Review of Pretty Boy Detective Club

 The Storyline sounded kind of dumb, I’m not going to lie. Although after the first few episodes I kind of ate my own words. I was more hooked into this show then other shows that I thought was going to be AMAZING. I liked the concept that every few eps were a new “Arc” “main plot” but still throughout there was a major plot going on. They managed to balance the genres of “Comedy” and “Mystery” in a balanced way so that it wasn’t boring or had funny moments in awkward places unless it was needed. The concept about the main characters certain unique trait is well done and honestly, I wished I had it. Although I am glad that although sometimes you may have something that you excel in, you may have some things you lack, or it may lead to something going wrong. The pacing for most of the time was good but I found some arcs could have been shortened, while others extended.

The Animation is what drew me in to begin with, not the description. With brightly coloured animation it was hard not to look away. I never saw any issues with the Animation at all and I think I would have noticed if it had been something drastic. The Sound for this Anime was good, and I found the VA’s did an excellent job portraying their characters. The opening is one of the catchiest songs I listed to that season. The different ending songs sang by the VA’s were all sweet and nice but nothing very memorable.

The Characters I think was the other thing that got me to pay attention to this Anime. With all the characters looking and acting all unique.  Although I liked all the characters in this Anime, I can’t really talk about everyone, but I can talk about a couple. Mayumi is the main female protagonist where most the attention is focused on. She has the most beautiful eyes and purple hair. I love her personality and the way she tries to do stuff on her own but can also accept help. Manabu is the main male protagonist and I also never clicked until it was revealed. He is a child, not even a teenager and he act like an adult. I am assuming the way to look at is, he has a body of a child, the age of a child but a mind of an adult. Oh, how I wish I could be a child still. He is funny and I do like his look on things and how he puts certain things in perspective.

Overall, my opinion on this Anime is “Never judge a book by its cover” …I swear I said this to a previous Anime review…When will I learn. I loved this show and although it wasn’t perfect it was still very much enjoyable. If you loved Ouran High School Host Club and Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! then you will enjoy this ride. 

8/10Story

      

9.5/10Animation

      

9/10Sound

      

9/10Characters

      

8.8/10Overall

Review of The Case Files of Jeweler Richard

The Storyline is a mixture of being unique and not being unique. The unique part being the title of the show… Mainly the word “Jeweler” but the other main element is the bond between the characters and what they go through as a whole. If you said to me a while back that I would be watching something which is to do with “Jewels”, I would not believe you. The pacing of this show was perfect, and I never once thought it was being rushed or too slow. When they wanted me to be emotional and feel a certain way, I would be feeling it. This was an almost perfect Anime.

The Animation was done well, and the jewels were Animated in a way that made them look so realistic and pretty. The Sound, aka the opening song was very fitting and nice, but it was the ending song that stole my heart. It was magical and just simply perfect for the show. The feelings that I was already feeling due to the episode was elevated by the ending song.

The many Characters that were introduced in this show was mainly all loveable bar a few and they were all written well. I only want to go into detail about the two main characters as their journey together and separate was the important part of the whole show. Seigi is introduced as being a hero; always wanting to help people out when they are being treat wrongly or in danger. I knew in that moment that could be a fault in the future. I loved how kind he is, and I loved how he is willing to do anything and everything to help people. Richard was introduced as a stoic man with an analytical approach to things. He has a way with words and although he does not wear his emotions on his sleeve, you can still tell when he is feeling a certain way. The differences in both their personalities may in most scenarios mean they have nothing in common and nothing to bond over but throughout the whole series they do end up bonding and it creates a magical relationship. Whether you see them as a couple or just as best friend. This is one relationship that is built on a strong foundation.

Overall I really loved this show, and it really does go to show. Don’t judge a book by its cover…well in my case don’t judge the title by its…title? I really enjoyed the fact it went from 0 to 100 and I loved every moment. The ending of the show was good, but I would love to see a second season. Though if it never happens. I'll survive. If you loved Given or Yuri!!! on Ice then you will most likely enjoy this show.

9/10Story

      

9/10Animation

      

9/10Sound

      

9/10Characters

      

9.6/10Overall

Review of Zetsuen no Tempest (Blast of Tempest)

 The Storyline was actually really interesting, not only was it paced correctly had interesting themes but it also paid homage to William Shakespeare and two of his works; “Hamlet” and “The Tempest”. You had one of characters quote from “Hamlet” and she also said that the situation between the male main characters is similar to a situation in “The Tempest” and you also have the fact that “Tempest” is in the Anime name. I like the fact they had elements of his works in this Anime, although I haven’t read either of the books.

The Animation and Sound was actually pretty good. The Animation never had anything disastrous about it from what I remember and I don’t remember any sound issues either. The first opening song is my favourite song from the whole show. It was addicting catchy and just went well with the Anime and a bonus it was sung in English.

