Audience reviews
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naru_raj
Please read manga......... A good storyline has emotional touches and has realism in it. But, animation is outright shit. It is a slideshow, and key moments are implied instead of explicitly shown. I would recommend reading manga over watching anime, but just rating high, hoping people will learn about this fantastic piece.
Pros:
1. Not everything is in your favour. You counter adversities one by one. This manga/anime shows that throughout.
2. Focused on developing many characters apart from the characters in the team.
3. Highly focused on strategies.
Cons
Bad animation. It is a slideshow with missing key moments. Manga has better visuals than anime. If a good move happens, you have to guess it because the animation will skip. At this point, they have just taken panels from manga and col…
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I really enjoy basketball so for me it's hard to see such potencial wasted.
Ahiru no Sora in order to develop the characters nerfed our main protagonist through the entire show.
The animation it's decent, the characters are being developed. But our main protagonist that have his name in the anime title, just vanish through the show. I don't know the original source but to have such a useless protagonist kills the entire show.
Even though the animation is pretty decent, it can't save the story.
Ahiru no Sora fails in build and keep the hype. Sora it's sold as a badass hidden and unpolished gem, but in the reality he's nothing near this. I was getting more and more frustrated about the development of the anime.
I wouldn't recommend this, they made 50 episodes and still doesn't properl…
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I see a lot of comments of people that Say its boring i would say as a basketball fan this anime is complete. It shows every aspect of what a basketball game is it highlight most of the values of being young and dedicated and passionnante about a sport. I felt like when i was playing all the emotions that this anime is displaying and not only being hype like in Kuroko there is much more depht to the story.
50 ep isn't enough i would like to see a S2 as its only the beginning its rising from the ashes ( for those who saw it and have the ref 🤣 ). For every sport fan i recommand this anime 100%
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Let Me get this out of the way.
If you like Elfen Lied(The Saddest Anime ever made) you will like this show.The show really is good... Until it isn't. You watch all of Sora's pain and frustration and watch him build up his skills and abilities and what do you get in return? The show slaps you across the face.
I know reality is harsh but come on. Every time you think the show is going to payoff all the buildup it spits in your face. Especially the season finale. The animation is fine, but considering I have low standards as long as the story is good my opinion is a little off. Until the season finale I had this show at about a 7.5 I was quite happy watching it. Until the final episode of the season, the show takes all your hopes out back and puts them down like Old Yeller with a rifle bulle…
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Nothing really stands out about Ahiru no Sora. At the immediate surface level, the animation never really goes beyond perfunctory in the basketball games, with many scenes being obvious manga panel stills embellished with some sliding motions in the foreground. As is rather infamous, the animation team tries to ape Kuroko's Basketball in conveying how fast the characters are moving, but without the polish of Kuroko's production it just looks comical. Game flow massively suffers as a result, so it's hard to get invested in games when it's often unclear what plays are happening.
Storywise though, I have to give the show props for not being a cookie cutter underdog narrative. We start with the basketball team as a complete sham and front for a delinquents' hangout brought about by the school…
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[SPOILERS CONTAINED FOR MULTIPLE SPORTS ANIME]
Mentioned below with severity of spoiler:
Ahiru no Sora (major, but mostly summarized),
Diamond no Ace (intermediate),
Haikyuu (minor),
Hosiai no Sora (very minor) The two words I would use to describe this anime is “peak edging”. Watching all 50 of these episodes has made me realize what it’s like to be on an opposing team in a sports anime like Haikyuu. You have players who are amazing and strive to get better and continue to fail and fail until the end. It’s as if this was the unneeded prequel to an actual sports anime.
