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| As expected a stupid ending to a stupid series. I can't believe this is an adaption of a Shin Megami game, Persona 4 the Animation was SO well done and the game is one of my favorites, whereas this garbage is one of the very few series that I ended up skipping through the last two or three episodes because I just wanted it over and done. I did watch the last episode completely though, because I was foolishly hoping for a decent boss battle before a good ending, and I have to say the battle itself was alright (at best) but the ending one the other hand was so predictable and utterly moronic. Of course he was gonna turn back time and resurrect everyone, it's exactly what I had feared from the moment characters started dying left and right. Overall I give this series a 4/10 > and that's me being generous! I'm going to go re-watch Persona now, hopefully I can one day forget this series is actually related to it. |
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| This anime is a terrible insult to Yamato as a character. And to Hibiki somehow. "Yeah I know that you are right but I cannot let you do this because reasons!" Basically, it's "I don't like what you are doing but I don't offer any alternative, and you are wrong because I am the MC - the anime. " The game was quite interesting in how it was all abut politics and this kind of things, and now in the anime we have......this. Okay. Let alone Yamato who was just flanderized beyond recognition. He went from being a really interesting character to something that look like a caricature, sometimes without ANY reason. The fact that everybody was already dead where Alioth landed? Who cares, he'll look more like a villain if he doesn't care about killing them! And that's not a matter of "not enough episodes"; saying this would have taken something like 10 seconds. It's just that apparently Yamato being more "evil" is cooler, even when it doesn't fit with him as a character (in the games he is NOT idiot and although he tends to go too far and is still all "trash.", he knows that there are some things that he just cannot do if he wants people to listen, and that's why he's such a good leader). Way to completely change the character's personality. Even without taking into account the fact that they skipped most of the background, the ending they tried to do with Yamato is terrible. Also, lol@Hibiki able to use the dragon stream despite it being something only usable in the Hotsuin family. Sure, make sense. Well, once again the main reason seems to be "I'm the MC and not you". Maybe Hibiki is a hidden Hotsuin? Well, the whole episode with Lugh was terrible though. Also, trying to fill a SMT game with stupid cliches is the most stupid thing they might ever do. We are talking about one of the game series that tend to try to kick cliches in the balls the most; God (yeah, THIS God, not a fictional one) in SMT 1 and 2 is a pretty good example of how it works. They probably couldn't have done something less like the original even if they tried. And no, the fact that it is an adaptation isn't an excuse. This is pretty much SMT in name only; it doesn't even have the same feel as the game, it doesn't even understand how the game work. The game tended to "parody itself" quite often and played with the humor into it, making fun of himself and of cliches (some dialog choices are.....quite omething). The anime tried to be dead serious all along, which definitely doesn't work. This + the cliche overload which is as far from SMT as you can go = "...what the heck am I watching". If you changed the character models, it'd be quite easy for someone to miss the fact that it is DS2 completely. If they want to change so many things, then just do it as an original production, period. it is extremely predictable, I presume you guessed every single death in each episode correctly then?? Actually, yes. And even the ones that had nothing to do with the game and were not present in it. Quite a generic ending like those other video game adaptations. Not that I should complain though. Mediocre series. Enjoyed it at the least way possible. Not Memorable though 7.5/10 rounded off to an 8. The main problem is that in most VG adaptations, the ending is generic because of the source material. Here it's just because they screwed with it as much as they could. Then again, the game does have multiple endings, but most of them are not as generic. |
willardhwrightNov 30, 2014 6:36 PM
| Damn that lucifer combo. It sucks that all the friends he met this week have been forgotten :( airi ban <3 |
Kirito-Dragneel said: Damn that lucifer combo. It sucks that all the friends he met this week have been forgotten :( airi ban <3 Putting aside the rest of the show and how predictable everything was, I really do wish that the few people he became friends with kept their memories as well. Probably my biggest gripe with it. |
| It seems this show is aimed for the younger audience with all the friendship power and digimon/pokemon stuff. 5/10 pretty average. |
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| Well, at the end of it all, I can't say I didn't expect an asspull. NAKAMAS SAVE THE WORLD. Overall, a terrible adaptation of the source material. On it's own it barely manages a 5/10. The animation and music are decent, but the characters are complete shit, and the story has no idea of what "pacing" is. Also Yaoi, lots and lost of unnecessary Yaoi. I mean, Yamato and Alcor are two of my favorite characters in the game, but that doesn't mean I want a fan-fic written based around them. In fact, that sums up this entire thing, a fan-fic in the setting of DS2 and it's characters. Oh well, at least the game is FUCKING AMAZING. I can get over this massive disappointment. |
LPGeneratorxJul 15, 2015 11:25 AM
"You either die an Ashita no Joe, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Naruto."  |
| Well. At least the OP and ED song are good. |
| There's no magical spell to save someone's life. |
| It was nice seeing Alcor one more time. 6/10 series |
Kerozinn said: maybe because the ending is predictable bullshit till the very end. its kinda fitting cause the rest of the show is horrible too. and once again it wasnt worth watching. another show with a forgettable story, plot and ending. 4/10 I'm glad seeing this and the top review, that I dropped this piece of crap 'adaptation' at episode 5. Man, what a disappointment. At least I didn't waste another 160 minutes on this. |
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| So they didn't die. Overall, it was an OK series. I wouldn't watch it again though. |
| 臭い- |
| Why did I waste my time with this trash The game is 9/10 but the anime is pure garbage with good animation at times 4/10 |
| Not bad for this series although the first half of it was kinda lame. |
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| Waste of budget waste of time good manga like Noragami-ONS-Yona of dawn-Black Butler deserve more budget instead of this crap |
| Good end and nice lesson, tigers (Hibiki) are stronger than lions (Hotsuin) with the power of friendship and hugs! The fusion scene felt like yu-gi-oh lol. As an anime-only viewer this was a pretty decent series but could have been better with more episodes to flesh out the characters better (show more their lives like at the end) and also improve those boring to watch fights. |
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| imagine wasting over 40h playing something that can be summarized into 13 solid episodes. peak gaslighting. as an anime only watcher i think it was fine. |
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