Audience reviews
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dustinddr
Note: before starting the series, watch the prologue, couldnt find subs, but the raw was in fb, just google it.
the direction and story is the worst ever, many of the scenes didnt make any sense. I had to rely on manga for most of the part, the pacing was really bad and the plot left me very frustrated. worst adaptation ever. if they had just followed the manga or the LN, s1 would have been 8 easily.
the animations with 2d was fine, but the 3d ones really distracted and were an eye sore, i would never rewatch this show.
most of the episode endings and starting scenes had no logic, because most of the explanation was taken out for dumb scenes , wasting our time, the jokes were not funny either.
The characters felt flat, having no real depth or feelings or any proper reasons, left me qu…
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Arifureta: From Commonplace to Trash-tier Heroine
You know, Arifureta could’ve been a decent isekai. Not groundbreaking, not revolutionary, but at least something enjoyable if handled with care. Instead, what we got feels like someone dumped three different drafts of bad fanfiction into a blender, sprinkled in some cringe dialogue, and hit “puree.”
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room: Yue. Supposedly the main heroine. Supposedly the eternal vampire waifu. In reality? The most aggressively bland “I’m totally mysterious and mature but actually just thirsty 24/7” character ever written. She’s not a love interest, she’s a walking horny on main energy drink. Every scene she’s in feels less like romance and more like someone trying to ship Hajime with a malfunctioning dating sim NPC.
An…
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Since Arifureta is complete dogshit in every way, I would have given it a 2 and moved on. However, it is not satisfied with just being terrible. It also has to make you feel greasy, uncomfortable and disgusted while watching it. A big part of that is that they have a girl who looks and acts like a child. She is promptly sexualized and then shipped with the MC. But even if that is gone, there's just something about the art, the characters and the environment that just makes me feel like I have to take a shower.
I cannot for the life of me remember anything interesting that happened. I remember there was a badly animated and uncreative fight against a hydra which they defeated with the power of friendship. I remember that it was another wish fulfillment self insert power fantasy. I remember…
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Dropped it, came back because I found out this wreck of a show got a season 3 somehow.
Frankly if you choose to watch it here's some fair warnings and advice:
-Lower your expectations, then when you encounter something even slightly positive, funny or that seems like it could be good or has potential, Lower your expectations again.
-Don't watch if you have no tolerance to mediocre/bad writing
-Don't watch if you have no tolerance to loli's and literal children frankly being in situations they shouldn't be and just general things that dance on the line between "Weird" and "Go to Jail"
-ow The edge
However perhaps if you are a being who feeds of Cringe you will find yourself somewhat satisfied or if you simply have such low standards that the lack of quality doesn't matter for you to get som…
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A very entertaining show with good characters. It also is markedly better visually than many anime when it comes to monsters and fight scenes. It sets Hajime and Yue up as the main couple and they are great together but is heading into harem territory. I don't mind harem if it becomes a true harem. Most are more like fan clubs than actual harems so we'll see. If you are not a harem fan then this might not be for you. Admittedly the show gets better as it goes along and the second half of the season is stronger than the first half. Still worth the time watching it.
A show that has some appeal for a more adult crowd and not just teen boys which is nice.
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Arifureta is one of the worst animes out there. It's part of that almost conspiratorial scheme of isekais with a repetitive formula. From the start, Arifureta was designed as a copy of any other isekai series, but it attempts to mask this by pretending to be unique and innovative. The truth is, Arifureta falls short of innovation, as there's not a single sign of genre reinvention throughout the series. In a sense, Shadow Garden and Arifureta share many things in common, but mainly what connects them is being praised for the originality they don't posses.
Besides placing the main character in a clear ideological dissent, contrasting to what's commonly associated with their role in this genre, nothing else stands out. The word "fraud" describes this anime perfectly, as it seems it puts mor…
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The best isekai paint honest portraits of otakuism. Classics of the current movement like Re:Zero and Mushoku Tensei use the isekai premise to examine what their otaku protagonists want, what they need to grow as people, and how aspects of their otaku identity can help and hinder that growth. They present a holistic understanding of their subject matter through the lens of isekai.
Arifureta paints a portrait every bit as honest, though, not on purpose.
