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| Meh, it was ok... I guess... This art style reminds me of aku no hano which was shit/awful!! imo. I'm not even interested in ping pong. The only reason I'm watching this is because everyone is saying it's really good. I'll give this series a few more episode to decide wheahter to drop it or not. |
keragammingApr 11, 2014 4:59 PM
| i loved it. Everything was perfect, everything . 10/10 for me right now |
| Honestly I thought this was good, I found the animation style to be rather fitting. |
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| We will all get used to the animation. The animation makes the anime TOTALLY unique in our minds, so I like how it's so different. THE ED IS SO GREAT! And I definitely see the similarities to Kaiba, another work my the same director (haven't seen tatami galaxy though..) |
| Holy shit that was so dope. The Tatami Galaxy vibes all over again. Even got a Chinese VA for a Chinese character. Bravo. |
| THIS IS THE HOLY GRAIL, The animation looks bad......THAT THEY'RE GOOD But seriously..I can't ignore this one just because the animation is not towards my liking. The story itself could be great! I hope I can finish this one easily but I think this will be watchable till a limit imo. I think this is still watchable as compared to Aku no Hana's standards. That OP was crazy, for some reason..I liked it. or maybe the only good thing in this anime? XD Peco and Smile are actually quite BA in themselves with their competition of skills. I'm liking these two characters. I'm surprised but the OSTs are good too. As for the rest..I didn't even bothered paying attention to the Chinese guy Wenge...I literally fell asleep during this part, hopefully they focus more on Uchiyama's role and the Peco guy. The ED song was okay. ^^ I guess I will watch this one for now. |
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| Definitely got the Tekkonkinkreet vibe in this one but I think the animation is a little bit rougher compared to it but it is still watchable nonetheless. I came in initially just to see what was the big deal about the artstyle and was surprised that I actually finished the entire episode. I might have preferred to watch something like this in movie since I don't know if I can handle a whole season of this artstyle but it is good so far. |
| “A trip is the most fun before one sets out on it. With dogs, the bark and not the bite is more frightening and women are almost always prettier when they are shrouded in mystery. I can never be as pretty as you imagine and I would never do something like that to you. Would it not be better to imagine?” -Holo the Wise Wolf |
| If people really think this looks like Aku no Hana they need to get glasses. The problem with Aku no Hana is that it was a specific type of art style known as roto-scoping done poorly so it looked incredibly awkward. This doesn't use any type of rotoscoping that I can detect, but rather just has a more superflat kind of art style than you're average anime which tend to use the traditional big eye small mouth bishonen/bishoujo art style. |
| This is clearly one of the best anime this Spring. :) And I hope people would stop bringing up Aku no Hana :/ |
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| Master Yuasa strikes again! I can easily see this being the best show this season. And lol @ people comparing Yuasa's animation to Aku no Hana's. These people need some eye surgery asap. |
| Seriously, this is great. Starting from artwork, I am a lover of this type of art, and this is very well rended. The characters are good, I like the glassed one, really. I wasn't sure when I started watching it, but I'm sure I'll continue watching it! |
| I don't know who got the idea to make this anime like this, but the guy is a genius. |
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| anime has been saved once again! :D Ping Pong is dope. |
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| Interesting style. The story itself has me hooked. I'll be following this. |
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| Nice opening and ending, unique and appealing visuals (though I can see why it's controversal), interesting and promising characters (specially China guy), motherfucking table-tennis etc etc. Overall better than expected. Looking forward to more. |
| I didn't even bother to watch this crap. The anime is full of ugly looking men with a shitty art. Where are the beautiful girls that we usually see in anime ? I feel like vomiting by looking at these ugly characters. So, this going to be very hard for me to watch. THe story about Ping Pong ? meh Thats less reason for me to watch. I'm not fan of sport anime, and this season we have already two sports anime that are miles better, Baby Steps and Haikyuu!! Even without watching it, I can say this is probably the worst anime in this season |
| the guys are really speaking Chines, not some katakana pronounsations the art style really standout if compared to most animes, the story itself I guess will be more slice of life type about Smile, and incidentally ping pong is one of my favourite sports :) |
| Good: cool chinese guy, animations, sports theme bad: character design (ugh), outlines, main characters I dunno. I'm a huge sports fan so I will try and stick with it for now... |
Just sit back, and let your tears do the talking as I save you. |
| That was a Good 1st Episode I'm already hooked :D the Chinese guy destroyed Peco also I really liked the OP & ED a lot. |
| I loved this too much. The art is amazing, the animation is fluid and I love the fact that they got actual Chinese voice actors to play the Chinese characters. No bullshit sports shounen stuff here, this is exactly what I wanted. |
