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

Statistics

Score: 6.79¹ (scored by 16,317 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #5348²

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

Popularity: #3665

Members: 37,220

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

Apr 19, 2019

curisuchan

Recommended

This review includes the final stage of this series. First of all i'm reluctant to watch this Anime due to its low scores and some bad reviews however because i'm a fan of AI/Machine i still give it a shot because of its synopsis.
Story: The story was all about artificial intelligent, which is great since we all know that the world is moving towards the directions of AI/Machine Learning/Cloud Computing and etc. Now for the story. The story was really unique in my own opinion; while this might not be the first anime to cover about AI, it's the only Anime i personally see ...

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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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Oct 5, 2018

PyraXadon

Not Recommended

Let's take into consideration the kind of schedule we're dealing with here when it comes to Beatless. Starting in January of 2018, the show ran for a total of 24 episodes. During that time however, 4 of said episodes were made into completely skippable recap episodes, before announcing 'Final Stage', a set of 4 episodes to finish off the series. Now I don't know what Diomedia's production issues were for Beatless, but just looking at the executive decisions makes everything pretty fucking stupid in retrospect.

So here we arrive at the tail end of Beatless, a story about a boy and his supercomputer AI waifu attempting ... to change and reinvent the world to help and progress both humanity and the AI units known as hIe's.

The original had its fair share of glaring problems, suffering from massive info dumps each episode meant to give the audience information on how the world works, severe pacing and progression issues as some aspects just simply disappear off the face of the earth or vice versa and start out of nowhere, and lack of character, given how our wimpy protagonist is strung along by his robot girlfriend for the entirety of the series up till its reveal of 'Oh no, she's manipulating everything!' even though we already knew that. And when we transition to Final Stage, not much actually changes.

Beatless and Beatless Final Stage both commit the cardinal sin in storytelling of going against 'Show, not tell'. Because so much of the show is given to you via monologues, the show only perceives itself as smart because it's spouting philosophy on humanity's future. This in turn rips away any potential substance the show might've had, especially since in Final Stage, the show is STILL giving us vital information on the structure of the world without any rhyme or reason other than to complicate things even further. My biggest issue however comes when some stupid shit like 'The stock market is crashing!' (Yes this actually happens) is happening but we don't see any adverse effects to it. There's a supercomputer civil war going on, but we're stuck focusing on the idiots inside this underground facility and only hearing word of mouth that it exists. There are forty hyper-intelligent AI that exist in this world! We see two.

So much of this show is handwaved to seem like there's a lot going on, when in reality, what we get here is the illusion of supposed conflict with ham-handed philosophy with a bunch of smaller fights between sisters, and a crazy loli AI who does just wants full autonomy in the world. Which surprisingly enough is the only thing this show gets right because you really can't really mess up a motivation like that.

Ultimately this culminates in a viewing experience that is simply not worth the price of admission. Beatless was an ambition attempt at showing a version of the world where AI covers mundane/dangerous jobs to protect humanity, and the dangers that come from relying on artificial intelligence too much. But in doing so, it intended to portray that using five different AIs each with their own way to pave the future, and an overly complicated plot that just kept feeding more and more and more and more details up to the very end. Even minute things like Lacia stating that she's created 'countermeasures' for everything just add to the mad inflow of information this show floods its viewers with. They basically made her so smart that she makes her own plot conveniences just so the writers can be lazy, showing just how abhorrent this piece of media is at being anything resembling a story.

In the end, nothing is satisfying except a cheap way to finish the apparent romance without any backing, nothing makes sense and going along with it just hurt my head, Diomedia stop doing this, don't watch this show.

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