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Anime Relations: Majo no Tabitabi

The conflict in episode seven doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense for the wall to have been built in that city in the first place, and a village across the road is just another part of a village, right? It's more like separate vineyards. The first part feels like a mockery of the Berlin Wall, and the second part is Elaina not really solving a problem. And then he's a disaster, a walking disaster when she is drunk.

Anime Relations: Majo no Tabitabi

I'm on episode six.

Episode five? More showing how excellent Elaina is, despite not doing anything unless it is directly to her benifit, such as episode six when she wants to be able to get away from Saya as quickly as possible which is the first time we see her actually help.

Anime Relations: Majo no Tabitabi

I'm at episode four, and this series is a failure.

Flower zombies? As a witch, she should be the one with the solution, but the burning of the flowers with fire while quarentining those who were contracted from those who weren't, maybe even a potion to cure.

The slave? Words would have been enough to solve this problem.

The mad princess? That was honestly just for shock value.

Anime Relations: Majo no Tabitabi

Why?

Why do series like to pretend something is so hard to do, only to set up the series as the reason behind something being so hard to do is down to being elitist?

And in this, we have the exam to be an apprentice witch, where only one can each turn of the exam because of a battle, but why does being a successful witch depend on battle even? The series feels so much like a slice-of-life regarding what they do that this doesn't make much sense.

Which, it also allows Elaina to brag about being the youngest ever.

So, as of episode two, I find myself.

It's almost as if the series is trying to have a nice spin on the tropes from Kiki's Delivery serivce, but in this - Flying Witch tried doing the same only to fail. Why not try to do what the genre should be, rather than trying to deconstruct something that didn't need to be desconstructed.

Anime Relations: Kuragehime

Today's entry is to discuss Himekei♥Doll, a Manwha, but the Anime Relations are two Anime diving into the theme of fashion that I'd recommend over Himekei♥Doll.

I finally finished the series, and found myself switching my preliminary review of the series from mixed to not recommended. And I stand by what I said, that the story is degrading to females, and that was only three chapters in. As for how bad this one is, this one trivializes the subject of rape and has the boyfriend's store

Of course, with how rushed to fixing the conflict was, I have the feeling the creator was told the series was going to be canceled and they needed to wrap things up so they pulled the above spoiler out of the air and ran with it. There's never one thought about whether it is realistic or not, the way the guy falls for her, but she's going to in effect be a fashion designer

Oh, and the main character can't stop crying. She finds something to get upset about every single chapter it seems, manages to gain two rivals more so because of who her boyfriend is while the creator wants us to think she's amazing as noted under the spoiler. It's all dazzle and not substance with this one.

And yeah... I recomend Kuragehime and Paradise Kiss over this, with the later getting dark at times like this series was going - in fact, I wonder if it was trying to mimic the success of Paradise Kiss without putting the same effort in, or understanding why Paradise Kiss worked. It wasn't just the bad boy vibes, but the female character coming into her own, which the female character of this Manwha never does come into her own. Actually, Kuragehime is also about girls coming into their own, and another thought is while the recommended series feature girls who don't stand out, this particular Manwha tries to have a character the writer wants us to believe is the same way, but is instead drop dead gorgeous without any help, although she claims other wise.

And she's a ditz, while the main characters from the other series aren't. They're a classic nerd, which I also have to wonder if the creator understood what a nerd is as it seems to be just used as a stand in for "loser" with characters that in the given setting would be the farthest from being a nerd.

Anime Relations: Revisions

I am going to start off by saying the beginning and ending of the series is good, but everything that comes between is a narrative mess.

First, adults make incompetent decisions that make absolutely no sense.
- The adults trust the enemy that attacked them over the stranger that saved them, which in turn is why Keisaku's mom is taken, why he ends up sacrificing himself and why the ending ends up happening in the end.
- They never prioritized energy consumption despite being in a time of crisis, leading to the puppets having a limited amount of time to fight towards the end.

