Audience reviews
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Mr_Yaz
✪ Genre: action (martial arts, swordplay), contemporary fantasy, drama, shounen, ninja, superpower with bishounen character designs
✔ Positive Aspects ✔
◧ The quality of the animation is typical of a late 00s production, mid saturated colors, clearly lacking in vibrancy, but with very distinct character designs, not allowing the viewer to confuse a character for another. In general, the animation was nothing overly enticing, but it was not shabby either.
◧ One of the better aspects of the series was its soundtrack. It recycled quite a few tracks which were, generally, positively noticeable, and, I dare to say, entertaining for the most part but nothing overly exciting.
✘ Negative Aspects ✘
◧ The concept itself, although interesting and somewhat Narutonian in some sense, it was sever…
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This anime made me cry, i love this anime... it was certainly beautiful, and i want to find another like this, the anime was truly a masterpiece and it brought me to tears at the end and middle, no anime EVER has brought me to tears this far.. truly looking forward to rewatching this years later :) will always remember you yoite..... Forever in my heart will be miharu, Yoite... everyone :) i giv it a 10/10! it was amazing and it gave me a feeling of happiness because Yoite finally got his wish granted :) If you loved this anime, i recommend Loveless, its kinda like it.
Read at the sourceSleepingAyumu
"Oh god. This is so mediocre. It will suck so bad. WHY did I start this anime, oh god why."
Yup. Those were my very thoughts for the first few episodes. I never expect anything good from 13 or 26 episodes long animes, but when I think about it, I've generally got past the point when I'd expect any anime to make me say WOW. I'm slowly turning into those old otakus who just moan about every little detail that did not meet their taste and who long lost enjoyment of watching anime and view it pretty much as a job. But let's not drift off.
Before I knew it, I was actually quite hooked on Nabari no Ou. What started as a banal story, eventually started developing into something I was yet unfamiliar with, and it definitely tickled my curiosity. In fact, I started noting appearance of many sub st…
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I'm a bit skeptical to watch this anime but I'm glad I did. This anime is not for everyone. At first I thought this anime is all about fighting and action but it's much better than I thought. It's main focus is the relationship between the characters. Awesome anime, a solid 9 from me.
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Okay. First off, let me state I'm not into the ninja kinds of Anime. But with Nabari No Ou it didn't even matter. Because it was so interesting that I don't think anyone would dislike this no matter what kind of genre's you're into.
Story 10/10
The story is much diffrent than what I was used to. Now I'm sure that they have alot of ninji Anime out there, but Nabari no ou is more unique and less cliche. The story developes really well and I love the funny momment they throw in there. And it's not one of those shows that you have to get into, it gets you hooked right from the start.
Art. 10/10
I really feel like this show has one of the best art I've seen so far. Seriously, in my opinion the way the characters are drawn is amazing. It's perfect.
Sound 10/10
From the Voice actors to the…
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I think the most important thing to say about this series is that it's mediocre. It's good enough to watch, but honestly, the series generally feels rushed, disjointed, and well--average.
Story (6): Nabari No Ou is another ninja anime. That's not intirinsically bad, but it's enough to make someone roll their eyes. If this is going to be a ninja anime, it'd better be good. And that's the thing--it's really just not. Ninjas in modern day. That's not terrible, but the truth is that Nabari No Ou tried to be more than it was. It tried to incorporate big ideas of the universe and the fragility of life and death and loyalty. The problem with this is that it's just a ninja anime. It tried to be ambitious, which is commendable, but it ultimately failed. The plotline feels forced and rushed.
Art (7)…
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I heard people say that this was just going to be another Naruto. It was so much more though. It wasn't too long and the story was amazing. It wasn't just another mindless ninja anime, it wasn't all about fighting and it wasn't all about drama. It had so many twists and turns. And the characters were amazing. There was no good or bad, no villains or necessarily heroes. It was emotional, tear jerking, funny at times and an overall great anime.
