- Last Online7 hours ago
- Birthday1990
- LocationArgentina
- JoinedMar 18, 2016
Also Available at
RSS Feeds
|
May 22, 2018
This is the story of a poor woman that has constant horrible days at work and when she finally does something right her cat is about to die. Good thing she doesn't have a family.
While the idea is that this new cat littler box allows you to check your cat's crap to judge how they're doing, having it represented as smelly letter her cat craps is a bit bizarre. I don't consider myself capable to diferentiating a "you didn't play with me enough" poop from a "I don't like your friends" one, I'll try it out with my next partner.
The Tekken style is cute and
...
I feel it works pretty good for narrative advertizement, but the limited animation isn't anything to love.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
What did you think of this review?
Nice
 0
Love it
 0
Funny
 0
Confusing
 0
Well-written
 0
Creative
 0Show all
![]()
May 22, 2018
You can watch this on youtube by searching the japanese title, there are no dialogues.
This promo video presents a cute view on the exploitative japanese business culture. There's a handful of universal inspiring moments; like learning from your senpai, hanging on when things don't seem to work or focusing on making your client work to the fullest. But it has all the awkward japanese ideology about having your boss scream at you on your free time, magically going from beign kicked out to being hired or working 16 hours a day spending more time with coworkers than your family (with a little kid appearing in
...
a single frame working as alarm clock for the MC to go eat with his senpai).
I really enjoyed how they pressented a classic anime plot with no dialogues, the images are depurated to perfect representations of plot points. On the other hand the art is as basic as it gets, the initial shot has cheap CG and there is no actual animation.
It's a good source to see hiring narratives in Japan, and what employees hope will happen. As an anime short there isn't all that much since it never tried to be a perfect piece on it's own, expecting it to be would be wrong on the viewer's part.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
What did you think of this review?
Nice
0
Love it
0
Funny
0
Confusing
0
Well-written
0
Creative
0Show all
![]()
Feb 5, 2018
It has to be commended that Ballroom e Youkoso tries to do something very special and succeeds to a certain extent, using a male and female team sport the sport aspect is treated as a romance plot and the romance elements are directly tied to the sport. It's not just jumping the hurdle of using time for love interests that most sport shonen struggle with, it straight up takes elements from a romance plot and presents it with the passion and structure of a sport plot while covering most of what you want in the sport genre.
The first half works perfectly for anyone who likes
...
any of those genres, and even better if you enjoy both. The animation is a bit choppy and they do the absurd mistake of replacing the music they are dancing to with generic anime mood music. We only get a few moments of synced animation since they somehow felt there was no need for that (less than a year after the success of Yuri on Ice)
This is a minor issue for the first half since the concepts they present in classic sport fashion keep you too busy to care. But the second half drops the previous plots and takes 5 episodes to build new characters and conflicts, with most development moments shown entirely again over the final match. The training camp arc can be perfectly skipped since you'll see it again in no time. The characters previously developed become part of the mob commenting on the new main pair (the kind of job left to secondaries or new characters in most sport shows). So you are left with a mixture of a very long clip show, people talking and still frames of something that could be dancing but doesn't reflect the points they get. The romance aspects are reduced to a tsundere couple that has to learn to fight together instead of each other, and the sport element is pretty hard to follow since the sport itself has a very vague point system (you never know if they did good or bad until someone says outloud what happened while you were watching them frozen in time).
In general terms the first half is a strong 8 or even a weak 9 with new and very good akes on the genre and designs that stand out and give a ton of dynamism; while the second half struggles to reach a 5. This clash really ends up hurting the overall enjoyment, not only resulting in an underwhelming ending but making you realize how poor the production values always were.
It still managed to make me cry a couple of times, which is the biggest measure of a sport anime success. I think that an abridged movie would help a lot if a second season ever comes, but I'd recommend just reading the manga.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
What did you think of this review?
Nice
0
Love it
0
Funny
0
Confusing
0
Well-written
0
Creative
0Show all
![]()
Dec 29, 2017
A couple of vague spoilers that will help you deal with this: Tetsuro does nothing to change anything. Just like the previous movie, 999 is compacted to be a Harlock spin off more than it's own thing.
The strongest element in this movie is Rintaro's direction, and if we judged only by visuals this would easily be an 8/10 or above. But as a stand alone story and part of the 999 franchise it's pretty atrocious.
