Audience reviews
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Started strong, ended up leaving me rather disappointed.
The opening episodes were so peak that I was telling friends to watch it. By the end of the first half, I was cautiously optimistic. By the time I finished the anime, I had to put out retraction notices on the recommendation.
The key downfall of this anime is the massive tone shift between setting up the horror/suspense/thriller environment through the first half of the anime and then ditching it for a generic shounen without any of the oomph or style you get from a battle-driven anime, leaving it in the sad void of generic-land.
The characters are alright, although they seem to get power-ups and start losing their intellect as the plot nears the conclusion.
As for the positives, the setting and the first episodes are peak.
In…
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Summertime Render promised to be The Thing mixed with Groundhog Day; an island where you couldn’t tell friend from foe, and the protagonist would have to utilise their death to figure out how to navigate the threat. It was made for me. Sadly, the reality is that the show abandons this concept almost immediately. The protagonist so quickly gains a method to detect shadows that you wonder the point of the concept, just make them generic monsters and you get the same thing.
This show feels like a microcosm of all the problems in anime. It can’t make up its mind whether it wants to be a drama, a comedy, or softcore porn featuring children. It doesn’t excel at either of the first two, and the last one is just a hill that anime insists on dying on. The writing doesn’t understand how to portray…
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Summertime Render could have been a great gem, but the story ended up getting the thrown into the mud in the second half of the show. Many viewers will be very disappointed towards the end of the show for the uncreative and anti-climatic storyline.
Score for the first half the story: 9/10
-3 points for the storyline in the second half that cut too many corners just to finish the show.
-1 points for the sexualization of females. Panties and swimsuit-everywhere are unnecessary for a great story. Not to mention that it is disrespectful to females.
Hence the overall score: 5/10
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Summertime Render is almost a tale of two different anime. For the first third or so of the show, maybe even the first half, I was largely glued to my seat. It had the right blend of mystery, action, genuine creepiness and plot twists that were still within the realm of normal human comprehension. The latter half, however, goes completely off the rails and continuously tries to one-up itself over and over again until the plot is so bloated, convoluted, over the top and hard to follow that it just feels like a mess. It absolutely tries to do way too much rather than simply sticking with what was already working.
The anime is modern, having only come out in 2022, and therefore looks nice. It's not THE prettiest anime I've ever seen, but it's far from ugly, and the action scenes in particula…
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Didn't expect a sci-fi series to start dragon ball lvl fighting whereas the enemy is literally madara lvl. Shinpei would've been wiped out within first 10 EPs. The story dragged just bcz of pure plot armors
I appreciate the anime though for the good plot and bringing a concept like time travel. And you bring time travel things get pretty complicated as our human mind didn't reach that level (proof is steins gate). Steins gate was sci-fi focused. It discussed about time leapp, time travel, timelines, butterfly effect etc. But if you are here to enjoy those concepts then sorry you are in the wrong place .
Ending was top notch though. It's been a long time seen an anime with a wholesome and expected ending. The romance was really good. But in the end story development really disappointed me.…
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Summertime Render hooked me in because of the mystery angle, and kept me there as that premise developed further in the first third of the anime. And the mechanic that Shinpei is able to leverage, while certainly not unique, is always a fun one to imagine and play with.
However, as the anime progresses, the level of convolution to the lore which explains this mechanic and related phenomena ends up being off the charts. I felt extremely bogged down by this in the latter third of the anime and couldn't enjoy the story. Maybe that's because the story in the latter third ends up being fantastical to the point of stupidity. Complexity in order to cover for a lackluster story always leaves me feeling angry and confused, and that was definitely the case here with Summertime Render.
Unfortunate…
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This anime starts out strong. Good characters, interesting mystery, very nice aesthetic. It has one major flaw which makes it pretty obvious by the middle of the season that it is going to flop really hard by the end. And that obvious flaw is the really soft magic system.
