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Sep 30, 2015
So I'm back to anime and I decided to start by reviewing Arslan Senki. An anime that I was really hyped for basically because of the name ''Arakawa Hiromu''. For the few people that might don't know she is the creator of one of the most successful manga of all time called ''Fullmetal Alchemist''. But she doesn't stop there as sh is also the creator of the really interesting school life ''silver spoon'' which is a title that makes you want to drop everything and attend an agricultural school. So generally speaking Arakawa has a really respected name in animanga community and seeing her new
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title called ''Arslan Senki'' getting an anime adaptation I believe lots of us were more than excited to see the results which were... utterly disappointing. And here are the reasons.
''Arslan Senki'' started of with a humble first episode and as it was going on everything showed that it was going to be the hidden gem of the spring season (that wasn't so hard though the spring season was horrible). And indeed the first three episodes were more than enough for building the hype. The fights were really good and the story was developing slowly but with a steady and interesting pace and it also set some good questions about religion and war. And few episodes before reaching the middle this series looked like a realistic anime that could be a masterpiece. But only until the middle. Because after that Arslan Senki became entirely ridiculous. Suddenly we had supernatural entities and people who could jump from their horses to the backs of elephants (!). And ok I may exaggerating a little bit too much so let's just say that Arslan is not a realistic anime. That still doesn't excuse the stupid characters that fell to the childish war techniques that the supposed master tactician called Narsus was setting. Neither the fact that after a while we were seeing exactly the same thing!!! Arslan and his gang arrive to a place with peaceful purposes but the king of this country is evil and tries to set a trap to Arslan's army without of course any luck.
Artistically also the anime had a lot of problems. The animation was horrible. Even initially you could say that it was mediocre but at least not so dreadful as it was in the latter episodes. The poor CGI graphics made thing even worse. The soundtracks were good there were some memorable and interesting works. The openings were performed by Uverworld and NICO touches the walls (personal favorite Japanese band) and while good if you have heard other songs from those two bands you will admit that were not their bests. The voice acting didn't have any exceptional performances because the characters didn't have anything interest to make anyone stand out.
Which brings me finally to the characters. Arslan was plain boring as the protagonist. I really hoped for an extremely good development but in the end this development didn't come. Daryun was too perfect for me and Narsus was also boring as hell. In fact the only character that I actually liked was Gieve's character but near the end he disappears leaving us with all the uninteresting characters. The character design was also disappointing. It seemed like Arakawa was trying not to copy FMA's artwork but she ended up copying FMA's artwork after all. Silver Mask while initially an interesting villain as the story progressed he became a cliche villain that you can find in another twenty anime or so.
Ok I know that I shouldn't blame so much Arakawa because she doesn't have any connection with the anime apart from the source material. So in order to be fair I maybe should read the manga because the anime had a really open ending without any resolution. Now if you should watch the anime my answer is no. While it starts really promising the creators don't know what they want destroying this was a story that could be really good. You will not believe that the creator of the manga is also the creator of our all time favorite FMA
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jul 27, 2015
I like Psycho-pass. It's an interesting franchise that doesn't have any kind of moe and doesn't involve high school teenagers with supernatural powers. It's a really good thriller-mystery show with some really deep characters and good philosophical themes. I really enjoyed the first season and I loved the second one (though I was probably the only one). Yet I didn't like this movie as much as the predecessors. At first let's start with the story. The thing that i liked about this film was the fact that it expanded the already interesting world of Psycho pass. The biggest part of the movie doesn't take place
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in the futuristic Japan like the two previous anime series but in another country were things didn't develop as good as with Japan. That way we have a really interesting place to get the story started. The plot itself was good enough even though in some moments I was starting to loose interest. Generally speaking the movie is kinda big in length (almost two hours) as a lot of things open up and need to be closed with the ending.Also the philosophical aspect of the two first seasons is almost gone as this movie targets mostly in the action and a little bit in the political thriller genre. The animation is really good but for Production IG the best animation studio in Japan for me there were some flaws. Basically the animation was kind off awkward in some hand to hand combats. But overall it was really amazing. Now for the sound. Let the rant begins. I am not one of those people who have complex about locations. If an anime is taking place in England for example, I don't mind if the characters are speaking Japanese. But when an anime is trying to add English dialogues in it's script is always welcome with the requirement of course that the English are at least GOOD. I'm not asking to speak fluent English (hell I can't even write fluent English XD) but in this movie were a major part of the dialogue was in English this thing was unbearable as most of the voice actors couldn't speak English at all. And ok I could excuse the fact that Kogami's couldn't speak good English because he is a main character in the franchise and they couldn't change his voice actor. But for the characters that appeared for the first time like Nicolas or the mercenary team they could at least take some voice actors that could speak better English than the abortion that I was hearing from them.Maybe I would forgive it if the film was made by another studio but Production IG has a history of shows with really good English dialogues like ''Higashi no Eden'' and ''Blood the last vampire'' so this was unforgivable for me. Just make them speak Japanese for God's sake!!! Apart from that the voice actors were generally really good and the same goes for the OSTs too. The film starts with song of people's now favorite band Ling Toshite Shigure which was good but not their best in my opinion and ends with the awesome song by Egoist ''namae no nai kaibutsu''. But for the horrible ''engrish'' I put a 6 in the sound section. Hell some sideshows were speaking way better English than the main characters!!!
