My Tien collectible (Review)

So, it's kinda been a while since I got a collectible for any Dragon Ball characters and I finally got one recently. It's one for Tien. This one I got is in collection of a bunch of other characters from the series during the Cell Saga of Dragon Ball Z. And, since I finally got another one and Tien in particular, that means I've gotten nine characters from Team Universe 7 from Dragon Ball Super that I'm looking for and I'm still working on getting Krillin. This one of Tien though isn't one of the better ones I have, but I'm still glad to have one of him and I've personally always liked Tien so adding him to the case with the other characters was good to get. And so, here it is and I hope you all like this.

Spider-Man: No Way Home

And so, everyone, we're finally here. I finally to see Spider-Man: No Way Home. After a whole year of waiting, it's finally out and I just saw it last night. I was honestly super hyped for this, but also skeptical because the trailers and the plot did make me feel a bit cautious about this. However, the early reviews started coming in and they were all positive. People were saying how good this was and so that definitely made me feel so much better and that made the hype for this even bigger going in. And, right off the bat, the first thing I'll get out of the way is that this might be my favourite M.C.U movie ever. I know that's kind of a drastic claim to make, but I honestly thought this movie was incredible. That's not to say it's perfect, there are problems, but the things that are amazing in this are truly monumental. I can't begin to express the happiness with this film. I have a lot of thoughts on this film and there's a lot I wanna talk about, especially in the spoiler section, but I'll try my best to avoid spoilers in this first part of the review. So, what's the story? Well, ever since Mysterio revealed Peter is Spider-Man in the last movie, his life is being thrown into chaos. Police are after him, he's being hated by everyone around him and it damaging his life and his loved ones. So, after a while, he gets the idea to ask Stephen for help, but he messes with the spell that causes it to go wrong which leads the villains from the other Spider-Man movies to cross over. And, I'm gonna stop there because that's as far as we know from the trailers and everything we've officially been shown. So, yeah, let's get into the great stuff here. For one, Tom Holland is still proving to be an incredible actor and this is honestly my favourite performance of his . There's a lot of thing Peter goes through and he does a fantastic job in this. The rest of the cast is also still fantastic and I really enjoyed Peter and MJ in this. I found it, not terrible, but nothing amazing in Far From Home with their relationship. Here, I really liked it and thought they worked off each other well. Same with Jacob Batalon as Ned again. He's still fantastic in these movies and the dynamic the three of them had was really fun to watch. I also liked seeing Stephen in this again and Benedict Cumberbatch is still terrific in these movies. I also liked the relationship he and Peter have in this. It goes in ways I didn't expect and I really liked it. The rest are also fantastic and something else that's different in this film that sets it apart from the other Spider-Man movies is that this is way darker. I'm obviously not saying why, but this is totally the darkest Spider-Man movie I think we may have ever seen. And I love that. I love how it feels like they're bringing these characters more and more into adulthood. Tom Holland's Spidey started off as a young teenager and it was fun to see him like that, but, ever since then, they've been making his journey more adult and I like how you see the circumstances becoming a lot more adult. That's not to say it's very dark, it's still super fun and upbeat in a lot of scenes, but they definitely knew how to make this more of a darker story. There's one part in particular did actually make me cry. The film's also really funny. There's some really hilarious scenes in this and all the jokes landed in my opinion. As far as action and effects, yeah, they're all great here. Okay, there are some effects that are kinda weird, but the majority of them and the action are all really impressive, creative and really cool. The villains as well are so great here and, yeah, it's incredible to see Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Thomas Haden Church, Rhys Ifans and Jamie Foxx all here and interacting off each other. Trust me, they're in this a lot. They don't just show up and have a small role, they have a lot to do in this. That was something me a lot of other people were worried about, but they have a huge substantial part to play in the film and all their performances are fantastic. I was also surprised to find that there is a main villain in this. I just assumed all the villains were equal in this, but, I was very, very shocked to see that this film does have a main villain. Another thing I have to say is that I have give so much credit to Jon Watts. He did a fantastic job balancing all of this. This reminded me of Infinity War and Endgame a bit in that this is a huge movie with so many characters, but it's balanced so well. Honestly, this film felt like the combination of everything I've ever wanted in a Spider-Man movie. We really get to see Tom Holland's Spidey fight these other movie villains like Willem Dafoe's Goblin. That was something I wanted for a long time but I never thought they would ever do that. And it has the phenomenal character writing I love about the Spider-Man character that makes him still my favourite superhero ever. However, with all that said, is this movie perfect? No it's not. There are some weird things in this. The biggest is some