Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
AdnanR
For me it's like a solid 7, why?
1. Story
It's interesting at first but still need more explanation. It's like adventure with comedy and serious moments but still lack of deep feelings or big motivation. Yes there's goals what they want to achieve but the ending still need something more.
2. Characters
Well, this is like nothing special because you can meet these kinds in many anime. Like the loud noisy one, shy one, brave, etc. Also the bad guys are pure evil that want to destroy everything and doesn't have any deep backstory.
3. Animation
It's normal in these years, not bad but not that great. 4. Overall
If you want to watch this, just watch it entire season in one day because if you stop in middle you may forget it or lazy to continue. There's action but not that much, it's focus on…
Read at the sourceLolitroy
I feel scammed.
Like many others, I was dazzled by the insane trailer, opening, and premise. Amidst a sea of power fantasy and/or power scaling cringe and/or isekai lay what I thought could be a genuinely underrated gem... but alas, no amount of bonkers concepts or imagery can cover mediocre execution.
The first episode was great. Concepts were presented with surprising subtlety, and the world seemed dreary without being melodramatic. For once, the protagonist wasn't some fake underdog who gets bullied and acquires great power after a near-death situation, but rather a terrorist with a huge ransom on his head whose skillset is archery that creates giant mushrooms on contact, a giant crab companion with chitin powered by plot armor, and inexplicable super strength. The co-protagonist is…
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Sabikui Bisco presents a fresh take on dystopia, but can be confusing at times.
It is a dystopian world built on the remains of a plague-ridden world which affects the lives of everyone - yet it seems to impact inconsistently throughout the show.
While a fair portion of the cast was interesting to begin with, the anime suffers from static characterization. Outside of Milo and Bisco, the cast gets majorly shafted in terms of development. Pawoo and Tirol get screen time, but their "growth" is tied to the interactions and personalities of the duo rather than being a product of change. This quickly gets them flattened in order to highlight Milo and Bisco. For the characters that DO get developed, it's relatively basic. Milo understands that his moral position won't succeed in protecting thos…
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Honestly, one of the most disappointing anime of its time.
The absolute hype train that was this anime's trailer and YouTuber reactions, especially Garnt's, which surfaced around the time when I first found out about the anime. And yet, after watching episode 1, you will either feel how stale these mushrooms are, or you will be high enough to keep on watching.
Garnt's First Reaction
(this is a YouTube video of a YouTuber reacting to a trailer of the anime)
Again, I am one of those people who truly believe that there is no bad anime, as every anime has its own very few people who truly believe their socially rejected anime is a 10/10, which is simply beautiful.
I just feel like my personal disappointment is leading to me being as harsh as I am. I do feel like it at least deserves a 3…
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Aah, the first 9 episodes are worth the watch for art and whimsy alone! This could have been more than a 7/10 anime but the plot sort of imploded on itself and lost it's way around epiosde 9. I didn't finish for a long time after watching episode 9 but came back to finish the last 4 episodes at 1.5 x speed just to say I finished it. The last four episodes were as dissapointing as I was expecting them to be, and really lacked the whimsical elements of the first 9 that had me hooked at first.
Best thing about this anime was the world building. Again, the first 9 episodes are worth the watch just for that alone. Not only was I intrigued by the Mushroom Keeper fighting style, but the slug planes, giant desert crabs, flying fish, and machine gun strapped hippos added so much whimsy to this wor…
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Except the final part of the anime, where asspull reigns supreme, Bisco is a great anime with a unique story going for it.
Also very pleasant animation for the eyes, with its unique style.
Character wise, some are cliched characters, tropes seen in many animes, but there are also other unique ones. Bisco, the main character, isn't anything new, but Milo, Tirol and Jabi are. Not fully new, but they have unique characters that seperates from the common mass of the tropes.
Opening and ending ost, great.
The problem with the last part is it seemed the author didn't know what to do with the two main characters. Many things that could have been handled a better way, so in the story they would make sense as well, but they were not coherently put together. Also i hate when, for plot reason, t…
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When I was watching this, the score for me, changes from time to time, it's either 6 or 7. I was actually enjoying it until episode 10, in episode 10, some bullshit happens then episode 11, even more bullshit happened, without those 2 bullshit plot, this is easily a 7, come on they'd put a somewhat logical plot here then throw it all away in the last episodes, I don't know if that's what really happened in the Light Novel and manga versions.
