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Jan 16, 2026
Tunnel vision convinced me I saw a better movie.
Ghibli has the visuals, this one being one of the stand-outs in identity. Loved the design of each location, of each character, and their weird gimmicks. How a lot of this world's magic shapes the user depending on their emotional state. That's the thing about this one, it always goes back to how a character feels.
I adored Sophie, the main character, and probably the strongest part of this movie. Her whole story is being put in a box she never fit into, and she's cursed in perfect correlation to reflect her struggles, and slow progression towards the
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story. I wish I could say the same for the other characters, who I definitely didn't like, or simply don't know much of.
Howl is just… a bit of a nothingburger, pretty boy with not much substance. His relationship to this kid who lives with him, Markl, is not explored at all. Hell, the framing device of this movie, the war, and its consequences on Howl's story feels shoved in for no reason. Give me the romance and Howl's personal issues, and how that affects the main couple, but the war bit is just, why? I wouldn't care that much if there was difficulty in solving it, but by the end they do a “well, let's stop this silly little thing”, happily ever after. You can do that without undermining your whole movie for it.
However, the world, its rules, its animation, and its magic system kept me there, enjoying the movie. It's not as perfect as I was sold, but every Ghibli function will inevitably give me some delicious eye candy.
6/10. It's alright. Strong as an arc story for a solid main character whom I deeply enjoyed.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jan 16, 2026
“Ponyo” has lost the spot as the best Ghibli function.
I simply loved this movie to bits. Every single element worked with each other to create a perfect conflict that didn't have a right answer to resolve. Movies where there's no perfect answer are my favourite, all the time. Loved the protagonist's story, as an idealistic kid who technically just wants to get freed from a curse, and is wrapped up in a conflict he shouldn't be a part of.
I've seen this kind of story before, sure, but never executed this beautifully. No corniness or forced message, the dialogue which carries the whole thing was
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just so awesome. The violence, dude.
I did not expect so much violence in this one, and it looked like a gigantic juxtaposition that I enjoyed a lot for the Ghibli style. I guess, even in “Grave of the Fireflies”, there was innocence to the brutality, but here's there's a casual perspective to blood and gore that seemed right where it belongs. This one has a bit of everything in the best department.
I got emotional, I got at the edge of my seat. It was intense, didn't even know what could be a right answer, and it handles its story with surprises I didn't expect at all. A 1997 movie that remains so fresh. It's got some weird-ass stuff that's right up my alley. The whole God of the forest element, and how it quiets whenever it appears. Silences, something I've been missing so badly in movies today. I guess I just needed this movie, in the sea of sensory overloads. This one takes its time, even with the high action, and bonkers scenes of “that animator definitely broke their wrist doing all that”.
Perfection. It was perfect, and I could go on and on about how great the princess is, how great the humanity side is, or the voice acting for hours. It's amazing that I decided not to watch this one before all the rest I did.
10/10. Props for not even ending with a blatant romantic pairing, it wasn't right for this story, and it didn't do it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jan 16, 2026
You know, maybe I gotta bump up my rating for the anime, this was abysmal.
Talk about a fantastic idea. Humanity is faced with another evolution which threatens the current one, and we explore themes of nature vs. nurture, specially with characters who forgot the most important parts of their lives. What a premise! So sad this manga was so bad! I didn't even have the greatest expectations, since it comes from the gory schlock that was the anime adaptation. So many claimed the manga was great, but dear God it wasn't.
To start off, the manga has many issues with its nudity, and its
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fetishes displayed. The author was not disguising his diaper fetish, the born yesterday trope, the way every woman is just sexually abused all the time as a form of “character development”. That or edgy stuff like animal abuse, childhood murder. It's all about impregnation, and not used as a true fear that peers into life as a surprise, you just know a dude enters a scene, and he's going to do some heinous act against the girl again, or try. That, or logic just falls out of the damn window all the time.
It's a story that perpetuates itself by characters being so utterly stupid, so utterly oblivious, which is somehow better in the anime than here, and there it's so stupid too. Incest between cousins, which is treated as a serious romance, and I don't think they ever take that as potentially wrong. “Different country different values”, don't care, it was disgusting. The diaper girl character feels so improper for a manga like this. Her only need in this story was the song that appears at the end, and you can tell she wasn't necessary, since they cut her entirely out of the anime. If you want to put your fetishes in a manga, at least add them with compelling importance, not just the usual “oh their Dad hit them”, and what do you mean “he actually loved you a lot, he just hit you because your Mom died because of singing”, like WHAT?