editing problems that felt so weird to me. There's the scene between Peter and Stephen when he goes to talk to him and I thought that part was edited a bit better in the trailer because the way it's done in the film is weirdly edited and put together. There's also one scene in a building where a lot of the characters were and we barely see them together. They're just in single shots by themselves. It felt a tad lazy to me. I dunno why they did it like that, but just having the characters in single shots like that was just really strange to watch. As someone who wanted to see them together a lot, it was weird to see it done like that. But, that's really about it. Really, just some of my problems were some editing choices and, while they can be kinda distracting, they don't really take anything away from the film. Really, this just feels like a movie that should be remembered just as strongly as Infinity War and Endgame because of how absolutely different and ambitious this film is. It does so many things that I've never seen in a movie before and it should absolutely be remembered for being able to do something like that. It was also cool to see some fan service with some of these characters too. There's some callbacks to the villains' appearances in the other movies and it was really fun to see and there was so much nostalgia in this too. So, yeah, really guys, the hype for this movie is totally worth it. This is one of the best cinema experiences I've had in a long time and I would say this is definitely my favourite M.C.U Spider-Man movie. Maybe my favorite Spider-Man movie period. So, I'm obviously recommending this. This film definitely deserves all the love it's gonna get. Like I said, it's far from perfect, but I had an incredible time with this and I can't wait to see it again. And so, yeah, everyone, that's my review for Spider-Man: No Way Home. Thank you all for reading and please comment below to tell me what you think. Okay, now we're getting into the spoilers. If you don't want anything spoiled, go see the film and then come back and read the rest of this.

Spoilers:

Okay, there's a lot to talk about in the spoilers here that I barely know where to start. Obviously the first big one to talk about with the beginning, Charlie Cox is officially back as Matt Murdock. I swear, as soon as he came on, I lost my mind. As someone who's been a massive fan of the Netflix shows and Charlie Cox as Daredevil in particular and has wanted the shows and movies to crossover at some point, this was insane and even though he was only in it for two minutes, that whole part was easily one of the best in the movie and I adored it. I can't wait to see more of him and it was especially amazing to see him interacting with Peter first. That was amazing. Okay, so I guess the next one is when the villains really do appear, it was cool and funny when Peter is able to control Otto's arms and seeing them interact was awesome. It was especially cool with Goblin showed up and then they just leave. It was also cool seeing Lizard already captured. I also liked how they redesigned Lizard. He looked different to me and he looked better in my opinion. I also thought Sandman first showing up to help Peter was cool. It was nice to see them team up against Electro. It was also cool to see how they fix Max and get his body back. And then the fight with Peter and Stephen when he tries to send them back was awesome. I loved seeing Stephen using the Mirror Dimension but Peter is able to still beat him. It was also cool when Peter goes back to the villains and Norman says "I'm something of a scientist myself." That was the part with the villains referencing the other movies I mentioned that I thought was cool. I also loved the scene where Peter and the villains go to his apartment so he can help them. That was that one scene I mentioned that was kinda weird with how everyone was in single shots. That scene was awesome, but I didn't like how it was shot with the villains not in a wide shot together and we just saw them individually. It was still cool, but that did bother me. But, the scene is made even more tense when the Goblin comes out of Norman and he convinces the villains to go bad again. And, I'm not gonna lie, the part where May dies was the part that did make me cry. I really didn't expect to cry in this, but that scene really did make me cry and Tom Holland and Marisa Tomei's performances were a huge help in that. And, then, the biggest spoiler in this whole film, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield both return as Spider-Man. I'm telling you, as soon as they came on screen, my audience roared and I was the same. After all these years and after so many fan theories, they finally, finally, finally did it. They really did a gigantic crossover with the three big screen Spider-Men and I loved it. I'll be honest, I was kinda nervous about that that maybe this would destroy the film, but, no, it just added to it and made it so absolutely phenomenal. I couldn't believe it when they came on and it was amazing. And seeing three of them have the traditional M.C.U banter was amazing. They worked off each other so well and I couldn't believe what was happening. I was just acting like a child when they had their scenes together. And, really, the performances from all of them really sold the chemistry between them and made it all the more fun to watch. And, seeing the three of them fighting alongside each other in the final battle was a dream come true. My favourite shot in the whole movie as well was either when they were running together or when they all landed on the Statue Of Liberty. Plus, the way they all get there, with Ned actually using magic totally surprised me. I didn't see that coming and I love how they did that and gave him more to do in