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May 24, 6:57 AM
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Sin had this goal in mind from the start..to liberate settle things once and for all with Nerville.

Epiosde felt rushed and I wish I was more invested into the overall story. On the positive note, at least they did get a handful of characters to participate in this climax battle. A variety of gear abilities and colorful action for the finale made this look like the game came to life.
May 24, 7:04 AM
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In hindsight, there was absolutely no reason this couldn't have been twelve episodes. And it shouldn't have looked as cheap as it did either.
May 24, 7:31 AM
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The pacing was really fast, with one thing happening after another, and many things just felt really weird to watch with all those bright effects. In some places, things just didn't make sense as to what was even happening.

The episode, or rather the season, may have ended with a happy ending, but we did get some big reveals and emotional departures. The show lacked charm in both its plot and animation, and it was more irritating and annoying than anything. Yeah, calling it fun is a stretch.
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May 24, 7:55 AM
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"DANGER! NEGATIVE PENALTY" to anyone who took part in creating this excuse of an anime.
May 24, 8:16 AM
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Like the ending. The music throughout this episode was very good and as a Guilty Gear fan I might be a bit biased but I enjoyed the journey.
May 24, 8:28 AM
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surprisingly bad for the same studio that did the newest and best Bang Dream season just a few months ago. Really seems like they put all the effort into that and cobbled this together on the side.
May 24, 8:31 AM
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Garbage pacing. Everything happen too fast. Blazblue had a better anime that series wasn't even finished at the time.
May 24, 8:34 AM
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aaa such a nice final ep, everything wrapped up so nicely for the next stage of guilty gear's story
May 24, 9:00 AM
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omgosh so glad its over hated watching this every week only thing I liked was yo yo girl and the outro
May 24, 9:21 AM
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omgosh so glad its over hated watching this every week only thing I liked was yo yo girl and the outro
@Ahohite-killer
Buddy, Bridget is a boy, and this anime just reconfirmed it further, hence why all japanese fans keep treating him as such, he is an otokonoko (femboy term in Japan, also part of their culture). Hope this helps.
May 24, 9:36 AM
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dyguren said:
@Ahohite-killer
Buddy, Bridget is a boy, and this anime just reconfirmed it further, hence why all japanese fans keep treating him as such, he is an otokonoko (femboy term in Japan, also part of their culture). Hope this helps.

well now I just feel gay πŸ’€
May 24, 9:43 AM
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dyguren said:
@Ahohite-killer
Buddy, Bridget is a boy, and this anime just reconfirmed it further, hence why all japanese fans keep treating him as such, he is an otokonoko (femboy term in Japan, also part of their culture). Hope this helps.

well now I just feel gay πŸ’€
That was...eh. Very fanservice-y to GG fans, but this one's not about to have much appeal to anyone else. I'm curious as to what Unika's arcade mode is going to be about in Strive, though, so it serves to get me hyped for that, at least.

@Ahohite-killer Don't worry about it. Bridget's a girl. She outright says as much in Strive. The other guy's just in denial.
May 24, 11:20 AM

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At some point during the episode I was like "Why am I not enjoying this, aren't I a fan of Guilty Gear? Didn't I read the anthology manga and listened to the drama CDs? Do I even like Guilty Gear?
Then I went back and listened to the original GGX Awe of She and Still in the Dark and it got me, "I like this", then I booted Strive and destroyed some scrubs in the park with Test and I also went "I like this". But watching Dual Rulers, I didn't like this, it isn't the Guilty Gear I like.

Also now that we've seen the leaks for 2 weeks already, why is she wielding the Thunderseal during her super? It's several times worse if this isn't even explained the anime made to shill Unika as a new character, she just pulled it out her ass?

Even coming back to the end of Strive there was so much potential for anything better than this. Why not give the spotlight to Nago? He's one of the coolest newcomer in the entire franchise, he would have been a FAAAAR better antagonist than Nerville ever could. Why all the original characters of the first game are sidelined again and AGAIN for more Bridget and Valentine fanservice. May, Pot, Chipp, Faust, Zato, Millia, Testament have been there since the first game and only ever shined in novels and drama CDs. Yeah thank you for giving me Axl and making him a joke, he's the strongest individual in the entire GG world bar none but he'll job anyway, whatever.

Woolie's series is a better anime than this unironically.

May 24, 11:26 AM
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At some point during the episode I was like "Why am I not enjoying this, aren't I a fan of Guilty Gear? Didn't I read the anthology manga and listened to the drama CDs? Do I even like Guilty Gear?
Then I went back and listened to the original GGX Awe of She and Still in the Dark and it got me, "I like this", then I booted Strive and destroyed some scrubs in the park with Test and I also went "I like this". But watching Dual Rulers, I didn't like this, it isn't the Guilty Gear I like.

