Gnosia Episode 1 Discussion

Oct 11, 8:29 AM

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Haven't played the game before but the main character seems to suffer from a problem of memory loss. The main antagonist is the Gnosia and this anime gives off a combination of sci-fi and survival elements.

I'm not sure how to I feel about the animation quality yet. It gives off a game vibe but mixes in style of from the visual novel. Not a bad start though imo, plenty of potential here for storytelling.

Oct 11, 8:30 AM

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Petit Depotto's 2019 RNG social deduction VN RPG indie game getting Aniplex's treatment, it's a legit surprise.

In a somewhat similar fashion as Among Us, the space-time continuum where the main newbie character of Yuuri tries to deduce what's happening to him and the rest of the space crew with Setsu and the rest who knows about Gnosia - a deduction game where the players' time loops form a collective towards the mind-instlling memory feature as Gnos to figure out who has the Gnosia infection and isolate him/her into cold sleep, and also getting everyone in and out of the time loops as from the character perspectives.

In the same way, since everyone can and could be an enemy, Yuuri's back has several targets, one of which is the popular SQ. And the deep diving into the character time loops, Yuuri, Setsu and SQ finding themselves locked within Gina's time loop, and Yuuri having to make a choice between either Setsu or SQ on who could be Gnosia, it's Setsu chosen next to be subjected to cryo-sleep, which she passes her Silver Key to him to figure out the truth from there since his guide is gone, and the truth erupted of SQ having the Gnosia infection, which causes Yuuri to reset his time loop, back to the beginning.

MAISONdes's OP featuring some big names like Giga and TeddyLoid, it's truly a stacked artist appearance for this show.

Regardless, give this a bit of time to flesh its game-to-anime-story out.

Oct 11, 8:45 AM

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I found about this anime and game a while ago from Akarin's tweet and been waiting for the anime since. Recently picked up the game on sale as well but haven't played much due to busy schedule. Hoping for a banger season.

Oct 11, 8:48 AM

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This episode was a good introduction to the whole concept and the main rules of the "game".
Some parts are a bit unlogical, but those are needed for the game to be, well a game, so please don't be too harsh on that!
As somebody who played the game until the end, I couldn't be happier of the budget this adaptation got.

Gnosia is an indie game, similar to among us, but in a visual novel stlye without voice over.
So hearing them speak (with an outstanding seiyuu cast) and just seeing the back of their interesting designs is a delight! (originaly they only had 2D spirits)
I hope we will get some extra sceens and info about their universe and backgrounds, because the game left a lot as a mistery or only explained in text, as the game did not have a lot of CGs or nearly at all.

I'm super excited to see how the will adapt the interesting loops, and how much screentime one-one will get. And will they follow the game and introduce the new chracters little by little, or not.

Oct 11, 10:14 AM

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i think we all know what character I'm here for...

but i'd be nice if i knew what gender some of the others were.... can't simp for any future characters until i know for certain theyre girls

i guess this is the true "Among Us" anime... and not

https://myanimelist.net/anime/41619/Munou_na_Nana?q=muno&cat=anime

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Oct 11, 10:23 AM

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Kai200X

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Just came across this, and don't know what to expect.. but I guess we shall see if it will get any more interesting

Oct 11, 10:27 AM

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Maybe I'm biased by my love of the game, but I think that the first episode was really nice,,, The animation was actually better than I expected, interesting and dynamic camera shots too. They didn't have to go so hard on the voice cast but I'm glad they did lol. I hope Yuri will get some more characterization as the season goes on, it makes sense for them to be a blank slate at first, but I hope the anime will maybe stray a little form the structure of the game to make this series worthwhile even without the backing of the original material. Well, let's say I'm hyped for the next episodes.

Oct 11, 10:38 AM

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EcchiGodMamster said:
i think we all know what character I'm here for...

but i'd be nice if i knew what gender some of the others were.... can't simp for any future characters until i know for certain theyre girls

i guess this is the true "Among Us" anime... and not

https://myanimelist.net/anime/41619/Munou_na_Nana?q=muno&cat=anime

Haha, in the VN there was no voice acting so it was harder to know

Oct 11, 10:51 AM

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phantomfandom

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Interesting whodunit anime. Reminds me of previous season's Necronomico.

