Audience reviews
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h0p3_01
I am truly at a loss of words. No language can conceive an adjective strong enough to describe how big of a dogshit this anime is. I did all in my power to not drop this midway, and I regret it...
I don't have enough time to write down everything this anime does wrong, and I'll assume you don't have enough time to read that essay too. So please, don't watch this thing, instead of wasting 25 chapters * ~20 minutes = ~8 hours watching this dogshit, go to sleep.
Random descriptions to leave my anger: Predictable, Stupid characters, Cliché, Plot holes every fucking place, I want my time back.
Read at the sourceHeroVladimir93
Let me start this review by saying that it's been a while since I wrote a review for MyAnimeList. I haven't binge-watched anime so I decided to watch Captain Earth by simple curiosity. It was a Sunday night and I had nothing to do, so Captain Earth seemed like a good way to alleviate my boredom with. To be honest, I started watching it with no expectations at all, but perhaps I should have expected something positive considering the talent involved here. Also, despite the title, this show has nothing to do with Captain Planet. Anyway, let's see what this anime has in store for us.
Story: The series follows a group of teenage friends that defend Earth from a race of aliens called the Planetary Gears. Making things complicated for our heroes is a secret organization that is sabotaging the h…
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I don't care what my average episode rating was (not that I was rating episodes waaaaaaaay back when I started watching this show…three years ago). Captain Earth is just meh.
The pacing is screwy. Almost every episode has at least one head-scratcher. There's wasted potential all over the place. But instead of using its potential, the show screwed around with teen angst and spent a ton of time showing mechs "expanding" in an overly complicated space-based linear assembly line…because what we need in mecha anime is definitely mechs that don't make sense.
Feels like I can't write a review without tripping over plot holes every five words. I said it in a single-episode comment, but I'll say it again in general: the environment in this show is far too accommodating to the protagonists. Everyt…
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Captain Earth is exactly what you would get if you took Evangelion, Macross, and Gunbuster, stripped them for visual and thematic parts, and then hired elementary school students to put those parts back together into an intriguing and emotionally satisfying whole. It does not end up, as you can imagine, intriguing or emotionally satisfying. It ends up a mess. A big, poorly written mess.
My main problem with this series isn't with its perfectly presentable aesthetics, unoriginal as they are. It looks and sounds like a solid 7/10 show, despite its recycled transformation sequences and unremarkable soundtrack. This show's problem is its meat, the story and the characters. There are a couple of standouts in the cast and everyone has at least a moment every so often when they flip from infuria…
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People attempt to take this show too seriously. It's just another mecha show with some goofy characters mixed in and some twists and turns along the way. I enjoyed the series, the characters were well written, unlike many shows they weren't afraid to throw in a little fan service, and it kept a good pace. A lot of people will be quick to condem it because of the fan service, but I say if you don't like it than there's literally a million similar shows out there you can watch devoid of the ecchiness. Shows like this one and Infinite Stratos are becoming a rarity but they'll always have a fan base.
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For people reading this uhh this may contains spoilers so beware lol. Other wise this is probably my first review bare with me ._.
Story: I would have to say the beginning of this story was great episode one had almost everything to hook me in it showed a little flash black on whats going on introduces the characters give you that curiosity feeling I suppose? But after that it stars to build slowly with character development which is good etc.
Art: I thought it was fantastic uhh had a lot of colors if you people like that and the colors were very vivid of course to match the laser beams lol explosions etc made the fight scenes a lot more enjoyable for me! :^)
Sound: I thought they were nice overall.
Character: There is a problem here they didn't show enough character development and so…
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Captain Earth, not to be confused with Captain Planet, is this show about a group of kids trying to save the world from destruction. Well technically, they aren’t kids but rather pilots who are able to operate the Earth Engine Impacter (EEI). And with that weapon, they just might have the chance to stop the alien invaders known as the Kill-T-Gang. But really, with all of these concepts in motion, the show has all the ingredients for a generic mecha show.
Produced by studio Bones and created by the same team that worked on Star Drivers, this mecha show seemed like a classic, at least from the surface anyways. Essentially, the series is like a riddle where there are many questions that fuels the need for answers. Take for example, the main male protagonist Daichi Manatsu. He is not only a…
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SPOILER FREE REVIEW:
Personally I quite enjoyed it, though it was very up and down. Some episodes were completely boring, while others would be spectacular. It threw around far too much technobabble in my opinion, as it had to devote sooo much time to just talking and explaining it multiple times, which took away from the experience. When they let the characters just interact as themselves, it could be quite fun, and some arcs and episodes were really really good. I felt that the show was dropped by a lot of people, because despite having a strong first episode, after that it goes downhill, and I feel the only good episode that comes after that was episode 9.
