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| One of the more catchier OP theme songs of this season imo. The animation style looks normal for the actual episode though. Looks like the show takes place in battle heavy environment with war elements. The episode has a very serious tone with no room for fun involving the main cast composed of tactical dolls. I haven't played the game before but it looks like the episode featured military tactics with its action. M4A1 is the most prominent among the main cast to take notice of. Not a bad start but I hope they develop the story and characters more. |
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| The first game adaptation of the season: the Chinese-based MICA Team strategy RPG Girls' Frontline (renamed to Dolls' Frontline in Japan for copyright reasons). OST is cool though, especially the visuals which are reminiscent of any game CM. Would you believe that this game began as an inspiration work based on Kantai Collection, however with the premise of anthropomorphized warships replaced with that of firearms, that similar moe anthropomorphism games would become popular in China? Sure as hell did. The myriad of characters are tactical dolls a.k.a T-Dolls: female moe androids each specialising in and inspired by one real-world small arm, which are categorised into combat classes such as handguns, submachine guns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns and shotguns. So think Azur Lane, except that they're land-based dolls. The anime of a self-contained espionage/spy setting (also similar to Azur Lane) but more serious, and T-Dolls like M4A1, AR15 and SOPII which can catch people's attention. The plot can be whatever, but Asahi Production's quality I hope to be a bit higher than Bibury's said series. For a premiere episode, this is at best: alright, and at worst: plain boring. Just be thankful that director Shigeru Ueda doesn't get a chance to butcher another work (as seen with last Summer's Peach Boy Riverside manga), and that game adaptations are all mediocre one-way linear street to get invested in the characters and setting of an alternate dystopian Earth with androids at war. |
KANLen09Jan 7, 2022 9:45 AM
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| Yeah, cute moe androids. :) This reminds me of Busou Shinki and Frame Arms Girl although the concept here is a little different. |
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| Slightly confused with chara names especially M4A1. Is this the same as Azur Lane huh? Basically all girls are a gun. Starting with infiltrate, M4A1 as leader they plan to steal a database, and for the op 10/10 really like op animation and sound. AR-15, this is an interesting anime it's just that it's hard to remember the names of the chara. Stealing the database seemed too easy for them and hacking the password too. Looks like it won't end easily, the cooperation between AR-15 and SOPMODII That's pretty good, They are just trying to buy time. The operation even continues until dawn, The ambush this time can be overcome, maybe Scorpion can become an MVP, lol. |
Syureria said: Slightly confused with chara names especially M4A1. Is this the same as Azur Lane huh? Basically all girls are a gun. As a Player of the game, Yup. |
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| Only good thing about this anime is it's OP (Probably my 2nd favourite this season after Ousama Ranking OP2) other than that it's a trash. Dropped. |
| Cute gun doing not so cute things. LOL... RIP those supporting units. OP and ED were a banger, especially the OP |
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| Not feeling this one. Out of the gate, we get a short blurb about the world setting and then we just get thrown into the middle of the story. After that, I feel like we got a lot of terminology that I quite frankly did not understand to the point where I was yawning towards the end of the episode. The action scene animations were mediocre at best and I wasn't all that impressed by it. Honestly, I don't know what the last non-Cygames video game adaptation that I really enjoyed, but this probably won't be it. |
| For anyone still not in the know, this is adapting the manga adaptation of the game, and not the game itself. Though both share just about the same things, except with a different commander being Gentiane (the person who just appeared at the last few mins) and likely with some better pacing. Haven't read it, but this does help with recapping what I read in the game over a year ago. It seems like the manga started chronologically (Chapter 0) and the last few minutes adapt the very first scenes of somewhere in Chapter 1, instead of GFL game just starting on Chapter 1, but it there's not much of a different, except with Anti Rain Team (AR Team) appearing without any intros... except that info-dump at the start. I always was curious as to how they would adapt the battles, and yeah, this seems to fit lol! They even had the whole commanding map there too!' BTW if you see multiples of the same exact T-Doll/SF, that's just normal. they're dummy links - expendable for the most part. Bit sad how they adapted the infamous Agent/M4 CG in the game, since the anime version does look quite lackluster  CHAPTER 0 - END  Hope this goes well, and as a fan of the game, this is quite huge! Definitely a step up from the chibi anime we got a while back lol! Music seems to be on point and very GFL like, tbh. Animation seems to be fine for now, while OP is incredible and ED is somewhat of a banger. Lots of more iconic scenes to come, and the story is definitely NOT just going to revolve around AR team, FYI. |
