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| Well aside from the fucking horrendous CGI animals, I liked this episode. The story seems pretty interesting so I'm going to enjoy this ride. It sucks that it's only 12 episodes, especially since the premise kind of reminds me of One Piece. A story like that will obviously not be fully adapted in one cour (then again that would probably also be the case even if it was, let's say, 25 episodes), so hopefully this gets more seasons later on (but let's just focus on this one for right now). GangsterCat said: is that the legendary Kaiji's narrator in the preview? Yep, there's no mistaking it. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. |
| Weird bear CG aside... this was really interesting :o I'm totally on-board for this, and probably gonna have to do a nice wiki-dive when I get the chance. Is it weird that I love when my media makes me want to learn stuff? |
| "EVERYBODY, CLAP YOUR HANDS!" "PLUS ULTRA!" |
| one of the few new shows this season I've actually liked so far...but yeah that bear lol |
matheoo41 said: Weird CGI aside, I find the ending song pretty unfitting. I have a feeling I've already seen a character similar to Asirpa somewhere, that young female orphan skilled fighter, telling others what to do type. The only one that springs to mind now is Madlax, but that's not it. As somebody said earlier, I would love to see the series get 24 eps, cause it will probably be hard to exploit the story in just 12. Are you thinking of her? https://myanimelist.net/character/65445/Qiang_Lei Good first episode. |
| Holy shit, I've never seen such a terrible bear like that, the CGI was really awful. That aside, the story is interesting, if they stop using CGI like that, this will be a good anime. no, seriously, I don't understand, why making CGI bear when they have a decent 2d animation? not even the Heralds from Kokkoku looked this bad. |
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Daniel_Naumov said: code73 said: huh? Alternative history?, ever heard of Russo - japanese war? Never heard of soldiers outnumbering one injured soldier to six (who miraculously missed him for about 2 seconds of continued shooting), suddenly losing any coherence of what they are doing and being thrown around like dirt. This, is alternate history. And this, is a shame for art. How about being outnumbered 132 to 1 and still winning? Or 150+ to 1? Look up Alvin York and Lachhiman Gurung, who received the Medal of Honor and Victoria Cross, respectively. |
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| It was great and all for a first episode, but the CGI of the bear in particular was too distracting.... I've seen a lot of CGI, but this ones takes a whole new level of hideous. It felt like they pasted a real life bear in a cartoon. Didn't blend with the 2D animation, at all. But um, aside from that, looking forward to more. |
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| Great first episode! Its going to seriously trigger PETA and that alone is enough for a 5/5 from me. |
| The sword that takes life gives life |
| i love the first episode already, straight to the action. and they’re put the bloody scene blunt enough. Sugimoto personality is pretty good, like very serious and intimidating but can be entertaining and nice as well, i guess living as a soldier who lives in the harsh environment after the war is pretty rough. and his promise with his friend is what makes me interested, they are such a bro for taking care his wife, and keep his promise. the artstyle is fine, they seems didnt want to take the risk with the fireplace, it’s very realistic it’s almost unsettling. well it’s Geno Studio, a fairly new studio. giving such a great manga to a fairly new studio is already questionable itself, but they seems do fine with Kokkoku and this episode as for the bear, well, i watched full 2 season of Berserk so this kind of CG is not enough to make me hate it. i don’t even care as long as they not using it excessively can’t wait for the next episode |
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| it was a very nice first episode, I'll definitely be continuing with it! the animation wasn't great, but thats something I can overlook because of how interesting it was. |
| It may have been just me, looking at the other comments it is, but I really didn't like this first episode. I was looking forward to reading the manga too since a lot of people recommended it to me -_- The obvious thing to say is that I didn't like the bear just like everybody else. Though the wolf and the fireplace were also pretty bad in my opinion. The artstyle they're going with is also a little clanky. Besides that, the conversation between Sugimoto and Asirpa seemed dumb to me. They have one conversation and suddenly Sugimoto completely trusts Asirpa and only wants a small part of the treasure. (That's all I remember from that scene, excuse me if I'm wrong) (Me nitpicking) Btw I don't know much about this show, I haven't seen the manga so I don't really know what's going on, but how can Asirpa (she doesn't really look strong or anything) pull Sugimoto from under that brown bear? It was a really big one and is probably at least 700kg's. She's also half the size of Sugimoto. She could be just like Konayuki from Katanagatari, who knows. Still going to watch a few more episodes though. |
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| Pretty underwhelming/boring first episode, find the first chapter of the manga to be more enjoyable than the first episode. |
| the graphics disappointed me i expected it to be more better but it ended up meh (CGI in particular). Daniel_Naumov said: Never heard of soldiers outnumbering one injured soldier to six (who miraculously missed him for about 2 seconds of continued shooting), suddenly losing any coherence of what they are doing and being thrown around like dirt. This, is alternate history. And this, is a shame for art. unrealistic combat does NOT mean it's alternative history, dude. |
| Intense from the get-go. The historical setting is right up my alley, also with the placing of the story in Hokkaido and including Ainu lore. Hooked me with the atmosphere from already. |
