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I laughed. Excellent usage of that scene. |
| I didn't want Swindler to die ngl, but her death and how she planned all was so perfectly done with her "akudama character" it really was a good dead I guess. Loved to see the last 2 akudama dying with a smile on the face and Swindler calling herself an S Akudama. It had some plot holes, since the world was pretty huge, but like I can't care less about the world building when they don't even try focusing on that. JiangHaoyi1979 said: Don't know if you remember, but when hacker died he left "a mark" on Swindler's phone, she only recorded on live her death, the hacking to the whole city was made by hacker's mark. So how the hell was Ordinary Person able to hack her way to the Kansai channels when she doesn't any hacking skills. So, in the end them offering just escape to that place were it was nothing more than a wasteland..... Mod Edit: Merged duplicated posts; please use the edit button. |
anime-primeJan 1, 2021 1:58 AM
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| thank you for the akame ga kill ptsd again |
| That was...some serious shit. I feel like this could have went the distance for another episode for a proper epilogue or something but...it was definitely one of the more interesting originals I've seen in a while. |
| Don't believe the hype. |
| Shoulda seen that coming considering Danganronpa. Bruh moment |
| I'm going to miss this show. One of my favorites this season. |
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| This ending kind of mirrored the ending of Stranger: Mukou Hadan (aka Sword of the Stranger). Visual-gasms aside I liked how this ordinary girl in very short time became the mask she wore - The Swindler. Yeah and the world of the show was dark (besides being literally luminous) and interesting. |
alshuDec 25, 2020 3:33 AM
| I wonder if I’ll even remember about this show when that extra 5 minutes of this episode is released with the BD, hopefully I do because I’m really curious what’s in it |
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| the ending is awesome !! but kinda sad at the same time ... 9/10 |
snowykevin said: In the official website they said it will include scenes for the executioners side.I wonder if I’ll even remember about this show when that extra 5 minutes of this episode is released with the BD, hopefully I do because I’m really curious what’s in it |
iago_cf01 said: Z4K said: This entire episode is masterpiece. Courier's last ride and Swindler's last one big swindle was amazing. Besides a few hiccups in the second half, this was Anime of the year for me. 9/10 Go ahead and name one seasonal show from this year that did what Akudama did but better. Decadence for example Great show but they don't even have the same themes. Unrelated but in terms of enjoyment, Decadence was weaker in the second half. |
| The plot is not really that unique or special but, it was still good. The rest was fucking amazing though, especially the characters, which I think is the strongest asset of the show. Cool that they left an open ending but, I honestly want to know what the hell happened with the world after that. R.I.P. Swindler and Courier, I love that Swindler also had her sick ass intro when she finally accepted being Swindler. And Courier went out with a bang, they died but they succeeded in their goal, which is to free Brother and Sister. What happened after I guess is all up to our imagination now. This show was a wild ride. 9/10 |
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krukrooo said: Second half of the anime was way weaker than the first half. Still a good watch though, but I feel the show had so much more potential than this ending. 7/10 Yep. First 7 eps were great. last 5 eps were a clusterfuck of rushing |
| Why are a lot of people shitting on this anime? I thought it was super cool and the symbolism of being a martyr with the cross was a really nicely done. |
| First few episodes were nice, got a bit worried in the middle and although the ending seemed a bit rushed, it was also fresh, and perhaps the best anime this season for me. Kosmonaut said: Yes, I always knew Christ was, in fact, an ordinary anime girl. Today/tomorrow is about the birth, not the death of Swindler, silly japanese people. It's supposed to be symbolic, I thought that was obvious enough. |
| Damn, in the end all Akudama die, I expected that! But fortunately the brothers and sisters survived |
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| Why people complaining? This was a great anime and a great finale. RIP Swindler and Courier. |
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| Satisfying ending in that bittersweet way. Figured Swindler and Courier would both die at the end as well and they sacrificed themselves in epic fashion. I have to assume that Brother and Sister walking into the light at the end means happiness for them which is well deserved. Will give this show a solid 8/10, stuck the landing. Hopefully Kansai can learn from this and not give a group such power again like the Executioners had. Can only hope the surviving members can learn as well. I think that one eyed apprentice girl survived, needs to learn to live for herself and for a better ideal... |
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| Godaamn, what a finale. It wasn't perfect but damn did I had fun with it all the way through. One of the rare 'turn your brain off' type of anime that actually worked out really well for me. Of course, now that it's liked and popular enough the most popular reviews are all negative af. Sasuga MAL. 8.5/10 |
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| Didn't expect Swindler to die, to be honest. This was an extremely fun ride, really-really entertaining show! |
