Leo Rates Anime

A coming-of-age suspense set in an isolated utopian village of espers where some children mysteriously disappear. Featuring a lot of scary realism, strange culture, and goblin-like monsters. It's Houseki no Kuni , but with a far stronger anthropological approach. The setting is also slightly similar to Ergo Proxy . Also similar to: Madoka Magica . 25 episode conclusive adaptation of a novel. 10/10★ - Horror disguised as a child's play. Strengths: world-building, mystery, pragmatism. This anime is scary. It looks like fun: children, school, super-powers. But every shot has a dark tone on it that anticipates some monster jumping out and devouring everybody. It's frightening. The environment this anime creates makes your heart forget its beat. At first glance, it's just another school anime. Except it's a school for children that can do psychokinesis. It looks weird, exotic. But ultimately it's just a bunch of children living in a different, fictional...

An epic isekai with an office worker reincarnated inside a VR MMORPG as a overpowered undead sorcerer of evil. Living in his guild fortress where all monsters and NPCs are his loyal underlings, feared by humans. He campaigns to find the other guild members, his old friends, in the game world. Everything that other isekai anime with OP MCs are not, that is: good. The unparalleled power of One Punch Man with the teacher-figure of Ansatsu Kyoushitsu . 36 episodes total, 3 seasons, partial adaptation of a novel. 10/10★ - The most epic anti-hero anime. Strengths: bad guys thinking they're strong and getting obliterated, dynamic between the main character and the underlings that look up to him. Weakness: the overarching plot moves very slowly, so it's probably never going to be concluded, though the arcs are enjoyable.. Incredibly satisfying to watch. The main character carries the show by doing his part well, being competent, considerate, and at the same time very hu...

Five giant mecha-girls are piloted by ten orphan children grouped as boy-girl "partners" who are raised as the only weapon against bio-robotic blue-bleeding monsters, defending their dome-utopia city they mayn't visit that moves around the barren planet. The main character can't pilot a mecha, then he meets a weird girl whose partners keep dying. A new rendition of KADO: The Right Answer , made in collaboration with studio Trigger. 24 episode conclusive anime original. 1/10★ - A joke, lamentable and rather disgusting. Strengths: edgy plot, trash waifus, sexual innuendos everywhere. Weaknesses: you'll feel disappointed no matter what you like in anime. What people like and dislike about it varies: the sci-fi plot, the developed characters, the shipping, the cringey fanservice, the great action with mecha-battles, but there's one factor in common: they're all left unsatisfied by the end. It baits you, then slaps you in the face like a lame prank. ...

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...

A lazy soldier with magic-copying eyes fear-hated for bringing upon destruction and a female knight go around killing cruel, heartless villains while in a secret mission from their war-disliking king-friend who just took the throne, loved by his people, hated by evil nobles, that's to search the continent for long forgotten super-powerful items used by ancient heroes to make world peace real. In a way, similar to Akame ga Kill . 24 episode partial adaptation of a light novel. 7/10★ - Fun, pretty and quite badass, but a mess of a story. Strengths: lazy mage x female knight OTP, seriousness. Weaknesses: plot advances at a crawl, repetitive and utterly confusing. Comic villains laughing maniacally will make your eyes roll, but these bad guys can actually kill, make people bleed, and the fights have impact, they're epic, serious, satisfying. The main couple dynamic is enjoying to watch. So it's unfortunate that the overarching plot is an unholy mess. By the first...