Did it start to lost its charm near the end?

Apr 12, 2023 7:57 PM

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No hate to the Summer Time Rendering but I just finished the show and idk about y’all but halfway through I started to grow tired of the show. Not saying it was bad but it felt long to me and by the end I just wanted to finish it because I spent so much time watching it. I would have personally loved it to be 12 eps (but I understand why it couldn’t do that with so much happening). Just wanted to hear y’all’s opinions.

Apr 12, 2023 8:05 PM

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I did not see it fell off, Summertime Rendering is very good till the end, and it's beautifully perfect, 10/10 no matter what!

Apr 12, 2023 8:07 PM

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I think only the last 2-3 episodes might have been just okay, but the rest was really great 👍

Apr 12, 2023 8:07 PM

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i agree with alot of what your saying, i love the beginning of the show, and as it went on grew to like the characters but it just felt long that what it started as was so different from the end, plus the story started to get so convoluted unnecessarily.
a show i felt that was long but has an interesting way to mix up the plot and make use of the 24 episode season format was a loll of the sea, quite different to compare but i felt more satisfied with the later half because even though the show changes from its original direction, it still kept it fresh

Apr 12, 2023 8:15 PM

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no in fact I love the end because of how the conclusion is brought to the picture and that one episode is actually spend on the conclusion to end the story. it's nice seeing a story with a begining a middle and a end it's rare these days.

Apr 12, 2023 8:20 PM

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AshIsConfused said:
i agree with alot of what your saying, i love the beginning of the show, and as it went on grew to like the characters but it just felt long that what it started as was so different from the end, plus the story started to get so convoluted unnecessarily.
a show i felt that was long but has an interesting way to mix up the plot and make use of the 24 episode season format was a loll of the sea, quite different to compare but i felt more satisfied with the later half because even though the show changes from its original direction, it still kept it fresh

Change of direction is a much better way of putting it thank you!

Apr 12, 2023 8:27 PM

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ChristianGivens said:
I think only the last 2-3 episodes might have been just okay, but the rest was really great 👍

the part when they went into the red domain place fell off a bit

Apr 12, 2023 8:28 PM

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I think it lost it's charm a lot earlier. The first 5-6 episodes were very good. Dark, mysterious, intriguing. Then it slowly degenerated into a cliche action/fighting shounen. By the time I got to the last episodes I was wondering if it was even the same anime I started watching

Nino is the objectively superior one, don't @ me

Apr 12, 2023 8:32 PM

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MissingNo178 said:
I think it lost it's charm a lot earlier. The first 5-6 episodes were very good. Dark, mysterious, intriguing. Then it slowly degenerated into a cliche action/fighting shounen. By the time I got to the last episodes I was wondering if it was even the same anime I started watching

meaning you saw the tree but not the forest. by EP 3 I could tell that the end we got was predictable because of how he died. the surprise was that even if everything was predictable from earlier episode (by max 6 you are suppose having everything figure out) it was still entertaining to watch.

Apr 12, 2023 10:14 PM

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it turned battle focused in the 2nd half cos most of the mystery had already been solved by ep 12-13. The author couldn't have kept stretching the mystery too much. What other ways can u think of aside from fighting that would've let them defeat the shadows?

Apr 12, 2023 10:32 PM

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no. I think you majorly trippin for this take bro

Apr 12, 2023 10:36 PM

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i feel like everything was really well except the fact they got the happiest ending possible, i dont think that was the best of conclusions

Apr 12, 2023 11:16 PM

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I don't like that it changed it genre. first 12 ish episodes are a horror mystery. last 12 are overly complex action shock. even then the action could've been fine, but there were a few moments where clearly the author was overly extending the story, Hige should've died like twice but it got in convoluted detail why it didn't work

Apr 12, 2023 11:35 PM

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I agree. I think they killed mystery aspect and became generic shonen in second half. I do like shonen but that's not the reason I went into this anime. So I kinda felt betrayed. Also for me interesting shonen villains is what make them enjoyable but Final boss in this show wasn't least bit interesting to me.

