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Dr. Stone s2 e11 (complete)
End of the beginning.
More of the same, but at the same time felt a little less. I guess because it was shorter and there was less of the getting to know the people and the environment as they were already well established from the first season. There were a few new characters, but because of the shorter season we didn't seem to get to know them as well as we got to know the Kingdom of Science.
7/10
Re:ZERO s2 p2 e12 (complete)
You forgot something!
Some good character stuff, but why did Emilia's past get 3 episodes to Subaru's one in part one, and some good action near the end, but still too much people standing around talking absolute waffle about fantasy tropes like a whole episode to explain something that could have been summed up in 2 lines. Plenty of screen time for Betty though, although she seems to have turned into another Subaru simp, as what ruined Rem in season 1. I think the problem is that it's a LN adaption, but they forgot they're adapting it to a visual medium or didn't want to piss off the LN fans and said OK just put everything on the page up on the screen!
Overall the whole season seemed to be a massive diversion from what I thought they were going to do. At the start I was like "finally a problem Subaru can't solve by dying over and over again", but then they went "nah, first we'll go over here and set up another problem he can solve by dying over and over again!" I can't even remember why they went to the Sanctuary in the first place and humans could get out easily anyway, certainly Subaru and Otto did and Gar could because he was half human, so that would only leave Emilia (I would have left her there as, even though she had a bit of character development, still has all the charisma of a block of wood) The villagers should have been able to leave anytime as well! As for the problem at the start I spoiled myself with LN spoilers and Rem's not waking up any time soon apparently, maybe the author got sick of the attention the character got and pulled an Arthur C. Doyle and put them on hiatus for a while.
Whilst stuff was coming together over the last few episodes, I was thinking I might finally give a bit of a higher score, but then they straight up ignored the problem that kicked off the season, so sticking with:
6/10
Bottom Tier Character Tomozaki-kun ep 12 (complete)
Compromise.
Despite the rocky start this really picked up as we got to know the characters. Tomozaki-kun himself probably jumped from a complete weirdo nobody to at least average person too quickly, but then the relationship between him and the others wouldn't been as interesting/fun to watch. There was an interesting twist in the penultimate episode where he rejects the methods of the girl who's teaching him as it lead to a false image of himself, although that got rolled back a bit in the last episode when they agreed a compromise.
The art was OK, character design was standard fare, and animation fine.
7/10
Jujutsu Kaisen ep 24 (complete)
Teamwork.
An entertaining action packed show with some funny moments. The story is fairly typical Shounen stuff, kind hearted everyman gets powers and then starts levelling up from there. The various power systems are a little confusion with types within types and other powers on top, but I guess it can be ignored for the most part.
The art is pretty good and the character designs are all quite unique. The animation is very good especially in the action scenes.
8/10
Completed anime number 600!
The Promised Neverland s2 e11 (complete)
Speed run over!
Man that was rushed as all hell! After the events of the first series where they spent the entire run in one situation and setting in the 12 episodes, in this season they spent no more than 2 episodes for each part this time. So now we're in new surroundings, learning about the world, now we're in a bunker being chased by goons, now we're in hiding near a demon city, oh here's Norman and he's turned evil after what he went through, and now he's not! Now we suddenly have amassed a bunch of hardware to conduct a raid and we've riled up a load of demon civilians to help us. The bad guy we've hardly got to know has a monologue and twist the sisters turn on him and he commits suicide (or gets shot, it wasn't clear) and the children escape to the human world, except our 3 MCs who help end the tyranny of the demon higher ups in a series of still frames!!! The End!!!!! Whilst some of it was interesting/intriguing we were on to the next part before it could be processed properly, although I will say the you thought the society was like, but twist your not alone and there's humans living (happily) elsewhere was a little too close to the AoT twist really!
5/10
Horimiya ep 12
Christmas proposal!
Redo of Healer eps 9 & 10
A dish best served cold and adding Gender Bender to the list of tags for thishentai anime.
