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Mar 5, 2020
I own 5k+ books so I may be a little biased but this is really good anime.
If you are looking for light warm heated fluff and about the importance and family and pursuing a dream, this one is for you.
The characters are unbelievably cute and enjoyable.
Myne the main character is highly relatable, and a welcome change from the usual isekai blockheads. The only cheat she has is the memories of her past life, and it's far more accurate to say she has enough detriments to crush a busload of high schoolers summoned to another world. She isn't perfect, she isn't infallible but
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she manages. A really nice character to see.
Lutz, her love interest is nobody's fool, least of all hers and it's nice to see that too. He's obviously in love with her, and the anime doesn't go stupid on you with their romance. Thumbs up again.
Her family is equally well done. A wonderful family who's only problem is they are a little too good.
The plot is an enjoyable overview of Myne doing whatever she can to live a life surrounded by books. It's for the most part believable, though I wouldn't advise looking up how to make anything she brings from the modern world. What's more the plot actually manages to end well in the 14 episodes the anime runs for. From my point of view and opinion about reading material, it was a really unhappy ending, but YMMV.
TL:DR watch and enjoy
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Feb 13, 2020
"I am the strongest man in the world"
--Adlet
"You're an idiot wearing a weird belt"
--Chamo
At least Holmes only said Elementary my dear Watson once per story. Adlet saying his catchphrase should be a drinking game except if you tried take a drink every time says you'll kill yourself via alcohol poisoning.
Getting past the MC who likes to shout out his plot armor, this may have been the worst (I mean the absolute worst) locked room mystery ever. You aren't given information from the light novels that's needed to make sense of what happens. Flat out. There is a large prequel to the anime
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that without which noting makes any sense. (The only reason I know is I checked the fandom wikia because I couldn't believe the story in its original form was sooooooooooo bad). I mean it. When you take a look at the information it turns out that the anime is a really bad adaptation of an arc in the middle of the light novels.
Next on the parade of awful are the characters. You have all kinds of awful here.
1. There's Adlet the guy who never seems to mind being folded, stapled, mutilated and spindled in various ways by his "friends" without even expecting or getting an apology. Shucks there's a knife in my side, a couple broken bones, I may have a bit of brain damage from all the blood loss but shucks tweren't nothing.
2. There's the princess. She is just so badly done in so may ways. But lets just say she is completely unbelievable in her role. Especially WRT to her relationship with Adlet.
3. There's Lurch err Godlof. The princess's body gaurd and faithful retainer who has all the emotional of a block of wood. Not blaming the actor here, it's genuinely bad writing.
4. There's Fremmy (Maybe should be Flamey ?): Who could be Lurche's little and really depressed sister. She's kind of there to show tech is useless, being the saint of gunpowder
5. There's Hanz. Actually maybe the best character in the Anime. He's consistent and logical, methodical everything you would expect from someone in his profession. Except he's a fricking comic relief cat man.
6. There's Mora: Well lets say if you haven't figured out that picking a leader because they sound good is a bad idea by now, she is the last straw for that idea.
7. Chamo: Chamo is literally too annoying to be allowed to live. Little girl or not I can't imagine a society that would have killed her off and gotten a new saint.
Like so many anime these days the best part of Rokka are the art, the background music and the sound. Not to say the art is great but it's much better than the rest and the Central American fantasy theme is intriguing. The music is good, and the voice acting isn't bad but you can catch the actors pain as they read the lines.
TL:DR I gave it a 3 and that's on the MY AnimeList scoring scale. Where anything below a 5 is toxic.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Feb 11, 2020
"I am sorry it looks like I have been causing trouble for you again"
---Taeko
Say what you will about best girls in other anime but Aoi chan is the perfect girl, and thank heaven Karou is no idiot when it comes to realizing it. The elements Ai Yori Aoshi are wonderful.
Anyway lets talk about those really great parts. Ai Yori, is all about wonderful characters. All of them are wonderful, and most are pretty damn believable with the possible exception of Aoi who may well be too perfect. The series even manages to create layer after layer of detail. What are initially anime stereotype characters
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all become marvelously complex. By the end of the series they are all well fleshed out and feel like old acquaintances.
The comedy is also pretty good, it's not at side splitting belly laugh level but it is definitely there and you will find yourself smiling and chuckling quite a bit.
The story is rather mediocre but that isn't a negative. It's definitely a sitcom and in a sitcom the story is just there to provide a vehicle for the characters to interact with each other. Ai Yori's story manages this very well. Just don't expect it to go anyplace in the anime.
On the presentation side Ai Yori does a pretty solid job. Regarding the English Dub, the voice acting was very solid. While there could have been more emotional range the characterization was spot on. Music was also very on target.
The art, oh my the art. The faces and facial expressions are just wonderful There's no trying to remember hair and eyecolor combos with this anime. People are distinct and memorable. Unfortunately the rest of the art is really crude. 1960s or 1970s American cartoon level. It still works well and doesn't detract from the enjoyment.
