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| Very fun show!!! As much as I wanted some romance, I'm kinda glad there wasn't lol. 7/10 |
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| It wasn't the greatest show ever, but I am saddened by the fact that I probably won't see any of the characters ever again because they were all very likeable. |
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| Okay but Masaya in his flying suit at the end! HE WAS LOOKIN' FIIIIINE!~ |
| Well, that ended better than I thought, still not super-fond of Asuka being able to turn off the balancer after only one former attempt at it. I'm not fond of genius characters, anyway. I find the term 'genius' hard to believe. Also, can you feel how bad Misaki could feel? Once again, she wasn't taken seriously. In a way, I'm proud of her now that she doesn't take it to heart, but still, you know. Wish the series was more about Misaki than Asuka, would be at least 7.5 worthy. Good anime, over all. Misaki and Mashiro kept me interested, and Asuka was cute, too (albeit OP) Sad thing is, romance tag held no meaning. Masaya was thrown to the side, too much focus on Asuka etc. 7/10, I liked the art a lot, the atmosphere was nice, too. It could be 8 though, sigh. I'm gonna miss the songs a looot esp. the ending song <3 Okay, maybe it is 7.44/10 |
TragicRomanceMar 30, 2016 3:22 AM
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| Just for anybody wondering, there was so much complaining about the Romance tag (I can understand it, it was missleading) that I conatcted a mod and it was removed...now, people who pick that up will not be confused :-) |
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| That was probably the second best episode after Haikyuu S2 episode 24 this season. Holy fuck, that was entertaining. 7/10, average series with a sick finale. |
| This battle fackin epic. Really loved it damn. I will definitely play the VN!! Will miss this anime 8/10. Btw really sad that there was no romance tbh. |
| Yeah...somehow made it to the end Not terrible, not any good either 3/10 |
| Actually, this episode was very good in my opinion. i wasn't expecting that. but overall i predicted eveything. 'Who will win' and 'Asuka will turn off the balancer' I expected that. but i didn't expect the fight would be really great. to be that is a great fight to see. really beautifull. probably the best from the series. In the sports side, i like it overall. they save the budget for this episode i guess XD And now on the sportsmanship side.... i dislike it and i think it's stupid. not really dislike it that i even hate it so much. just dilike it and i bothers my enjoyment. I dislike it because i think it is stupid. i think it is stupid because What were they trying to do with the sports. she was talking about being a perfect FC and bla bla bla....and on the other side, this is wrong.....bla bla bla.... well i think that is wrong way to fight, but not completly wrong. there is always a way to counter it. something like that which i dislike. and more like when they just realize how to couter it "OH! we just need to fly up-side down. i didn't think about that" Like what??!!!! even a normal human can come up with that idea in that kind situation right away!! i seriously think that is stupid. well, something like that. Since there is no romance so i'm not gonna talk about that. i'm dissapointed obviouslt but! not really bothers my enjoyment. i really like the sports tbh. there are some relationship between girls too, i like that too. most part, i like it and enjoy it except the Sportmanship. i give it 7.7/10. but! i put it 8/10 on my list. this anime could be more better if they put romance and put a little bit more effort in the action in my opinion. i wouldn't mind a second season IF! there are some improvement or another studio will make it. |
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| Nice episode i enjoyed it a lot. I liked this anime, it has a light theme with very light drama here and there. I can see myself playing the game when/if they finish the translation. 7/10 |
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| Holy hell, what an episode. I was blown away by the quality, though I have already decided on the score. It honestly sucks that Inui lost, they could've just tied like two representations of perfect FC. If this didn't turn out to be just a Shounen with girls, then I would've upped my rating. Not much to say about the anime itself. Very fun idea of sports, sub-par story, okay characters, good OST. All of this makes Ao no Kanata objectively slightly above average to me. Final episode: 5/5 (surprisingly the second best last episode of this season.) Series overall: 6/10 I'd actually watch a second season. Lastly..: I mean, come on, the two spend a lot more alone time together than any other characters. |
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| Great ending and Masaya wearing the FC outfit too Dat ending song <333 |
| I really liked the extra time battle between Asuka and Inui! Asuka too OP Overall an average anime, could've been a lot better. |
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| We all knew she would win in the end lol. A great entertaining episode though. Inui is pretty cute. Time to play the VN. |
| This was the anime I always watched waking up in the morning; it kept me entertained for a while, and it woke me up. I'm going to miss my "wake up after a good sleep" show. 6/10 |
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| The match was amazing and Inui finally had fun while flying! 7/10 |
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| Don't care what people say about this Anime. O.O 10/10/10/10/10/10 for me. D:< 7/7 IGN 5/5 GABEN NOWELL 10/10 MAL. OSCAR WINNER |
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| This has to be the first time I've ever seen a VN adaptation completely do away with the usually dominant romance part, but somehow it actually worked out rather well for this. |
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| Aww, that was a pretty nice ending! I really enjoyed this anime and I'm hoping there's going to be a season 2 in the future. :D |
