DO NOT discuss the source material beyond this episode. If you want to discuss future events or theories, please use separate threads.
DO NOT ask where to watch/download this episode or give links to copyrighted, non-fair use material.
DO NOT troll/bait/harass/abuse other users for liking or disliking the series/characters.
DO read the Anime Discussion Rules and Site & Forum Guidelines.
DO NOT ask where to watch/download this episode or give links to copyrighted, non-fair use material.
DO NOT troll/bait/harass/abuse other users for liking or disliking the series/characters.
DO read the Anime Discussion Rules and Site & Forum Guidelines.
| Not usually a fan of this specific setting but ep 1 was good. |
| The sword that takes life gives life |
Lord_of_Isekai said: Helvets said: But seriously, nothing you said is revelant to the point I made. The episode was BORING, characters were UNINTERESTING, action was LACKING. And yes, a GOOD SHOW (be anime, series, manga, etc) INDEED give enough characterization in ONE EPISODE. And bro, an anime is made to spread and create more fans that didn't read the original material. Screaming "read the webtoon/manga" is the acknologment that the anime FAILED in its main objective: engage more people. Relax, think straight. You don't need to get offended because a show you like is bad. For example, I like watching (really, anime only) Black Clover. This shit is bad, but so bad, that I can't even describe. But is the mindless entertainement sometimes I need. Just cause my user id tag is Lord_Of_Isekai doesn't doesn't mean i only watch isekai, i have other interests as well. What i ment was episode one is an introduction to the universe so naturally they can't only focus on action or only on exposition, they need to find a balance. Continue watching more stuff will be revealed it just takes time. I was only suggesting for you to read the webtoon so that you could get all the characterization sooner rather than later. You seemed to think that this is the kind of show to drop all the characters background info in one episode, just wanted to let you know that this is the type of show that slowly reveals character motives over time as the story progresses so hang in there it gets better "It gets better" I swear this has to be a catchphrase for all ToG fans lmfao imagine having to wait for it to get good when the series was hyped as being amazing Mod Edit: Modified quote of edited post. |
DeadlyRavenApr 10, 2020 6:24 AM
 |
| Read the webtoon years ago and dropped it a long time ago as well so don't rmb much. First episode seemed really fast but it was still quite enjoyable. OP and ED sure are underwhelming. Sounds are quite nice though. I quite like the art style although Rachel is much prettier than what I remember. |
Lelouchgeass_ said: SouthRzVa said: Wasn't expecting much but it still was disappointing in a way. Sure, the art-style has certain charm and I kinda like it but honestly, aside from the fantastic OST (Kevin Penkin, Thank You!), the story as well as characters and their motivations didn't really impress me. Particularly, I hope Bam can grow a pair sooner rather than later because her wimpy attitude isn't really of my liking. And that Yuri girl... she couldn't have been more annoying even if she tries. Anyways, it's just the beginning so let's see what this setting can offer. By the way, I'm not familiar with the source material so I don't know whether to consider this series as a shounen or seinen yet. I know they are not genres technically speaking but you get me. read the webtoon. you can't just dismiss valid criticism with "read the webtoon" It's most likely that they will have the same opinions about it lmao |
|
HotPocketChris said: this is rip. i thought this anime was gonna be good but its sitting with a fat 7.8 score wtf. Well, if you randomly check some of the users that said it was the masterpiece. You might noticed some of them were recently created just for this anime. Remember the incident with Interspecies Reviewers on MAL |
Fuwa_sanApr 7, 2020 5:19 PM
| MALoween✟Mansion (2024) Candy Basket 🎃: |
xkazutox said: I wouldn't expect it to drop that much. I you look at other site, it's more or less the same. Anilist has it at 7.2, Kitsu at 77.5, anime plate at 4 star out of 5 and baka-updates at 8.76. Also, it seems the cleaning already has been done, there is zero review and I saw a lot of complains about review this week.HotPocketChris said: this is rip. i thought this anime was gonna be good but its sitting with a fat 7.8 score wtf. Well, if you randomly check some of the users that said it was the masterpiece. You might noticed some of them were recently created just for this anime. Remember the incident with Interspecies Reviewers on MAL |
