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stuckinakillingjar · 3 years ago

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2021 Anime that I’ve watched + my opinion on them

Here's the link to the version from last year

So, this is the second time that I'm doing this, damn.

Before we start, here's my list of things you may want to know before reading (same as last year):

This may include spoilers, I try to avoid them. Btw don’t expect professional reviews, this is just me ranting and telling you random shit that I have to say

Anime that weren’t finished this year are not included (with that I mean two-cour Anime that start in Fall and end in Winter if I decide to watch one this year)

I took the summaries from MyAnimeList because I suck at writing coherent summaries or basically anything else by myself

For anyone that doesn't know how Anime-release seasons work: Winter (January-March), Spring (April-June), Summer (July-September), Fall (October- December)

This will probably be the longest post ever, so I’ll start with the reviews under the cut

Josee to Tora to Sakana-tachi (Fall 2020)

Movie

A youth romantic drama with themes of growing up, the story focuses on college student Tsuneo and dreamer Josee, who lives her life stuck in a wheelchair. Josee—named after the heroine in Françoise Sagan's Wonderful Clouds—spends most of her days reading and painting until by chance she encounters Tsuneo, and decides it's time to face the real world.

⭐⭐⭐

I've waited 6 months for this movie to come out with the EngSub and I was not disappointed by the quality that I expected from it. This is technically a 2020 Anime but I don't wanna edit the other list so we're just gonna go with this one.

This movie has all the standard tropes that you find in every Romance Anime. We have mass loads of drama, sad shit that hits you out of nowhere, a surprisingly good soundtrack (THEY HAD EVE ON IT I ALMOST SCREAMED), amazing art (that kinda reminded me of Horimiya), smooth animation (thx Bones) and the bonus of representation of a physically diabled main character in a wheelchair that I've never seen in an Anime before.

Unfortunately we also got the Tsundere trope which annoyed me to hell and back and a love triangle situation, or at least two people who are in love with the same dude.

The characters were really likeable, I loved everyone, even the grandmother because I understood her overprotectiveness and why she wanted Josee to stay home after all they've been through.

I enjoyed watching this movie, I even cried a little bit at the first beach scene because that moment when Tsuneo picked Josee up was just too much for my heart.

2.43: Seiin Koukou Danshi Volley-bu (Winter 2021)

Final score: 9/10

12 episodes

⭐⭐⭐

MAL Summary: Junior high school student Kimichika Haijima moves back to his hometown, Fukui, after causing trouble in the Tokyo Junior High School volleyball club. There, he is reunited with his childhood friend, Yuni Kuroba, who possesses outstanding physical abilities, but is vulnerable under pressure. Haijima, with his overwhelming passion and talent for volleyball, forms an ace combination with Kuroba.

The two enroll at Seiin High School, where they join the volleyball club. Awaiting them are the 163 cm hot-blooded captain Shinichirou Oda, the talented and sharp-tongued vice-captain Misao Aoki and his third-year pair, and second-year students, including Akito Kanno, who is always wearing long sleeves due to his allergy to sunlight.

The newborn team breaks its former shell of weakness and becomes Fukui's rising star. This is a certain team's journey to victory, with a series of fascinating rivals standing in their way.

As a big Haikyuu!! fan, someone who played volleyball herself and someone who just loves Sports Anime, I was really excited for this one! After watching the first episode, I expected it to be a bit like Hoshiai no Sora (one of my favorites please get a new season I'm begging), but in the end it didn't give me the feeling HnS does at all.

To be honest, I was pretty bored most of the time, when the other team was introduced I wasn't really focused. The game scenes were boring too, they didn't hook me in. Did anyone else notice that when the balls collided with the floor it sounded like mf bombs?? That made me laugh every time, so good job ig.

The whole thing involved a lot, and I mean A LOT of blushing, idek why. I wasn't even interested in shipping anyone, which I actually do in every Anime I watch because it's fun, but while I watched this one I just wasn't interested at all.

I remember being hyped for Haijima's VC to play against Subaru's, but then the episode ended right before they started playing and I just didn't care anymore the week after. Maybe that's just the curse of watching one episode every week.

I think that one of my biggest problems with this was that I just didn't feel connected to any of the characters, I only remember three last names of all of the characters in this show (Subaru, Haijima, Kuroba).

The artstyle wasn't outstanding or unique, but I like the colors they used (I literally can't explain what I mean, but everytime when I think about 2.43 I have to think about the color beige) and the animation in the game scenes was also very smooth.

