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| Read a bit of the comments in the other pages. Man. People were NOT happy about this anime. However I think it was really close to being a masterpiece. Might pick up the manga. 9/10 |
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| im actually pretty surpriced how positive people see this nime . i think its hart to rate because it has many really good aspects ( mostly from the source ) but it also makes a lot of changes that lead to innumerable plotholes and plot lines that dont go anywhere yet nobody mentions that . there are also many aspects that really come out of nowhere and seem really weird . kokopelli not saving his child because ? just to show KyuuBear that he was wrong ? Ushiro taking a nap when given the perfect opportunity to end the battle because ?? why did the other robot stop to beginn with ? there are also so many questions unanswered. im not done with the manga yet but so far all of the many scenes that have issues like that in the anime are resolved in other ways in the manga . so idk . i feel very mixed on this . its a good story . but the anime isnt a good adaptations of the story. even so i cant really rate it poorly becuse it did many things well . im just gonna end up saying its okay but not weird |
| A flawed masterpiece. I would give it a 10 but people say manga is better, so 9/10 for now and I'll leave the final decision for later. |
| This was really good. However, they had hinted at the existence of some masterminds, so they were supposed to build on that. Yet, they did nothing with it, which was kind of dissatisfying. As a result, the anime ended up looking like it's a slice of life about kids dying. I wanted to give it an 8/10, but I gave it a 7/10. This was still very good. I looked up the story, and it seems the anime ended before the manga, and has an original ending. |
| It does feel like a bit of a cop out, that ending. Many questions left unanswered. Though I don't really seem to care, I guess it's how take such an ending in stride. A good character driven story and one of the few mecha anime I really enjoyed. Brilliant twist half way through the anime. 8/10. |
| well... it was a 10 for me, and i thought it'd stay a 10 (i'll put it as a 9 now) i'd say 7/10ths of the anime was a masterpiece, i really liked it. but as it approached the end, it started giving me dissatisfaction and i wouldn't say the ending is "good". it's "enough" but if it was me, i would have wanted a different ending. exploring the whole system after ushiro won, something more grand, with the people from another planet (the glowing whatever council) or the black koemushi type of creature discussing what happened in the case with zearth, an insinuation of what will happen next or foreshadowing since now we know that this is more than just robots fighting other alien robots, dead pilots' family closures (only daichi's and jun's?), government crap... i don't know. the open ending wasn't moving at all. i'd have to read bokurano, since a director disliking the source material and altering it in the adaptation is never brilliant news to me. not that i am not aware that it happens and sometimes for the better, but still... strange. i did unintentionally spoil myself and ushiro's role in the manga, while just as important, is excitingly much different. anyways, it ended with all of the kids dying and kana living without signing the contract per the original ambition. best deaths go to daichi, kirie, takami, and maki. daichi = clean and valiant. kirie = BAMF, expert, went out with a bang. takami = prayer beam. maki = opened up the cockpit. |
| Picked up Bokurano after listening to the Trash Taste podcast. Glad I did. It was a mature and painfull series to watch sometimes. I could only watch 1 episode each day. Overall, I liked it even though we do not get all the answers. Just wondering if the ending assumes Kana did win her fight or did she not fight at all? 8/10 |
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jetsetgo said: Admiral_Carapils said: Picked up Bokurano after listening to the Trash Taste podcast. Glad I did. It was a mature and painfull series to watch sometimes. I could only watch 1 episode each day. Overall, I liked it even though we do not get all the answers. Just wondering if the ending assumes Kana did win her fight or did she not fight at all? 8/10 For the anime, Kana doesn’t fight. After Jun’s fight, Zearth falling to pieces shows that it’s fights are over and this version of Earth is safe. Kana is shown in the epilogue which is supposed to take place a couple years after the last battle. There’s large deviations from the manga including the ending and the fate of some characters. I don’t want to spoil it, so you can search out the manga if you like. Thanks for the reply! I looked up the manga and indeed there are a lot of differences. I Feel the manga is even more sci-fi. |
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| It was like a 7 to me, besides the unaswered questions, It always bothered me that the series take the time to tell each kids back story and show their families and at the end they always just changed the page because we have to kill the next kid and we never see any of those peolple again. I don't know it felt kind of uncompleted and detached to the story. I liked that in the final chapter kana meet daiichi's brothers and they have to accept their deaths but for almost every other character there was nothing. |
| That was a lame ending for a promising show.. All that political scheming and teasing of some benefectors of the multiverse and it amounted to nothing. Kinda funny how they just stopped wearing the uniforms halfway through as well, shows how little the story actually cares about past characters. |
| "This emotion is mine alone. It is for Madoka alone." - Homura or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. |
| Although we didn't get any real answers at the end on the masterminds or really saw the aftermath of their death more (although I honestly only cared for a few of them), quite the interesting psychological premise on multiverse mecha fight to the death and showcase of the children's struggles. |
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| An okay anime. The episodic backstories were generally pretty interesting, as were the unique gimmicks of each mecha that was fought. The revelations and plot twists felt like reasonable explanations for questions the viewer could be asking about the narrative behind everything, and Koyemshi was a charismatic presence. On the other hand, shallow characterisation and interactions, along with expanding universe that had no real implications meant that it failed to emotionally invest me at all. It escalated the story with increasing involvement of third parties in the second half, but they ended up being tantamount to screentime fodder. The mecha fights were also hilariously one-sided, and devoid of any tension or risk due to the Zearth being vastly more powerful than any of the mechs it fought. Even if it did manage to get a limb destroyed, it would be right back by the time the next episode rolled around. The soundtrack and animation were barely memorable either, with the visuals in particular being dated even for the year it was released. |
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| I told myself that I wouldn't cry for the last episode but seeing how much Jun grew by watching the other children really got me. The fact that these 15 children plus Tanaka died for a game that we would never know who is behind its existence is a bit bittersweet. Even if some of them acted irrationally (not all of them but a few to be specific), in the end, they were children who were still growing and learning about life. It was lovely to see Kana reunite with Daichi's siblings, and I'm glad that she's there to share the truth of what they have experienced. |
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