Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
beeper2beeper
Story: 5/10
This story is pretty average. It asks the existential question of "how much of yourself can you lose before you're no longer human" but with mystery "matter." The story is a bit confusing at first but it gets better by the end. There are a few twists here and there, but if you watch a lot of anime you can see it coming. I do like that they tried something new in the genre
Art: 7/10
You can tell there was some budget that went into the serie. It's simple, but there's a lot of panning shots and still parts for limited animation. It isn't MAPPA quality but there is a variety of camera angles and interesting shots every once in awhile
Sound: 5/10
The music is neat. The voice acting is what gets me. I watched the dubbed version and the girl MC voice annoyed me, so I couldn't fully…
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Aico is an anime about what it means to be human. I'd like to say it tackles this question quite well - generally speaking, when it comes to being an interesting piece of media though it really fails to be anything other than mediocre.
For such a theme based around being human, you'd think there would be a focus on making the characters believable people with motivations you can understand and stories you can relate to. Unfortunately it does not do this. Almost every character is forgettable, I only remembered two of their names (the two leads). The two leads do have a fairly interesting relationship, I can't say much because that's spoiler territory but they grow well together - my only gripe being the weird 'love interests' thing that seemed to be hinted at. Only Aico was an engaging pr…
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*No Spoilers*
Summary:
A.I.C.O. Incarnation is a sci-fi-thrill story with a unique and interesting plot and world. The dialogue, voice acting, and characters are a relative weakness, but the show is generally engaging and interesting. If you enjoy plot-driven sci-fi shows and don’t mind under-developed characters, this may be of interest to you.
Story: 7/10
The plot is intriguing, although the story is not always clear, and the viewer is thrown into the middle of a scene without any background knowledge at times. The plot is a relative strength for the show, and is its most redeeming quality. It is unique, and the world-building is interesting, although the story is sometimes predictable.
Art: 7/10
The art style is simplistic but pretty. It is fitting for the story and helps to illustra…
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One thing you cannot take away from A.I.C.O and is worth witnessing even if you don't make through the entire show, is the artwork. It's superb, horrific, fascinating, creative, disgusting, and definitely a direction that is rarely pursued. They start and end strongly in this area, and if you are a fan of animation and art in general this show is worth the watch for the visuals alone. With that said, **SPOILERS** ahead.
What makes the artwork great is "The Matter". What the hell is The Matter? It's basically a "grey goo", but based on multi-cellular organisms and how they form structures at the cellular level. In the dangerous zone The Matter occupies, it is absolutely everywhere, convering absolutely everything. More than that, it is capable of forming all kinds of disgusting structures…
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All I really have to say about this show is that it was solid in almost every aspect. It wasn't ground breaking or a masterpiece but solid. The one issue I really have is that besides the MC, none of the other characters are memorable. But the show never lingers on things for too long and I really appreciated the ending. As for the art and sound, they were good, I was never upset with how things looked or moved or sounded. The Opening was kind of catchy and I loved the accompanying visuals. The visuals themselves give the anime a nice almost retro style. The CG wasn't particularly bad either as in they made it blend pretty well with the 2D elements. Overall It was a good show but with better characters it could have been improved but it was still fun to watch and I would recommend it for p…
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I watched the first 3 episodes in regular speed and I watched it in 4x speed for the rest, just to finish the series before definitively saying that the show is garbage.
What's good about this show? I struggle to say. Perhaps the animation is pretty decent quality, and no bad CGI was used for the monsters, but it was actually well animated.
Other than that, nothing. This show is one where the story is just rushing past everything at a breakneck pace in order to cram enough plot to get to the conclusion. What I mean is that you're given info dumps left and right, and random characters you don't know very well and never will know very well will be pulling the plot forward. You never really get to understand much of the combat, nor does the show care. There's no relevant development of any…
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Can I like just cry? It's a fun trip, good company in characters, like it's in an early 2000-2010 style. It's pretty dang well put together with some interesting questions and ideas presented. I just can't fathom why they added this one weird element to an otherwise high-stakes and interesting story.
Story
Gotta say I live and die with one element. If I ignore that element my general and story enjoyment jumps up by quite a bit. As a whole the story has some amazing progression and is very snappy and action packed. It just tosses you into everything and explains a little later, which depending on the person can be good. In the beginning it is very alien and crazy but as the story progresses all the mysteries are naturally unraveled.
