Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
GonzoMD1993
To get straight to the point, I cannot recommend this anime because it completely butchers the source material. Look at any other review from anime only watchers and you'll get a rough idea of what they did to Haku even without knowing anything about the visual novel: they made him lazy, unlikable, and a total slezeball. Why? I cannot fathom why. In the VN much of his "laziness" is, for a lack of a better term, performative. He claims to be lazy but he never really cuts corners in any job he has to do. He's more the "work smart, not hard" type. His first display of "laziness" is fixing the waterwheel using his head instead of spinning the mill with brute force, which he doesn't have because the denizens of the world he woke up in have vastly greater physical strength than Haku (who for all…
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If nothing else, at least consider checking out the games which the Utawarerumono anime has been adapted from. The games compared to the adaptation are so much more fleshed out and "complete" feeling. Though I still recommend the anime from season 1-3, if you truly want the Utawarerumono experience then please go play the games. Many reviewers are not wrong when they say that the anime can be a mess/rushed because it is true. There is simply too much material to be adapted into an anime that is limited by 20 minute episodes which makes many fans of the games undervalue the effort put into the anime. I myself believe that in conjunction with the games, the anime serves as a great portrayer due to the game's style as a visual novel, it at times cannot create a scene as beautifully as an anim…
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This show was a wild ride start to finish. The characters and story were superb, the art is solid, but it has one major flaw, an absolute terrible, copout of an ending.
Story: 9/10
Overall the story was well written and flowed very smoothly, there was action, comedy, general slice of life. There were a few points where things were played up a little much for my liking, but that's pretty subjective. The major flaw with both this and its predecessor are the very horrible endings. They both fell flat on the final episode, like they were written by HBO.
Art: 8/10
Most of the art in the series was well done, however, it suffers the same fate as any other anime that tries to rely on 3DCG, it always seems unnatural and breaks the immersion of the show a bit, what makes this one particularly bad…
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NOTE: This is a VERY minor spoiler review. As a huge Utawarerumono fan, I had great expectations for the anime and will be comparing it to the visual novel (og source) from time to time (with context too for the people that haven't read the VN). Though I'll start by saying that the visual novel is so much better than the anime - I would give the rating such a higher rating if it were the visual novel.
Context:
This anime is an adaption of the visual novel called Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception (for English releases). There are two parts to this visual novel represented by two games. The first part is Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception and is what this anime covers. The second part is the continuation of Mask of Deception and the anime hasn't come out for it yet.
Story 6/10:
The story fr…
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(This review has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
I’ve never had amnesia.
The closest I have ever come to memory loss was the few hours following the removal of my wisdom teeth. While I wish to save the actual wisdom-teeth anecdote for later, suffice it to say that I do not remember anything that happened once the anesthesia kicked in. My parents tell me that I blubbered like a buffoon, though. Which, in all honesty, I could see myself doing.
Unfortunately for Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen, it ends up as a forgetful experience, too.
STORY
Utawarerumono starts off with mystery in mind. Kuon, a wandering woman, discovers a man seemingly lost in the woods. He has no knowledge of who he is, and he cannot seem to recall his memories. Kuon decides to name the man…
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This review is written by someone who has watched the prequel first, then read the visual novel, and then watched this anime without reading the novel for this anime. Spoilers will be present and announced later in the review.
The prequel was fun enough for me to want to read the VN and watch the sequel. The VN was a nice addition but the anime itself was a good one. However I can only say I'm very dissapointed in this sequel anime. I've seen people claim Fate/Stay Night is the kiddy version of Fate/Zero because the cast in F/SN mostly consists out of kids. I heavily disagree since plotwise Stay Night is just more complex than Zero. However this sequel does seem to be the kiddy version of the prequel.
The original Utawarerumono was written for 18+ (and the anime 17+) and I think that refl…
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The One Being Sung: The False Faces is the second season of The One Being Sung and has a very similar premise to the original. A man with no memories finds himself in a sword and sorcery world populated by people with animal ears and tails. After being saved from a monster by a cat-girl named Kuon, she declares that from now on she is his guardian and the two begin their journey together.
