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Dec 19, 2016

Deadman Wonderland (Anime) add

I found myself pleasantly surprised by this anime, only a few episodes in. Having almost dropped it for fear of it being a run of the mill 'whiney young male protagonist' anime, I quickly started to enjoy its fun tone. Comparable in my opinion to the likes of 'Soul Eater', although 'Deadman Wonderland' is clearly aimed at a more mature audience, there is a large group of charismatic playful characters, and the story moves at an energetic pace.

I rated this anime 6/10 , I would have rated it much higher if it hadn't left me hanging with such a non ending. I realise now that ... it is just a small part of a long manga, but it really ends in the most frustrating unsatisfactory way. Leaving many questions unanswered and the viewer in a partial state of disbelief.

This is a fun anime, and Its playful nature means you don't get too invested to be crushed by the lack of resolution. If you've watched all the classics and your looking for something new, give this a look :)

MaelstromSpark

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jul 1, 2015

Ergo Proxy (Anime) add

I am not a fan of this Anime.

The show starts out with great promise. The Artwork is beautiful, the world is atmospheric and the characters seem full of potential. However very quickly the story begins to take an unfocused long path toward an ever weakening storyline, slowely revealing each character to have almost no depth beyond their basic neurosis. Even the art style weakens only a handful of episodes in.

This Anime includes some pretty painful filler, some full episodes but even more offensive are some of the episodes that contain one or two moments of "main story" plot, but are mainly filler in the form ... of characters rehashing old ideas or questions we the viewer has already figured out the answers to.

The show spends a lot of time dabbling in questions of existentialism and theology, this comes off as simplistic and childish as the characters indulging in these ideas are so one dimensional and unfleshed out that the viewer ends up with no interest as to what conclusion they come to.

By the end of this anime, i found myself watching just to be able to say that i hadn't given up on it, i no longer cared about any of the characters, and i no longer cared about the out come.

my advice is to give this one a miss

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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