Characters
They're really fun. I can't stay I remembered…
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I found A.I.C.O. Incarnation forgettable, and I think you may as well.
The experience of watching this story unfold, the tale of an unexpected side effect that stemmed from the advancement of science in a modern world, left me confused and exhausted. The pacing of the story was littered with exposition that reminded me of the times I would cram before a test, leaving little room for us to imagine or be taken for a ride. The details of such an interesting sci-fi story was lectured onto the watcher with the same tone as a historian repeating an event for the past twenty years, and the enthusiasm I had for watching reflected this. Had this story been given more time, perhaps another dozen episodes, there could have been a chance to fix it. As it stands I would rather have read a spoiled syno…
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I love science fiction, but these sorts of shows usually aren't my cup of tea. They're just too weird and grotesque for me. Not this one, though. I don't know how or why but I got hooked quite immediately and it was hard for me to look away. I loved the story and world they thrust me into. It was very bingeable and I finished it in a single day, a rarity for me in regards to shows.
The characters were fantastic -- very human and very relatable -- and the pacing and story were interesting. Some twists were predictable, but twists often are to me, so it wasn't anything that dampened my excitement at all.
It was a bit hard to follow along plot revolving around the doctors and the director, but I found their characters fascinating and their plot lines interesting -- another rarity for me. I…
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A needlessly complicated and overly long snorefest. What little merit the series has is overshadowed by bloated filler that seems to serve no purpose than to try and add depth (and fail to do so spectacularly) to an anime about as deep as a puddle.
It starts off relatively simple, with the main character being hinted to have special powers or something, but by episode 2 it's already unbearable. Tachibana is a weak main character and it takes her forever to do anything other than panic and ask questions. The rest of the cast can fit either in the "Trope, the character" or "Cardboard Cutout" categories; no one has any memorable quotes, motives or goals, except maybe Kanzaki but his reveal comes so late it might as well be irrelevant. All this detailed information about the artificial organi…
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Character/Story:
The characters in A.I.C.O Incarnation are pretty well written. There are many of them, but they all play off each other well and have decent motivations on what they want to do with their lives. I did particularly like the whole government vs the regular people going into the Burst. This is an old story beat of course, but there are some good ideas behind the specific take on the show and the motivations are done pretty decently as well. They are easy to understand and do demonstrate some character growth and regression (into a bad person) at times. The main character Aiko (or Aico) however has a few problems. Aiko is a little bit clueless at times. Now this is somewhat acceptable, as she is thrust into a situation that she has no clue how to partake in. But her level of c…
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Not going to summarize the plot because that can be found anywhere.
Art (9/10): Easily the top 3 in any anime I have seen. Probably the most captivating thing about the show. Details are vivid and the clean aesthetic makes it relaxing to watch. From the background, characters features, movement... *chefs kiss*. Any review that gives it below an 8 is trying it.
Story (7/10): The concept is well thought out and interesting, and semi-realistic accounting for those loopholes that many sci-fi shows tend to neglect. All though the amount of information given on characters or the Matter could be timed better.
Sound (7/10): Not much to comment on but its fitting. Well done for each scene.
Character (6/10): The show doesn't build the characters as much as I would like. You grow little attachme…
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Overview: A.I.C.O. incarnation, a dystopian depiction of when the production of artificial organs backfires onto humanity. It follows female protagonist Aiko Tachibana and male deuteragonist Yuuya Kanzaki in their journey to reverse the negative effects of the 'matter' (an organism that expands and absorbs humans that was thrust into existence because of the biological process that produced Aiko's artificial body) that were produced during a life-saving experiment on Aiko Tachibana after a car crash. This story is well articulated and documented throughout the series with vivid flashbacks and pivotal events (such as saving Aiko from the Defence agency and the sacrifice Shinoyama made to continue with progression. Although the story was excellent, the character development wasn't fully cons…
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A.I.C.O.: Incarnation (2018)
A show reminiscent of Knights of Sidonia due to the overwhelming enemy force on a biological basis. Humanity fights to protect its current home and strives to not loose it.
