Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
R-a-h-u-l
I actually think this is a bit overhated, but yeah it’s definitely flawed.
The core idea is strong. Once you start seeing how the timelines connect and how Takuya’s actions affect different outcomes, it becomes genuinely interesting. There are moments where the mystery and emotional stakes actually land.
The problem is consistency. The first half feels rushed, and the second half feels like a different show entirely. The transition into the fantasy world is jarring, even if it eventually ties back into the main story.
Some characters are good in concept, but they don’t get enough time to really shine. you can tell the original story had much more depth.
If you’re into time loops and multi-world narratives, there’s still something to enjoy here. Just dont expect a polished adaptation.
I’d g…
Read at the sourceTomodachi_2002
Filled with a lot of death scenarios in the other world/real timeline. The story has a relatable main character XD, and the world-building feels realistic and well-connected.
The time loop hits very late in the story, which is a good thing, in my opinion. But the explanation is very sloppy, and the writer is more inclined to make us feel sorry for the characters ;-;. I don’t mind that, but killing beloved characters and calling it fate is not fair ;-;.
The sad thing is that they don’t explain what happened to the universes/timelines the MC saved or went through. Do they still exist or not? And the good thing is that by the time you finish the anime, the majority of your questions will be answered (in the last 3 episodes).
A REWATCH IS PREFERRED; To analyse and to have fun :)
Read at the sourcekanarax
Listen I have watched a LOT of anime over the years and I know I always struggled with time, space and multiverse animes but I wanted to give this one a try so hear me out why I think this one is a huge waste of time without spoilers.
Some points I think I understood correctly while watching this:
- It's a game adaptation
- The anime goes through the story one heroine after another
- Time and history are not set in the time space continuum but in something totally different that uses the concept of causality (i said no spoilers)
While watching this mess, other than confusion to what's happening and being happy for hearing Jiraya's Seiyu I felt no joy watching this.
The story is bland and makes little to no sense especially the last arc and the jump in time + the whole "let's forget abou…
Read at the sourcesagemoderose
This anime definitely had a great start. It was interesting watching anime that had something to do with the history of life and ancestry, obviously history about the anime world itself, not human history.
I really wish I could give this anime a 10/10 but the ending was rushed. I feel like if they had gotten another season, it would have been great!
Animation is great, story like is pretty good and character development is there but not crazy.
the reason I recommend this anime is simply because it is a good watch, and it is different from the regular anime you normally watch. This anime has multiple genera's it could fall under, i would say this anime contains, Action, Adventure, Sci-fi, Romance, Historical fantasy, and I guess Isekai due to the fact this character is able to cross int…
Read at the sourceLaZy_as_Neko
Time travel-themed anime usually delves deep into intricate details, making it rare to see one receive such a low rating. The obvious reason here is the dreaded NTR. It really caught me off-guard, I expected a tear-jerking, mind-bending experience, but it turned out to be a total heartbreaker.
Many viewers despise NTR, and in its particular arc, saga, or whatever you call it, a whopping 3/4 of it is NTR, I will not be surprised if lots drop this anime. If you're in that crowd and thinking of giving this a shot, brace yourself.
Also...
*It's frustrating to see the main character grappling with so many questions and moving slowly in crucial moments.
*Has bootstrap paradox.
*And seriously, what's the Beansprout name? I just don't get it.
*And did he just leave his another daughter? at lea…
Read at the sourcememetic_hazard
Loved it, story made you actually use your brain while also showing how everything connects along the way ending wasn't some completely "feel good" solve all where everyone has a resolution, but instead it shows us how everything loops back around, sort of like AoT's timeline. A lot of the bad reviews come from the fact that this anime doesn't shy away from the real world and is not afraid to use more gruesome and dark plots instead of your regular "everyone is saved and nothing bad happens". Has a slow start but picks up the pace in a few episodes, and even though it may feel a little rushed at the end I felt like it just added to the story as it showed how chaotic everything was.
Read at the sourceRuthless_1
What a fucking mess. That's what this series is. I'm going to advise anyone who is reading this that to not put your expectations anywhere near subpar... actually, don't bother with this series at all, and here’s why:
This series is a visual novel based adaption that has various elements of other genres. The problem is that these genres are not incorporated in any logical form whatsoever. Many times you will be left wondering what it is that you are even watching. To some that might be a good thing as it can be an element of surprise, but I assure you, you won't feel any emotion other than frustration. Nothing makes any coherent sense and that's the biggest problem with this. The themes the series shows at its audience do not feel natural at all. It's as if the author just picked randomly…
Read at the sourceMaka_Ev
So, i have actually planned to watch this many times before but i haven`t, i just read some reviews and changed my mind, and oh man, how dumb could i have been.
