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| This looks like it will be fun. Seeing girls who resemble Non Non Biyori characters fighting in battleships was entertaining. I hope this will be as good as Girls und Panzer. |
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| The whole "mutiny" thing was a very smart move from the creators, the show was criminally underwhelming with a terrible cast and script prior to that. Will keep watching, but I don't expect much. |
Mogami-kunApr 10, 2016 4:50 AM
| That was dumb as shit and another universe where mysteriously, men do not exist. The only show that can get away with that is Yuri Yuri |
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| I never expect that so serious at the end. That instructor just framed them for mutiny. Expect every ship will fight them and possibly fight her childhood friend. I'm in thinking if I'll continue this or not. I don't want to see them cute girls die. The question is, why frame them? I think this will be answered as the story progresses. |
MagitoApr 10, 2016 5:52 AM
| Way better than I expected. I thought it was gonna be generic cuteness but battleships and mutiny in the first episode? Nice. Love the character design and MC. |
Avalon1440 said: Why is there so much hate? It started off as a generic SoL anime with cute girls doing cute sailor school things. And now we have the potential for something interesting as a plot. Yes the start is generic/boring, its possible that it could continue like that for the anime or that it was meant to be positioned to us like that. We got a bait and switch on the first episode, that means we can get into the meat of the story from now. Why is the world as it is, Who are Blue Mermaids and what do they defend the seas against, how do they survive, where do they get supplies, how do they get their innocence proven, who is their ally and who isnt? And most importantly if they will ever get the Rice Cooker fixed. Its too early to call it AoTS but it's got a hook, it has potential. We can at least agree on that can't we? Dunno. It's just MAL tho, so it explains the hate pretty much. |
CanErick said: Did you people watch the same first episode I did? This first episode is total trash. It's the perfect example of how to create a first episode that tells you almost nothing about the show, and how not to structure the first episode of a TV show in general. I don't understand why you want the first ep.to tell you a lot of thing about the show. Can't the show continually/slowly reveal the information as the show goes on? Not all show prefer to make itself "popolular" since the first ep. Some shows prefer to slowly build up its story/plot over many eps. and become interesting somehow. For example: Madoka, Steins;gate, and girls und panzer. (This show has the same series composition and script writer as girls und panzer, by the way). That's why 3 eps rule is important. The first ep. did introduce as about the overall world setting and what should you expect from the story. Those should be enough for the first ep. to gain the attention (and it did get some attention) and make people want to follow it (also succeeded in this). (This part of my comment based on people reaction on MAL, Reddit, animesuki and /a/). Now it depends on the show itself to keep us interested in the following eps. About the art and animation, unfortunately, not every studio have large budget level like Kyoani or P.A. work or WIT studio so we have to bare with it. Anyway, this kind of show is not for everyone. you either love it or hate it. Something like this also happened to Girls und Panzer. So I understand your comment toward the show and won't persuade you keep watching. |
| I didn't have any expectations for this series but it seems alright. Interesting development in the end. |
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| The Harekaze must allied with the U.S Navy or any European Navy down there so they could arrest the instructor and if they do it the USN's Arleigh Burke-class destroyers will coming in |
| The current game that i play: Azur Lane :3 |
| Wai...wh-what! Poor girls! What did they do to deserve that? They're just girls... Wouldn't an answer to the call at the end of the chapter have resolved it all or was it a telegram lol. Felt really bad for the girls. |
| I'm calling this panzer on sea... like what I see so far but how will the show differentiate itself? and what the heck does a vice-captain do exactly?? |
| My old Japan blog which I'm never going to finish: https://ramenshojo.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/day-6-nakano-broadway-harmonica-street-zauo-restaurant/ |
| A lot of the comments say something along the lines of "the first half was shit so I'm dropping". Considering the twist that comes in the B part, making this a clear bait and switch, I want to think (hope) that the cheesy music that reminds me of hentai of 10 years ago, simplistic animation, and 1-dimensionality of the characters is the show's way of making fun of moeblob SOLs in general and itself specifically. Maybe I'm giving it too much credit, but that's the assumption I'm going to go into ep 2 with. Though I admit that I was also confused by the apparent time warp where 4 hours magically disappeared. And I still want to know why the principal's daughter(?) was assigned to the "mutiny" ship. |
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| Aniplex shamelesly copying Boatsluts, GuPshit with more yuribait and "serious" plot. First half was just insufferable to watch. Overall I expect awful shit only for otakus. |