The Characters were all different, that much I can say right off the top of my head. Hakaze was an interesting female character and was really strong willed and never gave up. I felt that this Anime wouldn’t have been complete without this unique compelling character. I didn’t really like Mahiro to begin with as I just felt like he was being a jerk. I know he lost someone precious to him but I don’t know. I did start to like him but I just didn’t like him as much as other characters. Yoshino was an analytical, interesting character who I did actually like from the start but at time wasn’t really sure if he was doing and saying the right thing. I love the fact he was smart but I felt like that dragged him down at times. There are other characters but if I kept typing I will end up going forever.

Overall I really enjoyed this Anime a lot and it was the right amount of episodes. I think at times it was slow but a lot of Anime suffer from that so nothing that surprised me.  I would have loved it if it was English Dubbed but unfortunately it isn’t and I doubt it ever will. 

9/10Story

      

9.5/10Animation

      

9.5/10Sound

      

8.5/10Characters

      

9.1/10Overall

Review of Gosick

The Storyline is so unique and amazing and addicting and ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! As you can tell I really adore this Anime. It was almost perfect, only thing I didn’t like was some of the episodes I found slow or not important and of course some other little things here and there. The pace is great bar those odd episodes.

 

The Animation and Sound was good. The opening songs were really good, but I did like the first ending, but can’t really remember the second ending that well, so not sure on that one. The voice acting was good and each voice actor suited the character that they were voicing.

 

The Characters were all unique and different. The main female character Victorique is so funny with the way she acts with people, especially how she treats the main male character Kazuya. She is very smart & small and with that she’s just the perfect detective. Her half-brother is one of the characters that I despise and hate with all my might.

Overall I really loved this Anime, but a few little things made me rate it lower than I would have liked.

9/10Story

      

10/10Animation

      

8/10Sound

      

9/10Characters

      

9.1/10Overall

P.S. Some of these Reviews that I am posting, was old Reviews, when I used to write Small Reviews. So some reviews I write will be long and some will be short. :) 

Review of Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo

The Storyline at the start was unique, in a sense. It started pretty good and I got into it slightly but then halfway through I started to predict things, and just started to get slightly bored from it. I understand what was meant to be shown and how the audience was meant to perceive it as, and how it was meant to be unique and strange, but I felt it was a little too strange.

The Animation well, I couldn't get into the ABSTRACT style they used. I get why they wanted to do it, but I just couldn’t stand it, it was weird and strange and fake. I did start to get used to it, so after that I kind of went with the flow and it didn’t bother me anymore, but for the first half of it, you know the first half when the actual storyline was good I just couldn’t get used to it. The Sound was I guess the only amazing thing going, although I wasn’t a fan of the opening and ending songs, they did suit the Anime and style of Anime and the majority of the Dubbed voice actors did a pretty good job voice acting the characters.

The Characters for the most part were just purely annoying and pathetic. Strange thing is the man that most people hate is most likely the one character that was made up to be the perfect one in my opinion. The parents of the children were just utterly to blame for one of reasons why this Anime wasn’t as good as it could have been.

Overall I did enjoy half of the Anime and I do understand why they did certain things, but I just wasn’t a fan for the most part of the decisions that was made for this Anime.

6/10Story

     

4/10Animation

     

9/10Sound

     

7/10Characters

     

6.5/10Overall

P.S. Some of these Reviews that I am posting, was old Reviews, when I used to write Small Reviews. So some reviews I write will be long and some will be short. :) 

Review of Persona 4 The Animation

The Storyline was really interesting and I know I keep saying this, but it honestly was unique. I am reviewing this as if it isn’t a game, as I haven’t played any of the games, so to me it really is unique and different. For me it took a few episodes to get into it, but after those few episodes, I just knew it would be a good Anime. I loved how I was working out who was the main bad guy throughout the whole series and was pretty hyped when I found out I was correct.  

The Animation and Sound was amazing, although I wasn’t a huge fan of the opening and ending songs, although they aren’t the worst I have listened too. The English Dubbed voice actors were amazing they really suited the characters they were playing and it was pretty cool to see the Voice actor of Ichigo from Bleach voice the main male character.  The Animation was really good and fit the style of the Anime. 

The Characters were all pretty different when talking about their personalities. It was really entertaining and funny watching the friendships being formed, and how some of those people has some weird personalities and have no idea how they can stand one another. Yu Narukami is the main male character although his friends come a close second. His personality is more of the quite type but can be outgoing at certain times, especially around friends.

Overall I really enjoyed this Anime, but because of the slowness and other things, I couldn’t rate it perfect.

9/10Story

   

10/10Animation

   

8/10Sound

   

9/10Characters

   

9/10Overall

P.S Some of these Reviews that I am posting, was old Reviews, when I used to write Small Reviews. So some reviews I write will be long and some will be short. :)