Cliches exist as a negative for most. Some movies are the perfect ideal of of a cliche. This movie is a fantastic example of alien abduction/survival horror. It makes a controversial choice to never use dialogue. I feel that's a difficult story limitation to use correctly. This movie almost executes it perfectly. I feel the ending especially suffered from a bad combination of too much ambiguity mixed with a dramatic tone shift that left me too confused to understand. Otherwise, I recommend this to anyone looking for a good watch. If you love a David Lynch style of mystery then you'll likely appreciate this more than me.
I think watching this for the first time 30 years late was not the best decision. I can see why this had such a huge impact on anime culture. The canned animations were top notch. The costuming is so over the top in a great way. What they decide to attach to boobs for a gag is crazy. Chibiusa is fantastic. Your childhood opinions were wrong. I have unusually strong feelings about season 5 Sailor Moon's red skirt looking so garrish. This show could use a full reboot. There's a lot of potential here.
I picked this back up after missing it here and there when it was on TV. Now that I'm on the final season I can say that this last season is the best of an upper-mid show. The mix of 2d and 3d was used in a cool way. The 3d animation quality jumped in quality in the final season. It's a great episodic kids show. It's nice to see a French animation in a market monopolized by two countries. It's worth a watch for older kids and adults who want neat background noise.
This may be the most accidentally racist episodes in retrospect. using MLK to call out all of black culture feels like being online these days. MLK could have yelled #whitelivesmatter and it would have fit. I loved this episode when I was young but it was definitely a fumble. It reminds me of why Dave Chappelle left comedy. It's still funny that grandad was prank calling Rosa Parks. Still love the show
Yuske Yurameshi is a delinquent, a thug, and a teenage Bansho. This highschool gangster is the toughest around and the bane of his teachers. his alcoholic mother barely cares if he lives. Unfortunate for her, she find out how untrue these feelings are when he inexplicably dies saving a small child from a reckless car. He learns in his next life that not even the psychopomp sent to collect him saw this coming. This final act of surprise valiance may be enough to earn him a second chance at life.
This show is responsible for crafting the single greatest tournament arc of all shonen anime.
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Oh, you have seen the thug with a heart of gold trope? It's played out? This is Yuske Yurameshi. His heart is gold but his mouth is full of shit. He just can't stop being an entertaining asswipe.
He's joined by the second strongest thug around KUWABARA! This idiot had his ass beat dozens of times by Yuske but wasn't ready for his sudden death. Somewhere being drowned in his own blood dozens of times Kuwabara discovered friendship.
This (not) buddy cop adventure fighting demons is quickly joined by the survivors of the first mission on probation by the big baby in charge, Koenma.
The Jigan Eyed Hiei is the demon just doing his time until he is released. This ain't your typical Sasuke clone, he predates him. He may still be unironically evil by the end of the show. Your guess is as good as mine.
The second demon Kurama, again not a Naruto clone as he predates him, will make you gay. I don't make the rules, you're just gay now, for Kurama. This bishi bitch is a gentleman and kind unless you get on your bad side. Then you're going to wish you were dealing with Hiei.
This show is as impossible to hate as Botan is impossible to not love.
SPACE WESTERN
This niche genre is filled with Firefly and Cowboy Beebop. Trigun excels in crafting wonderful and loveable characters. Vash the Stampede is a hyper accurate gunslinger that refuses to kill. This post apocalyptic new world will test his will to survive vs his will to protect. This animation is detailed and stylish. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll eat copious amounts of donuts.
Fantastic, Superb, Amazing, there aren't words to describe how good this is. The animation is fluid and detailed where it matters. The story is well thought out. The characters are interesting and believable.
This gory horror rips flesh with style. The parasyt is both terrifying and oddly cute. It was interesting to see how the idea of humanity is pushed around into whatever the author wants regardless of the character being human or not. It's great to see a show with a satisfying story arc including an end, a rare sight in an IP driven industry. This is a must watch for any horror or anime fan.
We were all 12 once. This would have been the coolest thing ever back in the day. It may be trash, but it's high quality trash.
Absolutely phenomenal! The main cast carries this show well. The effects and action stay decent. The writing can get a bit fuzzy but still works throughout the whole series. The ending is perfectly bittersweet. If you like time travel, then watch it. This show touches on everything time travel can do.
This is a bad movie. The music was blaring but the dialog was a whisper. I couldn't make oit their words with max volume. Completely Unwachable
This was excruciating to watch. I barely made it through season 1 and won't give season 2 any shot. The actor playing Tyrone was wooden in the worst way. The light/dark young romance was done better in Runaways. The writing was bland, the editing was sometimes jumbled and confusing, and the effects were decent if underutilized. I really wanted to like the bad cop drama but it was killed by my dislike for Tyrone.