So many things which could've been tightened, or reworked. No subtlety, nothing to chew on, and that's why I actually finished reading it because it was so easy to follow, it allowed nothing to be thought about, it told ALL OF IT, while showing NOTHING. Only flashbacks to hammer a point which I already know. I wish I skipped pages upon pages of exposition because I already had the point of them.
I genuinely understand why it's so popular, but if you aren't in tune with anime in general, or have seen several, and you read the manga, you'd not finish it at all. It's a disgusting, stupid, nonsensical, happy ending schlock that doesn't justify itself with anything. It refuses to commit to any choices, it doesn't kill any important character, or it has them coming back for NO REASON. There's literally no explanation as to HOW, HOW DID THEY COME BACK WHAT IN THE HELL?
Unfiltered ass of a manga, uncompromisingly bad, uncaringly fetishistic and disgusting. The anime is a gem in comparison, and it's still BAD. I don't understand how a person can get such a long serialization while writing something THIS BAD. The times do not justify this, this manga started and ended while 20th Century Boys was coming out. The art is terrible, although I feel bad because the author seems like he genuinely thought he'd get axed fast in some of the Q/As, but Christ, the art is just terrible.
There's nothing in this manga to grasp onto, but the idea is so good, and that's the only potential reason this managed to get a miracle of a director. If this was the first thing I saw of Elfen Lied, I'd believe it was one of the worst things I've ever read.
1.7/10. I'm still glad I finished it and gave myself the gladness to never have to return to it. Don't read it, it's legitimately bad.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Jan 16, 2026
It took me a long time to gather my thoughts about it. It's one of those which just hits in that cord you don't think you know.
Was the entirety of the first act so entirely different from the second and third one? YES. If you asked me right after I finished the first section of this manga if I enjoyed it, I'd say many times that I didn't. It was cute girls asking questions about life, and things around them, and sporadically, it went on and on about the why of life and why we interact with others. Super long-winded, and completely unnecessary, right?
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… No. It wasn't completely unnecessary, and I'd argue, reading every aspect of this small friendship Shimeji has with her classmate, and enjoying how it builds, and how they both connect deeper than many people do, it was entirely necessary.
I loved in retrospect everything the first section had, and it ties SO WELL to everything that comes afterwards. This is a story you'll love thinking about, even if some aspects felt, or feel, too slow. It's a mundane philosophical manga that eventually puts those philosophies to the test.
When the manga finally shifts, and yeah, it shifts, something happens which changes EVERYTHING into one of the most creative, most insane manga you've ever read. But, when you start connecting every dot, and every element, it all goes back to the true theme of this story, on why we need… friends. The mystery and the reason the manga is named that way isn't relevant. Even if that maintained my attention through the first section, when it all crumbles away, the message lands so preciously on your mind. You'll remember that person who motivates you to keep moving forwards. Someone who didn't do a lot to change your everything, but they did, and you didn't know how much they did until the world around you allows you to appreciate it.
Alongside Shimeji, all we experience is the Evangelion perspective on why we need to connect, why we're humans, and why it's so beautiful to exist in this world. I cried. I cried so much when I saw Shimeji by herself, potentially lost to the universe. When told you can be alone and survive, when told you can live your life in isolation, we should never take it. Not for some logical reason like “I hate people”, or how more safe it is, but because we deprive ourselves of love.
This manga is unlike anything else I've read, unlike anything else I've seen. It doesn't hide its philosophy, rather it challenges you to get it through how the main character experiences it herself.
We might experience things which at grand scale mean nothing, and the manga knows this, but it still gives us the tool to understand. Whatever happens in the universe doesn't matter, when our lives can be filled with love. If we can love each other, if we can find at least one person who we believe understands us, then life was worth it.
To live a thousand, millions, or trillions of years, or just a few, it mattered if we found someone we think about when reading this manga.
10/10. Imperfect, yes, of course, but in its imperfections, it was perfect. Two masterpieces by the same person. Tsukumizu, you've created two of the greatest manga I've ever read.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jan 16, 2026
You see, this isn't the kind of manga you enjoy, no, you HATE every single page you're reading, but it feels like a drug you can't stop consuming.
Almost no manga go to the levels this one goes. It's depraved, disgusting, absolutely infuriating, but the writing of these people taking bad choice after bad choice, slowly digging their graves, it was incredible. It started off as a kind of anti-incel, who is actually celibate due to his self disgust and how much he auto-imposed these negative values of who he is.