I somewhat love the characters, probably around 6 to me, some characters are inconsistent, my favorite character in the series doesn't even have a script, it isn't even human, yeah it's Actagawa.
If you're familiar with the "they'd pull off a fairy tail" then you know what BS I mean.
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A horde of ripped hippos with military artillery mounted on their backs stampede across the screen, making aim at a spiky haired archer riding on a colossal crab. An elderly man in the background takes aim and one-shots a hippo, causing the growth of a massive mushroom to rupture its skull. One phrase comes to mind:
"What the fuck?"
Sabikui Bisco is a hyper-crack acid ride that's inexplicably attractive because of its gritty and insane portrayal of a post-apocalyptic world. I don't want to divulge too much about the premise in light of the fact that there's no point; the entire point of a show like this is that it takes the viewer by surprise in how "out there" it is. Premise aside, it was really just one hell of a ride the whole way through. Though there were problems present with pacin…
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I really, REALLY tried to watch Sabikui Bisco in one sitting. I couldn't. It took me FOUR MONTHS to go through this and I lived to tell the tale..
.. of how shit this show is.
While Bisco is pounding that Panda bussy, let's reflect on the good times.
There weren't any good times.
This show started with a interesting setting but a incredibly stupid premise. A guy fighting "rust" with mushrooms. They are really running out of ideas in Japan I tell ya. I tried to do quick research on "Mushrooms and Rust" and ended up with results primarily from game Rust and people telling others to not eat them in Rust.
I was hoping to find some connection between Mushrooms and Rust, since I can't, I'm assuming the writer and director were high on shrooms when they came up with this stupid idea.
Art is…
Read at the sourceZanryu1337
Sabukui Bisco starts as many different things: an adventure, a story about wrongful conviction and the passing of the torch to a younger generation. But everything is thrown away at some point. It feels like every few minutes another writer entered the room, took the script and added something new, partially unrelated to it.
The story basically is about how the Japanese inhabitants deal with the fallout of a devastating attack, ushering in an age of stagnation. Meanwhile, Flora and Fauna prosper into new, partly bizarre forms which defy logic and physics. And while I commend the anime for this part of the world building, it lacks in every other department.
First of all, the world building is mostly reduced to its characters, as bigger concepts tend to be touched upon, but hardly ever expl…
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You know that meme where it's a drawing of a horse, where the back is drawn so well it's almost photo-realistic, but the front is a scribble by a 3 year old? Yeah that's this show.
Up until episode 6 or so, this was at least a 7.5/10 show. Charismatic characters, super interesting world building, and cool fight scenes. Plot development was reasonable, the world had a sense of mystery waiting to be explored. Characters were a little plot-armour heavy but otherwise an very engaging show.
Then they screwed the pooch. Suddenly no one dies except when the plot demands it (and spoiler: they don't stay dead either); gun shots and stab wounds are mere distractions; unlimited arrow work; characters traverse what was previous established to be great distances seeming in minutes. The show could h…
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This anime is horrible. This anime is an example of an amazing and unique concept, with an actual living world that the characters inhabit, TAINTED by the story and it's characters.
It would be easier to point out what the anime did okay, and that is it's world and it's OST. The world that the anime is set in is genuinely unique and captivating, it feels like there's genuine care put in to show and tell a world that is full of the breath of life. The OST further complements the world, and it's genuinely enjoyable. Neither of these are masterpiece material, but ya know, it's alright.
Suspension of disbelief only works for so long, and the viewer can only accept so much before they call BS on the work. The characters go from doing Infinite IQ moves to being dumber than a piece of floating…
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I suppose this review won't be much different from others.
The concept of this anime is really good, the world has a lot of potential. Sadly the story was butchered and left to bleed out on the street.
Myself i love the art and sound in this anime and was probably the only reason i have finished it, the art and sound are to good to skip it. The voice actors are great too. If only they put more effor into a story. This is like you would play an alpha version of a game that has amazing graphics and sound, but has no story at all...
