Audience reviews
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OhsnapitsDavid
I really enjoyed Fortune Arterial. Apparently, that's a controversial thing to say. Who cares if this was during "twilight" era, whatever that means. Anime in this time had a lot of experimental stories too, especially in the supernatural genre. Thus, today this kind of anime actually stands out because not many these days go for a "highschool with vampire" theme. Isn't that ironic? Yet we bash this anime, because of that, but we all know it's just because of this anime's release.
The saying goes, some anime are just too soon for their own good.
This anime was very enjoyable. I enjoyed everything from the uniforms to the characters to the unraveling world as the main character learned more.
I'd say, each episode felt like a standard anime show, so I was never discouraged to stop watchi…
Read at the sourceHebi-Mikazuchi
It was an alright story.
The story progression was messed up, and the plot was all over the place.
Could have had this run for a few more episodes to bring the story together.
The MC especially Erika and Kouhei needed more substance and character development.
The theme was well picked up, on vampires and the school setting was great but depth in each character was major missing.
Introducing a rivalry for Sendou could have had maybe a better impact on the storyline. In the end, the anime leave the viewers with mixed feelings, and sadly the anime did not get another season, now we know why.
Read at the sourceB-O-D
A boy returns to an island to study, as fed up of being transferred around everywhere his family works, breaking up friendships,s and never really settling anywhere. After meeting some new friends and reacquainting with some older friends from about 7 years before, he gets pulled onto the student council after discovering vampires are part of the school and student council.
Despite being warned not to trust the brother our MC of course runs t his summons at the student council buildings before being given the choice of potentially losing all his memories or joining the school council.
The plots transparent sadly of the brother wanting a dependent for his sister, as he is comfortable drinking from victims and then erasing their memories. His sister however wants to remain as human as poss…
Read at the sourceUncle_Georgi
Okay, this is a cliche vampire romance anime, but it's MY cliche vampire romance anime. I've treasured it for over a decade now.
I came across it randomly - quite literally, as when I was twelve I would regularly smash the Random Anime button on Anime Season (RIP) and watch anything that caught my eye, which is how I discovered Fortune Arterial. I pressed play purely because I loved the art style, and then immediatly fell in love. The art, the music, the characters, the relationships - it all pulled me in. It's a story I've seen a thousand times, but it was one I welcomed, which is odd considering I'm much of a cliche romance fan. Perhaps it's because it wasn't afraid to get dark and bloody?
To be blunt, I don't know how many times I've rewatched Fortune Arterial, but it definitely exc…
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This anime doesn't even try to be proper slice of life but not progressing the plot enough either to cater as another genre, I'd describe it as having an identity crisis.
It's okay for its genre but damn I really expected more character development especially toward the end, I'd give it at least 7 if they managed to properly capture how they gonna manifest Red Promises and Erika - Kouhei relationship, but no...
I wished at least they did what Mashiro-iro Symphony managed to do, but they don't, hey Mashiro-iro isn't what I considered "good" either but at least they passed the grade.
All in all, if you like this genre, just watch it if you don't have anything to watch, I do actually enjoy it a bit despite still getting salty with its approach.
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Vampires falling in love with a human?! This concept was what attracted me to watch Fortune Arterial : Akai Yakusoku. This anime's story line is fairly decent, with a strong start and very well developed events. However, I feel like the ending was a bit rushed, decreasing the quality of this anime.
Romance is one of my favorite genres especially paired with some drama. I started to watching this anime expecting it to focus mainly on its romance and drama elements. I was only 50% disappointed. While there was a fair amount of drama, there was very little romantic scenes between the female and male main, or any other characters. However, don't take me wrong, the female main did show a very passionate and strong love for the male main. Despite that though, the relationship of them two did n…
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TL;DR
If a Key novel and Twilight had a child, it would be Fortune Arterial. However, this child takes more after Twilight. How unfortunate. Skip this one.
