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Aug 30, 2015 2:25 PM
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In my OP its HunterxHunter 2011, the first episode looked so generic. Unlike what the 1999 version did, it failed to introduce us to the hunter world by skipping the first meeting between Gon and Kite; which was a significant point of what made gon to decide to become a hunter.
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Aug 30, 2015 2:27 PM
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1st episode of SAO. i probably don't need to explain why.
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Aug 30, 2015 2:27 PM
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Deago said:
In my OP its HunterxHunter 2011, the first episode looked so generic. Unlike what the 1999 version did, it failed to introduce us to the hunter world by skipping the first meeting between Gon and Kite.


Ouran Highschool Host Club. I thought it would be a pleasant gay boy anime but instead I get a pleasant reverse harem anime.
Aug 30, 2015 2:28 PM
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DreamingBeats said:
1st episode of SAO. i probably don't need to explain why.


The clicheness of this post hurt.
Aug 30, 2015 2:28 PM
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Gakkougurashi! would probably count,but I have read some info about it beforehand.
Aug 30, 2015 2:28 PM
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DreamingBeats said:
1st episode of SAO. i probably don't need to explain why.

lol, I was waiting for someone to say that. That first episode was a fuc*ing huge trap
Aug 30, 2015 2:30 PM
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hxh and gintama. There's probably more.
Aug 30, 2015 2:32 PM
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tokyo esp
i dont think the main characters even appeared in the first eps
similar to ga rei zero from same author

tvtropes has a nice page documenting this
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NonIndicativeFirstEpisode
Aug 30, 2015 2:33 PM

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Hunter x Hunter 2011
GakkouGurashi
Waaay too childish for such dark series'.
Aug 30, 2015 2:33 PM

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Gakkou Gurashi makes you think it's going to be a zombie show.
Aug 30, 2015 2:35 PM
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Highschool DxD, my dumbass thought it was a Mecha anime. Because of the cover of Highschool DxD born. Issei's hand looked like a mecha hand.
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Aug 30, 2015 2:38 PM

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working look like normal romcom in the first place between senpai and takahasi.
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Aug 30, 2015 2:43 PM

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Death Parade.

After watching Billiards, I thought the show was actually going to be good, but after watching Parade I had this disgusting urge to vomit.

Such a good premise going to waste.
Aug 30, 2015 2:45 PM

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Kruzy said:
Gakkou Gurashi makes you think it's going to be a zombie show.

It is not?
Aug 30, 2015 2:46 PM

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Inferno_Cop said:
Kruzy said:
Gakkou Gurashi makes you think it's going to be a zombie show.

It is not?


i thought it was a strange mix of cute-girls-doing-cute-things and zombies :p
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Aug 30, 2015 2:48 PM

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Popular pick-SAO

Super underrated pick-Kotoura-san. Holy shit did that really go downhill after episode 1.
Aug 30, 2015 2:51 PM

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Arcana Famiglia great setup and idea but after that it was terrible.
Aug 30, 2015 2:53 PM
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Inferno_Cop said:
Kruzy said:
Gakkou Gurashi makes you think it's going to be a zombie show.

It is not?


Well,focus is more on the cutesy aspect.

Though you could argue that it is taken more from the psychological standpoint,due the surviving cast wanting to alleviate the terror of reality.
Aug 30, 2015 3:06 PM

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Inferno_Cop said:
Kruzy said:
Gakkou Gurashi makes you think it's going to be a zombie show.

It is not?


The majority of it has been slice of life, I'm watching episode 9 right now and you could pass it off as a normal cute girls doing cute things show if you changed the backgrounds a bit.
As for the zombie aspect, most of the scenes happen in flashbacks while the cast is currently living the ez life. Even Highschool of the Dead makes a better zombie show than this.
Aug 30, 2015 3:09 PM

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gakkou gurashi
Aug 30, 2015 3:11 PM

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Ga-rei Zero
Aug 30, 2015 3:11 PM

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really surprised no one said madoka yet
Aug 30, 2015 3:15 PM

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Bakemonogatari
I expected it to be interresting but mej
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Aug 30, 2015 3:15 PM

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Captain earth first episode was fantastic but the show was so boring.
Aug 30, 2015 3:18 PM

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really surprised no one said madoka yet

Because it wasn't. Even in first episode it was foreshadowed by showing witch world that it is not going to be normal magical girl show, compare that with something like Narutaru and you can get why people aren't saying madoka.

