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| This has somewhat of an awkward premise but mostly truthful to what it promoted. The main focus is Elise as she fights against fate, something that has been a trend in these type of shows in recent years. Episode had a mixture of drama and lighthearted moments. Elise seems like a friendly person with a lot of potential. |
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| Who would've guessed that this season, we'd be treated to not one but two adaptations of Korean Manhwa. Jihyun, an incredibly skilled surgeon, has spent her life trying to make up for past mistakes by saving others. However, her dreams take a twist when her plane crashes in the Pacific. When she wakes up, she's back in her earlier life as Elise de Clarence, a girl who didn't exactly make the best choices and met a tragic end. The new and improved Elise, armed with her medical knowledge, sets out to make things right in this second chance at life. So she got transported to another world only to end up back in her original world from before the first transport? It's like a reverse isekai or something. But you know what, for a Korean Manhwa, it's way more interesting than most isekai stories we get every season. And that's crazy, considering that anime has overused this genre to shreds. At the end of the day, it's not just about fixing past mistakes; it's about becoming a better person so those mistakes don't happen again. Not bad for a start. I'm on board with this. |
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| so she got isekai'd and then reverse isekai'd, am i getting that right? plane crash too instead of truck-kun. kinda interesting. |
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question is this multiple love interests? or does it focus on the main
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| This was really interesting and I think it will be a great show to watch |
| It gave me serious vibes of that one Angel Beats episode. Definitely gonna watch this whole. |
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| Not the kind of first episode I would want to watch on a flight, but I like some Final Destination flavor instead of the same ol Truck-kun. Pretty cool twist that she got reverse isekai'd first, then isekai'd back to her former life, even tho that technically counts as reverse isekai as well in the truest sense of the word..anyway...nice to have a medic isekai with a likeable heroine. First episode was engaging enough, this is hopefully a keeper. |
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| that german was terrible lmao |
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| So she just went back and forth. Interesting though. |
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| so this is a reverse isekai isekai dont overthink it anyway at first i thought plane-kun couldnt finish the job but he did finish it just took some time all jokes aside thats one heck of a way to die i dont care when i die i want to die like that just think about it what will be in the news A Docter single handedly rescued a lot of the injured passengers even performed a small makeshift surgery on deck unfortunetly she got isekaid |
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| I was wondering why this seems familiar, turn out it's from webtoon Doctor Elise I've read years ago. Lol |
| Ishikawa Yui as a healer in a fantasy world.. Saint’s magic season 3? Holy shit man, this is a really original set up. As soon as I saw the opening scene with them in an airplane and saw the fantasy tag I knew a plane crash was about to happen and assumed that would be how the main lead gets to the fantasy world. That in of itself would’ve been a change from the usual since it’s normally truck kun sending people to another world, but given it’s Korean I was just ready to praise it for being different. But then we get thrown another curveball when we find out that the fantasy world is actually her original world.. so it’s a reverse reincarnation. Very interesting. Manwha adaptations are becoming the norm and that’s so good for this medium to get new takes like this OP bangs, early 2000s vibes for sure Loved the direction in this episode. Really good job of playing with viewer’s expectations and showing the MC’s life as both Elise and the doctor in our world. It wasn’t until the very end of the episode that I finally understood what world we’d be working in for the majority of this series. The aftermath of that plane crash was brutal and seeing Aoi try and atone for her past life by saving the survivor was bittersweet.. we don’t really see characters mess up in one life and then get an opportunity to learn new things in another world and then go back to the original one. I’m really interested in seeing how this plays out. Elise is so cute too! Guess you can call this the first counter isekai I’ve seen? |
Marinate1016Jan 10, 11:23 AM
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| Quite a good start. I swear that plane sequence was an anime original as I dont remember that in the manhwa. Thought it was just plane crash then cut. But its been a while so might have forgotten it. That last part had be tearing up a bit. Such a nice scene. I knew I recognized the voice from somewhere but couldnt stick my finger on it until the very end when she said "I love you". Its Violet Evergarden. Now I was trying to keep my expectations low since manhwa adaptations have so far not been the best but this first episode started it off quite well. Looking forward to more. |
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| A decent start: - Interesting female lead, a surgeon whose purpose in life is to make up for her mistakes - Always happy to hear Yui Ishikawa - Art looks nice A little worried: - Female lead's personality feels a little bland at the moment - "The doctor stuff" I hope the medical side of things get some attention and care, as well as what the job actually entails. In this episode, a doctor telling people "I will save the patient" felt weird to me; it feels like an overly-romanticized idea of what a doctor is. I hope we don't see her just waving her hand and curing people, with everyone else being dumb admirers. - Not the best production value |
