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Apr 26, 2018
"Fate extra last encore is made so it can be viewed by newcomers and old fans alike" - says the lying mushroom.
So Nasu lied again, in other words bears still shit in the woods. This is the guy who said that the tsukihime remake is still undergoing while playing bloodborne while getting others to write for him. Nasu's word hold as much weight as toilet paper, and you can use it as such. But there is a more important issue we need to tackle, and that is why does this exist?
As a long term fate franchise viewer, I am up to date with the most
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recent patches and nerfs of the franchise. So I have a question, why make another alternate timeline for FE, especially when it is obviously getting pruned?
Yes, FELE is a pruning event, 990 years in the future, humanity near extinct, hakunon lost to twice. For all extent and purpose, this is a pruning event. You aren't going to continue this timeline, TM, and you know it.
The official timeline is, FE -> CCC -> extella (roughly, even though they technically are still separate timelines), FELE fits none of these. Hell Twice is nicknamed 2030, not 3020.
So, the anime in addition to being impossible to understand for newcomers, it is also fanfic for FE. It reuses everything from FE, and brings nothing new.
Why, WHY DON'T YOU JUST ANIMATE FE then? or Extella/zero (ie. FE under a different name)
WHY, what is the purpose of this show!?
I have no problem with TM reusing old characters and setting, FGO CCC event did that, but hey at least CCC event still provided some new lore and setting, it is not 100% reliant on CCC (maybe 80%), or when rasputin dug up Kirei's corpse, at least we got rasputin from that, and rasputin interaction was new.
What is FELE bringing? nothing. You can't watch this without knowing deeply about FE, but if you know FE, why watch this show instead of the actual continuation of the timeline?
In short, official TM fanfic (as canon as carnival phantasm), no need to watch, just go play FE.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Feb 8, 2018
Emmmmmmmmmmmm, friendship and camaraderie are good and all, but are you sure you are not using the wrong series to do it Nagai?
So Railgun S1, what to say about it, the fact Nagai butchered Kamachi's script?
The fact Nagai portrayed the series wrong?
The fact the anime can be considered non-canon because how much it conflicts with Kamachi?
Or the fact that the theme Nagai is advertising is horribly incompatible?
When you are doing an adaptation, you can change insignificant details but the core should remain the same. But with Nagai, the core is completely changed.
Nagai failed to understand how academy city is, especially shown with his villain, Therestina.
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What a disgrace of Kihara.
The fact is that academy city espers are all disposable, why are you, as a kihara, repeatedly stating the obvious and truth?
Yes, Toaru series setting is not one that tolerates the power of friendship. Friendship is nice and all, but its not going to cause a miracle and allow them to punch outside of their weight class. There is a reason that railgun is labelled as the kid zone of the toaru series.
Also having Misaka denying the claim is a joke, especially later on, which shows YES, she is a lab rat, living in her little comfort zone, while the big boys solve the real issues. And even LV5 are just slightly more valuable lab rat, but just as replaceable, and she is not even a piece on the board.
Now that is just sad, and it isn't something simple friendship can fix.
Really, just read the manga and ignore the anime, since it is non-canon anyway, if you want to just watch Railgun S 1-16 and ignore the rest.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jan 2, 2018
All hail Marisbilly Animusphere! Visionary of Clocktower, unrecognized genius within 12 lords, the ONLY magus smart enough to realize you can't research the root if the world goes kaboom.
What a year it have been, from Sakurai to end with Meteo, from the urban sin-filled Shinjuku to the mysterious Salem. Another harsh year pasted for Chaldea crew while they deal with issues while wiping the clock tower's butt.
By the way the Clock Tower F***ed up again, not that this is news, since within the three pillars of Mages, Clock Tower is at pretty much the bottom of the barrel, with an intelligent lord ratio of 2/12.
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(one being Waver, the other being Marisbilly).
Anyway, Moonlight/Lostroom, is a prequel to FGO Cosmos in the Lostbelt, so if you don't have a DEEP understanding of Nasuverse ins and outs, and is not up to date with the most recent major Nasuverse events you are not going to understand a thing. So no need to watch this if you are a newcomer. Think of Nasuverse as a game, this is the patch of the latest version, with all the nerfs and buffs, which is incompatible to old versions.
As for the rest interested, here is a plot summary/review (FULL Spoiler)
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Moonlight/Lostroom deals with the aftermath after cleaning up the sub-singularities after Romani's self-detonation to defeat Beast 1, with the Quantum time locks restored and Human Order fixed, Chaldea finally returned to the regular timeline as the world outside is no longer an incinerated wasteland.
