Audience reviews
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Fullmetal_Tariq
When i first watched this show I sort of had that odd feeling. Mid way through it felt like a complete rip off of Shingeki No Kyojin/Attack on Titan. No offense tho.
Although the art of the show felt very unique, the story lacked alot, not to mention the ending has to be the worst of any kind. Instead of answering the needed questions it instead opened new boxes. What the hell was this?
Overall 1.5/10. That too cause of the art style. The story sucks.
The way in which it was similar to AOT was the monsters beyond a certain point, humanity living within a certain boundary, soldiers who risk their lives for the betterment of humanity, main character motivated to free the humans, people not knowing that the man in charge has a son, this part felt so much relatable to the Uprising Arc of AOT.…
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I kind of had a feeling from the very first episode that this was going to be a stupid anime, because of all of the unnecessary use of slow motion and dramatic poses, that told me they were going to go with style over substance. It didn't prove me wrong, as this anime is filled with flawed logic in almost every episode. It's difficult to even get into the all the massive logic gaps, without spoiling things. So, careful as there will be a few spoilers.
A character goes from being a complete rookie flopping all over the place, to not just an ace combatant literally a few days later with no training, but goes on to lead an entire international offensive within the next week or two. What army would give a rookie control over an entire military offensive that the fate of the human race rests…
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(This review has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
Compasses are basically tiny magnets that are attracted to the magnetic poles of the Earth.
They’re fascinating. They don’t usually look like much – a round casing, some lettered markings, and a red-white dial rotating about the center – but their ability to guide, to lead. They are an invaluable tool for any adventurer. Any person, really.
God Eater has a compass. Believe it or not, it actually has symbolic purpose. But the anime still misdirects itself regardless.
STORY
God Eater stars Lenka Utsugi, a wandering boy who joins Fenrir, a militaristic branch bent on wiping out the evil Aragami. These beasts have been killing mankind, and it is up to Lenka and crew to stop them once and for all.
But the road to v…
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Intro:
God Eater is the kind of show that is slow for a few episodes but then goes 0-100 really fast.
Story: 6/10
God Eater is a show that follows the actions of a young man living and fighting in a post-apocalyptic war where mysterious monsters known as Aragami are devouring everything on the face of the Earth, pushing humanity towards extinction with each day that passes. Even though the story is not very original it does have unique features and the action is just so intense that you need to take a 5 min. break from time to time.
I really did appreciate the flashback scenes and explanations of the Aragami and how everything ended up the way it did. I liked the fact that these Aragami are not mindless, they have the potential to achieve intelligence.
Characters: 6/10
Most of the charac…
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[This review contains 0% mentions of whats shown in the anime for spoiler sake]
[This review coming from a person who very informed of the God Eater games]
God Eater is not a video game adaptation, rather a re-telling by ufotable of first quarter of God Eater Resurrection (Aegis Island arc). Doing the opposite of other writers took the franchise to their hands.
Let me clear some stuff first. Other works (mangas and light novels) covering the first game features Yuu Kannagi (or Ryo Kagami, both of them are very kind/nice off the bat) as the main protagonist and very strictly follows the game's events. While the anime features a different protagonist; Renka Utsugi, with altered the story presentation/characters introduction/important plot from the game.
==Story==
The story is very nice...…
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Adapting video game into an anime (or well, to any visual medium like tv series or movie, really) has always been a tricky business. There's usually two, most often used, ways to do this. Either stick close to the narrative of the game or branch out to create its own narrative using the game as a foundation.
God Eater anime is more or less in a weird compromise between the two methods. The anime only covers about half of the game storyline (I've played the game before watching, pretty the only reason why I'm watching this) while adding in its own several ideas. The overall result of that is....interesting. God Eater is underdeveloped and uneven in many parts, but it certainly has highs. I'd say that's already more than most anime could do.
The series set in a distant future where a myste…
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As someone who played the original God Eater PSP game I approve of this anime.
Story 6/10: Story is pretty mediocre, if you've played the game you roughly know what is going on. Sadly, the anime doesn't follow the PSP story. The good thing is this anime gives you a deeper insight of the God Eater apocalyptic universe and how non-God Eater people live, it also provides flashbacks that show the origin of Aragami and how the world came to shit. (And also why those buildings have giant holes in them. Hint: It wasn't a laser beam). Other than that, there's not much else I can praise about this anime.
