about the first season, but that cannot be said about the second season at all. Glad to be done. Bye.
5/10
