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Aug 17, 2018
Review is written by courtesy of ThatAnimeSnob
Darling in the FranXX is a fine example of what modern anime have become and why they are throwaway trash. They are doing nothing but reusing older ideas, instead of having new ones. And on top of that, they don’t even do a good job at rehashing the same ideas. They are not trying to improve or refine them. They just make them more creepy, sexual, and edgy.
They also ride on the name of who made them, instead of how good they are on their own, and do their best to keep you interested with how absurd they are
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by constantly making up memes and crazy situations, without actually caring about the quality of the script or good characterization.
The show does its best to make hate everything from the very beginning. You get the scene where they establish the main character, and all you get is a bland self-insert who recited emo poetry and there is an injured bird that symbolizes something. First impressions are crucial for getting to like a character, and instead of giving you an interesting personality, or a cool design, or a sad backdrop, they throw in stolen quotes and symbolism, which have nothing to do with him as a person you are supposed to like for being a person.
This is all nothing but pretentious overthinking replacing characterization. How can you still care after that? Same thing with the main female character. The establishing scene is about her being naked and crazy. What is there to care about her after that, besides the doujin you will look for when you want to masturbate?
The funny part is that the majority of modern anime fans are fine with this trash, because they gave up on expecting to watch something good. Most of the community was calling this abomination the best title of the year, just so they can be part of the seasonal hype, write essays about symbolism, make theories about what might happen, only to lose interest as soon as it’s over, so they can move to the next trash that is about to come out.
But until that happens, they will be kept preoccupied with two seasons of boring one-dimensional characters, each one defined by type rather than an interesting personality, as they spend their time trying to understand sex. Just by this set-up, you know this is bad from the get-go, since everything is defined by numbers and percentages instead of, you know, personalities.
The characters have nothing to do outside of piloting waifubots by doing doggy style sex. This gets old very fast, since you don’t give a shit about action scenes that involve awful mecha designs and sex metaphors. Plus, the characters have no backdrop story since they haven’t done anything interesting in their whole lives. Their social interaction is limited to talking to equally flat people like themselves. Also, there are so many of them it becomes a snorefest to tolerate an episode dedicated to each of them; especially when you know only the main two characters matter in the story. Most others don’t contribute to the plot in any way; they are just there to waste episodes on sexual innuendos.
It could have been a decent watch if it stayed that way and didn’t try to have a plot or deeper meanings, but it did and it backfired horribly. For most of the episodes, there were no explanations for why they are fighting monsters or why the world looks like a huge desert. The writers were constantly teasing an answer to all that, and to the most part did nothing to prepare the audience for it, since most of the episodes were wasted on the sexual frustrations of inept waifubot pilots. All the emphasis was placed on vapid love triangles, cheating, cuckholding, and shameless references to older mecha. That became the only thing the audience of this abomination was caring for.
Evidence for how little thought was placed into the making of a cast, can be found when observing what happens to them once they manage to resolve the conflict they were written with during their inception. The single trait that was defining them ceases to exist, and they become black pieces of paper, since whatever specs of personality they had was defined by their conflict. Essentially, the moment their emotional baggage is lifted, they stop having a personality.
Eventually the explanations for the mystery arrived in a rushed and retarded way, completely changing the atmosphere of the show, and as if by magic made everybody to realize the show was crap all along, despite that being obvious from the very beginning. After that, everybody was calling it a trainwreck and left them wondering how did Trigger, the savior of anime, ruined the potentially best anime of the year (lol).
Some tried to defend this horseshit by saying previous Trigger and Gainax series were also becoming bizarre as time went on, and that it’s unfair to hate Darling when it was constantly reusing ideas from them. Those defenders are of course idiots who don’t see how said older anime had far fewer characters, with far more personality and backdrop stories, and had much smoother transitions by not wasting as many episodes on worthless characters, thus being left with enough duration to work things through a lot better.
But hey, this is a modern anime, so who gives a shit about any of that? The point is to forget it the moment is over and move to the next trainwreck.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Sep 24, 2017
Spoilers are inferred! It won’t necessarily spoil the story too much although it could affect your experience, so just read with discretion.
Firstly, I would like to say that this show seems to be episodic if you were watching this show whilst its airing like me, because there is a chronological order of every episode that happens (just look it up fam) - it’s just that – the ‘chronological order’ is not in the order the episodes are aired; just a little something for those who want to do a re-watch.
