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| Cute show, reminds me a little of Yuki Yuuna with a slice of life like feeling. Seems the main cast are introduced all at once with some characters more goofy and others more serious. The storytelling didn't impress me much yet but it's just the first episode. Got to see a lot of food and tea though. There may be some darker story from the behind the scenes but we'll see later. Mell is such an energetic light bulb. |
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| The first game adaptation of the season (a mobage at that), and I feel that Liden Films has recently been the home of many game adaptation series that won't ever appeal to the West. Nitroplus and Good Smile Company's show gives Little Witch Academia vibes, and the character designs from Re:Zero's illustrator Shinichirou Ootsuka will be the only thing that is reminiscent of that feeling. The closest being Mell which is reminiscent of Petra, and Arsnotoria being a small loli version of Emilia. I can tell that this is mostly in the same CGDCT vein and feels harmless, the 5 central Pentagram girls of the Magic Academy of Ashlam (Picatrix, Little Alberta, Arsnotoria, Abramelin and Mell). That is until the plot kicks in of a sinister setting. How that links to the central girls, there's more to be seen, other than the OP's foreshadowing. Just like any other game adaptation, a decent start. |
KANLen09Jul 6, 2022 7:09 AM
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| Pretty cute and mostly relaxing start. That ending was a little different thing, though. |
SerafosJul 6, 2022 8:06 AM
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| That was quite good. Bit of a tonal shift at the end there though lol |
| HouKago Tea Time! This episode is basically K-On! but with magic instead of music. Both the OP and ED were pretty cute. |
真姫ちゃん！ 何が好き？ トマト よりも あ･な･た♡  |
| This started off like a light and fluffy fantasy SoL anime. Cute girls, silly banter, a fun little dynamic between them all. And then the last few minutes was literally just a massacre. Was that Kenjiro Tsuda? I haven’t played the game so idk what’s really going on. Still, I’m kinda curious to see what’s up so I’ll give this the usual 3 eps. But anyways, is it actually cream first or marmalade? And how do you tea drinkers have your tea? Milk first or second? I prefer milk second (if I use milk at all). |
| 95% of the show would be made of sugar. Their palette is filled with pastel colors. As far as watching the episode except the last few minutes, it is a CGDCT show. |
kuroneko99Jul 6, 2022 4:58 PM
| Really good world building, music, and animation to begin this show off. Excited for what this show has in store, especially after that ending. |
| Slowly being swallowed up by pillows, what bliss. that is one stubborn jam jar lid. The last scene felt like it was an entirely different show |
| The line below is True. The line above is False. |
| This first episode didn't helped wash away my tension about this anime. With those character design(especially Mell's), is about witches, and was mostly them drinking tea. A certain series come to mind, and that make me anxious. |
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| Second most entertaining Otsuka tea party I’ve seen lol. This show gives off Lapis Relights vibes. Not a whole lot happening, but seeing cute girls talk about their lives is good enough for me. That tsuda kenjirou scene at the end tho.. seems like there could be a darker story going on here too unless that was just a film they’re watching or something. The faces didn’t look like otsuka designs during that sequence. |
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impolite_steak28 said: The animation was so good. Great job LIDENFILMS. Now I can't wait for Call of the Night anime Call of the night worries me... liden films is not a big studio to be doing 2 animes the same season. |
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| Great episode! All characters are sugoku kawaii nano desu! (Nipah!) Especially Arsnotoria. Nice character design by Ootsuka and the game also looks good. 'Sniff, Sniff!' Pecatrix has high ambitions xD. They are all aiming to become true ladies. They are all scared of the lid since they thought it was a bug lol. Looking forward to the next episode! |
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| i dont know man, they had the whole episode those girls drinking and eating which was super boring, then they had that death and destruction on the last minute, and i saw here on MAL the 'action' genre. i will give it 1 more episode and if not action i am dropping it |
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| Liked it more until it was nothing but a tea party. |
