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| Damn that was really good imo.The felt like the perfect setup episode. I'm surpise how much they did with 30mins. Hell 8 went to credits and thank yous. I would love to see a whole series of this one day. As an stand alone OVA I can honestly that this shit was flames. Hana was a real one and Anthea is bad ass. The other two was dope as well, and that English, boi I thought this was dub for a sec. 7/10 |
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| Some of the best visuals and sounds I have seen in an anime, I mean even the physics is there - bullets actually made dents to walls and concrete. Story on the otherhand...what the hell just happened. |
| It was honestly pretty lame. What exactly is a "Flower"? What are they fighting for? What is this "hope" they keep mentioning and why is it important? Literally nothing about the premise was explained at all. And aside from that, it lacked any sort of thematic value whatsoever. The entire thing was basically just a spectacle of mindless, gratuitous violence. The visuals and sound weren't bad, though, I guess, although there were quite a few very noticeable "QUALITY" moments here and there. I personally think that the 3D CGI was done a lot better than the 2D. Good job, Orange. |
| Well, about what I expected from the trailers/previews they were showing. When they showed the teenage girl back during the early drafts my hopes were already dashed. In the end, just kind of average SF/military plot going here. Why teenagers though? Is it to make it easier to add in an emotional element? Schoolgirls overpowering train soldiers, okay. And the shock values too (blooood and... slight nudity). I don't know if I would call it cliche exactly, but nothing really new or thought-provoking. Too many modern tropes: schoolgirls, OP characters, American military, and drama. Plus, aren't they an anti-terrorism unit, why are there supernatural monster thingies? I paid money for this and was promised something like GiTS and Akira, so I'mma be harsh. :P I literally just finished watching GiTS: SAC yesterday so... nope. Even the less well-done episodes in SAC are more thought-provoking and interesting than this will ever be. And this episode had more blood than the whole series. -shrug- Don't regret the $25 though. I rather see more action series. But Anthea being way too skinny for a fighter bothers me. :/ |
GD1551 said: ... Isn't the teenage trope already out the window? Anthea or w/e the MC's name is seems to be the main character and she's a grown ass woman. Hana and the other dude are dead. Well, by the end more or less since they're dead. But the rest of the unit (sniper and ... watcher?) are schoolgirls too. Plus Anthea wasn't the main character of this prologue/pilot episode. Though if they end up getting a TV or OVA series, they will be focusing on Anthea as MC since she was one of the selling points when they were advertising the Kickstarter. |
| You know why these 28 mins were impressive for some people? Because this is still better than 80% of generic anime we have nowadays (plus DAT ENGLISH, I'm glad it is getting so much better in anime nowadays). I'll say, for 28 mins...this was well crafted. Now I wish they would kill off seemingly 'main' characters just as easily in other anime. Not half bad at all. |
| not really good, I don't know why you people think this is okay for 28 mins when anime with just a little more time, such as Kotonoha no Niwa or Hotarubi no Mori e, are so far above this |
| How come it is rated below 7/10 ?! The action were is so good, it kept me at edge of my seat, and it was uncensored. ALso, I did not expect both character to die at the end. I hope we get full TV series for this |
RealExtinction said: You know why these 28 mins were impressive for some people? Because this is still better than 80% of generic anime we have nowadays (plus DAT ENGLISH, I'm glad it is getting so much better in anime nowadays). I'll say, for 28 mins...this was well crafted. Now I wish they would kill off seemingly 'main' characters just as easily in other anime. Not half bad at all. 'Because this is still better than 80% of generic anime we have nowadays' >HAS 10 MINS of credit >High school girls >generic characters[OH THE IRONY] you are trying too hard to look cool. |
ultravigo said: RealExtinction said: You know why these 28 mins were impressive for some people? Because this is still better than 80% of generic anime we have nowadays (plus DAT ENGLISH, I'm glad it is getting so much better in anime nowadays). I'll say, for 28 mins...this was well crafted. Now I wish they would kill off seemingly 'main' characters just as easily in other anime. Not half bad at all. 'Because this is still better than 80% of generic anime we have nowadays' >HAS 10 MINS of credit >High school girls >generic characters[OH THE IRONY] you are trying too hard to look cool. Naw...I know this anime still has generic things going on, but none the less...still a better execution than what we are used to (or what I am used to anyway). And all of this is just my opinion, is there a problem with that? |
RealExtinction said: ultravigo said: 'Because this is still better than 80% of generic anime we have nowadays' >HAS 10 MINS of credit >High school girls >generic characters[OH THE IRONY] you are trying too hard to look cool. Naw...I know this anime still has generic things going on, but none the less...still a better execution than what we are used to (or what I am used to anyway). And all of this is just my opinion, is there a problem with that? 'Because this is still better than 80% of generic anime we have nowadays' na not really it's your opinion you can say whatever you want |
ultravigo said: RealExtinction said: Naw...I know this anime still has generic things going on, but none the less...still a better execution than what we are used to (or what I am used to anyway). And all of this is just my opinion, is there a problem with that? 'Because this is still better than 80% of generic anime we have nowadays' na not really it's your opinion you can say whatever you want And it is, despite containing generic elements. Thank you for permitting me that I suppose. I never said you need to agree with my opinion so lets be cool. Have a nice day! |