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| The anime has ended, but I am still thinking if that executioner pupil ever realizes that Courier is a feminist to her. |
HikariShoumeiron said: Didn't expect Swindler to die, to be honest. This was an extremely fun ride, really-really entertaining show! Yeah man, I can't believe I was going to pass on this one. Such an awesome show with some pretty neat visuals. |
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| Swindler paid the Ultimate Price for not only saving the Kids but abolishing the Police Brutality and bringing it to light. Would love to see a Sequal with the uprising and the change in the city with Akudama ruling Kansai but whatever. Sad to see Courier and Swindler bite the bullet but a great Anime overall. 8/10 |
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Shiniela said: It's supposed to be a joke, I thought that was obvious enough. Kosmonaut said: Yes, I always knew Christ was, in fact, an ordinary anime girl. Today/tomorrow is about the birth, not the death of Swindler, silly japanese people. It's supposed to be symbolic, I thought that was obvious enough. |
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| I heard somewhere it's just a prequel to computer games based in this world. If it's true then I can't wait for it! |
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| I felt the show had lost its way in the last few weeks but the ending was pretty decent. Its not a show id be desperate to watch again but its been a fun ride 7/10 |
CrashmattDec 26, 2020 1:43 AM
Crashmatt said: I wonder what happened to Cutthroat? Swindler killed him several episodes ago whatchu mean? |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
| First half was a good time, but it fell apart after that point, trash story and trash ending, overall disappointing, a shame, it could have been a decent show. 1/10 |
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| Great show. 8/10. Music was awesome, animation was pretty decent, every character had closure (which is an underrated rating criteria imo), storyline was odd in a sense that it was made to fit the characters instead the usual way of having the characters fit it.. I feel like this was one of those anime that it's easy to HATE if you watch it with the wrong mindset. People saying it was rushed or the story was all over the place, it was meant to be like that. Making this anime any longer would create a bottomless pit of plot holes. |
DELiTODec 25, 2020 2:52 PM
Understandable, I just wanted to warn people who are expecting to eg saw what is at the end of tunnel. |
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| Loved it. Loved how it ended, I was satisfied as hell. Loved how it all just stopped and we had time to reflect as the courier fired his last shot. Twas masterfully done, And I'm glad they all died and the immortals are symbolic to how all reality is.. It just moves on. IF you see the anime all just in black and white you'd miss this crucial part. |
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| What a great final, they fell but they did some damage and fullfilled their mission. RIP Akudama (except the Doctor), i'll never forget you and what you did. 8/10 |
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Wasn't the whole implication of that discussion with Hoodlum that she was much older than she appeared? Not that she was not, in fact, biologically a woman? Great show. Non-stop ride from start to finish. Personally like the open ending. Sometimes I like not to be spoon-fed happiness to enjoy something. Did Brother and Sister find something where they went? Who knows? It's bittersweet that way. Solid 7/10 for me. It was far from perfect, but man was it a lot of fun. |
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| A very agitated episode. Swindler caused another revolt and Executors were taxed with Akudamas. At least, the brothers managed to get away from it all. |
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| A banger of a finale. I'm so glad that it bounced back from the shaky trifecta or so of episodes that it had in its second half, doing so with the crazy style that it first charmed us with and really going for the heart with the handling of the remaining characters. Seeing that propaganda segment with the bunny & shark duo being used against the system itself is an irony I can appreciate, even though it is still mad creepy. Good riddance to that whole thing. Swindler, Courier and Hacker were the martyr, brawn and brains trio I did not know I'd come to like so much. This last hurrah of all three of them had me speechless the entire episode and made me cherish the kids' open ending that much more. It was a really fun weekly watch, a gem to close the year with tbh. IBloodstormI said: There was the allusion to questioning her real age, but the framing of the "do you see me as woman?" can potentially give room to that other train of thought as well, depending on the viewer. It's an interesting opening to interpretation, nonetheless (and she'd still be just as much of a (sadistic) woman, all the same).Wasn't the whole implication of that discussion with Hoodlum that she was much older than she appeared? Not that she was not, in fact, biologically a woman? Mod Edit: Merged duplicated posts; please use the edit button. |
anime-primeJan 1, 2021 1:59 AM
| I give this show a 3/10. I wrote a review, but it's hard to do it justice without much spoilers. Let me summarize a few points. Akudama Drive is too ambitious and failed to carry through. Like Psycho-Pass, it uses a clueless and out-of-place woman as the oracle for the author to push an emotional appeal that's too basic to address a nuanced point. Like Ergo Proxy, the pacing is so bad that it has to use a gimmicky "propaganda" talk show to fill in the details. The characters are all edgy and one dimensional. It seems to take inspiration from many places, and combine their worst qualities. Let's start with the obvious: plot holes. We see Kanto, a bunch of garbage flying around with an enigmatic shape-shifting structure in the middle that looks like it's been lifted out of Gantz. We're told it's a quantum computer and that it's downloading data into the twins. That means the twins must be some kind of bio-computer and one of two things are true:
