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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Yeah, definitely not impressed by the CGI style of this show but it's watchable. Not going to lie, but this does have a catchy theme song. What a strange organization though. And with Botan's personality, it's sometimes hard to take her seriously. Also not impressed by Kuruma so far but at least the anime is approaching the story with a serious tone. The show definitely has to prove itself more imo. |
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| I have to get this out of the way: If you are here to rant about the 2D-3DCG mixing style of Ex-Arm, while it's still here, don't be. At least this new studio Gambit does the execution infinitely better than some Visual Flight "studio" early in the year. It's still bad, but watchable. Masafumi Nishida (Tiger & Bunny) is back from last season's Re-Main for the adaptation of his own creation of a work that's written together with Tadayoshi Kubo that just started this year. I quite like the OP though, it has a cool lick to it. ED is fine. Getting introduced to the MCs Botan Negoro and Kuruma, and this Mission "T" derived from the founder himself (Nikola Tesla) to retrieve the crystal Fragments of Tesla, and it's such a weird relationship that doesn't waste anytime dabbling on pacing, this is good. The novice intelligent agent-cum-spy that is Botan on her first assignment impersonating the scientist researcher Luise to figure out the train incident that purged out of nowhere from space through a warp, that was a vailant effort to escape unscathed. Pretty much Chapter 1 in a nutshell (from known English translations), and it's so much better than Ex-Arm. But still, make your judgments on whether you'd think that Tesla Note is trying to be the spiritual successor to Ex-Arm. Which I personally think it isn't. |
KANLen09Oct 3, 2021 8:30 PM
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| Holy shit, two Ex-Arms in one year https://gfycat.com/antiquehoarseagama https://imgur.com/a/pwOVXkt  |
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| Fun game: Take a shot every time someone mentions Ex-Arm in this discussion thread. You will die. |
| Damn, Botan can throw hands. She's also cute at that. The CGI is kinda funny to look at which is better than nothing or mediocre CGI. But compared to Ex-Arm I'm also at least somewhat intrigued by the story. Groenboys said: Fun game: Take a shot every time someone mentions Ex-Arm in this discussion thread. You will die. The legacy lives on. |
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| Nice 2D animation for 30 seconds fakeout. That was awful lel. |
| Wow, the spiritual successor of Ex-Arm? Best fall surprise yet! |
| Visuals are bad enough, but then you got the guy that was at the helm of Re-main making the show, recipe for disaster. |
| Not as good as Ex-Arm, but an honorable contender. Inevitable jokes aside, I actually like this episode. The story and characters are captivating, and I want to see more of it. Just hope they stop blatantly mixing 2D and CGI in the same frame. The movement is also awkward or uncanny sometimes. See the gif above. People don't bob like that while walking. She's not on the ocean or an irregular terrain. CGI also has the fault of less facial expression, which they worked around with 2D shots in more exaggerated scenes, but that's odd. High Score Girl and Shinigami Bocchan do a good job on expressing emotion with that style. These studios could be inspired and learn more from their predecessors. |
| The OP is definitely lit and seems the Full OP is out already, nice. The ED is quite funky which is also loveable. The anime itself... well... I would appreciate it if they stop using mixed styles within the same frame(s) because that is not pleasing to the eye at all. Let's see where the story will bring us. |
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| The cgi got me chocked up even if it's combined 2d and 3d, I wouldn't mind watching this if there is further character and/or story development because animation aside, the story is pretty mysterious and decent I guess so assuming that in the following upcoming episode, the story will either flop or might b surprisingly good, who knows 🤷♀️ |
"......If I told you that I was a real witch, would you believe it?"  |
| I watched 2 minutes and 31 seconds of this, wtf lmao. Why have 3D and 2D mixed together....the manga art was so good. Deserves a better adaptation. |
| "he has it big as a cactus but he won't let go of my head and I puke on his cock bitch" - Boy by Fishball |
| This was.... horrifying. |
| Just the bad CG is hilarious, I think I'll stick here a while Groenboys said: Fun game: Take a shot every time someone mentions Ex-Arm in this discussion thread. You will die. I asked my liver, he said "bring it on, bitch!" |
| No tomo malas decisiones, solo me gusta apoyar causas perdidas. Disfruté Mayoiga, Ou-sama Game, Evil or Live, Mirai Nikki, Big Order, Arifureta, Ex-Arm, Tesla Note, Shuumatsu no Harem y Platinum End nope les falle con esa, lo siento pero todos tenemos nuestros límites. Así de jodido es mi gusto en anime, ¡Y estoy pinche orgulloso de ello!  |
| Let me get this straight: it looks like shit. However, it only LOOKS like shit. I don't see any flaws in the animation, only the visuals. The character's voice acting is fantastic and so are the timing of the jokes; I can't believe I actually laughed at some parts. I'd even argue that the horrible visuals play into the jokes as it gives a feeling of not taking it too seriously. Sound design and music are pretty good too. The one thing I hated about it is the obvious horrible 2D to 3D transitions, or even both in the same scene. They should've just kept the foreground and characters CG and the background 2D or traditionally drawn. |
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| This one 3DCG is just depressing after past season had 2 visually good 3DCG shows. The problem is the character don't blend with the world. I dont even know if I will try to follow the 3 episode rule, the story sound cool, but the visuals stretch too much the goodwill. |
