April 8, 2025 • 37 mins
J.B. introduces a new segment called "Anime Lightning" where he provides quick reviews of anime from the current season that the rest of the ZONE Podcast crew hasn't had time to cover.
• Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective (House: The Anime) - A medical mystery anime with an eccentric pathologist solving bizarre cases (9/10)
• Arifureta - A gun-slinging alchemist's journey through magical labyrinths with an evolving plot and romantic clarity (9/10)
• Beheneko - A fantasy rom-com about a former knight reborn as a powerful cat-like behemoth (5/10)
• Bogus Skill Fruitmaster - Story of a boy whose seemingly useless fruit cultivation skill reveals hidden potential (8/10)
• Guild Receptionist - A guild receptionist secretly defeats monsters herself to avoid paperwork when adventurers fail (6/10)
• Headhunted in Another World - A salaryman becomes a general for a demon overlord, offering real-world business wisdom (6/10)
• Momentary Lily - Visually beautiful post-apocalyptic story of six young women cooking and fighting robots (8.5-9/10)
• Online Shopping in Another World - Middle-aged man builds a business reselling online purchases in a fantasy realm (7.5/10)
• Worthless Appraiser - An underestimated appraiser gains powerful abilities through a spirit eye (8/10)
• Zenshu - An anime producer gets transported into a world based on her favorite movie (9/10)
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
hey yo, what up?
It's jet black extreme, butfeel free to call me jb.
I decided to do a new thing.
I'd call it anime lightning.
Essentially, on the zonepodcast, we like to talk about a
whole bunch of things, butthere's not a whole lot of time
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for the rest of the gang to gettogether to talk about some of
the anime that comes out.
So I decided to take a handfulor two anime that came out each
season and do like a quickreview on each one of them, and
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you know, fit my two cents.
So, without further ado, let'sgo ahead and zone in on that,
starting with Amakou MD, drDetective, also known as House.
The Anime, now at TenekaiGeneral Hospital Supervisory
Department of DiagnosticPathology, handles cases other
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physicians deem too difficult totreat.
It's also where bizarremysteries surface, from
unexplained illnesses to strangemurders.
Even the police cancel.
At the center of it all is drjacob amaku, a brilliant yet
eccentric director ofinvestigative pathology at
tenekai General Hospital, incharge of diagnosing patients
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with other hospital departmentscannot.
However, due to her love ofsolving mysteries, takau also
gets involved with mysteries,deaths and murders, all while
dragging along her assistant, yuTakanashi, and her various
adventures.
Now, right off bat.
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I gotta say I like how cleanthe art style is.
I also enjoyed the music in thebackground.
The way Takao deduces issueswith patients is very
informative and impressive.
I feel like I'm learningsomething.
Takao also lives in a smallcute house built on top of the
hospital Interesting.
And also her uncle is her bossor something, and her
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grandfather founded the hospitaland her older sister is also in
the medical field.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure she wasborn for her job in a sense.
A variety of interesting casesblue blood, a cursed video,
spontaneous combustion, a kidfighting cancer and a whole
bunch of drama in between.
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I did see a nurse or residentrunning in place in episode 9,
so I can't say that this is anairtight show, but I will admit
I was very impressed with theexecution of this anime.
I hope this gives more episodesin the future.
Nine out of ten.
Moving on ari fureta now,honestly, I was gonna do a full
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review on this one.
I was gonna do like a top 10anime that people probably gonna
go also work on 20 winter 2025,but you know what?
Let's just go ahead and throwthis into the mix.
So, with art proletta, if youlike, solo leveling or any anime
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where the protagonist gets asecond chance at life and
becomes a certified badass, thenyou'll probably like this anime
.
The series seems more like arom-com as the story progresses,
but maintains its seriousnessat crucial plot points.
It has an interesting magicsystem.
Although the ultimate goal isto return home, the plot forces
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hajime naguma to save thismagical world from a great evil.
Uh, the solid music selectionand english dub voice acting.
I think the most intriguingthing of all was the fact that
hajime is a gunslingingalchemist.
I was getting like sololeveling, slash, full metal
alchemist vibes from this, butyou know not to do it like that.
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It's not a discount art pareto,I'm just saying.
But yeah, it starts off withhajime almost losing his life in
the labyrinth and he must grindhis way to become stronger in
order to return home andconfront the guy that betrayed
him, even though he blamedeveryone when he was cracked out
of his mind in the firstepisode and also he pretty much
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dropped the whole revenge scheme.
Like his mission evolved towhere he must complete all great
labyrinths in order to gain allthe ancient magic to return to
japan bringing the whole gamewith him.
And he finds this blonde, lollyvampire princess yui uh, who
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was sealed in the labyrinth andalmost dismissed her in comedic
fashion.
Until she mentions how she wasbetrayed her by her family for
being too powerful, which wasall hajime needed to do at once
180 and help her like oh, I'vebeen betrayed before, let me
help you out afterwards.
He names her Yui like a Pokemonwhen she insists on discarding
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her old name for whatever Hajimesuggests, and since then he
dropped the revenge plot.
So the plot thickens when abunny girl, ancia, encounters
the duo asking for help.
In exchange for helping the duogo through the fog in the sea
of trees, she was expeditiouslybecame the useless comic relief
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character who's surprisinglystrong with her hammer gun and
also have the for hajime uh.
She can be kind of dumb,yelling about how she let Hajime
take over Virginia for a wholehandful of people to hear the
two of them eventually develop aspecial bond.
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And in actuality she is notthat useless.
That pretty much gets dispelledby the time you get to season
five.
I mean season three pretty muchgets dispelled by time you get
to, uh, season five.
No three, it was three, uh.
The trio, the teacher and thevolunteer students have a very
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strange encounter with tealchloris, the dragonborn.
And by when I say very strange,I mean you're just going to
have to see for yourself.
She reminds me of Darkness fromKonosuba in a way.
Eventually the group's at amermaid girl, miyu, who's like
Hajime's adopted daughter.
There's some blackrepresentation detected between
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the Demon Clan and the ColorSwap when the group fought
against themselves in the FinalLabyrinth.
Uh, cowrie, uh, hajime'sclassmate joins the party as a
prominent rival to yue.
As you know, hajime affectionand refreshing to see a
protagonist that knows what hewants as far as romantic
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partners.
By the way, he said he's onlyin love with yue and he stood on
his briefcase when he toldcarrie what the deal was.
Carrie understood, but stillloves hajime anyways and will
continue to be a love rival,slash, homewrecker, and you know
it is what it is.
Sia can be stone cold when shewants to be like Catalyst Catele
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.
The demon woman's fiance,mikhail, confronted the group
for revenge and Sia essentiallysaid okay and didn't even mind
being called a monster if itmeant she got stronger.
And to save Calorie, hajimetransferred her soul into Noi's
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body, the angel woman.
And did I mention that thisshow has some attractive looking
women Approaching the finallabyrinth in a snowy area.
