Audience reviews
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OhsnapitsDavid
I really enjoyed Fortune Arterial. Apparently, that's a controversial thing to say. Who cares if this was during "twilight" era, whatever that means. Anime in this time had a lot of experimental stories too, especially in the supernatural genre. Thus, today this kind of anime actually stands out because not many these days go for a "highschool with vampire" theme. Isn't that ironic? Yet we bash this anime, because of that, but we all know it's just because of this anime's release.
The saying goes, some anime are just too soon for their own good.
This anime was very enjoyable. I enjoyed everything from the uniforms to the characters to the unraveling world as the main character learned more.
I'd say, each episode felt like a standard anime show, so I was never discouraged to stop watchi…
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TL;DR
If a Key novel and Twilight had a child, it would be Fortune Arterial. However, this child takes more after Twilight. How unfortunate. Skip this one.
Story: 4
Starting out as a cheap rip-off of Key novels, the story seemed average at best. However, the more episodes I watched the more I hated myself for watching it. The overall plot is pretty stable, if mediocre. The dialogue is what really ruins the rest of the story. To be fair I watched it subbed, so the translator may be at fault. The general plot of the story is that the MC causes problems that he then fixes without really doing anything. Such is the fate of anime adapted harem VN.
Art: 4
To be perfectly honest the art itself is ok, if a bit average. The shot composition is awful. It wasn't noticeable at first, but the longer…
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Story: 2/10
Protagonist-kun transfers to a new school with eroge cliches in tow (nice guy & plot convenient amnesia) and has a fated meeting with a dull lead female who happens to be a vampire for some reason. He almost instantly makes friends upon arrival and is made to be an events committee chairman. The plot sort of meanders after this point. It's about either his activities as a committee chairman, his past (and others he met in the past) or the lead heroine refusing to drink his blood (because she's apparently a vampire) because she wants to live life like a human. The vampire angle is very poorly played out. You could replace it with the heroine coming from a distinguished family and being forced to find a fiancée at school or find herself being taken back home and the outcome woul…
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So i thought this anime was something you could sink your teeth into (No-pun intended) and watch for a week
Honestly it surprised me a bit.
I thoroughly enjoyed this show
So story wise i feel that the true plot never comes through until episode 8. The plot after episode 8 is rather good and i feel that it allows you to actually care for the characters. Now is it anything amazing? Not really. I just really enjoy this plot. Now before episode 8 it is honestly a stereotypical slice of life anime. So really the plot after episode 8 does pick up the show a bit. I can't say much more without spoiling it.
Visuals are like i said just good. Hell visuals and music are just good. This show has nothing bad in it but they also don't try for something unique. I think the best term is safe.
Character…
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Okay....I kinda enjoyed this anime because the ending was obvious... I don't know why people hate obvious ending but i personally like it when the protagonist in the end falls in love with the heroine...The ending was a bit out of story but the romance was good in the anime. And the story line was pretty obvious but thats the good thing... If its not obvious, there is no point of the romance... The reason why i gave this anime a 7 is that the romance is very good and not like those harem anime that make you so pissed at the end when the protagonist don't choose one girl as his own... Those kind of anime just makes me so irritated although i know that is the feature of harem anime... Anyways, back to topic, this anime is a decent anime for people who are finding 1 on 1 romance anime and i k…
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Story & Characters (2/10)
Another season, another eroge transformed into an anime. Eroge adaptations are now ubiquitous enough that they have to be treated like shonen action series: you have to start ignoring the obvious and start enjoying the variation in details. Taken that way, Fortune Aerial isn't just bad enough, but even if there's a level of Hell for anime, it wouldn't be allowed in.
Ah, school transferring. No youthful memories, no lasting friendship and no meaningful romance. That's the kind of lifestyle Kouhei has been suffered from until he finally gets a choice of his own he opts for Shuchikan Academy, a boarding school out on a peripheral Japanese island that he had once briefly stayed at several years ago. There he reunites with his childhood friends and quickly gets associ…
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Although many people don't like this anime, I really enjoyed it. It has a good last episode and was enjoyable in many ways. People who say that this anime sucks probably just copied the comments of other people. You should not believe what others say about this anime because in the end it's your opinion that is needed.