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| Dropped it precisely at the line "a scientist born in Yugoslavia in 1856." It's like saying "born in the USA in the 13th Century", totally anchronistic and makes literally no sense (Tesla was born in Austria Hungary long before Yugoslavia was even created - should it have even existed in the first place is the real question, but let's not open this debate...) |
 In every age, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same. |
| i must be brain dead but i actually really enjoyed this LMAO the ed is actually a bop like wow |
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Sheklon said: completely agree. The first scene was so jarring lmao. It was fine until fmc showed up and looked super out of place.Not as good as Ex-Arm, but an honorable contender. Inevitable jokes aside, I actually like this episode. The story and characters are captivating, and I want to see more of it. Just hope they stop blatantly mixing 2D and CGI in the same frame. The movement is also awkward or uncanny sometimes. See the gif above. People don't bob like that while walking. She's not on the ocean or an irregular terrain. CGI also has the fault of less facial expression, which they worked around with 2D shots in more exaggerated scenes, but that's odd. High Score Girl and Shinigami Bocchan do a good job on expressing emotion with that style. These studios could be inspired and learn more from their predecessors. also the ed slapss harddd |
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dompsterfire said: Sheklon said: completely agree. The first scene was so jarring lmao. It was fine until fmc showed up and looked super out of place.Not as good as Ex-Arm, but an honorable contender. Inevitable jokes aside, I actually like this episode. The story and characters are captivating, and I want to see more of it. Just hope they stop blatantly mixing 2D and CGI in the same frame. The movement is also awkward or uncanny sometimes. See the gif above. People don't bob like that while walking. She's not on the ocean or an irregular terrain. CGI also has the fault of less facial expression, which they worked around with 2D shots in more exaggerated scenes, but that's odd. High Score Girl and Shinigami Bocchan do a good job on expressing emotion with that style. These studios could be inspired and learn more from their predecessors. also the ed slapss harddd Yeah, jarring is really the word I was looking for. I liked the OP and the ED too, pretty good music. Also, I only notice now that maybe more of these kinds of silhouette animations are done with CGI and I never realized? Dunno. lol |
| I have no idea why but I enjoyed this more than I should. |
| Go check out my latest review: https://myanimelist.net/profile/YeeYeeAss/reviews |
| The acting was great and the writing pretty good. The story itself is ok. Normally, that would be enough, but the CGI might be too crappy to be overcome. If she's on assignment in another country, why was she wearing a school uniform? For some reasn that annoyed me. |
dragynfaerieOct 3, 2021 1:11 PM
bastek66 said: oh my lord haha wow. that moment really caught me off guard. interesting series, art aside haha. also why is the op and ed so good.Holy shit, two Ex-Arms in one year https://gfycat.com/antiquehoarseagama https://imgur.com/a/pwOVXkt |
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The before and after image of watching Tesla Note.  |
| Very enjoyable first ep, the visuals felt awful for the first minute or two but I actually accepted them quickly enough, much better than Ex-Arm imo, the CGI characters feel much more expressive |
| This anime shit is addictive |
| i had to stop this episode 3 minutes in and have a good hearty laugh @ the animation i think the first episode itself was interesting but bruh im really disappointed. there's something about this cgi which is just throwing me tf off. beastars and shinigami bocchan both looked fine to me and i quite enjoyed them but this really aint it chief. pls and its been so long since i dropped an anime; hopefully the plot continues to be interesting otherwise im not putting up with this for another 10+ weeks nitpick but male MC's beauty mark is ginormous like why |
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| I'm sorry! The CGI animation style is outright terrible! This show surely will be compared to Ex-Arm and Gibiate in how poorly executed this episode was. Both Cestvs and Night Head 2041 shines in comparison. The story wasn't impressive either. It felt like a poor copy of James bond or Mission Impossible. But as a Train fan from Sweden, I have to give props for the animators to properly represent the BM73 trainset shown in the 1st episode. I am stacked with the number of shows I'm gonna watch this fall and I have no time to waste on garbage. Sorry but I drop this show outright! |
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bastek66 said: Holy shit, two Ex-Arms in one year https://gfycat.com/antiquehoarseagama https://imgur.com/a/pwOVXkt This is a nightmare. I love it. |
| People comparing this to Ex-Arm are really jumping the gun. Yes the weird motion capture cg looks super jarring, but this actually has competent directing and decent dialogue. Definitely interesting even if not particularly great. |
| "Otaku search for patterns within data presented and draw conclusions. Anime fans only see clones and copies." -artificialnightsky |
| The characters are also better at emoting, so it's not EX-ARM tier. Still, it's fun to imagine and hope for the next EX-ARM. We're all chasing that high. |
| I did not like this. I've seen worse stories but man... the visuals really just sadly hold everything back |
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| Another surprise after Ex-Arm. The plot piqued my interest a bit and most likely I'll keep watching until the end. Voice acting is decent but I haven't seen anything impressive in the cast so far in terms of personality. Hope they'll grow on me. |
| Masterpiece of epic proportions |
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| I just want to mention the words Ex arm just in case someone is taking the challenge |
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| looks like a PlayStation 2 game... Another work with a very good proposal being spoiled by the CGI... |
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