End of the beginning.
More of the same, but at the same time felt a little less. I guess because it was shorter and there was less of the getting to know the people and the environment as they were already well established from the first season. There were a few new characters, but because of the shorter season we didn't seem to get to know them as well as we got to know the Kingdom of Science.
7/10
Re:ZERO s2 p2 e12 (complete)
You forgot something!
Some good character stuff, but why did Emilia's past get 3 episodes to Subaru's one in part one, and some good action near the end, but still too much people standing around talking absolute waffle about fantasy tropes like a whole episode to explain something that could have been summed up in 2 lines. Plenty of screen time for Betty though, although she seems to have turned into another Subaru simp, as what ruined Rem in season 1. I think the problem is that it's a LN adaption, but they forgot they're adapting it to a visual medium or didn't want to piss off the LN fans and said OK just put everything on the page up on the screen!
Overall the whole season seemed to be a massive diversion from what I thought they were going to do. At the start I was like "finally a problem Subaru can't solve by dying over and over again", but then they went "nah, first we'll go over here and set up another problem he can solve by dying over and over again!" I can't even remember why they went to the Sanctuary in the first place and humans could get out easily anyway, certainly Subaru and Otto did and Gar could because he was half human, so that would only leave Emilia (I would have left her there as, even though she had a bit of character development, still has all the charisma of a block of wood) The villagers should have been able to leave anytime as well! As for the problem at the start I spoiled myself with LN spoilers and Rem's not waking up any time soon apparently, maybe the author got sick of the attention the character got and pulled an Arthur C. Doyle and put them on hiatus for a while.
Whilst stuff was coming together over the last few episodes, I was thinking I might finally give a bit of a higher score, but then they straight up ignored the problem that kicked off the season, so sticking with:
6/10
Bottom Tier Character Tomozaki-kun ep 12 (complete)
Compromise.
Despite the rocky start this really picked up as we got to know the characters. Tomozaki-kun himself probably jumped from a complete weirdo nobody to at least average person too quickly, but then the relationship between him and the others wouldn't been as interesting/fun to watch. There was an interesting twist in the penultimate episode where he rejects the methods of the girl who's teaching him as it lead to a false image of himself, although that got rolled back a bit in the last episode when they agreed a compromise.
The art was OK, character design was standard fare, and animation fine.
7/10
Jujutsu Kaisen ep 24 (complete)
Teamwork.
An entertaining action packed show with some funny moments. The story is fairly typical Shounen stuff, kind hearted everyman gets powers and then starts levelling up from there. The various power systems are a little confusion with types within types and other powers on top, but I guess it can be ignored for the most part.
The art is pretty good and the character designs are all quite unique. The animation is very good especially in the action scenes.
8/10
Completed anime number 600!
The Promised Neverland s2 e11 (complete)
Speed run over!
Man that was rushed as all hell! After the events of the first series where they spent the entire run in one situation and setting in the 12 episodes, in this season they spent no more than 2 episodes for each part this time. So now we're in new surroundings, learning about the world, now we're in a bunker being chased by goons, now we're in hiding near a demon city, oh here's Norman and he's turned evil after what he went through, and now he's not! Now we suddenly have amassed a bunch of hardware to conduct a raid and we've riled up a load of demon civilians to help us. The bad guy we've hardly got to know has a monologue and twist the sisters turn on him and he commits suicide (or gets shot, it wasn't clear) and the children escape to the human world, except our 3 MCs who help end the tyranny of the demon higher ups in a series of still frames!!! The End!!!!! Whilst some of it was interesting/intriguing we were on to the next part before it could be processed properly, although I will say the you thought the society was like, but twist your not alone and there's humans living (happily) elsewhere was a little too close to the AoT twist really!
5/10
Horimiya ep 12
Christmas proposal!
Redo of Healer eps 9 & 10
A dish best served cold and adding Gender Bender to the list of tags for this
