Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Dreammist
Some people feel the need to have a story spelt out to them – they need to be explicitly told what happens. They need things to be neatly wrapped up with a bow, without any ambiguity or thought. They don’t want to be part of the story telling process, no intellectual investment, just pure entertainment.
It’s almost laughable to speak about intellectual investment in terms of a harem anime which is definitely what this is. But while Isuca is far from a masterpiece, or even the best example of the genre, that doesn’t mean it isn’t entertaining in its own right.
The plot is relatively simple – the main protagonist, Shinichirou, is saved by our bow-wielding heroine, Sakuya, who it is revealed is vying to make her temporary title as head of her family of monster killers, or exorcists, officia…
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This anime has widely been received as completely terrible with no redeeming features and hence that may have had a major effect on my expectations, but overall I just found it to be okay, not really bad or good. It is incredibly generic. Most characters fit into roles that have been done a million times before and though there is character and relationship development, its the standard stuff that goes exactly as you'd expect and implemented only decently. The plot too is tremendously predictable, and doesn't really have anything that pops out as super interesting or as a major unexpected twist, being largely forgettable. The combat had structure, which I thought was nice, though the implementation of such was rather weak as there were only a couple moves and overall the battles weren't th…
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It is NOT a comedy and it is barely a romance and not realy ecchi. This anime is a action drama with horror scenes. So yes i gues you can understand why its score is not so good, it is because description is all wrong.
So in story there sre some girls hunting spirits and there is that guy that is helping them. And i gues if youre looking for an easy horror action anime then you may even like it, however if you want to enjoy a ecchi romantic comedy then go watch something alse.
And its not unusual that people try to sell dramas as comedy for some reason, i usualy get lured to watch such animes by wrong description.
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This will be a short review due to it being a late review. There is a simple thing to understand about Isuca that can quickly determine whether or not you will enjoy it.
It all comes down to one question: Are you able to stomach a very weak male MC if the rest of the show is decent? Because that is really what Isuca comes down to. The art and animation is good. The action scenes are well done and the plot itself isn't half bad. But that MC. Oh boy oh lord that MC. Asano is quite possibly the most pathetic soyboy "Indecisive wuss" clone character I have ever seen - and I have seen a lot of anime with this type of male lead. Saying he has no balls would be an understatement. He also has a hidden power that requires no effort on his part and only serves as a weak attempt to give him a place…
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Simply put, this anime doesn't deserve the condemnation that the vocal minority are currently giving it. Just look at the MAL rating compared to the top like 6 most "helpful" reviews. For this rating with so many 1s... means there are FAR more (on a scale of far more than 2:1... since most people don't give only 1s and 10s) people who found it to be enjoyable in some way.
There is nothing spectacular or innovative about the story/art/etc... However, in order to be enjoyable doesn't require any of that. This is an ecchi harem(ish) anime, you should never expect it to be ground-breaking just based on the genre. It has a solid story, standard art, decent voice acting, at least ATTEMPTS to form some character backstory (which alone makes it impossible to be called the WORST anime in existence…
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To start there is a lot of gratuitous fan service in this anime. That aside it is a very enjoyable show. Obviously from the ending they were hoping for a second season. It needs one please. I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that way.
I do not get technical about art, story, or sound. If I like the characters and enjoy the show, I consider it a good show. I liked this show and could not tell you why I just did.
It was a simplistic premise. The harem was underdeveloped. The main is annoying. Despite all that I really enjoyed this show.
It fulfilled what I wanted it to do. It entertained me to the point that I stayed up till 2 on a work night to watch it in its entirety.(I get up at 6.)
In short if you are looking to be entertained this anime delivers. Nothing heavy to think about , no…
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I decided to use a random generator to pick which anime to review first. As luck would have it, it chose the worst anime I've ever seen.
This is my first written review for an anime, so wish me luck.
I rated it according to MyAnimeList's standards (so 1 would be appalling).
Story:
I'm not going to lie to you. I watched the entirety of Isuca and have no idea what the plot is about. Were I to take a guess, I'd say it's about a bland male main character getting caught up in the world of a blonde female main character who's name isn't Isuca but I thought it was so what does Isuca mean? I don't know. Wait. What.
