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Year: 2020 Genre: Comedy, Detective, Mystery Studio: Clover Work Rating: 5/5   Synopsis As the name suggests, the story is about Kambe Daisuke, a millionaire who works as a detective in a police department. The stereotype about affluence people is right—they are keen to use money to solve any problem. Another inspector, Kato Haru, who sworn to serve the justice to the society, obviously is not happy with how Kambe does as a police. As the story unravel, there is more reason behind Kambe ’s choice of working in a police department. Kato and Kambe also become great partners. For a better version of synopsis, please go to: https://fugou-keiji-balance-unlimited.fandom.com/wiki/Fugou_Keiji_Balance:_Unlimited Character I love how the story continues to build a special characteristic or unique points for each detectives in the department. I am not good with names and face recognition. Hence, I think this is comfortable for me to remember everyone. Even though there is n...

Year: 2016 Genre: Drama , Romance , School , Sci-Fi , Shoujo Studio: Telecom Animation Film Episode: 13 Synopsis Orange is the story of five people sending letters to their 10-year-younger-self in order to save one of their friends who committed suicide. I love the pacing and storytelling of the anime. Each episode ends before I knew it.  My Review Is ‘orange’ a color or a fruit? I was looking for a light-hearted shoujo anime to watch when I came across Orange . I thought: this looks like a good one. What could go wrong? And it didn’t take long for me to realize I was dead wrong. If I have a life of anime that make me cry my heart out, Orange definitely will be on the top 10. Picture taken from https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=836802 I love the character building of this anime. Everyone (the six main protagonists) has their own personalities, however, some were highlighted more often than others. The character with the perfect personality would b...

Year: 2011 Genre: Comedy; Psychological thriller; Science Fiction Studio: White Fox Episode: 24 Synopsis The story is about main protagonist Okabe Rintarou , who is passionate about doing time-space related experiment in his lab, working on a phone-microwave device and discovers that the device could send message to the past. The story involving time travelling unravels as he meets new people and assign them to be his lab members. Picture taken from IMDb My Review The first few episodes are quite boring as it sets the background for the story and building the main characters. However, vital clues are given out in those episodes. I did not catch up well with the presentation of the story at first with the Chunibyo personality of Okabe Rintarou intertwining with the main theme of the anime—time traveling, which is a serious topic. Some glitch happened and I was plain confused. Therefore, I gave up for a while after watching the first episode. Because of th...

Devils and Realist Year: 2013 Genre: Supernatural, comedy, fantasy Rate: 4/10 Synopsis The story is about how a human being, William Twining, who is the descendant of Solomon, becomes the elector to decide who will be the interim ruler while Lucifer is resting to regain his power. Twining is a realist; he does not believe the existence of gods, devils, either ghost. To accidentally summoned a devil from his basement, he struggles to face the truth. Story Telling This anime is not appealing to me at all. It does not present the back story well. Everything is so vague and confusing because they insert the background story here and there. The pieces of back story are controversial. They don't tell a complete story. Moreover, in the end of the anime, I still don't get the whole picture of the devil deals (or maybe I'm too dump). Devils are glorified and the angel is mind-twistingly evil. I was expecting to see some great plot-twists, but I was disappointed. In the...

Deadman Wonderland Year: 2011 Genre: Action, Horror, Science fiction Rate: 7/10 Synopsis The story is about a boy whose classmates were killed and he was sent to prison for it. The prison was no normal prison. It was one that forced the prisoners to do all sort of cruel performance to gain profit. I am not going deeper in the story, but there was some sort of prisoners with super power and were kept in G zone. If you like the bloody fighting and twisted side of humanity, this is definitely the one you are looking for. Story Telling Deadman wonderland unleashed a super villain which is the one that put the hero (Igarashi Ganta) in jail in the first episode and keeping it as the target that the hero of the story chasing. It is a cliché, but it is not stupid if it works. The audience is at the same page as the hero. Every episode, he is exploring new information about this "wonderland" he is in. I was getting just enough information to keep me craving for new develop...

Claymore Year: 2007 Genre: Dark Fantasy, Action Rate: 9/10 Synopsis This is a story of a group of half-human and half-yoma (yoma=monster) fighters. They belong to an organization that accept request to eradicate yoma from the attacked town. The story is led by a female protagonist, Clare. She had recused a boy name Raki. I don't want any spoiler here, so that's it. This is an absolute serious anime. There was no comedy, but a bit of romance and friendship I may say. I love the plot and think that it is better than most of the new anime released nowadays. Story telling I like how they tell the story here. The story started from the current journey of the heroine, Clare and her encounter with Raki. In this part, the necessary details of the organization Clare was working for were told. After that was a flash back to the back story of Clare, which connected to what she would do next. After the flash back, every episode built up the tension so well. I like how they kept...

Acchi Kocchi (2012) Genres: Comedy, Romance, School, Seinen, Slice of Life Rate: 8 out of 10 Acchi Kocchi or Place to Place has a classic element of anime -- exaggerated emotions, and I really like it here. The way they insert romance is very suitable, too. Although it might be a little bit cheesy for some people, I think it matches the characters very well. Talking about the characters, they all have vivid personalities of their owns. The chemical reactions between them make the anime hilarious. However, there are a lot of jokes are made upon Japanese puns, so it might be a bit hard for me to understand. The whole anime is based on a concept of cat. You can see cat or cat related effects everywhere -- even the name of the high school. They even have a cat statue. Tsumiki, a main character,  turns into cat sometimes. I am a cat lover, so the whole thing is so cute to me. One more thing I really like is the little illustration of arrows between scenes and in every letters. ...