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| So much left to know. I just realized how small the island they life on is and the rest of the Earth is water. I really wanted to see more of the third species. |
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RediceRyan said: So much left to know. I just realized how small the island they life on is and the rest of the Earth is water. I really wanted to see more of the third species. Yeah, it's easy to forget but that's all that's left of the world. Although now apparently there's SIX moons. And the only two slug people are off making babies and repopulating the ocean. :p |
| Absolutely loved it! Gonna wait for a season 2, but I'm thinking about reading the manga if nothing is announced soon... If it is, I'll hold on until then! Really glad there is a great CG anime out! Stunningly animated, loved every second! And the gem sound effects were very good! |
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| MAN, what was Sensei about to tell her at the end?!! I need more :( All in all, I thought the Anime was a breath of fresh air, very unique artstyle and plot, that was mostly character driven. Loved the VA for Phos, thought she was brilliant, and breathed life into the character. Hoping for another season ! |
| Cinnabar was so cute in this episode. And the contrast with the old Phos at the end kind of made me sad. :( Really, exceptional anime. Best of the season. Top 5 of the entire year? The 3D CGI had to be some of the best I've ever seen. When people say 3D CGI in anime is pure laziness, please show them this gem. You know, it's absolutely mind-boggling to me when comparing this to Berserk. What caused Berserk to fail? Lack of budget, or skill? You have a legendary manga that's been running for almost 30 years now, and yet it's treated with such sub-par work. Did Houseki no Kuni have a huge budget behind it? I'm really curious about this. I've never even heard of this series before the anime started airing. |
Mormegil said: Cinnabar was so cute in this episode. And the contrast with the old Phos at the end kind of made me sad. :( Really, exceptional anime. Best of the season. Top 5 of the entire year? The 3D CGI had to be some of the best I've ever seen. When people say 3D CGI in anime is pure laziness, please show them this gem. You know, it's absolutely mind-boggling to me when comparing this to Berserk. What caused Berserk to fail? Lack of budget, or skill? You have a legendary manga that's been running for almost 30 years now, and yet it's treated with such sub-par work. Did Houseki no Kuni have a huge budget behind it? I'm really curious about this. I've never even heard of this series before the anime started airing. Have you seen Black rock shooter CGI? That one have smoother CGI, well except it's not that flashy and the anime itself are still decent at finest. My eyes kinda hurt for some reason i guess its motion effect due CGI. Overall damn i got hooked, finished it on 1 days and Holy shit Phos "was" very cute.. Then it turned like that, i miss old Phos. I think i am getting mindfucked least it wasn't dark as Made in Abyss. Man it's kinda underrated and no one notice this anime after thinking Fall is pretty much meh. I need more of this, definitely one of the best in Fall topped Shuumatsy Ryokou uniqueness. Mystery, Memorable Characters, Good animation, abit of Philosophy i guess?, 10/10. |
| Really loved the show, probably one of the best anime I've seen in a long time with an original concept and its own unique art style and aesthetics. So many questions I have that I want answered though, I really hope there is a season 2. Since the visuals are such a spectacle to see I'd rather not pick up the manga. |
| This is the anime of the season for me. |
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| "That's why I was thinking, maybe I should try losing my arms or legs too..." Nooooooo. Phos, you're a bad influence. :| "Alex, do you like the Lunarians?" That seems like a silly question. Of course no one likes the Lunarians...Alex's interest never seemed like they liked them at all. "I found no real answers." Funny, neither did I...the end was a massive cocktease! Did Sensei tell Phos about the Lunarians or not? I'd give this show a ...7.5? The CG was quite impressive, especially compared to certain other CG anime. I really liked some characters, while some of them seemed to pop in and out/not be as memorable when the story expected me to know them when it was convenient. The show definitely works as an ad for the manga...for God's sake, what is Sensei's relationship with the Lunarians?! |
| "No, son, you may not have your body pillow at the dinner table!" |
riasgrmry said: is that the end??? i didnt get the conclusion This is only about halfway through the manga so far, so nowhere near the end. |
| Fantastic. Visually beautiful. Captivating and intriguing. |
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| This was a decent ending that leaves us with suspense, to what is sensei hiding about the Lunarians and why they fight them. I must say I didn't feel this one at first maybe due to art and Phos. But eventually I got used to it and loved to watch Phos's character grew strong. Also the mystery behind the Lunarians got me intrigued and sensei being the center of it makes me want to know more. As for Cinnabar story I honestly don't care, i am only interested to what's gonna happen when Phos finds out. I loved Antarcticite and I hope they recover her in the next season ( if it comes, which I hope will). 8/10 and wish for season 2 because I loved mostly the concept. |
How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb --- Dr Strangelove  |
