Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
themegamancave
Absolute Duo is absolutely terrible. It’s been a long time since I’ve watched an anime series and gone an entire 12 episodes without being able to pinpoint at least one positive aspect. Not only does the plot suffer from being predictable and translucent, but the amount of money grabbing fanservice littering every ounce of substance is beyond upsetting. The premise on its own is promising, but the series ends up drowning in its own inadequacies left and right, leading to a dissapointment for the ages.
Unassuming teenage protagonist? -Check
Random beach episode? -Check
Barely post-pubescent characters with jiggly titties? -Check
Unnecessary lolli panty shots? -Check
A horribly cast English dub? -Check
An incoherent plot with as much depth as a kiddie pool? -Check
If Absolute Duo succeeds…
Read at the sourceKanoko_Kirisaki
This is my opinion and some people might not agree.
I have to say, first of all, that I expected more from this anime. I think the show has a lot of potential, but it just didn't make it.
The story was nice, but the thing is, it's not really that interesting. The concept is original and the art is beautiful, but there is more to a great anime that just this. I liked a lot the plot, until it started to become more of a harem and ecchi show, than an adventure one. Some people maybe liked it, but I wanted some action, not a bunch of girls over one boy who has a special power( if this isn't a cliché, I don't know what is) I think those two factors are what dragged down this anime.
And another thing, is the lack of romance between the main protagonist and his duo. Because the anime makes a…
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Well.. It's Harem and Ecchi genres, whenever it involves both kind of categories together, i wouldn't expect too much about the story and character development, but a good fun, enjoyment and laughter. Mainly, as you know, it's more of a fan service type of anime.
I wouldn't recommend anyone who is looking for a fantastic story and a good character development for this anime. The story progression is quite how you would have guessed as the episodes progress, yet i think it is rather interesting of how the characters are able to use their unique ability.
For anyone who enjoys a fairly good artwork with ecchi and involves harem in it, i can say that you would enjoy it.
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Absolute Duo is like a raisin cookie, everyone thinks it's a chocolate chip cookie and it will be good, until you eat it and realize it's not what you expected, unless you actually like raisin cookies.
Story: 5/10
The story is somewhat unoriginal, mainly because it's those types of anime where you are embedded a certain type of weapon that you carry on for the rest of your life, having the ability to summon it anytime you want. The only twist is, you're in a duo. Now, every time you're in a duo it's likely that your partner is someone of the same sex, right? Well in this anime the partner is a girl, and they both have to live in the same room. That calls for a shit-load of accidental boob-grabbing in the middle of the night. Not only is that there, but it's a harem. It's not needed for t…
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"It was like a scene from a teen movie" -K (except it was four and a half hours long)
Preface:
Absolute Duo is what we call least common denominator entertainment. It takes _trite_ and true tropes from a hundred other anime that are equally as generic and cliché, slaps a fresh coat of paint on (and some nasty 90s looking 3D CGI), some new names, and the semblance of a plot, all nicely wrapped up in used toilet paper for your viewing (dis)pleasure. Inspid to the max, somebody dug up some long forgotten, rotting corpse of a moe-harem-action plot from underneath the dumpster outside and said “hey guys, wouldn’t it be funny if…” and Absolute Duo was born.
Animation and Artwork: 3
Don't let the OP fool you. The OP looks like it could be great for the 1:30 duration of the song, but the visua…
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This was the best anime I have watched yet so far. I'm sure you all who are searching for the perfect anime will find this one just outrageous and awesome. I really love how the story was set out and how at the end they found out perfectly. I recommend you watch this, but if you don't want to that's fine too. Watch this from the very beginning don't skip episodes, you'll not understand the story line then. This was an outstanding anime, and my first review yet was put on this one. :) Thanks for reading lol.
Read at the sourceRexy47
I will start with the bottomline for this anime: I have lost the count of how many animes with this same plot I have seen. Even if the technical part is fine (not amazing but also not bad) the overused plot, the extremely plain characters and the abuse of overacted emotions make this anime deserve a 4/10.
Story (2/10)
As I said, the story is just painful to see. The typical high school of superpowers and the typical bad guy. The plot is extremely predictable, not surprises at all. Furthermore they tried to add some complexity, making it worse, because things aren't explained at all. Besides, the story is bad paced, with a lot of bad fanservice (I am not against fanservice, but in this case It was so bad that I wanted to die), and in some cases I had to go back to the previous chapter to…
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Absolute duo is about students who have weapons of the soul called blazes. Blazes can only hurt the soul..... At this point you already wonder how bad the show is going to be with such childish characteristics.
