Audience reviews
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hslead
I was wondering about this anime because I watched it around the time it was being aired and I can't remember anything about it. So my expectation was that if I could remember anything about it, and have some reminiscence about it once I had given it a second go.
Now that I rewatched it... I'm not surprised I don't remember shit. Because I didn't understand shit? What are demons, what is Asura Machina, why are the clubs/councils of this specific school so overpowered, who is Asura and what made Asura cry, why is the title written with an apostrophe, so many questions. So it wouldn't be wrong to say that it's a mess in terms of storytelling. It's not like leaving some questions open to interpretation to create mystery is inherently bad but in this anime it feels more like that I've skipped…
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NOTICE: This review covers both seasons of this title.
It’s a light novel adaptation so TADAAA you already know it is trash material for people with low expectations. It tries to be spooky at times, only to end up sounding as such: Thunders and spells and dramatic set up, and zooming to a wizard using magic speels full of weird lingo. In the name of God’s blissful existence I command you to… Oh! I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to grab your boobs! Really! And my Johnny magically appeared between them! I’m sorry for being a normal teenager; I’m terribly sorry! Well thanks for killing the mood you idiot!
For a 2009 work it hardly looks as one. The characters are drawn rushly, with their facial anatomy looking too sketchy and distorted half of the time. Not that they would be that eye-catchy even i…
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The story had potential, but you find yourself despising the protagonist, Tomo. And if you can't enjoy or even like the main character, then the whole thing is doomed to failure. Everything else is just standard anime fair and not an issue, but Tomo isn't just pathetic, he's an apathetic excuse for a character! His annoying-whiny-uselessness is only overshadowed by his idiotic acceptance of everything; he doesn't even have the wit to ask relevant questions. By the end of the second season, I'd completely lost hope for any redeeming quality and was just trying to get to the end; some sort of masochistic urge.
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Asura Cryin is a series that seems to be about ghosts... but then turns into a story about mechs and humanoid demons. It is a combination of comedy/mystery/action/mech. I originally jumped on this series due to some fairly interesting teasers and good OP/ED. However, the series seems to hide everything from the viewer to the extent that I ended up confused after each episode. The character development seems half-hearted and the story, though eventually interesting, is cryptic for the majority of the show. If you have a short patience, this isn't your show.
Animation:
The animation quality is fairly good throughout. Colors are vivid, effects are of good quality, and characters are well drawn, though I don't know how being a demon entails multiple eye colors... Sadly, all the mech scenes, a…
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The first season is a decent setup for the better second season. It's an enjoyable anime overall but it does have some shortcomings.
There are some parts of the story that they went out of their way to make viewers realize what's going on. They pushed so hard that they made the main character seem dim witted and unable to do simple guess work. I'm not sure why they did this but it did take away from the story for me.
Repetition. Get used to it. They use it a lot to fill some episodes to stretch them out to meet their time obligations. There's a couple of fillers in the first season that I can't figure out WHY they put them in the first place. There was plenty of story available to do an entire 2 seasons with but they really gyp the viewer with these fillers.
A number of characters blen…
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The concept of this anime's Supernatural Mecha story is interesting and worth watching if you don't mind a lot of key blank pages in its plot, at the start you'll see the protagonist caught up in a situation where he's first attacked, yet somehow magically after the fact meeting his assailant all is instantly forgiven & forgotten, with no visible motive for doing so. To put it plainly, it's as if the story telling is just so bad that people who you thought might be the villain ends up actually being an ally, without questioning whether or not they could be trusted. Characters where you think are enemies are just immediately misunderstood allies, with absolutely no effort to take time to explain an event that had occurred in previous episodes.
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Caution; I have seen every episode & I believe all of the second one, so there may be some spoilers... (reading over my review there actually isn't, so read on!)
Story; 8
The story starts off fairly interesting, grabbing your attention and having you ask yourself "who is that girl?" "what happened to that kid?" The story line then progresses on, telling you about the main characters life and those around him. Honestly they had the ability and the resources to make the story line so much better, but all the same, it was still good.
Art; 7
The art & animation, to me, looks like every other anime made in this era. Could've been a little better but what can you expect, its what? 2009?
Sound; 8
Only because I really don't know all that much about what goes in to rating the "sound" portion of…
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Doing a review for both seasons here.
If you don't believe me that I gave it a good score, look at the second seasons reviews.
Asura Cryin' has a nice art and sound, nothing to complain about there.
The battles look good too.
The characters are a bit flat at times, but still don't feel too stereotypical. Enough for some tearjerkers.
The first season lacks big parts of the backstory since this was put into the second season of the anime. Whoever starts this anime has to prepared to watch both seasons, because without the 2nd season it is way to incomplete to be satisfied. Sounds negative, but isn't actually a bad thing. Different from other anime series that give you many hints about the "finished puzzle", you get some pieces, but not enough for the outcome to not be surprising.
It is…
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I was looking for a something similar to "Break Blade" which i will be doing a review on soon. This is the first season of "Asura Cryin" and will also do a review on the second season. So enjoy this review!
Characters
The characters in this anime are quite interesting. The more the story goes on the more you wonder about them. The more you wonder about them, the less answers you get. What i am trying to get at is, there is no background information on the characters. The development between the characters were done quite well, but we don't really know who they are.
Art
For an anime that came out in 2009 they had a excellent graphics team put together and did a nice job. The fighting scenes may be short but are quite amazing to watch. Lots of action packed scenes with explosions, mi…
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Ouch right. Well if you take into consideration that a bunch of random crap happens and nothing is explained you will understand exactly why I gave Asura Cryin' the rating I did. Characters come in and out without any real explanation, and the story is no different. This anime could have been a lot better. It looked promising with the robots and the fighting, but towards the end proved to be another anime that didn't offer much if you are looking to watch something that makes any sense.