This anime is set several years after season one and includes a few cameo appearances from characters in the first season, but this anime is set in a different country and you really don't need to watch season one before watching this anime.
One thing you may be wondering is why this anime is ranked so much lower than season one. Well, that's because none of things that made season one good (like stro…
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Careful not to pay too close attention to the number as they don't mean that much.
Anyways, my previous review is somewhere here where I looked at it objectively from a development standpoint. It does everything it needs to do, establishes a hero's journey, creates tension, and arrives at a climax before ending it. It would be a 7/10 for execution. Now that I'm done talking game, let's move onto the anime.
Your hero is an everyday hacker, who is surrounded by anime animal girls, one of which has a fetish for hot springs. We get to see their everyday life before we see something happen. What you say? A general killing it's civilians as casualties of war. You know, you generally don't want to kill off your productivity if you want to prosper as a nation. Seriously, where are the key suppor…
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This anime is a failure as a sequel, so much so that it made me make an account to this website just so i could review it. "A bunch of girls in a bathtub" would be another name for this anime. The anime is about random girls who just decide to move in with the MC for no reason at all take baths about twice per episode, talk about boys all night long, and meet new girls to take baths with. The MC has 0 skills there is nothing special about him he barely even shows up since the story just kinda focused the entire time on the girls in the bathtub but don't worry because you get to see some of the characters from the first season show up take a bath and never show up again. The girls are as cliche as they can possibly be there is nothing interesting about them and they all look the same. Okay…
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The first Utawarerumono is vastly superior to this one. What made the show very enjoyable were its characters. In the first series we have Hakuoro, who is much more mature and intelligent than the protagonist, Haku, of Itsuwari no Kamen. Haku is in possession of a middle schooler's brain while Hakuoro has a mature one. This goes for the other main characters to a large degree as well. I realize that some of them aren't that old, but the sheer stupidity of some of the things they do is unfitting of someone with slightly above average intelligence. Average and below average intelligence are not enjoyable to watch. Keep in mind that i write this review considering someone with average intelligence to be frighteningly stupid. There are times and places for characters that are stupid, but this…
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Story: 4
Bland, specially within the first half of the anime and that’s 12 episode of runtime wasted on weak attempt to develop the characters. At best, the plot is mediocre. It again wasted the rich foundation the prequel built and the very detailed world already built. The show also failed to take advantage of a crucial plot event that should have made momentous changes to the story.Overall, very disappointing story but another element truly dragged it down.
Art: 8
Fluid animation and nothing hurts the eye, though nothing to give you wow factor either. Characters designs receive thumbs up and in my opinion it is superior compared to its predecessor and source material.
Music: 7
Those tracks from the game (I haven’t watched the prequel anime but played the VN) just kills you with nos…
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Where did it all go wrong?!?
The first season of Uawarerumono was great; the characters were developed well, the story was compelling, the action was good and it was enjoyable.
The second season on the other hand is like rotting meat left in sewage compared to a nice juicy steak (with the first season being the steak).
It starts off well, my hopes for it meeting the standard of the first season were high. Then it took a massive plunge like an obese man flopping off a 30 metre high diving board.
At least 10 episodes have no, or completely unrelated content in regards to the main storyline. The progression is slow, nothing even happens, save for a few harem-esque moments and the mc whining like a baby.
The choices characters make have no sensible logic behind them, the mc can't do anything…
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Dispar as it might appears to be on my rating of this anime, I choose Overall 6 as well as Story 6 due the simple fact that, although being sequel to a good Science Fiction / Strategy and Drama series, it failed to convey the richness of the first season, exchanging it for too much comedy relief in the first half of the series, and then rushing out things so badly that they just tossed ideas and revelations from one thing to another, explaining nothing at all and forgetting elements, hints and ideas laid during the series which were great if developed, throwing everything to the wind in a finale that lacked sence and went to a very unecessary and plainly out of place drama path, totally unnecessary and senseless. I will not spoil things for those who have not seen the series, but they lost…
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This had so much potential to be good, perhaps the game or manga[if there is a manga] would be better than the anime at delivering the finished piece of this utawarerumono story, but there is one glaring terrible thing of this series
The main character; i'm not saying his personality or anything is bad, it's how he's presented. He's constantly extolled as a character that gets things done, but what the story shows him really being able to do is fix a mill and teach the princess a lesson and even those weren't that great because with the mill he simply removes the stopper and with the princess he coat tails off of ushutoru's words.
