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So I finally had some time and watched a bunch of MSG: Iron Blooded Orphans. I have not finished the show yet, so these are my impressions of the show up to episode 16.
For me, the show is like a 6.5 or 7/10. Watchable, but definitely not something I'd put in my favorites. The good: The mecha fights and overall animation quality is actually superb, and the main story is pretty engaging. I think that most of the characters (with some notable exceptions; I'll explain) are interesting and feel more naturally fleshed out than most anime. The show does a good job delving into some more "mature" themes, i.e war, slavery, child soldiers, poverty, politics, corruption, colonialism, etc. and I love that. The bad: A few of the side stories and characters are cringey at best, and actively off-putting at worst, especially the events surrounding the show's female characters. As an example, there are two female characters that are romantically interested in the protagonist (who is a young teenager). One of them is similar in age/maturity to the protagonist, and one of them is a much younger child. This in and of itself isn't necessarily a problem, if it were handled in a mature way but personally I don't feel like they do that. They seem to focus a lot on the fact that the young one is jealous of the other girl (and other older female characters) because she doesn't have a "womanly" body yet, giving them an excuse to use the older girl characters as fanservice/eye-candy. But, its not just limited to that. For example, one of the "groups" in the show is one guy as captain of a ship harem of multiple wives as the crew. Just like the child thing, a harem or other poly relationship wouldn't necessarily be a problem, if it were handled in a mature way. But instead, they decide to have use it as an excuse to show a bunch of scantily clad women who are incredibly obedient to one dude, which personally I don't think is a healthy depiction of that sort of thing. There are a couple women in that group that get a bit of character development outside of that, but I don't feel like it really makes up for it. Plus, they use the harem thing to plant the idea in the little girl's mind that she and the older girl can both be the protagonists wives, which IMO is a very... strange narrative choice, to say the least. There are other problems I have with the show, but they're along along similar lines and I dont feel like writing out every single thing. I don't know if I'll finish the show. We'll see. But, as far as Gundam series go, I'm a little disappointed with this one. As it stands right now, I liked Unicorn better. Maybe I'll watch 00 or Seed next. |
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The whole wig thing was pretty funny.
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More than half way through the Spring season, I've finally caught up with most of series this season. Here are few lists.
One Punch Man Season 2 - It's somewhat slow... well, slower than 1st season. BUT even with that, still fun to watch. Kimetsu no Yaiba - 1st epi had good action and all, but didn't keep me watching. After several epi into it, it got good. Isekai Quartet - If you watch Overlord, Re;Zero, Youjo & KonoSuba, it's worth every bit of it! It's a same studio that did Pe Ple Pleiades, so they know how to make a cute chibi charas at the same time, their joke is funny. Fruits Basket (2019) - If you watched the original, don't bother. If you haven't, then worth watching. Kenja no Mago - Good series... but I have been reading the manga first, so I'm kinda disappointed. They cut a lot of things out from manga. I get that, they wanna keep things short to the point, but as a result, they made the series very light story. Fairy Gone - Good action series, at the same time story is interesting. There was a series like that... but I can't remember which series it was. If you like fairy fiction series with serious action, worth looking into. Sewayaki Kitsune no Senko-san - Hm... it's okay series. If you're bored and like semi-slice of life, watch it. Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai - Just like 5-toubun no Hanayome from last season. If you like that series, you'll like this. Carole & Tuesday - One of the best series from this season... maybe this year. If you like music anime, this is worth watching! Even if you don't care for music anime, watch it! It's good. Nande Koko ni Sensei ga!? - I was very disappointed. I like this manga, so when I heard this series coming to anime I was excited... but anime failed me. Sad... very sad... Shoumetsu Toshi - Hm... so so series. Anime isn't great, story is over done and nothing new. Joshikausei - Short series, but it's good. Funny highschool girl's daily life. 1st epi was WTF moment, but after that, it's good series. Mix - If you liked watching Cross Game or even original Touch, this is the series, you MUST watch. If you like baseball anime with extra love story, this is worth trying it out. There are few other ones I'm watching (like AoT), but nothing to add atm. |
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Isekai Quartet is the stuff of dreams.
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Started watching Tokyo Ghoul, seems pretty good so far. At first I was skeptical since the premise is VERY similar to Parasyte (which I also watched recently and liked) but its shown to be unique enough to keep me interested.
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It's the same genre for the most part . I started reading the Tokyo Ghoul manga. So I didn't like the anime as much. But it was still pretty good. Parasyte was okay.
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I feel like something is wrong with me. I like comedy. I like funny shows, but I am finding out I don't like shows that are solely comedy, or comedy heavy. Recently I have dropped Desert Punk, Cromartie High School, and am considering dropping Gintama. My backlog is pretty much non-existent at this point and I'm not watching a ton of current season shows either so I'm running short of anime to watch.
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Pure comedy anime would be like... Daily Lives of High School Boys, Asobi Asobase, Saiki, Minami-ke, D-Flag, Chio's School Road, Kill me baby, SYD, Aho Girl & so on. So if you like one of em I've wrote, you like pure comedy anime. |
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I'm still watching Black Clover, but I know if I had looked at it after the fact (nearly 100 episodes in) I wouldn't make it.
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Recently watching Aggravate Retsuko & it's been pretty entertaining
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