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| Fuck yeah, just like the beginning of the manga. I definitely liked the manga more, but the anime isn't doing that bad so far. |
| I was so excited for this anime. I am very dissapointed so far. The story looks like it could be fucking great but the cgi was god awful. |
| I will insert Yugioh into everything and you can't fucking stop me |
ronie91 said: I think they wanted to make the bear more menacing as much as they could. But it was really exaggerated. There are better ways to portray a dangerous CGI animal without having a dysfunctional texture. But at least animal fights will not be a constant in the series lol From the sound of it they wanted to replicate Kou Yoshinari's style from the likes of Little Witch Academia and Made in Abyss but they certainly took the wrong approach there and didn't consider the right composition for the scene. A bummer honestly. |
FappaApr 9, 2018 1:02 PM
| That bear was pretty terrible, and the fight between the wolf and the bear was even more terrible. Hopefully, there won't be any more animal vs animal fights in this anime. Other than that, it was a decent first episode, nothing special. |
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| Yes, yes, the Tattoos remember me to the series of Prison Break!!! kekeke Now, the mission is to find the prisoners and "take" their tattoos :/ |
| I didn't read the manga but it's look good so far well I guess the story will focus on the relation between Sugimoto and Asirpa more than finding Gold I find Sugimoto reason to find the Gold a bit silly author could find a better reason than helping his friend wife anyway it's seem fun anime I will switch to manga later |
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| The bears looked fucking terrible. God help them. Otherwise, a really solid first episode. A different, unique story and Sugimoto seems to be cool as well as Asirpa. 7/10 episode but this can easily get way better. |
| Pretty intense start, liked Sugimoto's rage. Seems to have some powers… I really like the story of the tattoos, reminds me of the series: prison break. It seems a simple plot: catching X prisoners and then fight the endboss, curious how it will unfold. |
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| That CG though Nevertheless an enjoyable premise and first episode. |
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| Decent episode. The story seems to be interesting and the art seems to be OK. The only thing that was bad was the CG bears but I can overlook that. |
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| Decent episode, however the CGI of the bear was trash. Looks like the manga is the better option |
| Oof! Well the weird cg fire had me concerned, but the cg bears looked absolutely horrendous. And Retar wasn't much better. That aside it wasn't a bad introductory episode and adaptation of the first two manga chapters. Still have some concerns regarding this adaptation though. Only 12 episodes for an epic series like this is always gonna be concerning. I just hope they adapt what they can in that time at a reasonable pace and don't do anything stupid like push for an anime-original ending or something but...guess we'll see. |
| I always see Golden Kamuy imagens in others young jump series, so I was expecting a little more... I guess the lack of super powers/supernatural in the story's always make the action appeal a little more difficult. Also obviously the bad cgi doesn't help.. |
| Coming in blind with no knowledge of the manga at all, this was...surprisingly underwhelming for a pilot. Ignoring the CGI Bear and the animal fight, the premise is rather...idk for some reason it doesn't capture me like I was hoping it would. I'll probably stick with it to see where it goes but if I had to go off of this to see if I wanted to dive into its source and read it or something, I'd just skip over it. 3/5 for me. |
| Don't believe the hype. |
| The animation was pretty bad regarding the CG sequences, but the overall show seems good, I'll be keeping up with it. |
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| Both the CG bear and the CG wolf aren't actually all that bad looking. The problem with the bear is that he is rendered way too realistically which makes him clash with literally everything else on the screen. If I had to guess I'd say they just took some stock 3D models because they're one-offs anyway. The wolf on the other hand has a cell-shading look that... actually looks pretty decent, when you pause the video. The big problem with both of them is that the animation is kinda floaty and badly integrated. Also the wolf's animation obviously has a higher framerate then everyting else, even the bear for some reason. All that combined makes the scene look like a disjointed mess. As for the story, it actually sounds pretty interesting so I'll stick with it for now. |
NidotoNaiApr 9, 2018 1:48 PM
| Very promising start,I haven't read the manga but this episode already has me looking forward to next episode. The CGI bear looked pretty funny at first,especially here  but once it got to attacking it seemed more threatening.Idk I don't see it as a big issue but that's just me since I don't have a problem with CGI normally. |
| Holy Hell, YES! This is turning out to be absolutely everything I wanted it to be =w=. The episode already STARTED with Sugimoto channeling his inner Tanya... and somehow, it only went up from there. What kind of madman would decide to try punching a fking brown bear in the face? The kind of madman that's almost certain to be my favorite MC of this season, that's who! Also, that was some really fking good CG for the bears and the wolf, holy shit O.o. Geno Studio really fking fast-traveled down the road of animation, going from 'ech' to 'O wow' in just a bit over a season. This is definitely giving Megalo Box serious competition when it comes to being the action anime of this season for me already... God, I'm more than satisfied with this so far =w= |
| This was pretty well adapted. I'm a bit sad that the bears had to die lol but I guess it's kill or be killed here. Can't wait to see Yoshitake animated too! |
| is that the legendary Kaiji's narrator in the preview? |
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| that was like the weirdest bear in anime history |
| This is by far one of the interesting first episodes this season. Episode starts straight into action with some gore. The story about the gold is also unique and mysterious. The interaction between the characters works perfectly. The danger of the wild was also a cool addition to the episode. Finally, the animation was good except of some CGI used. |
