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Otaking09
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I'm not gonna be with you on any of Rie Kugimiya's performances Carl, because neither of them are what I call "timeless"/you hear one of her tsundere roles, you heard them all.
Sure my mileage has long since been over, but at least you can see that her voice is rivaling Yui Horie's over usage to the point it becomes a reason to watch dubs... Personally, Carl I thought you only liked Tora for it's early promise, not the overall series. Still, it's nice to see some well deserved D grades getting handed out. |
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darkchibi07
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But what about the parachute scene!!!
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Animerican14
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It's reassuring to see that Funimation had such sharp intuition in simulcasting, and I guess inevitably distributing, this series...
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AP24
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You know you shouldn't judge this series so early. This anime is based on a light novel series and the anime just started vol 2's story. Anime based on light novel series usually tend to get better as the story progresses.
As for the character Aria, I think it would be difficult to have already developed her own charm in just 6 episodes. When I first watched Shakugan no Shana, it took me quite a number of episodes to recognize Shana's charm. Also, there are some parts in the light novels where some cute sides of Aria are shown but they didn't show it quite well in the anime. Based on what I've read in the light novels, I think the last half of this season will be better. This season will most likely end at light novel vol 3 so I hope there is gonna be another season cause it gets much better starting from vol 4. |
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Ushio
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In other words all the good light novels have already been animated and there scraping the bottom of the barrel.
So having watched it I was shocked that even I who has maybe disliked not even 20 anime in my 2 decades of being an anime fan found it tedious and boring. AP24 - it's getting 13 episodes it's not just suddenly going to get better in it's remaining half. Concidering this is a late night anime I expect it to get worse they usually do. |
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pachy_boy
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I watched the first episode, and the only moment that made it for me was where Kinji is getting ready for school, and the 'childhood friend' character is working to make sure he has his lunch or whatever. A painfully, big-time cliche for sure. But then she takes out his firearm and says something along the lines of "don't forget your gun and your lethal bullets, honey!" That was such an out-of-the-blue amusing twist--it's just too bad that everything else about this episode was wrong, and I didn't need to watch anymore episodes to confirm its doomed nature.
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maaya
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I highly doubt that. They just animate the same kind of novels all the time. |
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Spastic Minnow
 Bargain HunterExempt from Grammar Rules  Posts: 4634 Location: Gainesville, FL |
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There's also the shows habit of borrowing sequences from other works but mainly failing to turn them into tributes. The bike threat using the cliche from Speed was a little interesting and funny, especially with the Uzi Segways... but they do it again.... with a bus. And those that have seen enough Detective Conan know that the plane emergency comes almost straight out of the movie Magician of the Silver Sky, both the escape of criminal and the location they have to land the plane.
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Dorcas_Aurelia
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No they don't. The best ideas are used at the beginning to draw in the audience, and the longer they go on, the more desperate the author becomes to find ideas to use that can prolong the series. I found both Shana and Index were at their best in the first season, as by the second they had mostly finished with the major world building and tried to move on to advancing the romantic relationships of the main characters, but did so without further developing them or providing growth. |
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Gewürtztraminer
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Finally, an overall "D" rating.
I once wondered before how harsh a review would have to be to get a D or F. I agree with the review, in my opinion Aria the Scarlet Ammo is bad. I am actually still watching it because it is free, and it might get even worse. |
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The Coffee God
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To be fair, it's actually Conan Doyle's and Maurice Leblanc's characters. Since Maurice Leblanc was the writer of the original Arsène Lupin stories. And with that said, it was actually Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin that introduced the Holmes/Lupin rivalry. |
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MarkJr92892
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It's hard to beleive that no one else has posted saying they love this show yet, so... Aria the Scarlet Ammo is GREAT!!!
I LOVE the exagerated clichés and the constant straight man in Aria the Scarlet Ammo. Really, I love all slapstick gag animes with a straight man that does not change from being one character to another and then another. Me, I judge slapstick gag animes by how well they weave the gags into a story. This one is flowing smoothly. The pattern in the cloth is not as interesting as that in We, Without Wings: Under the Innocent Sky, but it is still of appreciable quality. This show evokes almost constant out-loud laughter from me. As well, it keeps me interested in what wil happen next in the story without becoming irritated even with its abundance of echi gags before it. I find the interactions between the straight man and the—as it was said in SKET Dance—"goofy people" to be scincere when appropriate for a slapstick gag anime. In the end, I think you guys are looking at the show as if it were a drama. Shounen anime dramas have people crushing people's craniums with their bare hands—I don't see something like that happening in this show any time soon. Indeed, the distance it keeps from this (we're halfway through the series and no one has died yet) should be an indicator that it is not only a comedy but a slapstick one at that. (My "crushing people's craniums" example was from the seventeenth episode of Legend of the Legendary Heroes.) |
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vashfanatic
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Oh, that made me , thank you for sharing! 
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Sanosuke_Inara
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Cecilthedarkknight_234
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it's just another j.c. staff adaption what do you expect?? I have then this done for the past 6 years already maybe if they didn't change the m.c. to a complete pussy I wouldn't care as much.
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