Now let's get to the best thing about this Anime: The music.

Fuckkk the OP was sooooo good oh my god. It took me a bit to get used to the ED because I thought that the singer was singing in cursive and had to laugh, but it's really catchy. The shots of the boys in casual clothes got me though, that was great

^This dude was my FAVORITE. I don't have a reason as to why but I found him really cool from the moment I saw him.

Final score: 5/10

Jujutsu Kaisen (Fall 2020-Winter 2021)

24 episodes

⭐⭐⭐

Idly indulging in baseless paranormal activities with the Occult Club, high schooler Yuuji Itadori spends his days at either the clubroom or the hospital, where he visits his bedridden grandfather. However, this leisurely lifestyle soon takes a turn for the strange when he unknowingly encounters a cursed item. Triggering a chain of supernatural occurrences, Yuuji finds himself suddenly thrust into the world of Curses��dreadful beings formed from human malice and negativity—after swallowing the said item, revealed to be a finger belonging to the demon Sukuna Ryoumen, the "King of Curses."

Yuuji experiences first-hand the threat these Curses pose to society as he discovers his own newfound powers. Introduced to the Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu Technical High School, he begins to walk down a path from which he cannot return—the path of a Jujutsu sorcerer.

Fuck ok where do I start. This one is one of my favorite Anime, I literally don't have one single bad to say about this. Idk if this sounds toxic when you can't see bad things in something, but I love literally everything about this show.

Let's start with the characters: I love everyone. Fuck I adopted each and every single one of these characters. I'm not really doing a character study or something because I suck, but all of them were so interesting and cool, everyone had their own backstory about what brought them to the school, the outfits, the character design, the POWERS AGHHH. I just love all of them so much (I tried hating on Mahito but I JUST CAN'T). I'll just assume that we don't even have to talk about Gojo, that man is the prettiest and coolest motherfucker in all of JJK and 2020 Anime.

The second thing is the animation. Fuck, this right here is the good shit. The fight scenes?????? Aoi and Yuuji vs Hanami is on the same excitement scale as Shiratorizawa vs Karasuno for me, and that's saying something. That shit was SO FIRE. MAPPA didn't have to go that hard, but they did, and that's why they'll always be my favorite studio (ok but seriously the people at MAPPA have to get some damn sleep at some point, they're animating banger after banger without a break). Honestly, every little fight in this Anime was godlike, especially the whole Kyoto Sister School Exchange Event Arc was next level shit.

Ok the OST, deep breath right here. Every single song in this Anime went s o hard. Both of the OP's and ED's are already in my favorite Anime OST's of all time list, and there was this one song that always played during the fight scenes, that even managed to distract me from the fight itself lmfao

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Even the intermissions and preview songs had awesome music what the fuck-

I could talk about this damn thing all day, but I'll just stop right here so that the review doesn't get too fucking long

Final score: 10/10

Horimiya (Winter 2021)

13 episodes

⭐⭐⭐

On the surface, the thought of Kyouko Hori and Izumi Miyamura getting along would be the last thing in people's minds. After all, Hori has a perfect combination of beauty and brains, while Miyamura appears meek and distant to his fellow classmates. However, a fateful meeting between the two lays both of their hidden selves bare. Even though she is popular at school, Hori has little time to socialize with her friends due to housework. On the other hand, Miyamura lives under the noses of his peers, his body bearing secret tattoos and piercings that make him look like a gentle delinquent.

Having opposite personalities yet sharing odd similarities, the two quickly become friends and often spend time together in Hori's home. As they both emerge from their shells, they share with each other a side of themselves concealed from the outside world.

I just finished this one half an hour ago, so lucky you!! You don't have to suffer from my shitty memory! (Well maybe a little bit...)

I loved the artstyle, the OP/ED were great too, the story was nicee and just good to turn off your mind to.

There were wayyyyy to many characters in my opinion, like that green haired dude whose name I can't even remember who just appeared in episode 11 or something.

The main couple, Hori and Miyamura, were so cute they made me so jealous of their relationship T-T.... I know Hori got a lot of shit for her degradation kink thing that I unfortunately had to watch with my cousin, but I honestly don't see a problem. Maybe Miyamura hitting her in front of those guys was a bit...much, but she just wanted to explore herself?? and I think that Miyamura is all in all a great boyfriend to help her.

Miyamura was actually my favorite character, my cousin and I are still arguing if the long or short hair fit him better (LONG HAIR ALL THE WAY WOOOOOHOOO), and the thing in the last episode, when he talked to his younger self pre-Hori almost brought me to tears, because you can just see how much he changed and how much happier he is than before.

