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Legend of Exorcism (Bilibili)

Evaluation: worth watching

Spoiler: Originally a love story and now a bromance, I still think the origins are obvious while watching it. However in my personal opinion I think that the amount of main characters detract from the story. There's not enough focus on the two main protagonists and the fact that they always fight against their enemy in a big group like they're the avengers makes the fights extremely unimpressive. Even if it's a villain, it just isn't cool for the main characters to beat them like that.

Oh by the way; I hate the character design of the MC.

However.

The characters are fun and it has a lot of hilarious moments. If you can deal with the things stated above (which isn't too bad imo) it's worth a try!

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Sweet Bite Marks EP1 around 5 minutes

Evaluation: makes you want to become a vampire hunter

Spoiler: This is a romance. Haha.

This really starts off with the MC's parents being killed, the humans becoming the bloodbags of the vampires and the vampire prince (sexually) assaulting the MC and then getting so angry when she slaps him that he tells the whole school to bully her. Like what. I don't care that he felt sad his nanny left him. She was probably forced but even if she wasn't imagine treating a whole group of people like trash because your goddamn nanny left what a selfish, self-centered, pompous pot.

He's likely going to act nicer towards her and since he's the prince the situation might even become better for the humans (if the author doesn't simply forget all about it because who cares about politics when there are important things like love rival number 353 appearing). However, forcing myself to watch more than this will give me anger management issues, so I'll stop now.

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Mom, I'm Sorry EP1 (Bilibili)

Evaluation: very good so far

Spoiler: There's a reason that the title of the post is "Mom, I'm Sorry EP1 (Bilibili)" and that is because I won't be continuing.

The animation is good and they have managed to make me cry in the first episode, so congrats to the team but I don't like melancholic/ depressing stories or bittersweet endings. Since it's not going to have a happy ending I'm going to spare myself from feeling upset afterwards.

So far it seems like a beautiful story about the bond between a parent and a child so if familial relationships are something you are interested in and you can stand a bittersweet ending, this is for you.

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Scumbag System (Donghua)

Evaluation: good. It definitely could be better but it's entertaining enough.

Spoiler: Since it was originally a BL novel the adaption is bound to change a bit but they've mostly stayed true to the novel. It is 3D instead of animated which I think is a shame especially because it isn't the best 3D animation around and sometimes looks a bit funny but all in all it conveys what it's supposed to. It's an isekai story that's mostly a comedy that lives on satire (but loves its tropes regardless) and ends with the master and disciple getting together. That's likely going to be changed to filial piety and bromance, so seeing how they'll pull that off should be entertaining.

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Cinderella Chef (Bilibili) S1 -S2 Ep4

Evaluation: boring

Spoiler: It's a cooking anime romance. But mostly a cooking anime. If you like slice of life and cooking you might like it but I found it a drag. It starts of with being kidnapped by bandits, spying and the mc almost getting killed and after that... nothing happens anymore. She goes to a restaurant and cooks. And cooks. And cooks. People are impressed. The romance is basically subplot. The secondary love interest gets a lot of screen time but even he is a side character. But hey, she won another cook off, so that's great, right? No! I'm bored.

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No Doubt In Us/ Lian Bu Yi Animation (

Bilibili)

Evaluation: recommended

Spoiler: It's a love comedy with some drama set in ancient china. I am not a fan of 3D Animation but they did a good job for what it is. I don't have much to say about it. If you like love comedy and the premise of an emperor and an empress switching bodies via voodoo magic (and there is much more of that to come - magic exists in that universe), this is for you. Personally I thought it was cute and the characters are likeable.

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Wish (Disney)

Evaluation: watchable. Would recommend watching it once.

Spoiler: Disney's wish is a flop and it's not difficult to see why. Leaving aside the animation, the movie itself feels disjointed, which is a real shame, since it could have been a lot better had they readjusted some things. The easter eggs didn't do much to add to the movie and took away precious time that could have been used for other things. I have to admit I'm not a hardcore Disney fan; I've watched most movies but that's about it. You can laugh at me but the two most important easter eggs; that Magnifico was the mirror in Snow White and that Asha was the grandmother fulfilling wishes in Cinderella didn't register. That's basically the most important part of the movie! Getting the backstory of two characters we never thought we would learn more about was a great idea! But it fails. Asha doesn't look or act like the character in Cinderella, so that connection feels completely forced. It's not like it's impossible either. Asha promised to protect the wishes of people. Now that the citizens have finally decided to step up, maybe Asha decides to "secretly" help people out who can't fulfill them on their own at the end of the movie and takes on the form of her grandmother whenever she helps out? In order to introduce the grandmother as a character, the wish of her grandfather could have had something to do with his late wife. Asha's personality would have to be different though. The character in Cinderella is very obviously from a different generation not like Asha who is based on a modern teenager. If that idea feels stupid, that's fine too, I'm not a writer paid by Disney, coming up with an idea to better tie these two things together would have been their job. Magnifico is another mess altogether. They, quite frankly, didn't empathize enough how evil he was. Since he was supposed to be evil and was never going to get redeemed either way, they should have built on this whole "taking their wishes takes away a part of the people and makes them sad/unhappy/listless/miserable" and gone for a more Ursula kind of character. The star is boring. The goat, too. Asha has too many friends. Yes, they're an easter egg. So? None of them got developed very well, so they're a waste of space. Movies don't thrive on easter eggs but on plot. Funnily enough they're also very bad friends? At least if you go by Disney standards. Usually friends in Disney would go to hell and back in order to help you so them being so suspicious of Asha's words left a bad feeling in my mouth. That's not the kind of relationship I expect from Disney.

I've been reading some weird posts about how Wish ruins this whole "wishing on a star thing" and I have to disagree here. Characters in Disney have always worked hard to fulfill their dreams and the star only ever helped them out a bit. Which is exactly what happened in Wish. Asha gets the help she needs in order to help herself and then gets a wand from the star; not in order to fulfill every wish but in order to protect the wishes of those people who can't protect them themselves.

However despite my complaints the movie has good points. I can see what they were going for. It's too bad they didn't put more effort into this. Or maybe they didn't have the right people. I don't know. I'm sure hardcore Disney fans know all about it.

I wish upon a star they bring out a better movie next time.