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| Finally finished it. It was promising show at the beginning but went down fast. I hate, when shows take lazy way to make everyone idiots, just so main hero could "appear" smart in comparison. As for this episode: - It's surely genius idea for your troops to not dismount when engaging in frontal shooting against fortified enemy. Let's make our soldiers huger targets, and prevent them from taking any cover. But what to expect, when event their elite "ghost" just gape in awe when shoot by enemy, instead of taking cover. - Yatori squad surely must have horses from Skyrim. Otherwise how they manage to flank enemy on narrow mountain path (unnoticed) is pure magic. Why not actually attack and capture commander, but bypass him (unnoticed) and attack second and first line is another great idea. - We have mountainous area, with superior knowledge of terrain and support of locals? Lets use it only occasionally, and better fight and defend in relatively flat burning forest. |
| Nice. 8/10 I enjoyed that and will definitely watch the second season |
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| This show was up and down for me, but I really liked the ending. It makes a lot of sense and eases some of my concerns about the general direction of the plot. Even though this is a standalone season that doesn't show the plan in action; that the anime had a clear direction going forward makes me feel a little better about what I just watched. Also glad that fat douche got what was coming to him. The Empire is a corrupt shithole but at least it's not completely blind. |
| Wow, this was actually a pretty good show. Tbh I didn't expect much, but wow am I satisfied. Well I'm still a bit upset that there was like no progression with the Ikta x Yatori ship but oh well. I really enjoyed Ikta's character. I loved his OP battle wits and what not. Cannot believe that his bluff at the end actually worked, but wow, understanding your enemy must really be a game changer. Hoping for a second season because I'm not a LN reader. Welp if only this had a manga.. most likely the manga will leave off where the anime leaves off. But overall, I give this a 8/10. |
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darklord213 said: Arashi_Rogue said: i agree with you on this oneI never fucking liked that 12 yr old princess. What a bitch move to end this season. Lose the war to accept Kioka's influences but maintain enough power to make sure the empires culture/customs remain so you can stop the corruptness at its core??????????????? That right there is suchhhhh a bitch move and sounds like a fucking calculus problem. We get an irrelevant loli who goes along and just rapes the finale. Could've been so much better. In my opinion, the second half of ep 13 was not as good as the previous episodes. I saw your quote in my notifications and clicked on it. I must've been veryyyy buttheart when I watched this episode because it clearly shows lmao |
| I love the princess resolve at the end. Gotta read the novel next. |
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| that Ikta is one sly genius for bluffing like that, he outwitted that unsleeping, shining officer. This series was surprisingly great, it started boring but I ended loving it. I hope season 2 will be available judging by the promises made after the credits, I really would have loved and given 10 if it was 2-cour also. |
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| Why'd you have to stab the horse? What did it do to you? Dat ceasefire saved Ikta. Ikta and Jean finally meet. Dat bluff. Jean surrendered. Overwork is the death of heroes. Jean will reshape this world. The brother attacks Yatori. Yatori chanting UBW. Dat stab. Dat Chamille jump on Ikta. RIKIYA!!!!! He getting executed. lol Lose the war? They did the scene from the opening. Chamille (points at Ikta): Omae wa mou shindeiru! And that was the end. It was good. |
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| I really didn't expect the ending to end in a negation but I guess some wars must be won by talking. This series pacing was kinda odd and a bit off to me but it made up for it by keeping me intrested in war affairs. They might as well keep the romance out of this one because all it does it waste time and take away from the story. Very poorly portrayed. Decent series overall, had some pretty cool moments. |
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| Alderamin seemed like that really boring anime about military and tactics at first, if you drop into later episodes and just check out some scenes, it looks boring BUT, there is a charm to it, and even what you could consider boring is just exciting to watch! Left me wanting a second season, I need more of these characters and this world. Madhouse did a great job IMO. 8.4/10 = 8 |
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| had a good ride, although i dont like the '5 heroes can kill the world' thing. |
