Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Pepino_curt0
I'm really struck by the unpopularity of this title and the relatively low ratings. That is why first I will describe all the advantages, and at the end I will move on to the disadvantages and try to suggest what someone might not like here.
1. Visual
Very nice drawing. I never thought I'd be so happy to see characters' noses. Certain vibes of the nineties and early 2000s immediately appeared. In general, in general, the faces of all the characters are carefully drawn, emotions and all sorts of details are clearly visible. The environment is also well drawn. I won’t say much about the animation, it’s normal, sometimes you’re even surprised that the characters move (for example, when the scale is large and the characters are standing in the distance, or when the interlocutor doesn’t freeze…
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What a sad watch, not because of the story, but the amount of wasted potential.
Yes, I decided to watch this one because of its stellar intro. A mesh of interesting visuals, amazing song, colors, and the idea that it'll be a bit experimental, weird, but ultimately great, or so I thought. It directly began by changing what I expected. A story about a moment, and only that moment. If you could stop time, what would you do? It's such a monumental power that the head of a family, with his good heart, hid it away, knowing there are those who can, and will, use it to mold their surroundings with malice. Of course, a moment in the story calls for a use. A ransom, simple enough, makes a lot of sense, but it doesn't stop there.
That's just the beginning, and it had me hooked, even if it wasn't wh…
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interesting story and not a bad cast of characters. the op and ed are dummy good and overall the concept of a world of stopped time hasn't really been explored much before
sadly the story gets a bit weird in the final few episodes and a lot happens fast that doesn't really make much sense or doesn't get explained
overall a 7/10, because although it was a pretty fun watch, the show had so much more potential and just didn't execute all of its ideas in the best way
would recommend watching it if you like the concept, but i cant imagine ever rewatching it
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Read at the sourceDemundo
I only wanted to log this series into what I have run through, but seeing top reviews actually make this series out to be bad and not well written, I can't stand by without saying anything.
Let's be frank, this series isn't something you can really like/love at first sight. It's a mess and it happens in like, what the hell? Only 1 moment? Almost a day? Not to mention loop holes in writing are all over the place. Many explanations don't meet up with what they were supposed to answer, it's like they are not even trying to explain anything to be with...... Even art style, sound, aren't that outstanding. So, what's there to like it?
Surprisingly, there is. Or in fact, there are.
As you can see in the synopsis, the main characters can somehow "stop time" and "move around when time and ever…
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*Disclaimer*
Just personal scratch.
Advised, possible spoilers.
Opinion & Informal
Art: 6/10 Mix of standard art/animation and CGI. Anatomy believable. No impact art or scenes really found here.
Animation: 5/10 Movements somewhat believable. Then again, they used the special world to get away with pretty much anything that might not be believable. CGI movements was average and nothing special. Special effects were sparse and uninteresting. Not much fluidity or impact scenes at all.
Plot: 5/10 So I was expecting something a bit more based on the premise of the synopsis. This show was a letdown. It delivered something pretty mediocre and average. It had a lot of potential to flesh out some really complex themes and ideas. However, it was really bland in its execution. There is no better w…
Read at the sourceGundroog
Throw another one to the pile of “euh” anime. Kokkoku I think accurately gets across the feeling of getting a bus to go somewhere nice and then you miss your stop and get out in a place you don’t know and look pretty bad. What started out as an intriguing thriller that meshed the usual kidnapping scenario with supernatural elements turned out to be a weird supernatural drama that went all over the place instead of focusing what was good about it.
I genuinely liked the beginning of it, first half of Kokkoku stood out to be as anime thriller done right. We kick off in a grounded setting with simple characters that should be easy enough to sympathize with or relate to for anyone with no shortage of empathy. Then something terrible happens and a family that was barely scraping by is put in a…
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I had never heard of Kokkoku when I watched the first episode, but I was hooked afterwards. Now, here at the end, I definitely enjoyed myself, but I can see it probably isn't for everybody.
Art 3/5
Well drawn, the action scenes do a good job of communicating the speed and impact of every action, and the cast are all distinctly designed without having to resort to goofy hats or anything. In fact, kudos to the animators for keeping the details of the time stop in mind when lots of small objects are flying or falling. However, it makes extensive use of CGI for several elements - personally, I think it blends well enough with the more traditional animation, but if you strongly dislike it in your anime, its going to annoy you frequently.