This show is a perfect example of a train wreck too gory not to watch. Each person was so incredibly awful that it was enjoyable to watch them be awful. Having them break apart at the end was definitely the best ending . It's honest. It's gross. It's mediocre. Never have I seen reality depicted on screen so accurately.
I'm watching through Netflix so I'm stuck on season 9. This show started out great. It got real boring in the middle up until Neegan showed up. Once he was taken down it became boring again. The meandering story grinds your interest down. It becomes so predictable too. Every time something good happens or a character experiences happiness it's solely to contrast impending doom. Season 9 could not have been worse. What did they do with Rick? Seriously, how do you write a main character out like that? I can get behind a time skip, it can be fun to see how a future can play out. Two time skips in one season where Maggie and a whole damn war collapsing the kingdom get written out off screen is some terrible bullshit. I can't wait to see how they screw up season ten.
Edit: I've now finished it. What a waste of time. Because the spinoffs continue the story in several branches (three is it?), there is no real end to this festering corpse of a show. Watch season 1 and stop if you value your time. If you don't value your time, watch until Megan twirls his bat around then end it. If want to waste your life watching crap like I did then there's one or two good things by the end.
I didn't like this show to begin with so a decade later I decided to give it another shot. I wasn't impressed but determined to push past the parts that I have seen before in hopes that it would get better as the fanbase let on. It really didn't and with over 900 episodes to slog through just waiting for it to be good I gave up again. I'm sure those that love this series have their reasoning but sadly I don't get it. From what I saw the animation was okay but the design choices were garish. The characters were flat. The writing was...basic. Honestly it seemed absurd enough to be almost satire of anime in general without committing. I am unsure how this endured over the years.
This show is the kind of series that I hope never has a season two not because it was bad but because it was so perfect as is. My wife wanted to watch it so I was along for the ride but it was instantly luring me in. Both leads are solid actresses playing good characters. The kids were doing believable kid stuff without stooping to obvious manufactured drama that were a series of bad decisions. Instead the story gives difficult situations to navigate without a clear "good guy vs bad guy".
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Watching Reese play the entitled white savior was amazing. Seeing how obsessive feud consumed her weakening her already failed family bonds was riveting. Mia was a perfect example of a good person making mistakes and owning up to them but damn she had no problem going on a warpath. Both sides were written well enough to care about and agree with. I could speak about all of the great characters in this drama. Love it
This show is an epilogue to Steven Universe and it's amazing. If you have seen sequel series like Naruto Shippuden then you have a small idea of how this will be. The biggest difference is that this is a very finite and emotional end. It's take on childhood trauma is therapeutic. It's wrap ups for each character is fitting. It's hard to end a show right but this definitely satisfies an impossible expectation to somehow love saying goodbye to beloved characters.
Beware, beyond here there be glimpses of the future.
The original series has whimsey, action, silly, and impactful and groundbreaking moments, a lot for a kids show. This epilogue takes you through the aftershocks of facing life with a smile. Stevens loss of self control and descent into madness results in him watching himself become the biggest baddy yet. To start it delves into growing up and coming to terms with having the world resting on this child's shoulders. Toiling to control the growing resentment towards his family, Steven has to also juggle new powers and learn how to be a normal person with normal friends. Seeing the once loving, obnoxiously happy Steven Universe struggle to realize that his father lived in a van down by the river, neglecting him, to see his surrogate mother figures realize they used Steven as a therapist, to see him distance himself everyone he hold dear is hauntingly entertaining. This much depth of character is hard to see in a kids show but it definitely handles moderate adult themes in ways a child can understand and a parent can appreciate while watching together. I love this series and never did I expect this show to be what it is.
It was a fun kids fantasy. It was fun seeing how the keys worked especially when they crawled through eachother's minds. The magic is definitely the star of the show. The main kids were believable, a difficult task. the villain was kinda stock big bad evil guy. the plot twists were a bit predictable. I laughed hard as the youngest used a friggin bear trap with absolutely no effect. I am a bit story savy so it wasnt fantastic for me, but if you want an entertaining family horror fantasy in between stranger things seasons then this is your show.
There are only 5 episodes but. I couldn't stomach past 4 1/2. The animation was bible cartoon level quality. The voice acting was aweful. The story and characters were hollow. The gore and nudity were an obvious attempt to put a bandaid over a broken leg. Just shoot the horse.
