Audience reviews
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BowlingJD
Studio OLM that brought the world Berserk and Pokemon in the late 90’s now brings an anime in 2006 that can best be described as anime-nerd-bait aka otaku bait. Together with new director Tomoki Kobayashi (Galaxy Angel Z) they attempted to adapt this eroge strategy game. At first, the product of Utawarerumono started off with an interesting high fantasy with semi-interesting characters and then takes a left-turn along the way.
The show begins with a cute wolf-type girl finding an injured man in the woods wearing a mask he cannot remove. She and her family nurse him back to health, but the man still does not have any memories of his past. Slowly, the audience learns the land, society, and the slow progression to war with strategic battle ensuing.
Mostly, Utawarerumono is formulaic in the…
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Well been putting it off for quite a while, but now i have finally seen it and let me give you my opinion on it.
Series Name: Utawarerumono
Story: The story is rather interesting, for the most part while it has elements of science fiction and fantasy, the majority of the series seems to focus a amenisaic man who becomes an emepror and must defend his nation and people against those who wish to do harm to it so it focuses mostly on war and fighting, at the same time there is background story that focuses on the history of the main lead and the truth of his origin and his relation with the history of the world.
Review: I actually enjoyed this series as i watched it, I would not say that is one of the best anime or has one of the best storied but it is an interesting one and has plenty of…
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Utawerurumono. Where do i start.
1. The story is of a mysterious man who awakens with no memories of who he is or where he is, and he has the unique feature of a mask he cannot remove from his face. The story follows the MC on his journey to discover who he truly is and overcome the obstacles that are thrown at this man as he meets new allies and faces his past.
2. The character are all lovely and great, they each bring something to the table with their own quirks and personalities. Even the antagonists are well done for the time era that the world is in.
3. The art is brilliant, for being an anime made so long ago, it doesn't bother you at all, it doesn't feel dated in the slightest and manages to make you appreciate everything about it. It does dabble with CG though at some points but i…
Read at the sourceSasori_Puppets
Utawarerumono
-I went into this anime not knowing what to expect but then i was suddenly surprised. After the first episode I sought myself wanting more and more and then before i realized it i had finished all 26 episodes.
-The story was quite interesting as well. I thought to myself why the heck would i want to watch an anime about a guy who cant remember his past and is unable to take off a mask that had no meaning throughout the story?(minor spoiler) Anyways when I continued on through the anime I was gaining more and more knowledge about what the meaning of his mask and his life overall and what had happened to him in the past. Its kind of hard for me to explain exactly what i liked about the story without giving you a spoiler. All i can say is dont judge a book by its cover. This…
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Utawarerumono is an incredibly long complicated title that took me forever to pronounce correctly, and it translates to: "the one being sung". I would have never found this anime if it weren't for a friend of mine, and I have to say that this could have been one of my favorites had it not have such a terrible ending. It creates an interesting fantasy setting, it has incredibly likable characters, and if the ending didn't have such an awkward tonal and directional shift: this could have been a perfect family animated show. Like seriously, about halfway I was like: "finally an anime that could a appeal to a wide audience that doesn't have to be dark, super serious and depressing." This anime seems to be underrated, and kind of under the radar, which is a shame because there is a lot to like…
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So when I first found out about this title, the first thing came into mind is, “What the hell does Utawarme….Utaworm…..Uta…Damn it, I can’t even say it right!! What does…that damn word mean?” Well, after that, the title of the show is translated into English as, “The One Being Sung”, which does describe one of the character’s rise in the series and funny thing about this being based on a videogame and how it was supposed to be a harem, considering I didn’t see the whole harem part in this, but more on that later.
A man awakens in an unfamiliar village with no memory of his past or identity. The only clue: a devil-horned mask which conceals the upper half of his face but cannot be removed. Still recovering from the bad wounds he had when he was found and without any clear direction, the ma…
Read at the sourceMaouSatan
In Utawarerumono, there are two gods that fight for eternity. This explanation as an answer to the mystery that surrounds the anime until about a half is somewhat disappointing, in my opinion. E gives rise to a final ultra-romantic, and so very unpleasant.
