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A.I.C.O. Tells the story of Japan being overrun with "matter", a sort of abstract material that destroys everything in it's path. The story is a bit generic but the pacing make's up for that. The biggest issue I had with this anime was the main character; Tachibana, Aiko. it's not that she lacks depth, it's the way she reacts to every situation. It's like she was made to be shocked at every turn. And it gets tiresome fast. The best aspect of the anime is the artwork. The elegant animations and fast pace of the series is what kept the two dimensional characters in check and made the series watchable. I did like the small details that made the world of A.I.C.O feel more authentic, e.g. the artificial suits that needed to be fed in order to function properly. I wish a little more thought was put into the world building of the series, it felt like I was watching a CW series with good visuals. There's nothing groundbreaking here, but it does make for a good popcorn anime.
- Harun_Karali
- 10 mars 2018
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Pros:
Moves at a fast pace.
Most things are explained.
Meh: Story is nothing special. Mildly thought provoking.
Cons: None, really.
This is a basic anime with a semi-clear goal early on, and a few twists along the way that aren't too crazy. There a couple thought provoking aspects to it but nothing major. The ending is a little perplexing,, as you wonder why they are doing that, and then they wrap it up nicely for you anyway.
Decent, fast moving anime to watch, nothing terribly special though.
Meh: Story is nothing special. Mildly thought provoking.
Cons: None, really.
This is a basic anime with a semi-clear goal early on, and a few twists along the way that aren't too crazy. There a couple thought provoking aspects to it but nothing major. The ending is a little perplexing,, as you wonder why they are doing that, and then they wrap it up nicely for you anyway.
Decent, fast moving anime to watch, nothing terribly special though.
This is a decent anime. Well-crafted (although one does get really tired of The Burst after about almost immediately). The story is unique and the characters, although anime-cliche, well-enough created. Some of the dialog is a little cheesy, but that's not unusual in an anime.
The real problem is toward the ending, where the plot gets somewhat confusing (as in "who is what at this point?") and is both anti-climactic and somewhat predictable. For several episodes it seems to be a repetition of "dodge the Burst kill the Burst evade the Burst shoot the Burst" ad nauseum. Still it tends to remain interesting throughout. The rather weak ending drops this down to an "above mediocre" level, but doesn't place it in my list of "good anime".
They could have had a much stronger, better and more satisfying ending (really, there were no limits to the different endings they could have used), so the somewhat dull choice they made was rather poor writing overall.
Worth a watch perhaps and not "bad anime", but just not up there with the greats.
The real problem is toward the ending, where the plot gets somewhat confusing (as in "who is what at this point?") and is both anti-climactic and somewhat predictable. For several episodes it seems to be a repetition of "dodge the Burst kill the Burst evade the Burst shoot the Burst" ad nauseum. Still it tends to remain interesting throughout. The rather weak ending drops this down to an "above mediocre" level, but doesn't place it in my list of "good anime".
They could have had a much stronger, better and more satisfying ending (really, there were no limits to the different endings they could have used), so the somewhat dull choice they made was rather poor writing overall.
Worth a watch perhaps and not "bad anime", but just not up there with the greats.
Plot wise its okay, something we couldve seen on several 2010s scifi movies or early 2000s movies. Characters design and voice castings were absolutely fine as well. Animation style was okay the best was the sound scores and the very 2010's shounen opening/ending song. Its like a whole scifi movie turn into a 12 episode limited series, which was good. The story gets a bit complicated as it reach towards the conclusion but the ending was really good and might be tear jerking for some. Packed with actions and lacking in adventure aspects as the series progresses very fast. A great time killer and definitely recommended for everyone.
- LancelotSB
- 17 sept. 2022
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The overall idea is interesting but the flaws are so significant it's a hard pass.
Con's: -Overall story makes little sense. -Stilted dialog that reminds me of the '70's and '80's dubbed Saturday martial arts films, and the dialog is still weak with subtitles on. -Cardboard cutouts for characters with terrible development.
It almost feels like they took ideas from every popular anime, put them on flash cards and had a focus group assemble the story arc then animated it.
Con's: -Overall story makes little sense. -Stilted dialog that reminds me of the '70's and '80's dubbed Saturday martial arts films, and the dialog is still weak with subtitles on. -Cardboard cutouts for characters with terrible development.
- Poorly done tropes, especially the "Reunion" which made no sense at all to say nothing of the revel "Gasp" in every episode.
It almost feels like they took ideas from every popular anime, put them on flash cards and had a focus group assemble the story arc then animated it.
- dameon_green
- 11 mars 2020
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I really enjoyed this anime and managed to binge the whole season overnight into the next morning. I've been hearing many complaints about the English dub but luckily I didn't even know that there was a dub so I watched in Japanese with English subtitles.
The cast of characters is diverse and each has their own motive for participating in the deadly mission put before them. Many mysteries unfold throughout the 1st season and the pacing is handled quite well.
All in all one of my favorite Anime series in quite a while. If you like Knights if Sedonia you'll find much to love in A.I.C.O. 12 episodes wrapped up the story line perfect while leaving room to explore much more in (hopefully) future seasons.