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| I don't want this to get to serious, as other shows like girls und panzer works best because of its balance of moe slice of life with with competitive tank battles. If this gets to serious the whole show just becomes jarring. But knowing the writer Reiko Yoshida I doubt this will get too dark |
| Oh? Wow that stuff! By reading the synopsis, I would never have expected something like that, I'm amazed more than angry, maybe the fact that there are little girls, does not give him a serious connotation, but the fact of having so many different characters , intrigued me a lot, the other thing that I like about this anime series, is the situational context in which they move the girls, interesting. I look forward to the next episode. |
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RyanWisemanMusic said: Aeonenleben said: I checked out your animelist and our defintions of "good" seem to differ by quite a bit. I guess they do, lol. Oh well, just a difference among anime fans. :D You just have to ignore people like that. One look at their profile clearly shows they only like "edgy" "mature" anime and they believe their "taste" is far superior that to plebs like us. Basically anything that wasn't made in the 90s is garbage to people like that. They don't give anything current more than 10 minutes of their time and go into most shows like this one prejudiced as hell. That all being said, I'm really curious what just happened. If the ship is declared mutinied are they just going to get reprimanded or are other ships going to try and take them out? |
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| You're telling me someone let little girls on combat vessels? There's a significant difference between maritime jobs for little girls and service in a Navy for fucks sake. What the hell anime industry? Either do a proper navy series or moeblobs collecting seaweed, don't try to mix it. It was so stupid it was actually painful to watch. |
Ii tenki desu ne... |
| I liked Girls und Panzer as well as Kantai Collection, so this show/episode catched me in the 2nd half completely! First I was just expecting some Moe and Slice of Life stuff as the little preview implied, but it seems to go into a different direction. I don't care if they're cute little school girls doing in real world usual manly stuff. I am entertained and that's why I watch anime: for entertainment, not for education or documentation. I can't understand the criticism and hate: it was clear anyway that this show will be something about cute girls doing things (was not specified), so why are people going nuts because these cute girls do now fight on WW2 warships? |
| Like a handful of other people I was expecting a cute moe slice of life but that little twist near the end really gave me the chills. Looking forward for more, all the girls are so kawaii. Lolis for life! |
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| Lol, Munetani sure had it rough before the opening ceremony, had me laughing. what's with that hug? Any romance going on? They got framed into attacking. This looks interesting. There could actually be a (serious) plot. Liking it so far. A great great episode. :) |
HijaziApr 10, 2016 9:07 PM
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| This was way better than I thought it was going to be. 4/5 I enjoyed this, and I want more now. |
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| there actually was one reporting harekaze will be late next to the instructor up to that point again i thought the same. |
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Red_Tuesday said: That was dumb as shit and another universe where mysteriously, men do not exist. The only show that can get away with that is Yuri Yuri Well, Love Live also have the same problem (apart from Honoka's & Maki's dad & Nico's lil' bro) This is GuP x WoWS x Black Flag with betrayal.. |
| First thing to say! i hope she (the instructor if i'm not wrong) was not action in the end. i seriously was expecting a fight and finally they gave me a fight even tho only a little but i like it a lot. After i saw the ship and knew the fact that they will board it, My god i was expecting something like Girl und Panzer, but the fight in this episode was okay to me. still expecting a great fight between ship. really like the character too. cute is all i can say. the animation was very good imo. soundtrack was....pretty good too. i just felt the story just went a little bit dark in the end. i hope she was not acting. so overall, good episode imo. still expecting something like Girl und Panzer battle in the next episode. looking foward to it. Man, this is gonna be fun!!!!! i hope so :/ |
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| It reminds me Kantai Collection, the girls are cute and it was a good cliffhanger, so let's see what is going to happen |
| This was my most hyped anime for the Spring 2016 season - I religiously looked up information and talked about it on other websites that I used to try and bring attention to it, I keep track of the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until it aired, and I began to prepare a small party for myself for when it premiered (aka I just tried to find some cool snacks or shit to eat while I watched it but w/e) I'm very, VERY happy to say that my expectations were exceeded. I was expecting a cute little SoL anime with schoolgirls on a boat, and it met all of those expectations until the very end when it threw a GIANT curveball. I'm someone who appreciates simplicity at my core, and mega complexity that goes heavy on the tension has no appeal to me - yet, this episode managed to have a lighthearted and fun first half before absolutely kicking shit into gear during the second half. I loved it. I can't wait for next week's episode! |
