Audience reviews
15 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Darkkissh
A true culmination of magnificence!
I can't recommend this enough.
It was great, it was fun and it was truly iconic. The fighting scenes were especially beautiful. And the style variety between different characters was eye opening in its cleverness.
I could truly feel the confusion of the choices the main character had to make like it was my own. The personality of the main character was so well written it was like watching a bottle spin, never stopping. Pointing to every direction and changing by the second. So much realism. And the dialogue between the characters? It was deep and so poetic. I don't even know how to begin describing it. It was surely better than anything I've seen before. It truly left me speechless.
The ending is also heart wrenching and so tragic. It left me feeling lik…
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Legend of Duo is bad. That much would be obvious, if you looked at the review score. However, it's bad in a way I find quite fascinating. Animation is a difficult field, and when I look at LoD, when I see how many corners somebody had to cut to get an even remotely coherent product out the door, I'm left wondering why this was the form the show ultimately took. What incredible disconnect had to exist, between vision and reality, that made the product that found its way into my hands so catastrophically inept? LoD seeks to tell a dark, suspenseful story about a vampire out to destroy his sire, as mankind crumbles around him. The artwork and character design speak of ambition, of a story that *needed* to be told. And yet...
Episodes are only five minutes long, and the show seems to strain…
Read at the sourceMarquiun
Deep, philosophical and misunderstood, THIS IS DUO LEGEND.
!!!!! SPOILER!!!!! PLEASE DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED, MAY RUIN YOUR EXPERIENCE
When some peasants murder an innocent woman in a selfish search for a cure for their deadly disease, Zieg exclaims they are infected with something worse than virus of death...BLEW MY MIND! The whole time was in under our nose and we weren't able to realize! The dictomy of good and evil doesn't matter when you have to choose between your own life or the others life, who's bad? who's good? We can not answer, because of Duo's fault, he twisted the human soul in something that we can't
recognize, it's brilliant.
You may think that the slide-animation is bad...You're ultimately wrong!
Is just that you are intoxicated wiht the mainstream bullshit!…
Read at the sourceRavenYami
Oh boii, just finished this schlock and it gave me diarrhea, but my point isn't that it is such an abhorrent piece of junk that it affects you on a physical level, it's just the bland, boring, extremely predictable kind of bad which required me to drink lots of coffee in order to get through this one hour worth of tedious content.
Every single department in this show is below average in terms of quality and describing it as platitude would be an understatement on the cliche scale.
The "animation" is for most of the part still frames, the lip sync completely out of place, even in "high definition" it is quite blurry, the character designs are lazy at best , the main character Duo (pronounced like DIO, Dio sure would be revolted) looks like a carbon copy of freaking Mikasa Ackerman or is i…
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Legend of Duo is boring. It's one of the most groan-worthy shows I've ever seen, which really says something seeing as every episode is only 5-minutes long. While watching this I was seriously groaning and yawning halfway through, so about 30-minutes in.
Here's the plot: In this world dying isn't as simple as old age or puncturing an organ, in this world people spontaneously decompose within seconds. That's dumb, but let's keep going, the only way to prevent this 'disease of death', as they call it, is to drink vampire blood and you'll be able to live forever and so they create a guild of sorts to hunt Vampires for their blood. I'll give it some credit that's pretty cool.
Too bad the main Vampire Hunter we follow is simultaneously the worst and best character in the show, he is a total t…
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Legend of Duo cannot be explained with mere words, for it is something out of this world.
A feast to your eyes, like a fish still twitching with the last breath of it's life, as you impale it with your mighty fork and then shove it into your eye socket. A true feast, like no other.
Of sound, what a glorious composition, smoothly flowing in the insides of your head, tuning your brain to enjoy. Oh how could they, only one of the voice actors rose to fame, for all of them clearly deserve it. Such a waste.
I have watched Legend of Duo numerous times, and still I find new nuances in it every time I watch it. Marvelous.
It is one's duty to watch this piece of masters, and it only takes one hour. Not like it matters, because the immersion is so deep, you won't even notice it.
Legend of Duo…
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I will say one thing: Hetalia episodes are also five minutes long, and even though that series does not follow any sort of one continuous plot, it still has so much more action, character development, comedy, and DECENT animation rolled into one episode than all of the 12 episodes of this... awful abomination COMBINED.
The art was gorgeous, which is why I was drawn into even trying to watch this anime. But seriously? I almost could not sit through the first episode. There was NO character development, and VERY limited animation. All I could see moving was their mouths. The background music was also very easily forgettable.
If you're looking for an anime with an episode five minutes long, better stick to Hetalia. If you're looking for one with vampires, Hellsing would do you SO MUCH more…
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Do you wonder how could this anime get rated both as abysmal and a masterpiece at the same time?
