[GL1TCH3D]

So I wanted to take a jab at making an anime review. Today I will be reviewing the anime "Escaflowne" which is the first anime I ever watched (completely, I've seen episodes of one piece and whatnot on TV).

Please keep in mind I'm reviewing the TV series, not the movie.

Here's the link to it on myanimelist:
http://myanimelist.net/anime/182/Escaflowne

[img]http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs9/i/2006/147/0/2/Vision_of_Escaflowne_by_MangAnime14.jpg[/img]

What Got Me To Watch It:
My friend who is quite the anime fan wanted to get me into anime. So, one day while I was over at his house he put on Escaflowne, an anime which he had seen a few episodes of as a kid and tracked down to actually finish. We ended up watching it all together, which wasn't easy.

Summary:
(Taken from myanimelist.net... I have a bad habit of talking too much and spoiling things) High school student Hitomi is transported from Earth to the magical world of Gaea, where she meets boy prince Van Fanel, and is caught up in his quest to unite the countries of Gaea against the ominous Zaibach empire. On the way, she discovers an hidden ability and strives to unravel layers of mystery surrounding Van, his past, and the giant machine known as Escaflowne.

Characters: (1/10)
The characters made no sense at all. Every decision made was like a big WTF to me. I couldn't relate to any characters or understand the characters. The romantic element made little sense to me...


Animation: (6/10)
The animation seen throughout this series is adequate but considering the age (aired in 1996) I actually find it decently good when compared to some more recent works.

Story: (2/10)
Just like the characters, the story was a huge WTF. The writers threw in every plot twist they could think of, no matter how weird. The story just didn't make sense. It was all over the place and overall not a good story.

Ending: horrible. They made the most random ending just so it's not predictable, but the ending they used just failed so hard and makes no sense.
Basically what the ending said:
Spoiler (Click to View)
hitomi: Van I love you bought I want to go back to my home planet and never see you again while breaking up with my boyfriend back on earth so that I'll be alone.


Enjoyment: (1/10)
I did not enjoy this anime at all. I watched it hoping that my first anime experience wouldn't be such a horrid one but I was wrong. I found a lot of the parts dragged on and were very boring. Since I couldn't relate to any characters or even understand them, the characters were unappealing. The story was too weird and all over the place. Not enjoyable. Considering it was a mecha anime, there was very little action.

Overall: (1/10)
I only watched this to make my friend who spent hours tracking down this anime happy.

I do not recommend this series for anything but torture.

[SavageBoys]

Yep it was pretty corny.

Not recommended.

[Elfen Lied]

I think the best anime to get you into it would be Death Note.

When reading your review I espected you to enjoy it since you were making a thread about it but it made me laugh how much you thought it was bad.

[GL1TCH3D]

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I think the best anime to get you into it would be Death Note.

When reading your review I espected you to enjoy it since you were making a thread about it but it made me laugh how much you thought it was bad.

Aha. I really should watch death note.
I really got into it with code geass, my second anime.

[Ryuujinx]

I thought it was rather mediocre, but it was an enjoyable show to watch. I think you're being overly harsh on it, the story was decent, the characters had ok development and the animation was pretty good for when it came out.

[크러쉬가]

I found it really bad, I didnt understand it well at all and really Found the characters badly created....

Thats just me though

[GL1TCH3D]

I thought it was rather mediocre, but it was an enjoyable show to watch. I think you're being overly harsh on it, the story was decent, the characters had ok development and the animation was pretty good for when it came out.

The way they introduced plot twists every like 2 episodes was just too much for me. They were so random. "Oh, we need something new. What can we throw in? Oh I know, enhanced luck soldiers!"
I felt that the writers just made it up as they went along.

[方陣密集]

Nice review, I like how you are honest when criticizing the different aspects of the anime.

[GL1TCH3D]

Nice review, I like how you are honest when criticizing the different aspects of the anime.

Thanks. Despite a bad start I still really got into anime and nothing I've seen was quite as bad as this one. My second least favorite would be monster which also dragged on and on (and it was 74 episodes while escaflowne was only 28 or something) but at least there was character development and a better story.

[princip]

Holy shit.

This is the greatest anime I watched as a kid on FoxKids TV.

The song from the series still makes my balls shrivel up: http://youtu.be/O_49H_N43jQ

[Incest]

Very nice review. Nice and honest the way reviews should be. Not all wishy-washy just because it's anime.

What made you decide to watch more anime? If the first anime you watched was a 1/10. I probably would've said fuck this and never watched anime ever again.

[GL1TCH3D]

Very nice review. Nice and honest the way reviews should be. Not all wishy-washy just because it's anime.

What made you decide to watch more anime? If the first anime you watched was a 1/10. I probably would've said fuck this and never watched anime ever again.

My friend who made me watch it promised me that Escaflowne was not representative of anime in general and gave me a few to watch. One of the ones he gave me was code geass which was the second one I watched and that's when it started.

[SIM-524734]

Wasn't this posted like a year ago or something D:

[GL1TCH3D]

Wasn't this posted like a year ago or something D:

It's been a couple months but recently I've been more stalk worthy.