No Game No Life (light novel)
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| Surprised with this one. Maybe one of my favorites this season. |
| "Listen Simon... Don't forget. Believe in yourself. Not in the you who believes in me. Not the me who believes in you. Believe in the you who believes in yourself." ~ Kamina (TTGL) “You should enjoy the little detours. To the fullest. Because that’s where you’ll find the things more important than what you want.” ~ Ging (HxH) |
| The little girl was playing 2 characters with her feet! Now that's pro. I thought it was pretty interesting BEFORE they went to the gaming world. Not that it was terrible after that, we'll have to wait and see... |
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| THIS SHOW IS AMAAAAAAAAZING! I liked just about EVERYTHING in this episode. The only minor criticism that I could give right now is the vagueness with which they entered the new world. I mean, what just happened there? I guess it's supposed to a mystery and I have no problem with it because the premise that the show has set up can lead to so many exciting possibilities! Much amaze. Wow. I'm so psyched. I hope they don't screw it up. |
| I'm surprised at how much I ended up liking this! The atmosphere is great and ohmygosh I love the colors. The characters are pretty cool so far, too. I also like the fact that the relationship between Sora and Shiro doesn't seem to be an incestuous one... yet. Hopefully it stays that way. The fanservice wasn't as bad as I was expecting. I mean, I've seen worse. I did roll my eyes at the busty naked girl at the end though as well as the groping in the preview. Oh well, as long as the fanservice doesn't overshadow everything else (and as long as it stays on the levels in this episode, it won't) then I'm good. |
| I'm pretty sure this will be one of my fav of the season :) |
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| that was a great episode 1~ the art and the song in the end~ looking forward to the next episode |
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| Very interesting, Has promise. |
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Catastrophic said: Still don't understand people who watch ecchi anime and then complain about the fanservice. It'd be like watching a mecha series and whining about all the giant robots in the show. no, dont try to be stupid by mixing those 2 kinds of complains, it IS really sad that a single fucking pantyshot makes everyone scream AOTY at the top of their lungs I would suggest you learn to type a coherent sentence before you call anyone 'stupid', friend. How is my simile inaccurate? -"Ecchi" genre means a lot of fanservice, sex jokes, and bouncing body parts. If it doesn't have those things, it's not an ecchi series. -"Mecha" genre means giant robots, 95% of the time fighting other giant robots or monsters. If it doesn't have giant robots, it's not a mecha series. Watching an ecchi anime and complaining about the fanservice (which is what MAKES it an ecchi anime) is exactly like bitching about the giant robots in a mecha series. Yes it's fanservicey, that's kinda the point. Another comparison might be complaining about all the fighting in a shonen action series. You know what you're getting into. Also I doubt anyone's giving this anime high scores because of a 3-second panty shot. I sure do see a lot of stupid prudes whining about it, though. I think that panty shot was a lot more important to the haters of the show than the fans of it. |
| The only fan service I noticed was a panty shot. I didn't notice anymore and if there was more, it wasn't blown out of proportion because I didn't notice. I thought I saw a comment before I saw the first episode that said "I wish there was less fan service" or something along those lines. People can be so silly sometimes. |
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| Am I the only one who doesn't really notice or care about the art style? The opening is probably one of the best ones this season |
Slowpoke_ said: The only fan service I noticed was a panty shot. I didn't notice anymore and if there was more, it wasn't blown out of proportion because I didn't notice. I thought I saw a comment before I saw the first episode that said "I wish there was less fan service" or something along those lines. People can be so silly sometimes. there was also a cleavage with the poker playing girl...and its really amusing to see people whining about 1-2 sec ecchi scenes in a ECCHI show .... |
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| The colors are strong in this anime. I found it rather interesting, looking forward to it this season. |
| Really great. Can't name a part I didn't like. Too bad there'll only be 12 episodes... T_T Wonder how it's gonna develop .. hmmmm |
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| O.O wow that felt like 10 minutes. A lot of bright colors in this one. Those tech animation stuff looked cool too |
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| A surprisingly good start to the series. Will be interesting to see how the plot develops in the next few episodes. |
