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| Complete 180 shift in tone. |
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| A really underrated anime with deep meanings.. Despite I agree that this series use to have stereotypical characters, remember that it's like that in 95% of all japanimation to be honest, the characters are chosen among several presets. Arts and Computer Graphics are nice, nothing exceptional though. The original soundtrack is unique and fit perfectly the anime, but the sheets could have been better. I really enjoyed the universe of this series which mix Sci-Fi and Supernatural, and the mystery behind the Lightless Realm and the monsters was pretty interesting. The combo psychological+drama is always good. I was expecting a nice rage scene and my wish has been granted. But the plot was slow... too slow... I'm disappointed about the fact that the end is way too happier... and no MC died. |
| This anime would of been better without soo much "flashback". Every episode there is flash back and I have already gotten to the point, where I'm like just move on to the present time. In addition Akashi with his negative emotions and losing in the lightness realm( about 99%). It can easily be a 12 episode opposed to 24 episodes because it seems like dragging on and not even getting anywhere. In the end I would have preferred akaashi xTsugumi but Sasame is good too. Minashi shouldn't be alive. He should have disappeared. However, there were a few episodes which does meet my expectations so I will rate it a decent 6. What happened to the mad scientist, is he still alive because of the necrometal effect dissapaeared |
 Yahallo! Yatta! Baka! <!  "Humans, your existence was a mistake. Conflicts, lies, jealously, greed. You once caused me to lose everything and today I will devour everything... Because I am the Valkyrie Goddess"> |
| Masterpiece. 10/10 Why did all you idiots finish it if you hated it so much? |
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| Wasnt so bad, actually was really liking this at the end. Rushed happy end but I'll take it. And with this Akashi's harem was born - Emiru, Sasame and Tsugumi. They should make 2nd season harem anime just to piss everyone even more. :D |
| Tsugumi! :( finished it because of her. LOL BORING anime though. BUT GREAT OP/ED! :D |
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| yeah dude this anime is boring :( |
| The current game that i play: Azur Lane :3 |
| Guess I'm in the minority, but I really liked this. It wasn't perfect, but the psychological stuff really kept my attention, and I liked the scifi/paranormal cross. And the ending, some found it too happy, but I felt it really embodied the whole point of everything: the bonds between people and moving forward despite darkness. Minashi accepting his mistake and being forgiven fits into this, as well as Tsugumi finally letting go of her hatred. Overall, the series itself was very character driven, which I enjoyed, but I think this is partly why it did sometimes feel disorganized or slow. The characters themselves needed some fine tuning and there needed to be a better balance between character drive and action. Adding to this, even with the attention given to characters like Akashi, I could never really get attached to any of them. For example, from the very beginning cold hearted Akashi's love at first sight reaction to Sasame made me doubtful of any kind of truly deep bond between them. It made more sense once the flashbacks revealed they had a past, but other then a few brief moments, there was never any build up between the two of them, so when she became a LIM, rather than be really upset, I was more like, *shrugs* "oh, that sucks." (I also agree with other people that she was kinda boring) All the pieces did come together, though, and I love seeing characters transition. For all the hate Minashi is getting, I actually liked how his character unraveled at the end and was happy they were able to bring him back. And while I can't say I really liked Akashi, I did thoroughly enjoy his transition from a closed off ass, into deluded, insanity when Sasame became a LIM, then back into someone who wasn't so closed off anymore as he picked up the pieces of his heart (though I doubt he's fully healed yet). So yeah, not perfect, but I really liked it. |
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| I wanted to like this anime, but the characters got a little weird. |
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| Oh god finally got around to finishing it after putting it off for an year or so.. Again wasted potential with shit characters.. 5/10 |
| I don't know where to even begin...the character interactions were just so illogical...before they met Tsugumi and she rejogged their memories it was all about saving emiru and sasame, she tells them, and it's STILL ABOUT SAVING EMIRU AND SASAME...like what the fuck? It's like the writer thought it would be cool to have main characters sit and go "yeah....its kinda our fault you were tormented like this for 10 years, but....we don't really care about saving you, we just want our friends to return to normal so please let us have the lightstone and while we're together again, you can come with us this time!"...thats literally the entire focus of their efforts the whole rest of the show. It's just so illogical. What was the point of Tsugumi at all then if none of them really cared about saving her? There was a scene from last episode that showed while Sasame and Minashi started to run away from the Corpse, all Sasame really did care about was running after Akashi and did not care about her sister. So I never understood why everyone kept saying they were sinners, but none of them actually really viewed themselves as in the wrong at all for anything. The little twist with Minashi was poorly written too, and was a foreshadowed build up over god knows how many episodes that lasted....10 minutes? It was just so obvious the writer was forcing the drama and love affair to remain between Akashi and Sasame that they neglected everything else because they had a sudden change of what they wanted to write about mid season, hell, for a good while the show was trying to ship Emiru and Akashi as well, and the moment the show found a new ship to sail, Emiru was discarded. I was going to give this a 4 instead of a 2, because 16 episodes had me going "this is so underrated" and the last 8 made me go "this is so overrated even with the mean average score as low as it is", but because the writer put in a fairy tail "everyone miraculously gets saved" ending, it's going to be a very well deserved 3. Seriously, you promote the whole time once a LIM is created you can never go back, the 3/4ths of the damn show, and the last quarter you just go and say, "well maybe we can somehow research it to return people back....." It's like the show had an identity crisis at the end, "well this show had a lot of deaths that made sense, and it was a dark show the whole time so...we'll continue to write illogical shit and make it a happy ending, sound good publishers?" |