It’s not until like the last three episodes is when shit really starts hitting the
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fan, and because of that, episodic or ‘episodic until about half or more your way in’ sort of shows will only be saved if there are good characters – otherwise there’s like no substance at all.
Speaking of characters, the moe aesthetic might put off some people and I was a victim of this at first, because I didn’t really give a shit about it when I was looking for the pre-summer AniCharts (it’s moe - what did you expect – I’m not Digibro), and having remembered being how much hype there was with a previous spy show called Joke Game (although I do admit it had a way darker atmosphere) the characters do ultimately come off as flat and forgettable. Lackluster characters are not too much of an issue with this spy show, since all the main cast are given at least some kind of backstory and development – with Dorothy being the best girl because an entire episode was dedicated to her, and it was just really good if I were to spoil nothing about it. Though I do admit some of them could be a bit flat: the relationship between Ange and Princess in particular does feel quite forced and stretches the boundaries within your suspension of disbelief (or am I just getting some Madoka X Homura vibes over here?). Overall, the characters do come off as a mix-bag in some places, but you might not find any complaints that could bug you.
Because the ‘plot’ doesn’t really start moving until you get quite close to the end, the characters really are the best part of the whole series. The London Steampunk setting is definitely rare in anime, since the only notable steampunk show I could think of is that piece of shit I have yet to watch called Steam Boy. Most of the show consists of slightly edgy moe girls just fucking around on cool-ass espionage shit. And I like that!
Speaking of the ‘main plot’ near the end, it does keep you over the edge of your seat with all the plot twists and potential drama happening, so I can’t really say anything else here unless if I had to spill some spoilers. On the other hand, the world building is much to be desired: the whole gist with Cavorite is mostly left to the imagination unless if you (were not like me) have read H.G. Wells; the warring nations between the Kingdom and Commonwealth is nothing more than a plot device because there is literally no history as to how this war even happened, and any details regarding the massive wealth inequality and the ‘class war’ is just left there for sequel-bait.
In conclusion, Princess Principal’s moe aesthetic really shouldn’t be undermined. From the amount of anime I have seen so far, I was yet to come across a spy show that I would genuinely enjoy both critically and personally, until now.
A 7/10 is very well deserved indeed.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Mar 4, 2017
Spoilers are inferred, and though they won’t necessarily spoil the story too much, read with discretion.
The show demonstrates the theme of memories and establishes many questions and food for thought: the value of memories, what it means to lose memories, the value of he human being extending to the humans’ subconscious, the value of remembering a loved one, what it means to hide the wounds of the past, all such concepts are consistently categorized within the theme of memories, which can make a viewer think. The show runs on an episodic fashion – and though I am not normally an advocator of these sorts of
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series, I will give Kaiba credit, as it kept its themes consistent and characters do develop to the point for me having the courtesy to care about them.
Story is a bit lacking in certain places, and that is probably mostly due to the Sheriff being a bit of wasted potential – it might infer to Kaiba’s attempt in comprehending human care and emotion, though I don’t seem to see that from him, even when the show is ending, there is just a ‘lack thereof’ an aftermath.
Progression to the real plot doesn’t happen until 7 episodes in, and I thought the show would simply be a coming of age road story and for the MC to finally mature. After that though, the whole ‘save the world’ part just felt crammed in quite unnecessarily – I personally didn’t have as much enjoyment at that point, as the whole plot seems to zoom very quickly and we only get like five minutes or even far less, to ‘cram’ in the other character back stories which (though still better than a character merely to serve as a plot device) is just lacking and feels rushed. Maybe there was deeper message, that directing your pain to the world is “Not” a good idea? I thought it would make a better show if it were more of a road journey.
I cannot stress that Yuasa is truly one of the most unique anime directors out there; the unconventional art style, with its basic forms of anatomical caricature, and the curved geometry that blends both artificial and biological designs gives the show a child-like aesthetic, which fits the show perfectly.
Overall, a show that makes you think and if you want something truly different from all the modern shows, then this is definitely one of those gems for any anime veteran or anyone really into finding good anime in general, should watch. Far from perfect - especially in the end - but that does not stop it from being great.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Feb 17, 2017
Spoilers in the review are kept to a minimal, though proceed with caution if you are about to read this before watching the show.