BoazanianJan 7, 2022 9:48 AM
| The only thing holding back this show is the choreography and the setting / location (and art style probably). The game / source doesn't do really well on this department especially early on, relying on the player creative mind and the gameplay doesn't help either. Nonetheless, good effort for the mangaka for the source material of this anime. |
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| This was a fine episode, it was enjoyable. I couldn't catch much what was happening in the first part of the episode. The fights were nice, the world premise is nice, there are dolls who were made to fight in world war 3 and some doll creator Sangvi went against humanity. So there are good dolls who are fighting the bad Sangvi dolls. It felt pretty generic to me, the fights weren't bad but were not great either. Feels like another action anime but with cute and hot girls. The episode was interesting enough, didn't get bored, it was able to keep my attention. Our main cast is cute, I like their chemestry and how they are so serious and focused on their mission. What I don't like is that it feels like those are just disposable dolls who don't have a will of their own and are just made to follow orders. Gentiane san looks like Najimi lmao. The OP and ED are really good, the OSTs are pretty good too. OP visuals were really great, loved it. Can't judge based on just first episode, I'm gonna watch like 3-4 episodes and then rate it. |
 The end of an era. Thank you Wit, Mappa and Isayama. Feeling half happy, half sad. Kawaii waifus and precious best girls <3333 |
| The OP and ED slaps for real and funny how every girl's name is related to a gun. Well, animation is pretty good so this might be worth to watch. |
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| The first episode was kinda alright, but I'm just salty cuz I don't see my favorite Israelian gun, Negev, and Sniper M200 anywhere in the character list. |
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| It's still the first episode but from what I've seen it's gonna be an average ride of a show, still gonna watch it till the end thou'. with that said I'm gonna watch this solely to see M16A1 doin' badass stuff. |
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| Feels like they were going for a WR speedrun with that pacing. The art and animation is ok but damn they need to slow it down for anyone to be able to understand wtf is going on. |
XO2HKIM said: Anyone know why funi titled this anime "Girls' Frontline" rather than "Dolls' Frontline"? I noticed even the OP doesn't use the former - strange. Sadly, for copyright reasons... in Japan. https://www.4gamer.net/games/405/G040593/20180717006/ Essentially the trademark "Girls Frontline" was already bought by a third party in Japan, and so Sunborn tried to negotiate with the group so they could release the game under the same name. It was rejected; therefore, all names which would usually be marketed under the GFL game in Japan, had to be renamed to Dolls Frontline. The anime seems to be under the same law as well, but Sunborn is free to market internationally under the Girls Frontline name. Translations are, like Funimation, not affected by the law since it only affects Japan firstly, and secondly they are free to translate it to whatever |
| I might watch another episode, but this doesn't seem like something that will hold my interest for long. |
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| The opening and ending both of them are so dope Got the a little bored initially but the 2nd half was entertaining....I'm still confused in their names though lol...only remember AR-15 |
| Utter garbage. First off unless those models where first designed for infiltration or companionship they would not have those body models. You would either go with strong male body or a slender supple female body for agility. Second no point on having them exhibit emotions. Third they could have just removed the hdd. fourth if they still went to that approach Combining bladed weapons with fire arms would have been a better choice. Then you have their costumes that cannot be explained by anything but someone's fetish. No point whatsoever for them having skirts even less in a cold climate. Also why would androids .... although the term would not apply because an android is just a human with rootic enhancements not a human looking robot... need to breath? |
