Dolls' Frontline Episode 1 Discussion

Ashhk said:
The production looks decent, great OP/ED (and same for the OP's visuals) but that's all, the story is boring, I'm not surprised since I played the game and it sucked

iNovak said:
In which legal platforms (and countries) is this anime available? Please tell me

Erotaku_ said:
Honestly, I don't know what the last non-Cygames video game adaptation that I really enjoyed, but this probably won't be it.

A-Simple-Squire said:
For an introductory episode, this was just plain bad. Aside from the laughable opening exposition, I felt I learnt nothing. Heck, I was lowkey wondering if they were dolls themselves the whole time. What is a doll? is not a question you want a viewer to be pondering. Do they have a backup model? Should I care about them at all... Eh, Idk.

Cheesy dialogue alert. Was it necessary for AR-15 to say 'High end... The end' like what even is that?

The pacing felt off for a first ep. The character consistency and animation ain't looking too great, and, going off this ep, the colour palette was a little flat. Hope there is more colour variety in future eps. Aside from the negatives, at least the opening visuals were unique, but the songs themselves were eh at best.

Initial thoughts: Do dolls' bleed? Cause they're bleeding the budget, hehe...

Syureria said:
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.

nightcrawlercyp said:


I only play games like chess or backgammon on the phone. You do not have controls to properly play a game like this on android/ios.

So the world is iradiated. How unimaginative! As always life beats film.

The world is uninhabited thanks to depopulation as result of feminism and ww3 is caused by induced famineas a result of measure under the pretense of a pandemics like we have right now no one imagined...

About that part in the case of depopulation you do not need so many jobs replacements. I mean you may need machines to do shipments (like drones) but apart from that not really. What you suggest is maintaining a supermarket for 20 people. That is not really feasible.

And about my sense of aesthetics: you do not like Kristann Loken?

firemagnet said:


FPS games perhaps, but not a SLG like Girls Frontline. It's literally a side-scrolling simulation game with a strategic capture-the-point overlay. Even so, the wide diversity of mobile games currently available would prove you wrong.




I find that fine, personally. What strikes me as immersion breaking is than the political points which GFL tries to score with its own backstory and lore. It would take me too long to go over it without spending several paragraphs detailing it, but you can find that lore here:
https://iopwiki.com/wiki/Confidential_Files











If you're interested, there's a wealth of lore and documentation for the game, some of which I've linked above. Otherwise, I'd suggest not attempting to project your political beliefs or views onto a work of fiction.




Now here's a point where I can discuss the lore I linked above. To give you an idea of how bad the Beilan Island incident was for the Asia-Pacific seaboard:

China, current population: 1.42 Billion. Loss of life during the Beilan Incident ~870 Million (including 400 Million immediate deaths within the 1500km-wide initial fallout zone), about 2/3rds of total population.

Korea (South and North): Combined population: ~76 Million. Population loss: Initially 10 million in South Korea, unknown in North Korea. Unknown total (the Beilan incident set off the Second Korean War after North Korea began shelling Seoul in response to US political demands shortly after the US evacuated the last of its diplomatic personnel and military forces from the peninsula).

Japan: Unknown, but potentially higher than 95% of population. Documentation states that after the Japanese government retreated to Hokkaido, access to Hokkaido was sealed off with the assistance of the US military in exchange for basing rights, leaving the remaining 120 million Japanese citizens in Honshu and elsewhere to fend for themselves.

Russia: never specified.

US and Canada: Eventual loss of all territory west of the Missouri-Kansas border in the US and west of Winnipeg, Manitoba to collapse radiation contamination. Lore states that in response the US and Canada constructed the North American Exclusion Zone Barrier to bar entry into the "green zones" of survivors from their western halves. Estimated population loss to be ~110 million for the US and ~11 Million for Canada (based on present census estimates).

