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Romeo said: and when you then "compare" this to the best anime (one piece) out there, well.. so rushed.. You mean where things take tons of episodes to get accomplished and has over 300 episodes to watch? 8D Annnnnnnnnnnyways, this gets a 10/10 for me because even though it's not faithful to the Manga, it was still damn good (TO ME) and I loved every Sunday sitting down and watching the newest episode. Sometimes cliched? Yes. But, I can get over that because the first half makes up for it like no tomorrow. Second half? Not as good of course. But, again, I'm just going to overlook that and enjoy it for what it is. So, yep - Manga and Movie here we go! Well, lol, at least the ending is a lot better than Soul Eater's. And, Tiger&Bunny just might make it's score go down. But, we'll see when I finish it |
sillyker0nianOct 2, 2011 1:41 PM
| lolwut. im so confused haha im kinda suprised at how off track the whole series got and what was the beginning with mephisto about. i dont even. |
| I give this episode a 6/10. So much deus ex machina. Blackie flying... wth? The brothers flying...LOLWUT? Etc. Etc. Blue Flames of Satan =/= Phoenix. The only good part was them visiting their moms grave/their birth place. LF>Insert Song name. |
PaulOct 2, 2011 1:35 PM
| 9/10 from me, love the BGM, OP/ED choices, love Kuro and love Rin :3 to hell with Arthur and Shiemi at least Arthur was quite useful this epi lulz and finally best part of this anime original ending is......HAMSTERIMON :D especially when he was standing rofl anyways it was a pretty predictable episode (except for that phoenix like bird thing lol) the fact that they focused more on the Okumura twins as opposed to others were a +, though I wanted more Mephisto screentime =3= oh well that was pretty awesome, Movie here i come :3 |
| Wow.... I'm really disappointed... Really, really disappointed. It started out as one of the most promising anime this year. The introduction was interesting enough to draw me in. Everything to animation, characters and that awesome soundtrack. Even though the plot was filled with clichés, it was presented in a very entertaining way. Rin, who I thought was going to be just like all the other shounen lead, quickly became one of my favorite characters. It wasn't until episode 15 when I started to notice something was a little bit off... Everything I loved about this series just flew out o' the window. The pacing went way too fast, the animation (which became sloppier with every episode), the characters lost every single quality that made me like them and the story turned into some bizarre mess. Well, at least the voice acting and music didn't change to the worse. The thing that tipped me off the most was when everyone found out that Rin was Satan's son. What do they do? Act as nothing... And that's when I decided to check out the manga since the discussion board was being flooded with complaints about it. Despite the arc that follows was pretty weak in comparison to the earlier arcs in the series, at least the characters had realistic development. I mean, come on! Take Shiemi for an example. I kind of liked her in the beginning, but as soon as I saw her to the "Love/friendship conquers all-hug" back in episode 16 I literally face-palmed. She's not even a little concerned about her love interest being a complete demon, she just ignores it. The same goes for everyone else in the cast. That's when people also started to realize that so much more was going to change. I thought they were going to do end AnE in a fitting way to continue the plot from the manga in a second season. But no, they decided to go in a total different way. I'm not saying that a original route is anything bad (it usually turns out bad though), the route they took happened to be a bad one. As I said, everything felt rushed, the characters stopped being interesting and the plot made no sense whatsoever. These last few episodes were the worst. Yukio annoyed me to hell with his sudden change of personality, that grandfather who was just there to get that stupid plot going and how they destroyed my image of Satan. I imagined him to be a sadistic bastard with no intention of his evil deeds (he's the devil for crying out loud, he doesn't even need an intention). Well, because of the the first half of the series I'm going to give this 7/10 - and that's being generous in my opinion. I'm curious to see how the movie will turn out, but I'm not having high hopes if they're just going to continue where they ended it. |
HariiOct 2, 2011 2:48 PM
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| fucking mameshiba ! This ending... I'm a bit disappointed but well,... let's give it a 7/10 |
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| Mameshibaaa~ |
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| A bit dissapointing because of cliches oh that 'flying bros'.. but i think it's good overall. 7/10 Still, can anyone tell me what exactly is mephisto's intention? Kurimu-chan said: Also lol I thought the same thing |
Aquila_ElOct 2, 2011 2:51 PM
| “My antics are works of art.” ~ Hermann Fegelein |
| Hmm, not so bad for and ongoing manga anime ending...but it could have been better if they would wait for more manga chapters :/... The only good parts were when Rin pinched Yukio's nose and when Bon strangled Rin xD... |
| Could someone remind me why Satan should be a good guy? Because I never saw him actually doing something good, so why the producers want us to believe that he's just misunderstood? And what's the whole purpose of Mephisto, if he wouldn't have been in the anime, would it have changed something? What was that horrible deus ex machina under the form under the form of a giant bird? Why the Gehenna Gate looks like a flying ufo saucer out of a B sci-fi movie? Why Rin wants Satan back to the human world, even if he made a killing spree? Why joining the human and demon world together would be a good idea? Why this anime likes so much ripping off other ideas, like the modern styled Dullalhan from Durarara and the boars from Princess Mononoke? So many questions without answer... The only upside is that this anime will be retconned soon by Ao no Exorcist: Brotherhood. 4/10 |