It's because it's so different, yet in a way similar to other animes. Each episode is only 5 minutes long, and although there is action in almost every one, it mostly focuses on monologues and talking. It presents quite interesting topics to think about, though some may view the placed questions unaswered in the end, like in certain books - which does not subtract from its charm, unless you're one of the people who need to have everything answered.
Rating:
I think the art is outsanding, it may be a bit special (you'll see), but the characters are gorgeous. Even though they may be simple (but certainly not flat!), it helps portray the story and flesh it out, so that feels like some anime from…
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Kami-sama... why you let those people do this...
Really.For an anime lasting for less than hour to be able to to such things to a person... this one really made me worried about my life and asking myself why I'm doing this to me? It's not just bad one. It's really awfully, epicly stupid. There's some kind of vampire story, which sounds very nice and catches the eye. But most of the time (which is less than hour)is given to stupid talks, which doesn't tell us what the heck it's going on, what happened in the past or what it's going to happen. And the worst of all it's that in the end there's still a sign "To be continued...". This puts Legend of Duo on the Everest of unfinished stories in anime... and not only. Which makes me to hate the "story". The characters are drawn pretty nice, but…
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With all the yaoi baiting, angsting, and forced sexual tension implicit in the tropes of the modern vampire shows being bandied around nowadays, there's sweet recourse in my heart knowing that everything there is to hate about this particular genre is contained in this one, concise, hour-long package.
I hesitate to call this thing “anime”, since there's hardly any true animation. It's more like a middling-paced slide show presentation, spruced up with flashy light effects and recycled sounds. Talking heads and panning still screens are bad enough, but some scenes, like sliding bodies and awkwardly moving heads, made me suspicious whole pictures were just being tilted or moved slightly to simulate action, instead of, y'know, actually hassling the show's animators to draw anything.
To be c…
Read at the sourceBlackFlamedNyx
Dear God,
Why did you let them create this?
This anime is so bad it makes you want to put the creators' out of their misery. Let's start with the fact that each episode is only five minutes long, you can't get into it because it's over before it starts, so this is very annoying.
The storyline is interesting but not thought out correctly.
The animation is shotty at best, you can tell they had a really tiny budget which makes you wonder why this project even got a green light. I apparently got a good copy of this series because I didn't find the sound ear-shattering. At least most of the characters are pretty.
Overall, this series is too short, with a too small budget and poor planning.
Read at the sourceTakai
-INTRODUCTION-
I liked the promotional image and been meaning to watch this series for a long time, and was actually looking forward to it. But I was rather disappointed. ^^;
-STORY- 5/10
The story is okay but extremely predictable. I did not even have to wonder how everything will turn out, it was that obvious. I did enjoy some of the side stories and flashbacks they managed to cram into an hour long series (each episode is only five minutes). It could have been a better story if it wasn't so short and so cliche. There is also a cliffhanger at the end, hinting that Legend of Duo might continue, but I think they just threw that in to grab the viewer's attention at the last moment; I honestly don't see what is there to continue, nor do I even want to know. ^^;
-CHARACTERS- 4/10
The cha…
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Watching all of "The Legend of Duo" only takes about an hour, because each of the episodes is only about five minutes long. Even for a web-released short-short series, "Duo" looks very cheaply made, and the weaknesses of the production are many. First, the actual animation is extremely limited, to the point where many scenes are really just narration over still frames. All the characters are complete ciphers and the dialogue can really make those five minute episodes feel much, much longer. Still, you can't say the creators weren't ambitious, as they managed to cram in several side stories and flashbacks. Would "Duo" have been better if it had been made on a bigger budget by people who knew what they were doing? Well, I doubt it could be worse.
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Vampires in anime are, surprisingly for me, few and far between, with the biggest standout being Hellsing. So when I discovered Legend of Duo had vampires, I figured I could at least give it a try. After all, what's the worst that could happen? I found out how bad it could truly get in just one hour.
Where do I begin? For starters, the animation is pretty pathetic. Every single trick in the book is used, and none of them prove to be useful. Still shots and long sweeping pans? Check. Camera shaking? Check. Large supplies of reused stock character images with only the mouths moving? Check yet again. Every visual cue screams low budget. I will, however, give this anime one thing. The static art, which is frequently seen throughout the series, is rather nice and detailed. It's a shame that it…
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The story is original, well-considered and very detailed. The episodes are only 5 min/ep, so the whole anime series is only one hour. The fact that it's so short doesn't have any effect on the clarity of the story. The dialogs are poetic. The art is amazing. Especially the dying is nice. I've never seen an anime or movie in which where dying is so well exposed. (When humans die of the disease od death there's this zombie-like shot of their last moment, and when vampires die they fade in red dust like glowing coals.)
I usually like more evil characters, but the characters are beautiful and their personalities fit the anime.
This anime reminded me of my fav movie Interview With A Vampire. The vampires in this anime have compasion as well as danger in their eyes.
The only bad thing i can come…
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