Omegastorm said: Blind_Guardian said: galimx said: niknasr said: galimx said: Doing Panty shots from a 11 year old girl gives this anime higher score than ping pong the animation. Sad anime fans nowdays. ^Wut? Trolling? ? Nope, i just said the truth. It's fucking ping pong, how interesting can that possibly be? Loli is far more entertaining. Kuroko no Basuke... It's basketball but it's awesome. Ping Pong doesn't have superpowers though. |
Caleb8980 said: Takuan_Soho said: Did anyone explain the card trick? Was just watching the show a second time and figured it out. He had a second deck, it was one of the things he got from the robbers, when he looked at the gold pieces what he was really examining was her deck (not her rack) to make sure that it was the same one. So his trick was nothing more special than a little slight of hand, swapping out the cards he drew for the ones in already had (which was probably the whole point of his story, to distract her). My guess is that the cards were some sort of regional card, so no one would expect an "outsider" to have a set. The only reason it worked was because the woman had too much arrogance and too little respect for her opponent. Ahh, nice1 :D Although that is quite an old trick it works nicely with an overly arrogant opponent, especially a cheater. Personally I really like to watch card tricks (magic tricks) at TV over and over again until I figure out the trick behind it, so props to you ^^ The episode itself was quite nice, just how I expected it to be after reading the first Volume of the LN. Art and animation is both great and imo fitting for the anime. It has nothing to do with being an old or a new trick, it's the most basic sleight of hand move there is, palming cards. The exact same trick that they animated moments before he drew a royal flush. He palms the 5 royal flush cards, discards his hand, drops the 5 cards on top of the deck and draws them while keeping his story about how he just fell into the world today going to deflect suspicion. What bothers me about this is that the woman doing the cheating chose a full house as her hand. If you're going to false shuffle a deck to retain cards, deal off the bottom of the deck and palm cards on the draw you might as well choose a royal flush. There's no way to prove it happened after the fact as the deck stays fully in tact with 52 cards and no doubles and he didn't even inspect her deck first. This option gives her a 75% win/chop factor (chop if he happens to have a royal) and a 25% win factor because if she chooses the spade royal flush she'll automatically find out he cheated because he palmed the spade royal flush from a separate deck before he got to see her hand. Her choice is some stupid cheating, if you disrespect your opponent you'd choose a royal flush because you wouldn't think you could get caught anyway. Choosing a boat is when you want to maintain a sense of it being genuinely possible against someone you think might catch you out. I enjoyed the episode but that part was stupid and made no sense, from a card players perspective. |
idungoof said: It has nothing to do with being an old or a new trick, it's the most basic sleight of hand move there is, palming cards. The exact same trick that they animated moments before he drew a royal flush. He palms the 5 royal flush cards, discards his hand, drops the 5 cards on top of the deck and draws them while keeping his story about how he just fell into the world today going to deflect suspicion. What bothers me about this is that the woman doing the cheating chose a full house as her hand. If you're going to false shuffle a deck to retain cards, deal off the bottom of the deck and palm cards on the draw you might as well choose a royal flush. There's no way to prove it happened after the fact as the deck stays fully in tact with 52 cards and no doubles and he didn't even inspect her deck first. This option gives her a 75% win/chop factor (chop if he happens to have a royal) and a 25% win factor because if she chooses the spade royal flush she'll automatically find out he cheated because he palmed the spade royal flush from a separate deck before he got to see her hand. Her choice is some stupid cheating, if you disrespect your opponent you'd choose a royal flush because you wouldn't think you could get caught anyway. Choosing a boat is when you want to maintain a sense of it being genuinely possible against someone you think might catch you out. I enjoyed the episode but that part was stupid and made no sense, from a card players perspective. Wow that's some pretty interesting insight there. |
