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Jan 18, 2021 2:29 AM

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The censored kiss, the way the 2D moves like a slideshow and the 3D like a low budget MMD music video, the horrible zoom-ins, the disjointed editing, the pure speed with which this show moves forward and doesn't explain anything... beautiful, breathtaking, it's just too good
Jan 18, 2021 3:32 AM

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And here I thought Munou na Nana was a bad series.
Jan 18, 2021 4:04 AM

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aburame_ernesto said:
You know what is funny? The helicopters scene looks like the infamous CGI scene of Golgo 13: The professional, and that movie is 40 years old.
Don't fucking compare one of my favorite movies with this shit. Golgo 13 is GOOD. This? Is NOT good. This? Is trash.
Jan 18, 2021 4:45 AM
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Honestly, I don't even find it funny at all, instead, I was actually focusing on the story and pls ffs just do full CG, although I love 2D more, the 2D was very poorly drawn and was annoying. The pacing seems way too fast but the story is ok ig, nothing special but regardless I'll give this a few more eps and see where it goes
Jan 18, 2021 6:49 AM
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why so hideous make the main character die because the truck kun that drive by a ghost ? guess how many anime that the main character died because truck kun ?
Jan 18, 2021 9:28 AM

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This is my Anime of the Year


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Also, nice to meet you ;)
Jan 18, 2021 10:58 AM
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And to think, I thought Gibiate was bad...
Jan 18, 2021 11:55 AM
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Exactly what kind of bullet did they use to snipe the priest? Trans-spacial? 🤨

😂😂😂
“SAITO! YOU NEED TO EXPLODE! FOR THE WORLD’S SAKE!”
Jan 18, 2021 12:46 PM

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Here is something to laught at:
Jan 18, 2021 12:52 PM
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Nikorasuuuu said:
aburame_ernesto said:
You know what is funny? The helicopters scene looks like the infamous CGI scene of Golgo 13: The professional, and that movie is 40 years old.
Don't fucking compare one of my favorite movies with this shit. Golgo 13 is GOOD. This? Is NOT good. This? Is trash.

Hey, Golgo 13: The professional it's also one of my favorite movies xD, but that shows how bad the CGI in this show is; it's on par with the first CGI secene used in an animated movie, for that time was really good, but 40 years have passed since that.
Jan 18, 2021 1:29 PM

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Those scenes with 3D charas next to 2D charas give me nightmares.

This is hard, but I need to keep pushing. It's the perfect motivation, cause if I watch this anime till the end I'll now that I can achieve anything in life.

PS: I miss Gibiate.
Jan 18, 2021 6:47 PM

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Unholy shi*!!! Their facial expressions are truly naturally EXPRESSIVE!
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friggin' atrocious!!
1/5.


Jan 18, 2021 7:14 PM

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lmao those ghost cultists.
Jan 19, 2021 12:22 AM
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To be honest this anime is starting to be a train wreck meets a dumpster fire. The animation is not the greatest and the story is all over the place. To be fare I will watch it again after all episodes are out so I can make a more fare assessment of the anime as a whole.
Jan 19, 2021 3:09 AM

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This anime perfectly represents 2020 in a spiky trolly shell... I mean in a nutshell...
Jan 19, 2021 4:12 AM

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Isn't it always other way that main characters were drawn in 2D and villan and commoners in CG
But noo
Here's a reversal..
Atleast if they gonna do CG Then go for Full CG
Interaction between 2D CG looks really crappy
Jan 19, 2021 8:01 PM

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I know I dropped this anime but it just looked too ugly I had to watch the 2nd ep
Jan 19, 2021 8:49 PM

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5/5 True masterpiece material.

The action is incredible and the themes of religion are truly profound. Get outta here AoT! This 2nd episode is better than episode 5 of the final season.

AOTY right here.
Jan 20, 2021 8:12 AM

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Look up in the sky, is it a bird? is it a plane? No it's a stupid priest.
I'm too weird to live but much too rare to die.


Jan 20, 2021 10:37 AM

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A'ight I'mma head out.
Jan 20, 2021 9:03 PM

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Wow... This episode is even worst than first episode.