Approaching the final labyrinthin a snowy area, chia was
delighted and called herself asnow rabbit, which was a missed
opportunity to call herself asnow bunny.
Shizuku has been fighting herfeelings for Hajime, considering
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a betrayal to Kaori the trialof the final labyrinth, is
refreshingly self aware of thecharacters, flaws and growth.
Oh yeah, uh, koki, the herodude, not him being a titled man
, child with white knightsyndrome, talking about, oh,
these women supposed to beattracted to me, not haji man,
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oh, you should just die.
It's always for all that shit.
It's crazy, but this, thisanime definitely deserves three
seasons that it received and Ican't wait for more.
Nine out of ten.
Now here's a fast-paced fantasyrom-com that's not afraid to
flash some titties to theaudience but keeps the fan
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service to a tasteful minimum.
Uh, behemeko.
Now, at times the series tendto function off of video game
logic, such as skill cooldownsand roles such as tanks.
Typical antagonist getsreincarnated and can gain
abilities by slaying and eatingmonsters.
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At least the ability to magicsystem is somewhat intriguing,
for example, the howling skillthat cats elemental magic.
Uh, speaking of protagonisttama, uh, he, he used to be a
knight in a past life, but hewas defeated in battle and he
got reborn as a behemoth.
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But he looks like like a kitten, though at least at first.
But he's more powerful than heappears.
He used his new life to protectthe woman that saved him from
nearly dying in this life.
Even as an S-rank monstermanages to have a harem Like
seriously.
I'll explain that in a bit.
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Arya, the elf girl that savedTom, got the big boobies and
goes adventuring with herfriends.
She can be kind of kinky.
Vulcan.
The cat girl, is a blacksmiththat serves as a voice of reason
from time to time Tends to saya bunch of cat puns.
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Stella, an earth dragon turnedhuman after being defeated by
Tama, serves as the tank of theparty.
Of all girls, stella has themost.
She's the most direct abouthaving the hots for a cat, jesus
Christ.
There's also Fairy the Dryadabout having the hots for a cat,
jesus Christ.
There's also Fairy the Dryadand Lily the Fairy, two more
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companions in Arya's party therethere.
Alicia, the other elf girl,knew Tom's secret and kept it a
secret and overall it's not bad.
I just wasn't expectingsomething ground breaking either
.
It's mid-mediocre, 5 out of 10.
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Moving on Focus skill fruitmaster.
Now it's one of these Low-keyOP premises where the
protagonist thought he wasuseless until he discovers that
his skill is more useful thanperceived.
A fast-paced and light-heartedseries where the conflicts tend
to resolve in less than half ofthe episode, unless it's a
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keystone event.
Each notable character serves apurpose to an extent, as a way
of showcasing that no skill isuseless if applied properly, or
at least that's the supposedtheme for the anime.
Like this, like a boy who wantsto be an adventurer gained the
fruit master skill, which isinitially known for cultivating
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fruits faster than normal.
Little did everyone know thathe can eat more than one skill
fruit and gain more skillsImmediately after eating a stew
that Aila made using skillfruits.
Unwittingly, light gained theSorcerer's God skill.
He gains more skills, somebeing very useful as sleep fairy
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and torch plane.
He's kind of dumb and kind of acaptain, obvious, but I like
his sense of confidence.
His designs remind me of buddyfrom in another world.
With my smartphone now kind ofdigging the design for Light's
first sword, even if it breaksone too many times.
Lena, light's best friend,gains the Sword Saint skill,
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which is this rare skill thatmakes her a chosen one.
She was part of a prestigiousguild, sacred, but joined Light
and Ayla to form Luxeria.
Light and ala, uh, ayla, excuseme.
To form luxeria, she gains theability to fly thanks to her new
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pexis companion.
Zero enduros, uh, I don't thinkit's uh different, fucking
whatever.
I like her design.
She reminds me of lucy harfilia, fromytale.
Now Ayla, a girl who lives withlight because of the village,
she ain't shit gained theappraisal skill, funny enough.
I like how.
Pizza is the go to food forthis anime, at least for Ayla
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and Monica.
The blacksmith girl is atradesman who forges many things
with her super force skill butfor ethical reasons relates to
her father, an eyeball and thedeath of her grandmother refused
to craft swords until lightcame along.
I like her design.
Reminds me of Mei Hasume frommy Hero Academia, but her drip
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reminds me of Team Zygurum fromGurren Lagann.
Miss Flower Hat, head ofInvestigation, have the
scholar's eye, having access toa wealth of information,
including secret techniques.
She helps Lena and Jartina.
Despite being neutral, herdesign stands out the most as
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far as color.
Now, jatina she's thisvampiric-looking dancer who uses
necromancy to control theundead and was introduced as an
enemy in Episode 3.
I like her design Also, herbackstory kind of reminds me of
Himiko Toga, in the sense thattheir respective abilities are
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the reason why they got typecastas villains.
In episode 9, jartina wanted toparticipate in the dance of the
fairies to fulfill her dream ofbecoming a dancer.
She became an unlikely ally ofLena when protecting the city of
Athena from some evil guy namedArgos.
That that summoned a differentwicked dragon from the ones
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Retina summoned before.
So yeah, she's not so bad.
Zondo, boss of the BlackbirdMerchants, have the skill
Thunder Charge, which functionslike the lightning flame from
Catechia, hitman Reborn the HolySister was secretly the ops.
She's the one who gives out thefruit skills to new adventurers
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uh, the most important personin the adventurers guild.
And yet she is connected todratina, zondo and the black
swan guild and even evadedlena's questioning of her
involvement with um class oneand 13 and episode five.
Her skill is precognition,where she can see the future,
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creating the theory that sheknew ahead of time who will get
what skill they received andpredicted some of the events
that transpired.
She's intrigued to see if.
What is this um person called aprimordial Like, maybe like a
very special talent?
Honestly, I'm kind ofinterested in watching a season
two, if that's going to happen,assuming that it gets greenlit.
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Also refreshing to see that itdidn't fall into the hair
rom-com direction, at least notyet.
8 out of 10.
It's pretty good.
Now next one receptionist.
Now we got alina clover signedup to be a receptionist for the
adventurers guild, thinking itwould be her ticket to the good
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life.
Unfortunately, her dream gigturns into an overtime nightmare
whenever the adventurers getstuck clearing the dungeon.
To save herself from a mountainof paperwork, alina takes on to
beating down monsters herselfto solve the problem.
Now she just needs to keep heractivities a secret.
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Now, immediately.
I like how guilt receptionistsare normally just there to doing
their job for adventurers, butthis anime turns the tables on
that.
Alina just wants a slow andsteady jobs and she stands on
business when she's on the clock.
But she can be kind of intensewith a little potty mouth when
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adventurers forces her to workovertime or disturb her peace.
Despite her strength, alina isnot interested in being an
adventurer herself and I canexpect it when someone makes it
clear about what they want inlife.
Overall this anime is decent.
