Audience reviews
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Timeline_man
This is a.... fascinating show, to say the least. For most of the show, the focus is on the way characters' personal traits interact and bring about conflict, but the entire time it hints at some grander conflict being played at. The mostly female cast plays well together and it's overall great.... but....
Well, there's a bit that comes in towards the end that's just kinda gross? Not trying to get into any real spoiler territory, but there's a running theme of relationships causing the antagonists and it's just weird. Overall a well made show with.... strange and hard to parse motives that the show never really seems interested in explaining until it's time to take up most of an episode.
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This is one of the most truly insane shows I have seen in my short anime watching career. I enjoyed the hell out of it in much the same way that one enjoys a low budget action movie from the 80s. Turn your brain off and strap in for the ride. Needless to say, this is not going to be a show for everyone, and it's flawed enough that I can't honestly recommend it, but if you go in with the expectation that you're watching something ridiculous rather than something aspiring to be high art, it'll be an entertaining experience.
The pace of this show is relentless, there are 26 episodes worth of plot crammed into 12, and it throws some absolutely preposterous plot twists at you in short succession. It can be a very disorienting experience, in part because there is so much happening all the time…
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I finally pulled this off "the Stack" about a week ago. I won't say how long I've had it but I've moved twice since 2015 and it made at least one of those trips. Yeah, it had some dust on the wrapper.
But I finally watched it, so how was it? Well as mecha shows go it's no After Colony era Gundam, but I rank it slightly above Burst Angel. It did have a lot to cram into thirteen episodes, including characters, and if it were longer they had some other directions they could've run with. This could have helped to slow down the plot and not rush into it. That's really all I can hold against it, Jinki is a shorter series.
Buuuut, it was entertaining enough to earn a second watch down the line. It focuses more on what the characters are up to than the mecha action, but these sequences are drawn…
Read at the sourceKotori_Sonoda
Mecha shows with female leads aren't really that common (the other one I've watched is Rinne no Lagrange. Not sure if Kannazuki no Miko counts considering the one who piloted most of the time was the guy character) so I decided to give Jinik: Extend a shot. That and it's OP is a reference to the OP of Mobile Suit Gundam. Really. View Jinki Extend's OP, then MSG's. You'll see.
Jinki Extend would have worked better as a longer anime, or one with two seasons. there are two storylines- one starring Aoba, and the other one starring Akao. Chronologically, Aoba's arc occurs before Akao's, but the anime shows them both at the same time, making it quite confusing. To save you the trouble, if there's a flashy scene transition it's probably going to shift from one arc to the other.
This showing of…
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I really wanted this show to work. At the time of me watching this, I had yet to see someone try to make a mech show that has a female lead. That was the primary reason for me to watch this show. Within the first four minutes, I was interested. Tokyo Tower getting destroyed (as usual) and some psycho chick in a robot is about to kill some other chick in a robot. I got a bit confused as I was watching the show the first time. I ended up watching the show again just to see if I missed something and to do this review more properly.
The story is simple as most mech shows are. The show tends to take a few pages from other shows.
“Oh look, a convenient manual for the robot happened to fall on my lap.”
The thing that may confuse some people is how the story is being told. The show itself is mo…
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