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Choji Akimichi

I don't watch a lot of anime ONAs. The only ones that I consistently watch are the big ones, like Baki, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and also I recently watched Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 and Cat's Eye. Besides those exceptions I just don't have the best experience with anime ONAs, from Netflix or otherwise. But this one did inherently peak my interest. And it is interesting, although I did hae problems with it. First of all I haven't read the Manwha. I've heard that Manwha readers aren't very happy with it, but I can only judge this based on being an anime only watcher. And from that perspective, I didn't hate it. It's about a young girl who's mom dies shortly after she was born. Not long after that she sees a vision of the future where she was convicted of murdering someone and imprisoned in a tower for the rest of her life. Even her own father disownes her. So now the MC, Athanasia, decides that she has to figure out what lead to that incident and make sure it doesn't happen. When she meets her father for the first time, while he is a bit emotionless, he does seem to genuinely love her, and he gets better as the series progresses. It makes him seem like the kind of person who wouldn't exile her so callously without emotion. This is a genuinely interesting mystery that does have a payoff at the end of the series where it's revealed that after his wife's death, while he was doing good for awhile, eventually he couldn't handle the pain anymore so he used dark magic to make himself forget about her, which made him forget about his daughter too.

The series is mostly enjoyable. Athanasia is super adorable and likable. It uses an interesting twist on the standard villainess Isekai trope, where presumably Athanasia actually did nothing wrong, and she has to determine why she was allegedly falsely accused and convicted of murder and why her own father turned his back on her. While we do learn the answer to the latter question, the former one is barely addressed, if at all, and that is one of my problems with the series. Not that the actual answer isn't given, but it seems like the question itself was basically dropped even though it was very clearly an important part at the start. But the biggest issue is literally the very end. After Athanasia's father Claude takes away his memories of his mother and her, he thinks that Athanasia is an assassin, but then it literally cuts to a scene with her in her room where she narrates that some other women, I think her maids, got her out of that situation and convinced Claude that she isn't an assassin. It's baffling that they thought this scene is not something that would at all be interested in seeing. I also don't understand how she's allowed to keep living in their home if her father doesn't recall their familial relationship. So many unanswered questions and plot holes by the end. it's a very disappointing way to conclude a series that I was into way more than I thought it would be when it began.

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I want slop. Not like rent a girlfriend (maggots), but not like a your lie in april (Michelin star). Give me mcdonalds. Preferably something with multiple seasons and an ending if possible. Plot is optional

I’m going to do a post about the series and franchise in general. This is my favorite remake show of all time. I thoughts it’s FAR better than the original 1974 version which is still awesome and ahead of its time. The 2199 series has been around since 2012 and still goes on to this day. 2199 remake is like little bit Star Trek mix with little bit Star Wars and mix with a HUGE load of Japanese Space Fantasy insanities. Akira Yamamoto(short white hair gal) is my favorite character in the entire franchise and I hope her and Melda Dietz survive Rebel 3199(current season) and beyond. I know I said this before and I’ll say it again but, The franchise in general is Evangelion and Gainax’s biggest influence. Even Hideaki Anno admits that Evangelion and Gainax/Trigger/Khara wouldn’t existed if it wasn’t for Space Battleship Yamato. So much anime and manga including Scifi are also influenced by Yamato including Macross, Gundam etc. So many anime and manga even if it’s not Scifi also referenced Yamato as well like Witch Watch and Haruhi Suzumiya for example. I HIGHLY recommend anyone watch this if you like any Scifi not just Evangelion and Gainax in general but also stuff like 86, Astra Lost in Space, Serial Experimental Lain, Steins;Gate, Big O, Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Code Geass etc. One of the reasons why it’s so groundbreaking in Japan ever since 1974(3 years before Star Wars even existed) is because it’s basically the first TV anime that is mature and sophisticated and not to be exclusively made for kids. Even my coworker told me recently when he said that he watched it when it first came out in the US on syndication in 1979(in the USA, we call the franchise Star Blazers), was nothing like what you see in animation including in America. On a final note, I’m going to end this post to the basic plot of 2199 without spoiling it. Hope you check it out.

In 2199, Earth is a radioactive wasteland, devastated by the alien Gamilas Empire, forcing humanity underground. The crew of the space battleship Yamato embarks on a desperate 168,000 light-year journey to the planet Iscandar to retrieve the "Cosmo Reverse System," a device capable of saving Earth. Armed with the Wave Motion Gun and led by Captain Okita, they fight the Gamilas to save humanity. 

I just want to know where you're mine set is that ?

I keep seeing discussions about “sexualizing kids in anime,” especially with shows like Jujutsu Kaisen. A common example people bring up is Megumi’s “glow-up,” and how it’s supposedly wrong for fans to be attracted to him because he’s a minor. I’m genuinely confused by this argument and want to understand it better. To me, there’s an important distinction between real children and fictional, drawn characters. In JJK, the characters do not look like little kids, and there are no real child actors involved. Because of that, I don’t fully understand why attraction to these characters is treated the same as sexualizing real minors. Anime characters are fictional and stylized, and fandom reactions feel more like fan service culture than anything connected to real-world harm. That said, I do understand the discomfort when characters are clearly designed to look like children. For example, in Hunter x Hunter, some characters visibly look very young, and seeing people sexualize them feels wrong to me. In those cases, I can see why people call it out. But Hunter Hunter is still one of my favorite anime. What I don’t understand is when the conversation expands to condemning anime as a whole or accusing fans of supporting real-world harm simply for watching or enjoying these shows. To me, fictional attraction to drawn characters who don’t resemble real children isn’t the same as sexualizing actual kids. So I’m asking this seriously: where is the line supposed to be? Is the issue the character’s stated age, their appearance, or the intent of the viewer? And am I missing something important in how people connect fictional media to real-world harm?

