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Jan 15, 2022 7:45 AM
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The dolls waste so much ammo. Other than opening and closing songs this doesn't have much going for it 2/5
Jan 15, 2022 8:11 AM
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I do wish the gunfight choreography had more oomf to it, y'know? Of course there are times for rest and to slow down, but there are also times for big energy, and impact.

&++ I had a feeling Scarecrow would self-destruct
Jan 15, 2022 10:31 AM

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NoGoodNameRemain said:
Yuvensius said:
Ah, chapter 12 huh? Did you also read the campaign? Like Cube, AW, DD, Singularity, CT, Isomer, etc.? Or only read the main chapter?


Up until during cube+, I just search my chat log with my cousin, I gave my account to him on Jul 2019, while cube+ were running, since I invested lot of bucks to the game so quitting was a bit .... uneasy. But he is playing genshin now so no one play that account anymore lol.

Umm, then how did you know about chapter 12? EN only got chapter 12 in January 2021, even Singularity (chapter 10.5) only arrived in Nov 2019.
Jan 15, 2022 11:00 AM
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Yuvensius said:
then how did you know about chapter 12


I never said the exact chapter number, I said "12 or so". It has been nearly 3 years, how can I remember exactly. The plot also did not have much memorable things to begin with.
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Jan 15, 2022 3:08 PM

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Another 3/5 episode. Also, I hate the lazy precocious genius trope.


"Good" thing there's barely any show I'm following of this season. So, there is barely a reason to drop it, unless it gets much worse.


OP and END are very nice, sad they are wasted in this 5/10 anime.
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Jan 15, 2022 7:54 PM
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lol so bad.

I feel like one of the biggest sins here are that the differences between humans and dolls aren't established enough. Like I seriously can't tell them apart, unless they specifically say so or have guns.

Also the women with the glasses treats the commander chick like she's insane for caring about the dolls... Its not like they LOOK and ACT exactly like humans lol. Again, no way to differentiate the two.

Another thing I don't get is like, wouldn't it make sense to take care of your resources (aka dolls)? Glasses chick explains how they are disposable and they should all go kamikaze but also who funds this company and with what materials are these dolls made from? Kinda a waste of money and resources (especially if materials are finite) if they don't take care of them and destroy them every battle. Going to war is very expensive.
Jan 15, 2022 9:30 PM

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This remains boring as absolute hell. The big fight at the end is Star Wars stormtroopers level of stupid. They all stand in an empty field, ten feet apart and fire haphazardly, now with no accuracy whatsoever. Then it's revealed that one was hiding eight feet away, opens fire, and instantly destroys her. That's the whole fight. Also, they had her surrounded, so were firing in a circle. So they were shooting at each other. Which apparently the show never realized.
Jan 16, 2022 12:44 AM

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It felt more like 'lets play' video. The one you watch someone else play.
With all game shenanigans that have no place in good adaptation kept.
Like genius tactics of standing proud in open view. Or encircling for better friendly fire. Or dolls interview via zoom in special empty rooms.
Jan 16, 2022 5:18 AM
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Alright, finally commander Komatsu, i mean, Gentiane, entering the battlefield. Commander Kalina already had a familiar voice, no wonder. Yeah, that's like a tutorial. But More cute dolls handling the old gun model, looks fun enough for me. Then, while facing such a high-levelled drone like that, its indeed the dangerous situations. Ofc lots of casualties there were inevitable, even though Gentiane able to took her down on the first and trying to interrogate her. But, high-end model seems to not just a shallow name. The newbie commander must learn a great lesson from her first actual battle. Watch out, M4, enemy incoming...
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Jan 16, 2022 10:18 AM
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Why?
Why are android spraying bullets instead of proper controlled fire?
Why do you build an army where every unit is using a different weapon?
Why is everybody just standing on an open field during a fight?
Why give a superior unit a countdown to surrender with a nice talk up front instead of just taking her out by snipers?
Why would the self destruct leave the memory module unharmed?

So much that doesn't make sense.
Jan 16, 2022 1:40 PM
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GregHill said:
Why?
Why are android spraying bullets instead of proper controlled fire?
Why do you build an army where every unit is using a different weapon?
Why is everybody just standing on an open field during a fight?
Why give a superior unit a countdown to surrender with a nice talk up front instead of just taking her out by snipers?
Why would the self destruct leave the memory module unharmed?

So much that doesn't make sense.



This show is just one confusion after the other, like how the FUCK did it take that long just to destroy that one doll with that many dolls opening fire.
Jan 17, 2022 5:50 AM

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Seems some they're not entirely following the manga. Probably a mix of manga and the game.
Jan 17, 2022 9:00 AM
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So that was a mock/tutorial battle for Gentiane, interesting, but damn Sangvis' Scarecrow was quite well developed for a IA, and she could send the info to Sangvis before exploding herself, now the track on M4A1 is tenser and tenser
Jan 17, 2022 3:34 PM

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Got a glimpse with Gentiane. I do agree with the other commander. She seems a bit emotional attached to the dolls.

