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Jun 27, 2021
Let it be the characters, story, animation or the soundtrack. To me, this is a GEM. A well polish gem.
Stumbling across this just yesterday night, 06,26,2021. This anime sunk it's hooks into me hard and locked my eyes upon the beauty of this show to the point I had to binge watch it. And I'm happy I did. Even though it did not make me cry, I felt the sorrow at times and strings to my heart being tugged at.
The animation is beautifully done, let it be the bright beautiful environments to the dark gritter ones. the studio did a wonderful time in creating a
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beautiful anime. As of lately these days, a lot of series have been combining 2d and 3d animation in their series and it's rather disgusting. And this series has done it at maybe 2-3 spots. And even then, it was difficult for me to see it. That's how well done they did it.
When coming to the soundtrack. My lord, it's like paradise to the ears. Each time the opening would come on, I would sit there and listen to it. Ever time the ending happen. I sat there listening. By the way, if you do watch the series or binge it. Listen carefully to the ending song of episode 12 and the last episode.
Now onto the characters, Vivy. She's a wonderful AI, one where you love to just have your eyes on. Every moment she's on screen, you can't help but just get absorbed into what she is doing and experiencing. And Matsumoto, that little crapper. Ha ha. They had designed his personality spot on of being a rude little AI. At first you may hate him, but after a few episodes you grow to love him. Along with every character that the series go by, each one is done well.
I will say through my experience of Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song. It should deserve a higher ranking among MyAnimelist. To me it should for sure be in the top 25. But that is my opinion. And to everyone who is curious of this anime. Please do sit down and watch it, it might become one of your top favourite animes. Who knows.~
Also sorry for not saying anything about the anime in anyway of spoiling. That's how much I enjoyed the series and I want you folks to enjoy the experience.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jun 21, 2021
This isn't a masterpiece, but it has it's potential of being one. Perhaps. Now now calm down and stop typing your replies or clicking that downvote button. But this is my opinion, this is what I'm seeing the series as and what it could have done/been better.
Right away, I love the series. it's good, it's gritty and shows the bad side of humanity. The fact that it focuses on both sides Alba and Non-Alba is interesting. (Alba being pure race which is silver haired and blue eye humans. Non is everyone else.) To an Alba everyone else is nothing more then a disposable tools. And
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the nation sees it as that. Through the series every battle, even though people are dying. The Republic of San Magnolia sees no 'casualties' at all, expect one character. Which in my opinion is just... awful. Alrighty, lets pull away from this and begin talking about the characters.
Characters
To me, I love each character in the series expect one. I can see that the people of Republic of San Magnolia being nothing more then heartless beings that only care for themselves, we figure this out quickly. We side with Spearhead Squadron rather quickly as each character in the Squadron is interesting, each one having their quirk, dislikes, desires and hates. (Which is Alba, seeing them as nothing more then Pigs). I enjoyed every one of them, even as they die over time. (Listen, you know this will happen because it's war. It's not sunshine and flowers. Everyone doesn't have plot armour and gonna live.) But anyways, to me the worst character I have to say is Milizé, Vladilena... the main character. Whiny, trying to be the good little princess she is, and even more so 'saint'. I do like it thought that over the series she does start to smarten up and understand that she can't just wish/pray everything to be good. She does a terrible thing to get her way to help 86. But anyone else could have done that too. Even at the end of season one, it feels like she hasn't really.. grown at all? Just meh. I think that if she was removed and the story focused on someone else, or let alone just on the squadron. It would have been better.
Music/Sounds
God I loved it, the sounds of machines, explosions, simple noises of animals and the wind, even rain. it was really beautiful to my ears. The music was also spot on. The opening song is a pleasant tone, and the ending. Dear god the ending song is ughhh! Now that's a pleasant ugh. Not a terrible ugh. The series like to slap that ending song just at the right time of a dramatics moment and just plays on so well. Even as the characters are talking to each other about the end, or losing an ally. Seriously bravo to the sound staff at the studio for doing amazing with this series.
Art
This series had a great animation to it, sitting down and watching it. You can easily get absorbed into the environment. Looking around at every bit of thing in the background even as the characters are talking to each other. You can see the everyday life of each character and what goes on around them. Even in the battlefield. You can get a sense of a fake peace with it's environment or even the utter looming death as well. Spot on.
