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I wanna rewatch Teekyu now.
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oh really? glad to know I was misinformed then, I'll have to go back and read it.Umm. That’s not what happens
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So like, how did this happen to MyAnimeList? I keep seeing more and more reviews like this and I get that there's a tumblrization of the internet that's been going on for a while now but MAL was more or less a channer website just a couple years ago.
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I don't know, it's kinda mediocre in the shit reviews scale. I can kinda see how Gelipnir would feel like diving into vore fetishism and not everyone is desensitized to that. Still a bad review in general but not the absolutely bottom of the hip "looking to get offended" type of reviews.
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There's definitely way worse, there's one written for Shield Hero that is one of the top reviews and uses the word "incel" like 10 times. I'm just sharing this one since it's the most recent I stumbled upon. I see it as the "looking to be offended" tumblrina kind of review because of the use of buzzwords. Calling a large chunk of it "toxic" and "gaslighting" while describing the yandere trope as abusive, on top of some MrEnter-tier complaint about it being edgy and gross. What's more is this persons account says they're non-binary so their ideological bent is pretty clear here.
I honestly didn't even think about the vore-angle until you pointed it out to me just now tbh because I thought this was just supposed to be like a weird spin on "getting inside the robot" and a woman going inside of a man instead vice-versa during sex. Like the opening of the suit looked like a vagina and the chick being like "it's wet and sticky" furthered that.
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Gleipnir seems like a reverse Darling of the Franxxx mixed with the weird parts of Freezing.
By the way I found out recently there was an El Hazard/Tenchi Muyo crossover, however in the form of a radio drama:
tenchiforum.tumblr.com/post/92286308734/did-you-know-there-was-an-official-crossover-of
By the way I found out recently there was an El Hazard/Tenchi Muyo crossover, however in the form of a radio drama:
tenchiforum.tumblr.com/post/92286308734/did-you-know-there-was-an-official-crossover-of
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Reviews like this have been showing up for the past few years. They're "Preliminary" reviews anyway, meaning they get shoved into the void when the anime's finished (or they don't finish like two-thirds of the anime) because they took away the proper weighted reviews a few years back, so that's why a lot of old reviews from members who're no longer on MAL are still on the anime's front page. It's basically extremely unfair to new reviewers because they never get seen if you're not consistently scrolling through the new reviews, but if it also keeps these shitty reviews from being on the top page forever, then whatever. Let them screech into the void, they'll move on to the next show anyway.
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The terrible community on MAL is one of the many reasons that I jumped ship to Anilist for keeping track of what I'm watching, the biggest reason being their long downtime and removing support for programs like Taiga. Their forums are full of terrible people, bad enough that most people steer clear of interacting at all with the community, simply using the site for tracking purposes.
The worst of those MAL reviews I've seen was one for Mob Psycho written by what I could only assume was a huge OPM fan where they gave it a 4/10 and just trashed the show. By the end of it, I was just speechless at how someone could even make the conclusions they did and just be so wrong about it.
Uninspiring, highly overrated, and cheap. Brilliance and creativity are the last things to come to mind while watching Mob Psycho 100.
The story is a complete joke. It is a major step-down compared to One's other work, One Punch Man. The entire story plays out like a tale a 5th grader would write and present. Of the many terrible presentations Mob Psycho 100 has to offer, One of the most bothersome reoccurring things is that the show lacks of creativity. The main character in particular, shares the same characteristic traits and personality of Saitama from One Punch Man. The plot and story always feature an overpowered main character that is socially awkward trying to save the day with his inexplicably obtained powers. The main characters in his works usually lack any motivation unless they're triggered more than the typical girl on Tumblr. Rinse & repeat for every this process for just about every episode and that my dear readers is the show. If this continues as a re-occurring theme for his stories, One needs to do a better job with creating and introducing a story, plot, and characters that doesn’t appear too similar to his other works.
Fun fact: Did you know that you can pretty much get an idea of what the plot is about for the rest of the series based upon the opening title sequence alone?
