Audience reviews
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AD_ONYS
I won’t deny what other viewers have already pointed out. It’s clear that this anime lacks investment—both in its storytelling and its action sequences. The lack of character development and diversity was palpable, leaving me feeling like I was witnessing the birth of a clumsy masterpiece, a concept that initially captivated me but was sadly mishandled and wasted.
As the story slowly unfolds, it occasionally reminded me of Darling in the Franxx or the Fate series. Despite its many flaws, I can’t deny that I enjoyed the show greatly, especially due to my personal connection with music. As a musician myself, I resonated with the protagonist’s desperate quest and the emotional turmoil the characters endured. That said, I wished I could have formed stronger connections with the characters, pa…
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Nothing ever gets explained or delved on (including the ending), and everything happens "just because". Characters are shallow or annoying. The music side doesn't really intertwine with any other aspect of the show. Like, the monsters get attracted to music. Okay, then why the only things that can kill them do that with magic shotguns, swords, etc.? The OST is also pretty unremarkable for a music-themed anime. The romance could've been better, even considering that this is not a romance anime.
They also somehow managed to make a filler in a 12 episode series. The show wasted too much of it's own time.
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Well what can I say ... at some point in my life, music became something I couldn't go a day without. Now, I don't really listen to classical music but I have a huge appreciation to the people who created all those masterpieces. In this anime, we can hear A LOT of different classical music pieces that suit incredibly well in the scenes they are played at!
I love how many scenes, just as "Titan's finale", Lenny starts playing 4th/Final movement of the 1st symphony of Gustav Mahler - which funnily enough, this symphony has the nickname "Titan" - how cool is that?
Obviously there are a lot of other interesting musical moments throughout the show, which will take a long while for ma to list, but what I can say is that, Takt Op. Destiny is one unique anime that contain a little bit of everyth…
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Takt Op Destiny was an amazing 10 episodes. I was enjoying the music, the animation, the action, and even becoming attached to some of the characters and their stories. I thought the world was interesting and unique compared to most modern anime worlds. I don’t get the other criticisms people have been throwing out about fan service and waifu bait?
But wait…
There’s 12 episodes?
Look… if you have the insatiable desire to finish any show you start, don’t watch this. If you can stop in the middle of a show and be fine with the high quality content you got, then go ahead and watch the first 10 episodes of Takt.
The whole show was just to promote a bad mobile game, and the last two episodes basically cram everything the show had been building towards, that could’ve taken another season or…
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The more I look back on this anime, the more reasons I find to dislike it. I wanted to like takt op. Destiny from the very beginning, and for a long time I really did! I loved tuning in every week to see how the plot developed and the characters progressed. Honestly I was pretty content with this anime, the animation is breathtaking and I really liked a majority of the characters... that is until the finale.
When I had finished the final episode I sat and really thought about my thoughts on it as well as the anime as a whole for a few days and then it finally dawned on me. After 12 weeks I finally had my answer... this anime was bad. Okay well maybe bad is overkill but it definitely was NOT good. The finale really put into perspective just how paper thin the plot was. Character motivation…
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Frankly, I knew Takt Op. Destiny was going to be substance-lacking eye candy from just the trailer.
I still watched it because it looked ever so slightly good enough to peak my interest. Never again will I be wooed by the MAPPA x Madhouse sirens.
Story: 2/10 The story in this anime just serves as an excuse to have a lot of fights and promote the mobile game. Technically this is a post-apocalyptic anime, but with the running water, electricity, cars, pristine suburbia, and plentiful food, it sure doesn't feel like it. There is a flashback to show just how bad it was before, but it's way too late in the series to have any impact.
The only parts that are dangerous are the poor road conditions and the strange-looking monsters. Hardly anything is know about the monsters - known as D2s - asi…
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I didn't think my first review on MAL would be Takt Op Destiny but here we are anyway I guess. I tried so *very* hard to enjoy Takt, the first 3 episodes was some of my favorite content to come out of Anime this year. Takt's musical prowess paired with the incredibly apt classical music and composer bias, alongside the absolutely outstanding sound design of the early episodes was incredible to experience. The music bled the emotion and passion of the characters that brought it to life, the action was punchy and wonderfully choreographed, the characters were simple and easy to get behind but had plenty of potential, especially with the intertwining of Destiny and Takt. There's so many wondrous things that these first three episodes bring viewers, and it screams of what could have been endle…
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After hearing about a collab between two remarkable studios − Madhouse and MAPPA −, I decided I had to give it a shot. How couldn't I? Both have brought so many delightful animations to life in the past few years, such as One Punch Man and Jujutsu Kaisen, that I was under the impression they had conceived, at the very least, another visually gorgeous work, even if the story wasn't that promising in my eyes. Then, a weird thought came up. "Who cares about plot, right? Let's just enjoy a bunch of cool and flashy fight scenes and call it great!". Sometimes, we just want to "turn off" our brains and escape from a boring reality, don't we?
