Audience reviews
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crustaces
This anime adaptation, while trying to mirror its original game, falls significantly short in capturing the game's unique essence. The story, which in the game is rich and immersive, feels rushed and predictable in the anime, lacking the depth and intricacy that fans of the genre would appreciate.
Artistically, the anime's style doesn't quite complement the story. It misses the nuanced visuals that the game presented, making it less engaging. The characters, a vital component of the original game, are not well-rounded in the anime. They lack the complexity, showing neither significant flaws nor strengths, and their reactions to situations feel unrealistic and oversimplified.
For fans of the game, this adaptation might be a disappointment due to its lack of fidelity to the source material…
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Island is curious specimen of anime. It's one of those shows where the overall score does little to inform you of what the show is like. Despite the middle-of-the-road score I'm dishing out, very little of Island is middle-of-the-road: most of the time it's either bad or good.
Island is about a guy who wakes up naked on the beach of Urushima Island with vague memories of being a time traveller who's supposed to save and kill some people. For generation after generation, the same three powerful families shared control over the island, and our amnesiac soon gets himself tangled up with the current heirs of those families as he tries to figure out his mission.
Rather trying to make a good first impression, Island audaciously starts off by throwing its bad foot forward. Within the first five…
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I'll spare you the long essay.
It's not amazing, but it's not horrible either. The story had a lot of potentials. I gave it 7/10 and here are the two main reasons why:
1) too rushed. The ending, oh it could've been so good, so prolonged, and chewed up well, but unfortunately, it was way too rushed IMO. I personally think this show should've been 18-24 episodes long. If it was, I surely wouldn't mind watching because the idea is good! But it felt like a last-minute project, where you start off slow and hardly focus, and then by the end you're really into it but have 50 minutes to finish and present the whole things. So yeah, too rushed imo.
2) The fucking lolis lol. It's just me, but I personally couldn't stand to see a 4 inch tall kid doing THAT thing with the main character. Threw me o…
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This anime, I daresay, is the BEST ANIME EVER.
If you're reading this review, you have been most likely guided by fate. After all, this gem is hidden in the vast sea of hidden gems, as if you're trying to find a certain hydrogen atom in the vast universe.
Sometimes, there are anime that people recommend to me. They were nice, I enjoyed them, and I gave them the usual 10. There are also anime that I randomly come upon which I enjoy more than those recommended to me. Island is one of those anime, but the feeling it left me is more than just enjoyment—more than just what any word can describe. Thrill? Pleasure? Entertainment? Amusement? I can't really say. Like I said before, it's the best anime ever. A score as low as a 10 will not suffice. Before I continue, this review will not include s…
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Overall: 4
Story 4:
Legend has it that nobody knows what the fuck is going on. It was a mistake starting this series. Disregarding Incest=Wincest, the entire show relies to heavily on the concept that it is deeper than it actually is. If you think about this show for more than five seconds you start to realize that there are multiple ways in which the characters could have interacted and the confusion generated from the shows supposed "deepness" makes me want to cry.
Art 7:
The actual artwork is really good. I thought that the art was better due to the fact that the scenes within the actual show are really vibrant. Also it has a good amount of fanservice if you are into that kinda thing.
Sound 6:
There is nothing stellar about the Ops or Eds. They are pretty generic. Even the singing wit…
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Island
It's very weird... IDK... I didn't hate the show, I actually enjoyed it, but the Story made no sense, it has 192093012930192039 loose ends and I guess only the people who played the game will understand.
IT MADE NO SENSE BUT HAD KAWAII GIRLS AND FUNNY CHARACTERS... so it's worth watching I guess?? maybe... IDK...
AAAAAAAAA the ending made me lose my mind... idk boyz and grills BYeeeeeee
Well MAL won't let me finish the review so I guess I will write a bit more lol.
So here is the deal... go add me as a friend so We can talk about anime and stuff.
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A'ight, here's the thing: a lot of people have been giving some pretty bad reviews about this show, and anyone who has seen it would most probably agree... Except I don't.
So, before I get to the part explaining how I "chose" to enjoy this show, I will start by trying to "spoiler-less-ly" summarize the plot.
