Audience reviews
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Zephreth
This might be the single handedly worst anime I have ever watched in my life. Nothing more needs to be said except don't watch it. I've watched ex-arm, mars of destruction, and tesla note and this one takes the cake. I have a pretty high tolerance for garbage anime but this one makes me want to throw up. Main female character is probably the worst human being you'll ever find in anime and I watched redo of healer. The art is mid, the characters were ALL obnoxious and stupid. Generic, predictable, trash story writing. Frog main character gets carried by a bunch of OP girls that somehow join his harem. I don't think anyone would enjoy this series.
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Warning: Minor spoilers (that don't really ruin much at all), as you'll see the majority within the first two episodes.
This is a review for all four seasons, posted here to warn you of how much pain you might be coming across. I've watched some pretty bad anime but Zero no Tsukaima and its sequels are very high up. I was spurred to finish it by the suggestion of a friend saying it got better and because I can't stop what I've started. Note - This is my first review and my opinion, think of it as you will.
Story 4/10
Over four seasons half the 50 or so episodes could probably be considered fillers. The storyline itself jumps from one sudden and convenient issue to another with not much really linking it together. Zero's subplot of the apparent romance between the Mage and her familiar at…
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Story 3/10
The story starts in a magic school where the failure of a female lead summons our protagonist to be her familiar. A magic school is a wonderful ideal in theory however this is not used in any sort of effective manner. It uses magic in the story but only for minor bits of action and torturing Saito so it takes the fantasy out of it. It quickly devolves into a bland, tasteless harem comedy that really isn't even that funny. The characters have no really explored back-story and feel like they were picked out of a harem character pool of cliches.
Art 6/10
I have no real complaints about the art. It doesn't blow you away but it's pretty decent.
Sound 5/10
The sound wasn't bad and the OP was pretty good. The ending song however leaves much to be desired so the score takes a beating…
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Overview:
Do you like Moe? Do you like S&M? Do you like obnoxious female leads? Boy do I have a series for you!
Plot: 3/10
Familiar of Zero is an anime about an ordinary boy named Saito that is forced to be a magical slave to an obnoxious twat that summoned him from Japan to the far away land of extremely generic fantasy Europe. Here he must learn to adapt to his odd new life and learn about the various types of magic users. I am not going to go really in depth with the plot honestly. It soon becomes a very generic harem show and the plot is NOT going to blow you away. Here is a summary of the plot: Louise the witch treats Saito like crap, the abuse is played up for cheap laughs, Saito uses his magic sword wielding ability to do something heroic, he still gets treated like crap. rinse…
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To make it as blunt as possible, you probably shouldn't watch this show unless a) you're under 16 or b) you're unreasonably obsessed with Louise.
The premise of this inane little harem romance is that a boy called Saito from modern Japan is sucked into a fantasy world named Halkeginia by an incompetent tsundere witch girl named Louise and becomes her familiar. He is subsequently beset by numerous confessions of love from such starkly original characters as a large-breasted vixen, a demure maid, and a Rei/Yuki clone, but of course, this story is about Louise, and it's her who he ends up with. There's some sort of plot involving a Staff of Destruction, and then later on Louise almost gets married to a moustache, and then the Rei clone goes crazy in the third season, etc., but this show's ma…
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Shout-out to Dilan-sama for which this magnificent review is for!
MAL users prepare your collective anus for what is possible the longest and most rantiest review you will ever read.
The first half of the review, the episode deconstructions, should only be read by those who have actually watched the show since it won't make sense otherwise.
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DISCLAIMERS!
****************** - Do NOT take this review 100% seriously. While I will say that I personally hated it, it is completely fine if you do like it! I am only poking a bit of fun into, IMO, a very badly written story.
- Do NOT read if you do not wanted to be spoiled since this is extremely spoiler heavy.
- Do NOT read if you do not like profanity since the review is covered with it.
- This isn't really a disclaimer…
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Pros
+Very Easy to watch
+Real easy to enjoy
+The Art style fits the show perfectly
+Keeps you wanting more
+Great Character Development
+Ending is Solid
Cons
-Little predicable at times -Nothing overly new in terms of story
-Maybe a little filler heavy
My opinion
This is my first review so please don't attack me... Ps i love to spell shit wrong so look out for that.
