For the first five or six episodes I was hooked on this show. The story was really good, the pacing was great, and it seems like everything was going to go well and that fish series may end up being amongst my favorites, but the ending is where it instead became one of my most hated.
I'm sure that if you're watching this series you may have read it in Shonen Jump as a kid, like I did, and expected it to be gritty, dark and great, which it was up until the end. If you were also alive during the boom of anime in North America in the early 2000s you may have also seen the first Dragon Ball Z Broly movie and remembered the annoying part at the end we're Goku keeps on screaming at the top of his lungs " more power. I need more power. Give me more power!" In that context it was fine because it was a very short scene, but when you stretch a scene like that out for four whole episodes it can really become a bummer.
The ending fight between Claire and the Wolf demon guy, whatever his name was, was really dull and boring until she finally defeated him, and then there's the Edition that Raki stumbled across Priscilla and Isley of the North, and seemingly befriends them, which could have been an amazing confrontation especially if Priscilla and Isley both decided to take Raki prisoner or even killed him, something other than just letting him go so that it could build up to this lackluster, and terrible ending.
I'm going to go ahead and spoil it for you oh, so be warned. The ending of the show is Claire versus Priscilla, she annoyingly says the entire fight, once again " more power. I need more power. Give me more power." And again her Yoma or a flares and she partially awakens, to Priscilla surprised she is just about to defeat her when Raki jumps in and tells Claire to not kill Priscilla. That to kill her would make her know better than the Yoma that she hunts and kills. An age-old debacle about forgiving the person that you hate the most, which could have been pulled off much better, but instead was cheaply done, we lost Jean who saves Claire by having her sync up with her Yoma aura killing her in the process. What a shame.
This whole series was full of great scenes of pride, and even some emotion, which I honestly didn't expect from this series, but it all led up to one of the most lackluster endings to any anime that I've ever seen. The dialogue was horrible, at that point I just wanted it to end because it was so bad. It was nothing like the previous episodes, it was like somebody else took over who I had never read, or even talked with the original writers of the first couple episodes and just did their own thing. It was on par with the Netflix Godzilla movies, both of these series ended up being great building up, but by the end you just wanted them to end and you hated them.
I honestly would not recommend this series, you should probably watch just the first six episodes and stop there, but you won't be able to since the story is actually pretty good up until the end. The ending is where it ends up, no pun intended, going from good to bad. Would not watch again
I'm sure that if you're watching this series you may have read it in Shonen Jump as a kid, like I did, and expected it to be gritty, dark and great, which it was up until the end. If you were also alive during the boom of anime in North America in the early 2000s you may have also seen the first Dragon Ball Z Broly movie and remembered the annoying part at the end we're Goku keeps on screaming at the top of his lungs " more power. I need more power. Give me more power!" In that context it was fine because it was a very short scene, but when you stretch a scene like that out for four whole episodes it can really become a bummer.
The ending fight between Claire and the Wolf demon guy, whatever his name was, was really dull and boring until she finally defeated him, and then there's the Edition that Raki stumbled across Priscilla and Isley of the North, and seemingly befriends them, which could have been an amazing confrontation especially if Priscilla and Isley both decided to take Raki prisoner or even killed him, something other than just letting him go so that it could build up to this lackluster, and terrible ending.
I'm going to go ahead and spoil it for you oh, so be warned. The ending of the show is Claire versus Priscilla, she annoyingly says the entire fight, once again " more power. I need more power. Give me more power." And again her Yoma or a flares and she partially awakens, to Priscilla surprised she is just about to defeat her when Raki jumps in and tells Claire to not kill Priscilla. That to kill her would make her know better than the Yoma that she hunts and kills. An age-old debacle about forgiving the person that you hate the most, which could have been pulled off much better, but instead was cheaply done, we lost Jean who saves Claire by having her sync up with her Yoma aura killing her in the process. What a shame.
This whole series was full of great scenes of pride, and even some emotion, which I honestly didn't expect from this series, but it all led up to one of the most lackluster endings to any anime that I've ever seen. The dialogue was horrible, at that point I just wanted it to end because it was so bad. It was nothing like the previous episodes, it was like somebody else took over who I had never read, or even talked with the original writers of the first couple episodes and just did their own thing. It was on par with the Netflix Godzilla movies, both of these series ended up being great building up, but by the end you just wanted them to end and you hated them.
I honestly would not recommend this series, you should probably watch just the first six episodes and stop there, but you won't be able to since the story is actually pretty good up until the end. The ending is where it ends up, no pun intended, going from good to bad. Would not watch again