One was either sitting on the toilet or taking a shower when he thought about what was going to happen next for this series. The director could have easily changed specific things to make it more intriguing however; there were no signs of that happening. Now perhaps one of the interesting things involving the story was that certain episode's do like to focus on more serious matters. It wasn't all nonsensical fighting. To contradict what I said about the toilet thing earlier, there were a few moments in the story were the characters did try to improve their powers while trying to understand the most complicated things about their psychic powers and abilities.
There were multiple scenes featured within the story where tense emotional dialogue would temporarily take over action scenes. It made the show a little more “dramatic” however; I don’t believe that most of the parts where these “dramatic moments” had taken place were proper. This was evident during many of the fights. The pacing of the story was pretty straight-forward. Often times there didn't seem to be a reason to go back and explain certain details within the story. Depending on how you perceived the show, I didn’t thing that the story was as awful as others make it out to be.
In conclusion, the story could’ve have definitely used some touching up! Plot developments lack excitement; it’s constantly riddled with predictable moments, and lacks an interesting narrative.
Animation, character designs, quality and background settings. The following are the shows weak points in the art department. There were some pretty decent fighting and action sequences. The bad thing is that they are plagued with awful choices made in quality, setting, and special effects. I look back at earlier episodes like 4 & 5 prospectively, and believe that within the entire series 4 & 5 had the best fight scenes; this is me being nice by the way. Although the background setting featured in those particular episode were plain and dull. The school yard setting reminded me of old anime from the 70's, 80's, and 90's. In those days, background settings were not that important unless it had meaning.Of course it being 2016 at the time of this review, it is highly unacceptable by today’s standards..
The animators often times put a lot effort into the details of a fight. Characters muscles, facial reactions, and body reactions along with the well fitted dialogue, worked out pretty damn well. Sometimes, it made for more believable and intense fights. Not all fights were good though, I use episode 8 such as, during the time Mob is getting Rekt, the animation, facial expressions body movements looked a complete mess. While it may be fixed in the Blu-ray it still doesn't change the fact that it was terrible at first.
Moving on, special effects like the rain and the auroras surrounding characters while they are using their powers. It looked as if the animators just went into after effects or even Sony Vegas, created them, and put them into the final product. It seems safe to say that this series was on a budget.
This could be good or bad because if you're reading the manga then you can tell that the animators decided to stick with the original designs created by One. Bad thing is that, if you're like me, and care about seeing animators put a lot effort towards making an original work look better with upgraded character designs, special effects, and lots of great details in various scenes, you would be disappointed. Now I've seen many, many titles where the manga or LN designs look, and are much more beautiful than the anime however, now is not the time to discuss it.
In short, Mob psycho is a visual disaster! Characters designs in the manga, as mentioned earlier lack any kind of beauty or aesthetics. But, I'm focused on the anime now. Getting back on the subject, anime character designs are a pain to look at. Every other character appears to look exactly alike in facial features. This ranges from the head shapes, eyes, along with facial structures and hair. The appearances of characters, background settings, clothing, and background objects seen within the series are poor in quality and design.
The sound was pretty decent. There were less than a handful of tracks and sound effects that made the show stand out. The music composed for certain scenes that express sadness, depression enhances the mood and atmosphere. Songs created for the fight sequences were lacking an edge to make the fight more engaging. The voice actors were “okay.” I didn't think the actors had the right attitude for the series.
Some seiyuu’s are dedicated to making their characters sound more realistic by remember something that made them angry in the past and expressing the anger they felt from that experience to make a more believable attitude or sound for their characters vocals. For the most part, I did not feel that the voice actors were putting forth all their potential.
In ONE's future work I hope that he introduces more original characters. The characters are too one-dimensional. I wanted to drop this show on episode 2 because of this. The main character Shigeo is a blatant, lazily copy & pasted Saitama. I had trouble trying to like Shigeo because he doesn't have the same appeal that Saitama does, despite being a rip off. Shigeo's most unappealing trait is his socially awkward and clueless demeanor.
Sometimes it's cute when girls in anime are shy and awkward, however guys, not so much. Side characters are a joke. You know, as I’m writing this, I don’t even think that’s a good word to describe them because they were not in any way funny. While some give a little entertainment others are so annoying. I found this true mostly with the antagonists. The so-called "supportive" characters are more like comic relief than anything else.ONE appears to lack the ability to create characters that have a more “unique” and “rich” personality. His bad habit of copying and pasting the same characters from his different work is getting stale.
