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| About damn time they figured out who the Puppeter really is. They pushed to be the Big Bad of the season after all. We got a climatic fight for the season finale for the sake of the world. It was kinda epic in the sense with the stakes although I wish I could care about the Puppeter. A mixed show imo. I do think Naomi and Rouge's relationship is a highlight of the season though. |
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| The truth is finally revealed: the Puppetmaster is Roy Junghardt, Rouge's biological father, and the progenitor of all Neans, which Silvia refuses to believe that he's real in the flesh, which Hell Giallon is supposed to have killed him, but did not do so. And the entirety of the plot revealed of the Immortal Nine as his puppets to see if Neans can surpass humans, everything was all controlled by him, even following with Rouge's mother of Eva alongside her brother Gene but treated them like toys. Even with Roy being forcefully taken down by Silvia, his soul transferred to Cyan to continue his job as the Puppetmaster, the Neans' world is at danger. not if Rouge stops Roy in Cyan's consciousness. With Naomi's id in Rouge, there is still hope that they'll be able to disarm Roy in Cyan by focusing all of the power on Rouge's phase to take out Roy, even if Rouge has to eliminate Cyan in the process. There's just no hope left for the world of Neans, and with Naomi's id input into Code Eve, the Usurpers begin their real intent of using Neans as their Junoid army against humanity, but that Gene had a contingency plan to stop with an antivirus program to rewrite Neans as the way as it should be. What a rushed finale, it's clear that the plot is really big, but the producers got the short end of the stick of the show being only a season long instead of a 2-cour. Bones, you got EVERYTHING WRONG with your anniversary shows. 2019's Carole & Tuesday is one, but Metallic Rouge is one to follow also in this regard, made by people who just don't get people for BIG brains. |
KANLen09Apr 4, 6:53 AM
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| this final ep was a letdown. metallic rouge? more like rusty crimson. |
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| I feel like this should have had 24 episodes instead of 13 but oh well, all in all a discreet original anime. |
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| Half baked writing, especially the characters story lack of depth ultimately the downfall of this series. Why should one care about a complex plot when the characters aren’t interesting to watch.  |
| Eyyy, deus ex machina lol The ending is cool, but all Neans having free will now will definitely lead to a lot of chaos... 7/10 This was pretty okay. The fights were super pretty, but the story was eh. Also this definitely flows much better if binged, rather than watched weekly. |
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Yaoi4U said: @Kast2 Yutaka Izubuchi had said in interviews that he wanted this to be longer but the episode length got cut in half. So blame Studio Bones for deciding this way, I can understand that you can't put in who knows how many resources, but if you make an original project especially to celebrate the anniversary of the company (at least I read that to be the case), at least do it well. |
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| I will try my luck with Kurau Phantom Memory instead. I didn't this show, but I wanted to like it more :S |
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| It's not that I hated the show, but it was completely uninteresting. "No one knows what happens next..." - more like, no one cares. |
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| Pretty big let down for what was supposed to be a 25th anniversary project |
| Pretty meh finale it was hard to follow the story most of the time and it could really have benefited from being 24 episodes and not 13. |
| I thought it was under rated. I give it a 9 for personal enjoyment but realistically it's a 6-7 due to the production issues. Still hope to buy it on Blu Ray, some day. It's way better in binge form (and yeah, a confusing mess to watch once a week.) |
| I really enjoyed this anime, and the final episode was a satisfying conclusion. All of the mysteries got wrapped up, and the fight between Rouge and Roy was great. Like many others have said, I feel that this would have benefited from more episodes. The story did feel rushed at some times, and I will admit that this final episode was mostly an info dump because there wasn't enough time to tell the story at a proper speed. Overall I loved the themes and characters a lot. |
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| Usurpers have a secret master plan on top of Dr. Roy, 30 seconds later, nah Gene made an anti-virus and now all the neans are free. The End. What shit writing |
ChickenDanApr 3, 12:37 PM
| Music and animation good, the other things were bad. Sorry Bones :/ 4/10 |
| “Do what feels right in your heart. You will be criticized either way.” (Eleanor Roosevelt) |
| Judging by the fact that the winged skin from the opening never happened, it feels like it was planned for 24 episodes, but something went wrong along the way. It's sad, maybe with 24 episodes here there would have been a properly developed story, rather than just bouncing around plot points without any proper connection between them. |
| Okay yeah, figures, the show probably just didn't have enough time at all to land and it can be felt across the entire run, especially in the conclusion here. A pity since the main duo and the production values were excellent. Going to have to settle with a 5/10 here. |
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| One of the worst, if not the worst anime I've ever seen. Everything but the ost and op/end is absolutely trash. The story was so over the place and if that wasn't enough the characters are sooo generic and dull. Therefore this gets a solid 3/10. |
| Okay ngl they got me with the Usurper part, thought they'd drag it to make a movie instead of finishing things here. Glad it's not the case as I couldn't bother to watch more of this. Good job Gene. Typical mc getting power up to beat the villain and somehow they made the new form worse, her base form looked better. Naomi and Rouge became one which wasn't surprising. So they ended up like Aes and Alice with dual personality. RIP Silvia and Cyan. So they set free the Neans in the end after all, the most obvious open ending with the future uncertain. I had really high expectations of this and this was the biggest disappointment of winter. Idk how they threw in so many cool concepts and made into the bland mess it was. Atleast it wasn't completely unwatachable due to it having some good action at times and good ost. |
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| First episode started off promising. But man it fell off. |
| While the storyline was confusing and messy at times I think I got the jist of it but unfortunately, as others have said, this needed more episodes to flesh out the storyline better. Regardless, I still mostly enjoyed watching this and the ending with Naomi and Rouge combining into one body with Cyan rejecting Roy in her body and indirectly helping Naomi and Rouge out was well done. Although the bit at the end with an antivirus conveniently being made as the neans were infected was odd to say the least, that was definitely rushed. 7/10 |
| Hahah, the ending is literally just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 'IDFK figure our what happens next yourself!" - Yua Serufu style |
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Reply to Embient
Eyyy, deus ex machina lol
The ending is cool, but all Neans having free will now will definitely lead to a lot of chaos...
