Audience reviews
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ThatAnimeSnobRE
Animated by Studio Arms, and directed by Kujou Rion, both of which have made nothing but porn-related works. This show is no exception; it is heavy on fan service, has ecstatic in its title, and the main picture shows one guy and many chicks. Plus it is the adaptation of a light novel, so it doesn’t take a genius to tell it won’t be a mature show about the meaning of life.
Let’s start by something easy; the production values are average to bad for their time. Half the time I felt like I was watching a low budget hentai; dull animation and cookie cutter characters defined only by hair colour and boob size. The soundtrack is also nothing but forgettable songs. There are supposed to be some famous voice actors in it but I sure didn’t give a damn if they all sound like retards with the materi…
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Hi. Welcome to another round of Robert's Too Late Reviews! Today as usual we are working the dub version. I recently reviewed Chivalry of a Failed Knight, and bemoaned repeatedly the whole 'overpowered meek and humble hero', well there is NONE of that to be had here! That and we are thrown some twists at the ending which I found appealing as well. Let's throw down this show and see what we've got going!
Story:7
The story isn't anything to write home about. Little boy gets zaps into another world, lives there his whole childhood, gains superpowers and then returns. Not all that unusual there. His kicker, as the synopsis mentions is that instead of a magic sword or treasure, he brings back the daughter of a Demon Lord he destroyed (with the Demon Lord's blessing oddly enough) and on returni…
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"Anime was a mistake"
-Hayao Miyazaki
Have you ever wanted to know exactly what happens after the hero slays the enemy and saves the day? Well, Studio Arms (Elfen Lied) attempted to tackle this very question with their 2012 adaptation of the light novel, Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero. With a rather unique premise as a backbone, I was very curious to see what this series was about. Unfortunately, what followed was a lewd, generic insult to anime fans everywhere, with more breast development than character development. Join me as I chart the fanservice waters and explore one of the worst anime I’ve seen to date.
The story sounds promising from the start. It begins with our conceited, overpowered protagonist Akatsuki leaving a foreign land to which he was summoned to defeat an evil Dark Lord.…
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Great series, but canned after first season.
1. Story - The episodes are full of action, with plenty of funny moments and few dull ones. There is a little bit too much fan service in the show for me personally, but I'm sure others will love all the boob and panty shots. I think they expected this to go for several seasons, so much of the overall story is an unknown.
2. Art - Okay, I thought some of the characters faces looked a bit too round and for some reason, whenever faces are like this, they seem lacking in detail. They also use hair colours like pink and green.
3. Characters - The protagonist Akatsuki is a cocky jerk, but still comes off as cool rather than a perverted creep. The lead female, Miu is a little whiny at times and she has ridiculous sized breasts. She doesn't seem to…
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Edit: I came back to this review. Reviewed the review, and decided that I was too lenient on it.
We'll get straight to the point here, I am somewhat tolerant of the MC. Sure, he's on the far other side of the spectrum when it comes to harem mains, but that's not exactly a good thing either. I'll get to that later:
Story: 1
There is no story. If someone asked you what it was about, all you can say is this: Over powered main character literally plays with girls until episode 10. That's it. There is no overarching main plot, well until episode 10, there are numerous subplots though. Pathetic romance plots and one actually very notable inner conflict in the main girl (Miyu). Other than that, it's the very definition of EPISODIC. And it's not even good episodic
P.S. They left room for season…
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Hagure is a ecchi-based action/fantasy for those tired of wimpy, "nice" male leads. However, it is also a series only for those who can tolerate thin character development and a story trying to foreshadow a second season so badly that you might as well just wait until the next season comes out.
The story shares the dimension-travel theme of other shows such as Zero no Tsukaima and Astarotte no Omocha. The main difference being the lack of Rie Kugumiya and a much more blunt approach to the ecchi; the main lead here is strong enough not to be a victim of violent acts of retribution for his openly perverse nature (though he displays it in a much more controlled fashion than the lead in Sora no Otoshimono). However, this refreshing change of lead personality is just wasted on a wish washy plo…
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I've got to say that I really enjoyed watching the series, my only problem with it was that there were a few occasions that I found that the dialogue was a bit boring.