However, the idea made me reflect. It was another anime that I felt sick to finish. Not as much as X, but almost. It's a sad ending (after all, it's ultra-romantic), in which many are hit and confirms that a destination of suffering for one of the main characters. Something forceful means to an anime that will gradually captivating, at least until the middle of the plot. Once captivated, feel more impacts with those fictitious persons.
The reflection reminded me a bit of Nietzsche, the Greek philosophers of antiquity and also Milan Kun…
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There are two words that best describe my thoughts of Utawarerumono that not too many folks would like me to utter: otaku bait. I know this would seem kind of shallow-minded to anyone that may like this series. But considering mostly every prominent character in this series has some sort of animal ears and tail plus look ridiculously cute or physically attractive (along with this anime being an eroge strategy game adaptation), I rest my case with these two words being uttered.
For the most part, Utawarerumono's characters and plot developments are pretty formulaic and straight-forward. The series runs into several arcs with Hakuoro and his allies running into some hostile enemy threat trying to either halt his revolt or take over his kingdom, Hakuoro coming up with a clever plan to halt s…
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this has to be the best anime ive seen.
the story develops itself at a nice pace, and this anime can be enjoyed by anyone,(exept for a girl i know that runs screaming away from anything i show that might have a very slight chance of having any kind of fighting or scary touch to it)
the characters all had very detailed bits to them, and i enjoyed this more than the rest of my favorites put together. i loved this anime and would recommend this to anyone, so go watch it now!
Read at the sourceGilgaki
I think this anime was just poorly executed.
The overall story is actually good and interesting, at the beginning and again at the end, it was just buried under piles of nonsense and extremely forgettable characters. The story follows Hakuoro, who after being found and rescued by a small village he becomes the leader of a rebellion, emperor of a country and then spends his time fight wars with every other country around.
A major plot twist happens near the end that was so unexpected and weird that my initial reaction was "I am just going to pretend that didn't happen..."and even when it gets explained in the end and you no longer have to pretend it didn't happen, I was still thinking, "it could have been better."
Because there were so many "mini-wars" they all ultimately blended togeth…
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All i can really say is that i didn't even realize it was a harem until someone mentioned it
I HATE harems (mostly cuz i find all the girls really annoying and i hate excessive fan service)
but i absolutely LOVED Utawarerumono and it may even be partly because it IS a harem. I loved all the female characters and i loved when more kept being added
but its not just a simply harem because their are a lot of male cast too (Benawi, Oboro, the twins)
then i love the OP theme (and the ED ones too)
and the concept of slowly overcoming difficult hurdles and eventually leading and building an empire was very satisfying. The abilities of all the characters as well as the main characters background is truly gratifying
the story was intelligently made and the art is cute and fun (we've got adora…
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I created an account on this site just because someone listed this anime as a recommended one for Berserk lovers, and I'm here to set the record straight. This anime is a feeble minded kids anime that takes every anime cliche and throws it into one series. Go ahead, read the other reviews and you'll see they mention the run of the mill story, and standard anime characteristics. This review will let you know how dumb this anime is. No plot spoilers, but a preview of some crap to come.
First you start off with a man who wakes from a coma. So you're thinking cool, now we have to find out who this guy is and why he's wearing that mysterious mask. Then we find out he's in a feudal time period. All of a sudden there are elf like people and people with cat ears. Ok WAIT!!! now they all ride on…
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This is such an awesome show...I really was not expecting this show to be as good as it was but maybe by everyone saying it was 'so good' you might pick up this series thinking it's this EPIC masterpiece of an anime like a ROBOTECH, Cowboy Bebop or Fullmetal Alchemist....when it really isn't. So I don't think you should let you expectations go overboard either. I'm just saying that if maybe you see the cute dog-boys and cat-girls and bird people and that's not your thing or you think “great this is one of those shows!” where everything is all cutesy lovely, then yes you will be surprised.....because this show is definitely not cutesy and lovely.
The art is very good. This show offers some nice-looking characters and there is great use of colors. They did reuse some of the fight scenes, es…
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Story: An anime based of a H-Visual Novel may not seem like the premise of a good anime but it is. The plot may seem to repeat at times but it's just building up to some mind blowing plot twists in the end, I assure you, you won't see it coming. The plot has everything, massive battles won by brilliant strategies, amazing character interaction and a romance plot that you actually care about, I was never once bored and simply hoping that the episode would just finish so like so many animes do. It's so good that I was depressed when the anime was over simply because it ended.
