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daaphish
*No spoilers*
This review is for the anime, Ingress the Animation, and does not reference the Ingress mobile game.
Summary
Ingress the Animation is an anime series based off a mobile game called Ingress. This adaptation follows Makoto Midorikawa, a rookie, and other characters such as Sara Coppola and Jack Norman, as they traverse a battle between corporations and factions. This story incorporates the fantasy power of Exotic Matter (XM) to supply special abilities as chaos ensues. Ingress the Animation follows the same tropes as other action and fantasy tales, and it does so with mediocrity. If you enjoy action, this may be interesting; however, the story and characters are unexceptional at best, and the overall quality of this anime is below-average.
Story: 5/10
The story of Ingress the…
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A typical complaint from me is that a beloved story or a well-crafted plot gets a poor anime production, or the anime just doesn't live up to the hype. For Ingress the Animation, I felt like the animation part was fine, but it was in dire need of a better story. And there you have a basic problem for any movie or anime based on a video game. What makes a good video game does not usually make for a good anime or movie.
I don't play video games, and I've never heard of Ingress the Game. But I do watch anime. This anime is a big tease. They tease us with outlines of characters that look great, and the animation itself is fine. But the story is kind of one big letdown after another. It's not intentionally bad, it just doesn't have anything to make you glad for the time you spent on it. The en…
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Honestly, the first thing that came to mind watching this series was, well... the influx of cheap licensed cartoons that flooded the U.S. in the early 80s, like G.I. Joe, My Little Pony, Transformers... mostly in the fact that this series was made, pretty much, just to sell the game and get more people to download it.
The plot is pretty darn generic- pretty much Unassuming Local Bumpkin gets invited into this whole creepy underworld of Ingress, where he meets Plucky Blonde Love Interest who has some reason why Generic Evil Bunch is chasing her. Along the way, he has to fend off Tsundere Frenemy Guy from the opposite faction, who is out for his own ends and decides to kill Unassuming Local Bumpkin because he's the opposite faction, even while on the lookout for his Long-Lost Bestie, who d…
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Before i watched ingress i had never heard about it's game.So honestly i went in blind, not knowing what it was .It's a decent Anime for sure . The story isn't too deep or complex it's all out there. I tend to have fun instead look for my shows to be perfect because i know that most Writers try their best , and the Writers in this show did as well. Converting a Mobile game into an Adaptation like this comes with more challenges than we can imagine, but the journey that the characters go on is interesting to say at least.It's nothing special and i understand why people might not like it but it has it's good points,i sure as hell enjoyed it , it's nothing i'm gonna miss of course but it was fun to watch.
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Now this is a rather unique case of where i really wanted to like this show!
As a sci-fi fan i thought this show could be something interesting ...and to be honest, it was and wasnt at the same time! It an anime with so much lost potential that i was rather disappointed with how they had produced the show.
The world building was done really well compared to some of the other other sci fi anime out there with no "because its anime" logic. The premise and the stage was set, what failed sadly was the execution!
the 3d gci was absolutely atrocious making the character feel unnatural and rather charmless. Even though each character has their own unique traits, the animation is where this show failed to utilize the story line!
The concept was fascinating and i do hope they ditch the whole…
Read at the sourceMapleKoala
Having watched a variety of anime, I was interested in how the Ingress game could be adapted into its anime form. There are some spoilers below, but I have avoided the main ones.
Story: I don't dock points from Japanese anime for being predictable so I'm not going to do it here either. Yes, the story was pretty predictable and not all that exciting or original. There are some interesting twists here and there but for the most part it's standard anime storyline.
Art: Decent art, they definitely had a limited budget but they also have consistent action scenes that drive the story along. Those eat up budget and they definitely did not slow down the story just to improve CGI in some scenes.
Sound: Great acting, didn't notice anything out of place.
Character: Here's where I like the show t…
Read at the sourceSasori_Nagashi
I know little to nothing about the history or production of either Ingress the Game or Ingress the Animation so my assumptions may well be off, however this anime reeks of a soulless promotion piece. A piece of animation made with no intention of actually being good, with no passion to tell a tale. A piece of animation made solely to promote a video game, which I never played.
Ingress the Animation is really unique... It's rare to stumble upon something with this much raw suckage. This anime features truly horrendous CGI in a time where ugly, cheap CGI is becoming commonplace with the only anime I have yet seen holding it back from the throne of ugliest anime of all time being Berserk 2016.
The main cast are made up of extremely by-the-books cliche characters such as the hardened bodygua…
Read at the sourceFraell
This is a short review
Art/Animation: 3/10
The animation is bad. It was made by computer. It is CGY and not good one.
The mood of the sceens are often ruin because of the bad animation.