While there is normally at least one ‘Battle Royale (or Hunger Games if you want something more familiar)-esque show’, with Mirai Nikki having set the trend, even that show has been more or less a way for critics to circle jerk all day because of how bad it is. Sadly, this has been true for a lot of anime that has attempted to follow its foots steps: Fate/Zero had amazing potential if three quarters of the whole show hadn’t been spent on
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dialogue, Fate/Stay Night (lumping both its Ufotable and Deen counterparts respectively) was basically a cocky writer thinking that any plot convenient tool can be passed as high art, Danganronpa was well… Danganronpa, and Big Order was basically Mirai Nikki if none of the staff working on it gave a flying fuck about quality control!
And thanks to studio Lerche (who ironically created that piece of cancer called Dangonronpa which I still refuse to watch) we finally got a decent Battle Royal anime show – which I suppose it’s better late than never, but this is modern anime we’re talking about.
Okay, if you’re already getting annoyed now that I am referring the term ‘battle royale’ as ‘battle royal’, I’ve done five seconds of research: http://grammarist.com/spelling/battle-royal/
Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku, or Raising Project (half of the English title) as I would rather prefer to call it, has actual character depth and development, in the sense that you actually get to know who these magical girls are as people and not just cute girls doing cute things – you get to know how they live their daily lives, how they treat the people around them and how their personal experiences influence their actions as Magical girls. Despite some of the characters being archetypal, there seems to be a significant portion of the cast where you can see that person as a somewhat viable human being which expands on the archetype, something I rarely see in anime, since most archetypes are just cookie cutter placeholders for either clichés or ‘cute girls doing cute things’.
What really separates Raising Project when compared its (mostly!) retarded battle royal counterparts is that rather than ‘only one can be claimed victor’, there should be ‘some survivors’ of the whole battle royal ordeal to be claimed as winners. This little gimmick actually poses some additional factors as to how the survival game has to be played: making alliances would become a more effective option, teamwork would be seen as valuable in surviving the game, characters have a greater tendency to trust each other and it’s an overall refreshing twist on the genre. Maybe it’s just that good to be classified as battle royal anime.
I should definitely give the show a lot of praise if it actually stuck to that formula; nearing the end of the show, a new game master was revealed and then the rules changed saying that actually, only one needs to survive in order to win. While that does spark some sudden tension and conflict within the cast, this also the turning point when things start to feel a bit rushed: battles start using less tactics and became more of battle of ‘who has the coolest powers’, certain characters’ start dying so quickly to the point I forgot about them and the ending – though quite an unexpected resolve and is something that should be seen to be understood, I can’t help but to have this gut feeling that it’s just an excuse for sequel-baiting.
Even some of the newly introduced cast on the beyond the half-way point of the show start to feel lacking in excuses for the audience to care about them – yes it is an admirable attempt that the writers like to show a character’s background just moments later they are killed off (which of course is still leagues ahead than treating a character like cannon fodder), but that’s just the laziest form of persuading an audience to care about a character.
If I were to give the benefit of the doubt, the show had far too many characters and too little time (like 12 episodes worth) for viewers to be emotionally invested in any form. Really, the show was a pretty cool twist on both the battle royal and magical girl genre, with substantial amount of good material to chew through until it starts to feel a bit rushed in the end; it could use another 12 episodes to develop the cast better and for everything to be put in a neat little package. Still worth the watch, especially if you are comparing this show from everything else in 2016, then this the surprise of the year!
And if you wanted me to talk about the art, sound and animation... it exists... as if it's just, mediocre? Like... the OP is okay I guess.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jul 8, 2016
The AoT that was never meant to be
For the first few episodes, Kabaneri was just your atypical action show. After a quick introduction to the setting – essentially the same as Attack on Titan but with a trains and zombie’s motif - two of the possibly greatest human inventions combined! Yet unlike Kabaneri’s emo as fuck brother who thinks killing characters every 10 seconds is the equivalent of a good writer masturbating, Kabaneri fortunately hails that so-called ‘modern masterpiece of narcissistic entropy’ to slit its god damn throat and breaks that shit down to its bare-bones basics. By basics: a switch your brain off action
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show. Just ignore the magic of how a single person can kill a million zombies out of god knows where.
