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| Hmm, seems like an okay start for me. The characters are all rather interesting so far so I think I'll continue. That aside nothing really stands out too much for this anime, though I'm well aware that the VN does have a reputable story. Anyway the art was so-so, though the sound track caught me a few times. Hopefully this will turn into something excellent as I definitely see potential for that. |
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wishbook said: Faithful to the VN. I love this episode. I was skeptical about how they'll animate the fight scenes and baseball practice, but they're quite fine in this episode. Their faces are sooooo different from the VN, especially Masato. But I'm amazed at the voice acting, it's similar to the VN, particularly Kyousuke and Kengo's voice. I think this anime has low budget though, recycled OP, recycled BGM, recycled ED and inconsistent animation even in the first episode. Like that scene where Kengo's sword appeared out of nowhere. Oh well, let us see how things turned out in the end. I REALLY hope this anime will deliver, because the VN is EPIC and it's a BIG waste if this thing is ruined. Personally, I would be pissed if they didn't reuse the OP and ED themes as well as the BGM from the VN... |
SleepingEntityOct 7, 2012 2:00 AM
| i like the first ep. and it should be a fun show to watch^^ |
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SleepingEntity said: wishbook said: Faithful to the VN. I love this episode. I was skeptical about how they'll animate the fight scenes and baseball practice, but they're quite fine in this episode. Their faces are sooooo different from the VN, especially Masato. But I'm amazed at the voice acting, it's similar to the VN, particularly Kyousuke and Kengo's voice. I think this anime has low budget though, recycled OP, recycled BGM, recycled ED and inconsistent animation even in the first episode. Like that scene where Kengo's sword appeared out of nowhere. Oh well, let us see how things turned out in the end. I REALLY hope this anime will deliver, because the VN is EPIC and it's a BIG waste if this thing is ruined. Personally, I would be pissed if they didn't reuse the OP and ED themes ans well as the BGM from the VN... Re-using those are fine, but creativity doesn't hurt. It feels like I'm playing the VN, only with moving pictures and different-looking characters. It's good, but not special enough to amaze me. New BGMs = new feels. Old BGMs without additional ones = not special. |
 ~ IA- Aria on the Planetes ~ Vocaloid V3 voiced by LiA (Clannad Afterstory, Angel Beats! theme song singer) |
| It was mediocre. I like the relaxed atmosphere of a typical high school genre anime but i have to admit, some of the jokes were pretty fail.. I was either like wth? or okay.. but overall 8/10 |
| Surprisingly, it was very close to the source material. I think in the future, the fans needs to pressure J.C. Staff for them to deliver. Hoping they can actually keep this up. |
-Quasar said: Surprisingly, it was very close to the source material. I think in the future, the fans needs to pressure J.C. Staff for them to deliver. Hoping they can actually keep this up. well its rather easy to adapt the source material at this point, the test comes with all the character routes and how they go about that. But they are indeed off to a good start. |
onedaysnotice said: 9.28 dafuq? I was honestly a bit disappointed with this. I guess its hype got to me. The characters are pretty generic, and its setting is too. Let's see what they can do with this. Lots of early to mid 2000's humor going on, some made giggle, others not. It's a Key anime so I'm hoping for great things, but didn't really see it this episode :S It seems to me that it will eventuate in internal conflicts arising from them maturing and branching out into their different ways. The animation was just only a bit over mediocre :S First impression: 6.5 flack said: OK just watched the subbed. Sigh... this BELOW average QUALITY ANIMATION...VERY AWKWARD BGM TIMINGS... IT is WORSE THAN MOST OF THE OTHER ANIMES AIRING RIGHT NOW... GOD The animation is not bad and the character designs are stanrds noaways. So yeah, the one pointing out generic characters, pal, welcome to post 2000, the era of generic stuff, if you want totally original highly stylized ones, those were long lost in the 80s! Kyoani would have made a higher visuals? Probably yes, still kyoani would have been pawned good this season just the same because of K, those that care so much about visuals, that one got absurdly high level of visual for a tv series. Anyway this is beyond the point, forgive me... Anyway Its was GOOD start, those trying to make it sound bad, its is NOT, and maybe you are just kyoani fanboy that cannot get over the fact that they did not want to make this one, instead of crying just find the positive to the series and enjoy it, because it would have been worse since you would still be asking for this one to be animated. Remember there were many crying over this and saying BEFOREHAND that it would suck so very very bad, can you expect objective opinions from those now? No right. |