Also now that we've seen the leaks for 2 weeks already, why is she wielding the Thunderseal during her super? It's several times worse if this isn't even explained the anime made to shill Unika as a new character, she just pulled it out her ass?

Even coming back to the end of Strive there was so much potential for anything better than this. Why not give the spotlight to Nago? He's one of the coolest newcomer in the entire franchise, he would have been a FAAAAR better antagonist than Nerville ever could. Why all the original characters of the first game are sidelined again and AGAIN for more Bridget and Valentine fanservice. May, Pot, Chipp, Faust, Zato, Millia, Testament have been there since the first game and only ever shined in novels and drama CDs. Yeah thank you for giving me Axl and making him a joke, he's the strongest individual in the entire GG world bar none but he'll job anyway, whatever.

Woolie's series is a better anime than this unironically.

@James-LastOmnic I would have LOVED seeing Nago come in clutch against Nerville. It's odd to be that neither he nor Slayer made an appearance at all, even if it would have been to say "Eh, the young people have this under control" or something.
May 24, 11:34 AM
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not bad for a short anime i do not get the hate of this show just because its 3dcg again that mal users hates so much

may spotted

May 24, 1:14 PM
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Wait, this is the end?

Ky married with Sol's daughter, so it's only fair if Sol married with Ky's son.
May 24, 5:17 PM
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When this anime was announced and all we got was the image of Sin and Sol with Unika in a green overlay in the back I was really excited. My mind was working overtime trying to piece the puzzle together. Who was the new girl? What role would she have? Are we continuing Sol's story after all? Then we got the synopsis and my hype for this died ever so slowly. Apparently we were getting the Sin and Unika show. I gave the first couple of episodes a break because I still needed to see where things were going, but they never really went anywhere.

I stupidly thought that Unika was going to be Sol and Jack-O's daughter. Why? Because if they are going to retire Sol then his new daughter would now be the one using the Outrage/Fireseal in his place. I just can't see the reasoning to make Unika a Kiske when Sin is already there. The way they portrayed Unika didn't really give her any favors either, I felt nothing for the character because she has almost zero personality which is a damn crying shame.

Let me say what I did like about the series, the music was good, it hit in the right spots. Most of the fight scenes were good I felt, they were the best animated part of the entire show. I did like the final wedding scene with Dizzy and Sol. I was always wondering what the situation between Dizzy and Sol was and I got my answer. He just doesn't know how to act like a Dad around Dizzy. I hope given the new development this carries over to any new game if Sol and Dizzy are still present.

Unexplained things, what the hell is going to happen to Unika now? Like she can't exist in the same timeline if Ky and Dizzy have her in the present. So does that mean that Ky and Dizzy just wont have her anymore so that she can continue existing? Why is her hair black? Also what's the deal with her weapon? Never explained where she got something that looks like the Outrage. It has the Thunderseal inside, I'm more than positive Sol built it. Sol's Outrage also has the Fireseal inside of it too so it just fits. But the anime completely neglected to fill in the gaps. I don't know what else to say, looking forward to the next game I guess.

Last thing, I hope that Sin is not the new protagonist. If this anime taught me anything is that Sin is best as supporting cast.
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May 24, 10:10 PM
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May 25, 5:19 AM
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This anime, even though it's a game adaptation, has really good animation graphics, fights, and characters that are also really good
Too bad it's so quiet in Indonesia

I give it a rating of 7.0/10❀️

Hopefully there will be another guitar gear series in the future
May 25, 8:12 AM

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Well, we got Dolphin Girl aka Anchor Girl aka Totsugeki Girl, actual name May at least twice in this episode (for less than a second in total), so I guess this anime wasn't a complete waste of time.
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May 25, 2:27 PM
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I enjoyed this anime. Ppl might have trouble understanding it if they don’t keep up with the lore

Honestly I even Teared up when Unika Said goodbye to Sin as she hugged him.

Not only did she get saved by him she also discovered she’s his Sister. And it meant alot to her that she came out alive because of him forever indebted. And from what I know she’s playable soon in-game too. So I honestly can’t wait to see their Interactions in her arcade.
May 25, 3:13 PM
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they had the chance to make an anime for guilty gear since the 2000s but I don't know what was holding them back, I don't know how to feel about this adaptation but I fell like they just did it as a last marketing trick for Strive or so they can just say " Our game has animated adaptation just like any other game series*
May 25, 9:53 PM

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Well, this fever dream is over.
It was way better than what I expected, but at the same time, it was way worse.