However, the world still missed a year due to Goetia (Human Order Correction Protocol), in addition, so the Clock Tower with their usual "didn't do anything, but want all the benefits" attitude decide to use the chance of the Animusphere family's chaos over losing their lord again to steal away control of Chaldea and rip it to pieces and sell the remains.
Yeah, the Clock Tower are assholes with no foresight (the fact Chaldea saved their asses multiple times in the past 2 years seem to be completely ignored in their fit of greed and arrogance), unsurprisingly. Luckily Chaldea is bought entirely by another unknown magus family entirely before this plan came into fruition, and as a result, they are planning to welcome the new director to Chaldea. This is where Moonlight/Lostroom began.
The timeline within the OVA, seems weird, but it is actually very simple, if you understand what is happening.
Moonlight/Lostroom is a special room in Chaldea that is said to show you what is lost, and basically conducts therapy on those who enter it. (Also seem to function more powerful to those who have high leyshift adaptability, we'll get to that)
As a result, majority of what happened is a dream-sequence, only two things is real, Ritsuka entering the room and everything after him leaving.
The first part before he enters is a dream sequence of Olgamary, who after getting tossed into Chaldeas and incinerated, might have fused with it and became a higher being (at least I am 90% sure it is her, plus we are missing Laplace). As a result, she doesn't really realize she is sort of dead and her dream-sequence consists of knowledge that should only be known to very little, and why there is a very cryptic speech from Beast 1 in her dream sequence.
Besides background knowledge on Chaldea's formation and important devices, the most import part is Goetia/Flauros's discussion with Olga. He states that the current Human Order, while beautiful is still very fragile, a single mistake from the current humans could end it all. He (in his own misguided way) tried to remove all the pebbles from the path, and while he failed (lost to Ritsuka and Romani) he believes that there must be more people to carry the burden to face what the future holds. So he asked Olga whether she would choose to become a burden or one who carries the burden or one of the pebbles on the road, before Olga could come up with an answer, Goetia/Flauros's ghost/memory left the room.
Second part, after Ritsuka, enters deals with his thoughts on him position, that even though he have managed to defeat Beast 1, 2, 3-R and the demon pillars, he felt his limits as a regular human that can't be overcome no matter how hard he trains. But decides that what matters most is him giving it all he can, that is what the "Last Master of the Human Order" should do, that he is not defined by his limits but his efforts. This also answered some of Olga's own doubts, therefore she left the room.
The last major part, is Ritsuka suffering from another heavy "dream". As long-term FGO follower should know, having contracts with hundreds of servants and having a VERY HIGH leyshift compatibility (he is basically a mini-throne at this point). Ritsuka suffers from "dreams" a lot, which is sort of soul-out-of-body/leyshift experience, it got so bad at some points that Dante have to routinely enter his mind to clear out some of the debris left in his mind so his soul remain healthy. (I don't think he actually have regular dreams anymore)
This time, triggered by the Lost room, Ritsuka "dreamed" of meeting Galahad(?), who questions his decision on stopping Goetia's incineration plan, stating that regardless of whether Goetia did it or not, Human Order possesses no future,and a burned ruin might be preferred to what comes next. Confused over Glahad's statement, Ritsuka is woken up by the sound of Romani and find himself back in the Lostroom.
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Overall, it is a very good prologue to Cosmos in the Lostbelt, and a toast to another year of epic adventures within the sea of time.....as long as Minase is not writing.
P.S. Marisbilly turns out is also a talented scientist (he managed to rope in some fellow cosmic ray physicists into Chaldea), and holds one the 4 remaining contracts with Atlas. Man, can this man be anymore awesome! Kind of explains why the other lords consider him a weirdo/sham, which is so funny. One of the only two smart lords in Clock Tower, who contributed the most to society, managed to create a highly advanced mage-craft and technology organization that can save the world, and could be the closest to actually reaching the root with highly advanced ideas and visions, is looked down by idiots who thought he was a sham.
Once again, I felt puzzled ever since Helena's assassination, why the Clock Tower haven't collapsed in on itself yet due to its stupidity.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jul 26, 2017
Garden of Avalon, also called GoA is a series of short story focused on TM's version of King Arthur mythology. Personally I consider it one of the more interesting works Nasu had wrote, the story is told through Merlin's flash back from the moment Arturia pulls Caliburn to her eventual death after FSN.