Oct 11, 11:00 AM

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I really enjoyed it! I'm very biased because the game is my #1 of all time, but I really do love how they've handled the concept thus far, and the changes and additions from the game are all really fun and fitting and enjoyable, so I'm happy :]

They made SQ pretty creepy! It's very fun! :D

Apparently nothing much is known about this Gnos. Some say it's an unknown intelligent lifeform, others say it's a god from another dimension... It's all speculation

Oct 11, 11:03 AM

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Reply to EcchiGodMamster

i think we all know what character I'm here for...

but i'd be nice if i knew what gender some of the others were.... can't simp for any future characters until i know for certain theyre girls

i guess this is the true "Among Us" anime... and not

https://myanimelist.net/anime/41619/Munou_na_Nana?q=muno&cat=anime

@EcchiGodMamster @talortoo As in the Arknights adaptation, protagonist is deliberately genderless to avoid the wars between yuri fanboys and self-insert waifu seekers expected in this type of adaptation. But I wouldn't be surprised if that in itself sparks controversy due to the potential non-binary nature of the protagonist, or the fan translation violating that like in the case of that CGI show about genderless diamond characters.

Oct 11, 11:07 AM

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Setsu is anime girl Erwin Smith. She began the episode with a literal meme.

So is Danganronpa, but creator at the time was playing Among Us.

Oct 11, 11:17 AM

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Reply to talortoo

EcchiGodMamster said:
i think we all know what character I'm here for...

but i'd be nice if i knew what gender some of the others were.... can't simp for any future characters until i know for certain theyre girls

i guess this is the true "Among Us" anime... and not

https://myanimelist.net/anime/41619/Munou_na_Nana?q=muno&cat=anime

Haha, in the VN there was no voice acting so it was harder to know

@talortoo

talortoo said:
Haha, in the VN there was no voice acting so it was harder to know

considering they ALL sound female i don't think it makes much of a difference lol

anyway, knowing what i know... no boobs, no attention from me lol

Oct 11, 11:47 AM

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So the first episode adapts the first loop. Okayish pacing, I hope it would be 24 episodes to flesh out more on characters and give us interesting story events. 12 episodes means they have to rush a lot.

Good point, the Anime reuses the SFX and remixes the soundtrack from the game, and the voting room looks cool. I'm a bit disappointed because the OP kinda spoil Chipie's nature tho.

Oct 11, 11:49 AM

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Reply to EcchiGodMamster

i think we all know what character I'm here for...

but i'd be nice if i knew what gender some of the others were.... can't simp for any future characters until i know for certain theyre girls

i guess this is the true "Among Us" anime... and not

https://myanimelist.net/anime/41619/Munou_na_Nana?q=muno&cat=anime

@EcchiGodMamster you can click on character profile to identify their gender, just saying

Oct 11, 12:03 PM

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But seems to me put everyone in cold sleep at once and you would have the Gnosia.
You would think LeVi could knock all people out for this.

I hope this isn't a ultimate time loop.
Looks like fan service with no man service the future is boring!

Oct 11, 12:05 PM

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Reply to kizumi91

So the first episode adapts the first loop. Okayish pacing, I hope it would be 24 episodes to flesh out more on characters and give us interesting story events. 12 episodes means they have to rush a lot.

Good point, the Anime reuses the SFX and remixes the soundtrack from the game, and the voting room looks cool. I'm a bit disappointed because the OP kinda spoil Chipie's nature tho.

@kizumi91 It will be 21 episodes. They announced it on twitter, so they don't have to rush things thank god.

Oct 11, 12:08 PM

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@EcchiGodMamster you can click on character profile to identify their gender, just saying

@kizumi91

oh ok good, sometimes they don't have information on the characters updated

Oct 11, 12:26 PM

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@kizumi91 It will be 21 episodes. They announced it on twitter, so they don't have to rush things thank god.

