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Jan 23, 2023
thanks to Crunchyroll/Funimation i just saw the English dub in-theater last night and it was a great movie! :> lucky me, the theater was not even 20 miles away. if i wanna go see SAO Progressive Movie 2 i gotta drive a smidge over 50 miles to see that one. :(
art and animation weren't 'anime movie quality' but almost as good as TV seasons 1 & 2... there were a few sketchy places like... really REALLY long shots of 'main cast of characters' that were just 'vaguely' drawn and colored so you could 'kinda sorta' tell who was on-screen... but those shots were mostly cinematic
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sprawling "environmental richness of the background and foreground artists' skills" shots.
the story wasn't bad. ghmm... it wasn't as badly written as 'Rimuru-sensei special OAD episodes' at the Academy with the isekai kids were written. but it was ... ahh... not up to par with the ending half of S2 P2 ... Walpurgis and the War Against Clayman etc. so that will give you a bit of a benchmark for the movie's story in context with the rest of the franchise.
sound? not bad! :D the theater i was in had one issue. the music tracks were only playing from 1 or 2 speakers i could hear out of my right ear near the screen. so, no stereo surround sound music. but the rest of the audio: SFX, English dub actors etc. were stupendous! once more, the Funi guys (i stayed for the English credits at the end. Mr. Sabat was the boss and they recorded everybody at his OkraTron 5,000 studios in Texas) were excellent! :D
if you can, get your butt in a seat and watch this movie! if you can't, my condolences and i hope you get to watch it online/on-disk/some other way.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Dec 9, 2022
Well, this H title is this season's (Fall 2022) short format (around 7m each episode INCLUDING EndCredits) series.
The basic premise is this, one 'adult' guy and four 'young ladies' encounter each other out in the woods while he's camping and the ladies are looking for a spot to set up their tent etc. the ladies don't really know diddly squat about camping and the guy gives them some advice and shares his tent, food, fire etc. with them. they only brought a 'shade tent' which has no sides and some school backpacks with snacks etc. plus, three of the girls are hardly dressed for
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'roughing it' either. a bit of 'play' happens with one girl the guy mistook for a boy. since she dressed rather mannishly and is the only one of the four with short hair. later on in the series, to the guy and the girls' surprise we discover the guy is a new teacher at the girls' school. yup, this one is a 'teens' /with/ adult show. so if you don't like that, don't watch this one. the four girls decide that the guy will be their new Camping Club advisor since he has equipment and experience. as you can imagine the guy gets 'with' each of the girls. there is one 'group' scene, but overall the 'harem' part of this title is ... only slightly correct.
H content. a smidge of forcing, but not much. everything is pretty much the girls' idea to 'do it'. he's fit and good looking so NO FUB here. NO NTR since none of the girls or the guy is dating anybody. cherries are popped. creampies happen. i don't remember any Xray shots. oral YES. anal NO. one girl is a bit of an S&D so you get a single scene with that in it. as i mentioned there is one group scene with minimal contact between the girls. there is NO yuri/girl on girl in this series.
art, ok. it isn't terrible but it won't win any awards.
animation, not terrible either. the 'action' scenes are well done. but the rest of the show is just middle of the road.
acting, good. the ladies and the guy do sound realistic and entertaining.
sound FX, good. simply average stuff, even the wet n squishy bits.
music, great. i enjoyed the girls' singing the EP and the insert songs were fun too.
story, ahhh... decent. slightly below average for an H title. the backgrounds of the girls and the guy are barely touched upon. but the personalities of the girls are moderately well developed. the guy is meh, barely developed other than he likes camping alot and is a new teacher.
overall, if you don't mind the short episodes this show is ok. if you don't like short episodes skip this one entirely.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Sep 23, 2022
ok guys and gals, since nobody has reviewed this one just yet i'll give it a shot.
did you like the original anime series? did you want to see what happened after episode 12? do you want to laugh your A$$ off? well guess what, there was an episode 13 that never aired on TV and only showed up on the DVD/BR boxed set.
take the comedy elements of eps 1-12. remove almost all the drama, angst, worry, and abandonment issues. but keep a small amount of the action and adventure parts... and you'll get what White Fox did in episode 13!
this ep is FILLED
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with Ghostbusters parody elements. one Super Sonico short cameo. some big splashes of ecchi. the Exorcist Girls' voice actresses sing a little insert song... because girls in Japan all want to become singing/dancing pop idols. there's a good number of 4th Wall Breaks too.
animation and art. same as the original 12 eps.
same voice talents.
good sound effects and music.
still with the wonderful writing!
all in all? a wonderful and enjoyable unaired episode!
