Audience reviews
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Kranst
An entertaining premise tarnished by horrible production values. Action series often live or die depending on their animation quality. Moreover, most of these stories are narratively lacking, which delegates much of the heavy-lifting to the high-octane combat. Record of Ragnarok falls into the latter, with still frames, rotating images, and artificial movement littered throughout. Furthermore, whether from the original work or anime, the writing is average at best. Characters are hardly explored, backstories feel like inserted intermissions, concepts are loosely explained, and the overarching plot feels unimportant. The music is solid, but besides the absurd, referential matchups, there is little else here that works successfully.
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This anime is what happens when you take a promising concept/manga, the tell the studio to produce it with a tenth of the budget you initially promised.
Coming from a non manga reader, the entire concept seemed super enticing: Famous human in history fighting powerful Gods in mythology. The anime does a good job in providing flavourful and conceptually fresh designs for well know figures such as Loki or Jack the ripper.
Unfortunately this is almost all the good thing I can say about the anime.
I have heard previously that watching Record of Ragnarok is basically watching a PowerPoint presentation, and it was not wrong. So many frames are shown as still pictures toggling between one another where animation should have occurred instead. Even when animation did occur, it was neither flash…
Read at the sourceZenoXero
I've watched the anime record of ragnarok 50 times on netflix, in my opinion this anime is good but not very good.
Firstly, the story is anti-mainstream, where this anime tells a story about Gods fighting humans. Every 1000 years the Gods of each pantheon hold a conference to decide the fate of humanity. where in a conference the gods unanimously decided that humanity should be ended or destroyed. but at the last second before the verdict was approved, a Valkyrie intervened and put forward a bold proposal to let humans determine their fate by letting them fight the gods in a series of one-on-one battles to see if they deserved to continue to exist, called ragnarok. Ragnarok is humanity's final struggle against the gods. The incident is described in paragraph 15 of article no. 62 in the Va…
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Wow. This show is shite. I'm sorry. It's really really poor. I also want to make this clear too, though I will not post the review until I have finished it, I started writing it 5 minutes into episode 4 and finished it by the end. It is complete trash and will explain why
Story is all sorts of crap. Zeus and Odin, in the same story?! Who the f**k did the research for this. Shiva? F**king Shiva?! The introduction to the story starts abruptly, sadly, it doesn't finish as such. Within minutes, with no context, a tournament starts between Gods and Mortals. Despite its abrupt introduction, this should be great. Guess what though, you never will so I'll tell you, it's not good at all. It's cheesy but not in a funny way, it's dramatic but not in an exciting way and is essentially everything that…
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It's now 2022 and while many things change, my shitty anime taste apparently remains the same. I am honestly baffled why so many people have this on their lists for worst anime of 2021. It's honest to God not that bad. I was consistently entertained for 12 episodes and binged the entire show in 2 days.
Record of Ragnarok takes place in a world in which all the gods of all the various mythologies are real and Zeus from Greek mythology is the father of all gods and is also the God from the Abrahamic religions. The gods decide that humanity needs to be wiped out because the gods are capricious assholes, which is certainly accurate to Greek mythology. However, a Valkyrie from Norse mythology says that mankind should be given a fighting chance and arranges a tournament in which 13 gods fight a…
Read at the sourceReefMonkey
Never have I witnessed something that sets out with a single-minded focus on one thing and fails so utterly spectacularly at it. The only purpose of this story is to show off cool fights. This fighting anime has some of the most boring and uninteresting fights I have ever seen in an anime.
You also get the feeling they tried to rip off the Marvel comedy trope that has been very popular in media lately. However it is often simply awkward, out of place, and ruins the atmosphere of the scene.
Many characters are repeatedly built up and the show tries to make you care for them only to then give them to most pathetic, undeserved, and lazy deaths.
Do not waste your time with this trash.
Read at the sourceBompa
No spoilers review
I see a lot of people rating this anime with a 2/3. I mean, they are right in some point: this anime is not a masterpiece or something like that. However its one that its very enjoyable.
The character building sometimes is not the best but you can really get excited with the storys of Adan and Kojiro. I know I did. Mostly with Kojiro, who, in my opnion, had the best fight so far in the anime.