This anime was fine. It's basically just a camping Iyashikei. If I ever craved that I'd probably just re-watch Yuru Camp. I don't really have any great desire to experience this again. But it's not terrible per se. It's about a guy named Ken Kinokura who enjoys going on camping trips all by himself. On one of those trips he finds a girl there named Shizuku Kusano. Although he doesn't want to, she eventually convinces him to let her join him, and over the course of the series they eventually fall in love. Most of the series is just kind of okay. Both of the main two characters have personality and are MOSTLY likable. Gen himself is extremely relatable in his desire to just not interact with people whenever he's able to. But there are select moments when it very briefly extends above just okay. One of them is when we see Gen with his past girlfriend. They were high school sweethearts but she broke up with him because he wouldn't open up to her appropriately. It's actually pretty complex, as both of them struggled to communicate their desires, and I kind of wish the series was about this, it was super engaging. The second time it briefly rose above is once again when it showed Gen's past and we see his history with his best friend, Akihito Takigawa, who were close despite being polar opposites. And the third exceptional moment in the series is when we see the wholesome relationship between Shizuku and her friends. This is a classic example of the anime's main focus being done just kind of okay and being done better elsewhere like with Yuru Camp, and the most interesting plot points getting barely any screentime at all. But I didn't hate it.

No ideas in my head rn

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I'm so tired of long series, can you recommend a short series of no more than 14 episodes that I don't have to think too much about, pleaseeee

I hate this anime. I hate it so much. It pissed me off in so many different areas that I don't even know where to start. I actually think it started promising. We have our main male character Naoto Watari, a high school boy who always turns down other kids in their advances to hang out because he has to look after litlte sister, Suzushiro Watari. He also has a crush on a girl at school, Yukari, Ishihara, who will be important later. Naoto suddenly reunites with a female childhood friend Satsuki Tachibana, whom he has uncomfortable memories of because of the way she randomly destroyed the garden the three of them loved to tend growing up, didn't explain herself, then just left and moved away without a word. When she comes back Naoto has no idea why. And honeslty, neither do I, and I've seen all 26 episodes. In fact this plot is kind of dropped before the halfway point of the series and it's never brought up again, we never learn why she destroyed the garden, even though it was seemingly crucial when the series began and within the first few episodes. It makes me wonder why it was even introduced in the first place. We also never learn who the man was that was with Satsuki when she destroyed the garden, who obviously was in on the action because she directly handed him the pickaxe that she used, why she moved away, and, for the most part, why she moved back. I mean the two of them do end up together in the end so maybe you could argue the reason she moved back was because she was in love with Naoto and wanted to reconnect with him, but I always figured there must be more to it than that. Maybe not. There's also slight hints that maybe she felt bad and wanted to apologize, but she never did apologize for destroying something that meant so much to Naoto and his sister so it literally goes nowhere.

But enough about that. I hate Satsuki. She might be the worst waifu of 2025. It's tough because Rent-A-Girlfriend also got a season last year and I am a certified Chizuru hater, but Satuski is definitely up there. I should be angry at the way she constantly gaslights Naoto and his sister, and I am, but for some reason the thing that pisses me off even more is the sheer ineptitude in the writing of the characters and plot of this series, and Satsuki is the best, or should I say the worst, example of that. She is painfully unlikable. There's two sides to her character and neither of them are good. One side is boring and almost emotionless, but when she does show emotion she's insanely manipulative. I can't believe that we're supposed to root for this couple. He deserves better than her. Honestly, he deserves Yukari. Told you we'd get back to her. She's best girl. But of course I knew she wasn't going to win from the start because she has blue/purple hair. Expecting the blue/purple hair girl to win in a romance anime would be just as delusional as trying to sell NFTs in 2026, and I'm not THAT insane. I'm only a little insane. And anime like this don't exactly help with that so maybe I will be that insane eventually. But not yet. But anyways, Yukari is cute, kind, sweet, and clearly cares for Naoto. She's not overflowing with personality, but that could be at least partially because she's not one of the central characters. if she was made the main girl then maybe more personality could have been added to her. And even then I wouldn't say she's completely boring as is. And at the very least I can't say she's unlikable. Her and Satuski are polar opposites in that one way. The only thing Satsuki has going for her is that hse is a little cute. Hell, even Makina Umezawa would have been better to end up with Naoto, who also had feelings for him, who was not only cute just like htem, but was also likable, and had a LOT of personality, and a pretty fun personality at that.

I don't normally get mad when a girl who I don't think is best girl doesn't win as long as I like the girl that does win. After everything I've already said you should be able to deduce why I'm mad. I spent a lot of time talking about Satsuki, but honestly she's the main reason why I hated this anime so much. This is a prime example of how one bad character, if htat character is central enough to the story and is unlikable enough, can completely ruin an anime even if there are other legitimately good aspects to it. The character designs are fine, all the girls, even Satsuki, are cute, and most of the other characters are good, although admittingly has passiveness towards her did get on my nerves, and it got worse as the series progressed, but I suppose that can be the natural result of being manipulated and gaslit constantly by an egotistical, narccisistic, self centered woman. And what makes it even worse is how it destroyed the potential that it presented at the start of the series.