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The Simplicity of Yuru Camp that Breaks Boundaries (Yuru Camp Review)

The concept of Slice of Life moe blob anime is pretty much dying. Sure every year we get two or more shows like this lane but what I mean by dying is lack of ideas in these type of show or they just running out of ideas and pick the most absurd one (I'm looking at you Slow Start although you're not bad). And furthermore, these type of shows rarely gets a lot of attention by anime fans that are put off by the art styles which yes it's an acquired taste at best. But lately Slice of Life or Moe art style has been really popular lately with the likes of Made In Abyss, Girls Last Tour, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, and to lesser extent Blend S and New Game. All of these shows are not just successful commercially but some of them are getting critical acclaimed and that got me thinking, for much of these genre has been in stagnant before 2017 people who created them are thinking the same and so they uses the moe art to told their stories. Whether it's tragedy like Mad...

Girls Last Tour Review

There's no denying that there's a lot of war pieces or post-war movies out there whether it's Saving Private Ryan, Dunkirk, Apocalypse Now etc. I think the reason why we love to make stories about war is that many people fantasize about war and how it's gonna altered humanity as we know it, especially when it comes to how people are gonna survived this war and if they did survived how they gonna rebuild the world that has been devastated by this catastrophic events and even then how different it is to the civilization before the war. These are the question that the answer are still speculation because such an event hasn't even been closed to wipe out humanity as a whole or even matches it. Now why am I talking about this you may asked. Well I went and watch Girls Last Tour, a post-apocalyptic or war anime about two girls, Chito and Yuuri trying to survive in a world where it's only just a ruin. And I found this anime to be quite fascinating for a numbe...