Audience reviews
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KatsumataJ
Cross Ange is a show that runs you through some very interesting questions.
From the beginning, this show was something I found genuinely interesting to watch. The fights were exciting, the animation had its own charm, and the cast was incredible. However, I think the cast is where this show truly shines, and I wanted to explain why.
Every character felt like they had a place in this world. They were not just there to move the story forward; they helped make the setting feel more alive.
Vivian was one of the best examples of this. She was mainly a source of comedy and warmth, and while she did not drastically change Ange or the direction of the story, that was never her purpose. She added something important to the atmosphere of the show. She brought light into a story filled with suffer…
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Edgy, cowardly, wasted potential, nonsensical, boring. All of these can be used to describe this anime. Here’s why:
1 - Plot & Themes
The plot honestly has an interesting premise, and it starts of pretty strong.
However, this anime quickly turns out to be edgy, and not in a good way. It relies hard on shock value to paint the main world as a very bad place, filled with very bad people. It also has some very edgy and downright uncomfortable fanservice moments. Like Queen’s blade, but not as good as Queen’s blade.
The show really tends to pull its punches in the moments where it would actually matter, which makes it feel like they want to be dark, but are too cowardly to actually commit to any consequences. Major characters magically come back after “dying”, and the show doesn’t even both…
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Folks, this is the first show my eyes had ever feasted upon in which clearly the studio had given zero fucks for the sole purpose of achieving and delivering pure raw entertainment.
This is a story in which apparently things are made up randomly or purposefully random on the fly and the plot does not even matter. In fact, the VAs at the end of each chapter would break the 4th wall to banter about something silly or absurd in the episode. Considering that Sunrise whole intent was to piss on their previous mecha works, it turns out that Cross Ange went further beyond a "parody" intent and entered the realm of unadulterated absurd romp. This might be the result of what must have been one of the most impressive brainstorming sessions in anime production ever, at least, for Sunrise. (Imagine th…
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((Review: English - Español))
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This is one of the best anime I have ever watched (and I've seen countless shows).
This anime has everything: action, drama, ecchi, yuri, mechas, war, tragedy, and more.... It's not easy to find an anime that offers a little bit of everything.
What's more, I'm not a fan of the mecha genre, but this show didn't overuse the theme. On the contrary, I felt the mecha elements were used in just the right proportion, appearing only during the series' most crucial moments.
I only see two negative points: the animation (I felt it was a bit weak/low-budget) and the fact that the main character should have ended up with a different romantic partner.
In conclusion, CROSS ANGE is an anime that features every element in its correct and balanced proportion,…
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Cross Age is a fascinating 2010s mecha anime. The reputation it had before I watched it was it's a "so bad it's good" type how cause sexual content(?). I think. No ones ever specified. Its just bad you know, people say its bad.
And instead what I got was just straight up a modern day Go Nagai esque show, just unadulterated drama and edge, mostly in the flavor of prison drama, and just a kind of real tale of overcoming tragedy in a fantastical story of women riding mechs to kill dragons. Like most of the cast being women who pilot mechs is very commendable, including a female protag. And in this type of story???? Genuinely if this was a live action story it would probably get more respect because online anime fans aren't that honest with themselves, there always has to be some backhandedne…
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I unfortunately watched the whole thing and was very disappointed with it. The beginning was amazing, and my toes were gripped when people started to die and took a very sharp dark turn. I love that about this anime, that it doesn't shy away from dark stuff. The story with the dragons and world building was goddamn cool as hell, I was locked in by the first episode.
But Ange got a bf who is some random basic guy who has zero personality versus the other 2 chicks she had great chemistry with (Hilda & Princess). Hell, even Salia or ANY other chick in the anime. Super disappointing, because his whole personality was just a self-insert of some creep from a harem anime. As if this anime CAN'T be good without disgusting pervasive men. Including the shitty antagonist. All he ever does is be cree…
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Brief overview: It's worth a watch.
This review will be non-spoil so many of the content is cut short to prevent spoiler
Story 8/10
The story sets in a world where humans born with mana can use magic and those who don't are called normans. Normans are able to use Mecha and is believed to be more violent and aggressive than the mana users. Their sole purpose is to be use as weapons of war against the ongoing conflict with the dragons from another world.
