Audience reviews
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Kewgle
The show is a lazily written, jumbled mess of plot points that go nowhere, details that end up being irrelevant, characters that are shallow, and graphic scenes that are just shoved in for shock value. The writing of Valvrave is just shallow in general. The writers tried to come up with all these deep thematic conflicts that are supposed to be super emotional, but they never actually flesh out any of these ideas, to the point where the just seem like they're just thrown in there for no particular reason, leaving the show as a cluttered mess of barely half-baked eye-candy.
One example of this shallowness surfaces in one of the causes of conflict in the show, which is the kids becoming nearly immortal from piloting the Valvraves. When you get right down to it, there was no actual reason wh…
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Sometimes, a work is just too ambitious for its own good.
'Valvrave the Liberator' has an awful lot going for it from the start. The story is a hodge-podge of genres, mixing mecha with vampires to surprisingly interesting effect. The tone is fairly dark most of the time, but also absolutely lets itself have lighter moments, small victories, bits of fun, especially nearer the start. The first season is pretty fantastic, and I have little bad to say about it, other than the point it stops is a bit clunky when you bear in mind the two seasons were split by a few months. The mecha elements are consistently top-of-the-class; the CG is good and even has a decent weight to it, the action scenes are fantastically put together, and the titular Valvraves themselves are some of my favourite designs…
Read at the sourceChaotic_beauty
Valvrave: The Liberator is an alternate history philosophical mecha melodrama set a thousand years into the future. They say time mends all wounds and indeed, in this future, Germany and Russia have united into a single country. The show follows a bunch of ordinary space students turned immortal vampire mecha pilots for the army of the Independent Highschool Moon Colony as they wreak havoc thru the dyson sphere surrounding our sun in an attempt to reestablish the Russian monarchy.
The show is insanely deep with symbolism and meaning, tackling various high concepts and taboo subjects. It tries to reconcile Plato's world of Ideal Forms with sub-atomic particle physics, postulating the existence of the smallest information particle which draws unimaginable power from cognitive meaning. The s…
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From the beginning I starting to like this anime. Especially, at the second to the last espisode. But the thing is I don't like the part where most of them died. This anime has a good plot, except for the ending. I would really put this anime on my favorite, but I ruined just because of the ending. If the ending would be like Haruto confessed to Shoko or whatever or somehow it has a good ending, not the part that the valvrave pilots died. I would score this 10 if the pilots didn't died. It kind of a sad ending but the others are great.
Read at the sourceLunaGaia
-(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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Sometimes the ending of a story is not appropriate with what we want. But because of that, we can learn something...
The 2nd season is more focused in the plot elements, the story expresses its complexity better than its previous season. Another interesting point is the story is full of excitement and surprises, it really boosts the enjoyment of the series. All of the mysteries is revealed and clarified. But besides that, Valvrave have some minus points, the story pace is still unstable, first it have a slow to medium pacing, but in the last 3 episodes, the story increases its speed to its full limit of velocity, it really makes the ending feel so forced. Also, there are some scenes that told in different times that makes the ending more predictable.The ending has some moral lessons behin…
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is it worth to use your memories exchange of greater power?
some of us have good and bad memories, and some of us will use our memories in exchange of greater power because they have more bad memories than good.
story: 8
the story continue, and yet the student who made they own country still fighting for no reason. Still l-elf is the one who carry the whole anime, because of her title " one man army " ( most likely lelouch ). In my opinion, season 2 of Kakumeiki Valvrave have a good flow of story, because the viewers are starting to become confuse of the story, why? In season 1 of Kakumeiki Valvrave, there are some still hole that cant be cover ( or spoiler from the future), and yet they still adding that "hole" even in this season. Even thought there is a hole, i can still cover it whe…
Read at the sourceBigBoss0327
Story: 7/10
This, is the PERFECT image to describe my experience watching every episode of both seasons.
Going into details about the story without spoiling things for this particular anime is pretty difficult.. Should you decide to give this series a try though, I have a little challenge for you!~
- Try to predict what will happen in the next episode.
I personally failed miserably at this challenge since this anime was so over-the-top XD Here's another way of looking at it:
Season 1 - BAD
Season 2 - Best possible ending to cover up all the bad stuff~
If I were to criticize the story as I was watching the episodes one by one, I would be bashing this sooo much more, but looking back at the series as a whole, I actually enjoyed it! ^.^
Sure - there were a couple unexplained things sti…
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Finally done with Valvrave the Liberator, or just Kakumeiki Varuvureivu.