tottoja said: impolite_steak28 said: The animation was so good. Great job LIDENFILMS. Now I can't wait for Call of the Night anime Call of the night worries me... liden films is not a big studio to be doing 2 animes the same season. Lidenfilms are 5 divisions. It's like 5 studios. That is the reason why there are many lidenfilms anime lately |
Phoenixfalconer said: i honestly cant believe people like u exist  Phoenixfalconer said: good lord. so your someone who cant enjoy. young looking girls being cute. without trying to relate it to loli bait. lmao none of them are remotely sexulized or anything. as for the noises. its just normal anime noises. Yeah, that isn't for me. I didn't watch Cells at Work! for pretty much the same reason. And, maybe I'm overreacting. It's only the first episode after all. We'll find out sooner or later I guess. |
| "...Is your mother worried? Would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?" |
Mario_Isla said: tottoja said: Call of the night worries me... liden films is not a big studio to be doing 2 animes the same season. Lidenfilms are 5 divisions. It's like 5 studios. That is the reason why there are many lidenfilms anime lately Yes but there almost none of great quality. |
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tottoja said: Mario_Isla said: Lidenfilms are 5 divisions. It's like 5 studios. That is the reason why there are many lidenfilms anime lately Yes but there almost none of great quality. But are different teams. The staff are different so Call of the night would not be affected due to this |
| well, this is ostensibly a show about girls going to magic school to fight vampires or something. At the very least, fight dudes in opera clothes. It advertises that in the OP. The end of the episode is a cutaway to a foppish dandy burning a city to the ground and bloodily slaughtering some old man clutching a book. But the other eighteen damn minutes of the episode are a tea party. A single god forsaken tea party. Where their conversation went from reminding each other that they're students to shrieking about wanting to go to tourist attractions for fun. This episode didn't need to exist, period. The OP and the final thirty seconds were the only parts that weren't trite dog butt. |
| My brain keeps thinking I am watching some drug induced alternate version of Re:Zero becasue of the chararctet designs. lol The end escalated pretty quickly so I wonder for how long the CGDCT direction will be kept. |
| So it was 20 minutes of nothing happening yet I enjoyed every moment from it, pretty distinct characters but all of them just as cute and sweet, and then the last 3 minutes happened. |
| i love cute girls with their cute interactions, staying until the last episode |
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| before 1st episode: What is this about? after 1st episode: What is this about? |
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| Was watching for more action or plot, hoping cgdct is not the main focus. |
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| Well, damn. That sure was a total tonal shift at the end. Good thing for me tho... given I was nearly falling asleep due to how boring this first episode was. |
| The whole "violent murderfest" thing in the last couple minutes made me check to see that I was still watching the same show...it was jarring, to say the least. |
| The OP and that bit at the end definitely points towards a more darker story than what we may be led to believe. I noticed at the end that guy said "Johann Zwingl." It may be unrelated since they have different names, but it could possibly be a reference to Ulrich Zwingli of the Reformation in the 16th century. If there is in fact a connection, then that could place the inspiration of the story during the Reformation, so we may be looking at a story about religions of some sort. As I said, this may be a stretch, so don't take anything I say to heart. I do hope we get more information about the world or the story we are supposed to be following because I am kind of confused. |
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| Is it bad that I enjoyed the teatime convo more than the exposition? I loved this debut. The sol was a lot of fun to watch, while visually you learn that there's something very wrong with the school and maybe even the outside world. |
What is that thing at 03:10 and who is that guy afterwards lol  |
gspbeetleJul 7, 2022 3:34 AM