The cast of characters is diverse and each has their own motive for participating in the deadly mission put before them. Many mysteries unfold throughout the 1st season and the pacing is handled quite well.
All in all one of my favorite Anime series in quite a while. If you like Knights if Sedonia you'll find much to love in A.I.C.O. 12 episodes wrapped up the story line perfect while leaving room to explore much more in (hopefully) future seasons.
Production values are good aside from the English voice-acting, which (especially the main character) is quite bad. Story is pretty light-weight considering the subject matter. I consider it anime-light at best.
- mmitchell-1
- 30 mai 2018
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- beastboy-03509
- 2 juil. 2018
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This story may or may have not been interesting. I was pretty distracted by the worst voice acting I've ever seen in 20 years. It was like watching a throwback Kung fu movie where the dubbing is just laughably bad. It was obvious that no one stopped and actually cared about the finished product.
Main character's voice is awefully squeaky, but this is not it. The character herself is unbelievably shallow and behaves like it is her first day living through at least the first half of the anime. I don't know if she is going to improve in the second half and probably will never know, but I know for sure if I see the surprised look on her face and hear that squeaky "huh" again I will give the anime 1 Star. I gave 5 only because the idea is interesting. Oh and Gummy is annoying too.
- itaratorina
- 23 mars 2018
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A.I.C.O sets forth a fairly simple story of a girl essentially trying to return home after a catastrophic event called the burst consumes a portion of Japan. The burst is a huge growth of living cells that seems to be out of control and set on destroying everything in it's path.
This review contains NO spoilers and personally I'd recommend not reading too many reviews as it's better to watch and enjoy without too much prior knowledge of what is going to happen.
The story does run fairly slow but is designed to give you chance to understand all of the main characters. There is plenty of action the whole way through and small clues are left throughout as to how the story may or may not pan out.
The animation is fluid and great and the voice acting was well done and suited to all the characters. I noticed other reviews stating the voice acting was bad (referring mainly to the dub) as I watch all anime in it's original Japanese dialect I decided to go back and watch the last episode dubbed to see. I think it's important to note that when I have got into an anime in Japanese and then see a dubbed episode I don't normally like it as I've become accustomed to the voices. However in this case I was surprised that the dub voices were well matched for the main characters. I can only assume the voice acting issues were not from the actors themselves but perhaps from needing to fill or shorten sentences to match as closely as possible to the anime visual mouth movements. For example if a sentence is long in Japanese but in English only ends up translated to ,"I want to help", then the director will need to add in words to match the visual speech aspect. This can result in a less natural flowing attribute to the language used and ultimately the anime can suffer for this.
Overall I think A.I.C.O deserves 8 stars. I couldn't help but binge watch to satisfy my craving of what happens next. It kept me interested the whole way through with the first few and last few episodes being the most interesting.
If you're looking for the best version and have no problems with reading subtitles then watch the Japanese dub.
This review contains NO spoilers and personally I'd recommend not reading too many reviews as it's better to watch and enjoy without too much prior knowledge of what is going to happen.
The story does run fairly slow but is designed to give you chance to understand all of the main characters. There is plenty of action the whole way through and small clues are left throughout as to how the story may or may not pan out.
The animation is fluid and great and the voice acting was well done and suited to all the characters. I noticed other reviews stating the voice acting was bad (referring mainly to the dub) as I watch all anime in it's original Japanese dialect I decided to go back and watch the last episode dubbed to see. I think it's important to note that when I have got into an anime in Japanese and then see a dubbed episode I don't normally like it as I've become accustomed to the voices. However in this case I was surprised that the dub voices were well matched for the main characters. I can only assume the voice acting issues were not from the actors themselves but perhaps from needing to fill or shorten sentences to match as closely as possible to the anime visual mouth movements. For example if a sentence is long in Japanese but in English only ends up translated to ,"I want to help", then the director will need to add in words to match the visual speech aspect. This can result in a less natural flowing attribute to the language used and ultimately the anime can suffer for this.
Overall I think A.I.C.O deserves 8 stars. I couldn't help but binge watch to satisfy my craving of what happens next. It kept me interested the whole way through with the first few and last few episodes being the most interesting.
If you're looking for the best version and have no problems with reading subtitles then watch the Japanese dub.
- jonathanmejia-23749
- 30 avr. 2024
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While I agree that the english dub version, let's just say- could be improved, it had a lot good going for it. The story is enough to keep the viewers attention, and there were more than enough plot twists and story details to keep me interested. While I don't think this was a truly fantastic anime, I do think it's worth the watch. Just don't watch it in the english dub.
- ggibby-88492
- 24 mars 2018
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This anime explores some moral issues with the possibilities that the future brings us. Clever, creative, and beautiful!
