Leo Rates Anime

A little girl esper child-soldier teleports from another world into a rich top-brass Yakuza's apartment and breaks all the expensive furniture. Terrified, he lets her live there. Feeds her. Lets her go to middle-school as if she were his daughter. Wait a second, what's this caregiver setting?! A mix of Nichijou and Alice to Zouroku , or a mix of Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan and Beelzebub , with bits of Gintama sprinkled on top. 12 episode slice adaptation of a manga. (it seems because of rules about the representation of Yakuza on TV some content wasn't adapted.) 10/10★ - Exceedingly ridiculous and unexpectedly captivating. Strengths: way-over-the-top comedy, character development. Weakness: too few fights despite Yakuza, esper and kung-fu characters. Great animation, clever comedy, and such endearing child characters I briefly felt I understood what a daughteru is about. Surprising in many ways. The very first few minutes of the anime is all you need to realiz...

The feels-filled period melodrama of an emotionless ex-child-soldier amputee girl trying to understand the meaning of love. A Jormungand  that doesn't deal with arms but with feelings, or a single-player Mahoutsukai no Yome . 13 episode conclusive light novel adaptation. Plus one OVA, set somewhere in the middle of the 13 episodes. 10/10★ - It made me feel human. Strengths: character development, extraordinarily detailed, excellent scene-writing, artwork and soundtrack. Weakness: a few child vs. soldiers battles feel ridiculous; can be off-putting, but not the focus of the anime and mainly used as a plot device. A heart-wrenching no-emotions PTSD child story that stands out for its dedication to character instead of world or plot; brings out every slight emotional change with mesmerizing attention to detail. Many anime deal with sad traumatized child victims you'd want to protect, but often fail to make you attached to them, distracting you with other stuff ins...

An epic mecha adventure of an orphan boy living in a poor underground village who has never seen the surface and his trusty gutsy katana-gang-bro; one day a huge mecha-with-face destroys the cave ceiling whilst fighting a sniper-gun-girl, they find a smaller mecha-with-face, and the non-stop series of mecha battles begin. It's  Kill la Kill , but with mechas instead of almost-naked girls. 27 episode conclusive anime original. Warning: the two movies are summaries with the pacing destroyed, avoid them at all cost, they add very little to the TV anime and spoil the whole story. 10/10★ - The most shounen anime ever. Strengths: blows every expectation out of the water. Great character development. At one point, combines eyegasm with eargasm for what's to be known as the legendary audiovisualgasm. It'll give you a chill in the spine from pure euphoria and awe to its otherworldly levels of epic... in the first episode. And that's gonna happen in dozens of episo...

The mystical story of Phosphophyllite, a genderless gem-person, aloof and weak, that breaks apart easily, but nevertheless immortal; the pieces can be glued back. Living in an island together with other gems and their sensei , constantly battling against the "moon people" who want to take their precious gem-flesh back to the moon. It has an air of Shinsekai Yori . 12 episode partial adaptation of a manga. 9/10★ - Intriguing, beautiful, and sometimes stunningly horrifying. Strengths: characters development, characterization, excellent use of 3D. It's different from other anime at a fundamental level: the characters don't bleed, they shatter. With that as starting point, it develops into a wondrous melancholy. You know they can't die, but you can't help but feel apprehensive, specially for the useless main character that set out to be useful. This series is a perfect fit for its 3D. Characters don't just have a same face, they have a same body....