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Sep 20, 2022
What The Fuck?
Jashin-Chan Dropkick X, the third season, oh did I pray for your sublimity to correspond to a type of humor like Happy Tree Friends. Oh did I pray to you to give us moments as absurd as also pitiful with your angels and demons. Oh did I pray you to re-use the running gag that could still work after three seasons straight, namely Jashin-Chan’s Dropkick (Duh!). Oh did I pray to your humor more meta than ever.
Of course that I'm angry. Even extremely disappointed with the beauty it could give us. This season could not exist if our dear Japanese friends did not
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give to the crowdfunding enough a few months after the second season was broadcast. The hype was insane when I saw that it was finally in production. And goodness gracious how I overestimated it.
I do not want to summarize the other seasons, thinking that all of you had already seen them before looking at the third, unless you are attracted only by the presence of Hatsune Miku. I'll let you know that I feel disgusting to say that this season was the worst that I saw for now.
The first episodes were magnificent, especially the first in terms of "haha, we finally have a third season" as well as the presence of Hatsune Miku, who is actually important for a few episodes. There was that beautiful usual layer of humor, so nothing wrong could happen, but I don't know who was largely in charge of the script of almost half of the anime, but I feel that this person really wanted us to share their touristy vacations. It was here that I felt sold by a company, an individual being stupid enough to be the type to consume everything that has a name of something I really enjoy watching/playing. A complete arc of five episodes was dedicated to the promotions of cities in Japan with the use of Jashin-Chan Dropkick's characters, as in order to sell us the desire to go there. On the other hand, the main reason for why they present them to us, is because at some point in the anime, Jashin-Chan finds herself in dept of billion and billion yen. And so, she simply travel through the entire land of Japan to find a way to remedy her debts, by also presenting the "do not miss" monuments from the cities she visits.
Except that I don't care about that.
I'm someone who lives in North America who can't afford a trip to Japan yet, and who still studies at school in audio-visual. If by pure chance I want to watch a tourist anime, then someone needs to call a studio for making them decide to pull their fingers out of their ass and decide to animate one, unless it exists, which wouldn't even surprise me. I watch this anime in order to laugh without having to think about why the snake girl regenerates every time you cut her tail like a piece of ham. And even if it comes straight from the original manga, now I could understand the author's desire to try new things, the end result shows us a huge filler arc with no progression to the main storyline. Our group of characters seemed more here as people giving reactions rather than playing their own initial roles. It was just as horrible to watch as some think it was horrible to watch Endless Eight in Haruhi Suzumiya.
Otherwise, the rest of the anime remained fine, yet very disappointing that an arc lasting almost half of the anime ruins the hype I had for almost a year. When I'd seen the last three episodes and they went all out on new characters, I wondered if they just couldn't show them from the start, like... Directly in the 5th episode. Not now, because someone wanted to show their vacations, I guess.
For those who saw this anime because of Hatsune Miku, just know for now that you will be served. Oh yes! The first time I saw her while having the chance to know the anime before it blow up made me burst out laughing and she still stays in character despite the circumstances. Please, however, if you like meta and bloodthirsty humor, watch the other seasons first, then just find the moments with Hatsune Miku in the Escape Arc and skip it after all five episodes!
*Finished writing the review*
“Aaah! I hope there won't be people who will believe that I don't like Japan or think that I'm an hypocrite after what I wrote :)”
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Sep 12, 2022
“What makes an anime bad and boring, and what makes an anime good and engaging?"
I would be very honest to say that I greatly underestimated My Isekai Life. I would describe this anime as the "good shit" in a literal way, saying that I didn't believe I could laugh that much at what seemed as “another isekai like we can find masses of”.
Alright, now that the hot take is said, you might say to yourself, “Ohh, yet anooooother troll review that would give that piece of turd a 10/10”. I can already see these comments coming. It is by pure evidence by seeing the full
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title of the anime that comments like this can suddenly arise. This is typical of anime fans that have seen over 300 anime and for people only watching anime for the purpose of reviewing it and/or attracting drama. But here, with this anime, I was able to ask myself a question to which I am not sure to have found my answer yet.
