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Apr 4, 2014 5:58 PM
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This was pretty good so far, for a first episode. I'll keep watching for Tama, because she's too dang cute to stop now. Her voice is friggin adorable.

I'm a little worried at her slightly sinister side coming out during battle after only a few turns, and that creepy red-eyed monster possibly being her...

Fingers crossed that I'm wrong. ):

(I do not like the implied twincest!)
Apr 4, 2014 7:07 PM

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This is just a dark Fantasista Doll which is kinda disappointing, but I guess I'll continue watching for now.
Apr 4, 2014 7:51 PM

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Really getting Madoka vibes from this anime. We'll see how it turns out.
Apr 4, 2014 8:11 PM

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Well, that was interesting. It has both potential to be good and to be a trainwreck. Let's see where JC will take this show.

And I can smell the twincest love triangle already... oh boy~
Apr 4, 2014 10:10 PM

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Hmm, seems dark, which is a good thing. I immediately noted the soundtrack, too. It stands out in a good way. I see the Madoka similarities, but it does give off a bit different of a vibe. Other than that, not too much to comment on, but it looks interesting. Carry on, J.C. Staff, you have my attention.
Apr 4, 2014 10:21 PM
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Knowing who is working on this show, it immediately gives me nostalgia from many different series. The transitions from scene to scene reminds me heavily of Serial Experiments Lain, especially the opening sequence with the train. Likewise, the soundtrack enhances these transitions and the overall direction of the scenes. And while it does have a card game aspect to it, if you've seen anything by Okada Mari, you know exactly where this is heading: drama, drama and more drama. Which I find she does competently...in the right anime. Needless to say, I am excited to see how this turns out. However, unlike many of you, I didn't see the similarities to Madoka besides the fact that the show is dark, and there are girls battling each other with wishes being a focus. I just see a more drama heavy and transition laden series that doesn't hide it's dark side.
Apr 4, 2014 10:34 PM

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I will be aware to Tama for the rest of the episodes.
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Apr 4, 2014 10:47 PM

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17+ card game anime? I'm definitely interested and it already looks like things are gonna be pretty fucked up in the near future.
Apr 4, 2014 11:20 PM

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Very interesting first episode! I get the definite feeling of Angelic Layer, but with the "angels" having more of a personality. Mix in some dark vibes, and I'm definitely glued to the screen. It also helps that I'm a sucker for tournament style series, so I hope this turns out well. But I'm loving it so far! Sad that its only 12 episodes or so...but I guess they can't milk it too much this way.

Also, Tama is adorable!
Apr 5, 2014 1:40 AM

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Interestingly enough, I'll stick to it.
First couple of lines gave me a PMMM vibe, once I saw the cards and the battle, instantly Yugioh.

Tama is cute but at the same time it'll get annoying fast.
Apr 5, 2014 3:08 AM
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Kind of got bored of it, even though I'm a huge Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters fan.
It's fine...I guess.
Will keep on watching it.
Hopefully it will turn out to be good.
Apr 5, 2014 4:42 AM

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twas nice. i expect this anime to be a 6
Apr 5, 2014 4:42 AM

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interesting setting and really good art style. could be some lighter version of Madoka. but the table during the battle is stupid.

i dont care, whether its a card game or not. card games are a very old way to play a game, so why not combine it with fantasy?

nice show so far, but indeed nothing special (yet). well see. ^^

Aeonenleben said:
It just seems a bit to rushed if you ask me.

12 eps. and sometimes events occur as fast as this. why not?

Aeonenleben said:
Also: No explaination on how this game actually works.

some are mentioned and you can think of it, that the rest will be explained later. ;P

Aeonenleben said:
Just a lot of cliche characters

show me anime shows without cliche characters. ;P

Aeonenleben said:
and pretty good animation.

yes! =)
Apr 5, 2014 4:51 AM

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Mediocre first episode. I'll have to see how this develops.
Apr 5, 2014 7:29 AM

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Not very interesting but I liked the ominous dream with a monster-like Tama. I'll give it a few more eps.

Apr 5, 2014 10:04 AM

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aww man,,,,, Why did the story had to be like Yugioh..... worse than i have expected

So far, spring anime i watched are worse than winter animes

Apr 5, 2014 10:47 AM

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I don't really know what to expect from this show. The story look a bit too... random maybe.

The art style is great, even if it look like it's trying to much to be gloomy.