Shortly following this, we have the Northern Lights Incident, where an arms-race between a newly reconstituted Soviet Union and NATO results in the detonation of an alien artifact in the Scandinavian region. As a result, the Scandinavian peninsula and much of central Europe are swept by clouds of collapse radiation. Sweden, Finland, and Norway were rendered completely uninhabitable with total loss of their populations, while Central Europe including much of eastern Germany were turned into high-contamination zones. This prompted mass-migration to Western Europe.

This wave of immigration eventually led to the German Civil War of 2043-44, with the old former soviet-controlled provinces of Germany formally declaring independence after the dissolution of the German constitution, whereafter the East German states called upon the New Soviet Union for assistance. This led to a standoff between NATO and the Soviet Union in Berlin and directly precipitated World War III after NATO forces were ambushed in eastern Berlin.
The war would end with a Soviet victory after the last US attempt to retake Berlin with remotely-piloted tanks and mechanized infantry was routed by Soviet deployments of approximately 8,000 T-dolls, the first use of T-dolls in a major conflict, including Sangvis Ferri Ripper and Jaeger models.
Shortly thereafter Italy and France were forced to capitulate, formally ending the war.




You're comparing real-life individuals to anime characters. I don't think that there's a good comparison to be made, to be honest. You've made it clear that you don't like the art style, at the very least.

nightcrawlercyp said:

1. To each its own I would say with game tastes. I am of PC master race
2. this does not explain why you would need so many jobs
3. immigrants from where ? Except for islamic countries the world is in the last phases of a behavioral sink.
4. I was comparing body types. Also this anime is based on real life so not sure what the problem is

firemagnet said:


1a) I also play the PC, but that doesn't stop me from using emulators or my phone either (try Nox emulator or bluestacks for instance).

2a) according to lore, even mild contamination results in people in the affected areas being unable to perform any outdoors activities without the use of specialized gear. One can thus visualize how humanoid platforms which are resistant to that sort of effect would be needed.

3a). I'm not sure what you're trying to do here. Again, this is a fictional world. While one may disagree with some of its politics, I don't see what the point of outing your own politics in the process of doing so is.

4a)I suspect this is more the art-style being more minimal in that regard. Highschool DxD or World's End Harem this certainly isn't. Also it's worth noting that we've seen just a few of the several hundred characters thus far. There are characters who are considerably more buxom and less thin. For instance, here's HK416:

jagaipotato said:


fgo babylonia chapter is a really well made adaptation if you're looking for a gacha game adaptation. problem is, only players who have played the game can fully understand what the hell is going on.

iNovak said:
In which legal platforms (and countries) is this anime available? Please tell me

Hexablast said:
the combat scene is bad. so the twin machine gun maid boss apparently can destroy buildings/obstacle in church with high firepower, but none of the bullets hit (even though the MC group were only hiding behind concrete pillars). The first time they both entered the church from the front door, one maid just instantly teleported into the left window flanking from there with 0 delay. One girl suddenly took cover on the right side of the pillar (why didn't she get hit from the another direction?). Another girl just casually jumped into the right side while dodging all the bullets. A few seconds later they all magically escaped through the backdoor (assuming while dodging all the bullets shot from the front door and the window). Didn't one girl just jumped into the right side of the building 2 seconds before? then why she is in the front position now? (in the escape scene). If the maids have 0 accuracy at fairly close-medium range (inside church) then why would they even think to shoot at longer distance in the forest.
Why didn't they ambush the church from the front door and back door in the first place if their main weakness is that they can only focus shooting on 2 directions?

Idk, I expect some nice gunfighting like GGO with nice combat and cute characters. but man, this one is rough.

bakiomari said:


Ja, I agree. The gunfighting was quite underwhelming, and not much research went into actual tactics or how guns work, etc. It is a shame, since the game does seem to have research and competency towards the firearms it uses.

Although, in some sense, it stays true to the game. We do send our tdolls straight into the line of fire to re-enact 18th century line combat with modern weaponry.