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Mashle's biggest selling point for me was the season 2 opening "Bling-bang-bang-born" by Creepy Nuts. However, the overall series was rather mediocre. For example, the comedy would have been pretty effective if the side characters and monologues didn't describe how astonishing Mashle's actions were. Same goes for most of the action scenes, where its like the characters are stuck in a turn-based video game. An example is when this evil villain using shadow powers attacks the old headmaster, who blocks it. Then after an explanation by the narrator, the headmaster shoots a beam of light back. This repeats for like 3 episodes. This culminates in a very drawn out series. Also, the plot is so generic that you can almost guess what the outcome of a fight is. Because of Mashle's plot armour, the formula for most of his fights is "Mashle bumps into evil guy. Mashle struggles initially (with said villain monologuing about the futility of Mashle fighting back), before using brute strength to easily defeat the villain. It happens so many times that the tension is lost really quickly. Even the backstories are boring. Most of the hero's flashbacks are pretty generic and they just shout the usual "I will persevere! For my friends. For my ideals!", before they oneshot the guy they were fighting, or Mashle comes and oneshots the guy they were fighting. TLDR, pacing bad, writing bad, creepy nuts peak

(HEAVY spoliers ahead) I feel like sometimes movies are good, except their plotlines are kind of basic. To be honest this has a pretty basic story; lowerclass guy goes on an adventure to save the world except turns out the great propaganda pumping leader was actually lying this whole time!1! And so the main character and his friends go and bring justice. Then Megatron kind of appears and then leaves. Now if that was the entire movie, of course I'll dock all the stars when I'm reviewing. But there are a few upsides to this film, like the quality of the animation. i swear the animation is just so clean, to the point that I'm worried that the animators are getting the MAPPA treatment just for this sheer quality. The animation during the fight scenes are just beautiful in that how everything flows together. I read through a few of the reviews and some of them said how the humour was cringe. "Badassatron" is definitely cringeworthy, but a lot of the humour isn't actually that bad. Orion Pax in the beginning pretending to transform, only to just run is peak humour. Finally, Megatron. If I was in his shoes, I would commit more than enough war crimes to make the courtroom gladly sentence me to execution by firing squad. His anger is understandable, ripping Sentinal in half is understandable, dropping Orion was also understandable, but only for him. It only takes a few braincells to know that murder is bad (woah really?), so he is a villain, but a hero in his own story. Now the plotline would have docked half a star, so why is a whole star. One, google doesn't allow half a star. Two, because another half was docked for this being a blatant communist manifesto (kidding, it was google) TLDR, good movie, recommend watching.