RealExtinction said: ultravigo said: 'Because this is still better than 80% of generic anime we have nowadays' na not really it's your opinion you can say whatever you want And it is, despite containing generic elements. Thank you for permitting me that I suppose. I never said you need to agree with my opinion so lets be cool. Have a nice day! yup lets be cool it's only opinion after all which varies from one person to another HAVE A NICE DAY!!! |
| I liked what I saw here, it was pretty interesting but is there more to this? It seems like a prologue to a bigger anime or something. If people donated money and this is all we get then that'll be pretty disappointing but if we at the very least get an anime series or something then I think that would be satisfactory? |
| I'm just happy my name was in the credits lmao |
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| The trailer was pure action scene followed by action scene followed by action scene and people complain about it being mindless action. They delivered more of what they showed. Still trash though |
| this is so fucking bad 1/10 don't believe i waited for a year for this trash lol |
| Honestly, I expected it to be total shit but this was nice pilot/prologue to longer series that will never happen. Shame that it will get tons of undeserved hate from idiot who had retardedly high expectations. Did you really expect long series? From the begininng they said it will be episode long OVA. I expected some action flick and that's it. You wanted some DEEP and MUHTURE plot? Read a book. 7/10 Well, there are still hopes that some happy merchants from murrica (like netflix) will take interest in and fund longer series (there were some news that IG is doing something for them). |
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| This isn't what I paid for .....is what I would be saying if I paid for it. But seriously that was nothing like the trailer. |
| Oh my gosh some of you people are acting really dumb. The PV that people keep referring to as the source of their unmet expectations was released over a year ago.. a lot of shit happened between then and now.....if that PV was your only point of reference as for what to expect from the OVA then it's your fault for not keeping up with the updates...stop hyperbolizing your self-inflicted butt hurt by giving it ridiculously low scores. And all the socratics hating on this OVA because it didn't provide some spectacular philosophical communication just fuck off already.. no one likes you |
ghstindashamplooAug 4, 2016 12:18 AM
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| i give this a 3/10, maybe 4/10 on a good day. not because i hate it or because i'm disappointed (i'm a backer), but because i genuinely struggle to come up with anything positive to say about it other than "it has some well animated action scenes", and that's hardly all that makes good anime. i mean that's all there is to it. and even the animation, the one saving grace, isn't all flawless. the character designs are extremely forgettable, the backgrounds (at least in building, where most of it takes place) are flat as hell, the cg is okay, all the scenes outside of action are nothing special. there are anime produced this very season on a tv budget/schedule with more impressive animation (Mob Psycho 100). the story is as incomprehensible as it is irrelevant. why bother explaining anything about setting or all the terminology (blacks? whites? pandoralization? fighting the hope of humanity? flowers?) or even what the fuck is happening, when there's more action scenes of army dudes getting slaughtered to get to? the characters are all fucking nothing. the male lead has no personality and is just there to be dragged around by the female lead. she herself is not much better, 'generic highschool girl, but also action girl' is all there is to her. i guess at least she has a goal and stakes in what's happening, as if that was high praise and not character writing 101. doesn't even matter anyway, because they're both dead by the end, which means they can't even be developed further in a potential future installment. who else is there? oh, Anthea. doesn't talk. personality: 'slightly more competent action girl'. wow, very engaging, i'm blown away. music, i didn't even notice any. the english voice acting doesn't sound very professional, but it's better than the engrish we usually get. that is very faint praise. overall, this entire thing doesn't feel like a coherent story. rather, it feels like a demo reel one would show to producers to secure a budget. a lengthy glorified trailer for a future installment that may never exist. a collection of random sakuga with filler in-between. an opportunity for Hidetsugu Ito to add to his portfolio. (from what i can tell, most pieces of good animation in the OVA can be ascribed to him) considering they got more money than they asked for, two years to work on it and only 20-something minutes of animation to create, one could expect a slight bit more than 'mild animation-pornography for gorehounds'. my expectations were already nothing (i forgot i even backed it until i looked it up a month ago) and i still feel like it hardly delivered. |
MalfegorAug 4, 2016 2:23 AM
ghstindashamploo said: Oh my gosh some of you people are acting really dumb. The PV that people keep referring to as the source of their unmet expectations was released over a year ago.. a lot of shit happened between then and now.....if that PV was your only point of reference as for what to expect from the OVA then it's your fault for not keeping up with the updates...stop hyperbolizing your self-inflicted butt hurt by giving it ridiculously low scores. I mean... that's a legit complaint, that PV was what they used to advertise the project and get people to give them money, of course if something completely different comes out people are going to say that it's not what they paid for. If order a TV online and get a toaster delivered to me, I don't care how fucking good the toaster is or how many mail I got telling me "turns out we're sending you a toaster lol." I'm still not gonna be happy. And in this case, the toaster isn't even good, it's just some forgettable, sub-par bullshit, even when not compared to the vastly superior, better animated, more interesting trailer the thing is nothing more than alright, if this was the first episode of a new seasonal it sure as hell wouldn't be the best this season and I'm not even sure I'd watch the next episode. |
