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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Man, too much 3D,the beginning starts boring, and manages to continue boring till the end geez... i'll give it a 5 for the character design |
BlazApr 5, 2011 12:09 PM
Ah, it wasn't very special. I don't see how that sword cut through that armor. And with a dance too, there wouldn't be enough force to cut a person in half from the waist like that. |
| I had hoped that music would be better... the name implied that some of those songs would be used... a big let down, I'd say. Poor animation (damn, Zektbach DVDs with music videos were of far better quality...) also didn't leave a good impression. The only thing that I actually liked about it was how narration resembled epic poems of the Middle Ages. I spotted a few attempts of introducing symbolism, but they were poorly done and thus it was hard to even tell what was the intention behind them. I had had high hopes for this, sadly, they were not fulfilled. |
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| Wow! They managed to fit four six twelve episodes worth of tv series tropes into 30 minutes... However, I was a little surprised by the way it ended. I was expecting there to be some big proclamation from her little friend convincing the guards to against killing what's her name, not for what's her name to slaughter her entire homeland! Regardless, the whole thing was poor string of ideas with hardly any continuity. 4/10 |
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| "If you feed me, Seymour, I can grow up big and strong!" |
| Not really entertaining, they could've made it way better :| |
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| I thought it was pretty good. Would've worked better if they had made at least 12 episodes instead of cramming it all into 30 minutes. |
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| Nothing special. I had some inkling of hope for it, but I'm better off just listening to the pieces and watching the vids for them. |
| What the others said. Very disappointed. The story of Zektbach is very fascinating but this was... Ugh. |
| I don't think this OVA was that bad. It's probably low budget anyhow! It was decent enough for stuffing a whole plotline into 30 minutes...though technically they just stuffed the background summary of a 3 minute song into 30 minutes. Hahaha. .........Though I want better. Zektbach needs an uber epic super long high quality adaption to really get it's awesomeness across. Though that's probably not going to happen huh. Overall...I'll give it a 5/10 I guess. |
| I liked it. Very very nice. |
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| it was interessing w/ drama and many characters |
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Villetta_Nu said: Would've worked better if they had made at least 12 episodes instead of cramming it all into 30 minutes. Basically what I was going to say. 6/10 for the OVA cause it kept me mildly entertained. |
"What has two arms, two legs, and is alive? Not your favorite character lol! xD" |
| say, what's the source of this ova? where the story came from? |
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| 30 mins can work for an yaoi ova but not for this. 6/10 |
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| Unlike most of you, I actually did enjoy it. I follow the story [all sources I can find] since long, so for me, to see it finally animated was really fun. I hope the other stories of Zektbach, which I like more, will be animated too. |
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| I think I've heard the name Shamshir about 100 times in this... |
| Oh god that was awful! Actually to be fair, it was so dumb it managed to be fairly entertaining because of it. Giving it a 5/10 for that alone |
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| Downloaded it cause of this .All in all,I didn't find it particularly bad but it's far from good too. 6/10 for women's dressing style in Azuelgad. |
 "Only the dead have seen the end of war". ~Plato~ |
| Am I the only one who actually enjoyed this anime? For an actual 1 ep anime deal it wasn't that bad. |
| You know, it was actually pretty good, for a bed time story. |
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| The episode was too short and the pacing was too fast. As somebody else mentioned, the CGI was ugly and the animation was somehow stiff. This episode is ultimately forgettable for me, though it was not good but not really that bad that it sucks either, I was still mildly entertained for much of the duration of the episode. Mod Edit: removed spam quote. |
KinetaAug 1, 2011 5:12 PM
| You see there's no need to wonder where your god is, Coz he's right here! ...and he's fresh out of mercy. |
| Wow this really sucked. And it looked terrible and cheaply made too. Skip it if you were lucky enough not to watch it yet. |
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| While I was pretty excited seeing the Epic being turned into an animation, I was hoping to see more episodes. The story of Shamshir was decent to follow, animation average, music was ok, pace was understandable. I was hoping they'd start with Malchut's arc or the popular Catorce twins. It doesn't seem they'll produce any other episodes, which is a shame because this an extremely unique storyline. |
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| What is wrong with you guys? While being rushed and with some ugly CG and lazy coreography, the story was well told(resembling..., yeah, an old epic, how it should be) and the designs in themselves were great at times. This anime is certainly a bit of a missed chance, but it is by no means that bad, only average and given that the biggest tripe still gets a 7.xx rating on MAL, the hate feels a bit weird to me. |
| In 9/10 cases, the worst thing about an anime is its fandom. |
| They hell did I just wake up from? 2/10 |
| Waste of time. Nothing special and pretty boring. Didn't like the animation style at all. 3/10 |
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| Looks like it was canceled. |
| I was expecting something terrible but it was pretty ok. MC is very boobalicious too. |
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| Well that was absolutely terrible lol. 1/10 for this garbage. |
| lol why the bad rep? yeah, nothing special but was interesting and pretty good |
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| Some attempt at a message about post-war PTSD in soldiers? Not the best work to be sure. |