What's this aforementioned world consist of, you didn't ask?
Well, not much different to ours I suppose, minus the inexplicable spider-women demon things, the consistently pandering a…
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Overview:
How could something so generic be so ungodly horrible!!? Usually when a movie or series adapts a completely "paint by numbers" approach the result is mediocre, dull, and predictable. It won't win any critical awards, but it probably won't be one of the worst movies or shows you have ever seen! Look at the incredibly generic shonen formula that created Fairy Tail. They just recycled old shonen tropes and with no real effort or creativity they made a show that was pretty average in quality. Isuca manages to stand out despite all its generic cliches because it is SO lazy , SO poorly executed, and SO underwhelming in every category!
The plot is that an incredibly obnoxious "tsundere" bitch is the latest in an ancient line of Demon Hunters and must strong arm an incredibly bland be…
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Before watching the series, I decided to look up some of the reviews on this show from others on here. I was quite shocked to see so many 1/2 overall ratings. I feel that this series deserves a higher rating in the least.
Storyline - 8/10 - I actually find the storyline intriguing. I really was into the storyline way more than I should have.
Artwork - 9/10 - The artwork was really well done. I really liked the vibrancy, the pastel, and even the dark motifs in the show.
Sound - 8/10 - The music for the series wasn't astounding, but it was still very good. The theme songs were alright, didn't wow me though.
Character - 7/10 - I feel that the characters could have used more development. In a 10 episode series, it's hard to gather development in such a short amount of time. Though the se…
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(This has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
Many people growing up, at one point or another, encounter a situation in which they have to “prove their worth.” Sometimes it’s small, like performing well on the job to earn a raise. Sometimes it’s huge, like saving someone from a fatal accident. But no matter the severity or the situation, accomplishing such a moment makes that guy or girl grow into an overall better person. And even if they don’t achieve their goal, the experience earned gives them the necessary tools to hopefully make that next opportunity one that’s more positive than the last. Isuca tries to work with this heartfelt message, but it turns out it can’t prove its worth since it’s worth nothing to begin with.
STORY
Isuca follows Shinichirou Asano, a…
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See this anime is the same as standardize what is the same in all anime and assemble a fully animated "cliche". The story, if I may call it a story begins in a very simple manner and results from fully "standard" way of animes "ecchi", with a very simple action scenes and bland.
The appearance of the characters are literally generic other anime without any differentiating characteristic. The personality of them are also simple in a way "cliche". The male protagonist and a standard character in my opinion if not the protagonist it would make no difference in the anime. Already the female protagonist and without a doubt the character "tsundere" simpler and more gave me "sleep" all anime I've ever seen.
The anime itself is bland, without history, without different characters of "extras" in ot…
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A review of *Isuca, an ecchi with a surprisingly interesting world.*
Isuca's first three episodes led me to rate it as the worst anime of the winter season, and yet the series turned everything around to make arguably the best ecchi of the winter season.
At first, Sakuya is the typical old school tsundere that annoyingly kicks the protagonist for absolutely no reason, and while she still retains much of her tsundere-ness, it is toned down later in the series. Shockingly, a romance between Sakuya and Shinichirou forms towards the later part of the series. It is not prominent or conclusive, but it goes to the point where it is clear that those two characters are together rather than the usual indecisiveness of harem protagonists.
Isuca's best aspect is its world of east vs. west society…
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Lion Tamers, here we go again.
This time I'm gonna be contrary, and purposely choose an anime everybody only moderately dislikes to outright hates.
The chosen anime is "Isuca", and after watching the entire 10 episodes, I can confirm there are in fact some weak spots.
But there are some strong showings in this anime as well; in fact they are so good at points, I have to wonder if other folks and myself were watching the same anime.
But first, let's talk about the parts I had problems with, and I'll leave the good stuff for last. I know, I usually do it the other way around, but remember I'm being a bit contrary.
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Stuff that bothered me;
1). Because of excessive 'Fan Service', the first episode had a lot of problems getting started.
I agree with others, there w…
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"Masterpiece" is what I would describe anything else compared to Isuca. I felt like the time I wasted watching this show was better off watching paint dry or some other nonsense I could come up with. This is something you need to stay away from. The writing will make you cringe because of how cheesy it is, the animation is horrid, and characters are just disgraceful and pathetic.