What did detract from the enjoyment ? Not sure I know. Maybe it just wasn't bingeable ? Maybe it was despite the fact a story really wasn't needed, it still needed a little resolution ? Maybe a little change in their situations ? Despite the difficult to pinpoint problems this was still very well worth the watching
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Feb 10, 2020
"That's not cute"
---Yasuna
"I'd have less injuries if I were farther away from you"
---Yasuna
If abusive yuri is your thing then kill me baby is for you. If it isn't by the time you are done watching you may want to take a shower.
Kill me baby starts off looking like a cute girls doing cute things slice of life and rapidly degenerates into abuse/punishment comedy. The episodes follow a simple formula Yasuna does something, it can be something nice, it can be something not so nice, it can be something completely unrelated to Sonya, Sonya then beats her up to seriously harming her, lather rinse repeat.
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You're then supposed to laugh and wait for the next That's the show right there, well except for the end which is bad enough to make you ill.
Unfortunately the character development is reasonably good, good enough that it makes the comedy the show is trying for much less palatable. Yasuna is simply adorable, to the point where it's like watching a puppy get kicked, over and and over again. If Sonya and Yasuna were a little more two dimensional it would have helped the humor immensely. It also would have helped if the violence were a little less real and more along the lines of the clearly ridiculous instead of the possible.
The same holds true for the art. Kill me baby does a really nice job of Chibi cute. Too bad that actually detracts from the humor after about the third episode.
Final rating: It's a 4 maybe less.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Feb 9, 2020
"If you do high kicks while wearing a skirt your opponent may get the wrong idea"
---Kazuma
Man another anime that starts well but finishes really badly. So badly I swear the ending had bile coming up in my throat.
Kaze really does start strong. It's a modern world with magic, evil spirits and magic users, pure fantasy candy if you are into the genre. The main character is given the mother of all motivations and had bonus points piled on top of it. He's been exiled from his family in disgrace because he can't do fire magic. It's gangbusters from the start. Unfortunately that first
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episode is the absolute best episode and goes rapidly down hill from there.
The "romantic" interest is set up to be the girl that caused him to be disowned. He has a rapprochement with the "family" that used to set him on fire as a child. And it just gets worse and worse from there. None of the major characters ring true. Kazuma has no emotional state whatsoever. Ayano is unbelievably annoying and often saying things that would get a real life person killed. I thought it really amusing that if anyone wanted to see that clan self destruct the best thing they could do is make absolutely certain Ayano ascends to being the head as fast as possible so her nature could insure its rapid destruction.
Despite the problems it does manage to have some fun moments some really good fights and a good deal of comedic dialog. Matter of fact it has so much comedy I was surprised it wasn't tagged comedy. It's a good deal funnier than many of the "comedy anime" and it does so effortlessly.
Then comes the ending. Man this is a horrendously horrible arc of an ending. It's so bad it had me thinking I would have to pray to the porcelain altar. Everything that had been established about the characters no matter how unlikely or unbelievable just goes out the window, and it's all because "That's the way we wanted it to end: The end"
Truly it's a shame. If they just redid that last arc, and yes there are so many ways they could of made changes to make it better this would have been a solid 8. Instead it's a high 6 low 7.
Long story short, There's certainly worse out there, but there's also much much better.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Feb 8, 2020
"I have experience my death over 1200 times
You get used to it after awhile"
---Claudia
I can relate I felt like I was experiencing a little bit of death while watching this. The problem with the second season of Asterisk War was it existed. The first season was MEH at best and having it repeat again for even more doesn't help. This anime really needed to understand the two great rules of show biz. One go out on a high note, two always leave them wanting more. It does neither.
While the presentation is up to the same standards as the first season. Good art and good sound,
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the story is even worse. You wind up the same endless school battles. If there were a little more doubt about how things would turn out it might have been more interesting. Hell it might have been a lot more interesting if the MC wasn't consistently beating up women (especially in swordfights). Hell it might have been a little satisfying if the plot points from the first season actually got resolved. There's none of that though, it's just a painful slog of fights, ridiculously OP girls that fall before the MC like wheat before a scythe.
Well I guess if go for predictable fare that really doesn't go any place, this is for you.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Feb 8, 2020
"Maybe I'm imagining it"
---Ayato
Maybe I needed drugs to enjoy this. There were some undeniably good points. Very well done art, great backgrounds, very good integration of CG, bit above average characters. Well done music, and above average voice acting. It even has the MC who isn't completely useless guy.
Sadly that's about all the good points. The world is half baked. The writing is very lazy. The MC is horrendously OP but his ability to fight has been sealed. But he can break the seal when he wants for limited periods of time So he might as well have Voltron's blazing sword when he wants
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it. The other characters beside the MC are really bad.
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Pink Haired Tsundere that high kickcs
Busty Blond manipulator that likes to make MC nosebleed
Timid tiny sword saint who likes to take abuse.
