Audience reviews
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saintcannuccia
You disappointed yourself. Let me explain.
The only reason this show is rated as low as it is, is because people wanted this to be something it was never going to be. That's the trouble with people relying on their emotions to dictate their expectations. This show did not intentionally mislead anyone. If so, I encourage you to explain how... like with well thought-out examples.
Now if that's the way you feel, then that's the way you feel. Don't pin your disappointment on the show though. This didn't Gangsta itself. It didn't Game of Thrones itself. It didn't Darling in the Franxx itself.
While I understand the disappointment due to the jarring switch and bait, you’ll realize as you continue on watching, it’s your own perception and expectation that betrays you. The first episode is a…
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Probably one of the best original series I've watched. I only noticed now it's from P.A. Works which also produced Buddy Daddies, a story I loved to pieces and that made me cry like a baby.
The directing is really good, with a lot of little, carefully placed details that make things realistic and endearing, and some foreshadowing that give consistency to the endgame plot.
Same for the aesthetics: clean character design that never gets derpy, poetic scenery and smooth animation quality even in the "boring" scenes, only to be shonen-tier engaging in the action climaxes.
The soft, melancholic yet hopeful piano score accompanying every episode was also really beautiful and soothing.
My only gripe is the writing pace, because the beginning was especially slow and meandering and I understand why…
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I have no idea why this anime gets so much hate. Nowadays, people often watch isekai with shallow or nonsensical plots, yet this series offers something different.
It presents various kinds of love that exist in the world. Sure, it may not be the best anime ever, but it’s definitely not as bad as some make it out to be. The art style and animation are beautiful, and the atmosphere feels refreshing.
The MC might upset you in some episodes, but that’s not the point. This anime wants to show you something else.
So, if you enjoy anime that explores emotions in a unique way, something we don’t see very often anymore... give this one a chance.
Read at the sourcefire_alchemist_2
A lot of people seem to approach Dusk Beyond the End of the World expecting a conventional sci-fi apocalypse story. That expectation alone is why I think many miss what the series is actually doing.
On the surface, the show presents familiar speculative ideas: human enhancement through nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and replicated personalities. What makes it stand out is that it doesn’t frame these concepts as power fantasies or cautionary headlines. Instead, it asks a quieter, more unsettling question: what happens when intimacy itself becomes technologically fragile?
One of the most interesting ideas the series introduces is the distinction between artificial intelligence and artificial personality. Intelligence can process, predict, and optimize — but a personality carries…
Read at the sourceHERMIT_PAIMON
"Biggest sham of 2025 "
After watching prequel and first 2 eps my expectations were high , stakes were high but unfortunately it went in a deep pithole . sometimes there are some loopholes in anime but here anime is in loopholes , literally very poor writing . Premise is very intresting , you will think it's gonna be a good sci fi but at the end it's just a tragic struggle between feelings of different characters .
The creator clearly aimed to troll us into rage-quitting, leaving you muttering, "What a colossal time sink. The only thing which i liked is plot twist but it was executed very poorly , too many lame cliches . Don't get me wrong , i am just tried of these repetitive "tragic past happy ending" stories . Anime tried to improve itself at some last few eps but that was just a lame…
Read at the sourceEnyirou
Interesting plot to say the least, I started watching from episode 0 to 12 and it gave me the impression that the person they were searching for was still you know. But during the mid few episodes it started having massive plot twist I was shocked lol. The ending was nice but it felt too fast? Like so everything they thought or planed just boom gone and it’s just this but I know they already got the answer but still, it leaves a missing feeling ig.
Overall it’s not bad would recommend! The op and the ed were great, the artstyle also, loved it’
Read at the sourceBDells1979
So, I've JUST finished the last episode of Dusk Beyond the End of the World. I've gotta say, BRAVO!! I really can't imagine someone NOT recommending this anime if they ACTUALLY watched the whole thing! The world building.... the mystery... the heartfelt moments... the laughter... This anime had it all in my opinion! I'll even admit, the last episode brought tears to my eyes. The resolution was just fantastic. I feel like I could immediately re-watch this and not be bored.
If you're a fan of futuristic, post apocalyptic, scifi, then you HAVE to give this anime a watch. It's a heartfelt story that will reverberate with me for a while.