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| I'm really amazed how good this show was. All these tactical aspects and strategies, which is like playing chess on a super high level. I'm normally not the type of person who likes war but this was very enjoyable and it showed how cruel it can be. Characters were also very likeable, especially Ikta and Yatori. Even if there's not really a chance for a second season I can live with this ending. Ikta and Yatori together at the end, couldn't been better :) |
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| I really was not expecting to enjoy this show as much as I did, ngl. Picked it up randomly and ended um binge watching. Although i feel like it could have done much better visually it was still pretty solid for a sotry that seem to be a set up for continuation. It's a shame it'll most likely never get a season 2 though. Was a nice ride, I appreciate the tactics used in the fights. And the amount of satisfaction I got from seeing Safida getting such a sentence. I see where the Princess comes from and her intentions but it won't be easy. Such a plan has to be so calculated and a little thing can mess everything up. Oh well, it's all on Ikta's shoulders in the end. Well, either way the open ending works just fine tbh. |
 "In the past few months since we met, I've shared many memories with Nagato. Though I've also shared memories with Haruhi, Asahina-san and Koizumi, I found that I've experienced more events with Nagato in particular. In fact, every situation seems to involve her. I might as well mention this, she's probably the only person to cause the bell within me to shake the most vigorously..." ~ Kyon, TMOSH |
| Pretty good series, got attached to the characters, loved how they show the preparations and how the actual battles took place. The way the characters were thinking and interacting before, during, and after the fact were all intriguing, including this last episode. I rate this 9/10. Some say that the novel/manga were better, but the anime itself was quite the spectacle (having seen the anime first and had not seen any of the written materials yet). Imagine if it had more episodes and/or a second season, a better pacing, or had the last few seconds not be an LN bait. One could only wish... |
| Eh, it was ok. Kinda average. Though making lots of higher rank people incredibly dumb just to show main cast as special was annoying. 6/10 |
fubundzer said: Eh, it was ok. Kinda average. Though making lots of higher rank people incredibly dumb just to show main cast as special was annoying. 6/10 FYI, there's an explanation for that, that was hinted at several times during the anime (and explained more in details in following volumes). As we've been told several times that there was plenty of very competent generals in the army (4 of the main cast are even sons or daughter of such generals (or marshals), and 3 of them are currently active in the military : Mathew's father, Torway's father, and Yatori's father) . We've seen another one in the second episode as well (the one that gets killed) , and there's a few others around we see later. The anime pointed out that the situation of the northern garrison was special. Contrary to the other garrisons on the country's border, this one has almost zero chance of seeing war or invasion. This is why the higher up send there any military officer that cannot be trusted, as they don't want them in any place that need competent officers. And as for why there are some incompetent that aren't fired, the anime also pointed out the major problem the country is facing right now: corruption coming from the noble factions. Those incompetent officers are usually sons of noble family that obtained their rank due to political machinations (as the army in this country has quite a lot of influence, so they're trying to place peoples in key positions) of their families/factions. The competent higher up cannot just fire those guys so they send them where it doesn't matter. Early on in the northern campaign, Toak is killed by assassins. That officer was the second in command and was placed here to control the military base (as he was the de facto person in charge, even if officially Safida was the general in place). As pointed out during the story, he was very hard working, and very competent. His job was to make sure that the northern base would not go bad due to all those incompetent officers, and in case of something bad happening, immediately report to the centre of command to avoid thing degenerating. This is actually what was used against the Empire in that plan from Kyoka to take the north. They new of that weakness, so they purposely assassinated the guy that was the link between the north and the rest of the army as their opener move. As you saw during the anime, Safida immediately forbade anyone to tell the central command about Toak's death, so that they would not send a replacement. As a result, Safida did whatever he wanted. Playing right into Kyoka's hand, without anyone competent high enough in rank to stop his stupidity. Even with that, there was still a few competent officers in the north. Ikta's superior officer being one of them; but none of them were really high enough to change Safida's decisions now that Toak was dead and not replaced. |