The animation is not bad at all for me but its not something like the demon slayer movie or Attack on Titan. I mean ¿you really expect something like that here? Making animations like that are expensive as hell. A lot of people complained about it saying thay the animation is really basic and low. I would give it a 7 for it. Its not as bad as the Nanatsu no Taizai but its not some…
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When AOT came out with horrid titan animation everyone said "it's fine because it's mappa" but when another studio comes out with something that isn't even bad and definitely stands above average it's going to be thrown into garbage can.
I'm really feed up with current anime industry and what they produce but Shuumatsu no Walküre is a really good anime, watched it all at once and had fun watching it and all i can hope for is second season to see Jack the Ripper fight. There's just no more than that, watch it and don't forget that this anime is entirely a tournament arc.
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Yeah, in all humanity history there is only chinese and japanese warriors. Very logical. The stories of characters were not good. And there is not even a proper fighting animation. I felt like watching a slideshow. When they're fighting they just show the spectators. Character appearances are very bad. Maybe there should be comedy in genres. I don't recommend this anime. It's just a waste of time.
I was expecting more from this. I didn't read manga but i think it is definitely better than anime. I'm very disappointed. I think netflix shouldn't make an anime. They're just using a bad CGI or making bad animations.
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Lest get straight to the point the show is totally mediocre.
I am not a fan of history and i find it Dreary, but still i like to watch anime related to history as it puts a entertaining aspect to it. I have seen and read both anime and manga which is related to history and religion but this is the first one which was able to put me to sleep with the very first episode. It was like i was back in the stupid history classes in school.
The starting was boring as hell, not enough backstory to the characters, the narration is dull and the animation is less than decent, only at certain times it can be called good. In the middle of the the series they try to go into the backstory a bit more but still too less details but the fight sequence was much better and in the final part they did a good jo…
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[ NON SPOILER REVIEW]
Wouldn't recommend this anime to anyone tbh even if you are going to binge watch it like i did.
So why is it that bad :
The character design and animations are kinda whack the animation is not consistent but not horrible.
Story was alright could've been more exciting if the pacing was better honestly and maybe replaced the last two fights with something else i felt they were poor I couldn't care less for most characters :( except for Aphrodite because you know :) XD but even her was kinda disappointing somehow !!!!!
The fighting in this anime overall is disappointing to say the least it started off good but literally after the first fight it went downhill for me specially since i had high expectations in the second fight but was disappointed beyond belief and bec…
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Before reading this, know that this opinion is coming from somebody who has read the manga, and I believe that my opinion will vastly differ from someone who has never read the manga. This is probably the most disappointing anime I have seen this year. The biggest problem with this anime is that the manga was too good, to the point where I had unreasonably high expectations.
Story: 3/10
Overall, the story follows that of the manga. However, the pacing was an issue, some of the iconic scenes in the manga didn't make it into the anime. Instead, focus on that annoying little valkyrie panicking over every little thing took priority even though it was clearly unnecessary. The same for the guy sounding the horn, nobody gives a shit about him. Gets a bit boring seeing predictable reactions after…
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Synthesis in two words: MANGA DISRESPECT.
Story: 8. Mangaka did an absolutely stunning job on that story. It´s entertaining, catching and innovative. If you like shounen battles combined with ancient history, myths and legends, this is for you. Of course by this I don´t refer to the adaptation.
Art: 1. Just speechless. Warner made the impossible to turn one of the best drawed manga to a simple powerpoint presentation. Astonishingly horrible.
Sound: 2. The perfect opportunity to insert epic OST and rocking OP and ED, was just took to make a mediocre soundtrack, a dull ending and an AC/DC wannabe opening that will pierce through your ears like a drill. In a bad way.
Character: 8. All characters are well introduced, have various personalities, strenghts and weaknesses. Of course, another…
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The anime is a slight disappointment. Then again it was done dirty for a quick cash grab by NETFLIX so yeah. To be fair, for the most part this anime holds true to the manga. The story, characters and generally events are the same. The only real problem was the animation. Record of Ragnarok being a fighting manga and anime deserved to at least have top tier fights but sadly it didn't. Why? I don't know. Even then I still managed to get hyped and look past that flaw.
