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njprogfan
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Yup, pretty pictures, nice camera angles, interesting themes and characters that had just about an ounce of personality, but that ending was like falling into a pit leading to something substantial and dangerous, but landing on cushiony foam with a soft thud.
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jdnation
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Show was nice, but really slow, and i'm the guy that likes slow moody pieces.
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Key
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Did finish this one, and my overall take on it is pretty similar to Jeremy's. I was slightly positive on it overall, but not sure if I would recommend it.
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MFrontier
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This was a very artsy, slow-burn, romance exploring two people who didn't understand or frankly rejected love finding it together in one of the most common gimmick romance plots of all time.
I have to say I did become invested in the relationship even if the two leads were so clinical, to an unnatural degree, and the resolution to their relationship was kind of lukewarm. |
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SinisterOracle
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I finished this one despite my misgivings about it. The music, art, cinematography were all phenomenally done. But the characters and the story were middling and I often found myself bored and picking up my phone to look at instead of looking at the tv. The ending was woefully inadequate. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone unless I knew they were okay with the shortcomings of the series.
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Thesarum
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I moderately enjoyed this series. It was very,... Sleepy? Beyond slow and gentle most of the time.
I think it thought it was deeper and more philosophical than it actually was. Still, it looked and sounded great, and it did offer a somewhat new take on an old trope. As thin as the leads were as characters, I kinda liked them too. Rated "Decent" overall. |
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Bleys
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I followed this to the end also, but not for the reasons I expected. I came to smell the scandal, but stayed to watch the grinding of the unusually exposed and flimsy plot machinery. Where to start....
First, the step parents. They do their anime duty, foisting the leads on each other without warning, then disappear. (Seriously, what's up with anime teens being unaware that their parents are dating? That's in the same league as the mothers of Disney princesses being conveniently dead.) They come back a couple of months later, shove them together again in the name of family, then vanish for good. Then the friends. Yuuta has a friend, but all the friend talks about is Saki. Saki has a friend too, but again her role is mostly talk to Yuuta about Saki. Then there's Saki's potential suitor. We're given the barest minimum of foreshadowing and just enough time and setup to make it somewhat credible that Yuuta will get the rug pulled out from under him by a complete nobody, then we experience the the rug pull instead when Saki shoots him down in their only conversation and the suitor plummets into the same oblivion as the parents. I'm not surprised that the light novels are a chore to read, because there's barely enough here for one novel, no matter how many words are were written. I''ll be on the lookout for more by this animation team, since the cinematography was excellent, but I'll try to evaluate the source material first. |
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Stampeed Valkyrie
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I had this series summed up by the 3rd episode where it went 0-100 in a flash. Its better title should have been "Tell me you want to boink your sister without telling me you want to boink your sister". I think the ANN reviewer was kinder then I would have been, angsty teens are everywhere and dense angsty teens are even more common.
This series reminded me of a 90s coming of age sitcom more then anything else. Better off with 90210 or Dawsons Creek (shudder) then this. If your into the sibling relationship drama.. fine I guess. Having grown up with sisters.. lol easy pass. |
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Spike Terra
Subscriber Posts: 362 Location: Maryland |
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I think it's some of Deen's best animated work to date. The cinematography is fantastic and the score is super atmospheric. It's definitely a show you have to vibe with because if you don't, it can be sleep inducing.
I tried to enjoy it but the main characters were so boring. The male main character is in my 10 for most dull anime protagonists. I actively cheered whenever the narrative focused on the support characters. Honestly, the only thing that kept me going through the entire show was the amount of praise I saw it get online. A lot of people on Facebook would praise every episode and MAL had a sizeable audience for it. Last thought, the two scenes that genuinely stood out for me were when the anime became a truncated version of studying to lo fi beats for like a brief moment and the scene where they just ate breakfast in awkward silence. |
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