Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World (light novel)
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| A great introduction for sure !! Although I don't see it happening , but I hope Silver Link make somehow a happy ending for this one in which at least Alice & Iska are seen together |
For your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him. And honour your parents. If one or both of them reach old age in your care, never say to them ˹even˺ ‘ugh,’ nor yell at them. Rather, address them respectfully. And be humble with them out of mercy, and pray, “My Lord! Be merciful to them as they raised me when I was young.” (Holy Quran 17:23-24). |
| Ah there you go. Your dumb seasonal anime is coming. |
| "The future is always blank. Only your willpower can leave footsteps there." "Ruling over death means ruling over life. Death is the climax of life. To have the best death, you must honor life." |
| So many things wrong, but why did I had so much fun watching this? |
SeinenJump said: Our Last Crusade is impressively overpowered in its production for how mediocre the plot is. It’s got some interesting powers and weapons but I can’t help but feel like there was some missed potential here for what could’ve been a decent political drama. From what we’ve seen so far it has the resources and concept to have been something that could’ve approached something of quality, but instead it jumps off a cliff into mindless action and horrible pacing. The way every female character annoyingly fits every female anime trope & aspect of fan service makes it seem as if the show doesn’t believe in itself... which is sad because as I mentioned before it certainly has the quality of production that deserves courageous direction but went full early 2010’s dime-a-dozen light novel. This was my feeling the whole episode, nonsensical decisions and plot from everyone showed so far, all female character are way over the top and we have generic kirito-kun as protagonist, but not gonna lie I enjoyed and will keep watching and thinking to myself what a great show it could've been. |
| Don't know why but this gives me late 00s fantasy anime vibes. The characters, setting and even the art somehow feels dated. One character was even using a flip phone, its been ages since I last saw an anime character using one. I am already getting Romeo X Juliet vibes. |
SeinenJump said: but went full early 2010’s dime-a-dozen light novel. Ah that explains it, but even so I feel it came out even earlier though its listed being published from 2017 onwards. |
Mortal enimies: a skillful Saint Disciple and a purebred Witch, a forbidden love affair. They're different, but with same goal: peace. Nice first episode. |
| Yet another LN adaptation by Silver Link which let's be honest no matter how plain this looks we're still gonna end up watching it one way or another. The visuals were okay, characters were fine (if a little cliché), pacing seems ok... and I could keep going on because so far this is nothing more than the definition of a big, round OK, if not a little bit above that. Kudos to them for no CG golem. |
| visuals are awesome |
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| A fine first episode, I’ll give this series a try. |
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| @_MushiRock11_ YES I kinda don't wanna create and hate this so much early, but it's pretty much a fantasy of the same Romeo X Juliet fashion (of which is one of the overused tropes ever) of which Shironeko Project is one of the many that fails. In partciular, this looks like the novelist had an idea to combine all of the cliches and tropes we know: a Kirito-lookalike in a fantasy setting that imitates the Romeo and Juliet vibes (a Saint and a Witch), all into a single package. I'd give the 80/20 hindsight that this anime will rinse and repeat, but the lesser promise that this delivers as proceeds. The "promise" of the 2: Saint Disciple Iska and the Ice Calamity Witch Aliceliese, the Romeo X Juliet vibes all start...with an accidental princess carry and a handkerchief. How lame... At least it grasped my interest for this show at the very least. Hope this show knows what it's doing though. |
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| Hmm quite interesting of a show. Isaka and Alice both want to stop the war with the astral mages but they have different ways of doing that. Lol at the ending. |
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KANLen09 said: YES I kinda don't wanna create and hate this so much early, but it's pretty much a fantasy of the same Romeo X Juliet fashion (of which is one of the overused tropes ever) of which Shironeko Project is one of the many that fails. In partciular, this looks like the novelist had an idea to combine all of the cliches and tropes we know: a Kirito-lookalike in a fantasy setting that imitates the Romeo and Juliet vibes (a Saint and a Witch), all into a single package. I'd give the 80/20 hindsight that this anime will rinse and repeat, but the lesser promise that this delivers as proceeds. The "promise" of the 2: Saint Disciple Iska and the Ice Calamity Witch Aliceliese, the Romeo X Juliet vibes all start...with an accidental princess carry and a handkerchief. How lame... At least it grasped my interest for this show at the very least. Hope this show knows what it's doing though. Exactly, lol. "Rinse and Repeat - the Anime", maybe. Still fairly entertaining though so I'll be keeping up with this as well. |
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| Oh wow the fact that this is set in the modern world really threw me off at first lol. My brain was just processing it like "Wait.........but its magic and swords and shit..........but theres army jeeps and guns...............*Thinking* XD. Its interesting that the main characters are on opposing teams. I hope they continue that interesting theme. Now Im glad the male didnt win just cause male protag and OP swords. I really hope they stay equal in power throughout the series. Whispers: And you know, not do a SAO and have the girl become useless suddenly. Its funny cause when the maid started talking the first thing I thought was "Oh wow its EvilEye from Overlord" XD. The same thing happened with the heroine like "Oh its the lizard from Overlord" cause these two voice actors I havent heard in anything other than those roles. So far I havent really got much of an opinion of the series. Right now its just 'fine'. Its a bit of a jaring start since we're just being thrust into it but whatever. (I think I'll leave a bit before moving onto episode 2). Overall just from this episode 1 I think this is just gonna be an alright series, nothing amazing and probably pretty cliche. |
