Update: These are now being posted over here instead~
My AniList is here! I will take recommendations/suggestions based around what I liked/disliked here~ Also not all of the review scores will line up with the list scores - I go back and change things on reflection fairly often.
Old posts are here:
.hack//Legend of the Twilight [3/10]
.hack//LIMINALITY [5/10]
Amagi Brilliant Park [6/10]
Another [7/10]
Beautiful Bones -Sakurako's Investigation- [8/10]
Bleach [6/10]
Bleach the Movie 4: Hell Verse [7/10]
Bloom Into You [8/10]
Bocchi the Rock [6/10]
Bokurano [6/10]
Chainsaw Man [9/10]
ERASED [9/10]
From the New World [8/10]
Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl [8/10]
Haikyu!! [7/10]
Hell Girl: Two Mirrors [7/10]
Hidamari Sketch x ☆☆☆ [8/10]
Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni + Kai [7/10]
In Another World With My Smartphone [4/10]
Kaguya-sama: Love is War Season 2 [8/10]
Kaiba [7/10]
Land of the Lustrous [8/10]
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury [10/10]
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury Season 2 [8/10]
Monogatari Series First Season [9/10]
Monster [10/10]
Myriad Colors Phantom World [7/10]
NAKAIMO - My Little Sister is Among Them! [7/10]
Natsunagu! [6/10]
Pan de Peace! [6/10]
Persona 3 Movie #4: The Winter of Rebirth [10/10]
Persona: Trinity Soul [6/10]
Plastic Memories [9/10]
Princess Tutu [9/10]
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- [9/10]
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2 [9/10]
Redline [6/10]
Saint Young Men [7/10]
Strawberry Panic [6/10]
Summer Time Rendering [9/10]
Talentless Nana [9/10]
Venus Versus Virus [5/10]
Violet Evergarden [8/10]
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song [8/10]
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (both OVAs) [9/10]
Reviews will have the AniList link at the top - this is the best way to get a spoiler-free synopsis in places where I've said I can't manage that.
7/10
Disclaimer: I played the VN a long time ago, so this is approaching things from a position of knowing the plot and judging the adaptation more than as a stand-alone series.
Back when I was first getting into anime, someone tried to introduce me to Higurashi via the anime, and I hated it and gave up on it quickly. I ended up playing the VN a few years later and wondered how the anime got it so wrong so quickly, but I've become someone who doesn't like to abandon things, so here we are to figure things out.
I do think I judged a little early before, but it's certainly not a great adaptation. The VN already struggled to handle an incredibly complex world and story, and I think the anime struggles even more.
Mild spoilers ahead, for the maybe two people who will find this and not already know everything there is to know about the series. Also I'm reviewing these two together because they tell the story of the VN, everything beyond this is new territory for me.