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| The amount of hate from people for this show is so over the top. Was it as great as some will claim? No. But it certainly is nowhere near as bad as others will try to claim also. The reality is somewhere in the middle. I gave the series an 8 based on my enjoyment of it. Certainly there are plenty of character flaws, Cliches and parts of the story left unexplained (which isn't actually a bad thing imo). But the animation, ost, general action and design had me engaged through the 12 episodes and as a clone of Attack On Titan it did alright. It's so sad to see people review this show with such trollish scores in some sad attempt to make themselves heard. Like 2/10 for this series!? I'm sorry but that is totally absurd. It's very easy to watch something and point out every flaw and proclaim it's crap as a result, it doesn't make you clever so much as it makes you boring. I watch Anime to have fun and this series was certainly fun at least. If this series was worthy of a 2/10 then I don't know why you would want to watch Anime in the first place or at least regularly enough to even consider watching something while it airs or just after. Might as well watch a handful of shows a year once the dust has settled and it's more clear whats the best. Otherwise you'll just end up hating 95% of everything you watch and at that moment surely why bother watching anime in the first place? |
| this series started strong but ended on a mediocre note, the ending was too rushed imo, they tried to do too much with too little episodes overall 8/10 for me |
| Fun anime but not amazing. They made enough changes to set it apart from AOT but the story itself is....something I seen all before. Its hard to put into words but the whole becoming Kabaneri's and trying to get accepted by the people and then finally being accepted after doing nice things and protecting em. Those cheesy smiley moments of yay were friends now but others will never understand. Mumei has some past that involves someone who is looked upon as a hero but is actually a bad person. Mumei has a hard time accepting that he's bad even though unbelievably obvious signs point in that direction and yet she still follows him and listens like an idiot. And you know thats when the MC and friends have to bring her back with the power of love and friendship although, this used more than that but it was still there. It was still a fun watch so....7.8/10....I think, I'm having a hard time rating it coz I enjoyed it and I had stuff i liked but it had other things that ruined it too. |
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| Ohh man this feels so bad and weird now. As I said in discussion of previous episodes this kind of show couldn't fully fit into 12 episode frame.. I need all the backstory with the Kabane and sh*t. For me it feels like a simple story where people live in cities and one guy just wants to kill the bad guy , Kabane presence was Zero for me.. And now I can't imagine how the second season would go. I can't imagine the other villain :l The other thing I hate the most is that in the end everything was just 2 POTIONS. For me they appeared out of nowhere ( But I might be wrong here since I watched the show with intervals and could missed it earlier ). Imagine some tense final battle in some show and during it , some random thing appears out of nowhere which helps one side to completely win everything. I feel this way. In the ending , I somehow thought that Kurusu will slip off the train , fall and die. I think I'm like the many who in the beginning expected this to be one the best shows of the season.. but.. |
| Was close too liking it but it gradually became boring. Still has its moments though. Koutetsujou no KabaMEHri |
| When I first heard of Kabaneri, I was instantly in love with the art style. Ironic how coming to the end of it, it's become unsightly. Ay yai yai. Well despite its obvious inspiration from AoT (I mean, they even use the same amount of stills LOL), I was still on board for this one. The start was solid and the premise was brutal. It really started to lose me, however, when they started to focus on Biba and the Kabane became more of a backdrop for his ambitions. While I do like an emphasis on how humans were the bigger threat, there was just way too much going on in 12 episodes and this definitely would have benefited from 2-cour and more world building. As for the characters, I tried to care about them and when it comes to thriller driven shows like this, they don't have to be extremely well developed to count. But they felt like flat caricatures and Ikoma was the most disappointing. The only one I really liked was Mumei but even she started to lose her edge towards the end with the whole "Ani-sama!" Ah well but it wasn't all bad. Certainly not trash or a failed AoT rip-off. This series reminded me a bit more of Owari no Seraph actually. The mix of feudal Japan and steampunk was also very fascinating and once again, with proper world building, really could have done so much more. 7/10, Wit Studio should either stick to adaptations or originals that actually live up to the name. Also no idea why they're coming out with movies of this. |