GoA is written as a way to re-conciliate the differences between FSN, FHA, and FZ, since Gen's FZ managed to attract a lot of hate on Arturia and conflicted with plot points in FSN. As a result Nasu actually had to move his ass to release GoA to fix this issue, clarifying once
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and for all, TM's version of King Arthur.
Overall, GoA is a series of pretty well written short stories that function as a bedrock for later works of Fate franchise, especially post-FGO age, as a lot of the plot points and story elements of GoA boomerangs back into focus.
Overall, if one wish to get deep into the fate universe GoA and clock tower 2016 are some very important short stories that need to be checked out. As they both flesh out characters with a small but well written narrative.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jul 25, 2017
[Spoiler Warning]
Which is the worst TM work?
hard to say, some might say FA, others might say FP fragment. Personally, after looking over the romance and horrible horrible writing of both, I conclude, that FA is slightly worse than FP fragment.
FP fragment, is the reboot of FP timeline, written by Sakurai, Nasu's right hand women. Having a female write a female protagonist seem like a good idea, but Sakurai have one serious problem.
Mainly her mary-sue tendencies and her terrible grammar skills, oh god.
I am not a man who is picky about grammar and writing skills, but when the audience is having trouble understanding what you are
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writing, you need to consider looking over on what you are doing with your life. Sakurai loves putting internal monologues that completely break tempo and immersion, while describing things through internal monologue, which can get really grating.
Paired with how insufferable her Mary-sue tendencies get with Manaka and gross under use of certain characters, we have a recipe for a very terrible work.
However there are upsides to Sakurai in comparison to Higashide. One, Ozymandios and Arash are some of the most cool character she have designed and parts about them are actually good. Second, besides arthur's questionable white knight brain deadness and Manaka's Mary-sueness aside, there is actually few "special" thinking process in comparison to Higashide's FA, the plot is actually more solid than Higashide's FA, Manaka curbstomp the competition, horribly maims the contestants, arthur see she is evil, backstab next to grail, simple and effective.
Overall, while fragment is a pretty terrible work, there are a few spots of shine buried below the turd, dig at your own danger.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jun 2, 2017
"Arc-V is the best YGO since Mugen" - Me, 2015
Oh Arc-V how did you go so wrong, you promised me so much, yet you failed to deliver. I really need to learn from Sagume to stop from praising so much until you were done.
YGO Arc-V is one of the most spectacular failure within YGO history, it is one of the best example on how to mess up what you promised to your audience. So let us dissect it carefully to see how it fails.
Arc-V plot began with Yuya's story in the Standard world, at this point, the story was like a mystery, we followed
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two route, one bright route, with Yuya where we see the daily life stuff, all happy and that stuff, while a second route with Yuzu were we see the dark menacing plot about an inter-dimensional war with hints that something sinister and evil lays dormant underneath the fragile scenary of happiness.
It was this initial story telling that drawn me in, the contrast of light and dark, kept me intrigued and full anticipation. At this point the story was very good, we follow Yuzu for the truth and Yuya for the lies.
However it was at episode 50 after the invasion by the obelisk force, that the story began to degrade, the first was the introduction of the theme of "EGAO", I guess the point the directors are trying to make was to try to reach the happy ending no matter what, always try to do the best, all that stuff. But the issue with this is that the authors have no idea how to show this idea. And this issue showed severely in the Synchro arc.
For the entire Synchro arc, the issue was the war between the poor and the rich, the idea of elite vs commoners, the powerful vs the weak. How a world torn between the two would end up so badly. This issue is not something that can be solved easily, and it showed not just by the forced tournament arc that killed the pace, but also in the ending, with all the EGAO world things.
As a curiosity I asked the Author of YGO Mugen, AiYe, on his opinion on the Synchro arc. His resulting opinion is that the Synchro Arc should end with Synchro world destroyed, showing that divided we fall, also to avoid actually giving a solution to this problem because there is no solution. Synchro Arc should have erupted into a war arc, with Shinji leading one side, against the elite council and roger on the otherside, with Fusion mopping them both up. Instead it ended on "EGAO".
This is the source of all the issues with Arc-V, for a show about a war between four dimensions, the show itself is caught between two dimensions, on one hand eager to tackle hard deep problems, on the other hand it needs to appeal to young kids who can not understand this. Unlike YGO Mugen, the demography of Arc-V and the people who follow it are completely different, and in its effort to appease both, it failed spectacularly, ending in a way, neither appealing for the older demography, nor the young demography.
