Audience reviews
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altdelkk
Sarazanmai it's a unrecognized masterpiece.
I accidentally watched this with my father by doing a roulette, and we started watching with low expectations. We laughed so much at the first episode, so we decided to go on.
This is with no doubt my favorite anime ever. It looks weird at first, but after watching it, you will get the feeling of crying. I find it surreal how underrated this is. And everything about this anime is perfect, from start to end.
It has the trick of making the viewer question everything that is happening, in a funny and weird way, which makes this even more enjoyable. In each episode, you form a new thought, and newer questions, which in the end are answered in a beautiful story of friendship and connections.
I have learned from this anime the importance of connect…
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“I want to connect, so Sarazanmai.”
As soon as I got to know that Kunihiko Ikuhara is going to direct this, I got excited for it. Kunihiko Ikuhara is a person who made his name in the industry for his uniqueness in series composition and storytelling which can be seen in his previous works such as Mawaru Penguindrum and Yuri Kuma Arashi.
Sarazanmai is also one of his bizarre works and it has one of those Japanese folklore creatures called "Kappa", an youkai (妖怪). The first kappa introduced in the series is a Kappa prince named "Keppi" whose noble Kappa Kingdom fell to the Otter Empire and now the Kappa prince Keppi has lost much of his power and became helpless against the"Kapa-zombies" whom are invisible to humans, these zombies plague the world, and are the creations of the Otters and…
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I decided to watch Sarazanmai because i saw a GIF of the transformation scene. I thought it would a fun, goofy anime, but there's so much more to it than the surface-level weirdness. I just finished watching it and I'm in shock, I had no idea that I would love it as much as I did. I cant stop obsessing over it, especially the soundtrack. The characters are so beautifully vulnerable, with incredible depth. My only problem with this show is that there aren't enough episodes. It felt a bit rushed at certain places, nonetheless i still give this a 10/10!!
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It was a slow burn for me. You have to get into it and it takes a while to adjust to the weirdness. That said, this anime had a profound impact on me and left me feeling excited and motivated.
My score of 10/10 does not mean the anime is perfect. But, at the end of the series, I felt 10/10 for having watched it. The catharsis more than made up for my initial discomfort.
I shall be carrying some lessons learnt from this anime through the rest of my life.
Story: It starts out slow, confusing and off-putting. In fact, so much so that it can't have been done so unintentionally. It almost seems as though it is trying to chase away unwanted viewers at the start. It requires you to engage with it, so it is not for superficial watching.
Art: The production standards of Sarazanmai were excell…
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I MUST SAY I'M IN LOVE WITH THIS ANIME FROM ALL THE ASPECTS! IT CHANGED MY LIFE STYLE!
At the time when I first saw the first trailer of this anime back in November 2018, I was immediately engaged by the stunning real-life visuals combined with the anime art, which made me wonder if the whole show is going to look like that. It looked so unique from that point of view but at the same time made me a bit sceptical about it, not gonna lie (even tho I wished to be like that for some reason). I gladly said ''Ooh so this is a 'MUST WATCH' hmm'', not expecting anything from it whatsoever. I didn't even know what kappa means, which is another reason what made me appreciate this show even more. This show not only teaches us how to connect with people and how we should take responsabilities towards…
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ENG:
"I want to connect, but I want to cheat"
Sarazanmai is legitimately about connections, about connecting with people, how these relationships are formed, how they are facilitated or hindered, talks about our desires, and how selfishly we ignore the feelings and reciprocity. others, to have a connection founded on love, if not, is only desire and selfishness. It is about feelings, love, desire, friendship and despair.
Sarazanmai is a work full of symbolism, with great characters and subjectivity, I suggest you watch and understand all the madness I'm talking about, a work that is full of good direction and production, making you connected and immersed all the time, with what you see on the screen.
PT:
"Eu quero me conectar, mas eu quero trair"
Sarazanmai é legitimamente so…
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Im going to be honest for at least 10.5 episodes I did not have the slightest clue as to what was going on, but I never clicked off because the animation and soundtrack is honestly one of the greatest ever. It's also incredibly funny and gripping, I was enjoying the show but I had no idea what all of it meant. However at the finale, the absolute end, somehow I sat there my heart knowing exactly what all of it meant as cheesy as that sounds, and im not talking romantically, my brain was still confused but my heart was nodding because it understood somehow?? I was feeling all the emotions I was supposed to feel despite the absolute confusion that was this show. Even now if someone asked me to explain what this show was about my brain would provide to be useless but honestly your heart will k…
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This show was way to ambitious with the way it wanted to include anything and everything into its plot.
