Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Roorororo
I’ve heard for the longest time that this series had a "trash" script. After finally watching it in 2026, I found it surprisingly enjoyable—it’s far from the disaster people claimed.
### **The Narrative: Meticulous and Complete**
The overall story is solid; every plot point is carefully laid out and fully resolved. In my opinion, the polarized reception stems from two main factors:
1. **Constant Narrative Hooks:** The show maintains engagement through drama and mysteries left in every episode. From a screenwriting perspective, this is effective storytelling. If you enjoy a plot that consistently leaves you with new hooks and points to follow, you will likely love it.
2. **Unflinching Realism:** The story moves in directions that are bound to make some uncomfortable. The Certain situations…
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Loved the series, One of the few Mecha anime where I was actually interested in the plot rather than the characters, Although the ending did seem a bit rushed, I just had to re-watch it multiple times today, And I noticed that some episodes left subtle details, That seemed like pointless conversations but were used later on in the episode, Which I loved!
Some Spoilers down below
The few things I disliked about this anime was mostly the election, And how the student body reacted to it
The Whole election was an ass-pull how stupid could those students be? Voting for a girl because she promised fun, and a festival? seriously!? and the whole "I'm gonna confess my love" thing was just lazily put in there for us to feel sorry about her getting cucked right in the moment, And the festival wasn…
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Kakumeiki Valvrave
Valvrave the Liberator. Well, to start things off. I think this anime is truly amazing, as a huge gundam fan this anime really did hit the spot, despite it not being a gundam type anime at all. But, it sure does make up for it in this anime. The mechs or what is known as "Valvraves". Are the only weapsons the students have against the dictator type of military that they're up against. So, if you're a true lover of all things mech anime, like I am, then get ready to be in for a real exciting anime. I wish there was a game like this that would be just awesome.
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For me, the first season was meh. It was okay I guess but the story was mediocre. The story line didn't wow me so I started taking a look a look at the characters.
The main character was a whiny kid for the first half of the season. I wasn't surprised but I was hoping for some character improvement. Long story short: I didn't get what I wanted. Most characters are flat and when they start killing some people off, the music and everything makes you want to feel sad but in reality, you're left trying to remember who that character even was. All in all, it passed the time but that was it. In my opinion, the second season was better.
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Valvrave the Liberator is an anime about students that must fight for their lives, freedom, and independence with newfound mechs and powers. There is a lot of good uses of tropes, and it makes great use of high-quality animations.
The fights are really great and so is how the students try to manage themselves (very interesting and kind of hilarious) but it falls short in delivering elements that can stand alone as great parts of the anime. It all works together well but it doesn't have any exceptional parts.
If you like fights against authority or powers, this is for you. A love or tolerance of mechs is also required if you hope to enjoy this.
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This show is so bad it's good. I rewatched it recently with some friends and it was an absolute blast.
The plot is utterly nonsensical. There are multiple seasons worth of plot points and content, the most ridiculous is the first episode feeling like an entire season of a regular anime condensed down. While it's going through the plot like a fire through a sawmill it's missing significant amounts of character arcs and development. Except, the show acts as if these arcs and development happened so you get baffling changes and laughable emotional beats. Most egregiously a character dies and the show nothing short of milks it for all it's worth, this character that died couldn't have had more than 25 lines of dialogue at this point and there is an actual "press F to pay respects" equivalent…
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Reposting because I remembered that I once wrote a Valvrave review that was deleted for no reason.
Alright people, I've completed my viewing of the Spring '13 Mecha Trifecta. This trifecta is made up of Valvrave the Liberator, Majestic Prince and Gargantia. It's been over a year since I've found anything watchable, so I have high hopes.
The other two are great. Will they remain great? Who knows, but I can assure you that this show is awful and only makes the other two look much better by comparison, and it will stay that way.
Valvrave is a mecha anime that follows the formula in all the laziest ways possible, and is bogged down with Sunrise's astounding incompetence. You can pretty much use shows like this and Sacred Seven next to things like 08th MS Team and Scryed and say with a defin…
Read at the sourceBohemianRhapsody
It would be very hard for me to write a proper review and sum up all flaws Valvrave has, but instead I will write a transcript of what the executives at Sunrise discussed when making this anime. Or at least what I imagine went on in those studios.
