Audience reviews
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ThatCrazyElitist
If you want to see an anime about space Nazis, body swapping vampires, high school students who create their own country and vampires raping these high school students: this show is for you. If you want to see a show with the whiniest main character since Mirai Nikki: look no further. If you want to hear the characters try to pronounce German names (e.g. "ERU-ERUFU", "KOE-VIERU", "HAA-NOINU", "RIEYSEHROTTEH"): look no further. This review will cover 5 aspects of our opinion about this trainwreck.
~Story~ 1/10
Starting off, our ultraheroic, and super manly protagonist tries to confess his love to his tsundere crush. This is definitely not a cliche. Then, out of nowhere, his school gets attacked by space nazis and he dramatically watches his beloved tsundere crush die. The shock! After that…
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-(Also sorry for long post but I have too... :d)
Idk what some people are saying, but this was an AMAZING anime! Great characters, story, action, drama..everything! Not to mention a Killer soundtrack! The only thing that might be frustrating and probably why it got the rating it had, was because the anime episodes ran in a pattern of "sequel, prequel, sequel"( if that makes sense, it's kinda like Lord of rings, Hobbit, Lord of rings) for each episode. Which you really had to pay attention and use your brain to catch on. I actually would have classified the anime as mystery as well because of the pattern. I highly recommend it if you like that sort of stuff where you have to figure things out, or just in general. The story kept building/stacking as well making it climax every episode which…
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[Adapted From Original Blog Post]
I guess it's hard to distinguish between what's "good stupid" and "bad stupid". I don't think there's a formula I can pin down that explains why I find anime like Guilty Crown enduring in their blatant mindlessness, and why I find the subject of today's review: Valvrave the Liberator, just sort of stupid, boring and not worth watching. So let's use this opportunity to set up a test case shall we? Let's compare and contrast and hopefully at the end of it all, I can give a solid thesis on why this show is crap, but also why there's other anime much like it that you all need to watch right now. Somewhere along the way, we'll find the problem, so let's get started.
Hello people of "The Wired", my name is Quan, and I'm back from my rather long hiatus to bring…
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Well, if you have seen Sunrise you must be familiar to mechas and robots.
Let us discuss the positive point, shall we? Valvrave the Liberator did well in bringing the individual elements of action and mecha, they did well in the enjoyment of the series.
And then the negative point, many mecha series that did a successful job to bring a well-oriented plot. While Valvrave the Liberator did a different thing, they put more action to the plot and abandoned the complexity of the plot which created a lousy storytelling. The other points we must know is a typical story opening that makes Valvrave lack of originality. It really makes this anime into a replica of the Gundam franchise.
Well, we know Sunrise is a rich company. Therefore, it's not strange that Valvrave got the animation that need…
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Overview:
Although I usually review older series, I will make an exception for Valvrave the Liberator. I can't think of a better series that exemplifies EVERYTHING wrong with the anime industry today.
marketing produced, fan pandering, cash in: 11/10
"What if we ripped off Code Geass, but inserted sparkling bishounen vampires like Twilight?! "We would make a fortune!" This is what the team of marketers said that pitched this bullshit series to Sunrise Studio executives. One thing I really despise in Hollywood movies and anime is when a team of marketing executives try to "cash in" on a recent pop culture phenomenon. For example, the fucking awful Chipmunk movies made some money off of idiots, so executives now want to reboot every 1980s kids franchise into shitty movies like The Smurfs…
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Valvrave the Liberator is a generic mecha series not worth watching and everyone should go watch Majestic Prince or Gargantia on the Verdous planet...This is what i would say if i was someone who doesn't take the time to actually watch whole anime series and just judge it from the first couple episodes.
Valvrave the Liberator at first appears to be an generic mecha anime produced by Sunrise the same who produced the famous Gundam series. Teenagers become super bad asses by piloting OP mechs and blowing up countless enemy grunts. This is the standard Mecha anime formula.
Being produced by Sunrise, one can't help but think that Valvrave is just another Gundam anime knock off trying to gain fame which at first this series appears to be. A gundam anime knock off. Hell, it even uses the sam…
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Oh boy, where should I start? Should I start with how the pacing of this show is as consistent as a drunk driver? The shallow characters? The terribly executed plot twists? The pointless shock value? The stereotypical meccha fights? Does it even matter where I start? It IS Valvrave that I’m reviewing.