| Oh, I like the fact she isn't just invading someone else's body, but her own. This was pretty epic character growth, and an angsty plane crash with how she basically sacrificed herself. Interesting to see how it goes from there. |
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| so this is similar to the villainess stuff that i enjoy lol after a life where she was mean to others, she got a second chance, this time in another world(?), where she learned all kinds of medical stuff and was the hero that everyone needed the way she saved everyone in the place even tho she was hurt, that was so cool now back at her 1st body, i'm sure she will be the best empress in the story of her country, one that helps everyone and not one that is a greedy bastard lol for the 1st time (because a girl told her earlier), she decided to tell her family that she loves them, something that she would never have said in the past, that alone is quite the improvement excited to see what she will do to help her country, and ofc, how she escaped her death this time, specially at the hands of the guy that she likes |
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| For the love of god :( This is the second anime conversion within a day of a manga which I dearly love (the other show being Akuyaku Reijou Level 99) which has its first episode ruined _for no reason whatsoever_ by adding extra padding at the beginning which is going to be 100% irrelevant for the remainder of the show. Annoying manga fans like me to no end. Is this the new trend? Instead of doing a proper conversion, having directors/scriptwriters go wild and waste a full episode? I'm serious, nothing except for the last 3 minutes will have ANY relevance for the rest of the show. So why? Why why why waste a precious full episode when there would be so much material to cover? My suggestion: Forget episode 1 and start the show with episode 2. |
| So I've read the manhwa and I'm not a big fan of it (YES YES EVERYONE LOVES IT BUT I DON'T). And I can already see the problems I had with it here. First of all, they're making her out to be this Mary Sue character, which was one of the things I hated in the manhwa. As a doctor, she is not able to save every single patient. Saying "I promise I'll save you" over and over again is not only unrealistic but also idealistic and feels overly romantisiced. Also, the way she saved that guy on the plane, yeah, no way. Second of all, I do like that we got to see more of her life in our world but at the same time it makes no sense cause it's gonna be absolutely irrelevant for the remainder of the show unless they change some major plotpoints Third, and this is just a personal pet peeve as an airplane geek. Ain't no freaking way that airplane sequence was realistic. Not only is the first thing Captain is doing making the passengers panic, but there was a shudder and the oxygen masks came down?? Like there were no signs of depressurization at all. And are you telling me they lost all hydraulic power even before the explotion of the engine 1?? And it went down immediately? Not only that, if it did go down immediately, it hit the ground with very high speed and surely with fire in the engine the plane would have exploded upon impact but no, some survived with minor injuries cause the...wing with the engine on fire split off? Upon impact? Yeah, no freaking way. I just hate how this was added in the anime to showcase her abilites as a surgeon. |
CallMeAiJan 10, 1:12 PM
| Did she really have to be the bestest super surgeon in all history? That may be less believable than the isekai part. Have to wait and see where this goes, but not really a great start. |
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Did she really have to be the bestest super surgeon in all history? That may be less believable than the isekai part. Have to wait and see where this goes, but not really a great start.
| @Sokah Agreed. Actually, I would've found the anime more compelling if she failed a few surgeries in the past. Maybe the experience tempered her vigilance in the OR. I couldn't finish the episode since I got bored of it. Maybe I'll try again later. |
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Agreed. Actually, I would've found the anime more compelling if she failed a few surgeries in the past. Maybe the experience tempered her vigilance in the OR. I couldn't finish the episode since I got bored of it. Maybe I'll try again later.
Agreed. Actually, I would've found the anime more compelling if she failed a few surgeries in the past. Maybe the experience tempered her vigilance in the OR. I couldn't finish the episode since I got bored of it. Maybe I'll try again later.
| @TemplarXIII Having all these women gushing over how perfect she was is exactly what you see from woke Marvel "writers" doing self-inserts. The food stuff is pretty typical filler by bad writers. Sacrificing herself to save people's lives while bleeding out from a massive wound was really badly handled (impossible as shown) too. But we'll see. |
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@TemplarXIII Having all these women gushing over how perfect she was is exactly what you see from woke Marvel "writers" doing self-inserts.
The food stuff is pretty typical filler by bad writers.
Sacrificing herself to save people's lives while bleeding out from a massive wound was really badly handled (impossible as shown) too.
But we'll see.
The food stuff is pretty typical filler by bad writers.
Sacrificing herself to save people's lives while bleeding out from a massive wound was really badly handled (impossible as shown) too.
