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★★★★★ One Punch Man [Review]

The overpowered main character, a bored mundane ex-salaryman bald dude, is a super-hero for a hobby, fighting monstrous villains who want to kill everybody for no reason in hilarious battles of epic scale. Being so OP he destroys them with just one single punch, having nothing to fear, and bored out of his mind, he longs for an enemy that can give him some thrill in a fight. A mix of Overlord and Saiki Kusuo no Psi-Nan , with more battles and less plot. Also similar:  Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou Desu yo? 12 episode slice adaptation of a partial well-drawn manga adaptation of a badly-drawn web-comic. 10/10★ - A blast, glorious to watch. Strength: all the hype and OP-ness you love in a battle MC, without the exhausting, gradual power-ups and training. Besides epic and hilarious, with superb animation and battles created by combining various artists' techniques, it provides a clever down-to-earth perspective of the most powerful man's tedium and shortcomin...

★☆☆☆☆ Darling in the FranXX [Review]

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. ...

★★★★★ Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann [Review]

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...

★★★☆☆ Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu [Review]

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...

★★★★☆ Houseki no Kuni [Review]

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....

★★★☆☆ Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou Desu yo? [Review]

An  isekai  with an overpowered main character joining the underdog faction. Battles are "Gift games" with conditions for victory-defeat, and everybody has special abilities, called "gifts." Full of cockiness and "that can't be! How are you so OP?!" everywhere. It's a mix of One Punch Man and No Game No Life . 10 episode partial adaptation of a light novel. 7/10★ - Has its moments, but feels lacking. Strength: cocky overpowered MC. Weaknesses: plot, world-building. Although enjoyable and rather refreshing, with an unique cast, world and system, it doesn't have anything truly special to set it apart from the many other monster-of-the-arc anime, so it might leave you unsatisfied. The premise gives the expectation that the mondaiji , the "problem children," are all overpowered and would easily topple the Little Garden they just set foot in. That, would be epic, is what you think as you watch the guy show off how unbalance...