| Yuritopia FTW!!!!!!!!! BANZAI TO YURI !!!!!!!!!!!! |
| I hate myself for having expectations. I liked the synopsis and thought if executed well might make for an interesting anime but well what I got was one of the most painfully generic anime ever. It ticks off every box of generic anime fantasy it's not even funny. Characters seem garbage, mc is kirito 2.0 and main girl is asuna 2.0, you just know male mc will have to save the girl every time even though she is supposed to be incredibly powerful. The princess carry scene was cringe, help me. Goddamn it when I first saw that big shot of the tech city it looked cool as hell but thats all I liked of this show AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. |
| Em… Just watch it as a light comedy. The set is a little bit stupid, so it looks like I should empty my mind to watch it. |
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| Generic harem Ecchi cliché romance anime. Had a slow start but things got a bit interesting in the second half....until that bridal carry.....huff.. Since the plot seems interesting, I'll continue watching this... Didn't expected it to be set in a modern world. |
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| uuuuuuUUUUUGH so much talkiiiiiiiing. I mean, there's some lovely animation in the few seconds of fighting we get between some boring curbstoming by the protagonist and then TALKING MORE. And then there's an actual fight between equals but instead of animating most of it the camera focusses on MORE TALKING. And then.... they're suddenly in love? WHY?? Because he said he wants the war to end?? Lady, that's why a good half of soldiers fight in a war. Like... am I supposed to take her feelings seriously, or is how obsessed she is with forbidden love and how quickly she falls in love with an enemy fighter a legitimate character flaw? Seeing how the entire story seems set up to revolve around shipping these two, my guess is no, I'm supposed to take this seriously. Like, I want to say there's some potential here, the animation is alright and WOW AN ACTUAL LOVE STORY IN A MODERN ANIME, but I'm definitely not continuing this any time soon unless someone I respect the taste of says it gets good later, because this first episode was a prime candidate for a "how not to do an opening" bingo card. What an insufferably paced first episode. |
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| Whoa.. great start from the adaptation of KimiSen, one of my anime/adaptations that i anticipated this fall. I used to read the manga adaptation some time ago, and so far i really liked it with the theme of kinda RomeoxJuliet Setting that wanna end the war between their faction/country with each of their ways.I also like Medieval , Fantasy, and Millitary setting in this series. As for me, the IskaxAlice moments are the things that i really eager to see in this adaptation other than the battle itself, I hope they adapting it well. Great start with some intro's and backstory, the meeting between the two, short battle and awkward moments(when Alice felll of the the cliff and catched by Iska) following into cute ending scene with them meeting in the Opera at Neutral city. Nice OP, beautiful and earcatching. Can't wait to enjoy and finish this ride of adaptation, wish to see more IskaAlice moments :D. |
r16fourarmDec 27, 2020 3:51 AM
| The introduction to the other characters feel clunky here, but the Iska vs Alice confrontation was interesting enough |
| That was actually kinda cute...the character design is really nice, Iska is pretty and looks like a black-haired Yuki Souma xD Girls are definitely made for the male audience...but the fanservice isn't really tasteless or anything. I'll try another ep... |
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| The synopsis drawn me in to watch this anime and.... while this isn't masterpiece or that very good, this is decent for an LN adaptation which usually is boring and mediocre. I like the concept of this show which shows both opposing sides, this is interesting :) |
 (っ◔◡◔)っ 𝓘 𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪 𝔀𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓭𝓪𝔂 ♥ |
| Interesting military-fantasy premise with on one side the humans and the other the mages. They really implied the Romeo and Juliet type of romance that will happen in that opera scene. Iska with his dual blades seems like an upgraded version of Kirito lol. |
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| falling in love with enemy on battlefield and then meeting them in theater :D |
| Pretty good first episode. |
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| It's not an isekai, I'm surprised. Wierd world though with modern technology, but the strongest people are still fighting with swords. Guess apart from that it's a technology vs magic thing, I like the female lead so far though. |
| That blue-haired girl is so damn annoying. How come she became a captain like that ... |
| Now that I finished a rewatch of a different 2020 show, here I am back in 2020 again but the Fall this time to refresh my memory on another show I watched during that year, this was one of my Fall 2020 shows that season but this was right before I’d start writing MAL posts in Winter 2021 so you won’t see any posts from me back then on here, I actually wrote stuff on discord but didn’t start putting them on MAL yet. And i remember liking this show quite a bit, it wasn’t a favorite of mine that season but I enjoyed it, and this first episode is probably the one I have the best memory of, like Iska getting the princess carry with his arch nemesis lol, guess they forgot they’re fighting a war for a second there. Definitely a pretty good start to the show, my memory gets hazy from here so it should be an interesting rewatch, and that OP is pretty nostalgic now, a great song too, but what i remember loving the most was the ED, I’m excited to hear it again as well. And lastly, if my memory serves me correctly I think I picked this show because it was by Silver Link, who did “Misfit of Demon King Academy” the season before this one which I really liked, that could have been partly why I didn’t like this one as much but we’ll see how I feel this time around. |
| A little too cheesy right off the bat and not much information. |
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| It didn't seem to be anything special. The animation and production was actually solid. In the fight sequences. However the dialogue, overall scene, story. Everything was well sub-par. I figured it was going to be carried by the actions themselves. As things ramped up. Then we see the last scene. And its just eyyyy lmao. Now I see what this is all about. |
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