Chivalry of a Failed Anime more like.
Blazers are knights with special powerful abilities, due to his notoriously low magical ability ranked a lowly F-Rank, Ikki Kurogane is subjected to conditions that directly hinder his progress through school from his family, dubbed the "Worst One" however he's given the condition of being allowed to graduate should he succeed in the Seven Star festival, using some clever techniques to compensate his lack of magical ability along with a trusted friend group with new girlfriend Stella Vermillion, sister Shizuku and the sassy Alice, Ikki aims to prove his family wrong.
Yet another school for heroes with an Op main character and a fiery red headed love interest, were made to believe this is going to turn into a harem series or go heavy on the fan service but it quickly becomes apparent that the focus is fully on Ikki, and every other character is a side character or just another opponent, what's strange is that Stella Vermillion is given top billing on all the covers including the physical copy on Blu-ray, yet she does practically nothing of importance; apart from some impressive fight scenes, the story is incredibly mean spirited to the point of absurdity, it's the Food Wars problem of threatening expulsion every episode, the stakes lose their impact.
Dub is fine if predictable casting.
Final Verdict: Absurd plot only barely saved by decent fight scenes with a side cast that barely does anything, leading to a very unfulfilled anime you were likely tricked into buying because you saw a pretty red headed girl on the front.
It's taken me 30 years to finally watch Detective Conan.
Shinichi Kudo is a high school detective when one day he is poisoned trying to stop the mysterious black organization, instead of dying, Shinichi is shrunk into a child form, now living with Ran Mori and detective Kogoro Mori, he takes on the name Conan Edogawa, with gadgets in hand ranging from powered soccer balls, tranquilizer darts, voice changing bow ties and a rocket skateboard along with a willing group of child detectives, Conan sets out to solve mysteries to eventually lead back to the Black Organization to one day reclaim his previous form, although Kogoro seems to get all the credit because Conan is still stuck as a kid.
Seems like Detective shows always get the long runner treatment, Detective Conan posseses the same spirit as the likes of Doraemon but has enough grit to not alienate itself from an older audience, it's got a healthy load of action and each episode and movie draws well from a strong cast and strong writing, it does suffer from early era dubbing and it has the Lupin the 3rd problem of not having much to distinguish itself between it's episodes and movies, even turning up in Detective Precure could be considered a standard episode for Conan.
Final Verdict: Detective Conan is a decent watch with 30 years worth of content to keep you entertained for months just don't expect the ground to break.
Let's see how CGI stacks up.
Lupin is tracking down an artifact known as the Bresson Diary, a piece his grandfather failed to obtain many years ago.
Crossing paths with a young archeologist named Laetitia, it becomes clear that the treasure the diary links to known as Eclipse becomes a desperate race against the Nazi Organization Ahnenerbe to prevent the destruction of the world.
A typical extended Lupin plot with just enough absurdity to be film worthy and with it being CGI this time it feels more "film" than ever before.
It's not Cagliostro good let's be clear on that, the cast settle into their regular roles so well, the film acts like a Lupin bingo card, the voice cast is stellar as always.
Final Verdict: There isn't really a lot to talk about, this is Lupin at his finest and along with some now iconic moments will sit well within the Pantheon of this near 60 year old franchise
Yet another underwhelming girls anime.
The Irousu are arriving in waves on earth and it's up to the Star Guardians of Shinjugamin to stop them, things are set in play when a hyper competent aloof guardian named Misaki shows up easily defeating most Irousu on arrival, with things gradually escalating and the lives of the class to indulge in, can the Star Guardians stop the creeping force coming.
We live in a post Love Live society when copy cat anime based on service games keep cropping up, at worst they are super bland and at best I can pick a character and ask them to serve a better anime, the cast is too big for a 12 episode run and lacks any bite with a plot twist so predictable I figured it out by episode 2, even the costumes lack impact which you'd think would be a selling point, no dub, but that's a good thing, I'm not in the mood for it.
Final Verdict: Short review but it doesn't deserve a long one, it's painfully generic with elements done so much better in better anime.
Sometimes I remember that I should post here.
Alya is a student of Russian descent who is a member of the student council, she develops a crush on Masachika who has his own history with a mysterious Russian girl, with Masachika ending up the student council and in the running against his sister, he decides to support Alya in this endeavor, Alya does indeed confess her feelings in Russian but Masachika can understand it.
Start with the good, Alya herself is perfect because both sub and dub voices are done by fluent Russian speakers so her routine is believable, and there's a lot of charm for it to be a solid rom com.
But maybe it's because the dub has a bad habit of inserting it's own jokes and memes that have no bearing on the original script, I feel that there is too much winking at the camera and the whole routine with Yuki Suou just makes it harder to watch, but I think it's biggest weakness is that I felt that the anime was over so quickly that I didn't really remember half of what I watched.
The dub is well cast but not well scripted, way too much self aware humour.
Final Verdict: It seems to have more respect for the Russian language than it does it's audience, that you'll forget what it was even about.