It would have been an amazing anime if it simply showed him actually doing things to later pull back to when they praise him instead of just saying he can do t…
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This is a lax review that falls more to the compartment style (and being my first review).
After enjoying the first season of Utawarerumono, i wanted more! So i turned to Itsuwari no Kamen. Luckily i didn't watch the original show when it aired now 10 years ago because the wait and disappointment would have crushed me even harder than it just recently did.
Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen starts off with setting identical to the original, but quickly changes to your typical slice of life fantasy setting. MC starts building harem of sorts and nothing reminiscent of plot or traces to first season is to be seen until first few episodes in.
There are few major plotholes (just like in the original) that might someday get covered in future seasons but i wouldn't bet my money on that.
Just a lit…
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Warning: Review may contain spoilers.
Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen is a good example of why a second season is sometimes a terrible idea. I can't help but wonder if most of these "reviews" even watched this anime.
The "successor" to the charming first season of the series, which was a series with likeable characters that saw well-paced development, followed with a strong narrative and art/sound direction for the time and was an overall joy to watch.
Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen, however, falls flat on all expectations short of art direction and soundtrack. Characters lack any real depth, they don't grow, bond or build a real relationship, we can see characters lounging around for the better part of the series, 12+ episodes until anything happens isn't "slow pacing", it's poor wr…
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- Be advised, don't read this review if you have not finish the anime as it contains spoilers -
Firstly, I would like to say that I like Utawarerumono, but I haven't play the Visual Novel at all. Contrary to the high scores that most people give to this anime, I would have to say that this anime is one giant mess, whether it's because of the original material or the director, there is nothing great about the sequel to great series of Utawarerumono.
The main issue with this anime is its story which I really dislike, especially with how the anime starts and ends. In my opinion, the first cour of the anime from Fall 2015 is nothing but a giant filler. Why? It's because unlike its prequel, the first cour is a slice of life anime that has very little purpose other than introducing the charact…
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So first of all if you have not watched the original Utawarerumono anime you probably need to do that first or else there will be points in this story that you will definitely find yourself lost because this is a continuation of the original Utawarerumono story line.
I found this anime quite a bit more enjoyable than the first. You get more in depth with the characters and the tone is much lighter that in the original anime. I do like how well the story progressed through each and every character ultimately building to the conclusion which in itself is another beginning.
Most of the anime has a light feel to it, although it doesn't skip a more serious tone hear and there the largest of which comes at the conclusion. The animation is nice and clean and the sound and everything else is cr…
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Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen is the successor of the original 2006 anime Utawarerumono. Both are 25-episodes anime and both are set in the same setting.
First and foremost, I would advise you watch the first season before attempting to watch this one. Otherwise, you will not understand half of what happens in the second half of the anime. You might think this is obvious since this is a second season but you'd be surprised how many people dived straight in that anime without watching the original first...
To start off with a side note, I am baffled by the amount of people who claim this anime is basically a Slice of Life anime and has no direction whatsoever and decided to drop it halfway.
It's not that nothing is happening, the anime is simply taking its time to properly do a good…
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First of all there might be some spoilers within this review because it isn't possible to be mad about this story by not even rant a bit about what went wrong within only one and in this case the last episode.
I really enjoyed this whole setting and even if there wasn't much going on in a lot of those 25 episodes I really enjoyed watching all those great characters living their life. But also as the story started to unfold it really went into a nice story telling direction. The OST was really great and suited the settings perfectly.
BUT and if you haven't watched the last episode please stop here.
BUT what were they thinking? I mean the ruined a whole series with just one and in this case the last episode. This show would have received a much higher rank in my case if they hadn't done…
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