Second, Daisuke is played up too much in the narrative.
- He's the hero designated by Milo, "because" narrative reasons.
- His birthday is there to serve as angst.
- He doesn't get any growth as a character until Keisaku's hero sacrifice and even then it takes a bit of time to come around.

Third, the humans of the future don't make sense.
- Apparently they were expecting the humans to be prejudice against the Revisions because of how they looked, despite the fact that logic shouldn't even be needed (consider it more adult incompetence that makes no sense). The Revisions, after all, kidnapped them, killed some of the students.
- I'm left with some level of confusion regarding whether the ancestors of the Revisions are needed or not. The snow never clarified. I'm guessing if the times were stabalized together forever, that it wouldn't matter that their ancestors died.
- The Revisions use the machines they do because of their bloated bodies, but the question is, who would have even made the machines in the first place, when the merciful thing to do would to have let the bloated on, rather than building machines to them.

Forth, whether or not Revisions are human constantly ignores the fact the Revisions are killing humans, as if that is a non-issue, because apparently the show wanted to try and push this idea of absolute pacisim, that killing is absolutely wrong 100% of the time, at least for the good guys, while the bad guys don't have to have such strong moral comes despite the fact most would understand the matter as not being a black and white one, although they did pick the right character to run with the POV from. Problem is, nobody ever challenged some of her train of thought, she was forced to face someone actually getting hurt before she changed her mind, which doesn't make sense.

Anime Relations: Revisions

Revisions is honestly a frustrating thing.

Episode five for example, has Daisuke's birthday become a hot commodity at the same time the adults are discussing cutting back on certain things, and while I do agree that celebrating Daisuke's birthday would be a good moral booster, the real problem comes from having Daisuke's birthday being a plot convenience and really there to center how special Daisuke is, and just makes him an even more annoying character.

And then there is the whole fight and ruining of the birthday plans because Daisuke is no longer to be leader, which as I''ve pointed out in one of the previous two entries shouldn't have occurred in the first place but was done by the incompentent mayor who did a lot of things that didn't make even remote sense if someone was thinking logically.

And then this episode, it gets to a major reveal regarding the revisions and there is a huge arguement about whether they're human or not, with this idea that they shouldn't be fighting the humans, because despite their grotesque forms they're still human.

Except, for starters, they're not, and from what Milo said, the merciful thing would be to actually to kill these individuals, yet this brings into question why enforcing their bodies with machines would have happened, when the merciful thing would have been to let them die. Of course, there may be more missing, but so far, the plot is horribly weak and inly keeps introducing plot issues that need resolution before the end of the first season.

Anime Relations: Revisions

Well, it got worse.

The adults in this series are useless for the simple fact the plot needs them to be, but I say this having just gotten into the forth episode and the adults are all willing to give up their only defense of the enemy.

WTF, no!

Adults have more common sense, but then the only adult so far with common sense is an uncle, which I'm sure is tied to the fact he is a doctor and thus he ends up being the necessary medic.

Nor am I buying this idea of, "We should just trust the enemy that attacked us over someone who saved us," part either, yet this is never called out for plot reasons.

Of course, the kids are also concerned about someone paying for something from a store despite the fact money is you'd think a rather useless comodity if they can't get back

Anime Relations: Itai no wa Iya nanode Bougyoryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu.

Sometimes, when I look through reviews of series involving gaming, what the reviews say to me is more about the gamer than the Anime, but here are some quotes from BOFURI reviews that stood out to me.



While I agree with the second part, I disagree with the first as Maple never stops trying to get better, but I think there is a stark contrast between a character who thinks they're the cat's meow when it comes to the game they play and one who honestly doesn't know what they're doing is normal.

And then there were these two lines.



..and...



Except for the game she's playing ISN'T a Souls-like game, per-say on how one defines a Souls-like game. NewWorld Online, for example, does have various unique items that affect the gameplay as Dark Souls does, but from what I can tell, there is no losing gear if one gets KOed, and playing with others is a constant in the game Maple plays, rather than using a stone to go multiplayer.

