Audience reviews
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MrKuandohan
There's something about this show that's really off. It's like everything is there for an amazing series. An anime original with a quantum physics story, a cast of unique characters, unique art style and designs, really great music, and a mix of intense action with colorful slice of life moments. And some episodes actually have a really good script and with great direction (episode 14 especially, feels like a great standalone episode). But, almost the entire time it feels like the writers don't really know how quantum physics actually works. Most of what happens never gets explained, or has some non existent jargon attached to it with no real explanation. When things do get explained, they don't make sense and don't follow quantum law much if at all. There's also a McGuffin that is constan…
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A very rough cut gem that will appeal to some, and not to others.
This series is the imperfect attempt at a magnum opus of one Kazuki Akane, someone who has been involved extensively with many fantastic and well known works, essentially a who's-who list of big name titles for anyone of a certain generation of anime enthusiast. However, his involvement has often been one of medium-to-high-impact but low-visibility, with the exception of his involvement with 'Escaflowne' in which he was deeply and somewhat more visibly involved. This series, however, is one of only two of Akane's work on which he can be said to have his shot at becoming a true auteur (the other being Heat Guy J, which I am yet to see).
It is impossible to evaluate Noein without this kind of meta awareness of Akane's career…
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Noein: Mou Hitori no Kimi e is a lovely little show revolving around a group of children who have their world changed by invaders from a foreign dimension. The easiest parallel I can give you is that it's basically an anime cousin of Stranger Things.
The series focuses on the relationship between Haruka and Yuu. Both come from more or less broken families and have been friends since they met. Haruka is outgoing and friendly, while familial circumstances and social pressure has turned Yuu into a loner who wants nothing more than to grow up and leave town. Haruka is also a being called the Dragon Torque, which grants her certain (limited) reality-bending powers, that make her the target for a group of foreign invaders from the world of La'cryma - invaders that have surprisingly strong ties…
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This is kind of a weird one. And by that I mean both review and show. I often find myself writing reviews that end up something along the lines of 'started well but let down a little by the ending'; Princess Jellyfish, Wonder Egg Priority, Jouran, the list is extended. This is absolutely the opposite. Which, thinking about it, feels appropriate for a show this complex, with this many moving parts and quantum concepts.
'Noein' starts out badly. Part of me wants to be more generous than that, but the truth is, I wanted to give up on this show multiple times in the first five or six episodes. It's slow in a plodding way, that makes a fair few of the early episodes feel a bit pointless. It tries to introduce its many concepts and mechanics subtly, through context and viewer intuition, but do…
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Noein is a piece with an unusual plot and setting when seen by almost all angles. The series portrays the concepts of time travel and multiverse in a very original way for its media, with lots of cool quantum physics inbetween. There's lot of "technobabble" to articulate all these concepts toghether. Whether this language is good or bad for the viewer, I think it can be kind of polarizing: the most nerdy sci-fy enthusiasts will love it whilst people who's not so much into this will most probably find it boring, so being the aforementioned really subjective, I'll limit myself to say that all the technical language is well used to build up the set of rules by which the mechanics of the world work, in a sense that even if we know it's all theories or even speculative fiction, the story turns…
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Warning: Review may contain spoilers.
You only need to look at my list to see that I do not give 10's out easily. I went into this show expecting very little. The DVDs were very cheap to buy, I'd heard little about it, the MAL rating told me it was probably going to be good but nothing special. How wrong was I...
Story: An intriguing plot built around the Many Worlds Theory in quantum mechanics. I'm quite into my quantum physics and whilst I'm not even close to an expert, I probably know more than the average laymen, so I was on the look out to see how accurate it was. The theory itself is based on Heisenburg's famous 'Uncertainty Principle', which states that particles have certain property pairs which hold values that change in certainty inversely proportional to the other (i.e. if y…
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Noein, to Your Other Self is perhaps one of the most unique anime I’ve seen in recent years. It is a fascinating blend of a coming of age story of kids growing up and finding what they want to do in life, and a high concept sci-fi epic about quantum, dimension hopping soldiers trying to save their world. These two plotlines interweave to create a wholly unique narrative so much better than it has any right to be.
