Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
DrSEUS_x_Machina
Before we begin, I want to say I came in with high hopes for this anime, but I also had high hopes for Promised Neverland season 2.
1/10 Plot: Anime adaptation is a**. It ruins just about every good aspect of the story, including the ending. The traits of each character are far too overexaggerated and over the top to the point of being comical (keep in mind this anime still tries to take itself seriously). Watching this felt like watching Ghost Stories in SUB. As for plot, the anime roughly follows the plot of the "main" VN route, but most of the twists and turns just feel 'cheap.'
7/10 Art is fine, though very early 2000s: everything is way too dark, washed out, or has an excessive amount of lens flare plastered over it, but the actual characters and backgrounds are certainly well done.…
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* I haven't read the visual novel, so this is purely based on the anime. This review does NOT contain spoilers.
To start, Tsukihime has a super slow plot, especially for a 12-episode anime. Every episode, every day, a few events happen, and a little bit more of the characters' past are revealed (just a little bit) while more and more questions are presented, and eventually build up to a fairly good ending. Despite its slowness, dialogues and guestures are done extremely well, concised and filled with meaning and emotions. This makes you feel like every second you watch it is worthwhile (and you don't want to miss any second of it). But that's only if you are not expecting fancy action scenes or climaxes: fighting scenes in Tsukihime are rare, brief, and not intense, and there are no mind-…
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If you read the other reviews, you might have noticed that people that played the VN hate this anime and others who didnt enjoyed it quite well. Well I must say that is not true. I did not play the VN but could not enjoy this anime either. To describe this anime in one term that everyone understands:
THE STORY IS SWISS CHEESE!
All the other things have been adressed before in the other reviews. The Art is dated but good for its time, and I had no issue with sound.
But Oh Lord the rest is pretty awfull. Its flawed to the smallest details. The characters all feel pretty fake, but that isnt the worst of all. The worst thing is the story. You can see that the story has potential and is kind of great, but the way they did it was simply horrible. They open op so many questions which they never…
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Tsukihime Review
There are no spoilers in this review.
Tsukihime is one of those anime's based of a visual novel. Like with most of them, the fans of the Tsukihime visual novel didn't like the adaption. But for myself, someone completely new to Tsukihime I enjoyed it greatly.
Which means I think I could finally answer the question which was put to my by lawuser, about whether or not I would have liked the Fate/Stay Night anime if I had not read the visual novel and that is I think now that I would. With that out the way let's start with the review.
Story This was in my opinion brilliant. I really enjoyed the Mystery themes to it, as Tsukihime struggled to learn about his past as he is fighting. The information was present in a way that it was easily understood which we needed to know…
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“Once upon a time lived a group called “The Moon people”, who were not human. Among them was a proud princess, called “White Princess”. She woke up in white and slept in white. Princess of the True Ancestors who did not know impurity.”
Type Moon is famous for its dark themes, supernatural settings and plot twists.
The Tsukihime novel was the the second creation of Type Moon, so you can say it's the predeccesor and inspiration for the anime fate/stay night.
The story revolves around the main character Shiki, who lost his memory, after a supposed car accident. The anime begins with Shiki as a little boy, as a consequence of the accident he starts seeing "lines" and by touching those "lines" he can break things from their inner core.
He mysteriously encounters a young woman who introduces…
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I understand. I understand now why no-one wants to acknowledge the existence of this.
Steaming. Pile. Of. S**t
I think I was generous, giving this anime scores in the 3-4 range. Maybe I was feeling sympathetic, or was under the influence of drugs...
If I'm brutally honest, this anime deserves a 2 for everything. However, I tried really hard and did find some redeeming qualities. Some. 1.
I shouldn't have eaten those mushrooms o_o
Well since this is a rant, strap yourselves in for a long review. I hate this anime. I try my best to love every anime, but I really, really have to try to like this anime. For the purposes of this review, I'm going to be a hater.
Tsukihime is a dull, dull, DULL show. The characters are dull, the colour palette is dull, the story is a dull adaptation of a de…
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As someone who has played the visual novel, its respective sequel and the PLUS-DISC, I can honestly say...