“What can make an anime bad and boring, and what can make an anime good and engaging?"
First, I will tell an anecdote.
During this season that My Isekai Life was broadcasting, I wanted to go back in older seasons to watch an anime called Death March, with a friend, for a joke. Since he was watching My Isekai Life with me and he knew it was going to be just as generic as Death March, he still wanted to give it a chance, which was the worst thing he could do. In the end, we were more than free. It was shit, nothing worse. The story brought absolutely nothing interesting, the characters were just as forgettable, in addition to the dark haired protagonist giving nothing but hate to watch. In other words, annoying. A few days later, this same friend surprised me by forcing me to watch Choyuyu with him, as revenge for making him suffer with me. A political isekai to which I would like to say that it is certainly not bad, but which I was generally bored.
The main reason of why I wanted to make myself suffer on Death March was to cover myself again in what is referred to as a generic (shit) isekai. When we saw the full title of My Isekai Life, we both, like any other individuals, thought “Damn, this looks like shit”. And, through mountains of laughs and "This is the anime of all time"-style memes, that was when I suggested him to watch it with me. And so, we did, while watching Death March and Choyuyu, which we had now finished and hated.
The result, you guessed it.
This was where I wondered, especially for isekai: "Why would Death March suck and why is My Isekai Life enjoyable?" Both carry a similar promise, but… why is one better than the other?!”
We are talking about a protagonist like any other existing isekai. He is listless, dark-haired, doesn't talk much, and got overcheated powers when he was transported to the other world. Yuji, as he is named, will mostly use slimes to summon his almost inexhaustible magic. And… he has to go out and save the world, period.
Let's replace the part I'm talking about with slime and we have the basis for any isekai that may exist. Instead of slime, it's a gun, and we have Death March. You put a phone instead and you have Isekai Smartphone. Instead, a literal mom, and you have Okaa-san Online. Then comes the hatred towards this format, since it is the same thing, but with an attribute that’s supposed to make it different as a goal to stand out. But that doesn't answer the question. It only lowers the format with an argument that I certainly approve of, but which remains ridiculous. It would be to the point of saying that all anime romances suck because we have the same set of characters, with a waifu with a different and more aesthetic character design.
I'm not saying it in force to say that this was the best Isekai I've seen, by far. I'm just confused why people watch this anime with a disbelieving eye.
On our side, my friend and I had seen this anime with a mocking eye. We knew it was going to be shit, yet this anime just unintentionally gave us the opposite. It's still generic, we were surprisingly able to predict less than a quarter of what we kept predicting, but most of all, it was fucking hilarious. More precisely, this ANIME ADAPTATION was hilarious, because it sucked. We even wondered if Reveroot was aware that what they were doing was crap.
Excessive reuse of pre-existing animation, ridiculous repetition in the dialogues, sound design that may come from a stock site, all with a delicious coulis of comedic timing.
It was something we hadn't found when we watched Death March and Choyuyu. “It must be intentional”, we kept saying to ourselves. Have you ever watched a Youtube Poop when it was still popular? This anime was almost an equivalent of that with every Isekai that could ever exist. You expect this anime to be poorly written, which you instantly see when it's called "My Isekai Life: I Gained a Second Character Class and Became the Strongest Sage in the World", but instead of searching for the flaws, you laugh at it because it’s the best way to fully enjoy this anime. Can you imagine if a movie reviewer was forced to watch a Youtube Poop and was asked to review it? It was made for an audience that can parse humor through "the willfully badly done" and it well deserves that audience. Similar to the YIIK community who knows the game is extremely poorly written, but still full of memorable memes and music.
The story is not what stands out from the anime, nor the characters, it is the humor brought by this adaptation that seems deliberately badly done. Again, I'm only talking about the adaptation which is good, since I know even less about what the original light novel is. Maybe the author had written "Yuji does the same movement as in the other five chapters" and Reveroot only literally adapted what was written basic. I’ll never know.
