#im sad this is the only ep hes in but yknow clearly he fucked off and became a detective full time so good for him

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me! ^_^

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hey its that time agian time for fukin anime reviews hey boys and girls

now that symphogear and fate/apocrypha have come to deliver us from evil, its finally time to render judgment unto the Mostly Fucking Abysmal Spring 2017 Anime Lineup

alice to zouroku: 5/10. I think this show failed on three levels: 1) not understanding the genre it wanted to be 2) plot structure and focus did not suit the characters or themes 3) BUDGET 4) replaced sana’s personality with FRAZZLED for three episodes in lieu of actually... yknow... any Thing. watch if you want to see it based on what others say because honestly I kind of checked out on it. I could see this having a higher review from others but seriously christ if I had to read the word “frazzled” one more time I was going to knife

seikaisuru kado: 10/10 from me because I cum for extradimensional science. I recognize that the last third had some structural problems but I believe the setup WAS present and consistent, and clearly the show was intended to flow smoothly but something forced the recap episode in and we had to squash out some of the development. I can't spoil this though so thats all. go watch it if you like Cosmos and understand the themes or if you just like sci fi. its really cool.

ID-0: 9/10. ADAMS FORTE CHEVALIER. sci fi cult classic in the making here (cus no one had the good sense to watch it lol sad tho) and strong recommend. it doesnt have a 10 because it starts really slow and kind of could be 2-3 eps less but goddamn it was cool. watch if ADAMS FORTE CHEVALIER

oushitsu kyoushi haine: 9/10 very consistently executed. everyone was likeable and (mostly) it was tightly plotted. charming and good budget. very honest. excellent hook for season 2. has some chibi and it does it right for the first time in 20 years. watch for heartwarming and if you like boys or something its a good show just go check it out

uchouten kazoku S2: 7/10 and probably biggest letdown of the year. so this show is supposed to be fun, right? that’s like the entire point? why were the last 4 episodes filled with torment, perdition, and brutality? why did we have the same plot as S1 plus the nidaime? where did the honesty and charm go? I think the key line that typifies what went wrong here is jyuroujin yelling "I RULE THE SKIES OF KYOTO!" like no bro this wasnt even.. a thing... ever. dont watch it but go watch season 1. season 3 might redeem this. im like 80% sure itll get made eventually since most people somehow apparently liked this one...

eromanga sensei: 3/10 and that's only because the animation and art quality was really good and I feel that it’s important to recognize that they had no part in making the show shit (honestly did a real good job). everything else gets a 0. this show is purest buttcrack cancer and I have no idea what I was thinking by liking it in any way other than the animation. the last 5 episodes were just the author masturbating in your face. there wasn't even an ending! it just stopped! also this is like proof that we're getting toddlercon within the next 1-2 years because oh god kill me. dont watch this pile of shit. dont support this  kind o f behavior anime was a  Mistake

sakura quest: 9/10 and going really, really strong. its nearing the 10 range really fast now that we've finally developed a clear overall plotline. this is still Feels Quest. if you're not watching this you really need to as a young adult (thats all of you probably) its so good in every single way.

sin: nanatsu no taizai: 9/10 hey this is where all the fun and delight that got sapped from uchouten went! we found it guys it's over here. I'm astounded, really truly amazed that this got produced for a titty anime figure line because it's super gay, and super sweet, and a wild ride. miami. you really should be watching this. all the male viewers hate it because the fanservice is all grotesque (what little real fanservice there is) it's all weird fetish material that's downplayed into kind of Just A Thing. it's fuckin awesome

girl beats boys: 8/10. a fine quick watch. good VN setup. good fight scenes (though short) and charming, interesting, unique way to present the material. worthy of respect, to my amazement since its an 8 minute show. hey my druids.

love tyrant: 8/10 actually? I picked this up on a whim because hey I should watch the other fanservice bullshit this season. turns out this had a lot of really great stuff in it. lots of good fetish material, really hot sadist, yandere shit, incest, reversal of gender roles, hot sadist, weird 6-winged face angels, companionship and the innocence of learning about young love. yeah that's all in one show. also there's a penguin that's like a sexual predator and a super saiyan terminator and that is why. the points were. deducted. from the show because why. anyway this one was fun. watch if fun and also hot sadist. did I mention her yet

re:creators:

this show sucks

bastard akashic records: 6/10 pointless shonen dreck

sukasuka: 6/10 pointless shonen dreck on which they wasted a really good cover of Scarborough Fair:

haifuri OVA: 6/10 we had to shit out something for the DVD release to get people to buy it or something

soutai sekai: pretty sure this didnt even exist. or just nobody bothered to sub past episode 1 because it sucked ass

maid dragon specials: these also disappeared? is anime real

frame arms girl: didnt watch the rest

tsugumomo: watched one episode. waifu clinically examines MC's dick as though she is a doctor. he responds clinically with no passion or eroticism in any of it. like we're measuring an animal (stallion?) for its penis size and ability to stud. dropped instantly.

