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| The animation and soundtrack are quite lovely, it's a shame they're wasted on the content. Morridine said: It makes me so sad to see such beautiful anime like this one, with poetic motifs and surreal music and some mindfucking scenes on 5000+ rank in the first episodes while SAO is on 42. I wonder if this is due to the overwhelming majority of young audience. pls stahp A dude with unreasonably long red hair seeks to open up the gates of Hades via. a magic/religious type cult, which will cultivate some sacred fruit from a sacred tree (all Adam and Eve like). Only a busty bimbo and the Jonas brothers can stop them. One brother is a reckless "badass", who gets into fights needlessly (how I loathe this archetype), the other is a a timid boy with a heart of gold, who gets walked all over - but wait. Who is this mysterious third party gun wielding milf dressed in all black? Time will tell. We all know righteousness and cool haircuts will prevail, as per usual. I fail to see even the slightest hint of a "poetic motif". That aside; some horrible, horrible mistakes led to the following lines being allowed to exist: "I believed him." "It's weird, cause like magic, but I believed my bro." "I believe all of this." "Return to your beautiful tree of Exodus." "Did the world go insane?" "I don't care if this world crumbles to ashes. But... I will save the world!" "O, cursed spite.. That ever I was born to set it right!" Sometimes you just have to look in the mirror and remind yourself that you're not Shakespeare, nor will you ever be. I never thought I would repeat advice from Drake, but just do you man, do you. BatoKusanagi said: img I was being a tad overdramatic. |
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
| I got bored. They made a slow and too detailed start up with a lot of names to remember. Also the background music made me sleepy. 2/5 |
Post-Moe said: The animation and soundtrack are quite lovely, it's a shame they're wasted on the content. Morridine said: It makes me so sad to see such beautiful anime like this one, with poetic motifs and surreal music and some mindfucking scenes on 5000+ rank in the first episodes while SAO is on 42. I wonder if this is due to the overwhelming majority of young audience. pls stahp Sometimes you just have to look in the mirror and remind yourself that you're not Shakespeare, nor will you ever be. I never thought I would repeat advice from Drake, but just do you man, do you. BatoKusanagi said: img I was being a tad overdramatic. By motifs I wasn't pointing at Shakepeare quotes >.> It's just an anime, definitely not written by Shakespeare. But In narrative, a motif (pronunciation) (help·info) is any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story. Through its repetition, a motif can help produce other narrative (or literary) aspects such as theme or mood. And as it was, it was okay and the mood was great. Some of the stuff that make no sense are common to the Shakespeare's Tempest, like the magician on the island. I doubt theya re trying to be Shakespeare, but to make an interpretation of it in the form of anime. SO to the Shakespeare stuff they add anime clichees and common stuff. Yea maybe they will insult the defunct artist, but c'mon. It still feels like fresh air to me so meh. Looking forward to see where it all goes Now we can fight about whether the animators should use big boobs for fanservice, little boobs so that ppl won't tell em they are using women as sexual objects or medium boobs just to be politically correct. In a manner of speaking. I just think it doesn't matter. AND now that I've done some googling xD. You are being a little hypocrite. Because you throw mud at the producers for trying to be Shakespeare and you quote the quotes that you think are terrible and shouldn''t exist. Okay but this one actually ""O, cursed spite.. That ever I was born to set it right!" ...is a Hamlet quote. So maybe we should stop pretending we are allknowing and superior. I too have to admit it's not like i can start quoting Shakespeare myself, even tho I had been studying him for quite a while. But i'm also trying my best not to say pointless stuff. |
MorridineOct 4, 2012 10:59 PM
| The size of her boobs shouldn't matter if she actually has a personality, which she does not appear to. She was introduced as a simple sex object and put on display right off the bat. |
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
Post-Moe said: The size of her boobs shouldn't matter if she actually has a personality, which she does not appear to. She was introduced as a simple sex object and put on display right off the bat. Yea. We all love women for their brains not for the looks. And i'm pretty sure in the fight scene she had we could have grasped her entire lifestory and personality IF the directors had put more heart in it. Really... i'm not even trying to actually defend this show. At least not for its characters, tho I kinda liked the mage girl on the island. And the other dead girl. But i'm really trying to find out why you are being so picky. You can't have it all, that's what I believe. But can't we just admit there's a bright side also ? and bla. added some shit to my prev post and I reallyw anted you to read it =))) |
| I hope this anime will be as good as it looks!!!! xD |