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It became really boring really fast to watch our heroes overcome their adversaries just to have a "cliffhanger" at the end of every episode because "HAHA bet you didn't see that coming!!" and then the series casually changes the rules of the game as we move along. By the end of the first half of the season, it is genuinely difficult to keep in mind all the abilities the foes have and all the things they (somehow) know about. Kills the vibe by mid season. An unsatisfying ending seems inevitable, but boy howd…
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Rarely have I seen a 10/10 anime go bad so fast. The plot is solid until about episode 5-6, then it's all ass pulls from there. No spoilers but lord its just every episode something totally new and not foreshadowed becomes the next plot point.
Imagine you get attacked by wild dogs at the start of the episode then halfway through some side character reveals they have a never before seen anti-wild-dog beam vision. Thats basically the whole second half of the show.
First 5 episodes were elite!
Went from cool reveals that made sense, the MC reasons the mysterys and explores to gain more info. To reveals just being told to us. Hopefully the manga layed things out better. But the anime just gets so lazy. Characters just get buffed and debuffed randomly for plot purposes. Random power ups. Pe…
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The Lore was 10/10, everything else was trash.
Story:
As you read the theme, it's time travel. Only a few animes can do time travel right, and this anime is not one of them. The author tries to level up the time travel premise but sometimes completely neglect learned information and claims flawed logic as correct to look cool but only serves to induce rage for any expectation you ever had.
Character:
Shinpei is a superficially pretentious character that always justifies he's right and cool, and in some parts, the embodiment of an adolescent Japanese boy daydreamer. Every other character around him is much more mature and collected. The main villain is also extremely generic with no redeeming motive.
Art:
Shinpei and the main villain are drawn so generic in a certain personality style it…
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When I started writing this review, I was a little more generous than I think it deserves. This anime deserves a D, it just barely passes the bar, and I would not recommend it, even conditionally, to anyone.
Summer Time Rendering is ultimately a grab bag of fun sci-fi for young adults mainstays, *rendered* in as cheap and juvenile a way as you possibly could. There is no point throughout the show where you will not be held by the hand, with CONSTANT over-explanation of everything: not only pertaining to the mystery at hand, but all aspects down to every thought of, well, not even just the protagonist, literally whoever is the current PoV will be monologuing at you. The show does its damnedest to make sure you don't have to worry your poor little head with things like interpreting what is…
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Summertime Rendering has one of the single greatest premises to a mystery anime I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately it completely abandons the whole “murder mystery” part of its plot.
Effectively the idea is that our main character gets the ability to return back in time to a specific point, the catch being that the point gets later and later as time progresses. For example if he dies once than he’ll be sent back to the beginning of the show, but the next death may send him a couple hours into the future.
This is absolutely brilliant because it allows the character to make mistakes, but still gives a sense of urgency knowing he can’t make too many mistakes.
The show starts out great, MC hears his friend drowned, MC goes to funeral, and MC learns that she may not have drowned but actually been…
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Summertime Render
I don't know if I wanted to praise the anime for the fact that I could hardly stop watching it. Or to express my sadness about how this show got worse and worse with each episode. This is of course often the case that series lose quality over time, but here it was impressively fast. Especially from episode 19 on, you couldn't talk about quality anymore, it felt like the writer was changed and some amateur grabbed his chair.
And the golden rule... if in an interesting anime, a white-haired evil loli with different colored eyes appears, then you already know that the anime is going to be bad. It's the same thing over and over again.
[Story 4]
The main topic of Summertime Render has everything a heart desires. It has a mystic atmosphere, unexplainable murders, good pa…
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Somewhat interesting Groundhog's day mystery, but the step-sibling love triangle was completely unnecessary (literally could have made them neighbors/childhood friends and nothing would change with the story). The fact that the show bends over backwards (and reality) to make it a thing is even worse.
The animation is fine, nothing too dynamic that we haven't seen before. Main character is a blank slate, secondary characters even more so except for the writer because of her backstory.
Characters (since we are dealing with time loops) do learn their lessons, but it feels like in the later episodes the show tries way too hard to outdo the cleverness of the villains. And to make up for that random boosts of power/abilities are given to some of the lead characters so they don't get trampled…
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I was really hoping the ending would live up to more than it did. I wanted so bad to be proven wrong about how generic this show felt. Honestly, if watching the ending alone has about the same impact as watching all 25 episodes, maybe the plot isn't quite as tight as it needs to be to pull off a time loop story. Personally I wasn't a fan of how the story was handled from very early on; the chain of events felt hollow and convenient, and the characterization is about as one-dimensional as it gets. But even despite that, I thought that a really interesting ending could make up for it all. Sadly, this was not the case.