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Zefyris said: fubundzer said: Eh, it was ok. Kinda average. Though making lots of higher rank people incredibly dumb just to show main cast as special was annoying. 6/10 FYI, there's an explanation for that, that was hinted at several times during the anime (and explained more in details in following volumes). As we've been told several times that there was plenty of very competent generals in the army (4 of the main cast are even sons or daughter of such generals (or marshals), and 3 of them are currently active in the military : Mathew's father, Torway's father, and Yatori's father) . We've seen another one in the second episode as well (the one that gets killed) , and there's a few others around we see later. The anime pointed out that the situation of the northern garrison was special. Contrary to the other garrisons on the country's border, this one has almost zero chance of seeing war or invasion. This is why the higher up send there any military officer that cannot be trusted, as they don't want them in any place that need competent officers. And as for why there are some incompetent that aren't fired, the anime also pointed out the major problem the country is facing right now: corruption coming from the noble factions. Those incompetent officers are usually sons of noble family that obtained their rank due to political machinations (as the army in this country has quite a lot of influence, so they're trying to place peoples in key positions) of their families/factions. The competent higher up cannot just fire those guys so they send them where it doesn't matter. Early on in the northern campaign, Toak is killed by assassins. That officer was the second in command and was placed here to control the military base (as he was the de facto person in charge, even if officially Safida was the general in place). As pointed out during the story, he was very hard working, and very competent. His job was to make sure that the northern base would not go bad due to all those incompetent officers, and in case of something bad happening, immediately report to the centre of command to avoid thing degenerating. This is actually what was used against the Empire in that plan from Kyoka to take the north. They new of that weakness, so they purposely assassinated the guy that was the link between the north and the rest of the army as their opener move. As you saw during the anime, Safida immediately forbade anyone to tell the central command about Toak's death, so that they would not send a replacement. As a result, Safida did whatever he wanted. Playing right into Kyoka's hand, without anyone competent high enough in rank to stop his stupidity. Even with that, there was still a few competent officers in the north. Ikta's superior officer being one of them; but none of them were really high enough to change Safida's decisions now that Toak was dead and not replaced. I mean, yeah, I know, I watched the series. I know that there's corruption, it doesn't change the fact that contrast between main cast and higher ups is annoying. When northern garisson general is shown it's obvious that he isn't strong. But as you said there's Toak, who's the real man in charge. That's where I have problem. There are strong side characters, but they aren't getting enough shine. Main 5 being: Toak, Dinqun, Sazaarf, the general that was sent to be killed and his subordinate. Literally 4 of them are killed of instantlly. They were showed to be strong, yet they go down easily. While Sazaarf isn't killed he quickly becomes Ikta's puppet. Like, if you show actually strong characters let them do anything lol. Shake it up a little, show that they aren't there just to show off main cast. Let them be actually competent. That's what I'm getting at. But I saw that you gave this show a 4, so I guess you also have problems with it :P |
fubundzer said: Zefyris said: FYI, there's an explanation for that, that was hinted at several times during the anime (and explained more in details in following volumes). As we've been told several times that there was plenty of very competent generals in the army (4 of the main cast are even sons or daughter of such generals (or marshals), and 3 of them are currently active in the military : Mathew's father, Torway's father, and Yatori's father) . We've seen another one in the second episode as well (the one that gets killed) , and there's a few others around we see later. The anime pointed out that the situation of the northern garrison was special. Contrary to the other garrisons on the country's border, this one has almost zero chance of seeing war or invasion. This is why the higher up send there any military officer that cannot be trusted, as they don't want them in any place that need competent officers. And as for why there are some incompetent that aren't fired, the anime also pointed out the major problem the