As for Gakougurashi, I dropped it after the few starting episodes. I expected it to be another corpse party gore blood kill the loli show, though I can't say the way you are describing later episodes sounds any better.
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XxChidoriXx said:
Highschool DxD, my dumbass thought it was a Mecha anime. Because of the cover of Highschool DxD born. Issei's hand looked like a mecha hand.



Dem LULz.
Aug 30, 2015 3:19 PM

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Coyote Ragtime Show.

That first episode was literally a blast to watch, worthy of being a climax episode of sorts....

...but then the following episodes were just....not.
Aug 30, 2015 3:23 PM
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Mirai Nikki. I was expecting a survival game, a battle of wits, but I get this juvenile piece of crap.
Aug 30, 2015 3:26 PM

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Coyote Ragtime Show.

That first episode was literally a blast to watch, worthy of being a climax episode of sorts....

...but then the following episodes were just....not.
Coyote was boring overall, from 1st ep to end
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Aug 30, 2015 3:28 PM
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SAO
thought it would be good

JoJo
thought it would be some weird boring boxing gentleman crap
Aug 30, 2015 3:43 PM

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Meitantei Loki Ragnarok had me thinking that it would be a detective show both from the name which has great detective in it and the first episode where they solved some mystery(too long ago to remember specifically) but it's barely about that.
Aug 30, 2015 3:57 PM

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Inferno_Cop said:
moodie said:
really surprised no one said madoka yet

Because it wasn't. Even in first episode it was foreshadowed by showing witch world that it is not going to be normal magical girl show, compare that with something like Narutaru and you can get why people aren't saying madoka

Shadow Star Narutaru has, by far, the most misleading first episode I've ever seen.
Aug 30, 2015 4:03 PM
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Kuromii said:
Ga-rei Zero


definitely this, that first episode was misleading as fuck
Aug 30, 2015 4:07 PM

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Soul Eater NOT! .....which literally is NOT.

Aug 30, 2015 4:21 PM
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I recommended Madoka to a friend. Until ep 3, he was sure he was watching a yuri hentai
Aug 30, 2015 4:43 PM

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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. I was told the show was 100% canon.
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Aug 30, 2015 4:47 PM

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School Days
Aug 30, 2015 7:45 PM

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Gakkou Gurashi. I expected moeblob, I got a Madoka copypaste shit
Aug 30, 2015 7:47 PM

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XxChidoriXx said:
Highschool DxD, my dumbass thought it was a Mecha anime. Because of the cover of Highschool DxD born. Issei's hand looked like a mecha hand.


Holy shit man...Im dying right now lolololol
Aug 30, 2015 7:51 PM

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Kuromii said:
Ga-rei Zero
Yep this for sure.
Aug 30, 2015 8:00 PM

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CommanderCaim said:
Death Parade.

After watching Billiards, I thought the show was actually going to be good, but after watching Parade I had this disgusting urge to vomit.

Such a good premise going to waste.
Your different.
Aug 30, 2015 8:03 PM

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TrigT said:
XxChidoriXx said:
Highschool DxD, my dumbass thought it was a Mecha anime. Because of the cover of Highschool DxD born. Issei's hand looked like a mecha hand.


Holy shit man...Im dying right now lolololol

Check the genre next time.
Did you like it anyway?
Aug 30, 2015 8:12 PM

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For me probably School Days, seemed like generic harem show with focus on love triangle throughout the first episode, until Makoto's last line from what I remember. Something about getting bored of Kotonoha? Pretty surprising words after just starting dating bishoujo.
Aug 30, 2015 8:12 PM

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Charlottes first episode tricked me into thinking it could be a good show although the prize of deceiving me thoroughly probably goes to Level E.
Aug 30, 2015 8:14 PM
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Ga-Rei Zero. Definitely not what I was expecting lol
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Definitely Ga-Rei Zero, its about as troll as it gets. I was spoiled going in so it had less shock value.
Aug 30, 2015 8:22 PM
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Gakkou Gurashi. I expected moeblob, I got a Madoka copypaste shit

Oh..
It's a copypaste because gakkou gurashi is about surviving in a school full of zombies around while madoka is about magical girl with some twists

Suureee, copypaste indeed >___>



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XxChidoriXx said:
Highschool DxD, my dumbass thought it was a Mecha anime. Because of the cover of Highschool DxD born. Issei's hand looked like a mecha hand.
Kenzen Robo Daimidaler would be the mecha equivalent.
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CommanderCaim said:
Death Parade.

After watching Billiards, I thought the show was actually going to be good, but after watching Parade I had this disgusting urge to vomit.

Such a good premise going to waste.
Your different.

His different?
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