| Houseki no Kuni have some forced scenes and is a bit convenient but it have better execution that others animes of this season that tried and failed so much. The comedy and animation are pure gold. I have some problems in the first 8 episodes with Phos and some characters anyway. 4/5 for the episode. 7/10 for the anime. |
| All weebs creatures of the galaxy, hear this message. Those of you who listen will not be struck by western animation. You will no longer know hunger, nor pain. Your Anime have come to lead you now. Our strength shall serve as a luminous sun toward which all intelligence may blossom. And the impervious shelter beneath which you will prosper. However, for those who refuse our offer and cling to their western animation ways… For you, there will be great wrath. |
| Wow, a disappointing ending... Not really satisfying even if the source material is unfinished. Otherwise it was anime of the year for me. |
Brandon2149Jan 10, 2018 1:47 PM
| Now we really really need S2 Rated 6/10 because the ending though |
| I really don't understand all the negativity about the ending--it's less than half way through the existing content, what are people expecting from it? Them to pull a climactic ending out of their rears even if there was nothing of the sort there in the original manga? |
| I adored this show. To think I wasn't going to watch at first, I was going to miss on something spectacular for sure. 10/10. Phos is love, I relate with them a lot personally so yeah. One of my favorite characters this season. Loved other characters too. This definitely deserves a S2. |
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Tarextherex said: 7 is the highest I can give this series tbh. I was ready to love it from the first few episodes, it has a lot of aspects I generally appreciate but it simply never went anywhere. Basically this anime didn't have good pacing at all. You basically get plotlines thrown at you with between 0 and 30 seconds of foreshadowing. Sadly a lot of the downtime was merely slapstick comedy rather than more relevant world building. For example the snail sub-plot was great but it came out of nowhere(you didn't even notice it on the lunarian "ship", you just thought they were shaped like shells in the first place. Also you never see any animals besides jellyfish beforehand, much less ones thst transform). Once they were done with that almost every idea from that arc was barely mentioned. Them hibernating during winter is interesting but they just introduced that on a whim, no "winter is coming". The list goes on. Also what's the point of having your characters be genderless immortal gems when they all just act like deres, they are supposed to be the bones of humans or whatever, they could have much more interesting behaviour. Like every anime that had this peculiar world with its own set of rules usually did a much better job on having good pacing. Haibane Renmei is the top recommendation, if only it was more like that and less like AOT/cute gems doing cute things Honestly, this is pretty close to how I feel about this series. I didn't hate it, but it did feel like they just went from one idea to next way too often. The series grabs your attention with one thing, and then just ignores it completely. Like, when the snail shows up and then turns into a humanoid creature that starts talking about how humans got split up into three parts I thought, "Oh, maybe the story's going to get interesting now. Maybe they'll expand on this." Nope. Never mentioned again. Yeah, maybe Phos forgot all about it, but the viewer didn't, and it's annoying that it isn't followed though on. Also, I don't think I like Phos. She seemed really likable at first, but eventually I realized she doesn't take anything seriously and just ruins everything for everyone else. I get that she's supposed to be the odd one that's gonna shake things up in the sequel or whatever, which should make an interesting character, but she just never seemed to follow through on anything. Or maybe she's supposed to be a tragic character that has dreams but since her world is cruel they never pan out? I don't know... I felt like she was a pale imitation of better characters similar to her. I gave the show a 6 though, which I still think is okay. I really do appreciate unique settings and all. The show at least held my attention. I just wish it paid off more. Oh well, to each their own I guess. I think the show would have been better if Phos just wrote that damn encyclopedia and discovered how interesting her world really was through writing it... which would have actually transitioned better into her trying to uncover the truth about the Lunarians. |
shotgunjesus said: Also, I don't think I like Phos. She seemed really likable at first, but eventually I realized she doesn't take anything seriously and just ruins everything for everyone else. I get that she's supposed to be the odd one that's gonna shake things up in the sequel or whatever, which should make an interesting character, but she just never seemed to follow through on anything. Or maybe she's supposed to be a tragic character that has dreams but since her world is cruel they never pan out? I don't know... I felt like she was a pale imitation of better characters similar to her. You're complaining about, like, her core character arc for the show. She starts out the youngest of the group and about as mature, and she's one of the weakest so she DOESN'T have any strength to back up what she wants to do. You can see how she starts to take her responsibilities seriously after Antarc dies and does finally get to become physically stronger. |