Art: The artwork is simply gorgeous, it really sets the fantasy setting and brings life to the character. I have never seen any other anime with a art style just like this so that is simply a bonus. The characters (at…
Read at the sourceDesian
one of my all time favorites, this show is a crowd pleaser. disguised fanservice and comedy are inlcuded but do not mess with the plot. if your going to watch this watch in japanese with english subs(see sound for explanation)
Story:10/10
the story is very unique. war is a prevailant theme but other themes are displayed throughout. themes like love, compassion, vengeance, courage, friendship. they all leave their mark on this show. masterfully delivery of the amnesia portion of the plot. flashbacks shedding light on the story and hakouro's past in small amounts at perfect moments. based off a eroge game the plot reflects the harem it was created after and adds romance to the story. however as war and combat are just as prevailant it is my decision not to characterise this as a shounen or…
Read at the sourceQuizerno
This is a show I really enjoyed when it was airing... But I later realized It I didn't retain those feelings.
First of all the story is really fun to get into. The setting is a land resembling feudal Japan. So it provokes a cool cultural feeling when it's watched.
The character are good, some are cute others are just cool. But it's a shame the show doesn't focus on them heavilly (but apparently the original game does). So yeah the character focus is a bit off and thats sad.
The fighting is alright. But nothing special. It's not fast (with some exceptions) but it's well coordinated. And most of the time it's not like the single animation still action shots (most of the fighting is REALLY animated haha)
Story is fun. But it's very slow. I didn't realize this at first. But the pacing is…
Read at the sourceZazzy753
STORY: the story of Utawarerumono is very good, but it's only an adaptation of the videogame's story, so some characters lost some deep. However the story can be fully understand by watching the anime, but for truly understand every character i suggest to play the videogame wich is fan translated in english.
ART: The animation is quite good, nothing outstanding, the computer graphic animation are crappy and seem to be out of place.
SOUND: the sound is quite good too, Op and Ed are nice, sound effect are good, and the insert song are realy sweet
CHARACTER: Nekomiki's heaven! if you like this kind of character then Utawarerumono will be an Harem for you, anyway every character is portrayed very well, but because of the summarized story, some character tend to be rather vague
ENJOYMENT: U…
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What comes to mind when a visual novel gets an anime adaptation? Usually I think average guy, a bunch of overly cute unattainable girls and some kind of story arc surrounding each girl. However Utawarerumono disregards this overused high school romantic formula, with girls that require conquering like a RPG boss and goes for a more fascinating approach.
Utawarerumono is an Action Adventure set in a world of Fantasy. Just think Lord of the Ring, but minus the Ring and Hobbits. Following the disturbing opening scene, we our introduced to our protagonist, a mysterious masked man with no recollection of who he is and why he has an immovable mask on his face. Now this amnesia plot device is one of the most over used but taking into account that this is based of a visual novel, it’s certainly…
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For about 4/5 of the series, I really enjoyed myself. I’m not usually into science fiction/supernatural anime series, so I wasn’t looking forward to anything when I started watching Utawarerumono. However, I was proven wrong. Utawarerumono was just so exciting and fun to watch and I really liked it – 4/5 of the 26 episodes. For the last 1/5, I didn’t like it too much. I don’t wanna give out any spoilers, so I’ll just say that the last arc was too weird and it didn’t register.
All the characters were really likable and I felt sorry for them whenever another war or battle emerges. It’s a good thing they laugh and make me laugh now and then. My favorite was Oboro – I loved watching him fight alongside Dori and Gura, the adorable twins. I…
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Utawarerumono manages to be one of those harem animes that anyone can possibly find enjoyable, even if they don't particularly like the concept of harems. Based on the ero-game with the same title, Utawarerumono focuses on an amnesiac man who is found critically injured in a rural village. With the kindness of the villagers, he recovers and spends his days peacefully with them. However, the peaceful times quickly end with a heart shattering event that throws the man and his fellow villagers into a life of war.
Story
The story in Utawarerumono is somewhat simplistic at first, with a majority of the anime following a simple formula of battles, battles and even more battles while introducing new characters. One may find that the way the story unfolds in this show is quite repetitive. However…
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