Story: 5/10
First of all, excruciatingly slow. The story is relatively simple which allows it to be easily followed. However, there were certain occurrences throughout that just threw me off. Perhaps they have meaning e…
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The show starts out really well. All the characters are introduced one after the other and all of them are great. The starting few matches are really great as well. Most of Kuzuryu's players are inexperienced and hence they lose a lot of their starting few matches which makes sense. The players from the other teams like Konishi, Chiba san, Tokiwa and Nanao's cousin are all really lovable characters. After playing a few practice matches and gathering a full team, they finally get to an official match. I really liked the fact that they gave some history to the opposition they faced in the official match. But this is where the anime starts its downward spiral. Kuzuryu plays really well creating a substantial point difference between themselves and the opponents. At this point the Kuzuryu play…
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Review and rating of Ahiro no Sora
The past decade was full of popular and high-quality sports anime, such as Haikyuu Diamond No Ace, the third IPO season, but in the second half of the decade there was a decline in the number of sports anime, despite the release of one of the best anime, Running from the Wind, which raised the level again until the release of the anime, which was expected in an absent sport, the anime Ahiro no sura
Information about the anime
Anime name: ahiru no sora
Genre: School Comedy Comedy Drama Sports Shounen Age group: +13
Studio: Diomedéa (same studio as Habiba at home)
Quote source: manga
Number of episodes: 50
Presentation year: Fall 2019
Author: Hinata, Takeshi
Global Rating: 7.38
Anime story:
The story revolves around Sora Kurumatani, who promised…
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This anime has all the elements of a standard sports anime - the talented hero with the handicap, passion for the game, the extremely difficult path and some geniuses. But still, and maybe because of, following the general formula too closely, it managed to remain very mediocre.
I'm really struggling to write something unique about it or something I liked, but nothing just hits, which should tell you a lot about it in itself. I will say though, that the technical part of basketball is quite well explored, which I appreciated.
Also, I don't really understand the point of Madoka? She never really did anything throughout the series, and nothing would have changed if she wasn't there.
The anime has the team losing every single time, which I'll admit is realistic. But since the anime itself…
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Formal and Dramatic
(Warning: this review contains important spoilers, be warned.)
I really liked how Ahiru no Sora manages to act as a collective test of endurance between characters and viewers. The protagonists do not win any game during all 50 episodes. The weight of the practically certain defeats, of the changes that the characters suffer, of the early elimination at the beginning of the championship, all the disappointment experienced by the characters who fail to achieve small conquests is always reflected to the public through a dramatic formality in small details.
The anime during matches gives a very significant importance to some more dramatic devices than the occasional one. There are several things happening at the same time in small details. The anime frames the scoreboar…
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Best anime series I have seen. I wanted to watch this because I finished watching Slam Dunk, and so, I wanted to find and watch an anime that involved basketball. Luckily, I found this anime. It had comedy and great animation when it came to playing basketball.
Hopefully, they make Season 2 of this. If they don't, then that would be sad. Plus I might get angry because I am not a fan of cancellations of anime series.
Anyway, waiting for Season 2.
Of course, reading the manga is another option, but I like seeing it animated and all. Hopefully, they do release Season 2. Of course, that involves every other anime series.
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as a self proclaimed hooper hooper, this story really hits right.
it feels very real and grounded, but still has those little anime touches. the characters are relatable and well developed (sometimes a little too much), and the whole high school sports brotherhood dynamic works really well. but the mediocre at best animation, the frequently drawn out games, and the at times sloppy direction (oh and that time nao said lifting makes you shorter, still mad about that), are what severely hurt this series. while for me it didn't affect my overall enjoyment too much, I can easily see someone who doesn't play basketball or casual fans being quickly turned off.
as for the actual basketball in the show, it varies between slideshow animation, slideshow animation with hype storylines, and slidesho…
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STORY (6/10): The story itself isn't bad, but the way that anime presents with that slow paced show, make it look worse. All the emotional parts was truly good for the development of the characters, but as I say before, the rhythm wasn't collaborating wtih what the story suggests. The major problem of the story is the pace.
ART (7/10): Some say that the art isn't good but for me, for what they purposed. This anime is NOT a sports anime, it's a drama anime surrounded by a sport background. Just see that even a single time the anime focus on the moves, but yet on the story of which character. The art is for a drama-comedy anime with a sports direction on the plot. That's why the art is good, because they clearly complete for what they purpose.
SOUND (6/10): The sound is very good when it…
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♚ ZORO Reviews:
Ahiru No Sora - Season 1 Review
Story Rating: [7/10]
A very generic story but that is to be expected of any sports anime.
Art Rating: [6/10]
The animation quality is poor and dull with nothing eye-catching. However, it isn't downright awful either.
Sound Rating: [8/10] Music is opinionated. However, I feel the music and soundtrack correlated well with the emotional aspect of this anime.
