Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
beeper2beeper
Story: 5/10
This story is pretty average. It asks the existential question of "how much of yourself can you lose before you're no longer human" but with mystery "matter." The story is a bit confusing at first but it gets better by the end. There are a few twists here and there, but if you watch a lot of anime you can see it coming. I do like that they tried something new in the genre
Art: 7/10
You can tell there was some budget that went into the serie. It's simple, but there's a lot of panning shots and still parts for limited animation. It isn't MAPPA quality but there is a variety of camera angles and interesting shots every once in awhile
Sound: 5/10
The music is neat. The voice acting is what gets me. I watched the dubbed version and the girl MC voice annoyed me, so I couldn't fully…
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Summary:
A.I.C.O. Incarnation is a sci-fi-thrill story with a unique and interesting plot and world. The dialogue, voice acting, and characters are a relative weakness, but the show is generally engaging and interesting. If you enjoy plot-driven sci-fi shows and don’t mind under-developed characters, this may be of interest to you.
Story: 7/10
The plot is intriguing, although the story is not always clear, and the viewer is thrown into the middle of a scene without any background knowledge at times. The plot is a relative strength for the show, and is its most redeeming quality. It is unique, and the world-building is interesting, although the story is sometimes predictable.
Art: 7/10
The art style is simplistic but pretty. It is fitting for the story and helps to illustra…
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A needlessly complicated and overly long snorefest. What little merit the series has is overshadowed by bloated filler that seems to serve no purpose than to try and add depth (and fail to do so spectacularly) to an anime about as deep as a puddle.
It starts off relatively simple, with the main character being hinted to have special powers or something, but by episode 2 it's already unbearable. Tachibana is a weak main character and it takes her forever to do anything other than panic and ask questions. The rest of the cast can fit either in the "Trope, the character" or "Cardboard Cutout" categories; no one has any memorable quotes, motives or goals, except maybe Kanzaki but his reveal comes so late it might as well be irrelevant. All this detailed information about the artificial organi…
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For an original series by Netflix, I admittedly went in with no expectations. I was simply looking for something short to watch on Netflix and happened to stumble upon it without much clue of what it was about. Nevertheless, I was interested after the first three episodes and ended up binge watching the rest in one go.
The beginning opens up with not a lot of explanation and left me quite confused, but as the story progressed, I found that they explained details at around the right timing to drive the story. The characters are a bit dull in my opinion, but I liked the development of the MC in the end. I'd say it is a bit predictable though- I was able to pinpoint certain key points mid-series, but I still watched the whole thing just to make sure I was correct.
As someone who loves sci-…
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In the year 2035, a biological research project went awry, resulting in an incident called the "Burst" that transformed Kurobe Gorge into a quarantine area infested by a rampant growth of synthetic organisms. Two years later, high school student Aiko Tachibana finds that she may have an unexpected connection to the lifeform that killed her parents, and resolves to solve the mystery with the help of fellow student Yuya Kanzaki. - A.I.C.O.: Incarnation wiki
A.I.C.O.: Incarnation isn't another one of those terrible Netflix Sci-fi shows, It draws you in, and doesn't let go.
This anime is by far one of my favorites of 2018, let's get onto the review, shall we? :]
Story; 8/10
I'll try my best to not contain any spoilers, but this animes plot is seriously something. It's probably one of the be…
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This series is one of many that are released on Netflix. It was an interesting watch, so here is my point of view on it.
Story: 6 - A 6 is considered fair on this site, and this is what this anime deserved. It had an interesting, but overused premise, a girl who is the key to saving the world. This is actually a really generalized description of the story, but it's quite accurate. We've seen many shows with this sort of premise. Any fan would know what I'm talking about. But this show did it decent enough, it isn't anything revolutionary, but done well enough to be understood. The story is fairly understandable, with reasonable development throughout the series. The pacing is a bit wavy at times, but it isn't anything to really touch on. The story to this show is fairly okay, which is som…
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How to NOT make an anime dub 101...
A.I.C.O.: Incarnation is a very interesting sci-fi anime with a basic plot with some obvious plot twists along the way to make the plot have more bulk. But all things considering, A.I.C.O.: Incarnation is one of the more unique and interesting animes LA had seen yet why does LA feel like LA felt nothing in the process?.
