Rate the last anime you watched out of 10
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Animefreak17
Godhand
im 25 and i love this anime
Doraemon666
Magical Girl
I,m 35 and adore Squid Girl,age means nothing,remember folks its only entertainment.animefreak17 said:
Animefreak17
Godhand
exactly :thumb:Doraemon666 said:I,m 35 and adore Squid Girl,age means nothing,remember folks its only entertainment.animefreak17 said:
The Familiar of Zero F
Where to start? This season was written in a hurry and it shows. The story is all over the place, the action scenes are uninspired. Countless perilous situations are handled with pat explanations, or failing those, a near endless supply of Dei Ex Machina. The final battle in particular sees Saito channel his inner Ethan Hunt/Maverick to convenient effect (off-screen of course) to coincide with an astronomical anomaly with just happens to be taking place. Staying with Saito, he continues to live by Chris Rock’s assertion that “a man is only as faithful as his options”, which still annoyed me to no end. Neither does the music do it for me; too mawkish with enough syrupy sweetness to kill a diabetic at thirty paces.
And yet I love it.
The heart and soul of this title, the love shared between Saito and Louise, still beats strongly. It was enough for me to sit through the three preceding seasons. Moreover, we’re treated to the conclusion of this core plot element. And boy was it worth it. That alone makes it worth the effort.
Like I said, it’s brilliant. And I forgive it.
Where to start? This season was written in a hurry and it shows. The story is all over the place, the action scenes are uninspired. Countless perilous situations are handled with pat explanations, or failing those, a near endless supply of Dei Ex Machina. The final battle in particular sees Saito channel his inner Ethan Hunt/Maverick to convenient effect (off-screen of course) to coincide with an astronomical anomaly with just happens to be taking place. Staying with Saito, he continues to live by Chris Rock’s assertion that “a man is only as faithful as his options”, which still annoyed me to no end. Neither does the music do it for me; too mawkish with enough syrupy sweetness to kill a diabetic at thirty paces.
And yet I love it.
The heart and soul of this title, the love shared between Saito and Louise, still beats strongly. It was enough for me to sit through the three preceding seasons. Moreover, we’re treated to the conclusion of this core plot element. And boy was it worth it. That alone makes it worth the effort.
Like I said, it’s brilliant. And I forgive it.
robot monkey
Hunter
Canaan
Not a bad show. Though I couldn't help feeling that it was also rather muddled show with an uneasy shift from the larger scale plot of the early episodes to the more small scale plotting of the latter episodes. Also some characters seemed badly wasted like one of the villains who for some reason seemed to spend a good deal of the later episodes raving and wandering around in her underwear after proving to have a slightly more promising start. Also Maria felt an overly passive character who did little else other than be rescued by Canaan. As for the other Canaan she started off well but rather degenerated into a mass of character contradictions. The animation was good on it and the action well done but I couldn't help feeling this aspect was wasted by the plotting.
6/10
Am I being overly harsh on this show?
Not a bad show. Though I couldn't help feeling that it was also rather muddled show with an uneasy shift from the larger scale plot of the early episodes to the more small scale plotting of the latter episodes. Also some characters seemed badly wasted like one of the villains who for some reason seemed to spend a good deal of the later episodes raving and wandering around in her underwear after proving to have a slightly more promising start. Also Maria felt an overly passive character who did little else other than be rescued by Canaan. As for the other Canaan she started off well but rather degenerated into a mass of character contradictions. The animation was good on it and the action well done but I couldn't help feeling this aspect was wasted by the plotting.
6/10
Am I being overly harsh on this show?