Arashi89Oct 2, 2011 2:49 PM
gnome64 said: i have a question for the people that utterly hated the series...why were you even watching it if you hated it that much? if you were hoping for it to improve, i guess that's one thing...and most likely the reason. But still, it's as if some of you act as if you're being forced to watch the worst show in the world. I was hoping that it would improve over time, and it did for a while, but then it only got worse and worse. I finish almost every show I watch so I can voice a valid opinion about it. You cant really have a legit opinion of a show you haven't finished watching yet. And I just don't like dropping shows, I want to see them through till the bitter end. Too bad AoEx was way too fucking bitter, and I had to force myself to watch it. |
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| yah i will enver undertand why people cnat accept that the anime differentiating form the manga s good, hell the stuff that happened recently int he anime is 10 times better than whas going on in the mnaga right now cause the manga is DULL AS FUCK |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
| need sheet music for that piano bgm at the grave NAO |
| I have no doubt that plenty of 12 year olds in Japan loved the ending. But for the rest of us, the second half of the series was quite disappointing because it was so unoriginal. Non-manga stories don't have to be predictable, but the writers didn't really try here. Oh well. |
dbaranyi said: I have no doubt that plenty of 12 year olds in Japan loved the ending. But for the rest of us, the second half of the series was quite disappointing because it was so unoriginal. Non-manga stories don't have to be predictable, but the writers didn't really try here. Oh well. directed at all the manga fanboys here not just to you |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
| I really loved the beginning. (Before they decided to turn this series into a boys version of vampire night except with demons and exorcists) Even the past few episodes were so bad. But this episode was just lolwhutno. 7/10 had it's ups and downs. Despite what people say the anime original stuff wasn't that bad. |
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| I'll watch a second season if they give me more Shura. |
| >.> I wish they worked more on the character development and everything. The battle scene was just a bit short and cliche. But anyhow let's hope there's a second season that is improved by tenfold! ^_^ |
| I loved the ending! I was sweet and nice... This show had its bumpy roads where I started to just lost interest and hate the show, but it ended lovely! 10/10 Cant wait for the movie!!! It will most likely be a filler movie, but I'm okay with that! :D |
| this series wasn't that bad but i hope next year or sometime they would make a new ao no exoricst anime but closer to the manga. |
| The last episode and shura made this show. |
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| Meh, could have been better if they decided to stick with the original. But it was enjoyable nonetheless. I wonder what the movie will shove down our throats. |
| I actually liked this ep....granted I haven't read the manga. It was a decent series. Stupid here and there but I enjoyed it. Originally said 8/10 but thinking on it now and compared to some others I've rated, might bump it down to 7/10 instead Iilia said: This? (video in tag) Best part imo....really caught my ear when it was played |
| What's Celty doing in this ep? |
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| Flying UFO gate - fine... Joint phoenix combined brother power - okay... 'let's feel sorry for Satan' - hmmmm... I could've overlooked all that but what bothered me most was that they didn't animate Rin's ears properly at the last fight after he pulled out the sword. I mean his ears grow at first but then they go back to normal mid fight. xD It was very strange as an ending somehow, I kind of liked the reference to the Faust story with Mephisto. I still just enjoyed seeing the character's do stuff after the plot value went down somewhat so I can say I'm not too disappointed. More Ao please in any form. =) |
Decee said: icamehere said: Shit ending for a shit show. 5/10 Someone that has a shitty view before watching something will make a shitty comment like you just did. I guess you never gave it a chance. Anime gets 10/10 There was no reason for not loving it and if you haven't read the manga it's all good. Hopefully we'll see a new season soon. @Icamhere gets a.... uh let's see.. 10/10 for posting a shitty comment.  |
| Really weird this anime. I still don't understand that Shiemi hate, she actually did some stuff and showed different feelings and was not one of this girls who can only complain or scream "hentai hentai hentai" when *THEY* run into the mens showers with only a towel wrapped around or something like that. That one scene with the womens changing room was one of the best of AoE actually, because of the way the characters behaved. It all started to go downhill with the appearence of their fake father, maybe earlier. Random changes, new characters appearing and vanishing, the whole Satan story (i really hoped they had showed him only pretending to love Rin and Yukios mother etc., instead of it being the real deal. It's Satan, common. They could have developed their own villian who turns out to be good, or used someone else, but why use Satan, of all things? Also, i didn't like that whole Gehenna gate design. It didn't look fitting. Especially when it started flying and shooting lasers, but i didn't like how it was drawn itself. And Mephisto is really weird, too. They managed to involve him and Amaimon in the plot without actually changing anything through this. And that random scene with that old man..just to make him remember something? And that they decided to have "baldy" jump in to the rescue, only to have him doing two attacks that did nothing and then only reappearing when he is leaving again? Overall, they managed to mess up a lot. And thats without knowing anything about the manga. Straying from the manga doesn't have to be bad, you need to shorten things and cut anyways, just like life-action movies do when they are based on books. Peter Jacksons Lord of the Rings surely did leave out more things from the source then any anime ever managed do to, and still it was awesome. But why stop staying close to the manga, when you have no idea what you want to do instead? And t the ending felt like they all forgot about what happend. They fought Satan and got away, Rin may not have 40 years of experience yet, but he dealt with dangerous demons on his own before, and now theres the usual team of exorcists, Yukio, Shura and Rin (including his familar cat) and they still have trouble? Well, maybe the movie will clean up with some things, especially regarding Mephisto. |
