Top 5 Anime 2015

Finally we're at the end of 2015.. My god time flies...

So as you read on the title, this is my top 5 Anime that aired in 2015! I will state some rules for this ranking.
1) It's my choice, so it's not objective, it's very subjective, these are my top 5 animes that I enjoyed the most for this year's season
2) I have to watch it until the end of the episode and it has to finished airing as well. I haven't finished watching Arslan Senki and I really want to put Gundam Iron-blooded orphans, but it hasn't finished airing yet.
3) I didn't managed to watch all the anime that I plan to watch. So don't ask why "Hey why there's no Yuru Yuri San Hai! in the list?" because I haven't watch it yet. Since I've been so crazy busy this past 3 months and honestly I didn't watch a lot of anime this year T_T

So are we clear? Ok, let's jam!



5) Ore Monogatari

First of all, "Ore Monogatari!" or My Love Story is not a part of Monogatari series (Bakemonogatari, Nisemonogatari, Kizumonogatari etc). I really enjoyed watching this because this show  really shows a  positive outcome of having a relationship with someone you love. Normally a romance comedy anime or shoujo romance heavily relies on how someone is feeling hurt when s/he can't confess his/her love to his/her loved ones or how indecisive the main protagonist *cough Ao Haru Ride cough*

And this anime is different, the main protagonist is a big ogre gorilla guy who is in love with a girl, and he misunderstood that the girl is in love with his ikemen friend but apparently the girl is in love with him.

The story is almost like Shrek. Shrek the anime or should I say. hahaha!

I really enjoyed watching this anime, but the lack of conflict might be a turn off for any body else. 

4) JoJo's Bizarre Adventure : Stardust Crusaders - Egypt arc

This is the 2nd season of Stardust Crusaders, and I really enjoyed watching it! The finale is really hype as hell! There's a lot of funny and hilarious moments, intense fights, and also  friendship that makes me feels sentimental whenever I see their group photo. T_T

It's hell of a journey, or you can say, a bizarre adventure! I really can't wait to see Part 4 next year! XD

3) One Punch Man

Yes! THIS ANIME SHOULD BE ON THE LIST! I just finished watching it yesterday and my god, the fighting animation is really really really cool and hype as hell! I read the manga before the anime project was announced. And I really like the manga, I laughed a lot on this, I feel thrilled with the awesome battle scenes, and also I also shed manly tears on my favorite arc. The opening song is my favorite anisong for this year! Thanks to Madhouse studio who made this anime with amazing quality! 

2) Shirobako

Have you ever wondered how does it feel like working on Anime industry in Japan? Well, this anime is your perfect answer! I watched this anime when I was still looking for a job and until I managed to get my current job right now, so I can relate a lot to this anime! I can feel the struggle of looking for a job and get rejected over and over again. And also the struggle of facing a client who wants to change before d-day and makes you have to make things from the scratch again. Yes, it's really hectic! For those who always say "Where's my 2nd season anime!?" well, watch this anime first, so you can understand that it's not easy to make an anime series. PA Works really makes a great job on making this anime! 

1) Kekkai Sensen

Kekkai Sensen, my god this anime, I really missed the times when you watch the anime and you just enjoyed the anime like this. It's really chaotic and fun to watch! You see a group of badass people who kick some ass! The engaging and fun story telling, love-able character, awesome animation, awesome BGM, and also the super catchy ending song, what's not to love from this anime?

If you loved Durarara! or Bacanno! type of anime, you'll love this anime as well! And the ending makes me want for more! 

Some honorable mention anime : 

Gangsta : this anime cliffhanger ending is killing me, and knowing the fact that the studio who made this anime, Manglobe went to bankrupt, makes me even sad, will be any other studio wants to continue their work? I highly doubt it since manly anime like this is not really selling compared to moe/ecchi anime. 

Arslan Senki : I just watched 3 eps of it, and I really liked this anime! I watched the OVA (the old one) and the story is really engaging and I loved the kingdom setting. 

Gintama : Well, this anime is a hilarious one, and now it's entering the serious arc! And I heard that the manga is going to end next year! Damn, didn't expect that this awesomely hilarious manga is going to end T_T

That's it guys my top 5 anime of 2015, do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know on the comments below! I really want to know other's opinion and I might have missed some good anime this year. haha

Happy holidays from me! This is Reikichi, signing out! 

Star Wars Episode VII - The Force Awakens - Spoiler Review Talk

Okay, this post is going to contain full spoiler review talk from this movie, if you want my non-spoiler review, you can click it here

If you haven't watched it and still reading this, you have been warned!

So Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens opens up with the title screen
(me and my girlfriend was squealing when watching the title exposition lol)
and it states that Luke Skywalker is missing.