And lastly we reach the character section. I'm not a fun of Kogami (yes he appears it was obvious from the trailer so it's not a spoiler). I find him too perfect for the fucked up word that Psycho pass is displaying. But it was nice to see the other characters like Akane, Gino and a special someone near the end who makes a brief but memorable appearance that I believe all of us we were expecting. The other movie-exclusive characters were good enough but I was disappointed with the mercenary team who were all really interesting characters but apart from their leader none of them is being discovered at all.
Overall ''Psycho Pass the Movie'' was an enjoyable entry in this franchise. I don't believe it will be the last especially after seeing the last scene after the credits. It's good if you want to see 2 hours of action with a little bit of political thriller on it but don't expect to see any philosophies like the two previous seasons. I would recommend this movie to the fans of the franchise but don't go with high expectations. But I guess I shouldn't be the one to talk. I was somebody who loved the second season after all XD.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jun 15, 2015
''What is life without happiness?'' -Rokurota Sakuragi
Rainbow is a story of friendship. How friendship can grow through hardship in an era were everything was going wrong. This is rainbow. A heartwarming,sad, but at the same time an optimistic anime about life. Rainbow as a story was really good made and developed. Although at the time you are watching it you will say at specific times that the story can't go on, the anime continues in a magical way where the story won't get exaggerated or dull. Rainbow's story had only two flaws. First of all they should have one story at
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least for Soldier as he was the only character that he didn't have his own story arc. Yet he was my favorite character. Also with the exception of Joe, Turtle and Sakuragi we didn't learn anyone else background story. And it was a pity really because it would be really interesting. But overall rainbow is an anime that displays friendship in a harsh time were a good friend was the most important thing in the world and it manages to display it really good.
In the animation department I have to say one thing: Madhouse. So yeah enough said I believe.
The sound was also amazing. The opening was a song performed by Coldrain a famous Japanese rock band and it had a really deep meaning about the anime. The ending was performed by Galneryus one of my favorite Japanese bands and even though I don't like so much their ballads it was a heartwarming song that left you with a bittersweet feeling every time an episode ended.
And now for the characters. In one word they were amazing. From Mario and Joe to Cabbage and Soldier every person in this anime had their own problems and demons inside them. But no matter what they have to deal with, their friendship was the most important thing for them. You will see huge character development from the time that the kids are inside the prison but also the time after they came out of there. From he start until the end the anime was built solely on character development.
So what is friendship? And how far would you go for your friend? This is the question that rainbow asks. This anime made me laugh, cry, love, hate and live through its characters. Sometimes it may drug it's story a lot but then it will regain your interest again with it's adorable characters. It's a unique anime way different from what we are used to. A must watch for me. Hope they would made more anime like this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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May 31, 2015
This is I think the the only review about Zetsuen no tempest which will explain why this anime is overrated and not underrated as a lot of people are calling it. Before I start I want to say that this is only my opinion. I don't want (and I'll try not to) insult anyone else's opinion.
First of all I want to state that I love theater. I love watching theater and I love even more to act. So wen I heard that this was influenced by Shakespeare's plays ''The Tempest'' and ''Hamlet'' I was more than excited to see it. And indeed
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the story seemed really interesting. In fact Zetsuen no Tempest has a really unique and interesting plot full of plot twists from the start until the end. But there was a point where it lacked. ZnT could not get away from the shounen label. That way a really interesting storyline which could be made into an amazing seinen was held back by silly comedy relief as well as a really pointless second part. Especially with the latter I had a big problem because after a strong first part which had some really huge plot twists that were making you want to see the next episode instantly we went to a romance-driven second half that was a huge obstacle for the story development.
