Introduction
In the year 2020, a nation faces the pervasive threat of the "Others"—mysterious monsters who fall from the sky and feed on human brains. At the same time, psionics, a hormone that gives certain people extrasensory abilities that are effective against the Others, is discovered in the human body. Subsequently, the nation's founder establishes the Other Suppression Force (OSF) to combat these monsters and save humanity. Commonly referred to as the Scarlet Guardians, young individuals with psionics undergo intensive training to join this group.
One day, the nation prepares an induction ceremony for the exceptional recruits who completed the grueling training to become Scarlet Guardians. Among these young elites is Yuito Sumeragi, the determined son of the nation's founder; at the age of five, he was rescued by a woman in the OSF. To repay this debt, he joins the organization, eager to put his training to good use. As he meets his new comrades, he faces a big problem—the woman who saved him years ago closely resembles one of his teammates. However, this should be the least of his worries—unbeknownst to him, a conspiracy is brewing, one with the capability to shake the entire country.
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Audience reviews
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AmetrineIX
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Scarlet Nexus (2021)
I actually really enjoyed this one! The characters were probably my favorite part, and I liked watching their relationships develop as everything started coming together.
Art style is the typical type for this time frame that it came out so nothing crazy on that.
The story was interesting, but I’ll admit some of the lore had me LOST. 😂 Between the whole “Mother” situation, time travel, experiments, and everyone’s connections to each other, there were definitely moments where I was like… wait, WHAT?!
Still, the action was good, the characters kept me invested, and overall it was a fun watch. I’d give it a solid 4/5. 🧠⚔️
Read at the sourceEnpatsuShakugan
I will go on record by saying I love the original video game. While its story is enjoyable, it is a little hard to follow and convoluted, but it's got amazing gameplay, production design, and characters.
The anime has none of that. Every character IS included and maybe that was a mistake. To this day, I still feel that Shiden has absolutely no relevance to the anime's plotline whatsoever and was only included because he just 'had' to be there as a character from the game.
Don't get me wrong, it's not all bad. I actually prefer the anime's opening episode and how they set up Yuito and Nagi's relationship vs in the game (despite cutting out their initial connection to SAS. In fact, SAS is general is legit never explained in the anime whatsoever), but it goes off the rails once it is forced…
Read at the source_Bubassotto_
A tremendous piece of garbage, and perhaps that's still an understatement to describe the level of disappointment here. Don't be fooled by the pretty visuals or the eye-catching trailer: this work is a classic example of "pretty packaging, empty content."
From the beginning, everything seemed promising. The character design is interesting, the visual style is eye-catching, and the marketing managed to create considerable expectations. But in practice, none of that holds up. The feeling is that all the effort was put into the appearance, while the rest was simply neglected.
The narrative is practically nonexistent. There's no solid thread, the events seem thrown in randomly, and when you think something is finally going to develop, the story simply goes nowhere. It lacks coherence, purpos…
Read at the sourceKevKaneki97
I'd say it wasn't a masterpiece, but it wasn't a total disaster either. Unfortunately, it was very confusing in many areas, and I often struggled to keep up with what was happening. The plot was hard to follow at times, which made it difficult to fully engage with the story.
However, I have to admit that the concept of the story is quite intriguing. Despite the confusion, the core idea is very cool and has a lot of potential. Additionally, the animation quality was surprisingly good. Even though there was a lot of CGI, it was well-executed and added to the overall visual appeal.
I'm also interested in checking out the game related to this. It seems like it could offer a different perspective and perhaps fill in some of the gaps left by the movie. Overall, while it had its flaws, I'd stil…
Read at the sourceAnimeEnjoyer420
Scarlet Nexus is a flawed but decent sci-fi action series. How much you enjoy the series is largely going to come down to how meaningful those specific flaws are to you personally. My review is going to largely focus on those flaws, but I want to make clear that the series is good enough to merit a breakdown of the things about it that don't work rather than simply dismissing it, as I would have done for a lesser series.