Doraemon666
Magical Girl
Princess Arete-A beautiful and enchanting yet mature movie based on the original story The Clever Princess by Diana Coles and directed by Sunao Katabuchi(Black Lagoon,Mai Mai Miracle,Meiken Lassie,Wonder Beat Scramble).The movie is centered around the young princess Arete who is kept in a lonely tower with only the maids and servants as company,she one day wishes to see and experience the real world and all it has to offer,in the meantime her father is trying to find a her suitable suitor but most of these young warriors only want to wed her because of her wealth,the young princess tries to escape but is soon returned to the castle to face her father but is then by surprise captured by a evil sorcerer named Boax who has the power of eternal life,he takes her to his castle and holds her captive as he believes in a prophecy that one day a young princess named Arete has the power to take away his eternal life,as the movie progresses we see how Boax came to be the way he is and the young princess growing up and becoming a strong young woman,i wont go into to much detail as i would end up spoiling it.In my humble opinion this movie is a total masterpiece and the musical score that goes along with the movie is breathtaking,some have said the movies pace is to slow i totally disagree i was engrossed the whole way through by the strong characters,excellent script and beautiful animation and music.9/10.
Max Takeshi
Great Teacher
Demon King Daimao
Oh, where do you start with this?
The premises: Akuto Sai joins the Constan Magical Academy and his aptitude test declares that his future occupation is Demon Lord (one in a long line of).
Now, this setup was brilliant. The first episode has some great comedy potential as Sai stands firm that he will not become this demon king and fight against everything that tries to push him down that path. Sadly his actions and words echo that of how the original demon lord rose to power, and his good intentions are mistaken.
There was great comic potential in this idea, a mishap of errors that see a collection of odd sorts flock to him for different reasons.
Sadly things go pear shaped almost immediately with ecchi, magic battles and a distasteful view on plotting. What started out as a comedy of errors descends into a mish-mash of appalling plotting, confusing storytelling and cliché ridden excess. If there’s a shambolic, lazy approach to structure in one moment, there’s a shameless, inept hoisting of predictability in another. A callous attitude creates revulsion in many scenes - pitching the viewer’s intelligence in a curve ball headed straight for the gutter. This isn’t entertainment… it’s an insult.
The final elongated battle… ISN’T an elongated battle, instead pushing what should have been 5 or 6 episodes into two… TWO! People come from nowhere, allies become enemies, enemies become allies, the audience have no clue of who is on whose side, and the thing is so nauseatingly rushed, cheap and confusing it would make a terrific advert for paracetamol.
The most frightening thing in all this series is… the people of Crunchyroll seemed to think it was brilliant.
2/10 Because that premises WAS a good one...
At first.
Oh, where do you start with this?
The premises: Akuto Sai joins the Constan Magical Academy and his aptitude test declares that his future occupation is Demon Lord (one in a long line of).
Now, this setup was brilliant. The first episode has some great comedy potential as Sai stands firm that he will not become this demon king and fight against everything that tries to push him down that path. Sadly his actions and words echo that of how the original demon lord rose to power, and his good intentions are mistaken.
There was great comic potential in this idea, a mishap of errors that see a collection of odd sorts flock to him for different reasons.
Sadly things go pear shaped almost immediately with ecchi, magic battles and a distasteful view on plotting. What started out as a comedy of errors descends into a mish-mash of appalling plotting, confusing storytelling and cliché ridden excess. If there’s a shambolic, lazy approach to structure in one moment, there’s a shameless, inept hoisting of predictability in another. A callous attitude creates revulsion in many scenes - pitching the viewer’s intelligence in a curve ball headed straight for the gutter. This isn’t entertainment… it’s an insult.
The final elongated battle… ISN’T an elongated battle, instead pushing what should have been 5 or 6 episodes into two… TWO! People come from nowhere, allies become enemies, enemies become allies, the audience have no clue of who is on whose side, and the thing is so nauseatingly rushed, cheap and confusing it would make a terrific advert for paracetamol.
The most frightening thing in all this series is… the people of Crunchyroll seemed to think it was brilliant.
2/10 Because that premises WAS a good one...
At first.
