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Blood of Zeus (2020)
Just another Zeus "side child" story
Another Zeus "side child" (cannot use the 'B' word due to community guild line) story, not the best not the worst, in short, not worth the time.
=Ok animation; very noticeable reuse shots; bad pacing; mediocre story telling; cliche story, no surprise, nothings new, you can tell the whole story with a glance of the title.
=The bloopers in the ending of each episode is actual not bad, more interesting than the show itself.
=For your comparison, I rated "Castlevania" a show with similar aesthetic an overall 9 stars.
**Summary of the story (very cliche you won't miss any thing): Zeus screwed up another noble woman, and she gave birth to a superman boy who bond with destiny and daddy issues. However, (Plot Twist! ..not really) Zeus actually care about the boy, so the life long daddy issues were resolved by a 5 mins father-son bonding moment(not really that long). With the help of Zeus hero comes to save the day! Btw, Hera and Hades are not the bad guy in this show what a surprise!! ..nah just kidding, they are, as always.
Guns Akimbo (2019)
Simple, entertaining, and VERY stylish!!
Simple story(not the important for this film anyway), entertaining and VERY stylish. Dark, grime, and neon, the cyberpunk like art style is very on point with the old school arcade-shooter-ish actions; sarcasms and dark humors are there too.
Kinda remain me of the "Scott pilgrim vs the world" overall, an acquired taste it is.
Shiki (2010)
A super-realistic supernatural show really got me into thinking...(light spoilers)
This is a show about vampire/zombie/shiki("living" ex-human with memories, characters, and intelligent just like their old human form except they feed on human blood now), this is a fictional show with some supernatural elements but yet it feels very ralatable, it feels so REAL!!!
I watched this show during the COVID-19 outbreak, the ignorant of the general public when the hidden dangerous approached was captured so realistically in this show, the fears; the denies; intentional ignores the unnatural; and the alienation to the whom dare to speak the truth...
And the moral shifting in this show is always brilliant!!! we have seen the Shiki and the villagers struggled during their first kill to the Casually Daily Massacres. A peaceful and highly family based village with good moral standard can easy transfer into a killing machine just casually killing those who are different with us(thinking about the different nationalities or races) or even our own innocent kind just because we feel like it.
It made me chilling when everything seem like to back to "normal", when the steroid faded away, men and women peacefully laughing and chatting like their normal daily during a work break, except they are all covered in blood while eating snacks with their bloody hand, and their work is casually massacring the shiki and killing some of their own.
What made me thinking the most is regardless the supernatural parts everything can and has happened in our life, and how easy to lower people's moral standards and killing others your kind is even easier than that.
Tengen toppa gurren lagann (2007)
Good but not Great
It is a very good anime go watch it! it will worth your time if you haven't, but a master piece? I have to say no.
A brief summarized equation of my points: start with a interesting story arc, make it simple, throw a deep dark curve ball for no reason at all, when the story tone starts getting dark or off track use plot conveniences to bring the story back to its original simple mod, then throw another new deep dark curve ball, then saved by plot conveniences, and repeat the process.
This anime has used exaggerate wild draft art style a lot which fit the plots perfectly, and the consistent high quality animation, make this show visually outstanding. No problem with the sound track, J-rap punk style, I like it, remain me "samurai champloo" a little. The story telling is where I have the problem with, There many interesting twists along the story, but leak of execution and also many many more plot conveniences plus not great character developments.
The world building is simple, the overall story arc is good, but the execution is not there, it is still OK, but it does drug the overall quality down. Most of the twists lack of development, right after a twist when you expect something interesting something deeper, it just end, nothing happened, the plots just moves on! The twists are there the conflicts are there, but not deeper investment just scratch the surface, only being 'mentioned'. Personally really disappointed when I saw so many valuable resources being wasted and abandoned.
There tons plot conveniences along the show, which created many awkward moments. If you watched this show already, you should know this show loves to throw curve ball, they want a twist but not, even when it is completely unnecessary, where are the plot conveniences get in used. Same thing happened when the director think they need to rush the story, then bang! a plot convenience, when the story kinda off track, then bang! a plot convenience. The sheer amount of plot conveniences is you would expect from a 5.0, 6.0 anime.
The character development is poor, isn't affect story to much but still poor. The side characters has very distinctive characteristics(e.g. the cute, the loud, the stupid) which is good for one episode characters, but it it too simple for 20+ episodes' side characters, except Roshiu Adai, also my favorite character in the show the most developed character in my opinion(also the only one use logic and brain to solve the problem in the show), but still has many flaws(may be because the director doesn't want to spend so much time on a side character, so bang! plot convenience). The important supporting characters(Kamina, Yoko, Nia) is OK, not bad, you can see the development there. The main protagonist experienced three stages of change, the first stage is very interesting very rich and divers, the second stage is after Kamina dead, is quit a dramatic change in character but you can still argue with that so it is OK, but he become too dark and gloomy the directer have to throw multiple plot conveniences to make him to stage three, from a dark sad character to a simple positive super blank character, in a blink of eyes.
This is not a dark deep anime so enjoy it and followed its positive energy and logic(not your logic) then you can enjoy it perfectly fine. But a master piece? No, no, no, too shallow , too many flaws and too many cliche. I gave the 1st half of this show 8.0, 2nd half 7.0.