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Mar 27, 2026
It's a shame anthology anime like this didn't catch on in the same way as it has in other media like film or even in manga. Ani*Kuri15 is quite a lot harder to rate than something like Memories, Neo Tokyo, or Robot Carnival, due to the 60 second limitation of each short, but nonetheless the 15 shorts contain some wonderful ideas and imagery, some stronger than others obviously, a few of the shorts felt like the animators somewhat giving up, or just reusing some old animation they had made, where others like Makoto Shinkai and Satoshi Kon are able to tell actual beautiful stories. Mahiro
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Maeda also surprised me with a wonderful little satirical short reminiscent of what Trigger would come to make plenty of in the years after his involvement in Ani*Kuri.
(Also a sidenote, don't mind the overall rating, I don't think it's fair to rate this, but you have to give one in a review)
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jan 9, 2026
Very interesting concept but played too straight and never taken to the extremes it needed to. In the end this OVA comes across as being indifferent toward Ryuichi's psychopathic behavior, actions that would rival Light Yagami and Patrick Bateman in wickedness, as many have pointed out. I don't read this as wanting the viewer to imprint on, or sympathize with the MC, but rather to take it as a lesson in the evils that exist in the world, and how they more often than not go unpunished. Sadly the way the anime handles these complex ideas is REALLY subpar and can very easily lead to
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confused messaging. Not to mention how it speeds through all that could be interesting relationships and character moments, and does such with some quite outdated animation, even for the year this came out.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Dec 28, 2025
As an adaptation, I'm thoroughly satisfied with the Chainsaw Man movie, it does something that I've been aching for modern popular anime to do, and that's simply to adapt the source material well, but to me that should be the baseline goal of an adaptation. It should be what then allows the anime to stand out through style and visuals, soundtrack, exceptional voice cast, of which this does almost none of. I didn't get anything more out of watching the Reze Arc as a film, than I did reading it in manga form. None of what I see in this is unique to this film
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alone, and I've seen all aspects done better in other anime, series and films, original, or sequels.
There are anime that adapt their manga extremely accurately, to the point where they might as well be substitutes to the source material, but which add something more to the equation that the manga didn't have. Death Note has an immensely powerful soundtrack, the best voice actors active in Japan at the time, and was aware of the legacy of certain moments of the manga and placed strong focus on them when adapting. JoJo part 5 took a similar approach to adaptation, but managed to fix certain minor aspects where the manga faltered. Even Monster, which sounds like something that should barely gain anything from being adapted accurately, had such a focus on accurately animating nuanced emotions in the faces of its characters. The Chainsaw Man Movie does nothing to make it stand out from other good adaptations in these regards.
I mention earlier that Reze Arc does almost none of what I want from a standout adaptation, because it does experiment with some very interesting animation and use of diegetic soundtracks in certain confrontations, something that can't be done within the manga medium, and that's when it felt like Fujimoto's true vision came through. Reze singing in the rain on the rooftop is the kind of cinema that Makima would appreciate I'm certain. It seems to me that the very occasional glimpses of unique uses of the film medium have been enough to convince people that this is better than it is. The film does also make too heavy use of CGI. Albeit not a myriad, but some notable scenes make the characters stand out like sore thumbs and not in a meta, meaningful way. The "car chase" scene looked like they ran out of budget. The character animation is gorgeous, but the backgrounds during scenes of movement rarely are. I need to still commend Kikunosuke Toya and Fairouz Ai as Denji and Power respectively, the cast is in no way bad, but those deliver their lines like their lives depended on it.
All this being said, I obviously still enjoyed it. It's Chainsaw Man, it's one of the most fun modern shonen series, the work of a true auteur, but one whose works seem to mostly excel when it stays within his own medium of expertise, as both this and the TV anime never managed to wow me the same as his manga have. I don't think it helps that so far, what's been adapted of the manga are some of my least favorite parts. It's everything that happens after this that got me hooked on Fujimoto. The anime so far has mostly adapted the parts before Fujimoto got into the rhythm of writing his most original concepts, these earlier parts of Chainsaw Man are slightly too reminiscent of his contemporaries and his inspirations. The final 20-30 minutes of continuous intense battling was the only part of the film that inspired awe in me, but even then, that also contained plenty of interpolations of more original ideas, and an overabundance of ill-fitting computer generated graphics.
I'm in between 'Recommended' and 'Mixed Feelings', but it is a good movie and a good anime, so I can't justify not recommending it despite my obvious grievances.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Feb 5, 2025
What a mess this was. It's hard not to compare Brynhildr to the classic anime and manga Elfen Lied considering its status in the community and the shared original author, but even on its own this anime does not hold up and neither does it stand the test of time 11 years after it aired. My favorite review of this I've seen dubs Gokukoku no Brynhildr "cry porn" which is more than apt for this, we are introduced to characters that we have next to zero connection with and are expected to be on edge when tragedy befalls them, the only reasons we are given
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are: a) they like the MC and of course we want the MC to succeed right? And b) they're attractive, that's about how deep the characters get. The constant focus on boob and sex jokes are incredibly juvenile and wouldn't even be passable in an anime made for hormonal teenage boys let alone an anime obviously attempting to tackle very serious and esoteric ideas. Without spoiling anything, all this really culminates in the final few episodes where Arms throws the remaining chapters of the manga in a blender and mixes and matches what they think will fit, but none of it does. It's a mess of ideas and poor fanservice with a tinge of really, really bad comedy. But hey it made me interested in reading the manga so maybe it did do something right.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Jul 26, 2024
As of writing this, the MAL synopsis states, and I quote "Three short films by the Japanese avant-garde illustrator and animator. Regarded (unfairly) as the Japanese equivalent of Andy Warhol" and I would love to ask the writer of this which side of "unfair" he falls when it comes to the comparison between Yokoo and Warhol. There is undoubtedly parallels, pop art and manipulating images of pop-culture figures are integral to either's work but I feel the way Yokoo does it in his three animations are noteworthy as it tackles aspects of pop culture and celebrity in ways I only see often talked about nowadays.