So Zero no Tsukaima is just a really fun anime, that was just simply easy to watch and fully enjoy. The anime does a great job of making you care about the characters and makes you want to watch more. When i watched Zero no Tsukamina i have to just marathon it, i was hooked almost instantly. If you like Tsundere types then Louise is your girl and as far as the male lead Saito is a really like able character with som…
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Zero no Tsukaima should be an enjoyable action anime based in a majestically magical world, sadly it executes the premise horrendously, clinging to repetitive comedy and a subpar plot. The characters were written poorly; this is evidenced by their shallow nature and monotonous interaction, of which Saito and Louise are the worst offenders.
So, Zero no Tsukaima (after this abbreviated as ZnT) has a premise of a modern Japanese boy who ends up in a fantasy world after being summoned by her master, who happens to be a young, petite girl, with a fiery attitude. And with these two not getting along too well, this should set things up for a nice rom-com, right..?
In practise it gives a different result, the slapstick humour is overused and literally milked down to the very last drip. As a show…
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This is my second review of an anime series. Please spare me. xD;
I don't do many reviews on shows but I would like to review on this one. Since this series touched me a lot and its my childhood. :P
One of the series that expanded my variety of anime after Inuyasha and Shana.
Story:
You have Louise, your mage that possess terrible magic and a boy that came from another world. He has to deal with the customs in Louise's world and has to face many obstacles; and with war, I'm not gonna spoil. Or I will try not too.
This series is a comedy, so it does have some harem/ecchi involvement. Though, I think this series would be better off without the ecchi and the harem. That way, the characters have room to develop.
So I would give the story an 8/10.
Art:
The art is very beautiful to look at…
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I enjoy a good romcom every once and a while, and if it can be combined with another genre to create more or better situations, then all the better right? A situation, setting, and characters can make a romcom really good, even if it's taking an old concept and adding in a new element.
So we get Zero no Tsukaima. the story of a noble mage from a magical realm and her familiar, a human from our world. Sounds like a good mash-up like Inuyasha, Shakugan no Shana, or any of the many magical girlfriend animes out there. The problem is, this series, though it combines familiar elements to make something new, it does not seem to work well. While I loved Baka to Test for combining slice of life high school drama with monster training, this simply did not do it for me. To be honest, Zero came off…
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Tsundere galore! Zero no Tsukaima (or The Familiar of Zero) tells the story of two lovers – or so we are told. This delightful anime takes place in a fictional world where magic is all around and aristocrats (in other words: the rich people; as opposed to plebeians, the average peeps) are being taught magic in school. We are introduced to a magic academy where Louise Francoise is having difficulty keeping her spells under control and therefore is being scorned by her fellow classmates who call her Zero Louise.
Things take a rather interesting turn when the day comes for the students to summon their familiars (some sort of special ritual where everyone gets to summon a magical creature that will protect them and be at their side forever) and Louise unwillingly summons a human plebeian name…
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This one's gonna hurt, folks. My lowest review yet, but you should expect that from a series that capitalizes entirely on cliches without an ounce of originality or effort in any single field. Ladies and gentleman, I give you Zero no Tsukaima.
Getting the technical bits out of the way, Zero no Tsukaima was average in audio and visual. No memorable BGM, forgettable OP, and an irritating ED, but the performances were rather pleasing in some cases. Rie Kugimiya plays the standard tsundere role well, but shines better in scenes where she's interacting with someone that isn't Saito, where her other sides become more apparent, such as when she is with Henrietta. Unfortunately this doesn't happen often so it's mainly tsundere all the way. If you're into that, you're in luck. The rest of us aren'…
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The Familiar of Zero is an anime based around Louise the "Zero", who was given the name by her classmates at the Tristain Magic Academy because of her inability to correctly use her magic. In fact, every time she tries any kind of spell, a big, smokey explosion is caused instead. So when it comes time for Louise to summon her familiar at the annual ceremony, yup, you guessed it. Big, smokey explosion. But she still managed to summon her familiar. However, it's not a cat, owl, dragon, or bugbear, but instead it's a human! Hiraga Saito, from our very own Japan even. Things don't exactly go straight from there. I beleive that The Familiar of Zero is deserving of a 9 out of 10.
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Wow, I really was not expecting this to be a good anime, but it turned out much much better than I thought it would. What looked like just an average "I can't confess" love story turned out to have something special in it, maybe because they got to the point within 13 episodes like most animes don't.
