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| I'm guessing Kodiwakai is someone that's been devoured by the forest and switched in the past..would partially explain his hate for Arata. At least I hope that's it, would be interesting. Parallel storylines are interesting so I'll keep watching. |
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| Nice first episode, love those 12 guardians, they all look beast. We'll see where it goes from now. |
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| wow! i didn't expected this to happen. i thought this show is just a boring with girls having a big breasts and they would fall in love with one guy.. it exceeds my expectations! Wow! This is epic. This is cool. ;D I wonder where the other Arata is? Does it mean that the other arata with the long hair is in japan? HAHA. i think this is gonna be awesome! Especially because of their different personality. |
| 3/5 leaving it on hold for now... the plot is decent at best, but lacks the edge to make it different than any other generic shounen plot, compared to something awesome like psychopass that instantly lures in an audience. the execution of this first episode lacks and isn't doing a good job displaying the story. however, the premise is pretty good and animation is okay too. |
| kinda "meh" for me... will keep watching in hopes of A) fantasy Arata kicks all the bully's asses in the real world B) real world Arata goes from emo to hero |
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| I actually did enjoy the episode, but this setup doesn't seem to have a lot of potential to me and has a lot of pretty typical and generic elements. I'm not very fond of the modern Arata at all, but the other Arata was actually interesting to watch for the bit of screen time he got. I don't know; I'm just not very into Yuu Watase's works, which is why I'm really skeptical. For me personally, I've tried quite a few of her manga series, and they've always gotten stale very quickly, so aside from Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden (which is the only work of hers I've truly liked), I've never picked up one of her series beyond a few chapters. I'm questioning whether or not I should keep watching this, but I'll give it a chance with one or two more episodes to see where it goes. |
| It wasn't that bad. The details in the character designs are good, same with the animation. Just the artstyle is completely unoriginal and bland. |
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| I was thinking wtf is happening up until they switched places in different worlds. I was then like.. OOOOOH.. meh lol it was alright, we'll see where this goes |
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| Having desire to see an animation of the fantasy genre that had what it takes, I immersed myself in the vision of Arata, already knowing Yuu Watase. For now, I was not impressed a lot on the chart, I look forward to the other episodes to make me an idea about the plot, at least that should be interesting! |
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| Wow... As a manga reader, I'm actually pretty okay with the series. I don't remember much of the beginning of the manga except for the later times when Arata is more than this wimpy kid. I think I'll enjoy a refresher course to the series and continue reading the manga as well o3o |
| I like it aside from the fast pacing. |
tingy said: bonifide said: I read the manga and dropped it. I dropped the manga too a long time ago...but it's nice seeing it animated. All that green flames and other special effects were pretty cool to watch. I wasn't expecting Hamaji's voice to come out of Kotoha either so that was a nice surprise. I also liked the ED. We'll see how this goes, I have more patience with anime than manga, though looking at the number of episodes, guess it's going to be an original anime ending. Yeah another reason i dropped it because the real Arata is way more better than that punk. |
F_Bernkastel said: So I wanna see more of the other Arata, the one that went to Japan. Yeah same here he probably won't take shit from those guys. Seems to be a little interesting ill probably stick around. |
| If strength is justice, then is powerlessness a crime? |
| the two guys that were at the school remind me of Yoshino and Mahiro. Its not bad...im going to keep watching for now. |
| Did anyone else noticed that they used the same sound effect that was used in Summer Wars, right when the sword goes all bling bling. |
| I must be used to this sort of thing more than others.... I've never read the manga and didn't really look into any previews besides the description on here and wasn't even a bit confused about what was going on. Parallel words and different people switch places. It's an interesting premise so far I think...hopefully they keep it up. |
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| I liked the manga, so I'll be giving this a shot. I'll at least try to do the 3 episode rule. It wasn't bad though. |
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| so dawg i herd u like arata bastek66 said: Looks like fujoshit... >code geass k |
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| I love the ED song. It's a shame that the credits sequence it's attached to probably tells far more than it should, considering we're only in the first episode. >>;; And of course comparison's between Japan's Arata and Amawakuni's Arata start. Always happens. For the record, I think both Arata's are stereotypical hero archetypes. One's the Idiot Hero (though downplayed in this adaptation considerably) while the other is the classic, original definition of the antihero. XD To be fair to the latter, they've skipped over a large portion of the abuse he gets to make him seem more like an unjustifiably whiny git than he really is since they really only show the verbal abuse. |