Final score: 7/10

Sk8 the Infinity (Winter 2021)

12 episodes

⭐⭐⭐

High school student Reki Kyan is passionate about one thing: skateboarding. When night falls, he heads to "S," an illegal underground race inside a mine where skaters compete in highly dangerous situations. After a loss that results in his skateboard being destroyed and his arm being broken, Reki is now incapable of practicing at all.

While working, Reki runs into his new classmate, Langa Hasegawa, a half-Canadian and half-Japanese boy with no skateboarding experience whatsoever. Langa is in desperate need of money. After they both visit "S" when tasked by Reki's boss, they get into trouble and are forced into a bet that requires Langa to skate in a race. However, the mysterious transfer student holds a trump card that Reki is unaware of, one which might help him win the race in the most unexpected way.

Fuckkkkk this is the goood shit. Here we got another very very gay Anime by the same producer as Banana Fish and Free!, one of my personal favorite Anime. I'm actually rather cautions when it comes to the term 'queerbaiting' in this one, because we basically got 'love confessions' hidden under the skating metaphors from Reki and Langa, and a heavily implied romance between the two, but we never REALLY got a love confession/kiss or just real confirmation.

That hug in the last episode was enough for me tbh, but they were so 🤏 close to kissing and I just wanted to shove their heads together once and for all.

Now that we're talking about the last episode let's talk about the absolute bullshit that was Mister Pedo-Clown's 'redemption' if you can even call it that. HOW WAS THIS DUDE NOT ARRESTED?? I thought Miss Hot Police Lady would just throw his ass into a prison cell, but noooo turns out that she was fucking useless. She was also the only female character besides Langa's and Reki's family by the way, don't know what we can conclude from that, but anyways...

Music was great, never skipped the OP and the ED totally didn't make me want to set some palm trees on fire.

Artstyle and animation were also very cool, although the dude from the store Reki and Langa work at reminded me a little bit t o o much of Banana Fish and gave me war flashbacks. Langa looked like Ash too, and at some point I really thought that he was going to get hurt, especially after Adam decked Cherry with his fucking skateboard (SERIOUSLY HOW DID HE GET AWAY WITH THAT??? JAIL! PRISON! CONFINEMENT!!).

So yeah, that's all for this one, great Anime, awful ending

Final score: 8/10

Yasuke (Spring 2021)

6 episodes

A village in danger, a mysterious child, warring daimyo, and the greatest ronin never known all clash in a Japan of magic and mechs. Learn the story of the first African samurai.

⭐⭐⭐

When I heard that there's gonna be a Netflix Anime with a black samurai main, based off of a real story, animated by MAPPA of all people, my hype went through the roof. In the end it turned out to be really disappointing.

I expected a lot of sword fights and stuff, but instead I got supernatural elements and Mecha for some fucking reason, which made the story seem unrealistic to me (I'm not into Mecha soo).

Honestly, I gotta admit that I switched to GerDub after the third episode and used it as background noise because I got bored. I also started watching it in the Japanese Dub, because I can't listen to a whole Anime in EngDub for the life of me, I'm sorry.

So yeah, the whole thing was so uninteresting to me that I can only remember one scene from it, the one where Yasuke and the other samurai from his troupe (?) stood in front of that castle (??) and Yasuke straight up killed like 10 men in one go, that was kinda badass.

I also gotta mention that the OP was a banger, didn't skip it once, animation was great as always, thanks MAPPA.

Netflix Anime aren't pretty good usually, just look at all of those ugly CGI movies they put out. Kakegurui was mediocore, Great Pretender was fucking fantastic and Yasuke is pretty bad, so now we have ticked off every box on the "How-bad-can-you-be?"-meter.

I bet that I would've liked Yasuke a lot more if they had left out the supernatural shit, left out the whole story with the girl and just went with a historically accurate depiction of his life.

Final score: 4/10

Super Cub (Spring 2021)

12 episodes

Koguma, a reserved second-year high school student, has nothing—no parents, hobbies, friends, or goals. On her way home one afternoon, she visits a vehicle shop in hopes of acquiring a motor scooter. With only enough money to make ends meet, she is disheartened by the price tags and prepares to turn back. However, as she is about to leave, the shop's owner offers her a pre-owned Honda Super Cub for ten thousand yen. Believing that the motorcycle will help brighten her monotonous world, she accepts the deal. As Koguma journeys through her town on small adventures with her Super Cub, she begins to build irreplaceable friendships and eagerly advances toward her new life.