As I mentioned before it makes the same weird decision from the previous movie of taking out everything that 999 had besides character designs. Between 2 movies we get none of
...
the character development or plots of the original. Emeraldas even attacks Prometheum and at no point it's mentioned that she's shooting her mom (ep. 12 of the tv series explains that she's Maetel's sister, for the modern OVAs it's put as a given that you know this even though the movies go out of their way to ignore it). A story about travelers was turned into a story about freedom fighters. It's like taking Kino no Tabi or Mushishi and turning them into, well, weak Harlock spin offs.
There are other weird pointless connections like Prometheum being made Queen Millenia, there is no attempt to connect with it or make it fit in any way. Being a frozen planet, crashing with earth or any other planet, being queens for millenia. There's nothing besides names. Just like 999.
As it's own thing it meanders a lot. There are three different instances where Harlock just appears and saves everyone because he happened to be there, including the one time Maetel was trying to do something. With this plot it makes no sense to have a train since it doesn't have a set track to follow and they have no passengers to drop or pick up, it's just an aesthetic element. Everything about Maetel makes no sense, no matter if you know the original plot or not. She just says things that couldn't make sense and don't explain things she should want to explain.
And final spoilers: The ending is the same thing that the series did, and the previous movie, and the OVAs, and I'm sure the planetary only shows have the same. Just watch the tv series.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
What did you think of this review?
Nice
0
Love it
0
Funny
0
Confusing
0
Well-written
0
Creative
0Show all
![]()
Oct 15, 2017
what's the point of this?
Every five minutes or so I had to wonder that. Why would you have the sword collector and not give him swords? Why have over the top techniques and not show the name painted across the screen? Why reanimate and exclude the animation intensive scenes? Why have Kaoru and Yahiko if you take out all their scenes? Why have Kenshin's master and super fast Soujiro if there is no secret super fast final technique? Why have Soujiro loose his calm over a moral issue if you don't show whis moral issues? Overall this feels like someone with a plot synopsis
...
was asked to highlight the plot points on their first read without take backs.
(For example you'd assume at first that Chou is filler, and he originally was, but his character developed enough to put him in charge of the epilogue. Actually, all the characters that earned an epilogue are no longer part of the story.)
Ruroken always had some rhythm issues with Watsuki improvising way too much along the way. The artwork of the manga and some great episode directors made the originals work, but if there's a remake that changes events they could had fixed a lot of stuff.
So, what's the point of it? Was there really a need to do it this way? I think they wanted to capitalize on the live action films to promote the original, so they took out some sort of middle ground to motivate people to check it out. But the movies can do whatever they want because they are for a new audience and being live action you have a lower limit to push the fights before you lose the audience. There's nothing gain in this adaptation of an adaptation.
I would had been happier with 90 mins of the final fight, but that would make it exclusive for fans who still care about it and are willing to rewatch it. Maybe a retelling from Shishio's perspective would had been attractive to people who watched the anime/movies while being significantly shorter. But Ruroken without fights is just really boring, and there are literally no fights for more than an hour. And the ones there are after that fall flat because the motivations are said out loud 2 minutes before being refuted if there's any build up at all.
Usui constantly cock blocking Shishio was probably the only extra content that I sincerely loved. All historical elements were taken out (the burning of buddhist temples, prostitutes officially being defined as farm animals, the british economical control through Hong Kong, and so on) with all the great dead scenes. How do you dumb down an action show for 12 year olds? What's even the point?
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
What did you think of this review?
Nice
0
Love it
0
Funny
0
Confusing
0
Well-written
0
Creative
0Show all
Oct 15, 2017
While this could be considered an art film, which is a plus or a con depending on each person, the concept is strong enough to be understood without a lengthy explanation or previous knowlege. If anything knowing too much takes away from the enjoyment. Beyond the concept the sound design is really strong and complements it much more than the animation. I doubt just anyone could do this in Premiere but it's a long shot from the sakuga some people expect in anime. Whether its simplicity makes it feel special or a wasted opportunity is up to you.
For its length it's a really
...
solid piece. It won't change your life but I can't see any loss in watching it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
What did you think of this review?
Nice
0
Love it
0
Funny
0
Confusing
0
Well-written
0
Creative
0Show all
![]()
Jul 21, 2017
Satoshi Mizukami is mainly known for Samidare and maybe Spirit Circle, but like every mangaka he has dozens of works that barely got a one-shot if they were printed at all. This is a collection of pilots, only a few meant to even try to get serialization.