This is important, because every operating system has an entry point, and in order for Kanto to self-regulate, it needs to download not only the state (i.e. the data) but the OS to execute its functions. This execution either replaces the twins' mental capabilities or exists along side it. If it replaces it, then the twins would not be conscious when Hacker tries to hack Kanto. If it exists along side it, then the twins were not at risk of dying in the first place. Furthermore, it's an insult to the intelligence of anyone who knows the first thing about computers to suggest that Kanto would have a port open for an arbitrary attacker to wirelessly infiltrate the system -- a quantum system no less. This is especially given that Hacker has no experience with quantum systems, that the hardware Kanto runs on most likely would not conform to any existing specifications that Hacker knows of, such that any language Hacker uses would not execute in the first place. Additionally, we know that certain characters had memories of a physical Kanto, and that Courier's bike was built in Kanto, and that the twins' experimental facilities were designed in Kanto. How did these things all exist in the first place, if Kanto is just a bunch of flying garbage around a black shell? How did Kanto enforce administrative policies over Kansai? If the shell could transform itself to build a bike, then certainly it could have transformed itself to attack or defend itself from Courier and Swindler. We're told that the bullet train is the only method of transportation between Kansai and Kanto, due to the dark zone that nothing else could pass through. So how did Kansai plan on delivering the twins at the end after they blew the train up? Every computer has a physical power switch. How were the Executioners so clueless about what was broadcasted on every monitor across the city, and why couldn't they just shut it off? Why didn't they employ basic crowd control technology like tear gas, batons, smoke and pellet guns to break up the uprising in the first place? How come they could so mercilessly mow down hundreds of protesters in the initial uprising, but stood helplessly before the second? It was the lady, the head of the Executioners that called labeled the protesters as Akudama, yet she looked to the guy who shot himself for permission in the second. Missiles completely melted and destroyed the train besides some of its steel frame, yet Swindler and Courier survived a direct missile explosion. Courier even survived a direct plasma beam to his face unscathed. He was bleeding out on an hour long drive in the wilderness, and fully conscious. The spaceships only attacked him from the front, where his only defense was. The entire air force had trouble spotting two children running barefoot. There's an unexplained emergency shutdown sequence running on a 10 minute timer. Who implemented it? It makes no sense, whether it's Hacker or Kanto, to keep a fixed 10 minute timer. If it's Kanto, it could have shut it down in the beginning. If it's Hacker, he could have shut just the military units down. Did Kanto survive Hacker's hack? If not, then they literally killed millions of conscious people ("Fluctlights" in SAO-speak) to save 2 kids that didn't need saving. Why did Kanto need for their experimental material to be conscious in the first place? It seems counter-productive, and only for a cheap emotional appeal, like starving, tortured African children. Does Kanto simply reproduce the experiment and kill hundreds of children more, since it still needs a body that doesn't deteriorate? So how was Swindler and Hacker's actions moral? They literally mass murdered every single person in Kanto, robbed them of their futures, or caused a repeat of the experiment. Let's not forget that Doctor could un-decapitate herself in real time, and that the Executioners failed to finish her off multiple times despite knowing of her capabilities. Let's not forget that the Akudama got excited when they saw billions of dollars transferred into their locked digital wallet accounts that they couldn't even use. And that there was nothing preventing the brother from hopping onto the spaceship when he pushed the sister onto it. And Swindler's disgusting moralistic posturing when she prevented Doctor from asking what every reasonable person would've wanted to know -- what the twins wanted. Maybe they could have stopped the farcical exercise right then and there when they reveal they wanted to go to the moon, and suffer eternal pain from subzero temperatures and suffocation, since they seem capable of feeling temperature on Earth. But my biggest complaint happens on episode 1. When the Akudama broke in to save Cutthroat, the commissioners order one of the guards, Quick, execute him now! The guard replies, But, there's an explosion -- and points across the room, as if an explosion on the other side of the room has any effect on an execution by decapitation. Then the commissioner says, Yes, just do it. And the guard goes, Are you sure? And Doctor sneaks up behind and kills that guard. And that's when I knew this show was going to suck hard. If that guard wasn't completely dysfunctional autistic, the whole show would have ended right there. The plot armor was unforced. The writers could have had the explosion closer to the platform and kill the guards directly. But they chose the most retarded conversation possible. I can't believe people think this is the best show of 2020. |
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