⭐⭐⭐

If there is a definition of 'Slice of Life', it's this Anime. That doesn't mean that it's boring tho.

For some reason I got really excited to see this random cute girl getting new power ups for her motorcycle and finding new friends every Wednesday, and it kept me watching until the very end.

I adore Koguma she is so wholesome (I instantly fell in love with her the first time she smiled, she's best girl of this season don't fight me).

Reiko and Koguma act like an old married couple, especially in the last few episodes and I'm fully convinced that those two and Shii are all lesbians.

The cold color palette was very relaxing to me, the whole vibe of the show was chill in and of itself I got tired every time I watched it lmao

OST was good... that's it, there's really not much to say about this one.

The only thing that always stayed in the back of my head is that the entire Anime is basically one big Honda commercial 😭

Final score: 8/10

Hige wo Soru. Soshite Joshikousei wo Hirou. (Spring 2021)

13 episodes

⭐⭐⭐

When regular salaryman Yoshida wakes up one Sunday morning after a long night at the bar, the last thing he expects to see is that his tiny apartment has a new resident—an unfamiliar high school girl.

The previous night, despite finally gathering the courage to confess to his boss and longtime crush, Airi Gotou, Yoshida was rejected. After drowning his sorrows at a bar with his good friend Hashimoto, Yoshida headed back to his home in a drunken stupor, only to run into Sayu Ogiwara, a runaway high schooler. She asked him to let her stay the night, and with his judgment clouded by alcohol, Yoshida complied.

Now, with his head on straight but with no memory of last night's events, Yoshida has Sayu explain just how she ended up sleeping at his apartment. Having listened to her story, Yoshida finds himself unable to kick her out—especially after learning that she came all the way from Hokkaido! So, despite his reservations about sheltering an underage girl, Yoshida allows her to stay, and their life together begins.

I don't really know what I expected to get out of this story. I honestly thought that we were gonna get a lovely father-daughter relationship, but no, instead we got very uncomfortable intimate interactions between a 28 and a 17 year old 😐 At least they didn't get together while she was still living with him and I love Yoshida for dismissing her love confession and advances in the first and last episode.

Lmao, now that I think about it, I remember getting in a huge argument with some incel on MyAnimeList after watching the first episode, that was funny as hell ngl (the argument starts with my post on page 2 if you wanna read it (I'm NicawatchesAnime on there).

The story was interesting, I was eager to find out about Sayu's backstory, and even though I expected it to be tragic, episode 9 hit me like a fucking train. I saw many people on MAL say that it was poorly executed, but I really enjoyed watching that episode (ok maybe 'enjoy ' isn't the right word for an episode like this lol). Kana Ichinose's (Sayu) voice acting was fantastic.

Yoshida was my favorite character, he is literally so sweet and caring and best boy of the season imo. The whole evolving relationship between him and Sayu just made me feel icky, and I think that he should've chosen that short-haired woman from his office to date in the end instead of Sayu.

Idk about y'all but I kinda liked Gotou and especially Issa at the end of the show because they showed genuine care for Sayu although they were very irritating at the beginning or on their first appearances. The dude from the store showed sympathy for Sayu too by hiding her from Issa, but I won't forgive him simply because he tried or rather DID sexually assault her, that idiot can fuck off. Sayu's mother can fuck right off too, god I hate her so much, voice acting in episode 12 was great tho.

I would've liked the show more if Yoshida and Sayu had kept their father-daughter dynamic, them coming together in the end just gives me Usagi Drop Manga Ending vibes (ok maybe HigeHiro is not as extreme as that but you know what I mean).

The artstyle wasn't anything special, it wasn't really ugly, but it wasn't particularly pretty either. The OP is one of my favorites from this season, everytime I watched the new episodes I had to listen to the OP twice because it's just so good (this is not a joke I actually did that).

Final score: 7/10

Shakunetsu Kabaddi (Spring 2021)

12 episodes

⭐⭐⭐

Tatsuya Yoigoshi, a once nationally recognized soccer player, is now a first-year student at Noukin High School. Due to his developed hatred for sports, he has abandoned his previous aspirations to become a famous livestreamer on the internet. One day, Souma Azemichi, a first-year on the kabaddi team, seeks to recruit Yoigoshi and spontaneously interrupts his livestream.

