The struggles of an introvert to socialize and make friends is brilliantly displayed here. It helps to see all these introvert problems animated and know that lots of people have had these.
But it isn’t as interesting if you’ve overcome these limitations of yours long back. You don’t really relate with the main character very much.
Animation is wonderful, but given how unambitious the story is, I would have preferred a dubbed version, so that I can watch it in the background as I’m working on something else. A whole bunch of nothing is happening for most of the anime. We get to see how the MC reacts to things, but that’s it, nothing actually happens.
After I’d watched Made in Abyss, I went to the supermarket. I saw a small child there, holding a barbie doll in her hand and doing cute child things. I would have normally thought, Aw cute kid, and moved on. But instead an image of the child dismembered into small pieces flashed in my head.
My eyes went wide, unable to believe what I had just thought. It was extremely disturbing. Although it was only for a quarter of a second, it was enough to tell me that Made in Abyss had affected me.
If you cannot handle like blood, violence and gore, you DO NOT watch this series. But it is easily one of the best anime I’ve ever seen.
Me not having known about this series all this time was a mistake.
I went into this with no expectations what-so-ever, and was really surprised to find that this was a feel-good movie. A movie that emphasizes how important the journey and the friends we make along the way are. I really didn’t see that coming..
Good movie though, really fun.
I did fall asleep for a short few minutes in between though, which was weird. But also surprising was how I missed absolutely nothing of significance during my nap. Which might indicate that the runtime was used ineffectively.
It could also indicate several other things about the reviewer, me..
The world building was sorta cool.
I watched the Chainsaw Man movie and the Predator Badlands movie back to back and I then assumed Predator would be ranked higher. But looking at the category scores, I guess the Chainsaw Man movie will be ranking higher.
One of the best world-building I’ve ever seen in anime.
Every piece of the world in this dungeon is explained. It amazed me that that was even possible.
There were several instances where I thought, oh they didn’t explain this bit, but that’s okay, since I can’t expect them to think about every small detail. But then in an episode or two they would explain whatever I thought they’d missed. Every detail and minutia was explained well and in an entertaining manner.
It was amazing!
This show is so much more than cooking videos.
If you make it to the end, then you’ll see why the character development score is a 10.
Solo Leveling was voted as the crunchyroll best anime of the year. Which is such a let down, considering all the great anime that came out alongside Solo Leveling.
Here is trends graph of Attack on Titan vs Solo Leveling and Frieren. Attack on Titan is a show everyone knows of at this point, Frieren has held the title of the best anime every on MyAnimeList for the past two years, and Solo Leveling is all about Aura Farming.
And Aura Farming absolutely crushed good story telling brought forward by Frieren. Solo leveling almost surpassed attack on titan at one point, which means it was likely more popular that several Hollywood movies.
I believe Aura Farming is going to have even more of an impact on anime for a while, because of how well Solo Leveling performed.
Even as a manhwa, it was immediately evident that this series was all about Aura Farming, because of that, the protagonist is never in any real danger. Of course Sung Jinwoo will be victorious and save the day somehow. The show was still fun to watch though.
But then One Punch Man season 3 came out. This was one horribly animated show. Compared to that, yeah, solo leveling was leagues better.
Hiroyuki Sawano made several sound tracks for this show, I guess they really had high hopes for the show, and it did live up to that. All the manhwa readers who proclaimed that this would be one of the most popular anime to come out were proven right.
Still quite a let down that aura farming beat all the other good show.
I watched this since it was so highly rated, I figured the series would be absolutely amazing by the end perhaps. But I truly don’t know. I’m watching Clannad After-Story at this point, and the show is quite boring.
The best part about the show to me is how un-addicting it is. It takes little will-power to close the tab and go back to work, which is see as a huge win. But it would be awesome if the series was fun as well.
You can truly see that animating things back then was far more difficult. The series is very slow, not that it wastes time, but animation was simply harder to do back then.
I saw reviews mentioning how the anime completely broke people and left them sobbing. And here I am watching it at an increased speed and skipping through emotional bits. I know what they’re going to say, it’s incredibly predictable, I don’t need to see it.
Wasted time:
The show does waste time though, there are ghosts and spirits, who we spend hours and hours with, after which they seem to have no relevance what-so-ever. Why did we invest so much time into this ghost if nothing important was to happen concerning the ghost?
Outside of Clannad having an after-story which shows difficult parts of a relationship, I can’t really see what’s special about this show.
The show is as interesting or often times less interesting than your own life. Mostly nothing happens.
I’ve heard it was the bees knees back in the day, it doesn’t seem that way to me now.