STORY: 9/10
The story is very unique, as far as I can tell. Louise can't use any magic, but on the day where all 2nd year students summon a familiar to help them, Louise summons a teenage boy from Japan, which is obviously another world from the magical world. From there it just kind of flows, and the fillers are very entertaining too (If they can even be called fillers).
ART: 9/10
I really like the eye styles in Zero, cause im big on those. Everything else is great as well, I didn't see t…
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Zero no tsukaima is set in a fantasy world where the nobles stay separately from the commoners and can practice magic. The story forcuses on a magic school academy for the nobles and on the day that they are to summon their partners, the female lead summons a boy from another world which is our world i guess, however, she believes he is a commoner from her world and treats him like a slave,little do they know that he will become the ledgendary partner or familiar that can own with a sword.
The story is unique as it differs from your usual fantasy anime, though it does inculcate the typical main chracter is drawn into another dimension theme it does not focus so much on that so it does not seem cliche. Also ifyour thinking of harry potter or something along that line then you are sadly mis…
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I decided to watch Zero no Tsukaima because I wanted a leave-your-brain-out-of-the-equation sort of show, one I could sit back and watch without worrying about a negative outcome or depressing and/or disturbing complications. (Yes, for all my talk about artistic integrity and such, I do watch things for pure and simple fun sometimes.) Zero has most of that, but only to a point, and in the end I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of depth this show manages to pull out of nowhere. I went in expecting another Nanoha, or the first season of Shakugan no Shana all over again, and what I got was something more akin to the comedic romance and character development of Love Hina supported and sustained by the political intrigue of Last Exile or Simoun.
Plot: An incompetent mage summons as her f…
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Length: 13 episodes
Original Airdates: 7/06 - 9/06
Demographic: Seinen
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Harem, Romance, Ecchi
Plot Synopsis
Louise is a magician at the Tristein Academy, dubbed with the nickname "Zero Louise" due to her inability to effectively use her magic properly, resulting in zero successes. An upcoming test at her academy requires her to summon a familiar, a servant and partner to support her as a magician. Despite desiring a familiar that would be superior to her constantly mocking classmates, Louise ends up summoning Hiraga Saito, your average Japanese boy. Even with Louise and Saito both unwilling to accept each other, they have no choice. Louise cannot attempt another summoning and Saito cannot return to Japan, and so their life together begins. Based on the n…
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Story:
.. not many plots in here and some are realy obvious but zero no tsukaima isn't exactly the kind of anime where serious and complicated plots would fit in.
Art:
Its the usual anime.. looks good, can't say much bad about it.
Sound:
The sound fits realy well and I loved the opening song :)
Character:
ah.. this is anime is kinda wierd, first and for all.. don't forget that the main characters have the mentality of 12 year olds(not including the idea of punishment.. you will understand once you've seen louise angry) so.. even if certain things get explained and feelings start to develop.. there never is much of a change in the situation(which is good or else half of the humor in this anime would be gone)
There will the occasional side story but the main characters are the main charac…
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I\'ve always had a weakness for magic schools - like Harry Potter\'s Hogwarts. That\'s my main motivation for watching this anime. And who wouldn\'t want to be suddenly thrust into a magical world from a boring life, right?
The story\'s not as lighthearted as I thought. Immediately there are the ecchi elements and the political conspiracies that surrounds the characters. But other than that, you get what you expect: the marginalized boy and girl who suddenly become the hero and heroine, seemingly more than what they were initially shown to be.
Nevertheless, Zero no Tsukaima is a fine anime. Nothing too extraordinary, but not that bad either. Maybe the problem is that it was too short and we never really got the whole picture. Hopefully the second season will be better.
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I can’t say I liked Zero no Tsukaima as much as hormonal, pre-teen male otaku out there.
Plot-wise, I’d say it’s a revamped version of Maburaho. Other than being produced by JC Staff, the two series have other things in common. First off there’s the setting – both series are set in a magic school. There’s also the harem anime aspect – Louise, Siesta (my favorite!) and Kirche are all fighting over the token loser male character, Saito. Finally, there’s the ecchi. It’s a good thing that the ecchi in Zero no Tsukaima isn’t as heavy as Maburaho’s.
It was a stable ride for me during the whole series. There were no high points and low points. Let me reinforce my first point by saying that if I were a guy I would probably like Z…
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