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orion_star
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My biggest gripe with this show, and it was mentioned in the review, i the annoying sidekick duo. Words cannot describe how annoying they are.
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Neko-sensei
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This is a fantastic review, and I agree with just about every word. (Those two things aren't necessarily connected, but perhaps in this case...) However, I must also agree with the above. Although I would not want to put anyone off the show, watching the sidekicks is like [simile censored]. To experience episode 25, which is entirely about them, is to experience a kind of Hell that will permanently reduce your emotional quality of life. The review needs to make this danger more explicit.
To everyone else: please watch this show. And please, for the sake of your soul, avoid its 25th installment. |
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Fronzel
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You mean...someone wants to tell a story rather than imitate their favorite anime and make jokes? NO WAI Lack of unclever self-awareness may be why I've found children's anime to be the most consistanly watchable series lately. |
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maaya
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this is so true. too many animes lack this. |
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Blood-
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Man, I'm so glad to see this series finally get some attention. I agree with the review as well, except for the "B" in animation. Personally, I think the water-colour like backgrounds and architecture of the show are gorgeous. Definitely not your stock fantasy series look. The art used to render them makes me want to live there. But then again, I don't know if the animation score pertains only to those things that are actually animated...if that is the case, then I understand the B.
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maaya
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Erin might be the best fantasy series of 2009. It's a shame nobody seems to care ...
By the way, in Japan Erin has been referred to as "Heidi of the 21st century". |
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Brack
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I'm not sure that it's such a throwback. It's a show produced for NHK, and there's been a decent number of shows for NHK this decade that have had a similar strong storytelling focus.
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maaya
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Denno Coil
 Amazing series .... still waiting for this to get released outside of Japan >.<
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wandering-dreamer
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Well hopefully this will give the show a little more exposure, god knows it's such an awesome so that it certainly deserves it?
Heck that plot twist had me wanting to have a good cry, I would have been inconsolable for the rest of the day if I had seen that plot twist when I was a kid. |
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Ktimene's Lover
 Posts: 2242 Location: Glendale, AZ (Proudly living in the desert) |
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I can understand why people would late the show's Laurel and Hardy. I enjoy them and the show as a whole. Before CrunchyRoll picked it up, I was hoping some company (especially CrunchyRoll) would pick it up because the fansubs were slow, and this was/is among one of the most underrated 2009 shows.
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Chrno2
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I'll have to check this show out. I was curious about it. Since ANN is streaming it has someone considered it for a release here or is it just having access to it?
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Everminde
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Been following Erin since it first came out, and have been consistently thrilled with it. Expect, of course, the sidekicks. They're just painful.
I'll have to disagree with Blood-, and agree with Carl that the animation deserves a 'B' overall. While gorgeous water-colored backgrounds, I've noticed a constant recycle of footage; a prime example being spoiler[Soyon's death, where they constantly re-use the footage of the Touda attacking Soyon]. Later on, too -spoiler[ when Lilan first learns to fly.] While it does work, I find myself annoyed with it whenever it pops up. |
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Blood-
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Actually, Shirachi-ko, I agree with you that flashbacks are over-used in Erin, but I'm not sure it is fair to lower the animation score for that. That, after all, is an editorial and creative choice that really has no bearing on the quality of animation itself.
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vashfanatic
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It's always good to hear about an excellent series-to-watch-with-kids coming out. So much kids' entertainment on both sides of the Pacific is just trash to sell a line of product, so if Production I.G. is breaking that trend with a great fantasy story, I applaud them. Unfortunately I've got too much on my plate right now to watch this just yet, but as we anime fans and otaku get older and start breeding, we need something to introduce our kids to, right? So somebody license this and give it a good dub. Kids' shows are where you really cannot skip the dub, and ought to put the most effort into it.
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Everminde
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The problem isn't the flashbacks - re-used footage is to be expected - I mean the re-use of it during the same scene. I believe they used the same exact scene at least four times when spoiler[the Touda killed Soyon.] In that episode. While I applaud I.G. for tastefully incorporating it into the episode, it happens a lot. |
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