So let me start by saying that this anime actually has a high thinking story to it, so if you`re into simple and more let`s say "given to you on a plate" type of story, it`s not for you. You need to think when you watch it and you will understand everything, it`s very easy to understand once you catch the line, but it has some very well put story and twists.
Story: 10 |- If this anime came out more recently i`m sure it would`ve been so so so much more popular, it`s so underrated, the whole story, from beginning to end, all the little details even the little ones that you think are insegnificant, are so well thought and put toget…
Read at the sourceMichi89
Meant to write this ages ago and I accidentally wrote it in the comments section of my personal rating.
I struggle with my rating for this because the first half or so of the series had a really good thing going. It was very suspenseful and kept me on edge. Then about halfway through it brought in some new plot elements which added a different sub-genre to the series. About 2/3 of the way through the series it shifted genres completely and at that point it didn't really even feel like the same series. The final episode left many plot holes and unanswered questions, although it is hard to seamlessly wrap up stories involving time paradoxes. This show overly complicates things by employing both the grandfather paradox and causal loops. The protagonist must repeat the past several times over…
Read at the sourceichigago
Apparently, this anime is an adaptation based on a video game.
That shouldn’t matter though, as I’m only reviewing the anime based on its own merits, without any link to the video game, which I think should be how all anime are reviewed.
Good points:
Male MC is not a “shrimp” like Meliodas in Nanatsu no Taizai.
First episode was real good with lots of libido and inuendo, continued throughout the anime.
There were panty shots not of students but mainly of the teacher.
Female characters were nicely-drawn.
There were a few catching romances by the MC but don't think this is a harem. Not so good points:
After a good first episode, the series sort of became a plodding often-disorganized storyline.
Yu-No, who was the main character in the anime title, only appeared in the last 1/4 or 1/3 of th…
Read at the sourceNotAlice0
[the score i give this is for ep1-17]
Was good up until he went isekai and rendered all the good character building from the past 17 episodes irrelevant, save yourself the time and don't watch past episode 17
there was a lot of good moments with mio until new elf girl turns up and the main character forgets all about her
[ep18-26 is a 4/10]
episode 18-26 might as well be a completely different anime, it timeskips like 6 years and felt rushed compared to the first part so we get almost no character building
both of the openings and endings are great
Read at the sourceTonwing
(READ IF YOU WANT THE EXPLANATION OF THIS ANIME)
Note: The anime did not explain where is Takuya's father and mother (there could be other theories but the one that truly knows is the creators of course), it does not explain also what happens to the other Takuya's if they left their own parallel worlds, it also did not explain how humans manage to survive when Dela Grante crushed on earth.
This anime talks about time, parallel worlds, and about different dimensions. According to it, whatever our MC is doing in the anime is not changing the past, what he is doing is entering into another parallel world and reliving his life over there again, for example Takuya saw Ayumi died, then he use the reflector device, all that happens is that he traveled to another parallel world to save the Ayumi…
Read at the sourceBlueraptorz
What a huge cluster fuck. I am writing this at 6am in the morning and I am now compelled to write this review after watching that ending. That conclusion, wasn't really a conclusion. That's is what happens when you make an anime out of a game, nothing is clear and there's multiple paths and endings. The anime has a couple twists and turns which I definitely didn't see coming but other parts were truly predictable to the point where I thought I was clever, but not really. I just found out that kana(sick blue haired girl) is also the daughter of takuya(mc). Thats kind of mind-blowing so thats cool. The problem is there's tons of plot holes, bad decisions, cringe ( especially at the start) and it's a gigantic mess of an anime.
Let's start with plot holes, I have them written down on a note…
Read at the sourceDeadBeatDad
(Pre-read Note: I had not played or heard of YU-NO's original VN before watching the anime adaptation so this is a review from a person who went in blind. I still haven't touched the VN btw.)
To start off, Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO is adapted from a famous VN from the 90s. We all know that adaptations usually never go well, but I will only be reviewing it as an anime and not rating it as a comparison to it's VN.