Story:7 - Because the story is very short. It's almost too fast. Others say that this anime has no originality, but hey, almost all anime these days has no originality. They just compare the Visual novel and the anime. But it is true that the VN is better than the Anime, but it's still good.
Art and Sound:8 - How could anybody say this has bad art. It has good art compared to other anime.
Character:7 -Well the main character is not that heroic or all powerful, but he has…
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"A Migratory Bird" - episode one title
"Akai Yakusoku" - episode twelve title
"I want to make new memories here." - Hasekura Kouhei "Fortune Arterial" is actually the title of a visual novel. It was adopted into a manga of the same name, and an anime called "Fortune Arterial: Akai Yakusoku (Red Promise)." Some people were disappointed with the anime because of a lack of action scenes, which they assumed would be there de facto as the series had vampires. In case you have not seen Twilight, I have got some news for you: vampires do not equal action anymore. You just have to live with it. This show is basically slice of life, with friendship elements thrown to it. However, there is an overall plot, and it is heavily related to vampires, which is apparent from the very first scene of the very…
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I liked this anime, even though the ending was a little bit of a let down.... I liked the art style and the character designe and I thought that the supernatural part was tied in just right so it wasnt mainly focused on it but it wasnt mainly not either.
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Well, Fortune Arterial turned out rather decent in comparison to my initial expectations. Just knowing that this show is an adaptation of a standard harem-esque Visual novel immediately smelled like trouble, but surprisingly enough, the story did not degrade into a complete mess. That being said, this anime definitely had a lot of issues, mainly with pacing and a very generic plot. Even the vampire twist in this anime, which was done in a relatively untypical fashion, ended up not making much of a difference.
The one flaw to VN adaptations is that, because there are usually multiple heroines in the original source material, adopting all the storylines into a single coherent plot usually proves to be difficult. In that aspect, Fortune Arterial did a relatively good job of merging all the s…
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Even at first glance, Fortune Arterial seems... shakey... generic. Whoever said "don't judge a book by its covers" probably didn't look in the right book section because, indeed, Fortune Arterial is shakey and very generic. The experience of watching Fortune Arterial is comparable to eating rotten food (not that you would ever do it voluntarily)- the experience is horrible for the first half, then after eating it for a while your taste buds already dead so you feel that it's passable. After you finish eating all the rotten food, you look back and ask yourself "what the hell just happened?" Not all of the episodes were bad, just a majority of them - pointless episodes that you wonder "why the hell are they showing me these things". In addition, the lolwtfBBQ ending really didn't do much to…
Read at the sourceAgueroKun10
A unqiue mashup or a bland School Life/Romance with Vampires, following the success of films/books like Twilight and how usually any Rom/School Life shows usually do well you would expect this series to be good or maybe great, well its not.
The first episode was interesting starting to know the characters etc... but it felt like a bad Romance/SL series untill the vampire moment at the end of the episode which brought in a aspect of Horror, and in all fairness i enjoyed the first episode, i loved the blend of genres and putting across alot of information in the first ep from new characters,school etc... was good.
But one we knew the bland characters Fortune heavilly relyed on the Vampire aspect to get it through the next 11 episodes, which just didnt happen the story dragged on and in the…
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If you like vampires and light romance this might be the anime for you. For me I didn't feel like they let the romance build very much. Seemed like a quick love at first sight. Also the plot seemed to lack, there seemed to be one main problem for one of the characters and even in the end the problem seemed unresolved. Overall though I would suggest it to the vampire and love at first sight watchers out there. Enjoy!
