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RMTWASHERE said: Unfortunately for you I don't bother wasting too much time on "research" before watching anime and the MC being reincarnated as an inanimate object made me a bit curious, wasn't expecting for more than half of the episode going on about power ups and stupid stats.Maou_heika said: Generic Isekai #7649 I started regretting picking this up 5 mins into the first episode, wasted 23 whole mins of my life! It's the usual gaming mechanisms with MC starting to power up right after reincarnating as a sword and the usual kemonomimi slave girls, let's not forget all the stats screens are conveniently in Japanese. There are at least 50 animes out this season, why y'all pick it up in the first place? Are humans nowadays so ignorant that they forgot that there is a "related" section in every Mal profile that you can use for further context/research of what anime is this? It was easier to open those related section rather than opening up forums tab and ranting bunch of stuff. Not to mention google exist. Its like you hate fish but proceed to go to sushi place without knowing it was made of fish then shit on it at the end, calling it a garbage only from a first bite. |
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| what the actual fuck, is this a one episode anime or what? the sword literally killing dragons at 5 minutes.................................... anyway, damn slaves are always treated so badly, it hurts to see, was hoping to see her kill that guy by the end of the episode, but i guess him dying to the bear works too lol yay happy ending :D Fran kawaii anyway, i felt like dropping it for the 1st half (holy shit i was getting tired of hearing the sword boast about his ability to easily kill everything), but the part with Fran was cute enough for me to probably watch another episode |
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| Great episode! Finally get to see Fran animated! A goblin spat on sword-kun! So he killed them all! And levelled up. Then he heard a voice asking if he wanted to set his skills. He agreed and it seems he can gain new skills by crushing the crystals. Though he is lonely without a wielder, he decides to gain new skills in preparation for his wielder. We then get o see Fran who is a slave... Meanwhile, my favourite sword is killing more monsters and acquiring new skills! He figures out if he absorbs a crystal of a skill he already has, he can increase its effectiveness. We then get to see Fran again who is punished with no food for trying to stand up for another slave. Sword's body double skill isn't too useful xD. He clears many areas and goes beyond to the forest but when he goes in the ground, he can't come out! Even after a month... he is still stuck! Meanwhile for Fran, a huge bear monster attacks the transport and eats her horrible owners. All the slaves are freed! Whilst everyone runs, Fran attacks the monster but it doesn't work... She hears a voice call out to her and it is... SWORD-KUN! She grasps him and conveniently whilst they talk, the bear monster takes just enough time to wait to attack her before she pulls out the sword! And then kills the monster! She is about to put sword-kun away... But the last remaining slave owner comes to her and tells her to hand the sword over! But Sword-kun kills him! She agrees to wield him and tells him her name. She decides on his name as 'Teacher' lol. Looking forward to the next episode! |
Rem4lifexDSep 29, 2022 8:34 AM
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| pretty average first episode, im hoping this doesnt devolve into weird cat-sword romance or god forbid a harem, id definitely prefer to see something closer to a father-daughter relationship fran is definitely a badass though, which pleasantly surprised me! |
| That was as fine and fine can be, not bad, but not good either, Fran is super cute but eehhhhh, let's see where this show goes. |
| That was actually really fun. I didn't know anything about the light novels, so I'd expected something rather comfy and comedic, and though generally I was right, the first episode did have some surprisingly cruel moments. I didn't find it boring at all. |
KenrinSep 29, 2022 11:54 AM
| Wait I didn’t know the first episode dropped yesterday? As someone who read the first book but found it boring, I did enjoy this episode. I think having voice acting really helps the early going of the story. I didn’t find volume 1 to become interesting at all until the final battle at the end, we’ll see how things go with the anime. The animation seemed decent during Fran’s fight with the bear. |
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AkeZZZ said: When truck-kun is too repetitive, why not try something new like a supercar-kun? Fran is cute, btw 😏 Based as always Akezz |
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| One of my favorite isekai series finally getting the anime ! Decent episode. |
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JudgeDeadd said: Ah yes, 15 minutes of listening to a guy talk about what skills he's going to choose and exactly how many mana points he's gained. Thrilling stuff. Also murdering goblins en masse for... no reason, other than them being ugly, I guess. Yeeeeeah this DEFINITELY feels like one of those shows that worked better as a novel - if it ever worked. Also, there's something particularly irksome of this trend I keep seeing where you have a character whose whole deal is being an inanimate object/monster/something else that presents them with limitations... and have them quickly overcome said limitations via magic shapeshifting/telekinesis/whatever. At least in shows like Spider and Slime it takes more than 3 minutes so you could argue the character earned that, but in this one, well... does him being a sword really even matter? Aside from it making him easier to animate I mean. Working with his limitations and making it so he HAS to rely on a master to move and gain abilities would have made this so much more interesting. The main duo's dynamic towards the end was nice though. I might start up the next episode when it comes out, but it's a likely drop unless it goes somewhere pretty quickly. |