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This series takes us to a familiar era with a bit more advanced technology and shows a romantic story, but it soon drops us off in an unknown place that looks like it's from the old days and leaves us in complete ignorance - just like the main character. At first, the plot after the prologue seems a bit choppy - we jump from place to place, there's censorship everywhere and a generally strangely set system in different locations, but it's definitely fun to watch and get to know our heroes of the story more. After many minor adventures on the seemingly "endless" path to the goal, however, the plot settles down a bit, drops a story bomb and ends it all gracefully. I'm glad I came across the poster for this anime, which intrigued me enough to watch the series and enjoy a new episode every wee…
Read at the sourceGwynbleidd_Alan
Wasted Potential the anime. That’s the title I would give to Towa no Yuugure. Episode 0 and the first two episodes were so interesting, they hooked me instantly. The setup was perfect for this gritty story set in a post apocalyptic world. The art style was pretty and vibrant, and it had all the tools to build into a real gem of an anime. Where did it all go so wrong?
As soon as the story gets underway, the characters go on the most random, plot hole filled side quests that make absolutely no sense and lead to nothing. Some of them are actually rather strange, as they thematize incest and polygamy. Speaking of polygamy, this is a very heavily recurring theme in the show. This new world has something called “Ehlsea,” which basically means you can get married to as many people as you want. R…
Read at the sourceabesabes3rd
Don't let the first episodes fool you.
After watching this you will feel like you have wasted precious minutes of your life.
Plot:
• A guy who doesnt know hes not real,
• Someone helping him who knows he's not real but doesn't tell him,
• Episodes full of side characters that literally add nothing at all to nothing, <---- not a typo
• Incest (No half siblings... pure, blood related incest)
• Lies revealed, but nothing changes. So... FU viewer.
• Unnecessary time skip... because... we can... FU viewer
• Meaningless ending. No conclusion Themes:
• Main character is naive and annoying can do NOTHING by himself.
He literally dies like 4 times and has to be brought back. He's useless, No exaggeration.
• Let's talk to random strangers because we can trust them. Even though we being are hunted.
•…
Read at the sourceChamin99
(Spanish review on my list)
An original, short, self-contained story with different approaches is always welcome. It's nice to break out of the routine and watch this kind of unusual anime.
Strengths:
- It's self-contained.
- The plot twists are very interesting (slightly predictable, but interesting).
- It doesn't have a completely happy ending.
- The backstory is very good.
- The animation is good. - The villains are mostly ordinary people with problems, trying to solve them with whatever they have.
On the downside:
-They waste too much time on side quests that add very little to the story or character development.
-The final villain, initially super intelligent and strategic, ends up fighting an immortal android with a flimsy little pistol.
-The epilogue is too short.
-And my biggest…
Read at the sourceOsamu2497
Well... Watched the whole thing. Episode 0 and the first two episodes were quite interesting. Then is was downhill from there. Not terrible, but just the twist was pretty lackluster, and the action in the first episode was better than anything else that happened afterwards. The characters? Like them at first but then I realised that all their problems could've been solved if they just communicated? Like seriously, this show is just a ton of lying by omission for no real reason.
The action in the first episode is the best part. But once you reach about episode 5 or 6 ya kind of start wondering where things are going, and it isn't for the better. By the ending few episodes you kind of wonder what even the point of this show was? Was it love between machines and humans? Finding towasa? Akir…
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What an incredible waste of time, if you want to watch a good android anime try "Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song" instead and don't ever look back.
The anime got progressively worse and worse until I stopped being able to relate to the characters at all. The entire story feels as if it was written by a school dropout with nothing but "robots go brrrr" on his mind. It just feels really amateurish and if I had to describe it in a word it would be "drama"slop with emphasis on the quotes.
I initially thought the story started off strong, however looking back I can see I ignored a few red flags that should've made me drop the anime immediately. Those few problems at the start don't even come close to the absolute diarrhea of a story that follows though, with random characters and their boring probl…
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Towa no Yuugure is an anime that started out promising but then slowly got disappointing and ended up being laughable stock.
