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Boku no hîrô akademia (2016)
Best of All Worlds
This series combines classic formulas from Marvel, DC, and Shonen Jump. In the process, it combines the strengths of all three publications, and patches up any and all weaknesses. It somehow even manages to patch up weaknesses that all three publications have in common! Combine that with the talents of Studio Bones, who are perhaps the single best anime studio in existence and produce nothing but masterworks, and you have the ingredients for an amazing many year journey.
If you like Shonen Jump, Marvel, or DC, this series is a must watch or a must read-- whichever you feel more comfortable doing. If you like one of those publishers, but hate the other two, this series will most likely patch up everything you hate, and have you hooked.
The premise of the series is simple: It copies the premise of X-Men, except over the course of a century, mutants have actually become the majority. It also copies the premise of Naruto, except with unique characters who only power up according to what they need at the time, rather than gaining seeming random abilities. If either one of those sentences (but not necessarily both) intrigues you, you will like this series. It does get very creative with those two premises, however, so it's worth a watch or a read.
Jurassic World (2015)
a pinnacle of forced writing that cements the downhill trend of the franchise with each consecutive film
This movie has it all: forced straight romance, cheap charater deaths to get the audience emotional with cheap writing, plot devices that make zero sense in context, and so fourth. they give the main dinosaur all kinds of genetic splicing abilities that, while badass, go counter to its purpose as a zoo exhibit. things get out of control simply because it is expected, not because it makes sense in the story. and the cherry on top, the ending. the movie ends with a huge spectacle that goes against everything we've come to understand of the creatures. could a movie be worse? absolutely! but that does not change the fact that this movie is plain bad.
Akatsuki no Yona (2014)
made me fall in love with many wonderful boys
I swear I'm not gay, but the boys are just so wonderful.
This technically qualifies as a reverse harem anime, but it is a good one. Yona is easy to relate to, yet strong, and serves as a great vessel for an idealized version of the viewer. The main supporting cast is full of wonderful boys. They will make the viewer think "why can't all men be like these guys?" they have a very diverse set of personalities, and the writers did a great job of making them all different from each other, without making any of them a person the viewer would want to avoid. Furthermore, their devotion to Yona makes perfect sense, given how wonderful she is. Of course she is no Mary Sue, and has plenty of flaws, internal conflict, and character growth.
The narrative is driven by characters, setting, and conflict, as a good narrative should be in my opinion. There are plenty of minor supporting characters, as well as the main ones, and the conflict is ever present. Conflict can come out of anything from multiple characters who want to do the right thing, but having conflicting information from one another, to the occasional malevalent villain.
The biggest problem with the show, however: it only shows the early parts of the story. The full story exists in a comic that the show was adapted from, but no one knows if the rest of the comic will be adapted. PLEASE WATCH THE SHOW! The more popular this story gets, the more likely we are to see an adaptation of the whole thing.