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Feb 13, 2024
Have you ever listened to the song Digital World, by Amaranthe? How about the Nightcore version? That song literally encapsulates this anime movie.
This is a CGI anime movie about an immortal digital being becoming real, and the pains of having a physical body.
Story:
A digital girl gets a living body to find out whose screwing with digital heaven but is then immediately turned from always online to offline mode getting trapped on earth to solve a hacker issue and she meet a cool bro along the way. The story is serviceable nothing special. But the fact that this story is far more relevant now a decade
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later is quite funny.
Characters:
There's basically just two characters and you not only watch them grow together but also development of the female lead is amazing. She goes from basically being a uniform stuck up butt to learning about the real world and all the things cyber space deemed unnecessary.
Art:
medium budget CGI character and 2010's generic anime backgrounds.
Music:
The end track is played in someway during the movie and its just a decent Japanese song.
Overall:
This is a feel good movie about understanding the world and making friend with vastly different people.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Nov 16, 2023
Initial D inspired me to really try driving for fun and it worked!
MF Ghost inspired me to watch Initial D again because Initial D is just superior anime over MF Ghost.
MF Ghost relies to heavily on nostalgia for Initial D, and the original parts of its own are just too boring to care about. The main character in MF Ghost is entirely unrelatable, he's from another country and comes to Japan to find his dad and just happens to be an amazing driver by the way. While Initial D's main character is a high schooler who's been forced to drive deliveries for his dad and
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so happened to gain skill in driving because of it, which is much more relatable. While both anime's main characters are rather bland and boring from the outside MFG's has no real drive to do anything beside find his dad while being a complete saint along the way. However our boy Takumi wants to get the girl and eventually wants to become a better driver. MFG's main characters saintly attitude is actually one of his worst traits, because he's flawless we don't get to see him grow or change in anyway so unless he's racing and advancing positions, there feels like there's little to no actual story progression. The secondary, hell even the tertiary characters of initial D have better story arc's then MFG's lead character. (except Iketani.. idiot)
Now then, if you were looking for an Initial D successor for Eurobeat and cool driving you will be sorely disappointed. This anime focuses more on the outside of car related stuff. AKA bad romance and gotta find my dad stuff. The Eurobeat music is subpar to even the least remembered songs in Initial D when it actually plays. Because MFG are sanctioned races there's always an announcer talking during driving scenes and he never shuts the hell up so we can just get car and music.
Unlike most people, I do not like the fact they use a BRZ/GR86/Toyota86/ScionFRS as the leads car of choice, for one its too on the nose. Secondly unlike the Trueno 86, which was even back then just a little old unknown domestic Japanese car. This car is a pure sports car that's still in production and has always been well known. The hero car should have been something else that's very under stated like the GR Yaris or a modern Toyota Corolla, like who the heck would expect a Yaris to compete in the same league as Ferrari's? Though hidden under the hood of a GR Yaris is 310 horsepower like 100 more horsepower than the GR86. It would have that same effect as when Takumi first drove up in his Toyota Corolla, facing off against the most well known Japanese sports cars of the 1990's.
One last note: The MF Angels, girls in tiny bikinis feel like they should all be chicks with dicks or maybe its just the character models that make them look like fem boys.
Overall your better off just rewatch Initial D and all of it's movies and specials over MF Ghost.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Apr 19, 2022
If you take away one thing from this anime it will be its music, GIVE ME YOUR XTC! It has been over 10 years since I last saw the anime but I still remember and listen to all of the music, more specifically the Opening, Ending, and the OST Sexual Panic.
At first glance the big fucking tiddies make this anime seem like it's some ecchi trash, but then you notice that it has 24 episodes.
This Anime may have massive boobs but its characters outshine the boobah. Witchblade is 10% action 80% Characters and setting and 10% blood and death.
Witchblade is about a woman and her
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daughter who after a major disaster end up as one of the few survivors. As life goes on the woman is constantly harassed by child protection as she is not able to hold a job and properly support her daughter. One day CP catches up to them and takes her away and the resulting stress (alone with some odd killer robots) brings about the Witchblade, which transforms the woman into what you see on the front cover.
Story:
This anime touches on topics that are hardly addressed in any media let alone an anime. I have not seen the show on which it is based on some I only base it on its own merits. You really feel for all of the main characters and care about them by the end.
Art:
Decent mid-2000s hand-drawn in widescreen. No CGI here baby!
Music:
All of the music in this is excellent! XTC is great! the Endings beginning makes you feel as if you are coming out of your shell in a creepy dark sense. The OST is very unique and you will know when you hear only playing in the background.
Characters:
Melony is a shining example of a strong female character, not in the terms of men but as a woman, with emotional strength. You will absolutely love her daughter too who is just such a cutie, yet is also a very strong young lady.
Enjoyment:
When I watched this anime for the first time I was young and I loved it, probably the boobs and sexy fighting more than the story but I still remember the music and the two main characters all these years later fondly.