So how about we start off with talking about the dialogue? Normally I don’t focus too much on the dialogue unless it stands out as being really good or just really bad and Valvrave, you guessed it, falls in the latter. The dialogue was honestly the first thing I noticed when I started this show because of just how generically delivered it was. Sometimes the dialogue was trying to way hard to be inspirational and it made for a lot of cringe-worthy moments. But then again, I actually laughed a…
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This will contain some little spoilers ... well not that little but you get the idea .
First of all i will start by saying that this show was good , not bad , not awesome , but good and that's all . The story was not original , the characters were typical , the MC who cares about everyone and wants to save everyone , the heroine who is a damsel in distress from the start till the end and lets not forget about the bad guys that were taken from pokemon : ' Team Rocket blast of again ' ...
Story 6.5
As i said earlier not the most original thing you will ever see , but at the same time not that bad . The idea of students or kids that make their own little country is a nice way of getting people to watch , in a way this made me watch it .
Personally i can't understand why this will get a se…
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*sigh* Boy, where do I begin with this one?
If you're familiar with Sunrise, expect the unexpected. Seriously.
So in America, vampires sparkle like Tinkerbell while vampires in Japan pilot awesome-looking mechs? Sounds about right.
The story is pretty outrageous to begin with. Only requirement to pilot a specialized war machine created by a "pacifist", "anti-war" nation is to become a vampire. Along with an entire school of high school students who don't know life beyond luxury and peace to run an entire nation by themselves to compete against possibly a futuristic America and space Nazis. To this day, I don't understand how were they able to last this long since they treat munitions like dirt and ready to turn on each other from every incident they encounter. All in all, giving the sto…
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How will Kakumeiki Valvrave be remembered? That remains to be seen, but the show is at least on the way to achieving its intended outcome of providing entertainment at any cost.
As the first collaboration between Aniplex and the Sunrise animation studio, Valvrave is a series that relies on spectacle as the main source of its inherent value. This is a show where going beyond the limits of reasonable storytelling is the entire point, not accidental or unintentional. While the series may not stand up to highly critical scrutiny, it is self-aware of its own preposterous nature and feeds on incredulous reactions.
Of course, this sort of shameless approach can easily backfire on the creators. The precarious artificiality of its construction carries the risk of making the preponderance of absur…
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I am person who is not that much in Mecha Animes or mangas....But I started Watch This Serie Today and Finished it also Today.... Those Who Like Damn Good Mecha ANime And over all Those WHo Love Good ANime this serie Will Be Completely Intoxicating....Only those who really don't like this style of anime or plot will not like this in my opinion....
Starting Song of this Story in one the Greatest Openings I have heard... and I have heard quite a lot, Along with Opening video it fits the song pretty well
In my personal opinion this is one of the Top 10 Mecha Ever made!!!! Tough foreshadows for what will happen in future are quite scary....Who in Haruto's Side Will Die....Will only Saki Survive as only pilot next 200 years from War or are others in missions....Why Is Haruto Called Founder a…
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Some people may not know this but the reason why I started seeing Valrave was because of the fact that Katsura Hoshino design the characters, D Gray Man author,another show I love.
Do notice this show is R + 17 = profanity and violence, and I mean a whole lot of it.
I am a fan of mecha eversince ,Fullmetal Panic, Code : Geasse ,Guilty Crown,Broken Blade!!
What can I say the story is really interesting, that you just got-too see ,and opefully get interested,many mysteries in the first and through out the anime . Some may be answered ,some are saved until the next season. Which is soon.
The art by Katsura Hoshino is awesome ,nice to know her art has changed and done so beautifully.
Sund is really awesome T.M Revoltipn x Nana Mizuki make want to see the opening over and over, ( it did for…
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Valvrave is pretty much the normal Gundam anime, only with a twist being that you need to be a Vampire in order to pilot the superior mechs.
The story would be perfectly fine if they took gundam seed and fast forwarded a few hundred years or more. Anyway if you've watched Gundam seed, GS: Destiny, Gundam 00 you will feel right at home.
Plot wise it's good, it's not obvious and has some twists to it but nothing too special. The story isn't the highlight but it will keep you wanting more.
The OP and ED songs fit well, the art is great, mechs lookin new and won't disappoint.
The characters are relatively normal, although I wouldn't mind having Kira type of personality instead of a weak to strong progression that the MC exhibits.