this. And, not only was the interactions between the three of them great, but also the interactions with the villains. I loved seeing Garfield talking to Electro and then Maguire talks to Otto and Sandman. And I think they even make amends as they're curing them. I especially liked seeing Garfield and Max talking and I love how he references Miles Morales. That especially was so cool. Plus, another one of the things I hoped they'd do that they did do when MJ fell. Me and a bunch of people theorised that when that happened, Garfield was gonna catch her and he did. My God, I could not believe that I really saw that happen. But then it's really cool when Holland's Peter gets in that fist fight with the Goblin and that was pretty brutal with them both pummeling each other. And, I really did think Maguire was gonna die when the Goblin stabbed him. But it was nice when they got Norman back. And I also loved the ending with the three Peter's saying goodbye to each other but then it's made super tragic when Peter has to sacrifice his whole existence to stop those beings from coming through so he has to make it so that not a single person knows who he is and his farewell to Ned and MJ was really sad and kinda sweet too. And I like how Peter was able to make amends with Stephen before he casts the spell. And, I loved how it end with Peter's existence being erased from every person's memory and I liked the scene that follows with him at the graveyard and him talking to Happy who now doesn't know him and then he goes to the restaurant MJ works at and their conversation was really nice. And I also thought the ending made sense with Peter making a homemade suit and making it look like the Classic Suit and it makes sense considering he no longer has access to Stark Tech and I like how he's basically been reset to square one and he's probably gonna fight smaller scale things again. And, yeah, I just loved the ending. so, yeah, really guys, this just had everything I could ever want in a huge epic Spider-Man movie and it totally delivered everything it was aiming for. I just couldn't hold in my excitement while watching and this was just such a cinematic experience. As far as the mid credit scene, it was kinda weird. We just see Eddie talking to someone and then he's beamed right back to where he belongs. Okay, yeah, that was pretty annoying. I was really excited to see them interact with Tom Holland in some way, but that didn't end up happening. I did love how there was a piece of Symbiote left over which means there could be a Venom in the M.C.U, but, yeah. It was annoying we only saw this Eddie in it for just thirty seconds without him meeting anyone and then he's brought back. That was disappointing. But it doesn't take anything away from the film and I am excited to see what that Symbiote piece does. And the actual end credit scene with that Doctor Strange: Into The Multiverse Of Madness trailer was cool. So, yeah, overall, guys, I can't express my love for this film enough. I am absolutely recommending seeing this even if you've seen it already because I'm definitely gonna try to see it again. As far as the M.C.U this year, this is definitely my favourite thing to come out of it and I had so much fun with this film. And, so, yeah, everyone, that's my review for Spider-Man: No Way Home. Thank you all for reading and please comment down to tell me what you think.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Anime Review) Part 1

So, I know it's been a few months since my last anime review, but I'm finally back with them again. The reason I stopped was because I was beginning to watch a lot more new anime and I wanted to watch them before doing more of these reviews. But, now I'm back with them with my review of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. I haven't seen all of the parts of JoJo yet. I've only seen Phantom Blood up until Stardust Crusaders. So, this review will only be talking about the first three parts. That's why the title says Part 1. I'm hoping to start seeing Diamond Is Unbreakable and Golden Wind really soon, but, for now, I'm just doing Phantom Blood, Battle Tendency and Stardust Crusaders. So, anyway, yeah the JoJo series is insanely popular throughout the world and I myself have been curious to check it out for a while. I then decided to get the Blu-Rays for the first three parts because they were the only ones that were available here and I wanted to see what the all the hype was about. It's another Shonen Jump series created by Hirohiko Araki and the basic plot for all of them is that each part follows a member of the Joestar family as something happens in their lives that causes them to need to stop someone from doing something in some way. So, let's just get started with the original, Phantom Blood. I actually hadn't heard that many great things about this before starting, especially from one guy in particular who said he really didn't like it. So, I went into this first part curious, but also pretty hopeful because I knew this was such a huge series and I was excited to start it. And, in the end, yeah, I'm pretty much the same. I personally didn't like Phantom Blood. It's not bad and, as a whole, it is good, I suppose, but, I personally just found the vast majority of this first part really boring. I know the manga started in the late eighties, which was actually when Dragon Ball was still being made, but I really don't think it's aged well at all. There's so many parts of this that're really cheesy and I couldn't get behind this. The plot for this one is that a guy named Dio Brando is adopted into the Joestar family and he decides he wants to take their fortune for himself. In the family is a guy named Jonathan Joestar and Dio tries to make his life a nightmare so Jonathan has to try to stop him from killing his