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| I think I was more into it than most people are. For one I was grateful that it was just an action story with beautiful art and animation that didn't need the big twists/reveals or feels to be attractive. I hope we get a second season. |
| I was really expecting Ikoma to die there, glad that didn't happened. Don't know what was up with Biba giving Ikoma the white blood though..a little too late trying to redeem his character don't you think? Despite my many complaints for Mumei's character, In the end I still can't day that I really hated her. Kudos to her being the one to finsh off Biba. Overall I have mixed feelings on the series, it may have had its problem but there was never once a moment that I was bored with it. Wasted potential is the best way to describe it. 6/10 |
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| Why was Biba surprised that Ikoma is willing to sacrifice this much? They are similar in that way, only that Biba sacrificied everything around him, and Ikoma himself. I wish they hadn't included Biba. I hate it when they take a perfectly fine show and feel the need to insert a cliche-overload into it. It's not just the total amount, but they stuff more than the show ever "needed" into it all at once and continue to do so with every episode. Similar like they did with SAO when they joined the guild. Both shows perfectly fine, everyone even enjoys something fresh, and then they turn the whole show around. If you are doing a "normal" anime - okay, why not. Not everything can be exceptional, if everything is, nothing is. But they somehow feel the need to make up for the "lost time", for the episodes where they didn't have this, so they put twice as much into it afterwards. Biba contradicted himself more often than the number of episodes he was in, his whole speech was pointless in the first place. It was not about liberating people, or "the strong survive" or anything like that. It was revenge, not only against the one who wrong him, but against everyone, for no particular reason. The whole reason for revenge was kinda stupid, too. Revenge, okay, but why did you need to kill him? Because he cut you? Because he shunned you? Because he feared you? Because he wasn't man enough to admit it but blamed it on fear? And what exactly had all those cities you destroyed to do with it? And why did you even decide to do it exactly at this time, after 10 years? Mumei wasn't the reason - the only meet up midway, without knowing that either would be there beforehand. Basically, he had a bad childhood because his father shunned him and so, and became a bully. Because of his status as the shoguns son he was able to acquire an army and everything, and the setting allowed for things like superhuman power, so he became a bigger bully than most people, but in the end he was just that. A bully. "Bullying on a grand scale in a steampunk universe". |
| Too many similarities to a certain anime (which I don't even need to name lol) which is fine (I guess) since this series had it's own particular uniqueness injected into it as well. Tbh I expected a lot from this anime at first but since I waited for it to finish airing before I start on it, I already heard and read a lot of negative reviews about it that lowered the bar for me.. I suppose that helped. If I did still expect a lot I know I would've been disappointed. So overall this series was okay (I can't find any other word to describe it). I liked some bits, and some I didn't. That's pretty much all I can say about this anime. :p |
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| It started as something super average, but it was watchable till Biba appeared. It ended as trainwreck, totally trainwreck. Art was worse and worse (ok I went a little too fat, art was nice in general, I liked the character design, but in many scenes CG objects were just awful) , characters totally bland and story? My God, ultra boring and... Well, written for 100% casual audience. Lots of blood - check. Heroic emo MC - check. The most generic antagonist as it could only be - check. 'adult' feeling - check. Violent female - check. Hight scale conflict - check. 4/10. I won't watch any sequel. I didn't like AoT, but it was rather better than this. |
rsc-plJul 6, 2016 3:29 PM
| Dub = fake crap. Always. |
| that was really bad, i haven't watch code geass, but after watching this and guilty crown i'll make sure i'll never watch anything he write again!!!!!!! And fuck you mumei and your rice obsession! this and mayoiga are the worst!!! 4/10 |
