Audience reviews
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DJ1495osu
Up until the ending I had this show at about a 7/10, ending kinda ruined it for me. It wasn’t a completely terrible ending, but I didn’t like it either; dropped the show from a 7 to a 4 or 5. Don’t want to give too much away, but just know the ending may be a bit of a bummer if you make it that far.
I don’t really have anything else to say because I don’t really feel like putting too much thought into this review, but I gotta reach the minimum review length so I’ll say this to expand on why I didn’t like the ending:
Potential spoiler (sort of)
I can handle sad endings sometimes, but in general I prefer happy endings. It depends on how the story unfolds and the factors involved. This story didn’t set up in a way that I could really accept its conclusion. It felt like the writers could h…
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okay well, here we are at an anime where to me the title has nothing to do with the anime really and it will throw you off.
We meet a boy, Sogo, who likes rocks and gems, so here he is all alone in the dark cold mines looking for something cool when he finds a red jewel, rushes home and that was that. Then while Sogo is out again, with literally up to no introduction we meet his friend, Koan, who in fact has grown up with Sogo, but we dont find this out till like the last episode..
Anyways moving on, she doesnt wanna get marries and clearly has a hard on for Sogo, but then they get into this accident that brings them underground where Sogo found this red jewel previously. They wait for help and then they get attacked by some army guy who throughout the whole anime I cannot tell if he was…
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(This review has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
(WARNING: This review spoils various parts of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, an epic poem that he constructed in the 14th century. His work is regarded by many as one of the greatest pieces of literature ever created. If you do not wish to have Dante’s magnum opus spoiled, read no further. Or, as Dante may write, “turn back to see your shores again.”)
Comet Lucifer is like Satan.
Before completing that simile, we need to define Satan first. In Dante Alighieri’s masterpiece, Divine Comedy, and, more specifically, the Inferno, Dante travels through the depths of Hell and (surprise surprise) he encounters Satan.
Long story short, Satan is eating specific souls (three to be exact) who have committed the most egreg…
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Well this series was fairly bad. Somehow I had heard good things about it, but I can see it was a mistake to watch it. I honestly feel like I wasted my time. The visuals, character design, and sound were all fairly good. The plot however makes almost no sense, and keeps seeming to change. The characters reactions don't really match what is going on, and more than once something happens that just seems out of line for the concept they were going for. I would not recommend it.
The sad thing is with the right direction this could have been really good. If they had taken the time to really flesh out the characters near the start, and hey maybe actually explain the world a little bit so we knew what was going on, that would be great. As it was I couldn't tell you what the world was like. They'…
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The series composes a small cast of characters although their roles are all important. Sogo is the easy-going type who can easily make friends with just about anyone. His loyalty is also evident throughout the series as he puts others’ lives above his own. Unfortunately, the guy is really dense and a lot of his actions are questionable at times. Characterization regarding Sogo is generally mild as we barely see his background story. Instead, the show focuses more about his actions in the present alongside Kaon. And that brings up the second point. Kaon can be interpreted as the ‘girl next door’ type. No, I’m not talking about the girl who flashes their bodies around but rather as someone that continuously expresses interest in the main guy. However, Sougo barely notices her messages. In es…
Read at the sourceFlawfinder
You know one anime myth that really needs to die in a ditch? Original shows can always be counted on to be better than adaptations. How in god's name does that make any sense in any sort of capacity? First off, you're basically saying that every manga, novel, visual novel, and light novel out there is shit with that statement, and whilst I definitely agree that finding something good in the latter two categories is about as hard as finding a good Crash Bandicoot game after he left Naughty Dog, any hack writer wanting to create an original work of art can make the same mistakes they did - especially when they're visual novel writers themselves. Second, you don't honestly believe that Ghost Hound, Galilei Donna, or Yatterman Night are good shows, right? Seriously, let me look at your favorit…
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The first episode promised a great series. As the episodes pass you realize that all your hopes have been crush.
You're a loyal follower till the end, towards twelve episodes full of disappointments, a romance based on forced moments.
Spend next five episodes but nothing happens.
Hard to start with a couple and end with another. Focus the plot on a love confession that never comes and another love appears only because the script dictates.
A backstory ill conceived, the last three episodes are filled with a summary of what the story should be.
I will not buy the figures of characters that I hate. and you (the creators) have made me suffer with this series.
A copy of Gurren Lagann from coast to coast, but in the end, a bad copy.
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I feel like I expected a lot more from this anime than I got out of it. For all those who remember the plot of Guilty Crown, I didn't find anything special from the story, to me it was extraordinarily similar, more so at the very end. But there are certainly things that the anime does well, as the story is not the only element the anime has to give. The characters were unique in their own ways, as we see the usual protagonist, and his childhood friend. Some of the characters did appeal to me at times, and character development often took me by surprise. The anime sometimes did put out nicely animated full fledged fight scenes between mecha's, and I felt it was nicely animated. The colors, art, and animation together balanced the plot in a way, and I stuck with this anime until the end.
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Tl;Dr it's a rehashed butchered version of Eureka Seven.
Normally I dont do reviews but Comet Lucifer (CL) is a special case. CL, regardless of its cliche set up and characters, started off great. There was a lot going for it. It could have been one of the greats but instead flopped and started grabbing elements from other series. It tried too hard to be something it wasn't and often times resembled Eureka Seven. I feel like the story was rushed and was bs'd half way through. Mid series you have characters rambling over stuff with no rhyme or reason or even little logic to justify their actions. Its only redeeming quality was it's animation and even then it was mediocre.
