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Jun 9, 2021
This is made by the creators of FATE stay night/Fate zero.
You can see this is where the people behind the fate universe started so their earlier works like this anime are a bit rough around the edges. But you can see despite the animes flaws the story has potential. So speaking from 2021, this anime will be an acquired taste and really only for hardcore fans of fate series creators.
The anime is pretty slow paced and the story is a bit bare bones but the main characters Shiki and Arcueid carry it once the show picks up later. You can tell the
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anime had serious budget constraints and that's part of the reason for the over all low budget feel of the anime but the production team did what they could with what they had.
It would be amazing to see what ufotable could do with the story of this old anime if it got a remake.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Nov 24, 2016
This movie is the 'true sequel' to the original anime, the problem is the anime veered away from the manga and that's this movies biggest downfall. If you haven't read the manga it's an ok movie, but even then the way the movie feels incredibly rushed and much of the suspense built up in the original anime is gone. Everything about the movie feels rushed/phoned in because this is an anime original end.
The story:
The story picks up where it left off in the DC movie, which was basically a recap of the anime series + a little bit extra at the end that
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was left out of the anime to setup for this next movie. The problem is how the characterisation in the original anime and this movie don't fit at all, many things that captured our attention in the original anime (who is gunzou's father, why did he defect to the fog?) just are not dealt with in an intelligent fashion. It feels like the movie directors just painted over everything to quickly end the series, the movie while well animated feels very by the numbers as they are forcibly ending the series, the downside is that everything the anime had built up basically comes to nothing interesting. The problem is the run time of the movie and the fact that many characters motivations are just not explained or fleshed out, we get a tonne of new characters for the fog side and a return of the main cast, there is just not enough time in this movie to really make each character shine so many characters are onscreen for a few seconds and the main focus is gunzou and iona.
The problem becomes Gunzou and iona's characters were not really dealt with well at all given the screen time they occupy. Iona's especially.
Animation:
In terms of animation, the animation is still top notch if a little over the top in that many scenes are so busy readability becomes an issue. The fights are still well animated but choreography suffers with too many ships and the 'battles' don't feel like tactical fights more then a mostly uninteresting lightshow in a battle of attrition.
Verdict:
After everything the original anime built up the movie just felt like a real rush job like the directors were hurrying to 'finish her up', and sadly that comes across in the movie. The bizarre anime original end of this movie will leave you dissatisfied and scratching your head. They Deus ex machina'd the ending. Importants events that happened before the anime you are 'exposed to' for the first time in this movie and that's a big no no. For me it just ruined the show, the same way mass effect 3's ending ruined the cool mass effects game team had built. Same thing happens with this movie sadly.
If you're easily pleased pick it up, but if you enjoyed the original anime and wanted more intrigue behind gunzou's dad and the fog, I'd recommend against watching this movie. It will just leave a bad aftertaste after all is said and done.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Dec 31, 2014
There's only one way to put this : This show is stupid and proud of it!
To get this anime you have to understand the self-parody going on. If you don't watch a lot of anime or get anime culture then you won't really appreciate this show.
The show revolves around a giant robot called daimidaler a robot that's uses erotic particles to move and perform attacks vs the evil erotic machines of the penguin empire. This show is a homage to all the anime tropes: Harem, ecchi, giant robots combined into one. The entire show is an excuse for the director and
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voice actors to let their hair down and just take it to the absurd! If you like watching stupid sex jokes, over the top orgasm voice acting and silly robot action then this anime is up your ally.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jan 1, 2013
K is probably one of the most screwed up anime you will ever watch, somehow you think it's going to suck after watching the first few episodes... But like eating too much halloween candy you end up watching it all anyway.
The problem with K is the lousy way the story was told. K could easily have been done better, so what attracts the viewer to K is the fanservice. Neko the cat girl, the flashy fight scenes and the high production values for art and animation tend to be the main attraction in K. It's pure superficial style but that superficial style is
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pretty good when it happens.
