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Honestly, this finale didn't impress me much at all. Still the same formulatic way of selling its story with its repetitve gimmicks.
Except this time, it seems some characters are even more desperate to achieve their goals. As usual, the episode continues to show how far characters are willing win the game. Very gimmicky imo and nothing really worth watching for in the finale.
It did have a sense of psychology though I guess. The show overall still felt extremely underwhelming in the end to me. Surprisingly, I think Ryuuou is one of the characters I found somewhat likeable compared to others. 3/10.
Dorei-ku The Animation was the worst anime from this Spring.
Dumb characters lol. Plot holes. So bad that it's good. Even they have a dog as narrator in one episode lol. Pd: this is just Ousama Game without the deaths. 1/5 for the episode. 1/10 for the anime.
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Minato is exactly what I imagined a person would be like if they had slaves and the power of the SCM: beating up weaker bigger guys, toying with the lives of people and making women their sex slave. At least, in reality, he’s a fucking loser which is why he resorts to this.
I’m glad Shinnosuke is back, if Zushiohmaru is best dog, Shinnosuke is best boy. I love this guy and I hope that Yuuga pays him back. He’s fucking awesome and Yuuga is still an asshole.
I’m glad that Julia and Ryuuou were reunited. Seems like even if Minato tried he wouldn’t be able to enslave the chuunibyou, Gekkou because he’s too infatuated with the fatty, Maria.
I wish there were more scenes with Zushiohmaru.
Overall, the series is a 5/10. It had so much potential but the lackluster animation and sequencing just didn’t do it for me.
wait this was something… nothing was solved.. there are more administrators ..who can take action.. wait the big brother got fucked in the end….literally…so the big boss is the most unfortunate girl… how like what happened to her…
such a shame, the sotyr concept was great but delivered in such horrible way, this series had more potentials also the ending was disappointing, Setagaya got away also means there's a possibility for a 2nd season, not that i care much about that tho.
So setagaya got away with it, how disappointing. I see Nerima has Minato, we all know what he's gonna do to him. Shinnosuke and Yuuga are still arguing about the money. So in the end Shinnosuke and that glasses girl never again met.
I'm still disappointed that Sumida never got to be apart of the last, I mean the guy invented the SCM and Zushi never got his revenge against Setagaya. So it means it continues in the manga, but I won't read it though.
Overall I liked that it developed its characters and the story was enjoyable but far from perfect. The only characters I didn't like was Eiya and Yuuga, whenever they show up I got bored and frustrated. Their acquittance was strange and didn't quite get it. Eiya and Yuuga are the reason my rating is really low, pity they were the main characters. I also felt bad for the other slaves who were passed around like hot potato.
5/10.
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the manga is already bad, so i wasn't really expecting much from the anime and it still was worse than i thought.
the end seems rushed and badly executed, even though it's essentially the same thing that happened in the source material.
would be interesting to see what happened to them after it all ended.
hmm a lot of main events in the manga were emitted from the anime. but some were better to be emitted (at least for me) like
Julia's Pregnancy
one of the few things I liked about the anime apart from the opening is how each episode's name was chosen to end with the syllable 'ku' which is something I found clever and cool.
I can't believe I watched the all the eps in one day ヾ( ͝° ͜ʖ͡°)ノWell, the mvp here is Shinnosuke. I ahve a question, what happened to the scm that Shinnosuke sold? And I don't think Tsubaki should be left off the hook like that. Anyway, there are episodes that I enjoyed and I really like the op song. So I will give this 6/10.
Nurguburu said: Dorei-ku The Animation was the worst anime from this Spring.
Dumb characters lol. Plot holes. So bad that it's good. Even they have a dog as narrator in one episode lol. Pd: this is just Ousama Game without the deaths. 1/5 for the episode. 1/10 for the anime.
you are a Toaru Majutsu no Index fan you cant talk about plot holes i bet you don't know what that means lol
__amaterasu__ said: hmm a lot of main events in the manga were emitted from the anime. but some were better to be emitted (at least for me) like
Julia's Pregnancy
one of the few things I liked about the anime apart from the opening is how each episode's name was chosen to end with the syllable 'ku' which is something I found clever and cool.
The manga doesn't really go much further than this manga except to provide a bit more information on where the characters wind up after the end, which isn't so much going past this episode as providing additional information (it's only a few pages). Given how weak the anime ending is, I looked at the manga to solidify my opinion about this story and I wanted to clarify a few things about the characters, and the manga doesn't really help. In fact, I think it makes things worse.
After the warning line below, I'm going to talk about some information from the manga and then give my opinion about the resolution of this story in the last episode.
***** MANGA SPOILERS/CLARIFICATION FOLLOWS *****
So there were three things I wanted to find out from the manga and I did mange to find answers to both of those questions by skimming the manga. They revolve around Julia, who was the victim of a lot of mistreatment, whether anyone takes responsibility for her or what was done to her, and (in general) whether anyone shows any anger or remorse at what the more terrible characters did in this story.
The short answer is, no. A lot of awful people seem to just walk away as if everything is fine now and Seiya doesn't get back together with her. I didn't spot anyone seeming sorry for what they'd done to Julia or trying to be there for her or help her in the end.