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| Given its popularity i expected there to be an anime but still this is a pleasant surprise. That opening though sure threw a ton of info at us though. Its nice to finally see the members of AR team in animated form though. OP was pretty nice as were the visuals that went with it. The enemies trap was a daunting one though pinning them down with such a large force. Its kinda off sad that the Griffin dolls don't know that they were abandoned by their handlers. M4's skill at detecting and anticipating the enemies tactics was a great asset to them. But the Sangvis units especially their elites sure have a ton of firepower at their disposal. But good tactics can also overcome differences in firepower as well as those two agents found to their cost. Overall an interesting ep that did well to bring to life the world of Girls frontline as well as introduce the members of the elite AR team. Though from what i seen if you haven't played the game as i had then im sure you will be confused to the terms and tech used. Curious though at what kind of limit they have on the characters featured though as the game has hundreds of characters. |
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| It's a shame its gonna follow the Manga and not the game |
| Ah well... I wanted to like this one, but ended up skip watching due to its overwhelming lameness. |
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| Unpopular opinion, but that opening song's not good nor catchy at all for me and it goes for the opening as a whole too with the visuals and lack of animation there. But it's not really as big of a problem since the episode itself had many more bigger problems than an underwhelming, annoying intro song (setup/premise, poor choreography and underwhelming action, boring and bland characters, etc). On top of that, probably would never get used to the character names and remembering anyone for this series lol. Pretty much what I expected for another gacha-based anime adaptation, like with the Azur Lane one a while back. This episode alone just oozed of soulless marketing for its existence. |
| I was expecting worse ngl. But I wonder why game adaptations always get shortest end of the stick with the animation. On another note, the OP was pretty good and red eyed blonde girl is definitely the most entertaining to watch. I heard the game’s story is on the darker side. Let’s see if it can keep the interest first. Giving it two more episodes. |
| The OP is cool. Straight into action i guess |
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| The first few minutes of the anime showed how this one can go real bad, if every episode begins with that bull crap of spoilers of the whole episode. Would be better if was still images for explaining the setting , than spoiling the damn episode. Other than that I like very much. Is fun. |
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nightcrawlercyp said: Utter garbage. First off unless those models where first designed for infiltration or companionship they would not have those body models. You would either go with strong male body or a slender supple female body for agility. Second no point on having them exhibit emotions. Third they could have just removed the hdd. fourth if they still went to that approach Combining bladed weapons with fire arms would have been a better choice. Then you have their costumes that cannot be explained by anything but someone's fetish. No point whatsoever for them having skirts even less in a cold climate. Also why would androids .... although the term would not apply because an android is just a human with rootic enhancements not a human looking robot... need to breath? Griffin and other PMCs are considered civilian companies and thus cannot use any high-end models or weapons that doesn't predate WW3. Majority of their dolls are from civil sector that previously were doing stuff like pastry, worked as nurses or even designed clothes. Even "elite" dolls like AR team that are meant for fighting are still based on civilian model even if they're gimped to point they are barely legal. Military is using completely different tech |
Tenzen12Jan 7, 2022 11:20 AM
Alokr said: nightcrawlercyp said: Utter garbage. First off unless those models where first designed for infiltration or companionship they would not have those body models. You would either go with strong male body or a slender supple female body for agility. Second no point on having them exhibit emotions. Third they could have just removed the hdd. fourth if they still went to that approach Combining bladed weapons with fire arms would have been a better choice. Then you have their costumes that cannot be explained by anything but someone's fetish. No point whatsoever for them having skirts even less in a cold climate. Also why would androids .... although the term would not apply because an android is just a human with rootic enhancements not a human looking robot... need to breath? check the base material mate, those girls are not humans, they are called T-Dolls (Tactical Dolls). This is an adaptation of the Game called "Girl's Frontline/Doll's Frontline" https://iopwiki.com/wiki/Lore https://iopwiki.com/wiki/Girls%27_Frontline_Wiki https://gf.sunborngame.com/ With that said, I can agree with you on two things, the idea of only female T-Dolls is weird at best and totally trash at worse, and ya they could have taken the SSD/HDD out of that old potatoes PC, I don't know why they didn't do that... This is actually worth an answer, one that the side-quel game, Neural-Cloud, goes