Well, here's a lesson I learned by going through a lot of rough experiences: there's no such thing as "turning your brain off" without dying. Simple as that…
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Takt OP. is the perfect example of “style over substance”.
Whilst I admittedly enjoyed watching the anime, I would be remised to not speak on the lack of any real cohesive story. We’re essentially thrown into a beautifully rendered world brought to life by MAPPA and Madhouse, told there’s a war between humans and aliens who hate music, and made to fend for ourselves. In fairness, the backstory is fleshed Outstanding a bit more, but that doesn’t mean the writing gets much better. This show honestly felt like a tech demo for new animation and storyboarding techniques. Like imagine those Unreal Engine 5 play-tests, but in anime form. If that’s what the creators were going for, they certainly succeeded. From the very first episode’s first few minutes I was blown away by the attention to the…
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SPOILER-FREE!
Most anime, in some form or another, is a form of advertisement. That does not necessarily mean that it’s meant to draw attention to an adapted source manga or light novel, though. Anime as advertisement could also be for the studio that made it, as certain studios have established clout or reputation, and thus naturally have more attention drawn to their works. Other times, an anime could act as an attractor for a new enterprise altogether, serving to drum up enthusiasm and hook in a new audience to the emerging property.
"takt op.Destiny" was a Fall 2021 anime that served to draw attention to the takt op franchise. As a new collaboration between studios MAPPA and Madhouse, a show like this has a two-fold mission that it must complete – succeed as a standalone piece of medi…
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Welcome to M1c3f's condensed Anime review. I'll be giving you all the necessary information about a show in just a few sentences and a following recommendation.
Today featuring: Takt Op Destiny
First and important to know: Yes, there are many battle waifus. You might enjoy it or find it to be annoying. Yes, the show is based upon an upcoming gacha game, should you have prejudices because of that. No.
The three protagonists have a really weird relationship that's hard to read. If you compare the protagonists with food they would be a microwave heated slice of pizza. It tastes dreadful yet you still somehow liked it because it's pizza. Once you have chewed the first bite you know you should have either just eaten it cold, thrown it away, or made the effort to heat it up in the oven. Make…
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THIS ANIME IS A GACHA GAME PROMOTION. "There may be some spoilers in this short review".
I can't remember when the anime was announced but when I learned that Madhouse and MAPPA will be collaborating on it I was a bit hyped and later knowing that it was an upcoming gacha game I had thoughts of giving it a shot to watch it.
Let me put it nice and short, The pilot episode showed a lot of promise, it showed the base plot of a world without music and the so-called Musicarts saved the world from destruction from D2's. I mean it started really fine not until the next few episodes where it left a big hole and a lot of question marks story-wise, let me give an example. Who was the whistleblower on why the D2's appeared is it Takt's Dad? and What is Cossette's connection to the musicarts? or in…
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Another top notch waifu anime, another let down. I had high hopes for this anime especially since I was a fan of Supercell and the animation for the anime is just spendid all around with MAPPA and Madhouse being the studios working on this project.
But alas, this anime has one glaring weakness! The poorly written storyline and characters!
It pretty much comes down to the antagonists for the anime, Sagan and Schindler. They are literally just pointless villains that does nothing for the story and better yet, you do not even see much of them throughout the entire run of the show. Heck, their motivations for why they are being villains were just terrible and had only a few episodes to even give any background on it.
Thus, with such crappy villains that I could care less for, this just m…
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Over 10 years ago, studio MAPPA was founded on the grounds to make a show called 'Kids on the Slope'. Madhouse has an even more extensive history tracing all the way back to the 1970s. Fash forward to 2021 and the rest is history. When you put these two studios together to producer a quality show, what can go wrong? Well, let me tell you. A lot.