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| I expected this to be better considering the hype around it. Regardless, I thought it was alright. The CGI bear was really off putting, then the wolf was hand drawn, then went to CGI. I don't mind CGI when it's done right, but this was pretty bad. I do like the idea of a treasure hunt though, I think that it's fairly unique. I'm liking the designs of the characters too. The premise has me interested, that's for sure, but overall I thought this was OK at best. |
| Well aside from the fucking horrendous CGI animals, I liked this episode. The story seems pretty interesting so I'm going to enjoy this ride. It sucks that it's only 12 episodes, especially since the premise kind of reminds me of One Piece. A story like that will obviously not be fully adapted in one cour (then again that would probably also be the case even if it was, let's say, 25 episodes), so hopefully this gets more seasons later on (but let's just focus on this one for right now). GangsterCat said: is that the legendary Kaiji's narrator in the preview? Yep, there's no mistaking it. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. |
| Weird bear CG aside... this was really interesting :o I'm totally on-board for this, and probably gonna have to do a nice wiki-dive when I get the chance. Is it weird that I love when my media makes me want to learn stuff? |
| "EVERYBODY, CLAP YOUR HANDS!" "PLUS ULTRA!" |
| one of the few new shows this season I've actually liked so far...but yeah that bear lol |
matheoo41 said: Weird CGI aside, I find the ending song pretty unfitting. I have a feeling I've already seen a character similar to Asirpa somewhere, that young female orphan skilled fighter, telling others what to do type. The only one that springs to mind now is Madlax, but that's not it. As somebody said earlier, I would love to see the series get 24 eps, cause it will probably be hard to exploit the story in just 12. Are you thinking of her? https://myanimelist.net/character/65445/Qiang_Lei Good first episode. |
| Holy shit, I've never seen such a terrible bear like that, the CGI was really awful. That aside, the story is interesting, if they stop using CGI like that, this will be a good anime. no, seriously, I don't understand, why making CGI bear when they have a decent 2d animation? not even the Heralds from Kokkoku looked this bad. |
| "We could make the world better, but it's easier to just shut our eyes." ~Blackwall |
Daniel_Naumov said: code73 said: huh? Alternative history?, ever heard of Russo - japanese war? Never heard of soldiers outnumbering one injured soldier to six (who miraculously missed him for about 2 seconds of continued shooting), suddenly losing any coherence of what they are doing and being thrown around like dirt. This, is alternate history. And this, is a shame for art. How about being outnumbered 132 to 1 and still winning? Or 150+ to 1? Look up Alvin York and Lachhiman Gurung, who received the Medal of Honor and Victoria Cross, respectively. |
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| It was great and all for a first episode, but the CGI of the bear in particular was too distracting.... I've seen a lot of CGI, but this ones takes a whole new level of hideous. It felt like they pasted a real life bear in a cartoon. Didn't blend with the 2D animation, at all. But um, aside from that, looking forward to more. |
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| Great first episode! Its going to seriously trigger PETA and that alone is enough for a 5/5 from me. |
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| i love the first episode already, straight to the action. and they’re put the bloody scene blunt enough. Sugimoto personality is pretty good, like very serious and intimidating but can be entertaining and nice as well, i guess living as a soldier who lives in the harsh environment after the war is pretty rough. and his promise with his friend is what makes me interested, they are such a bro for taking care his wife, and keep his promise. the artstyle is fine, they seems didnt want to take the risk with the fireplace, it’s very realistic it’s almost unsettling. well it’s Geno Studio, a fairly new studio. giving such a great manga to a fairly new studio is already questionable itself, but they seems do fine with Kokkoku and this episode as for the bear, well, i watched full 2 season of Berserk so this kind of CG is not enough to make me hate it. i don’t even care as long as they not using it excessively can’t wait for the next episode |
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| it was a very nice first episode, I'll definitely be continuing with it! the animation wasn't great, but thats something I can overlook because of how interesting it was. |
| It may have been just me, looking at the other comments it is, but I really didn't like this first episode. I was looking forward to reading the manga too since a lot of people recommended it to me -_- The obvious thing to say is that I didn't like the bear just like everybody else. Though the wolf and the fireplace were also pretty bad in my opinion. The artstyle they're going with is also a little clanky. Besides that, the conversation between Sugimoto and Asirpa seemed dumb to me. They have one conversation and suddenly Sugimoto completely trusts Asirpa and only wants a small part of the treasure. (That's all I remember from that scene, excuse me if I'm wrong) (Me nitpicking) Btw I don't know much about this show, I haven't seen the manga so I don't really know what's going on, but how can Asirpa (she doesn't really look strong or anything) pull Sugimoto from under that brown bear? It was a really big one and is probably at least 700kg's. She's also half the size of Sugimoto. She could be just like Konayuki from Katanagatari, who knows. Still going to watch a few more episodes though. |
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| Pretty underwhelming/boring first episode, find the first chapter of the manga to be more enjoyable than the first episode. |
| the graphics disappointed me i expected it to be more better but it ended up meh (CGI in particular). Daniel_Naumov said: Never heard of soldiers outnumbering one injured soldier to six (who miraculously missed him for about 2 seconds of continued shooting), suddenly losing any coherence of what they are doing and being thrown around like dirt. This, is alternate history. And this, is a shame for art. unrealistic combat does NOT mean it's alternative history, dude. |
| Intense from the get-go. The historical setting is right up my alley, also with the placing of the story in Hokkaido and including Ainu lore. Hooked me with the atmosphere from already. |
| Holy fuck when he turned to his best friend and he was missing all his limbs. Good first episode. Interesting story and a main character I really like so far. Looking forward to see how this one turns out. Like everyone mentioned already that CG bear looked terrible lol. |
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