Seraph of the End: Owari no Seraph

[KrayZ33]

edit: ugh well, whatever.

Just one thing, it should've been impossible to sneak up on him in the first place, since he can feel the intent to kill from miles away (tower scene)

Superpowers (and that includes superspeed, the sixth sense and able to dodge stuff comming from behind in less than 0,00x seconds) sure are inconsistent. Just look at how Yuu was able to get his hit in.
*THATS* announcing an attack from behind (screaming and shouting before he even went in), and it's the killing blow of all things.

[shinta|hikari]

Just one thing, it should've been impossible to sneak up on him in the first place, since he can feel the intent to kill from miles away (tower scene)

But he still got stabbed from behind. By two people no less.

Power inconsistencies in this show are pretty big, but I don't really watch this for logical fights. I generally prefer the dialog and smugface parts much more. If they cut out all the action scenes, I would still enjoy this show to the same, or even greater degree.

[KrayZ33]

Woah, the fighting was so bad this time around (it's more of a suprise if its good in this show, but still)
That scene when Gurren got blocked mid air and got "stuck" in that pose. *shudder*

Pretty boring episode. The fighting was bad, which means it needs to have some interesting story-plots, but since they weren't any in this episode - it was a waste of time.

[shinta|hikari]

The clincher for bad fighting was the "Checkmate" announced sneak attack again.

Another funny thing was how they seemed to hardly remember who Crowley was. The guy and his minions almost killed all of them without dropping a sweat. I'd think they'd at least talk about the guy a couple of times between now and then, you know, to plan about how to deal with him in a future encounter (like this episode).

But the worst part was the Shinoa art. WTF was wrong with her face this episode. It was like she was having convulsions or seizures.

[NeoCybercoin]

Guessing next week Yuu goes all Seraph on them.

[shinta|hikari]

I actually love berserk scenes, but he better not go touching Shinoa again. This story needs more Krul.

[NeoCybercoin]

Agreed, more Krul would be nice.

[Munsu]

Well, just managed to finish this up.



In all I enjoyed the fuck out of this anime for some reason, despite all it's flaws. Story went all Berserk on us at the end there, still not sure what they were trying to accomplish and more importantly, why did it have to be accomplished in this manner.

My biggest complaint in this second season was that Shinoa's character was ruined a bit. But she's still one of my favorite characters in all anime regardless, but she was better in the first season.

Don't think we'll get more of this anime since it's all caught up to the manga as it is. Maybe in the far future, but I simply don't envision it.

One thing though, not sure what was the importance of that "It's going to rain" scene as Yu went into the sea. Not sure what I missed, if anything.

In all, despite being aware that this isn't all that good of an anime all told, it's certainly of the strongest series in the 2015 Fall in my opinion. I guess it says something of how much of a disappointment that particular season was anime wise for me.

[KrayZ33]

Ya but then again, didn't Gundam: Blood Orphans air during fall 2015? I believe that was a much, much better show than the second seaons of Seraph. Of course there was One Punch too.

Fall felt like: (good)Gundam + One Punch ----- huge gap ----- rest.(mediocre+bad)

[Munsu]

Ya but then again, didn't Gundam: Blood Orphans air during fall 2015? I believe that was a much, much better show than the second seaons of Seraph. Of course there was One Punch too.

Fall felt like: (good)Gundam + One Punch ----- huge gap ----- rest.(mediocre+bad)

Well... I didn't say it was the strongest, but among them. But yes, indeed a gap between the top ones and this one for certain. Still I'd probably put it among the top 5 give or take.

I haven't seen Gundam though yet, but plan to soon as I've heard good things about it. Overall I was highly disappointed with that Fall season, I was really excited for it, looked like it was going to be a good one for me but most of the series I was looking forward to disappointed me greatly.

I still think Owari no Seraph is better than it's given credit for generally. Far from perfect, hesitate to call it good per se, but somehow it has plenty of elements that worked for me. But whatever.

[KrayZ33]

I liked the whole Human with Demon Support vs Vampire setting too. I was disappointed in most of the fighting and it got really awkward during the end. All the sheming wasn't explained well either, which was a let down for me, because I liked what I saw in the beginning.

[shinta|hikari]

It's typical for this author's works. He also wrote Denyuuden, and that ended up the same way. So did Apocalypse Alice.

[MFauli]

Episode 3:

So Mika is 'alive'. I wonder how. Sure, his head wasn't smashed in episode 1, but he was severely wounded and a child. Even if he was turned into.a vampire, he wouldn't grow, right? Weird.

Weirder even is that he's called Mikaera. That's the Japanese version of the European (German?) name Michaela, which is the FEMALE form of Michael. Oh well ... Japan.