The characters are one of the strongest parts of this anime. The main character, Haruka, and her group of friends are so endearing to watch, as we root for them as they deal with growing up and repairing relationships they have with each other and their family. On the flipside, the dragon soldiers, warriors from another dimension searching for a way to save their world, first com…
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Tiresome. Utterly tiresome.
In ~2008, I remember staying up until like midnight on Monday nights in order to watch this on the Sci Fi Channel's AniMonday block. Looking back on it now, I feel so...cheated out of the 30 minutes of sleep I could have gotten instead of this, though this obviously wasn't the only show playing on those nights. At the time, I had dial-up internet and I didn't know how to watch whatever anime I wanted, so I was limited to whatever got dubbed and made it onto TV. And this did. We were so deprived.
It's kind of hard to describe exactly why I hated this so much, because the show itself is hard to describe, but that's kind of the problem. It's hard to describe any overarching thing about it, but any individual thing isn't merely simple, but lifelessly boring. Inste…
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[REVIEW WITHOUT SPOILERS]
Noein, the almost-impossible anime to describe without spoilers. But a promise is a promise, so here you go, no spoilers ahead.
* ART: 8
The art is very good in this anime. Not at masterpiece level but it does well its job. There are some CGI scenes that are so and so, but for 99% of the time animation is nice, using a clean and bright style, and with some good changes of palette and stroke, also given the... "strange" different settings it has to deal with. If you have access to the specials (for instance a DVD), don't miss the nice art special, which will show you the real places that are then depicted in the anime.
* SOUND: 9
The main epic piece, which defines the topical moments, of the story, will stay impressed in your head, nice job.
* CHARACTERS: 9
This is…
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This is probably the most obscure anime i've ever seen. You simply won't encounter anyone in real life that even heard of that anime.
Noein is, for some weird reason, anime that i catch myself thinking about every now and then, something that rarely happens to ran 24ep-series i've seen long ago. Now when i think about it, it didn't really have anything special to it, it didn't inspire ganres or other series, it just aired and fall into obscurity.
From what i remember, i first saw this in a youtube video, i think it was some sh** about "most powerful anime antagonists" or something. Material in it felt interesting enough to watch the series, and what can i say... I didn't really feel anything special after that.
So why am i still getting back to it? Right now i'm considering rewatching it,…
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Geez, Noein was a strange one.
And that is even by my standards. I'm the kind of person who's sunk pretty deeply into speculative fiction. I'm no stranger to esoteric visuals or allegedly 'mind-bending' concepts about quantum realities or multiple timelines. But Noein blends so much of it so constantly that even having reached the end I'm not totally sure I know what was accomplished or why. The brilliant part of the show is that it doesn't actually matter how weird it is, or how many questions you have, because the writing keeps you invested in what's right in front of you; as long as you care about the characters and their struggles and whether they succeed or fail, the show's in a good place.
As such, I'd like to address this show in ascending order of strangeness and import (the two…
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My wife and I had been meaning to watch this for many months but for various reasons other anime just kept jumping in front of it. When we finally got around to it, both very interested in the premise and confident we'd like it, we were both highly underwhelmed and disappointed.
The art is super inconsistent. The show has flashes of beauty, but those moments are few and far between, and for every one truly beautiful moment there are a dozen ugly cringe-worthy ones. The way characters are animated is really inconsistent as well. Sometimes they'll be super tall and thin. Other times they're overweight and oddly shaped. The inconsistencies with the art are really noticeable and absolutely detract from the show. Often times the show looks older than it is, which is rarely a good thing.
The v…
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Noein: Mou Hitori no Kimi e (Noein; to your other self)
https://myanimelist.net/anime/584/Noein__Mou_Hitori_no_Kimi_e?q=noein
An excellent show that few will remember, for there is little reason to do so.
Noein tries to express the idea that individuals truly have the ability to influence their own future, and does this whilst playing with the ideas of how our perspective on life influence how we live. I feel as if the creators tried to express something more specific than that, but the writing in the show is often to messy and illogical for a viewer to feel confident in it containing any deeper message.
The show's fiction is heavily based on a once popular incorrect interpretation of the double slit experiment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment). That interpretatio…
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I heard this was a time travel anime and read some very promising reviews.
But boy was I disappointed.
The dialogue in this anime is among the worst most boring I've seen. It's mostly made up of other characters name repeated over and over (I counted 5 times in a row at some point) or just repeat of what the previous character just said.