The thing that I loved in this anime was certainly the art but to tell the truth this was not something unexpected. When was the last that Bones disappointed in terms of animation?
Let's move to the sound section. The openings were horrible and the endings uninteresting. On the other hand the background music was really good and the voice actors do a fair job, everyone corresponding right in their roles.
And now it's time for the characters of this anime. Due to the shounenish elements that I spoke before the characters themselves could not get away from the unavoidable cliches.We had the ambitious Mahiro and the genius Yoshino as the protagonists as well as the yandere Hakaze and a bunch of other cliche and unoriginal characters. I found Mahiro and Yoshino really exaggerated as characters. Especially Mahiro was annoying and unreasonable in most of the anime. Another huge disappointment was Samon's character. This guy turned from an interesting villain to ridiculous comedy relief!!! And just don't make me talk about Aika. Generally speaking almost all characters were really uninteresting. The only thing that saved them somehow was the kinda fair development the main characters had near the ending.
While and before I watch this anime I was hearing people saying how underrated this anime was. That had made me put my hopes really high and I ended up really disappointed. Zetsuen no Tempest has a really interesting concept but very uninteresting story progression and characters which hold it back from being a masterpiece. But i believe that I was the only one seeing it this way. Everybody else loved it so I would recommend you to watch this anime and make your own opinion. You may like it more than I did.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Apr 17, 2015
This anime is considered one of the most classic anime of all time. And unlike most of today's ''classic'' this anime has all the right materials to actually considered as one. But there is a huge gap between ''classic'' and ''masterpiece''. And while Neon Genesis Evangelion (for short NGE) IS classic at least for me was (NOT) a masterpiece. But let's take things from the beginning. NGE has a rather simple storyline with a post-apocalyptic setting where mankind is fighting against giant aliens that are threatening them with extinction. This is all right and well but there was a big problem. The first
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14 episodes where boring and not boring because nothing happens but because we are seeing the same thing over and over again. The main characters are fighting the angels, defeat them and the we have a little bit of their daily lives along with a little bit of slapstick comedy. I know that this episodes were necessary for the other half of this anime as it was building the character development but still I believe it could handle it better. But the second half... well this is were things start to get really dark. The plot suddenly becomes so depressing and interesting that I forgot all the previous boring episodes. And the conclusion which comes with the three last episodes will leave you speechless. The art was good especially for the time that it was made but still I believe it was overrated a bit because of the repetitive scenes that we are seeing in a lot of episodes. Still, I have to give extra credit for the stunning job that the animators made for the last two episodes. For the sound I have to say that the results were amazing. The opening of NGE is considered one of the most classic songs of all time and I will have to agree with that. But for me the most amazing was the ending which was ''Fly me to the moon'' with different instrumental and singing versions in every episode. The voice actors should be given as an example of perfect acting. Megumi Ogata was perfect as Shinji, Megumi Hayashibara stunning as the quiet Ayanami Rei, Akira IShida AMAZING as the enigmatic Kaoru and generally all of the voice actors give an excellent performance to all of their characters. Now let's talk about the characters. This anime is completely built on character development. Really all of it's characters are so humans. All of them have their inner demons and all of them are hiding something. This is the real virtue of this anime. It's excellent characters each of them unique in their own way make this anime worth watching. Only bad thing was that I had to wait a number of episodes until I finally sawthis amazing development. Lastly, I have to say that Evangelion was not flawless. It had a lot of things that kept it from being a masterpiece. But it's certainly different from almost any other anime that you have ever seen. And I believe this makes it worth watching it.