Other than that, art was quite solid at most parts (though strikingly off-putting when showing the characters from a distance), and some of the music was cool (namely first ha…
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Time loop stories are no easy type to write and most of the times they leave viewers unsatisfied. Its extremely hard to execute such tale well that would leave little to no complaints. To my eyes, however Summer Time Rendering has managed to provide and enjoyable experience from start to finish that I would gladly return to in the recent future. Let us embark on a journey to Hitogashima where various secrets lie beneath that will change the person striving to render for a new tomorrow.
Characters are important factors in a story and its mostly due to them that we keep enjoying a tale. If they are not interested or engaging in are eyes then we as viewers would have less incentive to keep following them but if the opposite happens then we gladly continue observe their every move and get inv…
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Summertime Render an anime that manages to go from a pretty good anime to a real shit one real quick, this review will contain no spoilers.
To summarize summertime render is about this guy called Shinpei who visits his hometown to attend the funeral of his adoptive sister Ushio although soon after arriving he discovers that foul play may have been involved with these creatures' called shadows as the suspect.
Story 4/10
The story of this show starts of strong hooking you in with an intriguing mystery of these ominous creatures called shadows. This continues for a couple more episodes with each episode getting better than last although this trend soon ends first with the fact that they just reveal the 2 main villains right of the bat. From then on it pretty much just goes from mystery a…
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Summertime Render is a time travel story. As many other time travel stories do, it capitalizes heavily on the idea of cognizant recurrence and the horror related to it. As far as time travel stories go, I think Summertime Render is very strong, and easily one of the most ambitious anime that I have ever seen.
It’s difficult to assess the quality of plots in anime that have to do with time travel due to their inherent scientific (and often purely logical) faults with random semantic details, which may or may not even be worth docking credit off the whole. It’s often the case that some paradox or convenience that comes to light instantly demerits everything that the anime in question may stand for altogether. I hate to think that such “problems” actually have a bearing on the entirety of an…
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Imagine if you crossed Higurashi with Erased and dialed up the production values by several points, you would essentially get Summertime Render. I went into this anime without any real expectations, the source material was not one I had previously read, and I assumed this was going to be another poorly made horror anime given the description. However, I was pleasantly surprised, while not original in concept, STR is one of the most well executed psychological thriller anime produced to date, with a great cast and stellar production. This review will expand on why I personally thought this series was excellent and will attempt to provide an answer as to why this anime is overall worth watching along with explanations on the aspects at which it excelled and what it overall lacked.
The singl…
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Ya can’t just act on instinct and expect things to work out.
Anger, frustration
View them objectively and they become weapons.
- Ajiro Shinpei.
From the outset, Summertime Rendering has the air of a slice-of-life anime with a lighthearted and clean story. But as the story goes on, one can find themselves drawn into a storyline that is amazingly intriguing and engaging.
I began reading the manga just after the sixteenth episode aired; the chapters were short, and I was able to finish it in a few days.
The excellent thing about this anime is that it adapts the whole manga; the 139 chapters of the manga are covered in all 25 episodes.
There are no cliffhangers, and a new season is not required.
Additionally, the plot is fantastic, and the show's premise is quite unique.
Story: 10/10
Animat…
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The art of mystery is always a tough thing to achieve perfectly. It’s one thing to be suspenseful, a bit scary, and leave viewers at the edge of their seat, but to have the story done without convolutions or questionable points is what’s difficult. This show looks great, and is pretty good in showing off its brutal moments, but has its share of questionable moments that took away a little from the immersion. For the most part, this show was pretty good, but as it went on, it kept losing steam towards the finish and sputtered to an ending that probably could have been better.
My grading criteria: Story: /25 Art: /10 Music: /10 Characters: /20 Enjoyment /15 Thematic Execution /20
STORY: 17.5/25
The story at first, was very engaging, and Episode 1 was a great hook to the series. The myster…
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