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Aug 25, 2014

Ginga Tetsudou 999 (Movie) (Anime) add

Recommended

Story 9/10
The story is bery straightforward and simple. Yet it contains a lot of depth. But what's great is that all of it's deep philosophical ideas are explained in a very easy to understand way. It gets profound messages across without confusing the viewer. The story is about a young boy, determined to avenge his mother, who rides the Galaxy Express 999 on a pursuit to have a mechnical body and to kill the machine who took his mother. Without spoiling anything, he goes through a deep journey and discovers what it means to be human. He learns that the temporary nature in life makes ... it valuable.

Art 8/10
The art style is pretty good. The animation is great for 1979, and the character designs are really awesome. For the most part, the main character's eyes looks weird at times, and some characters are a little exagerated. Most of the female characters and the robots have really great designs. I think Matael, Shadow, and the glass chick were some of my favorites. But the art really shines when it comes to the world around them and all the amazing designs in the background. Each planet they visit in unique and looks great

Sound 8/10
The sound is pretty good. The overall score is kinda typical, but still well done and works well in such an emotional anime.

Characters 9/10
The characters are really great. Tetsudou, our main hero, is determined to avenge his mother as well as other goals. You see him question himself and the world around him as his journey goes on. He's a very brave character, and definitely thinks he's too big for his britches. I've heard complaints he was too brave and not very emotional. I disagree. It seems like people want non-stop sobbing and lamenting to show the characters emotion. I feel that's equally unrealistic as making them super tough. I think the character shows plenty of emotion, but just not in loud bombastic ways.
Matael on the other hand I can't talk to much about without spoiling anything. She's one of the best characters here. She has this warm motherly tone, and develops a sort of mother-son relationship with the main character. But there's also a quasi-romantic thing going on as well. Bottom line she's a very tortured and interesting character. You feel for her throughout the anime, but I can't explain why without spoiling stuff.
As for everyone else, I think each of the minor characters have awesome, funny and memorable personalities.

Enjoyment 9/10
Much of the enjoyment you get is in the style. I can tell this anime came out around the same time as the movie Star Wars and it shows. The story doesn't rip off that movie, it just probably had some stylistic influence. The action is well done. It doesn't go on non-stop, which allows you to appreciate the atmosphere. There's a sense of adventure with the train stopping at all these different planets. It doesn't rush itself either, after the movie is over 2 hours. That's what's impressive about the pacing. It get's a lot done, but doesn't rush and doesn't linger on anything.
The last thing I need to point out is that this is a very emotional anime. This works for the dark tone that it has, and provides some contrast with the action and adventure. Many people call this a tear jerker. With the story and characters, I'd say that it can be that way. After seeing Tesudou and Matael bonding you get strong feelings for these characters.

Overall 9/10
Overall this is easilly one of the best anime films I've seen. You should check it out in a heartbeat.

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Aug 24, 2014

Kannazuki no Miko (Anime) add

Not Recommended

Story 3/10
This story was dumb and cliche'd. Mecha battles came almost out of nowhere. The idea behind the show is good, however the awful, awful writing and characters ruined what could have been good. I could have been awesome. The writing sinks to a new low when the (Controversial scene) happens. And the way they justify it makes no sense, niether does much in here. Bottom line the story is mediocre most of the time, but it finds places to be really bad.

BTW, the ending... wasn't that bad compared to the absolutely terrible ending the manga had.

Art 6/10
It's okay... It looks pretty good. I don't ... care for the designs, but the animation is pretty good during the mecha scenes.

Sound 7/10
I'd say that it's good. Although in anime, you don't have much of an excuse to not be good. But I'll give them that.

Character 1/10
Oh, now we get into the bad shit. Let's start with Chinkane. She's alright. Nothing new, but not much to complain about... well at first there isn't, they had to fuck it up later on, but I won't spoil that. But overall there's not much to object to with her, for the most part.

Himeko is another beast. I hate this character with a passion. I finally see what Nagisa is like to poeple who hate Clannad. Except this character isn't well written at all. All she does is cry, and she does it so much you lose all sympathy for her. She's annoying. There are other characters who are shy and get emotional easilly, but she takes it to another level. But the bigger problems is unlike other characters like Nagisa, Himeko doesn't have much other interesting traits. She's annoying and pisses me off, that's her character trait.

Souma is the one dude I kinda like. It's actually kinda depressing to see him fight like an animal for a girl that's into other girls. However, I like this dude cause he's hilarious, but isn't a well written character at all. He screams everything he says. His dialouge and yelling cracks me up every time.

Enjoyment 0/10
You know I've heard this anime was nothing but cheap fanservice and mecha. Well, I disagree 100%. I wish this anime were like that. The first time I saw it was in a youtube clip called, "Greatest (something) minutes in anime history". It showed giant robots and lesbians. I thought, woah, "giant robots and lesbians." IF this was mindless anime fanservice and robots, I'd like it a lot more. This was a pathetic soap opera of an anime. This anime had me gritting my teeth, particularly whenever himeko started crying or any other sad parts.

Why do I hate this? Becuase this anime tries way to hard and fails even harder at trying to make me sad, or feel anything. It's forced melodramatic bullcrap is the reason it sucks. Cut that out, and it would just be mindless action and fanservice. A lot of people said the mecha scenes werne't nessasary, and they're right. But they're the only good thing here

Overall 1/10
This may be harsh, but I have almost nothing good to say about this piece of garbage. I hated it, it was annoying, and it is the queen of "forcing emotions". Why is this anime so low? Well, I've seen shittier anime than this, that entertain me... I've seen anime with shittier stuff than this in it, but they also had good stuff to make me forget it. I'm not just failing this anime cause of the bad, but for the absence of anything good. Besides a unique idea and come cool mecha, there's nothing good to say about this

#1. worst anime I've ever seen...

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