Anime-Gataris

This anime was great! I'm kind of a novice to anime, but I don't many who love anime. It kind of related to me. It is a parody anime with a lot of anime references and anime jokes. I liked it because it was fun trying to figure out the references. I noticed a few like Ru:Zero, Anosuba, Autumn Wars, PreFae, and I think Guden Daran. The story is very slice of life but the last 2 episodes were just crazy. Character ideas were really creative and thought into. The art looked pretty amazing as well. It was overall an amazing anime and I rate it 8/10!

It makes sense that if anime characters in an anime start talking about anime in their anime club then something strange has to happen on a (meta?)-physical level within their own story. Animegataris is a school-club comedy anime that sets itself up on a self-aware journey that (kind of) explores why anime otaku appreciate anime so much. And the best way to do that is through its own medium (of course). There is a lot of anime in this anime. They talk about anime, they make an anime, they become an 'anime.' if this anime is going to be known for anything as this season petersout and some late-comers decide to give it a try, is the stylistic and plot-break down 'twist.' However, it isn't much of a twist if the anime literally becomes stranger every episode. What could have been a last ditch effort to make something fun as the series winds down, ends up being a completely sensible conclusion, that if anyone was paying attention, they'd probably see coming. It's ridiculous, purposefully so, and that's what makes it so fun. The references are usually oblique or universal enough, that the series doesn't get bogged down with 'hey we all watched that' kind of humor. Animegataris doesn't latch on to any one niche or franchise to parody or make reference to. Instead we get a a cornucopia of verbal and sometimes visual references, which considering the show is about anime otaku, seems par for the course. But obviously, nobody is going to watch this show for stuff like "Dirlish Number (or whatever the fuck they called it) was good." It's the self-aware, tongue-in-cheek, 'we're winking at you' humor and sensibility which makes Animegataris so fun, and funny. The comedy works. That is, if you've seen enough anime to appreciate a cliche for its own sake.There's some genuinely funny stuff here: flubbed lines in some shitty anime short, odd attention to detail, 'the aspect ratio is closing in.' Fan-service sports girls hardly has any lines, yet she gets her own OP, definitely the most ingenious thing I've seen this season. (Ironically enough, even though she is hardly a character, fan-service girl still has her cameo in the anime within the anime). There is a sense of 'we can get away with whatever, so deal with it' as the anime moves along, but you actually excuse the staff, because instead of being over the top and obnoxious, it comes across as smart and tastefully done as is possible for a show like this. For something more recent to compare it to, this reminds me of Akiba's Trip. But for the most part, this series really reminds me of, and has the sensibility of otaku oriented parody OVAs. A much less cynical Otaku no Video or Puni Puni Poemii, or maybe a more genre specific one like Nurse Witch Komugi-chan, or maybe Ribbon-chan and (though TV and not a parody), Going-Home Club (KKK), for both of those have an all too aware, budget conscious 'the staff knows it's going to fail'' kind of humor. Other recommendations: Comic Party, Animation Runner Kuromi There are plenty of anime fans who would appreciate something like this, but too many are going to ignore it for dumb reasons. It's worth a watch if you want your anime to be a little too much like anime.

Animegataris is an unique anime, that was different from other anime. The first thing that you'll notice is the title, this anime has the word "anime" in it's title as well. Animegataris means "Anime Talking". From this title you can already indicate that this anime is an anime that talks about anime. This is exactly what is is as well. The story is set in an animeclub in a highschool, this club will do all kind of anime related activities like: watching anime, cosplaying, visiting conventions etc. Most of us animefans will totally love the idea of making an anime about being an animefan andthis is also why this anime has been this well received for a while, I write for a while because after a certain episode the animequality all of a sudden goes down. As mentioned earlier in the review, Animegataris is an anime about anime. You will often see references of existing anime coming forth disguisted as an alternate title (they can't really use the real names because that's not allowed). When stepping in the first episode you will notice an interesting story unfolding already, a girl that is no animefan is entering the world of anime because she's curious about something she's seen as a child. You see like this how easy it is to influence a person, this is something that happens in real life often as well, it's like the saying "Monkey see, monkey do". The characters itself are pretty standard, you have the somewhat clumsy and clueless maincharacter, the rich lady character, the quiet girl character, the energetic girl character, the crazy male character and the "bishounen" male character. Not even one of their personalities is unique and as the story proceeds, only the clumsy and clueless maincharacter has a bit of character development. A major disappoint if you ask me. After a while the anime goes down though. I'm not gonna write when exactly because I'm not gonna spoil it, however at some point it's strongly hinted that this anime was only created so well at first so it wouldn't get canceled for it's crazy ending. This is strongly hinted by the characters talking about anime being canceled after their first episode, and they said "I hope we're not being canceled at episode .. ourselfs". And trust me when I say, they would totally have been canceled if they would have pulled that crap from episode 1 on. Not only did the ending totally ruin the anime, it was confusing, it was a lackluster, it was random, and totally crazy. While watching it one's only reaction definitly has to be "What the bloody hell am I watching?...". This is sad though, because the anime did so well at first and then did this, it's as if the creators couldn't care less. In the end I gave this anime overall a 5. Animegataris is a fun anime to watch, especially because of the anime theme in it, however do not expect a solid ending that's enjoyable to watch. The good thing though is that the "fun" stuff to watch is way longer then the crap they added towards it later, with that being said, it's still worth watching.

If I could say anything that seems to sum up my final thoughts, it is merely this—full of itself. The anime is like a stuck up piece of trash that sees itself as something greater than it is. All this show is, is one shitty attempted plot-twist after another. They even throw in a little pathetic attempt at "love?" and draw it out for a couple episodes, for no real reason. That also sums up this show to a tee—no reasoning. Everything that happens in this show is merely a convoluted fucking mess and the last two or three episodesreally, really epitomize this. Funny enough, even when they were droning on about the three episode cut in the third episode, I thought that this show may have potential and maybe the poor reviews were undeserved. Goddamn was I wrong. This shit is a travesty and a blatant try hard at being more complex and meta than it actually is. Know how to guarantee you have found yourself a conceited piece of shit anime? They use the word meta in the actual dialogue.... Everything about this anime is amplified garbage in the fact that the series starts reasonably enough and slowly devolves into an unfathomable nightmare full of cringe worthy attempts at humor, plot, and "meta" worthy anime.... Each time I thought the score I had given was low enough, I thought more about it, and had to make it lower. In fact, from the beginning of the last episode until its end, I went from a 5 to a 3. Shitty convoluted, try-hard story; bad parody attempts; whiny terrible dub voice acting; and so much more makes the thought of watching this anime ever again make me feel nauseated. Animegataris is like an affliction you hope to distance yourself from the second you finish it—if you can manage to do so.