Sorry for my bad English I know I've made a lot of mistakes. Hope I helped you. Feedback and opinions will be gladly accepted ;)
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Apr 13, 2015
Τhe blood franchise is either hated or loved by the anime community. And while some of it's titles are not so strong like the Blood C anime and it's movie that came after, ''Blood the Last vampire'' is probably the movie that even non fans of the franchise liked. The story is indeed interesting and because is the first entry of the series you don't need to watch any of the other anime of the series in order to watch this. It introduces you to Blood universe resembling more on Blood plus's though than Blood C's. The concept is the same a girl named
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Saya is fighting a non-friendly to humans species named chiroptera. The movie is mostly a fight between her and those creatures so you expect only to see action, action and action. Which is exactly what this anime gives. So don't expect any deep story but an awesome fighting anime. The only thing I didn't like was the ending which was kinda rushed and the length of the movie which was too short, not even one hour long. The art was simply flawless it reminds us why Production IG is considered one of the best animation studios in Japan. With it's dim drawings the anime gets you right into the dark world of Blood and with it's flawless animation it delivers amazing action scenes and fights. The sound section was remarkable. This anime is mostly voiced in English because some of the heroes are supposed to be Americans. And while the Japanese voice actors have a terrible history about terribly spoken English in this anime the results are wonderful. The voice actors are speaking English so fluently that initially I thought that I was watching the English dub of the anime. From the protagonists to the sideshows, either in English or Japanese language all of the voice actors were amazing. This proves how professionally this anime was made in all of its sections. About the characters I can't say much because due to the anime's short length the characters have no time for development and whatsoever. But you won't watch this anime for it's characters anyway (we have blood+ for that) but for it's awesome fights, so I don't believe any serious damage was done there. And also David from Blood+ one of my favorite characters in anime was playing a big role there so I believe this was a really good reason to give in the character section an 8. Summarizing, ''Blood the Last Vampire'' was a really well-made anime, with a rather interesting story and amazing fights. Due to its really short length it's watched really easily and I don't believe that you will have a bad time watching it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Mar 27, 2015
I don't write reviews for a lot of recent anime but I felt like Tokyo ghoul need it. Because of the big success that the first season had it was inevitable not to take a second one. What made this anime look even more interesting was the announcement that the creator of the manga Sui Ishida made about the second anime season to take a different rout from the manga. Hence the name Root A. The story tells the happenings of the manga from a different point of view with Kaneki joining the Aogiri side than the Anteiku's. With that really interesting plot twist things
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were looking really bright for the non-manga readers like me but also for the manga readers too because they would see a different story with the touch of Ishida in it. But unfortunately things didn't go as good as everybody was expecting it to be.Things started really interesting with two awesome first UNCENSORED episodes and then... the downfall started. First of all unlike what Sui Ishida said things are not different from the manga. Apart from the happening with Kaneki and maybe the last episode everything else is exactly the same as the manga. I didn't have a problem with it because as I said I don't read Tokyo Ghoul's manga but I can understand the frustration that the manga readers felt. The problems don't end here though. This season has a really serious problem because it has to adapt at least 80 remaining chapters into 12 episodes. The first season managed it well enough I have to say but this one was a real failure. A lot of things are opening up right from the first episode but they never close or nobody deals with them. The results are to end without having any real meaning or having answered a lot of our questions. But if I have to give them something that would be the last episode which from an artistic side was a masterpiece and it gave a good ending to an overall unsatisfying anime.
Another huge minus that ''Tokyo Ghou Root Al'' had was the animation. Even though ''Studio Pierrot'' is not the best anime studio in Japan it can do some pretty decent animation sometimes. And while the first and the second along with the last episode had really good animation and aesthetics the rest of the episodes were really average. Also after episode 5 we have another one of the anime plagues. Censorship. Yeah it returns and while is less annoying than the first season it still hurts your eyes and makes you loose all of the interesting parts and fights.
Before moving to the character section I will say first of all about the sound because especially for this anime it deserves at least one paragraph. I put a 9 mainly because I want to piss off all those fan boys/girls who were bitching about the new opening. They were all saying that it was shit compared to ''Unravel'' and while a big fun of the first opening myself, I have to say that this opening was better than ''Unravel''. With it's really simple (and not stolen from another anime...yeah I'm looking at you ''Unravel'') visuals, it brings us Kaneki's character development and with it's somehow twisted lyrics it unravels (get it? XD) the fucked up world that we are seeing. Even better was the ending. Man that song was a masterpiece. In terms of voice acting every single one of the voice actors did their job really good but the one who stood out was the new in the voice acting business Natsuki Hanae as the tragic protagonist Ken Kaneki. He captures Kaneki's character so amazing that you are forgetting you are seeing a character made from pixels. This voice actor i going to be the next big thing I'm sure.
And now we move to the character section. The results were really disappointing. Tokyo Ghoul is a character-driven anime so you expect some amazing character development. And here is the surprise. Almost none of the characters are developed to the degree you are expecting. With the only exception of Amon and Akira all the others are staying exactly the same from the start till the end. Kaneki who is the supposedly main character disappears suddenly without any meaning from the story with sudden appearances in every single episodes and then near the end he remembers that he is the main character and he returns more undeveloped and from Kirito's sword from SAO. And when you finally reach a point when you say that something good is going to be with his character the anime just ends.
