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Phoebe3315 said: belial said: I've been watching anime for many years (since at least 2007 or so, about half my life), completed 200+ anime, and this made it in my top 10. Godly soundtrack, really cool action, incredibly beautiful world, very appealing characters (for the most part), and an engaging story are the main reasons why. Can't wait for the compilation movies, fingers crossed for a season two, gonna buy a whole lot of Kabaneri merchandise over the next few years to let WIT know I support this.This for me confirms it that we are getting so much shitty anime because people manage to somehow eat it... and apparently love it. I will just hopefully assume that people that did "love" it are new into anime and that this is only happening because more people are getting attracted to the medium. (wishful thinking? maybe) It can be summed up as.. You have bad taste. The art was good and the Shingeki-like OST acceptable. But if you didn't notice HUGE flaws in VAs, Character Development and Plot, you probably should dedicate time to another hobby. |
| The scene where Ikoma threw the train up in the air was a waste of time. I would've liked it if Kurusu played a somewhat bigger role in the episode. It kinda felt like he was just there for the sake of being there. I was half expecting him to take on the blonde guy instead of Ikoma, but nope! And I get that Kurusu is skilled & has a special Kabane fighting sword, but can he really take on a entire horde of Kabane by himself? He is still just a human after all. And how the hell did he make it across the cart to the train? Like I said, he is still just a human... Biba...eehhhh I have mixed views on Biba. I more or less agree with those saying the show didn't need a primary antagonist. I do wish they elaborated more on how Biba discovered Kabaneri though. Also, it kinda bothered me how Mumei (Ayame as well) didn't even seem remotely phased about the fact she just helped massacre an entire city. I'm gonna give this a 6/10. There were moments I enjoyed, but at the same time I feel like this show was a bit all over the place. |
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Angry_Always said: I would argue with 'ayame shined'. She allowed Biba to enter the city knowing he was going to pull something. She allowed a massacre to save her own people. Selfishness. To be fair, there was literally no other choice. Though she wasn't really part of the group's first plans to escape, it was evident that there was no point in attempting to escape by force since more of her people would die like Ikoma's friend did. They were pretty much hostages. It's pretty messed up, yeah, but it was the most sensible thing for her to do if she wanted her and her people to survive. Not like I don't understand what you mean though :v And anyway, this is more about my preferences, tbh. I'd applaud her and her bravery, and how she kept trying to keep order while protecting her people. |
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belial said: You probably just judge things a lot differently than me. This isn't the type of series that needs deep/complex characters, they are likable with distinct personalities and that's enough for the majority of the cast in an action-focused anime like this which has a primary objective of being fun. Like a comedy, except instead of funny, fun/exciting. I can guarantee I looked at the plot much more thoroughly than you did (unless you also watched each episode 3+ times) and I don't consider it to have flaws big enough to really bring down my enjoyment.Phoebe3315 said: It can be summed up as.. You have bad taste. The art was good and the Shingeki-like OST acceptable. But if you didn't notice HUGE flaws in VAs, Character Development and Plot, you probably should dedicate time to another hobby.I've been watching anime for many years (since at least 2007 or so, about half my life), completed 200+ anime, and this made it in my top 10. Godly soundtrack, really cool action, incredibly beautiful world, very appealing characters (for the most part), and an engaging story are the main reasons why. Can't wait for the compilation movies, fingers crossed for a season two, gonna buy a whole lot of Kabaneri merchandise over the next few years to let WIT know I support this. |
| There was literally a trainwreck lmao |
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| Happy ending for everyone on the Koustetsujo I guess. I'm okay with that, since in the end this was just a really nice looking with an amazing soundtrack action show. Do we get to learn more about the kabane virus and those scientists who developed the white and blue blood things? No. Do we get a happy Kurusu and matured lady Ayame? Yes. Best characters, especially Ayame, with her development into a true leader. Also happy Mumei and Ikoma because plot armor, but i'm not really complaining, I should've expected it. But wait! Does Mumei not feel any guilt for the hundreds of thousands of lives she indirectly ended because of her naivete? Is no one not at least sad or regretful that hundreds of thousands of people died because of Biba's deception? And do we ever get a reason for why Biba's men decided following the man was a good thing in the first place? Did the side characters ever get the spotlight they deserved? No? Okay then. Still, at least theres Ikoma and Kurusu being awesome because the plot action calls for it. Ah well. |