things I am currently watching which are not new:

stella jogakuin koutou-ka c3-bu: super delightful and cute. girls with airsoft. my jam. hoping this one's good because I love what I've seen thus far

granblue fantasy: I watched an episode and it honestly seems a bit too simplistic Fantasy Action for me to bother with but I put it here for completeness thats all

berserk (1997) rewatch: with @prince-nal​. still the best 2k17 whassup

symphogear rewatch: with @justifiedsurrender who im dating and stuff. its an increasingly awesome time. I dont have a link to your SFW blog my bad. anyway DETERMINATION CANT BE MEASURED WITH NUMBERS!!!

other things I watched lately:

kekkai sensen: so I don't remember what I rated it but I could see anywhere from a 4 to a 10 being appropriate for a viewer. it had all the elements of a really good show, and lots of incredible animation and music, but it ended up being like... eating a whole package of cookies in one sitting? like, you're just choking down all this rad shit, and it just becomes too much and turns you off and probably gives you diseases. I think they also somehow dropped ~4 major antagonist plotlines without even resolving them but I feel like I got tricked because I only noticed it now. I would say watch this for sure but try to take it slow

scrapped princess: 8/10 stands out as a strong shonen title from the middle age of anime. watch if youre into that. strong character designs and pretty good art, great OP/ED. main complaint is that main character guy turned into Just An Angry Man for no real reason which was like ok if we gotta

hell girl S1: 8/10. not too sure what to say. it was cool and it had a good ending but it was pretty meandering which made it rather slower than it could hve been. also the horror was overplayed into Silliness almost, so it didn't have as much impact as I was hoping? will be watching S2-4 eventually though

basket army: ha ha what the fuck? did they really try to sell a novel with this? delete this

binbougami ga!: 9/10 I can't even explain this show honestly but it made me laugh REALLY hard at least once per episode which is my qualification for a comedy to be good

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What did you think of the new bomb? :O

OKAY so tl;dr: much better than sb5. which yeah, is still a pretty low standard, but this bomb had far more interesting elements to it! the first three eps had a season 1 vibe that i really liked, and the last two were pretty engaging as well. that isn’t to say that my sentiments are all praise though. i’ll put an episode-by-episode opinion under the cut!

lion 4: alternate ending: the art and colors were actually really nice in this one! steven and greg were visibly chubby, too, thank god…….and the reappearance of lion. too bad he won’t come back for a while since his voice actor is so expensive :\

this episode would have worked wayyy better as a season one or two episode though. ive heard people say that the point of this episode was to show that you shouldn’t overhype things (i.e., steven overhyping what he was supposed to find given rose’s key only to find out it’s an alternate tape), but it just immediately fell flat when you realized that the tape for “nora” was pretty much a carbon copy of the tape for steven. i felt really sad because it ultimately robbed the emotional value of lion 3′s ending for me. 

lion 3 is the first time we really get to see rose quartz, and she’s shown as this beautiful, all-loving being. and then we get into some darker stuff as the series progresses, learning she kept a bunch of secrets and has done some questionable things. so when we see her again, it would have been really nice to balance that out and have her with some deleted messages for steven, perhaps (like…actual alternate endings)? to sort of show she still genuinely cares about her son instead of making him seem like “just another outcome.”

(annnd this is just me perhaps but GOD that line from greg, “you could be steven or nora or anyone else, you could always change your name” just made my mind scream TRANS GIRL STEVEN but yknow. idk if theyd ever go in that direction but wishful thinking :’) )

doug out: HHHHHHHH i LOVE doug maheswaran so much. what a dork. i kinnnd of felt like the writing in this was…a bit stiff, though. perhaps it was just doug’s va’s delivery?? it felt kind of text-to-speak. but perhaps they were just trying to go for the effect of doug clearly putting on an act to impress connie and steven which i can get! 

only negative things aside from that i can really give for this one is that the art was just…hoo boy. i think you know.

