anime

6/10 overall, my typical score for shows I enjoyed but with an * after the word enjoy

Hina ok

I like the rule breaker 86 or whatever their group is called leader

she's my favourite

Aru is a fun character

ok here's my review-ish thing for BA anime. spoiler tagging based on pika's current MAL progress lol --BA Anime Overall review and notes-- As someone who really loves the BA story, i decided to rate this show based on how it did as an adaptation. For this reason i gave it an 8/10 on MAL, but if i was a stranger to BA and rated the show on its own, it would have been a lower score. What I wrote here are some critiques and praises based on that premise. Important introductory prologue scenes skipped(rip wakamo's and rin's intro). It's weird that the abydos girls had to explain basic information about the city to sensei, instead of Rin from the GSC doing it when sensei first starts working under the GSC. Fight scenes not really animated well other than a couple exceptions. nobody ever actually hit the main girls with any shots. Kivotos students are very durable, they regularly get shot in the game and shrug it off. why did the show avoid having them get hit at all? only iori from the prefect team landed hits but only in melee and her strikes were somewhat blocked. Sensei being in the anime is good, but with the fights being the way they are, and with the lack of game mechanics, his participation is sidelined. Volume 1 chapters 1 and 2 are not the most interesting part of BA story by a long shot, the anime was never going to fix that, but there's a lot of good about it like expanded scenes and the original episode 8 scenes which were quite nice and enjoyable to see. my biggest issues are the battle animation, the prologue skip, and The OST. Which had a couple nice tracks but overall falls short of the game

--individual episode notes-- 1-7: pretty simple mostly accurate adaptation of game story (vol 1 chapter 1, beginning of chapter 2). i'm not going to rewatch them to refresh myself for this write-up, but i remember most of it, and how i felt watching them. They were mediocre, but so was Volume 1 chapter 1 of the game story. some expanded scenes and a couple unimportant scenes left out(an extra skirmish with the helmet gang for example). strange but unimportant changes like the method serika was kidnapped with(smoke and knockout gas instead of shooting her with anti-aircraft guns). probably because they didnt want to show the main girls getting shot for some reason. The bank robbery was and still is the best part of chapter 1. Fight with iori and the prefect team was decently animated for iori's initial attacks, and pretty close to how it went in the game. Hina's thighs buffed.

• ep8: aquarium scenes were anime original and good, wished the aquarium scenes were in the game story unironically. Good character moments that lead well into the next episode. Yuuka's thighs got nerfed, and Noa was shown earlier here than she was in game. The scenes after the aquarium were in the game
• ep9: anime had no skrimish with Kaiser PMC before interest was increased unlike the game. Kaiser PMC director claimed to be Kaiser CEO when he isn't, which may have been a subtitling issue, idk because i don't understand japanese. addition of flashbacks of Yume. (see extra notes)
• ep10: the pmc director piloted the mech unlike the game, and it was very stupid(why is he punching with cannons?). Problem solver entrance was good. Mutsuki had a weird web grenade she doesnt have in the game, but it fits her character to have something silly like that. other than that, some useless dialogue that didnt exist before, that kind of drags out the PMC invasion.

• ep11: Black suit got a good VA. Sensei did not pull out the meta credit card in the anime during the black suit scene. Sensei and the abydos girls personally visiting trinity to ask hifumi for help is a nice addition. in the game, hifumi just asks the tea party for a favor without being prompted(at least not on screen). we also catch glimpses of Koharu, Azusa, and Hanako which is a nice addition though i doubt we'll get an adaptation of Volume 3 anytime soon, if ever. Nagisa tells hifumi she needs time to think about helping abydos, but in the game she immediately gives hifumi access to the Tea Parties artillery, hoping to get sensei to be in her debt. The abydos girls meeting with Ako and chinatsu of the prefect team when asking for help is a nice addition, only sensei showed up to gehenna to ask for help in game. I can't believe Sensei stuck iori's toes in his mouth, the madman.
• ep12: Actually good battle animation in this episode, which is nice. this is the most important fight of volume 1 ch1&2 after all. We get to see a lot of the reinforcments from Trinity and Gehenna actually doing stuff on-screen instead of off-screen like in the game, where they showed up and their part in the battle wasnt really shown. Hoshino's flashbacks include stills of her first meeting with shiroko, which is not something you see until volume F(technically 5th volume in terms of release date, but not actually volume 5 which is its own story after volume F) in the game. The building hoshino was being held in didn't explode in the game.

