Audience reviews
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Lulech23
This may be one of the most underrated shows I've come across in a while. I held off watching PSO2: The Animation for *years* because of its low review scores, but after recently getting back into PSO2 the MMORPG, I decided to finally give it a try. And oh boy, I was not prepared for what a treat this is.
**This review is spoiler-free**
PSO2: The Animation is something of a victim of its own marketing. The premise of an anime created by Sega where a real-world Sega videogame enjoys universal popularity feels pretentious, as if the whole thing were nothing more than an extended commercial. But while the anime's existence may indeed be advertising, its plot has far better motives. In fact, remove PSO2 and you'd still have a nice story, albeit nothing groundbreaking.
Contrary to fans' hope…
Read at the sourceRedyoshi900
Story: 6
Art: 7
Sound: 7
Character: 7
Enjoyment: 9
Overall: 7
Phantasy Star Online 2 (Pso2): The Animation is a anime that is inspired by the game Pso2 and was created while the game was in the Japanese release of episode 4 related content. The anime mostly served to be advertisement to get word out about the game, but also it was there for a side plot that happens inside of the game.
To the average viewer who has not seen Pso2 or played Pso2, this anime could probably seen as not that great. Honestly, I probably would not recommend watching if you have not bothered with Pso2's story. However, for those who HAVE seen the story and do play the game, then I can recommend this as it provides a bit of context for characters that don't get explained as much in pso2's Episode stories. It is…
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Phantasy Star Online 2 The Animation (2016)
I have to say this has one of the most frustrating endings I have ever known. You are finally getting the confession you waited for to be interrupted and reminded that this is essentially a 12 episode advertisement for the game. That said it is not a bad show but then it is not great either, it is just good.
The story is very much slice of life with a PSO2 situation going on. It does get a bit wacky in the second half but it helps I guess with the immersion of the game the studio wants you to feel.
The art is a good standard for 2016 and plays very well. It fits very nicely and is throughout the majority of the show consistent.
The sound comes with a good OP and ED and generally sounds and SFX is very good for its age too.
Characters do…
Read at the sourceTzystiq
This anime is basically just an ad for the game Phantasy star Online. Not a good ad. At times, the dialogue is completely horrible. It feels almost like there is NOTHING in the entire Japanese country, but this one game, our Protagonist has to review, and that game is, as you might have guessed Phantasy Star Online 2, which is, if you didn't know a real game. Conveniently, to advertise the game, everything our dense Protagonist writes about the game is unrealisticly Positive. Well, for the story, the anime actually has one! But... the story after the secand half makes the story completely irrelevant, also almost everything is predictable. At least the story has an ending, just not a good one... but hey, it has one! For the art and animation, they used a ridiculous amount of CGI and crappy…
Read at the sourceSeireiAki
PSO2 is amazing! The story is just great and I always love to relive it. . . . The game that is.
When it comes to the animation . . . all I can say is it's average.
The story focus on a character that is not relevant to PSO2 and only mentioned like 3 times in 'Episode 4' (The EARTH arc in the game).
PRO:
+ PSO2 Anime
+ Some characters from PSO2 show up
CON: - The main characters aren't that amazing.
- Unless you play the game, you don't really see why somethings happen.
- Low amount of fighting scenes (especially after awakening) !
Overall I rate it a 6. While it is a decent anime to watch to kill time, it is not an anime that will make you go WOW AMAZING. If anything I suggest you play the game and play through the story. You'll find that it is 500% more interesting especially the…
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Story 6/10
The story is a bit slow to get the main plot into motion and generally goes through the motions of a Japanese romcom when it's not doing anything related to the game but is generally decent in every other aspect.
Art 5/10
Nothing groundbreaking here but the rendered 3DCGI is a step down from the game even on the lowest settings, opting to use a cell shaded version of the existing models which just comes off as looking really weird and does nothing to help it blend into the 2DCGI. I really wish animators would quit doing it if they're not going to put the effort in to make it work. The only environment that looks remotely decent is the lobby area (also you can see a idle dancer as an easter egg so bonus points for that I guess but that's not really representative of the game'…
Read at the sourceKi-Queen4u
When I saw the game(even though I've never played it yet.), it has a great response to me. I was looking for a good MMORPG to play, some of it were boring. But checking out PSO2 really got me. So when I first watched the anime, I thought it would be good.
So starting off with story, Itsuki Tachibana(a primary protagonist who kinda make no sense depending on his personality and voice actor, Aoi Shouta), who's assigned by Rina Izumi(who's the focus character with full on aspect.) to play PSO2. So he does. One of my favorite characters in the show is Aika(voiced by M.A.O., which I'm clearly a fan of.). She may be serious, but we all know she's just doing her job just protecting the universe. Other of my favorites are Matoi and Quna. The OP is fast and we barley look at the other characters.…
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Phantasy Star started as a series of solid RPGs made for the Mega Drive. In more recent years, it's transitioned into an online game. Phantasy Star Online II is a Japanese only game since initial plans for a more global release kind of fell through. It was released in 2012. In 2016 an anime by our old friends at TMS began airing. That's right, the same studio that gave us Glass no Kamen, Magic Knight Rayearth & Mermaid Forest to name a few.
Story:
We open with our protagonist... Blandon attending his classes at Seiga Academy. Which seems like a nice school until you look in the textbooks and find out they're full of glitches. Blandon is approached by the student council to join them as the new Vice President since the former one went off to star in her own spin-off game that tries way t…
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There’s something absolutely mystifying about the Phantasy Star Online 2 anime.