Feels kind of a lather rinserepeat every two or so episodes
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with how alina pretty muchcarries the show with her
emotional range and being thedeus ex machina for the Silver
Sword Guild and otheradventurers, bashing enemies
with her warhammer.
Also something about Dark Soulsgetting sucked.
Oh yeah, the magic and skillsystem is also kinda cool.
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For the time being, this animeis feeling kinda of like a six
out of ten.
Anyways, headhunted in anotherworld.
I'm kind of on a roll withthese workforce anime for the
young adults, and good thing forit, because I'm kind of getting
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tired of this narrative that oh, all these anime focusing on
teenage kids, and I'm like bro,like sometimes y'all are chasing
the mainstream anime a littletoo hard, like you gotta dig a
little deeper and realize thatthere is, like a way, more anime
that just might relate to youand you might relate to it, but
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you know it is what it is andthat's kind of why I am glad I
am doing anime lighting, butanyways, headhunter in another
world.
The protagonist, the no escapeuchimura, is a salaryman that
got isekai in one of the lamestways and one of the lamest ways
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possible, got hit by blue beautyin a scooter oh excuse me and
doesn't even look like he couldhave died, but in actuality he
got displaced and he gotsummoned by the Demon Overlord
To serve as one Of his fourgenerals.
And due to his resume Bossmanyou know I'm not gonna say Demon
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Overlord All the damn time, I'mjust gonna call him.
Bossman Needs someone to Withmanagement experience and saw
more potential in Uchimura, morethan the co-workers that
Uchimura had in his past life.
Now I like how resourceful andinsightful Uchimura is, but I
don't like how he tends to foldwhen something unexpected occurs
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, to a point where he's alwaysdemanding Bossman to fire him,
just for Bossman to essentiallytell him to chill out and have
more confidence.
Now Bossman is ironically likealmost like a supportive father
figure.
I love his uses of conceptmagic to defeat the Calamity at
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the end of the season.
Also, digging the drip.
Not gonna lie, the othergenerals have a very attractive
character design Omandra, thehalf-dragon girl, the designated
tsundere, catches feeling forUchimura and makes it quite
obvious for the audience.
She gets hilariously jealous ofany strange women being near
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Uchimura.
Silph, silphid, uh, busty,bespectacled elf, looking chick
it's a designated dandere, oryou know, like that really
inclusive scientist chick.
She hides her true appearancein order to maintain control
over a workload.
I kind of get in.
I really hate bringing up velmaand this um thing, but like
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there's a point in season two ofvelma where I'm like, okay, I
kind of see why she might wantto do that, but anyways, I like
the way she's put together.
Honestly, her half brother,viper, serves as the option in
episodes 8 and 9.
Just something to throw outthere.
Gnome, the slim demi-human girl, is the designated kure, which
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is like the logical thinker withthe blunt opinions.
Olulu, who's the daughter ofthe Ogre Chief, becomes an aide
after negotiating with herfather and the Ogre Tribe.
She also catches a feel forUchimura, but she's more helpful
to omandra and her pursuit ofhim.
So that's cool.
Uh, nea, a young demon girl, isa former spy that becomes
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uchimura's secretary after theordeal with viper.
Uh, the main conflict, theyhear, is that the divide between
demons and demi-humans, whichUjimura must find a way to unite
the people.
In the name of the boss man, Iwould say the English dub voice
acting definitely sticks out,but not in a bad way.
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Some references to other animepops up here and there, like
Food Wars, naruto and Deathdeath note.
You can learn a thing or twofrom uchimura and the boss man,
such as how, in some cultures,butting heads is an integral
part of diplomacy and thatfailure is not the end but a
lesson for us to carry.
Sometimes some back and forthis part of negotiations, and
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that folding easily would ruinthe spirit of it.
I'd recommend this anime forthose looking for wisdom that
can be applied to real life.
If the stakes were higher inthis anime, I'd probably rate it
higher than a 6.
Anyways, momentary Lily, nowautomatically.
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I'm just gonna say this.
Visually this anime isbeautiful and I love that.
It teaches you recipes to foodthat they prepare and.
But we got robotic invaderswiped out all life.
But Renge fights to surviveusing her powers.
With no memory, she roams thecity until she meets five other
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young women, each with uniqueabilities.
Together they make the most oftheir lives cooking delicious
meals between battles withmechanical monstrosities.
As they uncover the secrets oftheir powers and paths, they
find strength in theirfriendship.
You know that sort of thing.
So it's kind of hard for me todescribe the girls outside of
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Miss Amnesia, blondie, big Sis,class Rep, gamer Girl and Twin
Tails.
Otherwise they can seem likenormal girls who cook, play
games, other school girls stuff,when they're not forced to
fight in a post-apocalypticworld with mysterious weapons
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called unbarring, and turns out,all the girls from rengai were
copies created by the aliensthat created the wild hunt,
intended to replace the realhumans for a plot that has since
been abandoned.
Renge's copies already died.
Humanity itself was a scienceproject created by aliens who
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also created several othercivilizations on other planets.
The Wild Hunts were intended toerase humanity and record their
civilization, but that orderwas halted.
The other Yuri, erikarika,hinagishi, ayame and Nerune in
the facility are in fact thereal ones, while Renge is the
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real Renge but was biologicallyaltered by her Anbarai and is
doomed to die if she continuesusing it.
I won't reveal too much becausethere's some details.
That's best seen for one.
So I think this anime is goodin its own right.
Eight out of ten nah, I'll benice, I'll probably bump it up
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to play 8.5, maybe a nine goingon.
We got online shopping inanother world, so yeah.
We got another one for themiddle age working man, so we
got kimichi hamada.
Uh, just a regular 38 year oldman working as an illustrator in
japan.
One day he's transported toanother world and waits to find
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himself in the middle adangerous forest filled with
ravenous monsters, he quicklydiscovers a massive online
shopping site that can deliverhim exactly what he needs.
So yeah, the whole east skyexperience was super sped up in
the first episode andessentially, kanichi starts
reselling what he buys fromshangri the equivalent of Amazon
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Prime to the villagers andultimately wants a laid-back
life in a cabin in the woods.
I respect that kind ofsimplicity.
Primula kind of impressed mewith her mindset, because one
thing about me is that I lovebitches that stand on business.
I like the part where Kenichispent the night with Primula,
brought her home to her father,milo, who was oddly cool with it
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, and then proceeded to presentlingerie to both of them as a
joke.
And Kenichi is trying to be astand-up guy but Blondie's not
making it easy for him, with thebig old bitties wanting to be
his wife and all that shit wantto be his wife and all that shit
.
I thought the part whereKenichi tripping balls was funny
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.
The old man casting explosionreminds me of Megumin from
Konosuba just a little bit.
Ever since Kenichi saved himfrom the bandits, both Blondie
and the 12-year-old want to behis wife.
The anime eventually evolvesInto a harem romcom where
Kenichi even cut the king whenhis More dominant wife decided
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to go With the protagonist.
Well, not really.