Sound 4/5
Much like the animation, the sound effects d…
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This is my first time writing a review, so I hope this can be helpful for at least one person.
To be completely fair, I am very aware that I probably have a dissident opinion regarding this anime. However, I think the other reviews paint this anime in particular in a bad light. I agree that the art is a bit clunky at times, the pacing is weird, to say the least, and the end is sort of tacked on. But all of that aside, I think that this is a great little anime to watch if you need something to tide you over between seasons of your favorites anime.
At times, the connection between characters feels very thin, and it's a little hard to feel a connection to them, as the viewer. At other times, you may feel a deep connection to what the characters are trying to accomplish.
The story is fair…
Read at the sourceMoodMojo
In a sense, this has been such an amazing experience. I'm glad to find some improvement in psychologicals nowadays since they've been overwhelmed with the fanservice-themed anime these days. However, don't worry, even if you're not a fan of psychological anime you'll still enjoy this in most cases.
Story
The family enters Stasis in order to save a NEET and a little kid who were kidnapped on their way home. Stasis is like time travelling, but very detailed. Every thought about how it would be to leap through time? Well, I know I did and this anime incorporates it magnificently. What's even more amusing is the fact that they had such tight bounds to logic all-throughout the anime. They never used the common anime logic. No peculiar instances that only convenience the MC or anything alike. I…
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Here we go again, another one of those which you either love or hate. No in-between.
We've seen plenty of instances in the past in which anime series have utilized time-related concepts as their main plot device, and more often than not it may be confusing and over-complicate matters. Kokkoku, for me, is one of the better series to have handled the concept well.
The story basically sees all our characters enter the strange and mysterious world of "Stasis", which is a version of the real world stopped at a single moment in time. As usual, conflicts between two factions occur and everything starts happening. If you're already having trouble figuring out what "Stasis" actually is, trust me, you don't have to worry, because it really is a simple concept to understand, and they explain it f…
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I wrote a review for Kokkoku when only a few episodes were out because I felt that the scores didn't give a good representation of the story. Now I've deleted my old review, edited my score (slightly... maybe) and am back to give a better rounded review - hope it helps!
First - **Kokkoku isn't going to be a widely liked anime.** It's a bit too off-key, a bit too targeted of a general overarching concept/tone/genre for that. If you aren't a fan of something that gets its primary draw from being simply surrealist, or if you don't want to sit through a bit of a slow burn for the good in the beginning, end, and for the general sake of the tone, this isn't worth a watch for you.
BUT, if you have an itch to watch something generally surrealist in tone, if you appreciate David Lynch, Mousou Da…
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I liked this anime a lot,
It was my favorite anime of the winter 2018 ongoing anime.
The art style was pretty nice and fit very good with this kind of story.
The characters where portrayed in a good matter.
At the start of the anime, you are kinda curious about what is going to happen.
Then, it is starting to get interesting, and you want to see more.
Eventually you'll be hooked to this anime, since it has this certain vibe.
Then you realize this anime is almost to its end, and you are starting to feel a little sad. The story never got boring in my opinion, and was always very interesting.
This was one of the few anime's that I think had a really good ending!!!
Normally when an anime ends, I feel a little sad and empty because it's over, but in this case I don't mind, because of the good…
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Why should you watch Kokkoku?
The story is Outstanding (10). Kokkoku is one of those stories that you didn't know until it was adapted to anime form and even if it was it is usually got overshadowed by mainstream or fan service anime. You can put this anime side by side with the likes of Kiseiju (Parasyte) and Elfen Lied mainly because of the story. The premise of another world or dimension existing alongside our reality is something really interesting especially for me to dive into. The moment you watch the first episode, you will immediately get sucked into the stasis until the last episode. Believe me when I say you will feel autophobic when you watch this, so if you want to enjoy this anime I would definitely advise you to binge-watch this alone in an isolated room.
