Audience reviews
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CodeCypheur
GIVE ME SEASON 2!!!!!!!!!
Now that I've shouted that into the void - Kuromukuro is a rarity in the mecha genre. It's a simple show about humans in mechs fighting aliens in mechs. It quite literally doesn't get more complicated than that? It doesn't try to be anything else; it knows it's story and sticks with it, it doesn't get itself lost in trying to be a pretentious Eva knock off.
Starting with my favourite aspect of the show - the characters.
Ken is the star - he struggles with his identity and purpose, a theme which is echoed from many of the characters. His circumstances change rapidly throughout the series and each time it forces him to reevaluate his goals and values.
Yukina is meant to be the star alongside Ken but let's be real - she's an audience self-insert. She's your typica…
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the main characters i think started out a bit cliche-y and they still felt a bit cliche-y by the end. just their relationship had improved from arguing a lot to implied romantic interests. everyone else though…not so much. the characters are a bit boring and the ones that seem interesting don’t get as much development as i thought they would get. still better than nothing.
this series was interesting enough to make me keep questioning things but still able to predict how things would go.
overall, it is a bit predictable and trope-y and normally i would give this kind of average anime a 7 rating, but the animation was incredibly beautiful and constant. there was cgi use but it was only for the robot fights, which i think helps. and it’s only the robots so it’s not too jarring like say, b…
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This is a shitty remake of Evangelion with a less interesting cast and borrowed storylines from all over the place. Idc if it got melee fighting or stuff like that, it got 0 original character development, some of the scenes are as unimportant to the main plot as scenes in later Gundam, the dialogue is nothing. This is what i call a A4 or a netflix anime, a anime created purely for the sake of cashing in, following the most basic of storyline formulas and executing it poorly. The focus is all wrong, looks like the creators took more time creating good nature scenery instead of creating a good story with interesting characters. :)
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(This review has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
In Kuromukuro, Yukina’s mother forgets about her phone which ends up being the catalyst for the entire anime.
I did something similar once. I used to own one of those dinky push-up cell phones that exposed a keyboard. I barely ever used it since I rarely reached out to anybody of my own volition, and it had no capacity for apps let alone the Internet.
One day, I plugged it into the charger I kept in my bathroom (for whatever reason), and, in my infinite wisdom, I left it there – for three whole days. When I finally remembered to get it, I had more messages in my inbox than I had ever seen. Texts of the “Where are you?” variety from my cousins, siblings, and grandmother, and multiple missed calls from my parents w…
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This is my first review but i'll try my best.
I first heard of kuromukuro from a friend of mine and he described it to me this way "A samurai dude comes from the past and kills these mecha called Ogres while piloting another mecha".
Hearing this i didnt expect much but when i started it i really liked the first 2 episodes and had really high expectations, and maybe because of that there were things that i didnt like after watching all of it.
The story even if there's the whole alien mecha cliche had some original plot like the mc being samurai from the sengoku era that was sleeping inside an "Artifact".
The sound and art were really good and was way better than most anime out there.
Now comes the part i really hated, the characters, some of them were really annoying and pretty dull. One…
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This anime was very entertaining, and the character development was relatively well done. I found about one-third of the characters to be interesting, but I found myself really disappointed with the story and plot. So many things were left answered, and several events in the story seemed far too convenient to be believable; it was just random at times, and I got lost partway through it all due to the lack of explanation and good story-telling.
Don't get me wrong. Kuromukuro was not awful by any stretch of the imagination; it simply lacked a well-written and detailed story, in my personal opinion.
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Kuromukuro, aside from being a really solid mecha showing, is fascinating for how it takes up a lot of the tropes thrown down by Neon Genesis Evangelion and Vision of Escaflowne, and totally makes them its own. In the first episodes it seems like it will be a cliché storm, but by the halfway mark it really comes into its own. This is a giant robot show for our times.
There is a lot to like in this show, starting with production values. There’s a lot of great design here, from the mechas, which come in all shapes and sizes; to the characters, who do too. There’s a lot of CG, but it’s pretty well integrated with the regular animation, and there are both exciting robot-to-robot throwdowns as well as a couple of swordfights.
