Comments on: Underrated series of 2009: Kemono no Souja Erin

By: Cikoria93

Cikoria93 — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:33:07 +0000

I loved this anime just because it was so unique. At first I thought it was childish looking but after I had watched a few episodes I thought it was really good and the best thing was that the characters emotions was well balanced. ;)

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:21:27 +0000

I don’t know whether it’s underrated or not, but I’ve been watching it since the start. Personally, I think it’s very good. It actually tells a nice, interesting and emotional story in a fairytale-esque way, without feeling the need to go all out with chibi characters/funny reactions/boobs. Stuff like that. I don’t consider that an amazing accomplishment really, but I’d say it has a more “normal” (bad expression, I know) way to tell a story, at least from what I’m used to. Due to the fact that the series is based on novels, maybe it’s not that strange if it’s not “crazy”. But then, books can be crazy.

… Anyway.

That ending song, “After the rain”, is very nice. So are the insert songs that you hear in pretty much every episode.

Overall: I like it quite a bit.

By: rie~chan

rie~chan — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:08:56 +0000

OMG! i also love this show
it’s rare to find a someone like this show
I find the story line very refreshing, there is some angst in the story but I find that a”normal” type of angst. Excuse me to naruto fans but the most annoying angst I have ever seen is the sasuke type of angst which just made me dislike the series (a bit). Also I agree to the fact that the reason this show is not popular is because it doesn’t show “fan-service,” “total bloody blood lost,” “overly dramatic romance scene/story” etc.
I just love the relaxed pace of the concrete story line… and it also reminds me of ghibli movies a lot

By: Yumeka

Yumeka — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:24:17 +0000

@psgels If you watched a few more episodes past 6, you’d see that the series takes a big turn; Erin leaves the Touda village, grows up, and more characters and conflicts are introduced, including the war between the two kingdoms. There is some angst and maybe some situations that may seem cliche, but compared to most other anime, it’s pretty minor, especially in the later episodes.

By: tj han

tj han — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:34:48 +0000

I’m at episode 24 and it’s my weekly staple. Honestly, it’s a very different kind of anime. I don’t think it’ll do well in terms of sales or popularity. I like it, but most people’ll find it quite dull. Good for you to like it as well!

However, the most underrated show is not this. It is Inazuma 11, people don’t even sub it!

By: psgels

psgels — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:18:46 +0000

“you won’t find any … cliche anime situations or archetypes in this show.”
“There’s no…unnatural angst”
“a well made and excellent animated story,”

That’s strange, because I dropped this series after about six episodes, exactly because of the clichéd anime situations, unnatural angst and really bad CG integration. To me, the huge amounts of forced angst in these first few episodes was the major turn-off, and the CG dragons didn’t make t much easier to like this series. I usually love well-done children’s series, I’m a big fan of the World Masterpiece Theatre, which IMO has an even bigger contrast between the innocence of the lead character and the very dark themes throughout the series, but I just couldn’t get into this series.

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