Second issue would be the pacing, like I said Synchro killed the pacing of the show with the tournament arc. It basically did a reset on all progress of the story and repeated the story of Standard, Tournament->Obelisk->Yuzu runs->Yuya confused about EGAO. This basically wasted 50 episodes, and its not like there aren't the pieces to improve it. Shinji's existence should have been the core of the arc, it should be about the commoner and elites go to war, to both gave Yuya a sight of the darkness so that he may grow and understand what it means to face adversity and smile at the end. Instead with the killed pacing it rushed the XYZ and Fusion arc with bad episodes that topped Nico's bad review list. Such a shame.
In the end Arc-V is a show that got crushed under its ambition and its own lack of skill. A shame for the show that had the potential to rival YGO Mugen.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Jan 23, 2017
Fate zero, a fun show, it is the kind of show where the first time you see it, you are awed by the entire sight of a marvellous castle, but when you look closely you discover the whole thing was built with toilet paper.
What I'm saying is, it is a fun pretentious show, sasuga Gen, the previously most overworked writer in the medium. Pissing on Gen aside, it is a fun show if you purposefully ignore some of the "small" problems like the bullshit debate of king's banquet, the edgy misused philosophy of the train track problem and the fact for a "battle royal"
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there isn't much fucking tactics involved in it. Hell, FE had more planning going into each battle and FE was literally a fucking tournament.
Story - 6
So basically there is this "not-omnipotent" cup that everyone thinks is omnipotent for some reason, and no one knows it was corrupted since the third grail war. So a bunch of ignorant magus host the fourth war, featuring Kiritsugu "Muh ideal" emiya, Tokinomi "I'm full of flags" Tohsaka, Kirei "Rejoice", Waver "the only one who act like a person", Kariya "Suffering", the comedic murder and a moron who was winging it and got killed.
Yes, I do have a pretty low opinion of Zero masters besides Waver, who seems to be the only one who want to win and understands that you need a healthy relationship with your servant to do so. Even if you don't win you still get something out of this experience, something that seems to fly over the head of most masters except for ryuunosuke and later on kirei (who was also the other master that got a happy ending).
But anyway, a bunch of fighting occurs, cup blows up, go watch FSN. FZ does wrap up most of the plot lines while leaving some for the Sequel-prequal.
Character - 8 or 4 depending on character
FZ character are into two tiers, those that are written well, and those that aren't.
Good: Waver, Rider, Kirei, Iri, the comedic caster duo
Mediocre to bad: Everyone else
This is because, Gen kind of reduced everyone else to mouthpieces or plot devices, like poor Assassin (poor Zayd, King Hassan is going to kill him/her for performing so badly in this war). Especially Kiritsugu and Saber, who both got turned really awfully childish in some ways. Arturia wan't really that strict to Knight's ideal, and did a lot of underhanded tactics, which is why Tristan said "King didn't understand hearts" in the first place (and Tristan's words are not a good measurement in Nasuverse, neither is Lancelot's words). So kind of OOC for fans of other fate works, it is amazing that Gen got the duo through the war using plot armour, considering a relationship this bad is pretty much suicide for a master-servant pair.
Overall, enjoy some ignore others, anytime a character spews amateur philosophy turn off your brain.
Art,Music - 9
Good, no other words are needed.
Overall - 7
Fun pretentious work, okay as a standalone, some problems as a fate entry. Overall, it is an okay time spent, you would probably only regret wasting half of your time on this mess.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jan 23, 2017
With the FGO china server having their new year draw, I thought "Hey why don't I write a review for the FGO anime, maybe the karma of introducing new wallets, I mean, fans to the franchise would allow me to draw the Okita that I always wanted."
So here it is, Fate/infinity crisis. Or that is pretty much what it is.
First of all, since the anime is nothing but advertisement and a celebration/mourning of the death of doctor Roman, I will be talking spoilers for the game. If you are just going to watch the OVA, I gave it a 5, it is average,
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some nice fight scenes (Okay, ONE good fight scene), overall, none nasuverse fans aren't going to understand anything. And regular watchers can stop now, as for all you other curious people who don't understand anything about what is happening and want to know, full spoiler train ahead.
