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May 25, 2013
NOTE: Again, this review is only based on the anime. I haven't read the manga or played the visual novel.
I got curious about this anime for its sex scenes actually (like most others). So I asked my friend for a (downloaded) copy of the anime and watched it. But that view of mine eventually changed.
When I watched it, what I saw wasn't much of the sex scenes. Really, there aren't even a lot of sex scenes here, and they don't even last long. Heck, some sex scenes make use of still frames. What I saw instead was the various scenarios and dilemmas the pair (Haruka
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and one from Kazuha, Akira, Nao and Sora) has to go through before their happy ending. By the way, the anime shows all the possible endings in the visual novel, and by doing such, the anime gives a sense of discontinuity in the story. It's quite a "love it or hate it" thing actually, but as for me, I have no qualms about it.
Although the art is similar to the ones found in visual novel (this anime being adapted from a visual novel itself), it looks nice and fresh. Meanwhile, the soft and dramatic music (except for the ending song used after the special) suits the nature of the anime.
The special (omake) episodes after the main ending song serves to lighten the mood after the drama and the romance in the episode, and yes, it does its purpose well. It also has some nudity like the anime, but like the anime, the nudity isn't too much.
My only complaint about this anime is that the inconsistent production values, with the animation going from smooth to obviously flaky (I'm looking at you episode 10). Besides that, there isn't anything major to complain about.
If you - the reader of my review - got curious about Yosuga no Sora just because of the porn scenes in it, then think again. Watching this just for the sake of the half-baked porn scenes would mean throwing away the plot, the drama, and the romance to waste, which is a sad thing, really. This is an anime that should be watched with attention given to the story.
Although its dramatic scenes will not reduce you to tears, this anime's a must watch if you're looking for a worthwhile drama series that could take your breath away. As long as you don't mind the "objectionable content" here and there, that is.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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May 24, 2013
NOTE: Again, this review is only based on the anime. I haven't read both the light novel and the manga.
EDIT: Some grammar check and minor addition of content. My opinion regarding the anime still remains the same.
After I and my ecchi-addicted friend watched the first episode of "Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai" (which we simply watched since I saw it here on MAL that it's like High School DxD), we both know that there's no sparks out there, trying to hook us - its watchers - to get into the anime. Despite that, we still continued to watch the anime. Although finishing the anime
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could be rewarding, I doubt that most people will have enough patience to last that long, with the anime's first four episodes not deviating from the usual ecchi anime formula, (with the clothes melting off and "OOH, BOOBS!!!") and the laughs simply not enough.
The male lead character, Ryousuke, is also your usual male lead character: a lecherous wimp of a teenager (though he gains some sort of powers, the first one - making him regain ero-energy - I find cheesy ). At least I find Lisara, the female lead, a good character, serving as a foil to the pervert Ryousuke.
The art and character design is very much similar to High School DxD. Not that I have any complaints about it since it actually looks nice and all.
What made the first four episodes "lacking in sparks" is that 1) the first episode basically showed all of Lisara's powers as a shinigami, and 2) the following episodes follows the usual plot developments of the usual ecchi anime, which has become, simply put, predictable and bland. By that time, some - if not most - of its viewers would've dropped the series, thinking that it shouldn't take half of the series' worth of episodes to get them hooked to the anime (unless all they're looking forward to is more boobs, that is).
The latter half of the anime features a genre shift from mostly ecchi/harem to more of action (although the fan service still is there), and by this point until the last episodes (which features another genre shift to romance), the story actually starts to have an identity of its own (and also, more sense to comprehend).
Unfortunately, this anime's problem - overall - is that it plays safe and by doing so, it actually became something that is trite and banal, so if you're going to watch this seeing that it's like another (albeit inferior version of) High School DxD. If, on the other hand, you haven't seen much ecchi in your whole life (or you simply just wants boobs, boobs and more boobs in your anime), then perhaps you might just enjoy this one.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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May 16, 2013
NOTE: Although it’s not my first time writing a review, I’m still inexperienced with it (with this review being my first spoiler-free review), so please bear with me.