| It's has a good story concept. I enjoy it very much. the art is not to uptodate i guess. maybe it's because it's a crowdfunding project, but still the did a good job. so, why so much hate?! |
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Ysad_Ziwezhan said: The flower is almost neutralized and what do the soldiers do? ... they just wait to see if she can still aim at them and shoot :) Sure. After the long wait she is saved at "the last second". Who would have thought? Hana's gun was out of ammo. It was animated as such. The slide was locked back. Plus Anthea takes Hana's gun from her and uses her own to kill her. Why? Because it was out ammo... |
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| And I don't know if anybody got this but when Subject P, the fully "pandoralized" guy, stopped its fight with Anthea and ran at Shunichi at the end it wasn't trying to hurt him it was actually trying to shield Shunichi from the cruise missile. But Shunichi didn't know that and his body reacted defensively. This is when we discover Subject P is his father. |
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| The English voice cast was actually pretty good compared to some other anime's. That said the plot made no sense and because nothing was explained I didn't really enjoy it. I give it a 5. |
ghstindashamploo said: Ysad_Ziwezhan said: The flower is almost neutralized and what do the soldiers do? ... they just wait to see if she can still aim at them and shoot :) Sure. After the long wait she is saved at "the last second". Who would have thought? Hana's gun was out of ammo. It was animated as such. The slide was locked back. Plus Anthea takes Hana's gun from her and uses her own to kill her. Why? Because it was out ammo... Thank you. That's a good point. Still, being relax and taking their time while a pandora is still (eventually) in the building doesn't look realistic here. About some english voices, I agree with others here that the intonation of the voices many times doesn't fit with the situation. I just suppose that the people doing the job weren't voice "actors" or like others that they didn't see the scenes where the characters were supposed to be at the moment. |
| Really good OVA, it had looks wow effects where ya simply didnt expect some things to happen like both of them dying in the end. And as a kickstarter project its done really well even heard that thoose that donated had the chance to do the voice acting which can explain the proper english. Anyway i really hope some day we get a full series for this cuz it has plently potential since the story is quite interesting. |
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| This thing failed at everything else, but I will give a 5/10 for delivered explosions |
| befriend (v.): To violently attack someone with very dangerous and extremely powerful blasts of magical pink light until your target sees the validity of your viewpoint. |
| Well, how much can you really do in 30 minutes? Had explosions, excitement and hints at some kind of story but no context for anything presumably due to time constraints. I don't think I can seriously hold its shortcomings against it, but that doesn't make it a good anime. |
| I hope to see a full TV series of this. I enjoyed this OVA, but the animation and visuals were quite disappointing, considering how beautiful it was in the trailer. Good thing that the English was good, though, lol. But still, the English voice acting felt lacking at times somehow. 8/10. |
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| No story... No explanation... No characters... Action... Explosions... Animation... More Explosions... 2.5/5 |
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| This OVA feels as if its staff just saw Gunslinger Girl, Ga rei zero and Canaan and decided to make a messy and incoherent mix out of the three while putting the emphasis on bright explosions. I find it hilarious how they were advertising the show as a comeback and an homage to classic action anime from the 90s yet it ended up with more modern cliches than a lot of your seasonal anime nowadays. |
| Meaning of "hate" word has been so devalued by MALers. I just took a look on my list to ensure myself and concluded there is only one anime I like less, so the score was clear 1/10. I don't hate this anime, I just like the good plot and shiny characters and these things didn't exist in Under the dog. Art style didn't catch my eye and animation wasn't near as good as announced. |
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| I'm baffled by this thread. >things don't make sense, things are unexplained It's a 30 minute OVA which was planned to be continued in a series, so of course. Plus if some people paid more attention they would realize a lot is already explained. >animation isn't very good These people don't know what they're talking about. The key animation is excellent, although it might have been lax on in-between, but these things cost money. 3D animation is also great, like they developped a ton of 3D assets, more than an OVA you feel the 30 minutes had the ambition of a full length movie, and the staff diserve respect for that, regardless of how close to the orignal trailer the final result is. Even the kind of cliché plot became tolerable through the interesting mix of despair and edginess. Seriously, who here can resist the discreet and quiet charm of the Pandora? |
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