Dolls' Frontline Episode 1 Discussion

Ashhk said:
The production looks decent, great OP/ED (and same for the OP's visuals) but that's all, the story is boring, I'm not surprised since I played the game and it sucked

Alokr said:


check the base material mate, those girls are not humans, they are called T-Dolls (Tactical Dolls). This is an adaptation of the Game called "Girl's Frontline/Doll's Frontline"
https://iopwiki.com/wiki/Lore
https://iopwiki.com/wiki/Girls%27_Frontline_Wiki
https://gf.sunborngame.com/

With that said, I can agree with you on two things,
the idea of only female T-Dolls is weird at best and totally trash at worse, and ya they could have taken the SSD/HDD out of that old potatoes PC, I don't know why they didn't do that...

nightcrawlercyp said:
Alokr never said they are humans. I said they are robots, not androids as the term android defines a human with robotic enhancements.
firemagnet Yes the appearence may be for aesthetics but they could have gone with something like [image ommitted] (either one) There is absolutely no reason to go with the highschool or younger body model. Also no reason for the domestic robots to need breathing or simulating it.
If they looked like this they could be both good domestic models and dodge bullets with ease. And honestly I prefer a robot like Kristanna Loken to a lil girl with overly large boobs model even if I am a boobs guy

iNovak said:
In which legal platforms (and countries) is this anime available? Please tell me

RobertBobert said:
Expectation: People argue over MC choices and animation quality.
Reality: People argue about anthropomorphism or were not familiar with the game at all.



This is always the case with adaptations of mobile games that you are not familiar with. For some reason, without any gaming experience, it looks like a generic action title.

Lelouch0202 said:
I've known about the franchise for a long time but never played it (I do play Azur Lane for whatever that's worth). GFL 2 has my interest and I will probably play that one when it comes out so I'm just watching this to maybe get introduced to the characters. I've seen fanart of them every so often as well.

Off the bat, M4A1 is easily my favorite. I always loved her design and I'm quite liking her personality too.

I do have a question, the subtitles quote Sangvis as the name of the enemy dolls but the AR team seems to call them "Tekketsu" which should more literally translate to something like Iron and Blood. Why would they not just say Sangvis in Japanese or did I just mishear what they said?

Production quality is okay, I guess you can't expect too much.

firemagnet said:


Sangvis Ferri is Latin for "Iron Blooded" or "Iron Blood" and is the name of the company which made those dolls (Sangvis Ferri Manufacturing) (including using the Roman "V," which is read as "U"). It's basically a romanization, so the Japanese and the Latin are the same in that sense. Oddly enough, the company is Bulgarian in lore.

Company lore here: https://iopwiki.com/wiki/Sangvis_Ferri

firemagnet said:


GFL isn't exactly up there in the Android App Store / iOS store rankings, sadly. It's certainly not as popular as other games which have done their own adaptations or included animated cutscenes for the game such as Princess Connect, Honkai Impact 3rd and GrandBlue Fantasy. To say nothing of the gravy train that is anything Type-Moon.

As for expected arguments, well, to Asahi Production's credit, the animation is on point. It's not Unlimited Budget Works' grade, and it's certainly not as bad as whichever studio did the adaptation for Azur Lane The Animation.

With that said, whomever directed the combat choreography just doesn't seem to know how to impart the sensation of force, energy, and initiative into combat scenes. It's unfortunate, really, because the manga does a really good job of that.

Lelouch0202 said:
GFL 2 has my interest and I will probably play that one when it comes out so I'm just watching this to maybe get introduced to the characters.

Ellenwitch said:
Even if I would love to know more about the story, I kinda loved how we are thrown into the thick of things, and through these characters in battle, we got to know them a bit, and see how they handle things, along with how their personalities shined. Hoping for more of the same honestly.

The art style and voices are pretty nice too. With the tone and everything.

I honestly don't get some's take on this, yeah, it's not a stand out, and they could've given us more information, rather than just an info dump right on the get go like that. Along with the pacing seemingly being super rapid like that. But for what it presented, I enjoyed it. If they slow it down, and give us more info about the world, and such, then it'll be better for sure.

2Beade said:


Nah bro that dude is dumb, sure, remove the HDD, because those things do not get ruined by getting smacked when you're literally on a battlefiel

Syureria said:
Slightly confused with chara names especially M4A1. Is this the same as Azur Lane huh? Basically all girls are a gun. Starting with infiltrate, M4A1 as leader they plan to steal a database, and for the op 10/10 really like op animation and sound. AR-15, this is an interesting anime it's just that it's hard to remember the names of the chara. Stealing the database seemed too easy for them and hacking the password too. Looks like it won't end easily, the cooperation between AR-15 and SOPMODII That's pretty good, They are just trying to buy time.

The operation even continues until dawn, The ambush this time can be overcome, maybe Scorpion can become an MVP, lol.

CannedMarmalade said:
It's a shame its gonna follow the Manga and not the game

redcobra said:


they are mass produce dolls with no name if you want to make it easier. their code name / name is their gun that given since born.

nightcrawlercyp said:
Utter garbage. First off unless those models where first designed for infiltration or companionship they would not have those body models. You would either go with strong male body or a slender supple female body for agility. Second no point on having them exhibit emotions. Third they could have just removed the hdd. fourth if they still went to that approach Combining bladed weapons with fire arms would have been a better choice. Then you have their costumes that cannot be explained by anything but someone's fetish. No point whatsoever for them having skirts even less in a cold climate. Also why would androids .... although the term would not apply because an android is just a human with rootic enhancements not a human looking robot... need to breath?

firemagnet said:


I can't comment with respect to your sense of aesthetics, but perhaps playing the game (available on iOS and Android) would help matters a little.

Again, it bears worth saying that, at least in the lore (which the original game goes heavily into through individual side stories), most "T-Dolls" are made to look like human women purely for aesthetics, for making the humans whom they serve feel more comfortable.

What the anime fails to explain well is that, in addition to World War III, much of what would otherwise be inhabitable land has been irradiated by what the game calls "collapse fluid," the by product of alien artifacts discovered in the 1960s whose origins are unclear and whose uses have deeply harmful effects to the human body, including lethal zombifying mutations. In the 2030s misuse and a security failure resulted in what is called the "first Beilan Island Incident," wherein a massive explosion in an artifact on the aforementioned island created an explosion and fallout which irradiated most arable land and indirectly touched off World War III.

T-Doll technology was developed because the population loss and attendant economic crisis was so great that a number of social functions had to be taken up by easily replaceable automated labor. Among these tasks were domestic automata which were designed to look seamlessly human, and which were networked into a global wireless cloud from which they could draw upon a range of behavior algorithms to mimic human behavior (down the to the point of getting blackout drunk).

As for why M4 reacts in such a human manner, well, revealing that would spoil a whole bunch of stuff.

redcobra said:
they are mass produce dolls with no name if you want to make it easier. their code name / name is their gun that given since born.

Syureria said:
Alright, thanks for the answer sir

Tenzen12 said:
But it's still wrong. Majority of dolls have own names, but they don't use them in Griffin so human staff does not get attached that easily

Akumaru03 said:
I'm very sad that many chose to drop this anime and give it a 1. This show has potential, and this is just the first episode. I fricking hope this anime gets better, watching people hate on it it hurts my soul.