Since the announcement in March this year, the franchise didn't really spark much hype at the time. After it was revealed that studio MAPPA and Madhouse would handle the production, the show got boosted interest. The previews and promotional material speaks for itself, at least on a technical level. With a mixture of 2D and 3D artwork, Takt Op. Destiny did on some levels, take the world by storm. That doesn't make it an anime of the year contender…
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FULL SPOILER REVIEW
After completing the show, the only thought I had was "So this is what it looks like if Vivy: Flourite Eye's Song failed." Then I started analysing the story, art, music, characters, the lot. And what I found was most of them are either very good or very bad.
STORY (3/10)
What was Takt's original goal again? It is to save the young girl. But halfway through the show it seemed like the show forgot all of that. 2 villains appeared. First one was a one-dimensional, power hungry villain who got defeated in 1 episode and was never heard of again. The second one is a guy whose motivation did not serve any purpose to Takt's journey and goal whatsoever.
The plot is all over the place. Every episode felt disconnected. We were given backstories that create more questions than…
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Let me be honest here , this is a series that's going to be forgotten the minute next season anime comes by a storm. Maybe I'm stupid and didn't understand the intricacies of the series but to me the only selling point of it was MAPPA × MADHOUSE and Music, and still I couldn't differentiate most of the times which music is a weapon and which is just background music. Characters were very bland none left long lasting impression, maybe Cosette/Destiny but she too will be forgotten. That's my take, if I offended someone then that's that. Music was good i love piano so yeah. Art was good well it had to be with the production houses behind it.
Overall not recommended if you value your time. If you play the game go for it but i think you'll be disappointed.
6/10 ( for the kiss scenes cuz I'm…
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This is my first time to review an anime.
Takt op. Destiny is marketed as an Original Music anime by Mappa and Madhouse, one of the biggest collabs you can imagine in Anime.
Takt op's pacing is slow and their travels where they meet other people was supposed to make the main characters grow but they obviously didn't, wherein the animation can't even ease the boredom you can feel just by watching this anime. Everything doesn't make any sense until they came to New York.
My biggest concern is the "music" part of the anime. Earlier this year, an Original Music anime also dropped which is Vivy. With that I was expecting the Music part of the anime to be integral or within the story's core. The title and some hints in the anime made me think that Takt op. Destiny must be Takt's music title…
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Takt Op. Destiny was one of the most disappointing shows in 2021. Ambitious project involving cooperation between two of the most beloved studios in the anime industry (Mappa and Madhouse) turned out to be a simple eye candy with no substance or depth in it... Probably most regretful thing about it all is how much potential this story has in it:
Musical themes, awesome waifus, complex story and lore, interesting characters, great action.
Unfortunately authors fall short to deliver high quality writing to back this premise up and instead we get:
Failed musical themes, hollow waifus, bad story with inconsequential lore, blank or awful characters, meaningless action with confusing combat system.
Takt Op. Destiny is placed in a post apocalyptic world where earth was showered by mysterious mag…
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So, mobile game a.k.a mobage adaptations, especially gacha ones. What are the most prominent features that comes to mind when Japan always has these type of mixed-media anime that just basically exists just to promote the numerous amout of mobile games at their disposal?
Is it the concept that's derived from the setting basis of the mobage?
Is it the characters that are meant to bait the viewer into purchasing them like DLC after watching the anime?
Is it the "original" wack writing concept of the story, plot and characters?
Is it the subpar animation that makes and/or breaks the experience?
Is it the mediocre OST that more than skipping the OP/ED, just didn't do enough for enticement?
Is it the actual mobage that it being influenced from the anime's promotion, tends to always suck, becau…
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Takt Op. Destiny may rival Fate/Apocrypha and Fate/Grand Order as the single most kludgy, embarrassing, confused mishmash of otaku-culture stew that the Japanese anime industry as ever attempted to pour down my throat. You have to be confident when you recognize vapidness to say, “This is vapid. There is nothing of value here. I cast it aside. I’m moving on with my life.” And this show desperately calls for that kind of an axe-grinding. If you can watch even the first episode of this gacha game commercial and see anything other than lifeless, artless, cynical trash appealing to the absolute lowest common denominator of the anime community, then I imagine you'll be fine with anything it does or anywhere it goes so long as it continues to have waifubait and vaguely cool-looking, lopsidedly p…
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