This is precisely the beginning of his downfall, and it's all about that. How far
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can a person go when they know nothing about relationships? How bad can things go when in a relationship? This man manages to get caught in his depravity by the only person in his vicinity who accepts, and decides to take advantage of this because she's just as messed up as him. This is a manga about a man and a woman in love, but these two are absolute, disgusting pieces of garbage due to their pasts, and how they grew up with terrible ideas on what love might be. I felt empathy for both of them, and I still do.
Hurt people hurt other people, and these two can only perpetuate this cycle because none of the two can do anything else. I love both as characters, and I have met people like the two of these, it's maddening to talk to them, much worse to be in a co-dependant relationship like this. The issue is, both these people can't stop the thrill of being in the positions they're in, and are too cowardly to stop it. So, the only ending they could've gotten was what happened in chapter 35.
However, what makes this manga end so badly, is how rushed chapter 36 was. It felt like the main character could only repeat the same story we just saw. In his delusions, if the fantasy of a horrible relationship is the only thing left, then some don't escape it, rather they become that story. I do believe this was all about the reality of relationships, and how the fantastical hero complex can ruin your life.
That's why the manga hit me so deeply, I hate, and I love seeing people with hero complexes get truly demolished. I felt identified with that aspect, but not with the depravity, which works so well to exaggerate and exasperate the whole situation. It would've been such a good ending if it took at least one more chapter to explore whatever happened afterwards, just a little more. As it stands, it's a rushed, lacklustre chapter that could've been greatly expanded upon, to really nail that ending.
Right now? It's a great, depraved, disgusting, psychological manga that managed to break my routine and get me to catch up in a single day, and read the rest each time it came out. It stressed me out to see the notification of a new one pop-up, as I knew that was the next thing I was reading the instant I could.
8/10. If it makes you read 5 chapters in a row, buckle up, because it's not letting go of you until the end.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jan 16, 2026
Not the greatest ending we could've gotten, but it's still so deeply good.
Gotta love a good ending to a multi-generational mystery with over 200 chapters. This one goes onto the actual final clues being revealed, and the reveal of everything the villain had from the beginning. It started a turbo stressful race towards victory that, to be honest, I knew was going to end well. This section of the manga just had that emotionally positive energy, where, it wasn't a fight until death, it was just an evil last hurrah that would inevitably get pushed down for good.
Loved the ending, and it deserves
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to be the ending of what many hail as the greatest manga of all time. Do I believe it is? No, but it's amazingly well done.
9/10. Managing to weave that many plot lines into a cohesive ending is honestly a miracle.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Jan 16, 2026
Yeah, it's all that.
Many hail this manga as one of the greatest of all time, and simply prefer not to mention why, so I'll do so myself, or at least try without spoiling anything.
Naoki Urusawa, a mad-man who can grab a mystery conspiracy, present you with 200+ chapters, and engage you each chapter, and make you NEED to know where the hell it's going. This is a multi-generation manga, in a world-wide mystery involving a cult which is attempting to end the world. For some reason, their mantra, or book of revelations, the Bible, is a bunch of things created by kids at
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their infancy. Childish, but, incredibly unnerving as it goes along. Our main guy? One of that group of kids as a grown up man.
We, as kids, imagine ends of the world, we invent tragedies we don't understand, and knowing something you created as a child is the catalyst for the end of the world, it does something to me. The beginning introduces several characters slowly getting to this revelation, and it's all about how they're too slow to get to the truth before tragedy happens. Always one step too fast for our cast, and the tragedies that happen, Urusawa manages to show us EVERY consequence of not catching up.
All the consequences, every small tragedy, every conspiracy and their victims are planted on your face to endure, to mourn, to lament. This wouldn't work if Urusawa wasn't a master at introducing characters, and getting you to care for each one, and letting you understand how vulnerable everybody is. Hell, for a while I thought narratively immortal characters were dead. Nobody is safe, and the way we get to arcs that have nothing to do with our main guy, felt like the first seasons of “Game of Thrones”. Threads, upon threads we follow to get to who the hell leads this cult, and how do we stop them when they know the future?
The narrative feels helpless, while equally being so hopeful about why we as humans can unite and destroy true evils in this world. The tone bounces from deeply upsetting and bleak, to incredibly inspiring, fun. The hopeful nature of the story fuels each arc and character to press forwards, to know their lives might end soon, but they're the only ones who can stop this from happening.