Story (7/10)
The story of YU-NO is a very interesting one regardless of how many sci-fi anime you've watched. It has a unique combination of parallel worlds and time travel that's a little messy but still works. I was seriously digging the theories that were created because of how it sort of made sense. The first arc with Ayumi was what really grabbed the attent…
Read at the sourceCurlyawesomeace
I liked this show. I may or may not have a daughter complex in real life, and the ending of the show hit home with me. This might be the most memorable show I have watched last year, if it werent for me watching to love-ru, and rewatching a couple of goodies.
The show was funny, happy, and sad. However, It had some pretty lackluster moments, though for plot reasons. At certain times, some information felt forced, and the whole trans-dimensional criminal thing really fell flat with me. I still cant fully wrap my head around the antagonist's motivations, and the fact that the reflector device had no failsafe incase of theft, was such a huge "for plot reasons" moment for me. Furthermore, the parallel character of MCs little helper just had a huge "WHY?" written over his forehead. It served n…
Read at the sourceFadedboar
Visual novel adaptions tend to fit into 2 groups: Great adaptions like Steins;Gate, Clannad, Fate/Stay Night UBW, and Poor adaptions like Chaos;Head and ISLAND. Since the average length of a VN is far longer than a 1-2 cour anime, a lot of material tends to be sacrificed in the adaption process.
As a non VN reader, i'd not consider this to fall into either camp. Although it feels rushed in places, what's not been rushed is good enough to keep it above being bad. Clearly a few extra episodes would have made the final arc work far better than it did, while the first few arcs were mostly well paced. And overall, it does seem like a good anime, even with it's flaws.
Both OPs and EDs fit the series well, with the first op being similar to Hacking to the gate, not too surprising since they we…
Read at the sourceDreammist
So what does the title, YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world actually mean? After watching this anime I am still at a loss to determine what it means and how it fits into the overall story. However, to unpick it here would be to provide spoilers – so suffice to say I’ll leave it as my interpretation being the strength of love (and a little zygyte) can draw two characters together, no matter the distance, no matter the dimensional barriers that they face.
Despite the ambiguity of the title, it doesn’t mean the anime is poor, in fact I found it quite entertaining. I had no idea coming into it exactly what its history or pedigree was – I came in as a cleanskin, with no preconceived ideas. As such I found it quite entertaining. Not without flaws, but entertaining nonethele…
Read at the sourceK_E_I
As someone who has read the Visual Novel (both 1996 and 2019), i can tell you that this adaption feels somewhat rushed and very much could have had greater potential. The result of this was mainly due to the number of episodes.
What essentially made YU-NO was the ideas and concepts behind the meaning of the plot which was thinned down a ton and even some were never mentioned. This somewhat made it easier to understand, but those ideologies were the key to its success in its era of time.
The plot felt very weak, I see where they were trying to go with it but in actual fact, it harmed the protagonist in the way in which does not compare to how he acts in the VN. His personality doesn't feel interesting overall especially where it mattered most. And the suspense was very much weaker in thi…
Read at the sourceZ0l0
spoiler heavy review as im going to be discussing some of its more devloped parts such as the tree root thing, the fate franchise, the nasuverse
I have not read the source material so i am by no means coming at this subject from an experts perspective this is more just a review of the anime and some of the more surface level things i can take away from it.
secondly i watched the entire thing dubbed and it was an excellent job particular props go out to David wald as ryuzoji, morgan garret as eriko, eric vale, as takuya, kara edwards as kaori, Barry yandell as takuya's father really the whole cast did exceptional but ryuzoji is just so on point
the pacing of any vn adaptation granted it tries to cater to each route of the vn is always going to suffer. that said i see alot of people poi…
Read at the sourceTheInfernapeking
Watching "Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO" I gave the story a 7 out of 10. The story is decent, I like the story seven is a fair point, what ist suffers though is pacing, usually when I'm watching, and the plot points it's everywhere, what I'm saying here is basically like a puzzle, you have to solve it, along with the main protagonist. Not to mention, the goal was supposed to be to know what happened to his dad, before he disappeared. It gave us what happened in a vague manner. Plus side I did enjoy ending, it's just some plot points are vague, and it's slow-paced.
Art and animation were very good, to be fair I actually like 2D more than 3D animation, and I like the vibrant colors, it just didn't match the themed of the series, in general, because I think this is dark-themed a…
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