moncikoma said: :) Thanks for this! You put a big smile on my face.Phoebe3315 said: i think we are the only fans here heheYou probably just judge things a lot differently than me. This isn't the type of series that needs deep/complex characters, they are likable with distinct personalities and that's enough for the majority of the cast in an action-focused anime like this which has a primary objective of being fun. Like a comedy, except instead of funny, fun/exciting. I can guarantee I looked at the plot much more thoroughly than you did (unless you also watched each episode 3+ times) and I don't consider it to have flaws big enough to really bring down my enjoyment. dont worry mate... it seems fun that we can enjjoy more than most people cant.. it is a GIFT... dont worry about the rating and all critics.. i watched anime since 1995, and still think this anime is one of the best thing that ever happend in my life... this anime choose its fans... not the other way around.. |
| It ended well I suppose. |
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| Kabaneri started off as a really strong series but then I found myself enjoying it less and less, don't get me wrong it was very enjoyable at some points but when Biba came in like what happened to the quality. I am giving it a generous rating 7/10 |
Vacu0usJul 1, 2016 3:04 AM
| I am glad both of them survived in the end |
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| Started well, finished... Not very well I guess. Biba really ruined the feeling of survival and suspense on this anime, could have been much better without his revenge plans. |
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| *almost everyone in one of the most populated cities dies due to Biba's plan being an absolute success* *Biba still dies and most of the main characters are still alive* "What a happy ending!" :P I enjoyed this anime, it was meh as far as story and character development and such goes, but I really enjoy the samurai/zombie/steam punk mashup and the action was a lot of fun. Probably like a 6/10 for me, I like it. |
| Bieber sneaking up on Ikoma: |
| So this counts as an ending? Meh. Rushed, predictable, wasted potential. At least the production values were decent. 3/10 |
| It looked like a fun anime at first. I really enjoyed the action. Once it got into Mumei's backstory it felt like it really went down hill from there. |
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| Season 2 Please Kinda glad we got a happy/predictable ending but do wish we got more fighting in the end between Ikoma and Biba. Atleast Biba's last action (Saving Ikoma with the White Liquid) was a nice act. Can I just say how amazing the soundtrack for this show is, and it's used in the perfect spot's, so glad I imported it. So it's safe to assume that Both Ships are sailing at this point ;D Also really liked the touch of Mumei Hugging Ikoma before throwing him Episode - 4/5 Overall Score - 8/10 |
FallenUndeadJul 1, 2016 1:49 AM
| Well this show is pretty consistent. Cool Animation and soundtrack but shitty plot. Animation: 10/10 Sound: 10/10 Story: 6/100 Characters: 7/10 Top 3 Characters: 1. Suzuki, the english guy (Seriously...the best character) 2. Biba (They gave his character depth and justice in the end) 3. Kurusu (Kills more kabane than the main characters wihtout being a kabaneri) Top 3 Worse Characters 1. Ikoma (Everything wrong with the anime) 2. Mumei (If you replace her face with a butt-ugly girl then you realize everything she did really was shit) 3. Warabi, the guy who sliced that blood donor (He made Biba's men intentionally look bad) Jarjaxle said: HAHAHA! LOved Looks on Biba's face when he heard that Ikoma was back... Look of pure Realization...of that his Plans...were Competently and Utterly...F***ED!!!! Yeah....Quite Surprising ending...and Somewhat BULL....how the Hell he turned back to NORMALl Kabaneri if there was just One Medicine? Unless Hunters gave 1 but quite not believable...WAIT!!! BIBA DID WHAT!? HE CURED IKOMA IN THE END!? Everything Biba did was according to plan: Main Goals: Get revenge for fallen comrades: Check Destroy a Corrupt backstabbing Government full of Idiots like his father: Check Take the whole blame dying while Saving his remaining bros: Check Save Mumei: Check....(I'm Guessing the white serum cure he carried was for Mumei) Bonus: Cured the MC: Check..(Did not expect Ikoma to have an extra serum so he gave his to ikoma instead) Die an Unsung Heroic Death: Check Well, it was clear in the last episode that he was intending to die while letting his bros escape. js_Vegnagun said: Welp, my guess was completely wrong. Guess I'm OK with that ending. Wonder when Ikoma got the white blood because that was definitely bothering that he didn't go insane at the end. Biba injected the white stuff in Ikoma, but it was not shown. kamisama751 said: Yeeeeees, this trainwreck is finally over and there is no sign for a continuation. Thank god. Anyway, this episode contains unussually many mistakes. Maybe I put some effort since this is the last episode but I don't really know. Mistakes count through the whole show: 97 Damn, I can't beat cinemasins. Final score for this mess: 2/10. Yey! a fellow critic! •Where is Ikoma’s red glowing iron man skin from the last episode? *It burnt out like a candle hehe •Ikoma’s power up affects this nail gun power for some reason. *NO, it still kills only 1 kabane per shot, still weak. Ikoma is so weak he needs drugs to fight like Kurusu •How can Ikoma even fire his nail gun without using his left hand? *Its too disgusting, you really don't want to know what's happening inside his hand. •Biba is evil for the sake of evil. *No, it's that some viewers just don't get him and only viewd him as a one-dimensional character. I find him cool. •Ikoma stopped the train ‘cause plot armor. *Should be labeled as shounen •Ikoma suddenly turned out to be exhausted. *He's an