This manga is about responsibility, about childhood and the memories which can be corrupted by pure evil, only to be recovered, claimed, and appreciated as our future selves. We as adults must lead the world to a better tomorrow, and being stuck in the past can ruin the lives of those who matter. We can't be children forever, even if that notion hurts, but we can look back healthily.
Depth, just, so much depth to each character, each scene, and everything leads to something phenomenal. I will say though, the ending isn't actually the ending, that's in “21st Century Boys”, for some odd reason.
10/10. Is it the greatest manga of all time? I can see why it's considered as so. For me? I just love how much it's about the undying soul of humans.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Nov 9, 2025
So, it begins.
Perhaps being the author's number one defender gives me a skewed view of this movie, or a really objective one. Whoever reads this, and I, will find out as I write this.
What is the key to Fujimoto's (the author's) work? Movies, we all know that, right? We all know he's inspired by everything they mean, and the messages they bring across. This is the beginning of what Denji encounters with his consistent personal question, “do I have a heart?”. Him crying to a movie inches him closer to this idea. However, as we go along, it's his heart which matters most, and
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how movies managed to touch it, at least that's the thing he realizes.
Denji isn't a common protagonist who knows what touches him, who knows what is actually going on inside his head. He's a broken child who's been groomed into believing he's found love, and a purpose to fight for, but what he doesn't realize is how much he's gained.
This is the first most important arc of Chainsaw-Man as a whole, the little key towards Denji's world and how nothing he believes is ultimately true. All he knows has been designed by his groomer, and in a phenomenal commentary on grooming victims, we slowly peel away at what it means to be chained to someone you shouldn't.
An artistic plot line, disguised as a turbo bombastic, balls to the wall action flick with no buttons left unpushed. No breaks in between. Denji is met with a girl, apparently his age, who for the first time shows him normal, teenage interest. Whatever might be true about this kind of love, and what it ultimately becomes doesn't matter. That real element allows Denji to put the world around him in perspective.
One of two lies gives him the framework to, somehow, without him even knowing, understanding true love. His story has all been about seeking love, familial love, relationship love, sexual love, and how what he has is just not enough, he's been given a taste of the fruit, and he must seek it as we all do. This hollow body he possesses is now beating, and wishing he had someone, anyone who didn't look at whatever power he has, but the man inside, he's a child who needs love.
The movie is about two children finding love in a world who will not allow them to have it. A fight is the only way they can share this connection, and it ultimately arches back to the horrors of love, and what they can make a person do, in its beauty, or destruction.
A score to rival the greatest I've heard, Kensuke Ushio remains one of the greats of modern anime. A cinematography, art style, and flair that isn't present in many things at all. It fits like a perfectly measured glove. My only issues remain in some pacing moments.
The intro, the casual tone the manga had, and its naturality tends to fail when adapted into a movie. The arc is as bombastic as it's sudden. It being separated from the story leads everyone to suspect everything, and to give special visuals to what probably shouldn't. The big moments in the story are phenomenal, but the casual tone of the rest is lost when given the importance of “The Reze Arc”.
Separation doesn't always work, and I will say. The author makes LONG, uninterrupted movies as his style. It's as if he thought the entire story in a vacuum which explodes in front of you, and perhaps binge-watching allows everything to shine as it should. Still, I loved it, and I'll watch it again soon enough.
Thematically great, deep in layers of thought. The fight scenes are AWESOME, even if damage is sometimes not present when we've been shown it should. Inconsistent powers, which are established to be lethal at first, and somehow able to be dealt with later in the movie. Nitpicking, basically. I enjoyed it too much to care for that.
8/10. We're inching closer to a Fire Punch adaptation. I hope the world will be ready for it.
What happens next, I will not be ready for, even after reading all of it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Nov 8, 2025
We all need a damn break.
The simplest of Miyazaki movies, and these've been the best for me. It depicts the textbook coming of age of a little girl who's trying to become independent for a year, as per witch tradition. Great motive, simple but great, even if small stakes. Call me weird, or insane, but I like it when the two parents are just phenomenal and nice as hell.
Movies don't need the destiny or the world, or death as consequences. Kiki is just trying to have a good experience in her year of loneliness, and she's gotta deal with balancing work, free time, motivation,
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friendships. It's relatable as hell, and her block on magic feels exceedingly true to life. Which hammers into it the main thing about everything. Take breaks.