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Animefreak17
Godhand
i can see what you mean iv seen this and thought it was a good idea but it seems to get lost during the series,Max Takeshi said:
its like
chaos head - at first it has a great start but ends up crap
Noein
My reasons for buying a particular anime title aren’t always based on rational thought. Sometimes something as simple as a character’s smile on the dvd cover will be enough for me to take the plunge, as was the case with the Eden of the East series. For Noein, it was because it was a Manga Entertainment (not Manga UK) release. ME doesn’t have the same frenetic release schedule of Funimation or Sentai, so when they release a new title then naturally I am curious. It seems to me that they are relying on a new release to act as a tent-pole to bolster their catalogue and their cash flow — I mean, really, how many people out there have not yet seen Macross Plus or Ghost in the Shell? Bottom line, they seem confident that a new title will deliver the goods and fill the coffers, so it must be worth watching.
First impressions were good when I saw that Noein is the brainchild of Kazuki Akane. His work on The Vision of Escaflowne cemented it as one of my all-time favourites, so already I was optimistic. And just like Escaflowne, Noein deals with such themes as the manipulation of fate, and of love that transcends temporal, physical and spatial boundaries. What’s nice is that it isn’t particularly heavy-handed in its handling of these heady themes, only resorting to information dumping when the situation absolutely warrants it and then never at the cost of the overall pacing.
The animation is also consistently well done for a television production, though there are a few episodes midway through where the quality does dip somewhat. From time to time as well, the character designs do change noticeably during the course of an episode, though I couldn’t always determine whether that was by design or as a result of human error. Through all this though, motion remained smooth and fluid. Add to that backdrops modelled in photorealistic detail and well-integrated CG effects, and there’s not much to complain about.
I found the characters very appealing and relatable, even if I had to take some time to get used to their designs. They are a dynamic bunch with their feelings towards each other ebbing and flowing realistically. There’s also the main romantic element which features a love triangle between essentially two people; can the guy really be jealous then…?
My intention was to watch this in Japanese, until I saw that Noein has been dubtitled. So I figured I might as well switch to the English track. Which isn’t bad really, featuring as it does a number of old-school veterans like Mona Marshall, Melissa Fahn, Crispin Freeman and Richard Epcar. Yuri Lowenthal is also on hand providing an emo version of his Ben 10 voice, and also uses that voice to drop a few f-bombs in the outtake reel. The musical score does its job without being too remarkable, but the opening and ending themes (“Idea” by Eufonius and “Noake no Ashioto” by Solua, respectively) will be haunting me for a long time yet, in the best possible way.
Bottom line: What I saw exceeded my expectations.
It deserves 7/10, but I thought Yuu and Haruka were such a cute couple, and that the two starring vehicles (a Lancia Delta Integrale and an Autobianchi A112 Abarth) were so beautifully modelled. So it gets 9/10.
My reasons for buying a particular anime title aren’t always based on rational thought. Sometimes something as simple as a character’s smile on the dvd cover will be enough for me to take the plunge, as was the case with the Eden of the East series. For Noein, it was because it was a Manga Entertainment (not Manga UK) release. ME doesn’t have the same frenetic release schedule of Funimation or Sentai, so when they release a new title then naturally I am curious. It seems to me that they are relying on a new release to act as a tent-pole to bolster their catalogue and their cash flow — I mean, really, how many people out there have not yet seen Macross Plus or Ghost in the Shell? Bottom line, they seem confident that a new title will deliver the goods and fill the coffers, so it must be worth watching.
First impressions were good when I saw that Noein is the brainchild of Kazuki Akane. His work on The Vision of Escaflowne cemented it as one of my all-time favourites, so already I was optimistic. And just like Escaflowne, Noein deals with such themes as the manipulation of fate, and of love that transcends temporal, physical and spatial boundaries. What’s nice is that it isn’t particularly heavy-handed in its handling of these heady themes, only resorting to information dumping when the situation absolutely warrants it and then never at the cost of the overall pacing.
The animation is also consistently well done for a television production, though there are a few episodes midway through where the quality does dip somewhat. From time to time as well, the character designs do change noticeably during the course of an episode, though I couldn’t always determine whether that was by design or as a result of human error. Through all this though, motion remained smooth and fluid. Add to that backdrops modelled in photorealistic detail and well-integrated CG effects, and there’s not much to complain about.
