Audience reviews
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Tomodachi_2002
Filled with a lot of death scenarios in the other world/real timeline. The story has a relatable main character XD, and the world-building feels realistic and well-connected.
The time loop hits very late in the story, which is a good thing, in my opinion. But the explanation is very sloppy, and the writer is more inclined to make us feel sorry for the characters ;-;. I don’t mind that, but killing beloved characters and calling it fate is not fair ;-;.
The sad thing is that they don’t explain what happened to the universes/timelines the MC saved or went through. Do they still exist or not? And the good thing is that by the time you finish the anime, the majority of your questions will be answered (in the last 3 episodes).
A REWATCH IS PREFERRED; To analyse and to have fun :)
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Listen I have watched a LOT of anime over the years and I know I always struggled with time, space and multiverse animes but I wanted to give this one a try so hear me out why I think this one is a huge waste of time without spoilers.
Some points I think I understood correctly while watching this:
- It's a game adaptation
- The anime goes through the story one heroine after another
- Time and history are not set in the time space continuum but in something totally different that uses the concept of causality (i said no spoilers)
While watching this mess, other than confusion to what's happening and being happy for hearing Jiraya's Seiyu I felt no joy watching this.
The story is bland and makes little to no sense especially the last arc and the jump in time + the whole "let's forget abou…
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What a fucking mess. That's what this series is. I'm going to advise anyone who is reading this that to not put your expectations anywhere near subpar... actually, don't bother with this series at all, and here’s why:
This series is a visual novel based adaption that has various elements of other genres. The problem is that these genres are not incorporated in any logical form whatsoever. Many times you will be left wondering what it is that you are even watching. To some that might be a good thing as it can be an element of surprise, but I assure you, you won't feel any emotion other than frustration. Nothing makes any coherent sense and that's the biggest problem with this. The themes the series shows at its audience do not feel natural at all. It's as if the author just picked randomly…
Read at the sourceMaka_Ev
So, i have actually planned to watch this many times before but i haven`t, i just read some reviews and changed my mind, and oh man, how dumb could i have been.
So let me start by saying that this anime actually has a high thinking story to it, so if you`re into simple and more let`s say "given to you on a plate" type of story, it`s not for you. You need to think when you watch it and you will understand everything, it`s very easy to understand once you catch the line, but it has some very well put story and twists.
Story: 10 |- If this anime came out more recently i`m sure it would`ve been so so so much more popular, it`s so underrated, the whole story, from beginning to end, all the little details even the little ones that you think are insegnificant, are so well thought and put toget…
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[the score i give this is for ep1-17]
Was good up until he went isekai and rendered all the good character building from the past 17 episodes irrelevant, save yourself the time and don't watch past episode 17
there was a lot of good moments with mio until new elf girl turns up and the main character forgets all about her
[ep18-26 is a 4/10]
episode 18-26 might as well be a completely different anime, it timeskips like 6 years and felt rushed compared to the first part so we get almost no character building
both of the openings and endings are great
Read at the sourceBlueraptorz
What a huge cluster fuck. I am writing this at 6am in the morning and I am now compelled to write this review after watching that ending. That conclusion, wasn't really a conclusion. That's is what happens when you make an anime out of a game, nothing is clear and there's multiple paths and endings. The anime has a couple twists and turns which I definitely didn't see coming but other parts were truly predictable to the point where I thought I was clever, but not really. I just found out that kana(sick blue haired girl) is also the daughter of takuya(mc). Thats kind of mind-blowing so thats cool. The problem is there's tons of plot holes, bad decisions, cringe ( especially at the start) and it's a gigantic mess of an anime.
Let's start with plot holes, I have them written down on a note…
Read at the sourceDeadBeatDad
(Pre-read Note: I had not played or heard of YU-NO's original VN before watching the anime adaptation so this is a review from a person who went in blind. I still haven't touched the VN btw.)
To start off, Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO is adapted from a famous VN from the 90s. We all know that adaptations usually never go well, but I will only be reviewing it as an anime and not rating it as a comparison to it's VN.
