Audience reviews
15 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
AlexAT
If to sum it in just 2 words: mildly boring.
Just don't if you have something better to watch. Handling 24 episodes of nothingness is tough enough, and "5" is a bit overrating it.
What's wrong with this one?
Lots.
First things first, normally you see the characters building, progressing and executing the plot. Actions lead to actions, decisions to decisions, and with a little bit of armor almost any plot usually starts to feel more or less natural.
But that's not the case with this one. Here plot lives completely separately, and it dominates. Characters are mostly doing their own thing whenever they can, and when the plot needs to progress, it takes these funny invisible strings and makes characters dance to progress further, disregarding all that happened two seconds ago. It is force…
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Midway through Season 1, a girl is being brutally abused by her mother when she claims she understands what she's going through because she found out the psychological term for it. This is enough to make her mother stop and break down in tears. This clunky, didactic scene exemplifies Blue Reflection Ray: a well meaning show that wants to say relevant things about teenage girls' hidden issues, but lacks the care and finesse to do so in a convincing way.
To be clear, this is not a Wonder Egg Priority we're dealing with. The writing issues are more its tendency towards convoluted soap opera / RPG melodrama than anything offensively bad. But the setup is an interesting one. For those who haven't played the first Blue Reflection game, first, you're not missing much because it's terrible. But R…
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Blue Reflection Ray Review. You should watch this Anime.
A fascinating show. The surface story is a well designed and plotted magical girl show where the protagonists try to protect other girls' negative feelings from being "consumed" by the antagonists for their own use.
But the show subverts anime tropes to create a sense of foreboding, and the way the show plays with the characters' perception of reality makes the viewer question everything they see. The theme of hundreds of girls and women living with social anxiety, depression, imposter syndrome and other mental health problems is a dark commentary on the mores and structures in modern society. And personalities, the way they act. Plus they can transform. The way they interact with the main Reflectors reminds me of how Haruka and Mic…
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"Another Good Unknown Anime"
Blue Reflection Ray is your tipic underrated anime that no one gives nothing and ends up being the best thing you've ever watched, although it takes a while to have that perception; It is divided in two halfs, two arcs and two different qualities.
The first half is what shows the most problems. The beginning is not one of those exciting ones, the characters are undistinguible by generic design without carisma like their personalites, a standard storytelling in the "Magic Girls" genre with all the "friendship power", "teamwork" and the old "Good and Evil" chiches being far of interesting, well, except for the drama. The drama is the first good reason to stay, it's intriguing, even with all the unnecessary parts to fill the episode, specially the girls interac…
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To the review above, Ik how u feel but ngl I actually kinda enjoyed watching it. I think it was a fine show, sure I understand the mc may be bland and that she’s a walking plot device but who cares. There are people who still care about things even if to others they do not like. I liked the story, the characters, and the plot. It was interesting and tbh I liked it way more then anything madoka magika has to offer. Madoka magika compared to assault Lily or Blue reflection ray is not that great, tbh I think madoka magika is prob one of the worst kind to have been made and Ik that’s something many and you may not like hearing, but to each their own opinion. Either way I’m going to stand by and say I liked this anime adaptation of the game. You can hate or dislike me all you want, but again th…
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Adolescence is usually a difficult period in most people’s lives and one that is marked by large changes in one’s environment, bonds and own self. A transitional period from childhood to adulthood, emotional surges and heartfelt moments become common occurrences as one goes through their day-by-day interactions. A turbulent time indeed, but one that is etched upon the heart. Whether the markings convey the branding of pain or the scribbles of happiness, it is a time that shapes us all.
Blue Reflection Ray tells the story of the energetic and genki Hiori Hirahara and awkwardly shy Ruka Hanari as they vow to protect the feelings of young women everywhere through the magical power of the “Reflectors”. Reflectors use the power of their own feelings to try to protect those of others, which ma…
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When I found Blue Reflection Ray, I watched an episode or two and decided it wasn't for me. This was well before I sunk my teeth into multiple magical girl shows such as Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Yuki Yuna is a Hero. With Crunchyroll announcing that an English dub was coming out almost a whole year after it's initial release, I decided to give it another go!
Minor trigger warning: This show does contain an instance of self harm and suicide, so please be wary of this, should you decide to watch. They're not really shoved in your face, but they are present, regardless.
Story: The main story line here is that everyone has a physical flower, deep within them that contain their human emotions, known as Fragments. These emotions include the strong ones such as grief, anger and sadness. Ref…
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I tend to stay away from the MAL page of show's I'm in the middle of. I don't like seeing ratings until I've seen a whole work and have come to my own conclusions about its quality. This might be the lowest rated show (in terms of its site-wide rating) that I've reviewed, and I find that absolutely baffling. Because I found this so, so surprising, and while it's far from perfect, I think it's so much better than its rating suggests.