[Story]
You have your average looking Shujinkou (Protagonist) "Setsuna" who claims to have come from the future on a rescue mission. His destination is a certain island, "Urashima" with a rather confusing and dark past led by three distinguished families. Each family has its role and its domain on the island. And there's apparently a legend revolving around these families, more specifically the girls who belong to them (I'll say nothing more to avoid spoilers). Anyways, the island s…
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I dont know why most all of the member of MAL score this badly
In my opinion ISLAND have a unique story based on a Romantic, Sadness, and time travel.
in beginning episode you will be find loli and other fucking stuff in it.
but you must be know that most of all anime have an story introduction. i think most of all anime have story introduction in rage of episode 1 to episode 3 or 4.
in beginning episode you shouldn't skip anything, just stay and watch it until finish. Because you will lose the main story in beginning.
Next to the my score of this anime
STORY (10/10) : Why i give 10/10? because main story in middle episode to the end of the story have unique atmosphere, that you won't miss any sec on this anime. (REMEMBER YOU SHOULDN'T SKIP THE BEGINNING OF ANIME OR YOU WILL LOSE THE CORE…
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Do you remember the feel of those boring slow-paced mystery-hentai visual novels? Well that's how this show feels with its boring visual novel pacing, lines and characters. But WOW, you need to bear with it cause the story is just something else. I dropped it by episode 7 and then finished it like a month after, that's how boring and uninspired it was, but now I feel this is one of the best anime of the year. No, I don't put story above all else, in fact I always care more for the characters, voice-acting and artwork more than anything, but Island's story was so good that even with it being just average in all other categories, the story makes up for it in the last few episodes.
The bottom line is that certainly it could have been done a lot better, with better pacing and dialogue, but I'…
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I’m just going to cut right to the chase, as this isn’t a review, but rather a suggestion to everyone who is either interested in watching Island, or is a player of the visual novel who wants to see how the show stacks up to the source material.
All I can say is, please don’t waste your time on this.
As for anime-only’s, please play the visual novel instead. The visual novel is one of the best I’ve read in quite a while, and it’s definitely worth playing for it’s 30-50 hour length. And if you’ve seen or played The Fruit of Grisaia, the game is made by the same exact people, so go for it!
As for the group of people (including myself) who have either watched a playthrough or have read the entirety of Island, the anime doesn’t do it justice. Comparing it to the visual novel isn’t even nece…
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Island an aberration for some, an acceptable series for few. For me, Island is a series that delivered a different story from the average anime and is more interesting than the generic seasonal series. Is it bad? Is it good? The answer is none; the anime is acceptable, it has good points and some disgusting events that mislead the spectator but in the end, I enjoyed the story.
Perhaps the biggest grotesque event of this series is in episode 9. It helps to add fire to the opposition that considered Island as a pedophilic vessel, in my case, I got angry because those scenes are just fanservice and are not needed. However, the show isn't searching to do that, but those events are disgusting and generate a repulsion towards the series. It is wrong saying that any spectator who watches Island…
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A naked guy on a beach with amnesia wakes up with a girl laying face down on his dick. This is the first scene of Island, a show airing this summer anime 2018 season. Labeled as a drama sci fi show, Island takes place on an island that is isolated by the rest of the world. Bound by its old traditions, the island has its own social structure, which consists of their three families basically acting as major political figures on the island. Recently, the island has been under some distress and the families are under suspicion. These odd circumstances can only be solved by the daughters of the three families, named Rinne Karen, and Sara, and by a mysterious man that washes up on the beach devoid of all memories. Except the fact that he is named Setsuna.
This show is quite obviously a visual n…
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A ****show. That's what this anime is, an utter, unrepentant, disgraceful, atrocious, obnoxious, boring ****show. I've never given an anime such a low score before but this anime is just so bloody awful, it beggars belief.
Disclaimer: I have only watched the anime, I have no idea about the original source that led to this adaptation and have no interest in it. Also, TL;DR at the end.
The two things that bury this anime are, by far, the story (if one could even call it that) and the characters. I won't bother writing different sections to grade each thing separately, it's pointless, so I'll just whine about the two worst things, ye've been warned.
The story is just atrocious. Even without knowing the original source, I can see that this needed A LOT more episodes than 12. Everything is j…
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This is not a good anime, but what make it worse is the fact it was publicized everywhere, from Crunchyroll to Steam, like it was an incredible masterpiece with superb visuals and NO, it was not.
Island is a mediocre piece of cr*p, the script starts contradicting in THE F*CKING FIRST EPISODE, and continues contradicting over and over.