When I heard that Btooom! was going to get an anime adaptation, I got so excited about it, being a fan of the manga. Although I’m not a fan of it since the very first chapter, I could say that I’ve been a fan long before the news about its anime adaptation was announced, having read the manga for the first time when Chapter 13 was just released by the scanlators. The idea of people fighting and killing
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each other in an uninhabited place for survival might not be original (think Battle Royale), but having an in-game video game turned to a worst case scenario of a dog-eat-dog world feels fresh. So, how does the anime fare compared to the manga? Quite nice; in fact, it’s very good…although not without faults of its own.
Despite the anime’s length, it’s more or less faithful to the manga. It’s very accurate for a 12-episode anime covering the manga’s first 50 chapters (with the last few of them released in a monthly basis), not counting the credits portion of the 12th episode showing a portion of the 51st chapter. Because of that though, the anime has the action compressed in a single episode, with story arcs lasting for only a few episodes. And despite that, some filler parts were added, although for necessity, as the producers would need to air some material at the episode’s remaining minutes. Perhaps, if the adaptation was given 20+ episodes instead of 12, it would’ve explained the story (and the characters’ back stories) in more detail.
As for the art, well I can’t say anything bad about the art actually, as it’s quite close to the manga’s. Okay, maybe except the dye job that Ryouta got, with his hair turning to black from brown-black, but it’s nothing major. The graphic scenes in the manga (involving murder, rape, and of course, dead bodies) were considerably toned down in the anime, most likely to make it more TV-friendly. Not that I have anything against it, but I would find it better if they didn’t do a significant amount of content dilution. But then again, doing that would make the anime have more censored scenes than it already has (which is two scenes, throughout the series).
People who like similar anime to this would surely enjoy Btooom!, and the long-time fans would still enjoy the adaptation, if they don’t mind the content distillation.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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May 15, 2013
[Spoiler Warning]
NOTE: This is my first review at MAL, so please bear with me. Also, I haven’t read the manga AT ALL, and I don’t know if the manga’s story is similar to the anime’s. Consider this as a point of view of someone who just watched the anime. There are some spoilers along the way to explain my point in the review, so read at your own risk. :)
I remembered watching the first few episodes of Code:Breaker (together with a few more anime) when it was still being aired last year. I got curious since I thought, “Hey another super power-themed shonen anime! Cool!”
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After watching those few episodes, I stopped watching it and simply waited for the series to finish since I got tired of waiting for a new episode, which was released weekly.
While watching the last episodes of Code:Breaker, I got disappointed to this anime due to various reasons, but mainly I got disappointed because of the plot. Well, it started good, but how the series ended is just bland and generic. Perhaps most of us (if not all of us) have seen a story with a character betraying the good guys, working for the bad guy, and then in the end, betraying that bad guy and saying that he has been in league with the good guys all along. Well, we have that kind of cliché here. How about the Big Bad showing up after the bad guy gets defeated? We also have it here. The great presentation made at the start of the story was wasted by how they ended this series, which is cliché-filled, and done in a bad way at that.
Another thing here is the characterization of, well, the characters, which doesn’t seem real and human enough for me, and it shows more as the series progresses. Come on, someone who really IS evil doesn’t say he’s evil; rather, he would say that he’s the hero of justice (or something like that). Besides that, there are also some dialogues in this anime that I find weird and/or just simply wrong. And being an adaptation of a manga, the series’ ending is rather inconclusive, since 1) the manga is not yet finished and, 2) the adaptation is only 13 episodes long, which is very short. What I find wrong about its ending is that it never left me wanting for more.
With that said, the anime isn’t all bad points and no good points at all. Just as I said earlier, the way the story was presented in the beginning was great, with a certain number of people with superpowers (called Code:Breakers) are working for the government to eliminate (i.e.; kill) people that the government sees as evil. The character designs are also great, although the design for the Code:Breakers have varying touches of bishounen-ness in them.
So if you’re looking for a groundbreaking new anime, this certainly is NOT it. Maybe if you haven’t watched a lot of superpower-themed anime, you might enjoy this. Just “might”, though.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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