Audience reviews
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O_T_T
A hidden gem that shines tremendously bright.
Symphogear is pretty much the best Anime I have seen to date, and my immediate pick when asked for an absolute favorite.
There are simply so many things done so well, I couldn't hope to cover even half talking for days on end. The show feels powerful to watch, and was absolutely mesmerizing when turned on for the very first time. It genuinely blew me away so far and so fast, it'll be a very tough act to follow. And yet, it does, 4 more times.
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Symphogear has a good plot, but it doesn't spell out the conflict immediately, and instead prepares what may appear to be unrelated story elements. It does take a little while before the villains, Finé and Chris, are properly introduced, until which point the B plot is focused on a lot more. Said…
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What is words? What meaning does words have? Well words have an incredible power! Words can kill! Words can heal a loved one! Words can destroy .Words can bring happiness and joy.Words bring us together. Words make us goes to war.Word make us believe. Words help us find a meaning and direction in life .Words can be precious. Words can also be cheap.Words is one of the greatest gift to mankind.Think about that before you use words! Words should only be spoken with care and meaning otherwise words will only cast great harm!!! Your words have consequences in the end. And shall therefor only be spoken with great care!!
On a raining cold day a girl standing soaked with a bouquet of white lily flowers,and by that catch my interest,…
Read at the sourceChrissyKay
It is said that there are seven wonders in this world, but the eighth and most important one that is often forgotten is a series that from start to finish is just a feel-good brain-off hype-fest. I dunno why all the other scores for this show are so low or what kind of no-nonsense all-business attitudes people had while watching this air, but holy crap are you missing out on a fun time if you judge this based on conventional merits.
Let me give you a few tips about watching Symphogear:
1. Get a drink. not a hardcore drink. Nothing with vodka. Just throw some peppermint schnopps into a smoothie. Or grab a hard cider. Just make sure it's fruity or sugary and that it tastes good.
2. Set up a BIG SCREEN. Get a projector, or a massive flat-screen TV. Make sure this thing covers an entire wal…
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Symphogear is literally one of the best anime I've ever watched. The story was laid out amazingly and the characters were awesome.
Starting off with the story, it was truly awesome. So, the story basically starts with ZweiWing performing a concert, but suddenly the Noise attack and nearly kill the protagonist however, Kanade sacrifices herself using her “Zesshou” to save Hibiki’s life. This is, truly, an amazing way to start off the story as it introduces the viewer to the main characters but also creates an uneasy and upsetting atmosphere.
Then, as the story continues, Hibiki (now with Kanade’s power) and Tsubasa encounter Chris Yukine who uses the Nehustan Armor but later the relic Ichaival. (I’m really trying not to give any spoilers) And later (AKA the final episode) they sacrifice th…
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*Review contains minor spoilers, nothing major, but proceed at your own caution.*
Senki Zesshou Symphogear... I've never been so happy to have accidentally stumbled upon an anime in my life. Also, I will be speaking mainly of this anime, but I will be mentioning the following 2 seasons as well.
Now, before we get going, I'd like to make it clear that this anime is nowhere near perfect. It most definitely has it's flaws, some bad animation here, some poor plot choices there, plot armor galore over yonder, I could go on. But that doesn't change the fact that this anime does one thing, and it does it incredibly well:
FUN.
When a lot of people complain about Symphogear, I always see that they seem to take it too seriously. With that, I tell you, that you should watch this anime for pure, u…
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If you are the type of person that likes singing along anime songs, and you know NANA MIZUKI, this is a great anime for you.
I find that symphogear is one of those animes people don't normally see, but as the story goes own you find yourself in a really motivating anime. Which has a lot of music-fight mecha scenes, school scenes where c¡you can ship characters in a yuri way and even have fun with each characters own story, apart from the group one.
I find that this anime, can somehow , like with other animes, motivate me to move ford wars, as the girls in the anime do so. Fight for my dreams, cause as Hibiki says: "its alright, keep moving" . I really think the main character hibiki, is the one that pushes her friends, (rest of characters) to see her reality, how to fight for what you w…
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My friends deem this unwatchable, and I don't blame them, nor would I anyone else who says it's unwatchable.
However I find it somehow enthralling. Something about the combination of the music and the fight scenes generates an exaggerated hype that I love.
There is lots of edge and qq, which would normally ruin a series, but its done in a way that either the scene can be skipped without missing anything important. Or it's so overdone that it's funny, using tropes like 'They are powered by friendship!'