The Bug Bear arc was spectacular, but kind of wasted. They try to set up this deep background for the villains, and then instantl…
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Okay. First of all, I had just finished Captain Earth a minute ago when I started writing this review. Plus to that, I pulled an all-nighter to finished 25 episodes in one go and I must say, I was about 33/67 satisfied. And well, I am going to give my best in order for this review to be spoiler-free.
The feeling of watching Captain Earth is like watching a show that at one scene will make your heart flutter and the next two scenes, will completely crush the enthusiasm.
It's quite fair to give a 6 for the story. Why? First of all, Captain Earth didn't promise the watchers a plot that will attract the majority. It's like BONES tried to please at least 2 people out of a 10.
The idea of the story was simple however, the execution was lost after the first 5 episodes. The direction started t…
Read at the sourceHelghastKillzone
"When I opened the door called Captain Earth, my ride on the hype train ended. It was an anime I could forget."
From Studio Bones and the same creative team that made Star Driver, comes a mecha anime that promises amazing action backed up by Shakespearean lore but instead, delivers a train wreck that is only worthy for the scrap yard.
The story starts off well enough, having a 17 year old high schooler named Daichi, through a set of extraordinary circumstances, coming to be the sole pilot of the Earth Engine, which was built to defend humanity from the invading Planetary Gears. However, it quickly becomes very apparent that Captain Earth has no intention of delivering a coherent plot and soon meanders off into slice of life territory with visits to the dessert cafe, idol concerts and ch…
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Captain Earth Review 2.0: I Was Right Edition
This show had some incredible animation and a nice soundtrack, and more than enough likable characters, but an unmercifully dull story. Captain Earth is so boring that not even giant robot battles with aliens who feed on human lust can make it interesting. I last wrote a review when only 22 episodes were out, and I predicted the show would do nothing to change its boring nature. And I was right. In all fairness this is like predicting the sun will rise in the East. You could have done the same if you'd watched only 5 episodes. And here's why:
There is no rising action. The stakes are never upped. Normally to get people excited in a story like this you have to continually raise the stakes, make the conflict bigger, more dramatic, more importan…
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**SPOILER FREE REVIEW**
You can have all the budget and production value that you want, but NOTHING makes up for incoherent and nonsensical story-telling. This well-understood fact has never been more evident in the anime industry then in this season's harrowing mecha series known as Captain Earth. Studio Bones sure as hell knows how to animate, but they are developing a reputation for writing convoluted and nonsensical plots that make no sense what so ever, and this anime is no exception. When 90% of your show consists of characters spewing exposition and you still fail to convey what the hell is going on, then your show is a failure. Period. End of story. Captain Earth completely failed to set up a foundation for its plot, making everything that happened afterwards a lost cause.
The sh…
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Captain Earth, it was a name which I saw and thought was lame and plain on the season chart, but I still decided to check it out simply because it feels familiar to me from other series I have watched, like Eureka or Star Driver. Indeed, it did not fail me from enjoyment. I personally have a preference to romance-type anime and an average preference to mecha stuff, but in the end I still say this anime makes me feel happy and satisfied after watching.
Story-
I feel the story is strong, because it is pretty much focused on a single theme throughout these episodes; a fight for living that comes with friendship and through friendship comes a more stronger relationship. I feel this story is solid enough to keep me attracted and exciting enough as well. I rate this story good (solid). It is no…
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I don't usually write reviews 'cause I believe in watching first, then judging.
Well, let me tell you this. I watched it. The whole lot of 25 episodes of wasted potential.
I'll try to make it short -unlike Bones did with this show- so you don't have to waste more time if you're already interested in watching this.
1. Plot: Lousy piece of crap. Was a Clicheton, or a Cliche-fest, in the wrong way, not in the funny way. Every character is poorly developed and wasted on clichés made up to interest some audience. It was like they targeted every demographic and ended captivating none. Because of this, the plot is all over the place, there's no argument that sticks with the show for the entire season, and the arc are so poorly designed and developed that it can be compared with a more episodic s…
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When you have an interesting setting and characters, great designs and good action, the obvious option would be using them to their fullest potential and crafting a great story involving these factors. But you could also do it like Studio Bones did with Captain Earth and do absolutely NOTHING with them. Seriously, I've rarely seen a series devolve from one with lots of potential into something that was a chore to watch episode by episode.
The story centers around Daichi Manatsu, a high school student who, through some coincidences and connections, ends up in a secret organization fighting extraterrestrial beings with mecha robots. Now, the whole "high school student fights unknown creature" setup might be one of the overused cliches in anime ever, but there are still series that manage to…
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