Category: Anime

Violet Evergarden is one of the most remarkable anime series in recent memory, distinguished not only by its visual elegance but also by its thematic depth. At its core, the series is a meditation on grief, healing, and the struggle to communicate emotions that often feel inexpressible. Nearly every episode has the capacity to move the viewer to tears, yet it never feels manipulative; instead, the emotional weight arises naturally from the characters’ journeys and the quiet sincerity of their stories.

The direction and editing are finely tuned, allowing moments of silence and subtle gestures to carry as much power as sweeping climaxes. Each 25-minute episode is carefully constructed, offering a complete narrative that resonates long after it ends. What elevates the series further is how it situates Violet’s personal growth, her attempt to understand both her own feelings and those of others, within broader reflections on love, loss, and the human need for connection. The result is a work that is as emotionally fulfilling in individual episodes as it is in its cumulative impact.

I wonder show I’ve been avoiding for silly reasons. I wish I’d watched it sooner. It’s well animated with a good and meaningful story you’d want to see.

One of the highlights for me was the fight sequence near the end between Dimple, the once-evil-turned-good spirit, and the broccoli god monster. It actually made me imagine how incredible The Gamer manhwa could have been as an anime adaptation. Unfortunately, the author ended up steering it in a disappointing direction, but the foundation is still strong enough that it could make for an amazing show someday.

Good show

Exhilarating! At least season 1 was.

Season two was kinda lame though, I waited on and on for the action to start and nothing happened. It had character development for sure, but it wasn’t developed at a reasonable pace. Basically nothing happens in Season 2 besides bunch of farming

Trash.

Didn’t finish it, don’t plan to. And what a stupid name as well!

Masterpiece!

This is one of the best pieces of entertainment I’ve seen in 2025. Though it was released in 2023 December.

While this isn’t considered anime technically, within the list there are animated series produced in Japan, China, the West and many other areas. So this will be rated within the anime rank list.

The action and storytelling in this series in absolutely amazing.

The animation is a work of art. Every other scene looks like it could be framed and hung on a wall. And it is unlike any other anime I’ve seen.

Not for kids however, too much blood and nudity. The nudity is though done in a non-erotic manner, it all adds beautifully to the show.

This show is a must watch!

I am not the biggest fan on how this show is animated nor do I think it is the some of the best animation I’ve seen. But I guess they’ve done some cool animation sequences, and I know hundreds or maybe even thousands of videos have been made about the amazing animation seen in Demon Slayer, so I have put on 10 on the animation score on this anime.

I find most characters besides Inosuke, who has a pig head, rather dull or bland. Tanjiro especially has little no character, the character is simply a perfect goody two-shoes character. Tanjiro always does the right thing and innocent and all things nice. I find this sort of character unrelatable and unlikeable. Nesuko and Inosuke are much more likable in my personal opinion.

Tanjiro, Nesuko, Inosuke and Zenitsu all have plot armor, since the plot would suffer without them. Nothing would ever happen to them even if everything is going south. Big boss enemy who is a 100 times stronger could face off against Tanjiro, he will make it out unscathed thanks to this plot armor.

Regardless, the series was fun on the whole and did leave me wanting for more. The animation though I complain is still quite good, well above average.

Recently I’ve been noticing how shows built on one or two quirks quickly become boring. The quirk or funny bit might be very engaging initially, but it quickly loses it’s charm, and immediately becomes rather boring.

Sakamoto Days suffers from this issue. It’s very funny at the start. The funny quirk is that Sakamoto is like the most powerful assassin in the world, very skilled, basically undefeatable/invincible. But then Sakamoto finds a girl he likes, falls in love, gets married, has kids and becomes much more plump, and starts a convenience store. So world class assassin is casually running a convenience store. That’s kinda the funny part.

While more plump and less menacing looking, he is still very capable as an assassin though. I’m not why but the assassins in this story can move extremely fast, punch through steel and catch bullets with their hands. Sakamoto is basically Saitama from One Punch Man.

The story mostly copies the world built by John Wick but adds a funny twist to things.

I made it through season 1, but season 2.. I didn’t know why I was watching. It was rather boring. Animation was good and properly paced. But it didn’t matter, the quirk of Sakamoto being extremely strong had grown tiring.

There were meaningful attempts at making the side characters more relevant, their magical powers more powerful etc. But it didn’t really matter, the show revolved around Sakamoto and his quirk and the new characters introduced felt merely like side-characters introduced to waste time.

The characters who are supposed to be normal human beings managed to catch bullets just fine in the first season, doing the same thing in season 2 is not going to keep viewers interested. It’s too bad.. the animation, dubbing and other aspects of the show were quite well done. It’s still too hard to stay interested when you know that absolutely nothing could happen to the main characters and that the story isn’t really going anywhere.

They could probably get some kids to watch though, could be a lucrative business strategy. I won’t be continuing to watch this show though.

It was too dark to figure out what’s going on.

This was most scenes, ugh! They were all too dark.

And in between there would a scene which would be too bright, and the screen would be at max brightness because every other scene was too dark and the bright scenes would burn my corneas off!!

Here is a dark scene. Most scenes are super dark like this in this show. I tend to turn the brightness up, so that I can see better for shows like this.

And then suddenly you’ll have another scene like this, which just hurts your eyes.

There were many since things happening in the anime, too bad I couldn’t see any of it! Since everything was happening in the dead of night and it is all dark all the time.

Why the hell was this show so dark? I couldn’t see anything without cranking the display brightness up to the max! But when I do that the bright scenes would appear blindingly bright. Ugh!

Every time a show does this, I loose interest after a few episodes. There will be scenes that are clearly too dark, where I can’t make out what’s going on, and really.. you won’t care after a few episodes. “Let’s just get this over with” is the thought process you’ll probably have in your head.

This show has some amazing animation though, insanely good. I wonder if we can expect this from lots of other studios as well.