A key point in favor of the series is that this is one of the most legible video game adaptations you'll ever come across. I have not played the Scarlet Nexus game, but I was able to easily understand the story and setting in short order. It's not the type of series that presumes familiarity with the video game, and it works just fine as a standalone story. It's also neve…
Read at the sourceLoftea
if you had played the game, this is not a must watch since it is same from the game(of course) and the animation did not feel the scene because the game is full of good visuals but the animation for the anime did not even had that although, if you did not play the game yet then go watch it since it has a lot of plot twists but I will still recommend you playing the game right now and all I can say is, the animation on how they adapted it is disappointing. The art style did not really fit the scenes for a game that is focused on visuals
Read at the sourceCiel_exe
This review wants to be my personal experience with the IP of Scarlet Nexus, along with a disclaimer that aims to be an advice for the guys who want to watch this show.
As you may know, Scarlet Nexus is a game. It's quite rare for a game to get released along with an anime, so I was honestly excited and stunned by this fact. The game certainly is amazing and I loved it, but this is no place to talk about this.
Disclaimer if you want to watch the anime:
Play the game first. I played the game two times, both as Yuito and Kasane, the available MCs, and i was left with some questions. The anime was still airing, so I waited for it to finish to do a recap of the story, hoping that my doubts could be answered by it. The good news is that yes, they were, and I think all of them were. And I reall…
Read at the sourceSkillsBeyond
I will try to keep this spoiler free and short! Since there are alot of reviews going in depth..
My overall feeling of this anime is very lackluster.. The story is somewhat decent, but the story telling is terrible.. Missing alot of character development, development of bonding between characters, fighting scenes are decent at best sometimes and worse than decent other times..
Wasn't sure if i wanted to give it 4 or 5 since the setting is interesting..
I haven't played the game, so my opinion isn't comparing the anime to the game at all.. But the anime from my point of view is pretty damn bad... I got bored midway and especially when reaching the end.. took me several weeks to finish the last 6 episodes.. (I am usually able to watch atleast 10+ episodes of an anime a day....)
So yeah,…
Read at the sourceedrage
It is a shame that they have such a good concept but it is completely wasted by a bad story. The development is quite rushed. They pose one thing and suddenly add others that are completely uncertain. Even if in the end not everything is fully explained. Why not focus primarily on developing a good central story and then leave a few loose ends for people to be excited to see. I love the idea and the design. But before the first dozen episodes they reveal where all this is going to end.
What a shame that they even launch a video game believing that people would be hooked on the concept. I would like to see more but definitely the writer needs to think that explaining a complete story are not a few isolated events where the main antagonist who suffers to meet his love again and causes chaos…
Read at the sourcerobert788
Scarlet Nexus (2021)
3 at a push.
The show as many will know is based on a JRPG so perhaps you think it will be about average since the game itself is pretty fun? Well, you would be wrong. The show is by far not the worst thing I have ever seen but it is far from the best. The story just feels overstretched and lacking any sort of soul.
The art used is actually fairly good, better than a 5 but then nothing special.
The OP and ED at pretty standard. The general sound effects suck like they really are not worthy of 2021, perhaps they are from 2000. Voices were fine but then didn't always feel like they matched character or personality.
With character, I would honestly say that they just bore me. I think Arashi is great since she is cute but she also is probably the only one who real…
Read at the sourceSpirit_Chaser
This series is a dumpster fire that burns brighter with every episode. At the very least it's entertaining trash. I grew fascinated with just how bad this series folded out to be as the story continued to be what felt like endless amounts of nonsensical sci-fi plots thrown together into a blender. Instead of reaching any kind of resolve to it's plot, it just keeps on unnecessarily adding and adding more until the very end, on top of a sea of plot twists also.
I sat horrified as a witness to the Others; the most terribly designed CGI monsters I have ever seen. I can't help but laugh and be unable to take giant vases with flowers and legs seriously as they wobble towards trying to kill people. Add to this some of the most lazy animation ever; that being the constant use of still frames duri…
Read at the sourceKANLen09
Oh good god, Sunrise, when will you ever learn to take a small pill of ego and just swallow it down your throat? Last Fall's King's Raid was a 26-episode boring snoozefest in the making to promote the South Korean game into Japanese shores, and now with the recent Bandai Namco and Tose released action-RPG game that has the anime adaptation released alongside to promote the game (much less the contained Easter Egg codes), Sunrise have basically shot themselves in the foot once again with yet another 26-epsiode near-abomination.
If there's one person to blame, blame it on Toshizou Nemoto, the male gender equivalence to Touko Machida for the awful script and series composition. Basically, these 2 are the couple that the word "creativity" isn't even worth considering in their minds, one that'…
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