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| A, the bots attack ... Interesting premise. Seeing the pv i know what to expect and read once all the chapters were available ... sadly not much were But overall while been a slow episode, it was good Probably she was his fiancee, although not muc pain loosing her, because they never seen each others Cant wait division zero to be in spotlight |
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| That was some really nice direction. Loved the art style and lighting used in some scenes. Didn't really understand the whole premise of the show yet since it's just the first episode but I'll stick around and see whether the story is any good. Btw, the voice acting for the character named Misaki was superb! |
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| first episode looks promising hopefully keep like that. |
to0ha_Mar 30, 2021 5:30 AM
| It looks promising. Some still and scenes were actually like a play. Certainly, I felt I was back in the old times. Although, I am not particularly fond of being taken back to the old times' XD. The vamp breaking out was kind of well made. It was appealing to see her sway to the play. I kinda felt that it could have had a deeper meaning. I'm not a big fan of dialogue so I don't want it to be a dialogue-heavy anime but it seems to be progressing that way. It would be good if there is a proper balance between the action and dialogue scenes. Don't want another Katanagatari. Hopeful for the upcoming episode. |
| I actually liked this episode, really loved the dialogue and the atmosphere; going to rewatch this episode to make sure I didn’t miss anything - also that ED is a banger |
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| Reminds me of Owari No Seraph |
   “You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you!” ' |
Hopefully this will help someone if they're a bit confused on wtf is going on. Feel free to correct me but from my understanding
There's a few more layers/potential questions but don't want things to be too confusing. |
PecoTheHeroMar 30, 2021 2:18 AM
| I absolutely loved the soundtrack. Every song that played in this episode was amazing. I liked the art style, the sky was beautiful. Can't say much about the story yet but it looks promising. |
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| Yo, this has so much potential, it was really great. The visual style is also really reminding me of Kizumonogatari I love it. They really nailed the atmosphere of the show. I noticed early on that Maeda must be the lover, that's really sad. Deffrot is very sus though and the ED did not help lmao, right now my suspicions are that he's the one that turned Misaki into a vampire, maybe to save her? Since she had an accident, that's only my guess. The soundtrack also fucking slaps. Really looking forward to the next episode. |
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| Honestly, I can't say I disliked this episode. There was definitely a very large amount of weird and unexplained things happening but it seems like it's pretty interesting. Also, the art style is really unique; which I think is a positive thing |
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| First of all, I'm digging this art style a lot. I already love it. Then the story takes place in 1923, then we have a military premise with vampires involved. Alright, I actually enjoyed the first ep. At first, I was like what's actually going on here then it slowly turned my mind to actually think about it. Still, not sure what happened there, but I'm looking forward to this. OP is good but ED is a banger. |
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| Real quick gonna post a comment from another website since some people seem to be a bit confused. "The play/opera salome is a french tragedy about the execution of john the baptist (changed jokanaan later to circumvent the ban on depicting biblical figures in plays) written by irish poet Oscar Wilde in the early 1890s. In the play the princess salome is a a large banquet when she hears the prophet jokanaan preaching about how much of an incestuous whore her mother is while imprisoned in a well nearby. She hears that he is a young man and is intrigued at what kind of person would have the balls to talk shit about the queen so she demands the guards to take him out an show him to her much to the guards dismay. As soon as she sees jokanaan she falls in love with his beauty and asks to touch his body, but jokanaan realizes shes the daughter of the incestuous queen and is having none of it. He rejects her in the worst way immagiable, calling her all sorts of horrible shit that would get you cancelled before you can say emilia is best girl,but salome is completely unfazed. She begins to insult his body acting like she never wanted to touch it in the first place, then shifts her focus to his hair, complimenting him on how black and curly it is, begging him to let her touch it. But jokanaan aint so easily swayed and keeps insulting her, so salome switches gears again, insulting his hair and complimenting