Apr 12, 2023 11:54 PM

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Animorphimagi said:
I don't like that it changed it genre. first 12 ish episodes are a horror mystery. last 12 are overly complex action shock. even then the action could've been fine, but there were a few moments where clearly the author was overly extending the story, Hige should've died like twice but it got in convoluted detail why it didn't work

this is it, in another response i said how the show just feels so different from the beginning to its end and OP even called it a change of direction but this is exactly what the change was. The anime just changes genres unnecessarily. Thank you

Apr 13, 2023 12:14 AM

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I absolutely loved the show. I love deep plot driven shows, convoluted stories etc. and this had an anime original happy ending too which is rare for this genre of anime.
I am a mega AOT fan and this show fits perfectly in that mold. It's rare to have such smart mc and fmc at the same time especially Ushio.
I couldn't get enough of the two.
Personally a 10/10.

I understand where you are coming from though. It gets a bit muddled and confusing at times to keep track of happenings (especially watching it weekly I felt so) and that can make the show feel stretched.

But honestly this went under the radar. Deserved much more praise and recognition. Should have been the Anime of the Year (much better than Cyberpunk).

Apr 13, 2023 12:55 AM

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I don’t think it lost its charm. I think the story could’ve been fleshed out way more intelligently, but at the end of the day it didn’t forsake what it wanted to set out to do. It never changes it’s tone or themes, and the ending is really satisfying. The landing isn’t anything groundbreaking but it was still an exceptional conclusion to an interesting story.

Apr 13, 2023 1:27 AM

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Honestly I really liked it around the beginning. It had a really strong start with a heavy mystery aspect and an actually really smart main character. However I feel like it started falling off near the middle where it started to feel like just a battle shounen with none of the mystery aspects it had earlier. It went from a 9/10 to a 7/10.

Apr 13, 2023 2:24 AM

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Agree with the post above, first half or so felt like a 9, then second half was more of a 7.

I feel like the middle episodes were the 'slowest' ones in terms of interesting things happening but things started picking back up towards the end.

The ending I think also might've been a little divisive in the community but I was fine with it so the show's an 8 for me.

Apr 13, 2023 3:31 AM

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The episodes close to the end in the other dimension were pretty terrible, in my opinion. Cool mistery with interesting conflicts and combat mechanics turned into a shounen battle

Apr 13, 2023 4:00 AM

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That Happy Ending after all the sacrifices.....
I just couldn't digest it and it made me feel like that I was robbed of my few tears I shed for Ushio
still a 9/10 for me

Apr 13, 2023 4:36 AM

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Well yes for the sake lf developing the back story and making sense they had to come up with the backstories and everything which most ppl are going to find boring but overall its good

Apr 13, 2023 6:19 AM

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Nope. Midway through, I was already bored and pretty annoyed with everything. Half of the cast is filled with useless characters, the main villain was disappointing. Just add this one to growing list of disappointing new gen shows.

𝒮𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓈, 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝒶𝓃'𝓉 𝓂𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒸𝓁𝑜𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑜𝑜𝓇 𝒷𝑒𝒽𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊. - 𝑅𝑒𝒾 𝒦𝒾𝓇𝒾𝓎𝒶𝓂𝒶

Apr 13, 2023 8:31 AM

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I mostly agree but for me it's less that I got tired of it and more that it seemed like it lost the mystery element it had and became more focused on action. I absolutely loved the first 12-ish episodes and I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. I would rate them 9, maybe even 10 out of 10. The overall concept was great and the anime surpassed my expectations by a lot. During the second half however, it lost some of the elements that made the show what it was and I found some episodes a bit dull. I wouldn't say the second half was bad by any means, it just fell off a little bit and I would say it was a 7/10? Which is still pretty good. Overall I would give an 8/10 because I just think it didn't manage to reach the potential it had. I don't think the story could be wrapped up in 12 episodes since there was a lot to unpack but maybe it could have been done a bit differently.