I found the characters very appealing and relatable, even if I had to take some time to get used to their designs. They are a dynamic bunch with their feelings towards each other ebbing and flowing realistically. There’s also the main romantic element which features a love triangle between essentially two people; can the guy really be jealous then…?
My intention was to watch this in Japanese, until I saw that Noein has been dubtitled. So I figured I might as well switch to the English track. Which isn’t bad really, featuring as it does a number of old-school veterans like Mona Marshall, Melissa Fahn, Crispin Freeman and Richard Epcar. Yuri Lowenthal is also on hand providing an emo version of his Ben 10 voice, and also uses that voice to drop a few f-bombs in the outtake reel. The musical score does its job without being too remarkable, but the opening and ending themes (“Idea” by Eufonius and “Noake no Ashioto” by Solua, respectively) will be haunting me for a long time yet, in the best possible way.
Bottom line: What I saw exceeded my expectations.
It deserves 7/10, but I thought Yuu and Haruka were such a cute couple, and that the two starring vehicles (a Lancia Delta Integrale and an Autobianchi A112 Abarth) were so beautifully modelled. So it gets 9/10.
Just Passing Through
The Wildcard
Yakumo said:
I have the US release of this, solely because Manga released it there with proper subtitles.
Animefreak17
Godhand
Inuyasha
First off the bad stuff
This series just drags on and on and on and on some times getting some where and most of the time getting nowhere. This series should of been a 80 episodes long.
The story is very simple Stop nuraku and get back the jewel but this takes up 185 eps to do that. This series feels like filler but I think it's part of the manga.
Theres another thing that pisses me off, even tho she's done good things kagome annoys me for a few reasons-
1 she's jealous of kikyo and takes it's out on inuyasha by making him sit, and to be honest I wish kikyo got together with inuyasha and kagome went back and stayed in her own time, I'm a kikyo fan more anything and I can see kikyo is the one who suffered the most in this series and the group seems more on kagomes side, they don't know the full story behind what kikyos been though and they take kagomes side
At the beginning I could tell the animation has aged but as the anime progressed the animation seems to get better half way though the series and looks like it was done but computers animation if you know what I mean.
Scenarios ok first off while the main threat Is nuraku
There are many characters with there own problems of sorts
Sessamaru * inuyashas brother* wants a sword that there late father gave to inuyasha while his father gave another sword that couldn't kill people but bring them back to life to sessamaru
Koga is looking for naraku because he wants revenge for what he did to his tribe
Sango is looking for a way to bring her brother kuhaku back to his senses from Naraku control
The monk * I for get his name* is looking for nuraku to destroy him to lift a curse that has been past down his family
There's a few more characters but
Sometimes it's sessamaru and sometimes it's kikyo and then koga, kagura, ect ect there all joined
I can tell the creator loved her characters but I just wish she got to the point.
The movies wasn't bad, in fact my fav movie was movie 3 becausethere father had a 3rd sword and it gets us pumped up my guess is the 4 th one wasnt the worst of them all but it's not bad bad but it's not as good as the others.
This series starts off good but half way it gets boring because The main villain is nuraku there's no one else after him I didn't know where this series was going but after getting past ep 80 I figured out there's no other plot but to stop nuraku, there isn't any villains after him it's just nuraku and his carnati
I think sessamaru is the coolest character in the series.
First off the bad stuff
This series just drags on and on and on and on some times getting some where and most of the time getting nowhere. This series should of been a 80 episodes long.
The story is very simple Stop nuraku and get back the jewel but this takes up 185 eps to do that. This series feels like filler but I think it's part of the manga.