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Morridine said: I made a comparison of ranks. It was in no way irrelevant as I was just questioning something related. Ranks of airing shows. OFC I used SAO as reference because it was the best example. The one being unreasonable agressive is you my friend. You just said you were fighting another guy who appearantly doesn't like SAO on anotehr topic. Just curious: are you searching for us, it's like a witch hunt or? Because It seems to me like you are using any poor of excuse to jump in and fanboy about SAO. honestly P.S. here's some food for your brain, regarding SAO. Do you usually rate anime before you watched the last episode? Probably not. Nobody really does that. the fact that SAO is on 42 has nothing to do with the anime (which is poor - using a less offending word for the sake of peace) but with the ppl ranking it because they already read the novels. There are images that say more than 1000 words, but unfortunatelly that's not the case of SAO, which lamentably failed to deliver the feeling of the novels. That aside, I bet you didn;t even know The Tempest was a Shakespeare play. Nah, i'm not really searching for you, you just pop up everywhere. And SAO as best example? You clearly missed alot of better examples, good sir, check the rankings again. |
| I've been keeping up with the manga of this anime since chapter 1 years ago.I knew the anime adaptation would be great |
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| Wow this seems promising lol.. !!! Pretty good.... and Aika died? Wtf so fast:( |
| LET JUSTICE BE DONE; THOUGH THE HEAVENS MAY FALL |
Morridine said: . There is a bright side (art, music), I agree. As for what you added, yes I think those quotes are all terrible. I did not know that last one was actually from Shakespeare (I figured it was an attempt to copy), but that doesn't matter. The point is that the "epic" choice of language is meaningless and without proper context. The reason I am being more picky in this case is because this show is extremely pretentious, it has an obvious air of self-importance. I'm not picky if a show sets out with modest goals, but I will be skeptical of a show that sets out clearly trying to be great, or claims philosophically insight. Everything about episode one screamed righteous insight and importance, there was no subtlety, or nuance to be found. In the end it was just blabbering intellectual fan-service, for me. I think this is a good summary of how I feel: "Art does not begin great, it becomes great when the greatness is found." |
JoshOct 4, 2012 11:26 PM
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
| at first didn't want to watch this but after the first episode it got my attention. |
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| Astonishing first episode, I was left very, very and I mean it, very impressed. Really like how the 1st episode was directed, hope the upcoming ones have the same style and flow. The music and how they used it in every scene was too amazing. Beautiful art and great animation. All the characters look promising and interesting, plus the voice acting fits every character. I will see "K" right now and after it I'm gonna re-watch the 1st episode of "Zetsuen no Tempest", cause right now I'm giving the 1st ep a 10 out of 10 and I wanna make sure it deserves it. |
| It was a pretty good start. I'm not really familiar with all of Shakespeare's work so I didn't get much, if there is anything referenced on it. |
| Great start for this series! Already getting to the action, can't wait. |
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| if anyone is familiar with the detective anime spiral this is made by the same guy,that's why the characters are so pretty.I just hope this becomes more popular |
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| I'm not familiar with the source material, and had low expectations coming in, so I was nearly blown away by what was actually an awesome first episode. I found myself quite thrilled the whole way through, and if it keeps this standard up, it might even become my favourite show of the season. I want more! I especially liked the OST. |
| i'm reading the manga and must say i was satisfied by the first episode the graphic and sound are good |
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| it was ok i guess |
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| ASDFGHJKL MY MOST ANTICIPATED ANIME FOR THIS SEASON AFTER PSYCHO-PASS!!! BONES did a great job with the adaption!! so far i love everything<333 Orulyon said: and to think that Mahiro´s VA is Shun-chan from Kimi to boku, oh GAWD OMG now that i checked, Yoshino's VA is Yuuta *Q* |
| I'm liking this. |
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| it was one of the 3 anime that i was waiting for in this season. for now i'm completely satisfied. but i think it was better to use more rock for the soundtracks. 5/5 |
| The episode is interesting but a bit confusing. It skips time and that Mahiro just appeared from nothing telling a story and acting like ''I'm awesome'' infront of his friend, hope he gains some powers too. I dindn't understand this: well Aika died, she was dating Yoshino. But then after she died Mahiro disapeared and Yoshino was daiting someone at the present time, revealed at the ending that was Aika. So that means everyone think he was daiting someone but in truth he was recalling old memories and people believe it was someone alife?! Am I wrong? O_o And why wasn't Yoshino affected by the virus? I didn't get that in the anime :P |
