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BlurredVision18 said: Morons like you really get on my nerves. Try reading with comprehension before you quote someone. I didn't complain about fanservice being there but about nothing substantial being there beside it. My main gripe with this show is the main male lead. Wimp that gets bossed around and is butt of jokes. So called stand-in for the viewer. I hate that poorly written cliche with passion. I want to see an actual character, not a blank space that otaku are supposed to insert themselves in to boost sales.Antanaru said: (insert a bunch of nonsense about cliche) Anyway, it's hard to run a show on fanservice alone so it will probably be a drop soon. Who would have thought years back that KyoAni will become an epitome of almost everything that is wrong with anime industry now. This is an introduction, are people still expecting full novels worth of content in one episode? What even..... I heard a lot about, "fan service everywhere", which I'm not a fan of at all, but this was nothing. I guess some people just want agender characters with no defining attributes to their design. Yea, that will make for really diverse and compelling characters. She has big boobs, so what. When fan service starts to take precedence over the narrative, then it's a problem. Was it needed for the cliche character introduction for Izumi, no, but it tried to play off the trope and make a joke, it's still breaking the ice with it's viewers. Would you have preferred her to breakdown in tears and tell her sad story as to why she hasn't and won't join the phantom hunting club? Or maybe you were just expecting her intro to be walked in on while getting dressed so we can get a toe to head pan. All Mai's service was actually still relevant to her situation. Drawing water from her kidney's, wind from her lungs, and of course her natural disadvantage to limbo. Sure it's an unnecessary attention grabber for "otaku" who swoon over boobs that they never get to actually see irl, but it's not intrusive, explicit, and kinda funny. Inb4 "it's cliche-" everything is. If that's a problem you should just stop watching any sort of entertainment. lol This was fun, likable characters, beautiful animation, nice BGM/ST, and the world seems to have plenty of possibilities with how the phantoms can pretty much manifest from anything. 6/10 for the premiere. TL;DR KyoAni finds a way. To be honest, I actually enjoyed the fanservice coming from the blonde. It was surprising to see it thrown straight in your face with such force, but it was a nice eye candy if you're a guy. The problem is, there was nothing else there. There was nothing beside bloomers, self groping and shaking boobs to make this episode worth watching that isn't in myriads other shows done in the exact same way. One more thing, not everything is cliche. There are tropes or typical stories that can be told anew with the core being actually the same and there's nothing wrong with it. They become cliches when it's done poorly and break immersion. When people say something is unoriginal it's not because they expect something groundbreaking and pioneering all the time. It's because it's so bad they actually notice they have seen it already hundreds of times and are tired of it. |
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| Just finished watching this for the first time and I feel like I've already seen it about seven times. |
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| You know what I just don't care about this series being generic or harem or whatever it is for as long as they can make it enjoyable thanks to those fanservice,eyegasmic art&animation then it's always a yes for me. Just hoping it may get interesting on the upcoming eps. Gotta love all the salt MAL throw on KyoAni meanwhile they don't give a fck about it while they just keep on generating $$$$. |
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| That was alright Those boob physics.. I don't even... ok |
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| Nice episode i liked it. The story is interesting, the art is top notch as expected and the fanservice is good. I liked May and Reina and Haruhiko is not bad. Lets see what the next episode will bring. |
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| Dropping an anime after ONE episode. You guys have no chill. |
TsukuyomiREKTJan 7, 2016 3:41 AM
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baoxiang008 said: i stopped watching kyoani's anime since hyouka. kyoani sucks ass the light novels they picked up to adapt in the past were totally garbage. But still came here just to say that. Why so salty? |
| I despise woke people. |
