| With a great art style and a nice staff on board for this project, great animation and gore this anime tries toooooooooo hard to be Hellsing. Am I the only one who thinks that comedy is extremely forced here? |
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| It's gotten a couple chuckles out of me. I think half of the jokes so far is poking fun to historical references from banter between the three warriors from different periods of Japan, which the average viewer outside of Japan wouldn't necessarily be able to relate to. The abrupt transition from serious to humor can be weird and seem "forced" I guess. But I'd say they're taking advantage of the absurd plot that has been placed by seemingly putting random historical figures into a parallel fantasy world. Like Joan of Arc being a pyromaniac because she got burned as a witch, that's absurd and hilarious! Being overly edgy, like Hellsing, would've made it less entertaining for me. I wouldn't say this anime is trying very hard to be Hellsing either, the animation is just very similar because it is some of the same staff doing this after all. |
| sometimes it works, it just does a poor job placing itself sometimes |
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| Comedy is a bit annoying. But still tolerable. I'd prefer if there was more screentime for the other Drifters with non-japanese background. (I guess they'll soon progress the story to a point where they will get more screentime.) This should at least get a bit more different types of jokes with the different chars then. |
| I do kinda think that comedy is sometimes out of place, it does ruin the mood in a few occasions, but I wouldn't call it extremely forced. I think that's just Hirano trying to lighten the mood in an already dark anime. |
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| It would definitely be better if there was less of it. |
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| Yes, the comedy is absolutely atrocious. But it honestly wouldn't be that much better, because the characters are bad as well, but the gags make them even worse. It's a shame since it's aesthetically pretty good. |
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| Well it does ruin the mood, especially when the artstyle changes to look simplistic (probably to save the budget). There are however a few funny moments, like that guy in the aircraft, he's just so fun to watch. For me the pacing is ruining it more than the comedy, episode 3 was a bit confusing, a huge cast of characters appeared out of nowhere in the middle of a fight, I had to rewatch most of the episode to tell who's on whose side! |
| This show and also manga is great because the comedy... |
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| I felt the same way about Hellsing's comedy. |
| Comedy is like a downtime for me, they aren't particularly bad either. It better if you don't take them too seriously/ |
| Agreed. As far as I seen, the comedy in it were not even funny. . . |
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| At first I didn't care for it but at this point it doesn't bother me at all and it gave me a few smiles. It's exactly how hellsing is |
| the comedy isn't great but it doesn't bring the show down that bad. |
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| I thought that too at first, but now I like it. The author definitely improved alot from the hellsing days. |
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ichii_1 said: I thought that too at first, but now I like it. The author definitely improved alot from the hellsing days. I say the comedy worked for Hellsing much much better. |
| The Comedy is absolutely perfect balance for this show. Without it the fanbase would grow into huge retarded bunch like it happened with Erased and Re:Zero. |
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| The historical jokes are pretty great imo, and certainly funnier than the out-there and almost complete randomness of what we got in Hellsing. Some people seem to dismiss the light-hearted aspects when they are actually so important to rounding out Drifters and the drifters themselves. Without the self-awareness carried in the zany absurdity and Hirano's bombastic irreverential reverence for history, Drifters would simply be a perversely violent conquest-isekai wish-fulfillment. And god knows there's enough fantasy, preachiness, and militaristic war anime to go around. But as for this issue people have with the comedy itself, I do think it's a fair enough complaint as the anime has done a pretty poor job of transitioning and pacing the joke segments. That said, I think the anime has been poorly paced and weakly presented in general, so who cares what this sourcefag thinks. |
CkanNov 20, 2016 4:28 AM
| To me, the comedy is not bad and is necessary in settings with a heavier darker tone and gore. It is actually a literary device called comic relief and while they do not transition into well at times it is usually placed after something heavy in this anime and that is where it is supposed to be. The transition is the main problem as you can lead into it for pacing purposes and instead, they just throw it in right after a scene which could bother some people. To sum it up the fact that you relate it to trying to hard to be another anime is comical in itself since comic relief has been around centuries dating back to Shakespeare. The feeling forced is a simple way to state transitioning issues which I can agree with you there. |
