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Jun 2, 2016
Taken from my website and some spoilers. Read at your own risk.
To summarize my experience with Vento Aureo in one word it would be “disappointing”. Forcing myself to say more than that proves difficult for me because of how consistent that word was floating around in my head through my reading of it. Vento Aureo’s world is an appealing idea on paper, we have the Mafia, Jojo, and Italy. What can go wrong!?
Almost everything as I found out, instead of taking the fantastic approach that Diamond is Unbreakable established by taking this seemingly ordinary place and slowly building on it, by either establishing the geography,
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talking about the culture and all that good stuff; Vento Aureo follows the approach of Stardust Crusaders by making it a road trip fun time for the whole family.
This would be fine, but Vento Aureo doesn’t have variety because you know, unlike the aforementioned Stardust Crusaders, we don’t go around the world and see constant and interesting changes in scenery. We just have Italy and more Italy. Just normal Italy mind you, not some crazy Italy where Sharks have super powers. At most, the most compelling places end up being places your Mom wants to visit before she dies; “Hey It’s Venice! We are in Venice! Do you see Venice? We in Venice”.
The characters and story are fairly uninteresting. Here’s the gist of it, our main character Giorno “GioGio” Giovanna is an overwhelmingly serious, kept to himself and ambitious character that hates when bad people do bad things because he’s a good person or something. So he dives into organized crime so he can be the big, bad and make the world a better place. Giorno is a solid concept, but ends up being an incredibly one-dimensional character When he is pushed to moments where the character should evolve, he remains an overly idealistic and kind-hearted character from start to finish that’s two miles away from screaming “Believe it!”. Which is not helped by the way Giorno is used in the story.
Oh, are two characters about to die horribly? Not a problem, GioGio is here to save the day! Is there no hope left and the enemy is about to win? Well, not if Giorno can stop it. This is what pushes me over the edge makes me dislike the character because his main use is to be a trump card whenever another character is at the peak of defeat. The villain Diavolo is even a more one-dimensional character. The manga builds him up as this extremely strong and mysterious character that we should be horrified of and it never stops doing it. And why is he evil? Oh, because he’s evil, don’t worry about it. He’s the bad guy and the others are the good guys.
Diavolo suffers from what I think is dissociative identity disorder which is a grand idea for a villain, but it comes out quite dull and incredibly plot convenient. The lack of character development isn’t a problem reserved to two of the characters, but the majority of the cast. With the exception of two characters, (Those being Bruno Buccellati and Guido Mista) most are one-dimensional. They definitely can be fun at times regardless of this, but some end up being grating; Cough Trish Una Cough.
As always, stands are incredibly creative, but lot’s of them are either laughably overpowered or convoluted beyond understanding. But regardless of that King Crimson is seemingly my favorite stand out of Vento Aureo with a close second to Sticky Fingers. But the utmost disappointing part comes rushing at the end of the battle with the big, bad happens and it ends almost instantaneously thanks to GioGio obtaining an utterly ludicrous Deus Ex Machina .
Vento Aureo is not either terminal cancer or the second coming of Christ as the community says. It thrives with lots of marvelous ideas, but it doesn’t surpass mediocrity. With a cast of mostly one-dimensional characters, an intriguing, but badly built upon setting and a constant barrage of plot-convenient scenarios sadly make it the worst Jojo part by a long shot. It is worth a read to keep up with the lore and see some cool stands, but do not expect anything as good as the previous four parts.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Feb 28, 2016
Okay, How can I even write a "review" of something this short and uneventful? Let's try this.
See the title? You've already watched this incredibly short 16-second long animation. I have nothing else to say, but since the guidelines are forcing me here's what I can draw up. At first, the audio sounds like someone started eating food in the distance and all you hear is their mouth making noises filled with a shitload of background noise. Besides weird breathing and a bunch of what sounds like clicking noises, that is all there is to the audio.
The animation itself is just barely a
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one-second loop repeated a bunch of times with other one second loops. Drawn in a pretty barebone "I did this with that MSPaint spray can".
There's really no compliment I can bring up, it's just boring.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Feb 27, 2016
After watching this thing, I am convinced that curses exist and I just watched one. This is one of the most baffling and just outright uncomfortable "anime" I've ever seen. But not in like "Oh, wow this is so deep and disturbing" type of way. But more like a college student arthouse film made after snorting a bunch of questionable substances.
Everything about this thing is awful. The animation is slow, has few frames and just looks bad. The story is... was there a story? Turns out after checking the synopsis, there is one to my surprise. The sound is... like a really bad dark
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ambient song with utterly awful and barely understandable voice acting.
This is atrocious, just honest to God, what? I'm convinced this is like that cursed tape from The Ring. Seven days, seven days is all I have left. Just don't see this, or do, is kinda amazing.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Feb 24, 2016
Prison school is a weird one for me. That's mostly due to because I absolutely despise ecchi / harem / blah, blah generic titillating content that's incredibly common in anime. And that might be why I enjoyed the show to a certain extent. It takes the idea of fanservice and stretches to a very specific and fetishized realm that it can end up being hilarious to some people or, at least, intriguing because the absurdity of it.
That said, besides a couple of moments spread out far and between I wasn't laughing or let alone chuckling as much as I heard I was going to be.
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Some jokes are repeated or just go for a bit too long which ends up at times being slightly annoying. The story isn't much either; Do me a small favor and read the synopsis of this show. Did it? That's the entire show but stretched to 12 episodes.
Sure, some things happen here and there, but it follows a very simple formula. People do things, people get punished for doing those things, the end. Which sure, is fine and dandy as long as the characters are interesting, but besides two out of the three crazy dominatrixes, the entire cast is pretty forgettable.
We have a perverted boy band of main characters; The first being the standard, boring anime dude, second, the nerdy guy, third, the tough guy, fourth, the fat one and last but not least, the wimpy weird one. Like I said, besides two out of the crazy trio the characters are pretty darn boring.
But I still enjoyed the show, I mean is not great, but is not bad either. Is a good time waster if you have nothing else to do and hey if you want to see an incredibly over-the-top and fetishized version of your standard ecchi wank-off fest, check it out. Worst case scenario is that you wasted your time by reading this review and hated the show thanks to my weird yes and no recommendation for the thing. What do you have to lose!?
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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May 9, 2015
Magi is an anime that you've most likely seen before a million times unless you haven't seen anything in the medium. We have the family of tropes here! Everything from characters taking five minutes preparing a single punch only at the end to scream a ludicrous nickname such as "Rebel Power Punch" while the opponent stands still blinking at him to the power of friendship making everything better because friendship powers.
Magi does all of these overused tropes quite well. For a fan of action centered anime, it is a fun watch. But there're two major things that bothered me. The obvious one is the
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discrepancy between the tones the story goes through. At one moment, you'll see people cracking dumb jokes with cute imagery, but then two seconds later someone gets slashed in half. It's honestly quite jarring.
Even though the show is rather short, it still feels that it went longer than it should've. I'll keep it at that to respect the spoiler policy. But regardless of those two things the show is an enjoyable watch, so if you like the usual magic, punching, friendship anime where friendship transforms you into mecha version of He-man then yeah go watch it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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