Even as I write this, I know that I would only bring a few people to watch this hilarity. If I want to talk about the jokes, It would destroy the twist of watching this anime, clueless. So why in spite of everything, you wouldn't want to give it a chance. Maybe it's just the title and description that bothers you, because you've seen it over a billion times on other isekai we have every season? Telling yourself that the description is so simple judging, it would be a bit like doing the same for Madoka Magica on MyAnimeList, which does not talk at all about the infamous moment of the anime. Is this then an anime not to be judged by its cover? How ironic!
Nice work Reveroot, as well as Shotou Sinkou. You made me cry laughing even tho it was shit.
This isekai is a ride!
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Dec 22, 2021
*Minor spoilers*
I feel bad for Puraore.
As the ultimate representative of the whole Canadian community and a pretty big defender of the main sport from the same country, I’m shocked to see this anime with a rating that low. As much as I like my CGDCT, it’s kind of a surprise to see it being that stable during the whole season. Never did it get over a seven, the least this kind of anime can get with how little it can work with.
Jokes aside, I don’t particularly like Puraore because I’m Canadian myself, otherwise it would sounds stupid for other people to see an anime that
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is only enjoyable for a Canadian audience, with some being Japanese as well. Yet, it would sounds even more stupid to consider myself as the ultimate representative of my homeland. By still going that way, people might think that I’m just overhyping a show that is not that good by looking at its rating. The reason I’m making this review mostly is to assure people get the same idea of what this anime is about. I do get the feeling the reason it might get bad reviews with overlow ratings is because some of the “groups” don't share the same judgement and comparaisons. Not in a way they shouldn’t get an opinion and instead all think the same way in terms of rating, but in terms of knowing the whole concept of this anime.
Puraore is a Cute Girl Doing Cute Thing with some scenes with hockey in it.
There. Simple as it is. MY perspective of what Puraore is about and probably what it should be to anyone before watching it. It’s neither a Shounen Sport, like Haikyuu or Kuroko no Basuke, nor an Idol, like Love Live or IDOLMASTER. Why am I mentioning that? Just in case people read the synopsis or judged the character design way too quickly and started watching it without thinking. And yet, they might see Puraore as the biggest bait/lie those fans get to ever experience.
The first episode already shows us a match between Japan and Canada (ay!) with a lot of actions and fast movement, something that makes Shounen Sports fans shit in their pants. Not only that, right after the match, we see the main team we knew by looking at the poster doing some kind of victory dance after… Well, winning the game. By adding pop music in the background, a dance animated with not so bad CGI and of course the singing part, what a nice way to get many idol fans in here.
This is where it might feel like a bait.
Sport Shounen fans might want to see what makes hockey so popular and hype, maybe also knowing how it became the natural sport in Canada. Knowing about strategy, personalities, the good and the bads, so they could use their knowledge from this anime with a real team of players.
Idol fans might be in need for more music with cute anime girls as singers.
Both of what they want are ONLY available at the first episode and the two last episodes, but neither of what they actually want is going to be in this anime, because it’s not the main idea of what it actually is.
Now, speaking of why I wanted to watch it: I don’t particularly like hockey myself. I’d even go by saying that I never really was into it. Sometimes I used to watch hockey when my parents cheered on the Montreal Canadiens out of the corner of my eye but that’s about it. Wasn’t caring about hockey cards either, like "What did you expect." Absolutely nothing could captivate my attention to force me into playing it. But Puraore is, from all I know by far, the only anime to ever come out mentioning hockey… with cute girls in it! In other words, I got baited by the cute girls. I wasn’t expecting much, I even joked with friends on how I could give it a 10 out of 10 if one of the girls got destroyed by being tackled to the wall. A monster I am and still is indeed.