Anyways the plot revolves around Yuuya Kanzaki wanting to bring Aiko Tachibana over to Primary Point with a select number of Divers (those who handle and purge the Malignant Matter for money, so think of them as mercenary treasure hunters in dangerous environments) helping both Yuuya and Aiko getting to Primary Point. On the surface the plot is a typical escort mission while we learn about Aiko, Yuuya and maybe some of the members of t…
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A.I.C.O.:Incarnation is a Sci-Fi/Drama/Action Series originated by netflix.
I'm sure anyone reading this review already gets the gist of the plot summary, so let's dig into the gooey stuff;
I loved this anime. The storytelling manages to relate characters to the viewer in unexpected ways, and without spoiling anything, there's several layers of moral dilemmas that create the overarching narrative of the plot. sometimes the characters can feel a touch one sided - right until they come upon a major character development which gives you new insight.
As for art, most of the time you're gonna be looking at glowy blobs, but i feel like BONES makes these glowy blobs fairly interesting and diverse.
The sound is equally well crafted, no major complaints, but nothing anthem-atic or that i find m…
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I thoroughly enjoyed this series from start to finish.
The soundtrack was amazing at building up scenes and I will definitely download it.
The characters were lovable each with interesting characteristics to keep the series fresh. In particular I think Aiko and Kanazki were great characters and kept me engaged in the story.
I loved the its apocalyptic virus outbreak setting which I hadn't seen in a while and its done perfectly here with its unique Burst. If your a fan of these types of anime you'll love A.I.C.O.
This series is one of the most interesting and enjoyable series I have watched in a while alongside its interesting cast of characters and amazing soundtrack to create the atmosphere of the series I strongly recommend giving this series I watch.
10/10
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Bones.. As always it was an atmospheric , generic anime that almost living you in. But somehow , in this anime , in this Bones anime there was not enough explanation about supporting characters, even a beatiful atmosphere tho.
There was some mistakes taken in the art , story , Characters e.t.c
Story , story telling , plot wasn't effectfive at all. all the scene transitions and timings was not good as the characters and role actings , ofc that's because of bad story and storytelling. Well Bones Tried to Create Bounen No Xamdou a like anime story , but yeah , if you do not stand on to the anime, that happens. After all , Bounen No Xamdou was a very good atmospheric anime that putted a lot work at anime.
Story -8 Art -7 Sound -7 Characters -8 Enjoyment -7 Over all -8
So there were not go…
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This anime is not breaking any records and ultimately it doesn't really have anything in particular to say.
However, it is a fun sci fi adventure with some interesting characters and technology, and the animation is quite good. Also, there are lots of women in non-demeaning roles and the main character is a girl as well.
As usual with anime sci fi don't try to look at the 'science' aspect of it too hard, but if I were to hold that against it I would never be able to watch a sci fi anime. (there's never been one that was based on anything close to reality). I binge watched this on a saturday afternoon when I was stuck in bed with back pain, and I suspect this is the ideal kind of situation for watching these 12 episode netflix anime. They're like very long movies rather than actual serie…
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With the success of Devilman Crybaby, there were two new Netflix anime's to check out B: The Beginning and A.I.C.O.: Incarnation, I decided to watch AICO first and after finishing it I had definitely made the wrong choice.
Story (5/10)
The story is set in Japan 2035, where an artificial life form known as Matter has engulfed the Kurobe Gorge. A girl called Aiko lost her family to this and an unknown student says she is the key to stopping the Matter once and for all.
Now AICO's story was a mixed bag from the get go, in fact after episode 2 I was actually thinking of dropping it because it was so goddamn boring to watch and the characters weren't helping either which I'll get to in a minute. I wanted to be interested in the whole science and story behind the Mat…
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The story was well thought out, with interesting plot twists. The characters were likable, but something was off. This anime never clicked with me. Possibly the fact that it was 'story telling by info dump': way too much exposition.
This anime was very dense in information. I had to pause the episodes periodically to try to process what was going on, and who was who and why they were doing what they did.
the action was plot driven - you aren't going to see epic battles. Instead the fights are just there to help with the story. I usually like that, but it would have been nice to see the characters win through some special perseverance or creativity.