dad. So, I will admit, the set up for the series is actually interesting and I know how iconic a lot of these characters are, especially Dio as one of the most iconic Shonen Jump villains ever and he was probably my favourite part of this first part. As for the rest of it, I was honestly really bored while watching most of this. Jonathan himself in particular really bored me. He wasn't bad but he was just so uninteresting and bland. And, since we follow him for the whole time, I found it kinda hard to get through most of this. Like I said, everything to do with Dio was far more interesting because he was pretty fun to watch. It's kinda hard to explain but it's kinda like Frieza and Hisoka. They may be irredeemable villains who do horrible things, but they're just so much fun to watch and so charismatic that they're impossible to really hate. And the stuff with him was interesting to watch and I did find it cool when we learn about Hamon. That stuff was pretty cool, but, really, a large majority of this still did just bore me a lot. And, I know Phantom Blood in the anime was only nine episodes long, but it felt so much longer and the episodes were dragged out so much and the pacing was so slow that I wished the whole thing would just end. And, I will admit, the actual ending is pretty cool on that ship when Jonathan and Erina get married and then Dio attacks him with his zombie army. That whole part actually is really good. And it's interesting that this is a Shonen Jump property when the main protagonist is killed at the end like that. So, that whole part was probably my favourite sequence in the whole first part. But, really, as a whole, Phantom Blood is definitely my least favourite part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure so far. The same goes for the dubbing as well. I'm obviously referring to the recent anime that started in 2012 and so they tried to modernise it, but I really don't think it works very well. The writing and all that may have been good for the time when the manga started in the eighties, but not really nowadays. And, like I said, I don't think the dubbing really helps because the writing really hasn't aged well. I was pretty surprised when I found out that Johnny Yong Bosch played Jonathan and, while not bad, Johnny Yong Bosch can never do a bad performance, this is definitely my least favourite performance of his. It's not his fault, Jonathan is just really boring and it's honestly really weird hearing him doing a British accent. I'd say, next to Dio, Zeppeli was probably my favourite character. He's the guy who teaches Hamon to Jonathan and he was probably my second favourite character. But, overall, yeah, I mostly didn't enjoy watching Phantom Blood. It may have worked back when it was released, but I really don't think it's aged well at all and, really, I was mostly just really relieved when I finished watching it. It may be really short with just a few episodes, but they feel so slow and so long that it's such a drag to get through them. So, yeah, those are my thoughts on Phantom Blood. Now, let's move onto Part 2, Battle Tendency. Now, while this may have come right after Phantom Blood, this is a gigantic improvement. This was actually the part I knew the least about in terms of the first five parts of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. And I think that helped make the experience all the more enjoyable because, from the three parts of JoJo I've seen so far, this one is my favourite. Its story is way better thought out, its characters are infinitely more interesting and the progression of the plot is really genius. I just had an absolute blast with Battle Tendency. This one follows Jonathan's grandson, Joseph Joestar, as he tries to learn Hamon to fight a group of villains called the Pillar Men alongside Caesar Zeppeli, the grandson of Zeppeli from Phantom Blood. So, yeah, again, I just had so much fun with this part. I loved seeing the characters interacting and what they spoke about was really interesting. I also liked Joseph a lot more than Jonathan because he was actually really fun. I loved his smart mouth attitude and he was really funny. I also really liked Caesar, he and Joseph had a really fun dynamic and it was pretty sad when he was killed. The Pillar Men were also way better as villains than Dio was. I liked Dio in Part 1, but there were point where he was a bit much for me, but the Pillar Men were better. Well, kinda. The only one that really stood out to me was Wamuu. There were four in total but the only one who really stood out to me was the one named Wamuu. One part for that was the writing, but another part was also the fact that Paul St. Peter voiced him. As in the same guy who voices Xemnas in Kingdom Hearts. So, that was obviously awesome for me to hear. But, really, he felt like he was the best written. I don't remember much about the others aside from Kars, as in the main villain of Part 2, but he sometimes was too generic. But the rest of the characters are very fun to watch. I really like all the side characters like Caesar, Smokey, Lisa Lisa and it was cool that Erina came back as a supporting character in this again. And I liked the plotline of Lisa Lisa actually being Joseph's mom but also not wanting to tell him for his safety and then taking him and Caesar in as her students. And, I'm not gonna lie, a lot of the training Joseph and Caesar were doing with Hamon reminded me of the training in Naruto with them learning about Chakra from Kakashi. I just couldn't help but make that comparison while watching it. The journey as well overall is just so much fun and the ending when Joseph, Caesar and Lisa Lisa go to try to stop Kars is also cool with them fighting different opponents and them having some gladiator thing with them fighting monsters was