Audience reviews
9 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Recynon
This is a hard series to describe. You can tell from the designs, premise and characters that this is a blatant Eva ripoff. Similar looking robots battle giant enemies, and the MC is surrounded by a tsundere piloting a red robot and a kuudere piloting a blue robot. There's even an older love interest that's a parallel for Misato. Except the MC has no trouble getting into the robot. And he's good at his job. And the girls actually want him. And the tsundere is mentally stable and makes a good housewife. And the kuudere is able to bond with her found family. Instead of the angsty introspection, parental issues, and childhood trauma, we have humor and some actual bonding between the characters via a good helping of slice of life scenes, as the MC lives in the same house as his harem. Then on…
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Unironic Review about the plot, art & sound and Character development.
NTS: Picked this anime series up from a random isekai related recommendation post on reddit. Didn't expect much from this series considering it was an older mecha series (they tend to have basic plot progression and characters), and I watched unironically oblivious to the Evangelion parody. Despite being a fairly basic plot structure and generic harem character palette, this series was actually fairly interesting to watch. Let's get into why!
Story:
We are given an immature, pre-prepubescent nerd that is able to see large mecha fight and destroy his surroundings without affecting his world; thanks to the opening scene with a mysterious artifact that most likely split the interaction with it into two different worlds…
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I watched this show at the suggestion of anime guru DigiBro on youtube. Some spoilers contained: And this show indeed has parallels (see what I did there) to Evangelion. It takes a completely different direction however. Instead of gritty action, tear shedding drama, an amazing score, brilliant animation and strong characters we get.... lackluster battle sequences with obvious plot tricks to have the main character fight his girlfriends, entirely muted drama under no circumstances is there ever a strong feeling of danger, the sound is actually serviceable or maybe I am just getting convinced by the fact that it seems to be an advertisement for pioneer, the animation is fair to horrible depending on which sequences you analyze but certainly those CGI scenes where the mechs leave the hanger…
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When I first watched Dual it was long back in the mists of time before I had seen Evangelion and I quite liked it. Recently I watched it again and it just didn't have the same effect. Is it a result of my having seen more shows, a sign of me being jaded or simply it wasn't as good as I remembered? Who knows (it was a rhetorical question by the way). Whatever the reason Dual comes across as a rather uninspired generic attempt to emulate far better shows.
To Dual's credit it isn't actually bad and despite it's flaws manages to be quite entertaining just as long as you don't expect much from it. While the influences and similarities are obvious it is not a straight rip off and like Rahxephon takes similar elements and uses them to tell a story that is quite different.
Dual's characters are…
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This series proved to be quite a bit of a mixed bag for me. Another harem comedy made by Tenchi Muyo creator Masaki Kajishima, Dual Parallel Trouble Adventure looks to also be parodying mecha anime in its run considering it makes enough nods to Evangelion with its premise, mecha and character designs and some notable moments from the mentioned series. The Evangelion parodies did get me giggling as Dual Parallel's creators seemed to know enough about the show where Eva fans could spot certain elements from the series that Dual Parallel decided to poke fun of at points.
The series also features Kajishima's style of comedy featuring male lead Kazuki putting up with his unwanted harem of gals and having unexpected moments of comedy from details on events that characters fail to mention (quite…
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I don't really have anything to add to the other reviews that would make majority of readers think differently of this anime.
I'm just adding this as a warning for those who have the off-chance of perceiving this as a slightly superior less stylistic NGE - Don't.
When I watched this anime, I perceived it as a slightly superior NGE despite the underwhelming bland artwork and episodes because there were subtle more down to earth elements that made it seem like this had a much more suspenseful element than Evangelion.
This highly depends on whether you're more of a premise guy and you could ignore the aesthetic and pacing quality of NGE and treat this show as more of a Tenchi Muyo style of blandly generic placed events but with a big pay-off.
...unfortunately the big pay-off never comes w…
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well, after watching all the Episodes, I think its like a happy version of
Neon Genesis Evangelion, as for story goes there probably stuff that didn't make sense but i didn't care much. overall it was enjoyable despite the outrageous storyline, its one of those anime where you're enjoy it or not.
overall as for animes goes, its more watchable than some other animes, like for example..Gate Keepers.. which didn't make f**k sense to me. but then again, someone might not think Dual Parallel makes any sense. well at least its a "happy" anime.
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"Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventures" is, as everyone I've met who has seen it in its entirety and I will call it, a happy Neon Genesis Evangelion.
I say this because for the large part, there are enough parallels between the two series that it's at times not to accidentally finding yourself calling the main character Shinji. Except, in Dual! the main character has a spine and actually grows very bold when it comes to him fighting the enemy of the series, the RaRa Army. But even though it can be hard not to see the parallels, it's its own entity.
Dual!, for all intent and purposes, is a Tenchi series. It's drawn and written by Masaki Kajishima, has a few Easter eggs that point you towards the Tenchi universe, and there's even a direct throwback to Dual! in Tenchi GXP. with that being said…
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You can sum up Dual in one sentence: 'It's Evangelion but not too far up it's own ass"
I know it's a flameworthy summation, but it's true. It's a not-very-well-disguised clone of the series with some harem aspects. For christ's sake, the annoying, overbearing chick who's secretly into the protag even runs around in a red mech. You cant buy that kind of blatancy. But what does it have that NGE doesn't? Why a protag that you ACTUALLY like. Or, at the very least, you don't hate him for bitching and moaning every three seconds and masturbating to comatose girls!
(wow, didn't even get through the first paragraph without mentioning that. a new low XD)
Okay, now that i got that little bit out, story time!!
The show centers around a boy named Kazuki Yotsuga, a regular dude(don't they all, thou…
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