This episode was great tho, the animation of the evil guy was amazing, it was actually scary.
I love that Dizzy was finally able to call Sol her father 😭, but I wanted them to call her "Dizzy Badguy" or something 🀣

What I didn't like tho, is that Unika ends up living in the USA, she didn't return to the future, but in the present she still hasn't been born, so what? Will we see baby Unika someday? Will there be 2 Unikas? Or does the future Unika living in the present deny the existence of a newborn Unika? Shit's weird, this wasn't a good way to end her story without explaining that, I was expecting her to return to the future, or at the very least to see Dizzy carrying a baby Unika in a little time skip scene at the very end.

Another thing that I find weird and don't really like is the extreme sexual tension there is between Sin and Unika, like, you can't tell me they weren't about to kiss and make out in multiple times of this episode lmao, Daisuke will never stop with his weird relationships.

Anyways, really mid anime, it has it's moments tho, I'm tempted to give it a 5, but fuck, it's probably the best anime about a non-music videogame franchise I've seen, or at the very least the best anime about a fighting game franchise, so I give this a 6. Also I like how it doesn't overstay it's welcome, 8 episodes is just enough, more than that would have felt terrible.

PD: I'm so glad I finally got to see May in this... for 0.5 seconds total, wow, and don't even make me talk about Anji and his 0.2 seconds apparition, damn, thank you ArcSys, very cool.
Sorry if my english is bad (γ£Λ˜β–½Λ˜)っ~~~
Btw, cry about it.

May 26, 2:10 PM

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I didn't expect much from it and I got what I expected so...
I just hope Unika is more interesting in the game.
5/10.
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May 26, 6:59 PM

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Boring writing, horrible pacing and bad animation, with some feeeew average moments. It's fucking unbelievable to me that they treated a Guilty Gear anime like this... like, c'mom, the pachinko has better animation and a more interesting/fun plot than what they gave us with this anime. The number of episodes is also ridiculous, it almost feels like the kind of crap that usually comes out in chunks on Netflix.

Okay, it's a short anime, but they could have shown a little bit more of the other characters. My man Faust? Reduced to a hologram. MY MAIN LEO???! THE FUCKING GORILLA?!!! Does absolutely nothing. My beautiful Millia? Just a still frame that appears in a fraction of a seconds. Axl? A comic relief character. MY ULTIMATE BRAZILIAN GIRL GIOVANNA?!! SHE DOESN'T APPEAR EVEN THOUGH SHE IS THE STRONGEST BODYGUARD OF THE US PRESIDENT (WHO IS NOT ONLY IN THE ANIME BUT IS ALSO AN IMPORTANT CHARACTER, HOW THE HELL DID SHE NOT APPEAR AFTER ALL??!)... nah man, fuck ArcSystem. It would be much better if it had 12 or 13 episodes.

The only moments I really enjoyed were the scenes with Ramlethal and Elphelt. Baiken and Jack-O were cool too. And I'm extremely pissed that Bridget went from being a cool character to becoming a brand mascot. The Blazblue anime was boring asf to me and yet it managed to be better than this.

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May 26, 7:13 PM

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they had the chance to make an anime for guilty gear since the 2000s but I don't know what was holding them back, I don't know how to feel about this adaptation but I fell like they just did it as a last marketing trick for Strive or so they can just say " Our game has animated adaptation just like any other game series*
@Dragon456hon

Yep, they could have turned Vastedge XT into a awesome anime back then, but ArcSystem chose to make a pachinko instead. The worst part is that its plot is canon, and the "game" is exclusive to Japan. With the little we can find about it on the internet, you can see that it could have been something much more fun and interesting than what we had with Dual Rulers.

May 29, 6:52 AM
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I hope we still get more Guilty Gear anime in any capacity, a 2nd season would be nice or maybe just a brand new show without the Dual Rulers title. But if this is all we'll ever get then it was a waste imo.
May 30, 10:53 AM
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My-my
the season ended...
The 8th episode is the weakes of all 8 episodes...
Very-very weak ending, the negative characters are so low done,
the ending story is a plague, and it reminds me other anime endings...
Do not know why thay did such a turn and ruined all sweet story...
actualy I did not like the negative characters at all, its some cheap bitemup game characters...
Ending all are friend - brothers and sisters...
No more crossmariages or what...
Why?
Jun 1, 8:34 PM

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It's okay, probably around a 5 or maybe a 6, if I'm generous. The pacing was too fast, in my opinion, and the plot was very clichéd. However, I thought the fights were cool at least.

Honestly, if they showed one frame of Slayer sitting on his ass, I would probably rate this a 10/10.
Jun 21, 2:19 PM
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great anime enjoyed it alot

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