Real races with anthropomorphized versions of the actual horses. This is a prequel to the "Pretty Derby" series, but only in the sense that historically Oguri Cap raced before the horses that appear in Pretty Derby series. Works perfectly fine as an introduction to the series, and based on the few eps I watched of the main series, I'd recommend this one more as a starting point. --- Cinderella Gray follows Oguri Cap's journey from the countryside to the very top of racing, and it is all gas no brakes. You are given race after race, and the intense music followed by the loud thumps onthe ground make all of them hit hard and get your adrenaline pumping.

After each race, there is a moment of peace too. The trainers give pep talks and come up with strategies for future races, and the characters form bonds and expand on their goals and dreams.

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What prevents me from thoroughly enjoying Cinderella Gray is how I like project myself onto characters I see on screen, but that's not doable with Uma Musume. These girls are BORN TO RUN, and that's for the most part their sole motivation in life. They are not humans: their careers only revolve around running, they go to school for running, they dream about running... There's not much to connect with or think about.

Beyond that a couple other things to note: The coaching felt minimal, and at times seems nonsensical. The character relationships also happened so fast I didn't really get invested in them.

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Overall it's fun. But basically I didn't connect with the show on a deeper level.

By far the worst season of Dr. Stone, I was a fun of first season and stone wars, now I feel like I'm watching The walking dead, every new enemy we have in this serie completely assesinate all of us, but why are we going to take any actions or revenge against them? Just forgive them and move on, always the same... If you're going to make a plot where this is for children don't introduce almost serial killers into the enemy lines and hide it as "war charges", they killed us, we kill them, basic. They killed children without asking and you're going toforgive them just for the sake of it? Nonsense. If you are going to do a seinen go for seinen and kill them all and not when we are in charge we're "children" and the enemies are all godlike murderers idk.

I've been a fan of the series ever since I started watching it on October 2019, it's really sad to see it end 6 and a half years later. Even though the 1st season was the best in terms of pacing and storytelling, all of them were good and entertaining, I did preferred the changes made to the storyline and ending for this season compared to the manga version which had some poor questionable ideas in my opinion. Still, It's sad to see that there's no other show or movie like it with such an unique concept (yeah I know there's stuff like Zootopia, but it'slacking the dark/mature storytelling of Beastars and its unique Japanese flavour).

As a fan I feel empty inside after having watched it end after so long, at least I'm happy to see it was successful enough for Netflix to commission Orange to fully adapt the manga into 4 full seasons (it's called Final Season for marketing purposes, but we know it's technically 4 seasons). 
I mean, there are thousands of animes being released every year which barely get 1 or 2 seasons at most, at least Beastars managed to be fully adapted which was helped by the fact that it had Disney-like talking anthropomorphic animals as protagonists which is something that it's popular in the West, otherwise if it had your typical generic human anime protagonists it would've flopped for sure.

Here's hoping the show continues to have at least decent streaming numbers for years to come, and we eventually get some sort of sequel or OVAs for it.

The story begins and follows a similar path seen in multiple other other anime, it is an Isekai, but beyond that the story follows the the main character who upon reincarnated into a story she had read in her life back in Japan she must prevent her own death to survive using the outside knowledge of the story. The show maintains a suspenseful tone through the first season, that will keep the viewer wanting to watch just one more episode. This show's characters do manage to keep you invested in their development and invested into the story's future. There were aspects throughoutthe show that were quite predictable, but that would be in part due to the heavy use of foreshadowing of events to play out. 

The art style is what someone would come to expect from the seasonal anime we have been getting for the past few years, some scenes had a series of frames that were better than expected, but as a whole solid animation.

The third season of Classroom of the Elite delivers the promised contest between Ayanokouji and Sakayanagi, but dedicates shockingly little time to the postponed encounter. Exploring his intellectually smart but emotionally incompetent nature was interesting, but for being heavily foreshadowed, the events only lasted a single episode, barring some minor conflict beforehand. Furthermore, this former class drama with Hirata and Yamauchi was uninterestingly prolonged. Though the Horikita brother and sister scenes were implemented decently. And somehow, it seems like the production values were slightly worse. Scenes were cut, animation was still, and exam details were barely explored. Nonetheless, this is roughly more of the same.

The second season of Classroom of the Elite resumes after the mid-arc conclusion and is the beginning of an inevitable confrontation between Ryuuen and his group. This entry has more direction compared to the previous, and features more communication, development, and progression in the cast. Many story beats lead somewhere, and their conclusions are satisfying. More time spent and familiarity with these characters greatly benefit this series in terms of enjoyment. Of note, Ayanokouji and Horikita had great interactions with Karuizawa and Sudou, respectively. Although Kushida still sucks... Even still, the underwhelming production quality and surface-level exploration of concepts leave this anime feeling just adequate.

Penguin Highway is a highly watchable film. Smooth and enjoyable from start to end. Features many artistic and well-drawn stills. Chess sets and white roses and penguins and rainbows and splashing water and a rogue square of blue-wrapped chocolate. The penguins of course are the main mystery of the film. Where did they come from and where are they going? The only reason I wouldn't recommend this to mainstream film watchers is that the main relationship is kind of immature and puerile, like some weird ecchi mother-figure X child relationship where the kid is just becoming obsessed with boobs. Japanese anime watchers will have no problem withthis but it is weird to the outsiders.

I mean it is really, really close. Penguin Highway is pretty good.

(Disclosure: I really, really like penguins but I tried to have as little penguin bias as possible in this review. Thank you for your understanding.)

Wow, this ecchi boobs girls anime is like an isekai before the isekai tropes set in and became mainstream. A pleasure to watch, everyone is happy and upbeat, and overblown nip slips are everywhere. What fanservice? The entire show is weapons-grade fanservice. You can't have fanservice in a show that is fanservice the entire time. This show is the mana essence of fanservice. If you can't get past the opening scene, then you were not meant to watch this anime. I actually like how polarizing it is because it keeps the bad viewers out. Some very memorable scenes in this, like Fino trying to memorize basic customer servicephrases and getting them all wrong, e.g. "Sorry for the delay." becomes "Sorry that you're gay!"

Reading the synopsis you'd think the premise of the show is ridiculous but they actually pulled it off pretty well.

A shame there's only one season of this.

Well this was kind of an interesting obscurity, but only worth watching if you're really interested in writing your own endings for mediocre-to-bad shows. I liked the 90s armor designs and the dark castle but that's honestly it. On top of all the cliches it kind of becomes a comedy with the mid-episode flashbacks, how rushed everything is, and a very dopey final showdown. The part where Rouge powers up only to fly into a mountain had me ROFL TOT Pretty sucky, but it still deserved to be finished. The art was not great especially for an OVA, the characters (ofc) had no development, andoverall it's difficult to really get invested in something like this (saying that as someone who loves short, OVA stories). Kind of impossible to rate something like this, but honestly I would skip it. Oh the ending song was cute and 90s too, so there's that.

It is important to evaluate these things from their own vantage point. Of course Vienna Mix has no plot, it has no development - for many that is enough to discard it, but that just means the medium isn't for them. Evaluated as its own thing trying to achieve its own goals, instead...I do not think it is very good. Everything is just too loose - there isn't a connection between the art itself and the scenery of Vienna being shown, the different drawings themselves do not connect to each other, and a theme refuses to present itself. The actual drawings are just "fine" -and sometimes they somewhat randomly just repeat on a loop for a bit. Many avant, artistic works are great - this one is just a empty imitation of them.

It does have a romantic charm to it, at least - you could see it serving as background noise in a coffee shop, which is a valuable role to be clear. But I don't think that was the intent.