Enjoyment during the span of this series ranged from “awful” and “okay.” I usually drop titles after four episodes however the fourth was a deal breaker. I gradually continued to hope that maybe a new development in the story and characters would come along to change my negative feelings for Mob Psycho. This simply was not the case. Some may argue that “most people fail to see the shows appeal” or that “You shouldn’t judge a show based upon appearances.” I argue back that when it comes down to Mob Psycho, the show tosses away fluent story-telling, creative writing, lasting appeal, memorable characters, good character designs, creative background settings, quality animation and a soundtrack with songs you can keep on repeat.
The real question is why and how? How could a show that has such awful traits be so highly praised? The answer is simple. Simplicity is what the show builds its foundation upon. The entire show is simple enough for anyone new or old to anime understand easily and most importantly enjoy. Its’ welcoming, the show doesn’t need good character designs or a good introduction. Having high quality animation? Forget that! Everything is kept simple, and that’s’ actually a good thing. I think of it as an old Nintendo console. You play Super Mario bros 3. You’re having a good time, sure the graphics aren’t the best, but the important thing is that you’re having a good time. You’re having fun seeing the simplicity and joy of Mario flying around in a tanooki suit crushing goomba’s and turtles.
Overall Mob Psycho 100 really needed work in creativity. Mob Psycho would’ve continued to do well
as just a manga title. As for whether I recommend this or not, I would actually say yes. Mob is a pretty good despite the fact that it lacks appeal, creative story-telling, and quality. Referring Mob, or even considering Mob Psycho 100 to be less than or equal to One-Punch Man is an insult.
Final thoughts,
I felt that Mob Psycho 100 deserved a solid 4/10 for trying… if you even want to call it that.
The story is a complete joke. It is a major step-down compared to One's other work, One Punch Man. The entire story plays out like a tale a 5th grader would write and present. Of the many terrible presentations Mob Psycho 100 has to offer, One of the most bothersome reoccurring things is that the show lacks of creativity. The main character in particular, shares the same characteristic traits and personality of Saitama from One Punch Man. The plot and story always feature an overpowered main character that is socially awkward trying to save the day with his inexplicably obtained powers. The main characters in his works usually lack any motivation unless they're triggered more than the typical girl on Tumblr. Rinse & repeat for every this process for just about every episode and that my dear readers is the show. If this continues as a re-occurring theme for his stories, One needs to do a better job with creating and introducing a story, plot, and characters that doesn’t appear too similar to his other works.
Fun fact: Did you know that you can pretty much get an idea of what the plot is about for the rest of the series based upon the opening title sequence alone?
One was either sitting on the toilet or taking a shower when he thought about what was going to happen next for this series. The director could have easily changed specific things to make it more intriguing however; there were no signs of that happening. Now perhaps one of the interesting things involving the story was that certain episode's do like to focus on more serious matters. It wasn't all nonsensical fighting. To contradict what I said about the toilet thing earlier, there were a few moments in the story were the characters did try to improve their powers while trying to understand the most complicated things about their psychic powers and abilities.
There were multiple scenes featured within the story where tense emotional dialogue would temporarily take over action scenes. It made the show a little more “dramatic” however; I don’t believe that most of the parts where these “dramatic moments” had taken place were proper. This was evident during many of the fights. The pacing of the story was pretty straight-forward. Often times there didn't seem to be a reason to go back and explain certain details within the story. Depending on how you perceived the show, I didn’t thing that the story was as awful as others make it out to be.
In conclusion, the story could’ve have definitely used some touching up! Plot developments lack excitement; it’s constantly riddled with predictable moments, and lacks an interesting narrative.
Animation, character designs, quality and background settings. The following are the shows weak points in the art department. There were some pretty decent fighting and action sequences. The bad thing is that they are plagued with awful choices made in quality, setting, and special effects. I look back at earlier episodes like 4 & 5 prospectively, and believe that within the entire series 4 & 5 had the best fight scenes; this is me being nice by the way. Although the background setting featured in those particular episode were plain and dull. The school yard setting reminded me of old anime from the 70's, 80's, and 90's. In those days, background settings were not that important unless it had meaning.Of course it being 2016 at the time of this review, it is highly unacceptable by today’s standards..
