Audience reviews
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RemanTheArchean
What a weird show. It's a confusing mess from start to finish, but I enjoyed the vibes.
This is like Psycho Pass with a bit of Inception thrown in. From Psycho Pass it brings the sci-fi police procedural that features cops that go too far and get turned into hunting dogs. Also, it's episodic and procedural for the first half and then it becomes a serial thriller later on. Many of the early sequences focus on diving into "ID wells" that are a hallucinatory reconstruction of the killer's (or victim's?) subconscious that a "brilliant detective" can use to find clues as to the identity of a serial killer. The weirdest part is that these scenes mimic some of the aspects of a fair-play mystery by doing things like asking "what's wrong with this picture", pausing for a beat almost as if they ex…
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Real mixed feelings abt this one
Before you start:
The show starts as a procedural police drama, with seemingly self contained stories where the goal is to catch a killer based on the clues found in a small fragment of their unconscious the detectives dive in.
This is NOT a DETECTIVE/MYSTERY show.
Its a story about people who are detectives and solve mysteries, but if you're looking for fun mind puzzles and Eureka moments, you're gonna be dissapointed. The show ties itself in knots to make sure you have zero chance of following along and making deductions about the individual cases presented, and the detectives will use dream logic or actual reasoning regardless whether they are in the mind world or the real one.
This is a drama, the fun comes from the characters story, and its not a…
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Where do I even begin with this series... WELL I BOUGHT THE MANGA for STARTERS!!! When it comes to psychological anime especially in the detective realm like Psycho Pass I find it very hard to immerse myself in the world BUT with ID:Invaded I was HOOKED from episode 1 as not only where the characters interesting, the plot was intense and the action was nonstop ONLY separated by a compelling story from the perspective of the detective. I also really enjoyed most of the main cast of characters as they all got their chance to really shine outside of the MC.
If you are looking for a good murder mystery with a supernatural twist then you should DEFINITELY watch ID:Invaded
Read at the sourceHydraKat
ID: Invaded is an anime with a great concept that, unfortunately, got overshadowed by Psycho-Pass. Still, it managed to hook me from the very first episode. The way the story unfolds, jumping between mental worlds and connecting each case, kept me fully engaged.
I'm not really a fan of science fiction, but I do enjoy detective series and this was a surprisingly good mix of both. It even made me feel kind of depressed.
I truly wish it had more than 13 episodes, because it definitely had the potential to go further. The murder cases sometimes feel a bit cliché in terms of the killers' motives or methods, but the core concept diving into the unconscious mind to solve crimes stays interesting throughout.
The animation is pretty average; it gets the job done without being particularly impres…
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Id:invaded is the place where old good freudism, concepts based on neuroscience discoveries and japanese creativity get mixed together. It turns out that a result may come out quite interesting. Low budget, but quite ambitious title manages to represent something pretty original and imgination stimulating. However, anime Id:invaded seems to struggle in few areas, certainly proving that making a well routed one season, only 13 episodes production is not a piece of cake for japanese screenwriters. Maybe a model of 16 episodes would solve the problem? Let us see.
The world construction of Id:invaded is not really worth our attention. Not fully specified universe completely based on our own gets its idea of fiction borrowed mainly from old psychological concept of unconsciousness and dreams co…
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Conceptually very interesting but the execution could use work. I feel like it gets better through the season though. The concept itself is honestly pretty unique at least in the way the idea works. Using ex convicts to enter the mind of other ex convicts to solve crimes, with an added twist and a added mystery element. The problem comes to the drawing and the writing of the dialogue. The animation is good. it doesn't suffer from the single frame that pans problem, the animation is actually pretty good, but for the characters on each individual frame, the characters are miss drawn in perspective most of the time. Some could argue it was intentional and stylistic but really it just looks like the animators don't know how to draw people in perspective. The backgrounds are very well done actu…
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One thing that really needs to be said, Yes, Psycho-Pass and ID: INVADED are similar, but that doesn't devalue the series. It's like comparing Black Clover and Mashle: Magic and Muscles. Great to start a argument about, but ultimately both are unique works even with some of the same plot points. Now moving onto the review...