idiot, doctor told him a time limit, but he used it the moment he got it. Can't he wait till they get to the city? •Ikoma survived from Biba due to plot armor once again. *No, Biba dit not really have any intentions of killing him. •Ikoma should be near Mumei when Mumei got freed from kabanerization but he is far away for no real reason. *Biba Cured him using his serum. •Wait, since when can the Ayame key work on the Biba train? *It's ayame's train to begin with. Biba's train was rekt by Ikoma •Where do they got the flower for Biba? There aren’t any flowers growing in the area where Ikom fighted Biba at all. *He deserved them flowers man, why do you need to complain about it? They got it next door, alright?. •Shouldn’t Mumei already be turned back to a normal human? Where does she got the power to throw Ikoma then? *Serum only for SUPER Kabaneri to turn back into normal Kabaneri •Muscle girl taked her cloths off for no reason. *Fan service? Didn't work for me though. •Ikoma survived at the end ‘cause plot armor once *Should be labeled as shounen BLmatsu said: One more thing, I feel like Biba's motivation behind killing his father is not 100% wrong. If you think about it, would you be happy to be ruled by some kind of authoritative figure that hides information, kills/abandons people for their own gains, disregards others' lives, and cowers inside their fortress? I sure as hell would not... YES! A fellow sympathizer. My thoughts exactly. Angry_Always said: Love this anime but god damn I HATE Ayame. She carries responsibility for choosing her small train population over an entire god damn city by not opposing Biba and it is never brought up. She wears pink constantly and speaks in a lovely way that makes her seem like an angel and I'm there thinking 'she fucking helped cause a massacre because of her selfishness'. And yes, choosing to save your friends over thousands of people IS selfishness. I like to agree with you I really do but......  with a face like that I can't. Cute is justice. Even if she kills innocent people she can just say my bad Tehe :P Phoebe3315 said: CodeBlazeFate said: Alright, well this is pretty subjective, I think it's fair though considering he only pulled that power out a couple times and was quickly dying.Still, he shouldn't be so God Tier enough to send a train flying by merely defensively putting his hands up front before collision. I think what he said was stupdid was that the steroids which was suppose to be an important plot devise that could overturn things did not really have a very important role besides stopping the train and helping ikoma survive a little. Which is stupid. Also injecting it on himself before arriveing at their destination was stupid. He became retarded at crucial fights because of the drugs. And also kudos to Biba and his right hand man for being able to stop a train wrecking Ikoma. That some BS arm strength they have and he's not even a kabaneri. Biba even kicked Ikoma's ass as a normal kabaneri without using steroids.  |
| Damn, the fact I felt this was better than AoT at first just to end up being worse is quite something. It was definitely pretty good at first but got progressively worse. I didn't expect this to be anything magnificent but damn, I didn't expect it to get this bad too. There's just lots of unanswered stuff, forced drama/happy ending, rushed things, and for me, and half the characters annoyed me which bugged me the most. Lots of wasted potential and the decline was worse than Erased. 6/10 |
| So finally, anime where zombies have more brains than humans ends. 3/10 |
| Boring, generic. Music was the only strong point of this anime 5/10 |
"Your taste is shit cause you like what I hate. Believe me I have 1000 cartoons that I rated with less than 5."  |
| Wow, that was a bad finale. I feel disappointed with the lack of closure and too many unexplained things. Why did Biba give Ikoma the white blood? How did Kurusu take on ALL those Kabane on the railroad? Oh well, I still found the (train) ride to be somewhat enjoyable. 6/10 for me EDIT: Forgot to mention that while the show itself had faults, the soundtrack and art style/animation was honestly amazing. I'll probably be listening to the OP by Egoist for a long time. |
nyarikoJul 1, 2016 3:05 AM
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| Rushed Wasted potential Horrible writing if it was 24 it would have been a great show never mind, props to the soundtrack and visuals 6/10 |
| Ouch, such a strong start but as soon as the villain was introduced it went straight downhill. Giving it a 7 just because of the art style and animation quality. |
| Well, the ending was fine, more or less. I knew both Ikoma and Mumei will survive since the moment that Biba received that white serum from his subordinates. The OST in this was very good, and the action scenes when Kurusu and Ikoma fought Biba's henchmen were also fantastic. Too bad the battle with Biba himself has been very dissapointed for dealing with the big bad of the series. Also, I didn't understand Biba's plans or actions at the end. In the scene when he tells Uryuu to escape because he will catch him later and his dialogue, he glimpses he wants to cause more destruction. But then, when he injects the serum to Ikoma, he also shows he wanted to save him or something. Did he changed of heart at the last moment or something? Oh, well... Overall, the series was okay. The visuals and sountrack were great, but I didn't felt the characters at all and the story became pretty much repetitive after the first episodes (basically dealing with swarms of Kabanes in every place they visit), and Biba's appearence didn't made the things any better. For all the hype the series received, it was a mere 6/10 in my eyes (for the visuals and soundtrack). I hope this has a second season, though, because the ending was pretty much left open and things like the origin of the Kabanes has been left unresolved. |