When I saw that line, I was thinking to myself.
"Oh crap! What happened? Is he going to be evil in this movie?"
But we'll get there later

The story opens up with Poe, which is the best Rebellion pilot (yeah the movie told us so and it was true, All of it!), getting a map that contains Luke Skywalker's whereabouts and he put that map in to his Droid, BB-8 and he told BB-8 to run away from that place and bring back the map to the Rebellion base.

At this point, I was like "Yes, this is familiar, I've seen this on Episode IV"

And then we encounter the First Order that blasted through the place. And we see our main Antagonist here, Kylo Ren!

I really like this reveal seriously, He is just menacingly killed everybody on the camp. And the most epic moment when Kylo Ren stopped a laser blast with the Force. That scene there blew my mind and made my jaw dropped. My god he is a badass!

and later on Poe got captured by the First Order.

I really like the scene where there's a stormtrooper dying because he got shot and he tries to reach another stormtrooper while dying and his blood just marked his friend's helmet. And we can see humanity side of Stormtrooper for awhile.

And it was revealed that the stormtrooper that has been marked with blood was Finn, our main character (or that's what we believed in because the trailer cues that)

and then we switched to Rey, the other main character! She is a scavenger and she lives on a Jakku, a desert planet (which I initially thought that it was Tattooine, but it wasn't)

After Rey's brief introduction, we see that Poe is getting tortured by Kylo Ren to get information about the map (which finally he get the information)

Later on, Poe was saved by Finn and both of them escaped from the First Order ship and get shot and crash landed on Jakku.

At that scene, Finn and Poe feels like a true bro who helped each other and mind you that it's the first 5-6 minutes of the movie and we can see a better bro relationship than Anakin and Obi-Wan in the prequel did on the Episode II and III. *seriously tho hahaha


Finn believes that Poe didn't survive the crash and he walked and met Rey.
They got attacked by the First order and they try to escape it while bringing BB-8 together and look for a spaceship and Finn and Rey's conversation was like
"Hey can you pilot that thing?"
"Yes I can"
"How about that one?"
"That one is garbage!"(at that scene I was like, "I think I know what ship that you were refer as garbage")
And a ship that they headed got destroyed and Rey was like
"The garbage will do"
damn that scene was hilarious.XD

And the garbage was of course The Millenium Falcon! And then an awesome dog fight scene. I really liked Finn and Rey's chemistry during this dog fight scene.

And then we met Han Solo and Chewbacca (This scene makes me emotional for a sec, damn it's really good to see them back)

Okay, let's talk about Kylo Ren, He is revealed that he is Han Solo's and Leia's son. And that makes me feel like "OMG! This is going to be a family matter again".

And we see that Kylo Ren is actually not a Sith Lord, I should have noticed it because there's no Darth title on him. But Snoke (which looks awfully similar like Gollum from The Lords of The Rings) didn't have Darth title as well. I'm not really sure what happened and this plot hole bothers me and I hope they will explain it in the next movies.

It wasn't explained in detail but Luke Skywalker trained some people to be a Jedi and some of his apprentice betrayed him and it makes everything wrong. And we can assume that traitor was Kylo Ren and he was seduced by the Dark Side. Before this plot point was revealed, I was thinking
"Is this some kind of trend? A Jedi Master goes to exile and hide in the unknown planet."
But Luke's action makes sense, because Kylo Ren is Han Solo's and Leia's Son, He feels ashamed that he couldn't trained Kylo Ren better and failed them as a friend and as a Jedi Master. He feels guilty about it.

Kylo Ren is also still young and haven't finished his training as a Sith. We can see that when he tries to get the information from Rey. Because she fights back by using the Force and he couldn't do anything about it.

We can also see him having a dilemma of him about going back to the light side. That kind of struggle makes me think that "Damn, Anakin's dilemma should be executed like this"

I think people will start comparing him to Darth Vader and the fact that he loses to someone who never fights using light saber before will make people say "Man, Kylo Ren is lame"
but hear this
Kylo Ren is neither a fully trained Jedi nor Sith, So I find his lack of skill is not disturbing (see what I did there? lol)
While Darth Vader, he was almost a Jedi Master (even Obi-Wan himself acknowledged his skills), and he have fought countless battle during the Clone Wars.
So I can see potential of Kylo Ren's character development in the next 2 episodes.

And now let's talk about Rey. My god this girl is a badass! In the trailer, we saw that Finn is going to be the main character and he is going to be a Jedi. But it wasn't! It was Rey all along!

(I really loved that Trailer because it didn't reveal any plot points)

She is Force sensitive, and I really like her natural Jedi Ability and she might be a better Jedi Master than Luke someday. She used the Jedi Mind Trick on the Stormtrooper when she was captured (which people next to me thought that she was reading the stormtrooper's mind, yeah, I facepalmed at that too)
even though it takes 2-3 times before she manages to pull it off.