Story:
The plot is average. It isn't very well developped and it doesn't feel smooth at all, rather it sometimes feels a bit far-fetched. We have a bunch of kids getting involved into dangerous scenarios with adults which are close to non-existant. Moreover, you get a sort of dramatic feel on the first episode since everyone has to sacrifice something but that gets shattered to pieces later on because why not make it worse? Of course, just as expected there is still a plot line left undevelopped even though you'd have a good idea concerning it at the end.
I haven't got much to say…
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yayy.. another harem ecchi show, could it be any different than the usual? Did you guess 'No'?
Story/ Setting: 5
To start of first I will begin by talking about the setting which can only be described as a school where students are trained to fight using supernatural powers (Blazes), which you know has been done many times before so don't expect anything different from the usual, with that in respect let's move on the story. The story can also be dumbed down to a standard ecchi harem that has a supernatural twist where the main character wins battles using the power of friendship and similar things while being oblivious to the girls growing feelings around him; the standard stuff, as it follows main character Tooru and main heroine Julie on there quest to become powerful and take revenge…
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Now many people will disagree with me on my rating of a 9, however I am a very open minded person when it comes to anime and I haven't yet found an anime series I truly hated.
As this is my first review please bare with me as I am only going to talk about things like the art, sound, characters and story in a non spoiler way. This may make my review useless to certain people still wanting to know if it's truly worth a watch.
Anyway onto my review. I find Absolute Duo to have a very deep story and the characters also have strong personality's. Yes it is a typical action/harem series but is that really a bad thing. If you have seen things in the past with the same sort of feel and liked that why not like it again in a different form. Other things I liked about this series is the art style.…
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Okay, to start this review off. This anime could have been better if the plot actually made any sense at all. This story starts off with the main character, Tor. Hes the average main character in a harem. He is very similar to most harems that involve some sort of ability or super power out there. He meets girls, tries to protect them, then fails. Then throughout the anime(like most other stories) he magically(duh, this anime involves magic) gets stronger in less than a week, very awkward tbh. This first few episode got off to a goodish~ start(but in all honesty, I wanted Imari to be his duo throughout the story, as she seems more lively and overall a fun character to watch, whenever shes in any part of the anime). But ends up throwing in this "mysterious girl", who apparently suppose to b…
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Absolute Duo, based on a decently received light novel series. It enters the competition of generic battle harems of spring 2015 - and clearly doesnt make the cut. The absolute unoriginality of the characters, the linear and terribly explained story and terrible pacing and conversations make watching all the twelve episodes a clear waste of time.
Story: 3/10
High school setting; Powerful MC who cant love with mysterious past; all types of girls that fall in love with him for dumb reasons; a linear antagonist who breaks from his shell and gets defeated by MC with nakama power. Uhm, where have I seen this before? Well, everywhere. While the first few episodes definitely arent that bad and actually manage to make the usual harem tropes enjoyable, at latest after the 7th episode it gets just…
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Have you ever had trouble spotting a bottom-of-the-barrel title? Finding the product of studio algorithm, where the intent is solely that of a product and nothing more? Shows with as much integrity as a used car salesman with a tacky poker-dot tie, or as much validity as McDonald's promoting "health" through thinly cut apple slices and a bottle of processed milk? Hogwash that pretends to have artistic merit? And if so, would you like to sift through bottom-tier anime before so much as letting it occupy time on your media device? If you've answered yes to this, here are some quick tips to help you out:
▸Is there a typical school setting? ☑
▸Is the protagonist a pussy magnet? ☑
▸Is there a beach or hot spring episode? ☑
▸Is there a love interest story that goes nowhere? ☑
▸Is there unnecess…
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Anime cliches have been around for a good many years now. The characters troupes that we become accustomed to, certain kinds of scenes, as well as genres have all become rather well known in the anime community. It is with this that finding anything really out of the ordinary becomes a somewhat hard task. And then we have Absolute Duo, a show that touches on both sides of the argument.