sorathecrow said: You're complaining about, like, her core character arc for the show. She starts out the youngest of the group and about as mature, and she's one of the weakest so she DOESN'T have any strength to back up what she wants to do. You can see how she starts to take her responsibilities seriously after Antarc dies and does finally get to become physically stronger. Well, that's more or less my issue with the series. It does indeed focus on Phos growing as a character, but I don't find her very interesting for that kind of character because of the way she develops. She starts off wanting to fight even though she's weak, wanting to help Cinnabar even though she doesn't really understand her or her situation, and not wanting to even think about writing the encyclopedia she was assigned to write. All of those are very immature, which is obviously what they were going for. That's all good and well, but she doesn't actually learn why she should change, instead she just does. She never learns why writing the encyclopedia may have been important, and then the task just gets rescinded from her. She never comes to the realization that helping Cinnabar is out of her depth unless she takes learning about Cinnabar and her kind's way of life more seriously. She never learns that fighting isn't the only way to help and that it takes serious commitment to get to say, Bort's level, but instead just loses limbs and gets convenient upgrades in their place that enable her to fulfill her immature dream of fighting with the rest of the gang. Maybe I would enjoy where the story goes from here (it's certainly going somewhere), but this season just focusing on Phos's growth felt lackluster to me. I feel like there's a better existentialist story about belonging and sacrifice buried beneath the surface, but the series unfortunately didn't focus on that. I don't think anyone that enjoyed the series is wrong or anything, I just think I'm holding it to a higher standard than I do other series. That's because I think the series is holding itself to a higher standard (or well, its creators are). It's designed to be a thought-provoking series, and I'm glad there's demand for series of this type, but when I do think about it... I don't really understand what they were trying to say. My questions felt unanswered, and my interest in Phos felt unrewarded. Or maybe it's just not my thing. There's too much in the world for me to spend anymore time contemplating why this show didn't push my buttons. Just gotta move on and try something else. |
| I really didn't expect to love this show! The art and animation are incredible. I felt like I was watching art. So many stunning angle shots. It didn't feel like it was too abstract or anything because it fit well. It's a bit rushed, like how Phos changes so fast from innocent to rebellious/stoic. I wish there was more, it feels incomplete overall. A season 2 would be nice. It's great to see Shinsekai Yori being the top in the recommendations list. It is indeed similar and I love both. They both give the same feeling, it's art but the story sells too. It's a shame HnK is incomplete so far. I really loved the characters especially Cinnabar and Diamond. However, my main issue was that there were too many similar looking characters and a lot of them didn't really get a chance to shine. Maybe introducing too many was a bad decision, idk. 9/10 |
Mayuka said: I really didn't expect to love this show! The art and animation are incredible. I felt like I was watching art. So many stunning angle shots. It didn't feel like it was too abstract or anything because it fit well. It's a bit rushed, like how Phos changes so fast from innocent to rebellious/stoic. I wish there was more, it feels incomplete overall. A season 2 would be nice. Exactly this. I watched just because some people in youtube said "A good CG anime" but I really didn't expect to love this shiow. All about this show is just beautiful. Although, I agree it's a bit rushed in that part but it still hit me in the heart when Antarcticite got taken by the Lunarian. As for Phos, seeing someone changes like that always hard, but that's for the best. Surely I'll recommend this anime to all my friends. For now, I might start to read the manga, can't wait any longer to know more about this beautiful story. A season 2 is necessary. For me, this is an easy 10/10. |
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| The visual and the music were beauty. but the story didn't out of its circle, Phos is okay but others are just empty. Saying this season just a set up for something bigger doesn't help too. Anyway, it was just average. Incomplete production but there's a chance the overall series become better when S2 is out, and I'm up for it. |
DannyTheDonkeyJan 20, 2018 9:22 AM
| I'm too weird to live but much too rare to die. |
| just finished and well its definitely good there is so much mystery woven into its story i really hope it will get a season 2. from what ive seen 12ep arent enough to answer all the mystery surrounding sensei,lunarians although it didnt answer it did ask good questions giving us bits of information here and there making all the setup, no doubt its plot elements will come altogether to make something grand. until then we gotta wait, there can be no rush for a good story/mystery. since im not a manga reader no choice but to wait for season 2. i am confused about what to rate this similar to how i felt in my hero academia before its second 2 its too early to rate for now its 8.5/10 with a promising second i can see it reaching 9 or even 10 yea its seriously great i never posted anything this big in MAL but for a small show it need explanation |
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| empty feeling after finishing an anime, was not felt for couple of years I think. |