And I really love that scene where Kylo Ren is trying to pull the lightsaber by using the Force and it pans out and BAM! the lightsaber flew through him and Rey holding up the lightsaber. My god that scene makes me thrill seriously!

And there's this scene that shocks me, when Kylo Ren (or Ben Solo) killed his father.
And that scene feels like Game of Thrones, where it was emotionally touching at first, but then that person just get ruthlessly murdered.
When I watched that, I froze because I was too shocked!
I can't even feel mad about the fact that Ben killed Han Solo!
And Chewbacca was like "YOU BASTARD!" and he shot Ben from the distance and he managed to shot him which makes Kylo Ren during the final fight beating his chest to endure the pain.

damn I didn't really see that coming
Apparently Han Solo's death scene was spoiled on the internet before this movie came out, but I managed to avoid it because I decided to signed out from the Internet before I watched the movie. And boy I'm glad that I did

After Kylo Ren is defeated, Snoke was like, "Bring him to me, I will complete his training"
Ok, the next movie, he is going to be more badass *hopefully*

After that, Rey goes to the planet where Luke Skywalker is hiding, and she showed the lightsaber to him and..... the movie ends!

and that makes me wanted to see more of this movie! Seriously! This is a very well directed movie that has  great script and very engaging story telling! It's awesome! I really can't wait to watch the next episode! XD

Okay that's it guys, Hope you enjoyed my spoiler review (or rambling to be precise), If you are a Star Wars fan, this movie is a MUST WATCH! XD

Star Wars Episode VII - The Force Awakens - Movie Review

Hey Guys! It’s been awhile! Sorry I’ve been so crazy busy with work this past 3 months and didn’t have the time to write a lot ^_^;

I hope I will be able to post weekly just I used to be next year... hahaha!

So I just watched Star Wars VII The Force Awakens yesterday with my girlfriend. And boy...

IT WAS FREAKING AWESOME! XDDD

In this post, I’m going to post my non-spoiler review since I really embrace the idea of enjoying something without getting spoiled. But I will post a spoiler review in the next post.
So without further a due.. Let’s jam!

The events on Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens took place 30 years after Episode VI. So I wouldn’t recommend this movie for those who haven’t watched the original Star Wars trilogy (Episode IV, V, VI) because it will make you ask questions like.

“Who is this old man?”

“What is that furry guy thing?”

“Why is everybody understand what does the furry guy say
while he is just saying ‘AURGGHHHHH!’ ?”

“OMG! DID SHE JUST READ THAT ROBOT’S MIND?” -> actual question that emerged when I watched this yesterday, and that person sits right next to me.

This movie is directed by J.J Abrams. When this movie is announced and heard that he is the one who is going to direct this movie I was like

“Okay, he did very good on Star Trek movie. I hope he won’t make this movie suck like the prequel trilogy.”

And J.J Abrams’ signature (If I can say it that way) is he tends to give a lot of lens flares, which is kinda annoying for me. If you watched the Star Trek movie, you’ll know what I’m saying.

And thank god he didn’t do that on this movie hahaha.

I really like how J.J. Abrams shot the scene on this movie. There are some cinematic scene that makes me think like “Man, I’d screenshot that scene and make a wallpaper from it”

Unlike the prequel trilogy, I really really care about the characters on this movie! I even care for the stormtroopers. Because this movie actually gives them humanity and more personality.

Finn and Rey’s chemistry is really great! I really love those two new star wars character!

Rey as character is really cool and her actions always makes me want to say “You go gurl!” during the movie

Poe is an amazing character! His piloting skill is superb.I just wished I see more of him.

Speaking of piloting, the dog fight in this movie is really amazing! 

Kylo Ren is an amazing antagonist character. Unfortunately I didn’t see Captian Phasma doing much on this movie but I really liked the character design.

And there’s Yayan and Iko Uwais, 2 famous Indonesian actors from “The Raid”

as an Indonesian, I’m really proud seeing those 2 on this movie
and they actually have lines to say. TvT b

Oh I forgot to mention that soundtrack is amazing and John Williams is back to compose it, and I really love the music XD

This movie is 2 and a half hours long and I didn’t feel any single dull moment on this movie. And when it ends I was like “AAARGHHH!” and I looked to my girlfriend and asked her

“EPISODE VIII WHEN?!”

Yes, this movie has its flaws as well, some plot holes, but the thing is, this is a trilogy, so I hoped they will answer and cover up the plot holes in the next episode.

So, does this movie worth the hype? Yes, it does deserve the hype and it does lived up to the hype and as for me, it exceeds my expectations.

Should you watch it? If you have watched the original trilogy, yes you should watch it! If you haven’t watch the original trilogy, I recommend you to watch it first before watching this movie. And if you have watched the original trilogy and haven’t watched Episode VII, well, what are you doing? Stop reading this post and just go out and watch it now! XD