9988Oct 7, 2012 2:52 AM
| I read the VN, and I'm kinda sad to see anime LB like this. Lack of budget? I wonder why, since LB VN sales were very high.. moeblob faces, Riki looks like a kid with down syndrome :P well, somebody might like it that way (just see how many ppl rated this 9/10 or 10/10) - but I don't. It's good that it follows the VN quite well for the first episode, but still overall is quite bad adaptation. And it feels kinda rushed too and like, this is my OPITNION. |
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| I had bigger expectations but I kind of liked it. |
Takana_no_Hana said: yuiriko said: I don't get it. Why do most of the users here after reading our criticizing opinions says that we dislike the anime only because it wasn't made by KyoAni? I loved Kamisama no Memochou and Toradora, so I've expected much from J.C. Staff, even if I was a bit unhappy that it's not KyoAni who will make LB lol kamisama no memochou is a terrible anime( or adaptation). Toradora was made long time ago. J.C is only good at adapting stuffs from manga like bakuman, kimi to boku, they don't really suit to adapt LN/VN. Most of their failed anime come from LN/VN adaptation. kamisama no memochou is not that terrible but its extremely pointless and simply boring.just another very average anime. |
| Looks like another overrated show. |
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entropy13 said: Looks like another overrated show. You've watched Clannad, and Angel Beats! you should know this would be overrated ;p. |
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| Seriously not going to read through 16 pages of butt hurt fans, but I did like this first episode. |
| I liked it. |
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edwd2 said: IS THIS REALLY THE SUCCESSOR OF CLANNAD AFTERSTORY !? let me get it straight, this episode sucked. Its getting like most VN adaptations nowadays, cliched characters, harems, tsunderes, melodrama, seriously Key!? The story will get heavier later, but this episode is, after all, just an introduction to the whole anime. Well, LB is indeed light-hearted if compared to Clannad AS (far more lighthearted), but it has its shares of sadness. In my case, OminousFlare said: Also, they reduced Masato's musculine physique. YMMV, byt I personally prefer the musculine physique in the VN, as it fits with the overall exaggerated tone of the VN. After all, if you wanna do exaggerated humor, do it all the way. I agree. Masato doesn't feel... Masato-ish here. He's still my favorite character tho. |
Reim_SeranthOct 7, 2012 5:52 AM
~ IA- Aria on the Planetes ~ Vocaloid V3 voiced by LiA (Clannad Afterstory, Angel Beats! theme song singer) |
Gash_V-D_Hetchum said: Kayro said: Seriously not going to read through 16 pages of butt hurt fans, but I did like this first episode. I agree with this. I can already guess what most of the complaints are too. Btw, who are the honorable people that are defending this anime in these forums? Hi. Key fag fan right here<3 + LB VN Fan. Also loling at people to expecting amazing things to happen from the first episode. |
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| I first saw something of little busters two years ago and back then this Anime was already announced i have to say that i can't give answer to the question was it worth the wait yet. It does look allot like the manga tho i have to say that the voice of the main character is to feminine from the manga i had to impression it would be a bit more muscular. Tho the others sound pretty much like i would have imagined them. For those comparing this to Clanned i have to disappoint them from what i have been reading in the manga i can't compare this to Clanned at all. The only thing that is similar is the art. |
Aversa said: I first saw something of little busters two years ago and back then this Anime was already announced i have to say that i can't give answer to the question was it worth the wait yet. It does look allot like the manga tho i have to say that the voice of the main character is to feminine from the manga i had to impression it would be a bit more muscular. Tho the others sound pretty much like i would have imagined them. For those comparing this to Clanned i have to disappoint them from what i have been reading in the manga i can't compare this to Clanned at all. The only thing that is similar is the art. Apparently (only if you don't know), Naoe Riki's (protagonist's) voice in the VN is voiced by the same woman who voiced Natsume Rin (Kyousuke's imouto). So, it's kind of inevitable for him to be feminine if J.C aims to be "faithful" to the VN. |
~ IA- Aria on the Planetes ~ Vocaloid V3 voiced by LiA (Clannad Afterstory, Angel Beats! theme song singer) |
| Top grade episode. Love it and JC Staff did great that I know of. Love the characters as of now and will continue to watch. |
| >.> what attracted you guys who enjoyed this? what appealed? I'm just being curious. |