| For anyone that says this has an interesting plot, I ask you this, since it hasn't been mentioned so far but its an aspect of the story that really pisses me off (I dunno, maybe I was just paying too much attention at BOOBS XD): How does the plot make any sense? Let me elaborate: The world got infected with a virus that allows people to see phantoms (implying they were already present before). First of all, I dunno why that would be a 'virus' since it makes people better, helps them evolve as a species, etc. but thats besides the point. The real point is that, they say phantoms get in the way and pose problems to people, hence why they need to be dealt with and hunted. But what about before people knew about them or could fight them? Was the world in utter chaos? Cuz I really doubt it, especially seeing as how society seems to have developed perfectly fine.... Which essentially means people are hunting phantoms for the fuck of it, basically cuz theyre a visual eyesore or something i guess? Meaning the plot is actually fucking stupid. Leaving that aside, the main character is not only generic af, but most of his actions were staring at mai's boobs and not really much else. And sure, reina is cute, but her personality so far is pretty much that of a dumb bimbo. |
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ThreePointer said:  Just because you are aware of it does not mean you have a pass for overloading it with fanservice... I mean its cleaver how you did it and all but... Whatever I'll still watch it because your art is beautiful as always and Reina is freaking cute. Well, at least this shows signs that it isn't going to be cliche |
| Anyone know how many episodes this is gonna have? |
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alvenzo95 said: For anyone that says this has an interesting plot, I ask you this, since it hasn't been mentioned so far but its an aspect of the story that really pisses me off (I dunno, maybe I was just paying too much attention at BOOBS XD): How does the plot make any sense? Let me elaborate: The world got infected with a virus that allows people to see phantoms (implying they were already present before). First of all, I dunno why that would be a 'virus' since it makes people better, helps them evolve as a species, etc. but thats besides the point. The real point is that, they say phantoms get in the way and pose problems to people, hence why they need to be dealt with and hunted. But what about before people knew about them or could fight them? Was the world in utter chaos? Cuz I really doubt it, especially seeing as how society seems to have developed perfectly fine.... Which essentially means people are hunting phantoms for the fuck of it, basically cuz theyre a visual eyesore or something i guess? Meaning the plot is actually fucking stupid. Leaving that aside, the main character is not only generic af, but most of his actions were staring at mai's boobs and not really much else. And sure, reina is cute, but her personality so far is pretty much that of a dumb bimbo. The worlds problems before the phantoms were perceived to be not caused by the phantoms and thus had non phantom solutions. After the virus they were perceived to be coming from phantoms. This is covered in the introduction where they show the illusions about how two things could be different and the same. |
perjeJan 7, 2016 4:11 AM
| TBH i only started watching this because Uchida Maaya and Uesaka Sumire are in the anime, but i think ep1 is pretty interesting. It was an ok/decent start to the anime, art was on point (but you'd expect that from KyoAni), so let's see where KyoAni goes with this. |
maskedappleJan 7, 2016 4:27 AM
Sterben0022 said: I want Amagi s2 instead of this crap. Yes, please Kyoani do it. OT: I liked it, didn't have high expectations. I hope this won't focus on fanservice, we have other shows for that kind of thing. |
perje said: alvenzo95 said: For anyone that says this has an interesting plot, I ask you this, since it hasn't been mentioned so far but its an aspect of the story that really pisses me off (I dunno, maybe I was just paying too much attention at BOOBS XD): How does the plot make any sense? Let me elaborate: The world got infected with a virus that allows people to see phantoms (implying they were already present before). First of all, I dunno why that would be a 'virus' since it makes people better, helps them evolve as a species, etc. but thats besides the point. The real point is that, they say phantoms get in the way and pose problems to people, hence why they need to be dealt with and hunted. But what about before people knew about them or could fight them? Was the world in utter chaos? Cuz I really doubt it, especially seeing as how society seems to have developed perfectly fine.... Which essentially means people are hunting phantoms for the fuck of it, basically cuz theyre a visual eyesore or something i guess? Meaning the plot is actually fucking stupid. Leaving that aside, the main character is not only generic af, but most of his actions were staring at mai's boobs and not really much else. And sure, reina is cute, but her personality so far is pretty much that of a dumb bimbo. The worlds problems before the phantoms were perceived to