country is facing right now: corruption coming from the noble factions. Those incompetent officers are usually sons of noble family that obtained their rank due to political machinations (as the army in this country has quite a lot of influence, so they're trying to place peoples in key positions) of their families/factions. The competent higher up cannot just fire those guys so they send them where it doesn't matter. Early on in the northern campaign, Toak is killed by assassins. That officer was the second in command and was placed here to control the military base (as he was the de facto person in charge, even if officially Safida was the general in place). As pointed out during the story, he was very hard working, and very competent. His job was to make sure that the northern base would not go bad due to all those incompetent officers, and in case of something bad happening, immediately report to the centre of command to avoid thing degenerating. This is actually what was used against the Empire in that plan from Kyoka to take the north. They new of that weakness, so they purposely assassinated the guy that was the link between the north and the rest of the army as their opener move. As you saw during the anime, Safida immediately forbade anyone to tell the central command about Toak's death, so that they would not send a replacement. As a result, Safida did whatever he wanted. Playing right into Kyoka's hand, without anyone competent high enough in rank to stop his stupidity. Even with that, there was still a few competent officers in the north. Ikta's superior officer being one of them; but none of them were really high enough to change Safida's decisions now that Toak was dead and not replaced. I mean, yeah, I know, I watched the series. I know that there's corruption, it doesn't change the fact that contrast between main cast and higher ups is annoying. When northern garrison general is shown it's obvious that he isn't strong. But as you said there's Toak, who's the real man in charge. That's where I have problem. There are strong side characters, but they aren't getting enough shine. Main 5 being: Toak, Dinqun, Sazaarf, the general that was sent to be killed and his subordinate. Literally 4 of them are killed of instantlly. They were showed to be strong, yet they go down easily. While Sazaarf isn't killed he quickly becomes Ikta's puppet. Like, if you show actually strong characters let them do anything lol. Shake it up a little, show that they aren't there just to show off main cast. Let them be actually competent. That's what I'm getting at. But I saw that you gave this show a 4, so I guess you also have problems with it :P I mean they were competent, but except for Dinqun and that general's subordinate, they were on the "commander type" of competent, like Icta, rather than the fighting side, so you can blame them to be killed. Toak was assassinated exactly because he was too good. He wasn't a fighter at all, didn't look like one either. Also the guy who killed Dinqun is about as strong as Yatori, who is like top 3 in battle strength in the Empire ( the other ones being her family members), so Dinqun didn't stand a chance unfortunately. They removed a fight scene between this guy (wounded by Torway's bullet) and Yatori as a duel that happens as they retreat after stopping Jean, and they were almost evenly matched. It's too bad as it would have shown that the guy who killed Diqun wasn't just a random assassin. He's actually the brother of the woman officer that is talking to Jean regularly in the anime, so we keep hearing about him after his death. As for that disciple guy, I don't know about you, but he certainly has shown how badass he was before dying. In fact, I would argue that he has the most badass scene in the whole anime. Sazaarf has the time to shine later don't worry ~. All of the named survivors have in fact. And yeah you're right, I have a problem with the anime adaptation itself, and the choice/changes they made compared to the novel. I barely ever have such a difference between the score I give to the original material and the anime version, but this time to me it's warranted. |
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| Wow, and actual war tribunal in an anime. It's kind of a shame that Alderamin was so short, but for what it's worth, it might have been to the show's benefit in limiting the amount of fluff. I could imagine Alderamine turning into a hybrid of Kingdom and Arslan/Altair with their settings, themes, and character relationships. That being said, I'm glad for what exists. |
Shocked said: Wow, and actual war tribunal in an anime. It's kind of a shame that Alderamin was so short, but for what it's worth, it might have been to the show's benefit in limiting the amount of fluff. I could imagine Alderamine turning into a hybrid of Kingdom and Arslan/Altair with their settings, themes, and character relationships. That being said, I'm glad for what exists. The story exists and is complete though, it's a 14 volume novels, they just adapted the vol 1-3 (quite poorly tbh) in anime. |