Art is Very Good…
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Kokkoku has ended today and I'm sad to see it go. It was a wonderful concept with a wonderful execution. This anime is about a 20 something year old girl of a poor family named Juri. One day, her nephew and brother get kidnapped and ransomed an amount of money they cannot pay. Fortunately, the family holds an ancient relic in the form of a stone that lets them enter a world called, "Stasis". Stasis is a place where time has stopped in the exact same moment the Stasis spell was activated, only allowing people who has activated the spell to move around in this stopped time. The Juri along with her Grandfather and Father to save her captured family members. But are there are others in the stasis as well...
This show, I felt, did very well in the execution of this quite unique concept. The fa…
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I want to do this review, but before I need to tell some truths about the users of MAL: I really find counterproductive revisions on the [profile] page of the work before its end. I do not see problems with certain people developing some kind of hatred for the series, but remember there is a synopsis in the profile, and that if someone read it then you are aware of what will happen when you start your successive episodes. The rule of three, which involves three watched episodes to see whether or not it is worth watching a series is much advocated in the web community, however, few people take this into account and prefer to do a review on the site page where [by except I believe it should be so] there should only be comments of who actually saw the work as a whole, not just three episodes.…
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Kokkoku is a solid series exploring what happens if you have the ability to stop time (to enter a frozen world called "stasis"), but the series fails to really realize its full potential and a lot of important questions remain unanswered.
NOTE: this review is spoiler free
STORY - 5
The story is a bit strange. It starts off very different from the usual, with an adult casts of characters attempting to rescue their nephew/grandchild who gets kidnaped by a gang for ransom money. The grandpa apparently has a magical stone which is able to stop time that had been secretly passed down in their family for generations. They (the grandpa, the main character Juri, her father and NEET brother) activate it to rescue the child but unknowingly, another group enters this frozen world of "stasis" at t…
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Kokkoku is an ambitious failure. It failed to understand the limits of its budget, taking on far more than it could handle. Its story is illogical, the art is ugly as sin, the characters are frustrating, and its glacial pacing makes it one of the most boring thrillers I've ever seen. The many interesting themes it juggled are freezing time, a dysfunctional family, and psychic powers, but Kokkoku wastes them on mediocre execution.
The dysfunctional Yukawa family are our main characters. It would be an understatement to say they don’t get along. They hit, yell at, and curse at each other. The main character and older sister in the family Juri is the most put-together of them all. In the first episode, we’re introduced to Juri's NEET older brother Tsubasa, slob father Takafumi, her nephew M…
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With people started to like those skip the opening button just to get into the point of some anime, an anime made us realize that you should not skip the opening just to have that hype so you can stay and watch a mediocre yet predictable anime like this one. While having the source material have ended long before the adaptation as an advantage, Kokkoku, an anime adaptation of a manga created by Seita Horio, did not manage to steal many hearts to invest and drive themselves into the world of stasis.
The major flaw of Kokkoku lies in the very predictable and mediocre plot. Three episodes in and I already guessed how the ending will like. And... My prediction was not too far off. Even with this predictable plot, Kokkoku still did not manage to deliver their lore of the stones and the specter…
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Kokkoku is an anime that kind of leans heavily on the high concept side of storytelling. While the translation for the title is “Moment by Moment”, I believe that it’s better dubbed as “Moment” as everything takes place technically in one single moment. The reason why is because the concept of the show is “ what if we had an action/thriller story, but almost everything occurred when time froze”. Of course the show has its twist and turns, the inciting point, the characters, the development, and every other minutiae that i’ll hopefully get to later. Still it's high concept is one of its main selling points of the show, and means to draw in viewers. However its concept can only get it so far, and without well thought out characters and plot all that’s left is the concept and it’s wasted pote…
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Let the time... STOP.
You are now stuck in a world where everything is frozen, except you. What now?
That's basically what Kokkoku is about, Juri and her group is stuck in the "Statis" along with the bad guys of course.
Review will contain minor spoilers, I guess.
Kokkoku started out as an interesting anime, interesting premise. Why are they stuck in the Statis? What is that world? And what is that huge creature shown in the OP (or the ending of the first episode?)
Many questions, some answered, some not, but meanwhile- The bad guys are taking place. Well, they want to research this statis, so they're bad. Oh and they kill people too because why not.
The "bad" people REALLY weren't fleshed out at all, they felt like some random background characters, which maybe was true to classify…
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