Caleb8980 said: Well yes with the old I meant the most basic, although double lifting is imo just as easy ;-) Also you have to keep in mind that having a royal flush as explained is incredibly rare, which would in turn raise suspicions regarding cheating...Shiro got away with it because 1. she didn't figure out his trick 2.even if she did there was no way of making that public without revealing she was cheating herself which would get her disqualified, too. Also 2 royal flushes would only prove that there was cheating, not who did it, again the only way to prove Shiro cheated is to reveal she herself did the same ;-) It would be proof to her that he cheated as she would know that she drew the spade royal flush from the deck, even if it wasn't legitimately, and she would automatically know he introduced 5 extra cards to the deck. To an outside observer it would be impossible to prove. In regards to arousing suspicion I have already explained why it should be irrelevant to her. If she disregards her opponent as being able to spot her cheating during the deal it doesn't matter if it "appears" as though she cheated, it would be impossible to prove. Even if they both cheated she still keeps the money, hence why not dealing herself a royal is stupid. |
Omegastorm said: Chi~ hai-ya~ furu~ There's no superpower but chihaiyafuru was exciting. Still, ping pong in animated form isn't really exciting to me. They can't animate a full on ping pong match without robbing a bank and as such, the matches aren't as exhilarating as a real ping pong match where the balls are flying fast. |
Mills said: dmrch said: Am I the only one who think the purple and pink colours are too strong in this anime? And I noticed that the brother was introduced as a virgin, but the sister was not mentioned about it. What's happened? She's 11 years old. So...? Kawaii no kami-sama :) |
| Great first episode, I think this will become one of my favorites this season. There is only one thing I don't understand. How can someone with communication disorder act like a total badass? |
| "I can have food or drinks spilled on me, or even be spit at and ill laugh about it , However , If for any reason you hurt a friend of mine, I won't forgive you!" - Red-Haired Shanks |
| The show is interesting enough for me to keep watching and it's made by Madhouse too. The scene at the end (when Sora woke up) is too suggestive though. |
Cheesekao said: NeoAnkara said: Cheesekao said: That's because Sora is good at psychological warfare. He make situation seems go to the other party favor so that they think chance of winning is high.NeoAnkara said: If both sides agree then it's not a problem. I have no idea if you understood what I just said but I'll just assume you do. Not to be rude or anything but I don't think you're on the same page as me. All I did was try to correct you of your misconception of one of the rules and you've oddly went off tangent. Actually... Oh wait... first things first... What I'm about to write is a somewhat major spoiler from volume 2 of the novels, and thus is not recommended for anyone, who wishes to avoid said spoilers. If you are fine with it, then here's a double spoiler bracket for your safety. |
| Color me intrigued. |
| But that's just one opinion. |
Caleb8980 said: idungoof said: It would be proof to her that he cheated as she would know that she drew the spade royal flush from the deck, even if it wasn't legitimately, and she would automatically know he introduced 5 extra cards to the deck. To an outside observer it would be impossible to prove. In regards to arousing suspicion I have already explained why it should be irrelevant to her. If she disregards her opponent as being able to spot her cheating during the deal it doesn't matter if it "appears" as though she cheated, it would be impossible to prove. Even if they both cheated she still keeps the money, hence why not dealing herself a royal is stupid. Ye as I said, it would be prove his cheating to HER but to nobody else but what does she want to do with that information? She can't just say he cheated without even knowing how he did it, secondly once again she would have to reveal her own trick in order to prove anything which is bad alone from the standing point of her credibility. Once she would reveal she cheated she would obviously loose any trust she build up, hence she would kill her own income. Between doing that or giving up those coins I would always take the latter. Now for the case she would not reveal she cheated and both would just be having the same royal flush; even there as I said suspicions would arraise concerning her credibility, as she could very well be the cheater, so once again it would hurt her income. In any way even if Shiro did not cheat always dealing herself a royal flush would, too, kill her reputation within due time as nobody would want to play against somebody who can't loose even if they don't figure out her cheating ;-) Note - Sora waited for his opponent to reveal her hand first, probably knowing full well, that she cheated, and quite likely, that he wanted to check, wether or not she got herself a royal, or something else. In case of a royal, he probably would have just busted her cheat. |
| 1st episode was great with a good story that seems original |
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| wow, long time i didn't see a first episode so good D: I hope the rest will keep it up! |
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