My first impressions gave me some fate that the damn thing is going to be good up until the very end… on the other hand, this is modern; you think this shit will stay consistent, but it eventually succumbs into evaporating diarrhea. I suppose Wit wasn’t satisfied enough after Seraph not becoming as big as a hit as it would have meant to be (which was a decent show, wink!). Thus, they wanted Kabaneri to be so akin as possible with AoT. They tried to put sympathetic and emotional weight to the character’s actions, and even abandoning the over powered main character – as a means to what? Make me sob? Or that people get salty because they are only given a bit of rice for lunch during an apocalyptic setting? Don’t even get me started at the amount of shouting the protagonist does; I swear he spends more energy bitching about how dangerous a situation is and expressing basic status of depression, rather than just killing the damn zombies. Which was all what I wanted to see!
Amusingly there were no character deaths throughout the whole thing. Yeah there were the zero-dimensional civilians but they are almost - literally cannon fodder for the pseudo CGI backgrounds and an excuse to make the zombie apocalyptic setting. If you exclude that hundreds of thousands of people death toll, you realise that no one fucking dies! Not even the support characters, who are just there to make conversations for the protagonist and support development even die. It’s like the opposite of AoT: where a few minutes of screen time is given to certain side characters, and they die without even getting my overly sensitive ex to give a shit. And the characters are one dimensional as hell, so who even cares?
Did I mention that the protagonist, Ikoma, is a more badass version of Eren? At least Ikoma gets shit done, and doesn’t whine nearly as often as that emo kid. They’re pretty similar, so expect archetypal plot armor moments. But I do question: if Ikoma can enhance his bodily performance to a demi-Kabane, would it more convenient to have a few more people with the same augmentations? All what you had to do is cure yourself of a Kabane disease, and simples. How do these zombies even came to be? How does the blood circulation pseudo-science even work? Now I wouldn’t mind vague world building, but science in this show need some validity if it’s going to be more than mindless schlock.
Apart from the antagonist’s legendary pink hair, Biba was just another edgy kid who looks like he has grey morality for his actions, but really he is just a very quiet generic asshole. I don’t know why he reminds me of Shadow the Hedgehog.
In conclusion, Kabane Iron Fortress was first a mindless action show which I would praise it like a gem from all the cancer that is modern anime. But it had to suck on Attack on Titan like a feeder eventually. Because you know… “Financial reasons…” – Studio Wit.
CRTICAL FINALE: 4/10 ENJOYMENT: 4/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jul 2, 2016
Warning: I ranted some implied spoilers. But nothing too major and its pretty obvious stuff if you’ve watched at least then first episode. But don’t raise your pitch forks if you think I’ve spilled too many beans.
For any anime studio that makes a show that is all style, no substance, it is probable for anyone to denote the studio’s value (there is Ghost in the Shell, but that’s retro so it doesn’t count). Unless if its Trigger. If there is one thing that we could all agree with, are the unique character designs: essentially Disgea heads with their chibi proportions toned down and are plonked
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on Shoujo-style bodies. Sounds odd, but it works in a refreshing visual sense that you won’t see from the onslaught of moeshit and the awkwardly large eye sizes from the mid 2000’s.
It is scientifically proven by the enlightenment association that the OP is also elder god tier. ‘nuff said.
The whole gimmick behind the Kizna project is sharing all our physical and mental pain to the others around us. Ignore how the entire economy and civilizations looks awkward if someone gives birth, or someone crying over a funeral and everyone is forced to feel sad, or someone being mangled over a red room, or for every person who eats a ghost chili therefore causing societal collapse – I’ll give the benefit of the doubt this time. You could say the show is inherently flawed by its conception, however, the means this kizna project is presented, is what matters here.
And by well-presented characters, I only mean one-noted archetypes. I may slide by the emotionless protagonist – there were some understandable moments; the tsundere red head – who doesn’t have nearly as many TSUN moments, so praise fuckin’ Michael! And I can’t even care about Sonozaki – similar to the protagonist but keeps all her emotions to herself; not like it matters since we only get to know her that way for only a total of 15 minutes tops. Nico is cute for the sake of being cute and is naiive as all hell. At the end of the show, did it really seem like the characters were fleshed out? But Tenga is a speck you don’t see often. It is quite a disappointment because there was no backdrop that made the characters who they are. Apart from Maki who makes actual sense.