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| And in this final episode we see the resolution of this fight, and we can see Ikta outsmarting Jean and bluffing his victory out. I'm actually impressed that Jean fell for the bluff, even I didn't, but anyways. I wonder if he appears again in the light novel. Then we see a cool fight scene with Yatori, showing once again why she's so powerful. Princess Chamille is happy to see Ikta and the rest again, and we see that Safida was executed due to how he handled the situation (he had it coming, he did everything he could wrong, and I suppose people weren't really happy with knowing the Empire almost lost its Northern territory, so someona had to suffer the consequences). The interesting part is the reveal they make in the end of the anime, with the Princess aknowledging that the Empire is heading to it's downfall, with all the corrupt politics and how the Emperor is just some puppet for the currupt system. And with that, she asks Ikta to become a higher-up in the military, since he has the talent for that, and lose a battle, so that Kiokan Republic can partially ocupy the territory, and their ideas and politics start diffusing throughout the Empire, without the Empire losing it's identity, and make sure that that loss can still leave the Empire strong enough to fight back and regain the terrority, and this way there would be a cleansing of the Empire's ideologies, without it losing its identity. This was a real shocker honestly, the princess revealing this explains why she was on the boat back in episode 1, and that she clearly knows the situation of the nation, and how she wants to change it, and is entrusting that plan with Ikta too. Ikta was shocked by that too, and not really willing to comply to it, since he doesn't really care for the Empire, however, he does care about people like Yatori, and that would be a better future for her. After this, we get another Ikta and Yatori moment, and they once again raised the flags that the 2 of them are going to be on opposite sides sometime, and with this reveal we can now see why, because Yatori would never let Ikta willingly lose a battle. But we can see that both Ikta and Yatori are relunctant with that idea. Honestly, their friendship is just amazing, and really unique the anime world honestly. I suppose this reveal was the one that the people that read the light novel were talking about around episodes 4 and 5, and honestly, I feel like they did well by ending this season with this reveal, because they are literally ending the anime with the very beginning of what's going to be the anime. It would have been worse to end it with just the battle we just saw. Honestly, I really enjoyed this anime, and I wasn't expecting that. I finally found the Youtube video that recommended this anime, and made me add it to my list back in 2018, and I'm really glad I finally gave it a chance, because the anime certainly didn't disappoint. Sure, the animation and artstyle were not good, for a war anime you would expect more animated fighting scenes than what we got, but the plot, the setting and a big part of the cast are really good and interesting, and this setting of being, in a war, on the side of a country that doesn't follow the beliefs and values that most of our countries follow nowadays, makes this anime quite unique, and now this premise of having a tactical defeat in order to win in terms of quality of the Empire is really interesting, and I wished we had a 2nd season for this. It's really sad that we are most probably never getting the 2nd season, nor a reboot, and I might have to read the light novel to find out what happens next, but I was for sure intringued. I have been wondering what kind of score should I give this anime, and honestly, I really feel like this anime deserved better, it's more than good enough to have a 2nd season, and yet other animes that are arguably a lot worse did get it, and I was between giving this anime an 8 or a 9, and what was pointing me to give it a 8 was the fact that the animation was mid, and that there are some episodes that weren't that great (the 1st episode is by far the weakest episode of the 13, which is not a good way to start the anime). However, with how underrated this anime is, and with how much the story and cast ressonated with me (I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU KANNA, BEST GIRL), I'll need to give this anime an 8.5, which rounds up to a 9/10. The best episodes were by far episode 5 and 8, and I'm still sad that after all these years, both the opening and ending aren't available on Spotify. Anyways, I found it interesting that the credits roll had the opening with different lyrics than usual! In conclusion, this anime has a really unique setting and plot, and is able to develop the story accordingly and show us what war really is, with a memorable cast of characters, and I really think it deserves a 2nd season, but it's a good anime, without a doubt! Deserved better honestly! |
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