Turtles_Hunter said: xkazutox said: I wouldn't expect it to drop that much. I you look at other site, it's more or less the same. Anilist has it at 7.2, Kitsu at 77.5, anime plate at 4 star out of 5 and baka-updates at 8.76. Also, it seems the cleaning already has been done, there is zero review and I saw a lot of complains about review this week.Well, if you randomly check some of the users that said it was the masterpiece. You might noticed some of them were recently created just for this anime. Remember the incident with Interspecies Reviewers on MAL Yea, I noticed reviews are constantly got taken down but wasn't sure if that's from cleaning or by the users who were just trolling. |
| MALoween✟Mansion (2024) Candy Basket 🎃: |
xkazutox said: Turtles_Hunter said: I wouldn't expect it to drop that much. I you look at other site, it's more or less the same. Anilist has it at 7.2, Kitsu at 77.5, anime plate at 4 star out of 5 and baka-updates at 8.76. Also, it seems the cleaning already has been done, there is zero review and I saw a lot of complains about review this week. Yea, I noticed reviews are constantly got taken down but wasn't sure if that's from cleaning or by the users who were just trolling. i've taken part in reporting the reviews to have them taken down since they don't follow the guidelines and just review the webtoon anyways |
|
| Uhhhhhh... im so confused what the fuck happening in 24 minutes... maybe i'll read the webtoon instead |
 |
Lelouchgeass_ said: SouthRzVa said: Wasn't expecting much but it still was disappointing in a way. Sure, the art-style has certain charm and I kinda like it but honestly, aside from the fantastic OST (Kevin Penkin, Thank You!), the story as well as characters and their motivations didn't really impress me. Particularly, I hope Bam can grow a pair sooner rather than later because her wimpy attitude isn't really of my liking. And that Yuri girl... she couldn't have been more annoying even if she tries. Anyways, it's just the beginning so let's see what this setting can offer. By the way, I'm not familiar with the source material so I don't know whether to consider this series as a shounen or seinen yet. I know they are not genres technically speaking but you get me. read the webtoon. Why should I? Highly doubt it will change my opinion. |
| Bam seems like another generic protagonist. I just hope he gets a character development in the future. |
 |
Asdrock said: it's really disappointing that most shounen MC are some wimp beta male, let's hope the side characters are good enough for this to be worth watching... But Bam is a cinnamon roll 🥺 HotPocketChris said: this is rip. i thought this anime was gonna be good but its sitting with a fat 7.8 score wtf. It's not bad at all. Just watch it and judge it for yourself. Mod Edit: Merged duplicated posts; please use the edit button. |
DeadlyRavenApr 10, 2020 6:22 AM
Lord_of_Isekai said: Clubby said: "It gets better" I swear this has to be a catchphrase for all ToG fans lmfao imagine having to wait for it to get good when the series was hyped as being amazing Brah, as with all things good they get better with time, don't judge a universe based on the intro, were experiencing this through Bam's perspective and he literally knows nothing. This is known as bottom-up world building. They wanted to get rid of the much complained about super exposition episode where they cut the action out and spend the entire episode giving background information on characters and world. What they're doing now is giving tidbits of information episode by episode while including action and fighting sequences. Also known as learning about the world through the characters eyes. It's still boring as hell Mod Edit: Modified quote of edited post. |
DeadlyRavenApr 10, 2020 6:22 AM
|
KanekiKen101 said: Dude, like its been one-two episode. So many of the anime that require extensive world building have their first episodes as kinda dull. One piece, hunter hunter etc. If u don't like anime that start out pretty slow for build up later, aight thats your preference. But I personally think judging an entire series based on less that 1% of the whole story is stupid, and then going to preach about how bad it is for you on community forums is pretty weak as well. i'm just giving my take on the series, no need to get offended. i've seen some shows that build up a world and they did it way better in 2 episodes than this has. Also the story is pretty predictable so that doesn't help. Mod Edit: Modified quote of edited post. |
DeadlyRavenApr 10, 2020 6:21 AM
|
| 12 pages, MAL!? WTF. What, is this a series as big as Attack on Titan or something? Crazy popular. |
| Jesus christ that opening is lame and weird for this kind of anime. |
 |
| The black stops in the opening are bad imo. They cut the animation and the feeling of the music. When the girl appeared, why would she kick his face like that? lol It was very fast compared to the animes I'm used to watch, but it was good anyway. |
 |