So overall Tokyo Ghoul Root A was surely a disappointment as an anime series especially with the awesomeness that the previews season delivered to us. It starts off really promising but then throws the plot out off the window and just do whatever it wants trying to built all this dramatic atmosphere and forgetting to make a good story. I couldn't say that I enjoyed it as much as the first season and I can't say that is a true continuation of it's successor. It wasn't bad but it wasn't really good either. Watch it only if you are not feeling like reading the manga like I do and you want an ending of this anime.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Mar 23, 2015
Gantz. Another low budged anime from Gonzo studio. This studio while having some interesting projects like Basilisk or speedgrapher it is mostly know for it's really bad anime like the first Hellsing anime and this one. Now, Gantz is considered one of the most thrilling and amazing manga of the decade yet this anime is one of the worst adaptations ever made. The story is really stupid. I mean a survival game fighting... aliens? What are we on ''Men in black?'' But I let it that slide because back in the 2000's aliens were a really popular thing in movies and television. But apart
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from that the story doesn't have a descent progress. One time you are seeing the protagonists fighting aliens in a gory survival game and then you are seeing their everyday lives. And they were so stupid that you are actually wondering if the writers were serious when they were writing this. The only thing that restrained me for putting a lower score to the story was because of the last episode . It seemed like the writers did a tremendous try to make a dignified last episode to end the first season. They didn't exactly manage it but the results were certainly better than all of the previews episodes. One other bad thing that I should point out about this anime was it's horrible animation. Even though the anime is a 2004 production Gonzo did a terrible job even for this years standards. The animation and the aesthetics were so bad that my eyes hart in a lot of moments by its bad quality. In the sound sections things weren't better. Daisuke Namikawa in one of his firsts leading roles didn't manage to convince me as the anti-hero Kei Kurono. Same goes with the other two not so well known voice actors Masashi Oosato as Masaru Kato and Hitomi Nabatame as Kai Kishimoto. There were some good performances in secondary roles but nothing really special. The opening was really good when I first heard it I said 'wtf is this shit'' but after a while it becomes really catchy and makes up your mood. The ending was really uninteresting.
The character of this anime were some oof the worst I have ever seen. Kurono is an annoying little prick, Kishimoto is more useless than ten Orihimes and twenty Hinatas together and Kato is just plain and boring as the good guy that doesn't want anyone to die. There were a couple of interesting roles but the anime was not giving them enough screen time to see their development. Speaking of development this anime had zero in it's characters. There was a little bit near the end but it was really rushed and predictable. I hope the characters will be more developed in the second season. To summarize, Gantz is not a good anime but it was kinda enjoyable to watch it and tell how bad it is in every spectacle. That's why I put a five in the enjoyment section. Nevertheless, it manage to make me want to watch the second season mainly because I want to see if this is going to be any better. I wouldn't recommend this anime to anyone but I have to watch the second season too, so that I can have an opinion as a whole.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Mar 15, 2015
God this anime could have been awesome but it managed to ruin everything. Before I start be warned that this review might contain minor spoilers.
The summary of the story sounds awesome to the ears. Especially for a big fun of Fate/zero this anime would be the next best thing. But unfortunately it isn't like that. In contrast with Fate/zero which is a clearly battle anime with some philosophical aspects , ''Nobunaga the fool'' tries to mix all kinds of genres and the results is a huge disaster. From the first episode the anime was shouting from the distance that it was going to be boring.
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And unfortunately it was. Well, at least for the first 14 episodes. After that it became better but I don't thing that anyone is so patient to bare watching until then. It wasn't that the anime had problems with the pacing. In fact it is a very violent anime with a huge body count up its sleeve. What makes this anime boring are it's really uninteresting characters and the failed try to mix almost every genre in 24 episodes leaving this way a lot of plot holes and things that didn't make any sense. For example in the first episodes Nobunaga looses some very dear persons of his but we don't see their deaths to have any effect on him until the very end, making us to forget them really easily. The worst part of this anime though were the characters. Nobunaga is clearly a Kamina rip-off with the only difference that he was boring as hell. Same goes with almost all of the characters and that's really bad because this anime especially at the end becomes really character-driven, but with the characters to have almost none character development it didn't end up nowhere. Only exception was maybe Caesar's character but he was also ruined near the end The only thing I liked about the story was that the world was really well introduced to us. Especially the huge anachronisms made it somehow fun although it couldn't save a lot of things. After that comes the animation which was good but not for a production of 2014. The mechas were animated solely by CGI which I didn't like really much but I let it slide. About the sound I didn't like neither the first opening, nor the first ending but the second OP/ED were really good and catchy. But the voice acting had some flaws. With Mamory Miyano as the protagonist and some other huge names for the secondary characters (like Takahiro Sakurai, Yuki Kaji, Tomokazu Sugita and my personal favorite Kazuya Nakai) you expect some big performances but the results are rather disappointing. Having experienced all those big names in some very amazing roles in other anime and knowing their potentials I have to say that in this anime they were somehow off especially Miyano but I believe this was mostly because of the badly written characters.
