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| Easily the worst ep of the series imo. Not completely worthless though, there are two great slow, full-body pans over Nadia during Jean's song... heh :D |
| It was bad, but I had a lot of fun watching this episode. I'm going to have to hunt down the dub for this. |
| This episode was filler in its purest forum, but I didn't hate it entirely. The last song and the scene before it were honestly pretty cute. Doesn't excuse what came before it though, obviously. |
| Now that Nadia lost his first love?! She is going for the reserve route huh? Jean should just ditch Nadia and make his own harem instead. |
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JTurner said: I warned you NOT to sit through these island/Africa episodes. Then your perception of Nadia wouldn't be so badly effected. This whole Africa storyline was not supposed to be in the show. Period. It had no business being in there, it was not intended to be in the story, and it has no place in the continuity. You're supposed to skip it. Even Gainax wants to forget these 12 half-hours ever occurred, except episode 31. Wow you muss be really loving this show XD after posting comments to all the episode and coming back like this! But like I said in the final ep, I was just curious and skipped most of the boring parts :) But why they are doing such a bad filler if they want to milk more money of it? They are just doing the opposite IMO. Ok maybe they did a regretfully bad decision and couldn't cancel it. |
CCL_SamaMay 6, 2014 2:56 PM
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| Stupid episode. I wonder if this boosted the sales though. |
| added the fourth most popular anime onto this site |
| Anno is out to piss me off, I can feel it. Why the hell is Miyazaki friends with that fuckwad? He can't direct for shit. He doesn't know how to manage the budget for an animation at all. Because if these filler episodes were meant to save up the last remaining amount of money on the last few episodes, then shit, DON'T make it a 39-episode weeb toon. I don't even care anymore. I spoke too soon when I said it was classic adventure goodness. DAT SHIT LONG GONE |
zetsu_shoren said: Anno is out to piss me off, I can feel it. Why the hell is Miyazaki friends with that fuckwad? He can't direct for shit. He doesn't know how to manage the budget for an animation at all. Because if these filler episodes were meant to save up the last remaining amount of money on the last few episodes, then shit, DON'T make it a 39-episode weeb toon. I don't even care anymore. I spoke too soon when I said it was classic adventure goodness. DAT SHIT LONG GONE anno did not direct the filler episodes ( 23 to 34 ) , it was Shinji Higuchi |
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| The fact that they spent the whole episode singing makes it one of the better recent episodes. The songs were fun, and I had a good laugh during the Nadia song (Oh my god). And it's a good way to end the fillers after those dreadful Africa episodes. I didn't mind the Lincoln Island arc as the characters were still acting in-character, and Nadia and Jean were closer than ever before. They were quite silly, but it fit the tone of the show. Previous two episodes just took a complete dump on Nadia as a character, and made her the most unlikable character ever. Hopefully they leave it behind next episode, so we can forget the Africa blunder as well. |
 "Your sight, my delight. Will you marry me?" |
| What a disappointment... To think I was expecting this one more than any other episode during this rewatch. (it was the only one I never saw before, thanks to the french version skipping it in order to avoid songs localization) I can't believe Sagisu delivered such bad / ground-level song tracks after Orange Road (nothing against an image album promotion filling the airtime, if it was at least good). 1/5 Even Nadia's ones were not pleasant to hear! CCL_Sama said: Jean should just ditch Nadia and make his own harem instead. With? Glandis? (since Marie is basically already "owned" by Sanson) |
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Lease_of_LifeOct 19, 2017 12:48 AM
| "I will become his world and will make him my world" - You really should know who said this. "Firing at unarmed citizens is a feat that those without courage and a chivalrous spirit simply cannot accomplish." - Oskar von Reuenthal "No way Spirited Away is better than Akira. NO WAY." - Kanye West |