be not caused by the phantoms and thus had non phantom solutions. After the virus they were perceived to be coming from phantoms. This is covered in the introduction where they show the illusions about how two things could be different and the same. Fair enough I guess, but my point is that those 'problems' were never really that big a deal at all, if you take into account how the world has still shaped up perfectly fine. If some of these problems could be solved in some other way, why not keep doing that? And even if they couldn't be solved at all, this doesn't seem to have affected humans at all, so why suddenly start bothering with all this phantom hunting bs? It feels like a waste of time and effort that could be spent on much more important things, and especially it barely makes me feel that phantoms are a threat at all... I guess the first fight against that red (fire i think) phantom was ok, but leaving that aside, limbo sriously??? And even in the first fight of the episode, the phantom looked intimidating and all, but it didnt really feel like it was affecting in any way the real world (as in it wasn't destroying buildings, or making cracks/holes in the ground, or earthquakes or anything really, considering how big and heavy it must have been). So my question still stands, why hunt them at all? I'll give this series another episode or 2 be4 dropping it, basically because its kyoani, but not impressed in the least so far (except art and animation obvs). And from what I've heard from ln readers, the fanservice/boob physics was not in the ln, which makes me think kyoani realized the plot and characters for this show are not strong enough to make it sell, and felt the need to introduce these elements to warrant some sort of success. I guess we'll have to wait and see.... |
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| Better than expected. Fanservice is smart, too. I kinda like it. Kuudere is probably going to be best girl *fingers crossed* 7/10 |
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| Smart Fanservice, nice art but this series has a boring MC that typical harem character |
King_Saber said: What has happened to KyoAni?! This is not the studio which produced Suzumiya Haruhi and Clannad! Although this show is much better than most of the Winter animes. >not even half of winter shows aired yet You're trying too hard to be cool |
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| Lmao nice job KyoAni. Always finding a way. MC rendered useless just by recruiting Reina to the team lol. Nicely done man, nicely done. Guess I'll keep watching. |
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| I love the first scenes of this anime, it has explained some of the "Perception and Perceptual Illusions" from General Psychology which is quite intriguing, but after watching the op[a bit spoiler] and watching the whole anime, it's quite mindeless (-_-;) but to be honest, I've enjoyed it (n_n) |
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Todd_ said: Ophis said: >no one complains about Free! fanservice >this is being nonstop shitted on Equality is a beautiful thing, is it not? Pretty much this. I don't really see the big deal that this has fanservice. I can only imagine all these people must hate 95% of anime, as a majority of them also have fanservice.  I haven't seen Free, but Hibike. Sure Hibike has yuri-bait, but it was pretty erotic and well-done... and without using weird and lame camera angles and whatever Phantom World uses. It wasn't even that distracting, and characters didn't go out of their personality for making hot things happen that much either. Not saying this was one of the greatest thing that animation has to offer, but it was still on completely another level. Why people don't understand that we can criticize an anime for something while applauding another one for the exact same thing? "You can't say fanserv in Phantom World is a bad thing since you enjoyed Gunbuster / Gurren Lagann / Evangelion / Katanagatari / etc". That's pretty much the point, fanservice in this particular show IS bad. |
parazeJan 7, 2016 5:10 AM
| Seems like the anime industry has lost every bit of creativity and they must suck up from LN adaptation. Kind of somewhat original story and world building but still highschool theme, romance plot and cliché moments, maybe harem on later. Good animation, generic art style just like Kyoani's previous works, disturbing boob physics as always, that Mai girl has to grab her boob to chant spell because fan service. Weak main protagonist, female characters are fan service devices and possibly for harem purpose. Music is nothing special, generic, catchy, plain, perfect for teenager viewers. Overall 2/10 impression for this 1st episode. And this is only MY OPINION, you can bash it if you like, I don't care. |
| the characters are so uninteresting so far.. I can stomach a generic plot but at least make the characters more interesting and likeable please... would rather watch hibike s2 than this |