Thor vs Lu Bu was a solid 7/10, a bit lower than the manga but not too bad.
Adam vs Zeus in the manga was pure perfection and 10/10 so sadly it fell down to about a 7.5/10.
And honestly, the best fight so far was Poseidon vs Sasaki Kojiro which I rate as a 8/10.
Not everything in this anime was just "mid" though. The music its…
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very disappointed in this
i had high expectations for this anime but they all crumbled down, so why do i find this anime disappointing?
first of the animation in this show very poor, there is hardly any animation used in this show, just still images, with shaky cam effect to make it look like there is a semblance of animation, now i'm not the type of person who thinks an anime is bad just because it lacked animation, but for a fighting anime like this, i really would have liked better animation than what we got
speaking of animations lets talk about the artstyle, for its lack of animations i will say the art style is very good for the most part, it is very detailed which does make it harder to animate
the sound of this show is also very good, but they do tend to repeat the same tra…
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No spoiler review!
This is my first review so don't get mad at me.
I think people hype this anime so much to the point where it didn't matter if it was good or bad, people will still be disappointed. In my opinion, it is a very good anime, I usually don't like slow-paced fights but for some reason, this anime did it so well that I enjoyed it and wanted to see more about each character. Also, I love the interactions between the characters fighting and how each fight is full of emotions, and the soundtracks perfectly match with what you’re watching.
I really love that this show takes the time to tell you a bit about each character, so you can empathize with them and is not just a God and human fighting. I find it fantastic that each fight has a plot weight since humanity is fighting to sur…
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Speaking from the perspective of someone who's been following AND loving the manga, this anime is a pathetic excuse of an adaptation.
The pacing of the story is awful, it goes too slow, spending too much screentime on the reactions and comments of less important and sometimes irrelevant side characters. I suppose the studio did so in the hopes that showing their reactions could somewhat build the tension of the anime till the climaxes of the fights. In vain, of course.
Their handling of the tension is shoddy since it all falls to nothing when the anime watchers patiently sit through boring side commentary, backstories and empty characters to be insulted with the most laziest fight scenes I have ever seen. How bout we just watch a powerpoint presentation? I'm willing to bet some talente…
Read at the sourceJoozboxx
I have read the manga previously so already had some expecations for what an extreme action type of show this could become. What i saw was the same powerpoint presentation as Promised Neverland s2 or House Husband. The fights where beyond subpar which was unexpected for, as i said, a literal FIGHTING ANIME.
The backstories of the characters are kinda fun but shouldnt have even been the main focus of the show. I want to disregard it but they literally made it like 80% of an episode. the other 20% are 10 fps GIFs they stuck together.
Overall this is a 2 because your main experience and excitement has been robbed for ez netflix cash grab
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[No Spoilers] If I'm going to be honest... I'm disappointed. I heard quite a few good things about this manga before the anime came out and now I doubt manga readers will be happy with the quality of this anime. This anime simply doesn't hold up to others like Baki or Kengen Ashura which fill the same category but remain better in everyway, now lets get into why. (1/10 scale)
Story: 4
The story of Record of Ragnarok is not very deep at all. The story is about 13 Valkyries and 13 of histories strongest humans teaming up to beat the gods in a tournament to save humanity. The story is basic but since most fighting anime like this have basic stories I gave its a higher score then it would get otherwise.
Art: 3
It looks like a slideshow... The actual characters and certain moments look pret…
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It's an anime made to show incredible fights. Its story is different, although it doesn't present any kind of complexity, it's direct and it does what it promises. The art and animation are decent, although they slack from time to time, it also has moments where they get amazing. As far as sound is concerned, it's very good, a fantastic opening and the atmosphere that is achieved in certain scenes is of a high level. The characters are interesting and endearing, since they start from existing characters and make small changes to them can achieve a great construction, although, of course, they lack originality. Adam is by far the best character it has, the philosophy he has is very well represented, and he is, even without being created from scratch, a very unique and particular character.…
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