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| Nice start for this old fashioned sports/shonen anime, except for the 3D-animated balls which are absolutely awful (they seem like slow-mo actually). |
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belatkuro said: SoFarGone said: Forget dropping, the numbers watching this are surprisingly low according to the stats page and compared to the other Winter shows.Unfortunately I could see this one getting dropped by a lot of people. Not me of course since I enjoy the manga. It's a sports anime. Most people pass them off as 'I don't like sports' and entirely miss what the genre is really about. Dinamet7 said: velcom said: I enjoyed it, but it seems like it is trying to copy Touch in too many ways. It will never top Touch quite frankly. This is exactly what I thought. It's setting up a very similar kind of story only with more typical anime characters and based on soccer instead of baseball. In my book, Touch was a practically perfect anime, so I'm hoping I'll be able to watch and enjoy this one without constantly thinking "Touch did it better" because Area doesn't seem like a bad anime and I probably wouldn't have thought twice if I hadn't seen (and loved) Touch. Yea like I enjoyed it probably because it felt familiar to Touch, yet I will likely be comparing it the whole damn time. And I certainly agree, it's a near perfect series and one of my favourite shows ever. |
| great start for Touch...ehmm...Area no Kishi i mean |
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| never read/watched Touch, but I've seen ADS! http://myanimelist.net/anime/1327/Aoki_Densetsu_Shoot! from first ep they look so damn alike. Three boys watching soccer and dreams about playing side by side with No.10... in soccer club main character is push-over... girl appares... she knows main character, in love with No. 10 and says "Nice shoot'o ;* " If their super player die [I havent read character bio] I'll drop it, 'cause Shoot is my number one and so Area makes me angree |
| I can tell already I'm going to love this ;~; |
| wow the first episode was really good great way to start if you ask me. |
| Sport anime is always welcomed. This too is not exception. From the start, I knew this will become great series. Very well done for 1st episode. More people should watch this show. Also, Seven is too hot :) |
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| Nice, another sport anime. :D And I have to say that I'm positively surprised, I really liked the first episode. :3 And... it seems I've read the manga? o.O I totally forgot about that and need to check it out again. Nevertheless: good start and I'll be looking foward to more. :D |
| It was a pretty good start and has the potential of getting you excited in the games. This anime reminds me of Over Drive |
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| 23-26 eps anyone? Giant Killing took that long...although it's actually quite different. lol 11-13 eps more like for this one however. |
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| I haven't been this excited about a manga getting an anime since Bakuman..prob. bc i started reading them b4 the anime came along lol. Hands down one of the best sports mangas i've ever read and the 1st ep. did not disappoint. I expected Kakeru's voice to be a little deeper though and he seems more child-like than in the manga. maybe by the end he will have grown up a little. Shigeru's angry face was too scary i had 2 look away XD Orulyon said: They weren't all brown-skinned & besides they're not black...they're Brazillian & they vary widely in color...like brack pplwhy...why they portrayed Brazilians all as black people? =_=" |
| I haven't watched any sports anime since Tsubasa Road to 2002 So I'll definetely continue watching this one !! |
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| I actually liked this first episode. I'll definitely be following this show. I love sports animes. |
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| 3/5 and 6/10 |
| Definitely watching this till the end >v< Love Sports anime !!!! The setting of the first episode kinda reminded me of Hungry Heart. There too one brother was already famous and the other trying to come out from his brother's shadow. Cant wait for the next :) |
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| I love the manga, and I am so glad this has been adapted to anime! I've enjoyed the first episode very much! Love the animation, and the bits of comedy here and there. And that epic introduction by Jun Fukuyama that makes it looks like the beginning of some Code Geass series! XD |
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| Oh, I love sports anime. No doubt. I have this wry feeling something is going to happen to the big brother :( |
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bonifide said: shanimebib said: KiraboShikari said: So bro with loads....................... Someone forgot to add spoiler tag in Suguru's character description in MAL. If you are interested, you can read it here: Aizawa, Suguru Just by that spoiler im dropping the anime. LOL. Im mad as hell that my favorite character is going to end up like that. Wait what. I was considering dropping the series until I read that spoiler. hmmm not sure because I don't like the story. My dislike is totally unrelated to AnK being a sports anime, just to say. Also am I the only one to notice that the animation is really bad in terms of being fluid? Feels like watching a powerpoint slideshow sometimes. Soccer ball movement was really awkward. |
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| Oh hey, this is pretty good! Jun Fukuyama plays Suguru well, and Nana is played by Itou Shizuka! Love their voices~ I like how its going so far, lets see how far it goes. |
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| Actually this was pretty nice, hope it will continue to be like that. |
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Orulyon said: why...why they portrayed Brazilians all as black people? =_=" Defender in "Lucio mode" dribbling 3 players and with yellow hair xDD. And there were I think one white people cheering up with the brazilian fans xD bonifide said: I think the alien is Nana. So do I. asckj1 said: The setting of the first episode kinda reminded me of Hungry Heart. There too one brother was already famous and the other trying to come out from his brother's shadow. I thought the same :) |
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| I didn't think much of the manga, but I hoped that animating the action would make it more interesting. Sadly, the animation for the action scenes sucks so much that it is actually worse than the manga. Not that that's the only problem with this anime, there were many many others. |
| holy mix review batman.. 1st EP was really well done, imo.. I'm guessing it's the moe blob clueless retarded viewers are trying out a sport anime for the first time because they've never gotten from the basement to do anything? Let's hope I'm right. |
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| Nice start, now I'm wondering who was the person wearing the alien mask. His brother maybe? |
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