Audience reviews
18 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Bensonas
Oh deary me. Thank the anime gods that is over with. Ok, who's idea was this huh? Whoever it was, don't do it again. I gave season 1 a 6/10, and frankly, that was me being nice. After slogging it out through another 13 episodes, I'm sorry, but I really can't be nice anymore.
The best of the show is the animation which I'm now going to give a very fair 5/10. Yes, that's right, the best this show has to offer is it's 5/10 animation. It's the same as the previous. It could not be more average if it tried.
Music is still the same monotony and now gets a 4/10. It just doesn't service the show at all. I'm pretty confident I heard some samples taken straight from Logics sample library, which is perfectly fine, but highlights the laziness of the music writing. Maybe it was rushed due to deadlin…
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Just like the first season of Terra Formars, this anime is deathly lacking in every aspect that makes any show enjoyable. If you want an anime that is just mindless fighting that is poorly animated, special "abilities" that are lackluster and have nothing unique about them, 0 story line that you will forget about 13 seconds after they explain it, then I guess this anime is for you. But honestly, If any of those things interest you then I am sorry for the shows that you are watching and I am internally confused.
This anime could have been cool but there is nothing here that gives it any type of sustenance. They don't even offer you cool villains, they're literal bottom of the barrel character designs when it comes to the enemies.
Honestly, If you thoroughly enjoyed this anime and can gi…
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Terra Formars: Revenge
No matter what I had to go through here, I have to admit that this incredibly stupid simple concept still arouses my curiosity. I think far enough that I will also read the manga.
The second season of Terra Formars was almost as bad in quality and content as the first. Why the reviews differ so much is probably due to the content. Whereas much more happened in the first season, the second season just went around in circles and felt extremely empty and unnecessary. This is also due to the slow pacing. This season had neither animation, dynamics, tension nor atmosphere. What we were left with were relatively average backgrounds, Seven Deadly Frames animations and some of the most boring fights, against some of the most boring enemies there are.
[Story 3]
After…
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Terra formars is an interesting little gem that I skipped because it sounded like sci-fi gibberish.
Well, it's not wrong to say that it is. However, the focus of the story is not to make you, the reader or viewer, to believe the sci-fi that gets mentioned over and over in the story. but rather, the result, which is a sci-fi survival story set in mars. In a way, the enemy reminds me of the titans in AoT. Numerous, with many abilities, and with so much information unknown about them that it brings about a sense of terror.
Yet, it also reminds me of something like Jojo's bizzare adventure, where every individual has a unique power to themselves, each with their random quirks and uses. The gist of the story is ridiculous, but sets up a simple premise and foundation for the actual meat of the…
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PROS:
-Not bad animations.
-Interresting lore and main story.
-Cool and badass super powers for both foes and allies.
CONS:
-The momemtum is always cut by generics backstories that got little to nothing to do with the main lore that got us watching.
-The dark esthetic of the first season is now replaced with a more colorful/power rangers kindda look that remove a lot of originality and charms. It's good to mention that this make the Terraformars FAR LESS odd and scary.
-Would need some work in the pacing department. Things either happens way to fast or sometime not much seem to happen at all. PERSONNAL NOTE:
Like mentionned in the synopsis, humans traitors are the main antagonists of the 2nd season and, in my opinion, they made humans go against humans way too fast.
Humans are boring.
I'm…
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I expected to not like this, but I was pleasantly surprised. I loved the first season for how dark it was, and the gripping story. When I watched the first ep of this I thought this was gonna be total shit, but after the first ep, it increased in quality and quickly picked up the pace.
The main issues everyone has with it is the change in animation. At first, I was quite surprised and really didn't like it, but after ep 1 it almost seemed like it reverted back to the old animation style. Personally except for ep 1, I had no problem with it. The fight scenes and action as the series progressed got better and better, and as the fight scenes got better, it started to feel more and more like the last season.
An issue I found was the second season lost a lot of the darkness and horror vibe t…
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Terra Formars Revenge was a disappointment but that was expected... Narrative stagnant fights filled 90% of the season so plot progression basically happens during Episode 1-2 and 12-13 respectively. Terra Formars had a great sense of direction by involving Fear evoking events to entertain; It is factual that Fear-induced entertainment is a common method for series to become popular in the Anime community (e.g Tokyo Ghoul, AoT, Parasyte, Owari no Seraph etc.) because it produces a pretense premise which questions Humanity's intelligence i.e "What if a life form with greater intelligence/capabilities/adapatbilities than humans existed?" That being said, unfortunately Terra Formars failed to provoke this hidden potential and thus isn't seen in a similar light as the aforementioned giant seri…
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Terraformars: Revenge, Sagasu Yu & Tachibana Kenichi (2014), is an atrocious slight to the rather enjoyable first season, with its notable stylistic and cinematic aspects. With the change in director, music director, and the addition of a new studio TYO Animations, Terraformars: Revenge is a farce of a continuation that drops the formal elements of sound, mis-en-scene, camera work, and editing, that resembled an apocalyptic or dystopian style. The visual and aural motifs (the black swirls resembling swarms, the ringing synthetic music, the conflation of a lost past and lost present) are obliterated for a shounen-like cheery anime with no gore, no remarkable motifs, and a tone-deaf narrative. Terraformar’s implied or implicit meaning, in its staticky use of color, silence, and conflation of…
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The characters were quite engaging with their own unique personality traits, some serious, some perverted, some sad, and some angry, but each had their own reasons for signing up for the fight to defend earth, I love how the narrator would explain thoroughly each character's powers and how their strengths and weaknesses, as for the enemy I found it comical that they kept saying Joji, I now say that phrase quite often. at first they seem moronic but, as it gets well into the anime it is very clear, that they are very quick to adapt to changes and surroundings, as well as intelligence. But, that's all I will say about that part, overall, I found season two to be very inspiring.
