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Kimetsu no Yaiba (7)

Oh, right, I never really wrote about this. A blade that cuts through Revans.
It's also quite good, and in many ways, it reminds me of Boku no hero, only it's sometimes even more drawn out, haha. But still, in the episodes with action, it often feels more serious and intense, and there's no particular drag to it, which is a plus.
The premise is good.

isekaiing

Not bad wordplay.

I wanted to check out that popular girl with the gag, but then I realized it was too niche and wouldn't be worth the effort, so I decided against it.

Yes, Nezuko is doing fine.
The problem is with the girls with purple eyes. There are three of them, but before I realized that (since it's difficult to tell them apart visually without knowing beforehand), it got to the point of being absurd: "Wait, wasn't she at the qualifying competition? Why is she a doctor?!"

He is not like the others...

Yes, he is holding a book and has a rather rare hair color.

Among them are a killer of millions and two cultured gentlemen.

I thought one of them was a girl.

Kosha, give your opinion on the appearance.

6, 4, 3, 4, 5.

The longer you live, the more intolerant you become. Perhaps it's a natural result of the body's aging and the biological problems associated with it, perhaps simply personal life experience, or perhaps you become filled with a sense of nihilism and misanthropy watching humanity, in its various guises, pass off virtues as sins and sins as virtues, trampling on individual sources of simple joy not even out of adherence to some ephemeral ideals, but simply out of malice, envy, stupidity, feelings of inferiority, and sometimes just out of unchecked schizophrenia. When you encounter this, it becomes increasingly difficult to sympathize with humanity as a whole, and with specific groups or individuals in particular, regardless of the situation or personal sense of justice — you simply realize that at some point you couldn't care less about their struggles, if only because "humanity" cannot work in one direction alone and eventually runs dry. Not to mention all the other vicissitudes of life and suffering that are an inseparable part of existence. My attachment to Japan could be explained by many subjective factors, but the one definitively objective and telling fact is that when you watch and listen to anime/visual novels/games, especially if they are something cute and positive, pleasing to the eye and soothing to the ear, the suicidal-nihilistic mood does ease up a little, and you realize that if something like that exists, then the world isn't so bad, and since it was made by a person, then people aren't so bad either. There are many genres, many themes and plots have been explored, but the main virtue of Japanese content is aesthetics and emotionality — exactly what is needed to bring bright colors to a gray life. 

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I don't know, I've actually become more tolerant of everything as I've gotten older. Or rather, I've become more indifferent to everything.

Very vanilla-heavy, but overall cute. A solid six out of ten, I'd say.
So, I've been holding this off for a long time, but now's the time to finally share my slowpoke review of this work from 2006 (and 2008).
It started off completely unimpressive. A bunch of banal coincidences, childhood friend, relatives, an amazing girl, amazing abilities out of nowhere, a guy who's a homegrown genius... Everything got mixed together and I thought about dropping it. But I was insistently told to watch just a bit more, so I watched a bit more and thought: "Well alright, there's some intrigue and some plot here, good enough as background viewing."
And then the further I got into watching all of this... I don't know, they probably used Geass on me somewhere near the end of the first season. Yeah, possibly...
But I couldn't care less anymore! Muhahahaha!! YES, YOUR MAJESTY! ALL HAIL BRITANNIA! First season gets 9/10, second season gets 10/10! ALL HAIL LELOUCH!

Honestly though, it really is a powerful thing in terms of emotional charge. The protagonist starts as a frivolous but already life-battered student, and then goes up a complex ladder of life — with constant ups and downs, and at every new turn you worry about poor Lelouch more and more...
There were characters who were good on paper but vile inside, others ugly on the outside but not so bad in reality. And then the nice guy would reassess his ideals and become a villain, while the villain would suddenly do good deeds — only to fall again afterward, even lower than where he originally stood.
And while some play politics, others go to school, chase cats, and eat pizza. But even those episodes contain plenty of drama, and any day, even the most carefree one, can turn into a catastrophe...

Pizza :'(

In short, if anyone hasn't seen this old classic yet, then Lelouch vi Britannia commands you: go watch it.