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| I actually think that those comedy scenes are spot on, you can't keep on being edgy all the time. |
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| I like the comedy so much... it really is reminder that even if these are fighters they are still human beings in the end |
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| This is so like Hellsing huh...right down to the inconsistent humorous tones lol |
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| While I dislike most of the comedy, nothing beats the unbearable historical references. Like seriously, you expect me to know anything about anyone other than Nobunaga and the Joan of Arc bitch? I get that they're trying to appeal to the Japanese audience, but have some consideration for us foreigners watching it illegally please, lol. Gorgeus art style tho. And Nobunaga is def GOAT |
| I think the jokes work in the show but it does steer the story away from the full-on bloodbath violence which I'm sure is what the producers are hoping for. |
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| I don't think the comedy drags the show to down, but it would probably be better with out it. |
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| Its cringey and unfunny. Really ruins the serious mood. |
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| As a person who dislikes humour and comedy, and cannot understand jokes – Drifters nails it for me. But that also comes from a person whose favourite title of all-time is Hellsing Ultimate. |
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| Love it! :D Even more if each eps were a bit longer, then the comedy wouldnt had take as much screentime or whatever |
| I didn't like the comedy at first because it was mostly disruptive. I don't mind now as it's no longer disruptive and even complements the action scenes. |
| I actually like the comedy in this show. At times it can be completely hilarious. I guess it just comes down to different people preferring different types of comedy. |
| The comedy is the best part though, I laugh so hard every episode |
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| Rarely is "comedy" in anime actually funny. This is not one of those rare times. |
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| That's the author style, take it or leave it |
| It is so dense. Every single image has so many things going on. |
| It has slightly improved recently, but it's still really bad and tonally jarring compared to everything else in the show. And no, I don't care if that's the author's style: it sure as hell doesn't mean it's good and to me reflects negatively on him as a writer. |
| i like the the comedy parts.. its refreshing from the dark theme, story and all the gore and from the first 3 episodes i've not the feeling they're overusing it, tey use it at the right moments... but i am not an dark twisted unfunny otaku edgy-emo who avoids comedy like a vampire the sun. |
| I liked it. The really serious parts would be great with jojo poses to keep it in that kind of mood. Although it really wouldn't go with the theme. |
| It is quite good actually, it gives the manga/anime another fell than just the gore and serious thing. It gives a grotesque and absurd feeling to it, ofc you can't always understand it because of historical references but hey, still ok. Ckan said: The historical jokes are pretty great imo, and certainly funnier than the out-there and almost complete randomness of what we got in Hellsing. Some people seem to dismiss the light-hearted aspects when they are actually so important to rounding out Drifters and the drifters themselves. Without the self-awareness carried in the zany absurdity and Hirano's bombastic irreverential reverence for history, Drifters would simply be a perversely violent conquest-isekai wish-fulfillment. And god knows there's enough fantasy, preachiness, and militaristic war anime to go around. But as for this issue people have with the comedy itself, I do think it's a fair enough complaint as the anime has done a pretty poor job of transitioning and pacing the joke segments. That said, I think the anime has been poorly paced and weakly presented in general, so who cares what this sourcefag thinks. This 2000% |
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Shuhan said: Its cringey and unfunny. Really ruins the serious mood. this. I hate the comedy in this show |
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| I only laughed twice the whole show because of comedy, other than that It was full of cringe ^^ |
| Only felt odd in the first two episodes. Watching historical figures squabble with each other was quite entertaining. |
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royaldocks said: ichii_1 said: I thought that too at first, but now I like it. The author definitely improved alot from the hellsing days. I say the comedy worked for Hellsing much much better. not like it worked better it was way less used on there and usually only on the brief calmer moments of the series |
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