Character Rating: [9/10]
Broad range of personalities and each character brings something unique. You'd definitely build an emotional attachment to at least one of the characters.
Enjoyment Rating: [8/10]
A fun anime to watch if you are into character development and build emotional attachments to characters.
✭ OVERALL RATING: [8/10]
(I gave it a 10 just so the rating would go up as…
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Ahiru no Sora is no masterpiece. In fact, it honestly barely even qualifies as good. For a shounen sports anime, it’s distractingly lacking in its visuals, the character designs are rather ugly, and on most technical details it’s unremarkable at best. If any of the above sound like dealbreakers to you, then give this one a pass. If you’re more interested in the journey only a long shounen can offer, however, read on. This show may be exactly what you’re looking for. As an aside, I have not read the manga, this is my anime-only opinion.
The show’s strongest aspect is how it nails its premise, one which is unique by shounen standards (though considering the age of the genre I’m probably wrong on that). Kurumatani Sora is a skilled high school basketball player who is hampered by his short h…
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Ahiru no Sora is a coming of age story about how easy it is to live an uncomfortably aimless life, with a cast that struggles with how listless living such a life makes them due to their isolation from living a youthful life, social problems and their own apathy, with the series emphasizing the importance of breaking out of that apathy and struggling to find a passion in order to at least move forward, regardless of the excruciating difficulty that would follow. Basketball is the vehicle used to drive these characters forward and plays an important role in these characters finding a way to be reborn, but what the series emphasizes is a need for introspection in order to do something you truly love and can push you forward enough to give you a purpose in life, regardless of the mistakes one…
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My first long review
Story-6
It’s about a boy (SORA) who wants to form a basketball team where he finds it rather difficult because of the school he picked. Why did he choose this school? Well it was to be closer to his mom who we then learn was hospitalized, that’s basically the sum of it. However I will say later on in the story they really just drag the episode which gets annoying.
Art-5
It’s pretty ugly not going to lie but why a 5 you may ask? Simply for the fact that I can tell if it’s a character from this series by how it’s drawn this different to say the least.
Sound-6
They had maybe two decent good ops ,but what I really liked was the endings they had emotion every time you finished a episode if you get what I mean voice acting was good I’d say not the best but not bad but t…
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Subjectively the anime of the year. Such a unique one.Most of the goodness of Ahiru no Sora come from the realness of the characters. Each one has a rich lifestory and his own character. We assist to the whole mental process, grind and struggle they go through. Trust me you won't lose your time; I do not really understand these such negative comments, those may come from fans Kuroko's style, fulfilled with superpowers stuff. This anime shows us a realer side of basketball; it tooks a lot of time to progress, lot of struggle to get to the top. The art may not be as good as other animes, but the soundtrack, the openings & endings are pretty good. The overall story has is own kind of originality, especially after the third match. The 50 episodes make the pleasure last. Ahiru no Sora enters in…
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I loved the story of this show so much, the characters are the most real I've seen in a while; they make mistakes, they fall in love and they're not all perfect all the time.
and they feel like they're people I know in real life.
SPOILERS BELOW
In the entire show I don't think I've seen the team win once which as a person who played basketball for 3 years I say that's the most realistic thing ever basketball takes a lot of time to learn and not a sport you can perfect in a couple of month and it's a given that a new formed team will struggle just as much as they did especially the three who just started playing and them wanting to quit at the beginning is something I myself have went through and know to well.
The music is amazing I added all the Ops and Eds to my playlist and also the…
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TLDR Review at the bottom. Hopefully, that helped. Thanks for reading this review if you do.
Ahiru no Sora truly wanted to be something. Ahiru no Sora had the story, the characters, but with most Shounen anime, high episode count = bad. You know, the Toei Animation disease.
The problem with high episode counts is that there is too much room, way too much room. So much room that episodes get drawn out to add suspense for, well, “DON’T MISS OUT ON NEXT WEEK’S EPISODE”. With so much room you would probably expect a magnitude of plot devices here and there to keep the story somewhat entertaining, but instead, anime like so just stick to their ground with overdrawn development and action. It is almost as if the writers understood that there was no conceivable way to make a story out of somet…
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