Category: Anime

  • Why We Love Shinso

    Why We Love Shinso

    Everyone loves an underdog. A story is boring when you’re protagonist always has the upper hand. We’d rather root for someone with the odds stacked against them. Because we often see ourselves in them. We can’t help but root for them to succeed because they’re faced with impossible odds and refuse to give up. My…

  • My Review Academia S5 E8: All Style, Little Substance

    My Review Academia S5 E8: All Style, Little Substance

    Can we talk about how every episode has some creative title, but these last two have just been ‘Match 3’ and ‘Match 3 Conclusion’? How interesting! Narratively speaking, not much goes on in this episode. The third match reaches its climactic conclusion. In this time, both Todoroki and Iida shatter their limits. But against their…

  • Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken: How the Sausage is Made

    Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken: How the Sausage is Made

    Ever wonder how anime gets made? Want to know what it’s like to be an artist, struggling to bring a series of hand-drawn images to life? Want to really appreciate what goes into the anime you love while still getting an enjoyable story out of it? Well, good news! They made an anime all about…

  • My Review Academia S5 E7: Round 3 and the Weak Start

    My Review Academia S5 E7: Round 3 and the Weak Start

    This wasn’t all that compelling an episode, to be honest. It doesn’t look great and it makes a lot of bad decisions that ruin the pacing. It had its moments, but overall it just wasn’t that exciting. Plot-wise, there isn’t much to discuss. After the second match, the students move to a new battlefield that…

  • My Review Academia S5 E6: Teenagers on Shrooms

    Why is the recap so long this episode? We don’t need a two minute recap of the entire arc. It’s not like they took a break or anything! Plot wise, this episode doesn’t have much. The match between team Yaoyorozu and team Kendo wraps up. And… yeah, that’s it. There’s nothing else here. This episode…