his lips instead. Jokanaan rejects her again but this time salome dosent back down, continuously asking and then demanding a kiss from him, then asking him what she must do in order to seduce him. He basically tells her to fuck off into the desert and find jesus and repent for being born from the piece of shit queen. But right then the captain of the guard who has been simping hard for salome cant take listening to her simp over jokanaan anymore, so he takes his sword and kills himself, the rest of the guards are like "yeah fuck this were putting the prophet back in the well" and throw jokanaan back in the well. Then the king comes over cause hes a sick fuck who has a thing for his daughter in law salome and is like WTF whys this guy dead. The guards say what happened and then some jews come over to talk to the king and everyone starts bickering about whether or not angels exist or not for an hour while jokanaan hurls insults at the queen from inside the well. Then the king gets tired of the theocracy debate and starts doing what he came over to do, flirt with his daughter in law. She aint having it tho and the king and queen have a very stereotypical back and forth about which parent salome likes and obeys the best like bickering couple in a failing marriage. Then the king asks salome to "dance" for him (basically like some stripper) and when she refuses he tells her she will have anything she desires if she does it, and she perks up at that idea. She agrees after getting his word that she will get whatever she wants, and dances for her father in law like a stripper. After shes done the king asks her what she wants and she says her price. "I wish for the head of jokanaan on a silver platter" she says. The king is justifiably freaked out by this request cause wtf why does this teenage girl want a prophets head, thats some real blood lust right there, but the queen thinks salome is doing it for her cause the prophet wont stop insulting her. The king eventually agrees and has jokanaan executed and his head brought to her on a silver platter. Salome is overjoyed and starts talking shit to the severed head, basically saying "you cant run now" and "i wont just kiss you ill bite your lips like a fruit" and kissed the severed head of the prophet jokanaan. Everyone watching is horrified and the king freaks out and has the guards kill her by crushing her with their shields. The End. Now i am very glad that whole fucked up story didnt get adapted here cause that was some of the weirdest shit ive read this whole year, but it does give a lot of insight on the actions of misaki. Its heavily implied that misaki is maedas fiance that hes never met, and she seems to realize that through her madness in the interragation room, and her suspicions are confirmed when he write his signature on the document. It also seems that that realization in misaki caused the salome she was playing to mark maeda as her jokanaan, and then the two personas overlapped on one goal, seeing maeda/jokanaan again. Then she breaks out but dosent kill anyone, evidence that misaki is still somewhat in control. Then comes maedas encounter with salome/misaki. Salome begins her final act as if she is already holding jokanaans head on the silver platter, and then begins to "kiss" him or in this case presumably turn him into a vampire, but the misaki takes back control and burns herself up." - Neckbeard69, from a website which shall not be named. |
 "Awoooo!" howled Holo. Fear gripped the men. Even Lawrence stepped back. Should they have seen her fangs, he had prepared a cover story: that all sufficiently angry women seemed to bear fangs. |
| the art is good/decent, the story is decent for an intro , but music definitely step it up to an amazing first episode. And its a debut job from composer, really insane. And ofc, Hyde with his English lyrics will make a best anisong in whole year. |
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| As beautiful as it was at times, the never-ending bgm was fucking exhausting. That aside, there was something very un-anime about the premier, which is enough to keep me interested for at least another week. |
| That was a bit hard to understand. I hope there is not so much wordplay and poetry in the next episodes. Visuals were the great AND THE ED THEME WAS SO GOOOOOOOD! HYDE! I've heard he is like the Ed Sheeran of Japan or something. |
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| I really liked everything about the first episode, so I wanted to share it to people. It's the first time checking a PV retroactively made me like it less. |
| eh, hago cosas en youtube. Si te pinta pasate www.youtube.com/c/verduritasparasopa |
| I'm liking the vibe and atmosphere of this anime, reminds me of kizumonogatari. The visuals and music was pretty good. Some parts were left unexplained and a bit confusing though i myself have speculations for it. First ep was interesting, imma see how this goes. |