im usually pretty lax on art inconsistencies (which are still valid criticisms since this is an entirely animated show by animation professionals! it’s just not my main beef w/the show), but sweet jesus what the actual fuck i am laughing so hard rn

the good lars: OKAY this is gonna be extremely biased bc i love lars (well, loved his potential, anyhow) and we actually got development from him holy shit. this is probably one of my favorite human-centric episodes of seasons 3 and 4 (it still won’t beat s1/s2 eps like lars and the cool kids andhorror club but it’s definitely a step up from, like…rocknaldo, yknow?

and i’ve known from the start that he was nonwhite (it was confirmed by burnett via tweet back when s2 was still airing), it was nice to have some specification on that! although i really do wish the term “filipino” was actually used in reference to him.

the cool kids were just. they were perfect. and i liked all of the characterization in this episode! steven still felt a little bland personality-wise, but the little things such as lars picking up “bingo bongo” from him and buck thinking it was cool was cute!

are you my dad? + i am my mom: I HATED THAT DRAWING JOKE SO MUCH. garnet just going “uh, i like me” was so ooc. she’s…supposed to be intelligent, right? that was honestly one of the worst garnet lines ive ever heard. and yeah, of course pearl has to be the ultra-talented one who modestly shrugs it off. like god. amethyst was the one who spent time with an artist (vidalia), shouldn’t she be the “artistic one?” it would have been an okay joke (in regards to pearl) if she wasn’t shown having 320840810382110930+ interests and talents prior in the series.

the designs for aquamarine and topaz seemed really bad when we first saw them but i steered clear of that discussion until i actually got a chance to see the two animated and in action. and i was…pleasantly surprised (halfway, at least).

aquamarine’s design was actually really cool in action! and the whole bow turning into a wand thing was cool. topaz still seemed kind of bland to me though. im totally fine with her body type and such but she just…doesnt look visually interesting, you know? like at least lapis had her wings going for her before aqua stole them and owned them better than her

the fight choreographed between aqua + topaz and the cgs was pretty weak, though. it felt like they were just kind of standing there attacking one at a time. and it’s not like the crew isn’t capable of doing better, you know? like the alexandrite vs malachite fight was REALLY good, along with the lapis vs the cgs fight. everyone was fighting simultaneously in the fight in ocean gem which made it so much more interesting! now, theyre just attacking one at a time like what is this?? attack the light or smth?? did garnet’s gauntlet punch use up all of their stars?? idk

BUT GOD I LOVED JAMIE SO MUCH. his lines were gold, esp “no garnet i’ve moved on i swear” that was funny. 

aqua seemed pretty overpowered though. like if you give a gem the ability to move other gems around at their will at least give it limitations, or else the “fight” won’t be interesting at all. or have aqua’s weapon get lost temporarily or something.

i actually thought referencing the “list” given by peridot was pretty clever, but having steven blow it up so much…was a bit too much. like if anything, peridot should have been the one upset over it and i seriously hope we get to see her reaction later on. 

ANYWAYS im actually looking forward to stuck together a LOT! they left lars on the ship for a reason and im interested to see how that’ll pan out. honestly?? thank god they didn’t try to make this bomb another “conflict solved in five episodes” like week of sardonyx.

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I finished it. real real sad over John b macklemore not gonna lie. dude wasn't perfect like he was rough around the edges and kind of a dick but like. he was a troubled queer dude and I have a lot of sympathy for that like his love life... made me so sad and he fucking had mercury poisoning like fuck... and then his land just getting bought up by k3 lumber like I know Rita had some depth to her but fuck Rita for that in particular. also do you think Tyler found the gold? (1/ ?)

right like….i dont remember which episode it was but that they were kind of putting together the picture of john being this guy who’s life was centered around how aggressively he cared. like how pissed he gets that other ppl DONT care abt things, and his insistence that everyone sucks and needs to be better, like as self righteous and misguided as it could be, its still part of that intent where he wants to help people in the ways he thinks is necessary. like i think personally i couldnt have been patient enough to interact with him, and i mean it seems like thats kind of a theme lol…like it isnt like theres not a bunch of parts of him that are A Good Person & generous & caring and all, but on this interpersonal individual level and how he channeled things, it’s definitely not the best sometimes

like for one thing he seems like the kind of person who is overly self assured and has a really narrow perspective. like his immediate assumption about a person or situation is what he thinks of as immediately true. he’s got all these judgments he’s doling out, big and small. i couldnt have the patience for that for very long. and he still has a narrow perspective on some things obviously, like he wants a broad range of information but not necessarily other peoples experiences of analyses of things. and yknow still some white dude from alabama and his bigotry even if his “big picture” thoughts on things weren’t as awful as it was obvious was common in that town