---- extra notes: Episodes 9 and 12 had scenes referencing Hoshino's senpai, the previous abydos Student council president, Yume. iirc there was only a brief mention of yume in the game story for Volume 1 Ch1&2, so these scenes are either original or pull from Volume 1 Chapter 3 story, which only the JP servers have atm as of now. They arent spoilers though, and they're good additional scenes. I've seen reviews and comments mention lack of info on the girls halo's as a negative, but tbh the game doesnt give any information on them either. its meant to be a mystery, the most we know is halo's are what give the girls their durability. they also vanish while the girl is unconscious(sleeping or knocked out, but its effects dont go away). Halo's can be broken, if the girl dies, which takes an extremely excessive amount of force, so much so that there's only 1 confirmed student death in the story. and that happens before sensei shows up, so there is not a lot of info on that.

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I finished Blue Archive, it's a high 6/10 for me. I wouldn't recommend the anime to anyone but I didn't hate it. The later set of episodes were more enjoyable then the first set of episodes.

that is about what i would have scored it i think, if i wasn't familiar with the source

i said in more detail in the "review" but they added stuff that was good to the later episodes that i really appreciated, but would not be recognized as something new and good if you didn't play the game story.

is Mayonaka Punch the obnoxious "kicked out of party" fantasy premise but with youtubers?

the VTuber show has more product placement than just Strong Zero

Sausage Legend is a real game

its funny how the characters dress just like their vtuber models, and that those models have no mouth articulation

extremely generic magic high school show with lots of random CG shots

Garbage, I hope to God you're going to keep watching this death game show with me

10/10

you should all watch Tasuuketsu

It's on a shortlist of absurdly bad shows

I already don't like death game shows

Wikipedia editors deserve an isekai harem ~ Hyakuren no Haou to Seiyaku no Valkyria Amnesia-ception ~ Island Dharmann the anime ~ Isekai de Cheat Skill wo Te ni Shita Ore wa, Genjitsu Sekai wo mo Musou Suru: Level Up wa Jinsei wo Kaeta Don't mess with retard-Jesus ~ Sokushi Cheat ga Saikyou sugite, Isekai no Yatsura ga Marude Aite ni Naranai n desu ga. Alcoholic god hosting his first death game ~ Tasuuketsu

there's been about 1/year

of these Godawful shows

that are just peak anime to me

I'll have to think hard about older shows that make that cut

MORBOE?

that's a good one, I'll add it

there are shows with really dumb parts, like the Day I Became God, or the Detective is Dead

there are shows like the Klomback show, that I think are borderline, but are self-aware and play into it

detective is already dead was weird because it covered different stuff than the manga adaptation

oh, Leg a show we both watched

Island

that's a better show

but it hits a similar vibe to me

of just, "wtf is happening"

Klombak show being intentional I think makes it different

Yeah, that moment in FranXX hits the same note for me

It's the subset of shows that somehow manage to be written entirely like that

Motherfukaz kinda fits too, I think it's too good though

Scrolling through my list to look for examples, I got reminded liar rail exists

metallic Rouge, thats a show that I will include in the "what the fuck is even happening" shows that broke me

I was screaming the theme song when it played during the final fight, it was so cool

I never explicitly dropped that show, just fell behind and never caught up

here is my live posted dm's with Polu while I was watching the last episode

It was bad, in a "it had an okay premise, did nothing with it, threw away the good part of the show (the character interactions), then rushed what probably should have been a 2 cour plot into 12 episodes" way

good animation and good* music though

Island had the good animation and art but insane story which is why its great

suicide squad is nice because instead of being written by 14 year olds its written by competent people and doesn't lean on only tropes

https://fxtwitter.com/AniNewsAndFacts/status/1810701954680840522 here this manga promo polu dm'd me can go here

I like passione

That's a good promo

I chose to believe 'hole' in the title is the Western slang use

green haired kid

its a pretty good manga

there's a lot of wordplay

Todays episode of death game??????

New Alya episode was a psyop by Pika and Polu

Oh god I forgot today was a 3 episodes air kind of day

Russian, oshi no ko S2, last crusade S2

Watching the episode now, sister is based as fuck

Polu might be right about the russian EDs

Spooky big news

We get another season of peak

IT NEVER ENDS