Plot? Has not. Visuals? Nothing special. Characters? Quite flat. Music? HORRIBLE. Why do they starts randomly singing teen pop songs?
The ONLY THING I liked it was the story of Karen's mother, it was quite enjoyable.
It is not the worst anime I saw, but it disappointed me because it looked like a serious anime in the beggining but chapter after chapter I felt like I was losing neurons watching a non-sense and a mediocre thing.
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My experience with this anime that is... ALLEGEDLY a VN adaptation can be summarized in one word: "...what?"
At least once, I found myself going back to the info page to make sure this was indeed the VN adaptation I was following this season, because it suffers from an issue I've never seen before in a VN adaptation (and I've seen plenty of subpar VN anime): every week, it felt like they were making it up as they went along. I'm not sure who's at fault for this, actually; whether the anime team didn't do a proper job explaining everything or the VN itself didn't do that, but either way, I, the viewer, was left scratching my head.
The cause of all this confusion is that most ill-defined and whatever-they-want-it-to-be of plot devices, time travel. I recall something in the earlier episode…
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"lol what??": The Anime.
As a person who habitually watches trash anime for kicks and giggles, I jumped into Island expecting to laugh at all the wrong things, poke fun at the story, and generally have a blast watching through this summer's overblown soft-core hentai. Problem is, I didn't laugh. Not even at the mind-numbing ecchi scenes. Not even at our self-insert protagonist memeing his way into tight, questionably-aged thighs.
Has it finally happened? Do I not find these types of shows morbidly entertaining anymore? Am I a normie?
To make sure, I went back and re-watched an episode of Kiss x Sis. No, I still find bad ecchi animes supremely entertaining. When how come was Island making me more irritated as I watched on? Then I realized it: one of these animes finally did the impossibl…
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The Summer 2018 season is wrapping up slowly and it's that time again.
Today, I will be reviewing Island, an anime with time travel, romance and lolis!
Story (1/10)
Island had a really terrible story.
The writing immediately suffers from absurd pacing where it either goes too slow with nothing happening at all, or goes too fast with major plot twists and elements failing to work due to being rushed to hell. And whatever content that was given, was super boring and for a guy that loves SciFi shows a lot, this did not interest me one bit.
It felt like they were writing this anime but it had no soul to it, since shit just occured with no real heart put into it.
Overall, a very boring, lackluster and terribly paced story that had to be one of the most boring SciFi stories I have ever wit…
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The review contains spoilers
While waiting for someone to write a positive review about this, I thought I'd wake up because that won't happen, so I guess I should do it myself. I find 7 to be above average, not something I'd recommend, but it's good compared to the hate this show is getting, and I actually like it. So there may be spoilers because no one cares about a show with this low of a rating, right?
The story with its mysteries and use of time travel is stunning, it's all connected and covers up most of its plot-holes (not really all though). The way Setsuna wants to save someone, which is later implied to be Rinne, the way the Island repeats itself, the way Kuon is revealed to be the future Rinne. It all felt smoothly connected, believable, and most of all, shocking. Even I was…
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This anime is a serious problem onto itself: promising us with the light-hearted romance turned dark-esque story with the time travel mechanics, but converting about 30 to 50 hours of play into a 12 episode series (which is honestly a no-go for VN fans and anime-onlys who has watched numerous VNs like myself).
With it, this is a in-depth look on the controversial series called Island, and this review will be long as molasses (don't worry there's a TL;DR summary):
The VN was created by Frontwing, who has done the Grisaia series, with 8-bit's adaptation in 2014 raking in massive success. This is the 2nd attempt that the company has done this (for their 15th anniversary) to promote the Eng Sub game by using the anime adaptation from studio Feel. Unfortunately, people who have played the Jap…
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Ever wondered what would be like to wake up and have no memories about yourself? Island takes this traditional trope but instead of translating it into a survival tale, it turns it into a story about rediscovery. It’s a series based on a visual novel but I confess to say that it’s very questionable in terms of presentation. Looking at the show made me wonder how such a simple premise descended into an abomination.
The simple premise of Island honestly made me curious about the show at first. Taking place on this island known as “Urashima”, it gives the impression of a setting of isolation. It’s away from cities, civilizations, and the social problems that we have to deal in our everyday lives. In fact, the first few episodes really makes it clear that the islanders there live in a carefre…
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