So why is the overall so low?
One can see a HUGH improvement only from the last chapter. Your animating and drawing skills have improved greatly, or are better refined and one can defenitly see it.
Sound was excellent too and I also loved the anime style.
I can say with quite a bit of certainty that your graphics are some of the best seen on newgrounds (better than the legendary Xin for instance).
Your main problem right now is script related.
As good as your animations and drawings are, the movie's hard to understand. The plot is VERY sketchy. While I understand the viewer is not suppoused to understand the whole plot, there is still a big problem with the script.
Even after watching both flashe's I haven't really understood what the heck's going on. It also feels to me as if you don't have an already written script but just animate a chapter in a whim.
Whatever comes to hand you decide to use as the next chapter.
This may be wrong, but that's the feel of the movie.
Scene shifting is terrible as well. From a fighting scene to a barely understood talking scene to another fighting scene....What the hell's going on? Who the hell are these people? Why aren't the flash back's consistent with each other?
As I've said before, I understand the viewer's not suppoused to understand the whole picture, but it still needs to be depicted in a better fashion.
With all the really good qualities of the movie, I'm sorry to say your script writing for chapters is terrible.
And I am sorry to say so becuase I really do LOVE your animating!
It seems you have a good story there but you're just going to have to improve on your episode writing skills...