The art style heavily reminds me of Megaman, while still being original.
The nameless villains look like some sort of ugly kidsmeal toys that were likely designed by a different artist.
There is lots wrong with it, especially the angsty character development, but the ultra-flashiness of th…
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Symphogear is cheesy. It’s a story where at it’s core is about friendship, protecting your loved ones and believing in your own strength. Like I said in my previous post about it, Symphogear is like animated Tokusatsu with music as the main motif. It’s silly, but frankly a lot of shows could learn a lot of things from Symphogear. You know what? I feel like breaking this down in the classic way by categories. Let’s start with the most important/the best part about Symphogear.
The sound department. You know how music can affect a story greatly? Sad music will make you feel sad, happy music will make you feel happy, but it can also affect the tone of the story. Spooky music will make the scene/story spooky, intense music will make a battle intense and so on. Well, thanks to one Motoyama Sato…
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Senki Zesshou Symphogear is an odd musical, action anime featuring girls in colorful sci-fi battle suits who must fight against monsters called "Noise" in order to save humanity. In order to use the relics that power their Symphogear suits, the girls must sing certain songs. The different songs they sing give them different powers ranging from charging up their suit to unleashing their strongest attack which has a recoil effect on them when used.
Despite a visually promising concert scene in the beginning of the first episode, the story falls to pieces almost immediately. It seems almost as if the organization working with the Symphogear girls expected the Noise to attack the concert where the girls were singing in order to revive a powerful relic. So why risk the lives of thousands of ea…
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Senki, while really not the best magical girl show out there, is an interesting bag of tricks. It's interesting in that it seems like the show changed story lanes a couple of times and ultimately failed to hit a perfect medium, while still hitting a nice somewhat-below that. Basically if you just pay attention to the action, you'll enjoy.
Story (6/10): If you break up the show into thirds, you can clearly see that they show's writing changed slightly. The first half was much more 'darker and trying to be realistic', the middle became the 'school drama and getting to know you' stage, while the ending was the 'free for all battles'. Was this a good idea? ...meh? There are a lot of places where the story falters (especially with no real definition of the relics that we can follow so as not t…
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I am just here trying to balance out the amount of negative reviews of this anime.
Senki Zesshou Symphogear (I am just gonna call it Symphogear) wasn't a very bad anime, if you want sci-fi action based anime, Symphogear is worth trying out.
My first experience watching the first episode of the anime was like "Wow, this is the real stuff people needs to watch these days." Of course it was quite a let down as animation quality was dropping episode by episode but it was still watch-able to the point that you can still cope with the animation. The art style in some point would change drastically but I think it was to create visual effects to cope with the music.
Speaking about music, apparently the characters sing songs when they are fighting, it was quite a hilarious concept where you're w…
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Since this was in storage for quite sometime I finally decided to watch, and finished this anime. This is pretty much action-y, but at the same time, it has a pretty deep story to it, and is kind of entertaining. For people that love action, I think you guys may or may not like this anime, since the action isn't really the main focus, cuz they focus more on the plot I would say..
Story 8/10
Started of pretty good on how they kind of went to the future, and then goes back to what happen to get there, like a lot of anime I know. It moves at a good pace, and that's good since in my opinion it explained to me more about what's going on. Mostly this anime probably wants the watcher to be sad when they watch it, but it turns out to be a pretty happy story after watching all the episodes.
Art…
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TL;DR version: Not worth watching unless you get enjoyment from girls battling with some good weaponry and/or a huge fan of Nana Mizuki's music.
Symphogear gives us the premise of an alien race that is causing havoc. The only counter to these strange creatures is the Symphogear weapon system which the female protagonists equip themselves for battle. While this formula for a battle anime has been done a countless number of times, what really matters is "how" it is done, rather than the "what". Unfortunately, Symphogear clearly lacks the direction and the refinement seen in other series such as Madoka.
Firstly, there is the matter of the story which is fairly average on the whole, but is destroyed by a major plot hole and the lack of refinement in the direction. We are greeted with a signi…
Read at the sourceKnightmaretiger
Fellow anime connoisseurs,earlier this year we were graced by a torrent of new anime like Aquarion Evol or Guilty Crown
though the latter had its obvious weaknesses I agree that it was worthwhile watching,However this is not
the case for all of this season's new anime namely Zesshou Symphogear'whats bad about it wasn't
the 'Noise' (and no im not talking about the monsters, im talking about the 'Noise' that the characters call singing.)or the fact that the main character
is a mutated pikachu with the depth of a sheet of paper nor the
fact that the best character died a martyr to save this lowly abomination from the apparently REAL"Noise".