like yknow it feels like olan sums up so many things abt john lol. like he recognized how much of a genius and how talented he was, and he never fully wrote him off although there was always shit that kept him from thinking abt being able to like, seriously be in a relationship with him. i feel like i really got what he was saying about how john wouldnt listen to him abt brokeback mtn being good or that he should see it lol coz im like. i get excited abt shit i really like & if someone waves that off or insults it i wouldnt forgive them, like theres so much of this over the top assurance in his own initial opinions and disregard for others’ that he wasnt gonna believe olan even though olan had seen it and john hadnt. and then that he finally did read the short story and liked it, like dude yeah some more of that. he’s got his own thoughts about everything but its like he feels too superior with them. and like he’s still right even if he makes friends mad, like it cant just be him or whatever.

like it wasnt just that he was weird or that he had weird interests or anything that struck me as why he was always so lonely lmao like not that im saying it was his fault or it was only One Thing, but those smaller issues of him could kinda be impossible to get past, but at the same time a lot of ppl seemed like they werent willing to cut him off entirely or write him off cuz of all the other shit about him, he really was like, so unusual in all these ways and clearly it wasnt like there was a shortage of conversation to be had with him

anyways yeah it seems really counterproductive that he was born where he was and couldnt get out. like, not fitting in at all at school, being like what sounds like someone would call bi but i doubt he’d’ve grown up w that kinda language available even if it wasnt shittown alabama—but it does sound like he preferred men and that it was such a bad place for that, like relationships couldnt even be a factor for anyone around there hardly b/c being openly together was hardly an option, one night trysts was all that was really relevant. but it was obvious he was always wanting to be with someone and he just didnt have a way to do that, and couldnt manage to really find anyone. it really is such a heavy subject to think of queer people just being in the wrong place and time to understand themselves and what they want and even if/when they do, not have access to it

uhh yeah one thing that made me the maddest abt tbe last ep was finding out k3 took the land. like how fuckin symbolic. and those shitty rich white supremacists who feel like they literally run the town, fuck them. i WAS never sure abt rita and charles coz like. the relatives who nobody’s seen hide nor hair of, suddenly turning up overnight and wanting to take over everything? thats textbook suspicious. and like sure they probably wouldnt know tyler but its weird they never seemed interested in like, even hearing him out that he mightve been close to john and ought to be involved. like it COULD all just be a misunderstanding between two distrustful parties but still

i mean its nice to know mary grace was getting better care it sounds like, but thats not exactly proof that all their intentions were good. i mean, the k3 thing was like, did you care abt what john wouldve wanted at all? coz he seems to have cared abt that land a lot. and definitely not cared for k3. and they werent ever much sympathetic abt the question of if john wanted tyler to have money. oh, and i hated her calling john’s suicide selfish, but i know unfortunately a lot of ppl do that and i hate whoever does it lol. but like one thing i couldnt get over was her wanting his freakin nipple rings. im like? for Sentimental Value???? you want his body’s nipple rings?????!!!!!!! which later when it was revealed that was probably this queerass sexual thing was just this whole other layer of ghjfhsvvgh

lorddd

the other suspicious thing on that end was johns list of contacts. that not everybody had been contacted. like, wtf happened there. maybe not some paid off conspiracy, but? still a pretty fuckin straightforward task that was ridiculously bungled

Aanyway lord the mercury poisoning angle at the end i was like !!!! fuck is this the new thread now!! cuz it had kind of been mentioned before yknow, the firegilding or whatever, and now he’s doing that all the time suddenly w/o protection or ventilation and im like holy shit. this guy is maybe one of the only people in the world who’s doing this and just poisoning himself via this ancient art, for this fuckin genius he has for clock repair. which is so specialized, like, this dude is probably one of the best in the world. but he’s doing his own thing and that doesnt involve not inhaling mercury. and the fact that he made his own cyanide which was also something used for the clocks, i’m like, these Parallels. this irony. how is this real

i honestly dont know about the gold!!! like, i really feel like he had some, for starters, but the fact people werent even sure if he was a millionaire or he was broke is wild. i was suspicious abt those gates in the crawlspaces, idk what they were for even if not treasure hunts. the maze just feels like so obvious, and the theory abt the doghouse too….and saying there mightve been gold in the freezer that was taken….man. i am not sure what to think. or if he left like honest treasure hunt clues or if it was just buried scattered around w no trail to follow. man. hearing that come up, like maybe this guy has a secret hidden treasure with clues? im like this is so unreal. but i could believe he really did