Normally I would give K a 6 but it gets bumped to 7 just because the last episodes pull everything together so well. What ended up being mostly a mediocre anime with an annoying main character and awesome side characters is salvaged by the last few episodes. A lot of plot threads all happen to be revealed and then get solved in quick succession like they are coming out of a machine gun towards the last third.
If the story behind K was told better the anime could have been something really great, after watching the last episodes you'll be left neither satisfied or dissatisfied.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Dec 30, 2012
If you've watched a lot of more recent animes, going back in time to watch AIR will most likely be a bit painful. AIR has some seriously rough edges.
Story(6) - The story is about the strange supernatural events/sickness surrounding these feathers that are shown (briefly) and how they are all related to Misuzu's strange supernatural sickness. Pretty much all the events with side characters are just distractions from Misuzu's main story which doesn't pick up until the roughly the last third of the show. The way in which the supernatural sickness/events were executed was just so poor that many viewers will be
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scratching their heads for the first part of the show.
Roughly half way through the show just when you are wondering what the heck is going on with these strange feathers and the supernatural events surrounding them you are warped back in time and new characters are introduced. You then get to learn the story behind the strange feathers you saw in the first half. You learn that the feathers are "shards" of a female demigod like being that was cursed by monks on her deathbed. The feathers from this beings body being cursed and holding some kind of supernatural qualities that end up causing the prior events in the show are now explained (albeit poorly).
Finally the story wraps up with the sick girl Misuzu (who is the partial mortal reincarnation of the cursed god like being, this is why she is sick) finding what she was looking for. This is where a huge enjoyable amount of character growth for Haruko makes your investment in the show worth all the mediocre parts of the first half of the show. Haruko decides to become Misuzu's parent by adopting Misuzu from her brother (Misuzu's dad).
The characters (5) - Mostly mediocre with a few standouts. The real problem with AIR is the poor characterization, all the girls are just card-board cut-out archetypes with the exception of Haruko who at first seems flat but gets a huge development boost during the second half of the show. The other exception is Yukito who does a pretty good job when the other voice actors for the females give cringe worthy performances but is mostly there as a Deus Ex machina to shape events of the story.
The chemistry between Haruko and Misuzu during the last portion of the show is ultimately what saves AIR from drowning in plot holes and the poor performances from the female cast during the first half of the show. Yukito also gets a mention for making the first half of AIR bearable to watch with the poor to mediocre/average performances for most other female characters besides Haruko.
Art(7) - The art is mostly fine for the time it was made, no real annoyances.
Sound(6) - The sound is where things fall down a bit it's mostly in the poor voice acting and not really the music, there is just some really bad performances phoned in for the characters in this show.
Enjoyment factor (7) - While air has huge problems and gaping plotholes and lots of bad writing there is enough redeeming features in the second half of the show to make you not regret watching this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Dec 28, 2012
Planetes is one of those animes that you don't fully understand until you watch enough episodes. There is nothing in the first half of the season to really grab you in a way that makes you want to see the next episode.
** Below this line this review contains spoilers **
The first half of this series is something you as the viewer feel you can take or leave and not feel like you're missing anything.
While you might think the show is about garbage collecting in space from it's synopsis and other reviews. It's not really about that at all.
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The backdrop of space and collecting debris as part of a space corporation is really just a setting for the characters in the show to develop. This show is enormously character driven, it's really 'all about the characters'. The performances the voice actors give are excellent minus perhaps the episodes related to the ninja characters.
Planetes is just about human beings at work in the corporate world in some future version of our real world just now we have access to space.
So why should you watch it? What really saves this show is the characters. The characters ARE enjoyable and the second half of planetes is what really makes planetes worth watching but the more intelligent viewer will have serious problems with suspension of disbelief. I will explain my problems with the show in regards to intelligent viewers.
The main problem with planetes is planetes lack of focus. There is too many characters and side stories going on with planetes world that are all in some way interesting. So what happens is you end up with lots of under-developed characters and gaps in the story that give planetes and unfinished feeling despite becoming a really enjoyable show through the second half.