| I honestly wouldn't have ever watched this if it hadn't gotten so much representation in CR's Anime Awards, so I wanted to see what I was missing out. Overall, I really liked the show. It's very original and kind of odd, but in a good way. I thought the show did a good job showcasing all the characters and Phos's development was fascinating to watch, even though it was pretty damn fast, I mean this is . I really liked the sense of mystery in the show too. I think my favorite part of the whole show was when Phos went off with the King and she revealed all that information about the past and how the humans were separated into three different species. I really liked the king too (and dem tits), I'm sad that we didn't get to see her again. Some of things that kind of bugged me is that we didn't get to find out more about the mysteries. After episode 4 I thought it'd expand from there, but Phos only lost all her memory. The laid back moments were nice, but I felt like the plot might have been twiddling its thumbs for too long so to speak. Especially after the winter arc. It also kind of bugged me that we didn't see much of Cinnabar at all! They set her up to be an important character, but she had a very small role this season which bummed me out since she seemed like a really good character. It seems like towards the end we're finally going to get the team up with Phos and Cinnabar that we needed, but I wished that was way sooner because to me it seemed like Cinnabar was forgotten for most of the season. Maybe in the future arcs she'll become more important? But ya straight up, this is the best CGI I've ever seen used in a TV anime, even better than shows like Ajin I'd say. This proves that CGI can look good! Berserk could learn some lessons... This was a very interesting show, but I just wanna learn more about the mysteries of the world, I feel like we've barely scratched the surface! Overall, 8/10 |
Ligkonakos said: Areku2021 said: The weight of the alloy has slowed Phos down to where she was before getting upgraded legs. Indeed, she's also noticeably slower/more cumbersome than the likes of Bort and Dia, depending on her alloy tendrils to achieve anything remotely resembling comparable mobility (but still lacking speed). Oh yes, don't get me wrong that's true. I think my frustration came mainly from the fact that the gold/platinum alloy seemed out of place compared to the "rigidness" that consumes the show. Seemed to "break the laws" of the established physics of the show, though it did offer for some god-tier animation sequences. That doesn't really make sense though, think about it--one of the very earliest characters introduced is Cinnabar, who uses liquid mechanics just like Phos' does later. So they established very early on that fluid manipulation like that was possible. |
| Very good series, hands down the best CG show I've ever seen, this gives me some optimism on 3d animation. The backgrounds were gorgeous, the art direction was stunning, the directing was top tier and this show really made use of the advantages of CG in high intensity moments where it would've been impossible to animate things with 2D. Interestingly enough, the show also uses 2D effectively, for scenes that would look weird in CG, this show strike a perfect balance almost. The OST was nice, reminded me of the OST from Avatar and the Legend of Korra. The concept of the show, the story, the characters, all is absolutely stunning. The way the gems are represented and how well crafted they are even if they are minor characters is impressive, they all shine bright whenever they appear and leave a memorable impression, their colors aren't easily forgotten. They also all have great seiyuus. Our main character Phos is amazing, her voice acting is top tier, the changes she goes through and her charm make her a fascinating and memorable lead. Kongou-sensei is cool as fuck and his voice is orgasmic. Enough said, he is cool, did I mention that already? Contender for my AOTY in 2017 alongside with Shoujo Shuumatsu. 10/10 for me, maybe one day we'll get a sequel to this memorable experience and ride. Time to finally read the manga. |
alpha_shadowJan 31, 2018 5:17 PM
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| So is Phos a boy or a girl? I see people online using different pronouns so now I'm not sure anymore. |
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Major123 said: So is Phos a boy or a girl? I see people online using different pronouns so now I'm not sure anymore. They're all genderless according to the author, but in the original Japanese they use terms like "big/little bro" to refer to each other, but in the English translation (approved by the author) they use gender neutral pronouns. I just call them "she" usually because it's easier. |
| What a beautiful anime! I wished was more to it, I really want to read the manga. I love the characters, especially Phos, the animation is beautiful and eye-catching, and the OP and ED songs are great. I hope it gets a 2nd season. 8/10 |
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| That was a dogshit season finale. There was no conflict whatsoever. 1/5 |
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| It's rare that I like when an ending does not really end an anime, but this one is very good. This last scene with Phosphophyllite is perfect. I would love to see a sequel, but if it stays like this, I'm ok with it. The world building is awesome with all these gems and the story about humans. I want to see more things about it! The fact that there is no gender is also interesting, we can choose which gems acts more like a girl or not. My favorite part is the one with Antarcticite. The chemistry between Antar and Phos was very pleasant to watch. The flow between the dialogs is great and with the camera angles and the fluidity of animations, the fights are incredible. I loved this anime! |
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