Day 12: One Piece Review

One night back in the second grade my friend Harrison was spending the night at my house. It was a weekend, and I was showing my friend Naruto (this show I liked about ninjas). Normally after Naruto I had to go to sleep, but my parents let me stay up later because I had a friend over. This being the first time I ever staid up to watch TV I really didn't know any of the shows that came on after Naruto, so I had no idea that this show about pirates was about. Thankfully my friend Harrison was there to explain the show to me. Now their is more to this story including my original experience, my rediscovery, and my first time reading the manga, but those are not important for now. What is important is how that story relates to the show itself. One single small event (staying up just a little later) has turned into the first step to me entering one of my top 3 favorite fandom. So without taking up any more time let's dig into One Piece.

Day 11: Log Horizon Review

I've spent about two hours writing and rewriting the opening paragraph of this review. I kept trying open it up by talking about the similar, but more popular show Sword Art Online. At the end of the day I've decided that I really don't like that idea. This show deserves to stand on it's own, and shouldn't be compared to another show to validity it. Log Horizon is a very good show. It really is my second favorite anime of all time, and I feel it is like that even without SAO this show should still be praised. However one of the major aspect of the show are at their best only when they are compared to shows like Sword Art Online and .Hack, so I will be comparing the show to other in only one aspect, but we'll get there. For now welcome to a review of Log Horizon.

Day 10: My Hero Academia Review

I've read and watched a lot of stories about young people learning about what it means to be a hero and what they have to struggle with as being a hero and a teenager. The Spectacular Spider-man was great because it showed just how hard that life can be all alone. Young Justice was great because it showed that no hero, no matter how young, should be underestimated. Young Avengers showed just how hard the adult hero community can push back against young heroes. Avengers Academy showed how an older generation could teach newer generations. I love all of these shows, and when I heard some of the elements from those were in this new show call My Hero Academia I was interested. Now that I have caught up to the manga I can safely say it is my favorite out of all of them.

Day 9: Detective Comics, Action Comics, and Flash Rebirth.

I know today I was going to be talking about an anime again, but that was until I got my comics for the week. Then I knew I had to push everything back to talk about these amazing book. Well to clarify, I still planned to talk about anime today until I read the Flash book, but we'll get to that. For now let's do some rapid reviews of the three books I got this week.

Day 8: Ghost Stories Review

It is a common belief in the western anime community that dubs are an inferior product compared to the original. This is a view that I very much disagree with, but that is still the overall consensus. What I can agree on is that most of the time the dub only really serves to help make a Japanese show accessible to a different language and culture. It rarely adds a thing, and definitely doesn't make it a better show. That is what's so amazing about today's show. Ghosts Stories is a horrible show until you watch the dub. Then somethings magical happens.

Day 7: The Devil is a Part-Timer Review (spoiler-free)

I'm not really an anime fan. Why? It just doesn't really appeal to me. I'm part of the anime club at my college (maybe? I never sign in), so I've been exposed to a lot of different anime. On the whole I just don't enjoy it. I also tend to not enjoy some of the more popular stuff like Attack on Titan (which I feel goes too far in the grim and gritty) and Sword Art Online (which I feel is just a bad show). But I do in fact enjoy anime, so this week I'm going to be counting down my top 5 favorite anime/manga. So let's start of today with the Devil is a Part-Timer.

Disclaimer: This review will be based off of the English dub of the show. I do not care much for subbed anime.

Day 6: 10 Pokémon that Need Evolutions

One of my favorite things about generation 4 was how we got so many new pokémon in the form of evolution. I think one of the big reasons I like it so much is that new evolutions require you to use older Pokémon, but still lead you into new ones, while megas are just the same old one. I would like to see more of these, but I also want to see more new cross generation evolutions aside from eevee. So, here are 10 pokémon I want to have an evolution in Pokémon Sun and Moon.