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Mar 25, 2022
Score: 4/10
This is just a paint-by-the-numbers soulless adaptation of some big gacha game that this anime aims to advertise. After watching the show, I'm confident to say that I have 0 interest in playing the game this show is meant to promote.
I'm not going to comment on the show's subpar production values, as it should be obvious to anyone watching this show. My biggest problem with this show is that it failed to portray a post-apocalyptic world that feels lived. The show is too busy going through the motions to adapt the game's plot that it failed to make me empathize with the characters.
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to the people outside of the commanders? Why did the world arrived at this point? Why should we care if the SF wins? What is the point of all of this? If the point of this show is to show flashy gunfights and to parade the different girls, why is the animation so below average and why are the girls poorly drawn most of the time?
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Aug 21, 2020
I'll save you 5 hours of your time. Don't watch this show. Either read the manga adaptation or the light novels instead.
Its just sad to see a production that collapsed halfway through the show's entire run. Compare the visuals of the show's first 2 episodes with the visuals of the last 3 episodes. The first 2 episodes looked good but towards the end, the animation begins to melt, the inconsistencies between shots (good shot sandwiched between terrible looking scenes) becomes more drastic and some of the show's mid-shots start to resemble scribbles. It's difficult to pay attention to the story when you're being distracted by
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animation mistakes.
The same can be said to this show's story. The first arc (Episodes 1 & 2) is a decent start, but as the show goes on its becoming more and more apparent that the people who decided to adapt the light novels just cut out portions of the material indiscriminately. This is apparent during the last arc (Episodes 10 - 12) where a significant portion of the arc doesn't really make sense when you stop and think hard about it.
The best part of this show was the opening song. That says a lot about this show.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Oct 19, 2019
HenSuki looks pretty terrible across the board. Anything that isn't close-up shots, the characters looked shoddily drawn 80% of the time. The show sometimes has that weird slanted perspective in some scenes which makes those scenes look terrible and nauseating. It makes sense given the show was produced by the studios Geek Toys and Seven, both of which produced mostly terrible-looking anime up to this point.
Frankly, the terrible visuals is enough for me to give it a 2/10 for the sole reason that the last thing a fapbait show like this one should fuck up are the visuals. What's even the point of making a
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fanservice show if the characters are drawn poorly 80% of the time? We can talk about the story itself, but this show has a simple premise of finding out who Keiki's secret admirer is. Simplistic stories like these lives and dies by their characters.
With regards to the characters, I'm kinda divided. Keiki is your typical harem MC who likes to retort the girls' sexual advances to him. The main girls (Sayuki, Koga, and Nanjou) are one-dimensional caricatures that any scenes with those 3 main girls weighs the show down. However, Keiki's scenes and interactions with the other girl characters (Koharu, Ayano and Mizuha) are just fine. If anything, Keiki's interaction with his sister kinda works that the last episode is actually watchable. There are moments in the show that rubbed me the wrong way (girl imposing her fetishes on main guy sounds like potential sexual abuse if we're being realistic, etc.), but then its meaningless to point out those.
Anyway, the show is terrible. There are other better ecchi harem shows out there. This show is a 2/10 in my book.
(Re-posted since I didn't updated the show's progress upon posting of the review)
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Feb 25, 2018
I watched Episodes 1-4,7,8,9 (first half) and 11 (last half) of this show.
This is just a re-skin of your generic harem show. Basically, you have this generic harem male MC (with zero personality) collecting monster girls because he's kind. You have these monster girls (who also have one-note personalities) lapping up to the MC. Rinse and repeat for 12 episodes. You might as well just read the summaries in Wikipedia instead.
As for the rest of the aspects, they're servicable. At least Lerche did a competent job for the animation. If there's something nice about the production, its that they credit the key animator for the
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first half of the episode. Otherwise, the story is just subpar.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Feb 3, 2018
Jesus Christ, I hate anime... and here I am, bitching about another anime called "Two Car". I'm going to spoil the show for you just to save your valuable time:
WHO TOLD SILVER LINK. TO FUCKING MIMIC KUMA MIKO?
