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Sep 10, 2009 12:24 PM
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Lol, she can fire missil with her back.
Well the emo moment at the end was kinda annoying but overall it was a nice episode.
Nov 4, 2009 8:05 PM
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Now I get why she's growing, they're shoving heatseeking missiles into her back
Mar 2, 2010 1:20 AM
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Wow...again, not what I was expecting. Wonder how long they can stay undetected.
Jan 4, 2011 10:03 PM
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lol wut?

This anime is so strange in so many ways
Aug 5, 2012 6:30 PM
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This is just so hopeless.. it hurts. :'(
Nov 8, 2012 12:41 AM
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lnn8v6 said:
Now I get why she's growing, they're shoving heatseeking missiles into her back

LOL
Apr 11, 2013 11:53 PM
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What did she expect. They told her that she'd be a weapon, but she doesn't want to kill. I'm guessing that she didn't volunteer for this, or she wouldn't be complaining. It also looks like the other girl likes Shuji. I don't get the earthquakes. I thought they were just the bombs hitting the city, but I'm sure they'll explain it in future episodes.
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Sep 27, 2013 12:12 AM
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Still loving the 2 character dynamic. It's nice that all the military people and war politics haven't been introduced yet.

Nice sexual tension too.
Jan 7, 2015 11:37 PM
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Urk...sadly to say, but I don't have a nick for this anime thus far. I understand that this is a romance-orientated war anime, so I had to deal with no-politics-no-war-backstory; however, the two-dimensional character development is seriously unjustified. For a romance anime, the drama is barely significant, and even when present (such as in the last scene), it is totally off and in the wrong place.

People be like - war - and no bad feelings about it; 40000 people just died off and as if nothing has happened...and what kind of nonsense in all of international and Japanese law agrees that human experimentation can be allowed and WMD be placed on young humans without consent from parents whatsoever?! Purely blasphemy - this transcends beyond a sin. It is just - wrong.
3/5
"If you reject me, I'll blast a hole in you!" Kanzaki H. Aria
Just kidding.

Mar 18, 2015 5:35 AM

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Interesting plot but the characters are so dumb and everything feels like a fake.
Apr 23, 2015 11:09 AM

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Not as good and a bit slower than the first episode but still really good :)
Jun 10, 2015 6:49 AM

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Dont care that much for the main characters.
I'm surprised they're just letting Chise roam free like that, when it's supposed to be top-secret and all ...

A lot of people died during that attack, and even more missing.
Oct 11, 2015 12:08 PM
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I quite like it! I like relationship between the two, mystery overall about what's happening...
Feb 21, 2016 11:54 AM

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Oh boy that ending! Really interesting development. Let's see what's next.
May 19, 2016 7:21 AM

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The dialogues, scare, if we think, at the beginning Chise and Shu talk so blithely about things that are monstrously awful, then as the dialogues become ambiguous and equivocal, I felt a sort of fear, even though the designs were not as dramatic in their effect. Excellent soundtrack that reminds me, in some moments, anime series of the 80's and early 90's; the opening do not like much, compared to the ending.
Jul 6, 2016 11:09 PM

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This show is easy to watch! By the way, terrible OP song -_- well, that was my first impression. Lets see if it will grow on me.

When Chise back got missiles, i thought her weird and sick but if its Chise I can forgive her because she is too Kawaii!!!

Thats a turn off for Shuu when her body is like that.

3.7/5
Jul 13, 2017 5:00 PM

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That ending was so sad,
It's just all doing downhill from here isn't it?
Feb 1, 2019 1:39 AM

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This show is honesty terrible.

- Bad character designs
- The girl's body is modified by the military and even her family doesn't know about it!? Based on the description and her character page I initially thought that she had some incurable disease or required expensive treatment and her parents agreed to have her body modified in order to save her life or something.
- Fires missiles from her back!? Where the hell was she even hiding them, I thought she was a weapon not a magical girl.
- The moment she contemplates death Shuu-chan gives in to his animal instincts!? That was the worst part to watch.
May 17, 2019 6:29 PM

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Lol, the missiles dropping from her back looked kinda hilarious.

This was another really good episode. I just love the melancholic atmosphere and the unfolding drama. My only gripe would probably be the dialogues, they fall a little bit flat. So yeah, while I think that they could've done better in that department, it still doesn't diminish my enjoyment by much.

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Mar 11, 2020 7:09 AM

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Still there are some other questions that needs to be asked by his "sort of bf" like why they made her into a wep why specifically her...
Mar 14, 2020 11:41 PM
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Shuuji make a dumb decision but I don't blame him. That is nothing much he can do other than staying beside Chise. There is also nothing much Chise can do except protect her identity so that she can protect Shuuji. But they are only high-schoolers, they won't think that far and no adults are there to guide them.

Those who think about war and politic, it looks like Japan is in a pinch, a lot of cities fallen, therefore they invented humanoid weapon to defense.

Instead of a show about war and politics, its more towards a man-made humanoid human and a human love story.
Apr 11, 2020 11:06 PM

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It's so bizarre, it's basically surreal comedy except it isn't.
Jul 17, 2022 7:05 PM
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hmm. she's "growing"? they just mean transforming into the ultimate weapon?

this is kind of giving me "higurashi when they cry" vibes, just without the awesome suspense/thriller aspect from the first few episodes of higurashi

still about a 6/10

i wonder how she became this weapon. how did nobody know? if she was taken from her family at some point and experimented on? or was she created in a lab and then "inserted" into her family somehow? i do feel bad for chise. she's just a girl and she's having her life, her humanity, her love stripped away

i think i'm going to put this on hold though. it's ok but the style isn't must watch for me. and i know it's just going to be a kind of sad story without a happy ending...
Aug 10, 2022 5:47 PM
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very depressing i wish someone loved me
Jun 16, 2023 1:19 PM

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Was Shuuji's first instinct when Chise was distraught and trying to hide from the search helicopter "Time to fuck her"? Might be a bad time for that XD

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