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phia_one
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I'm picky about shonen, but this series really grew on me. Yeah, it has some clichés, but I can't remember the last time I enjoyed the characters in this kind of series to such an extent.
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pajmo9
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Really ended up enjoying this show quite a bit. I remember thinking there were a few parts that felt rushed, but that's ok.
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Lemonchest
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Didn't really care all that much for SDS. Malodorous was a boring pervert who's just another "why don't you take things more seriously?" MC but don't threaten his friends or you'll unleash the demon (because of course). Elizabeth is just a grope doll & moral support & they had the chemistry of two characters who'd read the script in advance so why fight it. Tsungiant was fun when they let her be more than the "why don't you notice me?" 3rd wheel, which wasn't often enough. Really the only character of any note was Greed...I mean Ban. Laughed hard at that bit near the end where random princess sister decided she'd free the side switching early antagonist she loved of his burden by throwing herself off a tower. That's A+ writing right there. Baby Hawk was also almost on the level of the nipple headed micro fetus from FMA:B.
Oh & Harlequin is not the King of the frigging Fairies; Oberon is. Bugged me more than it should throughout the whole show. Last edited by Lemonchest on Fri Nov 20, 2015 11:31 am; edited 2 times in total |
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DmonHiro
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On Mel's personality falling flat: you are right. But I think it's on purpose. From what I've read in the manga, Mel's current personality is VERY held back, to the point that everything he does seems half-asses, including the groping.
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GamerTimeUSA
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Your Cons:
1. In the beginning of the manga, Meliodas does grope her a lot, but later on he eventually doesn't do it as nearly as much as he does it in the beginning. 2. The character designs are silly? I've seen worse. Note: For anybody who talks about it feeling rushed, it was. They put 100 chapters exactly into 24 episodes. |
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killjoy_the
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For the first half of the show I was struggling to not drop it, but at some point it turned and grew on me quite a bit. It's a pretty standard good-but-not-great shounen series. Wish the main two characters weren't as unlikable as they are, though.
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Animegomaniac
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My take on Mel is that he's "nigh invulnerable" because of his healing factor. In any other series, he'd be the boring invincible hero...
I'll just use an analogy; Mel's Gamera and Ban's Godzilla. One's an unrelenting force of nature while the other uses guile and "normally, I'd be dead right now" attacks until he manages to eke out a victory. The fact that Mel should be the real Godzilla of the series but isn't comes down to his personality as he likes to give all his opponents an A for effort. The series almost pulls out the "Luffy is sleeping/unconscious/dead so let's have the second fiddles have center stage for a bit" One Piece plotlines but they're all monsters so it doesn't really matter; In SDS, they're all game breakers. No "we got to get stronger so let's train for some chapters!" because of that. In fact, it's the villains who constantly power up. No "Let's get some new weapons so we can get stronger!" I was worried the series was turning in that direction but it became a joke instead. ne thing about the review; I agree with Key where the series picks up but for me, it was because of Guila, not what the heroes were doing. What she did was just as crazy and unbelievable as what these sin heroes would do but, well, just watch it. Anyways, she starts the whole "impossible villains versus impossible heroes" scenario that carries the rest of the series. I think of her later development as one of practicality; She needed power to protect and she needed it fast but now she has it, she's not as good at tempering herself against normal people; Hence the "eww" once she's on the clock. Neither good or evil, her job as a Holy Knight is just that for her. Jericho is a lot harder to place though. She's one of the Sin's rivals in her mind but in reality, she's kind of an unfunny joke character. It got a Netflix rating 5 stars from me as I finished the whole show in a few days; Very entertaining with few downsides. Oh, if that surprise "surprise" character is who I think it is, there was someone named Merlin on a wanted poster so it's not like he came out of nowhere. Still a better use of the mythos than that other show, you know the one... |
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chito895
 Posts: 512 Location: Lima, Peru |
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As an ultra-fan of the manga, this was to me a very good adaptation until they reached the end of the series, which totally tells us that they didn't expect to make a second season. Sure, the anime ends spoiler[with The Sins leaving Liones to look for the last sin], which can mean A-1 is willing to make another season starting from that point, but by the time that last episode aired, the manga had already followed a different direction. Even though I didn't like that ending, I'm eager to watch how the direction and writing will change the story so that it can follow the events that are happening right now in the manga (which are hype in the pure sense), but at the same time, I'm worried because there isn't much material to adapt, so I'm expecting that the new season will arive in the Summer or Fall of 2016.
What I really like about the series (manga and anime) is how the main characters are handled. Most of them have pretty solid backgrounds, with elements that foreshadow events of future moments and that make sense with their current personalities, the best of them being King's backstory. My boy has suffered so much during his life that is heartbreaking. I also love how the show treats Diane as another person and how she's not the focus of the fanservice (which, as Theron said, is almost nonexistent). She starts as yet another tsundere girl who will want to kill any other girl who is near his loved one, but once you give her time, you'll see she's got a pretty good personality. I don't know about the English dub, but the Spanish dub is pretty solid as well. The voices really fit the characters and tones down a lot Hawk's squeaky voice, which is annoying in Japanese. And in this case, Diane's name is changed to the Spanish equivalent, Diana, which felt ok to me. And if anyone else liked the Ban flashback, there is an OVA that adapts all the manga chapter focused on his backstory. It's not legally available, though, but it really is worth watching. |
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Snakebit1995
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The show was fantastic, got me into the manga and is now one of my favorite series.
Very little is cut from the manga, two fights spoiler[ One of which is Gowther's only real fight in the show] and Gowther's introduction is different spoiler[Though I've seen some argue his Anime version is a better fit for his character, given how he is confused about being Dale's "Friend"] The ending might hamper Season two a bit but They can just roll it back if they have to spoiler[A convenient Melidoas forgot something we need to go back for a bit will work fine] Having listened to the show twice in the original audio the English voices took a little getting used too, Bryce felt a little soft for Meliodas at first but i got used to it, and Hendrickson felt a little too deep but it got fine in time. All in all for I've seen the show about three times in under a year it's that good.[/spoiler] |
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Beatdigga
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Part of me justified Meliodas being a pervert with the refrain "They're on Netflix." Seriously, it's mild compared to their other originals.
Really enjoyed it for the most part. |
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Levonr
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I got Netflix this month only to watch this show(which I really liked). I don't care for Netflix expect for exclusive early anime dub releases. I hope Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works S2 will be released in December.
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cloud8100
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One of the more entertaining and enjoyable shows I've seen in a while.
I always liked that nobody really knew anything about Meliodas at the start and we still don't actually know the whole back story. And I like Hawk. |
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xzy123
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more cool hair guy and dont care about shit. enemy the same shit act like king and king and king
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animemaster1
 Posts: 105 Location: Beverly Hills |
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If find it pretty funny that with these anime that Netflix picks ups like Knights of Sidonia or Seven Deadly Sins, how Netflix has the nerve to call it a Netflix Original Series. How are they alllowed to do that?
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Key
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That, my friend, is a really good question that I would like to see answered as well. |
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