It's more like the Daughterwanted to hang out with him and
the wife was more Like, hey, youwant to sleep with me or
something?
No, thank you.
And the wife was more like, hey, you wanna sleep with me or
something?
And I'm like, uh, no, thank you, those are of the king mind.
And I'm like I mean, he justkind of looked away.
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I'm like, well, what can I say?
Sometimes Can you see some ofthose Contrusting vehicles,
vehicles like their mechs, andas a mecha fan I smirked a
little bit.
Even the shangri-la userinterface reminded me of Final
Fantasy in a way and, not gonnalie, this anime was kind of
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worth the watch from a businesspoint of view.
Supply and demand likemathematics, provisionation,
improvising, excuse meinnovation, negotiations and
building relationships with theright people.
It's honestly not bad, but Ijust wish the pacing development
was cooked more slowly.
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I'd say like a 7.5 out of 10, Iguess, worthless Appraiser.
Now another anime about how theprotagonist is perceived as
weak or useless but becomes thestrongest around.
It can be bloody and gruesome,like Soul Eleventh and
Artifurettum, but the serieslightens up after episode 1.
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Now the protagonist Aang.
He's been settled with the jobof appraiser, the weakest and
the least fortunate of all jobsone can be formed with, as the
only power it grants is theability to appraise things.
Treated cruelly by all andreduced to a glitter collector,
vice appraiser ein has grown tohate himself and lives his days
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in a spineless silver basement.
But when he meets Yuri, thespirit of the World Tree, and
her protector, ursula, the SageAyn's fate takes a drastic turn.
With the gift of a spirit eyefrom Yuri and the help of Ursula
and learning how to use it helpof Ursula and learn how to use
it Aang grows stronger andstronger until he's ready to
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take Yuri on a long, desiredjourney to meet her World Tree
sisters.
He goes on to overcome allsorts of challenges, armed with
his natural kindness and hisnewfound courage.
Now he learns a bunch ofinteresting spells in Episode 2,
such as Super Parraise, whichis like having spidey sense, or
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a sharding gun.
He also gains a bunch ofintriguing items from Ursula,
such as the spirit sword.
You know like it's dangerousout there.
So take this in a way, bothYuri and Ursula are linked to
Aang, where Ursula can monitorhis movements, while Yuri can
essentially be summoned by Aangthrough his spirit eye.
He also gets jacked like SunTzu Yuri.
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She can be sweet, soft-spokengirl with the big, big ol'
bitties and a lot of power.
She caught feelings for Aangand became his pocket healer.
Ursula comes off kind of like abitchy trainer to Ayn but she's
very protective of herquote-unquote daughter.
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Yuri, like all the guardians,consider each other like mother
and daughter, that kind of thinggoing on and she serves as
Ayn's eyes and ears in the field.
I like the way she reminds meof Kratos from God of War, the
way she addresses Aina as a boy.
Pina is Yuri's mischievousyounger sibling.
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I like the literal stars in hereyes.
Kurihime, pina's guardian,reminds me of Yaya from
Unbreakable Machine Doll in away, but scarier, you know,
mainly just clothing.
Alice is the older bookwormsister to yuri.
She's also interested in ein ina way.
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Uh, akahane, uh.
Alice's guardian reminds me ofwashiu from tenji muyo in a way.
Uh, may, the youngest spiritbecomes a very demanding little
sister to Ayn.
First, the second oldest spiritand maze guardian.
It's probably the mostvoluptuous of the spirits, with
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a blindfold covering her evileye, the guild master Meegan.
I like the way she's puttogether A domineering woman
with the tickle of the teeth.
Jasper is a rich dude who wantsto marry Ayn I'm serious, and I
like his drip, not gonna lie.
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And Claudia von Gaitaniga I'mserious, I'm serious Is a rich
girl who takes into the eye.
Zoid and Jolene are theassholes that threw Ayn under
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the bus in a quest that startedit all.
When Ayn proved that he wasalive and clarified what
happened, it ruined Zoid'sreputation.
Meanwhile, jolene lied and saidZoid put her up to it and
threatened her if he saw that I.
Well, no, excuse me, hethreatened to kill her if she
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didn't sell her I.
Now, eventually he becomes amonster and kills Jolene out of
revenge, but I stops him andkills.
Stops from killing more peopleby purifying his demonic form.
Shadow the Enticer, the demonthat possessed Nightgun, had a
plot that sounds like somethingstraight out of the Promised
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Neverland.
After the Nightgun arc, iaintook Nightgun's place as lord of
the Erasic domain and as ameans of gaining valuable
knowledge that he may need.
Horn of the Instructable has aninteresting queen bee design.
Iona Iona I am butchering thesenames Also has an interesting
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design reminding me of the soundfrom Naruto, with the eyes and
the horns.
I like her use of the guns.
Echidna, the ops of the series,is the original spirit and a
fine-ass chocolate elf womanwith the tiggo bitties.
She helps Boy get revenge onAyan, but was using him to
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collect data on Aang.
Her ultimate goal was to reviveMitoran.
The behemoth in this anime hasa design that kinda goes hard,
especially with the eyes,something like demon slayer.
The more I watched this anime,the more I started thinking of
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D&D and Legend of Zelda.
Although I don't like how RussAyn's grind was, this anime is
fairly intriguing andentertaining.
Despite my lewd remarks, thisanime doesn't hinge on fan
service at all.
Yeah, ayn has a harem and itgets comical at times, but
Worthless Appraiser stands onbusiness for the most part.
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I'm expecting a second seasonand see the other four sisters
make their anime debut.
8 out of 10.
Now for the last one for animelightning.
Another one for the youngadults in the workforce,
especially if you're interestedin making your own anime and
manga.
You might find some insightfullines in the show Zenshu.
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Now, zenshu has some cleancharacter art and visual effects
.
Bonus points for brown skinrepresentation here and there,
decent music selection and voiceacting from the English
dubcastcast anime producer andprotagonist nasako hirose, the
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main character of this story,must work on a rom-com for her
next project but have noexperience with love herself.
She ends up fainting afterchoking on her lunch during work
and gets isekai to a fancyworld based on her favorite
movie that may give her the musethat she needs crazy long hair
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that covers her face and gives arealistic take on how anime
projects are received by theaudience in this world.
She uses her talking peg bar torewrite the narratives and I
like it's like watching someoneexperience their own headcanon
and, due to naziko'sinterference with the plot, it
creates unexpected turn ofevents.
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I highly recommend this animefor its visual beauty, the
relatable statements and thewealth of insight.
9 out of 10.
Wait, hold, hold on.
Studio Mappa produced thisanime Ironic.
So that's it for AnimeLightning.
Pretty much.
Just quick two cents on how Ifeel about those shows.
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To be fair, there's somehonorable mentions like Sakamoto
Dei Rurouni, kenshin, rezero,the Apothecary Diaries,
shangri-la, frontier, dr StoneLeft, my A-Rain Party, sentai,
red East, sky, 100 Girlfriends,farmagia, grisaia, phantom
Trigger and Aquarium Myth ofEmotions.
