The opening episode was everything I wanted, and more. The production values are amazing. The character design is an excellent riff on the manga, animation beats Lucky*Star, attention to detail is everywheere. No obnoxious 3D! Remember the terrible fingers of iM@S? Much improved and pushed to the off-focus …
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read moreBeing gritty and edgy and bringing twists to conventional love stories is not enough to create an interesting story.
Nice harem, but dullahans are a dumb concept, there's no good way around it. Sakie-chan is the BEST GIRL. She needs her own anime. A shoujo, maybe!
Here's the famous painting they were referencing:
As you can see, it's not even a dullahan.
Liked: Okay
Rewatch: Not likely
I found it best to enjoy ACCA by disconnecting from the manifest impossibilities of their world, such as massive government monopolies doing anything right. Mussolini making trains run on time is a myth after all. But then it's a myth people want to believe in. ACCA is like that too …
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Already blew through 5 episodes and so fast that forgot to take screencaps. Yeah, ACCA turned out to be everything that I wanted it to be. It's imaginative and different. There were series where various factions maneuvered, but not at this level, at least recently — I have to reach back …
read moreНедавно я в очередной раз пересмотрел Широбако [1]. Это феноменальный сериал, один из лучших среди сотен, которые я видел за мои 50 лет (начиная со Спид Ресера 1967-го лохматого года). А ведь сначала я к нему отнёсся с подозрением. Дело в том, что сюжет основан на жизни в мультипликационной студии …
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This is teetering on the edge of suspension right off the bat. The dude has some muscle, but no brains at all: nil self-control and zero maturity. Aki's eating disorder is very bogus, the abusive persona is way over the top. Yoshino's motivations for betraying her master are not revealed …
read moreWow-wow-wow. They are adapting every manga. Can Hakumei & Mikocchi be far behind?
UPDATE 2017/08/12: Called it.
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