Seriously, what the hell was that?

Superns18 said:
Been waiting so long for this and my disappointment is immense. I don’t even know where to begin. I was initially upset it was on Hulu instead of CR because that’ll mean less people watch it, which is kinda ok, because it’ll be more niche.

The OP’s song fire af, but the visuals look like unfinished rough drafts and the cuts...

The pacing and narrative of the episode is all over the place

Honestly, just save your time and read the LN.

I just wanna know who greenlit this bullshit. Why even make the anime if you’re going to take away everything that made the LN’s so popular? I’m extremely disappointed in what they've done to one of my favourite series.

dandar said:


I'm someone who hasn't read the LN, and even then, I can tell that this has been one hell of a disappointing adaptation through just three episodes; I'm also wondering who greenlit this bullshit. I'll have to disagree on the OP though, I thought it was forgettable and I'm wondering what they were trying with the neo-dubstep drop in the song, also quite a lot of the visuals [in the OP] seemed rather unimpressive and lazy. The narrative is the most important thing to me though, and those first two episodes were a textbook example of how to get everything wrong when introducing a story: it kept switching back and forth at incredibly inconvenient times; it didn't give much attention to actually show us how we got to the point where our MC (I've forgotten his name because I care about him so little atm) got into his near-certain-death predicament, It didn't even properly introduce our main character beyond a few trite shounen stereotypes, and to top it all off, it shoved waaaaay too much edginess in my face without actually giving me a reason to care about any of it. Adding more insult to injury, a personal thing is that it dangled the possibility of him somehow making it back to the surface quickly and being reunited with that girl who seems to care about him a lot, and then we get to have a sort of mystery plot with a side of high-school isekai field trip (if that's any way to describe it) where we are adventuring and learning more about the world while our MC tries to figure out who tried to kill him while we already know who it is. It set this possibility up, then completely annihilated it in the most absolutely anticlimactic way possible. Those first two episodes were such a landfill inferno that it would have taken a miracle upon miracles in episode 3 to get me to continue watching, but that fell so far short that I had this show dropped as soon as the ED started. I generously gave it a rating of 4, on the basis that I'm sure the source material is far better than this, but if I read the LN and it turns out mediocre, or just as bad as this, then I'll likely drop it down further to a 3. Honestly, thinking about the wasted time spent on giving this catastrophe of an adaptation any chance in hell is putting me in a bad mood.

Superns18 said:


I thought I said it in the op, but I meant I like the song, the visuals look like unfinished fanmade YouTube shit

Superns18 said:
Been waiting so long for this and my disappointment is immense. I don’t even know where to begin. I was initially upset it was on Hulu instead of CR because that’ll mean less people watch it, which is kinda ok, because it’ll be more niche.

The OP’s song fire af, but the visuals look like unfinished rough drafts and the cuts...

The pacing and narrative of the episode is all over the place

Honestly, just save your time and read the LN.

I just wanna know who greenlit this bullshit. Why even make the anime if you’re going to take away everything that made the LN’s so popular? I’m extremely disappointed in what they've done to one of my favourite series.

Nim0174 said:
i feel like isekai get worse and worse as the time progresses
SAO doesn't looks so bad now :D

todd2580 said:


SAO is bad though

Arifureta is decent at least

Nim0174 said:


I agree SAO is bad but
Arifureta is probably the worst i've seen apart from Shield Hero XD
'decent' XD nice joke

Starhammer said:

Seriously,read either,I'd suggest the LN,since thats what I've been reading,but as an adaption,this was the worst i have ever seen.A hell of a lot was missed,and a lot of what was missed was essential to understanding why Hajime became the way he is.

todd2580 said:


they showed why he's like this though some of his past you wanted them to give all the information on one episode how funny is this when they're having 13 episodes only to adapt also they did decent for start like this even if there's no animation in the black monster which is the issue of this episode can't deny but everything else is fine you might didn't Philosophy in your school , collage or whatever.

