122 Contributions by: Harvey Garcia (Page 9)

Sweet heavens, this is cringe. Starting with that edgy, dated intro sequence with the hardcore track. It isn’t accurate to say that there’s a lot of cringe writing because that's just the default here, with a lot of the material being 'you won't believe how strong I am.' The elaborate fight sequences are full of heavy blows like a button-mashing game and it's where the show shines, but any semblance of story feels like incidental world-building for a tough guy anime. Maybe the kindest thing to say about it, apart from it promoting martial arts, is the fact that it's generic enough that you won’t have to remember anything about it afterwards if you don't want to.

Genre: Action & Adventure, Animation

Actor: Rintaro Nishi, Ryota Takeuchi, Shunsuke Takeuchi, Tessyo Genda, Tetsu Inada

Rating: TV-MA

In school, we all wrote essays when we weren’t feeling it, and churned out vomit onto paper to make it seem like there was something there. But we didn’t do that all the time, there is a limit, or so we thought. Every interaction on this series is hollow, self-aggrandizing, a wink to the cameras, an excuse to abuse abstract words. And they have the gall to blue ball you by gifting you with all these punchable people, then only give you passive aggressiveness in episode 1 like it’s some selling point to get you to stay? But that’s the luxury business, you know. It’s not what you know; it’s the (ugh) “relationships you nurture.”

Genre: Reality

Actor: Daniel Daggers

Rating: TV-14