Apr 13, 2023 8:56 AM

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no this anime was good till the end

Apr 13, 2023 11:46 AM

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This anime didn't have much of an originality, as it seemed like a mixture of 2 to 3 animes I have watched. So it never really gets above 6 to 7

Apr 13, 2023 11:47 AM

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the middle part, maybe... because the anime is consist of repetition of the events (days), when you would feels like "you know the drill". but towards the ending I feel excited about how this anime wraps up.

Apr 13, 2023 11:49 AM

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Truly_Evil said:
This anime didn't have much of an originality, as it seemed like a mixture of 2 to 3 animes I have watched. So it never really gets above 6 to 7

it's called inspiration

Apr 13, 2023 11:53 AM

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Usual_Vermicelli said:

Truly_Evil said:
This anime didn't have much of an originality, as it seemed like a mixture of 2 to 3 animes I have watched. So it never really gets above 6 to 7

it's called inspiration

It would have been called Inspiration if the work would have been made after being inspired by another work but the author never really mentioned him being inspired and it was just two animes Steins Gate and Shiki straight up mixed with little to no difference.

Apr 13, 2023 12:10 PM

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Same for me, but it started somewhere around the middle.

Apr 13, 2023 12:11 PM

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Truly_Evil said:

Usual_Vermicelli said:

it's called inspiration

inspiration doesn't have to be addressed, and there is nothing to prove your statement. just because they have some similar aspects you can't just belittle other people's work to just copy and mix.

Apr 13, 2023 2:27 PM

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It was great regardless. Yeah some people may not like the later part but I think it’s because people were more intrigued with solving the mystery, but when the mystery is solved, some people aren’t as excited. Well that’s just what I think, I thought it was amazing from beginning to end

Apr 14, 2023 5:16 AM

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Tbh I think overall it was pretty solid. I do agree with what a lot of other people are saying, especially about the action vs mystery, but truthfully it made sense considering the fact that that it was both mystery and supernatural. The loop element kept things fresh, esp when things started to change as Hiruko caught onto them and despite some of the mystery fading I felt like that was kind of the point—eventually you have to solve the mystery and then go from there. I think the fun part of this anime was really that it evolved a small island superstition (the shadow sickness) into a much larger and premeditated scheme involving a human taking advantage of a god. I didn't like the romance aspect at the end with Ushio and Shinpei, though...like how is he not viewing her like a sister while actively viewing Mio as one? That was kinda sus to me. I felt like it would have been better to leave their relationship non-romantic or unrequited but that's my biggest complaint tbh...

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Apr 14, 2023 4:43 PM

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for me, yes..the end wasn't interesting and was very bland, repetitive, and fan friendly

Apr 14, 2023 10:26 PM

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Nope. I thought it was great and im usually pretty picky about endings

Apr 16, 2023 8:30 PM

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nah, this wasn't a horror manga from the start.

it always pisses me off when people misunderstands the genre then get "disappointed"
so many people hated the action and wanted it to be pure horror, and let me tell you thats literally fucking impossible, since the very nature of his reset makes any kinda of traditional horror stupid.

its more like a puzzle mystery if anything a race against time to solve it,
similar to resident evil with nemesis or mr X chancing across a small city while you are trying to escape or find out the outbreak of the T virus.

summer time render is just resident evil in manga form tbh. even at the end, they fight hiruko and shide almost exactly like leon fights mr T or jill fights nemsis in the very climax.

all resident evil games start off where the characters are powerless and must run past enemies and scavenge for items early on, but once they get enough upgrades and supplies the game changes into a combat game.

people who wanted to find horror are misaligned

Apr 16, 2023 10:59 PM

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Truly_Evil said:
This anime didn't have much of an originality, as it seemed like a mixture of 2 to 3 animes I have watched. So it never really gets above 6 to 7

I can only hope you are not referring to re:shit

Apr 20, 2023 7:25 AM

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That's exactly what I felt watching it, just a compilation of random battles with the same characters, in fact I really don't understand how it is so beloved since it's not the mysterious intriguing story people claim.

Apr 22, 2023 3:52 AM

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Yaaceen said:

That's exactly what I felt watching it, just a compilation of random battles with the same characters, in fact I really don't understand how it is so beloved since it's not the mysterious intriguing story people claim.

