Audience reviews
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Duleigh
Probably one of the best anime series that I've seen in a very long time. It rocked on two levels. As a Slice of Life anime it was perfect. Poor Mari Wakatake lost her parents and her memory and was living with an elderly grandmother who felt sorry for Mari because she had no friends or social life. Mari's entry into the Kaihou Academy was difficult, endearing and often quite funny as she tried to get along with the other girls - exactly what grandma was hoping for. Mari made a friend, poor Michiko Kouzuki and Mari immediately breaks a social norm by calling Michi by her first name. We learn of life in the girls school and when the girl that Mari hated moved into Mari's room we see how their relationship changed from hate and anger, to friendship, and eventually love.
The Sci-Fi side was…
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Good idea in theory, the anime switches between slice of life with cute girls going to an all girls high school and bonding (one is a spunky and yelly girl, while the other is a cool and refined beauty) to drama about their past and an alien army invasion plot that ramps up in the last few episodes.
I did enjoy the english dub with Hilary Haag and Monica Rial as the two main girls.
The reason why this is hard to recommend... its specifically cause of the ending, it ends so abruptly and doesn't give too much closure, like they needed one more episode or something, so I googled if there was an OVA or something and it turns out this is just a prequel to two manga that is set like 1000 years before those take place.
I think its cool that its original content though instead of just adapti…
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Blue Drop is another in the Girls Love genre that I was really rooting for, despite the low MAL score, in the same way that I was cheering for Destiny of the Shrine Maiden, for very similar reasons. I was coming into this with such an open mind, but man, I really wasn't into this one.
Story & Characters: Blue Drop starts out with us seeing our main character, Mari Wakatake, who has been enrolled in Kaihou Academy by her grandmother. Why her grandmother? Because Mari lost her parents, along with everyone else who lived on the island she was from, five years prior to this series starting. The kicker is that this caused amnesia in Mari, so she can't remember any of it. Skip forward to the present where she meets multiple students in the dorm, including Hagino Senkouji. Due to Hagino's popula…
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Hmmmm...
To simply put it, they fail to end the series properly.
The plot is basically like alien scout for invasion make contact with esper girl and become human's ally. The story goes on and end with a cliche plot where the scout alien ended up protecting the human and died on the final suicide attack. Since the main plot is broad where the alien invade earth so the scale of the story are huge so it's unable to fit within 13 episode so you can only see like the prologue for the series.
Frankly the reason why I start to watch this series is for the Girls Love tag, but ended up with disappointment. There is not that much of flirting going on, it feels like more than a friend less than a lover kind of thing. Also it end with the tragic love, where the other partner died while the other one…
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(updated 9/19/18 for format and slight content revision)
Hi! Welcome to another Robert's Too Late Reviews! As always, reading the synopsis is assumed, and this review *MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS* so be careful if that matters to you. This review is for the dubbed version. I tend to rank most anime fairly high, but for once I discovered a show I didn't care too much for. Blue Drop is a odd mix of water/alien warfare, and stuttering, jerky yuri romance. Overall, it fails at doing either very well. Does it make the RTLR wall? Read on and I'll show you! (to quote the unmatched Sailor Moon)
Story: 3
The story is an utter mess. A large part of the story revolves around aliens in submarines preparing to invade Earth. (and with poor British accents no less!) The aliens are not well defined, their purp…
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Blue Drop is like A roller coaster that makes you puke the second you get on. But you also get to see a train wreck happening. This is just a complete piece of trash. The story is non nonsensical and the characters are boring and there actions make no sense. Their is some enjoyment in seeing how Ludicrous somethings are. But sadly its not enough to make up for how painful everything else is. The art and music is fine but there are plenty of shows with more appealing art. or music. its clear they just wanted to tell a story that be a descent prequel to a manga. But the fumbled the ball so badly that the ball exploded.
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I admit right now that I came into this anime expecting something quite different than what it was. The summary seemed like it would make for great tragedy at the end, and while it did, I still felt like it was sorely lacking. The whole ending of the show seemed like it downplayed the relationship built between the two main characters, something that felt like a cop-out to me since the relationship really did grow in a very believable way.
