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| I honestly have no idea what in the hell is going on, in this one... But, I love all of the psychological discussion. And, it's just weird enough to keep me interested, for the moment. Kind of reminds me of Persona 5 The Animation, from a couple of days ago, to boot. Not bad, at any rate. |
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| Not too shabby for a first episode. It's unique in a way, and hopefully it won't get worse like the majority of adaptations of games do. Although, the music is pretty nice. |
ReverberateApr 8, 2018 4:58 PM
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| That was trippy as hell. I like it! Definitely gonna continue watching to find out what the hell is going on. |
"Fortress Maximus has come himself. Okay! Then I shall get Fortress Maximus to fight me, huh huh huh!" |
| the animation reminds me of that Cube anime |
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| Oooh, a psychology nerd! Liking this anime already. Well Ritsu got one thing right. What the hell is going on? We got ourselves a normal school scenario at first. Next thing you know, it's a whole bunch of crazy horseshit where an idol starts singing and several students start turning into humanoise and attacking sane students. And then we come across a guy with a giant revolver who just blasts them away. There's no way that I can judge this anime based on the first episode alone, but I am definitely intrigued to continue it to know what the hell is going on. A buzzy mystery, a flamboyant student representative, a virtual idol that summons speakers for music, and some psychogear to fight the humanoise. As long as the idol sings a different song in every episode, I'm cool with all that. Can't wait for the next episode! |
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MistLiigh said: Zerity said: wtf just happened, i am so confused. I don't think you're supposed to know exactly right now, we'll probably get more detail next episode... But as near as I can tell at this point, seems like they're basically in the Matrix, MC is seeing cracks in the Matrix, and now Mr. Creepy Class Rep (and judging by the ED, some friends of his too) is manipulating the Matrix to gain power and take over. MC, braid girl, pit-fighter/giant revolver dude, glasses food critic, "wait you're not my mom" girl, and "hey I'm reading the same book as him again" girl (possibly others I missed) are going to have to use their own power over the Matrix to fight back. And this μ idol girl and "help me" girl are also going to factor in somehow... That's about all I've got so far. That was a surprisingly good summary of all of the characters, lmao |
| It was an... "interesting" episode. It has the potential of being great... but it's walking a thin line and easily trip into mediocrity. I shall be giving this a few episodes. |
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Draconix814 said: I am thoroughly confused. This is the weirdest Angel Beats/ Persona/ High School of the Dead/ Guilty Crown hybrid I've ever seen. I think the weirdest point was definitely the philosophy because I can't tell if it's forced, preachy, makes sense or is genius. Also I have no clue on how they're going to build on that philosophy in the rest of the narrative. Also WTF JUST HAPPENED Could get better, could get worse, could stay the same I DON'T FUCKING KNOW. 7/10 so far. I'm being safe, shut up. This sums up my thoughts exactly, I just don't know what to think of this after the first episode. XD |
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| So another one of the super-smart average boy put into logically solvable puzzles and situation, and everyone is some form of edgelord. Seems enjoyable enough tho lol |
| “I love heroes, but I don't want to be one. Do you even know what a hero is!? For example, you have some meat. Pirates will feast on the meat, but the hero will distribute it among the people! I want to eat the meat!” - Monkey D. Luffy |
| First ep was pretty much what I was hoping it would be like. Now to see how well the rest of the season pans out. |
| That was wild. Didn't have any idea what to expect going into this one. So when shit hit the graduation ceremony I was like, "All right, this show has officially jumped off the deep end." But that's not necessarily a bad thing; guess we'll find out in the coming weeks. But yeah, definitely feels like Angel Beats and Guilty Crown had a baby. |
| Game's got insane writing, hope it carries over well. Bring on the socio-psycho-philosophical maelstrom that this descent into madness takes to heart This show has the potential to include everything I enjoy in anime, from broken characters, a distorted world, plenty of topics to think about, and a polarizing central figure to drive things forward Good start, a bit heavy but that's a given with the material, next episode should help lay everything out for us |
| Confused as fuck but... Sawashiro Chiharu. Takeuchi Shunsuke. Aoi Shouta. Good music. Good visuals. Okay. I'm in. |
| w-what in the world did i watch was clearly meant to confuse to hell out of you All i know about the Caligula game was that it looked like a poor mans persona and liked the shade gray and pink a lot and then i heard next to nothing about it till it got a anime announced ,so no idea on how the story is but i'm sorta interested in seeing where this goes. this could end up being really bad hopefully it isn't the case |
