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Apr 25, 2021 11:23 AM
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I haven't watched it yet , but people talked positively about this and Mother's Basement also recommend this...is the rating justified or the rating will change ? Should I watch this ?
Apr 25, 2021 11:26 AM
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Because it's the beginning of the season and ratings aren't very high during this period
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Apr 25, 2021 11:36 AM
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to me it's pretty boring, i shouldn't have started it tbh. i don't usually like anime with vampires:<
Apr 25, 2021 11:37 AM
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Personally I like the anime so far. It's not amazing or a masterpiece but I certainly don't think it's bad. I would give it at least a 7.5 as of what's out right now. The current low rating usually is normal for seasonal anime, and the score will definitely increase once the anime finishes airing.
Apr 25, 2021 11:40 AM
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It depends on the opinions, this kind of series with such art style and story is unpopular and not loved by many people so..
But I think it's great and needs to be given a chance
Apr 25, 2021 1:20 PM
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The first ep was pretty slow, so it’s probable that a lot of viewers stopped there and rated it low.
Apr 25, 2021 1:20 PM
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Just slow and boring. Not really memorable either




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Apr 25, 2021 4:20 PM
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Apr 25, 2021 6:30 PM
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The show has a lot of potential, but is extremely generic. I do really like the art style. The show has an extremely basic vampire set up and extremely basic military anime set up. When I think vampires done right I think of hellsing ultimate or noblesse. The action scenes are also very short and unimpressive. Idk if the story it comes from is lacking, but the director definitely didn't put forth enough effort to make this stand out in anyway.
Apr 25, 2021 6:51 PM

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Very generic plot and bland characters. The art style is unique and that's about it.
Apr 25, 2021 9:18 PM

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I was also wondering this, maybe the show just goes over some peoples heads.
Apr 27, 2021 2:12 AM

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because it's slow, and people will say it's boring and dislike it because they want fast paste story and action in their face.

it's really good though, specially if you're into plays.
Apr 27, 2021 2:12 AM

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because it's slow, and people will say it's boring and dislike it because they want fast paste story and action in their face.

it's really good though, specially if you're into plays.
Apr 27, 2021 5:58 AM

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I think its just that this is a slow show and people want something with some good fight animation or some cute characters to fawn over. I'm still watching Mars Red but I can understand how people may feel. Its only the first 4 eps so maybe it picks up. The art and character designs are cool and the shots make it seem movie like. But I can't help but feel like I thought there might be more to it than what we have been given.
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Apr 27, 2021 12:32 PM

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I'm guessing a lot of people didn't go past ep 1. It's definitely got that slow-burn feel, but it picked up in the next three eps. At this point, I don't think it's the ~greatest thing ever~ but it's a solid 7-8. It definitely seems like the pace of the show is going to pick up, but even if it doesn't, I'm enjoying it for being different than the usual.
Apr 28, 2021 4:04 AM

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I keep compare Mars Red to Jouran: The Princess of Snow and Blood, because these both are pretty weak in terms of storytelling, but Jouran has shown little more background stuff, compared to Mars Red that shown nothing like that.

Mars Red female faces are like copypaste in each episode, they really upvote male faces but female faces are pretty much same.

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Apr 28, 2021 6:09 AM

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ive heard people complain about the animation a lot and how similar it is to demon crybaby or something like that but i dont think it justifies it completely i think bot the story and the characters are really well written and you can get used to the animation (by now ive already accommodated to it and i like it a lot)
Apr 28, 2021 3:34 PM
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Idk really, definitely underated. Maybe the character design could be a bit more memorable but I really feel its going somewhere. Honestly though I would watch this show just for the art style, looks v nice.
Apr 29, 2021 3:04 AM
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qhirin said:
to me it's pretty boring, i shouldn't have started it tbh. i don't usually like anime with vampires:<

if you don't like it you can have respect for the ones who do. Plus it is objectively a well produced show
Apr 29, 2021 3:19 AM
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iamdaking said:
qhirin said:
to me it's pretty boring, i shouldn't have started it tbh. i don't usually like anime with vampires:<

if you don't like it you can have respect for the ones who do. Plus it is objectively a well produced show
i didn't say it was bad, it is an ok show from what i've seen so far. i only said i was bored while watching it because i'm not into the vampire genre. no disrespect to anyone who likes it, anyone can like whatever they want^^
May 2, 2021 11:47 PM

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Gaichi said:
I keep compare Mars Red to Jouran: The Princess of Snow and Blood, because these both are pretty weak in terms of storytelling, but Jouran has shown little more background stuff, compared to Mars Red that shown nothing like that.

Mars Red female faces are like copypaste in each episode, they really upvote male faces but female faces are pretty much same.


are you for real? in terms of story telling this is one of the best anime this season. the story so far is nothing out of this world but you are just being unfair if you think it's not telling it in the best possible way.
May 4, 2021 2:20 AM
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arshiapolygons2 said:
Gaichi said:
I keep compare Mars Red to Jouran: The Princess of Snow and Blood, because these both are pretty weak in terms of storytelling, but Jouran has shown little more background stuff, compared to Mars Red that shown nothing like that.

Mars Red female faces are like copypaste in each episode, they really upvote male faces but female faces are pretty much same.


are you for real? in terms of story telling this is one of the best anime this season. the story so far is nothing out of this world but you are just being unfair if you think it's not telling it in the best possible way.