Theres another thing that pisses me off, even tho she's done good things kagome annoys me for a few reasons-
1 she's jealous of kikyo and takes it's out on inuyasha by making him sit, and to be honest I wish kikyo got together with inuyasha and kagome went back and stayed in her own time, I'm a kikyo fan more anything and I can see kikyo is the one who suffered the most in this series and the group seems more on kagomes side, they don't know the full story behind what kikyos been though and they take kagomes side
At the beginning I could tell the animation has aged but as the anime progressed the animation seems to get better half way though the series and looks like it was done but computers animation if you know what I mean.
Scenarios ok first off while the main threat Is nuraku
There are many characters with there own problems of sorts
Sessamaru * inuyashas brother* wants a sword that there late father gave to inuyasha while his father gave another sword that couldn't kill people but bring them back to life to sessamaru
Koga is looking for naraku because he wants revenge for what he did to his tribe
Sango is looking for a way to bring her brother kuhaku back to his senses from Naraku control
The monk * I for get his name* is looking for nuraku to destroy him to lift a curse that has been past down his family
There's a few more characters but
Sometimes it's sessamaru and sometimes it's kikyo and then koga, kagura, ect ect there all joined
I can tell the creator loved her characters but I just wish she got to the point.
The movies wasn't bad, in fact my fav movie was movie 3 becausethere father had a 3rd sword and it gets us pumped up my guess is the 4 th one wasnt the worst of them all but it's not bad bad but it's not as good as the others.
This series starts off good but half way it gets boring because The main villain is nuraku there's no one else after him I didn't know where this series was going but after getting past ep 80 I figured out there's no other plot but to stop nuraku, there isn't any villains after him it's just nuraku and his carnati
I think sessamaru is the coolest character in the series.
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duoinchains
Brigade Leader
teonzo said:You made Totoro sad, now he wants to leave:
Teo
That bus stop is about 5 minutes walk from my desk...
Waiting in the Summer, Ep1
Rather enjoyable SoL (with a bit of sci-fi), engaging characters, set the story up neatly and nice to look at. Made me want to watch the rest of the series asap (but that'll have to wait until the weekend...)
8/10
20thCenturyBoy
Thousand Master
Shiki
8/10
I have no idea why I dropped this after a few episodes when it initially aired :? .
Quite frankly, it's brilliant. An honest to goodness horror series. From the creepy aura of those first few episodes to Toshio experimenting on his wife, Mr. Ookawa staking his own son and murdering everything in sight (including innocent human villagers), to just the sheer carnage and inhumanity that befell the whole thing. It does that key thing that I think genres such as "vampires" should deal with and that's the loss of humanity. Expertly done with being an examination of not just the Shiki but the human villagers too, even moreso in fact. One of my favourite episodes had to be 20.5, it just summed up everything the series was about Nao being haunted by what she'd done to her family, how the villagers took pleasure in killing the Shiki, before turning on one another and Hasegawa feeling so overwhelmed and distraught by it all that he actually helped the Shiki by putting them out of their misery, just because he didn't want to see anymore suffering. In the end I don't think there's a right side, everyone's a monster.
8/10
I have no idea why I dropped this after a few episodes when it initially aired :? .
Quite frankly, it's brilliant. An honest to goodness horror series. From the creepy aura of those first few episodes to Toshio experimenting on his wife, Mr. Ookawa staking his own son and murdering everything in sight (including innocent human villagers), to just the sheer carnage and inhumanity that befell the whole thing. It does that key thing that I think genres such as "vampires" should deal with and that's the loss of humanity. Expertly done with being an examination of not just the Shiki but the human villagers too, even moreso in fact. One of my favourite episodes had to be 20.5, it just summed up everything the series was about Nao being haunted by what she'd done to her family, how the villagers took pleasure in killing the Shiki, before turning on one another and Hasegawa feeling so overwhelmed and distraught by it all that he actually helped the Shiki by putting them out of their misery, just because he didn't want to see anymore suffering. In the end I don't think there's a right side, everyone's a monster.
