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| I mean...it looks pretty good, but that's about it. Did not really like this 1st episode that much. Half the episode I was on my phone lol. Does not help that it's confusing AF for anime only people I'll give it another episode, b4 I decide to drop it. Gonna be Tales and God Eater once again, looks great, but the other aspects of the show garbage Ufotable you're on a losing streak right now, pick up your game ffs ( will be REALLY funny if the A1 pictures Fate does really good, when Ufotable could have easily picked it up. ) |
DoctorWasabiJul 1, 2017 4:23 PM
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| meh, only thing cool thing bout it was the fight scenes. also I can see people easily writing this show off as yaoi bait but they might not be wrong. |
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| Meh another fujoshi anime. 1/10 dropped. |
| Pretty solid start. Animation is nice and the premise seems somewhat interesting. Will keep watching. |
| Very interesting and very good. I like the battles scenes, they are all quite exciting so far. Looking forward to watching more of this. |
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Loyalty06 said: vikki7783 said: Lmao it's fine, and yeah I agree completely! Historically Hori is much older than Kanesan (who is actually the youngest out of everyone in the game I believe?) as well, so it's weird that they did that. Hopefully they make Hori more like he is in the game in future episodes. sorry to intrude on your convo.. on the subject of characterization, though hori feels forced, i think this will shut up the hori haters who keep saying he's all "kane-san X3" with no personal struggles. as for izumi, he didn't come off as too cool, he was just pretty serious and acting like the historical hijikata and kinda disregard hori sometimes in the game. I even like the fact that they followed the game's strained relationship between mutsu and shinsengumi swords, which hanamaru completely ignored with mutsu and izumi. I think the rookie aura coming from hori is just him new and passionate. kane san feels like a strong figure in the citadel hh, its interesting to hear your take on it- but to me Izuminokami doesn't feel entirely like himself. I feel like ufotable just opted to scratch the surface of his characters coolness and put in more of Hijikatas character than the traits that made him different from his master ( this is going by episode one alone and it might change in future episodes but for right now its like discount Kanesan ). And my main problem with Horikawa as stated above is that he doesn't feel like himself either. In fact, he feels like he's further off from his self which if you looked into the many adaptations in which he appears in ( not just Hanamaru, but the anthologies and such ) is not like how he is presented here. Horikawa isn't just like " kanesan XD )" all the time like haters would have you believe. He's mature and level headed and keeps his immature partner in check which was nice about his character. It feels weird to me that izuminokami thus far is taking the leading role in their relationship when in every other adaptation, its not like that. Not to mention that the insecure rookie being taken under the wing of the cool, more experienced character that's been there longer thing is nothing new and has been done before in many other animes. It won't be long before Horikawa goes through his generic confidence building character arc. i feel like is is just the beginning of ufotable taking many liberties with the characterization , all of which are just shortcuts to make them easier to write and more recognizable to anime fans that know nothing about the source material or the things connected to it. If there's anything that was good about hanamaru it was the way the characters were written! They felt like their game selves but expanded on ( Though i will admit i took issue with the way yamatonokami was written and how flanderized hasebe was ). I'll have to watch more episodes to see how ufotable will go about writing them, But I'm pretty much anxious about how tey might butcher the characterization of swords that have yet to appear. |
| I'll at least be getting my weekly dose of eyegasms from this anime. As for the writing itself, it's kinda iffy. As someone who has played a game a slight bit, I found some sort of enjoyment to it, but this series will probably be appealing to those who are fans of the game. No matter what, this will be better than that fujoshi-pandering series, Hanamaru XD 3/5 |
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| No idea what's going on here. They're trying to prevent history from changing, I think. Why there's some random young kid with all these badass swordsmen I just don't know. There was a talking fox and it went awooooo, so I did like that. Gorgeous visuals by ufotable, of course. |
| ufotable and its visuals It's so weird to watch Kane-san (Sorey's VA), now being the one who is not the typical "I need to save them all" like Kunihiro and now the grown-up among the two of them. XD |
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anytime i see Touken Ranbu i instantly think of that game that is pretty much one of those games that appeal to the Fujoshi/ Yaoi crowd or just "pretty boys" on a simpler term ya know since it's target audience is female not that hard to come to such a conclusion. was planning to watch this because of my bias for Ufotable but it was expected just as much as when you watch a kyoani show that it would visually look very nice ,rest is debatable thought the show just didn't want to feed any info to us but it turns out it expects you to know all of this stuff already so i'll give it a few more since all male choices so far don't inherently seem too tropey |
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emilyhime19 said: Mormegil said: No idea what's going on here. They're trying to prevent history from changing, I think. Why there's some random young kid with all these badass swordsmen I just don't know. There was a talking fox and it went awooooo, so I did like that. Gorgeous visuals by ufotable, of course. Which young kid are you talking about? The normal kid with the swordsman. He was there the entire episode. Didn't seem to really fit in. |
| I surprisingly enjoyed this quite a bit! |
