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| I'm guessing she died in the end? Humanity was meant to die out? |
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| I liked it. It was out of the blue, pretty simple told, and for everyone to understand. THe music itself was fine. The voice part, personally, wasn't so great, but gladly it wasn't that long. The animations were great, the characters basically non existent though. But that's all i can really add here, besides i already wrote a long review for this, so if you want to read more, check that out. |
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| Shelter really isnt that good. Like the animation is pretty amazing especially for A1 pictures but everything else was, well kinda dull. The "story" (if you can call it one its really just an interpretation) was just meh. It really wasnt very moving and it didnt make me feel sad one bit (Im not heartless, ive watched shows that have made me feel emotional ever to the point of bringing me to cry). The song was very mediocre especially for EDM. I know im not the only one here but i have a feelig that the majority of the so called Porter Robinsons fans didnt even know who he was before this video. i Listened to a few of his songs afterwards to see what he sounds like without Madeon and I disliked every second of it. On the other hand, I actually knew who Madeon is and ive been to one of his live shows a while back but as a fan of his i can say that this song is very bad even for him. To be honest I think that this is one of those moments like attack on titan where there is a giant hype train about it dispite it being very mediocre at best. Heck as someone who analyses most things in the animation I watch i can say that this had way less material to analyse than a video such as ME!ME!ME! but heck, thats just my preference i guess. TL;DR shelter is very mediocre and doesn't deserve the hype that all y'all are giving it. |
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| Superman's backstory + GITS/Matrix/SAO + victimised cute girl + mediocre music I was surprised by the twist at the end but other than that this has the same empty appeal of Madoka Magica, cute little girls suffering begging for tears that I don't care to shed. A-1 Pictures delivers again a low score :/ |
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| I found it great. Had it been longer, I might not have enjoyed it as much, but it's perfect for what it is. At the risk of overthinking it, though, I, too, am curious about the disaster that befalls Earth. It shouldn't have taken that long. It kind of reminded me of the end of The Fifth Element when... |
| Music was not up to my taste, story was sweet and sad, but nothing special. I didn't hear about Porter Robinson before, but since so many people like his music, time to check it out. Hope the other songs are better. |
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alex_vera said: you should check out "flicker" Hmm, yep, will do. Thanks! |
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| Well, that was kind of surprising, but in a good way. Music is great, visuals are gorgeous and the story is pretty good too! |
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| @Gnk & @jayowend This seems to be getting to the point where there's not a whole lot more to say because, although I generally agree with the review's criticisms, I'm not Zergneedsfood and cannot justify his specific reasons, much less his specific wording, so the nature of this conversation would have to shift if it were to continue. The primary difference between he and I in this scenario is that lack of detail and subtlety is not what I would consider the worst quality in the anime medium, and I am therefore much less passionate about it even though I do consider it the reason I am so apathetic toward the short. In any case, the main thing that irked me was that people were taking potshots and making assumptions about some guy they know nothing about simply because he strongly disliked something they strongly liked. Now that you two have cleaned that up into more substantial arguments against the review, I'm satisfied. |
| How could you be mad about a 6 minute animated show, lol. I think the story was well presented in that short time. The visuals and music seem very good imo. Overall it was a good short anime, the hype is well deserved. 7.5/10 |
| Im not buying this. I won't go into details on the audio since I think that style of music is garbage - very subjective and irrelevant to my point here. The video is pretty, but it is very shallow once you replace the young girl with a guy in his early 20s. The premise shown in the video would make an incredible 24 or 44 minute OVA, but as it is it tries to invoke a response using the most unfiltered means possible as quickly as possible. The audio itself does very little to expand on the "story" given to us. I won't judge other people who liked the short and I can understand why they did, but I really couldn't get anything out of it myself. |
| Odd and overwhelming. So much greatness in one video, this was a lot more emotional than the last episode of other shows welp It's sweet and sad at the same time. 8/10 No wonder it's rated highly in this site, it's indeed touching |
| Wow the animation was amazing, loved the music and the character design. Who woulda thought 6 minutes was enough to give a little knot in your throat :'(. I get shes alive but I feel thats more of being trapped in hell than anything else. I'd rather chose death with the people I care about than live alone in an empty world of my own creation for all of eternity. |
