Gunslinger Stratos The Animation

TL;DR : Really enjoyable show, but too much story into only 13 episodes. Characters not completely original with not a lot of character development. Fun fights and interesting story overall: involves time travelling and lots of guns. I'll try to keep the spoilers to a minimum. The story is set in 2115, with our protagonist, a high school student, falling back into the past and witnessing a battle between some soldiers and their dopplegangers: he even meets himself from an alternate universe. Curiosity eventually makes him join in the battle to save the world and the story unfolds. Story: 9/10 The story is really unique, but it mightfeel like a bit too much to fit into only 13 episodes. This is why some people think it all makes zero sense, but in fact it's really delicate and everything fits in perfectly. It picks up nicely from the beginning, it's really exciting, it doesn't lose steam throughout the series and has a nice solid ending, which I found quite enjoyable. All in all, it's great and flows really well, if not slightly rushed as to compensate for a large story but only 13 episodes. Art: 8/10 I absolutely love the art and animation. It's smooth, pretty, shiny, colorful at times but also gloomy if the need arises. The combat looks great and explosive, especially the melee party. The only thing I found repetitive were the standard shooting scenes found in almost every episode, they might look a bit too generic. That, and the fact that the girl characters' lips look weird in my opinion. It's still a beautiful anime with a pretty dang neat opening. Sound: 7/10 The opening theme is really good in my view, with the theme of the song fitting the entire show very well. The background music is enjoyable and it fits the occassions well, but it's not all that memorable. There's a great deal of variety and it's generally above average quality. Characters: 7/10 While it's true that you can't fit much character development in only 13 episodes, Gunslinger Stratos still seems to fall a little bit short. Apart from the main character and the main female character, as well as their doubles, we don't get too see alot about the cast. This is a shame, as some were quite interesting, but some were pretty blank and stereotypical. The protagonist starts off maybe a bit boring and average, but over time he grows some balls. Personal enjoyment: 9/10 I must admit, I enjoyed this show quite a lot more than I expected to, especially about seeing so many negative reviews. Most of them are by people who don't even understand the plot, though. The characters are fresh, the fight scenes many and greatly animated, which is all backed by a really interesting story and decent music. It was really fun! Overall: 8/10 Even if the show was great and I enjoyed it alot, delving a little bit deeper into the characters apart from Tohru and Kyoka is what's missing, as well as some more memorable music or scenes. What would do the show more good than anything else, though, are more episodes: if the same story was spread over 24 episodes, things could have been explained better and there wouldn't be a feel of a constant rush. I recommend the show to any SCI-FI and/or time-travel lovers, but to everyone else as well, since it was quite an enjoyable watch for me.

Watching Gunslinger Stratos is like waiting for a bucket with holes to be filled with water. No matter how long you wait, it is impossible to fill it. And, as we wait for it to be filled, you question yourself, why am I still doing this? That's Gunslinger Stratos in a nutshell. Why do I still go on watching this? Most of us have high or above average expectations hearing this Square Enix game to be adapted. Judging from the previous cover picture and the trailer, this looks badass and promising. What I can say is that this anime is just good at making yourexpectations high, and inside, it is just an ugly up gift box, waiting to be opened and surprise you how messed up it really is! The concept is not bad. The story is not bad either. But the execution and manner of use is. It has a lot of potential which has gone to waste because of poor storytelling and messy plot elements, which I think, can be a bit useful if done better and with effort. The concept of time travel and its logic can't convince me that a decent staff made this, because it is just absolutely nonsense. Everything is jumbled, explanations are just being thrown to us one after the other, which makes the story really confusing messed up. The art is below average tier or even pitiful at times, only good in a few scenes, but most of the time it lacks effort and really poor designs. The character designs are bad and ugly, backgrounds are poor, and their facial expressions are disgusting. Only thing decent about the art is the outfits and a few action scenes to show. The use of colors is lazy work, it makes the characters look bland and lifeless. Animation is decent and a little bad, but the action scenes are worthy of being called good. For the sound, the soundtracks are mediocre and forgettable, I don't even feel or hear any music that can touch my heart. The opening is catchy and nice, it looks great, but the song just falls flat, so it is average. The best part of the anime is the ending song, "Mirai" by GARNiDELiA, is a great piece, but it does not fit and does not have any relation to the anime. Voice actors are bad and awful and the sound effects are average. Simply, the characters are garbage. We've got the most lifeless main character of Spring 2015 and the cheesy pink heroine, which both have useless motivations and are one of the most boring characters in history. With the alternate world characters they just fight each other for their satisfaction and rivalry, which is nonsense. Characters are getting killed before you know them, characters are getting killed for no reason, and most of all, characters are just very boring forgettable I didn't even remember their names since the first and second episode. My enjoyment has only satisfy me during the action scenes, which are really fast that I couldn't even say that the animation during those scenes are pretty lazy. There's nothing you can get around enjoyment because this can make you sleep, it is really boring they just talk here and there and you can't even understand what is going on. What heals me every episode is the ending song that makes me forget how awful the anime was. Overall this series is straightly bad, it is not worth watching, and is a jumbled mess. The only thing you can get maybe in this is cancer or good action scenes. It is a waste though, for an awesome game to be compared to this shit, and I have high expectations in this adaptation. Do not watch this. Maybe just try listening to the ED. :3 Story - 5 (Interesting premise backfired, potential gone to waste.) Art - 5 (Mediocre, nothing really worth mentioning and decent animation.) Sound - 6 (Bad and below average. Nice OP and lovely ED) Character - 2 (Paper characters that have no true motivations with zero development) Enjoyment - 4 (Boring, only a few moments to be mentioned) Overall - 4 (Very low adaptation and production values. Not worth watching)

