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| After almost 25 years, renowned author Tow Ubukata's LN of Bye Bye, Earth gets its adaptation...maybe a complete one, regardless of if you refer to the 2000 (illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano) or the most recent 2007 version (illustrated by Kim Hyung-Tae). ASCA's OP is decent, though it'll take a while to get used to it. Kevin Penkin's music is still outright great. The girl, known as Belle Lablac, she's the only human being in a world of anthropomorphic animals, and someone whom the locals call her "Featureless" for her unorthodox personality, helping the fiends tackle issues like a dragon octopus going rampage at Lake Caster, who actually lost its way home and has to struggle attacking its surroundings. Her living together with Enola (instructor) Sian Loveluck as a way to live amongst an Earth where only anthropomorphic animals exist, and with her being the only outlier, as well as acquiring the sword known as the Runding, it's been her world ever since. And the only way that Belle would ever know of her origins, is to merge with Sian's blood, thereby losing her memories of him as his final lesson, after teaching her how to use Runding to each Erehwon (meaning Utopia). You can't dispute a fantasy work like Tow Ubukata does, especially when it comes to his early works like Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor and Mardock Scramble, to name a few. Bye Bye, Earth, defintely has an old-school fantasy feel to it, but Liden Films has a lot to pick up on their production. Still, this ride may feel like one of admonishment, but I'm going into this with low expectations. |
KANLen09Jul 20, 6:22 AM
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| From the person who was the script writer for the Pyscho-Pass series, every season that wasn't the first. And with music by Kevin Penkin, this has some potential. Right off the bat we got that Kevin Penkin OST as beautiful as ever. OST aside, really interesting world off the bat as well. World full of animals, to which they just start being racist to ol' girl over here. Ffs, already hate them. Animation looked decent for LIDENFILMS ig. Then we got typical mentor character voiced by Junichi Suwabe. Dude is everywhere nowadays lols. Not complaining. As usual he's killing it. Glad that at the very least her mentor isn't racist towards her and is willing to put her in the right direction to find people like her and not be critiqued for being a human for once. Power system also looks pretty interesting. Ofc, to prove herself she has to beat her mentor. Nothing we haven't seen before. OST was banging during the entire fight scene. Now it's just her and that sword against the world. ASCA's OP is a banger and a half. She just doesn't miss. Decent enough start. Nothing we haven't seen before, but again, has the chance to be unqiue. |
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| Fairly simple and straightforward start but not too shabby. Interesting take on the world where the human is the odd one out as she tries to find her own kind in this world of anthropomorphic animals. Kevin Penkin's got quite a lot of presence in this scene, whether in Spice and Wolf, Tower of God and now 'Bye Bye, Earth' as well. I've not enjoyed Ubukata's script involvements he has had with shows in the past much but as the author for the books for this, hopefully this turns out to be a worthwhile watch. |
| Solid first episode. Combat animation was solid, world seems interesting, story seems set up well even if perhaps a little cliche to start off. Production seemed all around solid. Might be a good one! |
| Never seen the novel / manga before, so there was no expectation, and it was actually a good way to start this anime. it's quite interesting, a human child born out of a stone / crystal in a world where Beastman is the normal. There are lots of little hints, about the world being an Utopia, but from the images seems like there was a major war that ruined all the surface area on most places. MC have OP strength, and a magic sword that calls out to her, but all she cares about is finding other humans like her. Interesting... Oh yeah, and the hand drawn animation and voice acting is top notch, that was unexpected as well. |
| I wasn't sure because of how generic it looks, but it was one of the stronger premieres this season. Hope the rest of the series can successfully build on that and keep the momentum. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| There are things to look for in this show, but they killed the master too fast. Couldn't feel a thing. |
| Liked this premiere, more than the other magic-action-adventure thing I've tried so far, Wistoria: Wand and Sword. Mainly the worldbuilding potential and the more subdued tone. The art and animation is decent, but it kind of felt like it was struggling to keep up with its own storyboard. And the music, of course, which was very easy to recognize as the guy who did Made In Abyss. |
| A little cheesy at first, but there's some good lore to be had here, so I hope the world building continues. I'd like to see more discovery and mystery so if it stays that way it should be really good. |
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| Been waiting for this and yep a good start with interesting world and setting. Quite interested to know why Belle is the only human and everyone else are beastmen. I could think of a few possibilities like isekai/ different planet/ evolution of everyone else except Belle cause she was stuck in a cryo sleep for long and such but won't think too much about it and wait for the reveal. Animation/visuals were good, liked the aura effect at the end there. Sad about the end if the episode though as she'll forget about him but her journey begins from here on. Excited to see it. Music was good too. Didn't know/forgot Kevin Penkin was doing music for this but the moment I heard the music I could tell it was him. Wonder if this will adapt the entire LN as it's just 4 volumes long. Maybe one cour will be a bit short. Also wonder why Belle has short hair in anime when she has long hair in the LN volume 1 illustration. Maybe she'll grow it out from now. |
