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| Open-wheeled racing show, sign me up! Love the F4 setting and look forward to where this one will go. |
| It smells like an average anime, well, let's see where this goes... 🏎️ |
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| Wow one of the coolest original anime starts I’ve seen. Amazing first episode that had film like quality to it. Troyca’s last anime original, Shinobi no Ittoki, was awful so good to see them bouncing back with this. As someone who doesn’t know much about Formula racing I found this to be a very informative and intriguing first episode. The use of the main character to teach the audience about the basics of professional racing is cool. I’m hoping the MC develops though, he’s kind of… “off” to say the least lol The racing scenes are really good and the personalities of the characters really resonated with me. It’s one episode so it’ll be interesting to see how things go, but I like it so far. Cool to have two racing shows in the same season |
Marinate1016Oct 1, 2023 11:42 AM
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phantomfandom said: Is this the first time ever that there are two racing anime in the same season? It's quite interesting that we're indirectly follow the sports through the reporter instead of follow the player directly, this could be the first among sports anime. But in the end that reporter want to directly involve with the team, that could lead to a "Giant Killing" situation where the lead character is some kind of manager of the team. Oh, and it's nice to see a real brand name in anime instead of parody name. Which is to be expected since the Formula 4 itself is copyrighted so all media portrayal about F4 must follow some kind of regulation by FIA. I just notice that these drivers have small body frame, presumably lightweight too. I learned that lightweith is preferably in horseracing (through horceracing anime of course) but since the car is driven by motor, shouldn't the weight of the player a negligible factor? Most of the people racing on this level will be teenagers. Weight plays a big difference, even 10 pounds can make you go a few tenths of a second slower over a lap. |
| "Let's have a guy vomit out the rulebook and explain everything about the racing series in episode 1, surely this won't be exposition overload!" The pacing was a bit too fast in this episode imo. I'd prefer if we had more time with some of the other characters. It's probably because they only have 12 episodes to work with, while a series like Capeta had >50. So far i am cautiously optimistic about this series. Hopefully this doesn't end up like Twocar where everything outside of the racing is incredibly boring. |
| An incendiary episode I can say, great pity that the tyres blew out and did not complete the race, if that did not happen he would definitely take 1st place, good luck next time and I hope he reaches F1 |
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| Yeah visuallly this looks better than the premiere of MF Ghost but story wise is just left to be desired at this moment. |
| If I had to evaluate this premiere in two words, those would be as "beautiful mess". With Aoki Ei's big return to Troyca I'm kinda expecting something really big and impressive on the first episode (that's what I felt with Re:creators) IN this one, I feel there's a lot of motiffs and weirdly constructed storytelling that just annoys me. For starters, the very first minute of any visual work has to be impactful in terms of quality content. Providing a boring scene with haruka as a kid delivering newspapers is not only unflattering unnoriginal but rather pointless at this time (specially since he's introduced almost halfway point of the episode). yeah yeah, I know they are trying to play the good ol' "underdog" protag that started from the bottom and climbed his way up, but I certainly feel it could had been presented in a more dynamic way. Then there's our narrator/MC who's also presented in quite a boring way with motiffs of a dark past that made him the hollow shell he's right now. I'm already questioning why if he's such a sloppy... What's he supposed to be? a photographer? newscaster? videographer? why is he traveling with an editor...? any news media group would had fired him or at the very least let him fly solo with reduced paycheck and do both jobs of taking pictures and editing/writing a story. There's also something I consider a cinematographic sin. Adding flashbacks of content from the very same episode. Like seriously, we just saw Haruka talk big about how he's a lone wolf and he's going to win, we're not dum' nor forgetful so that we really need to see the same cuts 1 or even 2 more times. It also feels a bit cheesy that Madoka's slump was miraculously cured by watching Haruka doing his best on the track, but I'm kinda forgiving this a bit since watching Formula 1 and alike races live are quite exciting. On the bright side, we got the lovely chara design and quite elaborate animation that mimics what Troyca did back in Re:creators and to be fair plenty of the CG shots in the races were quite nice (although some other with no 2D animation embedded looked a bit rough). There's also the introduction of Haruka a cocky rookie that has plenty of room to grow and some of the foundation has already being layed on, like his sloppy work not saving the tires or thinking this is a 1 guy job when it's always a team effort. It reminds me a lot of Days of Thunder movie. I'll give this one the 3 episode rule, but more than likely I'll stick around longer just because it's a Troyca and Aoki Ei anime |