7/10
This was pretty okay. The fights were super pretty, but the story was eh.
Also this definitely flows much better if binged, rather than watched weekly.
The ending is cool, but all Neans having free will now will definitely lead to a lot of chaos...
7/10
This was pretty okay. The fights were super pretty, but the story was eh.
Also this definitely flows much better if binged, rather than watched weekly.
| @Embient Could not have said it any better, the battle-sakuga and the battle suit designs could only take this show so far. Really should've had more fun with itself than it did. |
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| This finale was... a bit rushed and poor explained (like all the season has been). I really liked the courage of the productor / writters for putting SO MANY PLOT TWISTS in a single show of 13 episodes. Each episode was like all our knowledge of the plot, world building, characters and developing were crushed and rebuild ever single time. The final merge of Rouge and Naomi is brilliant and WTF in same intensity, but i like the result of they sharing the body and mind, but not the soul and personality. The bird become the Naomi "external voice" is a reasonable way of not erased the character from the show's world. The final antagonist was one character who we previously knew almost nothing, so it was a decent way to insert an villain who will die in the same episode. in resume: is a decent Original show (but Buddy Daddies of Winter season's last year was waaaaaay better than Mettalic Rouge) |
| It had so much potential, and it went down the drain. The writing is just not that great. It was rushed, and it really did the show dirty. The visuals and music are still great, but I really wish the writing was better. |
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Reply to Yaoi4U
@Kast2 Yutaka Izubuchi had said in interviews that he wanted this to be longer but the episode length got cut in half.
Yaoi4U said: Yutaka Izubuchi had said in interviews that he wanted this to be longer but the episode length got cut in half. Then re-work the story to fit into the new episode count, Bones! :( Can you tell me what exactly might have happened here? Is it common for the episode count to be changed/finalized mid-production? I assumed the number of episodes is already decided at the time a production is greenlit, and a budget is set according to the episode count. Why couldn't they fix up the story so that it flows better and some of the clutter is removed? Is this the end result of that process? I don't think they've done a good job of it then, because this still ended up feeling overstuffed and disjointed. The finale managed to wrap it up better than I expected, but the anime as a whole was a major disappointment. |
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Yaoi4U said:
Yutaka Izubuchi had said in interviews that he wanted this to be longer but the episode length got cut in half.
Yutaka Izubuchi had said in interviews that he wanted this to be longer but the episode length got cut in half.
Then re-work the story to fit into the new episode count, Bones! :(
Can you tell me what exactly might have happened here? Is it common for the episode count to be changed/finalized mid-production? I assumed the number of episodes is already decided at the time a production is greenlit, and a budget is set according to the episode count.
Why couldn't they fix up the story so that it flows better and some of the clutter is removed? Is this the end result of that process? I don't think they've done a good job of it then, because this still ended up feeling overstuffed and disjointed.
The finale managed to wrap it up better than I expected, but the anime as a whole was a major disappointment.
perseii said: Why couldn't they fix up the story so that it flows better and some of the clutter is removed? I don't know if you have ever tried writing, but you can't just write one on a wimp. It's a long process, and fundamentally changing the entire plot would take a very long time. It's not something you can do half way through production, and is about as much of a headache as having to redo animation. That obviously doesn't apply to every story, but this one clearly has a well thought out world, interconnected plot lines, and many different characters with different motivations, fundamentally changing it would be extremely difficult and time consuming. |
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| A rushed convoluted ending with quick deaths, shallow characters, a makeshift wrap up ending......what had a lot of promise just became a microwaved mess. 5/10 |
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