really cool. And, the ending as well is just insane. Like, I've seen some really insane final fights in anime before, but this one is just madness. We have Joseph trying to fight Kars and he tries to make him fall into a volcano but they both keep surviving in the craziest ways until he somehow beats him by launching him into space to make him freeze. Again, it's just absolutely insane, but it works really well. And then the actual ending with all of them reuniting with Joseph having married Suzie Q is really nice and kinda funny. I also felt like a lot of moments in this that were trying to be satisfying worked a lot more than the ones in Phantom Blood because, even though it was almost twice the amount of episodes in the anime, I felt like it was structured so much better. Really, overall, I just loved Battle Tendency. I thought it was a ginormous improvement over Phantom Blood and it had a story that was super investing and I had a great time with it. I would definitely want to watch this again at some point and I do think it's the best part of JoJo I've seen so far. But, with those first two parts finished, let's move onto Part 3, Stardust Crusaders. This was honestly the part I was most excited to see and it's easily the most popular part in all of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. I knew so much about this part and from what I saw, I was really excited. However, I'm not gonna lie, about 75-80% of this was a disappointment to me. Let's get to what I liked first though. First off, this has easily my favourite leading JoJo in it, Jotaro Kujo. Even before watching it, he was already my favourite JoJo from what I had seen in some clips beforehand. And watching the series confirmed that. He is easily my favourite character in this entire franchise so far. I loved Jotaro. I also loved the setup. In fact, the opening and ending to this part is amazing. This one follows Jotaro, who's Joseph's grandson, as he goes with Joseph and some other people to find and kill Dio who's after been resurrected and now Jotaro has to find and kill him to save his mom, who's also Joseph's daughter, Holly. So, the start of the series is really great when we're getting to know about what's happening and I also liked the inclusion of Stands, basically the main power system of the series which creates a being made of aura to fight for the person who wields it. And the Crusaders themselves were awesome. I loved all of them, Jotaro, Joseph, Polnareff, Avdol, Kakyoin and Iggy. I loved them all and the whole interactions with all of them was so much fun. I also felt like Joseph had more of a personality here. However, what I really, really disliked about this was the length. This whole part of the series is insanely long and so much of this does feel like a waste of time because the team is trying to get to Cairo to find and kill Dio but they keep running into people who're also Stand users and working for Dio and they would always just fight them and then move into the next episode and that was how every episode was. It was just them going somewhere and having a fight and then rinse and repeat. So much of this felt so much like filler. And, as you all know, I hate filler in anime. And considering so much of this felt like that was honestly kinda frustrating. It also kinda baffles me that this was all actually in the manga. I realise it would have been weird if they got to Cairo really fast so I do understand wanting to buy time to make it more like a proper story. But, this thing goes on for way too long and it just got boring for me. And the fact that it's ten volumes and 48 episodes long is just insane to me. I actually skipped most of the episodes after they got to Egypt because I knew what the vast majority of the episodes were gonna be. I will admit, there were some episodes that were kinda creative, but, for the most part, I was just waiting for them to get there. But, with all that being said, the actual ending of this part is absolutely phenomenal. When they actually get to Cairo and face off against Dio, it's honestly one of the best moments in anime I think I've ever seen. The whole part when Dio comes out at night and he starts chasing them through the city is amazing and the ending part with Jotaro finally taking him on is just the pinnacle of it all.

It's just anime perfection. So, the ending of Stardust Crusaders is easily the best moment in the entire series for me. And it's all the more tragic when Avdol, Iggy and Kakyoin all die. So, yeah, the ending of this is honestly one of the best pieces in anime I think I may have ever seen and it has a great setup with an amazing opening. However, the whole getting to that ending does feel hard to get to because of all the events that feel like filler. There was never really any where I felt super entertained and it really did just bore me a lot. But, the payoff for it all is totally worth it so I do totally recommend it for that. I also love the dub for this too, especially Matt Mercer as Jotaro. So, yeah, while not perfect at all, there's so many amazing things in this part and I definitely see why it's the most popular JoJo part. And, so, yeah, those are my thought on the first three parts of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. I can easily see why people are huge fans of this series and I see why it's insanely popular. I'm really excited to get started on Diamond Is Unbreakable and Golden Wind soon along with Stone Ocean and so, one day, I'll do a Part 2 where I talk about those. And so, yeah, I do recommend this series to you and I'm glad I got into it myself and I'm excited to do more anime reviews soon. And so, everyone, those are my thoughts on Phantom Blood, Battle Tendency and Stardust Crusaders. Thank you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think.