Chronigan said: There was so much potential in the idea of this world. A secret government orginazation takes orphaned girls, brainwashes them and uses them as assassins, while using total information control to keep the populace passive and happy. If you look at the end of the show, nothing has changed. Everything is as it was and our heroes don't care about the bigger picture. I feel so let down. I really cared about Chisato and Tanake and I loved their interplay. But the overall story left me feeling empty. Chisato in particular was such a lovely character, in the opening animation where she dances across the screen captured her lively personality so perfectly. I just wish she had been in a better story. totally agree with you, the premise of the show was amazing. When I watched the first episode I was really excited because of the endless possibilites the show had. But, after a couple of episodes I felt dissapointed on the plot because of how it throwed away the great potential it had. Tbh in my opinion, the show was carried by its characters and good action scenes |
Chronigan said: There was so much potential in the idea of this world. A secret government orginazation takes orphaned girls, brainwashes them and uses them as assassins, while using total information control to keep the populace passive and happy. If you look at the end of the show, nothing has changed. Everything is as it was and our heroes don't care about the bigger picture. I feel so let down. I really cared about Chisato and Tanake and I loved their interplay. But the overall story left me feeling empty. Chisato in particular was such a lovely character, in the opening animation where she dances across the screen captured her lively personality so perfectly. I just wish she had been in a better story. They needed the Hawaiian Chisato figure to sell. I started off loving the show but it fell off for me. Outside of Lycoris that we don’t know, everyone survived. It ended up being no real stakes. Gotta sell those LN’s. I get it if you don’t want to kill off Chisato and Takina but someone from the cafe should’ve died because of Chisato’s pacifism. To make her question it because it directly led to the death of someone close to her. That would’ve been more impactful but no just pack everything up and enjoy Hawai’i. That was a pretty lame ending, but what do they care, they have a sweet cash cow franchise now. Shut up and give them your money, lol. |
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| I like that ship flooding gets 10 times more people and comments than a real discussion of the plot. The motivation for watching the show is immediately visible to many people. Well, I agree that the show is very superficial and doesn't develop even a small part of its potential. But given the popularity of the anime and the announcement of the event for February, I think it still has some chance of getting a second season or at least an OVA. |
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| the show barely had a story and we still don't even really know whats going on lol |
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| i agree to an extent definitely. the story was actually suprisingly good at the start although not that great. as the show progresses the story stayed stagnant and the whole majima storyline was meh. but still, the characters and animation made for a good show, nothing special though. |
| CHISATO CUTE ME NO NEED EXPLANATION - me for a few weeks. but after seeing a bunch of girls brutalized in a subway... and the tower... and no one bats an eye? The author either hates women, story coherency, or just wrote it off lol. |
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| It's clear that the plot has been weakened to increase the audience's reach. Imagine that this is not cgdct, but cgddt (cute girl doing dark things), not something that will bring in a lot of revenue. |
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| Honestly I don't really care about the complexity or uniqueness or intelligence of the plot here. From episode one this show was just brainless fun for me and I absolutely fell in love with the vibes and the cast. I get how this is realistically maybe and 8 or 9 for most people but for me this is a 10 for just how much fun I had watching the show and how many emotions I felt and I think this is where the appeal of the show is. It's not made to be overanalyzed but to just go in have a great time and go out. |
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| It was fine. It all depends on what you want out of the anime. |
| I was disappointed with both plot and characters. Even the mob characters seem to be blind sheep as long as they get what their action is worth or something. But yeah, people will say u aint meant to think about the plot and you are supposed to swallow it against your will and just enjoy everything. Even if it means people living in a dystopian era where orphans are recruited to kill anyone who could be a threat without due process of justice and they have the ability to cover up everything with a propoganda video about lycoris. 1984 was more preferable than this shit. |
 Without change,we end up becoming the very person we hate. I was dead until the moment I met you. I was a powerless corpse pretending to be alive. Living without power, without the ability to change my course, was bound to lead me to a slow death. |
| I was also expecting more info on the Alan Institute but it never came. |
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Chronigan said: There was so much potential in the idea of this world. A secret government orginazation takes orphaned girls, brainwashes them and uses them as assassins, while using total information control to keep the populace passive and happy. If you look at the end of the show, nothing has changed. Everything is as it was and our heroes don't care about the bigger picture. I feel so let down. I really cared about Chisato and Tanake and I loved their interplay. But the overall story left me feeling empty. Chisato in particular was such a lovely character, in the opening animation where she dances across the screen captured her lively personality so perfectly. I just wish she had been in a better story. Agreed. Chisato and Takina's relationship is probably one of the best i've seen in TV. I loved the ealier eps a lot (even if some things didnt make sense), and the part where Chisato encouraged Takina not to investigate the subway gave me hope that there would be actual SoL instead of shit drama. I would have forgiven A-1 of all their sins if they let Chisato and Takina deal with episodic problems (ofc with guns), sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing, but maturing and strengthening their bond whatever the outcome. But alas, money comes first for A-1 and shitty dramas are inevitable .-. |
| I'm not fazed by such things anymore. Plot based anime are generally disappointments. They have potential, but rarely realise that potential. Since I focused on the characters in stead, I could both like and appreciate this show. If I was looking only at it's plot development I'd have given it a 6, but because I didn't and focused my attention elsewhere I gave it a 7. In the end Japan is improving, but has a ways to go, until it perfects it's story telling in anime format. |
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| you watch this because of the characters and their cute moments and not the plot |
| The SoL scenes were awesome, really entertaining. The overarching story was alright, the execution was crap though. |
| Theres a lot of garbage story but if you sum it up, its a still solid 8/10 anime. Lets put it this way. Story 5/10 Art 9/10 Fan Service 9/10 Yurification 10/10 Average: 8.25 |
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| It's a story about the clash of ideals. Lycoris and the gubirmint have taken it upon themselves to enforce their ideals on everyone, without regard for what everyone else wants or thinks of that. What god gave them that right? They are simply forcing their own will on others under the assumption that they know better than everyone else. So Majima does the same. He goes on a rampage to enforce his own ideals on society. To forcibly liberate the people from the yoke of the system through chaos of such magnitude that it cannot be covered up or ignored. He wants people to be able to decide for themselves, for weal or woe. Chisato does the same in her own way. She ignores the supposed greater good and the expectations of others and lives her life the way she wants to, according to her own ideals, everything else be damned. Peace? Chaos? Irrelevant. She just wants to stay true to herself and help people. The world is full of heroes of justice. People who believe their way of living is the objectively correct one, that any opposition to this ideal is a threat to be eliminated, and that they have the right to make that decision on behalf of everyone else. All in all Majima seems to be the only one who truly appreciates the hypocrisy of that, which is why he takes it upon himself to act as the counterbalance, handing out guns to people and trying to tear it all down because he believes people should decide for themselves what kind of society they want to have, and to know the truth, regardless of how painful or frightening that may be. To him, peace is not worth trading your freedom for. To Lycoris, absolute freedom is not worth sacrificing peace for. To Chisato, neither freedom nor peace are worth sacrificing people's lives for. To sum up Majima's perspective in a quote: A gilded cage is still a cage. |
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