The 26 episodes seem rather tiny to fit in all the different characters and their ambitions, relationships and goals. You can feel throughout planetes that the directors of planetes unfortunately really wanted to develop other characters besides Hachimaki and Tanabe but didn't know how to go about it intelligently or didn't have the budget (I lean towards budget). More intelligent viewers will be left wanting more background and character development of certain side characters that never end up being shown. So you are often left hanging about characters you wished we had more info on.
The next problem is the poor writing of the two main characters. The poor writing plus the lack of focus by the directors by having so much going on in planetes creates a problem with the show that many might miss. It makes the romance between Tanabe and Hachimaki unreal and cracks start to form in minds of more intelligent viewers.
Despite Tanabe being a wonderful character to watch, the odd way in which their romance develops feels awkward because of certain events and it just subtly sticks in your mind that something feels off about the main characters. Pretty much everyone by the end of planetes should end up loving Tanabes character because her voice actors acting was just fantastic but there is some seriously bad cringe worthy writing with regards to these two characters in the second half of the show.
The writers of planets giving Hachimaki (tanabe's love interest) the goal of going to Jupiter tended to throw off the whole romance between the two characters, it just creates this feeling of unrealism that Tanabe would wait and endure 7 years apart from the man she loves. In the real world practically no normal human being would do this without moving on to some other love interest to get on with their lives.
The next problem is the way Tanabe herself was written as a character, she's written to love Hachimaki and early in the show she comes off as unrealistically stupid about man/woman relationships and they end up dragging out her stupidity for too many episodes. She seems kind of like a nun from a convent so when the two get together they end up making an odd couple. Tanabe seems written too innocent/pure and unbelievable as a female character when it comes to relating to the opposite sex. Despite all the other positive characteristics she has that I ended up loving about her throughout the show, some of her behavior and dialogue she was given comes off as completely artificial at behest of the writers.
This forced artificiality is what breaks the viewers suspension of disbelief in regards to tanabe as a character and more intelligent viewers may end up disliking that tanabe's interest in Hachimaki seems too fake/forced to be believable.
Other then the above problems the show really picks up during the second half and planetes is one of the 'must watch' anime series. My only beef with it is the emotional impact of the characters on the average person causes the average anime viewer to overlook serious flaws in the story. Planetes is a very flawed masterpiece and the more intelligent you are the more flaws will be apparent.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Dec 14, 2012
Macross frontier is probably the most over-rated anime of all time. There are plenty of animes miles better then frontier. If you haven't watched much anime then macross frontier will seem awesome. But if you've been watching anime since the 80's it's a huge step down. I found Heroic age and Gundam seed much more interesting then any of the bland stuff you'll find in frontier.
The problem with frontier is that it drags its plot out for too many episodes, there's just not enough interesting in the show to carry the hopelessly senseless story.
If there is one thing frontier suffers from
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it's being generic and trying to imitate (poorly) what made the original macross series so popular.
Then there is Japans obsession with shoe-horning songs of j-pop stars into space opera. In frontier it just doesn't fit well at all with how they implemented it. The problem is that they do more then just have a singing pop star in the show but use the pop stars voice as a plot device to defeat the bad guys. I'm sorry to say it but this is just amateur level storytelling here. The whole plot is simple and comes off completely campy towards the end of the series making you feel like you wasted your time.
Another problem is that the characters are just not believable. For instance the main character and his love interest is written poorly and exists on a level of uninteresting blandness that I haven't seen in a long time.
Another problem is the characters have no depth and so you can't really identify with them at all, so you never feel in any way immersed or connected to the characters.
The problem with macross frontier is that it is corporate soul-less remake with no genuine heart and soul. The originals had way more soul then frontier can ever hope to have.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Dec 11, 2012
This is a review for those who've watched the first two seasons of hell girl, if you haven't watched hellgirl by now you need to start with season 1.
Everything about Mitsuganae is mediocre compared to the first two seasons. While the first season wasn't perfect by a long shot and many critics had lots of issues with it, Mitsuganae (the third season) is a disaster compared to it. With season 2 being the best.