- lindsaykdavenport
- 17 mars 2018
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- aryankujurplays
- 10 mars 2018
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Though it wasn't great, A.I.C.O Incarnation definitely was not bad or mediocre. It wasn't great either though. It was OK. Netflix has been pumping out anime like crazy so it would be easy for this title to slip under the radar. The story takes place in the future where Artificially Intelligent Cellular Organisms (AICO) are created to advance humanity's medical knowledge in the hopes that one day they could make human beings immortal. However, an incident occurred that created the "Burst" a mass of cellular organisms that swarmed over Kurobe Gorge, consuming anyone and anything in its path before its advance is halted but not reversed. Aico Tachibana is just a normal school girl until she (quite literally) runs into a recent transfer student named Yuya Kanzaki, who, after a daring escape from several government spies, reveals to her that she was in a car accident that nearly killed. Her father, Yura Tachibana, created a duplicate body and brain for Aico. A complex and and top secret surgery was performed that switched the brains of Aico and the duplicate, placing her brain in the duplicate body and the duplicate in the real body. It was successful, but the surgery made the duplicate brain panic and create malignant matter at an alarming pace. In order to stop the "Matter" that has filled the gorge, Aico, Yuya, and a group of mercenaries have to traverse through the gorge and reach the research facility to perform the same surgery and stop the burst once and for all.
I thought that the story was just the average sci-fi plot that didn't show me anything new, with the secondary characters being blander than a bag of rice. But the animation more than makes up for these problems, and we can all thank Studio Bones for this. Bones has been going above and beyond the call of duty in its titles like "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood", "Mob Psycho 100" and most notably " My Hero Academia", and this show is now different. The action scenes are wonderfully choreographed and with "Matter" seeming bright and alive, making you feel that it has a mind of it's own. Thought some other animation studios would have cut corners and used copious amounts of CGI, Studio Bones goes that extra mile in providing a vibrant setting with wonderful animation. Thought the plot and characters were not great, I kept watching to see those beautifully rendered scenes and backgrounds. If your bored and looking for a binge watch on Netflix, look up this title
I thought that the story was just the average sci-fi plot that didn't show me anything new, with the secondary characters being blander than a bag of rice. But the animation more than makes up for these problems, and we can all thank Studio Bones for this. Bones has been going above and beyond the call of duty in its titles like "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood", "Mob Psycho 100" and most notably " My Hero Academia", and this show is now different. The action scenes are wonderfully choreographed and with "Matter" seeming bright and alive, making you feel that it has a mind of it's own. Thought some other animation studios would have cut corners and used copious amounts of CGI, Studio Bones goes that extra mile in providing a vibrant setting with wonderful animation. Thought the plot and characters were not great, I kept watching to see those beautifully rendered scenes and backgrounds. If your bored and looking for a binge watch on Netflix, look up this title
- dwarves-36003
- 13 janv. 2019
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The anime it's far from a very good one, but it has from the begging a good storyline and action so it is hard for to get bothered.
The main carecter is Tachibana, you may get little bothered with her but it is normal.
The good thing about the anime is the design of the animation I really appreciated at all!
- mayteareas
- 18 mars 2018
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Japan is being taken over by living matter that made up of artificial organisms. It up to girl to save the day before the matter
over flows the dam. The thing is aiko is human in personality but she is not human. she is not action hero by any means in skill or personality. Everything is new to her but she has to step up to plate to stop the matter. personality wise she infp. she has to come terms is a she is an artificial organism, (like the mater) and her humanity. I found her back story heart warming. In this series there is a lot of action and the show kept on edge of my seat. the plot interesting but a viewer needs to play attention to what being revealed to make to sense of it.
- sparkguy09
- 4 janv. 2019
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Its a deep, well written anime, every character unqie. The storyline is unique and beautifully illustrated. Make sure you pay attention whilst watching this anime, i would say its 12+ for a proper, deep and meaningful understanding of this. I had to rewatch this anime twice to fully understand, it was such a deep anime, i know i keep saying this. I overall loved this and it is one of my favourites, i suggest watching this almost. Everyday, or one episode daily so you remember the scenes and understand the anime properly. It was quite emotional toward the end of this anime, definitely one to remember, rewatch and share.
- safaaarain
- 2 juil. 2024
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Then this anime was released in 2018 a Netflix original series So this is about a little girl named Aiko Tachibana who doesn't know what happened to her parents because she doesn't remember anything about that moment but after that she meets a boy named Yuuya takes it and makes people talk aboutsome people because she had to know that her body is not her real body What do you mean that what she has is an artificial body means that because she had a bad accident and her real body which was bad damaged so they had to replace his brain with aartificial body but because of this problem another trouble was born works that a thing was created that sets anything they call matter the only way to stop it and they have to put the brain really so I loved this anime very much it is definitely one of my favorite anime of all time So I liked the story the animation the characters there was no character that gave me very negative feedback all the characters went very well above all what myfavorite character of this anime Aiko Tachibana because I found her to be a truly beautiful and important character of this anime she is definitely one of my female anime characters that I really like So I'll tell you one thing everyone hated the English dubbing because everyone hashated this dubbing saying it's not good But those who talked like this don't know that Iri was dubbed again and making these words much better this will definitely be one of my favorite anime ever and I recommend you see it because I also have you recommended you canfind on Netflix but I want to say one last thing, I don't understand why I'm the second person to give it this rating. But I really hope that in the future there will be other people who will give this rating because this anime deserves it very much to conclude the vote 10.
- mimmoesposito
- 10 juin 2024
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