The story was complex, with a lot of moving parts and evolving reve…
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Hello everyone, since you're reading this, you wanna hear my opinion and review of this, so let's just get right into it!
The Story, (6/10)
You can read it for yourself in the summary, but I personally think that it was a bit clichè when you have aliens trying to take over the world and fighting with mecha, but there are a few points where it did have me quite interested.
The Art, (8/10)
Since this was from the studios of P.A, I expected alot, and I was not disappointed art wise.
If you haven't heard of P.A Works, you've probably heard of anime they have made. I'm sure you have heard of Angel Beats! And Another, Charlotte, Nagi no Asukara.
And well, I personally thing Nagi no Asukara has the best art like, ever.
I have watched, out of their works, Angel Beats! Nagi no Asukara, Kuromuku…
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When I first saw this show on Netflix, I avoided it because, even though I'm a giant anime fan, I've never watched a mecha anime before because it seemed boring. When I first started it, it was a little slow and I didn't know how good the story would be, but as I continued watching, the better it became. This was the first mecha anime I watched and really enjoyed. I definitely recommend watching this. The only thing that annoyed me was the ending, I mean it was sweet but didn't meet my expectations (but that's just my opinion, I'm sure others really loved it.).
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At first, I was reluctant on watching a show with samurai and robots.... However, the conjunction of these polar themes make Kuromukuro worthwhile.
The plot is original and is perfectly paced. The main characters aren't the recyclable mainstream anime characters and the show doesn't force the idea of romance between the two.
The show also doesn't start off at the discouraging, slow pace found in many anime shows.
I didn't believe that the show would be as good as it was. I can't even describe what is so great about it. Kuromukuro is just a show you have to take a chance on.
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I gotta say, Kuromukuro surprised me a little bit, especially in the last episodes. I really enjoyed the conclusion they gave to the story, which, normally, it's one of the most difficult things to make.
So, in general, I think it's an OK anime. There are several things that make me have the feeling of watching an "imitation" of Neon Genesis Evangelion. I'm not a big fan NGE fan, but one of the things I really like about it, is the psychological genre. And that's exactly one of the NGE characteristics that aren't present on Kuromukuro. The comedy side also felt forced and unnecessary in many episodes.
The story is just more of the same. Not bad, alright, but also it ain't innovative. Aliens coming out of nowhere fighting humans controlling giant robots, basically, that's it, in the first…
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P.A. Works has tried a lot of genres in the past, but I really didn't expect them to celebrate their 15 year anniversary with a mech-action based show, an original work too! Kuromukuro is a show about saving humanity as we know it from alien invaders in overwhelmingly powerful mechs, extremely similar in theme and plot progression to the early part of Aldnoah Zero. However, the P.A. Works character-centric touch is here in its full glory. If you're looking for a show with a bit of mech and action but is, at its core, about its characters, look no further. Kuromukuro is a fun, enjoyable ride and I'm glad to report that this is another outstanding success under P.A. Works' belt.
Animation:
Though the show has good coloring and decent shading, it's a step back from previous P.A. Works titles…
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NOW. ARE YOU READY FOR SOME
- Samurai styled protagonist from the past in present time?
- Mech fights?
- Some slice of life highschool time
- Alien robos crashing from the sky? (I SAYY CRRRIIIERR I SAAYY..nvm)
- Mysteries of the past and the future of humanity at stake?
- Cute gals like Chisaki from Nagi no Asukara (since its P.A. Works)?
Then you got it down right here! For an anime aired during Spring 2016 I sure left this one out. In fact, it didn't get that much attention during the season but boy was I glad I watched this!
Personally this anime was so much more interesting than "Dancecross Charlie" (which was airing during the same time but had a whole lot more publicity obviously because of the franchise) and "Crashlips" (from P.A. Works as well, boy that was horrid).
There are in…
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Seems like your typical futuristic-samurai-romance-high-school-mecha-alien-science-y anime, but I'd argue they take everything you expect from this particular genre and up it a few notches. It's actually funny, can be a bit ridiculous, and there are good fight scenes if you can ignore the CGI. The plot is good, too; just when you think you've got it all figured out, there's a plot twist. I even shed tears at the end of the second season, it was so sweet. All the characters are well-rounded and encounter their own difficulties. Loved the character depth and development. This anime has a really funny clash of genres but it's interesting and really entertaining. Highly recommend.
