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Hello everyone this my second review so it might not be very good but anyway i just wanted to make a review for this anime after i saw that it doesnt have one yet and i really mean it when i say this. this anime is really underrated on myanimelist

well first of all Soukyou of fafner is a mecha serie that is at the second part of season 2 exodus with 2 other movies so its quite a long serie. you don't want to start this show on this season though because you really need to see all of it to really understand it.

for ... people who didnt watch any fafner, the background of the story is alien attaced earth, humans were defeated but are still resisting. the good guys of this show are on an island that moves, its really cool how it is a bit simillar to evangelion s fortress like every single part of the island becomes weapons and all when aliens come. One of the plus of this mecha show is that it has its own robot and dont try to copy other series at all. the pilots of the robots are only the young kids because they are born on the island and the adult came from japan that was anihilated. So the aliens are an existence between void and normal world and their attacks make void so victims dont have any corpse left for the family to mourn. when piloting the robots they kind of fuse together like they feel what the robot feels, it hurts when the robots are hurt and they can't pilot for too long or they will get assimilated, basically they will disappear so each generation of pilots don't pilot for very long. WARNING if you watch this show be ready to see a lot of death, even if they didnt retire very fast they don't last very long。 i won't say what happened in the previous shows because maybe there are readers who didnt watch.

Story 9
well there are still 8 episodes left so if i gave too high a score it would be inappropriate but i think that it would have around 9 because fafner is awesome xD. as of now the pace is good we really have a progress on the two fronts. i cant really say the details because it might reveal too much for people who didnt watch the previous series but anyway it really have some twists that come nicely, i mean it striked me when it happened at the first episode of the second season. I was really disgusted and it leads to a change of the course the characters must take but it comes with the right number of flags and not too much.

character 10
one of the best thing in this show is how the characters are consistent. its great how they don't go for the easy romance like many anime tend to do. like an anime isn't good if we don't have romance. in this anime the two main characters are soushi and kazuki are both man so romance isnt the main theme (and do not worry it isn't a yaoi ) but we have kanon who has some feelings for kazuki but she doesnt really show them because i guess she realises unlike many anime fmc that its not because we are in a pinch that couples must be formed. well good news is that she finally assume her love like she says that she loves kazuki but i won't say the details because it was just great and sad. I also have to say that supporting characters in this show are all well worked. even if a lot of them die they are not rushed and we feel sad every time sometimes dies and dont feel like some failed tragedy sad the first episode and get used to it when someone dies every episode.
for example we have two parents of one of the pilot of new generation that have always been having a problem with mourning their eldest daughter, refusing to believe that she is really dead, which is something that isnt taken into account in most of mecha anime. I am not saying that other mechas are bad they are also great but as sydonia no kishi was praised on how it put into light a lot of litlle problems we dont see in gundam like how we get water in space, what happens when we change of direction for an emergency dodge and all. in fafner all the characters are not perfect, and supporting characters are not blank. it s just that they take some time to become interesting because we have 3 pilots from the first generation (i mean first tv season and not the first movie who are the real first generation) and sou and kazuki shines too much so its normal that new supporting characters take some time to share the spotlight.

Art 8
well its the same character design as gundam seed and destiny but this time they felt that their character looked really alike (unlike heroic age or majestic prince they even have same hairstyle) so they made some kind of blush on everyone s face. well it doesnt really hurt the art. the robots are still all unique and cool, animation is good and so is the landscape.

sound 9
bgm is great op has a touch of epicness and the ed is slow and sad but thats not a minus. on the contrary, in this show that really have sad moments it would be strange if the music wasn't sad. war isn't only the epicness we show on the front (op) but also the sadness the survivor have at the end of each fight because they have to mourn their deads (ed).


well i know that this review is far from perfect and i think ill redo one when i finish this season, I am not really inspired right now. I hope that other people who like fafner can be a bit more active on myanimelist because i was really shocked when i saw that there was only one review for exodus and non for exodus second season. I see there are a lot of reviews for the first season but almost none for exodus so i was a bit sad. T*T fafner really deserves to be at least in top 500 not top 1616 so lets try our best to make it go up in ranks!!

Just saying this my first review and I am not a native English speaker so it is possible that it sucks but i just felt like i had to write a review for Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso after skipping sleep to finish it in one strike today morning. I used to see a lot of awesome reviews about this anime but never gave it a go until yesterday night. And since there are so many reviews on this anime it won't matter if mine can't make my impression reach you then you are welcome to watch the other reviews.

