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davidphamle said: HowTragic said: Spring 2014 anime done right in the form of Knights of Sidonia, No Game No Life, and Hitsugi no Chaika. SPOT ON my friend. Isshukan Friend, Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou and Brynhildr are also decent for this season. Brynhildr is good, but I disagree with you about Isshukan Friend and Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou. Boring slice of life with boring school kids are not worth watching. |
thepath said: davidphamle said: HowTragic said: Spring 2014 anime done right in the form of Knights of Sidonia, No Game No Life, and Hitsugi no Chaika. SPOT ON my friend. Isshukan Friend, Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou and Brynhildr are also decent for this season. Brynhildr is good, but I disagree with you about Isshukan Friend and Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou. Boring slice of life with boring school kids are not worth watching. It doesn't need to always be dark, gory, violent and depressing to make it a good anime. I think Isshukan Friends and Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou have done really well in the Slice of Life/Comedy/Romance genre, without the usual moe/fan service bullshit. Still, we need more Seinen anime for mature audience, too much craps out there already, the overall quality of anime nowadays keep getting worse and worse. At least there is a gem like Sidonia no Kishi for this season and as far as the manga goes, it will keep getting better and I hope the anime will be as well. |
| Good lord, the splat is strong with this episode. Super excited for this show though, love the atmosphere and feel, its just such a disturbing show that its so fascinating. Best Sci-Fi show from what I've seen so far. |
yahzeeMay 2, 2014 11:44 PM
| I keep falling more in love with this series. That sudden gravitational shift had me on the edge of my seat. I can't get my head around that extra character that just flew on by without latching on. All I could think was "well that sucks". yaHzee said: ... its just such a disturbing show that its so fascinating. Best Sci-Fi show from what I've seen so far. Agreed. This show has such a different feel from alot of the sci fi anime I've seen. I really enjoy it. |
| Looks like Hoshijiro is okay... for now. Most everyone else went splat. |
davidphamle said: thepath said: davidphamle said: HowTragic said: Spring 2014 anime done right in the form of Knights of Sidonia, No Game No Life, and Hitsugi no Chaika. SPOT ON my friend. Isshukan Friend, Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou and Brynhildr are also decent for this season. Brynhildr is good, but I disagree with you about Isshukan Friend and Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou. Boring slice of life with boring school kids are not worth watching. It doesn't need to always be dark, gory, violent and depressing to make it a good anime. I think Isshukan Friends and Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou have done really well in the Slice of Life/Comedy/Romance genre, without the usual moe/fan service bullshit. Still, we need more Seinen anime for mature audience, too much craps out there already, the overall quality of anime nowadays keep getting worse and worse. At least there is a gem like Sidonia no Kishi for this season and as far as the manga goes, it will keep getting better and I hope the anime will be as well. I don't hate romance and comedy and I never said that anime need to be dark to be good. But judging from the 1st episode of Isshukan Friends and Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou, both sucks when it comes to romance and comedy Comedy anime are supposed to make you laugh. Isshukan Friends and Bokura completely fails at that. On the other hand, Kenzen Robo Daimidaler makes me laugh like every few min while watching. For romance I prefer something deep, emotional, and mature. A good example for this is "The Princess and the Pilot" film. |
| The anime just topped the season with this episode. It's potentially one of the best animes for the last few years. Nagate is also an awesome MC. |
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thepath said: davidphamle said: thepath said: davidphamle said: HowTragic said: Comedy anime are supposed to make you laugh. Isshukan Friends and Bokura completely fails at that. On the other hand, Kenzen Robo Daimidaler makes me laugh like every few min while watching. For romance I prefer something deep, emotional, and mature. A good example for this is "The Princess and the Pilot" film. Can't judge an anime based on only the 1st episode alone my friend, a lot of anime doesn't have a good start but it may start blooming afterwards, you never know. I like Princess and the Pilot as well, other than that Sakurasou & White Album 2 are another example for me. Sidonia no Kishi will have a really weird romance when you get further in, can't wait for that to happen. For those people who wondered why most of the female characters in this anime looked the same: |
| 04:10 you sure> 07:23 holie... 17:01 wut...? 18:13 NOOO Hoshijiroっっっ 20:58 go save my Hoshijiro 8.5/10 for this episode. |
| Isayama Hajime should be awarded The Manga with The Highest Inconsistencies of Characters' Appearances. He keeps performing multiple plastic surgeries on those Shingeki No Kyojin characters in a SINGLE chapter. Yes, I've read up to the latest chapter of Shingeki No Kyojin manga. Forced myself to read through the kidsketching chapters after the anime's ended. At least from now on, I only have to go through the hell once a month. Patiently awaiting SNK TV/movie/OVA anime-sequel. The 2015 SNK live-action movie would probably suck. |
| All I can say is that I hope that damn bear got splatted during the acceleration, would help make that plot hole a little shallower if they could get rid of that damn creature. |
| wow, 20 minutes of action. Since I'm only watching anime, I can speculate to my heart's content. My guess would be, that gauna is something human-made (or modified), that's why they are trying to keep it away from Sidonia (so no one would be able to verify that). It would be close to what the anti-military old man said in ep. 2, or 3. Suddenly, it became the only series this season, that I can't wait for the next episode (and I was sure nothing will top Mushishi for me). |