| I see potential. Love the style too. |
| The animation style is ugly, but content is really good. Will keep watching trying my best to ignore the ugly animation. |
| ったく、嫌な世の中だよ。 |
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| I decided to try it out on whim because I was in "sports mood" Seriously, I'm really hung on art so I thought it would bother me very much but to me pleasant surprise I didn't even notice it. Story hooked me on and I was immersed in this anime for 24 minutes. Without hesitation, I'm gonna continue. I pity everyone who misses this awesome anime just because of "unusual" at. |
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| The art here is kilometers better than the "art" in Aku no Hana. Plus, the content of this series is actually quite good, unlike the above mentioned series. Good job using authentic Mandarin. |
bla bla bla The endless debate between fans and haters. At one point, after spending a lot of time on MAL, you just realize it's totally pointless.Niko-kun said: On MAL, everyone who has used the lame rating system becomes a critic and an intellectual by default, haven't you heard? |
neilworms said: A lot of the responses here about the "ugly" artstyle are exactly why I helped create this panel to discuss Sakuga and Japans unique animators. Me and a few friends of mine did this at ACEN a few years back, check it out, you will learn something! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLNHSrJoqFM You guys made that? Awesome I rewatch those videos from time to time. I'm learning to become an animator myself so it's nice to see the Japanese side of things, because we don't really get taught about that in school at all. But yeah it was a pretty great episode, I was already pretty stoked because of Masaaki Yuasa, but this exeeded expectations. |
| My boy Masaaki's at it again. I can't imagine I'll like this show as much as some of his other stuff. It'll definitely be worth watching though. This episode had cool music and whatever. |
thepath said: I didn't even bother to watch this crap. The anime is full of ugly looking men with a shitty art. Where are the beautiful girls that we usually see in anime ? I feel like vomiting by looking at these ugly characters. So, this going to be very hard for me to watch. THe story about Ping Pong ? meh Thats less reason for me to watch. I'm not fan of sport anime, and this season we have already two sports anime that are miles better, Baby Steps and Haikyuu!! Even without watching it, I can say this is probably the worst anime in this season lol wut |
| Holy shit, that was good! Honestly, I've got High expectations for this one. Also, I don't get why people would judge it as crap with only one episode out. Sure the animation is quite different from what we're used to, but it's got a certain "charm" to it, so to speak. I'd say it's way better than the rest of the generic crap we get nowadays. |
What do you think? The meaning of our existence. Why do we continue to live? ~Iris Rain Umbrella, my favorite robot  |
| I know the art/animation is bad. But, the storylines is good. 5/5 |
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| insta awesome! that animation style fits very very well! and the ending is fantastic, maybe song of the season here. ^^ great work! |
| Well, that was surprisingly better than I would have thought. I wasn't waiting that much that show, but now it made me hyped for the next episode. I wasn't so sure about the animation style but I got habituated fastly. That Peko seem like a huge brat, but we saw the reality, he is good, but he is far from being great. He can beat amateur people, but as soon as he meet serious opponent, he is no match. Smile is really interresting. From what China said, he have a lot of talent but seem to give no fuck about it. Will he become interrested in ping pong or will he become a martyr of his own talent? The OP was ultra lame though, I hope it will not always be a lazy montage of episode scene... |
| «Time is passing so quickly. Right now, I feel like complaining to Einstein. Whether time is slow or fast depends on perception. Relativity theory is so romantic. And so sad.» - Kurisu Makise a.k.a. The Zombie |
| 04:45 the OP fits the artwork perfectly 08:30 "kyuu! kacchoii" 11:00 dat engrish Interesting. 7.5/10 |
| Isayama Hajime should be awarded The Manga with The Highest Inconsistencies of Characters' Appearances. He keeps performing multiple plastic surgeries on those Shingeki No Kyojin characters in a SINGLE chapter. Yes, I've read up to the latest chapter of Shingeki No Kyojin manga. Forced myself to read through the kidsketching chapters after the anime's ended. At least from now on, I only have to go through the hell once a month. Patiently awaiting SNK TV/movie/OVA anime-sequel. The 2015 SNK live-action movie would probably suck. |
| It's fine once you get over the artstyle, animation style it's pretty nice. But that's because I haven't seen any other sports anime. |
| I believe that unless you know for sure that you don't like a concept, you should keep exploring it. Whether it be characteristics of people or a genre of some sort, you never know if you don't like it until you've seen quality work corresponding to that genre. Keep exploring until you've found something you enjoy, or something of quality. Then you know what's bad, what's good, and what isn't for you. ( ･ㅂ･)و ̑̑ Everyday life. |
