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XinonEclipse said: They explain nothing. All they say is, "it's magic , get it? Of course you do! Let's fight now" I don't see the problem, everything in the show indeed exists because of magic, and the background was explained, with visuals even. As for more plot specifics and mechanics, it's not the anime's fault you can't use some imagination, or put some things together on your own, until the second episode, which judging from the preview is probably going the typical route of explaining some more things, with the characters in the normal world. But don't wait for the second episode, just keep complaining about the first episode not being complete because that makes a ton of sense. |
syncrogazerJul 9, 2019 11:31 AM
syncrogazer said: XinonEclipse said: They explain nothing. All they say is, "it's magic , get it? Of course you do! Let's fight now" I don't see the problem, everything in the show indeed exists because of magic, and the background was explained, with visuals even. As for more plot specifics and mechanics, it's not the anime's fault you can't use some imagination, or put some things together on your own, until the second episode, which judging from the preview is probably going the typical route of explaining some more things, with the characters in the normal world. But don't wait for the second episode, just keep complaining about the first episode not being complete because that makes a ton of sense. With imagination I can imagine that my glass of milk is an elixir of immortality. Imagination doesn't do a bit of good if it isn't backed by at least a little bit of reason, and this show doesn't give you a reason to imagine anything, as it neither hints at something or explains something |
XinonEclipse said: as it neither hints at something or explains something The real world and fiction aren't the same thing my friend. Your glass of milk has no mystery surrounding it, and the importance of its existence as a plot point certainly isn't going to be revealed after the next chapter, or episode, comes out. But again, keep complaining that the magic is magic, and 5 minutes of infodump is somehow not enough to get a sense of what is going on. I honestly hope they never explain how the magic 'works' because it doesn't matter. If you watched the episode you'd know that they are fighting over who will have the responsibility of safeguarding all the magic that once existed in the world, the inner-workings of this perhaps occur through some sort of system that is somehow embedded in the world/their bloodline/the moon or whatever, but they haven't explained it yet because it's the fucking plot of a multiple episode TV series. |
syncrogazerJul 9, 2019 3:57 PM
| Love the Ryu Knight and NG Knight designs. |
Please learn about cel animation and its technical process. Learn how special effects and backlighting were done without computers. |
masterP said: I enjoyed the first episode and am thrilled for more. I guess the bad score comes from people disliking that there wasn't really an introduction? That and this site is full of filthy casuals who can't appreciate mecha |
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| @dandar It's a weird complaint that you don't often see in discussion of hyped up manga adaptations. This is an original with mechs, so people are just looking for excuses to shit on it, I think. Usually flashy action impresses people, but not this time. Hopefully the quality continues, and word of mouth will get different people to take a look at it, and maybe even improve the reception. It might be doing better with Westerners already though, I hear that Japanese audiences are basically ignoring it. |
syncrogazerJul 11, 2019 7:51 PM
| First episode is all hard to follow action. You'd think there'd be at least something else, but it's all just action. Not a fan of mecha to begin with and this seems like a pretty mediocre version of it. Pink haired girl (mangetsu?) is cute though. So far I'd consider this to be below average. |
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| There's going to be yuri in this, isn't there? Sigh...not too interesting for me so far. Also, I just realized that the first few seconds of the opening for this is literally ripped from Neon Genesis Evangelion, lol. They just changed the color of the flame and a different symbol, wft. |
| Pretty weak. Just a moe setup (well at lest some fo the girls are pretty moe-ish) with some mecha + battle stuff thrown on top of that. Also they later (according to preview for episode 2) seem to be back in their main world. Reminds a bit of Star Driver where they also have been only in another world for battling. But since there weren't any good/interesting characters ... and the explanation seemed not interesting. I guess I can safely drop this. Score seems justified. There are a lot of better anime with nice chars that entertain from episode 1 -which have a lower score. (For girls fighting ... or magical girls ... Mahou Shoujo Site and Release the Spyce are recommended. They had non-beginners as directors/script writers and a better start.) |