Starting off with music/sound, Mr. Fixer by Sou (OP) & Other Side by MIYAVI (ED) are absolutely amazing, the tone and lyrics fit the series well, and it'd be nigh impossible to find better choices. The other music peices throughout are also very good, and well placed. So for as far as music's concerned NAZ did astonishingly. Even the other parts of sound design was nice, not nearly as much as the music but still good nonetheless.
Regarding the plot and characters...…
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Sherlock meets psycho sci-fi cop.
When I first stepped into watching this, it gave me everything I needed to be hooked. A compelling world, gorgeous design, and most importantly for me, a mystery that needed to be solved.
This anime throws you into the thick of it right off the bat, all the while giving you everything you need in a digestible way. It had fascinating artistic choices that were, to put it bluntly, grand. The characters are thought out, and (generally) understandable in one way or another.
By the end I was left with a truly good watch. There are a few twists that were pretty easy to spot before they were revealed, but in my opinion it felt like they were giving those clues to help you feel like you yourself were the Great Detective.
I thoroughly enjoyed it start to fin…
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I'll be brief - this is the best anime release of 2020.
Thrilling, unique, interesting, intriguing, with excellent narrative design, staging, directing, animation and art design.
And the story itself was extremely fascinating. Personally, for me, the main thing in the story was not finding the villain, but rather what happened here in the first place, and trying to understand what happened to Akihito, and why he was imprisoned in Mizuhanome?
Well, and Narisagi Akihito deserves special attention - probably one of the best protagonists I've ever seen. He is restrained and judicious, doubting simple answers. He was a pleasure to watch, and in one of the episodes - I felt truly sorry for him, because he is the most ordinary man, who has been emotionally crushed by life.
An extremely pleasa…
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I really like unique concepts in anime and this being an original show not based on another source really helped it imo.
The show felt really complete and played within the 13 episode confine of usual animes very well. Things didn't feel rushed and a lot of the lore was explained. I think the character development was done well for the main characters but it is true that almost nobody else was developed. I think with the number of interesting scenarios and mysteries that the show presented in the short amount of episodes, it is done very well. Somehow character development is something that reviewers can't understand, if done well an anime could be good with fewer characters developed. I don't think this anime would have been better if I knew all the backstories of all of the supporting…
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Id: Invaded is a science fiction mystery anime that deals with the exploration of the criminal mind and it’s a concept that has fascinated us for centuries. It is similar to Psycho Pass where it focuses on analyzing a person’s psychological state and it is used to track and take down criminals. Detectives from the Kura squad use cutting edge development known as the Mizuhanome System to enter the perpetrator’s mind in order to track them. Criminals leave behind “cognitive particles” and detectives use these as clues to help apprehend the murderer.ID: INVADED
The story focuses on Nahrigaso Ahikto as he solves murder cases that eventually are somehow connected to one another and it eventually leads into something bigger. He used to be a highly regarded detective but has fallen from grace a…
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The story is interesting and unique and the characters are really well made, but the main down point for me was how the antagonist was designed. The Antagonist was not well hidden or rather it was pretty obvious from the start and the motive or the drive of the antagonist felt flimsy, it packed no punch.
The main reveal of the antagonist should have been strong and the motive or the reason of the antagonist should have been much more solid that could give a strong reason for his actions, but unfortunately it was not the case here, otherwise it would have been an total masterpiece.
*I don't do much reviewing so i apologize if this was a little rough*
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Hey this is my first review, but this show deserves it, so I decided I write one.
It started out slowish, and it was introducing a lot of the ideas, and complex theories this show has, so it makes sense. By episode two, I was hanging on to their every word, and was constantly talking and thinking about it. I loved the main part of the series, catching serial killers, and diving into ID wells. I really liked how I could race the detective to try to find out the mystery of Kaeru's death first. It was amazing, and the deductions were incredible. It was really well thought out, and I really enjoyed it. The only reason this didn't get a full 10 stars (I rated this 8) is because I felt like some of this excitement was missing after episode 10. I LOVED the previous episodes though, so I recommen…
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tl;dr: An anime that has a lot of interesting concepts that manages to hit some high notes, but overall feels too messy and pretty lacking in substance.