This show gave me cancer.
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Are you drama lovers and vampires, it is good you put this anime in "plan to watch". Anime is pretty simple and lightweight, ideal to relax and watch the situation for those lovers of romantic scenes
The story is simple, begun from the vampire protagonist (shiki) who meets a woman (Arcueid) and unwitting protagonist (shiki) to kill this woman, but because she's a vampire back to life but lost power when this lady came to hunt down the person who made her into a vampire. For this reason the woman asks the protagonist (shiki) to be responsible and must help him find the person.
Story
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From the beginning of the episode alone is interesting, because there are many mysteries that arise. Starting from the vampire murder case, the hidden power of the protagonist (Shiki) and slowly the myster…
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Ok, I just _have_ to say this. The ending was just utterly and completely terrible. Seriously, there are extremely few shows that have just left me so dissatisfied. It's one of those where you like all the characters and are rooting for them 'till the end and then they just fucking screw it up. And I'm not saying this because it's not your standard 'happy ending'. There are plenty of series that are kind of sad endings, main characters die, etc., but those are executed well and with purpose. This was just... no.
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This anime has a very disappointing end, but perhaps those who make this anime has another purpose would end this story.
This is a vampire show, but don’t expect alot of action from this show, cause there is hardly action in it.
The show to me in my opinion begining episodes were good, in the middle I disliked the show cause of the useless things that were happening, and also the whole “mystery” that was happening, which kind of annoyed me. The ending episodes to the show were good, but I still thought the ending was shallow, just an ending you would see in a lot of animes.
The characters in the show I liked, the vampire princess she was hot, and you can get attached to her, basically she is the only character in the show you can get attached to. The main male character was okay, I woul…
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"There is no Tsukihime Anime."
Ah yes, those infamous words. Before all of you say anything, I DID finish the visual novel and I HAVE read the manga (well, the first three volumes) and guess what, I STILL enjoyed this anime so sit back, relax and let me tell it like it is.
As far as story goes, I don't see what the problem was. Quite honestly, I thought the visual novel was redundant when explaining the differences between a Dead Apostle and a True Ancestor. In the anime, it goes straight to the point and makes easy on the viewers. Dead Apostle is a human turned vampire. True Ancestor is a transcendent race, vampires yes but were never human to begin with. While the plot is still much deeper and complex in the visual novel, don't really undermine the anime's version of it. If you are a…
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So there's a funny little joke that goes around anime communities and it goes along the lines of "There is no Tsukihime anime". I thought it was all in jest when I decided to see what the fuss was about on this show. Sadly though, I too believe there is no Tsukihime anime after watching this monstrosity.
Flashback, its 2000..there's a little doujin game called Tsukihime out there that's taking the visual novel world by storm..3 years later JC Staff..a prominent animation studio makes an adaptation of the wildly popular game. However, they either A: Did not play the game or B: Just made this as a kick in the balls to anyone who enjoyed the visual novel.
For story, it was pathetic..they took a very strong storyline with an incredible amount of backstory and turned it into a shallow excuse…
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I'm shocked by the number of good reviews this has. It is possibly the worst anime I have ever seen. I still can't believe I was able to get past the first episode, let alone force myself to watch the entire series. It's been a couple of years since I watched this anime, so forgive me if I don't delve too deep into the god-awfulness of this anime.
The story follows two star-crossed lovers, a vampire and a human with paranormal abilities, as they fight off the forces of evil (evil vampires) while trying to build a relationship.
Shiki, the protagonist of this eyesore of an anime, is an emotionally numb and distant high schooler who has the ability to see the "lines of death" ever since he was a little boy. After being thrust into the world of the supernatural one evening when he witnesses…
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While browsing through the existing reviews, I saw a clear pattern emerge. Most of the people who have not played the visual novel it is based on thoroughly enjoyed the show while those that have were disappointed when faced with the injustice done to the original work.
And that basically already sums up my verdict.
I myself watched the anime first, without even knowing there was a game it was based on. I liked it a great deal.