For enjoyment, well, like I said if you've seen and lik…
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It does not do this show justice to write a review on it when technically it is only half done; latter half will be airing in October 2013. But it will be a pity not to get more people to know about this show because… well, some jewels are just meant to be shared with others. If you are familiar with mecha anime like Soukyuu no Fafner, or Gundam SEED (or for the handful of you that knows Blue Destiny), or Code Geass, or Macross Frontier, heck even Guilty Crown, then you should consider giving Valvrave the Liberator a try. As for others who are not familiar with those mecha series, don't worry because you will not be at a disadvantage. In fact, there may be less expectations or comparisons instinctively, so it is not bad, right? What one can expect, however, from Valvrave the Liberator are…
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I'm usually not very into mecha animes, but Kakumeiki Valvrave changed my view.
Plot:
Im sure the plot has been done before, because there is many animes with high schoolers in mechas(take like almost all of the gundam series), but Valvrave put there own twist onto things. Valvrave deals with a lot of demonic attributes with not only the creepy music but how the protagonist (Haruto) is always trying to bite the sh*t out of someone. While watching this anime, it's got me thing what it would be like if my high school became a country. Every episode somehow the story progresses. At first when my brother started watching it, all i did was look at it and I thought it was stupid, but I decided to go back an watch it my self and I couldn't wait to know what happened in the next episode. Valvrave…
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Kakumeiki Valvrave: A Liberating Viewing Experience
Okay, I'm going to take off my reviewer hat for this one. While I usually base an anime off of its overall plot, characters, and production elements, I'm going to have to break the mold with this one. This series, I dare say, is so bad, it's good. It's like watching a Michael Bay movie. You know it's bad, but you just can't take your eyes off it.
Kakumeiki Valvrave is perhaps one of, if not, the most cliche mecha anime I've ever seen. You name a mecha anime trope and this series has got it. I'd even call it the love child of Code Geass and Gundam Seed because it steals so many elements from both. Military members sneak into a neutral country to obtain overpowering weapons? Check. High schoolers learn how to use a mecha on a whim? Check…
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Kakumeiki Valvrave is different. It's the kind of different that may turn people away simply because it doesn't follow the normal conventions one expects of the sci-fi or mecha genres, but goes outside of the box. Whether this is a good thing or not depends on the person, but to me its what hooked me to the show. Particularly since you don't expect mecha and vampires to coexist with each other. It makes sense though with the vampire theory some writers use where vampires aren't the living dead but simply humans infected by a virus that makes them abnormally strong.
One of the nice aspects of the story is the nice twists there are to the plots so you don't know what to expect from the particular plot line. The art is well done, particularly when it comes to the mecha and fight sequences.…
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I'm sure everyone has heard the term 'so bad, it's good'. There is something inexplicably enticing about the amusingly bad, as the cult success of cinematic embarrassments such as 'The Room" and "Troll 2" will substantiate. This applies just as much to anime as it does to movies, take this piece of space mecha action sci-fi junk, for example.Valvrave the Liberator is the latest from the once great studio Sunrise; an amalgam of the studio's worst tendencies and deteriorating quality. It's a show that is so wildly unfocused and possessing plot twists so ridiculous that it transcends being merely bad; it's entertainingly awful.
On the surface, Valvrave is blatantly generic. It has a well intentioned but soft-headed and somewhat wimpy boy as its protagonist, whom in a moment of desperation ge…
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The first half of Kakumeiki Valvrave (Revolutionary Machine Valvrave), subtitled Valvrave the Liberator, functions primarily as a setup arc to introduce its large cast of characters, plus several giant robots. Rather than being "the system that exposes the world", this first season instead seems to demonstrate what happens when teenage fantasies go horribly wrong.
Set in a high school -- yes, it's one of these shows -- on a space colony in Earth orbit, the mostly adolescent characters find their world turned upside down when the love child of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Dorssia, invades their country JIOR, which being based on perceptions of today's Japan, is run by pusillanimous wimps who are determined not to fight back. However, they have a secret ultimate weapon underneath the…
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They told me I could become anything so I became a vampiric mecha pilot.
Well, the idea of high school kids becoming pilots while getting their own personal mecha gadgets isn't new to the anime industry. Series such as Macross Frontier, Code Geass, and Aquarion Evol all have this theme. It involves normal students who attends a normal school like any normal day. Then, boom. Something abnormal happens and their lives are changed forever. The catch here for Valvrave the Liberator? It also deals with a supernatural twist...with some blood spilled to add to the mix.
That's right. It's not a bird, it's not a plane, it's a Valvrave!
To be honest, I wasn't sure whether to check this series out or not at first. However, I am a fan of the mecha genre so I decided to give this a shot. What I got…
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