Read at the sourceDamonashu
Mixing genres; as a writer, when you mix genre you have to be careful or one genre’s over-representation can overwhelm the other, and subsequently alienate your readers. There are some genres that go well together, like romance and drama, or action and fantasy. But then there are others like drama and comedy that can conflict so much the readers rage at the sight of one or the other. There is nothing stopping such genres from mixing well, but for that to happen a writer has to take care, and in the case of Nabari no ou it doesn’t seem like the writers did.
Story
Nabari starts by introducing its watchers to two worlds, the world we live in now that continues to evolve and one that hides in that evolution, evolving with it but not enough to become apparent. This turns out to be necessary fo…
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So if you are looking for a gentle review of this semi-mediocre ninja anime you are reading the wrong review.
The first half of the first episode my first thought was like.... Awesome this is gonna be almost like a but of a modern naruto. By the time I got to the end of the first episode I was fully convinced that this anime could set itself aside from naruto altogether. A couple of the characters were already deemed BA's(bad asses) to me and others had the ability to grow...now that all about sums up the things i liked.
Now for the bad qualities is that these characters who had so much room for growth and depth stayed pretty much the same in the whole anime. The main character never truly grows to me the whole time and in the whole series all the supporting characters seem to grow and…
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I was suggested this anime by a friend, as he made me watch a few amv's.... and my initial comment/observation was "looks like one of those ambiguously yaoi animes...". He laughed, but he didn't deny it....and that made me apprehensive.
Going into the first few episodes, I was actually pleasantly surprised by how well the writers had done, drawing me in to the plot and characters. The apprehension was gone.
The story wasn't anything amazing...but it had a solid functional premise to build upon and was clearly going to be more character/story-driven(which I prefer, most often) than action-driven.
Then came that ambiguous yaoi I'd spotted in the amv's.
Oh well, they've sucked me into the plot/characters already....so let's just hope the ambig-yaoi is done with tact.
Fortunately, the…
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When the word 'ninja' pulls itself out of someones mouth, we think of the typical 'naruto' figure. Jutsu and all, hidden villages and epic episode long battles.
Whilst Nabari no Ou does cover these pop-into-mind points, it covers themes more deeply in a shorter and more managable amount of episodes. Though many may discover that maybe Nabari may not quite be their 'cup of tea' this is mainly due to its target audience.
Nabari aimes itself at a more mature audience and the action factor may be present, but doesn't dominate as greatly as some would expect.Its art style is a little different, softer and more detailed. As well as a few dreaded 'talking scenes'.
Though this story focuses itself on the relationship and value of human life and covers quite a bit of the original manga. The cha…
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Nabari no Ou. At first I thought it would be like another Naruto series, but thankfully I was wrong about it. Instead it had a whole different feel to it than what Naruto had.
First of would be the story in general. Where as Naruto you have a ninja trying to become hokage and no real other plot than that. Nabari no Ou however you have a consent plot that is shown threw out each episode. The stories development was pretty good in my opinion. It had a nice build at first before diving into the plot more.. and steadily rising to something believable and reasonable in the series. That was another good aspect of the story.
I also loved the friendship and twist thrown in and how Miharu deals with this along the way. Yes a story that deserves its rating.
The art was also pretty good as well.…
Read at the sourceNukegara
Nabari no ou encounters the same problem as many other plot-centric anime: it is enjoyable enough to compel you to watch the whole thing but contains plenty of bad elements to keep you frustrated. I hereby list those elements.
The centerpiece of the anime, the shinrabanshou, is supposed to be some sort of superpower that, I suppose, can do anything. However there's very little detail given about the nature of its use. The consequences of activating it are never really discussed so it remains unclear why Tobari Sensei is so determined never to let it be used, even for good. When he argues about this with Miharu he just repeats himself without explaining his decision. Tobari Sensei had the potential to be a cool "seems like a slacker but is really competent" character, but instead ended up a…
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In life, many people (through different experiences) learn the value of human relationships; be it the relationship between lovers, siblings or friends. They learn it is okay to have selfish desires once in a while and what a person can mean to another.
…If only.
Thus we come to Nabari no Ou (English: King of Nabari), an anime which attempts to present multiple character relationships and the complexities of human interaction with a bit of ninja action to spruce things up.