Getting the bad out of the way, I imagine a lot of the low rating is its animation which is, to be clear, definitely rough. I think I see what they were going for with the art style, and I really like the watercolour stylisation that a lot of its characters and settings has. But, to be really generous, the actual character animation is... it's not great. Thing…
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This plot is decent, but it feels like it was stretched out too much. The start was also sub-optimal, as it was unclear what the story was even about until almost half the show had passed. The second half was an improvement, primarily because I actually knew what was happening. The series also has some decent slice of life episodes.
As for the ending, it was actually pretty good, the only disappointment being that the epilogue felt really rushed, and a few things were left unclear, presumably to promote the game.
The audio is amazing in most cases, with the op's and ed'd being some of my favorites of the season. Character design, while unusual, was also pretty nice, and their personalities were also fleshed out, and weren't 2 dimensional.
But the excessively slow start of the show is…
Read at the sourceSanaeK10
I do feel that this show has gotten kinda of a bad rap, especially by people who write 1/10 reviews for attention and publish them the moment a show ends in Japan before subs are even out. But Blue Reflection Ray has been a rather captivating, if flawed experience that actually made me interested in the greater franchise.
Full disclosure, I never played the original game, and without knowing the show is actually a sequel to the game's events and it fully expecting you to understand the plot of the first game, I didn't have a good time the first time through. After reading and watching a quick synopsis though, I began to appreciate the show more. The animation is lousy, and unlike Sonny Boy it doesn't have much of a cinematic flair to it to compensate for it. But perhaps because of that, I…
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This has to be one of the worst series I've watched in a good while. I'd have dropped it, but I thought "It'll improve!", in fact the first handful of episodes were pretty good, visually it stood out from other magical girl shows and it seemed like this would be a hit. It just falls into mediocrity however, leaving you to not care about the plot or characters ultimately.
I'll give them credit where it's clearly due. They try to present an emotionally mature story, but they fail to that, rather this "emotionally mature story" is just boring. Evil Magical Girls is a trope not done very often and I had so hoped this would have been interesting, but instead it just leads me to wonder how anyone thought this series needed to happen.
Animation wise it looks like they cheaped out after the…
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This anime feels like there's no passion put into it. Just about everything is lacking. From the plot, to the characters, to the animation... It's pretty much just a half-baked made anime. I won't even be surprised if this anime was made by a bunch of high school students as a side-project.
I feel like there's something that happened while watching this anime, but I don't remember. I sometimes think to myself whether I actually watched this anime everyweek since the only things I remember from this anime is "Onee-sama" or "Onee-chan" or pretty much just yuri-bait.
Well, even though I said all of these things, there are some things that I liked from this anime. The music is good. Oh wait, that's only one thing lmao
Welp, overall, it's okay. Probably? lol
(3.2/10)
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Blue Reflection Ray is an anime spinoff for the PS4/PC game Blue Reflection released in 2017. From my understanding none of the main characters (Yuzu and Lime are recurring side characters) and plot points carry over from the game, so it definitely qualifies as a spinoff that uses the concepts from the in-game universe but nothing else. So it should be fine watching this without playing the game. Disclaimer that I actually haven't played Blue Reflection, so someone who actually has can correct me on this because their opinion will be more valid than mine.
Getting into reviewing the actual anime, you have already probably noticed my score is very high for this show. This doesn't mean that this show is some hidden gem of an underrated masterpiece that I think literally everyone should be a…
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Recommendation: A strong mahou shoujo series if you can get past the terrible animation. The anime is standalone, it's neither an adaptation nor a sequel to the video game Blue Reflection, and features only a handful of characters from the game.
Story: A pair of magical girls called Reflectors, Ruka and Hiori, fight to protect other girls from a group of predatory Reflectors that try to steal their Fragments (analogous to a person's emotions or soul, they become emotionally dead and zombie like, and later fall into a coma without it). The story takes some wild turns (which I won't spoil) building off that premise, and ends up in a radically different place than where it starts. It's certainly never boring, though occasionally it gets a bit too convoluted or abstract to follow exactly what…
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You know what I hate about game adaptations? It's not the final product that's the anime itself, but the production staff, or more precisely anybody who has the cheek to say that they can prolong these works to something like a 2-cour show (meaning 24 to 26 episodes). Please Japan, even if you won't listen to the Western fans that we absolutely DO NOT NEED shows like this, at least please consider that making a show is not cheap at all, and you can make-do with another show that will serve your budget better and have a better audience reach.
I've never even heard of Blue Reflection the video game itself, but based off of Metacritic scores for the original 2017 game, it's "mixed to average reviews", but the same could not be said for the anime adaptation, which is a spin-off of the main se…
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