Category: Overreactions

Overreactions – Week 12 Winter 2016

Now while it is not the last week of the season, ERASED is done and gone. As such this will be the last and final installment in the Overreactions series. Writing about the same show week after week grows to be very tedious, I would much rather spend the limited amount of time I can devote to this anime blog writing about more exciting things; such as the future of the industry or political symbolism in modern anime.

I will briefly say I am looking forward to next season—a fresh start is always good. Now,  I don’t spend a whole lot of time researching shows I plan to watch. In fact, the extent of it is looking at the key visual and if it looks like my style I’ll give it a whirl. Then once polls I readjust the shows I am following accordingly. Not a good strategy I know. I miss out on a lot of gems, but if they are really great then years down the road I read a review that draws me back to the show.

The only show I am really looking forward to as of right now is My Hero Academia. Now while I was spoon fed shounen since the day I was born into this anime life, as I have gotten older I have distanced myself more and more from your typical shounen. Now, that’s not to say I don’t still read the new chapter of One Piece every week. It’s just that I no longer see shounen as the crowned king of anime genres, and instead prefer real drama/slice of life/almost shoujo type stuff. Anyways, my point is I just don’t get very excited over new shounen. My Hero Academia however, looks really promising and done by one of my favorite studios—Bones. So I will definitely be checking it out!

 

We can only work with what we got, and we’re all prisoners of the moment here so let’s overreact!

**May Contain Spoilers proceed with caution**

 

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Overreaction – Week 11 Winter 2016

(Weekly Review)

 

It’s week eleven–second to the last week for most shows–and the season really seems to be winding down. Somehow, by complete accident, I have managed to drop.., well let’s call it get behind because I do want to finish most of the shows, but I have managed to get way behind on all but three of the shows I was watching from this season–and I’m like 20+ episodes back on all of my long running shows!

There’s something about trying to keep up with 8+ new shows, while keeping up with shows I’ve been watch for years, on top of writing 1500+ words a day for various projects, and living life that just seem next to impossible. And it seems once you fall behind an episode or two, the snowball effect sets in, and it becomes too daunting a task to find the time to binge watch a show (let alone 10!) like I could in my youth.

 

We can only work with what we got, and we’re all prisoners of the moment here so let’s overreact!

**May Contain Spoilers proceed with caution**

 

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Weekly Review:  Once I realized why it was that that Satoru’s mom was working in a grocery store, a ton a questions raced to mind.. How did he not die? Where is his teacher? Where is Airi? And a ton of cliche paths I could see this story taking started to mount up as well… I figured Kayo had been waiting at his side for him to recover… I figured that since he was found drowning in Yashiro’s car that he would be found out or ducked out of town. Surely despite all of Satoru’s efforts and pain Yashiro wouldn’t still be on his original path to becoming a powerful city counselor, killing off people as he saw fit for years.

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Overreactions – Week 10 Winter 2016

(Weekly Review)

 

  Thanks to my being in vacation this whole week, even something I normally do for fun–writing about anime–seems monotonous. However, I started these weekly reviews as a goal of writing on a scheduled weekly basis, and since there is only 3 weeks left in the winter 2016 anime season it would be silly to toss a self imposed rule to the side in place of a blank mind free of the stresses brought on by the many obligations of my everyday life… Oh dang, I almost just talked myself out of writing this.

 

We can only work with what we got, and we’re all prisoners of the moment here so let’s overreact!

**May Contain Spoilers proceed with caution**

 

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Overreactions Week 9 Winter 2016

(Weekly Review)

I started doing these weekly reviews to force myself to keep writing about anime while I was working on launching my new dakimakura store Waifu Pillows, doing a massive overhaul of one of my niche sites, laying the groundwork for my new niche site, working on a new physical goods business, writing an eBook, studying for school, and of course all while still working a 70 hour work week. Now, as you can see my overreaction weekly posts have slowly gone from writing about, somewhere around 5 or 6 shows, to basically being nothing but a Boku Dake Ga Inai Machi weekly review. There are a bunch of great shows this season, a lot that I wish I had the time to write for, but life (and the absurd amount of projects I take on) have certainly gotten in the way.

We can only work with what we got, and we’re all prisoners of the moment here so let’s overreact!

**May Contain Spoilers proceed with caution**

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Overreaction – Week 8 Winter 2016

 

We can only work with what we got, and we’re all prisoners of the moment here so let’s overreact!

**May Contain Spoilers proceed with caution**

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Weekly Review:  With the raw emotions that were beautifully on display in episode 8 of ERASED, we got the most heart warming episode to date. This week was different than most weeks though. The emotions that were carved into our limbic systems this week were an awkward mix of joy and sadness. These feelings brought me, as a full grown man, to tears as I watched the scene preceding the credits. Seeing how moved a little a girl was to see a full plate on the table for breakfast, something I have never really given any thought to, was really eye opening. It made me think.. I’ve been blessed with such a simple and easy going life. I’ve always thought of myself as a grateful man, but seeing how waking up to a full meal for the first time brought Kayo to tears, makes me wonder if I even know what it means to be grateful. I have been on what I believed to be rock bottom many times over the course of my life, with but only the terrible decisions I made as an adolescent to thank, but never have I been in such a place where the gesture of a home cooked meal could bring me to tears. Continue reading “Overreaction – Week 8 Winter 2016”

Overreactions – Week 7 Winter 2016

(Mini Weekly Reviews)

 

We can only work with what we got, and we’re all prisoners of the moment here so let’s overreact!

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Overreaction: Unless ERASED nose dives from here till the end of the season, I don’t think there is an anime out there that can uproot it from the number one spot on any of the many anime polls out there–it’s just that good.

After another failure (this time in his original time period) Satoru begged his revival to take him back, to give him one last chance. Playing off his emotions, his revival answered his call sending him back to a couple days before “Day X”. Continue reading “Overreactions – Week 7 Winter 2016”

Overreactions Week 6 Winter 2016

Mini Anime Reviews

 

  My lists of shows I am watching has really transformed throughout the season–just as it usually does. Half way through the season I am usually pretty set, which I think I finally am now. I have dropped what I’m gonna drop, and I have scoured the poles to see if any shows I didn’t start at the beginning of the season are worth my time. After seeing what Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash as well as KONOSUBA – God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World have been doing in the polls, I have decided to give them a shot. So far I have really been impressed with what I’ve seen. Both have a similar setting (probably the most popular setting there is right now) but go in entirely different directions, and both do what they are trying to do fairly well.

 

  We’ve now burned through half the season for most the shows so I feel I can say this is a fairly average season. So far one has stood head and shoulders above all other shows, but there quite a substantial amount of legitimately good, not great, shows this season. So far on MAL 36% of the shows are rated 7+, 13% are rated 8+, and only 2% are rated a 9+ (in other words only a single show!)

 

We can only work with what we got, and we’re all prisoners of the moment here so let’s overreact!

**May Contain Spoilers proceed with caution**

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