1) Just how much of a sadistic monster was Ryuuou to Julia?
While it's hinted in the anime, the manga is much more explicit. He ordered her to pierced herself in various parts of her body and posted explicit nude images of her to the web. The anime and manga both seem to try to make Ryuuou sympathetic because of his mother's plight but this makes it clear just what a monster he really was to Julia.
2) Where do some of the characters wind up after the end?
The manga provides a brief summary of how all of the characters wind up in few pages. I'm going to talk about the endings for a few specific characters in the anime below.
3) Does Seiya ever explain what happened and reunite with Julia?
From what I saw in the manga, no, he doesn't. And it's even worse than that. More on that below, too.
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Before the summary descriptions of how the characters wind up, we see Ryuuou tell Julia it's over and she hugs him goodbye. Really, Julia? The kid who made you a slave, made you mess up your body, and treated you like garbage? You hug the little monster? And, no, Ryuuou's mother's condition doesn't excuse any of it.
Ayaka and Seiya wind up a couple living together. Ayaka leaves the sex industry while Seiya returns to being a host. Really? Ayaka winds up with the girl he couldn't stand and who wrecks his relationship with Julia and leads to Julia being tricked into being turned into a real slave who is abused by Ryuuou? He forgets all about Julia and moves on that easily?
Ryuuou, the little sadist who tortured Julia, winds up living happily ever after with his ex-prostitute mother. Really? That's it? Does he ever wind up abusing other girls or women the way he abused Julia, since he seemed obsessed and fascinated by torture or does he repent or change? I didn't spot any indication he changed.
In the anime, Ryuuou's abuse of Julia seemed less severe and he seems to genuinely fall in love with her, but where could that have gone, especially once he got his mother back? In the manga, Julia's obsession with being a slave to Ryuuou seems much more driven by the SCM and he just lets her go in the end and she just walks away from him. In the anime, was Julia supposed to wind up in a relationship with Ryuuou? Either way, this is a total unsatisfying mess.
And that still leaves the problem of Seiya and Julia. Weren't they really deeply in love? Do they just forget about each other? Does Julia excuse the abuse that Ryuuou inflicted on her? Does Seiya just forgive Ayaka for driving Julia away, leading to that abuse, as if everything is fine? Yes, I know Seiya played a role in that, too (by trying to trick Ayaka with the SCM), but it doesn't excuse what Ayaka and Ryuuou specifically did to mess up and hurt Julia.
In the manga, Julia is pregnant and winds up being a single mother trying to lead a healthy lifestyle. Yeah, that's a pretty sad ending for the girl who wanted someone to be with and hold her hand. I couldn't be bothered to figure out who the father is because it's likely either one of the real monsters who Nerima takes care of and it simply makes Julia's plight even more pitiful than it was in the anime. Life is far from good for single mothers in Japan since the culture assumes working husbands.
A lot of the rest of the characters just seem to simply continue on or reset their lives. Adachi and Nakano, for example, wind up working together at the princess cafe. Most of them are spun to sound like happy endings but is that really it? No anger? No remorse? Except for the two Nerima takes care of, no punishment? And let's not forget Nerima, himself, is quite the monster, too. He gets to continue on with his business.
So basically, lives are wrecked, people are abused, horrible things are done and they mostly just decide to forget about it, move on, and return things pretty much to where they were before? The bad people who wreck lives? Other than two of them, they get to continue on with their lives being awful people.
I've read accounts that during the Clarion science fiction writers workshops, science fiction author Damon Knight would take stories where the characters don't really grow, change, or learn anything and throw them across the room saying, "Who cares?"
A few characters seem to learn a little during this story, but the overall impression I got from the ending is most don't, so "Who cares?" Only two characters seem to experience any real punishment for their crimes, but most of the horrible things done early on in the story and by other characters seem to be quickly forgotten, without repentance or punishment. Meh.
Based on a fast skim read of the manga, it seemed like the anime tried to clean up and improve on the story, and it looks like a better version of the story than the manga, which seems to be an even bigger mess. Maybe they deliberately left the ending even more vague because they realized that no matter how they tried to clarify how things would go on for the characters, there would be no real satisfying ending in any of it.
Finally, I've read/watched a few manga/anime now that have stories that revolve around characters playing "games" where the losers get controlled and/or abused by the winners and, for the most part, the situations and characters are often pretty stupid, with characters winning not so much because they are clever but because the loser was stupid or ticked. To put it uncharitably, I don't think the authors of most of those stories are smart enough to pull off writing truly smart protagonists who win by real intelligence, so we instead wind up with stories about sleazy characters tricking and abusing stupid characters, instead.
It was enjoyable up to the first half but the last half is subpar. This was destroyed halfway through...
At most 7 but only 5 or 6 for me.
We didn't even get to the part of solving all mystery of the creation of the SCM, there should have been more than that! And also to the part where there should be a story where they physically destroy all the SCMs but I guess there's no such things in the source or from the author... (*MC just throw the SCMs like that like expecting someone to reuse them at a later time...*)
P.S. This is just a guess and nothing more than that and not even the main developer of the SCM is useless.
CrazyButNot4UMar 21, 2022 2:42 AM
It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines
and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it,
is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service.