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daveykonatta · 7 years

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Now that this anime came to conlusion i wanted to share my opinion since there are too many things that I do not want to save for myself. It had some good moments and certain characters and plots that i really enjoyed, BUT:

First of all: It amazes me that the director allowed all this mess to happen, especially because he is the same person that worked in Genesis. The scriptwriter on the other hand…. What was she thinking? If she didn't understand the previous season then why she was hired to do the job? Oh yeah, it’s supposed that she has experience with romantic plots and that's why they left her do everything with Char/Nina but that isn't even well done. I know there's people who liked and loved these new characters, but lest face it: their romance was rushed and looks more like a teenager crush than the supposed tragedy and ruin they want to sell us.

Yes, they invested in beautiful dance scenes and I can tell that the first dance in episode 6 is quite enjoyable (the animators and musicians did a really great job), but the writer trying to make us feel sorry for this “sad love history" is a huge mistake when we have the rest of characters in the background strugling with significantly more important issues (I speak of slavery, oppression, murder, deprivation of liberty and poverty).

I can't feel bad for Char losing his mother if in the present they hardly give us opportunities to empathize with him and his poker face. I think that if instead of using all that screentime to see him eating, being shaved or bored in his throne it could had been more significant to lear about his past; maybe flashbacks about his mother along with the time he passed looking at that tomb (the only thing we know about him). The part that may keep you interested about him (besides trying to “understand him” as the rest of characters during 24 episodes) is to learn about this big plan he has, BUT they used this to hook the audience and keep it as the “big revelation”.

Nina on the other hand has serious emotional issues and is so unaware of herself, she started as an interesting MC with many possibilities to develop (she is so fast and stronger than any, she can turn into a dragon! She is friendly, funny and lovable) but for some reason the scriptwriter being a woman decided that we don’t have enough female characters used as the romantic interest whose goal in life is decided by the path the male chooses.

Nina spent this whole season being there, more as a viewer of the story than the one who leads it (what’s the point of the MC if is not this?), and she struggled trying to understand Char instead of thinking by herself. She chooses to hide everything from her friends about her relationship with the king only to make this plot dramatic. But when Rita, Favaro, Jeanne and the rest of characters around her start to acknowledge what’s going on NOTHING happens! At least nothing dramatic; we only have Favaro giving her love advices, and he doesn’t care much about being imprisoned who knows how much time and for what thanks to the king, he limits himself to tell her the evident, but doesnt do anything to stop the king and in fact lets him alive because of the love Nina has for him. So, the advices he gives doesn’t consider what kind of person Char seems to be and are based on his vision of love towards Amira and what happened to them, which is stupid considering who they are and the differences between their stories.

The only moment Nina makes a choice happens after one of her friends (a child) dies, thanks to her love interest orders. But the consequences and guilt of this dead are only blamed on one person (who latter payed with his life). All this to makes us suddenly think that the king has nothing to do with It because that was an old order, so Nina can move forward and love him again. Yei!

I’m not saying that Nina wanting to be with the person she choose is bad or that she is too selfish; putting aside her flaws when love is on the table, she is a good friend (she put herself in danger for them several times) the problem here is that she put this man she barely knows over a pedestal and lost herself because of this: first she is empathic when Aza was in trouble and risked her secret to save him (even when she doesn’t consider him a friend), she seems mad at the king when hears him threatening to kill the demons if Azazel doesn’t return to fight, then she tells Char that she doesn’t like him and that he is a bad king (before knowing who he was), after this she suffers with Jeanne at the prison when she told her story.

But once she finds out he is the same person she liked then everything else doesn’t matter anymore, she stops thinking about what happened to her friends, she doesn’t care about goods being killed, or demons wounded and starving on the street. In fact, the scriptwriter had the guts to use those streets where the demons are living in poverty to create a romantic atmosphere between Char and Nina. So romantic and pure

Thanks to that romantic plot that wasted time, at the end we are left with several omissions and plot holes should I mention that all the plans of the perfect and lovable king were based on a source as reliable as Martinet?. And when the moment of revelation comes (although at this point we already knew) we realized that all was for nothing: Charioce passed all those years enslaving demons, killing goods and destroying their homes, using his own people to build a stolen weapon, and then bringing back Bahamut to the Capital to NOTHING. Nina went throw this journey of self-discovery No this no, Mugaro, Kaisar and Ale died along with several others, Rita went back where she started (puppet zombies, remember?) Jeanne lost her child after being banished from her home, Aza went through his painful usage ever for NOTHING.