Plot
Now this is ehhh. Pretty much in your eyes when you think about a war series, you get the thought that you want the characters to live. But to the characters, their desire to find the final resting place. With the raging war going on between the Republic and the Empire. You can see that one side desires to end the war, or at least hold out till the Autonomous Legion stops functioning. But le gasp! You find out in the series that they will but the new wave of Legion won't! And the Republic will fall. But they don't care at all. Only the Saint is going around crying and shouting at people, wanting to save 86. While they are desiring to find their final resting place. Now.. through the series there is a few terrible moments in the show that just makes it confusing and terrible. At a point where 86 is about to get their final moments, they were saved by Milizé, Vladilena by using artillery. Ok cool, she went through orders to use them even though she was told not too. However to do so, she had the help of someone else to do it. Which was using two computers to hack into the government's systems. As she sat there afterwards talking to the squadron, not a single guard or enforcer came running in to arrest her. The show simply gave her a light slap on the wrist afterwards which was off scene of her being 'house arrest' even though in the final episode she is there outside the city, in 86's district. Ahh.. show, what you doing?
Final Thoughts
Ehh,, the show is good, amazing at times but not a masterpiece. There are a few problems shown here and there, which could have been fixed. But instead the show skipped over/didn't care for it. I hope in the next season they would fix these loose points and perhaps also clean up the main character a bit. But this is my opinion. Either way the show is good to watch. Go for it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jun 21, 2021
Sorry for the long post, by the way this is my personal opinion on the series. If you are upset that I'm not enjoying your 'favourite' Isekai series. Understandable and please stop reading. Also this review will have a bit of spoiling of certain characters. But not entire episodes.
"A cute girl is a immortal witch that lives 300 years killing slimes and begins to create a 'harem' for herself by mistake but is not ecchi at all!?~ OM-..." this is where I would stab the person who is shouting that.
Beginning Thoughts
So forth most, I'll say this that I love Isekai series. Each one is
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unique in their way and a few are good. However a lot of problems I see is that they begin to go stale with the same repetitive styles and just fall off the face of the earth. (Never finishing.) With that, I am only glancing at this series hoping to enjoy this like other series. And at first I did, but as the episodes went on. I've begun to see a few things that the series just repeated and nothing new/interesting happened. Because of this, my personal rating for the series dropped over time and I was almost ready to give this series up at episode 9. But as I'm writing this, I'm watching episode 10 and gonna say screw it and finish the series just to see if the last few episodes change my mind. For the first few episodes the series caught my interest mostly by it's beautiful art, music/sound and well... sadly that's it. Every Isekai series has it's own way of starting and this one is no different. Let it be death from overwork(which the series did), getting run over by truck-san, murdered by a random dude running through the streets, or getting absorbed into the game your working on. With that in mind I sat back, turned on my Isekai mood and begun to watch. And the series did have a few hooks that latched onto me and kept me watching.. however after the third episode, these hooks were nothing more then cheap plastic compared to other Isekai's. Reason so will be told down below in each category I'll be making.
Characters (3/10)
For most, this entire series is focus around female characters only. You will only see one movable and well speaking male and that's the mayor of the town. You see him once or twice. After that, all males in the series are bland images that don't move. Besides that, lets get into the characters.. and IMO, this series had only one decent character and that's Beelzebub. Now now before you begin freaking out and down-voting the review I'll tell you why. With Azusa, she is an worker from a black company that dies, with this, she is tossed into another world and well given everything she desired and that's it.. she doesn't grow over time, doesn't show any well supportive acts to any other member and every challenge thrown her way, is fixed by another character or she just wildly throws her fists about. Ok, bland main character cool. Off to the others...
Laika - A tone down version of Tooru dragonmaid ripoff. She appears once episode to fight Azusa because Azusa is the strongest witch in the lands (Max level). In doing so, she gets beaten rather easily but through the fight she accidentally breaks Azusa's home and in turn. Becomes her servant, going to repair the home, make meals and just always following Azusa around. That's her entire character, she hasn't changed one bit from the first episode she arrives into the series.
Halkara - A dense, clumsy, big titty elf gal. That's all you need to know and that's how the series play her out. She's a herbalist that manages to create energy drinks. She keeps messing up every time the show gives her a chance to do anything and she misjudges everything. Thinking people are trying to kill her/get her. But really no one is.
Falfa & Shalsha - The cute twin loli sisters that don't do nothing but be cute and are there. The show had an interesting concept on the go that over the years and from all the dead slimes, these two little ones were born. One being completely innocent and only seeing Azusa being her mother. While the other is on pure desire of revenge for all the slimes that were killed. Which was cool, but after just a little talk or so. The second one just becomes all innocent and that's it.
