Revisiting the Pokémon Anime

I have criticised the Pokémon anime in the past, but recently I've gone back to watch the original Pokémon anime in mandarin, and I've been enjoying a lot. Approaching the series with the additional aspect of learning a language has made it more interesting for me, and allowed me to appreciate the better aspects of …

Friendship and Betrayal in Kaiji and Liar Game

(This post features spoilers for both Kaiji and Liar game, but if you haven't seen any of these by now what are you doing? I've been writing about this stuff for ages!) Both Kaiji and Liar game are very similar shows in the fact that they feature gambling however the nature of the characters and …

How To Overpowered Main Character Part Two

The link to part one doesn't exist yet because it will be released in the future however when I get round to it you will be able to find part one here. Previously I talked about the importance of context in making an overpowered main character good. Now I will talk about a character that …

How To Overpowered Main Character

I don't think anyone's going to argue with me to say that an overpowered main character can't be interesting or implemented into a great story. We've got people like Light Yamgami, One Punch Man and Kuro sensei who make great overpowered characters and people seem to like them. So is it fair to say that …

‘A Silent Voice’ is An Excellent Film

I have found in the past that writing a long review talking about the film in chronological order is unhelpful to a lot of people because they can get insanely long and people don’t have the time or the patience to read it all, so now I’m switching my style to talk about specific things …

Anime Harems – How They Hook YOU! (Part 11)

This post series really doesn’t need to be as long as it currently is, and in fact you may be able to argue that this is the genre which needs the least parts since it has very little to talk about, but the fact that the genre feels like such an anomaly compared to all …

Kaiji – The Future Is In Our Hands

In a similar style to Mother's Basement's "what's in an OP?" series I've always wanted to talk about anime openings and endings and now here's my chance with a really brilliant song which is near and dear to my heart: Mirai wa bokura no te no naka. Have a listen to the OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7myzgxz9nI And Here's …

Anime Harems – The Genre is stagnant, what do? (Part 10)

I’ve detailed my criticisms of the harem genre to a large extent over the previous parts, however I’ve not ever really said what I’d so about it or how I’d fix it if I was a part of the anime industry and actually had a say in the production of shows. So let’s talk about …

Hajime No Ippo And The Benefits Of Impeccable Characterisation

I’ve not being enjoying the current Fall 2017 anime season. I just couldn’t find an anime I found interesting or better than a 5/10. Then I watched an older anime whose premise and ideas are the most terrible thing to me, whose genre I tend to shy away from and aesthetic I tend to dislike, …

Anime Harems: What Is Bad Taste? – Part 9

Saying “you have bad taste if…” will always be an opinion and never a fact since taste is subjective and there is no objective view of what taste and enjoyment is better. There is no such thing as objective bad taste, just consensus bad taste, consensus meaning that theirs a prominent opinion of what makes …

Anime Harems: Why Are People Even watching? – Part 8

If you ask any “anime harems fan” why they enjoy them they often find it difficult to explain. This doesn’t mean that anyone has bad taste or isn’t smart, it’s just fairly telling for the genre. I’m going to argue that most harems (nearly all) are made far worse by including the harem aspects. This …

Anime Harems Can’t Fell Earned (mostly) – part 7

9 months ago I started a series where I looked in depth at the harem genre. It was the first ever posts that I made and I always felt that the series was incomplete despite the fact that I felt more things needed to be said. These things will be updated as soon as I …

My Favourite Scene In My Hero Academia

Since Boku No Hero Academia is running I’ve remembered my absolute favourite scene which is very moving, it nearly makes me cry every time I watch it. It takes place in episode two of season one and it’s all because of the build-up to it and the simple action that follows. This moment takes place …

Death Note: L VS Near – Introductions

There are spoilers in this post so don't read it if you have plans to watch death note. During this anime I found that I liked the start of it far more than the end due to the character of L. In this (hopefully) short series I will be talking about the differences between L …

Justifying The Existence Of Slice Of Life Anime

Slice of life is a genre where pretty much nothing happens. It’s just you witnessing the daily life and trials of the characters. My first introduction to this genre was Soul Eater Not and I find that it’s something weird to like. When pretty much nothing happens but some comedy scenes and minor events it’s …

Quality Vs Likability: EroManga-sensei

I received a lot of comments on my “You Are Rating Anime Wrong” Post talking about different ways of reviewing. It so happens that at this time I watched a two hour YouTube video  called “How To Write Gooder” where Digibro went through all of his old blog posts, and one aspect of his reviewing …

Comedy Anime Needs To Feed Into Itself – Repetitive Jokes

I gain a huge satisfaction whenever I understand a joke that most people ordinarily wouldn’t understand or find funny, and this remains true for my taste in comedy anime. Understanding the context and build-up to a joke can make it so much funnier than just telling the joke in the first place. This is absolutely …

You Are Rating Anime And Manga Wrong!