Getting defeated ls revealed Chrome's special dungeon appeared because of the number of times he died in the game, resulting in him gaining his current gear, which is a stark contrast to Dark Souls, like the stellar opposite in of gameplay. Not to mention there are one-of items that only a single player ever has, something unique to MMO seen in Anime.

As such, the fact the difference between actual Souls-like games (as per what I noted is different) is a bit troubling, but WHAT they're actually complaining about is someone taking point of a games weak points to succeed, outright claiming this is not something a respectful player does.

Yet, the last time I checked, Dark Souls is about each player figuring out their style of gameplay, such as purposefully going after the dragon slaying gear before taking on the dragons, but the VERY FACT they use the words clever enough -- seems to me they're outright jealious of the gamers who ARE clever enough to figure out such things, but let's face the fact -- figuring things like this out ISN'T CHEATING yet by saying it's a form of disrespectful way to play the game, they're trying to laud it as cheating.

Nor can I see actual fans of Dark Souls getting pissed off the other gamer did this, although they might be pissed off about them bragging. And it misses the fact that the whole premise behind BOFURI is Maple, a complete newbie, managed to do this, because the game devs unitentially made their game bad. Like, this feels like the reviewer is missing the entire point.

But there other things, such as another reviewer claiming the show is an Isekai, another claiming the show isn't parody when it is - sure, it's not labeled as parody, but this comes from the fact the parody elements I think aren't going to be picked up unless someone understand what exactly BOFURI is making fun of, which it does at least get categorized as comedy. Complaints about SAO are funny because BOFURI literally pokes fun of series like SAO's issues.

Now, not all the reviews are like this, but this reminds me of the reviews for say NetoYome where a certain someone claims the series is good while missing some major things someone who does a lot of gaming would pick up on.

Actually, now that I think about it, one of the clues this isn't a Souls-like game when it comes to game play is the very fact Sally is willing to introduce her newbie friend, someone whose never played a game in their lives to, because it is easy to pick up, whereas Souls-like games aren't. It's likely one of the reasons I don't play Souls-like games and yet find myself iring them despite this, and think that those who do play them are actually pretty amazing.

Just, not the person who plays the Souls-like game thinking taking advantage of something the game devs didn't properly forsee as the devs in the game Maple plays should have is in effect a form of cheating, or who may be labeling someone actually going for the appropriate gear before taking on a certain boss and doing fine in the fight is also somehow cheating.

Like, everybody has their own game style, and isn't one of the amazing things about Dark Souls the very fact to each their own? Or that each play through even, that a person can tackle the game in a different manner, so its a new experience each time?

Of course, given NetoYome is praised by people as if that is how female gamers are (keep in mind I am one), is the real issue that these are guys who are pissed off a girl manages to play a game better then them, that having a girl needing a male player to literally babysit them the whole way (to the point she becomes the guy's stalker) is more realistic?

Yeah. Something doesn't add up here.

Anime Relations: Revisions

Five years after it's release and only two episodes in, I understand why this particular series didn't get a second season. Daisuke is bloody annoying, his hero complex making him no true here, instead making him someone who is a hero for very narcissistic reasons, nor do I quite understand how he did a 180 over the years. On top of this, his stick of being paranoid is dropped once his paranoia ends up confirmed.

But episode two, the way it ends with the police going, "Yeah, we're going to make you the defacto leader just because you've got a suit already and the others don't" despite the fact it should be Milo leading them because she knows what is going on and Daisuke's first hand experience is limited is out right ridiculous. It reminds me of Tai making Davis the leader of the Digidestioned for the same reason, but with Tai it is excusivble as he doesn't have the life experience of the cop.

Then again, the episode sees the teacher who came across as a positive role model in the first episode go batshit in this one, abandoning her students (sort of - the Anime wants us to think that, when in reality she was trying to protect the ones that already escaped one could say) gets a cumupance of being taken, which really isn't explained.

In fact, all that is explained so far is that they're in the future, they're trying to find a way for them to get back and there is an enemy. You'd think people would want to know what is happening to the ones who got taken by the machine instead of squished by the machine, right, but no.

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