DJIzzyIzzyHitler said: yah i will enver undertand why people cnat accept that the anime differentiating form the manga s good, hell the stuff that happened recently int he anime is 10 times better than whas going on in the mnaga right now cause the manga is DULL AS FUCK I repeat: No one would give a shit about an original plot if it didn't suck balls. |
| loved it!! :D:D the episode and the whole anime and that phoenix was awesome! :D have to read the manga now and see how things go on :P:P |
| What I dont get, is why when there mother was talking to satan after he failed, why she wasn't mad at him for how he went about fufilling that dream... Thats seriously how she envisioned it going? demons coming out and eating the humans without a care in the world?... ok then.. And shouldn't Rin be a higher level exorcist now?... he freaking fought against the gate as well as the paladin did, when he only had the like 3 weeks of sword training... |
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| Highly divisive episode I see! Half the people seemed to love the series, the other half loathed it as either a cliche shonen or a betrayal of the manga (or both). Personally I fall into the former, don't really see why the other camp hates it so but ah well. I loved the series and thought it was a badass finale, much better than the ending to Dantalian (the last finale I watched). AAA finally did something! He turned out to be pretty badass, surprising considering how easily he's gotten defeated in his previous appearances. I guess he's like Uryuu, specializes in taking down hordes of weak enemies very efficiently, but struggles to produce much force on a single point. I didn't see any ads for the movie, only mameshiba ... I look forward to waiting two years or so for subs, like I did the Bleach Hell movie. :/ Ah well, at least I know more Rin and Yukio and the rest is coming down the pipeline, and dont just have to hope for good enough sales to encourage a second series (of whatever kind) 5/5, series get 9/10 and is being archived. :D |
| The ending... well, I would've been totally satisfied if Assiah and Gehenna did merge. Overall, I liked the series, but it lost a couple points for the ending. |
| Decent anime with a shitty end. |
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| Mameshiba everywhere (gg). Well an ok ending, I think... openings are the best :P 7/10 |
| Decent ending. The music made it 2-3x better though. :) |
| 7/10.... the ending was alright! |
| When did this series go from being Spring season's best offering to...this? I have no idea anymore. I just know that the last half wasn't as enjoyable as the first, and nothing ever managed to come close to the quality of the first two episodes. 6/10. At least Hiroyuki Sawano made a great soundtrack out of this. (b '')b |
| very weak ending, still a 7/10 for me tho |
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| - decent ending. nothing really special. The phoenix fire wasn't that convincing. I prefer the brothers slashing and gunning demons instead of that. - the bro love here is quite touching though. - I always cringe whenever Shiemi appears :| - I still can't get over with the fact that Satan knows how to love. Ew. If only I could rate this anime based on the OST, I'd definitely give it a 10. Seriously, those BGMs are the best thing about this show. Whatever shit is on screen, play any of the BGMs and everything turns ok. :O But I'm not biased like that. 7/10. Might even drop to 6. |
| bleh is all i can really say...not the best but not bad. meh give it an 8 out of 10 first 12-15 episodes were great bu then it just pretty much belly-uped as it ended... |
| quite ..... i felt it's indescribable. i don't know what to say. it was quite an enjoyable anime in the first few episodes... till they switched tides. It became the anime i couldn't wait to finish and get it off my watching list. ------ they did not explain much. as in, the sudden increase in students. though we get the idea how. i haven't read the manga finish, but i feel that they sort of jumbled some parts of the manga, meshing it together hoping to make sense. Which they did it poorly. I don't think 25 episodes is enough. I dislike obvious scenes. Like the holding hand and something awesome appears. Felt weird... i knida saw that familiar scene in [url=http://uraboku]http://myanimelist.net/anime/7058/Uragiri_wa_Boku_no_Namae_wo_Shitteiru in the last episode. *shivers* i felt this anime could be better. please have a remake in the near future. |
| The last commercial sure did make me happy. The McRib is back bitches.  |
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| inb4 Ao no Exorcist: Brotherhood. I'm disappoint. Even though I knew it wasn't going to be like the manga, they downscaled the show at the lowest level. Still a good show though, Rin and Yukio did a good job fighting Satan, aside the fights, still a good, but it could be a lot better. 8/10. |
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| I liked the series until it went away from the Manga. I gave it an 8/10 and thats being generous. I wanted to give it a 7/10 but it was still ok. 4/5 for the episode. |
| Um okay..... They hold hands, make a fire bird and kill Satan just like that?? I feel like the mini demons put up more of a fight than Satan!! Jeez!! He's a failure! 2/5 |
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