this is one of my favorite all anime-original single season shows. so why are you still reading my review? go watch all 13 episodes! :D
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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May 10, 2022
well since the best i could do was MTL auto-generated Japanese into English subs on YouTube for these three shorts... all i can tell you about them is how they sounded, looked, and that's about it.
look. looks terrible. i've seen film school student projects better than the appearance of these shorts. so, they stink. :p
sound. ok. just ok overall. specifically? the music is all synth and ok. the acting, shrug, pretty normal from the 3 VAs from the series. since the 3 eps are around 30 seconds apiece you don't get much out of the actresses at all.
overall? waste of time and effort by
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the production staff and the VAs. if somebody needed some extra pocket money for phoning in these three shorts... just go ask your mom dad or best friend for the cash.
why these were put on the disks for the series? shrug. they were a waste of MB on the disks. put some other extras on there instead. heck, soundless, un-animated character and accessory designs by the anime production staff. u know the kind? the stills that you click through using the arrow buttons on your disk-player remote would have been more interesting than these shorts.
shrug. don't bother watching these shorts. you'll be wasting your internet bandwidth and the tiny fraction of your lifespan which these shorts will occupy.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Feb 2, 2022
i watched episodes 1-4 in one sitting. i had to pause every episode in several places and just groan and shake my head and take a break. yes, this show is that bad.
i've seen 'EX-Arm' and finished it. this show is only SLIGHTLY better technically with the art and animation. like a sliver of a millimeter better. at least 'Rusted Armors' doesn't mix 2D and 3D characters side-by-side in the same scene. the animators did try, in several places, to make their characters' faces show expressions. but the writing is sub-sub-subpar compared to 'EX-Arm' storylines and screenplay.
as one reviewer stated, some running away soldiers,
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yep, i saw that scene. they look like they were animated by a 2-year-old with an Etch-a-Sketch.
'Reboot', an all CGA Canadian sci-fi show from 2000! did a better job than 'Rusted Armors' did.
perfect example, watch the EP for this show. the MC goes through several 'kata' with his sword, then his sword and firearm, and back to just his sword. this will show you how CRAPPY this team of animators was. did this team use MOCAP (motion capture) technology from the 1990's?
the synopsis of this one is wrong. change it. the word you guys were looking for is.
tokusatsu.
this is not based on a play. it is based on a Japanese 'special effects' live action experience. Super Sentai. Power Rangers. Kamen Rider. UltraMan. get my drift? they just do this one on a stage, like a play, instead of filming it for TV/movies etc. and that's where 'Rusted Armors' should have stayed.
as an anime, it is a disappointment to any computer animation enthusiast (like myself) who hopes that the number of projects using this form of media will increase and improve public opinion. but once more, i am disappointed.
skip this show. it will most probably be a waste of your time.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Feb 2, 2022
ok. this one was not quite 7 minutes long so the story is kinda lacking.
since nobody has written a synopsis to this one don't gripe at me. yes there's spoilers but sheesh, it's only a lil OVA. if you don't wanna know, don't read this next paragraph any further.
but one of the spy-girls went to the horse track and bet some unsaid amount of money on the lowest odds to win horse. it wins the race and earns her a whole buttload of cash. she then takes that cash and bets it all on some random horse that same day and that one wins
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ALSO! so she ends up with an even BIGGER pile of cash. basically a bunch of burlap sacks in a pile big enough to fill the ENTIRE rear bench-seat of their black 'spy-mobile'. so the girls sit around their secret hideout and discuss how to spend the loot. the ideas are cute, goofy, silly, serious but not probable, and finally they come to a doable conclusion. they distribute the cash to various needy groups they've come across (including my fave the 'washer girls company').
everything is exactly the same as movie 1 and the TV series before it so don't expect anything new or different or cheaper or crappier or less neat and interesting looking.
as i said before the story is a lil 'meh'. but it is so short they did the best they could with the time they had to work with. you get a few chuckles and can enjoy the 'spy-girls' doing some chatting in this side-side-side story OVA.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Dec 7, 2021
ok i'll air my bias 1st. this is the first time i've sat my butt in a theater for an anime movie. i just got back from watching the English dub in my local theater. i stood around in the parking-lot afterwards for almost an hour talking with a co-worker (who's also a big otaku and SAO franchise fan) about the movie we'd just seen .
i binged (over several weeks) all the TV episodes and Ordinal Scale either via my DVDs or downloads of Alicization since i can't afford to buy em. so i know for a fact, that anybody who thinks Aria of
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a Starless Night is just slightly above S1 TV quality and not as good as Alicization's video/art/animation quality... is a nutjob of the first degree. anybody who says that of Aria, ignore them.
i enjoyed the HELL outta this movie. there were scenes were i was gripping the arm-rests of my chair trying to not scream 'kick his ass! yes yes! slash that fokker!' (insert F-bomb there). like when Kirito's fighting the 'dinosaur monster' to save Asuna. i was that immersed in the movie.