| This is what was generating all that hype? Nothing special or even good so far. The only thing it has going for it is Penkin's music, but even then it's far from his best. The art is rough, and sort of amateurish. Where it really fails is the writing department. I hope it gets better, but my expectations have been lowered significantly. After episode 1, I give this anime a 3/10. |
 |
| Based on some story on a site called webtoons, where I suppose normal folks can make stuff. Yet this got picked up into an actual show? crunchy roll is on a ... roll. NOt bad, at times the music and sound is great, no the most original story or plot devices, abd the animation though smooth looks choppy and almost low quality as a web comic normally does. Again, this has become the norm for anime over the last few years. At least I dig the show for some reason so far. We shall see if it rates a high mark. PLus I know the japanese have trouble pronouncing the consonant L, but I dont hear "rachel" being uttered in this. SOunds more like Lyra or Lyla. lol Oh well...these are the times we dwell in. T.T |
AnchientProphet2Apr 10, 2020 5:11 AM
| It looks exactly like webcomic, just brought to life... we all know the start was weak, but it now, after reading most of webtoon, it gives much different vibes, and it's great. Keep watching people, 3/4 of first episode was like foreshadowing much greater story. |
 |
| Thread Cleaned Try to be considerate and do not resort to abuse or trolling. We understand how popular this series is and how excited the community is about it, but opinions are going to be different and insults are unnecessary in a discussion. Please also use spoiler tags if you're talking about the web-comic. As always, single phrase posts were removed without warning. See rule 4 of the Anime Series Episode Discussion Rules. |
 challenges 🕺 forum sets 🪩 it's friday night 🕺 shrine 🪩 source 🕺 |
| Terrible directing and ugly backgrounds that are masked by how good the characters look. Boring episode overall. I don't care about Rachel and I don't know anything about anyone to care. Also, throwing a semi battle royale like that is so cheap lol. At least I liked how they didn't explained everything right away. |
| Is it just me or does the animation feel...unfinished? If that's the style fine, but not what I was expecting. The story seems okay so far, but nothing special yet. |
 |
| How come a princess get a sword that never works coz it doesn't like girls?! wtf... |
 |
| first half seemed very generic and somehow too wannabe artistic? cant stand that. tho it got better and more entertaining with the whole battle royal thing. lets see how it goes 3/5 |
| I went into this show without any prior knowledge of the story or anything else. I just knew the webtoon was supposed to be pretty good, so i recommended it to my lil bro, because it seemed to be like a show he'd enjoy ~~~ But well he told me >that show kinda sucks< and there aren't thaat many shows he dislikes so i HAD to check it out myself. None of the characters in the first episode did anything to get me interested in the show and the voice acting didn't help whatsoever... (It f** sucked) What even is the MC, are we supposed to empathize with the MC in this first episode? Because i really don't care for either the MC nor his blonde friend. Even worse was the art and animation. A lot of mistakes were pointed out in this thread already so i won't go to in depth. This is just some stuff that bothered me while watching and i still remember now. -completely black silhouettes -long stills, reused animation and zooms with little to no animation -no background? and that weird green filter -not consistent character sizes and similar -wonky art and animation -weird facial animation (or like barely any?) The biggest miss in this whole thing for me is that for an anime that is tagged ACTION, there is barely any action so far and those scenes are so awful. I'll be dropping it after watching this first episode, that's for sure. I'd rank it probably at an 2 or 3/10 for now, because i can't really think of anything i liked in this first episode, just my dislikes. I personally really enjoy webtoons and korean manhwa for their art style, but i doubt they'd work well i anime. SO just looking at the cover for the show i thought there'd be a 50:50 chance of the art and animation being really good or really awful. This turns out to be a total miss. Which sucks in this case, because i generally don't enjoy action and adventure type stories. I might watch them if they have intriguing characters or art or at least good action animations, but this seems to have neither. I understand there are a lot of people that like the show and people that dislike it and that's fine we all have different taste and different criteria on which we judge anime. I hope though for those who enjoyed the webtoon they'll like the anime as well. |
 |
| Pretty interesting first episode. I really hope this anime succeeds. |