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Fate Grand Order, is the combination of all fate series so far, apocrypha, extra, zero, sn, etc. it is the fate franchise version of the infinity crisis and the largest, LARGEST work yet, both in scope and storyline. Unfortunately some of the early writing was handled by Sakurai (WHO WE DON'T SPEAK ABOUT!), so it leaves a bit to be desired, but most of the story is actually fine and far more grounded than zero and FSN (no more muh ideals)
The story is, the Nasu parallel multiverse is ending, because "someone" or "something" destroyed the linchpins of human history (also called quantum time locks) and incinerated all of human history. The only organization left is Chaldea which is left drifting in a fractured uncertainty of history, the last of mankind, with around 20 people left. But have no fear, as Chaldea is a super organization established by Marisbilly Animusphere, the only human magus in the history of nasuverse who won the grail war of his timeline and actually made a wish that isn't stupid. (infinite money to build his super organization, my god, someone stop this man before common sense overflows nasuverse!)
So with the infinite money he got, he bought magic and technology from all the different magus and science organizations around the world, salvaged the fuyuki summoning system into the FATE summoning system, inducted talented people of all fields together all with the intention of ensuring mankind future. Such amazing common sense and action, SEE, this is how you become the ally of justice Kiritsugu.
So basically Chaldea is the fate version of the avengers, the storyline follows Chaldea's journey travelling into singularities in the past to fix history as they face off against unprecedented threats in the Nasuverse, along the way, many heroic spirits would be met and long story arcs with each servant would follow.
Regular viewer: But wait why don't they just use time travel to make sure the bomb doesn't go off? (I am so much smarter than the author)
Don't worry self inflated viewer, cause that doesn't work, I said messed up history remember? In the nasuverse you can't actually change the past, cause if you do it you just end up destroying the timeline and you all die anyway, which is what happened here, someone forcefully changed the past resulting in the destruction of the timeline and Chaldea is there to remove the source of the problem. So you can't actually change the past, so any time you feel like "time travel would easily solve it", you are adding to the problem.
Overall, FGO is perhaps the most grounded storyline yet, why do Chaldea save the world, unless you want to cope inside the facility and play ping pong with Da Vinci for the rest of your life drifting in a sea of quantum uncertainty, you have to save the world. The characters have growth, steady growth from living and talking with people, no empty philosophy debate like in zero (king's banquet). Overall, it is fate living up to what its truly is at its root, it is a shounen, a slightly dark and occasionally pretentious one, but a shounen none the less. Most of all fun (Okay, not the Gacha, that thing is cancer).
Overall, if this anime grabbed your interest, take a look at the game (Skip Sakurai's part) and the story, it is a good entry into the fate franchises and better than zero and SN in some parts.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Oct 17, 2016
In a classroom of Isekai anime, Re:zero would be the edgy kid who screams "F*ck the man" while having no idea what its talking about.
Ah, yes, Re:zero.
"Read the source, it explains everything!" They said.
"Subaru totally grows and matures and is realistic!" They said.
"You just hate him because you like Gary-stu!" They said.
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You know what, I read the WN even further than you LN fanboys so I can criticize Re:zero all I want.
Story - 2
Re:zero starts with a boy named Subaru transported to another world then death, suffering and screaming happens. You see the fanboys like to pretend there is this cool mystery about why he got transported or who the witch of envy is and how the stake is totally high cause the world might end.
But it doesn't really matter, you see Re:zero uses the classic style of shitty mystery called "making the character retarded and never ask the crucial questions" such as Subaru never ask how he got transported or how his power works.
"It is a deconstruction of Isekai work, huh dun dun, those characters never ask, huh dun dun". Then you are not being realistic are you? score 1 for hypocrisy, just to rub salt in the world, a lot do ask. So Re:zero is merely deconstructing a straw man it created in its head.
Why does Subaru act like a hot-head moron? "It deconstructs the shounen like protagonist, huh dun dun." Ignoring that a lot of the shounen like protagonist actually fight pretty smart and knows what they are doing.
Why does the other characters never talks regularly? "Because this is a deep mystery and there are conspiracy's and stuff, huh dun dun." Which they immediately start explaining when the protagonist is about to loop, so Realistic.
Why does the evil witch cult characters act like rejected Danganropa characters? "Cause that is what scary crazy villains act like, huh dun dun!" So scary, guess that's why I was in tears laughing. I guess Hannibal lector, Yohan and all the other villains are total failures compared to the magnificent Re:zero.
And these pretty much is where Re:zero's plot fails, it tries to hide its generic "girl world guy" plot behind the excuse of "deconstruction" and "mystery" yet it fails to understand the very thing it is talking about. Isekai stories have a lot of varieties, everything Re:zero does had been done and made better in other places. On its own it is a shitty mystery, cause magic, there is no logic behind it, in fact if I sum up the answer to the mystery from even the later arcs it is summed up as "The Witches did it!"