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Animefreak17
Godhand
yes i agree but i believe the humans are more monster then the shiki if you ask me,20thCenturyBoy said:
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Eden of The East the Movie II: Paradise Lost
After watching the first movie I thought that this one was going to be epic or a total fail. I was quite wrong, I find it to be a decent ending for the series, but nothing more. It's a classy ending: great directing, a lot of good things about minor details (especially Saki's behaviour)... What's missing is the overall story. I have the feeling that after the first half of the series the writers just had absolutely no idea on how to go on. Great ideas at the beginning, but great lack afterwards. For having few ideas this movie is really good. It would have been much better if they were able to mantain the high standard through all the series + movies.
Score: 7 / 10
Sound of the Sky + specials
Ok, I just found that this kind of moe, kawaii (or whatever it's called) series is not for me. First half of the series just go on with the voice actresses showing how good they are reciting "uh" "meh" "ah" "ai" in all possible intonations. This really bored me to tears, I've been able to watch only 1 episode per night, then I fell asleep. After the first half there is some more story and even some fine dialogues, but I have to say the story was quite predictable. Finally, I'm really sick of all these Rei clones, damn it, some more imagination please, at least change hair color.
It's a 6 just because it helped me to sleep very well for some nights.
Score: 6 / 10
Teo
After watching the first movie I thought that this one was going to be epic or a total fail. I was quite wrong, I find it to be a decent ending for the series, but nothing more. It's a classy ending: great directing, a lot of good things about minor details (especially Saki's behaviour)... What's missing is the overall story. I have the feeling that after the first half of the series the writers just had absolutely no idea on how to go on. Great ideas at the beginning, but great lack afterwards. For having few ideas this movie is really good. It would have been much better if they were able to mantain the high standard through all the series + movies.
Score: 7 / 10
Sound of the Sky + specials
Ok, I just found that this kind of moe, kawaii (or whatever it's called) series is not for me. First half of the series just go on with the voice actresses showing how good they are reciting "uh" "meh" "ah" "ai" in all possible intonations. This really bored me to tears, I've been able to watch only 1 episode per night, then I fell asleep. After the first half there is some more story and even some fine dialogues, but I have to say the story was quite predictable. Finally, I'm really sick of all these Rei clones, damn it, some more imagination please, at least change hair color.
It's a 6 just because it helped me to sleep very well for some nights.
Score: 6 / 10
Teo
20thCenturyBoy
Thousand Master
teonzo said:
I honestly don't think the films were all that necessary, the series finished really quite well. Yeah, it left some stuff open but it got a lot of stuff done and what it left I think was almost best left unexplored because there's no way they could've done it quite right. It's a good ending that leaves you thinking about what might happen next without the need to actually know, I liked the films enough but doing 2 of them felt like stretching it a bit and I decided to only buy the series and not the films (might end up getting them further down the line though). I remember after the series finished and they said there were going to be films and the first one was titled "King of Eden" I actually imagined it was going to be about Akira as some sort of "King" ruling over the freed NEETs as some sort of breakaway state, or him just in charge of all of Japan now, with the image of him wearing a crown on the carousel as his throne. Silly, I know :lol: .
Hah finally managed to register!
Watched Puella Magi Madoka Magica (10/10!) for about the 15th time last night. It's knocked Dragonball Z of it's top spot as my favourite anime of all time. I've never seen an anime so textually dense before, I made my Mum watch it and we watched it all in one go and she was really impressed by it. Next I have to convince my sisters to try it. Can't wait for the third movie (which will be new stuff not a re-edit of the show like the first two). I've even bought the manga of the show, hoping that Different Story and Oriko get a UK release next.
Watched Puella Magi Madoka Magica (10/10!) for about the 15th time last night. It's knocked Dragonball Z of it's top spot as my favourite anime of all time. I've never seen an anime so textually dense before, I made my Mum watch it and we watched it all in one go and she was really impressed by it. Next I have to convince my sisters to try it. Can't wait for the third movie (which will be new stuff not a re-edit of the show like the first two). I've even bought the manga of the show, hoping that Different Story and Oriko get a UK release next.