Flatorte - The opposite of Laika, being a blue dragon. She is aggressive and hates red dragons. Hmm.. red vs blue.. Hmm... being a jealous of the red dragons and well herself not having been wedded. She tries to crash a wedding and fight the red dragons. But after being defeated with such ease! She becomes submissive and just quietly stand in the background like the other characters at times. The show tries to show a bit of character development but then just. Pop, back to standing in the back.
Rosalie - Seriously.. in my opinion, this show didn't need her. She's just some human that died and became a spirit. She shows a bit of struggles of nobility and doesn't want to be a part of it and in the end dies and just haunts a factory that the elf girl wants to buy. But the series wants to save her and she becomes a part of this kinda flimsy poor family the show had slapped together.
Beelzebub - Where do I begin with her? First off, she's part of the demon empire. Being a high-ranking demon. She has her connections with the Demon Lord and in turn has one of the best personalities, even through the show is trying to keep push her down in the background character lane. Whenever something goes wrong, Azusa and the group looks to her. She's there to help but also has her personal goals in the background. (Aka wanting to fight Azusa again which she manages too later in the series). There is a few weird moments with her but besides that in my opinion, the best out of everyone.
Pecora - Loli Demon Lord... that is all I need to say really. Ahh she was kinda of a disappointment. I'm getting sick of seeing loli characters being in 'high power'. Being in the writers or studious shoes and just thinking of them saying. "You know what would be funny! If the Demon Lord was a small girl that looks super young but is thousands of years old!" No not really. It's stupid and doesn't give the character a fitting image of them being a demon lord. You think demon lord and you imagine a massive being with power, but instead. Demon Loli girl. "But but she does have massive power!" You mean the terrible Dragon Ball Z speed and power? Meh. Another character in my opinion the series didn't need to focus on or even make.
Music/Sound/Art (6.5/10)
I'll make this short and to me, the music is good at a lot of moments in the series, there needs to be tension. The show would either play something or simply go quiet for the moment. Needs to be colourful and a laugh. It will have upbeat music and just pleasant in general. And the sounds, the strange goofy noises made when a character is doing something. Like growling noises coming from someone's stomach is cute at the first few episodes, but grows really old and boring halfway through the series. If they had removed the weird vocal noises. I think the entire music/sound would be at a really high rating for me.
The series has amazing art for such a mediocre series. It's beautiful and bright, the environments are clean. The towns and cities are good. It's a shame it was worked on so much for this kind of series.
Plot (2/10)
There is none.... at all. Each episode is given a small problem, which in turn seems to fix itself in a way. New character having a problem? Well lets talk about it. Do a small montage and it's fixed! Ta daaa!~ That's it. There is no growing plot over the series. Not major conflict at all. This series is nothing more then, lets watch a poor girl's only family live and do strange things at times.
Final Thoughts
My final thoughts on this series is that if your looking for a decent and I mean average anime to play int he background and to glance at every so often but not fully watch. This would be it. It's not amazing and not bad. There is to many terrible characters slapped together and there is no proper connections to well make them seem like a family. The writer is the only reason these characters are a 'family'. You can easily replace Azusa with any bland generic character and the series wouldn't change one bit. Scratch that, you can replace every character in the 'family' with normal villagers from the town and it wouldn't change the series at all. Thinking about it right now. I would have preferred to see the every day life of just a villager instead of watching Azusa and her crew of misfits. Either way, average show gets an average rating.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Mar 14, 2018
So, I'll say this is that I haven't really done reviews much. Mostly because I enjoy a series or manga and move on.
But for some reason this manga just tugged on my heart a few times more then other manga. It's a laugh, enjoying, tearful, and romantic. The struggles of the characters as well the progression of how they go through their daily life when in high school. Was good and enjoying.
The emotions the main character went through while he was going through the ReLife experiment was funny as hell. Just small things made me laugh and think to myself. "I would do that
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as well if I had this same experience." When it comes to the story, it's a pleasant series based around high school. (Oh my another series like that!? It's not like we have hundreds of manga based on/around high school.) Ya ya. But anyways, it's refreshing in a way. It's strange really, I can't really describe it much other then tell you to read it.
The art is pleasant to the eye. The characters within the entire manga is funny, each one having the perfect personality to them in my opinion, others could say otherwise but let them.
Through and through, I enjoyed this series greatly and I'm kinda sad that it ended. If I had a chance to talk to the one writing/drawing ReLife, I would simply request if they make a side series or a second chapter of after the ReLife Experiment or even continue onwards with the series. I don't know.. just feel like I want more. :P
Rating for this, being my favorite manga and most likely be my favorite for a long time. A solid 10/10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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