RayReynolds said: well, this is ostensibly a show about girls going to magic school to fight vampires or something. At the very least, fight dudes in opera clothes. It advertises that in the OP. The end of the episode is a cutaway to a foppish dandy burning a city to the ground and bloodily slaughtering some old man clutching a book. But the other eighteen damn minutes of the episode are a tea party. A single god forsaken tea party. Where their conversation went from reminding each other that they're students to shrieking about wanting to go to tourist attractions for fun. This episode didn't need to exist, period. The OP and the final thirty seconds were the only parts that weren't trite dog butt. Source: https://tenka.seiha.org/2022/07/smile-of-the-ars-notoria-01-tea-party-purgatory/ Acctra said: I noticed at the end that guy said "Johann Zwingl." It may be unrelated since they have different names, but it could possibly be a reference to Ulrich Zwingli of the Reformation in the 16th century. If there is in fact a connection, then that could place the inspiration of the story during the Reformation, so we may be looking at a story about religions of some sort. As I said, this may be a stretch, so don't take anything I say to heart. Good point. The last scene was indeed related to religion (inquisition) Marinate1016 said: The faces didn’t look like otsuka designs during that sequence. Only 5 main girls are designed by him. Other girls and particularly knights have different designers. |
Chipp12Jul 7, 2022 1:07 AM
Chipp12 said: RayReynolds said: well, this is ostensibly a show about girls going to magic school to fight vampires or something. At the very least, fight dudes in opera clothes. It advertises that in the OP. The end of the episode is a cutaway to a foppish dandy burning a city to the ground and bloodily slaughtering some old man clutching a book. But the other eighteen damn minutes of the episode are a tea party. A single god forsaken tea party. Where their conversation went from reminding each other that they're students to shrieking about wanting to go to tourist attractions for fun. This episode didn't need to exist, period. The OP and the final thirty seconds were the only parts that weren't trite dog butt. Source: https://tenka.seiha.org/2022/07/smile-of-the-ars-notoria-01-tea-party-purgatory/ Acctra said: I noticed at the end that guy said "Johann Zwingl." It may be unrelated since they have different names, but it could possibly be a reference to Ulrich Zwingli of the Reformation in the 16th century. If there is in fact a connection, then that could place the inspiration of the story during the Reformation, so we may be looking at a story about religions of some sort. As I said, this may be a stretch, so don't take anything I say to heart. Good point. The last scene was indeed related to religion (inquisition) Marinate1016 said: The faces didn’t look like otsuka designs during that sequence. Only 5 main girls are design by him. Other girls and particularly knights have different designers. That’s odd. So that scene is confirmed canon and not a dream or something? |
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Marinate1016 said: That’s odd. So that scene is confirmed canon and not a dream or something? Definitely not a dream. |
| Not familiar with the game, but the premise is interesting to me. CGDCT vibes for 90% of the episode, and then that darkness in the end. Expected something due to the OP, didn't realize it'd be that bloody (not that I mind). I have a feeling we'll get a lot more where that came from, rather than fluffiness the entire time. |
| If the scene at the end was a ploy to make people want to watch the next episode, it sure worked for me. I'm rooting for the blonde guy on the horse. Honestly found the rest of the episode extremely boring, despite all the cute lolis. Only time will tell if this show will be worth watching or just a series of contrived nonsense. |
| I thought this was going to be relaxing! It was so stressful, like how they made the TEA! and ate the scones as well Oh my lord. My poor British eyes! |
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gawed said: Reading how some people can't handle cuteness and fun dialogues and interactions and forcibly want action and death and such...lol..makes me despair bout humanity's future. this show will get a low score because people just read the action tag but not the description of the show, so they get disappointed for a great relaxed but witty tea party. obviously just by watching the OP one can tell there is a plot asides from cuteness but still, wish that those who are being harsh on the show just because they didn't do their homework on reading or researching the game source would abstain from giving a low score. The tea party wasn't relaxing though. |
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| Pretty good I mean at first I was like "what is this ?" but at the end I find it quite interesting |
| Was happily giving this a pass until it went all dark and aggro. Peach head girl constantly smelling her hair nauseated me. She reminded me of this girl in elementary school that sucked hair and always smelled like spit. |
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