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Jun 27, 2014 8:31 PM

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I really think that it should be changed to 12 episode and 1 ova though. It seems that it is part of the anime, but it should've been separate. This episode gave me a good laugh, and I enjoyed it. No complaints here.
Jun 27, 2014 9:38 PM

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VyraLove said:
I seem to be the only person that thoroughly enjoyed this episode, even if it was an OVA filler.

You are. And the fact it's in your top 5...I mean really...really now. This pile of crap...there was nothing good about it. At all. At all.

This whole series was shit. I watched it just to give it a low rating bc if I drop something I don't rate it (logical enough to me). If you legitimately enjoyed this as a series then I honestly believe you need to reevaluate your definition of entertainment because watching tin foil blow in the wind probably is a way you kill time.


Leave the guy alone and stop being a jackass. I gave the anime a three, but how dare you try to bash down someone's opinion because you hated the anime?

Grow up.
Jun 27, 2014 10:02 PM

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I'm not sure what to think anymore so I just watched it and enjoyed what was left of B&C.

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Jun 28, 2014 12:18 AM

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Ok officially wtf. Nice service tho.
Kagami_Hiiragi said:


Leave the guy alone and stop being a jackass. I gave the anime a three, but how dare you try to bash down someone's opinion because you hated the anime?

Grow up.

+1 for this. That guy is obviously just looking for a fight.
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Jun 28, 2014 12:19 AM

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lol funny haha xD
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Jun 28, 2014 3:42 AM

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Average anime at best. As for this episode it was stupid, silly and fun. Should have really been an ova.
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Jun 28, 2014 5:43 AM

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So bad that it was "kinda" good which is not saying much. The anime as a whole gets a 4/10

Jun 28, 2014 6:26 AM

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TBH that wasn't very bad, the anime itself was quite entertaining, though not great.
Jun 28, 2014 11:02 AM
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So, they had no money/time/whatever to actually bother with the actual fight scenes on the main show, but they had the resources to provide good animation for what is essentially just a fan service OVA? Come on, I know the Japanese love their oppai (and I certainly don't mind well-animated oppai either), but even just 1/3 of the production cost of this episode should have plenty improved the animation in previous episodes especially the last ones.
Jun 28, 2014 2:18 PM
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Can someone explain how come the anime series currently stands at 6.481 (scored by 7621 users), which means the majority of people like it, but it seems a lot of negative reviews for the "overall" series in here?

Sorry, I pretty much a new person here, so I don't know how the rating system works.
Jun 28, 2014 4:37 PM

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trickster20 said:
Can someone explain how come the anime series currently stands at 6.481 (scored by 7621 users), which means the majority of people like it, but it seems a lot of negative reviews for the "overall" series in here?

Sorry, I pretty much a new person here, so I don't know how the rating system works.



It's not really so much of a glitch in the system as human behavior. People who are unhappy about something tend to be more aggressively vocal than those who are happy and satisfied. It's the same concept in customer service. Most feedback is in the form of complaints.
Jun 28, 2014 8:06 PM
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trickster20 said:
Can someone explain how come the anime series currently stands at 6.481 (scored by 7621 users), which means the majority of people like it, but it seems a lot of negative reviews for the "overall" series in here?

Sorry, I pretty much a new person here, so I don't know how the rating system works.


The ratings on this website are incredibly inflated. So anything under a 7 would actually be considered pretty bad. So this series has a pretty bad rating as a result.
Jun 28, 2014 10:08 PM

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So disappointed. I had high expectations, however that has nothing to do with me actually rating it 4/10. It was bad.
The show made no sense, there was no "feeling" or in fact lets just say there was no SOUL and not even enough blades.
Overall, it just gave me the feeling that the producers invested in boobs and beautiful faces and then decided to piss on everything else. And my god, this story could have been so GOOD.
Not even commenting on last episode... no words.
Jun 29, 2014 6:22 AM

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This filler episode was painful to watch.... I'm sorry but that's the truth.
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Jun 29, 2014 8:27 AM

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I really hope the game is not like this.
All I got to say.