Story: 4
Starting out as a cheap rip-off of Key novels, the story seemed average at best. However, the more episodes I watched the more I hated myself for watching it. The overall plot is pretty stable, if mediocre. The dialogue is what really ruins the rest of the story. To be fair I watched it subbed, so the translator may be at fault. The general plot of the story is that the MC causes problems that he then fixes without really doing anything. Such is the fate of anime adapted harem VN.
Art: 4
To be perfectly honest the art itself is ok, if a bit average. The shot composition is awful. It wasn't noticeable at first, but the longer…
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Among all the various series focusing on school councils/school clubs (and even those with Vampire-led school councils), Fortune Arterial stands as an interesting contender telling the tale of a boy who never belonged and a girl chained to family circumstances. It's a versatile series that moves between comedic and serious moments while maintaining an unexpectedly good pacing through the plot. If you're looking for a school-based harem/romance/comedy without all the tension and goth of Vampire Knight, check out this show.
Animation:
Though dated in appearance by 2012 standards, it's still a fairly pleasant piece of work with good effects and scene-appropriate lighting. A large portion of the important scenes take place at night, perhaps just they can highlight the red eyes of the vampires…
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Story: 2/10
Protagonist-kun transfers to a new school with eroge cliches in tow (nice guy & plot convenient amnesia) and has a fated meeting with a dull lead female who happens to be a vampire for some reason. He almost instantly makes friends upon arrival and is made to be an events committee chairman. The plot sort of meanders after this point. It's about either his activities as a committee chairman, his past (and others he met in the past) or the lead heroine refusing to drink his blood (because she's apparently a vampire) because she wants to live life like a human. The vampire angle is very poorly played out. You could replace it with the heroine coming from a distinguished family and being forced to find a fiancée at school or find herself being taken back home and the outcome woul…
Read at the sourceGuru93
So i thought this anime was something you could sink your teeth into (No-pun intended) and watch for a week
Honestly it surprised me a bit.
I thoroughly enjoyed this show
So story wise i feel that the true plot never comes through until episode 8. The plot after episode 8 is rather good and i feel that it allows you to actually care for the characters. Now is it anything amazing? Not really. I just really enjoy this plot. Now before episode 8 it is honestly a stereotypical slice of life anime. So really the plot after episode 8 does pick up the show a bit. I can't say much more without spoiling it.
Visuals are like i said just good. Hell visuals and music are just good. This show has nothing bad in it but they also don't try for something unique. I think the best term is safe.
Character…
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I was interested after watching the first episode. It looked pretty interesting. But as I continued to watch, I was kinda dissapointed, especially the ending. This anime turned out to be one of those many generic animes adapted from eroge without development. The art and sound are okay, I kinda enjoyed the story though.
But the story and the characters are too plain. There are no development of the romance, not even a single kiss, romantic scene or something. It's just like hanging in front of you when you can't grasp it. I was kinda hoping they kiss once or twice and date at least on the final episode. I can't even feel the harem.The ending was just as I had expected from the beginning. The story's too light, at least make a tense or heated moment while we enjoy ourselves and sink into i…
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Okay....I kinda enjoyed this anime because the ending was obvious... I don't know why people hate obvious ending but i personally like it when the protagonist in the end falls in love with the heroine...The ending was a bit out of story but the romance was good in the anime. And the story line was pretty obvious but thats the good thing... If its not obvious, there is no point of the romance... The reason why i gave this anime a 7 is that the romance is very good and not like those harem anime that make you so pissed at the end when the protagonist don't choose one girl as his own... Those kind of anime just makes me so irritated although i know that is the feature of harem anime... Anyways, back to topic, this anime is a decent anime for people who are finding 1 on 1 romance anime and i k…
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Story & Characters (2/10)
Another season, another eroge transformed into an anime. Eroge adaptations are now ubiquitous enough that they have to be treated like shonen action series: you have to start ignoring the obvious and start enjoying the variation in details. Taken that way, Fortune Aerial isn't just bad enough, but even if there's a level of Hell for anime, it wouldn't be allowed in.