Okay, so let's see. This anime is more of a character-oriented show rather than a sports anime. This anime would've been decent (and would have been an 8/10) if they've just fucking revised the last episode (starting from 16:20 beyond). However, whatever "character development" the two MCs had for the entire show was shattered when the writers decide to write an ending that forcibly resets the status quo,
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with troubling implications. Letting the two MC's lose the race and letting their love interest (the coach) end up with his fiancee would be a way better and meaningful ending.
Looking at it, I just realized that out of the 4 pairs of driver-passenger pairs the show delves on, only 1 pair seemed to progress. The other two pairs just end up being the same, even though their relationship would be actually dysfunctional if it is real life. But hey, this is anime. We gotta turn our brains off!
To be quite honest, a lot of people doesn't like the two MCs continually bickering with each other but I think that aspect really makes their friendship more genuine and a breath of fresh air to the normal, anime-ish, artificial character female-to-female dynamics most anime seem to depict. A lot of people also doesn't like the romance subplot, but I really don't find it problematic. Outside of Mao and Hitomi's cringeworthy character dynamics, the dynamics of the characters in the show is decent. It's just that a mere 7 minutes can actually run a decent anime into the ground.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Dec 26, 2017
Rating: 4/10
Do note that I binged through the first season of this show last Fall 2014. Note that there will be spoilers for the show.
Maybe, it could be that I already know the conclusion of the first part of the sequel that I am not really that emotionally invested in the characters. And hey, the way the show is presented in the beginning there is no attempt to hide the fact that this part of the sequel will not end on a good note. Maybe my sensibilities changed through the years that I might have been tolerant of some of the anime tropes back then.
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But, oh boy, the writing in this anime really went down a few notches, especially the character development department.
Okay, the world building is nice. However, it didn't provide any additional insight to the world aside from the things that are already known in season 1. Yes, we saw Tougo's past as Washio Sumi, her life as elementary schooler. We also got to know Sonoko's life before we see her in Episode 8 of Season 1. We also got to know how the Hero System worked before they were given the spirits.
However, one of the biggest offender of the show is Episode 3, which is the "breather episode". Going into the show, the viewer already knows the "twist" of the show and the fact that one of the characters in the show will die along the way isn't really a surprise. That makes that breather episode crucial for the audience to be emotionally invested with the characters given that the suffering is bound to happen.
Unfortunately, the writers managed to make that episode so cringey that finishing the episode is a slog that I have to pause the episode then watch something crappier like a random PragerU video to even motivate me to finish the episode. Case in point, there is a part in the episode where Sonoko's dreams were shown in the anime. They even named the segment "Sonoko's Dreams". One of the dreams is Sonoko imagining Washio as an idol. Then they performed as an idol, rendered in CG. At this point, my brain literally screamed; "WHAT THE F***, STUDIO GOKUMI! WHY ARE YOU PUSHING THIS IDOL CANCER IN THIS SHOW?". Why even include those crap segments? Why did the writers shoehorn ambiguous yuri dialogue at the end of that episode? My god, that episode really dragged on whilst the last episode really crammed everything (introduction of the new system, showing how Sonoko and Tougo came to be at their situation now, how Sonoko realize the drawback of the "mankai" system and how she saw the actual reality of the world). Literally, everything happened during the last episode that somehow any emotional impact it has was not felt.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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May 21, 2017
This show wanted to be everything, and failed at all fronts. This show wanted to be a mecha anime, wanted to be cute, wanted to be """"""""political"""""""", wanted to be SoL, wanted to introduce some mythical """"""""lore"""""""". Unfortunately, it failed at all of these (except for being cute, thanks QP-Flapper).
The premise seems to be good in paper. Unfortunately, the execution is terrible, the plot development is terrible, the script is terrible and the characters are underdeveloped. Aside from Yui, Rena, and Ingrid, I barely knew any of the other characters, and they barely made an impact on the show. The worst offender of which are
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Tia and Sara, which have no personality beyond some assembly of tropes whatsoever. At points during the final confrontation with the villain, the protagonists are spewing cringe-worthy shit, whatever the villain is saying stopped making sense and the I stopped caring about the whole thing.
Since the name of this show is "Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars", I'm going to give this show a 3 stars out of 10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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