| First impressions for any show is a good thing. I just never understood how people can judge the whole series from the very first episode. And I don't understand people judging a series from animation alone. And honestly, I doubt half the people here complaining would even pay attention to the animation to begin with if they didn't know it was done by JC and not KyoAni. Just enjoy it for what it is, lol. Anyhow, I'm fine with the episode, and allthough I feel they should've slowed the pace down a wee bit, it's fine. Different people read the VN at different speeds, so the pace of the VN varies for everyone. |
| Wafuu~ |
weiqifan said: >.> what attracted you guys who enjoyed this? what appealed? I'm just being curious. Key series, I love every key series. Giving it hope; even though its from J.C Staff. Visual Novel players, like myself got to see an anime made out of it even if it wasn't on the level of KyoAni. Little Busters has an amazing storyline and the routes that take place are interesting and emotional. Especially if they go into Refrain. |
TyrelOct 7, 2012 6:06 AM
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weiqifan said: >.> what attracted you guys who enjoyed this? what appealed? I'm just being curious. As this episode was part in the VN... To be honest, as I first played the VN of LB, I also found this as boring and kinda corny at first but that negative feeling didn't last long the moment I reach one of the story arcs. You just need to be patient. |
TennoujiOct 7, 2012 6:12 AM
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| i personally feel the warm of angel beats when i watched little buster.. this series would be so awesome. well done JC Staff |
| why is everyone so butthurt. |
| I will admit that this quote made me cry. "Even cats fall from poles" |
| Truly hope this was just an introduction to what is to come, because I wasn't exactly intrigued enough to even watch the next episode. |
desolato said: Truly hope this was just an introduction to what is to come, because I wasn't exactly intrigued enough to even watch the next episode. Yes, this was just an introduction and there will be more introduction in later episodes as you can see there are more characters that aren't introduced yet. |
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| good start. |
| I was pleased with this episode. I love teh randomness and I think I'm going to love this series. |
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| Watched it with subs finally. Gonna continue watching it. Glad J.C. Staff kept the original soundtrack of the VN, that was something I hated of FSN anime adaptation. BTW, there is a lot of foreshadowing of future events in this episode. |
Linkark07 said: BTW, there is a lot of foreshadowing of future events in this episode. Maybe it's just they're trying to make the series "interesting" but it was overshadowed by the pure randomness on this episode. |
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hussien-11 said: BuliTM said: I had never managed to play through the entire VN, nor I had read anything related, but I decided to give anime a try... The animation is meh, but it won;t bother me, unless this anime will focus on action. The story is a little... lackluster. It feels like recap of many other anime. Maybe it will get better, although first impression is not great. Key's works always starts with a simple introduction for the characters and tries to make you like them before the real drama starts to unfold, so it will get better with time for sure I little misunderstanding here - I did watch Clannad anime but never played the VN. I do not remember if I watched/played anything else from Key, though I played few VNs overall (though few years ago). Takana_no_Hana said: I don't know but comedies in LB! didn't make me laugh like I did when I watched Clannad. The characters were somewhat forced to create comedies, instead of letting it flown naturally like Clannad. I still remember the first scene when Sunohara ran into the door way and begged Tomoya for help, then Tomoya was like:" Eh! I don't care", and he even made fun of him when shouted out loud to alert the senpais. That was priceless. THIS. I was interested in characters from Clannad from the beginning. It actually felt like high school with bunch of fun teenagers (except from occasional exaggerated physical comedy). Little Busters felt like a random compilation of slapstick comedy that was supposed to double for character representation. |
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."  Whatever I write is most likely my opinion, which is based on information I learnt, not universal truth. You may disagree. MAL forums are more entertaining than anime themselves. |
| This has nothing on Kanon or Clannad, still pretty good. |
Sa-chan_ said: Linkark07 said: BTW, there is a lot of foreshadowing of future events in this episode. Maybe it's just they're trying to make the series "interesting" but it was overshadowed by the pure randomness on this episode. They might be doing that for get the love of the VN readers. So, Sasasegawa Sasami, what do you think of the new seiyuu? |
amare135 said: This has nothing on Kanon or Clannad, still pretty good. This. I don't even know why comparing LB to the other Key-works. All of them are basically different from each other. |
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