Audience reviews
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kiyozwrld
How am I supposed to take an anime seriously when it doesn't take itself seriously? Kuromukuro truly is a work done by P.A Works , the fate of the world is at stake and what do we do? I KNOW!!! lets go to an onsen!! like seriously dude there's dark stuff going on and everyone around is all sunshine and fucking rainbow. The tone and the narrative couldn't be any more different from on another and it has sent my head to the fucking moon. The execution here couldn't have been worse which is shame because I found the story to be quite interesting , the ost to be rather decent, the animation and mech fights were well polished but as I said again the tone doesn't match what's happening. Another big contributor for this are the characters who for some reason do not at all quiver at the sight of i…
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GIVE ME SEASON 2!!!!!!!!!
Now that I've shouted that into the void - Kuromukuro is a rarity in the mecha genre. It's a simple show about humans in mechs fighting aliens in mechs. It quite literally doesn't get more complicated than that? It doesn't try to be anything else; it knows it's story and sticks with it, it doesn't get itself lost in trying to be a pretentious Eva knock off.
Starting with my favourite aspect of the show - the characters.
Ken is the star - he struggles with his identity and purpose, a theme which is echoed from many of the characters. His circumstances change rapidly throughout the series and each time it forces him to reevaluate his goals and values.
Yukina is meant to be the star alongside Ken but let's be real - she's an audience self-insert. She's your typica…
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Slightly above average. Not that great though, but if you have nothing to do and you already watched all good titles in your season - it is worth trying. It's not mecha heavy and it's not totally predictable even if you are an anime veteran, so why not?
Characters are not that bad and pretty likable. There are a couple of twists that were interesting and it was pretty nice mix of genre.
Main character are also not bad, but you doubly will remember them latter. Ending is also pretty smooth and don't made you grab your head. Just remember to grab something tasty, because filler episodes can be kinda boring.
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I'll be honest up front and say this is probably the best mecha show I've seen in a few years (having watched this in 2021). I've had quite the spell of bad luck with show endings recently, with most of the last seven or eight non-seasonal shows I've made my way through having had endings that just haven't quite worked for me. And, to give this show credit, it did play a bit with my heart with that; the two episodes preceding the finale were both a bit clumsy and messy, and even with the last episode there was some weird pacing. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
"Kuromukuro" is a mecha show with a distinctive samurai-inspired flavour, with the story in the present day stemming from flashbacks to a medieval backstory that could probably have been its own show. It's probably one of the most…
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Not bad. A bit predictable, but it checks all the boxes you look for in a mecha drama.
It has a pretty good story. The blending of slice of life elements and the "warrior from another time" aspect is quite refreshing, it's not something I've seen done with mecha before and it works quite well.
The mecha combat itself is well done, if you can get over the CGI mecha which is just something you pretty much have to do to enjoy anything in this genre anymore. You get all of the boxes for a good mecha show checked here. Cool models, a variety of suits that offer different ranges of fighting styles, combining mecha, it's all here.
The characters are where I feel this show lacks a bit, and where I feel this story borrows the most from other shows. The main character is basically a female Shinji…
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Fun package. I think it's amazing how this series managed to keep me hooked considering that I am not really a fan of mecha anime. I'm gonna be honest, never until this moment have I ever finished a mecha.
What a creative way to integrate slice of life and sci-fi. It somehow managed to make a "literally the whole world is in danger" situation seem very light-hearted. One moment you are fighting the aliens that could potentially subjugate your home-planet, then the next thing you know, you are celebrating a school festival. That just really caught me off-guard, even I was surprised at myself and in a good way.
Also, I'm a sucker for romance so that just added more flavor to the series even if sometimes, it seemed a bit too forced for me.