@MasanobuMaou That's great to know. If they really rush it, I'm gonna be mad ngl.

Oct 11, 12:34 PM

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besides the weak MC it was a good first episode

Oct 11, 12:51 PM

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Interesting first episode. Not sure how the concept can sustain a series, since there was a time loop and now we "know" who the monster was. Though the ED shows extra characters so I assume there's going to be some twist next ep which means the loops are different somehow.

Still, the premise is a bit odd. They could just put half the people into cold sleep at a time to see if the gnosia is still detected -- though I guess the explanation of cold sleep not being very safe is perhaps the justification to avoid that.

And the AI should be able to detect someone still moving around during warp, which should tell them who it was by day two regardless (though it'd still eliminate someone that night). The AI is obviously flexible enough to agree to the amogus game, so it's odd that doesn't happen.

Oct 11, 1:06 PM

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Apratim

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Damn Among us + Higurashi vibes 🔥🔥. Everytime killer will be changed i guess

Oct 11, 1:08 PM

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Kuzutans said:
I really enjoyed it! I'm very biased because the game is my #1 of all time, but I really do love how they've handled the concept thus far, and the changes and additions from the game are all really fun and fitting and enjoyable, so I'm happy :]

They made SQ pretty creepy! It's very fun! :D

Do you think they will adapt the whole game in the anime ?? And is the game ending good ?? don't wanna get disappointed lol, ep 1 was pretty interesting

Oct 11, 1:47 PM

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I was waiting for this & it did not let me down. A definite will continue watching. Anime' only though.

Oct 11, 3:01 PM

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I was certainly impressed by the production quality. The dynamic camera went a little overboard, though; I had to rewind ten seconds at one point because I was so distracted by its movement that I wasn't reading the subtitles.

Anyway, I don't see how the Gnosia gets out of this particular situation alive. The A.I. is supposed to blow up the ship to protect the people not on the ship, so the Gnosia is stopped whether the humans aboard identify the threat or not. Then again, maybe that's the point. If the Gnosia want to wipe out humanity, some are just going to find themselves on suicide missions. In the same vein, if cold sleep is an effective way to stop the Gnosia, why not just insist that everybody on board be put into cold sleep until the ship can go to a Gnosia testing facility? (It would be silly to think that such a facility wouldn't be built at some point.) Honestly, the show should've done a better job showing why cold sleep can't simply unthaw people just as quickly as it freezes them. Telling the audience that it's dangerous doesn't nearly have the same impact.

Finally, the apparent protagonist is also rather uninteresting compared to the rest of the cast. I honestly didn't care what happened to them. I did care about Setsu, though, and was sad to see her put in cold sleep.

In short, the premise is actually interesting, but there are issues with the overall logic as well as the characterization of the protagonist. I'll give it another episode, but I voted that this one was just okay.

Oct 11, 3:08 PM

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i know its a remake of this video game that came out before among us, but dang does that mean among us really did copy this one eh? anyways am i just witnessing peak?! holyy the animation, the character designs and op/ed are bangers! yuri and setsu are just so gender goals too.

Oct 11, 4:11 PM

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••9/10🖖🏼

Oct 11, 4:43 PM

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really cool concept that could go very poorly if not executed perfectly.

Oct 11, 5:13 PM

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As a game it's a really fun mechanic, but I'm not sure how well it's going to work as a narrative device for anime.

The problem is the cold sleep mechanic and its ability to determine whether one of the crew is Gnosia or not. They are all doomed if it isn't found, whether by the ship self-destructing or by never being allowed to make port again, so it would be logical to, one by one, put crew into cryosleep, check, and then wake them up again; yes, there's the note that it's been banned because it's unstable but if they're doomed anyway then it's worth the risk.

Without that mechanic it works and you get something like 'They Were 11' or 'Gall Force', where there's no easy out to identify the 'demon' within, and paranoia reigns.