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kairi07 said: Relax dude, you can't understand if you only watch the first episode. Because the anime is telling us a story but all you've watched just a portion of it, there's no way they can tell full story within a single episode lol. As for the episode, damn I like Bones :X, and i believe Aika hasn't died that easy cause she's one of the main characters. Good animation (although the art isn't on pair with K), music is catchy as well. I'm gonna follow this. This season has many promising shows and I think I can follow them all if they keep the same quality as they represented in the first episode. |
I spot a resemblance. Okayish episode. Bit clichee. Will continue since it was entertaining nonetheless. |
| I'm an idiot who may unintentionally insult you or try to get you caught up in an argument. If so, I'm sorry. If not, continue to have fun. |
| The episode started with bad execution. It could explain things better, rather jumping from here & there, or throwing various names. (On the other hand it is BONES, I was never a fan of the certain studio.) The main idea is cliche, but some authors tend to make cliche elements quite enjoyable. Who knows what's the case with ZnT, it is early to judge. Now, something that bothers me; The doll that Mahiro found, the one created by Hakaze. How the hell Hakaze created it? Apparently, she is useless on that island, how could she create something magical? The whole virus deal... I hope it will be a better case than Guilty Crown. Oh & by the way... Why do I suspect a bit of yaoibait by this? |
| Interesting show.... But will put this on hold for now... 3/5 |
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| Why in the hell does my review keep disappearing? That's happened twice now. It's pretty damn annoying to have to rewrite it. Fortunately I saved my second review on my desktop. |
TheIMF said: Why in the hell does my review keep disappearing? That's happened twice now. It's pretty damn annoying to have to rewrite it. Fortunately I saved my second review on my desktop. you should know by now that making reviews after the first episode is pointless.I could make a review since I've read the manga but even that would be pointless since the anime adaptation might be different later on since the manga is on-going |
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| I decided to watch this just because it's a BONES series and I'll keep watching it for the same reason, even if the story doesn't go anywhere. And wow, what an OST from Oshima Michiru. |
| I'm impressed by pretty much everything in this episode. Yoshino seems like a great character, I really look forward to seeing how he develops in the future, I'm pretty sure he's not gonna stay "useless" POW character throughout the whole series, he seems to be way more interesting than that. Animation was also really, really good, especially the water details during their "walk on the beach". Impressive, looking forward to more. Oh, and that ending, really, really, really good stuff. I didn't expect English song to sound that good on Japanese anime, I don't see it that often anyway, and even than it sounds horrible, this one on the other side is really good. |
| Bones shows have been disappointing me lately. Considering how much I liked this first episode, I hope this show is an exception. |
| Great graphics and nice music!I didn't quite get much from the story though ,but I'm looking forward to the next episode!!! |
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| Wow, it's pretty epic, really! |
| ''Even if your throne crumbles and your shiny crown turns to rust. Even if the bodies pile up endlessly. Above the bottomless piles of corpses beside you as you lay softly down I will be, until I hear the words, check mate'' Sebastian Michaelis. |
| Fujoshit, they said. |
| I liked it a lot. Fast, straight to the point, without same explanations what i what as in most anime. |
| So far I'm not really impressed. The art and animation is good but everything else is kind of boring so far. Well, I need to watch another couple of episodes to decide whether it's a drop or not. |
| This was better than expected. |
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| Mahiro was killing with that teleporting pulling some Noctis moves a little there |
| hmm pretty interesting first episode, better than K's first ep in my opinion. |
| "Our everyday lives may, in fact, be a series of miracles." - Nichijou |
| Absolutely loved it. Agreed with person two posts above, I liked it better than K's first episode. Didn't think I would enjoy this episode as much as I did, but I did lol. Action was great, everything seemed quite straight to the point. I really like the characters as well. The one mage girl seemed interesting, Mahiro was pretty badass and the other main guy was cool in his own way as well. Can't wait to see more, as of right now this is my favourite of the fall season. Was not expecting it to be! |
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| Very nice. 4/5 for this episode, and that is a good rating considering I'm only on the first episode. It's very interesting so far but I was a bit confused by it. I liked the action scenes! Cool seiyuus. Inaba(Kokoroco)'s is also the main girls. And Kana Hanazawa yay. I like the ED :) Def. following this series! |
| this reminds me of guilty crown, but minus shu being a pussy, and.....not sucking entirely |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
Bunns said: Fujoshit, they said. Lol not even close. |
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