The little card girl is cute, except when she's fighting and, you know, transforming in a big monster with blood eyes :P

Ahhh, there had to be a forbidden love. Every psychological show have a forbidden love xD

Anyway, I hope the character devellop a lot, because for now they seem a bit bland.
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Apr 5, 2014 11:23 AM

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It had some really interesting parts, like the beggining and the opening sequence, i even had a "Madoka Magica" feel to it, however, it reminds me to Angelic Layer and i'm not that excited about that. I think this could get a lot better in a few episodes, so i'll stick around to it because i'm curious.
Apr 5, 2014 1:48 PM
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Well, this seems really quite promising. There are some very clear Madoka influences here, and I have a good feeling that they're going to focus less on the game and more on character development - I'm definitely expecting a few cruel twists along the way.
I feel that dismissing it this early isn't that fair. I mean, Madoka took a few episodes to get to the real meat of the story too, right?
Apr 5, 2014 5:41 PM
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Not spectacular, but it's the first episode and it actually managed to hold my interest. Visually it looked pretty nice and the music was good. This is obviously drawing on the recent spike in "dark magical girl shows" but it's kind of like a mess of Madoka, Angelic Layer and Yugioh. Which for all we know could turn out really well or really poorly. I'll probably keep watching because, well, the dream sequence among other things hints at a much darker layer to this story.
Apr 5, 2014 6:49 PM

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Going to give this anime a try. Hopefully, the show will manage to pull off the psychological aspect well into the card game. Even if the show is subpar, it wouldn't matter for me because new card game to play!
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Apr 5, 2014 8:43 PM

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Tama don't look very cute when she's fighting.

This show might actually be good.

The feel of the show is just different, kinda like Madoka... And the dream she had reminded me of Evangelion, Shinji's first fight.

Here's hoping WIXOSS live up to at least half of Madoka/Evangelion. COME ON JC STAFF!!!
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Apr 5, 2014 9:43 PM

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Though there were some redeeming features, it seemed kind of rushed for a first episode. Absolutely no development on Tama at all other than the fact she nyan~s and fights like a pro, the later of which is good. We wouldn't get anywhere if we had our classic weak female character with a weak support character and there's certainly no enjoyment in seeing other characters wipe the floor with the protag.

Have unexpectedly high tolerance for card game anime. Will see this through to the end.
Apr 5, 2014 10:37 PM

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Dam Tama was annoying as hell with the cat noises she makes. And that one girl is a dick for trying to get a free win.
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Apr 6, 2014 12:29 AM

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So the background art really reminds of the background art in Bravely Default, and I can't help but feel something bad is going to happen and the grandmas going to die and I'm going to cry like crazy. Certainly have no idea what just happened though :D
Apr 6, 2014 12:49 AM

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First episode and they're already trying to throw incest at us? Really?
Apr 6, 2014 12:50 AM

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I was going to drop this shit like a motherfucker... Then Twincest happen.....

3/5
Apr 6, 2014 11:08 AM

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*Sigh* Another show with Sister loving brother.

Otherwise a nice little episode. ED was awesome.
Apr 6, 2014 11:34 AM

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This looks promising.. I enjoyed the first episode very much, I'm curious how this will develop.
Apr 6, 2014 12:13 PM

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Ok, guys, this is not fake, Im not lying, this really happened. You know the creepy dream that girl had?

Me and my gf both had the EXACT SAME DREAM! The first episode, the building and the grandma were all in a dream I recently had, and finally the monster that appeared on her dream too. In my dream the monster got out of the building, in my gf's dream he chased her inside the building!

Me and my gf are perfect soulmates, we have same taste for everything, same personality, taste for anime, food, music, etc. So I wasn't very surprised that we would dream of such a similiar thing, it's super creepy in her opinion but in my opinion it just shows that we are soulmates *-* But it's supernatural, this anime only caught my eye because I dreamt about it, and I never watched it before.

What are the odds of this happening? This must be one of the rarest things to happen in the world :D
Apr 6, 2014 2:29 PM
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i just hope this show is not just edgy but terrible like genei was.
Apr 6, 2014 6:07 PM

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I'm really intrigued by this first episode. There are some really dark, somber, almost omnipotent undertones going on that make me think this could evolve into some sort of deconstruction. Will definitely keep watching; this is not your average shounen card-playing game like Yu-gi-oh, I'll tell you that.
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Apr 6, 2014 8:29 PM

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If only I knew how to play the card game, I might have cared a bit more. Probably gonna lose interest for this by episode 3 or 4.
Apr 7, 2014 4:01 AM
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Nice first episode, I'll keep watching for Tama.
Apr 7, 2014 11:21 AM
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Another original anime worth shit. Yet I keep up my hopes every time I see an original anime. And every fucking time I get disappointed. Dropped.
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Apr 7, 2014 1:10 PM

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GuiltyKing said:
Another original anime worth shit. Yet I keep up my hopes every time I see an original anime.


I KNOW I feel the exact same way! Original anime is like unbelievably bad like 95% of the time, but really good 5% of the time. I really hope this series proves us wrong.
Apr 7, 2014 1:41 PM

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Good start, I like the creepy atmosphere and quite nice background art. Pretty nice OP/ED.
Never liked card game shows, but this seems to be taking a darker route. And yes Madoka vibes.

Ruuko is pretty cute.