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I've finished the series recently and I have to say that it's a very good anime considering I'm not a big fan of mechas. I glossed over this anime for a while just by the look of it and the summary because I don't care for cliche-robot-school-air head girls saving the world.
Oh boy, was I wrong. And I'm glad I started watching out of boredom.
The main characters look like cliches, but they really are very far from that. You wouldn't know it at a glance, but the characters are pretty creative from the very beginning. The main girl (Yukina) seems to get called a typical 'airhead', where I assume they get from her poor grades from the introduction episode but in fact she's just not all that interested in school and has a passion for structures both man-made and straight from nature. That'…
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--- THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS ---
Note (before review) : I wasn't expecting much from this series as I began watching it at the time of it's airing (Spring 2016) because it started off with some cliche aspects. But lemme say this, I'm glad I took a chance and continued to watch it each week while it was airing as the story started developing, my lack of enjoyment for it increased to a level of appreciation for this series.
Kuromukuro may not be most original idea as it involves a character from a different time period being awakened to a more modern time period to his own. In this case a Samurai named "Kennosuke Tokisada Ouma", from the Sengoku Period waking up in the United Nations Kurobe Research Institute, summer of 2016 to save a Kawaii girl named Yukina Shirahane, who happe…
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Kuromukuro was one of LA's most indecisive animes of Spring & Summer 2016 as LA really didn't know whether it was good or not?, well did it succeed in winning LA over or did it crash and burn?...let's find out.
For what a premise is given to us, Kuromukuro at a glance is essentially Neon Genesis Evangelion with it's "invading aliens", a main female protagonist named Yukina Shirahane voiced by Mao Ichimichi who is reluctant to pilot the "Black Relic" as "support" and a boisterous amnesiac mysterious Kennosuke "Ken" Ouma voiced by Youhei Azakami who's the main pilot for the "Black Relic" and having to fight alien robots trying to invade for unknown reasons, Kennosuke also goes through knowing how the modern age works due to his samurai-era like ways getting him A LOT of attention as well as…
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You know, it's one thing to go into a show expecting something it to be good. It's another thing to go into a P.A. Works show and expecting it to be good. Over the years, P.A. Works have shown us that despite having good animation and interesting ideas, you won't always end up with a good show and meaningful characters. And so, after 15 years of churning out what are mostly original anime (which is honestly quite impressive given how original anime are such a rarity these days), we have Kuromukuro or 'Black Relic', another mistake made by P.A. Works which is another case of "Cool idea, terrible execution."
Story: Shiragane Yukina is your typical high school student with a mother who works in a high tech research facility that produces mechs and studies this giant cube-like object that no…
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I won't lie, i didn't expect much from it when i started this anime but it is safe to say it went beyond my expectations. I am really really not into mecha genre but Kuromukuro proved itself to be much more than that.
For instance, you don't have super machines that have one superpower that destroys half of the city thus proving all of the battle scenes you have seen so far become obsolete. Instead, the action scenes are melee focused, and the mecha's don't outshine everything else and their powers are limited.
Characters are somewhat intriguing, you will witness some development towards the end of the season. Their interactions are sufficiently designed. The plot isn't the most unique gem of anime history but it doesn't need to be. After all this a light hearted anime that will make yo…
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I have to admit, Kuromukuro is a show that taken me by a surprise. It’s not just because of P.A. Works is involved in a mecha show (since when was the last time they’ve been involved in something like that?) but because of how quickly the first episodes takes a viewer like a storm. As an original anime, Kuromukuro is a series that’s like casino, gambling between the good and the bad.
Simply put, Kuromukuro doesn’t simply want to be your typical giant robot-war drama but also more of an emotional ride. It wants to capitalize on its characters with its fictional world setting and most importantly, character relationships. The storytelling also has a bit of background that took place 450 years from its present timeline. Back then, there was an alien force known as the Elf Dorg that invaded E…
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