This is a good but not must-watch anime. This anime is of a higher caliber than that of modern anime that has become mainstream and standardized.
If you like Claymore/Elfen Lied/Violet Evergarden/Vivy you'll probably like this as well.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Apr 11, 2022
After watching the first two episodes I was thoroughly unimpressed.
It is basically what someone would take from Metal Gear if they only heard the phrase "A weapon to surpass metal gear" and had no context of the story characters or settings.
Firstly, let's get this out of the way this is a CGI series so it's not actually an anime. Secondly, the humans move at about 10 fps while anything not human moves normally.
Thirdly, when you actually watch the action sequences they are shooting back and forth but you only ever see one side shooting, and nothing else is happening in the scene. Some shots are
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well done but that is still hindered by three overall problems
A. The CGI style for this is... let's say not visually appealing
B. The story is a non-factor
C. There are no characters
Don't let the other reviewers who gave this a 7 or higher trick you, there is a reason why only 1,540~ people rated this(spoiler alert it's trash). If you want mindless action with subpar looking mechs and all the generic mediocrity I can see how you'd think this is good, but it is not, it's painfully average at best.
If you'd want to watch something similar to Obsolete watch Yukikaze, It has a story, it has, characters, it has actual battles in a realistic sense, it has everything Obsolete does not, and is visually much more appealing(aka the vehicles don't look like walking potatoes with guns).
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Apr 4, 2022
Let's make this quick:
Magical girls from Sailormoon? Yes
Blood? Yes
Big titties? Yes
Magical girl nude transformations? Yes
The whole concept of magical girls taken seriously? Yes
Nearly zero male characters? Yes
middle and high school girls in provocative outfits? Yes
middle and high school girls who look like 19-year-olds? Yes
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Cringe? Extreme
This show is 10% boobs 70% cringe at how serious everyone is trying to be when talking about magical girls and 20% action/blood. Honestly, I don't know who this is aimed for.
The Story sucks.
There are not enough boobs for people who like them.
The action and blood are not the main features since in plenty of scenes where people should be bleeding out there is no blood.
The characters are archetypes pulled right out of the dictionary.
The PTSD subplot is done in the most general and obvious way(basically all the PTSD tropes you can think of they did it)
Who cares about anything happening to the world/ character when the big battles happened before the anime?
Did I mention just how fucking cringe it is when the characters talk about magical girls being the only option with a straight super serious face? BECAUSE ITS FUCKING CRINGE!!!!
Wait there was music?
Trash forgettable anime, leave it in the bin.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Mar 24, 2022
A must-watch anime indeed.
If you've ever dreamed of being able to delete people with your mind this anime basically explores this idea from the hero's perspective.
The anime has far too many messages that yell in your face to all subtle and too many scenes of people crying to be emotional.
The massacres and fight scenes are pretty well done and the CGI doesn't stand out too much
If it wasn't for the last episode this anime would have rated a 9 at best, but because the final episode was alluded to so early on you already knew the ending by episode 6.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Mar 13, 2022
So this anime will have you bored to tears and completely lost unless you know one little fact this is a movie about NPCs in a video game.
This movie is hella boring FACT.
The only worth wild thing about this movie is the planes and dogfights, they are excellent.
This movie is also the sequel to the game Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces. It's just an air combat game, the important part to understanding the movie is that these characters are all clones(aka NPCs you shoot down in the game). When they die they are replaced by an exact duplicate who restarts the cycle all over
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again. The antagonist is the player of the game aka you, and in the opening scenes you are killing the NPCs under the alias of "The Teacher" whom the NPCs can never hope to match or beat "The Teacher" and they die then in a way they "respawn." The rest of the movie is inconsequential as it's just the NPCs who basically have no emotion because they are NPCs living the day-to-day life of an NPC doing whatever and then getting killed by you "The Teacher", the respawning while almost no one seems to care as they have been through the cycle so many times they can no longer feel the emotions of losing someone.
By the time you learn this in the movie, it's the 1-hour 30-minute mark and you've fallen asleep, given up watching, or are on your third sitting trying to get through this slog of a movie. Fuck the movie honestly don't watch it, go to YouTube and watch all the dogfights and call it a day.
There are no characters in this movie period. The only ones who display any kind of emotion are treated as secondary characters with no screen time.
The music is bland and forgettable just like the NPCs themselves which is why it is that way to emphasize just how boring it is to be an NPC. Voice acting is dead on arrival, in the cockpit, they always speak English and on the ground Japanese both of which are delivered calmly and with no emoting or passion, which is probably what they were going for.
The Low-quality characters with high-quality planes and backgrounds are odd. Most of the faces have about 10 lines total while everything in the background has excellent art grade quality.
Overall, as I said before fuck this movie, about NPCs because it's just as boring as you would expect NPC life to be except when they are facing the player. Watch the dogfights on YouTube and forget this movie ever existed just like the NPCs in the movie.