The art and the sound a decent
Overall, I would say give this show a try if you have nothing better to watch.
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Spare yourself some second-hand embarrassment by watching this with it's original Japanese audio and subtitles. Seriously. The English dubbing is awful; near-excruciating. Nothing dumbs down an otherwise decent anime like the use of Japanese suffixes in English speech. Translate in full, or not at all. I couldn't even make it through two episodes before adjusting my audio/subtitle settings.
That said, it's worth the watch in its intended format. Nothing special, but I enjoyed it.
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Seeing all that meat move around so quick made me uncomfortable...
The english voice actor for the main girl annoyed me at times and the pacing seemed to fast (like every netflix anime i've seen). The art and lighting was solid (like every netflix anime i've seen) and the soundtrack was ok nothing to special. Netflix has been real hit and miss with there anime, I think in a few years they'll figure it out more but until then we'll probably keep getting these iffy shows. Couldn't say i'd recomend this to most people unless they were into power rangers with a side of raw blood thirsty sloppy joes.
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This show is a good example of how important good characters are. A.I.C.O.: Incarnation is visually fantastic with an intriguing story, but it falls flat when it comes to characters.
Not only does it fail to properly introduce them, but each and every one of them are so badly written it's pathetic.
For starters, we are given no reason to care about any of them. There are a few "emotional" scenes in this show that are clearly supposed to be tearjerkers, including a death and some drama. But, listen, nobody's going to cry over a character they don't care about!
"Oh no, this character that I forgot the name of and I can't describe to save my life is dead, so sad."
On top of that, there were a considerable amount of scientist side characters that they never introduced and I just... I honest…
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Episode 1 is good, and really served to pique my interest.
The Divers are given an exciting opening, and Aiko's slice-of-life intro works pretty well at giving us a sense of her character and some of her immediate life struggles. Some genuine mystique is built up around the Matter and its' role in the world, and the pacing works well.
After that, though, I think my final impression of the series gradually turned into something a little above average at best.
There are some solid parts to the series overall. The mechanical designs of the vehicles are pretty good and are well-animated CG, and there was some nice effects work on the synthetic suits and other technological elements. They also picked really fun intro and outro songs, I enjoyed those a lot.
For a while, I watched with the im…
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If you wondering what episode 12 try to tell you must be like trying to put in all the plot and stories that been happening so far to fully understand what it tries to imply. Episode 12 is like a puzzle that the creator lets you try to find out what it means by yourself. I won't tell you the answer, the true meaning of the ending cause it will count as a spoiler which I don't want to do that at all.
The stories are kinda interesting. Some people will say it like Akira the movie but at the same time, it isn't. This isn't that kinda movie where they have a superpower like that. The stories will be like about the girl with a fake body try to stop the burst just as the synopsis said but when you watch the entire series it just adds even more than just that. They even use real biological logic…
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Overall this is one of those animes I watched not because it was amazing or anything, rather it was ok.
Lets start with how the anime actually looked to me. For character design there really wasn't anything special. For Kanzaki lookwise reminded me greatly of Inaho Kaizuka from Aldnoah Zero and will definitely blend in to generic anime characters in my memory. I think the diver suits with the different splashes of color were the most notable outfit of the show.
The enemy in this show, the "matter", isn't anything to write home about either think along the fleshy blob that Tetsuo became in Akira . Honestly the first couple episodes before the characters venture outside the safety of the city is probably where the setting looked best. Afterwards most scenery is either blocked out by the m…
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A.I.C.O. Tells the story of Japan being overrun with "matter", a sort of abstract material that destroys everything in it's path. The story is a bit generic but the pacing make's up for that. The biggest issue I had with this anime was the main character; Tachibana, Aiko. it's not that she lacks depth, it's the way she reacts to every situation. It's like she was made to be shocked at every turn. And it gets tiresome fast. The best aspect of the anime is the artwork. The elegant animations and fast pace of the series is what kept the two dimensional characters in check and made the series watchable. I did like the small details that made the world of A.I.C.O feel more authentic, e.g. the artificial suits that needed to be fed in order to function properly. I wish a little more thought was…
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