BestRbx said: Can someone help me understand what in the flying ....nevermind. What is going on with the reviews on the listing page?? Half of the people reviewing it are rating it at 5 or below, hell I rarely see that many 1 ratings even on legit garbage anime like Heart X Hybrid. Ffs it's a music video people, you should be happy it even managed to cram that much story into 6 minutes and line it up with a song that invokes emotion. I just don't get it I dropped by to add it to my list, and there's people writing full-length reviews just absolutely bashing it with accusations and spite on the same level as a 12 episode harem slice of life with crap animation that only exists to advertise a barely better manga. I get it's not technically an anime, being just a 6 minute music video, but I don't understand all of the unwarranted hate for it just because it's not a new season of Naruto. It irks me, the current rating is fluctuating around 8.34 and slowly dropping because people are trashing it for personal preference vendettas. It was a well-made passion project, and honestly deserves it's 15 minutes of fame. Leave the damn man alone since you can't help being so petty people. Bring your hate to the forums, don't clutter the official review page with spiteful opinions. /endrant When an anime starts to get popular, some people will begin to hate it just because it doesn't stand up to their idea of a "good" product; they can't contextualize their opinion, so that's inevitable. They don't even care if this is just a 6 minutes long music video: for them, it still needs to have deep character development and a great original story to be classified as a "good" work. In the case of Shelter, it's even worse because of the hype that was around it, which made the expectations even higher (and attracted even more haters: the people who think that something isn't good just because the majority thinks it is). This isn't even specifically true for anime only, but for a large variety of other media as well. |
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| It's not as good or bad as people say. It's okay for what it is, which is a music video. |
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| Oh I don't know about this until my friend and a certain youtube video mention about it 9405 votes for score 10.. eh The music is good and all, not really fond of it though Animation budget.. oh wow.. A1 Picture strikes again Story concept, looks interesting The best thing in this MV for is Misawa Sachika ♥ xD |
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| I found out about this some time ago when a friend linked it to m. I had no context, i didn't know of any hype or anything, i was just told it was a cool music video that was made recently. The music isn't my think, well it was really good rhythmically and structure and all that jazz, but the "ey oo oo ey, ey oo oo ah" thing bothered me a bit. When i first saw it, i thought it was pretty good, but it didn't super jump out at me. I have a habit of purposely NOT analyzing things initially until i deconstruct them in retrospect, so as to keep the most pure impression of it. I did find the ending sad, though i can get pretty emotional fairly easily these days (anime softened me up, i used to be a hardcore stoic). Recently i thought to watch it again because of a random response video to it, and then it really clicked how masterful this really is. While i cannot say it's perfect, i noticed some elements and discrepancies of timing that causes elements to be missed at first glance, such as a super cute scene followed immediately after by a seriously important headline on the news... This is a problem of too sudden of emotion shift to where if you're not paying attention it flies right past you rather than making you go "wait holy crap". There were other parts where there was the appropriate space given for something to have the right impact, so i won't criticize that too much. Since my initial watch though, i've analyzed it front to back and know it through and through. Not trying to sound arrogant, but i'm used to being a writer of this calibre and higher, and consuming works of this calibre and higher, so in that respect it doesn't jump out at me in the quality spectrum, as i'm used to high quality stuff. But then when i consider it's running time, and the amount of message gotten through, execution etc, this is extremely exceptional for a music video, out-shining even things like Perfect Day (supercell) and so on with detail, depth and impact (literal and figurative lol). Bravo Porter. |
GenesisAriaNov 12, 2016 4:22 AM
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| Beautiful music video made in collaboration with an anime studio (A-1). The animation is stunning and fit well with the song (even though I didn't love the music). |
| Shelter started out as mediocre for me since I found it kind of depressing and I rate on enjoyment, but it kind of grow on me and now, after almost two weeks, I really appreciate it. Great combination of music, visuals and a nice story! Still a sad story though. |
| Looks great, but the music isn't to my tastes. Didn't like the story. If they had done only the girl trapped in the AI with the hazy memories (no clear memories) and the message arriving as an open end, it would've been great. It would have emotional impact (not as much) but wouldn't have the plot problems or looked like a cheap shot for some people Trying to give it context got in the way. I mean if a single civilian can create something like that, society would be able to either build arks or build a big scape pod program to send humans to other planets. Or something like that. I don't want to keep pushing other possibilities. Leaving these kind of afterthoughts kinda ruin the experience in terms of emotion for me, because I'll focus on stuff like that instead of the situation. |