While it is objectively bad, with poor animation and cliched storytelling (which seems to be the norm with anime tie-ins with video game franchises), the show has managed to become something that I have found myself rewatching over and over and over and over.
Before I elaborate, I’d like to first mention that I’d like to imagine that I have fairly decent taste in anime, but of course, some may also question why I decided to give the universally panned “Guilty Crown” a rather flattering score of 8. In other words, take my opinion with a grain of salt.
Anyways, the thing about the PSO2 anime is that while it is not a good show by any means, it is a rather enjoyable watch because of how it manages to strictly f…
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*SPOILERS FOR PHANTASY STAR ONLINE 2 THE ANIMATION. DON'T WATCH THIS ANIME. IT IS NOT WORTH YOUR TIME*
Advertising a game isn't the easiest thing in the world. Making an anime that is based on a game (whether it be an adaptation, a tie-in, or just something to promote the product in question) is even harder. Hell, the movie industry has had an exceptionally hard time trying to make a movie on these same grounds that actually worked well. That being said, you need to try to keep the spirit of the game you're promoting, as well as make something that can be a good gateway into the game series for people who probably wouldn't have bothered otherwise. With the exception of Visual Novels (they are only visual novels, not multi-genre games with a visual novel storyline), games have been notably…
Read at the sourceTobyFreedom
Viewers who prefer more reality and simple anime will enjoy this anime. It may not be 100% following the in game story but turning an online game to an anime is not easy, since they wanted to show some reality in it.
Well, its a simple anime story line with normal life (school and playing games online). The start may seems boring but its an anime, which required some intro and lucky it is not that draggy.
The best part actually appear at the last few episodes.
What amaze the most was the character able to interact with the online games just like SAO but in another ways. That is what all game development want to achieve.
Overall, this anime give an good impression of a close towards real life environment. And hardly any anime give that, other than card games anime.
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This anime starts out slow, like SAO, it takes place in a video game, The art goes from 2D to 3D, 3D when in the game 2D when on Earth. I loved the art transfer, and then mystery of a few of the characters. The anime I feel like should have another season, but I did not like the end much, although The feelz! Even though it only has 12 episodes, it has an interesting twists that puts a huge turn on the plot. I feel that the characters could have more development and that is one of the reasons I give this anime a overall 7.
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I was expecting something pretty cool, coming from a player of the actual game; I was a bit disappointed to say the least. I mean sure, some of the sound effects were the exact same from the game which was quite nice to hear - but the animation didn't quite keep up in my opinion. It looked choppy, which made it seem as if it was a really bad rip-off from in-game cutscenes.
The main character - Itsuki honestly felt quite bland to me throughout the anime. It didn't really help either with the addition of the poor animation sequences during certain fight scenes, hence the low score.
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Story:6
Characters:6
Animation: 6
Music:8
Overall:7
One might think because I played Phantasy Star, PSII, & PSIII, Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast and Gamecube, PSO episode 1&2 on the Gamecube and Xbox, PSO portable 1 & 2 on the PSP, and PSO Zero on the NDS that I might have a bias for this anime. How could I? Because I never played PSO 2! Just not core enough to make that happen. In reality I only allowed my love of this series to add a point to my final score. PSO2 the Animation is at best a 6, but 7 to me as an enormous fan of the video game series. Just for reference I also play a ton of Monster Hunter, Freedom Wars, Ragnarok Odyssey, Soul Sacrifice, God Eater, Toukiden, and all the Dark/Demon Souls games - so clearly I’m a well rounded gamer… It is worth mentioning that every h…
Read at the sourceLegendAqua
Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation is an anime adaptation of the online RPG of the same name...and to that LA already has to say...ohhhhhhh god another video game adaptation and the curse even strikes this one!.
The premise is actually an original story taking place in the future where the PSO2 game actually exists in anime itself. We've got highschool, a dense main protagonist, 2 love interests and what where are you guys going?..wait!!. With all honesty the anime adaptation takes the entire "game to anime" thing in a pretty meta-manner although it's rampantly blatant about it's SEGA advertising and what even the basics of MMORPG's are just under the roof of a highschool setting...and LA just found it utterly hilarious at first.
PSO2's highschool setting becomes even more convulted…
Read at the sourceAllenHavens92
Not the best but not the worst, Phantasy Star Online 2 seems to be around the middle where it’s “just okay” (as the main character would put it).
Despite this being based on a video game (a sequel of a spin-off), the story is not set in the game itself. Rather, the game is featured as a game. Also, I believe you don’t really need prior knowledge of the actual game to be able to watch this series as it does a bit of explanation with the game jargon. It has a very simplistic plot, which makes it an easy watch.
The characters, while nothing special, are still likable and have their own charm to them. Some we see more than others, but that’s only because we mainly focus on a select few. We also see these characters as their game avatars, which at times show a huge contrast from their real-li…
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I would have given this show prob a 7 or very generous 8/10 if it weren't for the horrible MMO education-advertising-sega brainwashing crap in over half the episodes. And the whole tone of the show with the stupid highschool, slice of life bullcrap was so off putting. Would have been much better if handled with a higher budget and better studio. The source material this show comes from is amazing. They should've adapted the Red Ring Rico/Flowen story from PSO1 with a higher budget... something like along the lines of God Eater would have been so much more respectable than this trash turd of a show. This show's story is actually faithful to PSO2's story, but it was very disrespectful to PSO2 and the whole franchise. As a whole, one of the worst shows I've seen.
Story was horribly cliche an…
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