The 'Burst' event happened and devastated mankind on earth with a biological terror that has no mercy. After time they are fighting it but on the defensive ready to loose more ground each day. A girl Aiko in a hospital has an unusual body that means she has her ailments disappear. She sets out on a journey as her existence could help stop the furthering of the Burst.
We get a story that is full of surprises, shocking revelations and has some really great actions scenes whilst they do the adventure into dangerous territory.
The art of the show is of a great level. It is satisfying to wat…
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I... have mixed feelings on this show. It's not laughably bad, but it's not recommendably good, either. Most of the time when it gets brought up around me, I just automatically think 'ah, that's the body horror waifu show'.
Not to be blunt or unnecessarily vulgar, but that really is all that it is. The whole time I was watching this, I couldn't shake the feeling that this show was just the director blowing Netflix's money on his weird fetish. I don't know what that says about me, or where I spend my time on the internet, but it was definitely uncomfortable and deliberate.
There are a lot of original anime on Netflix now, and I mentally group them into being one super-genre; eleven-to-thirteen episode shows with highly developed aesthetics, blending two dissonant genres, with a lot of pia…
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A.I.C.O is, to summarize, very mediocre. The plot, focusing around a teenage girl who we're supposed to assume is "normal" is broken fairly quickly, though I wish there would have been more preamble before that point. The story only gives you what you need to know
right as it becomes important - there was a major 'plot twist' later on that might've had an effect if I'd actually known what was going on with the characters.
However, A.I.C.O makes up for a lot of its flaws with killer worldbuilding and art - the 'Matter' has taken over part of Japan and ravenously devours anything that enters its domain. This is the first thing we're exposed to in the first episode, and it's great. The main plot, without revealing much (though, it's not like revealing it would even be much of a pain, it's pr…
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A.I.C.O: Incarnation is a sci-fi series focused on a high school student named Aiko Tachibana who discovers she isn't exactly human and that she is somehow connected to an incident called the Burst where an experiment creating an artificial lifeform called the Matter led it to surge out of control and engulf the city in which the experiment was performed in. Learning more about her unique origins, Aiko is partnered with a group of Divers, who specialize in technology to counteract the Matter and aid to get her to the center of it to halt its growth.
A.I.C.O rehashes some typical tropes of sci-fi that include good-intentioned science leading to chaotic events and the efforts made by those responsible to atone for those actions. Still, the series does a great job at establishing the science…
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For an original series by Netflix, I admittedly went in with no expectations. I was simply looking for something short to watch on Netflix and happened to stumble upon it without much clue of what it was about. Nevertheless, I was interested after the first three episodes and ended up binge watching the rest in one go.
The beginning opens up with not a lot of explanation and left me quite confused, but as the story progressed, I found that they explained details at around the right timing to drive the story. The characters are a bit dull in my opinion, but I liked the development of the MC in the end. I'd say it is a bit predictable though- I was able to pinpoint certain key points mid-series, but I still watched the whole thing just to make sure I was correct.
As someone who loves sci-…
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In the year 2035, a biological research project went awry, resulting in an incident called the "Burst" that transformed Kurobe Gorge into a quarantine area infested by a rampant growth of synthetic organisms. Two years later, high school student Aiko Tachibana finds that she may have an unexpected connection to the lifeform that killed her parents, and resolves to solve the mystery with the help of fellow student Yuya Kanzaki. - A.I.C.O.: Incarnation wiki
A.I.C.O.: Incarnation isn't another one of those terrible Netflix Sci-fi shows, It draws you in, and doesn't let go.
This anime is by far one of my favorites of 2018, let's get onto the review, shall we? :]
Story; 8/10
I'll try my best to not contain any spoilers, but this animes plot is seriously something. It's probably one of the be…
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This series is one of many that are released on Netflix. It was an interesting watch, so here is my point of view on it.
Story: 6 - A 6 is considered fair on this site, and this is what this anime deserved. It had an interesting, but overused premise, a girl who is the key to saving the world. This is actually a really generalized description of the story, but it's quite accurate. We've seen many shows with this sort of premise. Any fan would know what I'm talking about. But this show did it decent enough, it isn't anything revolutionary, but done well enough to be understood. The story is fairly understandable, with reasonable development throughout the series. The pacing is a bit wavy at times, but it isn't anything to really touch on. The story to this show is fairly okay, which is som…
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