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Greed1914
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I watched this one mostly because I found the central duo likable enough to keep coming back. However, I will agree that the switches in tone throughout the series made it hard to keep track of the plot.
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Random Name
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This just reminded me of how good the winter 2016 season was. I really enjoyed this one and would love more but doubt that will happen.
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AliceTheHare
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There's a minor error towards the end of the review. The show was animated at Studio Gokumi not J.C. staff.
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Hiroki not Takuya
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^Agree with Greed1914. I liked the show for its goofy/silly humor but the "serious" parts never came off as really serious to me and seemed out of place. Policeman Robert was a good touch which brought needed "heart" and Ep5 where he, Nene and Cla-ring/Clarion helped an old wheelchair-bound woman and defeat some baddies in the process was what I liked most in the show. BUER was gross, a self-insert character for the watching pervs/pedos which might have added color if he wasn't butting into everything all the time (it seemed). Like cotton-candy, it was a fluffy bit of fun but I don't miss it or hope for a second season, so it's not "shelf-worthy" if you ask me.
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Parsifal24
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It's a weird admixture of a series I enjoyed it but it's an odd combination that never really meshes the two creators interests in a way that feels organic and instead feels like some strange Chimera of Anime.
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Jose Cruz
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It felt really weird but it managed to grab my attention, mainly because I like cyborgs and yuri. But the quality of execution was certainly low.
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RocketOtter
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This was actually one of my favorite shows to have come out of Winter 2016. I loved the leads and the adventures they went on, and a lot of neat concepts worked really well. I actually think the weakest point in the series is around episodes 4-6, where the pacing slows down to an absurd halt.
Still though, straight Cs all around. I'm impressed. |
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IanC
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I've really enjoyed what I've read of the manga. It's a cyberpunk yuri magical girl series, such a crazy combination.
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TarsTarkas
 Posts: 5959 Location: Virginia, United States |
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I thought it was good enjoyable fun. Loved the manga art work, which is why I watched the anime.
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the green death
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I didn't realize it was the Excel World guy behind this, I'm actually a lot more interested but probably more in the manga.
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v1cious
 Posts: 6235 Location: Houston, TX |
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Excel Saga. Old school comedy series/manga |
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the green death
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Doh, yeah that's what I meant, I'm an old school fan but also an old man so my memory for names ain't what it used to be!! 
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DuskyPredator
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I considered myself a pretty big fan of this show. Some people had problems with the tonal shifts, but I liked it for kind of supplying both. On the surface it is pretty go happy but there is an undercurrent that something is going on that you have to piece together and the show does not really spell it out, like Uzal's decisions don't make full sense. I think I kind of figured it out by the end and it tied it all together.
What Uzal was working on was a way to have synthetically created intelligence able to empathise human emotions. It was why BUER was kind of erratic for what would be expected for the AI of what would be a weapon, why Clarion had the defining trait of being protective of her ears. They were attempts to have AI to think like humans do, either as more human robots, or robots that could emotionally feel for other people. Nene was pretty ignorant to this story, not even aware that Clarion was actually an android, that while she was a human adapting to being more robotic, Clarion was robot adapting to be more human. A lot of the stories really were things like them coming into contact with various humans and how they were with the new climate which they could learn from, which would leave an imprint on Clarion, a major one being that Nene treated any other robots with empathy. |
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