Art 10/10: Ufotable. Thats all I can say
Sound 10/10: Again, Ufotable.
Characters 8/10: This is a treat for those who played the original PSP game. Because in the original game you make your ow…
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*SOME SPOILERS FOR GOD EATER*
Whew. I'm glad I wasn't there during the massive delays...
Ah, God Eater. An anime adaptation of a video game. I haven't played the game, but from what I've gathered, it didn't recover much criticism in terms of being an adaptation as much as being a story. Ufotable's attempt at a 3D mixed with 2D action anime, and an interesting beast (intentional joke) if I do say so myself. What originally started back in the Summer of 2015 kept getting delays that lasted until episode 9 in the Fall season, before announcing a delay so big, it only finished airing this season (Spring 2016). Well, was it worth the delay, or did it get devoured by the fangs of failure? Let's find out, shall we?
STORY: 5/10
An unspecifically long time ago, three scientists discovered a typ…
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There is a different impact on every people watching anime, especially if the anime is an adaptation of something else like a manga, a novel, and for this one, a game. I played the game and expected too much on it (Well, the game was really GREAT and I loved it.) and when it aired as an anime, it turned into a "Clean Mess". Here is why:
Story - [8] : I gave it a six because all the good things I knew would happen, didn't really happen the way I expected it to be. But, meh, it happens a lot on adaptations. But why 8 you ask? Well....let's see. For example, in episode 12, the game setting was WAY better (Especially since they're talking about god and such, the church setting SHOULD be better) but since it's the anime were discussing here, I gave points to certain changes and improvements li…
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For starters... for me that played the PSP game version of God eater named: God Eater Burst, I enjoyed the whole 13 episode series and I'm hoping that it would continue from where it left off...
Making the game as the criteria, I came across with some new things that was not in the game. Mainly the MC Utsugi Lenka...
When he first showed up, it kinda ticked me off that he was some kind of a hot headed someone that has the grudge to kill all of the Aragami, but it was notable that his personality changed overtime (and he speaks)...
Second was the unexpected shenanigans...
The inventive mind of the director kinda shattered my dreams as I watched further and saw the dark side of the Far East Branch (the "if you are not suited then you cannot enter" issue), it was not included inside the g…
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I just loved and enjoyed this anime! The story and characters are appealing, and it's an anime that should not be under rated! I don't want to be that person that worries every single detail and ends up adding up bad ratings of a spectacular anime!
This anime is worth it! Why can't the rating be higher than 7?! Come on man! If you enjoy the anime and loved it, just rate it 10 in correspondance to the happiness and emotions you received from it, especially on episode 11!
Would love a Season 2!!!
I would love to end my review to the words above but myanimelist wanted a longer review so....
The anime God Eater is a Gem! I truly enjoyed watching it despite the fact that episodes 10-13 was delayed for months, since other anime that I hold watching and watched it again bored me, this anime…
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There is a saying: "don't judge a book based on its cover." This is a show that I expect was dropped by many because of constant delays and a dull as fuck pilot that was followed up by an even worse second episode. To be honest, I was one of those people. I thought the first episode was really dull with confused direction and the second episode had all the trappings of an incredibly generic shounen. There were also many red flags: video adaptations tend to suck, this anime's purpose at the time seemed to be to function as an uninspired advertisement, and lines like "press this button to fire, press both to rapid fire" just screams PREVIEW FOR GOD EATER FOR PC!!
However, after like three episodes aired after 10 weeks or so (probably leaving poor fans screaming at the multiple delays), I de…
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God Eater is like spoiled milk. It doesn't get any better with age. Now that this show is over, we can all breathe a sigh of relief when we clean that proverbial spot out of the refrigerator (our anime lists) that the fermenting cow squeezins are in the trash, and gone far far away from us.
At this point in time, I think most people have blissfully forgotten about God Eater, so I'm going to dig this rotting corpse up out of its shallow grave and run it over with a dumptruck again.
You tell me what's worse: a ripoff of an classic, or a ripoff of an extremely successful ripoff of an old classic?
I'll tell you what's worst still: a terrible ripoff of a ripoff of an old classic that shamelessly TRIES to be something new, but sticks to the conventions of its hack fraud origins, to its own f…
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If God Eater was a person, its face would be pretty but it would be an airhead. It would have a muscular body but not a bit of strength. Its breasts would be big but they couldn't produce any milk. But hey, it looks amazing.