Story (7/10)
The story of YU-NO is a very interesting one regardless of how many sci-fi anime you've watched. It has a unique combination of parallel worlds and time travel that's a little messy but still works. I was seriously digging the theories that were created because of how it sort of made sense. The first arc with Ayumi was what really grabbed the attent…
Read at the sourceFadedboar
Visual novel adaptions tend to fit into 2 groups: Great adaptions like Steins;Gate, Clannad, Fate/Stay Night UBW, and Poor adaptions like Chaos;Head and ISLAND. Since the average length of a VN is far longer than a 1-2 cour anime, a lot of material tends to be sacrificed in the adaption process.
As a non VN reader, i'd not consider this to fall into either camp. Although it feels rushed in places, what's not been rushed is good enough to keep it above being bad. Clearly a few extra episodes would have made the final arc work far better than it did, while the first few arcs were mostly well paced. And overall, it does seem like a good anime, even with it's flaws.
Both OPs and EDs fit the series well, with the first op being similar to Hacking to the gate, not too surprising since they we…
Read at the sourceDreammist
So what does the title, YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world actually mean? After watching this anime I am still at a loss to determine what it means and how it fits into the overall story. However, to unpick it here would be to provide spoilers – so suffice to say I’ll leave it as my interpretation being the strength of love (and a little zygyte) can draw two characters together, no matter the distance, no matter the dimensional barriers that they face.
Despite the ambiguity of the title, it doesn’t mean the anime is poor, in fact I found it quite entertaining. I had no idea coming into it exactly what its history or pedigree was – I came in as a cleanskin, with no preconceived ideas. As such I found it quite entertaining. Not without flaws, but entertaining nonethele…
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As someone who has read the Visual Novel (both 1996 and 2019), i can tell you that this adaption feels somewhat rushed and very much could have had greater potential. The result of this was mainly due to the number of episodes.
What essentially made YU-NO was the ideas and concepts behind the meaning of the plot which was thinned down a ton and even some were never mentioned. This somewhat made it easier to understand, but those ideologies were the key to its success in its era of time.
The plot felt very weak, I see where they were trying to go with it but in actual fact, it harmed the protagonist in the way in which does not compare to how he acts in the VN. His personality doesn't feel interesting overall especially where it mattered most. And the suspense was very much weaker in thi…
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spoiler heavy review as im going to be discussing some of its more devloped parts such as the tree root thing, the fate franchise, the nasuverse
I have not read the source material so i am by no means coming at this subject from an experts perspective this is more just a review of the anime and some of the more surface level things i can take away from it.
secondly i watched the entire thing dubbed and it was an excellent job particular props go out to David wald as ryuzoji, morgan garret as eriko, eric vale, as takuya, kara edwards as kaori, Barry yandell as takuya's father really the whole cast did exceptional but ryuzoji is just so on point
the pacing of any vn adaptation granted it tries to cater to each route of the vn is always going to suffer. that said i see alot of people poi…
Read at the sourceTheInfernapeking
Watching "Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO" I gave the story a 7 out of 10. The story is decent, I like the story seven is a fair point, what ist suffers though is pacing, usually when I'm watching, and the plot points it's everywhere, what I'm saying here is basically like a puzzle, you have to solve it, along with the main protagonist. Not to mention, the goal was supposed to be to know what happened to his dad, before he disappeared. It gave us what happened in a vague manner. Plus side I did enjoy ending, it's just some plot points are vague, and it's slow-paced.
Art and animation were very good, to be fair I actually like 2D more than 3D animation, and I like the vibrant colors, it just didn't match the themed of the series, in general, because I think this is dark-themed a…
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Short Summary
Please keep in mind that i have played the visual novel and watched the anime. I liked the visual novel very much, it got its fame for the reason. But anime could not justice with the story and characters for the reason of length. They did manage to complete the skeleton of the human body, but the same body lacks muscles, skin and features.
Story
I will rate it 6/10 for the following reasons
Positive Points: 1. It gives the viewers near realistic concept of time travel. At least, attempts so
2. There is practically no filler in the story, the viewer may find a piece of the story boring or interesting however, comparing with the game, attempt had been made to nullify the fillers to near zero
3. Addressed minor problems in VN well.
Negative Points:
The story did not spe…
Read at the sourceHorn_dawg_2019
Ok, so a version of 'YUNO" from 1996 was basically revived using the same character, but studio "Feel" decided to not follow the hentai version, and made this remake a more wholesome thing, even though the ecchi were toned downed.