The animators often times put a lot effort into the details of a fight. Characters muscles, facial reactions, and body reactions along with the well fitted dialogue, worked out pretty damn well. Sometimes, it made for more believable and intense fights. Not all fights were good though, I use episode 8 such as, during the time Mob is getting Rekt, the animation, facial expressions body movements looked a complete mess. While it may be fixed in the Blu-ray it still doesn't change the fact that it was terrible at first.
Moving on, special effects like the rain and the auroras surrounding characters while they are using their powers. It looked as if the animators just went into after effects or even Sony Vegas, created them, and put them into the final product. It seems safe to say that this series was on a budget.
This could be good or bad because if you're reading the manga then you can tell that the animators decided to stick with the original designs created by One. Bad thing is that, if you're like me, and care about seeing animators put a lot effort towards making an original work look better with upgraded character designs, special effects, and lots of great details in various scenes, you would be disappointed. Now I've seen many, many titles where the manga or LN designs look, and are much more beautiful than the anime however, now is not the time to discuss it.
In short, Mob psycho is a visual disaster! Characters designs in the manga, as mentioned earlier lack any kind of beauty or aesthetics. But, I'm focused on the anime now. Getting back on the subject, anime character designs are a pain to look at. Every other character appears to look exactly alike in facial features. This ranges from the head shapes, eyes, along with facial structures and hair. The appearances of characters, background settings, clothing, and background objects seen within the series are poor in quality and design.
The sound was pretty decent. There were less than a handful of tracks and sound effects that made the show stand out. The music composed for certain scenes that express sadness, depression enhances the mood and atmosphere. Songs created for the fight sequences were lacking an edge to make the fight more engaging. The voice actors were “okay.” I didn't think the actors had the right attitude for the series.
Some seiyuu’s are dedicated to making their characters sound more realistic by remember something that made them angry in the past and expressing the anger they felt from that experience to make a more believable attitude or sound for their characters vocals. For the most part, I did not feel that the voice actors were putting forth all their potential.
In ONE's future work I hope that he introduces more original characters. The characters are too one-dimensional. I wanted to drop this show on episode 2 because of this. The main character Shigeo is a blatant, lazily copy & pasted Saitama. I had trouble trying to like Shigeo because he doesn't have the same appeal that Saitama does, despite being a rip off. Shigeo's most unappealing trait is his socially awkward and clueless demeanor.
Sometimes it's cute when girls in anime are shy and awkward, however guys, not so much. Side characters are a joke. You know, as I’m writing this, I don’t even think that’s a good word to describe them because they were not in any way funny. While some give a little entertainment others are so annoying. I found this true mostly with the antagonists. The so-called "supportive" characters are more like comic relief than anything else.ONE appears to lack the ability to create characters that have a more “unique” and “rich” personality. His bad habit of copying and pasting the same characters from his different work is getting stale.
Enjoyment during the span of this series ranged from “awful” and “okay.” I usually drop titles after four episodes however the fourth was a deal breaker. I gradually continued to hope that maybe a new development in the story and characters would come along to change my negative feelings for Mob Psycho. This simply was not the case. Some may argue that “most people fail to see the shows appeal” or that “You shouldn’t judge a show based upon appearances.” I argue back that when it comes down to Mob Psycho, the show tosses away fluent story-telling, creative writing, lasting appeal, memorable characters, good character designs, creative background settings, quality animation and a soundtrack with songs you can keep on repeat.
The real question is why and how? How could a show that has such awful traits be so highly praised? The answer is simple. Simplicity is what the show builds its foundation upon. The entire show is simple enough for anyone new or old to anime understand easily and most importantly enjoy. Its’ welcoming, the show doesn’t need good character designs or a good introduction. Having high quality animation? Forget that! Everything is kept simple, and that’s’ actually a good thing. I think of it as an old Nintendo console. You play Super Mario bros 3. You’re having a good time, sure the graphics aren’t the best, but the important thing is that you’re having a good time. You’re having fun seeing the simplicity and joy of Mario flying around in a tanooki suit crushing goomba’s and turtles.