| when i planned to watch it i thought it was a long length movie but it turned out to be 6 minutes. Other than that damn, this musical anime was great the way the story line was told in style and short way. I got the full story and got taken away by it. 9/10. |
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| Wow, that was one of the most awesome things I've seen, simply great! |
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| Imo, you've got to judge shelter for what it is. It's not a regular and typical anime series. However, for what it is, i think it did a pretty great job . The message it tried to convey was well received in 6 min, and it did bring out the emotions . Also, i thought the music was great, fits my taste and well integrated with the great visuals . 9/10 |
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| Awesome MV, needs more collaboration like this |
| If this was supposed to promote this guy's music, then it certainly didn't work for me. If anything, it's the music that ruined the whole experience. Devoid of any real progression, overly loud and obnoxious - it sounded like something you'd put in the background of a TV commercial for a car, or something. The animation itself was very well drawn, the story was okay (if a bit generic). However, the pacing felt really off, and considering how simple the song was, I don't think they could do much about it. Then again, it's just the way I felt after watching. Most people liked it, so I guess it must be some sort of bias on my side. |
| I understand people be hating on it but damn, like someone said its a 6 min music for all viewers not just anime fans, does it deserve the criticism it has faced? |
| It was alright. Decent visuals. The music doesn't fit the video IMO. The story was simple and straight forward. |
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| I'm not sure about the reasons for the poor ratings and reviews. This is a unique, novel, one-of-a-kind piece of art that should not be compared to the usual anime series or movies. Unlike other movies and anime series that have a longer time to build up the story, develop the characters and pull at one's heartstrings, this 6 minute music clip was able to present a creative story that most viewers might not have been able to fully understand at first glance. It's a clip that makes you want to rewind and watch it over again because you get the feeling that you've missed out some clues which can help you to piece the story together. The story may not be very realistic, but hey, that's called imagination. The clip ended on a bittersweet note (i.e. a girl who is the only one alive but alone in space) and that might have left some feeling uncomfortable because we all naturally desire for happy endings. Although I would never want to be in her position, I think that she was able to fully experience her father's love for her as he spent his time creating this life-supporting space shuttle that allowed her mind to dwell in a beautiful simulated world where she can freely express her creativity and be spared from utter boredom of having to live 7 years before finding out the terrifying truth about what really happened to all humanity. I think the father did not just want to protect her physically, but also emotionally from pain and therefore delayed his message to a time when she would be more emotionally mature to process the truth. Some may feel that it would be more merciful to allow her to die along with the rest of humanity, but as a parent, I think it's not easy to accept that your child is going to die in front of you without doing anything. On the overall, it wasn't really tear-jerking for me, but I would give it credit for being a clip that makes me want to watch it again and think through the issues in the story. |
| Zergneedsfood's rating is bullshit trolling with great success. This thread has 8 pages to prove that. When it comes to reviewer, look at their profiles and compare your anime ratings with them. If the compatibility is bad, then don't follow their advice, they have a different taste than you. Simple as that. |
| oh my god this video fuckin sucks |
| Really nice music video, I can't understand why all that hate,it's just simple story about a father who want to protect his daughter and that all, why some people like hating popular animes ,like this one and something like "Sword art on line " yes it's not that good but not that bad. |
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| Animation and music were great. |
| What a beautiful short. What a masterful 6 minutes. Then I realized there's no future for this girl it seems--stranded in space by herself, unless humanity rebuilds itself and someone finds her... |
| this is the MOST BEAUTIFUL short movie music anime whatever I've seen in my Life it has very deep meaning and the story was so good although it was 6 min but i loved it and the art-music was so beautiful |
SakurakhoDec 24, 2016 7:24 AM
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| Blossom still gets the nod for my favorite anime music video (though apparently MAL considers that a movie) but this makes a pretty strong case for second best. |
| Damn ... really well done. Song was not really my style but I guess it fit a bit with her building worlds in her own simulation. Great little story, really strong 6 minutes. |
PrOxAntoJan 3, 2017 1:10 PM
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