| I'm surprised so many people are bashing the art style. Things like Mind Game and Kemonozume came out nearly ten years ago, are people are still adjusting to Yuasa? If they had gone with a more cliche art style there would have been an outcry. Taiyo Matsumoto is a national treasure. His artwork defies convention; the man is an auteur. Pop over to the latter volumes of Ping Pong; the level of intensity, fluidity, detail and excellence Matsumoto achieves is second to none. I couldn't be more happy they've tried to replicate his work in the anime. I appreciate different tastes, but the art style is not the plague. I just hope people stick around and give it a chance, because the latter matches will be a spectacle to behold. |
ToukaApr 16, 2014 4:05 AM
| I am watching a sports anime because of Yuasa. Whoa. This was a quite good episode, but I think the series has room for improvement. Storyline-wise, it's just an introduction to the main characters and I have already grown an interest on Smile, Peko and the Chinese player so I guess it covers its purpose. On the other hand I don't know too much about ping pong and its rules/characteristics so some of its technicalities are kind of hard to follow. The animation is very fine and fluid, though i somehow expected it to be even better, and the artstyle very consistent. It's quite similar to Mind Game and that, to me, is more of a good thing than anything. I couldn't care less if people are trying to make this the new Aku no Hana or not, honestly. To me they are nothing alike. |
| Holy SHIT this actually had me getting excited. Nice to see something different come by once in a while. Art is very much like a more polished Kemonozume. The different body poses/gestures and the way they were animated made it even more exciting, let alone the cinematography. It's also nice to see that not everyone is a photogenic piece of fucking goddamn motherfucking scrotum anus shit. Thought it was MADHOUSE or MAPPA working on this, but Tatsunoko shares the same roots so that makes this worth watching. Nice to see that they're faithful to its essence, English and Chinese and all. This is going to be good goddamnit. Nishimi Kaoru meets Ozu. How the fuck is this, in any way, like Aku no Hana????? It's more like MIND GAME or Kemonozume. Fucking retards can't even tell what's what. |
Wind_Falcon said: Hah, had to reply after tsudecimo's last post. When we talk about subjectiveness and opinion, its usually when someone likes a shitty/bad taste piece or dislikes a masterpiece for some reason. Whether the works of art are good or bad is not a point of debate, nor is it something subjective concerning opinions. Anyone can like or dislike Dante's Divine Comedy, Beethoven's 9th or Van Gogh's Starry Night, but if anyone goes on to say that they are shit, he will be rightfully laughed at and ridiculed. Artistic quality is objective. Why debates like this get started is usually because of narrow mindedness. I mean no one should really be surprised why every thread about Mamoru Oishii movies has the same comments about "slow plot/no plot at all" and why every anime with unconventional art style is instantly labeled as garbage when you check out the top anime on this and other sites (not just anime as well). Of course there are people that just don't like something, but I assure you, they are the extreme minority. If you still think the discrepancy I outlined in the previous paragraph is not related to this, you are plain and simply wrong. Really that's you argument? something was well received by the majority so it's quality is inherent and objective? Your ignorance is really cute. Opinions by default are not objective. Subjectivity is not only about whether you like it or not, it's about every little judgement you have with the quality and basically everything that is not objective. The only objective things are the summary, the information about the characters, the cost of productions, the attributes of the characters and other factual things relating to the show. Smh. |
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| Dat horrible reading comprehension. Where in my post did I reference this anime. I'm merely talking about the use of the word objective and objectively. I was referencing the examples you presented as prove of ''objective'' quality and the implications I interpreted from them. Anyone can like or dislike Dante's Divine Comedy, Beethoven's 9th or Van Gogh's Starry Night, but if anyone goes on to say that they are shit, he will be rightfully laughed at and ridiculed. Artistic quality is objective. How is this relevant? I'm talking about the quality aspect and your assertion of it being objective and inherent, not where it's art or not. It depends on what you mean by artistic quality. If you mean the excellence of craft and something, then no those don't really have it inherently, and I would love to see you prove how an art can have an inherent objective quality in it, that's independent of people's perception of quality. The whole argument is not about those examples in the first place, it's about you thinking that subjectivness only mean personal enjoyment and is only relevant to like, apathy and dislike. Otherwise it just boils down to another "You like what I don't like/don't like what I like" deal, which I already said again in my previous post, is meaningless. Good job on ignoring what I said, and repeating the same thing. ''Subjectivity is not only about whether you like it or not, it's about every little judgement you have with the quality and basically everything that is not objective.'' Judgment means whether you think something is bad or good. (ex: Yussa's works are objectively different than the more standard anime, they are not objectively better however. Or objectively good, bad and average) Again, smh. |
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| Not bad at all. Interesting that Smile is apparently holding back. |
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