| AoT v2 has ended. Damn No-name (mumei) has insane strength on throwing Ikoma to the tampoline! 5/5. 10/10. |
matias067Jul 6, 2016 8:59 PM
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| Well at least Kibito (and of course Yukina) didn't die. So alls well that ends well. |
millo said: that was really bad, i haven't watch code geass, but after watching this and guilty crown i'll make sure i'll never watch anything he write again!!!!!!! And fuck you mumei and your rice obsession! this and mayoiga are the worst!!! 4/10 Geass is totally different. It's not centered on 1 character. I hate battle shounens, mechas,and action series, but I liked Code Geass. |
| Dub = fake crap. Always. |
| Add me to the "Biba ruined it" train. *ahem* |
| I don't need no instructions to know how to rock! |
| I was doubting between scoring this 5 o 4, but seeing it's a 7.50 overrated I'm scoring it a 4, I don't think it's a good anime at all, the only good thing is the animation and the music, the characters were plain and cliche and the story a real meh |
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| This started so good, and ended so.. meh. Why did Biba even gave Ikoma the white blood? |
Apologies, I just can't avoid to rant. |
| Wait... I thought the princess dropped the suitcase on the train...?! How in the world did the samurai and that man have it at the beach and give the potion to Ikoma?! They fell off the train while the suitcase was still on it.. o.e And how in the world did they get from the beach to the Shogun capital so fast?! Lol this show was rushed af! Show has many plot holes, but only thing enjoyable and redeeming was the animation and music. But I guess somehow some parts of the show were still kinda enjoyable. My Final score: 6.5/10 |
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| expected more from the confrontation between biba and ikoma. When ikoma was to confront biba, i thought an epic final battle between kabaneris was about to occur and instead a tedious battle occurred. To top it of biba ended up saving ikoma *boring*. |
How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb --- Dr Strangelove  |
Snow_Leopard123 said: Nope, you just need to pay closer attention. Ayame dropped the suitcase OFF the train, it's shown falling with Kurusu and the scientist guy. So you can assume Kurusu won against the scientist, captured him, and picked up the suitcase before following the train. How did they get to Kongokaku so fast?Wait... I thought the princess dropped the suitcase on the train...?! How in the world did the samurai and that man have it at the beach and give the potion to Ikoma?! They fell off the train while the suitcase was still on it.. o.e And how in the world did they get from the beach to the Shogun capital so fast?! Lol this show was rushed af!  Last episode it showed they had one of the Hunters' motorcycles...you can assume there was one left behind or they stole it from someone before the Hunters left Iwato Station. |
Phoebe3315Jul 8, 2016 1:12 AM
| Great ending. I was convinced it will turn out pretty bad due to the rush but fortunately it played out the best possible way. I think that this deserved a 7. It had the right touches to be more than just a decent show. Had a good time with it. |
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| Not as bad I as I thought it would be. A solid 6/10. I have my fun and if there is a second season I will just happily skip that one. |
| Loved it. Loved Mumei, loved Ikoma, loved hating Biba. Biba was an ass, but damn if his plan to kill his dad wasn't perfect. 10/10, I have no complainst. Came for a wild ride, got a wild ride. |
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| Ikoma fighting style so boring even after power up. Just run into people and shoot his ugly gun. Luckily kurusu was there too. Overall disappointing where the story went and cliche villain, but I give the series a 7/10 still for good atmosphere, beautiful animation/music, kurusu/ayame, decent hype and a cool world. |
MugiwaraOP said: The anime was made first, so the manga really has very little influence (if any) on whether or not this gets a second season. It mostly depends on if Kabaneri makes WIT a decent amount of money, and if the creators want to make more.The ending was alright, I think more then 12 episodes would have been more ideal. That being said if the manga is still running is there a chance of a second season or is that it? |
| This series is Guilty Crown II. Except better because it only dragged us through 12 episodes of "what did I just watch." Basically the plot consists of: - Everyone being on a train and fighting zombehs - A guy showed up with daddy issues and wants to "free the world" by destroying cities and overrunning them with zombehs - We have zero freaking clue what the resolution is or what'll come afterward What a waste of an amazing first episode, decent premise, and stunning art. |