I agree with Gaichi. I feel that anyone upvoting this has a carrot from funimation up their you know what or is a fake vampire fan. The 1990s movie "Interview with a vampire" in 2 hrs will destroy all the eps of this anime added together. If you want good story telling instead of vampires plus crumy military then look at all the seasonal anime rated higher than 7. Also don't undermind "Vivy" and "To your Eternity". These anime's story telling are way better than "bite*marked*older vampire>new vampire*find old vampire starting it all nonsense. If there was atleast darkness and action like "Hellsing Ultimate I would be interested", but it is litterally a crummy knock off. Most people have noticed and stopped watching.
May 4, 2021 8:25 AM

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jigglymig said:
arshiapolygons2 said:


are you for real? in terms of story telling this is one of the best anime this season. the story so far is nothing out of this world but you are just being unfair if you think it's not telling it in the best possible way.


I agree with Gaichi. I feel that anyone upvoting this has a carrot from funimation up their you know what or is a fake vampire fan. The 1990s movie "Interview with a vampire" in 2 hrs will destroy all the eps of this anime added together. If you want good story telling instead of vampires plus crumy military then look at all the seasonal anime rated higher than 7. Also don't undermind "Vivy" and "To your Eternity". These anime's story telling are way better than "bite*marked*older vampire>new vampire*find old vampire starting it all nonsense. If there was atleast darkness and action like "Hellsing Ultimate I would be interested", but it is litterally a crummy knock off. Most people have noticed and stopped watching.


firstly, what the hell is a vampire fan? are we just going to call people zombie fans, robot fans and warewolf fans? it's a trope dude, there is no such a thing as 'fake vampire fan'. and about the movie you mentioned, maybe it is 10* better, but saying something is bad because something else is better is stupid.

it's not like every time travel story is trash because steins gate and every pirate story shouldn't exist because pirates of the caribbean.

also yes both vivy and to you're eternity are better anime and better story tellers than this. if i had to rank what i'm watching this is the 5th best anime this season.

but it is the third best at story telling. i don't think you understand the difference between story telling and the actual story. this series is adapted from a play. and that is why most people who praise it, praise it for. the show captures the feeling of watching a play perfectly, which is something that at least i have never seen before.

the storytelling is not you're typical story telling though, so i understand why some people don't like it, but to say the story telling is bad because the story itself is just good-generic is stupid.

also also, you can't even be sure if the story is generic or not. most stories start of simple. even freaking attack on titan started as survive the giant zombies kind of story. so how should you judge the beginning?

THE STORY TELLING!!!
May 6, 2021 3:11 AM
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Love it so far, nice story, good soundtracks, decent characters, idk why so underrated...
May 6, 2021 4:37 AM
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I think it's rated so low because people typically don't like slow burner animes I guess. plus it feels like you are missing a lot of information because apparently all of the episodes are based on historical poems? I dunno but it's worth watching even just for the animation but we really don't get to bond with the characters yet. I wonder if there will be a season 2
May 6, 2021 9:01 AM
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As a Monogatari series fan that loves well-written dialogue, I think this anime is a hidden gem this season. Anime doesn't require action scenes with rapid plot development to turn out amazing like some of the people here think, hence anime like Mushishi etc. I do hope it lives up to how it's presenting itself.
May 6, 2021 10:26 AM
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I thouht the first episode was mesmerizing. Mysterious, intriguing, with great atmosphere, amazing dialogue and with a closed story that was really well written and had great storytelling. After that the show didn't stick with with me. Everything was just... bland and that's why I dropped it. But the first episode was really really good, although a bit slow paced and different
May 6, 2021 10:33 AM
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There just isn't really much especially great about it, I think. The first episode was well-composed and had interesting direction, but that flair has seemed to have pretty much died out since. The art style is somewhat unique which is nice, but it isn't especially good-looking compared to some other shows this season. The story and characters seem like they could be interesting, but we don't know very much about either yet. It's at a fairly slow pace at the moment which isn't necessarily bad, but slow-paced shows aren't generally popular.

All told, it's just kinda fine, so not as many people are going to rate it highly. As such, it ends up having a lower rating.
May 9, 2021 7:53 AM

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Personally I don't think a 6.83 rating as a low score??? Like if it was like 5.5 I would've said yeah, it's a low score. But it basically being closer to a 7/10 then a 6/10. It might be considered low to a fair few shows this season. But it's not low honestly.
May 10, 2021 4:07 AM
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Because it's more pretentious than it's artistic. Copying famous plays with long dialogues doesn't make your show smart, it only shows you are trying to imitate what's written on the source material rather than adapting into a different medium.
May 14, 2021 3:26 PM
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IMO the first episode was gorgeous and intriguing and felt very promising.

After it though, everything feels like a let down. It feels like events are just happening without much of a story connecting them. Several episodes felt like repeats of "we have reports of vampires, hunt vampires".

The little bit of plot we've gotten so far doesn't really explain wtf is going on. Being left in the dark wouldn't be so bad if it felt like there was a strong direction for the plot/main characters and if it didn't feel like most of the other episodes was filler that's only purpose was to set a mood.

Latest episode came out and suddenly tons of insanity is breaking out from no where because it feels like the MCs didn't bother to hardly investigate their leads and there are a bunch of characters that don't feel like we have any idea how they are doing what they are doing or why.

One character that's basically slapped you in the face that they are important since Ep1 has done literally nothing but occasionally appear and have the show be like "look at this guy, we aren't saying who he is or what he'll do but he's important, look at him".

I just feel sad that the very pretty style of the first episode kinda just feels like it's turned into pompous hot air.

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