What did you think of this episode?
5Loved it!
32.9%
164
4Liked it!
28.7%
143
3It was OK
22.0%
110
2Disliked it
8.8%
44
1Hated it
7.6%
38
Average 3.7
499 votes
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bastek66Jan 4, 2015 4:36 AM
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| Looking good. I checked out the raw episode 1 to see how the LN would be adapted and I'm liking what I've witnessed so far. I just think that the animation of their body movements in the OP look a bit awkward. Ah, Julie is such a sweetie~ Loving her voice. >///< I'm gonna enjoy listening to her say "Ya~~" every time. Too bad Imari didn't pass Tsukimi-sensei's voice is just how I imagined it to be. xDD Perfect. :P Welp. Gonna watch this again with subs later on. It's been a year since I've last read volume 1 of the LN so that helps being familiar with a few stuffs in here. |
| Dropped the ep in the middle of it. it's hardly interesting. it looks like a higher budget version of Trinity Seven and somewhat similar to Mahou Sensou. definitely not watching this. |
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| i only read a few chapters in the Ln (don't have time to read) ,so can't tell if they rushed it... but it's a good start IMO can't wait for more episodes |
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| Pretty typical series from the OP song to the meeting in the beginning... They introduced some of the main characters while also establishing the main premise. Lol, I can't take the bunny ears seriously. Also, is that how every preview will look like from now on with the gimmicks? Heh. |
Stark700Jan 4, 2015 6:52 AM
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| I watch the raws and it was pretty good for a first episode. Animation and fight scenes are of high quality. Julie is such a cutie. It was funny to see her staring at Tooru and then turned around when he looks back. I'm a bit surprise to see Kirito's VA voicing the main guy. I guess Matsuoka-san will be busy this season. It maybe rush but its to be expected of an adaptation, but its not bad either. There are panty shots, but I'm complaining. I actually like them as long as it doesn't distract too much. |
| The opening is absolutely fantastic. Not the song, but the animation. |
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| Animation is decent and the opening is good. Looks pretty typical though. |
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| Yup, awesome first episode. just the kind of anime I like for casual watching ;) Looking forward to the next episode ! |
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| nice this will be my seasonal fix of harem i wish 8bit put this much effort on grisaia |
| The girl who seemed pretty okay had to live the school because of losing to the guy in the first day. Then there is the principal who looks like a 5 year old kid. Then there is this annoying sensei. And having to live with the student sitting next to one another. How many times we have seen such a similar premise in anime? Assuming none, pretty rubbish first episode nonetheless. The only good thing was the ending song. |
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| not bad. not bad at all. animation and opening is great. guess this will be my harem series for the season. |
shanimebib said: we have seen it alot The girl who seemed pretty okay had to live the school because of losing to the guy in the first day. Then there is the principal who looks like a 5 year old kid. Then there is this annoying sensei. And having to live with the student sitting next to one another. How many times we have seen such a similar premise in anime? Assuming none, pretty rubbish first episode nonetheless. The only good thing was the ending song. but in anime i can say that about any genre |
| This doesn't look one bit interesting |
| Insanely great start to an insanely great anime. Definitely going to be one of the best animes for this entire season and maybe even the year. Calling it now. |
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| Good character designs, especially the weird cougar teacher. Watched it thinking it was going to roll right into being a generic harem anime, but was pleasantly surprised by Yurie's likable demeanor and MC's ability to knock his female opponent out instead of pulling some nonsensical crap like "Let's both be friends and force ourselves into this school!" Naturally, the only fear remaining now is whether the commendable theme of vengeance will continue to the end, or whether it will degrade to a speech-ridden social justice crusade of friendship, love, and forgiveness lost in the flux of boobs and butts. |
| I liked it but I'm not sure if the normal broadcast will be censored or not. There were pantyshots and jugding from the preview there are ecchi moments coming :o |
| 1 guilty pleasure anime of this season added to my list. (maybe) We shall see. |
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| Well the character designs are good. Not bad ending song. Starting off with everyone making enemies and bunny maid yo Not a fan of main character off the start mainly because im getting pretty tired of hearing Matsuoka Yoshitsugu's voice Decent start, now to continue watching on for the next 11 weeks. First anime of the season for me |
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| the first episode :D ... |
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| A great start soo far |
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| Nice start, gonna keep watching it |