You still have their memories intact, unless there is a way to permanently "erase" their memories.

Also Scarecrow's VA is the same as the game? I compared it and it is indeed Okuno Kaya



Though, she she also have some sort of backup or is t his one and done? Boss fight in the game is very similar to the Anime.

You just fight her in an open field



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Jan 17, 2022 6:46 PM

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you know I hate to be that person but there is this one frame that is just stuck to my mind to this day and I know this anime is not trying to be realistic and all that but


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Jan 18, 2022 7:48 PM
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b0177 said:
you know I hate to be that person but there is this one frame that is just stuck to my mind to this day and I know this anime is not trying to be realistic and all that but



The perspective and posture are wrong. The rifle is sticking into her chest , not couched against her right shoulder/pectoral as it would otherwise be; the angle of the weapon is thus wrong, and this indicates that the artist in question who drew this scene is unfamiliar with drawing specific weapons.
Mosin-Nagant is drawn here with her firing stance and grip suggesting that she's holding the weapon in a right-handed grip, but the weapon is placed in a manner which suggests a left-handed grip. Hence the order of her hands, and shoulder positioning should be reversed.
Jan 19, 2022 5:51 AM

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That was awful; worse than the first episode. I already knew what to expect since it's a gacha adaptation, but they really fell apart in production.

GFL actually has an amazing story but anime isnt adapting the game. Its an adaptation of non-canon doujin. Game developer wasnt even supervising this show


For a sourcie you really managed to cram a staggering amount of garbage into a single statement.

The anime is adapting the game - and yes, the story is so far basically the same, using the manga primarily as visual reference (since it's basically a pre-made storyboard).
The manga is also completely canon, or at least fully canon-compatible, and an officially licensed product. On top of that, both the manga and anime have Yuzhong's name on it (producer and lead writer of the game and CEO of the studio that makes it), literally the ultimate seal of approval something Girls' Frontline related can have.

I totally understand if you're disappointed in the adaptation here, but you don't have to spew shit everywhere because of it.
Jan 21, 2022 10:28 AM

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Canon really? Does Gentian looks like someone who witnessed zombie plague? Never was in Green Zone? Led bohemian life in collage? That she drink anything else then coffee? That she has motto "always treat girls gently"? That is not kind of person who would be able enjoy peacefull life?

Well, manga certainly is official work approved by MICA. Who say otherwise is obviously wrong, but canon-compatible is simply not the case and cannot be considered compatible ever since Gentiane refused take offered gun.

Edit: plus in ep.3 M16 drink coffee instead Jack, so anime is not canon either.
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Jan 27, 2022 1:00 AM
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Not exactly a masterpiece of anime, but hey, at least there's cute girls and shooty-shooty action. A man's ideal fantasy.

Is it weird that I'm starting to cheer more for Sangvis than for Griffin? At least Sangvis robots want to do their own thing, instead of blindly obeying humans.

Pretty relieved that the final battle avoided the typical cliche scene:

Dolls: "Surrender now, you're all alone and surrounded. Clearly you can't win."
Scarecrow: "Surprise, watch me use my Way Cool ninja powers to annihilate an entire squad without a scratch."
Dolls: *die like bitches*
Commander: "M-Masaka?!"

but instead I got

Scarecrow: "Surprise, watch me use my Way Cool ninja powers--"
Commander: "Ah yes, these. Yawn. Obviously we're not so stupid so as to walk into battle without thoroughly learning the capabilities of enemy units. Now die."
Scarecrow: "M-Masaka?!"

Too bad, in the end Griffin fell right into the ol' "self destruct" cliche. Remember: never interrogate a determined, dying enemy at close range.
Jan 29, 2022 2:24 PM

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I fully intended to drop this after one episode but thought I should at least try one more.

Well, that will teach me to stick with my first instinct...

So tedious and ugly

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May 2, 2022 1:00 PM

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I have to admit the anime already served it's purpose on me. I haven't updated or logged into the game for a couple of years, but did so today after they dedicated a few seconds to Ingram and mentioned the mission to rescue and retrieve Skorpion. I used those two T-Dolls in active squads for most of the content that was out back then, and was curious to see if Skorpion was still in my first Echelon - which she apparently was. And after updating I started checking new content, and playing the game again. I do like a gacha that has a multitude of 5 star rarity characters but still allows long term viability to a couple of average rarity starters.

Don't overlook or neglect your Skorpion, she does a good job despite those missing stars, and only starts to fall off a bit in late game.




Anyways, it seems quite similar to to first Azur Lane anime (before the better SoL one) in that it's more enjoyable when you don't have to worry about trying to follow the story due to having played the game, they seem to be following it in quite a linear fashion, so I dout they'll get very far in 12 episodes - which is a shame because the source material gets better in the later stages. But it's still fun for me to watch, and reminded me to pick up the game again - for the time being at least.
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Better episode than the reviews said.
Expected a train wreck and it wasn't that bad.
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