| Art is horribly inconsistent, fights are terrible, writing is complete trash. If you're going to put a retarded scared child on a team of elite time travelers, you have to say WHY in the first episode or people should not bother watching the second. They had a big lead up with them traveling to the site they could have used for all sorts of things, instead it was wasted and then made irrelevant by the rest of the team just teleporting in with no explanation. Not to mention no one seemed the least bit interested in a bizarre tanuki monster companion. What can I say that is good about it? Well I guess it didn't give me HIV. |
Djengo said: . Pretty good start now hopefully it doesn't meet the same fate as Tales of Zestiria. ^ exactly this !!! |
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emilyhime19 said: Mormegil said: The normal kid with the swordsman. He was there the entire episode. Didn't seem to really fit in. Both of them are swords that were manifested as human form. He looks younger because he is a Wakizashi but he is actually older than the other one. Thank you for the explanation. |
| i was a bit confused to what was going on, but i'm sure the next episodes will clear that up. animation looks good as expected of ufotable and the guys are looking π |
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| The animation (minus that CG) was goood but the story was ehhh ok. |
| The animation is top-notch as expected of ufotable. But it gives me the same vibes as Tales of Zestria, in japanese-style. The setting and the mix of these weird monsters with the old-era dont really suit imo.. |
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| Positives: - unlimited budget works strikes again. Everything but the character faces were drawn and animated beautifully. - story and pacing seems decent enough. Much better than Hanamaru. Negatives: - 5 mins in and I'm ready to drop kick that kitsune character to Mars. Seems just out of place and his voice grates on me. - I see ufotable still doesn't know how to animate facial expressions. Just like Tales, everyone seems to have that flat frozen look, and way too bright compared to the background. Just jarring considering how awesome the rest of the show looks. Heck, the background characters in town appear to have more life in them. All in all, an ok show so far. Hopefully it's more Fate than Tales... |
| I'm going in blind on this and I gotta say that it sounds and very promising. It's basically 2 factions, the time guardians that protect history, and the other one that wants to change it. I won't speak about the animation anything cause eyegasms are already expected from every ufotable anime. I really liked the episode, and I'm glad that this time it won't be fujo-bait *cough* Hanamaru *cough*. Looking forward to the next episode!! |
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| Decent episode first up with astonishing yet typical Ufotable animation, steady pacing and an average Opening. Good work to bring in all the characters of the crew and provide a brief explanation of the storyline. My highlight of the episode was when the Master brought in his whole crew in order to fend off the pawns. 7/10 for me.. |
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| quite impressed tbh the ending was great and also the scene where kane said "you want to change history just by saving a few people?" gave me goosebumps this is already better than tales of zestiria |
| Ufotable is officially Michael Bay of anime - multiple works that look exactly the same use exactly the same tricks and share exactly same action scene storyboards with each other. You watch this and there's no real difference from God Eater, Zestiria or UBW - the character designs, the storyboarding, the amount of special effects to obfuscate lack of substance. OP seems great tho, but alas I already have summer popcorn show with Apocrypha so IDK if this is owrth continuing. |
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| Mediocre first episode, I will wait 2-3 more episodes before deciding if dropping it, but I'm already mentally prepared for ufotable animating quite awesomely another terrible story as usual. |
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| I'm watching this because of Kanesada so this episode was good enough. Didn't expect anything from the story tbh. |
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amber-meido said: what do you mean with op ? opening?The first episode was fine, I guess. As per usual, ufotable's animation is fantastic. Good op, pretty backgrounds, and not to mention some good fight scenes. I think they could do better with the introduction though, it felt kinda rushed, which might confuse some people who's on this show knowing nothing lol. Really looking forward for the next episode. I don't expect an A-tier story, but still curious to see how ufo will deal with the game's setting and plot (considering it kinda has none in the original source material, with exception maybe some character interactions). I can see that they're going all-out with it, like featuring a Saniwa (who's the player avatar in-game btw) which is quite risky for some fans. I really hope with this direction, the show would be able to stand on its own, without relying too much on fans' hype. |
| A high quality animation that always impresses me when I watch a series produced by Ufotable. However the plot is not very interesting and I feel we will still have generic characters (like most animes from video games) with predictable interactions. I wait until episode 4 if there is an improvement for the story, otherwise I drop. 3/5 |
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| 10 Minutes in, nothing is happening. hmm, but the animation is gorgeous. just for that i might watch till the third episode. |
| the animation and fights are good, but the rest isn't very interesting. well it's just the first episode. |
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| So it's like Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru but it's by ufotable so it's beautiful and x times better! (Hanamaru was a shit and I don't even know how I watched it till the end, and it have a 2nd season MYGOSH) at least here that's pretty |
TitadouJul 2, 2017 4:24 AM
| The animation and art was great which was exoected. Character designs looked decent. I hope next episode explains more about what is going on. |
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| animation was superb...but can't seem to get into it.... |
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| the animation looks reaaaaally pretty i might be biased cause it's touken ranbu after all but im really excited to see the next episode ufotable is doing a great job |
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