But we'll see.
| @Sokah Yeah, the gushing was goofy too. My intuition is telling me it's going to turn out generic, but I will probably wait until this cour finishes airing to see. |
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| Remember reading this one a while ago and even left a note: “Main character is a true Mary Sue with plot armor thicker than an elephants hide.” Lets hope the anime fixes this. Episode 1 hasn't made me very hopeful so far. |
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@TemplarXIII Having all these women gushing over how perfect she was is exactly what you see from woke Marvel "writers" doing self-inserts.
The food stuff is pretty typical filler by bad writers.
Sacrificing herself to save people's lives while bleeding out from a massive wound was really badly handled (impossible as shown) too.
But we'll see.
The food stuff is pretty typical filler by bad writers.
Sacrificing herself to save people's lives while bleeding out from a massive wound was really badly handled (impossible as shown) too.
But we'll see.
Sokah said: @TemplarXIII Having all these women gushing over how perfect she was is exactly what you see from woke Marvel "writers" doing self-inserts. The food stuff is pretty typical filler by bad writers. That's a pretty good way to describe it. Unless my memory is failing me, I don't remember most of the modern-day scenes this episode, majority of it is probably anime-original. I was trying to convince myself to be glad they added new scenes to flesh things out, but not like this... It just blemished the story from the very start with this weird wish-fulfilling fantasy vibe which didn't have to be there. I'm hoping they stick to the source material properly from the next episode onwards. So much of this was anime-original that it feels like an episode 0 prequel. I've waited so impatiently for this show to start airing, and yet it feels like the adaptation hasn't even actually begun yet. |
koagzeroJan 10, 2:19 PM
| Hmm, this seems to be taking itself way to seriously. If it doesn't lighten up it's going to be a very pretentious slog of a show. |
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| Alot of people still think adaptation means a complete copy of the original source. IMO. . . .I think that's kinda wrong, not everything should be according to the original material cuz most scene aren't shown or even told in the original material unless its from light novel which can be described in words. From Korean names to Japanese names, thats quite interesting to see. I've only watched the recap not read the manhwa. this anime does show her 2nd life in modern life, in manhwa its only shown as flash back. Looking forward for more episodes. IRL most doctors will tell their patients that they will be saved, but in reality, its neither possible nor impossible. they only say this just to give hope to the patient and that they can fight throu it. Was kind of hoping it would be a premise where she's reincarnated in the same (Medieval/nobility) world, its more between medieval and WW1 time line. Real Life reference: the term Lady with a Lamp is a reference in iRL to a person name Florence Nightingale (1810 - 1910). "was a legend in her own lifetime and one of the most famous women in British history. Her work in the Crimea set the standards for modern nursing. For the rest of her life, she continued to campaign for improved sanitary conditions in both military and civilian hospitals." |
| I have mixed feelings with Isekai then being Reverse Isekai'd premise but....at least this is way better than that one anime they had a while back where there was also a dude/hero that was also Isekai'd then Reverse Isekai'd only to have everyone else still realize it was him (can't recall the name of the anime at the moment but I digress...) My only gripe about this first episode is that I personally think it went WAY too much detail into the "surgeon" life she had in my opinion. Examples: She has bad handwriting, is that important? Who cares? Did we really have to see her trying to save the other passengers after the actual crash? IMO No and I feel like it's totally unrealistic that people even survived seeing how mangled the plane came out (not that I'd want to argue the physics of that with someone but whatever) TLDR: I think this "bit" could've been covered in half the time it took but for now I'm giving this the benefit of the doubt that the next episode has something that "can't be broken up" and the "extra padding" was necessary in lieu of a more awkward cliffhanger. |
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| What a terrible first episode. I don't care how skilled you are, people are not gushing in the street over a surgeon. Also they should've just had the crash kill her. It was really dumb as a doctor to not attempt to treat your own injuries first to make sure you can help as many others as possible |
| Not familiar with the manhwa so I dont have to compare it to anything. I enjoy the premise and the serious vibe where you can feel the desperation of Elise in saving people. That guy that was just cut into on the plane is going to need so much antibiotics. |
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@Sokah I can tell by my own experience a person does amazing things with adrenaline running through the blood. Trust her, she's a doctor.
| @leonardobarba quite true, even in a battlefield a medics job is to patch up the wounded regardless of their own safety. there was one movie that was also based on WWII which a lone medic saved every injured soldier in the battlefield. @TemplarXIII Having all these women gushing over how perfect she was is exactly what you see from woke Marvel "writers" doing self-inserts. every anime has that scene, even high school anime. lets say Highschool DxD for example the main female lead has alot of female and male fans gushing over her beauty and skills. |
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