The fight scenes were great! The main character is a real badass, and knows it!
I'd really recommend others to watch it!
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The most important thing to mention to people before they begin watching this anime is that there is no season 2 and that the anime stops very abruptly at episode 12. (At the time my thoughts were "OMFG did the anime really just drop dead somewhere in the middle/beginning of the story?") Luckily there is some of the translated light novel on baka-tsuki if you like reading.
The second most important thing is that it is certainly an ecchi anime. There were so many bras, panties and breasts that I'm amazed it's not hentai.
Story
I initially thought that it was solely a parody show making fun stories that start with a hero being summoned to another world (it also included the stereotypical Demon Lord too). Beyond that parody the premise seemed interesting and the story might have been able…
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Looking for a totally mediocre but enjoyable fantasy and action anime? well I think Hagure Yuusha No Estetica is for you!
I went into this anime during the summer 2012 season with the normal expectation of a totally floppy and cliche harem and action anime...well it wasnt. In a way you had the makings of such an anime but in the end the main male protagonist and action scenes followed by a well thought out pacing for the storyline.
The main attraction for this anime is the main male protagonist, Ousawa Akatsuki who is a badass , strong, pervert and invincible. basically he is a main lead with a harem with enough backbone and ability to defend himself as well. He stands out from the normal wimpy and weak MCs with a harem.
Throughout the anime , his heroics and basic ethics is something to…
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This anime tries to do to many different things. It tries to be funny but I didn't laugh once while watching the show. It tries to be action packed but the main hero is so overpowered it isn't interesting and you find yourself not caring about the outcome. This show also decides to be an ecchi anime, but the ecchi aspect of the show isn't the main point it just ends up making the show worse. The show had an interesting concept, but it just ends up becoming a mess. The art was pretty good. The sound was fine nothing special but Funimation did produce a good dub. The characters were poorly written and I didn't care about any of them. I really did not like this anime, but I don't think this anime is necessarily bad it's just about average.
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I can say this was a great anime. There were gaps and holes and a lot of things i didn't like but i was thoroughly entertained the entire time! First I would like to say I haven't read the novels an all speculation is based solely upon the anime. What I can say from the start is it takes some getting used to knowing that there is this massive back story that we didn't get to see and that there could be enough content for a prequel season however after the fourth episode that stopped bothering me as some things were being explained. I liked that they used flashbacks but didn't completely kill you with them. They were moderate and gave the info they needed to.
The only thing I disliked about the anime was throughout the first half it was almost entirely fan service with only a little action…
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I decided to watch this anime on a whim.
I liked the picture I thought it was pretty bad ass so I started watching it.
I still don't know what made me watch all 12 episodes.
First episode was actually quite promising; We had flashbacks, very busty young girl, quite good looking hero, and somewhat promising story.
Second episode was fair enough too.
Afterwards.. I think that my stubborn nature made me watch it until the very end, but it was very painful. Nothing in this anime made me say that it was at least decent to watch.
We have once again hero who defeats everything,not to forget very powerful. We have big breasted women in entire anime,I mean everything I see is breast breast and some more breast. Oh and panties.
I mean, I don't have anything against that, but not in that amount.
I…
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Ahhhhhhhh! That's all that needs to be said.
But to add some more:
Tired of all the pussy main characters? Tired of authors redefining the main characters at whim? Tired of nothing but boobs when you want action?
Hagure Yuusha no Estetica is like a direct response to "Hey we want something bad-ass for once!" I watched the first episode and was hooked.
Akatsuki is simply the man I aim to be. Complete bad-ass-ery from start to finish in every single episode. Another strong point is Akatsuki's power - while he is over-powered, he opted to train in a different fighting style than the typical magic user. It brought back some memories of DBZ, especially in fight scenes - which there was no lack of.
The art is more than decent enough, same with sound. All the characters were interesting an…
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When entering the ecchi genre, you generally know just what you’re going to get: a heavy reliance on fanservice and a ton of slapstick and sexual humor. Obviously, it doesn’t usually make for a compelling and intelligent show. But that’s not to say that all ecchi anime are bad. In fact, some ecchi anime can end up being pretty funny and charming; with at least a few characters that don’t make you want to shove knives in your ears every time they open their mouths. And then there’s the other kind of ecchi anime. It’s the kind that is self-aware if its suckiness and tries to compensate with over the top, sometimes fetishy, fanservice that straddles the line between ecchi and hentai. In the end, you won’t remember its story, characters, or humor. Instead, you’ll only remember its shockingly i…
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I could go into a lot about this series, but I wont. It's not worth it.
