Comments on: Gilgamesh Review - 87/100

by: saed

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:21:27 +0100

Hated the animation but loved the story.
One of my favorites.

Later.

by: Blue

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:48:55 +0100

Just finished this anime yesterday and I must say while at the beggining I felt the anime had a lot fo potential it ended up just being pretty medicore. BUT! Then ending made up for this series HUGE. It was just a nice(Haha) change of pace from the convntitional endings and really hit me hard, specially what happened to the blind girl =/. Overall I’d say the rating you gave it was pretty good and glad you enjoyed the ending as much as I did.

by: Saki

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:07:07 +0100

Somehow, with all its flaws, I really like Gilgamesh. Especially the ending. Yes, the ending. Although I cannot say much about the animation. Hmm… but it’s just my taste, liking dark, mysterious, multi-layered stories like this. So, you’re reight, it’s really either love it, or loathe it. I chose love.

by: omo

Thu, 29 May 2008 18:03:34 +0100

Wow, someone who gave Gilgamesh a positive review.

There must be some reason why I read Star Crossed after all this time :)

by: ebisu

Mon, 26 May 2008 20:45:01 +0100

I just saw the first 3 chapters of this series a long time ago and find it quite boring, so I stopped watching it. I think it’s overrated, the second half must have been very good to supply the weak start.

by: Kurisu

Sun, 25 May 2008 03:21:46 +0100

“The king has no pants” goes over a lot heads, too, but people who feel the need to offend others’ for their differing tastes are probably stupid and not worth listening to.

by: Zerozaki

Sun, 25 May 2008 01:24:08 +0100

I distinctly remember the ending completely making up for how deliberately baffling the rest of it was. Behold the power of irony! Which seems to have gone over a lot of people’s heads, but they are probably stupid and not worth listening to.

by: Kurisu

Sat, 24 May 2008 18:52:04 +0100

I agree with Autonomous Monster, it never really went anywhere. I think it’s one of the first series I regretted wasting my time with. The dark, gritty atmosphere was very promising in the beginning but then it just drags on and in the end it makes “poof”. This would have been nice as a 4-6 episode OVA. Then it might have been a hidden gem like “Hitsujia no Uta”.

I stopped watching Red Garden after 8 episodes or so because it developed far too slow for my taste. In that way and with respect to the mystery factor these two might very well be comparable. Likewise with respect to the unconventional (and somewhat questionable) art style. I find the rating 87/100 is extremely generous.

By the way, I liked the opening song of Gilgamesh quit a lot back then despite being a total mismatch for this show. As far as I remember, the background “music” got painfully stoic and repetitive after some time.

by: Archer

Sat, 24 May 2008 17:16:24 +0100

i have this anime for quite some time in my to watch anime list and i heard it is very similar to Red Garden which i liked,the story also seems to be something i would enjoy so i really have to start watching it sometime and i will,however i don’t know when its time will come

by: Autonomous Monster

Sat, 24 May 2008 15:30:44 +0100

It’s been a while since I watched Gilgamesh, so my memory’s a bit hazy, but… my problem with the show is that the plot never really went anywhere. It gathered together all these elements and then did nothing with them. It just ended.

Compare with Saikano, a show with a similarly depressing finale. Where Gilgamesh left me nonplussed and vaguely dissatisfied, Saikano left me emotionally distraught in a way that nothing else has really come close to matching. Maybe if the Mai Hime guys had manned up and actually gone for the Pyrrhic victory… but eh.