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Reviews for "The Last Degree"

One brief note.

The scream sound effect you use during the fight scene here. It's been around for decades, since back in the days we cobbled together stupid celebrity death soundwaves in middle school to post on Geocities pages with embedded midis and rotating skull animated gifs plastered all over our red text on black backgrounds. It's not just a terrible sound effect, it's a well known and -infamously- terrible sound effect. What I'm trying to say here is you have an otherwise good animation here and using that shitty canned sound is jarringly unprofessional. It ruined the moment.

Bubbowrap responds:

xD That was totally the point! I'm glad someone noticed it!

Very anime inspired

It's definitely inspired by recent trends in anime, almost taking directing styles from certain series verbatim. That isn't always a negative. But it doesn't feel original at the same time.

I enjoy your use of music. It delivered a good energy to the animation. (probably the best feature of the flash toon)

Voice acting: The female character's acting is fine. But the male lead's is very forced. It doesn't sound natural when he speaks. It sounds like a guy deliberately speaking low to change the sound of his voice. I would recommend actually trying not to do this. You want your character to have a voice but it doesn't really need a specific voice. Just give him a young man's voice. It doesn't need to be forced.

"Come with me if you want to live". Ok so a girl falls. Lands on a kid and now she suddenly wants this kid to journey with her because if he doesnt, his family dies. Why? First you set the kid up as just an earthling which the girl doesn't remark as important. Now he is important.

It's too sudden. But I do appreciate not having things drawn out unnecessarily.

Last, the characters are just not anything interesting. We've seen the tough, brooding, cold hearted female character who had a tragic experience in the past but learns to let a guy into her heart so she can love again. and we've seen the timid, "um uh", male lead before.

But it's impossible to be original with this anyway. The way your story will truly shine is if you do the unexpected with the characters and develop them in interesting ways. Now ways we've seen copy/pasted on Anime shows.

Great work, though. I will probably check the second episode out. Don't take my criticisms too literally. I know that you are doing this for fun and not professionally.

As far as your tests go, I don't know if you nailed all your goals with this toon but you just might if you keep at it. Always experiment.

Bubbowrap responds:

Before I say anything, I want to thank you for really dissecting this Flash. Any critiques I get help me get better!

Yeah, there should've been more build up/explanation as to why he's suddenly important in this first episode. I wanted the symbol that appears on his forehead to be the reason, but I probably should have drawn more attention to it.

Minus the love thing, you're totally right about the characters. I never thought about it until now, but I can definitely see other characters in mine. Off the top of my head, Tokiko from Busou Renkin is like the girl, and there are tons of males like the boy. Will have to think more about their backgrounds so that they don't fall into the same archetypes.

I really do hope you watch the second episode and continue to give me feedback. I'm doing this for both fun and because I want to get better, so any advice I get makes me happy.

Thanks again, I will continue to improve and learn!

not bad at all

That was pertty good but as the last guy seid the voice actors need a little more I guess you can say Passion, but besides that it looks really good im looking froward to seeing the rest of this faving you just to be safe :D

over all 5/5 9/10 nice job.

Holds promise.

A good attempt at an anime. It had a couple parts that made me feel like it was on Funimation, but that can be a good thing AND a bad thing. The voices need a lot of work. They mostly had no emotion at all. The girl is supposed to be serious, I can tell, but dull isn't the same thing.

Just develop your characters some more and improve the voice actors, and this could work out just fine as a good series.

Bubbowrap responds:

I thought the actors did a great job! They gave me exactly what I wanted in each of the characters.

And thanks (though I was trying to move away from anime)! I'm glad it managed to hook your interest!

seen this somwhere?

i love these type of vids that has action,cool beat,and nice charactes the only thing is that the beginning reminds me of fooly cooly for some reason (think its the wat they bumped heads) but antway this diserves a 10 :)

Bubbowrap responds:

Haha, I totally though the same thing! "Man, HaruHara hit him in the head with a guitar in the beginning..."

And thanks! I also love making/seeing these types of vids and hope there'll be more of them in the future!