Without any expectations, Yoigoshi follows Souma to the school gym, where he witnesses second-years Kyouhei Misumi and Shinji Date engaged in the primal contact sport of kabaddi. Despite ridiculing the rules of play, Yoigoshi is stunned by the intensity of the round. Because of an enticing deal and slight coercion, he agrees to settle the prospect of his recruitment through the most invigorating way: a battle of kabbadi, a team sport played empty-handed.

This has been on my PTW list since December 2020, I was really excited for it, and it didn't really blew me away as much as I expected.

First of all, the artstyle is so mf ugly and the animation isn't the best either, but the OP and ED sound so good, especially the OP. Don't really know about the OST though, it has a lot of EDM which I don't like at all.

Yoigoshi is cool, Azemichi too, he was my favorite because he's funny af and just really sweet. I've waited sooo long for Oujou to show up because I thought that he looked sick on the poster, but in the end he wasn't as interesting as I thought. The entire show kinda went downhill, and with that I mean boring, when he was introduced (I know he's kind of a fan favorite but he just wasn't that awesome to me).

I honestly did not give a single fuck about any of the characters, especially the new ones that were introduced in like the 9th episode.

The matches didn't pull me in, they were kinda boring most of the time, except when they like kicked the opponents to get points because that looked really great.

I liked that they chose such an unknown sport to focus on, I don't know how it's like in other countries, but as a German I've never heard about this sport in my life and Shakunetsu Kabaddi kind of introduced me to Kabaddi although after watching it for 12 weeks I still can't remember the damn rules 😭

Final score: 6/10

Gokushufudou (Spring 2021)

5 episodes

⭐⭐⭐

"Immortal Tatsu," the legendary yakuza who single-handedly defeated a rival gang with a lead pipe, is a name known to strike fear in both hardened police officers and vicious criminals. Soon after his sudden disappearance, he resurfaces with a slight change in profession. Now equipped with an apron, Tatsu has given up violence and is trying to make an honest living as a house husband.

While adapting to mundane household tasks, Tatsu finds that being a house husband has its own challenges, from the battlefield known as supermarket sales to failures in the kitchen. Despite living peacefully, misunderstandings seem to follow him left and right. Gokushufudou follows the daily life of the comically serious ex-yakuza as he leaves behind his dangerous previous life to become a stay-at-home husband.

The Way of the Househusband is one of my favorite Manga, and I think you can imagine the look on my face when I first saw the trailer for the "Anime". You do not understand man, I was devastated. I saw the first few seconds of that goddamn Netflix trailer (OF COURSE IT'S NETFLIX OF FUCKING COURSE) and could not believe what I was watching. The perfect artstyle from the Manga was straight up ruined by this Picture Drama of a so called Anime, the coloring looked awful (what did they do to Miku's hair I'm gonna cry), the animation was non existent, and I wouldn't even be mad rn if they had just at least advertised it right and had not called it an "Anime".

The OST was bad, everything about this was bad.

At least the voice acting was good and the jokes came across, not as good as in the Manga, but still kind of.

Btw I know that Kousuke Oono themselves wanted the Anime to look like that but it's still so mf bad

Final score: 4/10

Bakuten (Spring 2021)

12 episodes

⭐⭐⭐

Shoutarou Futaba has always loved sports, but he never became more than a benchwarmer on his middle school baseball team. After noticing a group of gymnasts practicing in the park, he decides to watch a rhythmic gymnastics tournament on a whim. Although displaying an exhilarating performance at the competition, the Shoushukan High School's Rhythmic Gymnastics Club places second-to-last due to penalties acquired from not fielding a full six-man roster.

The demonstration of skill captivates Shoutarou, and he decides to enroll at Shoushukan in hopes of joining the team despite having no background in the sport. The club recruits him alongside Ryouya Misato, a prodigal gymnast who was the runner-up in a junior tournament.

Now with a full six-man roster, the team sets out to compete in the upcoming Inter-High tournament. As he strives to accomplish this ambitious endeavor, Shoutarou must learn and master the basics of rhythmic gymnastics all while working in tandem with his new teammates if Shoushukan wants to stand a chance at claiming the title.

Here we finally have a rather good Sports Anime!

I enjoyed watching Bakuten, the biggest point that I liked were the characters, they were all very fun to watch and everyone was unique and had nice character design.

Misato's character development throughout the series and his friendship (...) with Shotaro made me really happy. Fun fact: my cousin and I always accidentally mixed their names up so we just called Misato "Yuno" from Black Clover because damn he looks like him a whole fucking lot.

