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Iceberg from the worst anime (312 tv items)

5 years, 11 months ago

Fernando Leonel Alba rated Guapas (2014-2015)

 Guapas (2014-2015) 4/10

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Fernando Leonel Alba rated Nobody's Perfect

 Nobody's Perfect 7/10

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Fernando Leonel Alba rated Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 6/10

5 years, 11 months ago

Fernando Leonel Alba rated Shokugeki no Souma: San no Sara

 Shokugeki no Souma: San no Sara 4/10

5 years, 11 months ago

Fernando Leonel Alba added 1 item to My biggest disappointments in entertainment list

-It's an adaptation of an Argentinian comic, which means it's based on a product of my country thus it peaked my interest instantly. -It's a collaboration between Japan and Canada, so it's already rare enough to check it out. -It's closer to a cartoon than an anime in every aspect, especially visuals, which means it's very unique. So, there were various reasons to check this one out but the visuals and the battle choreography were the only interesting things in it, other than that is a monster of the week type of cartoon and, supposedly, an incomplete and toned-down version of the comic book aimed at kids. It's quite boring and killed my interest in checking out its source material.

5 years, 11 months ago

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5 years, 11 months ago

Fernando Leonel Alba rated Made in Europe

 Made in Europe 8/10

5 years, 11 months ago

Fernando Leonel Alba rated My Hero Academia - Season 3

 My Hero Academia - Season 3 3/10

5 years, 11 months ago

Fernando Leonel Alba rated Timecrimes

 Timecrimes 6/10

5 years, 11 months ago

Fernando Leonel Alba rated Steins;Gate 0

 Steins;Gate 0 3/10

5 years, 11 months ago

Fernando Leonel Alba added 1 item to My biggest disappointments in entertainment list

I never really loved Steins;Gate yet I still enjoyed it. With that said, I never expected this spin off to be good, even less after hearing and reading so many people saying it was shit, but I still expected to somewhat enjoy it, and I didn't. They just had to keep milking something watchable that more or less stands on its own. To be fair, seeing the future where the WWIII happened would've been cool, but that's not the case at all with this alternative timeline. It's just something unneeded that nobody asked for with worse animation, character designs, sound and directing than the previous season. If that wasn't enough, it is also horribly done in every aspect: tone, pacing, writing, everything. It was a chore to watch.

5 years, 11 months ago

Fernando Leonel Alba rated Her

 Her 8/10

5 years, 11 months ago

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5 years, 11 months ago

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5 years, 12 months ago

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5 years, 12 months ago

Fernando Leonel Alba rated Rage Against the Machine

 Rage Against the Machine 4/10

5 years, 12 months ago

Fernando Leonel Alba rated Deep Purple

 Deep Purple 7/10

6 years ago

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Fernando Leonel Alba added 3 items to My biggest disappointments in entertainment list

6 years ago

Fernando Leonel Alba added Big Fish to wanted list

 Big Fish 

6 years ago

Fernando Leonel Alba added 4 items to their collection

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6 years ago

Fernando Leonel Alba rated Gundress

 Gundress 5/10

6 years ago

Fernando Leonel Alba added 17 items to their collection

6 years ago

Fernando Leonel Alba added 1 item to My biggest disappointments in entertainment list

To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from this movie, I didn't even expect to like it. Why is it on the list then? Because there are thing to say about it. Live action anime adaptations are usually terrible, they either deviate themselves a lot from its source material to the point is not the same thing anymore or dumb down the whole thing to the point of becoming a shadow of the original. This Kaiji adaptation did both things yet it managed to be...well, I wouldn't say good but, is not awful either. Surprisingly, where it failed is in trying to imitate the original while the changes it did worked in its favor to the most part. Here's the balance: Cons -The visual metaphors weren't nearly as impressive as the ones from the anime, plus they were overused to the point they lost narrative purpose and became a distraction. -There are no themes here, sure the main focus in Kaiji were always the thrilling situations and the mind games, but there were a lot of themes treated superficially in the series, here they threw any shreds of depth to the ocean. -The whole killer clown thing was stupid, I can't believe this is the best way they came up with to make the main character aggressive. It even works against the movie because those scenes take a lot of time if you count them all, and they are not even real most of the time, it's just the protagonist being delusional with no repercussions after that. In other words, dead time which slows the plot. Pros -They bothered to explain the whole killer clown thing as a serious scar from the past. This excuses the element but not its use, as I said before, it was overused and it didn't have repercussions in the story while taking a lot of screentime. -They gave Kaiji (it's not his real name in the movie but whatever) a stronger reason to participate in the whole thing, which genuinely impressed me. -They gave him a way closer relationship with his partner, which makes the betrayal even more powerful. -Every character acts in a cynical and calm manner, which is an improvement from their over the top caricaturistic behavior from the series. As you see, Animal World is a mixed bag, is a rare case where a live action anime adaptation is not complete shit, is somewhat faithful to its source material and it even introduces small improvements from the original. If it didn't have stupid clowns and a lot of dead time, it would have been good. Is a step forward in live action adaptations from anime and manga, but is also a small one. I didn't enjoy it, but it gave me hopes that someday I will find a good live action anime adaptation, besides dramas.

6 years ago