Story: 8
From an unbiased perspective, this story really was more than decent. There were a lot of things going for it, disregarding my feelings on the ending. I thought that they accomplished something difficult, balancing tension, impending doom, and tragedy with some levity and a love dynamic. That is something I feel a lot of shows try to do and fai…
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After hearing that Blue Drop is a slice-of-life/ sci-fi action with some yuri, it is understandable to assume that it would be a big floundering mess. The whole idea of school life, spaceship battles, and girl-on-girl romance being mashed together in one show sounds ridiculous (yet we still see this kind of thing far too often as anime-fans)... and yes, Blue Drop flirts with disaster on a regular basis. However, it manages to juggle these elements surprisingly well to deliver a decent story with emotional punch.
Mari Wakatake is a young amnesiac and sole survivor of a tragedy that left hundreds dead. She remembers nothing before waking up in the hospital and has lived with her wealthy grandmother ever since... that is until her grandmother sends her off to an all girls boarding school. He…
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A somewhat tragic love story addled by a the fact that the anime is a prequel to the manga series.
But yet it's as if the creators of the anime decided to forego the conclusion that the Arume (a race of female aliens set on conquering earth to save their species) are perverse genocidal maniacs and the humans are their slaves and create a haunting little love story that takes place at the eve of the Arume invasion between a mysterious Arume starship Captain, Hagino, and Mari, a human girl whose early life was beset by tragedy.
The entire show revolves around Hagino's attempts to be human, loving, forgive herself and ask for forgiveness while slowly becoming close to the withdrawn Mari. It manages slice of life elements while keeping a backdrop of surreal alien conflict--almost as if it's…
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This animé actually has few true "plot twists" that would surprise anyone who has seen more than a few animés. But mysteries aren't everything in storytelling, what distinguishes a good story is when you know what is coming but you're still biting your nails and hoping that it does, or doesn't, happen. And this is what this animé managed to do, at least to me.
There are two parts to this animé as has been said, the high school/romance part and the sci-fi part. For those hoping for quick-ass action, avoid this title, battles are few and generally quickly over with, they often serve to increase the tension on the characters and not to be the main events. A bonus point however for more realistic sci-fi in terms of equipments and weapons... given the more serious approach of the material, I w…
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The following review would never be written if it weren't for the ending...it was very touching...it brought the show to a whole different level...anyway...
Blue Drop (BD) is a combination of slice of life school drama and sci-fi water action anime. In a nutshell, BD is not meant for those who only seeks action (slice of life HINT HINT). I would say about 70% of the show is slice of life-ish and 30% action.
Story:
The story itself is pretty easy to follow. Nothing too complicated, though I didn't expect the ending to be like that... It was a bit lacking at the end though due to the lack of follow up to what happened at the end. Also, I just didn't quite like the Yuri stuff throughout the show (should be good news for all you Yuri lovers).
People should also appreciate the events leadin…
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Blue drop is hard to put into words. One moment you think you're watching a slice of life school drama, the next moment you feel like watching some sci-fi space/water action show. When these two things intermingle badly it feels like you're trying to watch two different shows at once.
Story (Decent)
Having said that though, you will notice it will lean towards one or the other toward the end. It's basically a story about a sole survivor of a tradgic incident who has no recollection of her past or the incident. When she joins an all girls school, she happens to discover things about her past. ...And the wheel begins to start turning. The story starts out fine but then it starts to branch out to other stories involving other characters, and with the lack of episodes, it "sorta" gets a litt…
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Blue Drop is one of those anime series that are good but could have used a bit more work to make them great. When it first aired, I was looking forward to this series since I'm a bit of a shoujo-ai-fan (as 80% of male anime fans) so I gave it a shot. Here are my thoughts after finishing it:
Story
The story is interesting and original, thus I gave it an 8. I would have graded it higher but there are some parts that for a shoujo-ai/sci-fi anime, it just don't add up. There were times when I would have wished a more sci-fi story than the slice-of-life they're showing. Basically half the anime is about the (almost) normal life of Mari and Hagino. The drama is there, of course, and I admit I didn't see the ending coming but most of the story I could read along. The original idea was good yet t…
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Blue Drop ~Tenshi-tachi no Gikoyku~ (The Angels Play) is the adaption to the manga Blue Drop (which I haven't read). One of my friends sent me a link to it, and I decided to check it out which I'm grateful for.
The greatest assets in this anime is the art. The art is superbly smooth and well done, details couldn't have been more and everything just looks so realistic. Already from the beginning you can see it, the beauty in the art. It is sparkling and dazzling and leaves a taste of wanting more.
The storyline can be a bit hard to understand first, it's more like a Slice of Life in the beginning. Introduction to the environment, all the characters and lots of new stuff appearing all the time. But despite that, it all goes in a very smooth and calm pace which leaves plenty of room for on…
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