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Insertanamehere said: gophercg said: Who's that zoning out in the torture chamber (Marie?), that Shirou saw then just ignore? 2.dont remember but probably kasumi? Rusalka was the one there. |
| There is no sanity here, we are madmen engaging in usless folly. |
Whoahoho said: Wtf, just like that, they ended it with a cliffhanger??????? What you are talking about. There is still episode 12 to 17 https://myanimelist.net/anime/36515/Dies_Irae_ONA Episode 12 to 17 won't air on TV, only on web stream. Thats why MAL put in a separate page |
| Dies Irae itself is a work that translate very poorly to animation, almost as bad as Fate. DI's greatest strength is Masada's prose (which Gare and Conjueror translated very well into the English language), the fight scenes in the VN are stylish as fuck, both in writing and scene directing (the final fight of Marie's route is Chuuni gold). That and the characters are the greatest part of the VN, everything else is fairly mediocre (romance, plot, mystery), and the writer is aware of it. (Slight endgame Marie route spoiler) This little segment pretty much encompasses DI's greatest strengths as a whole: |
OSFrogDec 25, 2017 10:55 PM
| I watched all of this series and I'm still confused what even happened. Then again from my knowledge this is a VN so... Time to find the visual novel! |
| Some dreadful adaption, I got to say. I haven’t tried out the Visual Novel but I have heard great things about it, and quite frankly after watching this show, I’m having second thoughts. I know this is not the end of the show, but I just can’t see how the remaining ONA episodes will be able to make such a big difference and become awesome all of a sudden. Almost everything, literally, about this show seemed off. Storytelling, to make things worse, was definitely head over the heels the worst aspect of this show. I’m aware that Episode 0 was meant for those who have already tried out the Visual Novel, so no comments there. However, Episode 1 and the whole series(first cour rather) in general was just as confusing and out of the place for first time viewers, such as I, as Episode 0. Quite rhetorical, but it certainly was like that for me. Even after watching Episode 12 just moments ago, I can’t even distinguish between the protagonist and the antagonists. It just feels like Ren and his two childhood friends v Lord Heydrich with the others still wandering between the two sides. Moving on, the Characters of this show, albeit having complex names that I’m having trouble remembering, are all displayed in a messy manner. For instance, in Episode 12, the villain fighting Shirou got this awkward flashback and what’s up with the “my sister and mother”? Was she like raped by her father or something? Given this show’s insanity, I wouldn’t be surprised of that actually were to be the case. Lol, I still have no idea who Theresia is though. So many implications were made regarding her but I just can’t seem to get my head around it. Probably because I already lost interest in this show earlier but who knows. There are so many more things that I can still think of, but a little too many for my convenience. As such, - Storyline/Plot Developments: 3/10 - Characterization/Character Development: 4/10 - Art/Animation: 7/10 Decent at this Department. Could have been a lot better had the fighting sequences and choreography done better. - Sound Department: 9/10 Brilliant at this Department, so a good thing to keep you engaged to the show. - Personal Enjoyment: 5/10 I won’t lie, I was quite interested in the first few episodes but once the pacing of the show and the Storyline warped in multiple dimensions at whatsoever, my Enjoyment Scale wavered and confusion took over. -> Overall: Barely a 5/10 at best. I hope the ONAs will do wonders, but expectations for it are rather low. In other words, hoping for a Baccano!-like finale. |
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| Can't say I understood why Shirou randomly popped out of Rusalka's stomach but can't say I understood much in this series. And who was the girl Bey saw before dying? dafuq. Well, hey, this was clearly made for the VN readers and that's perfectly fine I guess. Hopefully they enjoyed the adaptation but I'm seeing otherwise in this thread here. |
| ...was that the season finale?... Well I can safely say I WON'T BE COMING BACK FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF THIS. Maybe I'll go read the visual novel, seems like a good amount of people here agree that this was a horrible adaption of a pretty good VN. |
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| This show started by making no sense, and it ends making even less sense. Sorry but this was a 1/10. |
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| That was a messed up ending for sure and it made no sense in story wise. The season ended with Shirou as the main point, what was up with that I'm confused and why did it end with him. I have to agree the action was there in this one but plot wise, damn did it suck so bad. Next thing they here and then the next, whoever made sense of this must be an alien. The story was all over the place like a madman, sheesh and the characters were all forgettable except some baddies like that burned face woman and of course the villain Reinhard. If you had to tell someone what this was about, I would laugh and drink a hard one. 6/10 for the senseless action and basically help boost this sorry excuse of an anime. |
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Mormegil said: Well, hey, this was clearly made for the VN readers and that's perfectly fine I guess. lol no unless it was made to piss them off |
| Totally garbage. I'm thinking the post production has been on a rush to do that, it's not even finished. There's no clue of what Ren is supposed to do,all we see is an unfinished scene with Shiro walking away, just what. |
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| It was so confusing... I think, it's the worst anime of the season. The VN story seems interesting, but with this adaptation I didn't understand what happened and what was the main topic of the story. And the scenes with the skulls are weird. At least, the opening song was nice :) |
| One of the poorest anime adaptations of a source material that I have seen all in all. |
Mormegil said: Can't say I understood why Shirou randomly popped out of Rusalka's stomach but can't say I understood much in this series. And who was the girl Bey saw before dying? dafuq. Well, hey, this was clearly made for the VN readers and that's perfectly fine I guess. Hopefully they enjoyed the adaptation but I'm seeing otherwise in this thread here. Shirou allowed himself willingly to be absorbed by Rusalka shadow few episodes ago, so he can go inside her magic crest and from there on take control of her Holy Relic and take it for himself, normally this chance of this happening is close to zero of course but like explained in this episode, Shirou has the deja vu which is ability that always shapes up the situation to one where he survive so he was sure he will make it, also he and Rusalka were very special case and she was the only one who he could steal her HR, if he was absorbed by anyone else he would be stuck there even if he survived so he just got lucky in this route "yes he fucks up in other routes" |
Devil_SlayerMay 1, 2018 7:04 AM
| Didn't start watching it butt Guess it will drop in my buck list of anime dat need a remake Alongside air(20-24ep) umineko(dunno 200 ep at least maybe ) rewrite (24 eps for each season )and charlott (24 eps) |
| Most underated anime on mal: https://myanimelist.net/anime/4651/Yume_no_Crayon_Oukoku?q=Yume%20ni%20crayon |
| Other than confusing, I can't think of any other word to describe this 'hot mess' of an anime. |
| That Schreiber guy is a psycho, lol. Well, this episode summarizes everything I associate with this anime: cringefest, chaotic plot, okay but bizarre fights, giant skeleton, kawaii female characters, gore scenes, I was entertained little bit though, despite its cons. I will watch this anime's continuation, just to see more fighting sequences. They were the strongest feature of "Dies Irae". I haven't read VN, but I feel like this anime was had a huge potential that was not used even in 50%. Too bad, it had a chance to be really good show. |
| Whelp, after 11 episodes, I still have no clue what’s going on. At least it looked good with decent music. |
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