I actually have a few things to say about the character design because almost all of them reminded me of other Anime characters:

Mutsu, the snake looking dude - Orochimaru and Kabuto from Naruto because, obviously

Blue haired dude, Oominato - Rei from Free!, they look exactly the same

Ryuugamori - Illumi from Hunter x Hunter

Shida, in his flashback - Yurio from Yuri! on Ice damn I laughed so hard

Takase & Shichigahama - Kagami from Kuroko no Basket

Tsukidate - Suga from Haikyuu!!

Watari (MY FAVORITE I LOVE HIM) - Tanaka from Haikyuu!!

Ok enough about the characters. The artstyle was nice, the animation was smooth. When I saw the performance in ep1 I was really worried because CGI in Anime almost never looks good to me, but Bakuten really outdid themselves with it. I love how they switched from 3D to 2D to show facial expressions and it fit really well imo, I saw a lot of people hate on it so I just had to mention it.

Can we just talk about how this Anime was the first one that actually scared the living shit out of me for a moment. Episode 5 scared me more than Perfect Blue, a literal Horror Anime, like chill the fuck out 😭

The OST is absolutely fantastic, of course it is because it's made by the same guys who performed the Given OP/ED.

Btw can I just mention that the girls' outfits in this Anime are really stylish I mean look at this

Gotta say that the full body suits that the boys wore in their last performance were fucking ugly and the camerawork and effects they used were really weird.

Final score: 8/10

Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san (Spring 2021)

12 episodes

⭐⭐⭐

Every day, Naoto Hachiouji is teased relentlessly by Hayase Nagatoro, a first year student he meets one day in the library while working on his manga. After reading his story and seeing his awkward demeanor, she decides from that moment on to toy with him, even calling him "Senpai" in lieu of using his real name.

At first, Nagatoro's relentless antics are more bothersome than anything and leave him feeling embarrassed, as he is forced to cater to her whims. However, as they spend more time together, a strange sort of friendship develops between them, and Naoto finds that life with Nagatoro can even be fun. But one thing's for sure: his days will never be dull again.

This Anime is so incredibly dumb and cringey it physically hurts me. I enjoyed watching it anyways.

When I watched the first episode and saw Nagatoro making nameless-dude cry, I was like: "How is this gonna develop into a romantic relationship??", but it got a little bit better over time. If we just ignore the mass amount of fanservice of 15 year old girls and Nagatoro and her friends borderline sexually harrassing nameless-dude, this might even be a really cute love story, they had their moments. Maybe it's just because I'm a sucker for any romantic shit I can get.

I can't decide if I like Nagatoro or not, she's really fucking annoying sometimes, but nameless-dude with the Deku voice and his heavy breathing isn't any better tbh. Nagatoro's friends annoyed me too but the long haired girl was cool.

I was also confused about the club room they're always hanging out in, like where are the other members?? We met the club president in like episode 10, but that's it?? Btw the club president was SO oversexualized it's honestly disgusting.

Soundtrack was catchy and artstyle was actually pretty nice. The fanservice went through the roof for some reason, chill the girls are in like 10th grade or something.

Idk why I enjoyed watching this shitshow so much, I have so many contra points against it, but it was really fun to watch and the artstyle got to me, so if you're into Sadodere shit and looking for mindless garbage this Anime is your perfect match.

Final score: 6/10

Cider no You ni Kotoba ga Wakiagaru (Summer 2021)

Movie

⭐⭐⭐

The visual features the tagline, "I met you in my 17th summer ..." The "boy-meets-girl" story depicts how words and music bridge the gap between Cherry, a boy who is terrible at communicating with other people, and Smile, a girl who hides behind a mask. They meet in a mundane suburban shopping mall in a provincial city.

Cherry always wears headphones and puts the feelings he cannot utter into his hobby, Japanese haiku poems. Smile always wears a mask to conceal her large front teeth, for which she has dental braces. As a popular video star, she streams a video about seeking "cuteness."

This movie was average and quite boring to be honest. I mainly watched it because the artstyle looked pretty to me, but while watching the movie itself, I decided that it's not as good as I thought. The effects and the camera angles looked weird at times and the colors were so bright that it lowkey irritated me.

I really don't have much to say about this movie, nothing outstanding happened. Except the ending which was so fucking cringe that it made me shed a literal tear that ran down my face and had my brother throw a concerned look at me.

