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| I gave this an 8/10 because I liked it overall. The killing of the aliens or 'invaders' really troubled me (indicating it was well done). However, I wish they spent one or two more episodes after the mother ship nuked itself. Luckily, I saw the other post where someone recommended watching episode 0 before the finale and since I hadn't watched it before, I wasn't too confused. But the disappearance of Kadode and Oran in the main timeline and the implication that they were in the mechs (and thereby were killed) was done poorly. Throughout the show there was little indication that these girls could pilot the mechs. At least in the alternate timeline that the father was sent to they should have shown that these girls were in some job where they were piloting these mechas or something showing similar. Not bad but still rushed. |
| Episode 0 set up the wrong expectation that we were going to have a post apocalyptical arc. After the explosion, the manga presented Kadode’s dad’s past then seamlessly transitioned to the future, and there’s a few more chapters about the war against the USA. I would be less let down by episode 17 if episode 0 was a regular weekly release. Also, I’m incredibly disappointed that they cut the Donald Trump Padron scene where he reveals Melania Trump was an Invader all along who helped him win presidency.  |
Reply to MasterHavik
@Alkimia That's due to the timelines and how they work. It's complex but I consider basically what I wanted form Bioshock Infinite if you have played that game before.
I am not too upset at this as they made clear there are different timelines.
I am not too upset at this as they made clear there are different timelines.
| @MasterHavik Oh no yeah I get that it's a different timeline and all, I'm just sad they didn't end up being together in this timeline like in the last one |
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Reply to Alkimia
@MasterHavik Oh no yeah I get that it's a different timeline and all, I'm just sad they didn't end up being together in this timeline like in the last one
| @Alkimia Oh yeah same here man. |
| I haven't updated in years but now I have changed that. I'll be free soon. |
| Gotta read the manga now. |
| 「Self Aware Cringy Weeb」 |
| It ended and my main thought was, "What was it all for?" All those connections, the progress, the plot. Poof just pointless. |
| Ok scratch what I just said in episode 16 discussion, screw happy endings, I can't believe they are just going to another paralell world, I'm so mad at those, I almost said "like on this anime" forgetting that it was a meta spoiler. At least remaking the world in this ending didn't make character uglier but good looking. Ok scratch what I just said, Big Bro is alive, this is the best ending ever. "If I get fat, what will be the end of the world" LOL. I don't get it though, when the dad was back the manga was already different...does that mean the memories influenced him to change the past and therefore the manga since he's the editor, and then he remembered the original manga's name some time after? Or did someone else change the past, so weird. So in one world Kadode dies, in the other one the world ends, so the answer was for Kadode's father to give her attention, moral of the story maybe. I think I read that this was going to be anime orignal ending, I said I would read the manga but now I'm definitely reading it, give me the depressed shit! Also I just noticed it but, I love how they encapsuled the "ugly designs done in a beautiful artstyle" so well, you watch this and think the mangaka doesn't know how to draw but he makes the most beautiful panels and just draws character designs so silly on purpose lol. Doraemon -_- "Hanyanya fuwa" hmm maybe it is that simple to come up with a nice catch phrase...mm that ending, maybe Oran and Kadode used the shift make machine and change that world first? At the end of the day I still have so many questions, like regarding the other factions, they can't just be "evil corporation doing evil things" right? like they were influenced by someone, explaining their knowledge, be it expertise in alien technology or information from the future |
| This is... the perfect future ! |
| I don't get what's good about this anime. A side character which only appears for a while got the best ending. Convenient device to show memories and to switch timeline, invaders that doesn't utilize their own powerful tools, and villain that stays villain ignoring the situation. Seems like children's anime plot. |
| I haven't read the manga but if it had the same ending as the anime then I can imagine that the author had been given a notice to finish the manga in a few chapters instead of continuing with the story arc he had been building up until then. It was not a coincidence that Kadode complained in the last episode about that science-fiction stories didn't sell nowadays. |
IshitatesoOct 5, 11:35 PM
夏草や 兵どもが 夢の跡  |