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NwAurion said: Is there even any show that killed off the supposed main character and took a totally different, unexpected turn? Not *some* major character, but the one and only super-badass MC who can survive anything? Not an anime, but There have been other cases in fiction, less so in anime, where you would have regular change of lead characters. HimJL7 said: All I can say is that I hope that damn bear got splatted during the acceleration, would help make that plot hole a little shallower if they could get rid of that damn creature. Not seeing any plot holes so far. Bear creature fits right in into the setting. |
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HimJL7 said: All I can say is that I hope that damn bear got splatted during the acceleration, would help make that plot hole a little shallower if they could get rid of that damn creature. lol poor bear |
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| Btw, is it just me or does the sidonia look like a Space Hulk? From the look of it, whoever built it didn't start with much of a plan and ad-libbed quite a bit. I really wonder what happened in the past, since certain techs (like those lances) are def. lostech while they excel at genetic modifications. Anyways, MC went BA mode this time, kickin that tentacoolthingies ass (or rather, piercing that ass with his mighty spear... sounds just a bit more wrong :) ) |
| I want Rambo in a mecha-suit with a laser-chainsaw gun that fires nuclear warheads, fighting the love-child of Predator, Alien, a group of Bangladeshi terrorists, and Satan. (Actually that would be a pretty sick show) - StopDropAndBowl |
HimJL7 said: All I can say is that I hope that damn bear got splatted during the acceleration, would help make that plot hole a little shallower if they could get rid of that damn creature. What is your problem with talking bears? As I said before, she has her reasons for being a "bear". |
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HimJL7 said: Theres a reason for her being a bear. The anime(at least this season) wont get to that though.All I can say is that I hope that damn bear got splatted during the acceleration, would help make that plot hole a little shallower if they could get rid of that damn creature. |
| Wow, I was on the edge of my seat there, even counting with the countdown. Had to laugh at people getting splattered against the buildings... but that whole scene was great. Physics. :3 And Tanikaze taking down that Gauna single handed was epic. I thought he would hesitate for a moment because it took that girl's form again, but nope! Bam. Hit the core. And you're all missing Ping Pong The Animation for good series this season... :O |
| a single Gauna can wiped out the elite 4 and caused such many deaths inside Sidonia even before it enter inside the ship... |
| They could have avoided the mass tomato splat genocide, if they would have just sent out the entire Army to begin with. I really enjoyed watching this episode. ArdenFolgore said: MAL Score Logic: Knights Of Cydonia 7.31 Well Written Sci-Fi story with awesome sound effects and interesting 3d style. It's only drawback is that the framerate is shit. Mahouka 7.98 Regular shonen crap with incest-related jokes, weak story and harem elements. I heard that the light novel is much better. WTF? In my opinion, Cydonia is worth much higher score The scores on MAL are never really reflected on how the anime truly is. There are too many trolls on here that just down-vote everything. The descriptions of the anime series on here never really follow with what the anime really is, they leave out plenty of genres and tags that the anime series should have. I've always watched the first episode to see if I liked it or not. |
| MAL score: 7.38. This must be the most underrated anime this season. I know that there are people who understands the brilliancy of the story, but are there really that many more who can't comprehend this beauty? I swear to god the people who have voted a low score for this show are just some dumb horny teenagers who lack the intellect to watch this. This show and the voting for it should be off limits from the filthy kids who roam these forums. After all, this is tagged seinen, aka fuck off kids. |
| I pity those who dropped this. |
| So I'm having a hard time understanding how Sidonia is built, but I guess there may be more on that later. And also there has to be a better safety protocol than just hold on tight kids. Helmets?? Nagate's flashbacks of all of his ~memories with the elite squad...like what lol I'm just going to pretend they did that on purpose. A really good episode overall though! Seemed way too short and the animation changed or something. Nagate just doing his thing though. |
Czechbiohazard said: They could have avoided the mass tomato splat genocide, if they would have just sent out the entire Army to begin with. Nope. Gauna has been proven to be far stronger than expected. They have limited amount of spears and can't make more. IF Gauna wiped the teams sent against them they would loose even more spears. IF the teams failed, Gauna would come upon Sidonia and the death toll would be far greater than this. Thus it makes sense to sacrifice few(dozens of) lives if the alternative is the chance of whole humanity being wiped out. |
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| THAT WAS FREAKING AMAZING!!! The suspense, visuals and that OST/Sound design!!! That was superb! Simply the best episode of the whole season! Nagate just owned that Guana!! Dam that was badass!!! Gotta be one of the best Sci-Fi anime out there! If not the best right now. Jumped the score from 8/10 to 10/10! |
AozureMay 3, 2014 2:51 PM
| The sound effects are insane. All the blood was insane. This episode was insane. 5/5. |
"Komugi, are you there?" |
| Tanikaze gonna rescue his future |
| Best on-going anime! Amazing sound and video effects. Love these unique model style, reminds me of good old mecha. |
| Very intense episode o_o |