Life just started, and by the time you pumped out bad work, and you filled your life with stress, and misery, a break will become your only respite, not the love for the things you do. A pause in life, a reprieve in friends, in helping people out, in connecting. That's all. For being a movie about witches, and the magical coming of age, it grounds itself in how real a kid might feel when fighting real life, rent, a job. Dating boys, even, and the stress it includes.
I liked this movie a lot, and as all Miyazaki movies, it's animated greatly, with fluidity on clothing, and attention to details. Couldn't expect less from that department. Didn't like how many damn times Kiki was just about to die stupidly, but that's one of its “kids movie” elements that I see not being important, or mattering. I'll just say, her parents have ALL the right to be livid.
8/10. Reminded me of myself in a really nice way. Never trust an artistic blockage to define your skill in the craft.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Oct 27, 2025
For something built to adapt the unadaptable, it's as good as it could've been.
2B, and 9S, the two most important robots of this world are soldiers set to fight a war against machines, being androids themselves. The fight has been raging on to protect humanity, or what's left of it by the moon. Their search for answers leads them to understand this has been going on for far too long, too long to make any sense. So long, in fact, the world has ended twice by now.
What's so great about the NieR franchise is their play with time, with patterns, with how humanity is
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nothing more than a pattern which is doomed to be potentially repeated. That's the question, will it repeat itself infinitely? What are we, exactly, to the show?
We repeat our mistakes, we commit wars, we kill our enemies, we cause genocides for personal reasons. Nothing that grand, or nice to say, but it recognizes how much we can do for each other. The show knows we're capable of so much love, so much compassion for each other, and how that just makes hatred so easy to comprehend. It makes sense. We're two sides of an easily flipped coin. On our mission to lead our futures by emotions, we seek for something they can target.
Purpose. Something etched on the fabric of humanity. We live for purpose, we're given purpose, we seek purpose, and we give it to ourselves, at times. The philosophical question that's permeated us for as long as we exist. Thousands of years into the future, robots built to resemble us grapple against the question of why? Why were they put in a world without an ounce of meaning? What can they find which fuels them for another day? Are they human? Is being human a sign they'll keep failing, and keep destroying everything they selfishly love? What even is love for androids prohibited to feel it?
2B, 9S, and A2 are the surrogates for diverse ways humanity finds their own failings, and how purpose can ruin, or give them a wonderful thing. They go about finding their ways, do their missions, seek their vengeance. In their stories, finding friends, things to care about, and the remembrance of how humanity still makes its effect on what they are. Characters go about their lives in a war which gives them something to do, but there is always an end to everything. What happens then, when nobody wants there to be an end to a massive purpose?
Every robot, android or machine, grapples with the emotional responsibility of not knowing what to do in life. They find things we're expert at, religion, philosophy, murder, sex, reproduction, death, suicide, governments, even to be a small-town teacher. Everything they come up with is an echo of the world we represent for them, things we were, or tried to be at our times.
Some of them seek to give respect to their friends, others find jobs, others create lies for themselves, and others do gardening. It's so simple, and powerful to pit that against innocent things with only war as life experience. You eventually notice how immature everyone is, and how growing to them seems so painful.
Everything was made to end. No space for a living thing, no open interpretation. The end was decided at the beginning, but do we want that? Will humanity ever end? Nobody does, not even machines programmed to WANT it. No, we must persevere, we must keep ruining it, because we're as imperfect as they come. Capable of so much hate, and equally to produce so much love, why can't we try again, why can't 2B, 9S, and A2, try one more damn time?
The thesis of the story always goes back to what matters, and it's all about giving ourselves a chance to accept we're not made for emptiness, nor fulfillment. We're made to try. We'll keep trying, and we'll keep ruining it. It's only human, and that's what's so beautiful about everything.
An anime that uses the messages as they should, and it includes so much information which was missable from the game. Everything you need to understand NieR:Automata is right here. So much more character development, some others which aren't as interesting, but the stories are great. I loved the adaptation, but it does have its problems.
The ending's structure, the organization of information, how it was revealed and how we got it. The first cour of the show was okay. Definitely not as good as the game's, but the second one went all out on what it could be. Still doesn't reach the heights of the credit sequence, and it can't nail its message to your forehead. The game did it in a way only a game could.
8.5/10. The best adaptation from a video game up to this point, but an even bigger reminder to play the game, and seek out every aspect of it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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