6/10
Jun 29, 2014 3:50 PM

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Jun 29, 2014 4:46 PM

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It's the first time I'm happy that anime has finally ended.


Then you obviously haven't seen Sousei no Aquarion. In comparison to that, this is a masterpiece, yet it's still just a 5/10, which is nice for a commerical to a bad game.
Jun 30, 2014 2:15 AM

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2/5

Episode that has nothing useful and beautiful.
Drawings and animations mediocre, really silly plot, narrative much nonsense, I guess it was so boring.
I knew that the series would end well, at least it's finally over! ASD
Final rating that do not lower it further, only the final message transmitted from the series.
6/10!
Jun 30, 2014 2:53 AM

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5 out of 5: Loved it! Best episode yet!

*joke*
Jul 1, 2014 12:59 AM
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This fucking show, lol. If you're gonna do the obligatory hotspring episode at least keep the character design quality above D-rank hentai status. It's like they didn't care at all.

In general this whole series express a very serious lack of effort. The concept of a cold assassin slowly becoming "more human" isn't that new but is usually a good watch but this adaptation manages to execute even that simple concept poorly.

Think the series hit its peaked when Karen was getting her revenge and beating down Arka for a bit. The whole Jin Varrel x Arka "rivalry" was terrible and I'm sure the original game story of that wasn't that bad. Actually think just watching the cutscenes of the game would be better than the whole anime adaptation.

Never forget:
- Moonwalking farmer guy
- MS Paint Fire
- The many, many, QUALITY faces.

Thank you Gonzo for another superb entry to add to your resume.
Jul 1, 2014 7:38 PM

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The power of the boobies.

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Jul 2, 2014 8:48 AM

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WTF that last episode.
I mean why isn't it a "special" whyyyyyyyy. This has nothing to do with the story.. Well I guess they just HAD to put some fanservice.
I was pretty disappointed by this serie overwall. 5/10
Jul 5, 2014 1:29 AM

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How the heck can this count as part of the main show...a hotsprings episode, ugh.

2/10 final score.
Jul 5, 2014 11:52 AM

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Oh, that was more like come sort of OVA, but I liked it (I´d prefer for this episode to be released as single OVA series though).
You all need to watch Nami.

Jul 5, 2014 5:48 PM

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This was poor...even in fan service terms....
Jul 5, 2014 8:34 PM

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should have stopped at 12eps
Jul 11, 2014 2:50 PM
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2/10.
Aug 12, 2014 10:08 AM

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Uh I think they messed up and aired the OVA as episode..

Anyways, I really liked what the show was going for. With the themes; self finding, redemption and whatnot but it was written and directed so horribly as well as the plain and dull characters. If this was done by some other studio other than Gonzo, it might've been better.

5/10
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Sep 12, 2014 5:35 PM

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Finally bothered to finish this.

Funny how people are saying this should have only been 12 episodes when this was probably the best episode.
Sep 14, 2014 6:34 AM

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Ok a silly OVA special type of episode for fanservice but i don't get all the reaction about being put in the series. I mean if you saw 12 you knew it was the real last episode so does it matter if this was thrown in the end or was separate as a special?
The series was what it was. I don't see why this should change anything.


Gsimp said:
So, they had no money/time/whatever to actually bother with the actual fight scenes on the main show, but they had the resources to provide good animation for what is essentially just a fan service OVA? Come on, I know the Japanese love their oppai (and I certainly don't mind well-animated oppai either), but even just 1/3 of the production cost of this episode should have plenty improved the animation in previous episodes especially the last ones.


Yeah they definitely wasted all the budget on this episode.
Oct 12, 2014 9:21 PM

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Figured they'd somehow pull off a fanservice episode somehow...it wasn't necessary though.
Nov 29, 2014 6:48 PM

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Oh welp why even... yea pretty much ruined the show but not that it was any good to begin with... really was hard to finish this. 2/10
Jan 15, 2015 8:10 AM

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"this felt like a filler" "is this a filler episode" how fucking dense can you be

anyway 6/10 because bewbs & scenery
Jan 27, 2016 1:52 PM

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I sat and watched this as I sat in the queue for the actual game this is based off of, thinking it would be a good time passer, man was I wrong. It was bearable up thru the 7th episode, in fact the first 3 episodes were pretty solid, from there it was like a child wrote it. It may be a massive P2W game, but from the story I've played so far, it seems far better and in a far different direction than this went. 3/10, what a wreck.