Speaking of good characters, Maki and Tsuguhito just work, due to the simple fact that their relationship is a logical one. Unlike most anime romances which makes a kiss the ultimatum; the end goal of all relationships.
Relationships makes just as much sense as shipping discussions from fan fiction writers, or people who just wanna draw fappable doujins. I still don’t know how Nico started getting feels with red head dude; there is some sense with his feels on the tusndere archetype. Sonozaki X Kitsuahara is still emotionless, even when they received their emotions ironically.
At the end of the day, Kiznaiver got the message out there: that uniting an entire social hivemind into an individual mass, as a means in achieving philanthropic ego for a cosmopolitan society: within each mind reads every other mind – alike that of a book – is a bad idea!
Even if the story is just about some teenagers doing summer camps and having their lives risked for the sake of science without anyone’s consent – shouldn’t the police be there already? At least there were some legitimately funny moments sprinkled here and there. After all the episodic shit that is there to supposedly create character development (which barely happens), the huge plot twist was just anti-climactic as hell because I just can’t stop giving a crap with these one dimensional and under developed people!
FINALE: 4/10 – Looks better than most spacky beans (with uniquely good taste). And fails at everything else, or lackluster in general.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jun 22, 2016
Blue Gender: AoT done right
As you can imagine from the title, Blue Gender is the post daddy Attack on Titan. Unlike AoT just being an over-glorified edge lord worshiped by the mainstream mass of sensationalists, I can more than happily say that Blue Gender is (perhaps unfortunately?) sits behind the obscurity corner within the likes of many 90’s good shit, which is only consumed by the enlightened – but please recommend to casuals so they can join the Reich.
Blue Gender stands out for combining three awesome things: sci-fi survival horror, social critique and creepy as fuck aliens who make the Titans looks like a bunch
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of wankers. And sex – presented in a way that is reasonable!
So don’t expect any Dues ex Machina ass writing, like it’s your trivial shounen. People die when they are killed – literally!
Episodic shows have one thing that tend to lack, and that is tension, or more importantly a lack of any overarching event that would produce intrigue for viewers to see more. While that does have its own advantages which I won’t elaborate or I’ll be writing until Christmas – what makes the first half of Blue Gender so much better than these types of shows is that the Blues (creepy ass, overgrown alien parasites who want to eat you in your sleep) can kill anyone, at any time and that no one is safe - anywhere. You see people trying to recover whatever sanity they have left from the trauma of fighting these aliens and the co-operation of the wanderers and soldiers are done so for the sake of survival or for their own well-being to help out.
Even with this ‘monster of the week’ formula, there is insight in terms of ethical issues by surviving – notably episode four. Not mentioning spoilers, because humanity is clinging at the last specs of survival; is it really okay to leave the unfortunate and the weak to fend for themselves? If by letting them live, would it do any benefit for humanities survival? This is a common motif during the shows duration and is done to reflect the situation of our characters.
If there are some legitimate complaints, they are definitely there. Like how god damn annoying Alysia is; I know she’s meant to symbolise as this character you can always feel safe with, which juxtaposes her naive nature with the apocalyptic setting, but it just comes off as a nuisance as she stands out way too much from the rest of the cast.
The ending is a bit on the art house side: with the existence of god? Or nature? The link between humanity and nature, so humanity must die from nature because man has fucked the Earth so damn much? Not being Arkada here, the ending is a bit vague and out of my expectations.
Overall, Blue Gender is a classic that is a must-watch for all the AoT weebs who think Eren is the subversion of Shinji, and that anything with loads of character deaths is a masterpiece. Or I don’t know, perhaps a good gem in the rough.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Feb 20, 2015
Trinity Seven is written by Japanese people who know how to write eroges; and its super magical:
Trinity Seven's sole existence was to bandwagon upon an existing trend from modern anime that was unintentionally meant to become dramatic. We first had Highschool DXD, but the main the catalyst was Mahouka (and now anime fans confuse between what’s Harry Potter and Tetsuya) – so I thought highschool anime was enough... “Magical” highschool alternatively, says on the tin: 5 Star Apex Material, totally revolutionary and made zillion-zillion copies – creating an occult religion thinking that the events of this trend was real. However, Trinity Seven surpasses its predecessors
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for one unforgettable aspect that indeed, many writers must learn: Your making a teenage porn novel for f*ck sake! Drama, is necessity – or you have broken a universally acknowledged fact.