The more I watched it the more I believed less that it was a SP or an Idol. Thank god because I didn’t wanted to see the girls doing their things transformed into Jolynes Joestars from JoJo (Even tho she is a cool character) nor wanted them to sing with no other purpose than selling CDs to the hardcore fans. I got le CGDCT I’m usually watching when I want to pass the time. It doesn’t really have a story, only about girls wanting to form a team to play hockey after being suggested to do so.
The team, while composed with basically the same character with one personality trait and one hairstyle of difference, is still pretty enjoyable to see. It doesn’t get annoying, nor boring, nor shittier. Little team progressing through time and learning little mechanics that aren’t that much explained as why they should play hockey that way and not that way.
It’s a CGDCT as simple as it is!
And I’m so confused as to why it is “average!”
There’s a ton of them that doesn't have as much content as Puraore with ratings that are higher than that, which was at this moment I thought about my “Wrong Audience Theory.” This anime surely may be shit if you are not into this kind of anime. However, judging it as a CGDCT, it is pretty enjoyable! Even if it doesn’t stand up to many others, it still gives us the vibes sended to us. One of the biggest flaw I got it the absence of an announcement for a second season. Still likely to happen, because of the premise.
If it happens, I think it will be better than the first season. Heck, the World Cup against Canada. What if they make references to NHL at this point. And with the knowledge they got to direct this anime, with the so realistic sound effects (When the stick hits the puck, IT DOES SOUND LIKE THE STICK IS HITTING A PUCK), this studio has a lot of ressource to evolve this into a bigger and more hype anime.
But for now, we need to wait. So, don’t expect Puraore to be a full on anime about strategy and tension, or an anime with girls singing over and over again, for now. Take this first season as a little cup of tea while eating waffles with maple syrup. I’m not British enough to know if that combinaison is possible or not, but nothing is impossible. I surely am gonna watch the second season if it happens.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Sep 21, 2021
[This review contains minor spoilers]
Real Account could be described as one of the most boring manga you could ever read. A manga that you will think is built and ONLY built by using poor USA styled characterisations, clichéd misunderstanding over technology, mixed with some kind of shit moral that could be resumed as "Phones are bad; The Internet is bad" throughout the whole story. Adding to that the understatement that this manga is about a survival game you could only access by using your phone, which was also a subject used in other mediocre manga like "Ousama Game", "Darwin's Game" or even "Mirai Nikki", you
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might presume that Real Account might get down the same path as them. There's a lot of reasons you could use for why you shouldn't read it, just because of how basic and unoriginal it feels only by looking at the cover.
"Real Account, in general, is not only the title of the manga. It is also described as the most powerful social media in the world. Not only Japan, the WHOLE world. The app which brings together the equivalent of Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Snapchat, Discord, TikTok, P*rnhub, I don't know... But ALL IN ONE!!! Doesn't it sounds cool? Well, guess what? After months, years of its existence, the app just wanted to magically teleport half of its users into... The app itself. The guy behind all this is Marble, the mascot that represents ReA and hides his true identity by wearing a mask. The reason he wanted to do that? To see people dying. How?:
If a player has 0 followers on ReA, he DIES! But if he dies in the survival game, all of his followers DIE TOO!"
That's the premise, for 24 volumes. If you don't like it, don't even bother to torture yourself. In my opinion, I thought that the last sentence to describe the whole thing was interesting. And reading it felt absurdly stressing. Like, who would you get balls to follow for assuring his life, while also risking yourself to die by them? Because of course that a lot of people will hit the unfollow button, they don't wanna die! Everyone who didn't even had followers right at the start died day one; all those with less than 1000 followers see their death coming and pray their life to have a least one guy to follow them; people who had over 1 000 000 followers didn't even care of seeing the subcount going down, even tho they were probably going to die. The beginning literally calls us, looks straight into our eyes and asks us if we DO care about the people we follow. Care to your own death. If they change through their carrier, would you still care about them?
