Audience reviews
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Comet_Official
Where do I even begin with this series... WELL I BOUGHT THE MANGA for STARTERS!!! When it comes to psychological anime especially in the detective realm like Psycho Pass I find it very hard to immerse myself in the world BUT with ID:Invaded I was HOOKED from episode 1 as not only where the characters interesting, the plot was intense and the action was nonstop ONLY separated by a compelling story from the perspective of the detective. I also really enjoyed most of the main cast of characters as they all got their chance to really shine outside of the MC.
If you are looking for a good murder mystery with a supernatural twist then you should DEFINITELY watch ID:Invaded
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One thing that really needs to be said, Yes, Psycho-Pass and ID: INVADED are similar, but that doesn't devalue the series. It's like comparing Black Clover and Mashle: Magic and Muscles. Great to start a argument about, but ultimately both are unique works even with some of the same plot points. Now moving onto the review...
Starting off with music/sound, Mr. Fixer by Sou (OP) & Other Side by MIYAVI (ED) are absolutely amazing, the tone and lyrics fit the series well, and it'd be nigh impossible to find better choices. The other music peices throughout are also very good, and well placed. So for as far as music's concerned NAZ did astonishingly. Even the other parts of sound design was nice, not nearly as much as the music but still good nonetheless.
Regarding the plot and characters...…
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For everything right this show does, it seems to also do something wrong. I've never felt more inclined to give anything else the middle of the road 5/10, but I opted for a 6, despite some embarrassing parts. It's a dark, edgy psychological anime with surreal and mind-bending elements. It's not entirely original, though, and many of the initial ideas felt highly familiar.
The core ideas appear to mostly be taken from Psycho-Pass: it's a police procedural wiith sci-fi elements, though it's very soft sci-fi; criminals are used for diving into ID wells, which is a representation of a person's subconscious, just as criminals are the enforcers in P-P; the wakumusubi is used to detect "cognitive particles"—otherwise a measure of one's intent to kill—is more or less the dominator gun; The Mizuh…
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Spectacularly stupid and sublimely dumb, this is definitely a complete waste of time UNLESS you can derive second-order humour from it's stunning lack of success. In respect to that though, it was honestly very entertaining. Almost everything here so transparently attempts to be smart, twisty, and gripping, and all of those attempts fail so completely that just seeing it all unravel was enough to keep me watching. Stupid pop-philosophy concepts are paraded about in dialogue that ranges from offensively trite, to hilariously essentialist/reductivist, to what basically amounts to the script-writers talking to each other about their ideas at the pub transplanted directly into the show. I have to assume that the plot is trying to surprise the viewer with all it's twists, reveals, and non-sequi…
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"can I copy your homework?" "yeah just use more than one show so it isn't obvious"
This anime is C-tier fan fiction at best. All of the theming is superficially (somewhat offensively) lifted from greater works which you should go watch instead of this amalgamated mess.
It was obvious from halfway through the first episode what all of the major plot elements and character beats were going to be. The reasonably good animation, OP, and ED kept me watching long enough to confirm them all and write this review:
Machiavellian bad guy director, magical criminal catching gun, obligate using criminal to catch other criminal, junior detective genki girl + senior detective ojisan pair -- psycho pass
Pseudo-science secret premonition girl floating in a pool guessing killer next victim before they…
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Split between a 4 and a 5 on this one. It's one of those sci-fis that tries its very darnest to jumble together elements from other, better, works but ends up becoming a cumbersome mess in the process.
Presentation? Wack (sub-par shots, mixed artwork and the most tone deaf music choice I've ever seen in my life. The Voice Acting is passable, I guess). Writing? Wack (No one's personality is well defined, from the protagonist, to the obvious twist villain, to the dude who, for no reason, cries like a Simp at the end. Heck, they deadass showed me the main dude's family for not even 8 minutes and still expected me to feel simpathy for that side of him. That's not how mafia works). Directing? Wack (stuff happens but none of it seems to feel important, also ruining the pacing in the process). T…
Read at the sourceFotsuan
Id:Invaded is one of Winter 2020's most debatable anime. The reason? Id:Invaded is not the typical police anime. It's a fascinating, thrilling and poetic mysterious journey. I'm calling it a journey because it feels like one; even if it's a fast-paced one cour anime. This surprisingly integrated show throws the watcher deep into the abyss of ingenious writer Otarou Maijou's thoughts. What made me personally distinguish this anime is that every episode was full; so full, that it felt like 35-40 minutes long. And trust me, it never got boring! This is all due to the famous director Ei Aoki and Studio NAZ, who made it possible to expose such a huge pile of thoughts in just 13 episodes.