The story is about Akira Himegami, who appeared to be awakened in a post-apocalyptic world a dozen years after the shooting incident involving him and his adoptive sister, Towasa Omagi. Together with a humanoid named Yuugure and a mysterious girl called Amoru, Akira began his post-apocalyptic adventure to find the truth about his first love, Towasa, and a new polyamorous romantic concept called Elsie.
The visuals are eye-catching, and the animations were undoubtedly one of the best of this season, but that's the only good thing about it.
The anime's pacing was atrocious. Every confrontation with the antagonists felt repetitive, and the stakes were so low. Almost e…
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With all due respect: What the actual fuck is this anime?
Towa no Yuugure suffers from a ton of problems, one of them being that it feels like they asked each member of the staff to write an unrelated story and then tried to merge all of them into a single thing.
I had hopes for this anime, having watched episode 1 before episode 0, but this quickly fell off.
Episode 0 does have many of the issues that the show would have in the future, such as having generic, shallow and cartoonish approaches to heavy subjects it's nowhere near competent enough to tackle.
The premise of a post-apocalyptic future where places are at different levels of development is a very interesting one, which is sadly wasted here since there wasn't the bare minimum in terms of planning: We have to believe that a level…
Read at the sourceIMGsuperstar
It began really good and my top pick for anime of the season.
Somewhere towards the middle of the series, I guess budget and time became an issue for the producing studio. The story was compacted and the plot started moving a lot faster, often at the expense of the story remaining cohesive.
I won't spoil the ending but what could or should have been a multi-season epic story was turned into a short drama that made little sense at the end unless you buy into the incredulous turn of events.
I started off giving it an 8 but dropped it to a 7 at the end because the conclusion was iffy.
Read at the sourceJustAKidWhosFour
One of the longest arcs in this single cour 12 episode series is the 3 episode long mafia incest plotline, that sentence pretty much sums up the biggest issue with this series- it's inability to make good use of the limited air time it has; the very strange amount of incest (there's more than one incest plotline btw) baked into the whole thing sucks pretty bad too. Overall the story does have "some" somewhat interesting ideas, but it manages to squander all of them with its insistence on focusing on anything but what the audience is actually interested in.
It's not as if the things the show chooses to focus on in favor of its primary plot are completely meaningless to the overall narrative, to say that would be to argue in bad faith; however, while these side quests do technically help to…
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This show... was a missed opportunity to put in mildly. To me, it is the weakest show this fall season. I can hardly believe that a show can drop that low after that good episode 0 that set precedent, but it is what is is for better or worse.
Animation and music: pretty standard. Animation was good and fluent, I didn't notice any bad frames and quality drop. The battle sequences are animated well and the studio didn't shy off from gore in battles. Music is also industry standard, it is doing it's job but nothing more than that. No single unique soundtrack I can name.
Overall: animation and music are industry standard, not good and not bad.
Characters: there is a lot of them, which for show of only 12 episodes is a bit of a drag. The most important two are Akira and Yuugure. Akira is you…
Read at the sourceMarinate1016
Towa No Yugure has to be one of the most disappointing shows I’ve seen in a while. This show had all timer potential after episode 1 and instead of fleshing out an interesting post-apocalyptic setting, PA works decided to waste multiple episodes on random incest side ships, introducing side characters who added nothing to the story and using one of the main characters as an emotional/romantic punching bag. Yea there’s some cool concepts, fights and twists here, but there’s way too much wasted potential and filler to call this show anything but a disappointment. It’s an absolute shame because it looks great and has some very pretty character designs, but the story just didn’t live up to what it could’ve been.
First couple episodes are amazing. Action packed, cool twist, interesting post a…
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Dusk Beyond the End of the World - P.A. Works, please just stop doing anniversary works that just get worse whenever it shows up.
One of the most prolific studios in the modern heyday, it really comes as no surprise that when a series has P.A. Works is attached to its name, you can always expect some quality work and end up having the majority of a good time with it. From original works that continues to be the studio's bread-and-butter to this day, to now being just like any studio to adapt source material works for a time when executives helm the studio's vision as a one-and-done deal to only focus on works that no one else would rather take the pitch and risk on it to variable successes, P.A. Works may have both the greats and duds on their end, but it's always a given that we, the aud…
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