The story feels bad for 2 reasons, it is strongly rushed and also it has many plot holes, but the plot holes come from the fact that it is rushed i don't know how the source material presents itself so i can't speak about it, maybe it is not rushed at all but…
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Tragically, Sabikui Bisco falls under that pile of anime that I wanted to like because of how interesting and weird it started out. I was won over by the soundtrack and how easily it elevated any fight scene it got used in. Bisco is a hot headed protagonist which is better than the usually morally obsessed crybaby main character that is often seen instead, and yet there wasn't really much to any of the characters. The antagonist was annoying, and only appealed to me because he was graced by the voice talent of Kenjirou Tsuda. Honestly, they should have just gotten rid of him early on and introduced a better threat. It sort of pains me to dig into this series this way, but I can only take so many obnoxious fake out deaths that felt they dragged on the story, and character models getting roc…
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The start of Sabikui Bisco promised a relaxing dumb show with a bunch of random stuff that would leave something to care about after each episode. Sadly, the anime ended up being just as dumb, pointless, and insubstantial as anticipated, while also turning in an unintelligible convoluted attempt to evoke emotions out of nowhere, which derived in forgettable climaxes, emotionless speeches, and vain asspulls.
The flaws of the anime are all over the place. The complete premise of it gets denser once it gets further elaborated, being basically the equivalent of a Big Pharma conspiracy, narrating a discourse that not even the most braindead user of LateStageCapitalism would eat, and amplifying such flaw by not imposing any sort of coherency to the world, since the whole issue can be reduced t…
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Whether you accept the standards of today's light novel adaptations as they are, we should at least all agree that Sabiuki Bisco attempts to try something different. Rather than high school romances or about a protagonist out to save the world, we get a protagonist trying to find a legendary mushroom with capabilities to devour all rust. This may sound confusing at first but trust me, as the story unfolds, it becomes more clear why Bisco is motivated by his actions. But first, we must ask ourselves if this type of story is worth a follow.
Apparently, the light novel series have been quite popular, as it topped rankings on the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! list. Watching Sabiuki Bisco gave me a peculiar impression at first because the show itself does have a fascinating world setting. It look…
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In most shows I've reviewed, I primarily focus on the enjoyment and aspects that I noticed when I watched the show. If the show has terrible characters, then I would state that, if it has sluggish animation, I would say that too. However, most of that is put in particular aspects in which anything referring to art would be talked about the artistic backgrounds and designs of our characters.
For this particular case, I want to make a different approach to this anime called Sabikui Bisco and make a full-fledged review, vastly different from what I have written. Without further ado, time to start.
"I love you."
Ah yes, Sabikui Bisco. When I first looked at the trailer, I thought I was promised an intriguing world filled with mysteries and bizarre details that caused the world they lived in…
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Anime can be anything it desires: fun, excitement, unhinged, and vice versa, that showcases itself as an intriguing enigma that goes left, right, center and out. That's even more so for shows that have cool and creative post-apocalyptic worlds that are a dime a dozen, especially for those Mad Max-esque sand-blast wasteland worlds from Trigun; Now and Then, Here and There to the more recent hit of Deca-Dence. And to properly describe what newbie novelist Shinji Cobkubo has done with Sabikui Bisco, is anything BUT simple. And being the very first LN to rank No. 1 in Takarajimasha's Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! a.k.a "This Light Novel is Amazing!" annual guide book back in 2018, it's safe to say that an anime adaptation of this is pertinent at any point, and we got it, courtesy of some very not…
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Before reading id recommend Watching the trailer, and you'd immediately know whether it's a hit or a miss for you.I can confirm the Soundtrack in the anime is on the same level. this is one of those few times that a trailer is so good that it gives you a proper taste of what's to come and also hype you up for it
Sabikui Bisco is a sleeper hit shounen BUT,
The final few episodes proved it is STILL a SHOUNEN anime :” D
Now, Let me bring up my fucking shounen chart
Worldbuilding — probably the best in a very long time
Power up with screamfest? —less
Plot armor? —more than kirito
Nakama no chikara (power of friendship?) —naruto will be proud
Generic power system world and MC starts weak? —no
Main rival? —none
Teacher? —nope
Waifu? — God tier and also legal!
So it is clearly a min-max build…
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Sabikui Bisco is a prime example of “You had me in the first half”. What started out as a unique and gritty looking story in the first few episodes, became an extremely convoluted one full of plot holes and errors that made it a drag to watch. The build up to the climax of this show was great, but the climax itself was one of the most disappointing things I have seen in a while, and that’s truly a shame.
My grading criteria: Story: /25 Art: /10 Music: /10 Characters: /20 Enjoyment /15 Thematic Execution /20
STORY: 8.5/25
At the outset, this seemed like an interesting concept. In a dystopian society called Imihama that was ravaged by rust, we see Milo, our character, live his life by investigating this “rust disease” and treating patients at a clinic. We see the seemingly scheming govern…
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