Story 9/10
the story in itself isn't ... that much particular, if we summarize it a lot its about a fallen genius getting back on stage and how bright he shines but as other reviews said its the way the story is told that makes it so great. The pace is great it kept me awake the whole night and i was so exited that i had to do push ups and sit ups between each episodes to be able to stay in my seat (kinda feel sorry for my room mate and i gotta say that I am a geek I don't do sport). It used some very common elements like a girl showing up and asking the main character (MC) to help her on something but it is well done like it takes time for the MC to accept it and at first he feels really bad and afraid of playing without hearing his piano which is all he has. another well done point is that we don't really feel the time passing like the story covers around 7~8 month in 22 episodes and we feel like the times stops during concert, it can take 1 or 2 episode for a single concert and there are a lot of them. and the time during the training goes very fast and i guess thats how they feel it like when we start rehearsing for finals the last few days passes in the blink of the eyes. mainly the time was like 50% on piano (training and concerts) 60% on the development of characters (it's not that i don't know my numbers it's just that a good part of character development takes place during concerts). Another good point is how the side stories fit in so well that i was about to write that a minus is that there isn't side stories (thanks god i didn't do this mistake) like when he teaches piano to Azai Nagi who is also the little sister of Azai Takeshi one of the two rivals of Arima it shows first how he is like the motor of the progress of all this pianist. playing a supporting role but playing so well that if his partner don;t improve himself immediately he will lose the lead, which leads to everyone getting better at piano. this concert also was a message to both Takeshi and Kaori so that they can find their way back.
SPOILER SPOILER
Kaori not giving up on violin would be very important for when she supports him when her condition is getting worse, and maybe also so that he can see her playing with him during the las concert.
There are also a lot of foreshadowing so not a single event made us feel like WTF?
I didn't give 10 because there a lot of well done stuff but nothing really extraordinary. The best part is the characters thought.

Characters 11/10
I can only give 11/10 for the characters in this show because they felt not only alive but real. There wasn't a single character who didn't have his hard times, they were all unique. We can really feel how Arima is horrified by the visions he has from his mother. Or when he starts doubting about the health issues of Kaori we feel like he has the reaction he should have. he have been running away from himself and piano for two years, it seems correct that he tries to run from these problems too at first. The relation between himself and Kaori is also well handled, it takes him a lot of time to finally say how he feels about her because he thinks that she likes his best friend so he can't express his feelings. Their relation and conversation takes place essentially when they play together and as they say several times, sometimes music can reach people even more than words.
SPOILER
How Kaori started to follow the path of his mother and crying or screaming for nothing is well done and she then changes because Arima made her not want to give up on violin and it is also great how even if she is strong again, she still has her moment of weakness. another well done part on this character is how we could feel she was like a candle about to die, giving all she can to shine as bright as she can because she knows she doesn't have time her death was also coherent and led Arima to improve himself even more as his aunt foreshadowed he will improve in his sadness.
Another great character is Sawabe Tsubaki the neighbor of Arima and his childhood friend. I would not say that she was a likable character because she is kinda holding Arima back and it also takes her time to realize that she loves Arima and she hurt people during that period which isn't fine for those people but great for the coherency of her character. We could feel her jealousy and she handled in a way that was also coherent.
The two rivals are also great as they have a long life span, i mean that they don't get defeated a single time and are only here to make Arima shine even more. they progress a lot and also contribute a lot in calming Arima and making him realize that it is fine to be scared, that he isn't alone and special so making him a more mature person.
It is also interesting how the friend of Tsubaki takes a role in the plot, when i first saw her i sought she was the kind of character that appears once in the show and then is blank for the rest but she keeps on appearing and lead to changes in Tsubaki's character leading to changes on Arima.
The only minus stopping me from giving 12/10 is that the character of Ryota isn't as developed as he could have been, Arima Tsubaki and Kaori all have a lot of development and importance in the show but his role didn't really change during the whole show stopping Arima to be with Kaori and sometime saying some intelligent things.

Sound 9/10
Well I have to say I feel a bit bad to not give 10/10 for sound on an anime on music. The musics during concerts was really nice but i don't feel like the two ED and the second OP made a big impression on me which is kinda sad. another minus which is maybe my bad because i don't have a musical hear, is that sometimes I couldn't feel the beauty in the music they were feeling which is kinda hard for me when we hear the comments of the teachers and it makes me feel deaf...
I will say its a good point that i wasn't able to cry at the end because the music Arima is playing is mainly for Kaori so its fine if we don't feel that much (its probably because i have bad hearing but lets not say it for the sake of all the viewers who don't have a musical hear)

Art 10/10
Art is great, we can really feel what emotions the characters have and the tears are real big but even with these out of standards tears we can still feel different kind of tears like sadness, dolor or regret. How sometime it changed of style also made the show have the right share of comedy. The animation of the different characters playing violin or piano was also greatly made it felt like real (even though i have never saw a real concert so I can't really tell if its real) but the least i can say is that it was beautiful, even if you cut the sound and just watch them play it is elegant. Another great thing is the starry sky, even if its not as good as Fate Zero's but thats normal, when Arima says the different starry skies he sees with different people we really see a difference. there were also beautiful scenes like the one with th firebugs.

Enjoyment 10/10
Well as i said it kept me awake and exited for 8 hours from 12 am to 8 am so i really enjoyed this show. I was just a bit sad that we couldn't have the music of Arima and Igawa Emi for the preliminaries of the concur the one just before the last concert.

Overall 10/10
Well I can just say it is a masterpiece, with a little space for improvement just as the character have still room for improvement in their skills after the end of the show.