Character - 2
Subaru is the creation of an author who is up his own ass, about how he is amazing for going against the common flow. And this is true, you can actually find interviews or replies from the author anytime someone criticize him for creating an unlikable protagonist.
"No no, I meant to do that." Yeah, you purposely created garbage, good job.
For all the fanboys defending Subaru is realistic or would grow, allow me to let you in on a little secret.
You know how he whines and push the blame onto everyone else, act like a prick, and never thinks before charging into something?
That never goes away, ever.
In fact he gets a character reset every arc, which goes, loop - bullshit happens - whine - loop - breakdown and scream at people helping him - loop - miraculously solve things because of luck - reset character arc.
So tell me, how can a man that never grows be realistic?
"You're just a hater, why you read/watch it if you hate it so much. You just don't understand."
Beyond Subaru the amazingly emo MC, the other characters are not that good as well, since time loop, there is basically no consistent growth. Especially Emilia whose characteristics never moves past the "nice lonely love interest", I literally cannot think of another word to her personality, she is blank.
Rem and Ram have a bit of character, but Rem suffers from character rewrite as she is in love with the MC to an unbelievable extent. And they get toss on to a bus anyway.
Others doesn't matter, they appear, they leave, leaving no long lasting impact as the story doesn't revolve around them.
Art, Sound - wasted
Overall - 3
Garbage torture edgelord material, if Akame ga kill and stein's gate had a baby, this would be that. And on the quality side, this definitely approaches akame ga kill's horribleness more.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Oct 16, 2016
[Spoiler Warning]
Go to another world stories are easy to write, it is an undead horse that will keep having people ride it, hit it, mock it, praise it. At this point even "subversions" have become its own cliche.
So anyway, Re:zero, a show that is pretty bad, which was basically torture porn for 2-cour. A lot of people already shat on the anime so I may as well do it for the source.
At the time of writing, I have finished all the LN and gotten into the next arc of the WN, and ohhhhhhhhhh god is it horrible.
Plot - 3
First of all, the writing is
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terrible and no it is not the translation's fault, the actual writing is bad, as it is hard to keep track of what the scenario the author is describing. It is very bland, descriptions lack the whimsical charm of LN but are not artistic enough to be taken seriously. In addition the pacing is atrocious. Three arcs in and around 10 theoretical vols, we still have no idea what's the story behind this world or get any progress in the king election. In fact the story introduce a bunch of witches who explains...roughly nothing important, and serves only to provide more mystery.
And that is what Re:zero is, it is a dumb mystery that is really generic if they just explain it straight to you. In fact 3 arcs in, the main plot could be explained pretty much as "yandere girl (probably Emilia as a twist) likes scum, so fuck up world for scum, probably due to time travel or something."
And there is no funny plot or hijinks or anything interesting besides the shitty mystery and torture porn.
Character - 2
Oh boy Subaru, fan boys defend him for being "super realistic teen" and all that garbage. But then you find out he is the chosen one, oh yes, turns out the book that the witch cult have prophesies his action or something like that. And he have high compatibility with witch powers, what ever that is.
Did I also mention the witch did all the crap for him to make him feel better about himself?
Yeah, excuse me for not sympathizing with a scummy whiner whose the source of the problem!
Oh yeah, and his whining never get better, in arc 3, he had a talk with his father in a dream illusion. And you would think he is now a changed man as his father says he is proud of him. Nope, next few chapters he is sprouting hate speech at the twin tail loli from the mansion for saving him, being a vile scum once more. This isn't realism, this is an edgy teen with bipolar disorder. And you know what the author rubs it in by saying, he meant to create such a scummy character and it was quote on quote a deconstruction and criticism. I don't think making a straw man counts as criticism, as much as I hate these go to another world story, few of them sink to the despicable low of Subaru, at this point you are no longer making a deconstruction but a hate fic. Not helped that Subaru suffers or succeeds on a whim, when he fails it is because a random bullshit pop up, like the rabbit monsters in arc 3, when he succeeds it is through luck because a character suddenly does exposition for him telling him literally what he needs to do next.
Yeah fuck Subaru, as for the other characters, they don't get much spotlight cause this is Subaru's story so we are stuck with this asshole forever.
Overall - 3
This novel is garbage, whether in WN or LN format. There are ways to have a scum MC, if you are tongue in cheek about it and satirizes it. But that is not what this is doing, this is having torture porn and scum MC while being 100% serious, resulting in everything being unlikable and characters acting like they are complete morons.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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