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Fortune Arterial: Akai Yakusoku is a visual novel adaption that I thought really should have done better. The problem with this series is that it lacked uniqueness in anyway and it seems very generic
There actually is a plot is very lackluster and seems very generic. Our main protagonist Kouhei Hasekura has just transferred to a new school where he meets our heroine Erika Sendou, who falls for him immediately. He also gets reunited with his childhood friends and he soon finds out that Erika along with her brother are vampires. The problem with a plot like this is that it's very generic and predictable. If you watched so much as one harem in your life you would know what to expect. There's really very little that's unique about it, sure they have the whole vampire plot but it really have m…
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First Impression & Bias:
So you click the play button on the first episode of your new romance visual novel adaption. You hear Lia, the singer of well known KEY titles, singing another good song that gives you the feel and illusion that this will be a promising show that will brighten your mood whenever you turn it on.
Yes, this was my very first impression. How foolishly naïve I was at that time.
Expectation: 8-9
Episodes: -,-,-,5,7,5,7,8,8,9,7,4
Actual: 6 (fine)
Anlysis:
Yes, this is a show about a boy who has luckily had no friends since he has traveled with his family constantly, who sets off, on his own of course, to find himself. Something like that. So our male lead lands himself in the Academy with vampires. The first few episodes were rather impressive actually, as the lead slowl…
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Fortune Arterial is a Visual Novel adaptation that on the surface should be a failure with a bad story and cliched characters. but does include a decent protagonist who knows how to get things done as well as a nice touch of drama.
The story is actually rather overused now-a-days, Hasakura our protagonist moves to an island and transfers to a prestegious school where he meets a bunch of people he quickly befriends as well as re aquanting with a couple of childhood friends, and there are vampires. The show however does have a plot and does not just include a bunch of unconnected episodes. It uses its time to deepen and show us its characters and develops them nicely.
The art is pretty nice, the characters are drawn well with some detail gone into them but for the most part are generic loo…
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There are few trends in anime that are as fallible as the visual novel adaptation, yet they continue to be made in the hope of finding the next Air, Kanon or Clannad. Unfortunately this means that the industry is littered with forgettable titles that have no other purpose than to serve as no brain entertainment for an audience that simply doesn't care anymore.
There is hope though, as every so often a series will appear that defies all expectations. Sadly, Fortune Arterial: Akai Yakusoku (Red Promise) isn't one of them.
Based on the adult visual novel of almost the same name that was released in 2008 by developer August, the series lays out a fairly stereotypical harem plot of boy transferring into prestigious school and girls immediately falling head over heels for his kind personality…
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I was expecting this show to be at least a decent anime, but alas it wasn't even close to comming anywhere near that.
Story - In a way i think the plot development could of been better, but the execution of it and the pace of the story as a whole was too close even though this only a 12 episode. its only after 3/4th of the entire series did it start to get interesting, though very mildly interesting because of the slow pace.
Art - nothing really to mention other than its the usual generic anime look which looks nice.
Sound - nothing to mention here. not that there was anything that sounded exciting.
Characters - Majority of the characters lack of development. Main guy character really annoyed me for some reason i just wanted to punch him. Main female was alright. Only real development…
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Yes, of course I watched this because it's bad. One must watch bad shows from time to time, otherwise good shows lose their worth. Of course I watched it so that I could bash on it afterwards, it is simply entertaining to me. You would be surprised to know that I almost dropped it around five times though, I had to battle myself every time to ensure that I could finish it!
I want to start out by saying that I feel sorry for Ono Daisuke, I know a job is a job and that everyone's got to eat, but I'd live off of porridge as my three meals a day for a month rather than involve myself with something like this.
By no means is this anime in any way original. Fanboys of harem have seen it numerous times before. Since the vampire theme, unfortunately, is all the rage at the present time they've d…
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Fortune Arterial looks to be a vampire anime at first glance, but is in fact a romantic drama. Kohei and Sendo are the two main characters, and there blooming romance is cute and amusing to watch. Sendo is a vampire that is trying to find a new way to live without sucking human blood. The first part of the show is basically just setting up normal school life, while the second part is about sendo struggling with her urge to draw human blood.
This is essentially what you are going to get out of watching this show. A few amusing charecter interactions and some good back story episodes. You will also get the first taste of a fairly interesting story between sendo and Kohei, the problem is its cut short. They have the framework hear for a truly excellent anime with great character setup and a…
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