Beatless Final Stage

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Japanese: BEATLESS Final Stage

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Type: TV

Episodes: 4

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Sep 26, 2018 to Sep 28, 2018

Premiered: Summer 2018

Broadcast: Not scheduled once per week

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Diomedéa

Source: Light novel

Genres: Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.79¹ (scored by 16,310 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #5287²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #3664

Members: 37,201

Favorites: 65

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Synopsis

Arato Endou and his faithful hIE, Lacia, have come together once again to show the world that artificial intelligence, no matter how brilliant, can be shut down safely.

As they descend into the holding facility to confront Higgins, Lacia's AI creator, the pair must fend off enemies from all fronts. Among them are Snowdrop, a rampant hIE hellbent on devouring Higgins, and Methode, a hIE who seeks vengeance against Lacia. The world's super-intelligent AIs unanimously decide to terminate Lacia, whom they deem a threat to humanity.

With limited time and the odds stacked against them, will Arato and Lacia be able to truly join together in a society where humans and hIEs can coexist peacefully?

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Adaptation:	Beatless
Prequel:	Beatless

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Characters & Voice Actors

Lacia

Main

Touyama, Nao
Japanese

Endou, Arato

Main

Yoshinaga, Takuto
Japanese

Astria

Supporting

Takagaki, Ayahi
Japanese

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Mizushima, Seiji

Director

Kakuchi, Takudai

Episode Director, Storyboard

redjuice

Original Character Design

Narasaki

Music

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Opening Theme

"Truth." by TrySail (eps 1-3)

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Ending Theme

"Shapeless" by Tokyo Performance Doll

Reviews

Sep 29, 2018

Shingster

Recommended

Note this review covers both the prequel series of Beatless and its sequel Beatless final stage as I see both as one series as the Final stage is essentially the last four episodes of the base series. While care has been taken to minimize story related spoilers there may still be spoilers within character analysis. You have been warned.

Based upon a popular novel of the same name that was written by the veteran novelist Satoshi Hase Beatless is an action, sci-fi and romance anime that gives us the opportunity to enter a world where thanks to the creation of an advanced AI mysterious but ...

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Oct 17, 2018

LegendAqua

Mixed Feelings

Storming the Castle of a finale...

Beatless Final Stage is the conclusion to Beatless and the majority of which is where Lacia and Arato storms the castle or in this case, reaching and shutting down Higgins in order for humans and machines to co-exist. Of course for such a finale, will ALWAYS mean the bad guys gets in the way.

Beatless Final Stage at the very least gives us SOME development (what little) of the functions and the arbiters of the Lacia units and Higgins in the process and what their goals are, be it in order to help Lacia and Arato like the Kouka units or ... outright want them out of the picture in order for the reign of machines to be in place manifested in Snowdrop or those on the fence, being controlled by humans but NOT to the ideals of Lacia and Arato like Methode and Ryo, it's a huge clash of ideals all pointing to Higgins as a result and as much as this clash of ideals are interesting, it isn't helped by Beatless' endless expositions and the even jankier animation (especially from it's facial animation and some of the fight scenes as well).

Each of the Lacia units themselves shows off differing views about the future they want in the process much clearer in Final Stage, like the Kouka units, being used by third party forces both wanting to stop or help Lacia and Arato as the original Kouka was something of a renegade and took no instructions from no one, the irony with Kouka is profound to say the least, Methode wanting to stop Lacia and Arato but being used by humans in order to deceive her way to her own way but being limited as a machine as a result, Snowdrop being the manifestation of the machine side wanting complete control over human society thus wants to stop Lacia and Arato, Marriage being the bystander and just watching the resulting storm and of course Lacia wanting humans and machines to co-exist.

Lacia and Arato's sci-fi romance is at the end of this finale cemented in and everything but as much as this a "meet cute yet badass" situation and what it leads itself up to could change human society for what Lacia and Arato's goals are, the romance didn't really "feel" like it progressed, maybe because of how serious the situation had gotten but nonetheless as much as Arato says he loves Lacia and wants to be with her, it's not much as the final moments are anything to go by, yes the "romance" between Arato and Lacia is FOREVER, but come on, give us more than that...(and LA might as well throw in the same defense about Beatless being more about human societies views with machines more than relationships but this finale DID have something with Lacia and Arato and wasted it)

Production value for this finale was as LA aforementioned, especially with the animation department, well the jankiness is even more apparent now, from derpy faces being the obvious with SOME ok battles here and there, but diomedea was barely getting fluid animation in this finale, voice acting would be the same as LA talked about in LA's Beatless review and Nao Touyama now being the ONLY two reasons to continue with this finale, the other reason being if Lacia and Arato gets to their goal or not. So yeah, production value for LA at least was rocky over the course of this finale as unsurprising enough.

So what did LA say at LA's Beatless review closing statements?

"LA will be waiting to see if the final arc of Beatless, Beatless: Final Stage and hope for a climactic finale with Lacia and Arato trying to reach their goal, but until then...LA will give Beatless a battered but hard earned "decent anime" status."

If everything above is anything to say by then this statement didn't hold for LA, it's still not in the absolutely horrible anime or anything and as much Final Stage tried to bring in it's semi-janky fights, philosophical quandaries about humans and machines co-existing as well as Lacia and Arato's relationship, LA was "meh" about this finale but "almost" unsatisfied with it as well but weighing everything, the good, the bad and the ugly...Final Stage and Beatless as a whole was just..."meh" as a result. Great in concept and ideals, poor in it's execution...sad really.

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Sep 29, 2018

CrimsonWanderer

Not Recommended

(this review covers both "installments" of Beatless)

If I had to describe Beatless in few words, "Wasted potential" could be the most accurate term. The premise was really interesting, but the execution and the characters were so underwhelming that I'm left here disappointed. I always felt attracted to the idea of a future where humanoid robots are available to humans so they can do with them as they please. And whether is risky or not it would be an interesting future to witness. Movies like "I, Robot" and "Ex Machina" where interesting examples of diving into the point of view of an Artificial Intelligence. Beatless tries ... to settle a world where Humans and Robots can co-exist and live like a family. For some people this might sound stupid and dangerous, but for others this is a dream come true. So where exactly did Beatless fail at? Almost everything.

Going straight to the point, Characters where the main problem on this anime. The very generic and dull cast of characters were really forgettable, we have the very dense main character that will be the "bridge" between HiE's and Humans. We have the main character's "best friends" that are against every sort of love towards machines and will do the posible to maintain humans relationship with humans, even if they require HiE's for that matter. Then we have the Trio of useless girls that serves no purpose whatsoever but to remind us of how stupid Arato can be. Then we have the HiE's cast, which are a bunch of self insert killing machine waifus of each kind: we have a manipulative loli, the explosive one, the dominant bitch and we have Lacia who is the most prominent and "mysterious" of them all. I would like to try and add more details on how they are, but that's as how forgettable they are, so that's it.

The art department is also forgettable, the animation is mediocre as best, the character designs are generic and terrible (what the fuck did snowdrop became in the end? "she" looked like some sort of castlevania monster) There's absolutely nothing worth in the art department. As a bonus, there was a scene where the transitions were so terrible that in one frame you see the car moving and in the other everything looks static as if they were never moving in the first place. Sound department were also forgettable, Voice acting were really off and the ost... wait where there an ost?

Enjoyment 6/10: Yes I indeed managed to enjoy this somehow, the constant stupidity of the MC was fun enough to stay and I kind of wanted to know where Lacia and Arato's relationship were heading, stupidly enough, they bring up a plot hole off their asses right after telling us that it was not possible at the very end xD.

Overall 4/10

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