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| that's a cute cat and they alredy let little girls drive tanks around so why not let them drive warships too seems legit but cool twist at the end |
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| Things got real near the end. O__O Mixed reactions to HaiFuri in this thread. I liked it, personally. This is so much better than KanColle. With the exception of Anne-Happy(which had a pleasant and funny first episode), the "cute girls doing cute things" shows this season have a gimmick(not sure if right word). Bakuon has motorbikes, and HaiFuri has ships. The ending piqued my interest, so we'll see where this one goes. |
| I'm surprised the average score is below 7 right now. This is pretty much just like Girls Und Panzer already, and that's a good show too. Guessing it will rise as more episodes come out and the people who are immediately turned off by it don't count for its score anymore. |
| "My tables-meet it is I set it down That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain." |
| This is pretty damn interesting! I wonder what that teacher was doing. |
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| So either this is actually trying to serious, or it's going its furthest to make us think it'll be serious. |
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Lisbon said: This was my most hyped anime for the Spring 2016 season - I religiously looked up information and talked about it on other websites that I used to try and bring attention to it, I keep track of the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until it aired, and I began to prepare a small party for myself for when it premiered (aka I just tried to find some cool snacks or shit to eat while I watched it but w/e) I'm very, VERY happy to say that my expectations were exceeded. I was expecting a cute little SoL anime with schoolgirls on a boat, and it met all of those expectations until the very end when it threw a GIANT curveball. I'm someone who appreciates simplicity at my core, and mega complexity that goes heavy on the tension has no appeal to me - yet, this episode managed to have a lighthearted and fun first half before absolutely kicking shit into gear during the second half. I loved it. I can't wait for next week's episode! That's how I was like for Joker game. I didn't know about this series until I looked at what's new. Personally I don't understand the hate it's getting. There are some that hate the moe genre... Then why watch it? Then there are others complaining the change... Why? Isn't it better for it to differentiate itself from Girls und Panzer? Better than it being a copy-pasta of GuP. And IMO, this is billion times better than kancolle. I watched kancolle because it's navy, but they aren't real ships nor did they have any realistic battles. This on the other hand fill my criteria of a naval series. I don't care if these are moe girls, I'm thinking more of the ships. Of course if the series make the plot interesting, it will get a high score from me. And it also satisfied that demand. I normally don't worry as much about characters, though it would be great if they get development. Though the ship CGI wasn't the best, crazy amount of detail was put in. They had even the rifling put in. And it seems quite obvious it was a set-up by the instructor. For anyone complaining how she got ahead, if you looked at when MC was talking with her childhood friend, you should see the LCS leave much earlier than the fleet. The instructor probably sabotaged the ship so it'll be late. Then met up mid-way and attacked(speed is not important, that can be changed) Also, the LCS was hiding from the main fleet anyways... Or it could of just went off alone. Not like the fleet were ordered to follow the instructor. As for the LCS's crew, I'm not sure if they are on her side(most likely) or were attacked and replaced. While she purposely missed to probably not cause any notable damage. So if Harekaze gets seized, the crew can't prove the LCS attacked first as no damage is actually done. But the attack will still provoke self-defense and Harekaze counter-attacks. Based on the damage and splash, it appears the training torpedo is replaced with live rounds. This allows her to call in as mutiny. Even if Harekaze calls in to HQ and tell their side of the story, they have no evidence to prove they were even attacked. Also as someone said, the instructor might of picked the less competent student as captain for an easy prey, but I'm not fully on board with that theory. Of course, it's a pretty interesting one nonetheless. The real plot hole is how do you get lost when in formation with the rest of the fleet, in clear weather? Even if you broke down, would at least one other ship stay with you if you are not returning back to base? |
zcv45Apr 10, 2016 7:51 PM
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| Really great start. I thought it was going to be slice of life from what I saw before hand but shit got serious in the second half! I wonder just how serious this series will get? Definitely a fan so far with the cute girls and ship battles! |
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| I was not expecting this but am pleasantly surprised. |
| Military moe?! I'm fucking sold. First ep was awesome. Really hope they don't fuck it up with trying to make the show dark and failing at it. |
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