Spotlight Anime: Last Exile MAL Anime Information Page: Last Exile MAL Score – 8.06 (by 19597 users) Ranked - #360 Popularity - #171 For the next week I would like to have a discussion about the anime that focuses on the key elements that we here on MAL use to critically rate an anime: Animation, Sound, Characters, Story, and Enjoyment. I would like everyone to approach this thread as if you were going to write a review and structure your initial post like this: Animation - insert rating Sound - insert rating Characters - insert rating Story - insert rating Enjoyment - insert rating Animation - discuss any pros and cons of the animation styling used in the series, try to include some specifics. Sound - describe any of the things you liked or didn't care for in regards to the music and sound effects used in the series etc... If you are having trouble writing up a review or coming up with specific pros and cons, please don't worry. Just do the best you can with it and if you can only write two or three sentences about any of the 5 elements then that's OK. Not everyone here is currently at a level which will allow them to articulate their thoughts and opinions. After your initial post is made you can feel free to civilly discuss issues of contention. I am sure there will be many opinions expressed here that some of us will disagree upon and criticise and it is for that reason that this entire club exists. So I hope everyone has fun and I am really looking forward to watching this discussion unfold. RESULTS OF THE YOU DECIDE POLL Last Exile was NOT inducted into the club Anime list: 13 Yes - 39.3% 20 No - 60.6% 46 Don't know this anime - 56.7% of the total number polled 2 Abstained - 2.4% of the total number polled |
santetjanMay 19, 2011 5:32 PM
| You do not beg the sun for mercy. |
| Granted it wasn't a perfect series, I still think Last Exile deserves a place in the club. For instance, I think that Last Exile is the perfect blend of creativity and good usages of tropes. The story and characters itself aren't original, though at least good, but the setting alone is simply fantastic. This is not a surprise since Range Murata was given complete freedom to create the setting. And also, it's perhaps the only good steam punk anime that actually makes usage of its steam punk environment. No, not even Miyazaki could do that. Industry needs more stuff like that. Almost every anime that is related to fantasy these days is just plainly constipated. |
| -Fixing- |
Wilio said: the setting alone is simply fantastic. Most certainly, but, as much as I love me some world building, I don't know if it deserves a place just for that. I really can't say the story was all that great, it served its purpose in letting the setting shine, but it just didn't seem to flow to well. Main reason for that, I'd say, would be that the characters didn't stand out enough, or, rather, the protagonist didn't. Claus was one hell of a boring character, didn't seem to be much more than the typical hot-headed boy, making it all the more annoying when he attracts so much screen time. Wilio said: Industry needs more stuff like that. I do agree with this though. It was certainly different, and being an anime first makes it all the more ambitious and impressive. That's almost enough for me to give it a 'yes', but I'm not sure. |
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