Voice acting was fair, Music was ok, had good Opening song. Art and animation was find. Now let get to the point, skip this anime. There are ton of anime out there, that can give better enjoyment then this anime could dream to. To sum it up what this anime has to offer is basic borderline hentai and some RPG elements. The fan serves is horrible , I usually don't mine it at all but in this one it take way from what little story this anime has to offer. Characters, I'll give that the main was some what interesting but rest of the cast has been seen and done, nothing special or interesting about them. I really had hard time watch this one all the way through, it's was pretty boring. But worst part of this anime is plot.…
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Its definitely a breath of fresh air in many aspects from your typical action/fantasy series. Definitely a strong male lead who isn't afraid of harassing the nearby girls. However, it shoots itself in the foot as it feels like we've been shoe horned into a confusing plot line which is described as vaguely as possible to try and make the show look cool.
The characters are definitely the shows most redeeming feature as the protagonist is the complete opposite of the shy ecchi harems you normally see. He is portrayed as a panty snatcher, molester, and peeper in a good light. Its kinda hard to describe but the girl victims do the kya screams while believing that he isn't really a bad guy at heart. However its merely a fresh twist on an old cliche to be honest. As the show goes on you get som…
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When this anime first came out, I read the synopsis for it and thought this is probably only going to be a meh anime. I wasn't going to watch it at first but 3 month after I first heard of it I decided to check it out on one boring school day with nothing to do but to play with my phone. I fell in love with this anime the first episode.
The thing that caught my eye about this anime is the main character and the concepts of the story. The main character is just....awesome. He is strong, smart, understanding, confident, relaxed, funny, fun, perverted, open minded, serious, honorable and most important of all selfless. Analyzing him makes it pretty epic. He is like the title suggests a rogue hero, and a true hero like the anime suggests. All he wants to do is to make people happy and protect…
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Story: Action with huge tits? 10/10
Animation & sound: Awesome boob physics and moans? 10/10
Characters: Hunk that grabs tits and steals underwear for no reason, huge busty chicks, and even a loli! What more can you ask for? 10/10
Enjoyment: had some good faps, saw some tits and lesbian scenes, OBVIOUSLY I ENJOYED!!10/10
Overall: Good appetizer before i go watch some real porn/hentai. 10/10
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Well, I think it was quite obvious that everything I wrote above were just jokes, or is it? Hagure Yuusha no Estetica seemed like a very promising anime when I first saw it. Now that i’ve watched it though, i’ll have to say that judging a book by its cover is a v…
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How refreshing. After slapping the Demon King's shit around and stealing his daughter, our beloved hero Akatsuki returns from fantasy-land as an overpowered motherfucker. He rides lightning-charged motorcycles, gets bitches, makes em' piss, and crushes others using only his testosterone. A refreshing character and premise indeed, but does refreshing exempt the rest of the show from being mediocre?
Story
'Tis a rare thing, my Pappy once said, to find a show with enough courage to stray from your average cut and paste framework. So the protagonist goes in and comes out with the belligerent demon armies dry humping the ground he walks on... then what? We see that protagonist use his new found badassery to engage in shennanigans like putting assholes in their place, or stealing girls underwe…
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I never had much of an affinity for big breasts. I find myself to be more of an ass man. Hagure Yuusha no Estetica had both however.
I can't say I had high expectations for Hagure Yuusha no Estetica, it really falls flat on its face plot wise like most other series' in the ecchi genre. It was plagued by an abundance of fast selling nudity fan service.
I have to admit the exposition got off to a fast start. The concept of people crossing different dimensions and learning skills from other worlds isn't a new one. The cast centers around a school specifically made for them to flex their abilities from the other worlds, essentially they are further trained to be soldiers for different governments. The school has a caste system based solely on their different abilities and they are placed acc…
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