Starhammer said:

What the hell has Philosophy got to do with an anime adaption?
Sure I appreciate theres only so much they can put into an anime as regards to an LN or manga,but others have managed it.
Take a look at Danmachi or DomeKano,hell,even Shield Hero for adaptions.not perfect,but a lot better than this.
I like the Arifureta LN,but this was all over the place.
And I didn't want them to give all the information on his past in one episode,I wanted them to do it in the order of the LN,which starts with the school,through summoning,to his fall into the Abyss.
They could have done a prelude episode for that.
Anyways,so far,I'm not impressed with it,but I'll give it a chance and see what happens.
As for school,college etc,I didn't,I joined up and learned about the human condition that way,thanks very much.

todd2580 said:


i know that they could do better but they might have a reason why they were have to rush the introduction and although there was some questions weren't answered there was some answers were given even if it's not in a consistent way but you still can figure it out since it was timely well to figure out what's happening exactly i think the way the director put up things made the story look interesting and keep in mind that this episode was having abit of Philosophy and it was the transaction of the MC into the edgy MC he's now which i think it's reasonable like why he became like this in this situation we got some hints that made me figure out who might did shooted him and made him in this situation although this episode didn't explain much about the other students but episode 2 focused abit about them so i don't think the first episode damaged everything it was just Complicated for some people so making things cleaner in episode 2 and 3 was obvious to happen also episode 3 was handled by white fox so that's should make things better for some people Also White Fox was to begin with busy with alot of works so it make sense that they won't be able to do the adaptation its justice in rush time and the author didn’t like their rush work on it (the art style of their adaptation wasn’t even look that good which was worrying) so they scrapped some of it...And give it to Asread since White Fox in the end was busy to even work on it like i said before and the result of it yeah the animation in some parts of episode 1 look unfinished since they hired on that episode beginner animators i think to keep the costs for the important episodes to their efficient animators and white fox will still help them too since Asread are a small studio and they having an animator working on both studios too with a small animation studio (Digital Noise)

Starhammer said:
Fair enough,thats quite a logical and decent way of explaining,in your opinion,what you thought had happened.I was in no way intimating that they weren't having "issues"within the studios,and I have to admit the 2nd and 3rd episodes were a lot better handled than the first.
Being and LN reader,I felt it was too haphazard in the way it put the sequence out of order,but time will tell.
i also appreciate that the studio's and their staff have a hell of a lot to do just to bring these anime to our screens,and i certainly don't want to detract from the work they do.
I suppose it's just me being annoyed with the timing and pacing of the first episode,since I have already read the LN,and I thought it would confuse those not familiar with Arifureta from either then LN or the manga.
We'll see,but its been decent having these discussions with you,rather than just arguing back and forth.Very refreshing :)

Star

todd2580 said:
you're saying a nice joke too and it's "the worst" lmao
i mean at least they're not having big order's series writer lmao

MrJc said:
Don't forget this

On January 15, 2018, Arifureta - From Commonplace to World's Strongest author Ryo Shirakome wrote an update on his user page on the user-submitted novel site Shōsetsu ni Narō discussing the anime's delay until 2019. The anime was originally slated for April 2018.

Although the post was edited soon after publication to remove any "comments that had caused great misunderstanding," the original version of the post (archived here), expresses Shirakome's displeasure with the anime thus far. He wrote: "Every time I was sent scripts and storyboards for the anime over these past few months, I writhed in pain in my room... ahem." He apologized to the readers over the fact that "the anime had turned out like this even after all the blessings and support you gave me." Finally, he stated his hope that the delay would give the anime the chance to become a "better work."

The author knew it was turning into shit and they were ruining his work. Hence whole giant delay but it didn't work D:

Nim0174 said:


I agree SAO is bad but
Arifureta is probably the worst i've seen apart from Shield Hero XD
'decent' XD nice joke

F8L-Fool said:
Worst CGI I've seen in anime in years.

quercifolia said:
Sao was pretty average, getting worse as it went. (the first two seasons, I didn't bother the more recent stuff.) Shield Hero is many leagues above this crap, to compare the two is an insult

Adnash93 said:

Agreed. While "Shield Hero" had definitely many flaws, it was just as you said many leagues above Sword Art Online. Many of its elements as isekai just worked better and were more pleasant to watch, at least I think of it ("Shield Hero") as such.

As for Arifureta, it's worse than two shows mentioned above, however in the latest episodes it improved. Surprisingly it's entertaining to watch. I'm not like hype or something like that, but I like watching it. To be honest the first episode was the biggest con of Arifureta, along with bad CGI used several times throughout all episodes up until now.

Arifureta now might be not good anime, but it is not terrible. I'm even thinking of raising its score on my anime list from 2/10 to 3/10, lol.

whiters99 said:


Definitely 4 tbh, I mean can really trust the same director that did Sin:Nanatsu no Taizai?