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| Epic final episode. I loved the moment when Kurusu blushed! <3 Rated the show 9/10. This show deserves more love! |
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| First half was good but then the second half had been rushed. Nice animation and music. The ending is not that bad, still a happy ending though I'm expecting more, still I enjoyed the anime , So yeah 7/10 for me |
Neo_oeNJul 1, 2016 3:48 AM
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For those wondering when exactly Biba gave the White Blood to Ikoma  Notice the color of the glow. Usually when you pierce a Kabane Heart to kill it, the glow and sparks are blue |
| I expected that the final fight might be somehow better than the whole series but it was really rushed and bad... The premise was rather good but the anime couldn't maintain the same quality and therefore this piece of art is completely meh... kinda waste of time... 5/10 |
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Illyricus said: Well, the ending was fine, more or less. I knew both Ikoma and Mumei will survive since the moment that Biba received that white serum from his subordinates. The OST in this was very good, and the action scenes when Kurusu and Ikoma fought Biba's henchmen were also fantastic. Too bad the battle with Biba himself has been very dissapointed for dealing with the big bad of the series. Also, I didn't understand Biba's plans or actions at the end. In the scene when he tells Uryuu to escape because he will catch him later and his dialogue, he glimpses he wants to cause more destruction. But then, when he injects the serum to Ikoma, he also shows he wanted to save him or something. Did he changed of heart at the last moment or something? Oh, well... Overall, the series was okay. The visuals and sountrack were great, but I didn't felt the characters at all and the story became pretty much repetitive after the first episodes (basically dealing with swarms of Kabanes in every place they visit), and Biba's appearence didn't made the things any better. For all the hype the series received, it was a mere 6/10 in my eyes (for the visuals and soundtrack). I hope this has a second season, though, because the ending was pretty much left open and things like the origin of the Kabanes has been left unresolved. If you think about it Biba never expressed outright hatred for Ikoma. He was excited about his arrival and the only moment he actually got angry with Ikoma was when he wasn't getting up at the end of their fight and that felt more like betrayed expectations than any real hatred. |
| lmao at that Avatar from the amazon playlist thing popping up near the end of the episode, sasuga horriblesubs rippers |
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| What a waste of good budget this show turned out to be. Wit Studio should get their shit together and stop doing pointless SnK ripoff garbage and just do SnK s2 already. |
bkmtf said: One of the worst anime I've ever seen. 1/10. You haven't seen much anime then |
| I can't understand how such a shit, non-sensical, full of plot holes plot could be written by someone who wrote Code Geass. Unfortunately this is one of the worst stories I`ve ever had the displeasure to witness in anime, it's right there with K Return of Kings, Chaos Dragon: Sekiryuu Seneki and Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou. The number of episodes aren't even a valid excuse, because it's an original story, so a skilled writer should adapt the script to fit in that number of episodes. It's so sad to see so much talent in the art and music department wasted on such a piece of shit of a plot. |
| I'm surprised that a majority of people here are actually defending this ending, especially since it literally took 90% of the show's problems, and put them on the spotlight, making it the worst episode of the show, and a miserable, safe, and stupid finale to a show so promising, even if the action here was still kinda cool. It's even more surprising considering the sheer amount of hatred episodes 7-11 got and now almost everyone claims that this episode was pretty good... I've defended this show during episode 10, and at the beginning (not the middle since I put it on hold for reasons) but this finale deserves all the backlash the PREVIOUS episodes got, but instead it's mostly met with acceptance and defence. Well, meh. Mindless action overtook the science the show was starting to have, and this episode nails that in to the friggin' coffin, and I wish that a lot of the interesting and wired stuff a lot both Kabane and Kabaneri were explained via some clever science, but after episode 4, they clearly have up on that. It just took to long for the masses to notice. |
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| ayame did something good! he said it again! and again! <3 i love her more now.. o yamenasai o yamenasai o yamenasai   |
| Why did Ikoma add Avatar: The Last Airbender to his watchlist at the end there? |
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Shirokan said: valvravetruth said: Biba has the white serum given in this episode, its just that no one knows how he inject it to Ikoma. Well most likely between the fight somehow. Isn't it obviously the shot he fired at Ikoma before Mumei stabbed him ? Posted even screenshots proving it one page back in this thread |
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