This anime is a crime drama where detectives enter into id wells, which are basically the subconscious of serial killers, through particles left behind at their previous crime scenes using what’s known as the Mizuhanome System, and then do their best to piece together the serial killer’s identity. This isn’t as simple as it sounds because the subconscious is a bizarre mess that’s incredibly difficult to gleam insight from. There’s an overarching story centered around a few overarching plot threads, but for the most part this is an episodic series where most cases take up a couple episodes. Overall, I think this anime has a lot of smart id…
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ID:invaded is a sci-fi anime, with clear inspiration in inseption and psycho-pass anime with some philosophies of ego and
subconscious. A plot of a serial killer inducing murders and creating another serial killers moves the show. The semi-episodical structure with isolatte cases and investigation with a good direction and insert songs fom the the famous J-pop star Myiavi(that also sings the outro) give a brilhant detective vibe that tries to keep your curiosity in each case, but what carries the show is the protagonist and his past. The show give more attention to this as the series progresses and the final can be desappointed, is not so complex or great as the entire show and the isolatte cases in the beggining, but is still good show and a trull intertainment.
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TLDR at bottom
Story(8/10):
Intriguing story, and I could see the premise of the story being capable of multiple seasons and earning itself a 9 or 10. However, this is a one shot 13 episode anime so the story was required to wrap up and in a similar fashion to other shorter anime it falls short in some plot points. The concept is fresh and progressed in a interesting way, dream investigators set to solve a murder mystery to identify serial killers. Long term juxtaposition of story elements such as solving mystery to identify a person later being switched to understanding a person(s) to solve a mystery. Well crafted story, just a few plot twists that are obvious and sort of take away from the ambiance, but for a 13 episode anime it handles it well and at least completes the story in a some…
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It's been about a year and a half since I watched Id:Invaded, and there hasn't been a week that's passed where I haven't thought of it. While I absolutely adore it, it's far from perfect. I started it because I'm constantly checking out series that I classify as "what I wish Psycho-Pass was", where it stands along with Zankyou no Terror and B: The Beginning (s1).
I should note, Id: Invaded isn't as visually stunning or put together as these other series, not by a long shot. Visually, it's borderline ugly and there are some comedically awful bits of animation. Despite that, there's almost a charm to this inconsistency of quality. You can get an intense scene with beautifully rendered explosions, and then a scene where a man's face shifts like a powerpoint when he turns his head. You never…
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The first misstep of Id:Invaded was immediately obvious for me : the visual aspect of the show (the character’s design, the use of colors, the directing, how it visually represents the human mind) is generic, dull and lifeless. Which is a big flaw, especially for a mystery show that put the focus on « visiting the human mind » : with a premise like that, you expect a story that would immediately immerse you with his striking visuals and chilling atmosphere and sadly, that’s not the case here with Id Invaded.
Worse, even the few good ideas are almost always directed and choregraphied in the most uninteresting way possible.
Then, there are the first two episodes, who are pretty incompetent : the mystery-whodunnit aspect of the show is handled pretty badly, the characters aren’t compelling t…
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For everything right this show does, it seems to also do something wrong. I've never felt more inclined to give anything else the middle of the road 5/10, but I opted for a 6, despite some embarrassing parts. It's a dark, edgy psychological anime with surreal and mind-bending elements. It's not entirely original, though, and many of the initial ideas felt highly familiar.
The core ideas appear to mostly be taken from Psycho-Pass: it's a police procedural wiith sci-fi elements, though it's very soft sci-fi; criminals are used for diving into ID wells, which is a representation of a person's subconscious, just as criminals are the enforcers in P-P; the wakumusubi is used to detect "cognitive particles"—otherwise a measure of one's intent to kill—is more or less the dominator gun; The Mizuh…
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First of all, the *big bad* of the show is not the point, neither is their obvious identity. If you watched the show and feel like that was the point of it and that you were robbed of your time, you just simply missed THE point. Or points (plural), as the show is about characters and their psychology (which is actually done extremely well here).
There really isn't much to talk about that wouldn't include heavy spoilers - the characters are written masterfully, their voice acting is top notch, the creative mind behind the show has done their homework (there is a lot of minute detail, like the inclusion of Freudian psychology and things like "backdraft", that will go over your head if you don't know anything about them yourself), the pacing is great, its art is unique, with characters havin…
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