| This was a great series, lots of ups and downs and excitement. It was all pretty predictable, but delightfully so. With a final match like that it definitely finished on a high note. I enjoyed it all from start to finish as i love tournament anime like this, a solid 8/10. If a human were to fly with physical wings, they'd need to be about that big. Tigersight said: Occam's Razor: they probably did invent the "grav-shoes" and therefore the sport to develop them within a few years of this series taking place (like how car companies put money into races to show off and design vehicles); no more than a couple decades. There's probably design limitations that prevent rapid proliferation but yeah, not super relevant to the story itself. Talking about balancers, i explained this on an earlier episode:They pointed out that if you can fly the balancer off, you can fly a lot better than with it on. So... why wasn't practicing to fly with the balancer off the first thing anyone had to learn when they decided to pick up FC? Seriously, it's like race car drivers not realizing that putting a 60mph limiter on their car makes their car slower. Just... wut? I swear, they must have created the sport within the last like 4 years if the players are still figuring out such basic things like this. I enjoyed the show overall, it was really fun and light-hearted, but so much of the actual sport is just ugh. Oh well. GenesisAria said: Last comment supports above occam's razor. It would make sense to have gloves too like iron man and so on, but hey, it was enjoyable. There's no point in nitpicking unless it's just for some additional curiosity or for a lark.As far as balancers, i can't speak for the the story's universe, but coming at it from a scientific perspective i can say it's much like the assistance systems of modern aircraft. They're there to keep you from passing out or crashing, but you can "flip off the safety" and go in full manual. If you have enough skill you can control it better without the 'training wheels,' so to speak, assisting with fundamentals. So it's a logical limiter not a power hard limiter. To be honest, if i were flying with anti-grav like that, i'd probably want gyros or em fields for efficient maneuvering and reorientation. ...If they invented anti-grav boots, why aren't the cars and stuff all flying too? An invention like that would transform society pretty quick. You'd have to rework all of the airspace laws. |
GenesisAriaApr 2, 2016 5:10 PM
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| I know this last episode is going to be predictable and cliched, but damm....it's still breathtaking and beautiful in its own way, love the execution Best match in the entire series, really fitting to be finale 7/10 really enjoyable |
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| I'm super impressed with the G-forces that these high school girls can pull without passing out. Or breaking their necks. |
| Really a pleasant episode to follow, involving the final battle and the management of the narrative. The drawings and animations were more than reasonable quality, a feast for the eyes. The only regret is that history is short-lived, I think you could pull more from this anime series. |
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| I'm so disappointed in this ending :( The first half was kind of expected, didn't see them going to extra time, but the second half was SO cliched ... how the heck did they let Asuka turn off her balancer?! Not to mention Saki and Irina basically admitting "oops we were wrong" and Saki being "oh so this is what fun is" ... yeah, that was just terribly disappointing to me >_< As much as I liked everything else in this show (well, the characters were just OK I guess, but the animation and music were nice!) I always hate it when plots do that ... and yeah, I guess I don't like how the underdog rookies can always take out champs like it's nothing either. It's a shame because I was gonna give this a 7, especially considering how it could've been a harem setup but they actually didn't get into romance at all which was really refreshing, but yeah this episode is gonna make me drop the rating to a 6/10 >_< |
| That was purely EPIC last episode on their Final Showdown with limiters unleashed! Asuka modified the Delta Force and made their own Pentagram Force! cool! Asuka's three on one drills paid-off! and her evasion skyrocketed-up! 3rd point is from the skill Hyper Low Yoyo! Greensleeves tactics is ruthless! Asuka's win is very great sight to be seen! For me it was a Very Good show! 5/5! 8/10. |
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| This would be so much fun to play but give me some goggles please! I can feel how dry my eyes would be at the end of this. |
| pretty good anime, but I want to see more Masaya in action. kagami sensei seems cool too, I want to see them duel too! Valaskjalf said: Tigersight said: They pointed out that if you can fly the balancer off, you can fly a lot better than with it on. So... why wasn't practicing to fly with the balancer off the first thing anyone had to learn when they decided to pick up FC? Seriously, it's like race car drivers not realizing that putting a 60mph limiter on their car makes their car slower. Just... wut? I swear, they must have created the sport within the last like 4 years if the players are still figuring out such basic things like this. I enjoyed the show overall, it was really fun and light-hearted, but so much of the actual sport is just ugh. Oh well. Maybe the professionals don't use the balancer ? I don't know. It would make sense for people to train without the balancer for competition because you can get better performance. Maybe it's just too dangerous for high schoolers but there doesn't seem to be any rules regarding the balancers. They use balancer but maybe it's really hard to control so no one ever try flying without balancer. that's until Asuka and Saki tried to remove the balancer at the tournament. Now that people know it's possible to do it, people will start learn to fly without balancer. That's why Kagami said that the FC world will be changed after that tournament. |