Of course the other problem is the timey-wimey nonsense which basically guarantees that there's no set Gnosia, otherwise the problem would've been resolved in one or two timeloops by Setsu and they'd be on their way. This would also make no sense from a narrative standpoint though, unless there's some kind of BS quantum element to the Gnosia to let them slip from one infectee to another between loops.

Oct 11, 6:10 PM

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interesting anime... will watch this one

Oct 11, 6:11 PM

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The first episode exceeded my expectations. Very interesting concept, that can go either very badly or very interestingly. I don't know how to feel about the MC yet. I get that he just woke up after amnesia, but so far from all the characters, he seems the least interesting. I hope that after this "demo game", he'll gain some confidence.
The production is amazing. I don't know if the studio saw some hidden gem in this indie game, but it's nice to see even a small source material getting such a good treatment. Can't wait to see the rest of the cast, there are some cool designs!

Oct 11, 6:23 PM

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oh damn. Among Us + Danganronpa!!!!
man, SQ is really sexy but she was sus right from the beginning and i knew she was the Gnosia.
didn't want Jina to go. rest liked her.
the cube Detsu gave Yuri is...?
haven't played the game but like others above have said, the concept is very interesting and can either be well executive or poorly executed.
only time will tell and i truly do hope it's the former.🫶🏾

Oct 11, 6:56 PM

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It’s amazing seeing one of my favorites games receive an adaptation! I think it looks beautiful and I really love how the UI from the game is integrated into the world of the show. The art and animation is great too! Also, knowing how good the story is I know this anime is going to be one of is not the best of the season, possibly the year! (Hopefully all time!!) 10/10 and it’s only up from here.

I’m excited to see to rest of the adaption and see how the story develops and characters come to life I’ve been waiting all year for this moment! 😭❤️

I must also confess a sin… I too, voted Setsu out when I played.

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Oct 11, 7:40 PM

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First ep was pretty good. I guessed SQ from the get go only cause of how lascivious she looked and that she was just doing too much.

Oct 11, 7:41 PM

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Interesting episode, I can't wait to solve the puzzle

Oct 11, 7:48 PM

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Actually, forget the coldsleep problem, there's a much more fundamental, premise-destroying flaw...

LeVi, the computer. Okay, a couple points:

1- Internal sensors: The computer knew exactly where everyone was at any given moment, as shown when Yuri's visitor was told to leave his room and return to hers. Now, even if we hand-wave that they're disabled during warp when the Gnosia can wander around while humans are unconscious, there's the little problem of the restraints. Yuri was tied into bed to secure him for the warp, so anyone else would be too, right? Then when the Gnosia got up and went murder-rambling it would have to leave those computer-controlled restraints, leaving a hardware-based record that could be used to identify them.

2- Uhhh, it can detect a Gnosia onboard? If they have a detector, then they can isolate all the crew into separate hermetically-sealed spaces far enough away from each other to prevent interference and be done with it. Or if it somehow messes with the sensors until it's put in cryo, toss crew one by one into a disable escape pod/lifeboat/whatever they have, tethered to the ship, and scan it then.

There are only two cases that would invalidate these methods: One would be if the Gnosia can corrupt/control the computer, at which point they may as well just walk out the airlock already, and second would be if there was some kind of Vault-Tec level psychological experiment going on here and the computer is playing referee and recorder all in one.

Basically this has great mechanics for a game but starts falling apart hard as a story.

Oct 11, 8:09 PM

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No thank you... this anime has horrible janky 3D

and the main plot is basically "Among Us" in anime form.

dropped.

Oct 11, 8:56 PM

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Kuzutans said:
I really enjoyed it! I'm very biased because the game is my #1 of all time, but I really do love how they've handled the concept thus far, and the changes and additions from the game are all really fun and fitting and enjoyable, so I'm happy :]

They made SQ pretty creepy! It's very fun! :D

Do you think they will adapt the whole game in the anime ?? And is the game ending good ?? don't wanna get disappointed lol, ep 1 was pretty interesting

@Apratim I like the game ending a lot! It takes a lot of work to get to the true ending, though!