Final score: 5/10

Boku no Hero Academia Season 5 (Spring 2021)

25 episodes

⭐⭐⭐

UA Academy's Class 1-A has been the focus of a substantial amount of public attention due to the multiple villain attacks they have faced over the past school year. This attention has left Class 1-A's rivals, Class 1-B, feeling quite bitter. Desiring to prove their skills, they look forward to the opportunity that has been given to them: a set of mock battles between the students of each class.

The classes are split into squads of four, each of which is tasked with capturing the other group members. The winner is the group who first secures all of the opposing team. While this sounds simple, a curveball is thrown into the mix with the inclusion of General Course Student Hitoshi Shinsou, who wishes to transfer into the Hero Course. Despite using his training with Class 1-A's homeroom teacher Shouta "Eraserhead" Aizawa to prove that he's capable of being a real hero, he is still far behind the others due to his lack of experience. However, Shinsou is determined to overcome this challenge.

Thus begins the fiery competition between Class 1-A and 1-B as each tries to prove that they are superior to the other.

This was actually the first bnha season i watched in simulcast since I'm a late bloomer and only started watching the show in like February of 2021, just wanted to mention that.

I'm gonna try to keep this short because I kinda lost motivation to do this whole rating Anime thing, but I don't wanna leave it in my drafts at the end of the year or I'll be disappointed in myself so let's just keep going.

The first cour was boring as fuck, I literally cannot name you one single fight from those episodes except Denki and Shinsou teaming up and Deku activating Black Whip during his fight with Shinsou. I can't even tell you Bakugou's opponent and that says something because he's my favorite character.

Anyways, the second cour was a lot more exciting, unpopular opinion but I really like Endeavor's redemption arc and him trying to change for the better. And oh my god, we finally got to see Shigaraki's backstory being animated. I actually never read the Meta Liberation Arc, but I watched a few character analysis videos so I knew what happened to Shigaraki, and I kind thought they were gonna censor the shit out of it for some reason. Spoiler: They didn't. Goddamn Shigaraki's background story was so fucking good I'm still not over that scene of him activating his quirk and literally killing his entire family. That scene was so sick, you should've seen my cousin and me, I almost started crying it was so fucking good.

Season 5 was weird animation-wise and I'm like 100% sure that I'm not the only one who noticed it.

The music was ok I guess, I didn't like the first OP, both ED's were good. The second OP slapped really hard, not one of my favorite bnha openings (The Day and ODD FUTURE all the way), but I didn't skip it once.

Final score: 7/10

Re-Main (Summer 2021)

12 episodes

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When Minato Kiyomizu wakes up in a hospital, he learns that he has been comatose for 203 days. As it turns out, a car accident has caused him to lose all memory of his middle school journey. Eventually, he discovers his former glory in water polo and desires to continue where he has left off. However, embarrassingly becoming aware of the massive disparity between his old and current self, Minato begins intensive rehabilitation in hopes of starting anew—a life without water polo.

Yet, Minato is promptly reminded of his past prowess and a promise on his very first day in Yamanami High School. Soon enough, despite being completely aware of his ineptitude, he joins the school's water polo club! While needing to relearn the sport's basics, he, along with his clubmates, must recruit new members to attain the required seven-man roster. With that, Minato tries to rekindle his deeply buried talent for water polo—and become one of Japan's renowned players once again.

Ugh.

I had really high hopes for this one because

1) it's by MAPPA

2) everyone made it out to be the next Bakuten! or the next Sk8, and since I enjoyed both of these, especially Sk8, a lot I decided to give it a try.

This Anime left me even more disappointed as 2.43. God it was SO boring and bad.

The characters were boring as hell, literally none of them stuck with me.

The voices annoyed me so much and that usually never happens with me and doesn't fuck with my enjoyment but with Re-Main it did. Especially the blond haired dude's voice, he had the same one as Tendou from Haikyuu!!.

It was boring, the matches were boring, the characters were unoriginal and boring, the soundtrack was bad, the animation and especially the CGI parts looked bad, and all in all I didn't enjoy it the least bit. I was so glad when it finally ended.

I have three more things to say about Re-Main:

1) Why does no one fucking care that Minato literally just woke up from a coma and lost 3 YEARS worth of memories?? Why is everyone in this damn Anime like: "Oh Minato, you really changed!"? Yeah no shit?? He literally lost 3 years of his life and his development and behavior as a person?

2) I'm so sorry but when this man Minato fell off a fucking BIKE and lost ANOTHER one year worth of memories like halfway through the show I literally laughed for 5 minutes straight. This show is so unrealistic and overdramatic like what in gods name was that one scene where everyone thought that the emo-"you all are better than me"-dude was gonna fucking commit and in the end he was just doing something completely else??? what the fuck???