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the first short (KISS) I believe we see Yokoo explore the notion of affection depicted in media and the exploitation of public figures in relationships, something that in Asian cultures especially has been a prevalent controversy and topic of discussion, though what I find especially poignant is how the short almost participates in said exploitation, shoving nondescript handsome guys and beautiful ladies in our face kissing, as the short suggests, forcing the viewer to consider for themselves the meaning, or perhaps the lack thereof.
The second short (Kachi Kachi Yama) ventures into even more avant-garde territory, at times mimicking the writings of J.G Ballard in his experimental masterpiece 'The Atrocity Exhibition'. Beatles singing in Japanese to an American pharaoh as billboards advertising seemingly nonsensical nudity fly past a speeding car in the desert. It's absolutely absurd and leaves me bewildered to a point where I have a hard time honestly defending my appreciation for it without also being forced to write an analysis of the previously mentioned 'Atrocity Exhibition'. View it as a spectacle and you will likely enjoy it, view it as an absurdist art piece and you might find it profound.
The final and most abrasive short in my opinion (Tokuten Eizou Anthology No. 1) is almost apocalyptic in nature. Dealing with celebrity and culture in the form of literal idols of worship and how it formed the world into what we see in the 7 minute tour-de-force of seemingly unrelated (but to me deeply intertwined) imagery depicting Sun God's and trees of life controlled by the perceiver and creators of culture. I read this as a cautionary tale of what could be to come and what Yokoo saw us having in store if we fell down a path of worship too entrenched in capitalism and (literally in this case) cults of personality.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jun 3, 2024
I can't rightfully support this film in any genuine manner, it's wartime propaganda at its finest. But viewing this as a piece of history, both in terms of Japanese history and animation history is incredibly interesting, and I will rate it based purely on how well I feel it's made, not what it represents.
For allegedly being the first feature length Japanese animation, it's animated surprisingly well, with adorable characters to boot, which is very evidently on purpose as it's trying to sell the idea of joining the military to kids. It's showing that it's an honorable decision that'll leave you with love and respect from
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all those around you. This is also shown in the scenes highlighting the beautiful nature of Japan, and the heroics displayed by the squad of Sacred Sailors. And I will say, the scenes of farms with Mt. Fuji looming over the horizon do look good. Where Momotaro drops the ball (other than the obvious), is both the scenes where characters go completely off model, looking genuinely horrendous in certain scenes, as well as the music. Music and sound effects that sound like they were lifted from a Creative Commons library. During the final third is where we get the meat and potatoes of the propaganda, and while this is obviously wholly disagreeable in every manner, it's also poorly animated and the style clashes heavily with the rest of the film. With the changes in animation style and long stretches filled with seemingly nonsensical shots, it feels undercooked for the most part.
Despite that, there's genuine thought put into this propaganda-piece which is as impressive as it is worrying.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Sep 20, 2023
A charming little stop-motion picture, that sadly seems to have been mostly forgotten despite being an award winning film.
The puppetry is almost beautiful enough to make up for the lackluster and incoherent story, but not quite. Despite that, I don't at all feel it was a waste to watch, as it feels exactly like a story that would be told, and a puppet show that would've been made, in the time the film takes place in.
As mentioned above, the story is mostly incoherent and harder to follow than most, but the style its told in, and the art of the puppetry makes it interesting nonetheless,
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and I don't think it warrants a negative, or even average score.
All in all, is it worth it? If you're into experimental, odd, artistic, or historical stuff? Probably yeah.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Feb 16, 2018
I'm going to keep this review short and to the point, just like the anime itself.
Wild 7 is a very fun anime to watch, it's definitely not extraordinary, but what it does, it succeeds in pretty well.
The story, albeit it seems rushed, was interesting enough to glue my eyes to the screen, to see how it would all turn out in the end, and oh boy was it worth it. All the main characters had a certain charm to them, that really made them entertaining, and seeing them interact with each other, and seeing the way they fought, were some of the highlights of this
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OVA.
This anime is very gory and violent, almost absurdly violent at points, but that's exactly what makes it so much fun to watch. Classic violent "gar" anime that really needs some more attention, stuff like this can be rare to find in newer anime.
I would personally recommend Wild 7 to anyone wanting to get more into the gory 80's and 90's OVA's, and people who just want to kill 2 hours fast.
I feel like a good 7 describes my feelings about Wild 7 well. Not perfect or crazy good, but a good older anime nonetheless.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Dec 23, 2017
This anime has a lot of flaws, and I mean A LOT, but somehow, I can't get myself do dislike it. In my quest for 80's and 90's GAR anime I stumpled upon this great short OVA, and since I like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, I thought I might like this. I was right.
The story itself is very eh. The way it's being told is very rushed, which is to be expected from a 50-ish minute OVA, but it was still entertaining to me, though not that good.
The art was, in my opinion, probably the best part of this. It was in short terms, pretty damn
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good. Very Araki-styled.
The characters are sort of bland and generic, but still lovable. Don't expect to be very connected emotionally to any of them, they're mostly just fun to watch.
Even though it has it's flaws. Baoh the Visitor was so fun to watch. Really a sort of guilty pleasure anime. I really enjoyed this, but because of it's clear flaws, I can't give it a higher score than 7/10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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