| LOL, as said by others This series reminds me of SD Gundam. Haven't seen a chibi robot style fight for a LONG TIME... kinda interesting series, I'll keep watching it and see how it goes. (tho judging by how this is some sort of BR, but I count 7 orbs... and there's 7 girls... this means at the end everyone will lose their magic and the magic will be unsealed?) actually... how long has this event been going on? cause I am pretty sure there's more than 7 girls (why's it girls only again?) that's been fighting. Unless somehow this event only started right at this moment? (cause somehow ppls didn't discover this magic world for thousands of years) ___ ___ ___ Also... apparently German names spells the same as Japan names, hehehe.... |
amlgJul 15, 2019 11:01 PM
| Nothing Written Here But Us Anime Bunnies *boing boing boing* |
| I like the design sense.... but when it moves it's kind of a mess. The chibi robots specifically look like moving bricks. also NANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANINANI |
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| It was more dramatic than I had anticipated Liked it |
| Initially, I was off-put by this series, I like ReZero design, but this still felt cheap... then I heard how much better the latter half of the anime is, so I gave it another try, and surprisingly I m liking it enough to watch more. El_Caguai said: This is my favorite of the current season I really like girls with the design of Re: zero and above all I have high hope for this ship :3 I would say the yuri does look very promising here, and now that I have seen a bit of ep2, Shingetsu is very likable to me so far, I love Homura, and I LOVE Madoka Magica, and so far this isn't a copy-paste low effort ripoff, so who knows, I may be on something here. The MCs are very shippable with each other... Seriously, Shingetsu = Homura + Emilia cuteness = fucking awesome <3 |
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| An alright episode. |
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| I like the combo of pink hair and black hair... |
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| I got 80s vibes out of this, glorious 1st episode, reminds me of Dangaioh and Iczer One, the mecha battles were awesome, I sure hope the little girl died there, I'll follow it, the drama was intense, funny how all starts when our main gilr forgot her bento to school, I mean, who even goes to school in the middle of the night for a lousy bento. whatever 5/5 |
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| Okay, that was fast... Too fast. I barely get to know the mc and BAM ! New world ! BAM ! Mechas ! BAM ! Fights ! BAM ! Explosions ! BAM ! Bunch of infos ! BAM ! Fight again ! BAM ! The mc has powers ! Calm down show, calm down, let me process what I'm witnessing. I find it funny how the music sounds like something coming straight out of a movie, though it's way too intense, it seems like I'm supposed to care about all those characters but why should I ? I don't know anything about them ! Why should I care about the pink-haired girl ? Give me a reason show, because telling me that she cooks pretty badly isn't enough. I know that it is only the first episode but a first episode is supposed to establish things and introduce the main characters, not be as if it was the last episode and I already knew all those characters and this world. We did get infos but it was way too fast, thrown at my face between two fight scenes. I barely processed what happened right before that and I'm supposed to understand whatever the black-haired girl is saying ? And I'm actually supposed to remember all that ? I'll watch the next episode but I really hope things will slow down a bit and the show isn't going to be as cliché as I expect it to be. As much as I said that I don't know at all those characters, I've seen those archetypes so many times I actually feel like I already know all about them, so I hope they'll develop soon. |
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| Ah, Madoka Magimecha, I see. Okay, for real I didn’t really feel anything from this first episode. Seems like the same old character cliches (for the love of god can we get a new relationship dynamic in these shows) and both dark magical girls and battle royales are kinda played out lately. I’m REALLY hoping this isn’t gonna just become ‘oh, our innocent pink haired girl doesn’t wanna fight or see anyone get hurt because she’s so innocent’ for the entire show. The action seemed like the main draw but was a little over-gratuitous with flashing lights and quick cuts for me to really get much out of it (plus I had no investment in it yet). Of course, that means nothing because first episodes are rarely that captivating on their own; I just hope they can take this somewhere interesting. If I seem a bit harsh, it’s because I’m getting Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku flashbacks from the whole magical girl battle royale theme and that’s really not a good thing. |
| That was quite an action-packed start. They didn't waste too much time here. The animation looks very nice. |
SerafosDec 19, 2023 11:53 PM
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| Yo that was SO COOL!!! There was kind of a lot going on in that first episode and it was quite the wild ride. Maybe it'll slow down a bit lol. I LOVE the art style though Damn Mangetsu really messed up that owl girl xD And OOOH SHE HAS A LIGHTSABER!! I hope the losers are just disqualified from Granbelm and they don't actually die, that would be really sad if they did. I'm excited to see more, Magic Knight Rayearth is one of my favorites and Granbelm also has those mecha/magical girl vibes, hell yeah!!! |
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