For this time (And maybe for throughout this anime) I just gonna make a brief problems from this episode or I will be here all day just to write it on details.
- Using same intro scene from first episode
- Record Video that doesn't Stop when stop the video
- Using Repeated Scene Over and Over
- Yet another 2D and 3D Animation that blend in really bad
- Dead Facial Animation that all over the place
- Yet another Unknown Character in this episode
- The existence of Yuri Kiss that not make any sense and reason
- Action Scene that felt clunky and weird
- Gun Sound that feels like Popcorn Pop
- Yet Another Weird and Messy Scene Positions to watch
- Girl Scene that join a cult that not have any Conclusion
- Pastor that can escape from church without any Scene whatsoever
- The existence of Pastor Helicopter
- Design of Alma Helicopter that really bad
- Helicopter that can Flying in Reverse
- Helicopter Scene that using Shake Effect as Helicopter Falling Down
- Kondo Shot to Pastor that make Pastor Clip Out to Outside Helicopter and Died
- Alma and Minami Head body that cannot calm
- Awkward and Long Closing Scene that not necessary to make

The Story is Pretty Bad because Character that Introduction as fast as Wind yet Awkwardly drag into the story and Many more things that not make any sense on few situation.

Overall, Worse Episode from The First Episode and Making watching experience more bad than before. Are they gonna make each episode worse or a little bit better. But this already make this bad to watched, so doesn't matter I guess. Well we just wait and See what next.
Yunohi-kunJan 20, 2021 9:13 PM
Jan 21, 2021 10:04 AM

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If the animation was better, this would be a decent show.
Jan 21, 2021 12:39 PM

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Jeff_Caesar said:
Why is this even labeled an ecchi but censors a kiss. None of the boobie scenes ever show like it did in the manga :o

I'm not sure if i want to see CGI boobies xD but judging by how 2d and 3d has been blended in this anime so far, I guess one boob would be 2d and the other one CGI lololol
Jan 21, 2021 12:57 PM
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Infelizmente acabou a competitividade,
não existe mais nenhum anime a altura de Ex-Arm na temporada de inverno. Talvez, a exemplo de Attack on Titan, que adiou pra dezembro em busca de maiores desafios, Ex-Arm deva ir pra Hollywood disputar com o cinema americano.
Jan 21, 2021 7:18 PM

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Oh... this is bad... It was really funny at first, hilarious even, but I don't think I'm gonna be able to sit through much more of this... But it's seriously amazing something like this was even allowed to exist at all, this Frankenstein mess of an... is "anime" even the right term for this thing?... my eye's seriously hurt now though.
A Wild and Small Otaku has Appeared!
Jan 21, 2021 8:11 PM
☆A-Qing's hair☆

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Kiriikun said:
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I just went to official website to check who's Kiba and who's Kondou, but the website doesn't even finish the character page!

BTW Is it too harsh that this has the lowest score (excluding OVA) in MAL? Surely there must be something worse than this right?


Yes bloodivors and ecil or live but those shows apparently has people who like em so meh 🤷‍♂️ I rate those pretty bad but this anime takes the cake with its visuals

hey at least bloodivores doesn't make you tear out your eyeballs from how bad it looks.

LeviathanTheEsp said:
Wait. By sheer curiosity I read this arc in the manga and... this episode skipped A TON of stuff. Now I kinda get why people hate this. This arc had many interesting developments and the anime skipped them all.

The adaptation of the story is Big Order levels of bad but also with bad CGI.


oh yeah big order was such a train wreck which is a shame it had some promise at the start.

Jan 22, 2021 9:24 AM

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quercifolia said:

oh yeah big order was such a train wreck which is a shame it had some promise at the start.


I kinda liked the comedy part, tho. I think the comedy department of this series is also having a bad time.
Jan 23, 2021 4:36 AM

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better than the 1st episode, nice fight scenes, reminded me of individual11 and angel feathers plots from ghost in the shell. straight into my favorites.
Jan 23, 2021 1:20 PM
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No comment , almost lost my brain by watching it

If you don't appreciate art , anime aren't for you , there is nothing wrong in them , nothing is perfect !

If you criticize Anime you should release your reviews directly to people and authors that made em !

Anime will not get any better if reviews do not get outside the borders of this website , change this !
Jan 23, 2021 2:30 PM
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Piromysl said:
Well, story seems to be somewhat intriguing and might be an actual redeeming quality. But the visuals tho are still horrendous and make this show literally unwatchable. Guess it would be better option to just read the manga and try to comfort original creator after his child got raped and murdered.

I'll still watch it till the end, simply because we are witnessing history in the making.
where do you read that the creator child got raped and murdered?
Jan 23, 2021 3:09 PM

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tudos4 said:
Piromysl said:
Well, story seems to be somewhat intriguing and might be an actual redeeming quality. But the visuals tho are still horrendous and make this show literally unwatchable. Guess it would be better option to just read the manga and try to comfort original creator after his child got raped and murdered.

I'll still watch it till the end, simply because we are witnessing history in the making.
where do you read that the creator child got raped and murdered?