The story is about a fictional world, where criminals' minds connect in a unique way. The Mizuhanome system…
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I really hated this. From episode 2, you already know the final boss and his motives are extremely cliché to the point where you can just guess it episode 2 and you'd be right. If you slow down and actually think about what they are saying when they reach most of their conclusions, it's a complete long shot guess other than the first solve. The worst one was the loli completely mapped out the exact disorder and relationships of a person from a single hug.
At one moment the "brilliant" detectives can solve a case with no logic while the next they need to spell out each letter before getting anywhere. This is a sad insult to detective stories with wasted talented animators and musicians. The pacing is just horrible.
The premise was cool at first, but then it went overboard with the little de…
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In brief, the story is about catching vicious murderers by diving inside their brain to find clues on how to identify them. The investigators basically go to a world created by the particles left from the murderer's killing intent. But while doing this, they find out that there is another manipulative villain out there, who might be responsible for making these murderers kill people. So now the chase begins to catch them.
The first thing I noticed was the commendable direction. A mystery anime needs to provide just enough clues/info to keep the viewers interested, but not too much so that most viewers figure out the mystery early *cough* erased *cough*. ID Invaded passed this test with flying colors. The mystery unfolded itself in a nice way which had me in the edge of my seat the whole t…
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Shows based on psychology need a very strong hand steering them.'Id:Invaded' delves into the subconscious of it's characters and that is an even tougher realm to tackle.I got very 'Psycho Pass'-ish vibes initially,however the show bears little resemblance beyond the genre,basic setting and one cute protagonist.
By means of a device that detects the killing instinct of a person and by collecting the leftover cognition particles,the 'Kura' investigation team outside the well recreates the criminal's subconscious.Through the help of the convicted but brilliant Akihito Narihisago,the team is able to gain useful clues and able to trace out a lot of information about the criminal using sophisticated algorithms and systems.The story opens with an unknown character literally breaking up in an unk…
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I’m a simple man and I’m not good with fancy words, so please turn away if you’re looking for some aesthetic manner of inner reflection on any anime.
For me Winter 2020 season was more like a Dull season since there weren’t many anticipated titles apart from Haikyuu and isekai quartet sequels. I started out with around 25 new anime (Out of curiosity ofc) and ended up dropping at least half of them. But yes, there were a few anime that were definitely worth watching and Id:Invaded is probably on the top of that list. It is heck of an anime and it stays true to its genres which are Sci-Fi, Mystery, Police and Psychological.
Story - 9/10
When genres like Sci-fi, Psychological and Mystery meets, one can easily imagine how dense it can get. The anime has a complex plot with a handful of ch…
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[Minor spoiler ahead]
What do you get when you mash well thought-out ideas from other great sci-fi cop shows into a stew and then leave that stew on a oven that's not turned on? A cold mess. ID:Invaded as a product is a cold mess. I can't help but try to understand what people are praising about this and wonder to myself if we even watched the same show. Yes, it's not awful and in a landscape of established IPs and forced squeals/remakes having an original anime come out is fantastic, but is the bar set so low that this show is considered good?
I suppose we should talk about the good first. Despite my initial bitching if you enjoy sci-fi/cop shows this anime isn't awful. It'll scratch that itch you have and maybe even keep you going with its case of the week (2 weeks) set-up for awhile.…
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"All humans do love beautiful things, even if they're terrifying."
ID:Invaded is a surreal-esque Sci-Fi show involving a protagonist identified as Sakaido, once a criminal himself, who ventures into the unconscious mind of serial killers, trying to find out the mystery behind the victim's deaths and the criminal's crimes.
Koharu is an incredibly intelligent, bold detective that helps with the crimes on the sidelines. She is simply amazing at decoding mysteries and vital to the show's progression.