Story (2/10): The plot is nonsensical and downright redundant. It had the grounds to be a somewhat decent plot, yet all their creativity was used to instead put the main character in ridiculous and perverted situations. The story itself was easy to follow, it wasn't a jumbled mess, but rather the plot was executed so poorly that you just seem to lose all interest.
Art/Sound (3/10): The Animation was pathetic, j…
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The story is fine. However too much effort is wasted on ecchi and some slow motion you-know-what part. 4/10
Shinichirou is like a support character, simply there to resupply the energy of the girls.
Nothing to complement/complain about the sound or music.
The art is done quite nicely but I can only give a maximum of 4/10 for it because the whole battle scene is basically censored thanks to all those ecchi and seinen contents.
The action + seinen combination in this anime is one of the worst I've seen. Also, whats with that ending?! It felt like 2 episodes or more being cut off directly. Overall 4/10 with tons of question marks in my mind what the heck I just watched.
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I finally got the time to do this review on this sad disappointment of an anime that was hard for me to watch, but since it was only ten episodes i thought I mind as well finish it.
Story: 2
Isuca is your typical ecchi/harem anime about a boy name Shinichirō, a male student who gets a job as a housekeeper in order to pay his rent. While on the job, he accidentally releases a strange creature into the world, and he learns that his female employer named Sakuya Shimizu is the head of the Shimizu clan that hunts these creatures. Shinichirō cooperates with her to hunt down the monsters that are running loose. Now the anime really doesn't bring anything new to the table we haven't seen before, really you can say the plot is very generic and predictable and at times cliche and boring that made…
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Anime adaptations of manga or light novels make up most of what one would see in any given anime season. With these adaptations, several results can appear. 1. A series will get a perfect adaptation of the source material and get good feedback. 2. A series can resemble the source material to the extent of its being still good. 3. Screw the source material, just do whatever you want, and reap what you sow. Isuca...follows choice #3.
Story (5.00/10): The story of Isuca follows a boy named Shinichiro, a boy who wishes to seek out a part-time job in order to unburden his family to a certain degree by supporting himself. Upon asking one of his teachers for a job, he then gets assigned a housekeeping job for a household that is more of a pigsty than anything. It is here where he meets Sakuya, t…
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i am only giving my prospective for this review
when i first watch this anime i thought that this only normal anime nothing good nothing bad
story
nothing new kissing the male protagonist will boost up her power in a small amount of time just
like negima but on negima kissing is like a contract that can boost up the femail character and they can reactivate and deactivate there power.(well depending on the negima SEARIS).
Another thing her mission is basically the same as negima (well i haven't read the manga if the is any realist so i am basing this information on the 1-10 episode of isuca ) Art of the anime is good, sound and music fair the opening is good. in character prospective i have my favorite character who is Shimazu, Suseri that boost the rating of this anime one of the mai…
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When I started to watch this, I kind of expected it to be better as I am a reader of the manga, but surprisingly not.
Here's the short summary of the categories-
Story: 7
The story itself is a good thing in itself, has a male (kind of cliche kind, house-husband dude) who meets the short 5 foot 4 tsundere girl who uses a magical bow to kill spirits. Shit goes on from there when he realizes his part-time housekeeping job is with her.
Personally, there wasn't really that much manga for the writers to go off of and thats most likely one of the big reasons this anime only has 10 episodes.
Art: 10
The one thing the anime does extremly well is the art, especially in the lewd outro, which brings me to the second thing which kind of ruined the anime for me.
Censoring. The manga, (watch my true col…
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What's up MAL community, here I am bringing you another review about how bad something is. Seriously this one deserves a bad review.
Isuca is quite possibly the worst anime I have ever seen like of all time. I know my review of Absolute Duo painted that series as bad but this one makes that show look like a masterpiece.
By now you all probably know what this show is about thanks to the effort of those who actually tried to write a review without wanting to puke so I won't get into the details, I'm just going to tell you why you shouldn't bother.
Story - 1
The story seems like it is nothing but recycled retools of series that already exist and is mashed together into one anime that is supposed to make you appreciate the verse. Take Kekkaishi, elements of supernatural harems like DxD or…
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