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| I like their powers, they sure aren't very original but they're pretty interesting. It's also funny. Generic ecchi comedy. No actual plot shown yet. Gonna watch it, seems interesting. |
| Good OP Decent episode although common |
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| Looks madly average, reminds me to Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance (lol at how it is an recommendation for this anime). I feel like ecchi will be the only charm of this anime, since the plot is not very appealing and fight scenes are very unexciting. I guess the highschool-type anime is not aimed to me anymore. Edit: It is weird how the main character (male) is not part of the image here: http://myanimelist.net/anime/25397/Absolute_Duo/pic&pid=68839 |
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| I get the MEH vibe from the frist episode, looks to be another series we've seen a hundred times before. 5/10 or 3/5 for the frist episode will probably drop as nothing caught my attention. |
| OP and ED song is good wow the graphic is sharp and beautiful. nice first episode :D waiting for next |
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xsilicon9 said: Exactly what I thought .. Also terrible art (except OP and Ending).Had to turn it off after a few minutes. Another awful generic magic school harem series. |
| I even know this anime, and think that the anime that opened the season would be as good :) [spoiler]  |
| Well to be honest i was wondering how this would turn out after reading the LN and the first noticeable thing is that they are rushing. I am hoping the go for 3 or less volumes but from the looks of it they might be going for 4 which would be bad. But i guess we will have to wait and see. |
| Wow! We only have two pages of comments? We start really bad! LOL The PV did not convince me, the episode idem; for now we are on enough, but if worse becomes almost certainly an idiot this anime. Narration too inflated by déjà vu, good start but the rest is too normal. The drawings are not exceptional and scenarios are on the sufficiency as quality. I hope that the study 8bit not face another hole in the water. |
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| I probably shouldn't have watched the episode to begin with, considering that echi/harem animes are not my cup of tea, but I did anyways. Mainly because I just wanted to try out the starting series for 2015, to see if there were any gems so far. That being said, the opening scene before the credits and theme song rolled in intrigued me. I thought that maybe the fighting would make the series entertaining, despite it being a genre that I'm not typically fond of. So it did it's job, it sunk its hooks in and I plowed on. This didn't last though. At about 13:37, I had to turn it off. You know, when the ridiculous teacher with the bunny ears said, "Is it because you guys noticed my cuteness?" with a facial expression that was anything but. I'm not fond of the art style or coloring either, so this series also has that against it. It would also be nice to have a main girl, who is supposed to be 'quirky' and 'cute', didn't have the most dull, bland face and awful color scheme of the bunch. Her "silver" hair and hot pink eyes? No thank you. She looked... dumb. Dumb in the head. Dumb as in, "Wow, what a boring as hell character. Why do I have to stare at her for this long?" I saw plenty of more appealing background characters, which was frustrating. So all in all, to be fair, this probably was never going to get a good review from me from the start. I'm no judge to say if this was a good anime within the genre. |
| Another one of these eh? The animation is not bad. It does look like some others I've already seen. It looks quite similar to this. The first female introduced, Julie, is not half bad. But I got over her type and I wanted some new stuff. She is cute to be honest. I'll just have to see more episodes to completely be judging. |
| 1. I guess u gotta really love these characters w/ super powers from the start to like a predictable series like this or SAO… 2. U also have to have not much anime experience to enjoy this… 3. There needs to be more series like "Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru" from Fall 2014, where the plot does a complete 180 in the first episode… unlike this generic absolute duo 4. If this anime just had a more darker atmosphere, it would be much better 1/10 |
| this was beyond meh! first impression after having forced myself to finish the episode: generic typical loli harem garbage which only certain ppl will enjoy.. that aside the art style is soo damn terrible and the animation quality is garbage aswell. drop |
| Julie is so adorable. Always nice to see a cute loli lead heroine =) |
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| This is so bad :( |
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| Typical ecchi harem beginning, except that it is bad. Ecchines level low, not funny, even Trinity Seven episode 1 was better This episode made me so sad. Why didn't I have teacher like that? XD |
SpartehJan 6, 2015 8:43 AM
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| Good first ep ! We enter immediately into the story without too many frills... Julie is thankfully different from the classic and boring tsundere female protagonist, very good !! I kike fights and animations, catchy OP and ED ! |
| A decent start I suppose. Nothing that I didn't really expect. However, I think there may be some potential here, so I'll definitely be sticking around. Subs weren't perfect but I definitely appreciate someone going to the trouble of making some for this. |
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