Introduction
Mission T is a secret operation to save the world from destruction. Trained as a ninja from a young age, Botan Negoro, raised to become the ultimate spy, teams up with another excellent spy, Kuruma. Their aim is to recover the legacy of the genius inventor Nikola Tesla, the "Shards of Tesla." Can the two outwit the agents of other countries who are also pursuing these fragments? A super-original spy thriller begins.
(Source: Kodansha, translated)
Audience reviews
8 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Plk_Lesiak
Tesla Note, the second coming of Ex-arm... Is it that bad? Kind of yes, but mostly for different reasons.
Don't get me wrong, this show is ugly. 3D is half-baked at best, constantly supplemented with bottom-tier 2D (outside of nice backgrounds), inconsistently animated (sometimes quite well, sometimes atrociously when the team rushed important scenes and patchworked stuff together in the most jarring ways). It's not as broken as Ex-arm and not as hideous as Gibiate, but that's basically the only positive thing you can say about Tesla Note's looks. At least the inappropriately-high-quality voice cast does their absolute best to bring the over-the-top characters and cringy comedy to life, giving the show some kind of charm...
However, it all can't distract you from how stupid it all is. No…
Read at the sourceCharliegone
I thought Ex-Arm was bad, boy oh boy...the animation is a step up from that terrible anime, but wow...I don't know how this was allowed to be created...the story was fine, but it just felt like the typical "monster of the day" anime where they fight a new character or face a new event every day. Honestly by the end it got boring...and the whole story about the main characters family member, etc was so badly played it just had me face palming...it did provide some moments of enjoyment..but that was mostly in the beginning..by the end it became a tired trope. It's bad, very bad. Don't watch this.
Read at the sourcetoidi-a-era-uoy
[Spoilers... obviously] [also just to add, I rewatched it like a year and a half after it came out and it’s rewatch value is actually pretty good]
I had more fun than I should have. This shows animation is horrible, but it wierdly enough made the show all the more better in this case. The show was almost always had bad 3D animation and sometimes a barely ok 3 second (at most) 2D animation. The story was ok until the last episode where it upgraded from ok to a slightly better version of ok. The characters are fine, but my personal favorite was the rip off Dio (in looks) that was a CIA agent that also said random things that made no sense, exept for the time he said "I didn't know you were a sadist". I like how dumb it is that Kuruma was named "Car" pretty much. The best part about all of…
Read at the sourceFlexySpagoot
Tesla Note was a real piece of work, clearly evoking a similar feel to Ex-Arm from the previous winter. Which if you haven't seen, go grab your least serious friends and watch. But Tesla Note differs from Ex-Arm in the fact that honestly it isn't a horrible show. I do personally feel Ex-Arm could actually have been a really cool cyberpunk story with major revisions and changes, but Tesla Note has some enjoyment on its own, in addition to the really stupid stuff, which I think I'll cover first.
First of all, the visuals are absolutely horrendous. The models all look like they were made 10 years ago, the animations all feel strange, and sometimes the show cuts to 2D animation for a specific facial animation that was impossible to do with the model they had. The camera angles were also often…
Read at the sourcemosaicboy
Do I think people are absolutely overreacting about this anime? Absolutely. I don't really understand the hate for this anime besides the weird switch between 3D and 2D animation, with there being weird stills or shifts in animation and just the production of the show in general.
The story was solid. I didn't feel as though it was disjointed, made no sense, or had unrealistic expectations for plot progression. The way the anime went about discovering new shards, sure, could have been more optimized if we had more source material and/or a longer show adaptation, but neither of those was the case. Every organization's response to each of the problems they encountered was fair and I liked seeing the differences in reaction to each scenario presented with the shards.
Instead, we got a show n…
Read at the sourceSpirit_Chaser
Tesla Note is a textbook example of so bad it's good content, and one of the most misunderstood series alongside Sonny Boy. It feels like I'm the only one in the world who thought it was amazing, but I wouldn't give it any less of a 10/10. It has permanently scarred me forever in how horrifying it is, but it was merciful. Nearly every episode I was crying from laughter. This is a series that is going to break you. It feels like they made the animation terrible on purpose to make it funnier. I could write a book about all the animation errors and awkward execution in this series, and yet it became the most enjoyable series of the season for me other than Sonny Boy.
One problem with this series is that it was ignorantly treated unfairly. Many viewers were going by word of mouth, MAL scores…
Read at the sourceESER10
I feel somewhat bad for this show, because despite being unwatchable, it does have some good aspects about it. Not good enough to actually tell you to watch this, please avoid this like the plague (and other things…), but I do feel it may be worth mentioning, maybe to read source material or something.
- I personally liked the bantering between our two main characters. I genuinely found certain interactions to be quite funny, which was great amidst the rest of what I had to watch.
- The story itself could be interesting as well, maybe with a change of pacing. Quite a few different groups striving for a similar goal, for different reasons. Quite a few twists and turns, some of which don't land too well because of pacing, but nevertheless, genuine attempts were made to make something interes…
Read at the sourceKANLen09
I know what you're thinking: Is Tesla Note the second coming of the boldly acclaimed "SF show that declared war to end all SF shows"? The short answer...yes. The long answer...not quite so, so don't get your pitchforks and lay crucifixes on this show just yet.
Before I jump ahead to give you the full details, I'm pretty sure that 6,942.0 of you should at least know the brains behind Tesla Note: Masafumi Nishida and Tadayoshi Kubo. Not so much with the latter as this is his first time writing a manga, but the former has a track record to his name: the creator of the much acclaimed Tiger & Bunny. For reference, last season's MAPPA-produced water polo show Re-Main was his chance to create something original and different by being the head honcho of the usual anime production aspects (creator…
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