No no no the problem lies when all of these elements combine into a thirteen episode animation,then eagerly advertised to us,anime enthusiasts
only to to…
Read at the sourceKelseyWhiteleaf
Senki Zesshou Symphogear is an anime surrounded by music by Nana Mizuki (not only her, but a large part is). I gave an overall score of 8, which could come from my love for the music of Nana Mizuki, but I do believe there are serious flaws in this anime.
Story:
The story is the main flaw in Senki Zesshou Symphogear. I actually am impressed that they made an anime of 13 episodes which doesn't feel rushed even though quite some things happen. But the "why" in why are things happening is explained but when you hear it, it's kind of lame. Though the concept around the "true reason" is actually nice. I believe they should have made is 26 episodes and not 13, this way they could have made the plot better.
Art:
The art is not especially impressive, but (and I'm trying not to spoil here) the a…
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If you hate inconsistencies, stupid plot devices, a horribly flawed setting, and poor characterization, the first season of Senki Zesshou Symphogear is your worst nightmare.
The opening episode is deceptively good. We see a concert that's animated brilliantly, and it lays out a high-stake story; we witness Kanade die in the past, and Miku crying over Hibiki's grave in the future. This image the anime painted itself in the first episode is one of the greatest deceptions I've witnessed in any form of media.
After the first episode, the animation quality drops dramatically. Epitomizing this is a scene as early as episode 3 where Tsubasa is walking along the corridor with her manager, which looks like a GIF pasted on top of a moving background. It's obvious that most of the animation time we…
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As me not being a big fan of animes like Senki Zesshou Symphgear I never expected I'll watch it or even like it but it became one of the exeptions that I end up enjoying.
At the start I thought this anime was going to be like all of those generic magical/sci-fi fighter girl animes. When I saw the summary I thought "Hmm they sing and fight this is a silly plot, I may try it though. I don't realy have allot of animes to watch this season ." Then I learned that Nana Mizuki(wich is one of my favorite singers) will be one of the VA's I decided to check it out since it won't be that bad if she is perfectly matched with her character.
It turned to be better than I originaly expected. The songs were perfectly matched with the fight scenes and characters. It also didn't have those long a*s(could…
Read at the sourceYemi_Hikari
The high hopes I had for this series were dashed after the first few minutes. The storyline felt like someone decided to animate a fanfic for a much better series. There were these honest traces of something better in the storyline. It fell flat because of the cliches within the series and because of how much of a Mary Sue the main character is.
In the first episode I was left asking why Hibiki was so special compared to all the other people who exist in this world. She's not special because she has any sort of talent, something she constantly admits. Her childhood is bland and uneventful, yet Kanade sings her Swan song in the first episode sacrificing herself just so Hibiki can live despite the fact it doesn't feel as if Kanade needed to sing her Swan song to save Hibiki's life. Instead,…
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Despite a weak start and a weak team of writers, Symphogear still manages to be somewhat enjoyable if just for the absurdity of it all.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to deliver the type of dark story we are shown in the first episode, rather the show is riddled with Dues Ex Machinas and plot holes. The characters and their backgrounds are written at a barely passable quality, but fortunately this seems to get better as the show goes on (except for the background characters who remain terrible the entire show).
Fortunately I found the music, gear design and battle scenes made up for the rest of the weakness - the songs are beautiful (especially in the last episode) and full of energy and the Symphogear units remain fun to watch the entire time.
If you're willing to let the poor writing s…
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Have you ever looked forward to something that looks appealing only to be shot down? Have you ever seen a new series not based off anything else where it's simply stand alone and thought it would be good? I had these impressions only to be gunned down at point blank.
One does not simply fail to execute new.
Yes, I took that gag straight out of Mordor but seriously though. How do you fail to execute a rare or new idea? You make something like this, I myself thought this would have been interesting but was found on the wrong end of the spectrum. Essentially what we have here are robotic hybrids pummeling non existent creatures while singing extremely poorly. The pacing of the story jumps back and forth too often. It's just another one of those hero super power themes that the average fanbo…
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