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Thoughts on some stuff I saw

Island
I like the hairstyles the girls have. There is some pretty good uses of in scene timing in this episode and I wonder if they'll keep up this awkward type atmosphere. Amnesia plots are always kind of iffy though and even though the show touts a reason for it... there is already an immediate guess I can make. In any case what is more notable is the sound mixing and music are like really good. I thought the voice work was also a note worthy high point here.

Hanabado!
So if I had a major complaint is that I think this episode tried to do too much in one episode. I feel like it was emotion baiting when we don't have a basis to really be invested. I can see this being good, but sports shows really need to impress me pretty quickly. The really good ones (Haikyuu, Chihayafuru, One Outs, etc) were all near immediate hits and some of the other ones I think are pretty good (Scorching Ping Pong Girls, Soft Tennis, there might be another one here I can't remember) have other qualities besides sports and drama related to sports to really keep me watching. The animation here is impressive but I also feel like some stuff in this episode are like episode 4 of 26 type things.

Senjuushi
Immediately do you know what makes me annoyingly upset about shoujo shows? Or at least something like this is that is fujobait? When they make title cards for characters for no fucking reason, especially when they could just easily say their names (and in most cases they do). Some other shows might do this, but they put like a big arrow to look at this plaque we made for this introduction. This is not even like new girl sees hot guy and flowers surround him... the card was just there exclusively for the viewer. I have not even into the anthropomorphic weapons and such. I actually dion't have as much of an issue with the latter part since there is a very good series that did this called Soul Eater.

In any case this is beyond low budget. I mean maybe it's not fair because I watched two beautiful looking shows right before this. There is this one scene where some guy is writing something in a notebook at like 5 frames per a second and when the guy next to him goes to talk he stops moving. It's not that he stopped, it's that it's so obvious this happened. I knew this was going to be bad, but this is like really bad.

Mr. Tonegawa Middle Management Blues
So I have not seen Kaiji which I immediately can tell this is a parody of because well... the start of the show. I'm not even sure if that would like enhance the enjoyability of this. The biggest and most consistent issue is the narrator. I want to say I have the same issue with the one in JoJo, but this one is just so much worse. Like even though it's unintentional (I think) the narrator in Jojo is almost somewhat comedic. The narrator in a show like Killing Bites I'm almost certain is purposely put in because it's stupid. This shows narrator tries it but it has less of an impact than those two shows (well less of a positive one). Like he's really overselling things too.

I did laugh at a couple of scenes, like the one where he entered into the bosses office. I also liked when Tonegawa literally went "you all look the same" to a lot of copypaste characters. Like when stuff is actually happening the show is kind of funny. Like when they they were introducing themselves, and they all like bowling. But the narrator needlessly slows everything down. IMO this is something that probably should have been a half length or like a 6 minute if it means eliminating the narrator and speeding up the pace.
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Updated: July 27th, 2016.