Story (6.44/10): In the world of Absolute Duo, there is a kind of people known as Exceeds, people who are able to harness the power of their soul to form weapons known as blazes, ranging from all forms of pre-gun weapons from swords, to daggers, bows, lances, and even a snakeblade. It is here where we follow the story of Kokonoe Tor, a boy who goes to attend Koryo Academy, a place where they train Exceeds…
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Absolute Duo is better off known as Absolute Bullshit because that is just what it is. From the synopsis and the opening, you're expecting something awesome then when you watch it after the first episode, you're like: The fuck is this shit?
First off, if you don't know by now, Absolute Duo revolves around Kokonoe Tor who is seeking revenge for those he lost to some stranger--who is never named. He awakens his power as an Exceed (hmm Fairy Tail rip much?) which allows him to manifest his soul into a weapon which turns out to be a shield. How the hell does that happen? As a result, he goes to an academy that specializes in training these individuals to hone their skills and reach something known as Absolute Duo (which has not been explained AT ALL).
The first episode lets you know it is go…
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(This has been adapted from my reddit thread)
Wanting to be stronger is something that a lot of people strive for. And that isn't just in the sense of lifting weights to tone one's muscles. There is strength of mind in the form of intelligence or strength of spirit in having the courage to do what's right. But no matter its form, strength isn't something that is easily obtained. Hardship and difficulties are what give shape to such strength, and subsequently determine what strength is ultimately earned. This is what Absolute Duo tries to convey, but without much strength to support even itself.
STORY
Absolute Duo follows young Tor Kokonoe as he enrolls in Kouyou Academy to take part in the "Duo" program. There, he meets Julie Sigtuna, a mysterious girl who eventually becomes his fightin…
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TL;DR An utterly bland, by the numbers fantasy harem romance that feels like it only exists because there was a hole in a schedule that needed plugging. Don't bother.
To my mind, there are three types of bad show. There's the ones that sincerely think they are good, but end up being terrible. There are those that would have been good if their initial ambition had only been matched by their ability to realise it. & then there are those that just don't care enough to make the effort. Absolute Duo, sadly, is the last of these.
After a brief prologue that foreshadows a possible conflict to come between the two main characters (that ends up looking nothing like it's depicted here *spoiler*), we begin by accompanying Tooru (or Tor or Thor or whatever the translator feels like using at a given…
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In the ocean of generic harems that we've been all been graced by the last few years, here we finally have a show that breaks free of all those bonds and- ...no sorry, Absolute Duo is just yet another one of them from start to finish. After the hilarious trainwreck that Studio 8bit presented with their adaptation of Grisaia no Kajitsu last season, you'd think that at least they couldn't make anything worse right afterwards but you may very well argue that they did. Admittedly I don't think anyone had very high expectations on Absolute Duo in comparison, but that still doesn't change the fact that the show did absolutely nothing to try and defy those expectations.
The story takes place in a typical magic high-school where the students learn to utilize what's referred to as their Blaze: a p…
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Yeah! This is my first review of Winter 2015. Oh yeah. Before I get on with the review just let me put some more nails in the coffin which now lies the ecchi jokes. Excuse me for a second.
Ok. I'm done.
STORY (2):
Absolute Duo or Absolute Hatred follows these two bland characters by the name of Tor Kokonoe & Julie Sigtuna who attend Koryo Academy where they are trained in combat skills using Blaze. Blaze are supernatural weapons that suit different combat skills.
Let me tell you that I have 0 expectations when going into this anime. The concept is boring and it is an ecchi genre. In fact, after that horrendous atrocity known as Rail Wars, I wasn't looking forward to watching this anime. So you know what, why not I review this anime.
You might say "Why are you viewing an ecchi anime…
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The writers might as well take out the "duo" and slap in "harem" instead cuz duo just isn't cutting it.
A bland anime with some generic harem characters. Absolute duo may seem like your average action/harem anime, because it is.
Story: 2/10
First off let me remind you that the plot is set in a world far, far away where girls possess all the cup sizes from A to Z cups. So don't be suprised if they turn out to be the only thing worth watching in the whole show.
Absolute Duo is about your average male protagonist who gains a special power and wants to seek revenge for his deceased family. Tooru Kokonoe is a teenager who has the ability to materialize “Blazes” out of his soul. But he has no ordinary Blaze his blaze is an irregular, while other people generate Weapons Tooru can generate a…
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