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| The music by Kevin Penkin was the only thing that stood out and even then it felt a bit too overwhelming for the show, like the scenes weren't up to par with it. |
| Premise seems decent, execution seems kinda rushed. Not too bad nor too good. |
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| The sound design/OST for this is incredible |
| Censorship is vandalism. |
| I haven't understood much of the plot, but the graphics (animation, character design, world setting) seem of high level, not top tier but more or less on Wistoria level, maybe one step below, but definitely very good quality. As a tomboy fan, I like the MC girl, don't know what to expect from this series but I'm very curious. |
| Pretty good start, plus the music was nice |
| Never seen an anime scream “political agendas” as much as this one. I dislike mixing politics and anime |
ejleonJul 12, 7:10 PM
Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating.  |
| So far, it looks like this is the how this season that will be arbitrarily hated on and rated lower than many shows that are significantly worse than it. Not that it's super innovative or amazing, but as first episodes go, it was entertaining, had solid production, some cliche bits but overall seemingly a more interesting fantasy world than msot of the generic fantasy fair we get. Can't ask for much more in a first episode. |
Reply to Elendium
6.80? cmon ppl, this was the best premiere this season to me! i love the premise and the music, I instantly felt like it must be Kevin w/o looking up the artist name. I am hyped.
| @Elendium Agreed, there's usually one or two shows that start out significantly underrated each season for no particular reason, looks like it's this one this season (at least based on one episode). Can't ask for much more than we got for a first episode. |
| meh I couldn't get into this. Nothing clicked at all. Music was good, but it wasn't able to make me feeling anything for what was happening on screen. I imagine the light novel is more interesting. Shame they didn't go with the Range Murata art style from the novels either. That volume cover was more interesting than this whole episode to me. |
| I though to myself while watching... Hmm. I really like this soundtrack, like really, really like. I'm getting heavy Kevin Penkin. After I finished the episode I checked who made it and of course it was THE goat Kevin Penkin himself. xdd |
| Alone, and Nowhere? Is this supposed to be a reference to something else besides being written backwards? Action, music, OP being used as the ED for 1st ep, animation, cute protagonist girl...everything is top-notch...I got no complaints about anything, although the story is a little weird and hard to get into. From the looks of it, there aren't going to be any other humans. Maybe the furries will love it. I (unfortunately?) don't fall under that camp. I get the vibe that the feeling of being treated poorly as an "other" or an animal ironically by animal-people, is going to get stale fast. In fact, I'm already tired of it, and it was only the first episode. They're going to have to give us something else if I'm going to continue with this series. Also, that kid that got pushed got what deserved. |
| I see tomboy MC, I watch. simple as. |
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| Well it was better than most of the other crap that makes up this season, so there's that |
| eh that was okay but didn't hook me. seeing as how i'm already watching a lot of things this season, i'm not even gonna drop this, will just delete it from my list. maybe if i hear this show make noise later, will pick it back up. |
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| Kinda cringe haha, "Nowhere" and "Alone" backwards, other than that. A really good first episode, I'm deeply interested in this adventure. |
| Didn't really have any expectations one way or another but I really enjoyed this one. That opening battle with the squid-thing was fantastic. I was shocked she didn't get in trouble with the townspeople considering thanks to her it got absolutely leveled and the food got contaminated with ink. Destroyed the village to save the village. But they still paid her so I guess it's all good. Love the premise, the music, the action, and the visuals. Pacing was great too, 20+ minutes came and went like nothing. Plot I was a little confused why she had to kill the master and the reason for the curse for her to be a nomad. I had to rewatch feeling like I missed something along the way. Normally the protagonist is a human defending beast people or other demi humans from bigoted humans so this is an interesting reversal. Hopefully she doesn't find other humans too soon. |
Reply to ejleon
Never seen an anime scream “political agendas” as much as this one.
I dislike mixing politics and anime
I dislike mixing politics and anime
| @ejleon You should watch more anime then. |
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| Wow, this anime seems super promising. Amazing music, solid animation, interesting premise/story so far. It would be cool if this one is 2 cour. |
| Taking her memories and making her cut you down was harsh. |
I watch plenty … 😂 I have almost 300 watched more than you |
| Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating. |
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