"There is no such thing as an Anime elitist. You watch Anime, therefore, you are trash by society's standards." |
Sugaminny said: 99.99% of the actions are not in the first 5 chapters of the story lol, which is where EP1 adapted up till so far. ToG has 474 chapters published as of now, and people don't call this a "good" story after only 5 chapters, bit premature to judge that so early. Think everyone agrees that EP2 is much better than EP1, more characters, action and background are introduced. Also yea it seems like your fav series aren't generally of this genre, so different preferencesThe biggest miss in this whole thing for me is that for an anime that is tagged ACTION, there is barely any action so far and those scenes are so awful. |
yuzuruhanyuuApr 15, 2020 12:50 AM
| I love Rak's voice They did skip some parts which is understandable as the chapters are really long and there are a lot of them, nothing really important about what they skipped but |
Xander_CageApr 16, 2020 10:33 AM
 |
yuzuruhanyuu said: Sugaminny said: 99.99% of the actions are not in the first 5 chapters of the story lol, which is where EP1 adapted up till so far. ToG has 474 chapters published as of now, and people don't call this a "good" story after only 5 chapters, bit premature to judge that so early. Think everyone agrees that EP2 is much better than EP1, more characters, action and background are introduced. Also yea it seems like your fav series aren't generally of this genre, so different preferencesThe biggest miss in this whole thing for me is that for an anime that is tagged ACTION, there is barely any action so far and those scenes are so awful. Yeah it totally is different preferences. I totally get that some people really like the story and watch it for that, it's just generally not sth i'm looking for first. And yeah i understand that the first episode probably won't have the most action scenes. What i meant was mostly that the few action scenes that were in the first episode were disappointingly animated etc. for a show that is categorized as an action show. |
|
| I don't really know about this one. It's definitely intriguing, but there was so much exposition at the beginning of the episode and a bunch of random shit just kinda happening. Like what? There are monsters now? They never said anything about monsters and they didn't explain anything, but I guess they just exist. Why is Kiss-shot(geddit, because they look alike) in a sword? Why is this girl talking about random countries and kings I've never heard about? I'm not criticizing the writing, I just don't find any of these things as mysteries to be solved, they're kinda just plot holes that should be addressed in the story. On another note, even though the art style is different, for some reason, it looks off. Is it just me or is everything slightly orange/tan? and the rough line art bugs me so much. So yeah, I'm mixed but I'm enjoying what I've seen so far |
   |
| OP and ED are fucking bangers man. I like the OST overall too, this anime is intriguing the hell out of me. |
| Wtf are these character names? Rachel is being spoken like someone is holding the VA's tongue and Bam isn't Bam for any good reason. |
| What a crazy, packed first episode |
| ~ The world is not beautiful, therefore it is. |
| Trash MC, interesting art style and the bloodbath was pretty cool. Might be worth to try one more episode for the other characters. |
| this first episode is fire I'm hooked baby the characters are cool and the worldbuilding is awesome in this anime hype I can't wait for episode 2 10/10 |
 |
| I can see why people are hyping this up. There's a lot of potential here and the art looks very nice. What was the MC doing down there? It looks like the tower takes all kinds of races and species here, so the MC might not be a normal human Lol that the sword prefers men |
| pretty good so far, so I get the feeling this wont last. So thats what Kiss-shot did in the other timeline |
| "This emotion is mine alone. It is for Madoka alone." - Homura or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. |
More topics from this board
Poll: » Kami no Tou Episode 13 Discussion ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page )SingleH - Jun 24, 2020 |
490 |
by StuartMckngTown
»»
Oct 8, 5:48 PM |
|
Poll: » Kami no Tou Episode 12 Discussion ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page )KANLen09 - Jun 17, 2020 |
469 |
by kratos_aurion
»»
Aug 7, 3:07 PM |
|
Poll: » Kami no Tou Episode 11 Discussion ( 1 2 3 4 5 )KANLen09 - Jun 10, 2020 |
213 |
by kratos_aurion
»»
Aug 3, 3:43 AM |
|
Poll: » Kami no Tou Episode 10 Discussion ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page )Kyle_Kirchner - Jun 3, 2020 |
264 |
by kratos_aurion
»»
Aug 3, 3:25 AM |
|
Poll: » Kami no Tou Episode 9 Discussion ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page )Red - May 27, 2020 |
293 |
by kratos_aurion
»»
Aug 2, 2:53 AM |