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Velma (2023)
Mediocre
Production is ok, script is mediocre, the overall impression is "it tries to be one of that new adult cartoons of the new wave, but does not quite hit it".
The characters are remade to appeal the audience in consonance with the internet jokes/stereotypes circulating about them for ages (stoner / white golden boy / white golden girl).
The "childhood fans" are furious due to vulgarity and all the changes, the newcoming adult audience does not quite get it due to humor being a bit dull and the script lacking, the teenage audience doesn't get it at all.
It doesn't have a lot of undeserved 10/10s to begin with, so I have no idea why there are thousands of undeserved 1/10s.
Trigun Stampede (2023)
They just keep doing it...
Actual rating would've been 5/10 as for me, however, since "the war" has already started and a lot of users are giving unreasonable 10/10s, so...
3d CGI is not that bad and overall production quality is pretty impressive. There is not too much to add about the bright side.
Half the mysteries are revealed from the start, characters and the atmosphere is, well, underwhelming.
I was hoping there will be some grand change in plot or some interesting sidestory unveiled considering all the lore uncovered in the very first episode, however there are still no signs of it happening.
I still wonder: if the script writers (or a director?) do want to show that they added some value for the anime to not be "just a remake" then why not come up with a bunch of completely new stories and completely new characters instead of going "it's a remake, but MC is now an idiot instead of trickster and his love interest now is a talking donkey with colorful hair".
Pantheon (2022)
Something that is actually actual.
I give it a 9-star review in advance for an amount of topics brought up in the first 3 episodes and I'm pretty sure I'm not going to regret it.
Consumerism and global corps nearing the limit of what the previous generation SF writers deemed to be a cyberpunk.
Philosophical zombies, and the rights of the AI in general.
The human rights negligence of 3rd world countries and the extent of how many of those rights the 1st world countries are willing to sacrifice to keep up.
I don't think I'll have to delete this in future, but I really hope they don't reduce all of this build up to come out as simple "battle of OUR good family-loving AIs versus THEIR desperate bloodthirsty vengeful AIs".
And I'm really looking forward to seeing what the writers are willing to make of this "recreate Steve Jobs' life for his kid/clone and see if we get the same genius" experiment. Tabula rasa FTW.
The Rehearsal (2022)
Looks like a show for the Nathan's fans only
Production is ok and the core idea is interesting, however the rest is, well, underwhelming.
It feels like it should have been a bunch of comedy sketches instead of a whole season of 30-min episodes.
If I were to pick the dish to compare this "comedy" to, it would be gruel. Nathan's "innocent stare" after telling a bland joke quickly becomes as enjoyable as a laughing track.
If it has some deep philosophical ideas/messages besides those that lay on the surface, then I'm probably too shallow to understand them.
If it was supposed to be satire/parody then it should've been at least somewhat engaging.
Cowboy Bebop (2021)
Meh.
It's "loosely based on cowboy bebop" not "the cowboy bebop". My position is not "I don't like changes", my position is "I don't like when a good original piece is being turned into something mediocre". Visuals are good/ok. Except for camera work(or is it bad choreography?) that feels laggy in combat scenes somehow.
Everything was reworked: characters, story, tone. It went from "blues western" to "pop sitcom". I can't quite put a finger on it, but the whole thing except for CGI feels cheap like a college art project or something.
The thing is pretty mediocre overall; tries to appeal wider audiences by making characters more relatable. Writers turned a bunch of outcasts running from their pasts & earning money the only way they know into some bro-cowboys who think killing is a fun pastime. A story of small people in the big world is turned into some cliched criminal dramedy.
The original was "not perfect, but good", this one is just two steps down.
Tigtone (2018)
This show made me laugh
This is very subjective and biased, however, as the title says - I gave the show 10/10 just for making me actually laugh out loud more than once (not just smile as it usually happens with other comedy shows wihch I personally deem funny).
Beware though - the humour is a bit... dark? eccentric? stupid? random? schizo?
Baki the Grappler (2001)
Baki the baka
Roided 13 y.o. adrenaline junkie with Oedipus complex mindlessly bashes ever-raising concrete walls with his forehead in each episode and,(not)surprisingly, succeeds every time.
Unlike other shounens I've ever watched (or tried to watch), this one appears to be the most "shounenest" : This one happens to take place in the black-and-white world, which entirely consists of people with a mindset of a teenager and some perverted "warrior codex" as a moral compass ("I can beat you = you suck, you can beat me = I respect you").
Characters are as flat and as simple/stereotypical as possible.
"Baki" was literally Teletubbies-level mindrape for me. You watch it with a WTF-is-it-face, yet kids genuenly enjoy it.
Total of 2/3 stars for artists work, 1/3 for the main plot (I've managed to watch the whopping 7 episodes of the first season) and a bonus star for being such a piece of overrated surrealistic art, that I've actually spent some time writing this review.