It is apparent, that Trinity characters were written by Japanese Koreans. Therefore, the complex caricature perfectly capsulise the two dimensional tsundere read head, the quiet kuudere type, three dimensional slutty babe (that rarely appears) and a staggering magnitude of artistic cliché characters. There is a lack of pretentious themes via presentation, which solidifies the placement amongst the writing. It spares dramatic moments over self-indulgence, and this other-worldly atmosphere as otaku viewers dream of having that three dimensional slutty babe at their bed (don't forget the shower scene), or accumulating so much power to create entire universes. Therefore, nothing becomes inherently or morally wrong, since such rare anime become so honest about themselves disregarding its own quality is no longer idiotic writing. It is being logical.
Without a discharge of braincells, this anime is inferior amongst its own brethren. Though nothing short of anything better or any aspect to speak more of.
SCORES:
CHARACTERS: 6/10
STORY: 6/10
SOUND: 5.5/10
ART: 5.5/10
FINALE: 6/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jan 17, 2015
Clannad: The Virtue of Humanities Patience
Generic Romance-some teenager stumbles upon potential wife amongst this cliché mist of cherry blossoms-watch it for 16 hours-ish so hopefully you sob, because Barrack Obama actually-and legitimately waited for such life-taking moments on this anime.
95% of this show consists of teenage bonding (not good or realistic bonding mind you) since “two-dimensional Japanese animated people” are highly complex caricatures. Then the viewers liked moments of “Award Winning” comedic gold to suffice Slice of Life monotony? When was this, time, when audiences ever found anime slap-stick, funny? It never happened back then, it never happened now, then will it never happen?
You, the
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Poo is vigorously anticipating to twitch those pubes in the TV screen Your watching until (after this century of patience) tears vomit out from the sorrow as You Look-at this incredibly overly-dramatic-moment as a reward for waiting! What was the point of building too many intolerable work day episodes?
SCORES:
5.5/10 – Story
5.5/10 – Characters
6/10 - Animation
7/10 – Music
FINALE: 5.5/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jan 9, 2015
Code Geass R2: Messy, Gritty, Idiotic War Drama
Hyper super epic war stuff: Get ready for a rebellion of war, revenge, politics, leadership, corruption, incest fetishes, two-dimensional guys who never go anywhere, and a completely jacked pacing! Heaven in this show is on Earth and is more vaguely explained than how babies are born.
This show has anything that your typical war drama has done, and it does feel pretty epic! Lelouch constantly trying to win mass mech war battles over his sister did seem ridiculous with this obsession, but its better than none. However, I must, and absolutely must admit-though still great in variety, if your
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having 10 tonnes of ideas all shaped on a blender, that smoothie takes time, so it was clear that the writers were rushing the pacing and leaving many themes scratched on the surface for viewers to so seriously be invested. Because the story seems confusing as it leaves plot holes like “How the living hell is the Geass power even a thing?!” And what we got was like “It came from Heaven, and that I–blah, blah, blah I'm retarded C3, can you please tongue me again?”
Secondary characters do play a role, but they are left so uncompleted! Like why is it a necessity, for us to care about Mecha Scythe Master? He was just a cheerful teenage military lad whose just there as one of the strongest Knights in Britainia, and yet he is just a there because he is just flipping there. It doesn’t help that they are two-dimensional like this pink haired girl whose there... Just for the sake of some random part of the show that was meant to be philosophical and some other crap that seems vague?
It's as if Japanese people don't even know what’s 9+10!
The battles were seriously dumb down, and when I thought that the anime never explained how Lelouch playing chess seemed fairly faulty, it gets worse when they switched to aerial battles for the sake of mechs looking more stupid since feet are certainly necessary. No given explanation on how Lelouch manages to win these battles by glaring on that green mini-map and pointing his middle finger to the general that they have to kill.
At the end, its still some random stuff happening at the time of crisis and that confusing plot with 90 or so rubbish characters makes this a ridiculous and it makes for an unpredictable and a fun ride, nor the show is trying to contradict its nature, so its still all well and good.
P.S. Code Geass is a parody of Legend of the Galactic Heroes if you were to think about it...
SCORES:
Story: 6/10
Characters: 5.5/10
Animation: 7/10
Music: 6/10
FINALE: 6/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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