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| the MC sits next to the window |
| Freud was a quack, and MC kid is way too up his own ass. A healthy dose of truck-kun should fix that straight away. Really, if MC would just STFU even a little, this would be far more enjoyable. |
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The premise of the series start with a break of the reality, where all of his pregcognitions of the world he lives don't mathc up with normality. So the protagonist with the low amount of knowlegde of psychology begins to remember that something is wrong around it, memories that does not correspond with his daily life. I think is a interesting premise, more if you play before the game. |
Maxflores93Apr 9, 2018 3:05 PM
| Solid first episode, plenty of hooks and more questions than any type of answer. Reminds me heavily of persona, especially the atmosphere and the art style. Somewhat persona 3, a bit of the older games too potentially. Anyway, I look forward to see what will come next. There have been many series with amazing first episodes, and then the rest has slowly derailed into a mediocre end... Hopefully not the case this time. |
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| Never trusted those μ's girls anyway. |
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| i thought at first i understand everything, the MC being a psychology fan and enjoying high school life you know, usual stuff then i suddenly don’t understand like the 80% of what’s happening. seeing those distorted screen, and jumping from event to event makes me curious, are they in some kind of virtual reality. and their life is kind of manipulated or some sort. µ character seems interesting, but there’s also villain, there are the ones who realized what happening, and then there’s the one who fight, boy i need the second episode. i hope there will be mind games in this series, not just usual shooting action games, the psychology talk is getting me interested and too bad all of Shikisima friends seems affected by whatever the hell is happening there, judging in the bridge scene and also the character style is good, the girl is fine, good stuff and also the song is good, especially the first one. |
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| what in the actual fuck did i just watch |
| even though I haven't watch or play any Persona game but I still feel some Persona vibes and I LOVE IT |
| I'm as confused as the main character. What the fuck is going on in this anime? So, an idol named u is controlling the people and transforming them into a monster? Hehe. I'm so fucking confused. And what's up with the random Pop Team Epic reference? Hahahaha. I'm so fucking lost in this anime, but I hope I'll be able to catch up on it. Lmfao. 3/5. P.S. That last song, though. Prolly the ED or OP. Not sure. P.P.S. Okay, it's the OP? Haha. I love the song. |
     "Maybe he's trying to take a shit, but the shit just won't come out." Captain Levi, 2014 (／^-^)／☆♪  ♪☆＼(^０^＼) |
| is this going to turn out with the MC fighting the creator of the AI cause the creator corrupted her program or something |
| I played the game for a bit and stopped because of awful gameplay, this 1st episode is really solid, similar to persona but better. |
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| The entire episode, I couldn't stop thinking it was either a direct portrayal of or a metaphor for schizophrenia from the perspective of a teen MC who has his first breakdown of reality and doesn't yet realize why his world no longer makes sense. The psychological tropes in this episode only reinforced that feeling for me. I doubt that the story is going to be nearly so clear-cut, but I'm still very much looking forward to the next episode. |
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Daniel_Naumov said: It did once occur to me:"What if there was a series, when the crap was happening all over, everyone is fake and wrong, and the stoic protagonist would try to oppose it, but the series concludes with him falling into insanity and revelation, that it was just his mind going mad all along." That would be real dark, and there is already Agent Paranoia, so I guess we should leave it at it. Didn't ChäoS;HEAd have a similar theme? I haven't seen it (yet), only read the synopsis. There are probably quite a lot, actually, with the protag questioning reality vs hallucination, dream, illusion, etc. And, yeah, it's definitely dark. |
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| awesome episode ! |
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Ecchi-wow-wa said: Anyone who's confused just read the synopsis. I admit I had no clue what was going on until I read it. This!I also had no idea what the hell was going on so I was going to re-watch the episode thinking I must of miss something but ended up reading the synopsis instead and I was like oh okay now I get it lol. |
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| Pretty good, mc is smart just like me. The music is nice too. |
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