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Nov 1, 2016
I very much enjoyed this anime, thanks in large part to its cinematic direction, superb voice acting (young Satoru in particular), and music. As a non-regular anime watcher, I couldn’t get into Your Lie in April because of the strange Japanese sentiment to it, but this one doesn’t have that, which made it easy for me to fall for it.
It’s a shame that the whodunit aspect of the series pans out rather predictably (FYI, the original manga makes it clear that it isn’t trying to hide who the culprit is, whereas the anime doesn’t) and that the last couple of episodes are not nearly as
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suspenseful as the ones before. But I nonetheless liked the anime overall.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Apr 6, 2016
Um... no. Just no.
There are some interesting ideas story-wise: how the girls need to reach orgasm to be in a state of trance and turn themselves into weaponry, how there’s no absolute good and evil among the girls on the island and everyone’s just looking to escape, etc.
But it’s just downright laughable to see the girls practically have sex right in front of their enemies in the name of preparing for the battle. I mean, if you’ve ever found Sailor Moon and the like’s long-ass costume change/transformation absurd, this is going to blow your mind.
In this anime, whenever the girls get attacked, they somehow magically
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lose their clothing and get butt-naked. Plus, there are plenty of other excuses the anime makes up for the girls to go nude. The gratuitous nudity here is so excessive that it’s just distasteful and unpleasant.
The lead girl’s whiny voice and personality were instantly annoying, and even the artwork wasn’t that eye-pleasing.
The story, as I mentioned above, had potential but is ultimately dumb af. (spoiler: Am I supposed to believe that the government just stood by doing nothing while their weapons of mass destruction were going away? Making all their research go useless? I call bullshit.)
And lastly, this should be banned from being called yuri because the vast majority of the girls, if not all of them, are “doing it” to achieve a certain goal (i.e. transform themselves for a battle), not because they have any feelings for their partner.
If you ask me why I even finished watching this anime, I honestly have no idea. I must be masochistic or something.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Dec 10, 2015
A pretty lightweight affair, one that didn’t particularly entertain me but didn’t throw me off to the point of making me stop watching it either.
Just as Pokemon’s super-talented villains that always fail to capture Pikachu, the Poverty God, Momiji, invariably fails to take Sakura Ichiko’s “happiness energy” despite her godly powers. The anime gets repetitive after a while because every episode pans out almost the same way, just with different settings and minor characters. Seeing the same pattern unfold over and over wasn’t all that great an experience for me.
That said, episodes 10-13 take an entirely different turn from the usual, though I’m not sure
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if that was any more successful. For an R-rated fare (in Japan anyway), the anime felt strangely childish, despite the all-too-often gratuitous nudity and sexual jokes.
The story had potential, and it could’ve no doubt benefited from being told in a more subtle and mature way, which is why the anime’s approach was disappointing. There’s a teenage girl who is spoiled and selfish because of her excess wealth and beauty. In comes a god, who wants to take away the girl’s good luck. The girl resists strongly and seemingly manages to keep all her good luck to herself, but through her time with the god, she slowly and gradually becomes a changed woman, one who is able to share her luck with others when need be. You could say the god is an anime-style interpretation of a girl’s inner growth.
I realize that I’m not the anime’s target demographic. I rarely ever watch animes (no worries, the irony of me joining this website certainly didn’t escape me), so I’m not familiar with a lot of the numerous other animes it pokes fun at. The more you know, the more you see; so perhaps those who are well versed in Japanese animes may find this enjoyable. For me, though, it was pretty mediocre.
p.s. I wish the anime had spent more time on the Poverty God, Momiji, because I liked her character design and felt she had too little screen time of her own.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Nov 28, 2015
This anime is so wildly inconsistent -- the first half was thoroughly enjoyable whereas the second half was unfathomably frustrating to watch.
The first half was fun and exciting. It took some time getting used to the replaced voices (although I couldn’t ever get used to Hisoka’s new voice), and it was irritating to see blood get replaced by flowers and whatnot at the beginning, but these minor issues could easily be forgotten because the series in general was so charming and delightful. The characters had distinct personalities, and the story had momentum as well as consistency. Plus, I enjoyed watching the close bond between Gon
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and his friends.
The Hunter Exam and Zoldyck Family arc were excellent. The fight scenes were interesting and fairly realistic (such as when Gon’s stubbornness brings him victory over a more physically powerful opponent). And the fact that the characters were acting out of clear motivations (e.g. Gon and Killua out of friendship, Killua’s butlers out of loyalty, etc.) came across as genuine. The Heavens Arena arc was great, although with the introduction of nen, it felt like the action suddenly got much bigger. The Yorknew City and Greed Island arc were okay, though the latter took some time to get used to.
But that Chimera Ant arc was an atrocity, horrendous beyond belief. It was a struggle to finish watching the damn thing. I’ll provide the reasons below:
- It is an understatement to say that the Chimera Ant arc is slow-paced. It’s so mind-numbingly slow that I couldn’t get through an episode without fastforwarding it. In fact, there’s a part where a character says, “It’s only been 5 minutes,” when the actual running time of the event is going over 20 minutes at that point. In the Chimera Ant arc, it takes as many as five episodes to cover a single fight (or at least it feels like it).
- There’s far too much reliance on narration and exposition. In fact, this may be the most problematic aspect of the Chimera Ant arc. Without exaggeration, nearly half of the running time is filled with an old guy pretentiously narrating unnecessary and meaningless information.
- The action just keeps getting disproportionately bigger and bigger. I know that that’s a problem that all shonen animes/mangas share, but it really gets out of hand in the Chimera Ant arc. Throughout the first half of the series, Hisoka was considered one of the world’s most formidable forces. Then come Chimera Ants, who could’ve squashed Hisoka in a second if they wanted to.
- Chimera Ants seriously lack character and charm. Sure, outwardly they’re diverse -- they’re shaped like various animals. But compared to Gon and his friends or the members of the Phantom Troupe, they’re so bland and boring, devoid of personality and not nearly intriguing enough to care about.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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