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- Producer: Okay, we need to make a new mecha anime that is not a Gundam or Code Geass spin-off. It must become the new big thing, so we must attract as many people as we can. What do those pesky teenagers like nowadays?
- Writer: Hmm, didn't those vampire Hollywood movies make a lot of money? Vampires are definitely trendy right now, we need one of those. But not one of those old, sca…
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If you want to see an anime about space Nazis, body swapping vampires, high school students who create their own country and vampires raping these high school students: this show is for you. If you want to see a show with the whiniest main character since Mirai Nikki: look no further. If you want to hear the characters try to pronounce German names (e.g. "ERU-ERUFU", "KOE-VIERU", "HAA-NOINU", "RIEYSEHROTTEH"): look no further. This review will cover 5 aspects of our opinion about this trainwreck.
~Story~ 1/10
Starting off, our ultraheroic, and super manly protagonist tries to confess his love to his tsundere crush. This is definitely not a cliche. Then, out of nowhere, his school gets attacked by space nazis and he dramatically watches his beloved tsundere crush die. The shock! After that…
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-(Also sorry for long post but I have too... :d)
Idk what some people are saying, but this was an AMAZING anime! Great characters, story, action, drama..everything! Not to mention a Killer soundtrack! The only thing that might be frustrating and probably why it got the rating it had, was because the anime episodes ran in a pattern of "sequel, prequel, sequel"( if that makes sense, it's kinda like Lord of rings, Hobbit, Lord of rings) for each episode. Which you really had to pay attention and use your brain to catch on. I actually would have classified the anime as mystery as well because of the pattern. I highly recommend it if you like that sort of stuff where you have to figure things out, or just in general. The story kept building/stacking as well making it climax every episode which…
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[Adapted From Original Blog Post]
I guess it's hard to distinguish between what's "good stupid" and "bad stupid". I don't think there's a formula I can pin down that explains why I find anime like Guilty Crown enduring in their blatant mindlessness, and why I find the subject of today's review: Valvrave the Liberator, just sort of stupid, boring and not worth watching. So let's use this opportunity to set up a test case shall we? Let's compare and contrast and hopefully at the end of it all, I can give a solid thesis on why this show is crap, but also why there's other anime much like it that you all need to watch right now. Somewhere along the way, we'll find the problem, so let's get started.
Hello people of "The Wired", my name is Quan, and I'm back from my rather long hiatus to bring…
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Well, if you have seen Sunrise you must be familiar to mechas and robots.
Let us discuss the positive point, shall we? Valvrave the Liberator did well in bringing the individual elements of action and mecha, they did well in the enjoyment of the series.
And then the negative point, many mecha series that did a successful job to bring a well-oriented plot. While Valvrave the Liberator did a different thing, they put more action to the plot and abandoned the complexity of the plot which created a lousy storytelling. The other points we must know is a typical story opening that makes Valvrave lack of originality. It really makes this anime into a replica of the Gundam franchise.
Well, we know Sunrise is a rich company. Therefore, it's not strange that Valvrave got the animation that need…
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Overview:
Although I usually review older series, I will make an exception for Valvrave the Liberator. I can't think of a better series that exemplifies EVERYTHING wrong with the anime industry today.
marketing produced, fan pandering, cash in: 11/10
"What if we ripped off Code Geass, but inserted sparkling bishounen vampires like Twilight?! "We would make a fortune!" This is what the team of marketers said that pitched this bullshit series to Sunrise Studio executives. One thing I really despise in Hollywood movies and anime is when a team of marketing executives try to "cash in" on a recent pop culture phenomenon. For example, the fucking awful Chipmunk movies made some money off of idiots, so executives now want to reboot every 1980s kids franchise into shitty movies like The Smurfs…
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Alright, so this will be my first review, so bear with me, if you would.