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Netbug said: JudgeDeadd said: Ah yes, 15 minutes of listening to a guy talk about what skills he's going to choose and exactly how many mana points he's gained. Thrilling stuff. Also murdering goblins en masse for... no reason, other than them being ugly, I guess. Yeeeeeah this DEFINITELY feels like one of those shows that worked better as a novel - if it ever worked. Also, there's something particularly irksome of this trend I keep seeing where you have a character whose whole deal is being an inanimate object/monster/something else that presents them with limitations... and have them quickly overcome said limitations via magic shapeshifting/telekinesis/whatever. At least in shows like Spider and Slime it takes more than 3 minutes so you could argue the character earned that, but in this one, well... does him being a sword really even matter? Aside from it making him easier to animate I mean. Working with his limitations and making it so he HAS to rely on a master to move and gain abilities would have made this so much more interesting. The main duo's dynamic towards the end was nice though. I might start up the next episode when it comes out, but it's a likely drop unless it goes somewhere pretty quickly. Seriously, it's bizarre how generic they managed to make this when he's not even a living creature. Shouldn't that change something up? But nope, skill points, DM voice, skill stealing, and like you said, none of the limitations from being inanimate object. Isekai seem to revel in making details irrelevant. So far feels like a worse Spider in every way unless Fran carries the show. |
| Finally, a cat girl is one of the main protagonists. I have been looking forward to this anime since the announcement last year. |
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| A splendid start, and I already liked that the next episode has adventurers' guild in the title as all good isekai should have |
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| Great start! But why did they have to give the sword every single op isekai power… |
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| lighthearted and goofy, but neko chan <3 will keep me watching |
| How long did that sword train, its already so op. Also how much mana is he consuming like zero, you think flying everywhere would eat all of that up. Whatever, I'll try a few more episodes and if I'm really not into it I'll just drop it. The sword has got to be one of the easiest things to animate though. He just flies and emotes. |
| "That Time Urahara Kisuke Reincarnated As a Sword". good first ep. seems fun and the animation is good (common C2C W). went through the basics really quickly but it was nice. obv fran is really cute as well. |
moozooh said: YasashiEndo said: As a first episode, I think it does a fine job introducing certain concepts without exposition, like the level-up system and such "Without" exposition? That was exposition, lol. He literally narrated how he gets skills and XP from magic crystals via expository monologue. As well as everything else, I guess. Dude rivals Speedwagon at dramatically stating the obvious, but he's no Speedwagon. *lol* Guess that's one of the best arguments for not giving anything about public reception and ratings when it comes to entertainment media. If there are people being able to watch the very same show and coming to conclusions 180° from everyone else about factual aspects of it, it becomes pretty obvious that what 'people' think about stuff means nothing at all. An episode consisting of at least 50-60% expository monologue (as you've stated) being perceived by some as storytelling WITHOUT exposition is ridiculous to a degree I'm tempted to call it a bait comment. Or rather; I WOULD be tempted, if I didn't already know about how ridiculous the anime community can be at times... :D There would be even some interesting topic to be found here within the 'exposition' question. I personally find it rather intriguing WHY this has become such a problem in anime - and especially Isekai-themed ones. I understand that it is a cheap narration-technique that got ported over from classical shounen-storytelling but recently I encounter it more and more even with shows aimed for a more mature audience. Originally I was drawn into manga & anime (actually more into japanese cinema in the beginning...) BECAUSE of the subtle and often hard to understand way of eastern storytelling from the western perspective. I remember watching many japanese and korean horror movies in the early 2000s wondering at times what some of them actually wanted to tell me, with how 'weird' their narrative choices felt to me as westerner. There was so much symbolism and so much things unspoken but to be found within the mise en scene - and this was something you could find as well in older anime. Akira, Evangelion, etc. But THIS kind of shows - especially but not only Isekai anime nowadays - seem to constantly have a level of exposition you would expect from a pre-schooler show, especially meant to TEACH very young children about the world. In this aspect it's necessary to work that way - toddlers don't have the previous knowledge to interpret the meaning of things - those shows are meant to install the very framework of simple concepts into them so they can use this in the future to interpret other stuff. But there should be no need to have those levels of exposition in a show aimed towards teens or adults if you don't assume them being braindead to begin with... But enough rambling about things I can't change anyways. At least this show seems to get the comedic timing at least somewhat right - what makes it already two tiers better than this Healer Mendokusai crap they tried to sell earlier this year. Probably still not good enough - but at least not something you'll remember just for its cringe-value. ^^ |
Ragon_Qc said: hiyowoko said: pretty average first episode, im hoping this doesnt devolve into weird cat-sword romance or god forbid a harem, id definitely prefer to see something closer to a father-daughter relationship fran is definitely a badass though, which pleasantly surprised me! Don't worry, this is a harem-free anime! thank the lord and all that is holy. |
| For a first generic isekai episode, it was actually fun to watch. It's not weird to see the MC as a sword since we already are aware of reincarnated as a vending machine & onsen. lol |
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