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Jan 6, 2025
To keep this short, the original material from the manga covered in this season is great, but this was a poor presentation. After six seasons of carefully covering the original source material, this season throws it all away rushing through as much as possible in each episode. Fights that are abbreviated, excessive flashbacking, summary scenes that should have had full episodes covering the events, and skipped material are abound.
This season was at it's best when it focused on one battlefield for an episode or two. It fell apart when trying to cover everything at once. More accurately, it failed
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to cover much of anything by skipping around from scene to scene.
I'd really only recommend this season to people who have already read the manga and want to see some of the battles animated. Otherwise, you are just missing out on too much.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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May 18, 2023
It's a fully fleshed out fantasy story. Character backgrounds and their histories are revealed a little bit each episode. The magic system and lore of the world is explained organically as situations arise where the minimal explanation is warranted. There is precious little in the way of exposition dump.
The show is at its best when detailing character motivations. The characters are brought to life through their fears and longings. Everyone has a good believable reason for what they are trying to accomplish, and all of this grows organically out of the character back stories.
In the spirit of being critical, the show
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does have one more obvious flaw in its power creep. Four episodes in, and there have already been two new stronger forms of demons introduced. Problems that could have served as longer more meaningful hurdles are usually cleared up in an episode or two. This kind of expedient resolution is typical in comedy, and as long as the show can continue to bring forth relevant challenges for the party to overcome this shouldn't detract from the show too much.
I have actually laughed at a number of the jokes, though I can't guarantee you will. I would go so far as to say, "Think Konosuba with half the jokes replaced with fan service so the jokes aren't excessively repetitive."
If you find fan service or anything ecchi related to be distasteful, you shouldn't even be reading reviews on an anime like this. Look elsewhere. That being said, the show would stand just fine even if all the fan service were removed. It's just there for those of us who like that sort of thing.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Jan 4, 2022
The story is intricate. All the main characters have well written back stories, and they interact with each other in organic meaningful ways. There are many layers to what is going on in each arc. The lore, and how the world works is well introduced throughout the story. I only find myself wishing I could have enjoyed it more.
The main issue with this story is pacing. It does a fair job of this throughout the first 9 or 10 episodes with only a few surprises feeling like they were revealed too soon. These earlier episodes still are slightly rushed.
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However, the last few episodes in the season are heavily rushed. One might say bulldozed through, with entire story beats forget or glossed over.
Pacing is vital in shorter seasonal anime. The final three episodes are a mess. Each of them could have used twice the time to fully explain what was happening. If the producers won't take the time to tell a story properly, they really shouldn't bother at all. Restricting a story this complex into 13 episodes was bound to fail is some regards.
The anime already has a second season. Given that it appears to be split into two halves suggests there will be 12 or 13 episodes per half, and I'm hoping that means the pacing issues will be sorted out.
If I were to rate this anime based solely on the first 10 episodes I would have probably given in an 8 or 9, and would still recommend this anime base solely on the strength of everything leading up to the final arc.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Sep 9, 2021
Gou was overall poorly done right up until the last couple arcs, which were very well constructed. The final few episodes of Gou act as an introduction to the story for this season, and what I'll say is that it was worth watching through that mess to get to season 2. If I had to advise anything, maybe watch the last third of Gou, and then watch this.
You do need to see what happens to Rika over the course of multiple incarnations to understand why she wants to get away from Hinamizawa before you see the mess that she puts Satoko through
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that sparks this whole conflict. I don't want to spoil much, but I will say that the competition between two essentially immortal beings is gripping.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Aug 24, 2021
Season 2 does not disappoint. It builds on the strengths and foundation laid out in season one. Character backgrounds are expanded upon, background characters are more fleshed out, and devilishly spicy relationships start to form.
Also we get to see evil cycle Iruma, and that alone has been worth making the journey up until now.
While the show still has something of an episodic nature, it is more clear now than in season one that the story has a direction that it is heading towards. Each episode gives a little taste of what is to come next.
Some new additions help to progress the story
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as well. Without spoiling anything I will say Arikured is sure to be a fan favorite. I know I am. Professor Balam Shichiro is also a solid addition.
Watch season 1 if you haven't. If you've watched season 1, season 2 if you haven't.
But like, season 3 when?
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Aug 3, 2021
The level of production that went into the art for this series is amazing. I feel bad for the artists.
Visually spectacular, but devoid of any other substance. It's trying really hard to be Ouran. Injecting quotes by famous philosophers between meaningless drivel does not make a compelling story.
I can't imagine why something so poorly written has such amazing production value. It's really not fair when so many other great manga have not had anime adaptations. It's even more infuriating thinking about all the great anime that needs a second or third season. Please put the amazing effort
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that went into drawing this series into something, anything else.
tl;dr There has never been an anime with a more stark contrast between the quality of the artwork and the story.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jun 30, 2021
This is not a horror anime. This is not a thriller anime.
There is very little suspense. There is rarely any build up to anything terrible that happens. It's missing all the essential elements that make up a horror anime.
This is a slice of life anime where once every few episodes someone's face gets smashed with a baseball bat out of the blue. So it's slice of life mixed with gore happening to children.