Do not mistake my recommendation for a positive critical assessment. By the standards of any reasonable critic, Arifureta is terrible. It’s a juvenile power fantasy with all around horrible production values, and no thematic depth or interesting plot mechanics to compensate. But a straightforward critical assessment misses most of what Ari…
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Arifureta is one of those anime that remind you why we can’t have good things. It’s very badly made, the plot is terrible, the themes are horrible, yet the general audience loved it just because it’s an edgy isekai. It began as the replacement of The Rise of the Shield Hero, (both are isekai with a strong vibe of edge and justiceporn). It proceeded to make an ass out of itself by being awfully directed and animated (holy smokes, the CGI was on par with the modern Berserk). And then it managed to win most of the audience back (because they were isekai trash fans with very low expectations). Isn’t it wonderful to know that such a thing manages to get a second season because it was popular, while other shows with better plot and animation get squat?
Most of the audience was complaining at fi…
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Arifureta..... This anime was actually really enjoyable and it is very luck tat it ended u[p being this fun to watch. Yeah, the story could be better it's not very special and it feels kind of rushed, but I still love this show I think I heard they only had like half a year to make the show because The original creator of the manga didn't like how they did it at first. So they had to start over on their own I can respect the hustle.
Story 7
The story isn't fully there its just does feel kind of empty sometimes and there are some plot holes, but not as much as there should be. The story does feel rushed at some parts but the show makes it up with there characters.
Art 10
Obviously art is subjective I think it looks really nice the animation studio did a good job with that. the art looks v…
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okay! Finally decided to write a review on an anime which I did NOT like at all. I'm going to rant., so I might not make any sense.
The story of this anime is nothing special. Its a very, very basic Isekai anime with an MC who was pathetic before, then suddenly becomes OP after being betrayed by his friends. We get to see that crazy character change, as the MC becomes a mental garbage truck who shoves a pole up a female dragon's bottom. We also get that gross, cringey harem which is too forced. The MC does not even have any redeemable qualities!
HE DOESN'T EVEN LOOK GOOD!!
Now, let's talk about the main reason, generally everyone hates this anime fore. THE HORRIBLE CGI.
I just might have even given this anime a 5 or 6/10 if it at least looked good, but it doesn't! Those ugly CGI monst…
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Effectively the brightest mind of our generation. They say one man's trash is another man's treasure and treasure this is indeed. From the poignantly paced plot to the detailed character design, this puts simple minded animes such as Evangelion to shame. Look past the negative reviews here, this anime is simply ahead of its time. It is a failure on this entire community that I have to write this review. I feel that many of the armchair critics on this forum speak not from the enjoyment of art, but instead over intellectualize their experience and miss the entire point the writer is trying to make. This anime is a composed dissertation on the human experience. I spent a lot of time trying to decide if I was going to write this review. I wasn't sure how to express what I was and am feeling.…
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I really enjoyed this anime but being a late comer I was able to watch the full 12 ep's, 1 being a review ep 5.5, I can understand the poor reviews. While yes the CGI wasn't the greatest in the world not all CGI is going to be prefect so it's bad but not so bad to not watch. Most eps don't have any or very little CGI meaning it shouldn't really be a reason to give the anime a lower score.
I gave this anime a 9 while I really enjoyed it it's not a favorite of mine so I can't give it a 10. While yes it's another isekai anime it does do things just differently enough to make it stand out with it's story. While it has the typical "harem" trope it doesn't come off fully as fan service and more of a comedy then romance past the first few eps.
The tight walk rope the MC has to walk to not take…
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Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou (2019)
This anime is being slated by many people out there. If you go into it with an open mind ignoring the fact of the guns, vehicles, crazy weapons at times and the CGI which is not the best then it is a good enough series.
A bit different from most Isekai in that after our main character gets betrayed because a cute girl likes him he is thrown into despair and becomes like a villain. He builds up a group (all girls, of course, so a harem). He then gets insanely strong very quickly but that is not unusual but you do see his despair and hate grow. He actually takes up a girls offer of love which is uncommon and recognises the other girl's feelings towards him which again is uncommon. He fights to get home and is OP.
The art used in the series is…
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From common place to worlds strongest, another "Isekai" anime as the whiners would say but how does this one fare to top picks like "No Game No Life", "Gate" and "Re: Zero".
