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| Nice ending, BUT... How old was Samson when he married Marie...for that matter, how old was MARIE?! |
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| I had heard of the quality of this show before, still it was surprisingly good. The characters were great and they kept developing each episode, the story was interesting and gripping and the ending was absolutely outstanding (a trademark of Gainax). My enjoyment of the series and my score of it do not include the infamous island/africa arcs, I've heard of how bad they were and how they ddin't contribute to the story, so I skipped them and I'm glad I did, I didn't miss a thing. The second half of this episode had me in tears almost the whole time, the mere thought of the tragic existence and sad destiny of Captain Nemo contributed for that. |
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| I actually liked the ending. It was sad when Jean died and then later on when Captain Nemo sacrificed himself, just so that Nadia and Jean can stay alive (especially when Jean comes back alive again). I really felt sorry for Grandis, seeing that Grandis is one of my favorite characters. I did like how the ending turn out. I awwed at Jean and Nadia's wedding and at grown king too. And i kinda loled at Marie and Samson's part in the end. I was seriously like OMG. still good ending and i was glad i was able to watch it at animeseasons.com |
| Great last episode. It had me at the edge of my seat the whole time. So many twists, turns, and shockers at the last moment. I almost couldn't handle it. I'm glad they had an epilogue to wrap things up. lol. Hanson has a giant business empire. And who would have thought Sanson ended up marrying Marie. I would have liked to see Grandis ending up with one of the two at least. One thing though, was Electra pregnant with captain Nemo's baby?! Too bad we didn't get to see the child. |
toneytigreMay 25, 2011 6:20 AM
| Quite good for a 90s series. Hard for me to rate this higher since most of the days saved by those trio while main characters are kinda....ugh....especially Nadia :/ So 7/10 |
GnowmiNov 19, 2011 7:11 AM
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| dam i envy samson~ hahaha |
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| Ummm Sanson is a pedophile lawl no seriously, I enjoyed the series overall and how it concluded. It's unfortunate that the island/Africa arc is such a disaster because it prevents me from rating the series higher (why oh why did they decide to make those episodes) but I suppose the next time I watch the series I'll just skip those episodes. Anyways, this was a satisfying ending to an entertaining series. |
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| I fucking HATED Nadia, more than any other fictional female ever. Good thing everyone else was great otherwise I don't think I'd have been able to sit through this show no matter how good the story was. |
| Very nice ending (especially pedo Sanson), I liked the anime, I expected something else from the beginning, but it still was good, I'll give it a 9/10 |
| A pretty expected end for the adventure show that this is but I think it belies some of its scattered attempts at sophistication. Nemo impregnating Electra after saying he thought of her as his daughter in episode 22 is pretty weird. |
| I think the father of Electra's child is one of the radar operators or something - NOT Nemo. |
| I'm pretty meh about the epilogue, but that was one hell of a finale. Gainax really did have a talent for ending things on a high note back then. |
| Glad it ended well. When I was a child I watched it on tv and now I finally watched it to the end :) That part where his brother try to rescue Nadia was really well done! I didn't regret that I watched the filler arc. I was just curious how bad it really is and I timeskipped the most part of it. Time to watch the movie now haha... |
CCL_SamaMay 6, 2014 3:03 PM
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| Watching this really makes me want to watch more 90s anime or even before. They have their charm that can't be found in the nowadays anime. About this last episode, I feel like the staff pulled some convenient storyline which I don't consider it a strong and satisfying ending as it could have been. (And Electra being pregnant is weird...) However, I really like the after math told by Marie. After that, I don't think I'm going to watch the filler episodes as I planned to. It feel completed. |
| WTF? How am I going to rate this animu? A shitload of fillers then 3 completely mind-blowing episodes!!! RAAAAAAAAAAH!!! Also, Sanson president best supporting character ever 10/10. I love that guy. Teaching 4 yo girls to lie and cheat, then marry her when she's 16. Such a troll. |
Prophetess of the Golden Era  |