The problem is that the third season has the same problems as the first, except this time it's obvious the writers ran out of ideas. The repetitive plot
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/ revenge structure with an episodic nature comes to dominate mitsuganae once again with a "main plot" that is just so poorly written into the vast 26 episodes that the plot comes out nonsensical.
Most of the 26 episodes of the show is filled with filler material. There are maybe 6 episodes total that have anything to do with the main plot and the rest can be skipped. The 'new plot' they came up with for season 3 is just hackneyed. The plot is basically hell girl possesses human girl and hell girl has to save the girl she possesses. The problem here is that hell girls finale in season 2 was having hell girl be released from her role as hell girl and finally getting to die. So the plot begins with a deus ex machina, which is just amateur level writing. They never came up with a believable reason for why she is back.
The producers also went and made huge radical changes to the characters and cast so it throws off the FEEL of the characters they established in the hell girl universe.
The plot involving possession is just so forced and convoluted that it turns off the long time fan. Each episode of mitsuganae feels rushed and it feels rushed because the characters and their motives were not written well at all. The main problem with mitsuganae is the characters in each episode take revenge for the dumbest and most unbelievable reasons. Hell girl and mitsuganae relies on characters in each episode beside the main cast never appearing again. So the fact that the characters are not believable goes a long way to making the whole show a tired excercise of you trying to tolerate its badness to find the good episodes that make any kind of sense instead of wasting your time.
If you're a hell girl fan watch season 1 and 2 and skip 3 in order for you to not end up with a bitter aftertaste in your mouth.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jun 30, 2012
With Suzuka you will either love/like it or hate it. The show starts rather unimpressive in the beginning episodes but begins to find its stride around the 5th and 6th episodes.
At first I really didn't think much of Suzuka but by the end I knew it had an some kind of impact on me. Suzuka's magic comes from how people builds walls around themselves that prevent them moving on with their lives and it's this message that the show conveys in a way that doesn't totally browbeat you over the head with it.
The story is your basic boy meets
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girl. Yamato a boy from the country moves to a new city to find a new life and there he meets a beautiful track star named Suzuka. Little does he know the girl he likes lives right next door to him. Yamato and Suzuka quickly develop a friendship and start to develop feelings for one another kept in the safe land of vagueness of friendship, then Yamato confesses to Suzuka at the park and he gets rejected and it's after this rejection the real story begins. Little does Yamato know why Suzuka rejected him even though she had sadness and regret in her eyes when she did. The whole story revolves around Suzuka why she is the way she is. Now I don't want to spoil it but there is a lesson in the last episode that saying anything more would give away too much.
Suzuka tends to get a lot of hate because many people who watch it have no idea the characterizations of the two main characters are based on reality. In reality there are people like Suzuka and Yamato and even worse. So whether or not you can relate to the main characters depends highly on your own maturity level and awareness of the kinds of people in the real world around you.
That being said there are some problems with the characterization however where the characters do some things that don't make sense. Particularly with Suzuka and her past and the way she seems unrealistically fickle towards the end of the series with Yamato which tends to drag out the conflict between them. Yamato on the other hand tends to be the most realistically rendered character - he begins as your typical indecisive teenager but starts getting serious about having goals in his own life and grows as a character.
The pacing of the story can be problematic. The show tries to juggle too many things. Between doing sports, the conflict between Suzuka and Yamato, and how the anime flirts with side relationships with the other girls besides Suzuka. There were simply not enough episodes to make sure other side characters got enough screen time to be characterized correctly. In short, the anime directors couldn't figure out what they wanted to focus on so Suzuka tends to drag out its conflict between the two main characters.
But if you can get over the fact this anime drags something out a little too long and don't mind your anime with some flaws and you dig a more realistic take on romance then Suzuka is right up your alley.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jun 1, 2012
This is one of those animes you love or hate, it's from another era and is best recommended to people who are easily pleased.
Pro's
-Great voice acting
-Awesome character designs
-Great animation
-Giant robots
-The look and feel of Dangaio's world tugs at your curiosity
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-Story is weak
-Universe isn't fleshed out
-You don't really learn anything about the characters
-Dangaio art, world and characters had lots of unrealized potential
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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