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Various thoughts on a variety of topics.

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Various thoughts on a variety of topics.

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  • Quanzhi Gaoshou 2: the King*s avatar & Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha ~Shijou Saikyou no Maou no Shiso, Tensei Shite Shison-tachi no Gakkou e Kayou~

    Posted on December 4, 2020 12:50 pm by Offkorn Comment

    The follow-up to Tebie Pian, though it’s been longer than expected in arriving, fully delivers on its promises. The same effortless destruction of pro-player scheming you’ve come to expect from the series with better animation (than the first season). Not much else to say really; either you like the franchise or you don’t.

    Completely unrelated to the above beyond sharing the ‘overpowered protagonist’ trait, Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha doesn’t take itself very seriously for the most part. Choosing instead to play up the genre’s various tropes in a manner similar to a homage. And, surprisingly enough, it manages to do so fairly competently (even touching on some pretty dark themes)… at least until the lackluster confrontation-heavy conclusion anyway.

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    This entry was posted in 2020 - Autumn 2020 - Summer Anime Related and tagged Action Comedy Crunchyroll Dramatic Support Fantasy Finished Incomplete Source LN Adaptation Partial Adaptation Quanzhi Gaoshou Series Sports Televised Virtual World
  • Rifle is Beautiful & Yahari Ore no Seishun Lovecome wa Machigatteiru.: Kan

    Posted on November 11, 2020 12:12 pm by Offkorn 1 Comment

    Rifle is Beautiful starts out as a pretty standard schoolgirl club comedy. Then about a third of the way through it starts to introduce serious sports elements, turning into a full-blown sports series in the concluding third… resulting in a particularly uneven showing despite the comedy style remaining intact throughout. While I have to give it credit for not artificially dragging things out as those series tend to do (usually with innumerable training episodes), the sport it decided to focus on (beam rifle target shooting, a variation on air rifle shooting) being actively sedentary does not work in its favor.

    OreGairu‘s final season picks up immediately from where the previous one left off. So it would be a good idea to (re)watch the 13th episode of that before starting this. The character interactions are the highlight as always, but there’s a bit of an awkwardness overlord issue and the primary source of drama comes across as a hamfisted plot device. It is, however, nowhere near as bad as what the Saekano movie pulled; only ending up a minor speed bump in an otherwise enjoyable series conclusion.

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    This entry was posted in 2019 - Autumn 2020 - Summer Anime Related and tagged Comedy Comic Adaptation Dramatic Support Finished LN Adaptation OreGairu Partial Adaptation Romance School Life Series Sports Televised
  • SHINCHOU YUUSHA ~Kono YUUSHA ga ORE TUEEE Kuse ni SHINCHOU Sugiru~ & Hataage! Kemono Michi

    Posted on August 19, 2020 1:53 pm by Offkorn 1 Comment

    Shinchou Yuusha is an interesting series in that you can clearly see it’s an amalgam of earlier works, yet the fusion is pulled off competently enough to result in a consistent whole. The reaction-based comedy is stylistically identical to Konosuba‘s, but in content it’s quite different with a much greater focus on JRPG parody than sex/ecchi. Meanwhile it also has a Goblin Slayer-like stoically single-minded main character and splashes of similar gory drama.

    The combination never comes across as forced, with the one seamlessly blending into the other.

    After that somewhat surprising success story, it seemed like a good idea to try another series (strike while the iron’s hot and all that). Which is where Hataage! Kemono Michi comes in. Also a comedic isekai with a… monomaniac central character the two seemed like they might complement one another. And despite this being more ecchi-centric they actually do. There’s no genre shifts here though; it’s pure comedy.

    As a sidenote: I didn’t realize these two aired at the same time when deciding what to watch after Shinchou Yuusha. It’s strange that shows with such a similar theme (and I’m not talking about them both being isekai) got scheduled in the same season.

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    This entry was posted in 2019 - Autumn Anime Related and tagged Comedy Comic Adaptation Dramatic Support Ecchi Fantasy Finished Funimation Incomplete Source LN Adaptation Paranormal Romance Parody Series Sports Televised
  • Da Dianying: Quanzhi Gaoshou – Zhi Dianfeng Rongyao

    Posted on November 5, 2019 2:13 pm by Offkorn Comment

    With the popular MMO Glory’s new classification as a professional eSport, players of all stripes have become obsessed with the idea of going pro. Xiu Ye however is more interested in casual play despite his unmatched technical and leadership skills. At least he was, until his best friend Muqiu Su unexpectedly dies; leaving behind a younger sister and the dream of becoming the game’s first Champions.