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It is a great anime only if you watch the whole 2 seasons because it doesn't make much sense if you just watch the first season. When I first watched thisI cant understand the asura cryin thing or anything about the 1st world stage or something but after watching the second season, I was like "oh this is the best anime I have ever seen".It has a nice story, nice art, lovable characters and I really enjoyed it. No matter what others says this is a good anime for me.
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This anime caught my eye because it looked like a magical mech anime. My experience with this kind of anime is that it can either be very good or very bad. To my pleasant surprise although it is not the best magical mech anime Ive seen this anime actually has quite a bit to offer.
The story is very intriguing because it has many aspects to it from different dimensions to contracts with demons to our main main character who has enough girls that cause him trouble in his life. I felt that all the episodes were very purposeful and were needed to fully understand what was happening in the anime. I found the progression of the story was done very well and there were no parts of the story where it was dull. Overall the story was very good although it did seem alot to take in a times.
The art…
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Lesse Lesse, Hmm, well the story is over complicated, but at the same time under rated, it does take someone with a basic understanding, very basic, of multiverse theory to get the plot line,
by that i mean you have to understand that there is a universe or reality for different actions, and possibilities,
I understood the entire thing, and felt that although a bit chaotic the story continuously went forward, with mild to severe upsets and losses, with the undertone of romance written inbetween,
the single problem I had with the show is that the second season is considered a sequel to the show
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This anime is very good for those who love mecha and supernatural anime. they combined both aspects into one and the story lines are good. for underage maybe they need to re-watch the anime since the time dimensioning is quite confusing in the first, but soon if you follow the story carefully, you will catch the ides soon. the character is good and fits perfectly with the characterization. I like this anime due to the graphical setting which is resemble to the real life, but I hate some points when they put the student's council role and school life that didn't fits with the character background that seem older concerning their position on the each parties of Society.
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Story
The story's complicated and is always misleading, the first few episodes were not really making sense, a briefcase which has weird slime coming out of it at first and turns into a mecha which they call 'Asura Machina'. Overall, this anime only got better towards the end and the story was pretty decent. I was expecting a good ending and it turned out good at first but later near the end of the last episode, a twist in the plot happened which was pretty touching in my opinion.
Art
The art and design given by this anime is pretty good, character expressions were actually alright and above decent while the effects were nice too.
Sound
Voice acting's actually kind of good but some effort could be put in, I like the opening for this anime and sound effects were pretty good.
Enjoyment…
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You will have to put a lot of effort to follow this show and frankly you will get little reward for your troubles. Many aspects have a lot of content to them, rules, ins and outs that you need to know to follow the show. However even with all of that I still have no idea what is going on with this show.
"Asura Cryin" has a lot of problems but the one I had the biggest issue with is that the whole show is convoluted. Not only is the story complex but it is unnecessarily complex. There is a lot of different factions and rules for these factions. A person may not be able to attack someone if they are a member of a certain faction so long as that person doesn't interact with members of this other faction. Also the way the members of different factions interact don't make any sense. Enemies ha…
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basically im writing this review for both asura cryin and asura cryin II as they both are actually connected.. well.. the only bad thing about this anime is that it went too fast and not at the pace of the novel.. i notice some characters that the novel has and the anime dont.. i assume they cut out some characters along with some scenes.. overall i think its great.. some1 who's ur enemy can be ur frined the next day.. kinda remind me of code geass.. anw.. id give this 10/10.. cheers..
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What to say for this series... It was very bad.
Art: No, just no. The art may seem fine, but it really isn't. It is inconsistent and unoriginal. We see the creators drawing Tomoharu normally, and then pinning a hair tail and a squiggily thing up on his head to make him look unique, but it just makes him look overly retarded. Then we have inconsistency with the drawings. Some parts, we see the eyes drawn weirdly, or one scene there is a whole bunch of blood, the next there's none. We might say Kanade looks well drawn, but she really isn't. Not trying to sound like a pervert or anything, but the breasts are all drawn inconsistently (no, I don't only look at her breasts while watching this anime, just something I noticed >.>) All the characters have some weird hair style, or their faces jus…
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Alright im gonna keep this review Very short and Very simple(this is my first review). This Anime is NOT that bad. Yes, the story is confusing, but if you have any brain at all you can figure it out. It's a very deep and very complex story that took me in. No, its not laid out in ABC's. You have to think about it and pay attention to the diolouge and whats going on. And if you do that then you you WILLl enjoy this anime.
This story's protagonist is a high school boy who, of corse, is draged in to the middle of this battle between conflicting student councle athorites. He himself is very unusual in the fact that he is haunted by his childhood friend(a.k.a. female ghost). Anyways, a lot of things happen and you DO have to pay attention and be able to catch the foreshadowing thats at play, b…
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Story 6:
The storyline of "Asura Cryin' " happens to be one that has a lot of detail and a lot of planning to it. However, it is one of those storylines that as good as it might be, was definatly not executed to the best ability. On top of this, there are a few things that one should know before they watch the anime.
One of the things that is problematic is that the storyling does not flow well, there are constant flashbacks, and important details that help the anime to run are revealed at intervals that are not always the best time for them to come into play.
Another thing is some of the humor that is crammed into the storyline. While some of the humor is actually funny, some of it is not that funny, or it happens to be put in at the wrong time, or the humor is not needed for the story…
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