I’m about to start reviewing / discussing anime and manga that I’ve completed, dropped and (in the case of the manga) am still reading. This could be quite a controversial thing to do because my rating and reviewing system is completely different from what everyone else is doing. I’ve decided to talk about why people …

Comedy Needs To Feed Into Itself – Prison School

Comedy feels so much more satisfying when the narrative all flows into each other and the setups create a constant barrage of setups that are simultaneously used as payoffs. This post is intended for people who have already seen prison school and therefore contains major spoilers for the show. So watch that first because it’s …

Comedy Anime Needs To Feed Into Itself

For anyone who doesn’t really understand what the title means I’m sure that you’ve heard of the idea of set up’s and pay off’s. Something that is made for use in the future is a set-up and a reward / fun moment later is a payoff due to the set up. Payoffs don’t always occur …

First Impressions Count In Anime – How to Tell If An Anime will “Get Good” (Part 3)

This blog series has gone on longer than intended however we’ll finish today by looking at an anime that I thought had a terrible first impression and the differences between a show that starts bad but gets good and a show that never achieves good quality. We’ll still be using our Mysterious Girlfriend X example …

First Impressions Count In Anime Part 2 (AOT, Death Note and Erased)

First impressions are important to make you continue watching, I’ll now talk about shows that gave me a good impression and turned out bad in the end as well as a show that started bad and finished bad. The point of this is to show a meaningful difference between a good first impression and a …

What Do You Mean The Trinity Seven Film Was Too Short?

From reading reviews and impressions of this film I’ve gathered that everyone thought that this film was too short. Whilst 55 minutes is short for a film I really don’t believe that the film needed to be any longer than it was. I get it, some people for some reason want a season 2 of …

Why Is Clannad So Popular?

Clannad is both highly ranked and popular. On my anime list it has over 500,000 members and a high ranking of 8.29 on the score system. But why? What does Clannad do to elevate it above many other shows and become so popular? I’m bringing this point up because I absolutely hated the show and …

Why Food Wars Doesn’t Have Good Episode Endings

On my anime list food wars the second plate is on hold with 2 episodes left to finish. So why don’t I finish them? If I’ve seen 35 episodes already why not watch two more? The answer is a mixture of the fact that I got bored with the show and that they’re episode endings …

Bad Animation Does Not Matter In Anime

People who drop anime due to bad animation baffle me. Is that it? Is that the only reason why you dropped a show? Even if the art style was good the animation was just too bad. I don’t get this at all. Unless it’s something like hand shakers where the animation can give you a …

The Appeal Of Sports Anime (Why you should watch even if you’re not a sports fan)

I feel that it’s quite safe to say that not a lot of anime fans also like sports. Besides the mainstream sports shows I feel that most shows are overlooked by many fans, some of whom disregard the genre completely without giving it any thoughts. As the creators of most sports anime appreciate that a …

What I Want From Anime: Good Cliffhangers

A somewhat weird thing to want, I do admit however I feel like it’s quite an easy thing to justify. Having watching anime for a long time I’ve not felt hooked into a show for a while, there’s plenty of shows that I enjoyed just not any that I was motivated to finish quickly. For …

Sports Anime and Real Life: Tournament Arcs vs League tables

Let’s talk about football tournaments: there’s not very many of them which are popular.  Theirs obviously the world cup, champion’s league, FA cup and EFL cup (I only looked up for UK – where I live) but not many others. Even saying these, the world cup and champions league both have league tables at the …

Sports Anime’s Are Better Than Real Sports

This may seem a bit nerdy however I think watching sports anime is better than watching actual sport. Heck, if you don’t even like anime, watching sports films is better than watching real sport. First I feel it’s important to explain how sports anime is nothing like watching sports. Writing this was inspired by one …

Moe Comedies: Lucky Star, Nichijou, Yuru Yuri

Do you ever want to like something so badly that you feel ashamed that you don’t actually like it? For me that thing is Moe comedies. When I talk about moe comedies I think about things like “Yuru Yuri”, “Luckystar” and “Nichijou”: Very respected and beloved comedies with a moe comedy aspect. These are the …

The Problem With Mystery

I’d quite like to consider myself an intelligent viewer of a lot of the shows that I watch so when I watch a crime mystery show I naturally want to find out who did it however I’m often made disappointed. Firstly this is because some of the time the only interesting thing about a show …

The Appeal Of Harem Anime (part 6)

If you’ve been keeping up with the harem saga that I’ve been writing then you may feel like I dislike harems. This was never my intention, as there are many harems that I enjoy (for the longest time two of my favourite shows we’re “Nisekoi” and “Seto No Hanayome” – both harems). As well as …

The Importance Of Good Story in Harem Anime (part 5)

I’ve said before in previous posts that even if the characters aren’t great, fleshed out, developed or made to interact well then the situation, plot or ideas of the anime can save the show. Though for harem shows I believe that statement to be completely theoretical because I don’t know any anime that have won …

Why Anime Harem’s Work (part 4)

I started writing about harems ever since re-watching school days (which I didn’t like) and it got me thinking about how harems can work. Reflecting on that I realised that most harems shouldn’t work as you see them in anime, after all how many harems have you seen work in real life? I’d guess none. …

Good Waifus In Harems (part 3)

Saying that a character is good is all subjective depending on what you want from an anime or what your standard of good characters is. Therefore I wouldn’t be surprised if some people say that they enjoy tropes, after all, tropes only exist because the audience lets them exist, if nobody liked the trope then …

How Harems Feel Earned (part 2)

Part of the reason why I stopped watching harems was that I found that they took what the viewer already knew for granted. It trusted that the watcher was genre savvy enough to realize that the harem happened “because harem” and not question it because they knew what type of show you’re watching. To me, …

The Main Characters In Anime Harems (part 1)

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