FireEmblemIke24 said: Sourire said: always makes me laugh how kyoAni wastes their animation talent on shitty written shows Emm they can only do slice of life shows anyway, so it's not like they could do anything better than other studios. Then show me a studio (which is not using 3D CGI, 3DCGI is a cancer btw) which has amazing both - animation and art. KyoAni exceeds EVERY other studios if it comes to visuals. They are just uncomparable. And sorry if I misunderstood you and you don't mean visuals. |
rsc-plJan 7, 2016 5:10 AM
| Dub = fake crap. Always. |
| Seems like just another 'Magical' high school adventure. Only with other creatures called phantoms ( Just like in Noragami). But I like characters looks so far.. Everytime when boy gets under girl's panties.. Girl smashes him to the face or smth.. And it makes me want to question.. Why do you even wear such short skirt? School uniform huh? Also the scene with those Power poles and that game was.. They tried to make it fun? And those boob mechanics.. Smart. |
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Dedy_Wicak_SonoJan 7, 2016 6:20 AM
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Dedy_Wicak_Sono said: people still have not learned, do not judge the anime by its first episode QFT. =D That aside, it was a good episode, giving us a detailed explanation about how phantoms co-exist with the human world and how the students at the academy work together to defeat the phantoms that are causing problems. I had to laugh at Ichijo knowing that he was in a cliché position while trying to save Reina, but try as he might, fate made sure he got caught by the cliché anyway. XD The limbo scene was amusing too. Mai proves that you can have a big rack and can still limbo like a pro! Unless I watch the previews for upcoming future episode, it's a bit tricky to say how the main plot of the show will progress. I'm just hoping that they don't try and rush any future story arcs. |
| So many comments about how smart or inappropriate the fanservice was, and I'm sitting here like "there was fanservice?" I guess after seeing To Love-Ru and Prison School, the "fanservice" in this show is really inconsequential. It was a decent episode, just good enough to not be boring. The limbo scene was crazy but clever. I'm going to keep watching this to see where it goes. 4/5 |
| Dafuq i have just watched... That animation though, that godly fanservice, just look that breast bouncing.... |
error5000Jan 7, 2016 6:13 AM
| The fan service in this was a bit ridiculous. Didn't realise this was KyoAni, the character designs aren't half bad, other than that girl with insect hair. Could be an interesting series. |
| I'll stay for the fan service for now. |
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| Fascinating, I didn't know boobs could move that way. I can enjoy 12 episodes of this. Always nice to have something to look forward to every week. |
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| 10/10 Would PLOT again |
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| Not bad for a first episode. Enjoyed it except the fanservice. And KyoAni didn't forget to add the yuri bait however small it may be. :p Ecchi shows are not my thing but I may follow this one. |
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| How early is pretty funny, the narrative does not lose too much time even with trivial things and focuses on the basics, pretty satisfied. Drawings and animations are below expectations, the Studio KyoAni, has fielded once again, all his skill, opening and ending cute, characters a bit stereotyped for now. |
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| This is why I love KyoAni. They don't bring out an Anime every season, but when they do rest assured that it will look amazing. Much better than spewing out Anime for the sake of Anime A-1. |
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| Different strokes for different folks. I guess it was expected for Kyoani. The amount of talent placed in this one episode is incredible. I'll give this another try. |
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| I just saw a guy drop the series and give it a 4 rating....WTF. Its the first god damn episode, I don't understand their thought process thinking the first episode represents the whole series. On another note, this is based off a Novel, not a light novel so its harder to develop compared to a manga adaptation or light novel adaptation. KyoAi has been creating quality novel adaptations like Sound Euphonium so I expect a fantastic adaptation to the source material. |
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| Look, I know there are some occasions where judging a show by its first episode is not a good idea. But this is not the kind of blunder that a show just magically recovers from and then later on becomes really good. I didn't even like KnK or Tamako Market but even they had okay first episodes that led me to believe they would turn out good. And its not because of my expectations because I thought Free would be completely garbage and I actually enjoyed the first episode of that too. In fact this is the very first time I've watched through the first episode of a KyoAni show and thought to myself 'Wow, this show is going to suck'. |