KimurahOct 1, 2023 5:22 PM
| Epic and promising |
| an original racing anime with a solid premier to boot? okay i'm hooked. animation looks great, never seen a formula racing anime but this did a solid job getting to it. no racing anime for a while and suddenly two in the same season, it'll be difficult to not compare this to MF Ghost. solid osts as well but no eurobeat lol so that'll probably be the tiebreaker. very interested to see where the rest of this goes, high chance of this being one of my favorites of this season if all goes well. |
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| The photographer's issue is awful cliche, but there's a charm here. Show could go either way. |
| Did anyone find Haru's looks and personality to be strangely similar to Free!'s Haru? |
| Ok, this is much better than MF Ghost |
| If you have time to think of a beautiful end, then live beautifully until the end. ” -Gintoki Sakata |
| It's been a while since I last heard a bishounen call his fangirls "koneko-chan~" xD it's cute. But as cute as it is I think I'll be rooting for Haruka... I know I might be very naive to expect this but I thought Haruka could at least come in third place. It's so sad to see him crying like that... Other than that, I honestly don't know anything about this sport, only occasionally watch it if it's on tv but listening to it with earphones makes me think that the sound the cars make when they're racing is really cool. |
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| Comments look good, I think I'll give this a watch and boost those scores.. |
Reply to MadanielFL
For a racing photographer, he surely doesn't know anything about motorsports.
I liked how they used that as a way to teach the audience about the very basics.
So far the show looks good, finally some proper formula racing anime, I can't remember the last time we had one.
I liked how they used that as a way to teach the audience about the very basics.
So far the show looks good, finally some proper formula racing anime, I can't remember the last time we had one.
| @MadanielFL I think he was a paparazzi before because, looking back at the episode, there was a glimpse of Twitter X with tweets implying that the person(s) he took a picture of may have been in an accident while he didn't help and instead just took a photo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This feels like an anime more catered to racing fans, but I like the idea that they chose an MC who doesn't know racing to give the non-racing fans insight. AND... seeing Dunlop corner in an anime just gave me goosebumps. It is one of my favorite curves in F1, BUT it did bring some bad memories of Jules Bianchi's fatal accident. 😔 I watched it live on TV, and it was just a painful memory to remember. Death is one of the realities of racing and hopefully they will feature glimpses of that in this series. |
KimRiParkOct 1, 2023 11:24 PM
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| That was a pretty great way to start and make things interesting. We haven't got much from the main protag yet other than he acts cold for some reason, but he gets emotional about losing a race, implying some sort of motivation we have yet to see. So far, we only got to see things that the POV MC Kouya saw, plus a glimpse of his presumably own hardships as well. The animation CGI animations looked quite plain and boring at times but, they looked quite good when it mattered the most which was during the race. The character animation on the other hand looked quite solid, IMO. I'm hoping they handle the characters very well since this kind of Anime tends to rely heavily on the emotional drive-- no pun intended-- rather than the sports theme itself. |
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| This looks lit! And I really like Haruka's face lol. Lezgoooo |
| Fan of motorsports, especially F1 and lower categories such as F4, I'm delighted to finally see an anime about the automotive world, specifically showcasing F4, gaining prominence after the success of the GP Explorer (an event organized by the French YouTuber Squeezie)! The CGI is decent, but we will have to see it in a longer sequence. |
| The first episode piqued my interest despite being new to a racing theme. I might like this one. |
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| A proper first episode. We learn well what it is about and what we should expect. The art is nice, too. Now, even when I get disappointed by that new Initial D anime, I'll have this. |
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| As a motorsport fan, I am eating good this season with Overtake and MF Ghost. Love how the episode laid down the foundation of racing as well, with tyres, flag rules etc etc. Not that I needed it, but for an unknown viewer it's good to know. Curious to hear more about the story of the photographer. Now let's hope that the show's direction will keep it as realistic as possible and not have events happen that have my eyes roll XD |
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| It's Aldnoah.Zero all over again. Great visuals, but totally moronic dialogues, characterisation and writing in general - from it the only parts which make sense to me are the racing trivia infodumps. |
| Interesting in the beginning. Thought the MC was going to be the driver but instead it was the camera guy. I really want to see how far this anime goes. |
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