3) The unnecessary character arcs and characters in general are something else in this show. I do not care for Sasuke 2.0's brother complex, and said brother's rivalry with Minato from like 5 years ago. I don't care for Minato's """""dark side""""" (he was literally such an asshole in the second part of the season for like no reason). I don't care for the literal only "important" female character in the show who was so useless and contributed nothing to the plot except telling Minato how much he's changed.

This Anime is so bad, I hope the fans of the Sports Anime 2021 Trinity don't come for me lol

Final score: 4/10

Tokyo Revengers (Spring 2021)

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Takemichi Hanagaki’s second year of middle school was the highest point in his life. He had respect, a gang of friends he could count on, and even a girlfriend. But that was twelve years ago. Today, he’s a nobody: a washed-up nonentity made fun of by children and always forced to apologize to his younger boss. A sudden news report on the Tokyo Manji Gang’s cruel murder of the only girlfriend he ever had alongside her brother only adds insult to injury. Half a second before a train ends his pitiful life for good, Takemichi flashes back to that same day twelve years ago, when he was still dating Hinata Tachibana.

After being forced to relive the very same day that began his downward spiral, Takemichi meets Hinata’s younger brother. Without thinking, he admits to his seeming death before flashing back to the past. Takemichi urges him to protect his sister before inexplicably returning to the future. Miraculously, he isn’t dead. Stranger still, the future has changed. It seems as though Takemichi can alter the flow of time. Given the chance to prevent his ex-girlfriend’s tragic death at the hands of the Tokyo Manji Gang, Takemichi decides to fly through time to change the course of the future.

Ok little disclaimer: I only watched like 5 episodes of the first cour since my brother and my cousin forced me to. When I was in Turkey my cousin told me to keep watching and since I didn't have enough internet to watch the Anime, i just binged the Manga in 2 weeks. It was SO good. Please go and read Tokyo Revengers. Just wanted to mention all of this to say that I only really watched the second cour, so the Valhalla Arc.

The adaptation was pretty good imo, the animation was weird at some points, for example in the Bloody Halloween fight where Draken and that little bastard Hanma went against each other, but it was more funny than disappointing so it's not that bad.

They nailed Baji's death, that scene was so good my cousin literally cried waterfalls. My brother actually filmed us while watching this episode and you can just see me going through the 5 stages of grief when Baji said his last words and Chifuyu screamed his guts out (kudos to the VA, great job you almost made me cry). Sadly I can't post it on here.

Crybaby is an absolute banger, it's probably gonna be in my Top 5 on Spotify Wrapped, that's how often I listened to that song 😭

Final score: 8/10

Uramichi Oniisan (Summer 2021)

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In the studio of the morning childrens' show "Together with Mama," a crew of miserable adults prepares their facades of amicable smiles and cheerful exteriors to educate a group of innocent preschoolers. In the middle of it stands Uramichi Omota, a former gymnast who can't help but bring the kids down to earth by revealing the harsh and depressing reality of adulthood, even in front of the rolling cameras.

Behind the scenes, Uramichi's much-desired peace is disturbed by his two bothersome juniors who work as the show's rabbit and bear mascots and singers: Utano Tadano, a woman who only wishes to get married; and Iketeru Daga, a handsome man with a crass sense of humor. From smoking and exercising to nihilistic outbursts, everyone's big brother Uramichi always brings up the not-so-moral side to his life lessons.

I don't have much to say about Uramichi Oniisan. I laughed a bit, it served it's purpose as a comedy Anime but was still depressing and made you think.

Kumatani has my heart in a grip, I love him so much.

I also love Mamoru Miyano, Dream On ( the ED) is also probably gonna be in my Spotify Wrapped.

Final score: 7/10

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Ok thanks to everyone who actually took the time to read this and enjoyed it. Sadly, I have to say that I didn't include anything from Fall 2021 since all I did during this time is binge fucking Naruto to feed my brainrot and wasn't interested in watching Seasonals.

I did however try to watch Blue Period, takt OP Destiny and Komi Can't Communicate, but none of them left a great impression on me, and since I don't have the motivation to continue this list I don't feel the need to force myself to write anything about them.

Oh I also watched that show with the girl who can see ghosts and ignores them or something like that but there was so much damn fanservice that I dropped it after like 2 episodes.

I don't know if I will write another one of these lists next year, let's just see if my goal to become less lazy in 2022 will become true.

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