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| Amagi Brilliant Park again, except the gimmick to disguise the fact that it's about nothing more than tits and ass is different. RIP KyoAni 2012. |
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| It's only the first episode, but this anime has left me very excited, the girls are pretty cute, and the protagonist seems to be quite funny, the plot looks very interesting and the soundtrack was very good, moreover still had a good deal of action and fanservice, the Kyoani's animations really are at a high level, I believe that the anime has a lot of potential, I'll expect a very fun anime .. |
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| I would like this anime a whole lot more if they didn't just HAVE to show blonde haired girl fondling her own breast while doing... whatever it was that she was doing. Seriously unnecessary. and don't even get me started on the limbo boob bouncing. *sigh* If it continues like this I'll probably have to drop this, which is sad because the plot seems like it could have potential. |
| I actually didn't think it got off to a bad start at all. A little generic in some areas but I am gonna keep watching. |
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Prog_upworks13 said: King_Saber said: What has happened to KyoAni?! This is not the studio which produced Suzumiya Haruhi and Clannad! Although this show is much better than most of the Winter animes. Really ? Prince of Stride is much better than this to be honest ... I said "most", but actually I don't have any hope for Prince of Stride. The first episode wasn't that impressive. LeFlower-kun said: King_Saber said: What has happened to KyoAni?! This is not the studio which produced Suzumiya Haruhi and Clannad! Although this show is much better than most of the Winter animes. Barely anything aired yet though, just a few shows. Yeah, but can't we just deduct by just looking at the PVs and the atmosphere? Winter of 2016 is just an awful season. Curry-kun said: King_Saber said: What has happened to KyoAni?! This is not the studio which produced Suzumiya Haruhi and Clannad! Although this show is much better than most of the Winter animes. >not even half of winter shows aired yet You're trying too hard to be cool Just let us look at the ones with the most hype: Prince of Stride: The first episode was fine but nothing more than that. Grimgar: Considering the LN, it would be medicore. Active Raid: Meh... Boku dake ga Inai Machi: I think that it would be the most well-received out there. Ajin: The manga is good but CG?! Come on! Haruchika: Awful. Dagashikashi: I expect it to be better than Musaigen. Schwarzmarken: Considering the studio, maybe it can adapt something satisfying. Norn9: Just VA. The rest isn't worth talking about. Divine Gate: I played the game but is there anything exciting about the story? Shoujo-tachi wa Kouya wo Mezasu: Steins;Gate's Director may do something promising. Dimension W: Nothing to write home about! See? No matter how we look at it, Musaigen no Phantom World will be in Top 5 or top 3 of the season. |
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| Disappointing. Shimono's using his Utapri voice here which is sad. I wanted to hear another side of him. The other girls sound like cancer (voice wise) and I'm not a fan of their designs either. The ecchi parts were pretty bad. Surprised people can get off to this kinda stuff. Not into that magic/action/school stuff either :/ Feels like another action LN harem lmao. Dunno if I should drop or not. We'll see. On the bright side, Hayashi Yuu/Screen Mode sung the OP and that's enough reason to keep that episode I downloaded. King_Saber said: Prince of Stride: The first episode was fine but nothing more than that. Grimgar: Considering the LN, it would be medicore. Active Raid: Meh... See? No matter how we look at it, Musaigen no Phantom World will be in Top 5 or top 3 of the season. You forgot Shouwa Renroku, Hal to Gensou, Kono Danshi, Yami Shibai and Nijiro days. Ajin has CGI but that doesn't mean it's bad. Look at Nobunaga Concerto and Sidonia no Kishi. FireEmblemIke24 said: Wish they did something like Tamako Love Story or Free! again.Sourire said: always makes me laugh how kyoAni wastes their animation talent on shitty written shows Emm they can only do slice of life shows anyway, so it's not like they could do anything better than other studios. |
| Kyoani doing ecchi? I didn't expect that, it was good though. Story is interesting, characters are likeable and the animation is great. Reina has potential to be best girl. |
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