After learning of the original work afterward I got curious and sought it out. And as it turns out, I then agreed with everyone who was disappointed with the show - I tried watching it again but it now seemed barely more than a mockery of the brilliant original VN-material.
Compared to the greatly depicted characters in the novel, the cast of the anime is pretty m…
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The problem of 99% of all the anime is an end. Sometimes it is a shitty happy end, when everyone (even dead!) is alive, sometimes it is a total Armageddon, sometimes kind of any other shit happens. Finding an anime with a really beautiful end is rather had.
But here it is.
During first series it is kind of boring. Yes, what can be more usual than a Ordinary Japanese Pupil, who has, of course, a Very Special Ability and a family with a bitchy sister (without any parents, of course)? When you hear the word "vampire", you also treat anime a bit lower, and having a beatiful woman in the main hunting role - yes, it happened before somewhere, yes? And you can also tell just the same things about main antagonist, schoolfriends, enviroment... So it looks like another low-quality multfilm, yes?
Do…
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Let me explain my ratings, while the show is alright by itself, and its based on a great story and fantastic characters, it just does not give justice to the original visual novel which had much more interesting battles, discussions and concepts, Tsukihime deserved a much better anime than what we got, tsukihime its not as depressing as this show portraits, neither is nvsqr chaos a weakling that spawns 1 or 2 dogs, particularly, hisui and kohaku have much more personality than how they looked like and the role of satsuki is just dissapointing.
whatever happened to the curry love that made ciel not act like a mindless zombie? also shiki is not such a depressed weakling as the show makes it look like, he is actually quite charismatic and positive despite his problems.
however, if you haven…
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*It is almost criminal to not watch this anime.*
"... fans ... treat the anime as ... an in depth synopsis of the visual novel and the manga."
I stumbled across this hidden treasure while watching the Kara no Kyoukai (KnK) movie series. If you have not seen the KnK movies, please feel free to skip to the next paragraph. For those who have seen the movies, perhaps the first thing that will capture your interest is the name Shiki and the "Mystic Eyes of Anime Death Perception" as both of these are also in Shingetsutan Tsukihime. As you get further into the story, you will realize there are more similarities than meet the eyes, but for the purpose of this review I will not get into those details.
The general concept of the story, much like the KnK series which this anime is based upon, rev…
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story: The story is great. It´s not like other anime with vampires with lot of action, blood and killings. It focus the relation between shiki , a normal student with a special power and a vampire, arcueid. It´s really interesting, the only problem is that the story goes way to slow in some episodes, however, is still one of the best stories i´ve ever seen.
Art: Is similar with another type-moon anime, "Fate/stay night" (wich i also liked a lot). I think the art is great, the visual effects are nice.
Sound: One of the first aspects in tsukihime that called my attention was the sound. The opening made me remember old memories, some background musics made me think of some aspects of life, ths ed is fine, well, is really great.
character: Although they are not bad, some o…
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Lunar Legend Tsukihime is a Supernatural, Romance, Drama about Shiki Tohno; a boy who’s said to have been caught in a terrible accident 8 years ago and since then he has been able to see the lines of Death in everything and everyone. One day in the park he kills a lady but then wakes up in his room. Was it all a dream? Maybe or maybe not, because the next day he meets her again.
Well this is the starting point to this very short anime and even though it’s short the story is surprisingly slow moving. Even though it doesn’t seem like it in the very beginning, the show ends up being yet another one about vampires, with some more confusing theories to confuse anyone on the increasingly complex concept of vampires. Unlike most show involving vampires, the vampires are the sec…
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You might be wondering. I gave all the rest of the criteria 10's. But why is the overall a 6?
It started a long time ago, when I got word of a highly acclaimed, super popular doujin game called Tsukihime. Although I was never a fan of the 'point & click' type of anime games, this game caught my interest, because of how several rave reviewers were praising this game's depth, plot and amazing characters.
So I got it and played it. Boy, did it have all of the aforementioned stuff plus a whole lot more. By the end, I was hooked. And something happened to me after going through Tsukihime that rarely happens; I fell in love with the characters and the story...particularly with Arcueid. It is one of those stories that touch your heart and inspire you to become a different and better person. And…
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