The voice actors are good though, it's WHAT they say and not HOW they say it that's lacking.
The story is quite jumpy, especially the first 3/4 of the anime. Going between intense fighting and calm everyday life. It's not a story which builds up slowly and steadily, rather it creates drama, which a few episodes later is reset back to where it started, much like the feeling of pointlessness you feel in fillers.
But the concept is good, time travel is not po…
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Noein's story line can be a little out there to wrap your head around, though it's not too hard to understand. What makes the story confusing is mechanisms of Noein's multiverse and pretty much just the topic of existences in general, the show explains enough that the viewer can understand the important things.
The story in short: Haruka's a magic mcguffin that the alt-reality people need to save their universe tho Haruka will die if they do, in most universes Haruka dies young leaving Yuu heartbroken.
The arts kinda messy. The 2D parts are loose and sketchy, which feels more cheap than stylized. The CGI is bad early 2000's TV CGI, kinda speaks for it's self. I liked the background art, the insides of the houses were all unique and felt like homes.
All the characters are different and…
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Warning this review may contain spoilers.
First impressions,
When I was first getting into this show I really didn't know what to expect.
Based on the premise it's sounded interesting enough.
A show about quantum physics, different dimensions and meta physical concepts.
It's one of those thing which gets my interest.
But you know because a show has these concepts doesn't mean it will be good or bad.
So I was went into this which very natural stance when getting into this title. And for the most part I thought it was decent.
Story, 7/10
In a alternate future dimension an epic battle is battle is takeing place,
Between the dimension named la cyma and the dimension known as shangri la who hell bent of destroying all dimensions.
There only hope is the dragon torque and the group of warr…
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Noein: To Your Other Self or Noein: Towards Another You is a character-driven science fantasy that still leans more to the analytical science. Noein deals with quantum parallel world intertwined with teleological thinking, set in a complex inter-dimensional conflict. While it concerns a complex and very thought provoking theme, Noein delivers it with a very accessible presentation which makes it easy to understand. This anime refrains from presenting any superfluous convolution. It can be quite confusing at a few points, but they are crucial for the storytelling and are explained later on.
Noein’s specialty lies in its detailed and extremely well orchestrated character interaction. It is very well written. The subtle execution makes these interactions feel genuine. It’s as if the viewers…
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I really liked this sci-fi anime masterpiece. Very cool and imaginative -- if somewhat flawed -- exploration of the "many universes" theory of time travel.
Character development was quite good. It was especially important in this series because there are multiple time lines and you have to understand the histories and natures of each of the core characters to understand what motivates and drives them in each universe.
The intro theme was spooky-cool, and became one of my favorite tunes for many weeks. Another cool thing about this anime is that the story writer chose a real place, Hakodate Hokkaido, for the story to take place in. Also, it would have been better if the "science" of this world made more sense, but I can forgive that.
I'm certain I will re-watch this series at some point…
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Don't be fooled with the action sequence in the first episode. It's more into a slice-of-life based on a time-travelling aspect with some fighting scenes along the way.
Noein: to Your Other Self is a fairly older anime from 2005-2006. Directed by Kazuki Akane and made by often collab scriptwriter Hiroshi Oonogi, I realized certain elements from Akane’s and Oonogi’s Birdy the Mighty: Decode and The Vision of Escaflowne (that one only was done by Akane.) All have used a sci-fi/fantasy background, incorporating genre-bending along with multi-layering story lines as well a somewhat simple premise that slowly builds up. Many themes are quite similar, but its focus is quite different. In Noein’s case, it focuses a lot more on its sci-fi concepts compared to the other two.
** It’s a clean anime…
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This is one of those series in which you get a wonderful premise, at the start is well executed, nut then after a certain point everything falls apart. Which makes it very frustrating, is it good?
Well...yes, if you see it you will certainly get a lot from it. It introduces some principles of quantum mechanics in order to serve as a main plot engine, to deal with parallel realities, and they are presented competently at mostly accurately, thus in addition to be entertain you'll learn something, and all goes great for 60% of the duration.
Then it introduces some twists and revelations that do not get explain and do not make much sense and the show suffers the rest of the time for them, and by the end you feel it could have been more.
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