So as you probably understand I didn't like this anime. It had a really good main story but it ruined it with a lot of nonsensical things that made the plot really boring. Of course this is only my opinion. If you don't agree with me I will gladly listen to your arguments in a peaceful way. I hope I helped you somehow and sorry for my bad English.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Mar 6, 2015
I was not a big fun of the first SAO season. But it was good enough to make me watch the next season. So what can I say about it? Was SAO 2 true to the ''hype'' that all the fanboys were expecting? In my opinion it managed to be better from the first season in some parts while in some other it was exactly the same (and maybe worst? We'll see.)
Let's start with the story. It's divided into three arcs. Gungale online (GGO), Excalibur arc and Mother Rosario. The first arc was also the most interesting in my opinion not only from the
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other two story arcs of this season but from all the other arcs of the previous seasoncs also. It was really enjoyable and I would really pleased if the anime stopped right after when this arc ended . But of course if A1 Pictures made an SAO season with only 14 episodes it would have been burned down by the fanboys. Also another part that bugged me off a lot was the kinda rushed and unsatisfying ending of this arc. But with only this exception I can say that I enjoyed GGO very much. The second arc was really small (only three episodes) and boring, it didn't actually had any meaning. And the third arc, well the third arc was trying to hit the viewers right in the feels. It wasn't as boring as the Excalibur arc because it was trying to build up more Asuna's character and it closes with a bitter-sweet ending but still I personally have seen too many sad anime to be moved by an SAO arc. The problem that this season had though in comparison with the previews one was the fact that the drama scenes was really ridiculous. Exactly because now no one would die for real if he was killed off in the game the characters shouldn't have any worries at all. But still I don't know why but we see some characters taking this game like it's a matter of life and death.One strong example is at precisely episode 2 we see an adult loosing his temper and going nuts because he was loosing a fight!!! It seemed like the writers tried to put some of the at least excusable drama that the first season had into this one without making it though.
Let's move to the sound section. I literally hated the first opening and because I am a masochist I listened to it many times with the hope that it would at least grow into me but I ended up hating even more. But the second opening was good at it made up for it's horrible predecessor. The voice acting was really good and I have to give credit especially to Asuna's voice actor for her really good performance especially in the third part. The endings were really uninteresting for me but they weren't bad.
And now let's move to the character section. It seemed like the writers understood that the first season had the words character development completely out of it's dictionary and they decided to put at least in some of it in the first arc. And yeah they tried to manage the impossible. Make the completely overpowered Kirito show weakness. That happened too the first arc where he discovers that an enemy from the original SAO came into GGO to kill him. This would be interesting but it didn't manage to do anything in the end because Kirito remained the overpowered protagonist who gets ''unintentionally'' (?) all the girls at the end. so yeah the kinda well built character development that appears initially eventually dissapears bringing back the Kirito that everybody knew and loved (except from me it seems). BUT to be fair the new characters that appeared in this season were really interesting. Especially Sinnon was an interesting character with an interesting back story and Deathgun... well you can't hate this guy even though the anime ruined him in the end. The other thing I want to point out was the good character development that Asuna had in the mother Rosario arc. Yes this arc is completely about Asuna and how she deals with her problems not only in the virtual but also in the real world, because of the (overall uninteresting) character of Yuki a character that appeared in this arc.
And closing I have too say this for the SAO season 2. It was certainly more enjoyable than the first season because it was more character driven. It would be better if the last two arcs didn't exist at all but I know I can't ask for anything. I will give it a 7 because it understand it's mistakes and didn't try to repeat them on it's predecessor's scale. Should you watch it? Well if you liked SAO then you will probably like this it proved that it can make some good stories if it wants it badly. Of course this is only my opinion. Feedback and also your opinions will be gladly accepted. Thanks for reading.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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