into. The reason the T-Dolls look like girls is, because, well, they were supposed to. Sangvis Ferri aside, almost all of the T-Dolls in Girls Frontline are actually domestic models originally made to perform such mundane functions as firefighting, house-hold service, vending, and so on. The humanoid "cute" appearance is entirely for aesthetics in a civilian market. Actual military models look exactly like what you'd expect: faceless, heavily armored, walking bricks meant to soak up damage. for instance:  or  or  Griffin is a Private Military Contractor, and hence goes for what they can get for close-to-bottom-dollar, pairing civilian dolls to a weapon, militarizing their OS and onboard hardware, and then pairing them to the firearm which they are named after. There are also other plot-related reasons for their human appearance (no, not that sort of plot), but commenting further on that would be delving too deep into the original source material and spoil things. |
firemagnetJan 7, 2022 11:30 AM
Alokr said: TsutanaiFuun said: This was a fine episode, it was enjoyable. I couldn't catch much what was happening in the first part of the episode. The fights were nice, the world premise is nice, there are dolls who were made to fight in world war 3 and some doll creator Sangvi went against humanity. So there are good dolls who are fighting the bad Sangvi dolls. Can't judge based on just the first episode, I'm gonna watch like 3-4 episodes and then rate it. I highly recommend checking the game's lore material or watch it on youtube. The anime and manga adaptations are almost a 1:1 copy of the game storyline. As a fan of the game and Girl's Frontline universe, I can tell you that the story will definitely get better and less generic. Besides the story, the anime will remain overall mediocre... Also, i don't know how newbie-friendly the anime will be, since it did not yet explain a few key parts about the "dolls" and I've already seen some people asking why are they named after guns or why they look the same... that's why I encourage reading the original lore material. here's the link to their wiki: https://iopwiki.com/wiki/Lore Thanks I'll think about checking it out, I don't really wanna spoil the anime for me that's why. I definitely plan to conitnue watching this and am hoping some stuff is made clear and the story improves. |
The end of an era. Thank you Wit, Mappa and Isayama. Feeling half happy, half sad. Kawaii waifus and precious best girls <3333 |
firemagnet said: Alokr never said they are humans. I said they are robots, not androids as the term android defines a human with robotic enhancements.Alokr said: check the base material mate, those girls are not humans, they are called T-Dolls (Tactical Dolls). This is an adaptation of the Game called "Girl's Frontline/Doll's Frontline" https://iopwiki.com/wiki/Lore https://iopwiki.com/wiki/Girls%27_Frontline_Wiki https://gf.sunborngame.com/ With that said, I can agree with you on two things, the idea of only female T-Dolls is weird at best and totally trash at worse, and ya they could have taken the SSD/HDD out of that old potatoes PC, I don't know why they didn't do that... This is actually worth an answer, one that the side-quel game, Neural-Cloud, goes into. The reason the T-Dolls look like girls is, because, well, they were supposed to. Sangvis Ferri aside, almost all of the T-Dolls in Girls Frontline are actually domestic models originally made to perform such mundane functions as firefighting, house-hold service, vending, and so on. The humanoid "cute" appearance is entirely for aesthetics in a civilian market. Actual military models look exactly like what you'd expect: faceless, heavily armored, walking bricks meant to soak up damage. Griffin is a Private Military Contractor, and hence goes for what they can get for close-to-bottom-dollar, pairing civilian dolls to a weapon, militarizing their OS and onboard hardware, and then pairing them to the firearm which they are named after. There are also other plot-related reasons for their human appearance (no, not that sort of plot), but commenting further on that would be delving too deep into the original source material and spoil things. firemagnet Yes the appearence may be for aesthetics but they could have gone with something like  (either one) There is absolutely no reason to go with the highschool or younger body model. Also no reason for the domestic robots to need breathing or simulating it. If they looked like this they could be both good domestic models and dodge bullets with ease. And honestly I prefer a robot like Kristanna Loken to a lil girl with overly large boobs model even if I am a boobs guy |
nightcrawlercypJan 7, 2022 11:36 AM
| That OP was hot fiyah! The song was catchy and the art/animation was stellar. The ED was great too! I mean, I never played the game or anything so I'm just gonna (hopefully) enjoy the ride here. &++ loved Yukarin's performance here!~ |