Ah, school transferring. No youthful memories, no lasting friendship and no meaningful romance. That's the kind of lifestyle Kouhei has been suffered from until he finally gets a choice of his own he opts for Shuchikan Academy, a boarding school out on a peripheral Japanese island that he had once briefly stayed at several years ago. There he reunites with his childhood friends and quickly gets associ…
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Although many people don't like this anime, I really enjoyed it. It has a good last episode and was enjoyable in many ways. People who say that this anime sucks probably just copied the comments of other people. You should not believe what others say about this anime because in the end it's your opinion that is needed.
Story:7 - Because the story is very short. It's almost too fast. Others say that this anime has no originality, but hey, almost all anime these days has no originality. They just compare the Visual novel and the anime. But it is true that the VN is better than the Anime, but it's still good.
Art and Sound:8 - How could anybody say this has bad art. It has good art compared to other anime.
Character:7 -Well the main character is not that heroic or all powerful, but he has…
Read at the sourceSeijurou
"A Migratory Bird" - episode one title
"Akai Yakusoku" - episode twelve title
"I want to make new memories here." - Hasekura Kouhei "Fortune Arterial" is actually the title of a visual novel. It was adopted into a manga of the same name, and an anime called "Fortune Arterial: Akai Yakusoku (Red Promise)." Some people were disappointed with the anime because of a lack of action scenes, which they assumed would be there de facto as the series had vampires. In case you have not seen Twilight, I have got some news for you: vampires do not equal action anymore. You just have to live with it. This show is basically slice of life, with friendship elements thrown to it. However, there is an overall plot, and it is heavily related to vampires, which is apparent from the very first scene of the very…
Read at the sourceMagickOfDarkness
I liked this anime, even though the ending was a little bit of a let down.... I liked the art style and the character designe and I thought that the supernatural part was tied in just right so it wasnt mainly focused on it but it wasnt mainly not either.
Read at the sourceKuro4735
Well, Fortune Arterial turned out rather decent in comparison to my initial expectations. Just knowing that this show is an adaptation of a standard harem-esque Visual novel immediately smelled like trouble, but surprisingly enough, the story did not degrade into a complete mess. That being said, this anime definitely had a lot of issues, mainly with pacing and a very generic plot. Even the vampire twist in this anime, which was done in a relatively untypical fashion, ended up not making much of a difference.
The one flaw to VN adaptations is that, because there are usually multiple heroines in the original source material, adopting all the storylines into a single coherent plot usually proves to be difficult. In that aspect, Fortune Arterial did a relatively good job of merging all the s…
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Even at first glance, Fortune Arterial seems... shakey... generic. Whoever said "don't judge a book by its covers" probably didn't look in the right book section because, indeed, Fortune Arterial is shakey and very generic. The experience of watching Fortune Arterial is comparable to eating rotten food (not that you would ever do it voluntarily)- the experience is horrible for the first half, then after eating it for a while your taste buds already dead so you feel that it's passable. After you finish eating all the rotten food, you look back and ask yourself "what the hell just happened?" Not all of the episodes were bad, just a majority of them - pointless episodes that you wonder "why the hell are they showing me these things". In addition, the lolwtfBBQ ending really didn't do much to…
Read at the sourceAgueroKun10
A unqiue mashup or a bland School Life/Romance with Vampires, following the success of films/books like Twilight and how usually any Rom/School Life shows usually do well you would expect this series to be good or maybe great, well its not.
The first episode was interesting starting to know the characters etc... but it felt like a bad Romance/SL series untill the vampire moment at the end of the episode which brought in a aspect of Horror, and in all fairness i enjoyed the first episode, i loved the blend of genres and putting across alot of information in the first ep from new characters,school etc... was good.
But one we knew the bland characters Fortune heavilly relyed on the Vampire aspect to get it through the next 11 episodes, which just didnt happen the story dragged on and in the…
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If you like vampires and light romance this might be the anime for you. For me I didn't feel like they let the romance build very much. Seemed like a quick love at first sight. Also the plot seemed to lack, there seemed to be one main problem for one of the characters and even in the end the problem seemed unresolved. Overall though I would suggest it to the vampire and love at first sight watchers out there. Enjoy!
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