Animation 7/10
Now this may make or break this anime for some people, but at least 36% of the anime are fan service that is bath scene, sex scene or straight up nude scenes for very strange reasons. The nude scene is weird as the most attractive part of the female body is left blanked not covered. So the animation is not bad as most part…
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This is among one of the most amazing isekai world gundam-like anime with fanservice as priority. If you are into 25 ep long of tons of FANSERVICES and fascinating journey into new world, then this is for you.
While it has tons of fanservices, this anime has a GREAT STORY, plot, and character development. A really enjoyable anime. There are many interesting females, each has her own strength and weakness. It is rare to see anime that has both H and great story at the same time. Usually ecchi animes are bad in story/plot and just throw a lots of nudity and jokes. Don't be mislead with "Gore" Theme listed here, actually the gore is just soft gore, typical blood and cut/dismemberment that you often see in action/battle anime. There is no visible internal organ or disgusting stuffs. There is…
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It's very understandable that this show wont be everyones cup of fan-service tea, but it has really cemented it's place in my heart as one of my favorite anime of all time. My rating on it, as with all my ratings, is based on how much I enjoyed it despite it's flaws.
But that's just it, Cross Ange sure has it's flaws. It's world building is messy and feels almost thrown together in the middle of the series as big plot twists that had absolutely zero hints leading up to them, are thrown in your face. Other plot twists and revelations do have a good bit of build up however, so I can look past most of it. There are a few scenes that just make me cringe... The dragon singing one... Ugh. But for the most part, the scenes can be very entertaining, fun, sexy, and even at times very emotional.
T…
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My review will answer why you should or should not watch this anime.
Cross Ange is a combination of Code Geass with Redo of Healer. It is large amounts of Racism, Sexism, Sexual Assault, Lesbian, Bisexual, Fan Service and Orgies. It relies on the shock factor and is completely inappropriate in 2023 and I thought it was GREAT. If you're not offended easily and can just enjoy it for what it is, it's a highly entertaining show. The protagonist Ange starts out as insufferable, however, she undergoes considerable character development which ultimately leads to her becoming quite likable. If you enjoy edgy anime e.g. Redo Healer, Mirrai Nikki, School days etc. then this anime is for you. This anime really should have a MAL rating of 7.8-8.1. It overall has a decent story and is unpredictable. Th…
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First few epsiode i thinked how boring anime and i hoped its gonna be better and intresting anime. Later after few episode its went intresting after she found the boy and i understood that anime gonna be good. Its maybe for older kids like 15+ or smth but i recommen it anyway because its intresting and good ending what i hoped good luck with watching. There is some echhi moments but its good because the anime will go down if there wouldn´t be this type story.
I Hope that there gonna be second season.
Good luck with watching and hope watchers enjoy it.
Read at the sourcewhiteflame55
The more I think about this series, the more my head hurts. It's not that it's bad because it knows what it is pandering to and that's the lowest common denominator (hell, even in the finale, Ange just had to jump naked, crotch first into Tusk's face), but so many of the motivations are contrived and the villain does not work for me. Most of these characters don't really work for me. It had some decent action and graphics when it wanted to, and some aspects of it were fun enough that I give them some credit, but this was a pretty frustrating watch for me. I enjoyed talking about it in a group watch, but not so much the watching of it. It's better in retrospect, but not the kind of thing I'd give a straight up recommendation.
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A racist, bisexual, pampered princess of a utopian world gets thrown into a military penal colony full of mech piloting, sexually frustrated women prone to lesbianism, in order to fight multiverse Dragons trying to eat everyone, and leading to a fight with "God" himself, who just happens to be a 1000 year old cucked neckbeard.
Yeah.
What a ride this anime was! Honest to god, you have to be prepared to go all the way with this show, because it has more twists and turns than a highway intersection in Houston, and a main villain so obnoxious, you'll be tempted to fast forward episodes just to see their nutsack be split open with tweezers so that you can have catharsis.
Animation / Art / General Visuals - 9/10
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The show looks great, the ani…
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I think a lot of people are underestimating this movie but I'm overestimating it, I love this movie
music 10/10
One of the reasons why you SHOULD watch this anime. The sound track that they have is amazing in my opinion, both their OST and their opening/ending songs. Their use of music is on point for most of the anime, although there were a couple of times I felt that the music could have been used more effectively. I read one of the other reviews saying how the anime's OST + openings/endings were bad, please don't listen to them and give it a chance BECAUSE THE OST IS AMAZING!
figure 9/10
Yeah so Ange might be one of the most ASS BAD female leads I've seen in a while. She's incredibly strong-willed and egotistical, and that's the part I love about her. I REALLY like characters that can l…
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This is probably the most embarrassing review that I will ever write on this site. I am probably giving this show way too much credit (but I have watched so many mid shows over the last two months that I don’t care at this point).