story, doggone fun and cool and kicked butt! i liked seeing more stuff about Asuna i'd just gotten small glimpses of in the TV series. keeping her POV wasn't easy for the director n screenwriter and i think they flubbed that up in many 'classic scenes' from S1. but i know the TV 'purists' would scream high holy heck down if those scenes weren't done nigh on 1 for 1 in the movie from the 1st season. caveat, if you've just finished watching the first oh... 10 eps of S1 and went into Aria... you'll see the problem scenes in the writing. some things got changed, some lines aren't the same, some hiccups do happen. i don't like 'the new girl' Mito so much, i find her too much of a parallel in both character design and 'writing/story' with Kirito. i understand and accept how she fits into the story not told on TV, but i'm not her biggest fan.
art, my co-worker and i had to argue HARD trying to remember any CGI 'ugly/problem scenes'. there's very few! the light effects from the sword skills has MASSIVELY improved from S1. they've even included particulate data around many of the swords' edges and points during the skills. the wounds on the monsters and players has gotten more intricate as well. i did notice the town of beginnings added more yellow/gold diamond icons over the NPCs heads than the TV series used. also the central plaza scene where Kayaba gives his 'tutorial megalomaniacal speech' looks ALOT LESS CROWDED than it did on TV. it didn't feel like 10k some odd folks were standing there in alot of the frames.
sound, it may have been my theater, it may have been some sketchy recordings from Bang!Zoom Entertainment for the dub, but sometimes the actors didn't sound just right. i know, they're older than their earlier recordings! even pro VAs have voice changes over time, they're human i get that. but the music once more was stupendous! and the sound effects shook me in my chair more than once, hitting me in the gut with the impact of the sound-waves.
character, the elements of Asuna's life and how she changed in just the time from a few days before Aincrad to after the floor 1 boss fight was great work! i loved it! i already mentioned why i don't like the new girl so much, but she fit into the story fairly well. the little flubs and oops Kirito pulls are fun too! it's great to see moments where 'Jesus-kun' isn't the action hero perfectionist we all remember him as. otherwise, like i said before, if you saw S1 on TV you'll get into this movie easily.
enjoyment, hell yeah! i hope Scherzo of Deep Night comes to my theater! because i'm going to do my best to get a ticket for it if that happens!
overall, watch it. :) definitely a positive recommendation from me!
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Nov 23, 2021
since nobody decided to write a review i will. as the synopsis says, this is the unaired 13th episode that only appeared on the BR/DVD release. i guess somebody cracked the set and uploaded this ep online because it just appeared on gogoanime a day or so ago.
basically? it looks exactly the same as the TV eps... but it is the fan service filled, lucky lecher episode that probably couldn't be shown on TV because of all the 'naughty' stuff happening to an under-aged boy and the two yokai girls who appear to be under-aged. don't worry, nothing H rated happens... heck i'd barely
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rate this one an R... probably PG or PG13... if Japan showed this one on TV, it would probably have to be after Golden Time viewing hours.
story, of course it's a short ep just like the TV series so... :) not much story, just the usual fun stuff.
art, looks just like the TV series. nothing amazingly new here.
sound, same as art.
character, well Yukihaha is actually a nice lady for this one so she's way outta character. otherwise everybody's normal.
enjoyment, of course it's funny! :>
overall, if you liked the first 12 eps, you'll like 13. :D
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Oct 29, 2021
just finished ep3 a few minutes ago... and since there's so many reviews of the first 2... and it's been a while since i watched them i'll just skip my thoughts of the first 2, except in general and give you my thoughts on ep3.
the first two were fun, seeing the 'older folks' in a more established couple' backstories was fun! and seeing the 'youngest and least experienced couple' having their first 'real' date was great too!
but the company trip tops the first 2 because we get to see everybody together on that ever established in anime circles 'group vacation'... well except for the
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younger brother and his 'friend who's a girl'. :> and of course it's a mountain inn with an onsen... so there's some eye candy for the girls and the guys... :>
if you've watched the main series and the first 2 OVAs there's no loss in quality with OVA3. art's just as good. music's just as good. acting and writing's just as good. everything makes me feel like these were just 3 'full length' unreleased episodes you'd get on the DVD/BR disk extras for the main series.
after the company trip we get a few bonus bits and pieces. a 'group party' with our 3 fave couples at the Senior Nifuji's apartment. yes Nifuji the Younger brings his 'gal-pal' :D annd Nifu n Momo make plans to have a little trip with just the 2 of them.
after the fun there we get a bunch of stills in a montage of the Nifumo trip... :> a slightly but not unexpected 'surprise' series of shots of Kabanagi... doing something together we probably all expected to happen... heh! no spoilers here!