*spoilers ahead
So, the first episode looks good, shows some promise, the way characters are presented, kazumi's secret, turning into kappa, etc. And honestly, some nice, fluid animation, with no CG. Sure, there are some lazy backgrounds for animating people, but I'll take that over crappy CG. The leaking memory thing is also kind of interesting in terms of character development and plot progression.
HOWEVER, so much stuff and plot is just CRAMMED into a 11 episode series. Kazuki's secret, which honestly, could have been the main topic of all the 11 episodes, is wrapped in like 2-3 episodes. The other characters get 1 episode each. And then the random flashbacks happen, along with in…
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CRAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWLING INNNNNNN MY SKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!!!
OK seriously now. I really wanted to like Sarazanmai. The technical art direction and animation is absolutely fantastic, and truth be told if this review were to only cover the first episode the overall grade would be a 8/10. In fact, I highly recommend to anyone who wants to watch this anime to do just that: Only watch the very first episode. That's it. Let it stay completely unexplained and totally random in your memories, because the unfortunate truth about Sarazanmai is that from a pure writing perspective that ignores its merit in animation style this anime is complete crap.
What's wrong with the show? Let us break this down in three simple issues.
Problem one. Every single character is either annoyingly em…
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Four years after Yuri Kuma and director and known madman Ikuhara has graced us once more with his presence in the form of Sarazanmai. An anime about kappa and connections and anal balls.
And in accordance to his style of anime, each and every scene in the show is a joy to watch. Everything is directed so beautifully and well enough and chock full of minute intricate details that makes rewatching his shows a true experience.
Sarazanmai’s story is fairly straightforward. A tale of three boys trying to connect with their loved ones, separating desire and genuine love in the midst of things. But the true stars of the show are the antagonists Reo and Mabu, whose tragic romance is surprisingly the highlight of the show. That being said I wished they had been given more screentime and more deve…
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“I want to connect, but I want to lie.”
Sarazanmai presents two sides of the same coin. On one side, we have desires; the sense of longing and hoping for a certain outcome. Often considered an innate part of our humanity, they can also be attributed with the darker aspects of one’s personality. They’re the deep secrets we hold to ourselves, not wanting the world around us to know about, and dreading the thought of if they were found out. But as much as the show focuses on desires, it’s just as focused on connection. The world is comprised of all kinds of connections, whether by blood, through communities or even with similar desires. We are all connected in some way to one another… But connections can be broken just as easily as they were formed. And even with a desire to connect with oth…
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Do I have your attention yet? Cool. Watch this show. It’s good. Yes, it’s really goddamn strange, but it’s good. Why?
Animation - Beautiful
Soundtrack- Fantastic
Plot - WTF but yeah sure I guess lol
Characters - Damn lemme get some of that (I’m talking about Keppi don’t call the cops please)
Without spoiling too much, the first three or four episodes are basically the same, but when it starts heating up… WOW it starts heating up. The plot admittedly is quite confusing and Otter’s motives and origins are never uncovered. But this complete rejection of the status quo goes to show how you can still make a coherent and interesting anime only with a plot that scratches the surface of one simple concept. In the case of Saraz…
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While I may have not made many reviews and watched a lot of anime, I felt a an utter joy of watching Sarazanmai. There's something about this show that I love so much and if you ask me which part of it made it amazing? Probably everything about it.
The characters were outright amazing. The supporting cast were interesting and surprisingly enough, some of them got as much character development as the main boys, who are amazingly voice casted and do an utterly fantastic job and I have to give it credit to Kazuki's voice actor and character as a whole. He did a fantastic job voicing him and the actor himself did a fantastic job. The character too was a surprise for me because of how flawed he was as a human. I thought from the beginning of episode until the end, he was just a good too shoes…
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Connections. Bonds. From hopes and dreams, leading to desires and indulgence.
For the people we love and care for, time past, present and future. We all have them. But what happens when that "Dish of Hope" that we oh-so want to claim becomes a hindrance to others who want them too to fulfill their ambitions, and what's up with the secrets becoming public? Ultimately, what happens to that connection that we long for the most?