nightcrawlercyp said: Alokr never said they are humans. I said they are robots, not androids as the term android defines a human with robotic enhancements. firemagnet Yes the appearence may be for aesthetics but they could have gone with something like (either one) There is absolutely no reason to go with the highschool or younger body model. Also no reason for the domestic robots to need breathing or simulating it. If they looked like this they could be both good domestic models and dodge bullets with ease. And honestly I prefer a robot like Kristanna Loken to a lil girl with overly large boobs model even if I am a boobs guy Except you are wrong. Humans with robotics are caled cyborgs. Androids in other hand means "human like robots". Anyway there is large variatons between different models. If you are unhappy with one you can get different. There is not really one shape fits to all... Also broken img? |
Tenzen12 said: So be it. I do not agree with this definition of android but let's leave it as that. About large variations... question: except for a kinks at what task a teenager girl (12-15) be better at than an adult woman (16-25)? just a curiosity. nightcrawlercyp said: Alokr never said they are humans. I said they are robots, not androids as the term android defines a human with robotic enhancements. firemagnet Yes the appearence may be for aesthetics but they could have gone with something like (either one) There is absolutely no reason to go with the highschool or younger body model. Also no reason for the domestic robots to need breathing or simulating it. If they looked like this they could be both good domestic models and dodge bullets with ease. And honestly I prefer a robot like Kristanna Loken to a lil girl with overly large boobs model even if I am a boobs guy Except you are wrong. Humans with robotics are caled cyborgs. Androids in other hand means "human like robots". Anyway there is large variatons between different models. If you are unhappy with one you can get different. There is not really one shape fits to all... Also broken img? And the image is not broken, maybe some limitation you have? Is Kristanna Loken in Blodrayne fighting another girl with swords btw. |
| ok, good dolls vs bad dolls both of them with regural guns provided by some1 a computer in the middle of nowhere with a OS so old, neither of them could not decrypt it looks like 1 of the good dolls save the life of 1 of they teammates, so according to that i am guessing they are some kind of androids or cyborgs and not just machines, or else it would be some kind of skynet BS agent was pretty cool thought.... she died right away, i guess they will make more copies of her, i dont care. i stopped watching at the 12 minute mark, +1 to my drop list, i was excited for this too, sadge |
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nightcrawlercyp said: So be it. I do not agree with this definition of android but let's leave it as that. About large variations... question: except for a kinks at what task a teenager girl (12-15) be better at than an adult woman (16-25)? just a curiosity. And the image is not broken, maybe some limitation you have? Is Kristanna Loken in Blodrayne fighting another girl with swords btw. In that case img work just fine (I just didn't thought that's Bloodrayne can be considered ideal design for androids). Anyway it's fine if you disagree with that definition, but there isn't any other. It's official you would find in any and every dictionary and it's meaning barely changed since word was first used in 1886. Also smaller dolls would be used for tasks that require smaller size, like when you want use them inspect canalization or if someone cannot have children they could buy one to keep them company or if they have one they could buy one as playmate. |
Tenzen12Jan 7, 2022 12:13 PM
| this was stupid as hell, but in a fun way. just mindless violence, robot girls blowing each other up. so far i'm enjoying this, but if they don't explain wtf is going on within a few episodes it's more than likely gonna go into my drop pile... we'll just have to wait and see... |
Tenzen12 said: children replacements, ok, but inspect sewers? really? have you seen the type of people that do those kind of jobs? They are generally extremelly big solid men. canalisation pipes are not small. nightcrawlercyp said: So be it. I do not agree with this definition of android but let's leave it as that. About large variations... question: except for a kinks at what task a teenager girl (12-15) be better at than an adult woman (16-25)? just a curiosity. And the image is not broken, maybe some limitation you have? Is Kristanna Loken in Blodrayne fighting another girl with swords btw. In that case img work just fine (I just didn't thought that's Bloodrayne can be considered ideal design for androids). Anyway it's fine if you disagree with that definition, but there isn't any other. It's official you would find in any and every dictionary and it's meaning barely changed since word was first used in 1886. Also smaller dolls would be used for tasks that require smaller size, like when you want use them inspect canalization or if someone cannot have children they could buy one to keep them company or if they have one they could buy one as playmate. And yes is a good design. for instace a shop keeper can reach those tall shelves if they have a slim tall body. You can add bigger boobs if you like but the point is that body shape is ideal in many ways. |
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