    A prequel to Quanzhi Gaoshou with a greater focus on character drama, this movie can be watched either before or after.

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    This entry was posted in 2019 - Summer Anime Related and tagged Action Drama LN Adaptation Movie Quanzhi Gaoshou Sports
  • Hachigatsu no Cinderella Nine

    Posted on July 16, 2019 12:02 pm by Offkorn Comment

    When Tsubasa Arihara arrives to discover her high school lacks a girls’ baseball club, she decides to form one herself. The first and most pressing of the challenges she faces being finding eight other girls willing to join a new club with few supplies and no clubroom or practice area.

    A baseball-themed schoolgirl club comedy with periodic infusions of character-related drama.

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    This entry was posted in 2019 - Spring Anime Related and tagged Anime Original Comedy Crunchyroll Dramatic Support Dropped School Life Series Sports Televised
  • CIRCLET PRINCESS

    Posted on July 1, 2019 1:49 pm by Offkorn Comment

    With advances in augmented reality technology new sports such as Circlet Bout become ever more popular, success at which comes with both tangible rewards and nationwide renown for both the players and their teams. Saint Union Academy’s was one of those success stories… until the day its fortunes suddenly soured. With its CB team now on the verge of disbandment it falls to new transfer student Yuuka Sasaki, on a quest to face off against the sport’s strongest player, to turn things around.

    A schoolgirl sports comedy with a small amount of ecchi and a few minor dramatic elements.

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    This entry was posted in 2019 - Winter Anime Related and tagged Action Battle Shounen Comedy Finished Game Adaptation School Life Science Fiction Series Sports Televised
  • Taishou Yakyuu Musume.

    Posted on April 12, 2019 3:27 pm by Offkorn Comment

    The Taishou period is drawing to a close and Japanese society is in the midst of change as Western influences continue to take hold. Girls are still sheltered in many ways, and so when Akiko Ogasawara asks her friend Koume Suzukawa to help create a baseball team for their all-girls school they quickly run up against resistance to the idea on multiple fronts.

    A mix of schoolgirl club comedy and baseball-themed sports shounen with a small amount of romance and a few pockets of drama.

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    This entry was posted in 2009 - Summer Anime Related and tagged Amazon Prime Comedy Dramatic Support Finished HiDive History Mixed Media Project Romance School Life Series Sports Televised
  • Hinomaru Zumou

    Posted on March 30, 2019 4:56 am by Offkorn Comment

    Intending to join Ishigami High’s famous Sumo Club as a stepping stone toward becoming the sport’s next grand champion, Hinomaru Ushio instead accidentally arrives at Odachi High. Far from being a famous sumo school Odachi’s club only has a single member… and what’s worse is that their training area has been overrun by delinquents! Unable to just stand by in the face of such a disgrace he decides to both clean the place up and turn this unassuming school into a sumo powerhouse.

    A sumo-themed sports shounen with a small amount of comic relief.

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    This entry was posted in 2018 - Autumn 2019 - Winter Anime Related and tagged Action Amazon Prime Comic Adaptation Comic Relief Crunchyroll Dropped Ecchi Incomplete Source School Life Series Sports Televised
  • Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuite Iru

    Posted on March 27, 2019 1:01 pm by Offkorn Comment

    The Chikusei-sou dorm at first glance seems like any other university dorm, yet it holds a secret that only the landlord and Haiji Kiyose are aware of: It’s in fact a training area for the school’s track and field club. So the other nine residents are understandably shocked when Haiji reveals they’ll all be expected to participate in the upcoming Hakone Ekiden marathon… and it will require more than a little persuasion to get their diverse assortment of personalities on the same page.

    A combination of sports shounen and character drama with a large amount of comic relief.

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    This entry was posted in 2018 - Autumn 2019 - Winter Anime Related and tagged Comic Adaptation Comic Relief Crunchyroll Drama Finished Novel Adaptation Series Sports Televised
  • Tsurune -Kazemai Koukou Kyuudou Bu-

    Posted on February 13, 2019 8:04 am by Offkorn 1 Comment

    Despite his love of archery, Minato Narumiya is reluctant to be involved with it personally due to past trauma. Eventually caving under the pressure from a recently reunited childhood friend to at least watch his school’s resurrected kyuudou club perform, Minato quickly discovers that returning to the sport will take more than just overcoming his mental reluctance.

    A mixture of character drama, school club comedy, and sports shounen.

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    This entry was posted in 2018 - Autumn 2019 - Winter Anime Related and tagged Comic Relief Crunchyroll Drama Dropped Incomplete Source LN Adaptation School Life Series Sports Televised

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