| As incredibly, terribad this episode is, i had a hell of a laugh with Jean's song. And as someone who has the OST's from back in the day, I always thought Nadia's seeiyu had a pretty good voice. |
FarabeufDec 16, 2017 2:28 AM
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| Just when you think an episode is the worst in the series, the next one does the unthinkable and is even worse. This has been the pattern in Nadia for way, way too long. |
| I was warned that it would get bad, but not this bad! NOT THIS BAD! Am I even watching the same series even? Gainax did it again guys they blew it to pieces in the end... |
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| lowkey recap in the form of music videos. nice. |
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| I managed to sit through all the filler episodes, what a tremendous accomplishment. Now, afaik, the rest of the episodes are supposed to be really good because Anno returned to direct them, amiright? As for this one, it's terrible (and Jean's song is cringey as hell), but at least they didn't butcher the show more and just showed me some moments from episodes that were actually good :D So this episode was kinda like a huge AMV. I still can't fully conceive just how abysmal these 12 episodes were (well, maybe 30 and 31 were not, for the most part). The fact that the entire existence of Nautilus was completely forgotten in these 12 episodes is just beyond my comprehension. I know have a firm standard of what bad anime looks like. By the way, what is "The Nautilus Story" everyone is mentioning there? |
St0rmbladeSep 8, 2019 1:30 PM
| Well this is the last of the filler episodes so that is reason enough to celebrate :D not the episode though it was not good XD but after those last two episodes I will take it! So we get a music themed episode which kinda comes off as an extra that would be included on the home media release as a bonus feature you know where they just replay clips while the various cast members sing over the footage. LOL I agree with others here I am glad the footage they are showing are mostly from the actually good episodes! So this would probably be better as a special then an actual episode but considering the episodes we have gotten so far this "creative" choice does not shock me anymore. The songs were okay REALLY OKAY I can tell the Japanese VAs are trying their best in their performances and they do have pretty nice singing voices but a lot of the lyrics are pretty cringe in several areas and we get some more of that quality cringe "comedy" especially in Jean's song to Nadia in fact Nadia sums up the episode pretty nicely with saying: that was awful. Yeah and it dawns on me what is this even meant to do? Just relay information we know in music form just seems pointless. But, like I said this is the last of the fillers I served my time with these infamous episodes and survived it :D and I could not be happier to wash my hands of this garbage and get back to the better quality content in the finale episodes ^-^ |
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Unlike the other island episodes, this episode wasn't even ok as background noise. -1/5 |
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| The Grandis gang breaking into song may have been a nice throwback, but a song for every main character? wtf was that Jean |
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| Anybody noticed Jean's anachronistic Ghettoblaster having 'GAINAX' written on it? |
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| I thought the music was decent |
| Nothing better than some AMV's to clear the bad taste of the previous two episodes. It even made me laugh. Besides the last 2 Episodes and some outliers, most of the filler was OK, not the worst thing ever but inferior to the first half. |
KitzoonMar 13, 2024 9:59 PM
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@AzafuseKingTora Its always amazing to me when people slop through absolute dogshit and leave comments like "That wasn't my favourite thing ever but its still a 6.5/10". I get that everyone has different standards but if I cared that little about the quality of the stuff I watched I would have no idea why I was even watching anime in the first place. This Nadia filler is some of the most rancid crap excuse of anime I've ever watched but yeah "not as good as the first half" definitely just about covers that description. Jesus..