| WOW this thing got so corny and cliché. I stopped giving a rat's ass about the story. I really should have read beforehand and skipped those fucking fillers. They never bothered me so much before, but THIS... THIS was the FIRST FUCKING TIME FILLERS HAVE EVER PISSED ME OFF SO HARD IT MAKES 911 LOOK LIKE JAPANESE NEW YEAR IN THE BACKYARD. Gunbuster's end has WAY more sentimental value, even for a 6-episode series. ooooo look at everyone doing great 12 years later oooooooo SHIT I DON'T CARE ANYMORE MAAAAN WHY BOTHER SHOWING ME ALL THIS AFTER SHOWING ME ALL THAT Although the story DOES have some interesting theories that intertwine religion, legends, science (especially evolution theory), this shit spent more time making me hate the characters instead of liking them. I don't want to know what the hell happened between episodes 23 and 35. GAINAX, u fukin GAI tho i'm happy about Marie and Sanson That's all I care about everything and everyone can fuk thslvs ,,|,, who the hell cares about Jean and Nadia WHEN YOU GOT SANSON AND MARIE |
| So basically Nadia pulled an Usagi Drop way before Usagi Drop. Guy literally raised the mother of his future child. At this point I'm not sure what was weirder, Electra being pregnant with Nemo, or Marie marrying Sanson. I assume Sanson probably took care of her as well after the adventure, since without family, someone must have taken care of her. |
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| Jean/Nadia is cute and there's nothing wrong with Eiko/Ikolina. Sanson/Marie and Electra/Nemo are both fucking weird though. I'll just pretend they didn't happen like all the stupid fillers. |
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| That was a cheesy, yet very satisfying ending. I'm super happy with this show its a super easy 7/10 for me. Would easily be a 8 if the filler wasn't in there. The only thing that urks me is how wrong it felt that Sanson and Marie got married, I assume it was a totally pure relationship they had man. Was Sanson a lolicon that whole time? It just feels nasty, you aren't a part of raising a young girl to marry her man. |
| First my criticisms. Nadia: Secret of Blue Water, really wanted to be an adventure anime at first. Then it wanted to be a celebration of science and technology. Then it wanted to be a cautionary tale, combining discussions over the relationship between science, nature, and man. Then it was a romance anime. Then it was a science fiction action anime. Then it was a space battle anime with the world on the verge of being conquered, if not outright destroyed. I think this anime should have picked one identity - two max- and stuck with it. As is, it's somewhat disjointed, featuring a number of very interesting points, despite not all of them really connecting. This is on top of the inconsistent characterization of the characters, even outside of the problem episodes. In those cases though, the characters are more so used as talking heads to parrot ideas as opposed to being their own characters. The nature of its developmental problems really show, but it's not as bad as it could have been, luckily. With regards to what I liked, I loved the celebration of technology in this show, which really echo the original novel. I also liked the manner which technology was shown to be destructive as much as it's marvelous, which is, again like the novel. These were adapted to fit the modern day, and it's quite meaningful for an anime made for the Japanese audience to feature a narrative warning of weapons of mass destruction. At the same time, it's not necessarily a calling for regression. It instead proposes a middle ground, albeit being a lesson that's been done before, even during the show's original airing. Rather, it's more so interesting to see old stories renewed, carrying the same general lessons for the new age. It's almost a reminder of how far we've gone, as well as how little we've progressed. I'm glad to have finally watched this anime, as I've been hyped for it for the longest time. The ending was definitely the most graphic, being one of the few episodes to have blood I believe. The upgrades to art and animation also showed in the past few episodes, culminating to this one that gave this episode the proper climax feeling. I still have a number of minor nitpicks, but they didn't really distract from the overall experience. Great stuff. ...Though, I must wonder. When did Sanson start caring about Marie again? I remember questioning that before, but they never really felt like they had a connection. I'd also question marrying a girl you knew from when she was still a child, as I would question Nemo having a child with Electra whom he raised as his own daughter, but I think those an invitation to a world of headaches. Leaving Nadia: Secret of Blue Water as is, I definitely enjoyed the ride. |
ShockedOct 16, 2016 9:16 PM
| [..] To write; 5/5 Almost perfect children adventure, many good elements keeping it above other such shows. Both a celebration of GAINAX peoples taste and a proper rendition of ideas from Vernes. Stupid expansion episodes. Score: 8/10 edit: Aarond44 said: I thought gargoyle was beaten mind of unceremoniously which was weird I don't understand your sentence, what do you mean? He was like a father figure to a 4 year old girl and then became her love interest. I read this here & there on this website but what makes peoples here believe she was seeing him as a father? (for me, it was nothing else than Samson being "funny" enough for a little girl to "befriend" him like a "big brother". The closest persons to her age looked more like parental figures. ) Also, written like this, it sounds like the guy just trained a child to make her his wife (à la Gigi). By the way, Nemo who "saw Electra as his own daughter" might have make her pregnant. I was hoping he would raise her. What lead you to hope for this? (I never really saw such a strong affection developing through the series. marrying her is just... so gross. I guess no wedding would have been even more gross then. XD More seriously, since he didn't raise her, where is the problem? @CodeBlazeFate Did Samson appear to you like a father gifure over the course of the series? |