The games they were getting into are all based of popular trends that a lot of us can relate. Knowing if you're connected to your audience, showing your photos that you took on your phone subconsciously, being a live stream with many viewers, heck they even have a game where you have to reveal someone's deleted post for making sure that he loses all his followers. The games, as intelligent as they can be, literally are some based representations of what does it might look like for someone to get exposed on Twitter or Youtube. It doesn't feel cringe, we actually feel that the author actually knows what he is talking about and is not only throwing bullshit at us expecting something to work by using the Internet as a main source only for cash. Even then, the characters feels realistic to their own place. They not only know what kind of danger can lead them to despair, but they also know what kind of thing they should say to preserve their popularity... so they could survive.
Yet, describing the characters can be the same as describing the story. You don't like them? Well, "too bad."
There's two main arcs, both sharing a different POV of two main characters going into totally different locations. Honestly, calling them "Arcs" can be a bit of a stretch, because the first arc is mainly an introduction to the second main characters whom's the one that holds the story for him alone. The "first arc" takes 2 volumes, only to tells us that the first MC, Ataru Kashiwagi, is the brother of the second MC who looks exactly like him. The "second arc" is the rest of the story, led by the brother, Yuma Mukai. So, "it gets better after 2 volume." As Ataru can be described as the one who tries it best to be careful over his actions, Mukai is the insane one. The badass. The one who doesn't give a fuck if he dies, but also a great leader making sure that everyone lives above him. Yeah... A shounen protagonist. He even develops a power over his madness. Not only that, some others can be as likeable and INTELLIGENT as both MCs are. There's Ayame, which is the stereotypical girl that always care about Mukai; Mizuki, the masochist one who eats raw meat and plays with knives; Aiji, the cute gay one that also appears to be someone who doesn't care to die...
As I write this review I already know this sounds like crap. Anything that is mentionned doesn't feels believable and the whole thing about "The Internet" being treated well in a media is such a taboo thing that doesn't feel right. It's not believable to see that a manga like this is good. And I understand it. This manga IS BAD, hypothetically speaking. Does it mean that it wasn't a good read? No! Shout in any direction you want for not thinking that I'm not having some "reviewer perspective", I thought that Real Accound still was a pretty fun manga to read. The games were unique, Mukai was cool as shit compared to other survival games' MCs that I saw, and the artstyle, while being pretty okay, worked for this manga. Uncovering the mistery of how everyone is going to survive was a crazy ride to get. I surely won't call this a masterpiece, it will still be a manga that I'll miss reading it.
Real Account is not what you'd expect on the bad side or the good side, but it's mainly enjoyable.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Mar 20, 2021
This review may content spoilers
"A story that starts badly usually ends in carnage."
I'm not saying that, the author herself wrote this, word for word, or at least what the translation tried to make me understand on the back of the second volume (Because I bought them, like any human being ). I am impressed of how honest she was by writing this, seeing how disgusting this manga was. As her first manga, maybe she could put it forward, but nope: devalued, depressed, desperate, all what it sadly deserved. But why tho? How did I get to read this and falling in some kind of traps
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full of despair. Why did I disliked it?
What a stupid question to ask myself, because what was I expecting? One of the main reasons I wanted to read Children was for the charming, bloody art style on the cover and also because I saw Happy Sugar Life and U-12 in the recommendations, which mostly focused on HSL. It's the story of an adult named Toru Igarashi, looking for a place to make a lot of money. After a random recommendation, he goes to an orphanage where he will meet Sakurako Shimizu, the "mother" of the many orphans living here. Keep in mind I really want to quote "mother", she's actually a murderer, manipulating her orphans and teaching them to kill in the worst way possible, passing by passers-by to yakuza.
