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Jan 18, 2023
The manga's really good, but I can't reccommend this adaptation to anyone. The animation's box standard wit notin special to write about, but most insultingly, the anime completely rushes past establishing the premise which made the manga great.
These are supposed to be scarred characters wit trust issues, who by establishing and maintaining firm boundaries figure out how to trust each other: and the catharis coming from trust being shown will only happen if you properly establish the complete absense of trust to start, which the anime just fails to do. It's rushing past the establishing the premise to get to the 'good stuff' not understanding
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that the good stuff only works because the premise was so well-established.
The first episode should have been split into two episodes, detailing nick's entire ordeal right up until he winds up at the bar after which the four characters put at a table together slam their drinks down and say, "You just can't trust anyone." Roll credits. Episode 2 opens wit everyone hung over and then covers the backstory in flashback before starting the party's establishing negociations in earnest for the rest of the episode. Then episode 2 becomes episode 3, and wham bam.
But no, they quickly breeze through the set up of the premise so they can have some mediocre fight animations to climax the second episode: the characters most hurt by this rushed treatment are Curran and Nick. The anime's a disorentated mess, and I recommend, if you're at all interested in the premise, you go read the manga instead.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Dec 19, 2016
If you read the source material, you should go into this knowing that it does not start the same place in the story as the manga; it starts in medias res, but chooses a time where very little is happening so that the audience can become acquainted with the characters before any massive changes are introduced.
The setting is a middle magic earth populated by fairies and other invisible folk; The crisp pastoral settings contrast strongly with the muddy urban environments giving the first episode a feeling that the natural world is kinder than the world made by humans.
This presentation of the world helps set
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up the characters as fringe members of society and reclusive outside of their small group.
The main issue I had with the experience was that there wasn't enough to continue; the first episode was broken into parts which I could only watch the first one. It was over just as I was getting interested. I would recommend the show for binging, because there just isn't enough story in each episode because of pacing to watch it one episode at a time.
The animation was beautifully executed in scenes with dramatic movement, but it drew short of expectations during low actions sequences; during those sequences, many of the main characters felt stiff.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Dec 25, 2015
The story was excellent. It was a villain of the week show that follows a ridiculously over-powered protagonist, and it admits it. However, the concept that the hero will be able to beat what ever the threat is in a single punch is horrible to the shows suspense. Every cliff hanger is completely flat, because the capped-baldy will just show up and end it in a single punch.
Art and Sound are not only amazing but orgasmicly good deserving of perfect scores. The show keeps a levity about it in the way it often depicts the protagonist in a simplistic manner; but I had one problem
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with the art, and that was that this mook-style Saitama also shows up at some of the worst times and just ruins the mood.
The characters were dynamic enough but there were too many introduced all at once in the last episodes that I lost track of many of there personalities. The Villains of the week were all fabulous for what time they had on screen, though their motivations were very flat, "Rawr we're better than humans and want to kill/enslave all of them." The only exception was the final villain who was just bored and looking for a fight to entertain their selves with.
The protagonists that were around long enough to for me to attach to had either well written backstories or personality quirks that made me like them, but a lot (like a lot a lot) of characters fell flat; maybe because they just didn't get the screen time they deserved.
As per my enjoyment: In compiling my list of anime, I've learned that I'm not much partial to fighting anime as much as I once believed. While the show executes every other aspect very well, I simple didn't enjoy it. The anime is very well produced, but it's for someone with different tastes than my own.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Dec 25, 2015
The concept for the anime is refreshing and the story is very wall written, both as an overarching plot and as individual episodes. I was especially thankful that episodes were very well self contained, with no unnecessary cliffhangers bogging down the story. It made them flow very naturally into each other and hadn't even noticed I'd watched all twelve episodes.
There was noting to complain about with the art, but neither were there enough om-gawd moments to warrant it a perfect score. The same is true for the sound.
I enjoyed watching the characters unfold and develop, but some of the minor characters and episodic villains
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were slightly cliched. Additionally I wanted the former noble from early in the series to be a recurring character.
As I said earlier, I didn't even notice that as the anime went and finished. That was because I was having such a good time watching I forgot how long I'd been watching. A very enjoyable anime.
Overall it did nothing wrong and did a lot right, but it didn't go above and beyond my expectations of it. It was a fabulous anime and I am looking forward to watching the second season; but I worry that season two will make the same mistake several anime do, and will take the beautiful ending from season one, open it back up and then not end it properly come season's end.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Oct 11, 2015
The story, Art, Sound track, and characters were all great and besided a few hiccups, I hold no bar against them.
I hate shows that blatantly pander to boyish fantasies of sex with no regard for subtly, then turn around and don't have the stuff to go through with it. With The Qwaser of Stigmata, while I found the show unwatchible, I have to give it the credit of sticking to its guns (or breast rather) and not flirting with the fence about weither it'd be a watch with friends show or a guilty pleasure show. But This show gave no attempt that I could find
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to do so, bait and switching from watch with friends ecchi to watch alone smutty. The second episode set a tone that all the sexual scenes would be off camera but strongly implied and I was mildly annoyed when the show betrayed that expectation.
The major problem I have with the anime is that it was sitting on the fence for the entire run and wouldn't commit itself to either side. The fence I am referring to is of course it's execution of the more ecchi aspects of the show. If it had taken a less perverse route with less censorship but less sex to censor, it would have benefited greatly.
While the chibi [censored] blocks were adorable, they were overused and either the show needed a greater variety of methods to obscure the unairable scenes or it needed it needed to have fewer to begin with. Then there's the fact that the rules regarding the censorship seemed arbitrary or worse, random. I found myself trying to rationalize the schema for bowdlerizing when I should have be teen-boying the scene. I came to the conclusion that the show was using censorship as an excuse to cut corners in some harder to draw scenes.
So while the story, art, sound, characters, and my personal enjoyment of the show were all deserving of a higher overall score, this nagging offense in the back of my head prevents me from giving the show a higher score. I'll be watching the second season hopeful to award it a higher score but I doubt that will happen.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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