The story is one that had an interesting premise: The apathetic Miharu is told that he holds the power of the Shinrabanshou, a technique desired by the entire ninja world named “Nabari”. He doesn’t really feel anything towards the responsibility until he befriends Yoite, a merciless killer who is on the side that w…
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Nabari no Ou decided to take the ninja theme and put a little twist on it - the ninjas exist in modern times. I'm not saying this hasn't been done before, but it's definitely a change of pace from most ninja anime where ninjas are completely different from our contemporary culture. Nabari no Ou is about a boy named Miharu who has a powerful forbidden art called the Shinrabanshou inside him, a skill that can give infinite knowledge to the user, thus giving them the ability to grant wishes. Once his schoolteacher recognizes him, things pick up from there and he is dragged into the underground ninja world so they can seal the Shinrabanshou in his body (you didn't think using it wouldn't have a consequence, right?).
At first, I was pretty disappointed with the series. It seemed to be the sam…
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At first, I didn't want to watch this anime, because I found the summary boring. But one day, I got bored and had no anime to watch. So I looked in my Plan to Watch and saw that this is the only anime there I haven't watched. So reluctantly, I watched this.
But to my surprise, it isn't that boring. The beginning of the story got me going till the end. I loved this anime at first sight because of...believe it or not, the plot. I know some people would think the plot is not that nice, but for me, it is very good. The main character, Miharu, is very cold, but then he gained some friends, and in the near end he became different from what he was before. He had the Shinrabanshou (I can't say the meaning because I'm not really sure of it, but I know that it grants its owner's wish), but he doesn'…
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Nabari no Ou is not a ninja anime. Yes, the synopsis would disagree with me, but after watching all 26 episodes, the ninja aspect of Nabari no Ou is pretty much unimportant to the central story.
Nabari no Ou is more about the relationship between Yoite and Miharu. They meet each other as enemies, but as the story progresses, they slowly become friends. Yoite wishes Miharu to end his existence using the power Shiranbanshou, while Miharu tries to master this technique to fulfill his wish.
The story, is at best, mediocre. From the synopsis, I was lead to believe this series would be action-packed. But it really isn't. There is little to none ninja/fighting scenes, and most of the story is told through the characters' interactions and dialogues. Nabari no Ou isn't quite episodic, but I actua…
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I found this Anime to be one of the best that I have seen. The mix of action scenes and also the parts where the characters relate to each other. They could have made the story go a bit deeper though, and I thought that it played out to...Smoothly, to put it simply. The Art was very good in my mind, and i liked how some of the characters hair you could tell was changing. In most Anime that I have seen they don't show that kind of thing. In the way of sound, I think that the characters voices fit them, Miharu's voice sounded right, as well as most of the other characters, if you can understand that kind of thing ^_^' I liked the character choice too. The way they could got together, and even if they switched ways they still looked like they belonged. I enjoyed Nabari no Ou very much, and my…
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Haha, NO, this is not a Naruto copycat or anything like it. Nabari No Ou is completely different withinself and quite unique. Even though it's based on ninjas, so what? Just because Bleach has shinigami, does that mean other anime/manga can't have shinigami's?
I think the art was done well and I would rate the story higher if not for the anime terrible ending. >< It wasn't really 'terrible' but more or less disappointing and unsatisfactory. But then again, most anime madeup endings are irritating.
Also I think one of the greatest points of Nabari No Ou is its characters. They're fundamentally unique and the main protagonist, Miharu, has a very original personality compared to the usual main characters of action anime/manga. The other characters are charms as well with there own quirks…
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THE REAL PREMISE:
- 2 socially distraught boys connect with each other, and find peace therein.
THE GOOD:
- Unique plot. This is not your typical ninja anime.
- Plot twists keep the story engaging.
THE BAD:
- The last 5 episodes don't do the rest of the anime justice.
- The relationship between the two boys becomes tedious. Yeah...they really like each other...we get it. CONCLUSION:
- If you're looking for a fighting anime, this isn't it. This is not one of those "let's get stronger so that we can beat the boss" types of anime. What this anime really focuses on is human emotion. So, if the dynamics of trust, loyalty, and friendship is your cup o' tea, then I highly recommend Nabari No Ou.
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