and after all that montage a bonus set of discussion scenes. Momo and Koya then Momo and Nifu Senior have a pair of 'gender bender' discussions about the couples in their little circle. :>
all in all a fun 3rd OVA and a great trio of episodes. makes me wish there was a S2... and since the web-manga allegedly concluded July 16, 2021 and OVA 3 was supposed to be bundled with the final tankobon chapter... maybe we will someday see a S2. :D
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Sep 5, 2021
story ... meh... above average for an H because it actually has a story, things change, stuff develops, through the 4 eps there's a beginning a middle and an ending... of sorts.
art, yeah you can tell it's a dated title from 14 years ago. this isn't my 1st H title from that era... i was watching them off and on even that far back. so i know, at the time this one wasn't even middle of the pack for art, animation, or overall 'man-hours' put into it. but hey, at least it's in WIDESCREEN format. :D there's a good bit of looping, not many
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amazing 'smex position transitions', but the overall 'smex' is not bad.
sound, you can tell it is baseline Dolby. i've got a great pair of BlueTooth headphones and when sounds move from ear to ear that's about all you get for dimensional sound on this show. Doppler effects don't happen so don't expect traffic or anything to approach you or drive away etc. background music, 'action scenes' mood music etc. is blah to blas`e to bad. there's only one EP song and it's your usual anime girl singing some upbeat rock/pop song. with no subs or karaoke lyrics i've no clue what it's about etc. acting, meh. ok. the girls don't have much range with their 'action scenes'... and the dude is general average dude for an anime. the 'messy sound effects' are entirely generalized. the overall normal sound effects are classic boiler-plate audio standards that anybody today could probably download off the net for free.
character, well just like the story, there's the dude, the sister, the death god girl, death girl's granpa/familiar (the floating horned skull guy) the subs i saw confused what he was several times, 2 of the sister's ladies' swim-club teammates show up for 1 scene in the final episode, but that's it for the whole cast. the 2 teammates don't do anything except have a chat with the bro and sis so don't get your hopes up for any 'other girls' getting any 'action scenes'. character development, dude... minimal. sister, yeah as usual for H she's 'ishy' about the whole 'knocker up to save bro's life'. pretty violent with her bro. beats him up now n again. buuut by the end, as i said as usual for H titles, she's gone 'boink crazy' for him. the death god girl doesn't get much development at all. she's... a dummy... naive and gullible and u know what that leads to in H titles, MainDong turns her 'boink crazy'. the granpa/familiar... shrug. i don't know why he's even in this story at all. he's got a few funny lines and 'old man' jokes here and there.
'enjoyment' yeah when i watched each episode i 'completed my mission'... but the eps were ok enough to keep going and enjoy the story and art and suchforth. i wouldn't turn the episodes off just because 'mission complete', there's a little bit of humor and drama and cliffhangers here and there.
overall, like i said this one was barely average for the period. by today's H standards this one's floating slightly above the bottom of the barrel.
as to the 'smex'... not that MAL is going to add that in for ratings. heh! i'll try and not spoil it too hard, but if you're looking to go into this one ENTIRELY ignorant, STOP READING MY REVIEW RIGHT HERE!
:D if you're looking for a NON-NTR recommendation from this ol fart otaku? there's one scene where sis catches bro 'training' with the death god girl... so there's that little bit of 'cheating'... otherwise it's a non-NTR story. no FUB. no... well there's a biiiiit of 'smexual torture' in two scenes... but it's not 'Bible Black' level in ANY way. more like, kinky H 'vanilla BDSM'. death god girl likes to watch from outside the bro n sis' house... floating around with some 'girl solo' action so if you like a lil peeping that's there. there's some FFM scenes so that's there as well if you were looking for it. unfortunately they didn't do any FF scenes without the bro so that's missing. bro gets the dummy death god girl in a changing room at a department store so there's one 'public smex' scene. yeah sorry i missed that one when i was writing about NTR earlier. bro n sis do one in the pool at school (i guess) so there's another 'public smex' scene there. toys, yup, more than one scene. if you classify toys as foreign objects yes, otherwise nope. all 'openings are filled' so if you're leery of '#2' yeah you'll have to fast-forward through those parts with both girls. bro does one 'sleeping smex' scene with sis so there's that.
as to the 4th episode, you know the whole premise of the show's story right? 'knocker up and save brother's life'? i don't wanna spoil the story so skip skip SKIP SKIP this last part if you want to watch the show because of the dramatic stuff......
ok if you don't like 'big bellies' and 'mammary ejaculation'... yeah... i'd skip the 2nd half of the 4th episode. just watch the final scenes of ep4 right before the credits start rolling and you'll 'get the picture' of the story's finale.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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