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But I'm going to do a fullreview or we're going to be part
of an extreme review later on,and we already completed Soul
Leveling, blue, exorc ball,diamond and don machi.
So that was all that caught myinterest for winter 20.
Uh, not gonna lie, I didstumble my words a whole lot out
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of all this and I do apologize.
I will get better at this andhopefully I'll have better
podcast speaking equipment sothat way I can do a little
better on all this.
But that's all I got to say.
Go ahead and have yourself agood morning, good afternoon,
good evening, good night,whatever time it is in your area
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, and ultimately you take iteasy.
I'm zoning out of here.
hey yo, what up?
It's jet black extreme, butfeel free to call me jb.
I decided to do a new thing.
I'd call it anime lightning.
Essentially, on the zonepodcast, we like to talk about a
whole bunch of things, butthere's not a whole lot of time
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for the rest of the gang to gettogether to talk about some of
the anime that comes out.
So I decided to take a handfulor two anime that came out each
season and do like a quickreview on each one of them, and
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you know, fit my two cents.
So, without further ado, let'sgo ahead and zone in on that,
starting with Amakou MD, drDetective, also known as House.
The Anime, now at TenekaiGeneral Hospital Supervisory
Department of DiagnosticPathology, handles cases other
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physicians deem too difficult totreat.
It's also where bizarremysteries surface, from
unexplained illnesses to strangemurders.
Even the police cancel.
At the center of it all is drjacob amaku, a brilliant yet
eccentric director ofinvestigative pathology at
tenekai General Hospital, incharge of diagnosing patients
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with other hospital departmentscannot.
However, due to her love ofsolving mysteries, takau also
gets involved with mysteries,deaths and murders, all while
dragging along her assistant, yuTakanashi, and her various
adventures.
Now, right off bat.
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I gotta say I like how cleanthe art style is.
I also enjoyed the music in thebackground.
The way Takao deduces issueswith patients is very
informative and impressive.
I feel like I'm learningsomething.
Takao also lives in a smallcute house built on top of the
hospital Interesting.
And also her uncle is her bossor something, and her
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grandfather founded the hospitaland her older sister is also in
the medical field.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure she wasborn for her job in a sense.
A variety of interesting casesblue blood, a cursed video,
spontaneous combustion, a kidfighting cancer and a whole
bunch of drama in between.
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I did see a nurse or residentrunning in place in episode 9,
so I can't say that this is anairtight show, but I will admit
I was very impressed with theexecution of this anime.
I hope this gives more episodesin the future.
Nine out of ten.
Moving on ari fureta now,honestly, I was gonna do a full
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review on this one.
I was gonna do like a top 10anime that people probably gonna
go also work on 20 winter 2025,but you know what?
Let's just go ahead and throwthis into the mix.
So, with art proletta, if youlike, solo leveling or any anime
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where the protagonist gets asecond chance at life and
becomes a certified badass, thenyou'll probably like this anime
.
The series seems more like arom-com as the story progresses,
but maintains its seriousnessat crucial plot points.
It has an interesting magicsystem.
Although the ultimate goal isto return home, the plot forces
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hajime naguma to save thismagical world from a great evil.
Uh, the solid music selectionand english dub voice acting.
I think the most intriguingthing of all was the fact that
hajime is a gunslingingalchemist.
I was getting like sololeveling, slash, full metal
alchemist vibes from this, butyou know not to do it like that.
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It's not a discount art pareto,I'm just saying.
But yeah, it starts off withhajime almost losing his life in
the labyrinth and he must grindhis way to become stronger in
order to return home andconfront the guy that betrayed
him, even though he blamedeveryone when he was cracked out
of his mind in the firstepisode and also he pretty much
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dropped the whole revenge scheme.
Like his mission evolved towhere he must complete all great
labyrinths in order to gain allthe ancient magic to return to
japan bringing the whole gamewith him.
And he finds this blonde, lollyvampire princess yui uh, who
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was sealed in the labyrinth andalmost dismissed her in comedic
fashion.
Until she mentions how she wasbetrayed her by her family for
being too powerful, which wasall hajime needed to do at once
180 and help her like oh, I'vebeen betrayed before, let me
help you out afterwards.
He names her Yui like a Pokemonwhen she insists on discarding
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her old name for whatever Hajimesuggests, and since then he
dropped the revenge plot.
So the plot thickens when abunny girl, ancia, encounters
the duo asking for help.
In exchange for helping the duogo through the fog in the sea
of trees, she was expeditiouslybecame the useless comic relief
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character who's surprisinglystrong with her hammer gun and
also have the for hajime uh.
She can be kind of dumb,yelling about how she let Hajime
take over Virginia for a wholehandful of people to hear the
two of them eventually develop aspecial bond.
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And in actuality she is notthat useless.
That pretty much gets dispelledby the time you get to season
five.
I mean season three pretty muchgets dispelled by time you get
to, uh, season five.
No three, it was three, uh.
The trio, the teacher and thevolunteer students have a very
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strange encounter with tealchloris, the dragonborn.
And by when I say very strange,I mean you're just going to
have to see for yourself.
She reminds me of Darkness fromKonosuba in a way.
Eventually the group's at amermaid girl, miyu, who's like
Hajime's adopted daughter.
There's some blackrepresentation detected between
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the Demon Clan and the ColorSwap when the group fought
against themselves in the FinalLabyrinth.
Uh, cowrie, uh, hajime'sclassmate joins the party as a
prominent rival to yue.
As you know, hajime affectionand refreshing to see a
protagonist that knows what hewants as far as romantic
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partners.
By the way, he said he's onlyin love with yue and he stood on
his briefcase when he toldcarrie what the deal was.
Carrie understood, but stillloves hajime anyways and will
continue to be a love rival,slash, homewrecker, and you know
it is what it is.
Sia can be stone cold when shewants to be like Catalyst Catele
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.
The demon woman's fiance,mikhail, confronted the group
for revenge and Sia essentiallysaid okay and didn't even mind
being called a monster if itmeant she got stronger.
And to save Calorie, hajimetransferred her soul into Noi's
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body, the angel woman.
And did I mention that thisshow has some attractive looking
women Approaching the finallabyrinth in a snowy area.
Approaching the final labyrinthin a snowy area, chia was
delighted and called herself asnow rabbit, which was a missed
opportunity to call herself asnow bunny.
Shizuku has been fighting herfeelings for Hajime, considering
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a betrayal to Kaori the trialof the final labyrinth, is
refreshingly self aware of thecharacters, flaws and growth.
Oh yeah, uh, koki, the herodude, not him being a titled man
, child with white knightsyndrome, talking about, oh,
these women supposed to beattracted to me, not haji man,
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oh, you should just die.
It's always for all that shit.
It's crazy, but this, thisanime definitely deserves three
seasons that it received and Ican't wait for more.
Nine out of ten.