So yeah. Let's put HSL and U-12 in a blender. Was it seriously a good idea?! Clearly not! Unless you're one of these people liking to see other people being tortured and getting their limbs savagely cutted by an axe... Even then, I don't think we could find much enjoyement into that too. None of the character presented into this seemed outstanding, they mostly are developped trough flashback. The story goes way to fast for giving us time to admire and prefers stuffing us more and more of overused clichés to pack the whole thing up, making it a much more unpleasant experience. The drawings are fine, but also confusing to see who does which actions in what time and can sometimes makes the rest of story more obvious and unsurprising with the writing. Seeing a little girl despairly trying to get out of the orphanage despite knowing that she might get killed during the process, 'cause what kind of unlogical horror manga will it be if there wasn't some kind of dark side... Maybe I'd be terrorised if it was in the first manga that I've read, but when you know the clichés, we don't feel anything when these moments happen. We feel empty. Just like the protagonist.
There's not much to complain about Children because of how short it is, I just know that there's other manga that does well their jobs in their storytelling. Go read Happy Sugar Life if you want to live the story of a cute girl wanting to protect an other cute girl like a mom/wife, or go read U-12 if you want cute girls beating the shit out of buffed perverted grown men. You'd feel more accomplished by reading these instead of two volumes of that rushed story labelled "Children".
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Sep 10, 2020
I feel like that it's kind of ironic that I've read a manga about a mangaka telling her story of her pregnancy... Even tho I know nothing about what she did in the past before "Shussan no Shikata ga Wakaranai", I still found her little story being entertaining and funny.
There really isn't much to say, we are following Ayami Kazama's story learning how to be pregnant and give birth successfully... that's it. And it's good. The story is really cute. It's like a story that the author might tell in a podcast : she tells her story as if it was made for a Youtube
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video, Ayami mostly tells her story as a narrator instead of being her own character speaking during the whole manga. I get the Jaiden Animation vibes while reading this. Cute art, really well told, good pacing, not a masterpiece, but it's reality so we can't make it in a way that it is what we want.
It's just one volume, it's really short, but it's worth it if you want a little story to pass the time.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Sep 7, 2020
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(TL;DR at the end)
I really like to give chances to mangas that didn't get an anime adaptation yet, I makes me feel like I'm in a team where I have to raise a voice to make an adaptation real. But man, in all of the manga that I've read, Torikago no Trugai was BORING. It was so boring that while I was reading it the first four chapters, I wanted to get an overview of the mangaka himself, Toutarou Minami. Then I saw that it was the first manga he ever wrote. "Good", it answered a lot of question that I
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was asking to myself: "Why is the story kind of unoriginal? Why does it feel rushed? Why are the characters forgettable?"
We follow the story of 6 characters, all named differently and all refered to a specific bird. They all heard about a castle in an amusement park named the Birdcage Castle where if you get inside with the one you love, you can both get your wishes granted. They also heard that their friend Kumo Shirasagi got lost in that same castle too. So, like all normal human beings, they search for her by getting into the Birdcage Castle, which turned out to be a bad idea. They're now prisonner to that maze without end. If you can't successfully pass the puzzles in pairs, you'll die. "Who's the one behing the bird mask that trapped all the people inside?"
Do you feel like you've heard of this kind of synopsis before? I can feel the fact that it was done a bajillion of times, but THIS time it's unique, because of one specific thing making it different to the others. Like, I GET IT, THERE'S REFERENCES TO BIRDS! Don't make me feel like that I don't know what a BIRD is by talking about it each time they solve a puzzle. Bird button, Bird dilemma, Bird books, BIRD ROAD, DUDE! I just found it annoying that the whole aspect of the story is the fact that the characters must have knowledges about birds to solve all of the deadly puzzles. At this point, they're just lucky to be alive for four volumes by knowing that a bird have wings. And I hate when chance is involved, because they could just throw us a big bird mecha that they could beat with power of love, which is also involved, and justify it by chance.
A dead game in manga is mostly known to be challenging, surnatural, inhuman and mostly DEADLY. What was all of that? Like I said, "Bird button: Push the button correctly by someone with a pure heart or you'll die"? I also read Real Account, which is also a manga as stupid as it sounds, but better, and the "Bird button" challenge just feels like a joke compared to "Make sure your opponent get exposed, so he'll lose his subscribers and DIE." At least, we can see some challenge and strategy behind this, but the "Bird button", it's chance! And even if I talk about the other challenges, "You have 3 keys in a vending machine, so you have 1/3 chances of guessing the right one"... The characters are lucky like hell!