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Jun 7, 2016 6:18 AM
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Fanservice aside, I liked this episode.

Praise the large breasts :P

I mean, yeah, ep 12 was pretty finale-ish but it's kinda good to see the series not take itself so...series-ly :P

but yeah, it's funny to hear Pia translate for the little fishmen
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Can't lose if you don't play
Jun 18, 2016 9:40 AM

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It's always a fanservice episode if the last episode felt like the final one. I don't know what kind of drugs they are smoking while working on this episode lol!
Jul 5, 2016 11:53 AM

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I still can't believe this is the same studio that made Gankutsuou, Last Exile, and Welcome to the NHK. 4/10.


Whoa... didn't know that. Actually after looking this up, Gonzo has done a ton of anime. A lot of which I really liked while I was in college. Samurai 7, Basilisk, Bakuretsu Tenshi, Afro Samurai, Trinity Blood, Last Exile... what happened here?

My guess is they took a swing at adapting an mmorpg they were told would be the next big then with neat looking characters and they missed the ball. Oh well. They can't all be good I guess.

I enjoyed some of the fights scenes throughout this series, but that was about it. Alka was a very lovely looking MC so the series was tolerable with 12 episodes of watching a tanned sexy purple eyed, silver haired murdering machine. Any more and I would have had to punch myself in the face waiting for a plot to arise and take form.

This 13th episode doesn't even count imo. This was crap. Even the fan service was terrible. Yes, everyone just sit on this island. Forever. Cause no one is ever going to bother with you... ever again.
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Jul 5, 2016 5:44 PM

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Gonzo hasn't been the same for a very, VERY long time.
Jul 20, 2016 3:05 PM

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Makes sense now how there was an episode after episode 12. Because this is the fun episode.
May 15, 2017 11:42 AM
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meh it felt more like a special. it doesn't really contribute anything into the series at all. the real ending was in the 12th episode.
Jun 14, 2017 11:10 PM

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wtf was this episode... what a waste. They could have made a much more interesting 'after story' but they made dis... -.-"
Mar 17, 2019 4:49 PM

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Worst episode to end the series, I mean how can you wrap everything up at episode 12 and do episode 13 in a light fashion. This was like an ova rather than a finale, crappy last episode. This was the worst anime of that time, I understand if you gave it less than 3 because this straight out from a trash can and I will send it back with a deserved rating. Alma became duller and duller as the series went along, the other characters were lame too and the bad guy Jin Varel was so disappointing at the end. They did that let's save her and let her walk the righteous path, damn that is so annoying. The inconsistency in the plot is huge, I definitely regret ever putting it on my plan to watch, but we learn as we go!

This was like a Chinese anime with lots of inconsistency in characters and plot. 2/10.
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Aug 1, 2019 6:11 PM

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I honestly came for fanservice and at least this episode had some of it. Aurprisingly, the plot, atmosphere and action turned out way better than expected. They also had some epic OST's.

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Jul 21, 2021 11:10 AM

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Pretty random episode.

Overall, ithis was an average anime. It had a strong start, but after that it went downhill. However, that tragic winter episode was very good.

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it was nice but story is not perfect
Feb 15, 2023 9:10 AM

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Unpopular opinion: this episode is very funny!
Dec 23, 2023 3:35 PM
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The finale was exactly what I feared- the equivalent of a horribly written OVA. It had nothing to do with the main story, included the MC for no more than a minute, and the episode's story, if there was one, made absolutely no sense. There was no reason this episode should exist. But it does. And the anime is far worse off for it. The second 0/5 rating of this series goes to this episode because it has no point existing. My final official rating for Blade & Soul is 5/10. That 0/5 in the finale killed all the late series momentum it had been building up. Too bad too.
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