| Oh man, what a finale! Really loved that moment when Asuka forces all of the water away around her and goes crazy with her balancer off. The power of insert songs, I was really moved and motivated by it. It really did go show how fun and free this fictional sport of Flying Circus really is. I definitely would have liked to see more of it or perhaps in more depth. Initially it seemed like a rather simple and seemingly so-so idea, but I really got invested into it. Especially with what Kagami said about it - that it should be something that both the participants and audience have fun with. That reminded me of Kaleido Star (so did the costumes!) and I certainly did have a blast with this final episode, Asuka! Both Ao no Kanata and Prince of Stride did something peculiar this season. They took their positions as visual novel adaptations and completely shattered my expectation of a status quo. I have to admit, I went in expecting either a boy meets girl romance or harem. Instead it turned out to be a really chill sports series. What's more, Masaya played a much smaller support role (as did Nana in Stride) so Flying Circus mainly consisted of girls. I think this is the closest I've come to seeing a proper girls team sports anime. Gotta say though, most of the main girls (Misaki, Mashiro, Asuka) were all hyper genki and I'm surprised it didn't backfire. It's easy for that high energy thing to get annoying but I ended up liking them more for it. 7/10 |
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| A bit unbelievable that turning off the assist wasn't used before by higher level players. Alright finale given the series as a whole. 6/10 |
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| That is how it ends? So abruptly? Kinda disappointing. And unfortunately a forgettable anime. 5.5/10 (rouding it to a 6... it was.. just fine). |
TechOtakuApr 30, 2016 9:15 AM
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| I think Balancers are like driving aids in the high performance cars. You turn them all off like the traction control and you have little experience, you'll be crashing into a wall. |
MagitoMay 1, 2016 6:45 PM
| The was very good match. Saki just decides to go toe to toe with Asuka and they both put on a spectacle. Audience loved it. I still didn't like the other chick, telling Kagami that Saki would toy with Asuka and then silence everyone afterward. And as the credits roll, Masaya is wearing his FC gear, wow all late. So in the end we only saw him in action for like a couple seconds and then back to commentary. Overall it was decent to say the least. It'll be one show people can remember, sideboobs, Asuka and the MC who failed to be a MC. |
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| In the end the show had a ton of cliches, but I still enjoyed it. Animation was so-so and the sensei's VA made me cringe, but Asuka was such a wonderful character and I'll be missing these characters. I liked all the random goofiness and the yuri bait scenes, even if came at the expense of other things. I really wish I had got more development! I just feel so empty. It feels like there was so much story left to be told... perhaps I will have check out the visual novel. |
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| this anime was a lot of fun for although I admit to picking it up on a whim. I enjoyed the last battle even though, I hate to admit, it was predictable. Still didnt stop it from being good. I want more FC though |
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| Decent ending. Kinda predictable, but enjoyable all the same. |
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| I played the VN and Im asking, WHERE IS THE FUCKING ROMANSE? Seriously this anime was boring af |
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| This ending is so. . . . . . 7/10 |
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| 8/10 - Pretty cool ending, concentrated on the sports only, balancer we're like a shackles to the bird who likes to fly higher freely, 9/10 Misaki Tobisawa very very AW-AW-AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, very easy re-watchable! |
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| Epic Duel xD. Inui Lose |
| Everyone should do themselves a favor and play the Visual Novel. It's amazing. Far better than...whatever this is. On Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1044620/Aokana__Four_Rhythms_Across_the_Blue/ On Denpasoft (18+, uncensored version): https://denpasoft.com/products/aokana-four-rhythms-across-the-blue It will also be on PS4 and Switch in August 2020. |
BStrifeSword114May 27, 2020 10:43 AM
duhu1148 said: Everyone should do themselves a favor and play the Visual Novel. It's amazing. Far better than...whatever this is. On Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1044620/Aokana__Four_Rhythms_Across_the_Blue/ On Denpasoft (18+, uncensored version): https://denpasoft.com/products/aokana-four-rhythms-across-the-blue It will also be on PS4 and Switch in August 2020. I didn't finish the anime because... ugh. But, as I finished the visual novel recently, I do agree that the visual novel is more worth it. |
TennoujiSep 15, 2020 1:41 PM
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Tennouji said: I personally think this adaptation works pretty well lol. Not a big fan of the romance anyway (aside maybe, Misaki) so I don't mind it being removed. Reading the VN itself feels like watching an anime to me. The anime is clearly inferior in terms of characterization but it's just nice seeing the flying circus in animation (that's the reason I watched it in the first place xd)I didn't finished the anime because... ugh. But, as I finished the visual novel recently, I do agree that the visual novel is more worth it. |
| A very mediocre sports anime with flying girls. Airhead Asuka has no business beating Saki "Monarch of the Skies". Saki is clearly the best junior. The "fun" stuff is dumb. It's about winning. Misaki route didn't fixate on fun, it was about winning and devising strategy. I only like the song that plays during the last battle. I think that was in the game where Aoi flew away to Europe (T_T) way too sad. Anyone who hasn't played the game should play on Switch, or Steam/PC (hentai version would be best if possible). It was a good game. |
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