Speaking of which, the characters are so bad and generic. I'll try my best to not make it long, so here's a little description of the main ones:
Gin, the dark boy that don't have many friend but Kumo (hope y'all remembered her) that doesn't give a shit to found her without any circounstance and don't have a mother because she DIED;
Yuki, that one girl that knows everything about all the mysterious things that could exist in the world, is also Kumo's sister and comes right when she saw all the other people trapped in the castle (So she almost knows nothing about then);
Kaede, a girl that exist for being a girl in the group;
Yusuke, don't remember;
Yuma, a girl that like to dump guys;
Aoi, a guy that got dumped many times;
And finally Saki, that other girl dying right at the first chapter because she wanted to commit suicide by walking back to the front door to "quickly exit the castle."
I had to physically recheck the books for not getting any mistakes about who is who, and the worse is that the number of characters keeps goes up. I just made a simple description of the main group and there's like between ten to fifteen characters to describe, with some that are here for only one chapter (40 pages in average). And even with more characters, the story don't have any time to make big character developpement, it just throws us these forgettable characters with cliché backgrounds and they go with it. In result, when the characters suffer from things, we can't feel bad for then, we just... see then with a poker face while saying: "Ooh... Okay". Even when we see "Who's the one behing all of this" (Because it has to be more cliché'd), it's evident that the manga is trying to gives us its "You didn't see that one coming" feeling... but doesn't work. One of the main point of what makes death games good got rushed and wasted because of the minuscule volume number of four.
At the end, I didn't really enjoyed it at all, but in an other point of view, is it still a good manga? It honestly has a good artstyle that represent what it supposed to represent, at least, they're not chibi, but Torikago no Tsugai is a manga that I'll never ever recommend to other people to read. The lack of potential due to it's number of volume and the unoriginality of the challenges make it really ununjoyable to read, not worth it and regretable to buy. I almost got the feeling that the mangaka just wanted to do a test, in case his stories would evolve into some other things, because seriously: Overall, it's cliché and bad. Yeah, they all start with something bad and they get over it with a (hopefully) better manga.
TL;DR : Cliché manga with birds
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Apr 8, 2020
First of all, I would like to say that this anime is really not for everyone. But I assume that if you watch a review about the second season of "Jashin-chan Dropkick", it's probably due to the fact that you had watched the first season first.
"Jashin-chan Dropkick" is and will remain one of the best dark humor anime I've ever seen, certainly because I am one of those people who craves stupid, bloodthirsty, and deadly humor : the kind of one linked to sarcasm. Nichijou meets Gabriel DropOut. You add gore, but not too much: It creates this anime.
So that's my vision of this anime
...
in general.
The second season? Not disappointing at all! I even think it is better presented than the first season. Namely in the first minutes of the first episode of the first season, which directly present us all the characters at once around a banquet, without real lore behind (But which is fortunately better understood shortly after). Unlike the second season where we immediately understand the reason of Jashin-chan's invocation by Yurine. Positive point which goes on the negative, because it is a little disappointing to see that the second season explains the story better than the first (In personal opinion, I say that the second season is not disappointing because it is better made than the first, mostly used as an argument while the first season was already pretty awesome).
But there is more to it than that. The artstyle, clean like the first season. The length of the episodes, clean, it goes really fast and it's always nice to chain the jokes one after the other. The new characters, they are very pleasant to see on the screen. They do not appear often, but their appearance's level is perfect to not suffer for bland jokes and who really try to be "Funny because there is this new sopposedly important character that we don't really know what she did before because she was absent in the first season, haha... ha?"
Seriously, there aren't many bad things to say compared to the first, it's "Jashin-chan" as we had known her
TL; DR: If you already watched "Jashin-chan Dropkick", it's the same, better explained and with new pleasant characters
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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