Once you see and watch the videogame of the same name everything will make sense and you may be deeply intrigued or just hoping you'll never see a movie like it ever again.
Now go watch Yukikaze a far more realistic and much more enjoyable OVA series about Advanced Aircraft that won't bore you to tears or put you to sleep.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Nov 20, 2021
This Anime adaption was screwed from the start. Instead of starting off on Muv-Luv extra and going through unlimited, they started right at chapter 3(Alternative) which is the most entertaining but basically loses all tension as it has an explosive beginning which brings the battle of Sadogashima to the front. Then drops to near zero completely screwing with newcomers' expectations of the series. The reason Muv-Luv Alternative worked so damn well in the visual novel is that we met all the characters in a light-hearted harem anime which then transitions into a sci-fi harem anime which then evolves into a Sci-fi, horror, end of the
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world scenario anime. The slow burn had us become attached to the characters, the Alternative world, and we really begin to care about what might become of them.
In the very first 30 seconds, they basically skip the entirety of the history of discovering the BETA. They were first found on mars then they appeared on the Moon, and the moon base Plato 1 attempted to stop them from getting to earth, battling on the moon with improvised equipment against man-eating monsters. They attempted to stop hive launchers from sending them to earth and the war was lost when one finally landed in Kashgar, China. There's far more history to it all but, nope skipped it all and the first thing they say is they came to earth.
Honestly what else could you expect from this anime? The source material is well over 50 hours of content that is 95% voice acted(MC is the only one without a voice) and the Extra and Unlimited(the Prequels) combined is another 25+ hours of voiced dialog. All of this 75+ hours of content is being compacted into 4 hours of animation and let me remind you the original content is fully colored and near full voice acted with effect sounds and minor animation. So, in the end, making it into an anime doesn't even add anything to the content (except for episode 1)besides full motion and the MC's voice while losing 97% of the original content while having a major overall downgrade in the artwork, swinging from a low budget 1990's anime to what amounts to a crappy disproportionate drawing with a moving mouth for characters at a distance of more than 5 feet.
You might as well watch the two spin-off animes which have much higher production quality. Schartzmarken has a really interesting story and Alternative Eclipse has sick battles and actually has a proper prologue for the series.
The first episode is undeniably good as it shows us something we haven't seen before, I also have to commend the character redesigns (They have much more muted colors and less dramatic designs yet you can still tell whose who right away, though the source versions are far more detailed as they are artworks) to fit the actual tone of the story better. But the rest? No.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Nov 7, 2021
Since they killed off Kagura in TFA i guess their pairing of RinxSess is to be expected, but i would have preferred RinxKohaku. Also if you think about it Kagura was only a month old when Sess found Rin.
I'll do a quick direct comparison to Inuyasha
Nudity: None
Sit boy: None
Character development: None
Training: None
Pulling new powers out of thin air: Many
A McGuffin that isnt even explained: Yes
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All female leads: Yes
Romance: None
yelling each others names: Yes
Uglier Shippo: Yes
Story: What story its monster of the weak, and unlike the original where they were team building and getting stronger though experience these characters start at a power level and only one has improved by pulling new skills out of thin air.
Overall: They draw heavily from nostaliga music opening air is basically 1 for 1 with inuyasha. The group is far smaller with just 3 instead of 6 and no character building or inner group conflict.
This is not a bad anime far better then the generic isekai trends but its a far cry from Inuyasha and feels more like a fanfiction.
Also WTF are the colored pearls?
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jun 12, 2020
It's one thing to be generic, but it's another thing completely when an anime is generic and boring.
Story:
Truck-kun strikes again, guy is reincarnated, learns magic, gets a harem, and is dragged around to do things for people, That's it. The only other thing going for this anime is if you like simps. Well is well a super simp, who agrees to everything and doesn't reject anything. Well is such a simp he doesn't want money or any of his harem of 12 year old's. Sure there is fighting but it's mostly Well standing place making a light show. Other than that it's just boring cringe
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not worth watching at all.
Art:
Generic as can be from 2010's nothing special and no hint of creativity.
Sound:
The intro is bad terrible boring. The voice actors put on an average performance, with the mediocre dialog. The music is so generic I don't even remember hearing any besides the intro. I never stayed long enough to hear the End music.
Characters:
You've got Simp 1-6 as main characters with rainbow hair. Then all of the side characters are just boring adults who tell the Mc simp what to do and he obey's. The blue hair girl is really stupid and keeps wearing her moms clothes. There is also an old guy who is really strong. Those two were the most memorable characters, not the Mc speaking of he doesn't use any of his past knowledge or experience as an adult so they could have just cut the first episode and nothing would change.
Enjoyment:
What enjoyment? There are better generic Isekai's you could be watching, and you feel it. I've tried to watch episode 9 three time but I can't its not fun to watch no cutesy feelings to feel, no awe to be amazed.
Overall:
Reading this review is far more engaging than watching this anime. Do yourself a favor and don't watch it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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