Favaro said it in the final cut: Bahamut is still alive, and that was obvious: we are talking about an existence stronger than every demon or good portrayed till now; Satan and Zeus sacrificed themselves only to seal him for a couple of years. But thanks to power of teenage crush it only took Nina and Char 10 seconds this time! Amazing

NOTHING else than portraying Char as the big hero who had to suffer and pay a big cost in exchange of the lives of his people. The cost of his actions: he is blind now. Another plot hole since the Onyx soldier died in very graphic ways and the power to use the weapon seemed to require a significant amount of energy, but the Ikemen Char is almost intact (I bet Mugaro will gladly choose being blind than dead).

What was the conclusion for the rest of characters? Right, they didn’t had enough time so they tells us very quickly that Jeanne lives with the goods, and decided to left Char alive, Aza went somewhere, and decided to left Char alive, Lucifer and all the high ranked demons who? are nowhere to be seen, and they let Char alive, Gabriel and the rest of goods, nowhere to be seen, and they let Char alive.

But that’s good, because now the things are different, for example the slaves are now payed and decided to stay in Anatae (of course, Cocytus was destroyed). The arena is closed. I guess, because there was no time to clarify that. (The demons of the red district are payed now, too? Or they closed the place?) Who knows. People of Anatae is now able to worship their goods again? Doesn’t matter, any of this. Because the romance between Char and Nina was the principal problem to solve. But I forget, she is mute now. So, not only she chooses everything thinking first on Char, she also payed for him. Lovely

Conclusion: They had 24 episodes, the double of time than Genesis; that should have been enough to explain things but they managed to make a mess full of plot holes and the MCs stayed almost the same through the history, the problem that they presented to us in the first 8 chapters was put aside and magical solved with money at the end, and in top of that they killed characters whose porpoise was unclear. Mugaro my poor child. Talking about animation I think it was better than Genesis, and the music is great. But as a fan of the game and the previous season it left me really anoyed. The disappointment came since chapter 12.

#shingeki no bahamut #virgin soul #i will return to play shadowverse #if you enjoyed the show good for you #just my thoughts #everyone can speak their minds

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rieshon · 7 years

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Spring 2017 Power Rankings

1 Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasuka? Isogashii Desuka? Sukutte Moratte Iidesuka?: The adaptation of my favorite light novel ended up being my favorite anime of the season. Although it only goes through three of the five books, the new truncated script penned by the original author still tells an emotionally affecting tale about the tragic hero and heroine, Willem and Kutori. It's a shame we didn't get to see more of Nephren being the best girl, but what we did get is still one of the best LN anime I've seen. The show is helped along by a magnificent soundtrack full of amazing vocal pieces that will certainly stand out as one of the best of the year come year's end.

2 Eromanga-Sensei: Another LN adaptation at number two, but the reasons Eromanga-Sensei are up here are a lot simpler. It's lewd, it's cute, it's got good girls. This show definitely had the best animation of the season (going so far to make the heroines appealing they had an animator credited as a dedicated 'Sagiri Animator') and it was used to full effect to put these heroines on display. The production is so good it even made me do a 180 on my opinion of Sagiri... but Elf-sensei will always be the best.

3 Seikai Suru Kado: This one is a surprise. Although the plot went off the rails a little bit towards the end, and we could debate the effectiveness of the ending, Kado is a surprisingly smart science fiction anime that feels more like a good novel in terms of tone and pacing than it does your average anime. The show takes its time revealing the secrets of the enigmatic "Kado" and its master, Yahakuizashunina, and although the payoff may not have been what some people were hoping for, the slow build is captivating enough to get it all the way up here on my power rankings. In fact, the plot is so good I almost forgot to mention how butt ugly the 3DCG used to animate the show is. Plus, in spite of it, Saraka is super cute.

4 Hinako Note: The first Comic Cune anime, and it's definitely what you would expect from a magazine for cute 4koma. Hinako Note follows in the footsteps of the best Kirara anime, delivering some of the cutest girls of the season -- especially Yua. It did take a few episodes to really grow on me, and some of the character quirks feel like the author is scraping the bottom of the barrel, but once I did settle in I fell in love with this cast of characters. Especially Yua. Yua dabes.

5 Shingeki no Bahamut Virgin Soul: It's more Bahamut, baybee. At least through one cours, this show is actually not quite the spectacle the original show is, using its additional length for a more character-driven buildup in setting the stage for what will no doubt be an over-the-top final battle between a bunch of characters whose names I can't remember. The new protagonist, Nina, is great (her silly romance with the human king notwithstanding) and she carries the series as well as Favaro and Kaisar ever did. I give this series a ton of credit for being patient and waiting an entire cours to start reassembling the "crew" from the original series; it really makes it that much more satisfying when we finally get to see Kaisar and Favaro working together again.