Now here's a fast-paced fantasyrom-com that's not afraid to
flash some titties to theaudience but keeps the fan
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service to a tasteful minimum.
Uh, behemeko.
Now, at times the series tendto function off of video game
logic, such as skill cooldownsand roles such as tanks.
Typical antagonist getsreincarnated and can gain
abilities by slaying and eatingmonsters.
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At least the ability to magicsystem is somewhat intriguing,
for example, the howling skillthat cats elemental magic.
Uh, speaking of protagonisttama, uh, he, he used to be a
knight in a past life, but hewas defeated in battle and he
got reborn as a behemoth.
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But he looks like like a kitten, though at least at first.
But he's more powerful than heappears.
He used his new life to protectthe woman that saved him from
nearly dying in this life.
Even as an S-rank monstermanages to have a harem Like
seriously.
I'll explain that in a bit.
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Arya, the elf girl that savedTom, got the big boobies and
goes adventuring with herfriends.
She can be kind of kinky.
Vulcan.
The cat girl, is a blacksmiththat serves as a voice of reason
from time to time Tends to saya bunch of cat puns.
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Stella, an earth dragon turnedhuman after being defeated by
Tama, serves as the tank of theparty.
Of all girls, stella has themost.
She's the most direct abouthaving the hots for a cat, jesus
Christ.
There's also Fairy the Dryadabout having the hots for a cat,
jesus Christ.
There's also Fairy the Dryadand Lily the Fairy, two more
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companions in Arya's party therethere.
Alicia, the other elf girl,knew Tom's secret and kept it a
secret and overall it's not bad.
I just wasn't expectingsomething ground breaking either
.
It's mid-mediocre, 5 out of 10.
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Moving on Focus skill fruitmaster.
Now it's one of these Low-keyOP premises where the
protagonist thought he wasuseless until he discovers that
his skill is more useful thanperceived.
A fast-paced and light-heartedseries where the conflicts tend
to resolve in less than half ofthe episode, unless it's a
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keystone event.
Each notable character serves apurpose to an extent, as a way
of showcasing that no skill isuseless if applied properly, or
at least that's the supposedtheme for the anime.
Like this, like a boy who wantsto be an adventurer gained the
fruit master skill, which isinitially known for cultivating
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fruits faster than normal.
Little did everyone know thathe can eat more than one skill
fruit and gain more skillsImmediately after eating a stew
that Aila made using skillfruits.
Unwittingly, light gained theSorcerer's God skill.
He gains more skills, somebeing very useful as sleep fairy
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and torch plane.
He's kind of dumb and kind of acaptain, obvious, but I like
his sense of confidence.
His designs remind me of buddyfrom in another world.
With my smartphone now kind ofdigging the design for Light's
first sword, even if it breaksone too many times.
Lena, light's best friend,gains the Sword Saint skill,
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which is this rare skill thatmakes her a chosen one.
She was part of a prestigiousguild, sacred, but joined Light
and Ayla to form Luxeria.
Light and ala, uh, ayla, excuseme.
To form luxeria, she gains theability to fly thanks to her new
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pexis companion.
Zero enduros, uh, I don't thinkit's uh different, fucking
whatever.
I like her design.
She reminds me of lucy harfilia, fromytale.
Now Ayla, a girl who lives withlight because of the village,
she ain't shit gained theappraisal skill, funny enough.
I like how.
Pizza is the go to food forthis anime, at least for Ayla
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and Monica.
The blacksmith girl is atradesman who forges many things
with her super force skill butfor ethical reasons relates to
her father, an eyeball and thedeath of her grandmother refused
to craft swords until lightcame along.
I like her design.
Reminds me of Mei Hasume frommy Hero Academia, but her drip
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reminds me of Team Zygurum fromGurren Lagann.
Miss Flower Hat, head ofInvestigation, have the
scholar's eye, having access toa wealth of information,
including secret techniques.
She helps Lena and Jartina.
Despite being neutral, herdesign stands out the most as
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far as color.
Now, jatina she's thisvampiric-looking dancer who uses
necromancy to control theundead and was introduced as an
enemy in Episode 3.
I like her design Also, herbackstory kind of reminds me of
Himiko Toga, in the sense thattheir respective abilities are
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the reason why they got typecastas villains.
In episode 9, jartina wanted toparticipate in the dance of the
fairies to fulfill her dream ofbecoming a dancer.
She became an unlikely ally ofLena when protecting the city of
Athena from some evil guy namedArgos.
That that summoned a differentwicked dragon from the ones
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Retina summoned before.
So yeah, she's not so bad.
Zondo, boss of the BlackbirdMerchants, have the skill
Thunder Charge, which functionslike the lightning flame from
Catechia, hitman Reborn the HolySister was secretly the ops.
She's the one who gives out thefruit skills to new adventurers
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uh, the most important personin the adventurers guild.
And yet she is connected todratina, zondo and the black
swan guild and even evadedlena's questioning of her
involvement with um class oneand 13 and episode five.
Her skill is precognition,where she can see the future,
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creating the theory that sheknew ahead of time who will get
what skill they received andpredicted some of the events
that transpired.
She's intrigued to see if.
What is this um person called aprimordial Like, maybe like a
very special talent?
Honestly, I'm kind ofinterested in watching a season
two, if that's going to happen,assuming that it gets greenlit.
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Also refreshing to see that itdidn't fall into the hair
rom-com direction, at least notyet.
8 out of 10.
It's pretty good.
Now next one receptionist.
Now we got alina clover signedup to be a receptionist for the
adventurers guild, thinking itwould be her ticket to the good
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life.
Unfortunately, her dream gigturns into an overtime nightmare
whenever the adventurers getstuck clearing the dungeon.
To save herself from a mountainof paperwork, alina takes on to
beating down monsters herselfto solve the problem.
Now she just needs to keep heractivities a secret.
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Now, immediately.
I like how guilt receptionistsare normally just there to doing
their job for adventurers, butthis anime turns the tables on
that.
Alina just wants a slow andsteady jobs and she stands on
business when she's on the clock.
But she can be kind of intensewith a little potty mouth when
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adventurers forces her to workovertime or disturb her peace.
Despite her strength, alina isnot interested in being an
adventurer herself and I canexpect it when someone makes it
clear about what they want inlife.
Overall this anime is decent.
Feels kind of a lather rinserepeat every two or so episodes
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with how alina pretty muchcarries the show with her
emotional range and being thedeus ex machina for the Silver
Sword Guild and otheradventurers, bashing enemies
with her warhammer.
Also something about Dark Soulsgetting sucked.
Oh yeah, the magic and skillsystem is also kinda cool.
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For the time being, this animeis feeling kinda of like a six
out of ten.
Anyways, headhunted in anotherworld.
I'm kind of on a roll withthese workforce anime for the
young adults, and good thing forit, because I'm kind of getting
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tired of this narrative that oh, all these anime focusing on
teenage kids, and I'm like bro,like sometimes y'all are chasing
the mainstream anime a littletoo hard, like you gotta dig a
little deeper and realize thatthere is, like a way, more anime
that just might relate to youand you might relate to it, but
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you know it is what it is andthat's kind of why I am glad I
am doing anime lighting, butanyways, headhunter in another
world.