The TLDR of my review is simply this The anime is a 22 episode anime that was condensed into 12 episodes. The EP 1 to around 6-8 are very rushed, the storyline jumps all over the place, and since this is from a video game there tons of supporting characters (and each has a "twin" in the other universe so yea). That being said having just finished watching this last month (tail end of the anime) was Amazing and i really loved it. This might have happened because most anime have half the season for arcs but this anime really couldn't pull off that ithad alot going on and not enough time to do it. What normally happens in most anime that i watch is its a clone from the manga and in this case it wasn't. Story was a 2 for the first half and a 10 for the second half. Art was meh normal, not hard on my eyes was ok with it. Sound well its call Gunslinger Stratos and boy do i love the sound all the weapons make in this anime. Characters IMO there are really 5 who i would call the main area people (2 being from the other universe), And i love their Character development and how they reflect seeing themselves different but the same. Enjoyment THIS ANIME WAS FUN, enough said i really liked it wasnt too gimmick like most animes with the over shy or perverted stuff and had some times where it got real and you felt it (this is most a show about fighting so people die) Overall It was a good show could have been done Alot better but it was still good.

Well, all well and ends well, so how do I put this up? Ok, so now another sci-fi, action packed with the side of romance anime has just ended, and according to a lot of MAL users who made a review of this anime , almost most gave it a 6, so let go over each of this anime's category. Story Ok, the story maybe the run of the mill invaders from another dimension who would like to destroy the world, but then again this is one usual invaders from another dimension where the antagonist are the doppelgangers of the protagonist that they're fighting....if you can call itthat way. Also, the story presents a plot where their is another antagonist and the climax was that the two opposing alternate selves have to team up to defeat it. Also, on the romance side it was good that their was no harem who would compete for the MC's affection rather it was a childhood friend whom the MC had a good relationship at the start of the anime My verdict: a good 7 Art It was still the run of the mill situation where the character are a little too overdress for the occasion, ok so I could have forgiven the school uniform ....just a little , but the attire where the characters from the management realm looking like that they're going to a party was just too over the top, and what's with Kyouma's attire anyways, he looks like an Elvis impersonator. Only the character from the Frontier S realm were dress for the occasion, that will prevent me from giving this category a 2, plus the fact that the anime didn't rely on the fanservice to sell, so. My verdict: a poor 3 Sound My verdict: a mediocre 5, since I have no comment on the op, ed and the VA's who did the characters voices. Character I not gonna focus on any specific character since one can't defined one without involving it's doppelganger ( if I can call it that), but instead I could say that the character's fighting their alternate selves was really something else to say the least . The reality was that the real character wasn't the character themselves but the girl who showed up to Tooru , and how she was responsible for the chaos that has happen between the two worlds, also it was the relationship between Tooru and Kyouka that has more impact in this anime's overall. My verdict: A Very Good 8. Enjoyment It was always enjoyable when you see the two selves from different dimension duking out with each other, because it in a different form, I just don't see any reason why this anime can't be that good. My verdict: a good 7. Overall The setting maybe the usual, it may have presented a good character portrayals, the romance between Tooru and Kyouka maybe good since there was no harem to competed for Kyouka's feelings for Tooru, but the fact that the ending didn't have that much of an impact where it even violates Einstein theory of relativity, since the good Tooru have decide to destroy the cube things would have reverted to normal, instead we see a lame ending where are still a few of the Time keepers still causing troubles, if the cube has been destroyed then they should have been destroyed with it, also those who have died should be alive, well I can't blame studio A-1 Pictures for it's lame action on the anime, just go watch and judge it So, my verdict: a fair 6.

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