Nice animation, plot, and character development…
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the main characters i think started out a bit cliche-y and they still felt a bit cliche-y by the end. just their relationship had improved from arguing a lot to implied romantic interests. everyone else though…not so much. the characters are a bit boring and the ones that seem interesting don’t get as much development as i thought they would get. still better than nothing.
this series was interesting enough to make me keep questioning things but still able to predict how things would go.
overall, it is a bit predictable and trope-y and normally i would give this kind of average anime a 7 rating, but the animation was incredibly beautiful and constant. there was cgi use but it was only for the robot fights, which i think helps. and it’s only the robots so it’s not too jarring like say, b…
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This is a shitty remake of Evangelion with a less interesting cast and borrowed storylines from all over the place. Idc if it got melee fighting or stuff like that, it got 0 original character development, some of the scenes are as unimportant to the main plot as scenes in later Gundam, the dialogue is nothing. This is what i call a A4 or a netflix anime, a anime created purely for the sake of cashing in, following the most basic of storyline formulas and executing it poorly. The focus is all wrong, looks like the creators took more time creating good nature scenery instead of creating a good story with interesting characters. :)
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I really didn't expect to enjoy this show. When I watched the first episode during its release I immediately thought I would hate it and dismissed it due to what I thought the show would end up being about.
The show ended up surprising me with a wonderful story that was very enjoyable, all I can really say is that I made the mistake of assuming what this would be about based on the 1st episode and my experience with other anime 2 years ago, if you have done the same, go back and give it another try. It won't be the same with every anime obviously but some may turn out different than what they seemed, and to me this was one of those.
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I have to agree with people who are saying this show really isn't that great it doesn't have much to offer, but I had to change my opinion on that after 5 or 6 episodes. Watching this at the beginning I was afraid this is gonna be like all those other crappy animes I was watching when I started this show. I even went along patiently giving the show chances saying if the next episode I waited a week for suck your done for. Well look here I finished the whole first season and was itching to watch the next as I remembered the show today. Let me tell you why I thought this wasn't a trash anime.
Ussually people split up in to categories but here it is
Story: 8
Art & Character:9
Sound:10 most animes pass this in flying colors
Enjoyment: 10
Overall: Wait till the end
This show is not the best…
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(This review has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
In Kuromukuro, Yukina’s mother forgets about her phone which ends up being the catalyst for the entire anime.
I did something similar once. I used to own one of those dinky push-up cell phones that exposed a keyboard. I barely ever used it since I rarely reached out to anybody of my own volition, and it had no capacity for apps let alone the Internet.
One day, I plugged it into the charger I kept in my bathroom (for whatever reason), and, in my infinite wisdom, I left it there – for three whole days. When I finally remembered to get it, I had more messages in my inbox than I had ever seen. Texts of the “Where are you?” variety from my cousins, siblings, and grandmother, and multiple missed calls from my parents w…
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This is my first review but i'll try my best.
I first heard of kuromukuro from a friend of mine and he described it to me this way "A samurai dude comes from the past and kills these mecha called Ogres while piloting another mecha".
Hearing this i didnt expect much but when i started it i really liked the first 2 episodes and had really high expectations, and maybe because of that there were things that i didnt like after watching all of it.
The story even if there's the whole alien mecha cliche had some original plot like the mc being samurai from the sengoku era that was sleeping inside an "Artifact".
The sound and art were really good and was way better than most anime out there.
Now comes the part i really hated, the characters, some of them were really annoying and pretty dull. One…
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Pros não manjadores de ingles na minha lista tá em pt br.
Ok i really apologize, but im not really interested on write this review again in english, so it will based on google translator, i will CtrlC CtrlV, anything ask me and if you don't want to read so many mistakes, you are not forced to do it(i hope).
Come on, criteria of always, history, plot, characters, music and art, I will first give an overview without spoilers and then I fall more in.
In a general is very good, has a very first episode VERY confused, it gets to be distressing the anime does not explain anything, but as the development of the work you realize that neither the characters have notion of what is happening, you learn with them and this is very cool, I did not watch many strings but I think the idea behind this is…
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P.A works is the one of my favorite studios and i enjoyed some of their works i really like their style and their anime always have some kind of slice of life that i rly liked. Im not a big fan of mecha but i watch this bcs pa works made it. I dropped this anime last year but i tried to watch it again this year.