The main reason I'm writing this review is probably because God Eater managed to somewhat sway me. I'll say this in advance: I don't think God Eater is bad. Not as a whole. I know that a clear majority doesn't share my opinion on this show, and I can totally see why: the story, characters, story and characters. And the story. They are outright terrible, and that's a fact. Then, how is it possible that I actually liked it?
When I watched the first 9 episodes weekly in the summer, I didn't like God Eater at all. It was confusing. The story sucked, the flashbacks didn't…
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Just finished God Eater today and damn it's good.
First of all there is a LOT of hate floating around for this anime, I chose to ignore it and I watched it anyway which was a great choice.
You probably know already that God Eater is based off a game, although I never played it, hearing that put me off of watching it.
The reason for that is because I expected it to have a boring unoriginal story line however I was proven wrong.
God Eater has a very interesting story about fighting against god, which is odd as god is seen as someone who protects so the reversal of this made me more eager to find out how things would end up.
Humans are causing the world too much damage and must be eliminated by what they assume is god.
The battle seems unending but there is a lot of logic behind the ways the…
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First review so I apologize if it isn't well done. but damn the initial hate over this series.
tl;dr? Do you have 3 hours to spare? watch it.
Story: What is the story? Humanity is on the verge of death with unbeatable monsters eating everyone. Last hope are God Eaters, beings who have taken into themselves what makes these monsters so special allowing them to fight them. The MC becomes a God Eater and we follow him as he does what he came here to do, kill those monsters. If this sounds kind of like Attack on Titan then you can pretty much say that you are in the right. What i would say is that both stories have great worlds, and characters (of which some die), but what sets this one apart is, in AoT i hated Eren as a main character. But in God Eater, Lenka is a pretty decent lead. He is…
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Gods Eater sorta scared me when they went on an extended break in between the seasons. I was pleasantly surprised when it came back. Episode 10 gave me extreme feels. Be prepared to feel the feels everyone no joke.
Now as everyone knows this is a anime based off a game. I played the game very sparingly. I never truly got into it. I thought it was going to be a fairly generic action anime. Until those last three episodes dropped holy crap. Everything just became greater once I watched those. For those who are reading this to get an idea of the anime. Your lucky you can watch it without breaks. I think I can actually think more fondly now that I see it in its completed state.
Onto the characters because I'm not great at art and sound stuff. I focus on things I believe i can judge. The ch…
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This review will contain minor spoilers since I can't fully discuss some characters without mentioning certain things about them.
As somebody who played the God Eater game, I was very excited when it got an anime adaption. I had always felt that the story would translate very well to an anime and that the Aragami fights would be really fun to watch animated. So, was this the masterpiece that I hoped for or was it the disaster that I feared? Well, it was somewhere in the middle. There was more good than bad actually, but because of my disappointment with the show compared to my expectations, I'll start with the bad.
The biggest issue with God Eater is Lenka. Let's make it clear from the start that I feel Lenka single-handedly knocked a couple of points off of the show's rating. The orig…
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God Eater is one of those odd shows that starts out as kind of a slow burn for a few episodes at risk of losing you, but then goes from 0-100 real fast to grab you right back in. Let's take a look at the score breakdown quick to see where we end up.
Story (5/10) - The story honestly wasn't that special. It isn't anything we haven't seen before, just your standard monster apocalypse type fair. It didn't fail particularly at anything, but didn't do anything exceptional either; it just served as a familiar spring board for the viewer to get into the action. I did really appreciate all the flashback scenes and explanations how how this all came about and the description of the monsters (Aragami?). It is something this show actually did really well that many other apocalypse shows either ignor…
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Ever wanted to go to an anime fantasy world and see what it’s like? Maybe that thought should be put on-hold for a show like God Eater. In this series, it’s a world that most people probably wouldn’t want to visit. Why? Because it takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where mysterious monsters known as the Aragami exists and they aren’t exactly there to make friends with humans.
Based on a video game, God Eater strikes to me as a peculiar series that really needed to hook the audience. The type of hook should be something that would keep the audience at the edge of their seat. But what does it really accomplish? A rather messy start that doesn’t exactly leave strong impressions. In essence, God Eater (based on the game, God Eater Burst) is more about the action and less about construct…
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