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| I gotta tell ta I was really looking forward to this anime because I loved the manga and the basic idea for the main character, but the anime fell off big time. The ending? It was freakin terrible in every aspect. In fact im not really even gonna call that an ending. There was no resolution to either of the main characters and I dont even know if im gonin to watch a second season if they have one later on. |
| Now I see why people didn't like it much - it ends before the best stuff in the series even begins. A great deal of the character development kicks in later on as well so no wonder. Besides the anime version seriously lacks that unique visual style the manga is famous for - when you look at the animation it's no more than average or mediocre which pretty much can be said about the music and voice acting as well. Meh, the series deserves a better adaptation than this. 6/10 - just because it's Blade of the Immortal. |
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| Lol it felt like it just started and ended lol... 5/10 |
| watched the first half of the anime and then skipped to the last episode. Spaidy_ said: Lol it felt like it just started and ended lol... 5/10 this is exactly how i felt after finishing the last episode. |
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| i liked show but it left me same as you wut it ended but just started? sigh shame, but they made it i will check manga. |
| Not sure what's with the hate? In episode one, Manji's sister gets slashed, instead of cut into three pieces, for censorship reasons (...which made no sense when limbs are removed, later). And in episode three, Manji gets slashed instead of being cut in half (...). There were also some BAD music choices in the first half of the series (there weren't many/any in the last half), too. Another issue worth noting is that the fight with Kuroi was ruined by lifeless filler designed to make it fit. But there aren't any other flaws of note, aside from it ending in a 'GO READ THE MANGA!' kind of way. In fact, it followed the manga so faithfully that, when reading it after the anime got me interested, I felt like I was re-reading it. Before I'd read the manga, I thought the anime was in the 7-8/10 range. I lowered my rating to 7/10 because of the ending. However, after reading the manga, seeing how the anime NAILED most of the content, starting with Makie's introduction arc, made me raise my rating to 8/10. Ignoring Samura's sketchy, pencil shaded style, the characters looked as attractive as they do in the manga; the animators doing a wonderful job of copying. And, as an adaptation, it didn't miss a beat after some early scares. The issues people have with the action lie with Samura: his action not being easy to follow and often stopping for chit-chat. It looks good when frozen and with the odd double-page finishing move spreads but doesn't last as long, or have the same feel, away from the pages it was created on. I wasn't fussed because BotI is more of a character-driven drama where the fights are exciting because of what's at stake, rather than it being thrilling purely because of the fights. (And Makie's fight was good, anyhow.) It's deserving of a higher average than 7/10; the limit for 'good' titles, by MAL's standards. Even the music, which is often bashed, isn't bad--there are many good tracks included. It's just, some tracks don't fit and the selection was off. |
| MUST HAVE SECOND SEASON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| "Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreams." -Marie von Ebner |
| This show deserves the 7/10 rating. For something with so much potential, ending a series half way through is pathetic. 1/5 for the final ep. |
| Dinner will be ready? Well, not exactly the best ending but w/e. Not bad and enjoyed this series. |
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| Damn! The real plot is yet to be shown. |
| I can't believe they freaking ended it right there. i really liked this show for its setting and dark themes though with interesting characters. Time to go buy and read the manga version. |
| Well it started to grow on me and it's a real shame that was the last episode. I started to really appreciate the characters, art and combat throughout the series. 7/10 despite its flaws. |
| Anyone who has read the manga should have known right away that there was no way the plot would be resolved within 13 episodes. Personally, i prefer this 'go read the manga'-ending over what would have most likely been a very shitty 'anime original'-ending. At least this way it's pretty easy to switch over. As a big fan of the manga i am mostly pleased with the anime. It has it's faults, the biggest one being that the meat of the series only starts after where the anime stops, but it's hardly the studio's fault that no one in the anime industry nowadays has any interest in financing or buying adaptions of long seinen series. |
| For a go read the manga ending, it was a pretty meh show all around apart from the start, which was actually interesting. It wasn't bad but it wasn't good either and I'm certainly in no rush or care to read the manga. I'd give it 6. |
 "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment" |
| the episode was horrible. come on, it was that thing of "okay, this is the last one, let's say goodbye and stop the story here." idk if they intended to make a second season or not, and it was obvious that the whole manga wouldn't fit in thirteen episodes but this ended not being a standalone piece. we are left with no ending at all. really good characters were left out and good parts of the story too. why did they introduce hyakurin so early in the anime if they were not gonna use her for anything? and anotsu. he was supposed to be the main enemy on this first part and we only see him once or twice through the entire anime. i liked the animation, the art and even the music. after i got used to it, the anime had this dark mood that fitted well with the series, but the writing and directing... it was a miss, sadly. |
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| I could go on and on about what's wrong with series, it was pretty boring. |
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| I'm glad its done and I completed it, I won't ever watch it again. Such a stupid series. It started off great but I started to resent it as it went along, from the time he murdered that boy's father but let go of Kagehisa's girl. It became worse when she started to be doubtful about the revenge. I didn't like Manji or the girl, in fact everyone in the series pissed me off. 3/10. |
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