 "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment" |
| The show actually had some potential but the bad writing and crappy animations ruined it. The story was needlessly complicated and mediocre. The characters were boring and bland throughout. Half of them had no real motive or role for most of the anime. They were just there and it was so pointless. Initially I kinda liked Akashi but they screwed his character up too with forced romance and no character development. Furthermore, the romance felt so lame even Emiru or Tsugumi made a better lead then Sasame. Towards the end it felt like the writer was making up shit along the way. They should have at least killed of the characters in LIM as their deaths would've make the plot way more interesting and meaningful enough to create an impact on other characters. Overall a complete waste of time. 4/10 |
| That conclusions was as shallow as the whole anime. They've done almost the same thing over 24 episodes. Corpse - relationships - crying - flashbacks, that's it. Overall rating 5/10. |
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| Hmmm, the ending feels kinda super flat would have loved more depressing ending but overall it was an OK experience. |
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| It's simple, but I like Akashi's response to Minashi. In contrast to wanting to become one, Akashi believes it's better for people to unite because of their differences. Every time they're separated, they'll reach out. That reminds me of the OP's lyrics a bit. "It's mankind's nature to come together. Our love and bonds are things we can trust." That kind of hits me a bit since I tend to get hung up on misunderstandings and thought Minashi had a noble goal in mind. I take it the technology at the end lets people resonate and connect their thoughts. Funny though how rather telepathy, Sasame mouths out Akashi's name. "Darkness is never born as darkness. It is born when light is lost. The same is said for the darkness within one's heart." This best describes what M3 is about. Each character facing their inner darkness. One detail that particularly fascinates me is how they approach darkness as an absence of light. It's even within the name "Lightless Realm." This suggests that there's no dark place that light cannot illuminate. A rather optimistic message considering how dark this show had been. Speaking of, I do like that transition from despair early on into a more hopeful atmosphere as the the cast confronts their inner demons. Most notably Akashi and how hatred for his brother was transformed into a love and admiration for him. As a whole, this certainly was a fascinating choice. I won't lie, it's certainly riddled with room for improvement and there were times that were a bit dull. But it still managed to get me. Call it my bias for Sato Junichi, I really liked how the characters overcame their pasts and the concept of connecting their thoughts and feelings to one another. It could certainly get edgy and grim, even at times depressing. But at the end of it all, the light once again illuminates the lightless. 8/10 |
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| I can't think of anything I actually enjoyed in this anime. It started painfully average and ended that way too. I felt no real connection to any characters or the story. The animation is okay as well as the music. The writing really put this in the ground, and I felt like there could be potential to be good but it never came to fruition. I've seen way worse things and as an experience I felt very bored through the majority of the episodes or that the drama was forced. 4/10 |
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| So everyone got a happy ending, even the corpse lol. I'm especially happy that it ended well for Emiru and Tsugumi but I wish Emiru had woken up. This show had it's good parts but also a lot of bad ones. Most of all it was way too long and repetitive. I give it a 6/10. |
| An interesting concept and world, and a series of very strong episodes, only for it to turn into the same ol' 'becoming one' thing at the end. Anime is sure obsessed with that. I enjoyed the show quite a bit, but it had potential to be so much more considering the ideas they were playing around with initially (death, regret, revenge and stagnation) and how that is represented by the Lightless Realm and 'Necrometal.' Aoshi's death feeling so insignificant and distant, especially from Akashi's perspective, was when I started to feel disengaged. That was probably the turning point for the worst. Too many flashbacks too, though I had no problems with the pacing. Too much focus on Tsugumi as well Her being made to be essentially blameless dulls the entire conflict. A desire for revenge causes her untold suffering, but the series seems to want to justify it. So what the fuck is it trying to say? |
syncrogazerJan 27, 2021 6:06 PM
| Brilliant anime. Every event from start to finish is organised so smoothly and seamlessly that it feels like it's only a few minutes long, and it has an excellent grasp of both atmosphere and the human psyche. The use of the setting was also highly imaginative. My single problem with it is that some of the characters the series focuses on aren't as interesting as they were intended to be, which is really apparent in the later half of the series. |
  ｲ乇刀乇乃尺ﾑ乇 ㊎   ㊰☽ Shaded Horizon ☾ |
| Well, it was a rather interesting watch, but went in quite a different direction than I thought it would. Ideally, a show like this would have an arc that gives enough focus to every character from the main cast, say a few episodes of how Lightless Realm invades everyone's psyche and through this we are informed of their pasts, how they became who they are, what their hearts truly fear and so on. Instead, characters like Raika or Iwato didn't receive even hints of having backstories, Heito "murdered his parents", but we'll never know how and why. We got something for Emiru or Mahmu, but far too lacking in my reception. In fleshing out the pilots somewhat proportionally, M3 surely underdelivered. Liked the dark artstyle and music, didn't mind the pacing of the first half (quite the opposite to be frank). Not something I'd rewatch for the story or great writing, but just for experiencing the tone alone - maybe? |
PhobossusMar 19, 9:18 AM
| I see. Your only option is to revolutionize the world. |
| So they just let go the girl who was controlling the giant corpse even though she killed thousands of people,even the corpse was forgiven lol |
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