The story and the plot is good enough it tell us about this samurai guy from the past who is in the sleep for many years and wake up in our modern era, thats already enough to hook me up from episode 1.
But, the problem is this kennousuke guy from the past, he is a samurai who came from different era from them and at the beginning i really liked that this kennousuke guy have a strong personality, a man with high honor and pride. He have some temper, disciplined, uncontrolled, and…
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This anime was very entertaining, and the character development was relatively well done. I found about one-third of the characters to be interesting, but I found myself really disappointed with the story and plot. So many things were left answered, and several events in the story seemed far too convenient to be believable; it was just random at times, and I got lost partway through it all due to the lack of explanation and good story-telling.
Don't get me wrong. Kuromukuro was not awful by any stretch of the imagination; it simply lacked a well-written and detailed story, in my personal opinion.
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I passed over Kuromukuro quite a bit while watching other Netflix shows, I had just finished watching a really great anime and needed something to watch to pass the time. I immediately loved this anime, the story is great and original.....binged watched it for a couple days in between my husbands shows. I loved the fight scenes, they were balanced and believable. The character development was great and I ended up liking characters I hated in the beginning. The show has a lot of fun moments as well and definitely will have you laughing the your a++ off.
I really hope Netflix renews for a third season, they left it on such a cliff hanger and I need to know what happens! >.> I really hope to see Ken and Yukina reunite!
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Kuromukuro, aside from being a really solid mecha showing, is fascinating for how it takes up a lot of the tropes thrown down by Neon Genesis Evangelion and Vision of Escaflowne, and totally makes them its own. In the first episodes it seems like it will be a cliché storm, but by the halfway mark it really comes into its own. This is a giant robot show for our times.
There is a lot to like in this show, starting with production values. There’s a lot of great design here, from the mechas, which come in all shapes and sizes; to the characters, who do too. There’s a lot of CG, but it’s pretty well integrated with the regular animation, and there are both exciting robot-to-robot throwdowns as well as a couple of swordfights.
The story was complex, with a lot of moving parts and evolving reve…
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Hello everyone, since you're reading this, you wanna hear my opinion and review of this, so let's just get right into it!
The Story, (6/10)
You can read it for yourself in the summary, but I personally think that it was a bit clichè when you have aliens trying to take over the world and fighting with mecha, but there are a few points where it did have me quite interested.
The Art, (8/10)
Since this was from the studios of P.A, I expected alot, and I was not disappointed art wise.
If you haven't heard of P.A Works, you've probably heard of anime they have made. I'm sure you have heard of Angel Beats! And Another, Charlotte, Nagi no Asukara.
And well, I personally thing Nagi no Asukara has the best art like, ever.
I have watched, out of their works, Angel Beats! Nagi no Asukara, Kuromuku…
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When I first saw this show on Netflix, I avoided it because, even though I'm a giant anime fan, I've never watched a mecha anime before because it seemed boring. When I first started it, it was a little slow and I didn't know how good the story would be, but as I continued watching, the better it became. This was the first mecha anime I watched and really enjoyed. I definitely recommend watching this. The only thing that annoyed me was the ending, I mean it was sweet but didn't meet my expectations (but that's just my opinion, I'm sure others really loved it.).
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It was an average show. It was not terrible enough to consider it a train accident and form a follow-up around that, but it was not big enough to lure viewers on their own merits.
Kennosuke was a good main character, our samurai MC was also by far the most interesting and entertaining character of this show.
On the other hand, the main girl called Yukina was simply awful, she was basically a worsened version of Tiffa Adill from After War Gundam X in school girl style, i lost count of the number of times she became a damsel in distress and had to be saved by our samurai main protagonist.
Overall, it was an average show - 5.5/10.
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