The protagonist, the no escapeuchimura, is a salaryman that
got isekai in one of the lamestways and one of the lamest ways
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possible, got hit by blue beautyin a scooter oh excuse me and
doesn't even look like he couldhave died, but in actuality he
got displaced and he gotsummoned by the Demon Overlord
To serve as one Of his fourgenerals.
And due to his resume Bossmanyou know I'm not gonna say Demon
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Overlord All the damn time, I'mjust gonna call him.
Bossman Needs someone to Withmanagement experience and saw
more potential in Uchimura, morethan the co-workers that
Uchimura had in his past life.
Now I like how resourceful andinsightful Uchimura is, but I
don't like how he tends to foldwhen something unexpected occurs
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, to a point where he's alwaysdemanding Bossman to fire him,
just for Bossman to essentiallytell him to chill out and have
more confidence.
Now Bossman is ironically likealmost like a supportive father
figure.
I love his uses of conceptmagic to defeat the Calamity at
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the end of the season.
Also, digging the drip.
Not gonna lie, the othergenerals have a very attractive
character design Omandra, thehalf-dragon girl, the designated
tsundere, catches feeling forUchimura and makes it quite
obvious for the audience.
She gets hilariously jealous ofany strange women being near
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Uchimura.
Silph, silphid, uh, busty,bespectacled elf, looking chick
it's a designated dandere, oryou know, like that really
inclusive scientist chick.
She hides her true appearancein order to maintain control
over a workload.
I kind of get in.
I really hate bringing up velmaand this um thing, but like
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there's a point in season two ofvelma where I'm like, okay, I
kind of see why she might wantto do that, but anyways, I like
the way she's put together.
Honestly, her half brother,viper, serves as the option in
episodes 8 and 9.
Just something to throw outthere.
Gnome, the slim demi-human girl, is the designated kure, which
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is like the logical thinker withthe blunt opinions.
Olulu, who's the daughter ofthe Ogre Chief, becomes an aide
after negotiating with herfather and the Ogre Tribe.
She also catches a feel forUchimura, but she's more helpful
to omandra and her pursuit ofhim.
So that's cool.
Uh, nea, a young demon girl, isa former spy that becomes
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uchimura's secretary after theordeal with viper.
Uh, the main conflict, theyhear, is that the divide between
demons and demi-humans, whichUjimura must find a way to unite
the people.
In the name of the boss man, Iwould say the English dub voice
acting definitely sticks out,but not in a bad way.
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Some references to other animepops up here and there, like
Food Wars, naruto and Deathdeath note.
You can learn a thing or twofrom uchimura and the boss man,
such as how, in some cultures,butting heads is an integral
part of diplomacy and thatfailure is not the end but a
lesson for us to carry.
Sometimes some back and forthis part of negotiations, and
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that folding easily would ruinthe spirit of it.
I'd recommend this anime forthose looking for wisdom that
can be applied to real life.
If the stakes were higher inthis anime, I'd probably rate it
higher than a 6.
Anyways, momentary Lily, nowautomatically.
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I'm just gonna say this.
Visually this anime isbeautiful and I love that.
It teaches you recipes to foodthat they prepare and.
But we got robotic invaderswiped out all life.
But Renge fights to surviveusing her powers.
With no memory, she roams thecity until she meets five other
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young women, each with uniqueabilities.
Together they make the most oftheir lives cooking delicious
meals between battles withmechanical monstrosities.
As they uncover the secrets oftheir powers and paths, they
find strength in theirfriendship.
You know that sort of thing.
So it's kind of hard for me todescribe the girls outside of
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Miss Amnesia, blondie, big Sis,class Rep, gamer Girl and Twin
Tails.
Otherwise they can seem likenormal girls who cook, play
games, other school girls stuff,when they're not forced to
fight in a post-apocalypticworld with mysterious weapons
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called unbarring, and turns out,all the girls from rengai were
copies created by the aliensthat created the wild hunt,
intended to replace the realhumans for a plot that has since
been abandoned.
Renge's copies already died.
Humanity itself was a scienceproject created by aliens who
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also created several othercivilizations on other planets.
The Wild Hunts were intended toerase humanity and record their
civilization, but that orderwas halted.
The other Yuri, erikarika,hinagishi, ayame and Nerune in
the facility are in fact thereal ones, while Renge is the
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real Renge but was biologicallyaltered by her Anbarai and is
doomed to die if she continuesusing it.
I won't reveal too much becausethere's some details.
That's best seen for one.
So I think this anime is goodin its own right.
Eight out of ten nah, I'll benice, I'll probably bump it up
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to play 8.5, maybe a nine goingon.
We got online shopping inanother world, so yeah.
We got another one for themiddle age working man, so we
got kimichi hamada.
Uh, just a regular 38 year oldman working as an illustrator in
japan.
One day he's transported toanother world and waits to find
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himself in the middle adangerous forest filled with
ravenous monsters, he quicklydiscovers a massive online
shopping site that can deliverhim exactly what he needs.
So yeah, the whole east skyexperience was super sped up in
the first episode andessentially, kanichi starts
reselling what he buys fromshangri the equivalent of Amazon
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Prime to the villagers andultimately wants a laid-back
life in a cabin in the woods.
I respect that kind ofsimplicity.
Primula kind of impressed mewith her mindset, because one
thing about me is that I lovebitches that stand on business.
I like the part where Kenichispent the night with Primula,
brought her home to her father,milo, who was oddly cool with it
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, and then proceeded to presentlingerie to both of them as a
joke.
And Kenichi is trying to be astand-up guy but Blondie's not
making it easy for him, with thebig old bitties wanting to be
his wife and all that shit wantto be his wife and all that shit
.
I thought the part whereKenichi tripping balls was funny
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.
The old man casting explosionreminds me of Megumin from
Konosuba just a little bit.
Ever since Kenichi saved himfrom the bandits, both Blondie
and the 12-year-old want to behis wife.
The anime eventually evolvesInto a harem romcom where
Kenichi even cut the king whenhis More dominant wife decided
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to go With the protagonist.
Well, not really.
It's more like the Daughterwanted to hang out with him and
the wife was more Like, hey, youwant to sleep with me or
something?
No, thank you.
And the wife was more like, hey, you wanna sleep with me or
something?
And I'm like, uh, no, thank you, those are of the king mind.
And I'm like I mean, he justkind of looked away.
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I'm like, well, what can I say?
Sometimes Can you see some ofthose Contrusting vehicles,
vehicles like their mechs, andas a mecha fan I smirked a
little bit.
Even the shangri-la userinterface reminded me of Final
Fantasy in a way and, not gonnalie, this anime was kind of
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worth the watch from a businesspoint of view.
Supply and demand likemathematics, provisionation,
improvising, excuse meinnovation, negotiations and
building relationships with theright people.