Granted this is Higurashi, I expected terrible things to happen to children. And I am happy to hear more of the story after the original first two seasons,
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but this was poorly executed. Only watch if you've watched the first two seasons, and need to know what happens afterwards.
Edit: The last arc of this series is actually really good, and sets everything nicely for the next season. It's unfortunate the rest of it was pretty much wasted potential. I have bumped my overall up to a 7 to account for this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Apr 23, 2021
It's obvious this is a mediocre anime made from an amazing manga. Haven't read the manga, but the overarching story behind the anime made it obvious that it had superior source material. It's the reason I stuck through some of the parts that tended to bog down in the middle. If I had to attach numbers to it, the original story is an obvious 10, with the anime quality being spotty. Some parts of the anime deserve a 9.5, while other parts are a 6 at best.
The story they are trying to convey here is overall dark, a little edgy, with
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just enough of a deep dive into human nature and survival instincts to give the action meaning. It also has comic relief and romantic interests to alleviate the tension
The anime struggles early on to balance these elements, but I think they finally got the balance right by the last five or so episodes.
The show suffers from some pacing issues, which we all know is death for shorter series. It tries to pull off an en medias res at the beginning, but then gives us the obviously essential backstory very shortly thereafter. It kind of defeats the point. The show would have been better if everything just took place in chronological order. The recap episode 5.5 honestly handled the opening better than the first episode did.
That being said episodes 1-4 do a fine job of introducing the story, and making us want to invest in the characters.
Whoever was responsible for episodes 5-7... I won't say anymore, but the middle of this series is a bit of a mess. They don't know how to handle the show after Hajime leaves the first labyrinth. Every episode or two starts with the characters in a completely different location, and only half the time do they explain why the characters went off to said new location. The bad comedy, excessive edginess of the main character, and scattered pacing make the middle a total cringefest.
Overall, this show is rushing just a little bit to fit in a bunch of events into 13 episodes. 20 or so episodes would have suited the number story arcs they were trying to portray much better. The aforementioned jumping from place to without explanation could have been done away with. Show us a party traveling a fantasy world, not a bunch of random events in it. That and important backstory was constantly being crammed into just a few minutes of discussion or flashbacks. They could have used more time to flesh that out.
Again, by the last five episodes the pacing and the balancing of the different genres came together, so the show ended well, which it is why I gave it an 8 as opposed to a score more fitting of the middle episodes.
Definitely worth watching, though I honestly hope this show is forgotten about for a few years, and then gets a reboot to handle the original source material properly.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Feb 9, 2021
I'll try to keep this short. You'd be better served watching a summary of the light novels by someone on youtube. I'm not much of a light novel reader, but I will probably do so for this one since so much was skipped in this adaptation.
As others have said, something like 9 light novels are crammed into 26 episodes. Any semblance of a cohesive story is gone. Scenes jump around, there are exposition dumps, and new characters to the series don't have any of their backstories or motivations explained. Even old characters like Accelerator have their narrative arcs and motivations
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simplified.
I'll give an example. There is literally one scene in the middle of an episode where Toma says, "I got out of the city, and I managed to board a train." And this is supposed to explain how Toma got to that point after he was chasing down a group of terrorists in London. Why are you on the train Toma? What did you do with the terrorists? Where is your intended destination? The world may never know. But we don't have time to care because now he needs to escape the train with some girl he meets two seconds later. The whole series is like this.
I do not have any nostalgia tainting my view. I just started watching Index/Railgun/Accelerator recently for the first time. In general the seasons of railgun turn out the best because they cover two or three narrative arcs in full detail over 26 episodes. Previous seasons of Index suffered from a little bit of rushed pacing usually covering four or five narrative arcs. This season does twice that, and that's terrible.
The production studio, and anyone involved in this release should be ashamed. Honestly, season 4 should just be the first two or three arcs from season 3 done right. I hope all of index receives the same treatment that railgun receives at some point because the story is great, and would play out much better with all the details fleshed out.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Jun 10, 2020
If this show didn't have the huge animation budget it obviously has, half the people here wouldn't even be bothering. That being said, I'm withholding most of my judgements because this is just season one, and the show has room to either improve or collapse on itself.
The Good
Tanjiro's empathy for the demons he slays is heartfelt and a driving force of the narrative.
Tanjiro's loss and subsequent connection to his sister is equally heartfelt.
The first major training arc has such great story building that I completely forget that the show's primary power up premise boils down to suck in more air to take down your
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enemies.
Vampire Michael Jackson is a compelling villain, although I'm not really sure why he's here.
The Bad
Boars Head and Scaredy Cat have the same troupe almost every episode(You know who I'm talking about). Their backstories need to be fleshed out sooner rather than later, and they need to develop out of their current habits because I cannot watch another season with them pulling these same antics over again.
No really, their troupes were overused from the episode they were introduced. They are wasting our time at this point.
Some of these episodes are filler tier, and don't contribute anything to the overall narrative.
I will say I like where this show is going overall, and it certainly is eye candy. I worry this show may devolve into appearance without substance. Season 2 will be a major turning point.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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