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| TITLE: Cinderella Wow, Cinderella looks cute. Surely, she's innocent and kind, she's gonna be a poor girl getting abused by her stepmother and sisters, right?  ...right?  |
RealNathApr 17, 12:39 PM
| Is this gonna be a weekly series or all episodes were released at once ? |
Reply to ZXEAN
Is this gonna be a weekly series or all episodes were released at once ?
| @ZXEAN all episodes are available on Netflix I just watched E1, not sure I understood fully the motivations of MC haha but overall it was a good episode and look forward to watching more. Some nice animation here which is no surprise with this being made by Wit Studio! |
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| Best episode of the 6 imo. But the others were very good also. Got very confused when they changed characters after since I had no idea it was 6 mini-stories. 8/10 for the whole show. |
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| Variation indeed. Loved it. I wish we had some explanation of the doll though. |
| At the beginning of the story I was thinking that only the new mother and sister were the only one that the little girl was manipulating. She is an excellent actress. And that's creepy. I like this kind of new variations of fairy tales. |
| I liked the psycho Cinderella version. You don't even need to worry about that little b**ch hahaha. The way she makes herself the victim made me laugh so bad |
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| i haven't seen that many retellings of cinderella, but this variation has to be my favorite now. really good start. |
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| For me, it's tied with "Hansel & Gretel" for best episode of "The Grimm Variations" As far as classic horror tropes go (with a contemporary spin), this is amazingly effective as a whole |
LAboy456Apr 18, 5:18 AM
| I just watched episode one but I'm not really enjoying the anime. I really thought it would be like Ludwig revolution...but the pace is not very well, the "intelligent" moves of the characters don't really make sense and they always have to show you that something is wrong with the girl...treating the audience like they are stupid... |
| I like the idea, very promising, let's see what comes next. |
| Evil Cinderella was alright but I wish we got more of an explanation on why she acted this way. I get it was all a game to her but what was the purpose? Was it grieving from losing her mother? Did she actually kill her dad? I don't understand her end goal? Also what was the deal with the doll? Is it possessed or is it alive? So many questions than answers. It was an interesting take from the original but the pacing was all over the place. I do like their take on the step family. However Cinderella didn't really do anything scary/wtf and kind of annoying at times imo. Once they revealed her standing with the doll in the first 5 minutes the shock factor was gone. Her manipulating the hairpin scene or poisoning her stepmom, I mean you have seen it all before. Felt very lackluster and surface level. Maybe I have seen too many horror films but it wasn't that creepy idk. Low key wanted her step family to get a good ending, that would have been a real "variation" Makiko best character for sure, Drizella I guess. I will continue the series because it has potential but the first episode was a 6/10. Animation/art design was amazing and the soundtrack was great (I loved the ending and dance theme). Hopefully the next stories are executed better. |
TheSunLifeApr 20, 11:09 PM
| "Bro, if you set your mind to it. You can jack off to anything." βββββ |
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Variation indeed. Loved it. I wish we had some explanation of the doll though.
| @dragynfaerie the doll is the Fairy Godmother. Though, seriously, MC is just psycho and the doll talking is her hallyucination probably. Their final dialog strongly hints this. |
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| I have to admit, I expected a little more of the Cinderella variation. I was excited to see the episode was about 40minutes long, instead of your usual 20min episodes. But I feel like the twist that they gave this story was a bit boring. It was very predictable how certain scenarios would be used by the little psycho Kiyoko to frame her sisters etc. Yes, the sisters were bratty and perhaps acted spoiled, but I just didn't understand why the servants did not question Kiyoko's behaviour for 5 years straight? Either way, she did do some pretty heinous things, even murdering her own father to get what she wants. That was a pretty nice addition to her evil character. I hope the following episodes will be better~! |
 "No matter how much you regret or wish, if you couldn't do something in life... you can't do it either after death" ~ Hanako-kun (Toilet-bound Hanako-kun) |
| Cinderella? First episode to starts the season and the "dolls" were a exquisiteness! textbook psychopath! 7/10 kekeke |
| I like clamps art style for this series! I'm glad the step sisters were able to escape Kiyoko. Good luck to the count and his family now. |
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| This is what I call unexpected deconstruction and competent bait and switch. Hollywood clearly needs to learn how to do these things right, despite the fact that much of modern Western content consists of this. At first I found this reversal of sides quite weird and funny, but in the end it turned out to be a rather original, albeit crazy story in the style of late 20th century thrillers. |
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| Not bad, but very predictable. Wished they would be more subtle with the whole "Evil Cinderella" plot going on. They revealed that Kiyoko is the "evil heroine" way too early. They could've used the doll as a red herring to make it abit more supernatural, but the doll might as well not be there and the story won't change at all. It feels like the doll was there only as a tool for exposition and so Kiyoko can "monologue". Also maybe to add some some creepy-ness factor. |
| Awful and worthless. Now imagine what would it actually be to have faithful modern Grimm anime adaptations with character designs from Clamp. We definitely won't get that now. |
| I kind of went into this show with the expectations of it being "dark" considering the Grimm brothers but this was just "edge". It's also extremely unfortunate it doesn't want to commit to the full edge fest route which ends up making it feel worthless. Wit's comp team is once again responsible for the detailed close-up shots of the eyes. |
| At first, it seemed to imply that it was very similar to the original version, just with a Japanese setting, but instead, she turned out to be the devil incarnate. Lol I didn't expect such a significant departure from the original, but I liked it. |
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| Ouf, Cinderella but she's a psychopath. I was expecting something like this given the vibes I was getting from this anime but it was still a fun watch. The sisters real plan was to act rough and get kicked out. They deserved their freedom. Btw the mother looked beautiful, and that beauty mark on face, perfection. Dunno why I kept delaying watching this, started the first episode several times but didn't get past that initial few minutes. Hooked now though. |
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Reply to TheSunLife
Evil Cinderella was alright but I wish we got more of an explanation on why she acted this way. I get it was all a game to her but what was the purpose? Was it grieving from losing her mother? Did she actually kill her dad? I don't understand her end goal? Also what was the deal with the doll? Is it possessed or is it alive? So many questions than answers. It was an interesting take from the original but the pacing was all over the place. I do like their take on the step family. However Cinderella didn't really do anything scary/wtf and kind of annoying at times imo. Once they revealed her standing with the doll in the first 5 minutes the shock factor was gone. Her manipulating the hairpin scene or poisoning her stepmom, I mean you have seen it all before. Felt very lackluster and surface level. Maybe I have seen too many horror films but it wasn't that creepy idk. Low key wanted her step family to get a good ending, that would have been a real "variation" Makiko best character for sure, Drizella I guess.
I will continue the series because it has potential but the first episode was a 6/10. Animation/art design was amazing and the soundtrack was great (I loved the ending and dance theme). Hopefully the next stories are executed better.
I will continue the series because it has potential but the first episode was a 6/10. Animation/art design was amazing and the soundtrack was great (I loved the ending and dance theme). Hopefully the next stories are executed better.
| @TheSunLife I just watched this episode today, and yeah, I basically felt the same way. I don't get what the "game" was exactly. I also don't understand what the doll was either. Not great, and not impressed with this show's first episode. |
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