Well this anime is a lot like "Sword Art Online" season 01 structure wise, unlike SAO Alice, the very first SAO was trimmed because it was a newcomer and if you know about the anime industry, you know there are things like Slot Booking, Budget and Profit forecast, Not a lot of anime studios go in with sequels in mind. so it's about playing it safe, what can last the whole season and most likely relevant to what is being played, seeing how popular and how investment SAO has gathered despite the forever mad pseudo critics, not only did it pay off but it generated a large enough pull so that for years anything remotely m…
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I can see why people hate this show but I actually enjoyed it. Of course this show was definitely not perfect. It had many problems. Minor spoilers if you haven't seen it.
One of the problems was the animation. I didn't like that they used CGI for all the monsters, it just made them look all weird and not intimidating. I did like the character designs so I will give them props for that.
The second is how it started. I have read the first light novel and will be reading the rest soon, but how the show started was much different from the light novel. They didn't add new content to the anime that they light novel didn't have, its that the anime started when they were in the new world and that not how the light novel started. Light novel started with them at there school, anime really doesn'…
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Arifureta is an awful anime.
BUT! Underneath its anemic story and banal characters, there’s something you might not expect…..More. F—kn’. Awfulness. In fact, one needs to descend through 65 layers of crap before anything worthwhile reveals itself. Prior to crossing that bridge, however, let’s dissect the multitude of flaws with this ‘cookie-cutter,’ cliched Isekai.
As is the case with any self-proclaimed Isekai, Arifureta features an unimaginative main character — Hajime Nagumo — who starts off as a weak bitch, but eventually levels up to a Pirate/Terminator/1800’s Banker/NSYNC Justin with the frosty tips/phony bad-ass, to fight cannon fodder on his way to his eventual harem (trope #1). A harem that he has no interest in, of course, because ‘no guy wants to be chased’ (trope #2), they w…
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Have you ever been excited to watch a dumpster fire? You know, that special kind of train wreck that reaches so bad it’s good territory, or the legendary "schlock" status”? It’s rare to find such titles in the current anime market, as Big Order and Inuyashiki are some of the last ones out there at the time of writing. Most bad anime are just frustrating or boring, especially when it comes to the prevalence of bad isekai anime. With episode 1 at least, Arifureta seemed to have done the impossible. It had become something so legendarily awful that it would be remembered as the best so bad it’s good anime of the year. Imagine my shock, my awe when we were told that isekai finally had a Big Order to call its own.
Imagine my grief when Arifureta quickly went from the most gloriously awful ani…
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The disappointment of the season. Worst anime of the year. An anime that should never have existed. No matter how many insults I throw at Arifureta, I'm afraid it will never be enough to convey just how loathsome I consider this atrocity.
There are several levels of bad isekai anime. You've got the disappointing kind like How Not to Summon a Demon Lord. Then comes the horrible kind like Kenja no Mago and Isekai Cheat Magician. And then you have Arifureta in a league of its own with not a single competitor in sight. It's so bad that I watched it every week just to make myself feel better. I assured myself by saying that anime watching can't get worse so the only way is up. And yet, every week, Arifureta hit new lows that I didn't imagine were possible.
Arifureta literally means "common"…
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Production horror, disagreements between newbie novelists and production staff, and horribly bad animation. That's all I have to say about this trash of a shitshow that if handled correctly, it could really turn out to be a decent show, honest to God.
When this show was greenlit for an anime adaptation in 2017, the Isekai trend was just taking off, and seeing the massive successes and failures of shows we've seen up until this point, it seemed like all was destined for good. Alas, novelist Ryo Shirakome, being a newbie in the anime industry, you could say that it was part of his fault when the production staff at White Fox didn't had the prowess to showcase his work properly. Remember, Goblin Slayer was White Fox's upcoming work in Fall 2018, so in light of multiple shows made by the same…
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How should I say this…my first impression of this abomination is: Did studio Asread go creatively bankrupt of anime projects? Is that why they keep producing garbage after garbage all these years? Watching Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou feels like injecting yourself with a lethal dose of poison but you won’t die. Instead, you’re lying there in a pain of agony trying to move on to the next life.
To be honest, I had low expectations before the anime began airing. Red flags were already raised when they made an announcement that the show would be delayed to this year. Normally, people would assume that it’s due to production issues and management. However, I don’t buy it. It sounded more like the show didn’t have a well-planned roadmap to begin with and serves more as a mission for cas…
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