6 Frame Arms Girl: When I saw the terrible 3DCG being used in this show I was prepared for the worst, but FA Girl was probably the most surprising show of the season. It ended up having some of the silliest comedy of the season, and it really makes the most of the premise of a girl's cute girl action figures coming to life. Silly antics like the FA girls competing to see who can be the fastest to run an errand or trying to put together the ultimate hot pot despite being action figures who can't eat food were some of the most memorable vignettes of the season. Unfortunately, the show has a major case of multiple personality disorder and when its serious side comes out it's just dreadful. It wouldn't be so bad if the CG animation for the action sequences wasn't so hideous, but it is, and I found myself counting the seconds until they would be over. That inconsistency hurts it a little, but FA Girl is still a comedic accomplishment.

7 Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata♭: I guess Katou won the Rinrib Owl? The plot of this sequel is pretty stupid, revolving around a bunch of situations where the series desperately wants you to feel bad for Tomoya despite there being no reason to. That aside, the heroines are as great as ever, especially Kasumigaoka Utaha, who continues to be the most perfect woman in the world. The subplot concerning Utaha and Eriri's relationship is actually the best thing about this series, and I really couldn't give a damn what happened to Rinri-kun in the end.

8 Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism: This show was definitely a surprise. It comes off as edgy at first but rapidly becomes one of the silliest comedies of the season as our overly-charismatic hero makes short work of the cast of "villains" and engages in some top tier romantic comedy shenanigans, complete with making a gigantic boxing female bear fall in love with him. Unfortunately, that edginess does come back in the last few episodes and ends up leaving a bad taste in my mouth, but this was a solid series overall.

9 Rokudenashi Majutsu Koushi to Akashic Record: I debated all season whether this or Busou Shoujo was the better Blade Dance anime; I ended up giving Busou Shoujo the nod for being a little more original, but that doesn't mean Rokudenashi is a bad show by any stretch. The comedy and such aren't super strong here, aside from Glen-sensei occasionally being a goofball, but the real appeal is in the heroines (and their amazing school uniforms) -- this show has much better production values than Busou Shoujo and the girls are cute enough to carry it, especially Shironeko.

10 Sakura Quest: Unfortunately this show does not quite manage to fill the admittedly massive shoes of Hanasaku Iroha and Shirobako. I never really expected it to in the first place, and Sakura Quest is still a good show in spite of it. The show is a love letter to rural Japan, set against its decline, and the town of Manoyama is arguably a better-developed character than any of the heroines... wherein lies the problem with the show. These girls just aren't on the same level as Ohana or Miyamori -- those anime were undoubtedly stories about the characters' own journies of self-discovery, but here it feels like a story about the town and the girls are just kind of along for the ride.

11 Tsugumomo: This was a show that I kept expecting to drop, but every week it delivered a little more. A shounen battle anime on the face of it, Tsugumomo ends up being a great romantic comedy, helped along by the fact that Kiriha is magically turned into a loli a few episodes in and stays that way for most of the show. I wouldn't call it a harem, since most of the other heroines besides Kukuri are either mostly unappealing or absent for most of the show, but Kiriha ended up being one of my favorite girls of the season and she completely carries this show. Also, the mostly dialogue-free grocery shopping pudding adventure was one of the most adventurous things a show did this season, and it was fantastic.

12 sin Nanatsu no Taizai: It's a shame that this will always be remembered as just 'that show where the studio went bankrupt,' because Nanatsu no Sin is one of the better shinshi anime I've seen. Kitamura Eri is wonderful as sexy, big-boobed Lucifer and the antics she and her lesbian girlfriends get into are fantastic. The idol episode, featuring Astaroth as a shy YouTuber who can only communicate through moe rapping, was especially great. But as mentioned before, as of writing at the end of July the show is still not finished because of one of the studios making it going under... hopefully the last episode is not entirely terrible, because this is a series that deserves better.

13 ID-0: Sanzigen makes the cutest CG girls and they continue to succeed with ID-0. Of the full CG anime I've seen I think ID-0 is probably my least favorite, but it's still a pretty solid science fiction story, at least for a good part of it. It started to lose me at the end with the whole consciousness inside of rocks thing... Most of the cast being robots for most of the show also makes it difficult to connect with the characters, plus the girls are super cute so I'd like to have been able to look at them more. Karla was hot but she spends most of her time as a purple robot.

14 Tsuki ga Kirei: This was almost one of the most earnest and genuine depictions of young love in anime history and then they had to ruin it with that stupid ending montage. Still a really cute show though.

15 Sword Oratoria: I'll never understand why they made this instead of just making a second season of the original show. This wasn't necessarily worse, it's just strange. I enjoyed the new protagonist and her quest to create a lesbian harem but unfortunately the show neglected her more often than not to show us Aiz's boring drama or even worse, scenes from the first series we'd already seen. Needed more gay elves.

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