Cross Ange is flawed. There’s TONS of plot armour… and I mean TONS of IT, some plot holes too, inconsistent characterisation, overexaggerated characters, somewhat boring fights, and a few characters arcs which could’ve been executed better (e.g. Salia and Jill).
But I will say this though. I was never bored watching it - I was pretty entertained all throughout. I can’t even say that for some of the anime I have given 9s to and, for that, I respect it. I could even look past some of the plot holes because of it. It can be very well-written at times.
I only ch…
Read at the sourceKatomegumi_10
In modern times sunrise mostly try any kind of idea that can flavor the genre of mecha theres some
manipulative protagonist with random tactics "Code geass"
space vampire "valvrave"
gay version of msgundam "gundam seed"
And then they mix the lesbian and mecha with a lot of fan servise
singing in the middle of the mech battle as a power up since the mech is kinda resemble of macross and gundam seed design
And the result is cross ange
The plot is all over the place
The very first time you watch it the very first you notice is a lot of nudity
For a non hentai show it has a lot of fanservice And not enough mecha battle or even plot progression
Well if you watch it so that you can fap you found it to be good
But if you want to watch good story and a mech battle you will be disappointed
The onl…
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Despite the score this has on MAL, despite some of the reviews this is getting, this is undoubtable one of the GOATS of the industry.
The story is is amazing. No real surprise from the studio behind Code Geass and other giants, but it needs to be said. The pace is almost perfect, there is never a dull moment, and new twists and developments are revealed in such a way to constantly keep the viewed engaged and entertained. Its not quite as grand in scale as Code Geass, but it also doesn't have nearly as many plot holes if you wanted to start nit picking.
The art is amazing. The mechs, the characters, the landscapes and the dragons are look very lovingly crafted. Nothing to complain about here. To follow up on this, the animation is also great. The use of 3d is done well and doesnt trigger…
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A very well executed mecha anime that deserves much of the praise it can get. As all the other reviewers mentioned, this show starts off excruciatingly slow, but it picks up well once you struggle your way through the first 6 or so episodes. Though I am watching this in 2022, the story holds up well despite its age, and the ecchi is sometimes overwhelming, but it is understandably the state of the world, and also a very specific "lucky pervert".
Its not a power fantasy where the main character gets stronger and stronger with each conflict, but she already reaches her maximum combat potential within the first arc. There is very little "friendship is magic", "the power of flashbacks" power spike in this anime. They have everything they need in the first 10 episodes, and the rest of the anim…
Read at the sourceSmugglerofNoise
Cross-Ange... Oh boy. Horny Gundam. 7/10Cross-Ange... Oh boy. Horny Gundam. 7/10.
So I imagine the production committee meeting went something like this.
Sunrise: We want something new that'll be a hit with the young adult males!
Mitsuo: I got just the thing! It’ll be like Gundam, but they fight dragons and the mechs are like motor bikes.
Sunrise: That sounds great!
Mitsuo: And the mechs are all piloted by horny lesbians, and the dragons are actually hot girls so they want to fuck.
Sunrise: Wait, what? NO!
But by the time sunrise had found Mitsuo at the water cooler later that day he had already found a director and Cross Ange was out of pre-production.
Cross-Ange feels like it was being written as it aired live on Japanese television. Like holy fucking shit balls.
This show couldn't…
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many tits and many lesbian things here and there. Very porn all the truth. The plot is interesting but half warm, this is because it does not kill characters, that is a straw. But taking that out, the main one is also high lukewarm, it has to kill everyone, however it does not.
The animation is very good but it sins in animating the tits more than the epic fights, I expected more death and destruction but I found nudes here and there. The soundtrack does not stand out at all, I was a bit disappointed. The character design is good but it is not a big deal either, it complies.
The bad ending is missing to be a real bad guy; the very happy ending if you want to see boobs and some fights, it is recommended.
En español:
muchas tetas y muchas cosas lésbicas por acá y por allá. Muy porno todo…
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