It is very likely that you've seen the other reviews on this particular anime, and how they might mention that the show is 'so bad it is good'. I would like to confirm this statement. The show is literally potato, and had I attempted to watch this and take it seriously, I'd have dropped it right off the bat.
Lets start with the plot. The very shorted summary of the plot is that people developed a way to live in space and now a majority of the human population lives in cities built in space. There are two major factions, and one smaller one that is neutral. Suddenly, neutral-kun is attacked! Now, our MC-kun happened to be living his typical anime protag life inside neutral-kun's territory, so he gets involved.
No…
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"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
William Shakespeare
Has anyone loved anime as much as i have? This anime stands to be a perfect 10/10. As you watch this anime, remember this quote as it will seem to be a fitting beginning to a fitting end.
After you watch episode 9, you will truly understand why this anime is deemed, Valvrape The Penetrator and why this anime transcends over time itself.
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Bandai said that this anime would be over the top...and they sure did deliver.
This anime meshes Code Geass and Gundam together so well that you think, "oh, this was in (insert series) too!" but the situation is so altered but still so similar.
Story 9/10:
While the plot centers around students making their own country, the valvraves show something much, much darker going on.
This anime does go rather fast, but you will never get bored.
Each episode has a plot twist, the characters have genuine emotions, and the voice acting + animations rile up emotions whether they be anger or happiness.
If you cannot handle controversial issues, do not watch this
The rating is NC-17+ rightly so. There are scenes that will make you feel uncomfortable, but I think that adds excitement to the series.…
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Valvrave the Liberator is a generic mecha series not worth watching and everyone should go watch Majestic Prince or Gargantia on the Verdous planet...This is what i would say if i was someone who doesn't take the time to actually watch whole anime series and just judge it from the first couple episodes.
Valvrave the Liberator at first appears to be an generic mecha anime produced by Sunrise the same who produced the famous Gundam series. Teenagers become super bad asses by piloting OP mechs and blowing up countless enemy grunts. This is the standard Mecha anime formula.
Being produced by Sunrise, one can't help but think that Valvrave is just another Gundam anime knock off trying to gain fame which at first this series appears to be. A gundam anime knock off. Hell, it even uses the sam…
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Oh boy, where should I start? Should I start with how the pacing of this show is as consistent as a drunk driver? The shallow characters? The terribly executed plot twists? The pointless shock value? The stereotypical meccha fights? Does it even matter where I start? It IS Valvrave that I’m reviewing.
So how about we start off with talking about the dialogue? Normally I don’t focus too much on the dialogue unless it stands out as being really good or just really bad and Valvrave, you guessed it, falls in the latter. The dialogue was honestly the first thing I noticed when I started this show because of just how generically delivered it was. Sometimes the dialogue was trying to way hard to be inspirational and it made for a lot of cringe-worthy moments. But then again, I actually laughed a…
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Oh Valvrave the Liberator where to I even start, let's start from the before the utter stupidity started.
The story setting is interesting enough to grip you for the whole ride and the art is one of the most outstanding I have ever seen,and even though the robots aren't anything special they are at least flashy.
The characters range from jerks to fine beings mainly Saki Rukino, Akira R. as well as Shoko S. which seem to be give the best character development throughout with the former two having it a little bit more gripping in my opinion due to their sarker past. However the treatment of my favourite Saki was too harsh and we come to the famous scene in episode 10. A plot twist that was not needed and just seemed to be a cry for attention which is why my rating for both story and charac…
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This will contain some little spoilers ... well not that little but you get the idea .
First of all i will start by saying that this show was good , not bad , not awesome , but good and that's all . The story was not original , the characters were typical , the MC who cares about everyone and wants to save everyone , the heroine who is a damsel in distress from the start till the end and lets not forget about the bad guys that were taken from pokemon : ' Team Rocket blast of again ' ...
Story 6.5
As i said earlier not the most original thing you will ever see , but at the same time not that bad . The idea of students or kids that make their own little country is a nice way of getting people to watch , in a way this made me watch it .
Personally i can't understand why this will get a se…
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