Thoughts - That was one clusterfuck of awesome. First 12 episodes gave a me a complete "Oh right it's Sunrise, dead men don't stay dead..." and "Fuck logic". Only for it to end in one epic cliffhanger.
Honestly, I was expecting another clusterfuck of shit that is so bad that you just can't stop watching in S2. But really, while logic continues to defies itself, Sunrise did a pretty decent job covering up the gaping hole in the plot. Not that it's perfect, but it was still one hell of a ride. You either love it to bit, hate it, or just go 'VALVRAVEEEEEEEEEEE"
That said, I have to hand it to Sunrise for making good use of decent supporting characters and killing them off before they make too much of a negative impac…
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"Will avenging someone’s death bring them back to life? Instead of that, you should think about how to prevent future losses. War is something that should be conducted calmly and efficiently, like a machine." L-elf.
Kakumei Valvrave is a truly brilliant anime about revolution. High school students making their own country, which looks utterly unrealistic but somehow appealing. In a futuristic setting, the main plot is about war itself. Tactics, resolves, and feelings of main and supportive characters are explored, from L Elf, the one man army to Haruto, the frightened high school student who turns into a monster. Dramatic moments make the protagonists learn more about themselves and what they are fighting for. As one would expect from the author of Code Geass, this mecha anime is not only…
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If you are searching for the pain and the suffering, that might be a good thing to watch. The ending is simply stupid if we consider the amount of pain that MC went through, yet the author... Here I will end.
Anime itself isn't somehow stand-off, it was probably one of better anime the season it was aired in (personally, for me it was the best one). Yet characters are plain, story is quite retard, art and sound are pretty good though. But the enjoyment from the series... this one is pretty high. There are plenty of stuff that don't keep the shit together, yet it is still really decent anime.
Though definetly, Season 1 was way superior if we talk about storyline kept together, in Season 2 we have way too many things that do not keep together making it a bit odd sometimes.
Is it worth wa…
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The second half of Valvrave the Liberator is the depressing tale shattering every illusion set up by the first season. Here we the viewers are exposed to the worst aspects of human irrationality as the characters begin to realise that not everything they thought they knew and could believe in was true. And much more true to the real world than most stories, nothing ever quite goes as planned, but in the end, everyone's passion and devotion to their friends and their ideals drives the plot through its tragic twists.
Story -- While the basic story is ultimately interesting, eventually bringing together all of the elements that overthrew the old world order, its execution was too often atrocious. For example, the main Dorssian characters start to become more complicated than they originally…
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Alright let me go in on this freaking anime called Kakumeiki Valvrave! This flippin anime was epic! I gotta say it was amazing the first time around but they really stepped their game up for the 2nd season. I loved every minute of it. Characters were practically perfect for me. No one pissed me off at all very much. Thats a plus right there! The fighting in the anime was so freaking intense dude. I'm so bummed its over. Anyway watch this if you want an anime with a very great story. Your honestly missing out if you dont watch!
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Sunrise has always been a one-trick pony, using a gundam type of storyline that spreads throughout all their storylines, be it code geass or gundam seed stc. So for Valvrave, an anime original from sunrise that is yet again another Mecha, would it follow the same tropes as its previous series? The answer is yes. However, that should not stop you from watching it because its a ride worth taking despite its cliches. While Valvrave season 1 was extremely absurd and down-right stupid at times (random school singing), season 2 brought the meat of the story and played its cards right overall despite a seemingly lack-luster ending.
Story-7
As a sequel, the story for season 2 capitalizes on how Haruto and company's flight and fight from Dossia and eventually other forces. This coupled with some…
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There’s a lot of talk about destiny these days. Destiny is apparently something that is predetermined and carried by fate. It’s said whatever happens to someone or something is predetermined and that we cannot escape fate. Take Valvrave the Liberator for example. Was it fate that caused Haruto Tokishima to become a pilot of the Valvrave? Was it fate that made L-Elf betray his former teammates and become labeled as an enemy of Dorissa? Did fate tie the both of them together to create a new world with their own ideologies? Perhaps but fate isn’t what controls our destiny. We make each and every decision by ourselves. In fact, every action has a consequence.
Valvrave the Liberator returns to its second half after the cliffhanger ending left off from its first season. The series is an origina…
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