| Nearing the half way mark now, ten episodes in, how are we all feeling about this show? Probably the most ambivalent I've felt about a show this season, I'm constantly waiting for something to really happen here, and they tease you with possible plot points or important/serious moments, only to seemingly bait and switch with rather aimless or veering episodes. It's not that I don't enjoy these episodes, but it does leave me a little discontent. I appreciate SOL switch ups in action heavy shows, but this doesn't feel like that. I hardly ever care about the animation itself, unless it's incredibly jarring, but it hasn't exactly been top quality. If it wasn't for the hit or miss comedy and the more mystery elements, I may have dropped this already. But they're dragging this all out and I'm losing interest quickly. |
| Honestly it's been kinda underwhelming specially since I was kinda hyped up for it yet it didn't deliver. but it's alright. it is still watchable and slightly interesting. but this week's episode. Piwi's pipi-ing with the lady bard made my day. |
| When I started the show I was really into it but the last few episodes have been so so. I’ll keep watching but the hype has definitely wavered |
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| Honestly, can't agree with people who think this show is getting nowhere. If you crystallize decades of adventure anime into a single series, then Helck would fit that description. Heck, this type of show would drag out the recent cooking tournament for at least 3 episodes if it was back then. That's why the story direction is keeping up with the time while still abiding by the essence of a classic adventure show. I can see if anyone doesn't vibe with the comedy. That's pretty understandable. I even have some critics for the possibly misleading genre categorization on MAL. Yes, there are action scenes, but it account for too little for it to be the main thing. So no. I was disappointed with a lot of things from this show in the early five or so episodes. But after getting teleported and the show delivering a good ol' adventure trope, I am positively hooked on this show being one of my favorites of the season. |
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| I'm having a great time, it isn't outstanding but it is just entertaining, there seems to be a lot of mysteries. |
Peenutz said: I will not lie as a manga reader I actually very much disliked this 3-4 ep arc. It’s very boring. But everyone who has waited up to this point is about to be rewarded. We are only 2 eps away from the big pay off. Hold out till then. From ep 12 onward we will get an entire cour of insanely good story Good to know. I really like the characters but the last few episodes were not my favorite. |
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| I really love it so far, it's fun, full of action and with a lot of mysteries to unravel! My favorite show this season actually :) |
Aragane said: Honestly, can't agree with people who think this show is getting nowhere. If you crystallize decades of adventure anime into a single series, then Helck would fit that description. Heck, this type of show would drag out the recent cooking tournament for at least 3 episodes if it was back then. That's why the story direction is keeping up with the time while still abiding by the essence of a classic adventure show. I can see if anyone doesn't vibe with the comedy. That's pretty understandable. I even have some critics for the possibly misleading genre categorization on MAL. Yes, there are action scenes, but it account for too little for it to be the main thing. So no. I was disappointed with a lot of things from this show in the early five or so episodes. But after getting teleported and the show delivering a good ol' adventure trope, I am positively hooked on this show being one of my favorites of the season. If you like traditional adventure fantasy series, I think you’ll really enjoy Frieren coming out next season, you should check it out if you didn’t already plan to! |
Reply to MusashiKarlsefni
Aragane said:
Honestly, can't agree with people who think this show is getting nowhere. If you crystallize decades of adventure anime into a single series, then Helck would fit that description. Heck, this type of show would drag out the recent cooking tournament for at least 3 episodes if it was back then. That's why the story direction is keeping up with the time while still abiding by the essence of a classic adventure show.
I can see if anyone doesn't vibe with the comedy. That's pretty understandable. I even have some critics for the possibly misleading genre categorization on MAL. Yes, there are action scenes, but it account for too little for it to be the main thing.
So no. I was disappointed with a lot of things from this show in the early five or so episodes. But after getting teleported and the show delivering a good ol' adventure trope, I am positively hooked on this show being one of my favorites of the season.
Honestly, can't agree with people who think this show is getting nowhere. If you crystallize decades of adventure anime into a single series, then Helck would fit that description. Heck, this type of show would drag out the recent cooking tournament for at least 3 episodes if it was back then. That's why the story direction is keeping up with the time while still abiding by the essence of a classic adventure show.
I can see if anyone doesn't vibe with the comedy. That's pretty understandable. I even have some critics for the possibly misleading genre categorization on MAL. Yes, there are action scenes, but it account for too little for it to be the main thing.
So no. I was disappointed with a lot of things from this show in the early five or so episodes. But after getting teleported and the show delivering a good ol' adventure trope, I am positively hooked on this show being one of my favorites of the season.
If you like traditional adventure fantasy series, I think you’ll really enjoy Frieren coming out next season, you should check it out if you didn’t already plan to!
| @MusashiKarlsefni Thanks for the great recommendation! Although tbh, I am already several volumes deep on that series, and I love it! |
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| The first episodes did a good job to keep me interested in what secrets are Helck hiding. The problem is, after the teleport, it feels like filler. After these episodes I'm no longer interested in Helck (I'm talking about the character, not the anime) or any character. For me, good characters are the best part of an anime, but I think this anime is lacking. The plot is kinda interesting but it's taking too much to deliver after 10 episodes. I don't think it's bad, but I lost the interest. I'll put it on my drop list for now, but I doubt I'll pick it again on the future. |
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