| Was ok. 6/10 for now. I will try maybe 3 or 4 eps. If it doesnt get more interesting I will drop it. I'm also prefer fantasy Arrata. |
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| UUuh. Such a fast pace. It all happened in a blink of an eye... Anyway, I'm still convinced Kimura doesn't fit Kadowaki at all >.> but heh, it's always a pleasure listening to his voice. |
| Ughh.... my experience with Hakkenden and Amnesia have not been good and I'm getting a lot of the same feeling/tone/atmosphere from this. So I'm gonna have to drop this, idk maybe a friend will tell me how much better it gets and I might pick it up again, but I doubt it. |
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| It was a good opening episode, a big fan of Yuu Watase work and the animation seemed decent enough, look forward to the rest. |
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| It's interesting! I'll keep watching it! |
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| Really good. I've got high expectations of this show. Havent read the manga but i think i will |
| It seems to be speeded up.. It was a little wierd, but i think i'll keep watching it to see which way the story goes. |
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| Oh, this anime is an epic, just like Maoyuu and Samurai 7. Way better than I expected. They just murdered the princess just like that! Ooh. Kind of excited. Looking forward to see more. |
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| I really don't like animes that take place in these kinds of settings :c I much rather see the other Arata in Japan but I have a feeling they won't show him much -sigh- |
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UnbornMVs said: Was pretty cool , I like how the story goes so far . That ED is badass . Yep, looking forward to the next episode. |
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| Enough entertaining ! |
| Wasn't too sure about this just from reading the synopsis. But this seems to have some promise after this episode. |
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| Hmmm... on the fence with this one. I'll give it 3 episodes.... I like the names attached to this production, so I have hopes it will improve. Poor little princess.... ;-; 12 MF'ers! I like the ED. |
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| Cool, they switched places :P The Arata that came from Japan activated that weird sword that the other Arata couldn't right? |
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phoenixalia said: bastek66 said: Looks like fujoshit... Sigh, people just can't give moe or fujoshi shows a break huh? It's always 'moeshit' or 'fujoshit'. This show doesn't have any Bl-Undertones in the first place and even if it did, it does not make it 'fujoshit' or 'shit'. It just means it's for a particular audience and that the audience is most certainly not you. And just because you don't like something not aimed at you, it's not shit. 1. Shonen fans have to deal with this all the time. 2. Moe really does need to die 3. You're right; this show doesn't feel like it has much BL at all. The fantasy world has a female lead, even. |
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| I liked it, I think it's going to be good. Awesome ED! |
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| good start. i hope the real world arata takes it to those bullies and busts some heads. |
| Interesting plot... I love time-space travels lol. |
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| Those who say this is bad by the first episode has shit taste, it's so interesting that you barely know shit, and couldn't predict shit, yet calling this shit, so what's the trend now? Aku no Hana I guess? Claiming that to be a psychological shit but it's actually 2 crazy shits doing crazy shits, nothing special. On topic, awesome swap there the 2 Arata's did :D How will they fit in their different respective world.. I'll be looking this through :D Leninha said: flamingo-chan said: The anime totally skipped how bad Arata was bullied. In the manga the story starts with Arata going to school when a year starts (he spent his time at home before), how he started making friends until Kadowaki is transferred to his class and they start bullying him again. In the manga Arata overheard how his supposed best friend was part of the bullying stuff he suffered and that's why he felt betrayed. I was disappointed by that as well. I loved that part of his story, his suffering really gets across and you do feel sorry and relate. The whole Kadowaki getting transfered and Suguru betraying Arata were pretty impactful scenes in the manga, but in the anime it was more like "oh hey, this happened, but we don't have enough time to show the details". Arata had a lot of depth in the manga. I hope they have some flashbacks on his past later so the viewers can relate. Other than that, not a bad adaptation. I'll keep watching it, but I recommend the manga over the anime. Also, that ED was pretty boss. What? They skipped through all that? Damn I guess I'll be reading the manga too after the anime.. |
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| A bit incoherent but they did cram a lot into that first episode. |
| Well you should've just locked your door, anikyaratachi. o.o O-ochita. onore Juuni Shinsho Kotoha <3<3<3 I'm sure the other Earth guy's gonna come to the fantasy world too. |
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| 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. |
| Well the first episode was interesting enough. I just hope this wraps up in 12 episodes rather than a TBC. |
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| Seems interesting enough and the characters look really nice, will definitely watch this one. |
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