This is my best anime! Akiba Research Institute Pro Reviewers chose 6 "Anime that Changed My Life"!

Writers, musicians, celebrities, and other "professional reviewers" who have a lot to say about anime are posting their reviews one after another.

We have introduced a number of recommended anime so far, and with the end of the Akiba Research Institute service just around the corner, we asked each professional reviewer to write an anime review with the most straightforward and simple theme of "anime that changed my life.
If you are interested in what kind of anime each work is, please read the full text at the link below, and after watching the full-length anime, please write your own review!

Shinichi Yanamoto / Writer

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Freelance writer who loves the outpouring of individuality and power. Author of "Super Shit Games" and "Super Nintendo Entertainment System" (both co-authored). He also writes articles on games for Akiba Research Institute.

Active in the subculture scene, including anime and games, Mr. Arjamoto's reviews are truly strong style! He is a strong reviewer of anime and games, and his reviews are always written by anime fans for anime fans, so you can't go wrong with any of his reviews.

Mobile Suit Gundam the Movie

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What enlightened me was a feature in an anime magazine that was just beginning to emerge at the time. The magazine's passionate editorial was a discussion of what was so great about "Mobile Suit Gundam" at a time when anime was not as widely recognized as it is today. It was an experience like a light shining on a place where I had been in a fog, and I learned the importance of speaking, communicating, and writing. This experience may have influenced the fact that I am now working as a writer.
The Ganpura Boom was a frenzy. I spent my days running home from school and visiting model stores around the area, being swept up in rumors of the arrival of new models. Gundam became a social phenomenon with the Gundam boom and the release of the movie version, while adults looked at me coldly and indignantly, saying, "Why don't adults understand how great this is? There is still so much more that can be said about Gundam, and no amount of space in the magazine will suffice.
Times have changed. Gundam has become a common language, and we no longer feel the resentment we once did. Even so, the stories and dialogues of "Mobile Suit Gundam" are still profound, and each time we revisit them on various occasions, we discover new charms. In this sense, "Mobile Suit Gundam" is not "the anime that changed my life," but "the anime that continues to change my life.

Densetsu Kyojin Ideon Katsudohen

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As an elementary school student, I had no idea what had happened. Everyone had already died. It wasn't happy, it wasn't birthday, it wasn't anything. But I somehow understood that they had made a mistake that they could no longer redo and had no choice but to reset everything.
What should they have done? I was horrified for a while after watching the movie and kept thinking about that last part for a long time.
The truth is, I still don't have the answer. I think that because they were human beings, they were gray beings with karma and impurities inside, and that is why they had no choice but to be given up on by the "idées". In other words, don't people continue to be given up on by the "idées"? The thought keeps going around, "Was the "idée" right to divide things into black and white? ......
For me, "Densetsu Kyojin Ideon" is another "anime that continues to change my life.

Irukuso Samejima / comedian, DJ

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The "non-frieza" of the comedy duo BAN BAN BAN, Ichirokuso Samejima founded the anime song DJ event "Anime Song Disco" in 2010, and performs anime songs at various venues in Japan and abroad, both large and small. He is a member of Yoshimoto Kogyo.

Mr. Samejima, who is active as a comedian, is also the leader of the anime song DJ event "Anime Song Disco. He meticulously checks anime each season and incorporates respectful performances of the full-length anime into his DJ performances. His reviews are unique in that he basically recommends anime to his family. This time, he recommends anime to his daughter, which gives the review a slightly annoying fatherly feel. Check out this review, which is sure to move readers' hearts with its ever-changing writing style!

Macross FRONTIER

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Actually, one of the elements of the Macross series, "singing," has gotten to my father. You're an ani-song DJ now, aren't you?
To tell the truth, I didn't know much about anime songs to begin with. But, by chance, he was forced into a situation where he had to become an ani-song DJ.
Two weeks later, I made my debut as an ani-song DJ.
That's crazy, right?
Well, I didn't have a job at the time, and I just had a lot of time on my hands.
I asked a friend of mine who likes anime to recommend a lot of ani-songs to me. I used to be a rock DJ, so I was confident in my ear for "good tunes. I listened to all the songs he recommended and decided to play only the ones I thought were good.
Then I found out that the songs I thought "this one, this one, this one, and this one are all from the same anime work.

That's right! They were all Macross F songs.

Osomatsu-kun

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It makes you laugh and cry! I often say that "Osomatsu-kun" is one of the hardest entertainment to make you laugh and cry, but I think it is one of the most difficult in the world of entertainment.
I think "Osomatsu-kun" has a "chic" quality that both the original story and the anime are able to handle.
Now that I think about it, I'm trying to pursue this "one-trick pony" feeling and the ability to make people laugh and cry in my own way.

Every Saturday at 6:30 p.m. It was a gag anime that I used to follow with a sparkling heart, wondering what this week's story would be.

Natsuki Sakamoto / Musician

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After playing in the bands Chirinuluowaka, She Her Hers, and Over The Top, Sakamoto has worked as a studio musician and producer for Creepy Nuts, DE DE MOUSE, HOME MADE Family, reGretGirl, Sour Girl Sayuri, Shiori Niiyama, Hoshimachi Suisei, Minami, and many others.

Active at the forefront of the music industry, Sakamoto is no stranger to anime; in 2023, "Mouichipon! He worked with Subway Daydream on the arrangement of the OP theme "Stand By Me. Since he has actually worked on anime songs, his reviews also use anime songs as a hook. The review is a must-see, as it reminds us once again of the relationship between the anime and anime songs!

Mobile Police Patlabor 2 the Movie

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This movie was recommended to me by an older colleague.

From the very beginning, it was dark...or rather, very disturbing...Was my memory of the robot animation with comical Izumi-san in my memory mistaken?
It couldn't have been such a realistic war story...

But it is interesting!
It's because the current times are unstable that Tokyo in wartime, depicted with overwhelming drawing power, feels even more realistic, and because I'm an adult now.
The psychological portrayal told only by facial expressions rather than flashy battle scenes draws you in.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

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There are songs that transcend the boundaries of anime songs and remain in the heart of each individual.
Among them, "Connect," the OP theme of this movie, is a particularly important song that inspired me to take a firm direction as an arranger, which is my main occupation at present, and it remains in the center of my heart during every production.