I hope they adapt the whole thing, but I don't think doing so in 20-something episodes as I've heard the anime will be would be the best idea? It really depends on how much they adapt per episode ^^

Apparently nothing much is known about this Gnos. Some say it's an unknown intelligent lifeform, others say it's a god from another dimension... It's all speculation

Oct 11, 9:06 PM

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It's certainly intriguing! And the characters are quite flashy - in a good way.
I dislike the inconsitencies, but they might be on purpose, so I'm not really judging that yet.

Oct 11, 9:12 PM

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another among us or danganronpa like anime. and this seem like anyone who left behind in the last one is always end up being gnosia... and the protagonist also seem like looping that process 🤔

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Oct 11, 10:38 PM

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ok so this is anime among us, honestly don't know how it will be good as a full cour or more

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Oct 11, 11:03 PM

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I'll say what's already been said....it's among us the anime.

Oct 11, 11:17 PM

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Reply to Tarrian

Actually, forget the coldsleep problem, there's a much more fundamental, premise-destroying flaw...

LeVi, the computer. Okay, a couple points:

1- Internal sensors: The computer knew exactly where everyone was at any given moment, as shown when Yuri's visitor was told to leave his room and return to hers. Now, even if we hand-wave that they're disabled during warp when the Gnosia can wander around while humans are unconscious, there's the little problem of the restraints. Yuri was tied into bed to secure him for the warp, so anyone else would be too, right? Then when the Gnosia got up and went murder-rambling it would have to leave those computer-controlled restraints, leaving a hardware-based record that could be used to identify them.

2- Uhhh, it can detect a Gnosia onboard? If they have a detector, then they can isolate all the crew into separate hermetically-sealed spaces far enough away from each other to prevent interference and be done with it. Or if it somehow messes with the sensors until it's put in cryo, toss crew one by one into a disable escape pod/lifeboat/whatever they have, tethered to the ship, and scan it then.

There are only two cases that would invalidate these methods: One would be if the Gnosia can corrupt/control the computer, at which point they may as well just walk out the airlock already, and second would be if there was some kind of Vault-Tec level psychological experiment going on here and the computer is playing referee and recorder all in one.

Basically this has great mechanics for a game but starts falling apart hard as a story.

@Tarrian this is my biggest problem with the first ep as well. Maybe it's explained later (no hints pls) but if it isn't that would be so disappointing. It's just such a huge plot hole

Oct 11, 11:19 PM

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I didn't expect anything and it kept me in suspense XD

Oct 12, 12:48 AM

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Setsu was such a helpful ally to Yuri. I was rooting for them to survive this game of "werewolf". But Yuri trusted SQ over Setsu and we saw how that ended.

This time loop ordeal would have me doubling down on trusting Setsu. But I'm curious to see what Yuri does.

Oct 12, 2:58 AM

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The credits in the show don't list LeVi's VA, who I'm pretty certain is Saori Hayami, but she's listed here as some character we haven't seen yet.... kinda strange for an anime to just not list a VA in an ep right?

Oct 12, 3:49 AM

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Having played the game before, this first episode exceeded my expectations. It's going to be good.

Oct 12, 5:02 AM

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EcchiGodMamster said:
i think we all know what character I'm here for...

but i'd be nice if i knew what gender some of the others were.... can't simp for any future characters until i know for certain theyre girls

i guess this is the true "Among Us" anime... and not

https://myanimelist.net/anime/41619/Munou_na_Nana?q=muno&cat=anime

Bisexuals have no such weaknesses, we simp for them all!

Oct 12, 5:21 AM

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I love this, I love AMOGUS

anyway, that was dumb of them, Yuuri was the obvious first choice then Racio then SQ and it's an ez crewmate win

Oct 12, 6:42 AM

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Interesting concept, came in knowing nothing and had a blast. I'm sold and hyped.

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