If you haven't read anything by him before the style might look a bit rough, mainly when it comes to faces. But he makes up for it with very dynamic movements, and you get to see how he slowly found his footing in that style.
The author comments keep insisting that there are connections between the stories, I'm pretty
...
sure it's just a running gag. All the characters stand perfectly on their own and share that calm weirdness that makes this author stand out. I wouldn't recommend this as the first thing by him you read, it's all rejected stuff after all, but if you liked something else it will really cement what makes him special in such a generic market as this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
What did you think of this review?
Nice
0
Love it
0
Funny
0
Confusing
0
Well-written
0
Creative
0Show all
Jun 19, 2017
Si leés castellano este ova está en youtube.
The only Umezu manga I've read is Fourteen, but for what I've seen this OVA adapts his style really well. You can see how it bleeds into other horror artists influenced by him like Junji Ito. The strongest point of this OVA has to be the character art, mainly face expressions.
The animation is a bit lacking but still great for a small 1990 OVA. Very few static shots or cheap slides but nothing impressive either. The key moments of gore have a lot of work put on them making them great gifs if you want to section them.
The
...
stories are original enough, I think most people will laugh a bit. Which realistically is the best outcome for a horror anime.If anyone can explain to me why the singer of The Cure had to present and exit the OVA I'd love to know.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
What did you think of this review?
Nice
0
Love it
0
Funny
0
Confusing
0
Well-written
0
Creative
0Show all
![]()
Jun 19, 2017
For many this just another piece in the long catalogue of AIC properties that were made by nobodies and can be only enjoyed by riffing on them. The two names that stand out in the production are the script writer, which is closer to what the US calls "script doctors" and just tries to make sense of the director's idea; and the mecha designer that you could know from Nadesico or Rayheart S2.
The production costs are divided between the gore scenes (with some decent blood splashes because 90's) and set designs. If there's something to enjoy here is the biologicaly infected spaceships, the later
...
is what made me watch this in the first place. On the other hand the characters look like a poor imitation of generic anime designs, there are barely any inbetweens and the general plot could not be there.
The main idea is an alien that dispenses justice on the guilty, but we only find out who is guilty and of what right before they die. There are espers, because it's japanese scifi, and very basic metaphors to explain things that require more, for the same reason.
If this hadn't been taken by Manga Corp no one would know about it, I'd risk to say that it was made as a cheap export as AIC used to do. In that way it serves as a way to understand that brief moment in the anime market and that's more use than it deserves to have. It also has very cool promo art, the laser disc cover in particular. I'd heavily recommend checking those images out.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
What did you think of this review?
Nice
0
Love it
0
Funny
0
Confusing
0
Well-written
0
Creative
0Show all
![]()
Feb 28, 2017
Therre is currenly no translated version of this and if you take the time to look for the raws it's pretty obvious that there will never be one. While not fluent in japanese, or understanding it at all, I am well versed in comedy cliches, so watching the raw wasn't really an issue. There's less than a handful of jokes in this, it's mostly the guy gets a hard on, otokonoko teases, slaps. It also has the obligatory 50% of its run time dedicated to "should I tap it? but it's a duuuuudddeeee!!"
It's pretty much Stop Hibari-Kun without the cuteness, charm or side characters.
...
Even the MC looks way too much like Hibari. The only good thing is that it does have a continuous plot, something that neither the manga or anime versions of Hibari-kun had and would had helped them a lot. The plot is one of them being jelly of the other when someone hot pays attention to them intertwined with attempts at molestation, but it keeps up from one episode to the next in more or less the same scene so, like, that's effort I guess..
The animation is impressively bad. It mostly reminded me of Sailor Moon and the Seven Ballz, a US made porn OVA. NSFW if you're curious, I mean, it's literally porn.
I just wanted to add that "it's just old" is a completely idiotic argument to make. This came the same season as:
Cowboy Bebiop
Trigun
Card Captor Sakura
Initial G First Stage
Lost Universe
Weiß Kreuz
Neo Ranga
Brain Powerd
Akihabara Dennou-Gummi
And even comparing it with the more bland stuff this could probably be the worst anime of its season.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
What did you think of this review?
Nice
0
Love it
0
Funny
0
Confusing
0
Well-written
0
Creative
0Show all
|
