Saturday, May 17, 2025

Review - Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector



 There are a whole lot of reasons as to why psycho-pass failed throughout the years. I could talk about the slow degradation of the show's animation and heavier usage of bad CGI. I could talk about how in later seasons the soundtracks tend to get worse with overutilization of staple themes basically throughout especially the third season to the point where it became annoying. I could talk about how in the third season the main character cast is all but abandoned for newly introduced characters that are more of a shadow of the characters and developments we saw in season 1. I could talk about how the sibyl system keeps being portrayed as some godlike entity yet quite clearly it is extremely subjective and constantly is changing itself. I could even talk about how after season 1, the majority of the plot points are legit just copy/pasted stories of "insert new reason why the sybil system isn't registering someone who is literally murdering other people as a criminal here" However, what I want to talk about most is in fact none of these things. Really, the reason why First Inspector is so awful, is the message it is telling viewers.

Monday, May 5, 2025

Review - Trigun Stampede

 


A complete bastardization of a cult classic. While the original Trigun had its issues, mostly with Vash's sense of morality having double standards in the second half of the show, Trigun Stampede abandons everything that was good about the series in order to make an edgy adaptation for a younger audience... but it just fucking sucks ass and feels like a cash grab.

Sunday, May 4, 2025

Review - Jin-Rou



 Jin-Rou is probably one of the pinnacles of early 2000s animation. This film has some of the most fantastic animation that I have ever witnessed in almost everything that I have watched. It is so smooth that it almost gives the impression that the characters you see are in fact, real. It's hard to describe beyond saying that the animation takes on a three dimensional form even though it was animated in only two dimensions. Small details such as waving hair, shifts in clothing, the way characters move through the world, are all so meticulously drawn for every frame. It is on a level of animation that one could argue even exceeds a Ghibli film in terms of impressiveness.