| Holy fuck when he turned to his best friend and he was missing all his limbs. Good first episode. Interesting story and a main character I really like so far. Looking forward to see how this one turns out. Like everyone mentioned already that CG bear looked terrible lol. |
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| Sound design is weird for me, some effects sound distant and disjointed, especially during dynamic scenes. I didn't mind CG tbh (dunno why because it was actually bad xD). Apart from that, not my type of animu. I can't force myself to be interested in what is happening or to care about characters so it's just like the manga. Dropping - not my thing. |
| That has to be the worst CGI I've seen in anime. The 2D animation wasn't that good either. Pretty disappointing since I had high expectations for this anime... I thought we were gonna get some great action, but now, I'd rather not see any action at all. |
Albi-kunApr 9, 2018 7:05 PM
| The CG was bad, but at least stomachable unlike Piano no Mori. Still, this was pretty mediocre. Probably going to drop this later if it doesn't get any better. |
| Not sure if Asirpa is just short or young or both. Great intro. |
| That bear...cringe |
| Why would they do a CGI bear? Wouldn't that be more effort than just drawing a bear? Aside from that, the plot seemed fairly interesting and the art was pretty nice, though the animation was a bit lacking in some places, specifically the fight scenes. Daniel_Naumov said: So the first 2 minutes was enough to see that this is another alternative history. O-k-a-not-y. I think this was the fastest? Records, records... I discourage anyone wasting their time on this excessively valueless animation. Aren't you that guy who was complaining about the April Fool's thing because it ruined your "muh asthetik" profile? |
| Pretty good first episode. I don't really have much to say but I like this idea of searching for the gold and the story of the prisoners was pretty interesting. Is this one part of the series or is the whole series about searching for this treasure, either way I think I'll like it. |
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KingKatsura said: It's only for the first episode. There's a lot of series that play the OP at the end of the first episode, without any visuals. Then they reveal the OP visuals in the next episode. An example of that would be BokuMachi.good lord and the ending is just still credits.. not even a still image to go along with it. KingKatsura said: The background are for stylistic purposes, replicating the manga. the backgrounds were awful, repetitive, and lacking in detail. Though some shots did look too simplistic for its own good. Of course the backgrounds would be repetitive. The entire episode took place in a snowy forest where there are only trees and nothing else. KingKatsura said: I wish they hand-drawn the wolf. Considering it's short scene, they could've avoided the CG. And they even had it hand-drawn when it was howling too. As for the fire, it's basically the same CG as the bear. photorealistic renderings of the texture and in-between frame animations causes it to look like that.The wolf CGi was lame too. The fires were literally just real life images of fire. KingKatsura said: The zoom-ins are used to emphasize character expressions. And they also tend to be the moments when the character art is on-point. The cuts were clunky and overly zoomed in. The lineart and coloring is bare bones. KingKatsura said: Eh, idk about that though. The music used when the first inmate was talking about the hidden gold was pretty nice. Same goes for the OST at the end when Sugimoto gave his offer to Asirpa. OST added nothing to the show. Lelouch0202 said: The entire series is basically a tattoo hunt, though the manga has changed up its direction a bit in the recent chapters. Pretty good first episode. I don't really have much to say but I like this idea of searching for the gold and the story of the prisoners was pretty interesting. Is this one part of the series or is the whole series about searching for this treasure, either way I think I'll like it. |
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| I enjoyed it quite a lot as long as there wasn't a bear or campfire on screen. Holy hell were the bears especially off putting but that's been said like 1000 times by this point. I know the director had to release a statement about it after the episode aired so I hope there is some change in the future because I know this isn't the last time bears appear in this series. I'm so conflicted on what to think of the episode, hopefully I won't be from here on out. I will read the manga though if the adaption ends up disappointing. |
| The Revenant.... |
| Ok I guess this is good. The story was good and it was very intense. Only bad thing is that CGI. That is very bad CGI. Very bad CGI. |
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| just checked this out on a whim since i realized it came out not to long ago, intense start show was quite raw despite not looking that great old man's story was really interesting for what i thought was a one off thing until it turned into the plot. as everyone has mention CGI bear was pretty wack it just stood out so much being the main focus and clearly them trying to do something different with it that just didn't work out lol. |
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| wow this ep hardly needed any visuals -> given the bear it would be more appreciated without, motion pictures could've worked though well. Such straightforward show, they said everything they needed to with words, assumed alrdy what their roles are and what they are gonna do, all motivations (unless assumed), cause i didnt feel like Ainu cared about revenge and our mc did talking mostly and interpretation. Doesn't seem interesting for me, but w/e its boring is another matter for another eps, this ep didn't bore me much so far. |
| the animation is unstable cuz ive already felt the low budget on the first ep. the pv was made with great impact though. |
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