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Long review short: Comet Lucifer is an example of wasted potential. What could have been an epic fantasy/adventure turned into nothing more than an insipid kinda romance.
They won't let me get away with my review being short. *sigh* I hate that. Anywho, the artwork is good. The colors are bright. The writing in the first 2 episodes was tight and interesting. It's like they fired the guy with the plot and the other writer(s) floundered from episode 3-12. I had hope for a few episodes, but it was for naught. When the affable guy turns into a killing machine and the ditz pulls shotguns out of loaves of bread, "WTH am I watching?" It would have been alright had it been funny, but nope. That is the poorly named Comet Lucifer.
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Comet Lucifer's first episode pays homage to some lost animes in the nineties. The premise for this show is an old trope but the execution that time felt sincere. Also, the first major scene involved well-choreographed fights and beautifully integrated CGIs. While not perfect, it managed to capture the pure fun (and dumbness) of these type of shows and ended with its audience wanting for more.
Then it went downhill from there.
Story, what story?: 3/10
To be fair with Comet Lucifer, it presented a very simple premise in the first episode. There is this teenage guy who wants to save his girl from the evil forces that be and that girl supposedly contains some magical powers that could save the world.
The first few episodes might be little jarring because of the mood whiplash (just can…
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If you do not wish to read all of this banter, just skip to the very last paragraph for a simpler review of this anime.
Well this anime was quite a boring adventure. I had quite high hopes for it because it seemed like it would be all cute and happy, but in the end all I got was an anime with close to no plot and chaotic boringness.
Story [5]:
If you asked me what the story was about, I would have no idea how to explain. The plot was so chaotic and only at the last episode did I understand a TINY bit what I had just witnessed. It was absolute nonsense. At the very beginning I felt that there was some idea the authors had, then they just came up with stuff as it progressed and later on just tried to mash some kind of conclusion. And so, Comet Lucifer was born.
Art [4]:
The animation…
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First review I'm writing on this site. Honestly, this shit was predictable but also all over the place. Besides the art, which is pretty great, the story was rushed and definitely generic. Most Disappointing of 2015 for me personally. I already felt like I was getting tired of these particular types of anime but man did this one leave a sort of bad taste in my mouth. Even if you love this genre you will still find this anime to be average at best even painfully so. I honestly felt like i should've dropped this series a while ago. I writing all this and yet I realize that I still don't even get what the point of Comet Lucifer was. Was it really just to show off some pretty good background art cause that was the point they nailed it but everything else is "meh."
Read at the sourcecitizen169
Comet lucifer is a Mecha/slice of llife/Romance/Fantasy anime. You probably could cram in a few more genre's. At only 12 episodes, this obviously results in problems.
story: 4/10
writers essentially said "let's make it up as we go along." That pretty much sums it up. Then they noticed it was almost over and crammed in an ending. And added the final villain because the show kept hinting but never showed one. Who started getting development halfway through the last episode.
Art 8/10 Unique and pretty good.
Sound 7/10 Decent but not very memorable. It was just "there".
Character 4/10 very cliche and forgettable. Mostly consistent though.
6/10 overall
watchable. Art was best thing about this.
Read at the sourcePyraXadon
Ah, adventure. The act of embarking on and going to an unknown place fills many with excitement, as the prospect of finding the unknown has thrilled the human psyche with lots of determination to find what's out there. And so, with Fall 2015 coming to a close, we have Comet Lucifer, an original anime by 8bit, which…well, it’s an adventure all right.
Story: Amagi Sogo is a boy who lives on the world of Gift, a world that looks like a more magical version of our planet and has a bipedal armor (aka mechs) that make the world more technologically advance than our own. Upon one day after helping his friend Kaon escape getting chased by her fiance arranged by their families (you know how that goes. And yes, this is what happens in the first episode), he stumbles upon a red gem that turns into a…
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I don't normally write reviews, but I couldn't resist doing one after watching comet lucifer. lets get into it.
Story: Honestly, I barely even know what the story is. Here is my attempt at explaining it: his boy, Sogo, finds this girl named Felia(and its never really thoroughly explained how... she just kinda comes out of this gem) and takes her in. For some reason (also never really explained) the government wants to capture Felia. Sogo goes on adventures trying to protect Felia and help Felia adjust to this new world.
i have quite a few problems with the story of this show. First of all, I didn't even know WHY all these people were trying to capture this girl until the 10th or 11th episode, and even that didn't really explain why people were trying to capture her earlier. all i can as…
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No, it’s not what you think. Comet Lucifer is hardly about devil or angels or in fact anything that pertains to religious themes. And the “Comet” part isn’t some catastrophic event like a comet hitting the Earth to set up it look like some apocalyptic world. Taken for granted, I’d see this as a show as a hybrid fusion of sci-fi, mecha, and drama. However, Comet Lucifer doesn’t exactly hit all the right angles with its genres. In fact, its storytelling is barely tolerable and in general, a disappointment.
As an original show, Comet Lucifer essentially had a lot of potential. The first few episodes introduces us to a fantasy world (Gift) where sci-fi elements are evident. From giant robots to animal hybrids, there’s an immense amount of curiosity to see where the story will go. At the same…
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