So are we talking Twincest here? Yuzuki likes Kazuki? O.o INTERESTING~
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Apr 7, 2014 2:03 PM
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Interesting concept, a mix of yu-gi-oh and digimon/beyblade...
Cute girls, but this is giving off a Madoka feel on the first ep...
ED is a bit boring, but I don't mind it as well.
Tama sounds cute!
Apr 7, 2014 3:16 PM

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Tama was pretty cool when she was throwing those punches.
Apr 7, 2014 4:20 PM

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Reminds me of C control & yu-gi-oh! 4/5
I guess I will keep watching
Apr 7, 2014 6:06 PM

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GuiltyKing said:
Another original anime worth shit. Yet I keep up my hopes every time I see an original anime. And every fucking time I get disappointed. Dropped.

I bit of an exaggeration after the very first episode, eh?
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Apr 7, 2014 10:49 PM

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The first episode already has me hooked. I'm not a fan of card and battle type series but this one shows some promise to me. I love the art style and so far the characters aren't steriotypical to what I've seen in the past. I'm definately interested in Tama after she went a little berserk. I knew that since it was directed by the same man as steins gate I wouldn't be dissapointed and so far I'm not.

Now to wait 11 weeks and the marathon it.
Examining one series under the magnifying glass at a time.
Apr 8, 2014 1:53 AM

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Not a bad episode, although I hope they go into the card mechanics a bit more in future eps. I usually avoid card game anime, but this seems like a promising series.

Tama is badass.

4/5

Apr 8, 2014 8:25 AM

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GuiltyKing said:
Another original anime worth shit. Yet I keep up my hopes every time I see an original anime. And every fucking time I get disappointed. Dropped.

Guilty Crown pic >> Your worth shit.
Everyone just report him for trolling/flaming if you see him in any new ep discussion, these disgusting people have to be culled for the good of MAL.
Apr 8, 2014 8:31 AM

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I actually enjoyed this anime. The art was nice and I like the brocon/siscon tendency, also the implied twincest. :P
I think Ruko is quite likeable as well.

ichii_1 said:
GuiltyKing said:
Another original anime worth shit. Yet I keep up my hopes every time I see an original anime. And every fucking time I get disappointed. Dropped.

Guilty Crown pic >> Your worth shit.
Everyone just report him for trolling/flaming if you see him in any new ep discussion, these disgusting people have to be culled for the good of MAL.

He was just stating his opinion, no need to report for trolling whatsoever.
Apr 8, 2014 10:31 AM
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It has a Shadow Realm Yugioh vibe so hopefully it's not a let down.

Tama's power increases whenever her level does. I noticed when Tama went to Lv 3 and attacked Yuzuki's girl it seemed like Yuzuki's energy was drained since Yuzuki said "how can a girl who's never played the game be this powerful already"


Preview: Not looking good for Ru-chan and Tama.

Apr 8, 2014 1:53 PM

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I feel like people are being kind of unreasonable over this premiere and giving it a rougher reception because they feel it's trying to compete with Madoka (and we can't have that because Madoka is teh jesus etc.), but I really didn't find that half bad at all nor did it seem like it was really trying to be just a low budget ripoff of Madoka like that Day Break Illusion show.

It sets things up reasonably well, the characters and their personalities if not goals are set up as well and it had some good art and animation. There's room for things to expand from here in 24 episodes as well so I'm kind of curious to see where this goes for a bit. I think the card game mechanics themselves aren't going to be all that important which would suck since I like that sort of level of depth and strategy but maybe it can succeed in other areas.

GuiltyKing said:
Another original anime worth shit. Yet I keep up my hopes every time I see an original anime. And every fucking time I get disappointed. Dropped.


What did it do that is shitty? Why is it so bad? Maybe people oughta learn to be more realistic about their expectations of such things?

DGemu said:
Nice to see everyone going in with their prejudices at large ^^ I mean, look at the MAL score after one episode. Makes me lol.

Anyways, its looking nice to me so far. Seems like we won't get to know the game itself ;/
And outside interference is some very broad definition of escaping a loss, huh.


Well it'd be about what my score would be for the first episode, but that's just the thing, my scoring tends to be lower than a lot of peoples because I will use the full scale to decide how I feel about stuff and sort of try to wait things while MAL at large generally seems to subscribe to the "Hate out of Ten" scoring mechanism so a 6/10 from MAL is equivalent to like a 3/10 adjusted for my scale or something like that.
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Apr 8, 2014 6:43 PM

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The feeling of C: Possibility control is in this. Watching it just because of that.
Apr 9, 2014 4:00 AM

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Yay twincest
Apr 9, 2014 8:33 AM

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Don't care about Madoka. I liked this a lot. It was very eye grabbing overall.

UsaraDark said:
The feeling of C: Possibility control is in this. Watching it just because of that.

Definitely, although this show does it better already.
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