| Despite the weak ending i'm still very surprised, i loved every plot twists and how well they were revealed hands down this is my anime of the year so far. I'm glad i came in with no expectations and boom it was a good surprise. |
| Yes, I hated it. This anime managed to turn me from a fan into a justified hater. What a self-centered, self-obsessed, self-righteous piece of shit the guy who wrote this pile of manure is. It stinks to heaven Vile, vile, vile! All this effort and time wasted for no good reason whatsoever. A real artist can offer a poem, something you read in less than a minute, and pack enough substance into it that will last for centuries. Fakes likes the guy who created this manga are the exact opposite. They will have you sit through hours and hours of "content" all for nothing. Soulless and without substance. A curse on all the soulless artists for wasting our time. SHINEEEEEE KUSO YAROUU!! |
AkiFosuOct 19, 6:17 PM
| I expect too much on this show. It tries to be deep but it failed. The main characters are bunch of kids, they're immature. So many annoying characters. The character design is weird. The ending are too convenient, easy to change the timeline if something bad happens. |
| Proverbs 4:23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. |
| so kadode in the war timeline (main timeline we watched) actually survived and became a dimensional traveler right? leaving the isobeyan manga in the happy timeline for whatever reason. like that emo kid said "someday we should be able to transcend time and space", so at some point people in that timeline actually managed to do that. |
OrangeRiumNov 3, 8:51 PM
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| I enjoyed the ending, I didn't have any interest in seeing more of the fucked up world, the ending of ep 16 completely satisfied me. Ouran and Kadode spent their remaining time together helping others while doing something they love, likely with high-spirits, and died side by side. That'd be a satisfying fate for them in such a doomed timeline on its own, and the implication that they're were able to interact with the new timeline somehow even gives us some hope that they're okay after all. The ones in the new timeline aren't "our" Ouran and Kadode, but we see how Ouran and Kadode's friendship can change the world for the better, resulting in the best timeline (as long as they become friends before meeting an invader lol). This series was great! In retrospect I loved the lead-up to the explosion because it was engaging to see how mundane humanity's response to the situation was. I'm a sucker for stories about friendship, and love the theme about the dramatic impact a friend can make on your world. I checked out the final chapter out of interest and the Isobeyan manga really contextualizes it all. Though I'm left with many questions on things I'm sure were meant to be ambiguous, like if there's a connection to these new Fujin and Invaders, which would explain they're extremely pacifistic nature we all complained about. Also, I have yet to see anyone mention the room with the hands poking the Earth we see when the father is "shifting". That has some insane implications! Are asterisks the results of the actions of shifters? |
mintkatNov 17, 2:31 AM
| It started off very interesting at first but quickly falls off once I realized how dumb the aliens and evil the humans are. From Death Note, Doraemon, Steins Gate, Evangelion, Gundam?, the show has all of these elements in the story. But all of that turns into a huge mess of a scifi that feels rather gimmicky at best. The best part of the show is probably the relationship between Oran and Kadode and also the circle friends. But all of that are simply ruined by constant alien genocide and disjointed Pov storytelling which kind of ruining the flow of the story even though it's supposed to be chronological. I wonder how faithful is this adaptation compared to the manga and how much material are being skimmed over for the adaptation. |
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| I regret watching episode 17, trash retcon that makes the entire journey meaningless, inio really hates his readers |
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Reply to Catalano
I regret watching episode 17, trash retcon that makes the entire journey meaningless, inio really hates his readers
| @Catalano wait, that's not the case here. All the different timelines exist at the same time, which means that the world and the characters we saw from episode 1 to 16 were completely unaffected by Kadode's father shifting to a different timeline. So, what was the point of ending the story in a new timeline? Showing that Kadode and Oran will always be together no matter what happens: in the main timeline in which they tragically died (yes, they were the mecha pilots killed by the laser beam), in a timeline without aliens in which they lived a normal life (the second half of episode 17) and also in yet another timeline in which the aliens came but they somehow survived and became "time patrols" (the very last scene). |
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