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| Episode 0 did it's job. I am excited for episode 1. I enjoyed it. |
| For 1st episode it was good, a solid introduction to the series that drops a bombshell of a revelation at the very end. I was already interested in the series due to premise alone but this pretty much cemented it. I will follow this series with interest, especially since the main story will have a lot of serious and brutal moments. I am also interested in will the main due meet again and get to have their love life intact, now in the far future. |
| I'm glad they included episode 00, many other anime don't include the background to what lead to the point of when the story started. |
| The prologue ep was nice, I'm looking forward for the rest. Hopefully it won't disappoint my expectations :) |
| Hmm not sure what to think especially with him being a step child with most the parts leading up to the assassination. I will say the setup at least makes me curious what happened while he was in suspended animation so I guess it did it's job. There are craters when he gets a view of the city. Although the buildings are still standing so I am wondering what kinda of conflict happened and what kind of weapons. Can't be nukes because it would have leveled the near by buildings.  |
| ohh man , i smell a peak! @07:25 did she ??? uhh lmaoo okay i thought something was gonna happen the speed the whole relationship happend. thought it was an isekai, but no it's time skip. damn it's really sad to think about if towasa is still alive after 200years she had to live all those 200 years alone thinking about that moment. and she had treated him built a machine to kept him alive in hope of him waking up again.😭 this shit got me in the feels in an one episode... 9/10 ! really exited for the anime! |
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| Very solid episode, as expected from a PA works original, episode 0 did its job, I’m excited fot ep 1 and the rest of the series but like someone else said, I also felt like the art was a bit rough for PA standards, hoping that improves for ep 1 |
| It seems episode 1 0 is just an introduction. As I had a bitter experience last season (I mean Kijin Gentoushou that had a good first episode and...), I'm still skeptical about the show. |
kuroneko99Sep 30, 11:05 PM
Reply to the_great_prince
@ultramb Thank god I'm not the only one who thought she did "something" in that moment. She was looking at photos of him shirtless, told the AI to leave her alone, turned to the other side, was cleverly obscured by the teddy bear, and washed her hands afterwards. They must have put that scene of her washing her hands for a reason, right?
| @the_great_prince yep , gotta be that. lol |
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Reply to NeonNinja1119
I wanted to like this but it really feels like the show is saying that putting regulations on generative AI is bad because it would cause the cute anime girl who made it to be sad, especially with this screenshot which is almost literally ripped straight from an ai bro's Twitter account
Call me a boomer or whatever, but unless the show's stance on unimpeded AI development changes further into the story, I think I'm gonna have to sit this one out.
Call me a boomer or whatever, but unless the show's stance on unimpeded AI development changes further into the story, I think I'm gonna have to sit this one out.
| @NeonNinja1119 Generative AI is not the topic here. Rather, Artificial General Intelligence and humanoid robots utilizing that. |
| Interesting, but flawed. A multi-billion dollar company with zero security? That room was full of VIPs and rich people, but someone walks up & stands there with a gun? Very silly. "The bullets went all the way through" but didn't hit her, huh? Kind of makes his sacrifice pointless 😉 (Ok, the bad guy missed her because he got in the way, but still.) A company that massive would have everything ironed out long before it became a problem. Sure there's "other forces" involved but that's business! Will watch, but on a pretty short leash I think. Another busy season with 3 full series from last season still "on hold" too! |
| As for androids and actual Ai (not the LLM nonsense being passed as "Ai" lately, the real deal she talks about in the show). First use of androids: workers. We are here: they need not look like humans, just do things humans can do. Like weld auto-parts or take food orders. Still room to grow, like self-driving cars, but tech is advancing pretty fast. Second: Sex Toys. 5 - 10 years away. Ok, this does require human-like androids. Or not, you do you! But there's a ton of money here and the side effect will be even more jobs being undertaken by humanoid robots. Like... Third: Security. Why hire fragile & traitorous humans when you can buy a perfect security robot that will do anything to protect you? Your daughters (and sons!) are safe with a robot guardian. And robot pool-boys & domestic help too. Now, trusting the people who build and program them is of utmost importance! And making them hacker-proof is essential. But when society starts falling apart due to steps 1 & 2? The very rich will be willing to pay for the safety of their families, friends and businesses. Unlike this show, where security is practically non-existent :/ |
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@NeonNinja1119 Generative AI is not the topic here. Rather, Artificial General Intelligence and humanoid robots utilizing that.
| @ppaaccoojrf I've seen media with plots about actual artificial intelligence, but the way the characters in this show discuss and use their version of AI is a lot more reminiscent of modern GenAI discourse than your typical Terminators or Ghost in the Shells. I'm not saying the show is EXPLICITLY about generative AI, but it absolutely feels like the story was written to be a thinly veiled allegory for it. |
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| It was quite rushed, felt like it should of been 3 episodes. |
| Amazing ep CD kinda reminds me of Detective Conan. AI getting real strong ngl. Love Akira and Towa's relationship. AI getting real suspect now..... Bruh Akira really died, but what happened to Towa??? Thought he got isekaied, but instead he's in the future??? Literally watched this bc of the confession scene that I found on twitter, hopefully the full szn is great. 10/10 |
JayDaAnimeLordOct 2, 9:14 PM
 "Hard work is worthless for those that don’t believe in themselves" - Naruto Uzumaki I rate by enjoyment |
| I think it’s pretty obvious Towa’s AI becomes the blonde, who then uses Towa’s appearance and private info against Akira. She did say she was jealous of their relationship or human lives. Which means the AI pet might have gotten a humanoid body too. Being 2039 and easily being able to assassinate someone the traditional method really took me out of this. Not to mention the cryogenics lol |
| Typical obscurantist religious fanatic scum at work doing their utmost to try to damage and destroy everything beautiful and ascendant in the world and try to keep humanity, its collective knowledge and intelligence, abilities, and civilization itself as primitive, relegated to the dirt, and constrained as possible. Hopefully in the end they'll be thoroughly crushed to dust. And by they I mean guys like the assassin/attempted assassin, whatever ideological movements are in support of him and his actions and fostered an environment to give rise to such a person and an act in the first place, and any and all political and financial forces behind and backing these troglodyte vermin. Of course, the story in the end might go in a totally different direction and prove not really about that, but either way this lowlife PoS is on my short list of most hated semi-anonymous nameless/faceless film and TV characters for now, and I've seen a lot of them. Along with the fundie space transport bomber in Contact. Death would be too merciful for them. |
| was rolling my eyes the whole fucking time. she's famous enough to have paparazzi but no one notices them in public? and security just lets some guy with a gun run up on stage? have a little consistency, jeez. don't really care for the step-sibling romance, but ah well. |
“No matter where you go, everyone’s connected.”   |
| I'm on it at 100% !!!! It's very promising and the plot very captivating me, it could be super great! |
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| It's always sad to see such a cute couple getting destroyed in very first episode. This is kind of peak Wincest(somewhat) I crave for. They were so cute. Alas.. Ai Kayano is sooo good . But tbh implanting ai chips in spinal cord is kind of messed up without context. Not bad of a start... |
Reply to BEaSTPadwal15
@ShiroAlex Forget that, this is Japan, where did he even get a gun from?
| @BEaSTPadwal15 Unless it was printed on a 3D printer, I can't find any other explanation, although there is also the option of a useful idiot who was given everything to eliminate a competitor. |