This season, famed director Kunihiro Ikuhara and his production team from Utena and Penguindrum introduces this series to us: Sarazanmai, not just a story about the generational war between the Otters and the Kappas, but of a much sinister and not-so-complicated plot of human ambitions and connections that Ikuhara's formula of "nonsensical, unpredictable" shows are kn…
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Sarazanmai is a masterpiece that completely caught me off guard. I personally haven't followed any of Kunihiko Ikuhara’s previous works, so my reaction after seeing the first few episodes of this form of art were nothing other than: "What the actual fuck..." and if you're just like me you aren't familiar with his previous creations, I can pretty much guarantee you that those exact words will be your reaction as well. Just the plain concept of Sarazanmai is the goofiest thing ever, and that's the exact reason of why it is so damn good.
The story is absolutly ridiculous (in a good way). It makes you not want to take this anime seriously at first, but that rapidly changes as you get more and more attached to the characters and the emotions that they emit. I went into this anime without any p…
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“Jesus Butt-fucking Christ, what the hell is this?!”
Art… kero.
It’s no secret that Kunihiko Ikuhara is one of the most out-there anime directors, conjuring up several queer-focused, high-concept mystery box anime on whatever themes he feels like exploring. This fact has only become more apparent over time as Sarazanmai becomes his third anime in a row this decade to focus on this type of narrative. In 2011, Mawaru Penguindrum focused on themes of changing one’s fate, with a compelling cast of characters and marvelous setpieces across a tight, binge-worthy 24-episode plot. Yuri Kuma Arashi came 4 years later, focused on love, lesbian relationships, and desire over the course of 12 episodes, only 4 of which I managed to get through before quitting. It had none of the coherence or humor of…
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Imagine an anime just like the premise of Persona 5 by altering desires, but instead of stealing people's hearts you steal people's anal virginity.
And if that doesn't sound weird enough to you, then I guess you'd enjoy it.
This is some borderline-hentai super gay fanservice right here involving magical frog shotas, especially in the first few episodes, and I had no clue whether to like it or not at the beginning. It's definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but as I continued to watch the anime it gladly went somewhere, yet it was still so mediocre.
Just so people know, I've seen a couple of episodes of Penguindrum and never once did it step into something as risky and... weird... as this. No. That's not a good thing. Honestly, how childish and unaware are people?
Hypothesising from the…
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Where I typically talk about anime, this opinion is something which is a great source of shame for me and quite controversial, but here on MAL and other mainstream anime forums I feel quite at home saying I don’t personally care for Kunihiko Ikuhara. Do I think he’s a Satoshi Kon level, visionary genius? Yeah, who wouldn’t think so? But do I personally like his storytelling and find his direction entertaining? No, unfortunately I do not. I think it’s really forced and heavy-handed, and I hate how esoteric his shows become because of this. Revolutionary Girl Utena is a show about simple human chemistry, but when filtered through the lens of Ikuhara it becomes one of the few original anime in history which feels oddly ridden with filler. Mawaru Penguindrum is a show not quite as simple as th…
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Sarazanmai is a prime example of a show that falls under style-over-substance, and those who are aware of the industry's state should already know that this field of anime hasn't exactly been very praise-worthy in the recent years. This is.... an addition to the overall selection we have. Not much more since its substance is so lacking that it lessens the impact of its style + those who know the director won't see anything new. Moreover, it recycles animation and entire scenes to such extent that it becomes partially skip-worthy. The repetition level is extreme, especially during the first half of the show.
If we look into the audiovisuals and directing, Sarazanmai comes with high values. Directed by Ikuhara Kunihiko, Sarazanmai was expected to be a polished work driven by passion, and, i…
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Sarazanmai is Kunihiko Ikuhara’s first director project since 2015. It’s been four years since we were graced by his body of creativity. This man is no doubt a legend. Whether you enjoy his style of creative content or not, he has been involved with outstanding anime that people still talk about today. These include the iconic Sailor Moon, the infamous Revolutionary Girl Utena, and one of the most bizarre shows of the past decade, Mawaru Penguindrum. Yuri Kuma Arashi may have been one of his lesser known projects but to make a comeback with this show called Sarazanmai is a feat of itself. Be prepared to be graced again by his absurd talent that few can step into the shoes in.
To ask the obvious, what is Sarazanmai really about? Looking at the synopsis will probably raise a few eyebrows ju…
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