| Despite its many similarities with Attack on Titan, the premise was promising. The execution was not. And this isn't solely because of Biba's terribly cliche and intelligence-insulting character. The gross majority of the characters were incredibly generic and bland. They said and did things just for plot to happen and to evoke cheap emotions. How many people actually remember that Kajika is actually Kurusu's sister? Exactly. This was revealed in one of the earlier episodes and yet despite her brother being missing for how long the show completely forgets to include her in his reunion. She cares more about seeing Mumei and completely ignores her missing brother. I could go on and on but I'd just be reiterating things already mentioned so I'll close with something nobody on this forum has brought up yet. Despite the stupidity of this:  The absolute dumbest thing is the fact that this guy is not a Kabaneri.  Which means this was done by a regular human.  Fuck! Right! Off! This was supposed to be targeted at adults?! 6/10 over all. The aesthetics of the animation and gorgeous art style that's reminiscent of the 90s, and the OST are what carried this show. The westernised steampunk technology mixed with the Edo-period Japanese setting was also a treat. I also really enjoyed Ayame, Suzuki and Yukina's characters. Ikoma and Kurusu were generic in every way, while Biba served to be the tumour that buried any maturity this series hoped to present. I'm willing to forgive Mumei's actions, more so than most people here it seems. She's just a 12 year old girl indoctrinated at a young age after experiencing trauma. |
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| I liked not loved it. Goes for the whole series too. Wasn't a particularly great finale, everything progressed as expected. The sheer purity of our hero's wills and intentions triumphs over the impossible odds the plot has blandly stacked against it. But I liked this show's art style, I appreciated it's action scenes and in a broad way I liked the characters. The finale delivered on all those fronts, particularly Kurusu and Ikoma storming Biba's men was a visual spectacle if not a particularly engaging one. I was glad Mumei was OK, though correct me if I'm wrong that makes Takumi the only significant character on our heroes side who died correct? I liked Mumei she was cute, if a little static and annoying near the end. Her gleefully tossing Ikoma onto the blanket on top of the train was my favorite part of the episode. I liked a lot of the character's slight developments and I think the big happy escape from the town at the end where everyone comes together was the most effective part of the finale. The ending was a solid choice, felt good as a goodbye to the characters and leaves things open for future installments. I kind of enjoyed this show, it's steam punk aesthetic was really cool, it had good action scenes though of course zombies are played out, it didn't leave a serious impression but it honestly did very little I'd really complain about. All in all 7/10 liked it more than SNK. |
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| It was a fun ride. I was never bored. 8/10 |
| Lmao, that was one anti-climatic ending xD At least my ships sailed. AGAIN!!! w00t!! :'D XD Xd |
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| Love this ending! despite it being too forced and the plot armor was very strong there, still I like it. Overall it was a good ride, if there should be a second season then I'll definitely watch it. my rate 7/10. |
MoonStar9 said: How many people actually remember that Kajika is actually Kurusu's sister? Exactly. This was revealed in one of the earlier episodes and yet despite her brother being missing for how long the show completely forgets to include her in his reunion. She cares more about seeing Mumei and completely ignores her missing brother. I could go on and on but I'd just be reiterating things already mentioned so I'll close with something nobody on this forum has brought up yet. I also have thought that Kajika was Kurusu's sister. Kurusu is 17yo and Kajika is 15yo, so it was possible. In episode 3, she said: "A body mother gave you!". But in Japanese: "Okaasan ni moratta karada desho" can also mean "A body YOUR mother gave you". At this moment, we can't know if they are siblings. The answer is in the last episode: When Kajika uses the speaker, she says "Kurusu san". If he was her brother, she would have called him "Anisama", like Mumei with Biba. Conclusion: they are not related, so that's why Kajika doesn't care about him. |
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