Sound/VA: 7/10
It is nothing spectacular but it is not bad.
Story: 5/10 The story is simple and very straight forward.
Even if the story is a bit cliché it is still enjoyable.
Character: 4/10
The character are bland and never change in the series.
Overall: 5/10
You can have a good time watching this, but you will have forgotten about it tomorrow.
I will definetly nerver watch it again though.
Read at the sourceBananaFurikake
I just binge watched this on Netflix. I won’t repeat what others said but the storyline is “ok”- I did find it a little on the hokey side but I can forgive it somewhat for being based on a game. I did end up liking the characters though I do think that the portrayal of some of the “indigenous” folks was a little unfortunate in their one dimensionality. What really got to me was the translation of the subtitles. They were laughably bad to the point that there was sometimes zero connection between what the characters said in Japanese to the subtitle text. To me it ended up distracting and disappointing.
Read at the sourceKams335
*The first paragraph is about the game in which inspired this anime and how it relates to the original game so skip to the second paragraph if you want*
As a fairly long time player of Ingress (The game that came out in 2013 and that i started playing in 2016) I have got to say that most people who haven't played the game won't get everything straight away or be able to understand some game terminology but it explains it in a fairly simple way. I liked the way they used sounds from the actual game as well as footage from the re-booted version of the game. The ending theme shows real life pictures which sums up the game's social aspect. It was basically like a hype thing for a in game event that aired in Japan before the event and *SPOILERS FOR THE END* basically summed up the event for ev…
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Netflix is filled with very average and even under average animes. Because of my previous experiences with the so called "Netflix Originals" I honestly did not expect much, and yet this serie is worst that I thought.
Story: 4/10
This anime is set up in a regular present world where certain groups found a phenomena which could affect the entire world. Basically there is a form of energy which some special people can use in order to improve unnatural abilities. This "energy" is divided in two fractions, the Enlightened and the Resistance. These two groups have different perspectives and opinions about this energy and how to use it, causing conflicts and fights between each other.
In order to have an advantage over the other fraction, a group has to conquer real physical places just like P…
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Hello there - as Danish Netflix finally decided to put Ingress onto its page, I decided to go watch it for fun.
Before starting on the review I want to note that I have played the game for a couple of years and therefore have some knowledge towards what's happening and how the game works. Even so, I went into this with low expectations and sadly the anime didn't do much to make me regret my expectation level.
On to the review:
Story and Plot: 3
The anime is set in an ordinary world, where a game Ingress flows around. The game contains certain portals for different factions enlightened and resistance that can be fought over between the 2 teams. The series do very little to explain stuff early on so it seems like a big mess, where we just see a lot of chaotic fighting scenes and people bei…
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At first two diclaimers: I am not a fan of 3D-CGI-animated series. And I didn't play the game Ingress, so I have no knowledge of the story in there.
Story (6/10):
World conspiracy is a theme that is used quite often in anime lately, so the story is nothing special. Some plotholes are there, but in general it's done quite fine. The last two episodes are a bit over the top, and I didn't like the end at all, but that's just my opinion. The plot twists were predictable, at least if you understood what's going on. Even the post-credit-scene in the last episode was no surprise... Maybe that's because I am already fed up with "hey, let's save the world all together"-plots.
Art (5/10):
Yeah, it's 3D-CGI. That means badly drawn figures and movements, but also really nice backgrounds and landscape…
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"Now that Netflix has released two garbage-tier cop shows with supernatural elements in a row, I wonder what they gonna do next..."
Ingress the Animation is the third cop show with supernatural elements Netflix has decided to release this year, but it's not exactly as awful as the other two. I have absolute no idea who is greenlighting these, but please, stop.
Characters:
We have 3 main leads here and they are called: Jack Norman, but I will proceed to call him Jack Normal in this review because he is so Normal that even his first name is Jack. Sarah Coppola -- whose last name, indeed, is of American origin and which has the word "Cop" in it because that's the only witty thing regarding this show. There is also another dude here (third character in case someone lost the count) who has a…
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Review might contain small spoilers/references. Watched this with the Italian sub. Also never played the game this is based on, so my review judges what I've seen animated and not if it follows the source material.
This show is a mixed bag in my opinion. First, if you dislike fully CGI anime (such as Ajin) this might not be for you. All the characters are done in CGI, it's not bad, but not really good either. Sometimes the movement, especially during walking or talking feels and looks weird. Backgrounds and action scenes are nicely made, car chases care also animated nicely in CGI.
Plot is where this show is a bit bad, contains some cliches like Chinese character is bad guy planning to take over the world. Worse is that characters seem to die /sacrifice themselves in impossible to get o…
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