Sakaido provides us with information about what even the culprit does not know about themself and proceeds to do so unconsciously, with each time providing an entirely different look at the crime to discover the killer's drive to kill. Using what is known as the Mizuhanome system, it sends him t…
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The character design for most of the characters are awful. The mystery of who John Walker was really only had 1 person it could have been, so there was no mystery in that. John Walker's motivation was very bland. The only character you even care about is Narihisago. I honestly can't tell you a single name of the characters that were working outside of the well, because they don't have a personality. The idea of the ID well is interesting, but there really wasnt any way for the viewers to try to solve the mystery of a well, except for having a character explain how they figured it out. Music and sound was serviceable.
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ID: Invaded starts off as a quite interesting detective anime where we follow the investigations on the culprit consciousness, or rather their "Id well". The brilliant detective Sakaido will wake up at a culprit's Id well with no memories whatsoever of his past, but he will be tied to a dead girl and she is responsible for being the conduit between this memoryless lost person to a brilliant detective to discover who killed that girl.
The first half of the series was quite interesting, a lot of people were theorising who could be John Walker, the mysterious figure that "creates" serial killers which the brilliant detective Sakaido - sorry if it sounds repetitive, but that's how they say on the anime - tries to arrest. And by half of the season, you can guess correctly who the main antagoni…
Read at the sourceEthan_07
“Sleep is very important.”
Half-way through the show, I chuckled on this scene. It sounds ridiculous without context, but being warped inside a world within an unconscious world, it has this heavy irony that comes with it. Like, it makes one afraid that everything is just not real after all. But at the same time, it sort of bring back an amazement of the setting that this world is enveloped in, as it gives the desire to seek for more info. That’s when it clicked.
ID: Invaded has this ability to construct a mind-bending story premise by intertwining reality and fantasy, but in a way, it doesn’t succumb to its own madness. It consists of sci-fi element that will mess with one’s morale and mystery that keeps one at the edge of the seat. However, even with twists, the plot doesn’t deviate a…
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In the (similar) words of Arkada (a.k.a Glass Reflection):
"What's the first thing you do in a new world? Wake up, look around and see the different settings of the world. You find the body of a young girl, dead-on-sight, you know who she is but not why and how she died, but all you know is that you're the brilliant detective, and this murder mystery is yours for the taking to solve and serve righteous justice."
With that, welcome to the world of ID:Invaded, famed director Ei Aoki's next series after his acclaimed shows (Fate/Zero, Aldnoah.Zero, Re:Creators) and teaming up with an unlikely overshadowed series composer Outarou Maijou for his work on "Drill Hole in the Brain" (which bears some striking resemblance which I'll share in a bit). This will be a very in-depth look and review, so…
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One of the most basic things that is taught in introductory psychology is of the ego, super-ego, and Id. they all play a part when it comes to the self with the ego being the consciousness, and the superego and id more or less being the unconscious. From what I've been told, a simple way of looking at it is like imagining them being the angel and demon sitting on someone's shoulder. The Id being the demon who bides the person into committing what can be considered bad acts. To act upon the carnal desire that is instinctive in us, to indulge in our sexual and aggressive drive as animals. The superego of course is the angel who doesn’t make us do good, but rather to constrain us from falling into our Id. The superego is society and culture, and the rules and lessons that we come to learn fro…
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Id:Invaded is a riveting enigma, an epic mystery, a shocking psycho-thriller. It meticulously places you on the edge of your seat only to mercilessly kick you off into the deepest depths of the abyss of contemplation. As soon as you’ve gotten over its hideously graphic imagery from unthinkable gore to appallingly creative torture, you’re buckled under its poignantly resonant character trauma if not whiplashed into pure blood-boiling hype by its abrasively awesome insert songs and mind boggling visual action. Its story is all genius, perplexing, and entrancing, and the characters who inhabit its irreplaceably unique structure imbue it with a fiercely unforgettable sense of identity inherent in their almost confounding amounts of esoteric conversation and characterization just oozing with de…
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ID: Invaded is a semi-episodic crime procedural, sci-fi anime, in line with shows like Ghost in the shell: sac and second gig as well as the more recent and trendy psycho-pass. The basic setup requires a lot of psychobabble to explain. There is an organization called a Kura, which is a highly functional unit that uses technology that detects remnant particles called "cognition particles" that serial killers leave behind. The cognition particles are only one part of this whole organizations scheme. There is also a machine called the Mizunohame, a big machine that allows serial killers to enter into this dreamscape called the id: well, a throwback to the theories of Sigmund Freud. In this well, they can put various pieces together to figure out exactly who is the murderer and the intentions…
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