| Wow i feel like all those deaths were kinda in vain seeing how Nagate killed it in a instant. Point of no return?!?! Noooooo..... |
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| Awesome episode! That "uneven acceleration" did the kind of real damage I like to see in my anime. Wow that was intense. |
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| To me this show is without a single doubt best show of this season. And this season is really good in my opinion. Haikyuu, Baby steps, Black bullet, Chaika, all really good shows, but this one really shines above them. OP song is brilliant, atmosphere is great, characters, no matter how similar they look, are all getting some development, it's dark, it's cruel, it's everything I like. Huge, huge shame many people dismiss it based only on CGI. And I was close to doing it in the first 5 or so minutes as well, simply because I hate this style as well. But oh God would I miss on something awesome if I did it. |
| This show is going to force me to buy a better headset. My old $70 razer just isn't gonna cut it anymore. |
| I'm slowly beginning to get used to CGI, so it didn't annoy me so much this time, the ep was surely interesting. For people who don't understand why some of us have problem with CGI characters I think the following nicely explains what we feel: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UncannyValley That's why CGI humans animations should be either done VERY good, or avoided, because otherwise some people think: "this human act like a doll, its creepy" By the way. I have to say that it's weird that no-one was prepared for failure of the first group. Just what the hell, why didn't they consider that there might be a need for evasive maneuver like that, or in the worst case even the fight inside of the colony? Why didn't they simply tell people to hide and assure to be safe, so there won't be a genocide like that ? :( |
SwiftflashMay 4, 2014 5:56 PM
| Damn, what a fucking stressing episode. Nagate is such a boss. His balls are bigger than the spaceship. He even go to save Hoshijiro, what a magnificant motherfucker. Fuck, I almost pissed myself when they were counting before the impact. It would have been more than catastrophic. The scene where everyone had to find hook up was fucking stressing too. Those people falling down and huge weackage... That was super brutal. Great episode. |
| «Time is passing so quickly. Right now, I feel like complaining to Einstein. Whether time is slow or fast depends on perception. Relativity theory is so romantic. And so sad.» - Kurisu Makise a.k.a. The Zombie |
Omg Tanikaze  I like character's like his. He's not a dick, he's brave and generally just awesome. Swiftflash said: By the way. I have to say that it's weird that no-one was prepared for failure of the first group. Yeah I was thinking the same thing, I mean that was a big fuck up and to not be prepared or think about the possibility of losing is just ridiculous. |
| Yeah those splats definitely got my attention. I actually thought the whole idea of uneven acceleration and of evasive manuevers in general as well as the damage structurally causing was brilliant. I would've thought, especially at the military academy they would've put more rails. I'd like to say that the engineers should've made the structural integrity be able to take more extreme evasive maneuvering but I suppose like any emergency the captain could've gone not only past the safe limits, the buffer in the limits, and pretty much to the almost complete structural failure limits. xD..Only other reason I can think of is that the ship is really old and can't be easily retro-fitted to be stronger... Overall I really enjoyed this episode but felt really distracted by the lack of military discipline. I couldn't believe it when her officer was questioning her orders and wasting precious seconds of evasive time or additional time for all residents and personnel to brace themselves for maneuver. From a story standpoint, it explained to the audience the consequences but from a immersion standpoint- it was hard to overlook. Then, you also have Nagate doing whatever the heck he wants- which since he's so new it's more understandable but there seems to be this trending habit that pilots can do whatever the heck they want, putting at risk their mech but also the spear. Than you also have the Commander's Aide, Ichirō Seii, telling him to try to tow his comrades away when clearly when all his comrades fully functional got blasted. So if he tries to tow them, moving even slower..they'd all get blasted again. He doesn't seem very helpful. O.o Sigh... it's a bit irritating but the battle was pretty exciting regardless- wish that aspect would be a bit more realistic since it seemed like there was a lot of thought put into the evasive maneuvers in space. One thing I'm wondering though is how the Guana not only dodged the HMD but was still able to recorrect it's trajectory to still catch up to Sidonia. Either it was a huge miscalculation on the weapons officer part or under-estimation of the Guana's true evasive abilities by the Captain. Ugh.. maybe I shouldn't think too much into it. xD Btw, when they brought out all 256 units the first thing I wondered, was why send only 4 units the first time to expose the core and kill it when they could've sent more. o.o |
yngtadpoleMay 5, 2014 3:16 AM
| Man, when I first started this the CGI was really unsettling for me, but the gruesomeness of the scenes(like the people just splatting everywhere), the Gauna that appears to adapt to whatever it eats or absorbs, characters and plot of the story have just really reeled me in. I'm still questionable on our MC as while I do enjoy how he's straight forward in battle I feel like he's really different when he talks. Although that could just be apart of his character and he'll probably just grow more as time passes. Definitely a nice surprise, I didn't really expect much after seeing how it looked in the first episode, but every single episode so far was left on a really high note and making me want to see what happens next. |
Touch me, you filthy casual~ |
| Very disappointed in the number of people not commenting on the beautiful sound effects. |
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