Overall Mob Psycho 100 really needed work in creativity. Mob Psycho would’ve continued to do well
as just a manga title. As for whether I recommend this or not, I would actually say yes. Mob is a pretty good despite the fact that it lacks appeal, creative story-telling, and quality. Referring Mob, or even considering Mob Psycho 100 to be less than or equal to One-Punch Man is an insult.
Final thoughts,
I felt that Mob Psycho 100 deserved a solid 4/10 for trying… if you even want to call it that.
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Aren't a lot of those 1990s Pioneer OVA's supposed to be set on the same version of Earth, at least as a starting point before travelling out into space or into an alternate dimension (but not the alternate alternate universes of the TV series versions)? I know it's canon that Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure takes place in the Tenchi Muyo! OVA universe. I believe there are also loose threads tying Tenchi Muyo to Moldiver and even Armitage III although the latter I could be misremembering.
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Eh, anilist was pretty bad too last time I checked. Lot of weirdos who are stuck in that old internet "critic" mindset where you have to dislike nearly everything in order to have good taste. I'm not too familiar with the current MAL forum but I almost got banned from their discord multiple, multiple times due to powertripping mods and oversensitive members, so I just left.
That review is truly awful though, not only does it come off like he's a OPM fanboy, it comes off like OPM is like one of the 5 anime he's ever seen in his life. Like if you can call the animation for Mob bad then there's either something wrong with your eyes or you don't know what fluid animation looks like. Like subjectivity is a thing so I like to just let people have their opinions when it comes to aesthetic shit but I just don't know that there's any standard you can judge animation by to say Mob's is bad if you enjoyed OPM.
Calling the characters 1-dimensional is also just like objectively incorrect from a writing standpoint, you'd have an easier time leveling that criticism at One Punch man since the majority of the characters are boiled down to a single gimmick and show up like once.
All around just an awful review and I hope this guy got pissed off when OPM 2 got a poorly animated sequal while S2 of Mob is like movie-quality all the way though, one of the best looking shows I've personally ever seen.
Reviews like that have always existed on MAL though, so I don't think that's anything new but these weird politically-motivated ones are. Oh and just to elaborate, I think that Gleipnir is just alright, I wouldn't be surprised if I dropped it given how meh the last 2 episodes were. My point wasn't really to defend Gleipnir but to point out the shit review that was based solely off the persons political position.
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When MAL's servers went down I think last year or the year before over the API shit, I saw some Reddit comment on the sub-Reddit from someone claiming to be a web programmer who had look through AniList's coding and found it just as bad as MAL's. I don't use it because my old-ass computer can't upgrade anymore, so the site won't work for me, but even whenever I looked through it, I've never liked the layout. Something about it is bothersome to me, whether because it's "too modern" or someone doesn't know what the fuck they're doing in terms of web design.
But I'm certain the community is bad because of the MAL refugees.
Anime-Planet is sleeker tbh and the web mistress actually listens to feedback.
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What wrong with the top one why was it changed
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Oh, I never interact with the community on anilist after learning my lesson with MAL. I don't actually go on the site itself much since everything is done through Taiga and if Anilist no longer worked with it I'd immediately switch to whatever site still does.
With reviews, I don't usually look at them much but there has been an increase in more politically-motivated ones. It's like they're trying to show off how woke they are through anime reviews or are trying to show off their "smarts" by way over-analyzing anime. I read a fair good chunk of Gleipnir and it certainly is weird, no real interest in watching the anime however.
For the picture outside the spoiler? The top half of that one is the finished version that was sent for broadcast by the studio so there's nothing really wrong with that one. Bottom half is the unfinished version that Funi released, just to show a comparison to what it should have looked like if they released it properly.
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MAL was always fucking awful lol
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As a former moderator on a medium size anime forum in the 00's I can say that your average anime review is written by an idiot larping as a critic and that these examples aren't really any better or worse then any of the hot takes I'd read back on web 1.0.
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Gelipnier's primary fetish group it's catering towards is foot fetishists. It's not really vore because she enters from the back and wears the actual suit.