User blog comment:TheCarrotSaysYumYum/Fairy Tail Wiki Winter 2016 Animeh Review Blog/@comment-3987368-20160331084045

OK, well, I unfortunately did not watch much this season again >_> so I don't have that much so say and I'll just write briefly about what I did watch. From what I can tell, most people say this season hasn't been very good and I'm inclined to agree. I didn't end up watching most of what I wanted to because the first content I saw was rather boring. I'm not gonna name a best series or anything since I didn't watch nearly enough for that. I'll just talk about what I did watch, so here we go:

Finished
'''Digimon Adventure tri. 2: Ketsui''' At first, I didn't like this movie that much. I thought it was a relatively boring retread of the themes and ideas we hand already gone through in "Saikai" and coupled with the weirdness of the movie, I was relatively disappointed. However, I started thinking about the movie after I finished watching it and a few days later, I came to realize that while I was not wrong about its flaws, it had a lot of strengths I didn't consider at first. Comparing it to the first movie, I actually found that Joe's inner dilemmas were much better handled than Tai's because we as viewers know from our history with the series that Joe has been dealing with such problems his whole life. His father pressures him, his brothers are successful and though nice, they cast a shadow and he just chugs along slowly, feeling worthless because he can't live up to either their expectations or his own. Unlike Tai's conflicts, which basically came out of nowhere in Saikai and were very poorly executed, Joe's were almost perfect for his character and also a lot easier for just about any viewer to relate to. As far as the final battle goes, I'd also say that Ketsui did it better. Saikai's fight between Omnimon and Alphamon should've been amazing, but was honestly quite rushed and bland. The battle in this movie of Rosemon and Vikemon fighting Imperialdramon was a lot better- giving the characters time to progress and rise to the challenge. So, the movie is still flawed and relatively predictable, but better than I first gave it credit for.

Rating: 6 out of 10.

Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!

Honestly, I didn't expect myself to watch this anime. First of all, it's made by DEEN which most people know to basically be a "keep away" sign right there and then. The designs were generic, the art weird and the plot looked so unoriginal that the series itself may as well rename it "cliche". So, why then did I watch it? Well, for starters, it has a really funny name. Secondly, and more seriously, I was curious about it. What struck me was that on ANN, female reviewers who watched the first episode hated it and gave it poor reviews while male reviewers were a lot more positive. I wanted to know why this show looked so divided among the genders, since other shows that were similar to this in terms of premise seemed to have a relatively mixed fanbase among males and females. So, I watched the first episode and by the time I realized it, I was already about five episodes in. I finished the show a few days later and I realized what drew me in about the show: it's not boring. There's no lengthy monologues, exposition or such. It just presents everything to you and lets you run with it. It constantly pokes fun at itself and the tropes of being an adventurer in a fantasy world (which is not in itself original, but it can be funny, depending on how it is done), it has some legitimately good jokes. Weirdly, there's not as much fanservice as you'd expect (of the traditional variety, at least). So, why then did female reviewers hate it? Well I am obviously not female but from what I could gather, their general criticism of the show was geared towards how it treated the main female character Aqua, with the main character (and the show itself) deriding her as "stupid" even though nothing in her behavior actually suggests that she's stupid. Aside from that, I'd guess that the harem idea was probably pushing these reviewers over the edge with this show, since we seem to have had a lot of that for a while now. There's likely more that I can't remember though, since I read their reviews almost 3 months ago. Either way, I found myself laughing at the show a fair bit. It's far from perfect- art is inconsistent, jokes are overused, some parts are less amusing than others- but it's overall something you can just have a laugh at. Nothing great nor terrible.

Rating: 6 out of 10.

Dropped
Divine Gate

This show sucked ass. That is all.

Rating: 2 out of 10.

Afterword
Yeah...that's all I've completed. I am watching Phantom World and Dagashi Kashi though, so I'll be back this weekend to write about this after I've finished them. Note: Don't anyone dare start a gender-argument regarding KonoSuba.