Check out my post in this STR forum where I addressed this issue with a much better alternate anime. Reality is that first few episodes of STR really captured the dark,mysterious,psychological vibe which ended with generic shounen action fights at the end. If u dont want to check my post then Higurashi is the name of anime that not only captured the dark,mysterious vibe that u felt during first epsiodes of STR but also improved it with every new episode of Higurashi.And spoiler(sarcasm) alert Higurashi had a great ending unlike STR ending shounen fights and over the top God mode of Ushio.

Apr 22, 2023 3:57 AM

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gamibo said:

Arigato I had it already on my ptw I'll definitly check it soon ^^

May 4, 2023 11:52 AM

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I think the problem lay with its pacing rather than the length. They should have slowed down the pacing of the first half and sped up the second half.

May 7, 2023 8:51 AM

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Agreed, the back and forth in the middle kept it interesting but towards the end everything focusing solely on Shide was a mistake.

Someone it also took me over 2 month to finish the show. Its just not really like Higurashi, its fortnite with a skin.

"This emotion is mine alone.
It is for Madoka alone." - Homura
or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica.

May 16, 2023 11:03 AM

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Forget losing it's charm. It got so annoying I had to check out MAL and find enlightenment. I'm at episode 20 now and why haven't they repeatedly butchered Shinpei is beyond me. I thought they already figured he can't loop past a certain point?

If I had to guess it's going to be revealed at the end but this is not how you hold information from a viewer.

May 16, 2023 8:36 PM

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Perfect Ending & 10/10

Jun 8, 2023 7:49 PM

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I think it did, last few eps were not so amazing

Jul 3, 2023 3:08 AM

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I agree, what they did to Hizuru and the focus from Haine to Shide didn't really work imo. Also the shounen-like ending was a bit meh.

Jul 6, 2023 7:43 PM

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I agree with what people are saying here, this anime started strong but as the episodes went by, it started to lose its charm and became a shounen anime with superpowers and what not, nothing wrong with it since I like shounen animes myself if they are done correctly (I love Attack on Titan), it's just not what I expected out of this, plus it has a lot of episodes with crappy action scenes, it does have a couple of episodes with great action scenes for sure, but a lot of episodes have crappy action scenes which decreased my enjoyment, plus the villain that wants to "destroy the world" is shit and decreased my enjoyment even further, the things that happened in the shadow world or whatever was fucking retarded.

I wish mangakas or whatever learn how to make interesting villains, the villain in this anime is shit, do you want to know what an interesting villain is? then watch Arcane, that series has one of the best villains around but for fucks sake, don't fuck this up with shitty ass villains that want to "destroy the world", shit can't get more retarded like this, it's silly, generic as fuck and retarded, just stop with that shit, goddamn!

In short, this anime had a lot of potential, it has great things but it has crappy things too. I was planning on giving this anime an 8/10 but it dropped the ball unfortunately so I ended up giving it a 7/10.

Jul 7, 2023 6:24 PM

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The high concept ideas certainly take the wheel more in the second half. To me, that’s not a bad thing. The characters and plot are still strong, but it does lose some of that impeccable summertime vibe which drew so many to the show in the first place.

I could see that putting off viewers that were enjoying it more for its vibes and setting than for its thematic depth and story, though that wasn’t my experience.

Those vibes do fully return in a beautiful way for the ending though, so it should ultimately stick the landing either way.

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I liked the Anime, but I also feel with you. I found out what my personal issue was: The Anime failed with creating an emotional bound between the characters and me. I felt kind of indifferent when watching. I didn't really see any personalities in the Anime, but only happenings and action. Basically, you could have replaced all character faces with other drawn faces, and the Anime would have stayed the same. I felt the same when watching Hell's Paradise and Chainsaw Man, too. The concepts of all three Animes were very interesting and nice, but it felt like the Animes focused strongly on the plot, causing me to feel indifferent with the characters. That's when I noticed, that I need a balance between plot and characters.

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