Read at the sourceGhostflame2153
*I did not watch the prequel, only Terra Formars and Revenge* (TL;DR at bottom)
The art is a lot more generic than the first season, while the first season which not being super special was more than enough to looked good and cool.
The general concept is nothing unique, but it is enjoyable. This season tries to build stronger ties to earth but did not fully show the weight of most actions occurring.
My biggest Problem, but may be a big nit picky so its down here: The viewers general understanding of this world is lacking in terms of the possibilities, so we the viewer do not know what the surgery truly is or what capabilities it unlocks. This didn't pose a problem due to the first season sticking with characters you already mostly understood their powers and motivations or telling you…
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'What do people like most about this show?'
'Probably the dark atmosphere with lots of gore, people fighting desperately for their lives and an overwhelming sense of threat.'
'Yeah, let's take all that away and give them some punching and comedy instead.'
I really loved the first season and was hoping this could evolve into something like this decades Gantz. But unfortunately, this second season happened. Stripped off of all the exiting stuff, the ridiculous story flaws and annoying characters shine in all their glory:
- implausible twists and turns
- everything overdramatized to the max
- people dying while they actually don't over and over
- super strong abilities utilized as stupid as possible
- sense of threat completely lost
The show got more painful to watch episode by episode. Can…
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Let me start this off by saying that I really enjoyed the first season of Terra Formars, even with its somewhat lackluster story and mediocre character design. But I'll leave it at that because those weren't the reasons why most people enjoyed Terra Formars. I was also really hyped for the second season, as I expected the same viewing experience that I had with the first.
Moving on to this so called second season : "Terra Formars Revenge" ( although "revenge" is probably what most of the Terra Formars fans want against the producers ).
-First off let's talk about animation... One of the main reasons why this season falls short of our expectations :
The animation has changed for the worse. In the first season we had well executed and fluid animation which made the fighting scenes excit…
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Terra Formars was a weak action series with shallow characters and many failed attempts at adding depth. But hey, at least it was grim and gritty and we don't get nearly enough grim and gritty works of media, if you ignore the tens of thousands too many that we get. Okay, so the last series ended with our heroes stranded on Mars. One full squadron has been killed, one is made up of traitors, and I'm sure it's not the one that was reported dead but we saw alive and well, and our heroes have to find their way back to Earth with some living derp roaches in order to stop a disease. Let's look at where things go in Terra Formars: Revenge, and see if we can find any reason to care.
Story:
We pick up where the last series left off. In this one the focus shifts to the struggle of the traitorous…
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In the first season they showed you how vulnerable the characters could be despite having immense power. Many of them died whilst being overpowered. This creates that "cling to reality experience" that makes a good plot like AoT. I felt as though they disregarded that and went full dragon ball z which is a strict fantasy power up plot like tengen toppa. Im not saying dbz or tengen is a bad anime but what made the first season good was that slice of reality that they could at anytime die. The drawback mechanics of the source of their power up , which is the medicine, was disregarded I felt like. They were popping the medicine like crack whore addicts when taking 2 or 3 of those were fatal if I remember correctly from the first season. In summary, they didnt stick with their guns and just we…
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It is common for a lot of people to drop an anime after one episode. It is also common for somebody to watch a whole series with a good first episode only to be extremely disappointing with the ending or last few episodes or halve the episodes. I find it rare for people to say a first episode is horrible but the show is good.
I remember watching the first season of Terra Formars when it was airing a year or two back and thinking it is a pretty decent show. So when I watched the first episode of the second season of Terra Formars I was on the point of giving the series an overall score of four and dropping. After watching the full season of Revenge I have to say this show had a good comeback from the cruddy first episode it gave us.
When I watched the first episode of Terra Formars Reven…
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I was among the many who was expecting that this 2nd season would fare off from it's 1st season, so:................................
Storywise, I agree when a lot of reviewers stated that the violence was tone down, unlike the 1st season were it doesn't have a solid plot and relies only on the sheer violence, blood and gore, this time the human drama has been added and a betrayal plot was added as well, it was no long them humans fighting to survive against the terraformars onslaught. But I still can't ignore this story's multiple anachronisms that are present in this anime or manga, the so called anachronism simply violates every laws of medicine, physics, astronomy, biology, economics and engineering, even so I'm gonna rate this category a 7 over 10 for the toned down violence and the a…
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I liked so much the frist season, but this isnt terra formars. Honestly, the story isnt bad, but when you see the last cap, you will see how horrible its turn.
The first caps of this season are "good", but as the season goes, it downs.
In terraformas you want to see blood and gore, a nice story with great scenes of action, but terraformars revenge offers you a "sinen" full of flowers, with a lot of unnecessary love moments...
There is an awesome animation in some moments, and there is an horrible animtion too, especially in the last episodes.
Openings are great both f them.
The characters of the first season are the same here (unless these who are dead, obviously), and i like them, but the story and the unexistant blood and gore scenes from season one make the second season a very bad an…
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I honestly don't know where the low ratings for this show are coming from. It's like a bandwagon effect every other user wants to dislike the show because they heard from him, her, or the other that the first season sucked... which it didn't. It had a rough start but does turn itself around. All that aside, I believe that Terra Formars revenge does a pretty good job redeeming itself through its intense dramatic scenes along with a reasonable amount of unforgettable action and mayhem.
Story 8.5/10
Season 2 's plot is straight-forward, right to the point, and focuses more on drama and having "goals" rather than having the main & supporting characters get involved in random, unexciting, and dull circumstances. This worked out well in season 2's favor because during season 1 it felt like thi…
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