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| Finally an interesting and artistic anime comes along and it gets dunked on? Ya'll got no taste. Sure, the pacing of this 1st ep was a bit rushed and chaotic, but I'll gladly watch a show that takes risks and experiments with the narrative over something that doesn't. Will be sticking with this show. |
| OK, serious post now: this was a fantastic episode. I MUST praise the direction and the camerawork. It was great. Also, great clues about Maeda's fiancee. It took me a while to figure it out. Now if only the blonde vampire was female... I can already see they will go on a slight shounen ai vibe, and I don't like that. |
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| That was so much better than I expected! Very climatic, 'dry', on the mature side and with fluid story progression. They took much care to present the era faithfully. Can't wait for more. |
| It started off pretty boring, but the vamp chick was pretty interesting ig. |
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| I really dig the vibes of this show. Hopefully it stays interesting. |
| Just for the A E S T H E T I C and atmosphere the episode is like 9/10, the cgi looks wonky at times, when bg people is walking in angles that's not normal to see. The story looks like it's going to be a little bit of a slowburn, with some exposition peeking every now and then but not like in a infodump, but like in a silently way. Ed 10/10 |
| That was a lot to take in, good to know "vamps" disappear in daylight. |
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| This is just really, really boring and almost makes me wish for something particularly objectionable to rant about. Vampires exist. Some actress a pretty boy twink vampire liked got turned into one and went a little crazy, but not crazy enough to kill anybody. After performing her little scene and meeting the main dude, she lets herself die. I'm not sure that her or the dude's face changed at any point in the episode. This is not a particularly animated or emotive show. Well, maybe the music, a little, but not much else. Definitely not like Twilight Maiden or Sankarea when it comes to evoking a sense of the supernatural. Just a couple stone-faced dudes, a kid dressed like a pirate, and a woman reciting theater in a setting that is not a stage. I guess the major failing here (aside from the poor production and lacking direction) is that the woman's story isn't interesting enough to sell this as an episode of the week character study kind of affair, and they don't put any real effort into selling the master plot of "vampires exist and this dude studies them" either. Dude's just plain boring. Detatched, unemotional, uninvested, drifting from one scene to the next, always with the exact same expression on his boring, dumb face. It's not just that nothing really happens, it's that this is a boring, tedious, seemingly unmotivated and disinterested person who we're supposed to follow and be using as our surrogate to interacting with this world. So yeah, I'm pretty disinterested and uninvested too. Mission successful? |
| Not entirely sure how I feel about it so far. It's intriguing though. I need more episodes to decide. |
| This was a very interesting first episode. Some jumpy editing here and there, but generally decent directing and honestly good photography. Story wise, I did 'figure out' the vampire would be major's wife by the theater scene, but I'd give it props for taking me that far - or maybe it says more about me being a dumb dumb :v I'll be keeping up with it. |
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| I liked the first episode tbf The artstyle was nice, the story seems interesting so far (there's one Review for the first episode i read that really made me realised how much you could interpret from one episode) I understand how people may not like Mars Red so far though, but personally i liked it and will be keeping up with it! |
| damn I voted that I loved this episode and there are so many "Hated it", why is that? I really liked this first ep. |
| I only came here for Ayahi Takagaki so I'm gonna be kind of miffed if Misaki doesn't come back. |
| Ah, a vampire special forces unit against the vampiric crisis, eh? Then that colonel must be a vampire too, considering that female vampire won't hesitate to seduced him so much until she decided to incinerated herself out. Too strong aura? The little one look pretty much a vampire too, i think. So, well, the premises and this headed start look cool enough and fine to be watched. But its surely left a strange feeling cause the way the art look is so classic, more like i am watching an old anime movie. Well, the year setting also an old one. So, its an understandable matter. The supposed op theme song sounded very standard, not having a big impact, the visual also fine. The story telling styles kinda bored me to doom, honestly. I hope its get an improvement by having more of engaging script, i dunno. I think that's it for now. Not so convincing start, honestly. But the vampire grand premise actually sound very well enough to let my curiosity go wild to see the next chapter.... |
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