Rei_IIIJun 9, 2019 7:00 AM
| Just finished my rewatch of this series and I'm keeping the grade I gave it originally. The island/Africa arcs even when one skips them cannot be ignored completely and take it down a notch. Having said that, it's still one of the finest adventure/fantasy/science fiction combos in anime, with memorable episodes and some great characters. I for one love and will probably rewatch with my kids one day. Edit. Yeah Sanson/Marie is weird as heck but Electra/Nemo was coming. Nemo raised her it's true, but their relationship was never a real daughter/father one and once Electra revealed that she saw him as a man and almost killed him, well they only had one way to go if they were going to be together. Would have been interesting to see Nadia's reaction to having a little brother. Speaking of which, somehow seeing Nadia as a housewife rubbed me the wrong way. I just don't see a fesity, fiercely independent young woman like her just settling down and living the conventional married life that was portrayed in the epilogue. |
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| A wonderful and true ending of this fantastic series. Nemo's death was a proper death for such a warrior like him! Really loved all bits of this last episode and boy was that last part quite some nice future insight... I just hope that it won't clash with the sequel movie? Probably will I guess? Still I got to say I found this anime very enjoyable, keeping with the true story arcs of this series rather than the pointless and endless long ones like the island and Africa ones... with that said as well we can't really forget those so it's a bit of a shame to see such a great series as a whole be pretty much destroyed by some really really bad episodes... well I can't say I wasn't warned but heck was I disappointed for not listening this time! In general quite loved the whole series as is though, and what I didn't expect that could happen actually did with Gainax turning the epicness switch on again after all that shit and actually serving us a proper ending for this series. But like said I do wonder what the movie "sequel" actually will provide though. |
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| Even skipping the fillers this flows too unevenly and drags out quite noticeably. Revelations losing impact, as well as Gargoyle's actions after firing the 50th kind of weapon he has developed don't seem to matter that much at all. A pity because nice ideas were scattered throughout the whole series. Also the Sanson-Marie episode was probably one of my favorite ones from the series, not sure how to feel about making them a couple. Kinda gratuitous. |
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xyphoidosiris said: And during those years you can't call Samson a pedophile. Why? 'Coz that word don't exist yet back then. The word "pedophile" was formed in 1905. I guess they must've invented the word "pedophile" specifically to describe Sanson, then, hehe. That's my head canon. ;P |
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| what a ride & ending. i'm surprised sanson didn't get chris hansened away tho. i though he would be more of a fatherly figure till the end for marie but i'm not complaining. guess that's just how italian maffia works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ |
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Rei366 said: In a way, yea. He was easily one of the best characters of the show, even when it stopped being good over halfway through. Still, that couple thing...yikes.[..] To write; 5/5 Almost perfect children adventure, many good elements keeping it above other such shows. Both a celebration of GAINAX peoples taste and a proper rendition of ideas from Vernes. Stupid expansion episodes. Score: 8/10 edit: Aarond44 said: I thought gargoyle was beaten mind of unceremoniously which was weird I don't understand your sentence, what do you mean? He was like a father figure to a 4 year old girl and then became her love interest. I read this here & there on this website but what makes peoples here believe she was seeing him as a father? (for me, it was nothing else than Samson being "funny" enough for a little girl to "befriend" him like a "big brother". The closest persons to her age looked more like parental figures. ) Also, written like this, it sounds like the guy just trained a child to make her his wife (à la Gigi). By the way, Nemo who "saw Electra as his own daughter" might have make her pregnant. I was hoping he would raise her. What lead you to hope for this? (I never really saw such a strong affection developing through the series. marrying her is just... so gross. I guess no wedding would have been even more gross then. XD More seriously, since he didn't raise her, where is the problem? @CodeBlazeFate Did Samson appear to you like a father gifure over the course of the series? |
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