This adaptation.
Jan 23, 2021 4:18 PM
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Jeff_Caesar said:
Why is this even labeled an ecchi but censors a kiss. None of the boobie scenes ever show like it did in the manga :o


My only assumption is that either a producer is South Korean or this is partially being made for the South Korean Market, because they censor kisses extremely heavily in media over there.

So if you're watching a broadcast version of an anime and you notice a kiss scene was censored it was most likely made in South Korea or involved them some way.
Jan 23, 2021 5:01 PM
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Piromysl said:
tudos4 said:
where do you read that the creator child got raped and murdered?


This adaptation.
ahh, ok understand now. I planned to read the manga someday given how bad is this adaptation
Jan 24, 2021 11:58 AM

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@Xenocrisi @Nycro @Punkero @MoonDragon72 @Short_Circut @error5000 @Cava11 @LeviathanTheEsp @snowykevin @CommanderZx2 @Jeff_Caesar @Axorie @Yunohi-kun
I'll tell you most logical explanation why the kiss was censored - it was to hide terrible clipping of these lazily made cgi models.
Jan 25, 2021 6:32 PM

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bastek66 said:
@Xenocrisi @Nycro @Punkero @MoonDragon72 @Short_Circut @error5000 @Cava11 @LeviathanTheEsp @snowykevin @CommanderZx2 @Jeff_Caesar @Axorie @Yunohi-kun
I'll tell you most logical explanation why the kiss was censored - it was to hide terrible clipping of these lazily made cgi models.
They didn't censor the entire series tho, dood.
Jan 25, 2021 11:06 PM

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Man the visuals here really are hurting this show. Like if it had average animation it still would probably be a 4/10 or 5/10 for me but the visuals really bring it down. The animation is terrible
Jan 26, 2021 6:51 PM

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After looking at how trashy the animation and the rushed plot lines, I was curious and tried to find the Ex-arm manga.

And...what do you know, the animators really rushed the whole suicide bombing scene. There was a lot more backstory and action in the manga. The animators crammed 7 chapters, 20 pages/chapter worth of content into a super rushed plotline.

To save your eyeballs, I suggest go read the manga. The plot actually runs pretty well and has a dcent story.
ManzoHiroshiJan 26, 2021 7:47 PM
Jan 31, 2021 2:25 PM

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It was hella fun watching this ep.
Also reading all these angry comments here.
lol

The show is so trash I'm enjoying every bit of it )))
Mar 2, 2021 7:25 AM
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I don't understand why they censored the kiss scene, but well... at least the plot is a bit interesting to be honest, it's not that bad, it's just that the animation is really awful.
Apr 7, 2021 11:46 PM
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highschool dxd showed me boobs, but here's ex-arm using a ray of light on a kiss
is this a battle between the 3d race and the 2d race lmao
Apr 12, 2021 2:57 PM
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1/10 horrible and disgusting i would rather suck a racoons pen15 than watch this
Jun 6, 2021 4:26 PM

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Did they really censor the kiss scene there with some shitty light lol. So far the story seems really generic with how our MC just joined an elite force and everybody accepting him after a somewhat succesful mission.

Nov 8, 2021 5:15 AM

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The story is actually okay... Just the animation....
I guess all the important characters are in 3D while side characters are 2D.
Dec 11, 2022 9:41 AM
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Boring anime and membosankan

Mar 12, 2023 4:25 AM
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best anime of all timeeeeeeeee
Sep 27, 2023 9:14 PM

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The plot of these cultists rebelling against what they see as a failed development project in the Tokyo Bay Megafloat through terrorism is okay. Can't say the fight choreography is bad either. However, the hilariously terrible animation drags both them and every other aspect of the anime down by virtue of being an omnipresent facet of the watch.


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Oct 26, 2023 4:03 PM

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IT'S HANGE!

After that "gene transfer", I have to say...please, please just keep adding fanservice. Anything to alleviate the boredom. I can't even find decent R34 to scroll on my phone and that was my last resort.

Killing an unarmed girl instead of just using tranquilizers...never change, popo. At least the priest's orgasm face as he got sniped was peak comedy. I didn't expect to be laughing straight through the rest of the episode.
May 1, 2024 9:07 PM
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From the flashbacks that Akira has, I think he was the one who attacked Tokyo more than 10 years ago and was able to control all the Ex-arms
How does the genetic code thing work to temporarily disinhibit Akira? or maybe, it was a pretext for the kiss haha
I like the team, it's a shame that the animation doesn't accompany it
Apr 11, 6:07 PM
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Lmao the animation, VA, writing is all bad. Didn't put 1 star because at least it was bad enough to be funny.
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