Tiny girl with big guns who and no personality.
Angry guy that picks fights he can't win.
Third wheel guy.
Various equally generic and unmemorable villains.
The world ? Well if you can follow what's going on in this world, you're one or more up on me. Far as I can figure there was some disaster or other that destroyed the current world order, created a variety of superhumans, who attend highschool in an academic city and engage in bloodsport as mass entertainment and as a means of determining status. You have a lot of ridiculous combat. There's also a bunch of subplots related to extortion and power games between the factions. It winds up like a mystery novel where the author has deliberately left out the clues.
The story ? I suppose there was something, mostly what I saw was many many fights where I had very little doubt about the outcome. There were background threads but damned if there was any logic to them. Starving orphans ? Lost relative, crazy father, imprisoned father, it's got more of them than a season of Days of Our Lives. There's also a harem romance going on but with all the arbitrary going on I really couldn't care about how it worked out. Don't see how you are going to get caught up in 2 undeveloped 12 or 13 year olds fighting a 17 year old for the guy. Maybe one of them will win but if they do who cares. You just feel the need to shower and get clean.
I've seen worse, this might even have been worse if it was more comprehensible. As it stands it's just another really muddled anime.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Feb 7, 2020
"It'll be a hundred years before a weakling like you has the skill to slay me"
---Demon Lord
First thing this needs to be bumped to an R-15 instead PG-13 it has a LGBT (and pedo) agenda to it which is a real shame because otherwise it would be fantastic down to a G rating. As it stands if you are watching it with your kids you may well be having conversations you'd just rather not have.On the other hand the instances where it does try to interject the current political zeitgeist are useful for explaining to kids how propaganda works and how to protect themselves.
Second it's
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not a really a 7 it's more something north of a 6.5. While it's a really fun take on Japanese Fantasy/ RPG tropes. Think Fairy Tail, Magic Labyrinth, Record of Lodoss, Slayers but with a cast of nothing but really cute girls winning by sheer cuteness. As nice as that may be, by about the 6th episode it gets really tiring. You make a comparison to say black clover where everyone is trying to be better to this where no one is and you can understand why I give it a ding for this. Plot armor just gets to be bad writing after awhile.
Thirdly there's expectation failure. I was really expecting more demon lord. Turns out the demon lord isn't even a main character, despite having the only story line that is even vaguely interesting. Yuusha is boring as the hero. The other three even less interesting. They could have been better but the opportunity wasn't taken.
Finally there's the art, which if you're being charitable is at best crude. Not Dr. Katz or Home Movies crude but still significantly below current standards.
All told the problems knock endro down from a 9 or a high 8 to a mid to high 6. It winds up being light fluff that needs to be taken in small doses.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Feb 7, 2020
"Seen from afar at night any woman looks beautfiful"
---Haruhiko
Yeah that quote pretty much sums up the philosophy of this series. This is a beach episode though and if you watch it on its own it's not nearly bad as the rest.
What you can like about it ? Fan service. Did I mention it's a beach episode ? So lots of fan service.Pretty good fan service at that, just the same if you are watching anime for that, just go to the hentai, go directly to the hentai.
Aside from that there really wasn't enough time for the characters to be as bad as
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they were in the full series. So another plus ?
What's not to like about it ? Well you still have the same garbage going on from the series. Haruhachi has had his abilities downgraded once again. There's an abundance of poorly done anime cliches, and in true Soup Nazi fashion, a no closure for you moment.
TL:DR flip a coin, it's only about 25 minutes long
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Feb 7, 2020
"It seems too good to be true"
---Ruru
A series about mythical beings rising from the collective unconscious really did sound too good to be true, and it wasn't good, it was bad.
You get your first warning it's going to be bad when you are introduced the MC, Ichijou, Haruhiko, or otherwise known as useless guy with no spine. This character made me think that the trend of really OP isekai MCs was a reaction to completely unpalatable wimps like him. He is naturally teamed up with useless, abusive, breasts. aka Mai. While useless guy isn't very good at what he does, abusive breasts actually makes
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whatever she tries worse and takes it out on useless guy. Unfortunately it doesn't get better as they add characters.
Next warning it's going to be bad , it's one of these ridiculous Japanese high schools that endlessly puts kids in harms way for some reason. What's more they seem to be fond of using kids with "special abilities" as easily exploited labor. Sure why not. The world gets progressively worse from there. More or less there are no limits to what can happen and there is no rhyme or reason to it when it does happen.
Given the warnings Phantom World, gives you early and often it comes as no surprise that there's nothing to speak of for a story, and the character development is even worse. In one episode, you have a character that has a "problem" that drives them into insanity. It's solved with literally the wave of a magic wand. You never find out what it was, and there is no change whatsoever in the character. When it's time for characters to lose they lose, when the clock starts to run out they win, no reason why, no believable effort nothing. Why does it happen ? Because it happens.
TL:DR Look elsewhere it's bad.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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