The Reflection

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English: The Reflection

Japanese: ザ・リフレクション

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 22, 2017 to Oct 7, 2017

Premiered: Summer 2017

Broadcast: Saturdays at 23:00 (JST)

Producers: Bandai Visual, NHK, 81 Produce, Haoliners Animation League, China Animation Characters, BIGFACE, NHN PlayArt, Ima Group, Crunchyroll SC Anime Fund

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: Studio Deen

Source: Original

Genres: Action, Super Power

Duration: 25 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 5.18¹ (scored by 4,252 users)

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Ranked: #9742²

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Popularity: #2621

Members: 24,654

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Ranked #9742Popularity #2621Members 24,654

Summer 2017TVStudio Deen

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After the Reflection, some of the people in all parts of the world are discovered with super powers. Some become heroes, and others villains. How did the Reflection happen? What was the cause of it? With many unsolved mysteries, the world is led into turmoil.

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Exon

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Miki, Shinichiro
Japanese

Izzet, Ian

Main

Mikami, Satoshi
Japanese

Evans, Eleanor

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Ise, Mariya
Japanese

Livingstone, Lisa

Main

Hanamura, Satomi
Japanese

Mister Mystic

Supporting

Nishimura, Tomomichi
Japanese

Uki

Supporting

Satake, Uki
Japanese

Saya

Supporting

Nishiwaki, Sayaka
Japanese

Dulles, Warren

Supporting

Umezu, Hideyuki
Japanese

Hiro

Supporting

Murata, Hirona
Japanese

Hoden, Michael

Supporting

Seki, Toshihiko
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Nagahama, Hiroshi

Director, Original Character Design, Original Creator

Tanaka, Kazuya

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Suzuki, Yasuyuki

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9nine

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"SunSunSunrise" by 9nine

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Oct 7, 2017

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

DarkKnight1107 (All reviews)

26 people found this review helpful

Its finally over, the most controversial anime of the year. That being said, its a highly flawed show with some redeeming factors that put it just above average, but its not a must watch or anything.

Story: The pacing is all over the place, sometimes it moves too fast, other times too slow. I still don't understand the villain's plot and the show seems to end with most of the loose ends tied up, but springs a cliffhanger ending so out of nowhere it would give Madoka Magica Rebellion a run for its money on abruptness.

Characters: One of the most redeeming parts of the show. read more

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Oct 7, 2017

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

RebelPanda (All reviews)

16 people found this review helpful

At no point does The Reflection try to convince you that you’re not watching a cheap X-Men knockoff. You won’t forget it either because it constantly draws from Stan Lee’s many worn out stories and evokes a Saturday morning cartoon aesthetic. The visuals are painful on the eyes, despite being released only this year you'd have a hard time finding a worse looking superhero cartoon released in the past 50 years.

[Story 2/10]
The story follows people who were impacted by the reflection, a world-wide event that caused a fraction of the population to get superpowers. I don't know how else to explain the reflection other than read more

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Oct 7, 2017

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

HereticHunter (All reviews)

9 people found this review helpful

The feeling of "Saving Anime" was a thing when people knew that Stan Lee were going to lead an Anime. Apparently Stan Lee did lead another anime before with the name of "Hero man" or something like that. Someone told me that it was a good watch, I haven't checked it yet, so I can't really say much about it.

So, unless you live under a rock or you don't like the universe of Marvel, you will probably have heard of him and will probably guess that this anime is about super heroes... but is it that good? did Stan Lee save anime? or is The Reflection another anime meant to live within oblivion?

TL;DR: Interesting concept, interesting animation style, bad execution, lazy animation, clusterfuck of Stan Lee's favorite heroes on a meaningless and underwhelming story goes wrong on many levels

On super heroes movies, Earth (specially the USA) is the favorite place for many random things to happen: be it huge robots vs more huge robots, aliens, human race destroying themselves, biological weapons, etc... Now, fuse almost everything that could happen on a Hollywood movie and lets add it to an anime, what do you get there? That's right: a huge mess that goes by the name "The Reflection"

The story goes around an event called "The Reflection", an event that happened a while ago. Its never really explained why such an event happened, and why was the earth affected by it, I've probably missed some "important" details while I was trying to get something from what was being shown at the moment. Leaving that aside, "The Reflection" event consists on a "laser and smoke" kind of rain that stroke down in earth, causing people to awaken inner abilities. Those that were affected by lasers are different from those that inhaled the smoke, yet, those affected by both things are now called "Reflected" and they have abilities on them, so they are pretty much the same, even if the anime tells you otherwise.

That's pretty much what I can tell about the story, because aside of that, nothing worth of your time is actually happening, the last episode of this anime just proves that Stan Lee failed to create a story: He basically took every single super hero he has created and took their abilities just to show them off, making a clusterfuck of colors in the progress. In the end there isn't anything meaningful on the story, because... there isn't any to begin with. 2/10

The animation style of this anime is pretty smooth, people told me several times that the animation style is meant to resemble old cartoons, it is very colorful and startling. One of the things that went wrong, is that the animation is very lazy, there are many fights on this anime that could have saved it from misery, but the lack of fps, lack of physics and lack of impact ruined most of fights. There's also the lack of details animation wise, you can see several still shots that aren't really necessary, for example... Singing without having a mouth, several shots without eyes or mouth, and several shots without a face, now I understand if the scene is pretty far away from the camera, or the faces without eyes are resembling certain feeling from characters, for example, being mad or sad, but that's not the case here, it just happens. 5/10

Sound department is also meaningless, "Sky show" song is spammed through almost the entire anime, an atrocious theme song for an asshole character. There are other soundtracks used on this anime that are quite good, sadly they aren't used that much. The voice acting is also lazy. 5/10

The characters on this anime are completely meaningless and annoying. For example "I-guy", he is an obnoxious character that only cares about being popular and "heroic", he interferes with pretty much everything, his sole existence is meant to screw everything that the "good" side is trying to do (and later on, he transforms into a pseudo batman copy with the ability to shoot lazors from his head) Honestly I could have give a 10 to the characters just because X-on delivered a punch to I-guy's ugly face for being completely retarded. Talking about X-on, he is the most mysterious character that remained mysterious towards the end, he can copy the abilities of the Reflected. About him, the only thing we got from him were little flashbacks from his past, he just happens to be there to fight against Wraith's evil forces and no one knows why (Wraith has to be the most ludicrous villain I have ever seen) there isn't any other character out there that means something, they just happen to be there, there is no back story, no motivation, almost nothing, I haven't seen a such a cast of meaningless characters since Mayoiga which had like 30 characters and only 4 of them were actually relevant to the story. 2/10

If we talk about enjoyment, I will state again how much I liked that X-on delivered a falcon punch on I-guy's face, that was probably the best moment this anime had. 4/10

Overall: 3,6/10 (Rounded to 4)

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Oct 12, 2017

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

InfiniteEvil (All reviews)

8 people found this review helpful

The premise of The Reflection immediately reminded me of the American superhero show "Heroes." Both have a similar premise: after some kind of event, people all over the world emerge with super powers. However, it took Heroes two seasons and a strike before it started being bad. The Reflection is bad right from the get go and continues to plummet in quality until it ends.

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Like previously stated, the premise of The Reflection is that several years ago, some kind of explosion appeared in the sky and was seen all over the world. Some people were hurt by it and the ones who survived are known read more

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