So
Story
Pros: It was still the usual time travel sci-fi themed anime, where character gets transported into different timeline in order to make corrections, but this one was more half half, cu'z half of it would be the MC making changes in time in order to save the ones he love, but half of it , well that when it becomes an isekai thing, where the MC now goes to an alternate world and gets stuck there for a while, but then again:
Cons: It would have been better if they from studio "Feel" would still follow as to how the hentai version ended, not including t…
Read at the sourceNPGJUNGLER
Pros: OP/ED TIER GOD
Animation was pretty good
More easily to understand than the original visual novel.
Seiyuus 10/10 imo...
Cons: They didn't fully use the amazing OST from the game
The final episode was so "open"(or should I say Cliffhanger) imo
Now...the history was so good imo, how they "play" all the routes of the Visual Novel was OK... My favourite route I think was the "Mio Route"... was so interesting for me... Now the secound cour of YU-NO... hmmm I think it was interesting... But in the anime we have some changes...e.g: in the second opening we see "Eriko-sensei" in Dela Granto... in the Visual Novel the meeting with her was so surprising... And some phylosophical explications that she tell to Takuya were shortest than in the visual novel... However... to be my first anime of…
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Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO, which I will actually rename « Kono Yuno » was a really good show mixing very different genre such as supernatural, sci-fi, school or even drama.
I won't be spoiling the main plot since it represents the core of what makes the anime interesting. The story itself looks easy & simple to understand if you read the synopsys or take a quick look at one of the previews. However, I have honestly rarely seen such a complex and surprising story in a show. Indeed, each mysterious part gets resolved progressively but then, you discover than it delivered 2 new mysterious roots which are themselves going to be resolved later. As the main thematics of Kono Yuno, here are the words that came in my head first : temporal distorsion, temporal travel, parallel wo…
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If you are into shows that cover alternate dimensions, time travel and pretty much traveling between dimensions then this might just be the one you've been looking for. It gives a lot vibes from Steins Gate, one of my all time favorites and it honestly kept me desiring for more until the final arc.
The final arc is notorious. It is awfully obvious that they simply just ran out of episodes as things will seem and feel very rushed story development wise. The first few episodes of the final arc will definitely blow you away by the new things it will add to the overall plot. The execution is just so poor. It is honestly saddening. And the ending is an even bigger let down.
That aside, everything up until the last arc is simply amazing. If it weren't for the final arc I would've rated this…
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I'm an admittedly biased reviewer of this story considering I've read the original YU-NO visual novel from 1996. However, I don't believe this disqualifies me from giving an accurate review of the anime.
YU-NO is unique in that as the 'grandfather of the modern visual novel', its story is much of a prototype of some of the most popular time-travel/sci-fi stories today. It has influenced numerous highly regarded works such as Steins;Gate, Island, and even Clannad. This review, however, is about how I personally feel about the story of YU-NO being told in this anime adaption and why.
Story (6/10)
This story starts out as a slow burner, which does pay off later when the development somewhat is on point. The positive parts of the story are the many shots of foreshadowing - dropping hints on…
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Watching YU-NO is like researching a piece of anime history disguised as a piece of entertainment media. It's something that really would have been far more impactful had it aired 20 years ago than it is today, but nevertheless it's interesting to watch for educational purposes perhaps more so than the story itself.
In essence, YU-NO is based on a classic visual novel from all the way back in 1996. At the time of its release, there wasn't really anything else like it on the market. Visual novels back then were still relatively unambitious and it wasn't really a medium attempting any grand storylines until YU-NO came along. I guess you can say that YU-NO was for the visual novel medium what something like Evangelion was to anime for its time. Something that paved the way for so many other…
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Throughout my years of anime watching, there’s something I’ve learned about game adaptations. That is, most of them fail to live up to hype and become a poor man’s version of its original game. This applies to games including the visual novel genre especially with remakes from decades ago. Watching Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo confirms my suspicions and reminds myself to always lower expectations when coming into an anime adaptation based off of a video game.
With 26 episodes, you’d think the anime itself hits the sweet spot for its pacing. From what I’ve heard, the original game consists over 50 hours of gameplay with the main story covering at least 30 hours. When the anime adaptation got announced, I recall hearing plans about the series will “cover all the characters and rout…
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