| @LotteGiants Thing is, I've seen worse Anime. I agree with most of the criticisms people have about these episodes, like Nadia being a bitch, haulting the story completely with barely anything happening and the Hanna-Barbera antics being out of place... but again... I've seen worse Anime. There's some decent stuff sprinkled in, like Nadia learning to trust more, that cute moment with Marie's encyclopedia, that romantic moment with the telescope (even if it's followed shortly after by one of the worst moments in the arc), learning why Nadia became adverse to killing in the first place, the arc becoming more bareable once Grandis and her gang got involved, the mysterious island's weirdness evoking old sailor myths (Even if it could've been executed much better) )and actually getting quite good near the end when Nadia and Jean explore the Red Noah and it takes off. The only part I fully agree with you on being truly shit is the African Village stuff. This being said, even accounting for the circumstances these were made in, they should've taken the show in a way more interesting direction instead, a direction we only got possible glimpses of in the various games that were made. But judging what we got for what it is, I'd give this arc a 5/10, because it has just enough redeeming qualities to not be a 4.5/10. Keep in mind, I hate skipping episodes that aren't recaps, as fillery as they might be, because I feel that would muddle the criteria, I feel that a show wouldn't deserve such a high praise, if I had to skip a third of it. My general rating for Nadia is a 7.5/10, only thing preventing me from rating this show a 8 or even an 8.5 are these episodes. Having a couple good/bad moments, having a good/bad character or having a good-bad arc can influence my ratings. |
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@AzafuseKingTora I know there is worse anime out there but I have enough sense and respect my own time enough to not wind up watching the wholly irredeemable shit. Regardless, the contrast of quality between the better parts of this show and this filler should shock the senses of anyone who is paying any normal degree of attention an adult can summon to the show. Like I said, it blows my mind when people engage with objective dogshit like this filler and it gets an almost passing grade from them. I'm not trying to convince you or anyone of anything but when I see that I just think those people have absolutely no taste and I would gain nothing from their opinions, positive or negative, because their senses are so dull.
| @LotteGiants I mostly agree, but there's a spectrum of how bad things can be. Me saying that these episodes weren't THAT bad doesn't mean I liked them. I still think they're bad. but like I said, there's just enough good moments to keep it from being completely irredeemable. Doesn't change the fact they're bad. |
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Sayoko said: The last song and the scene before it were honestly pretty cute. Richard_Marple said: The songs are OK as far as image songs go. JTurner said: I also mentioned above that this episode ended up the way it was because NHK wanted to make it a commercial for then upcoming character song CDs. ZetaZaku said: The songs were fun, and I had a good laugh during the Nadia song (Oh my god). Rei_III said: I can't believe Sagisu delivered such bad / ground-level song tracks after Orange Road (nothing against an image album promotion filling the airtime, if it was at least good). 1/5 Even Nadia's ones were not pleasant to hear! Farabeuf said: i had a hell of a laugh with Jean's song. And as someone who has the OST's from back in the day, I always thought Nadia's seeiyu had a pretty good voice. St0rmblade said: As for this one, it's terrible (and Jean's song is cringey as hell), but at least they didn't butcher the show more and just showed me some moments from episodes that were actually good :D So this episode was kinda like a huge AMV. TheCrimsonEye said: The songs were okay REALLY OKAY I can tell the Japanese VAs are trying their best in their performances and they do have pretty nice singing voices but a lot of the lyrics are pretty cringe in several areas and we get some more of that quality cringe "comedy" especially in Jean's song to Nadia in fact Nadia sums up the episode pretty nicely with saying: that was awful. Yeah and it dawns on me what is this even meant to do? Just relay information we know in music form just seems pointless. Fortress_Maximus said: The Grandis gang breaking into song may have been a nice throwback, but a song for every main character? wtf was that Jean Kiirabu197 said: Don't even get me started on the singing recaps. I do wanna mention though (watching the German dub): Marie's song is so wacky that it's good. The others were quite forgettable. And Jean's... hard to believe it wasn't satire about the whole filler arc. I can't believe all of this makes a 25 minute episode but here we are. Crack said: I thought the music was decent AzafuseKingTora said: Nothing better than some AMV's to clear the bad taste of the previous two episodes. It even made me laugh. Those of you saying you liked the songs, I don't understand you... The songs were just in bad taste and very plain, hollow, uninspiring, trivial, soulless and yes, cringey at times Griffith97 said: I'm quoting what "raduccio" a user from episode 33 said since this trash finished now. http://myanimelist.net/forum/?goto=post&topicid=11340&id=72701278 |
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