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Key
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There's a lot of still shots, especially in the earlier stages of the battle. In the later stages there's more animation.
Certainly sounded to me like the vamps were claiming responsibility.
Actually he's done enough other great work since SE that this was a comparative run-of-the-mill performance for him. (His performance as Yukine in Noragami was my Honorable Mention for Male English Dub Performance for 2015, for instance.) |
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Chiibi
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The anime director said that. The actual author didn't say that. The Japanese wiki says Yuu and Mika are "best friends" though and since this is shounen, there isn't going to be canon romance between two boys. Shounen doesn't do that. |
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kpk
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There's always a first time for everything... 
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Chiibi
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True......but this is an exception. :p .............for someone who doesn't like yaoi, you sure want to believe it's canon o_o |
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kpk
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While I'm not into yaoi I feel like having the main two leads in a show/manga like this will be very progressive and needs to happen at some point. |
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xzy123
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this look like bleach with nothing interesting add on it
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Chiibi
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No, this show is about as different from Bleach as night differs from day. More like.....Attack on Titan except the titans are vampires. And are nicer to look at.  Yuu and Eren are somewhat alike as well (though Yuu is a lot cuter, imho)
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Gemnist
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The vamps may be far more attractive than Titans - but Attack on Titan is a MUCH better show than Seraph of the End. Now I'm just waiting for Crunchyroll to release Kabaneri so I can dissect that series and make comparisons - you know, typical stuff. |
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jr240483
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highly unlikely. considering that this is a shonen jump series, its unlikely their gonna go into the yaoi department. especially considering that shinoa have developed feelings for yuu (history might end up repeating itself if he becomes oblivious to her feelings which have been the norm for shonen jump protagonists) and of course there is mika who might have some kind of devotion to krul. especially after how season 2 ended.
hardly. for one thing, he's a lot more thick headed than ichigo and he doesnt have a massive temper fuse like rin. if anything he's more or less like attack of titan's eren (especially when it comes to their obsession with revenge). hell the three main characters basically are AOT clones of sort. yuu=eren , shinoa=mikasa and yoichi=armin. the only difference is that eren actually cared for his friends from the start while yuu only started to after ep 6-7.
and he's actually done a lot more decent work than just yukine. there was of course the male lead for code breaker as well as support roles like midnight from fairy tail and coby from one piece,though the performances for yukine and soul were definitely stand outs. the other stand out that was more or less close to those performances was touma kamajo from the index/railgun series. however i was definitely fooled during soul eater's run cause i kinda that micah was actually johhny young bosch using an alias cause the voice over back then was way too uncanny for it to be a different person. as for the rest of the dub cast trosko actually is a pretty decent pick for guren. its definitely better to hear a new voice instead of hearing the old ones over again.especially since back then people assumed that the VA for kogami of psycho pass would have been picked for guren. and speaking of old voices, no dub fans was surprised at the slightest when rial was chosen for tepes and its not cause of dance in the vampire bund. its been more or less been Funi's MO to have her voice loli based characters and "moe" characters. the only exception was fairy tail when they have her as mira instead of wendy and have brittany (aka mikoto mikasa) in that role. the only downside to an otherwise good dub performance is that there is no plans of a season three which means it might end up going the same fate as other shonen jump series where you will have to read the manga to continue on with the storyline. |
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Key
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You are going to have to try really, really hard to convince me of the bolded one. I cannot, in the slightest, imagine drawing a comparison between those two, as their personalities and appearances are utterly different. |
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SquadmemberRitsu
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Honestly I really liked the show's first episode but over time... I just cooled down on it. If I had to describe the show in a nut shell it's basically Attack on Titan meets Blue Exorcist Except, unfortunately, not as good as either.
Look, I get that a lot of anime tend to be set in High School and there's absolutely no way some gaijin like me is going to change Japan's attitude towards settings like that. But did this show really need to be set in High School? Honestly, I don't think the whole magic school thing really meshes well with the 'humans on the brink of extinction fighting against man eating monsters' setup. Overall I think it's an okay series (Not to mention the animation, the art style, the English voice acting and the music are all fantastic) but I expected a lot more from it. Now, the situation with this show in Australia is weird because Sony Universal own the rights releasing the first season in a BD/DVD combo at the dirt cheap price of $35 Australian ($26.56 USD). Our release has Funimation's dub and the Japanese version as well French and German dubs (Which I should mention are both far weaker than the English and Japanese versions) with subtitles in all sorts of languages. We get the Seraph of the Endless shorts, but no commentary. Which REALLY bums me out. Also (Probably to accommodate the 4 audio tracks) the show is spread across two 50GB discs with 6 episodes each. I just thought that was worth mentioning. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Hmm, sounds like they didn't go back and do any more work on it. I guess that's not surprising, since this isn't AoT.
Bah. Even in their subs (at least online) the announcement clearly said the humans were responsible. Oh well. 
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Key
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Those subtitles remain. The English dub at that point says, "A deadly virus has been released, punishing humans for their foolishness." When I first heard it, I interpreted that as meaning that the vampires were claiming responsibility. The subtitles imply a little better that it was the humans' own fault.
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Chiibi
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I have to argue that FAR more scenes take place outside of high school than in high school though? We spend only a few minutes on high school shenanigans but the rest of the show is set either on a battlefield or the kids on their way to a battlefield. This is definitely not a school anime in terms of genre. |
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Greed1914
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And thank goodness for that. I was initially skeptical of the show when it seemed to turn into some sort of magical high school show early on, but it moves out of that setting pretty quickly. It mostly seems to be used more to show that humans are still trying to keep some aspects of society going, despite the state of the world. |
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