It's honestly not bad, but Ijust wish the pacing development
was cooked more slowly.
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I'd say like a 7.5 out of 10, Iguess, worthless Appraiser.
Now another anime about how theprotagonist is perceived as
weak or useless but becomes thestrongest around.
It can be bloody and gruesome,like Soul Eleventh and
Artifurettum, but the serieslightens up after episode 1.
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Now the protagonist Aang.
He's been settled with the jobof appraiser, the weakest and
the least fortunate of all jobsone can be formed with, as the
only power it grants is theability to appraise things.
Treated cruelly by all andreduced to a glitter collector,
vice appraiser ein has grown tohate himself and lives his days
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in a spineless silver basement.
But when he meets Yuri, thespirit of the World Tree, and
her protector, ursula, the SageAyn's fate takes a drastic turn.
With the gift of a spirit eyefrom Yuri and the help of Ursula
and learning how to use it helpof Ursula and learn how to use
it Aang grows stronger andstronger until he's ready to
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take Yuri on a long, desiredjourney to meet her World Tree
sisters.
He goes on to overcome allsorts of challenges, armed with
his natural kindness and hisnewfound courage.
Now he learns a bunch ofinteresting spells in Episode 2,
such as Super Parraise, whichis like having spidey sense, or
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a sharding gun.
He also gains a bunch ofintriguing items from Ursula,
such as the spirit sword.
You know like it's dangerousout there.
So take this in a way, bothYuri and Ursula are linked to
Aang, where Ursula can monitorhis movements, while Yuri can
essentially be summoned by Aangthrough his spirit eye.
He also gets jacked like SunTzu Yuri.
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She can be sweet, soft-spokengirl with the big, big ol'
bitties and a lot of power.
She caught feelings for Aangand became his pocket healer.
Ursula comes off kind of like abitchy trainer to Ayn but she's
very protective of herquote-unquote daughter.
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Yuri, like all the guardians,consider each other like mother
and daughter, that kind of thinggoing on and she serves as
Ayn's eyes and ears in the field.
I like the way she reminds meof Kratos from God of War, the
way she addresses Aina as a boy.
Pina is Yuri's mischievousyounger sibling.
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I like the literal stars in hereyes.
Kurihime, pina's guardian,reminds me of Yaya from
Unbreakable Machine Doll in away, but scarier, you know,
mainly just clothing.
Alice is the older bookwormsister to yuri.
She's also interested in ein ina way.
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Uh, akahane, uh.
Alice's guardian reminds me ofwashiu from tenji muyo in a way.
Uh, may, the youngest spiritbecomes a very demanding little
sister to Ayn.
First, the second oldest spiritand maze guardian.
It's probably the mostvoluptuous of the spirits, with
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a blindfold covering her evileye, the guild master Meegan.
I like the way she's puttogether A domineering woman
with the tickle of the teeth.
Jasper is a rich dude who wantsto marry Ayn I'm serious, and I
like his drip, not gonna lie.
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And Claudia von Gaitaniga I'mserious, I'm serious Is a rich
girl who takes into the eye.
Zoid and Jolene are theassholes that threw Ayn under
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the bus in a quest that startedit all.
When Ayn proved that he wasalive and clarified what
happened, it ruined Zoid'sreputation.
Meanwhile, jolene lied and saidZoid put her up to it and
threatened her if he saw that I.
Well, no, excuse me, hethreatened to kill her if she
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didn't sell her I.
Now, eventually he becomes amonster and kills Jolene out of
revenge, but I stops him andkills.
Stops from killing more peopleby purifying his demonic form.
Shadow the Enticer, the demonthat possessed Nightgun, had a
plot that sounds like somethingstraight out of the Promised
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Neverland.
After the Nightgun arc, iaintook Nightgun's place as lord of
the Erasic domain and as ameans of gaining valuable
knowledge that he may need.
Horn of the Instructable has aninteresting queen bee design.
Iona Iona I am butchering thesenames Also has an interesting
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design reminding me of the soundfrom Naruto, with the eyes and
the horns.
I like her use of the guns.
Echidna, the ops of the series,is the original spirit and a
fine-ass chocolate elf womanwith the tiggo bitties.
She helps Boy get revenge onAyan, but was using him to
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collect data on Aang.
Her ultimate goal was to reviveMitoran.
The behemoth in this anime hasa design that kinda goes hard,
especially with the eyes,something like demon slayer.
The more I watched this anime,the more I started thinking of
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D&D and Legend of Zelda.
Although I don't like how RussAyn's grind was, this anime is
fairly intriguing andentertaining.
Despite my lewd remarks, thisanime doesn't hinge on fan
service at all.
Yeah, ayn has a harem and itgets comical at times, but
Worthless Appraiser stands onbusiness for the most part.
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I'm expecting a second seasonand see the other four sisters
make their anime debut.
8 out of 10.
Now for the last one for animelightning.
Another one for the youngadults in the workforce,
especially if you're interestedin making your own anime and
manga.
You might find some insightfullines in the show Zenshu.
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Now, zenshu has some cleancharacter art and visual effects
.
Bonus points for brown skinrepresentation here and there,
decent music selection and voiceacting from the English
dubcastcast anime producer andprotagonist nasako hirose, the
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main character of this story,must work on a rom-com for her
next project but have noexperience with love herself.
She ends up fainting afterchoking on her lunch during work
and gets isekai to a fancyworld based on her favorite
movie that may give her the musethat she needs crazy long hair
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that covers her face and gives arealistic take on how anime
projects are received by theaudience in this world.
She uses her talking peg bar torewrite the narratives and I
like it's like watching someoneexperience their own headcanon
and, due to naziko'sinterference with the plot, it
creates unexpected turn ofevents.
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I highly recommend this animefor its visual beauty, the
relatable statements and thewealth of insight.
9 out of 10.
Wait, hold, hold on.
Studio Mappa produced thisanime Ironic.
So that's it for AnimeLightning.
Pretty much.
Just quick two cents on how Ifeel about those shows.
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To be fair, there's somehonorable mentions like Sakamoto
Dei Rurouni, kenshin, rezero,the Apothecary Diaries,
shangri-la, frontier, dr StoneLeft, my A-Rain Party, sentai,
red East, sky, 100 Girlfriends,farmagia, grisaia, phantom
Trigger and Aquarium Myth ofEmotions.
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But I'm going to do a fullreview or we're going to be part
of an extreme review later on,and we already completed Soul
Leveling, blue, exorc ball,diamond and don machi.
So that was all that caught myinterest for winter 20.
Uh, not gonna lie, I didstumble my words a whole lot out
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of all this and I do apologize.
I will get better at this andhopefully I'll have better
podcast speaking equipment sothat way I can do a little
better on all this.
But that's all I got to say.
Go ahead and have yourself agood morning, good afternoon,
good evening, good night,whatever time it is in your area
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, and ultimately you take iteasy.
I'm zoning out of here.
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