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| I liked it, like a far less annoying and derivative black clover. I do hope the animation picks up a little for battle scenes |
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Pweenie said: I met him at a signing session last year in fall/winter (before the news about the anime adaptation dropped), and while he was signing my book and making a quick drawing in it, I got to ask him some questions about his work and stuff. At one point he said that he had gone to Japan recently for his work (and extended it a bit with his wife for a small vacation), I asked "oh, like with the company publishing your manga for contracts and such I guess?" and he just evaded my question while trying to suppress a huge smile and said "uh yeah something like that". I found it fishy but didn't press on, but I was secretly hoping it was for an anime adaptation... and a few weeks/months later the news dropped, my reaction was "I fucking knew it!" Same, we had a meetup with him at Japan Expo last year and someone asked about an anime adaptation. He basically said he didn't know but maybe one day. Then when we met him this year he said that he'd actually just learned at that time that the adaptation was greenlit. Dude kept a STELLAR pokerface at the time. |
Batora07 said: ahneeme said: ok so this is the forgettable shounen anime of the season, that in a few years time no one will remember it like Houshin Engi, elDLIVE, Sousei no Onmyouji, there's always a few of them every year I'm always amazed at how quick people are to judge (other people, art, series)... what's funnier is that it's exactly what Radiant is about and criticizes : judging without the will to know more... Also remember that's only the first episode, if you made the same assumptions when the first episode of Hunter x Hunter (2011) and One Piece were released, well... you kinda missed awesome shonen and stories just because of that mindstate. One Piece did not make every adult in the town a complete idiot. The first episode of Radiant has demonstrated the lack of will to understand its own characters: every town person in it is defined solely by their bias against sorcerers. They have no life on their own other than to oppress the protagonist and trick us into sympathising the protagonist. They were even deliberately shown to be stupid by being made to stand around the monster when told to flee, until the monster started attacking. If the creators have shown no empathy for the characters they themselves created, why should the viewer care? I see people say the manga was about racism, but a show doesn't automatically become a good show just because it has a well-intended message. If the show has no deep understanding of the characters involved, and makes everyone into a caricature, then the show belies its own message. I know nothing about the original manga, but anime adaptation is not simply a mechanical translation of the source material. The adaptation can fail spectacularly even if the source material is a masterpiece, and (albeit less frequently) vice versa. The anime has to be judged on its own ground. And judging from the first episode, I don't really think the creators involved sincerely care a lot about seeing people in all complexity and not stereotyping them. There are plenty other shows that conveys similar message in film and novel, I don't have to learn them from a badly written show. I could even have read a book or two about racism and make myself a more informed citizen for the time I spend on 24 episodes or so on this show. Having a well-intended message alone is not really a convincing reason why people should give it a chance. |
CHCOct 7, 2018 2:49 AM
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| Well, it's ok for now, gotta watch more and see how it goes. So far I like the art, it looks refreshing, there's potential for a grand story too, but everything will come down to the characters I guess. Their designs look so diverse but I hope they won't end up being generic function roles. |
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CHC said: Batora07 said: I'm always amazed at how quick people are to judge (other people, art, series)... what's funnier is that it's exactly what Radiant is about and criticizes : judging without the will to know more... Also remember that's only the first episode, if you made the same assumptions when the first episode of Hunter x Hunter (2011) and One Piece were released, well... you kinda missed awesome shonen and stories just because of that mindstate. One Piece did not make every adult in the town a complete idiot. The first episode of Radiant has demonstrated the lack of will to understand its own characters: every town person in it is defined solely by their bias against sorcerers. They have no life on their own other than to oppress the protagonist and trick us into sympathising the protagonist. They were even deliberately shown to be stupid by being made to stand around the monster when told to flee, until the monster started attacking. If the creators have shown no empathy for the characters they themselves created, why should the viewer care? I see people say the manga was about racism, but a show doesn't automatically become a good show just because it has a well-intended message. If the show has no deep understanding of the characters involved, and makes everyone into a caricature, then the show belies its own message. I know nothing about the original manga, but anime adaptation is not simply a mechanical translation of the source material. The adaptation can fail spectacularly even if the source material is a masterpiece, and (albeit less frequently) vice versa. The anime has to be judged on its own ground. And judging from the first episode, I don't really think the creators involved sincerely care a lot about seeing people in all complexity and not stereotyping them. There are plenty other shows that conveys similar message in film and novel, I don't have to learn them from a badly written show. I could even have read a book or two about racism and make myself a more informed citizen for the time I spend on 24 episodes or so on this show. Having a well-intended message alone is not really a convincing reason why people should give it a chance. While I do agree to a certain extent don't forget that's only the first episode and even in the first episode of One Piece characters were all stupid (and that's what makes the story funny even in later episodes). Also the characters from the Pompo Hills are all peasants, they're not educated like some characters we encounter later on in the manga, so they're more encline to discriminate and be xenophobic than other characters. Also they have good reasons to don't trust sorcerers but you'll see that in second episode (if they don't fail too much in adapting the source material this time). Antanaru said: JugoKun said: And all that from a the country that gave the world mother of all leftists revolutions? What could possibly go wrong... Thanks for the heads up, now I know to steer away from this piece of shit.The original manga speak about : racism, xenophobia, islamophobia (the autor saw islamophobia when he was young), ecology, capitalism, social segregation and political corruption, and that only in the 10th volumes which are actually released. It's really not a generic shounen This post is so full of shit... yes please stay away of this, you clearly don't deserve it. Considering your statements you've exactly the type of wrong and dangerous mindstate that are criticized in Radiant, who are really encline to discriminate and judge other people without knowing shit. |
Batora07Oct 7, 2018 5:25 AM
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HoneyRice said: Sounds like another isekai show. Hum... that's absolutely not isekai... an isekai anime is when a character from our world is put into a fantasy world that's absolutely not the case for Radiant. Mod Edit: Removed quote of deleted post. |
ArdanazOct 7, 2018 5:01 AM
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| Guys quit with the french. I'm having to clean up all this mess now. Only post in English on the main forums please. |
| Better than what I expected. 1st best was not bad at all |
| Standard shonen, Fairy Tail and Black Clover in one. |
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| Well that was as generic as it can get. |
Weaboo-Desu said: I actually thought this was an interesting episode and people are just jumping on the band wagon of calling it "generic" after one episode which i personally think is stupid thing to say after very little has been shown. Overall I'm exited to see what happens and people need to give it a chance before hating on it. Calling something 'generic' doesn't equal saying its bad. |
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| This just looks and sounds like some generic fantasy shounen, and I'm already invested in seeng how the absolute messes that are Black Clover and Boruto end up, so I'll pass on this one. |
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| Reminder Nadeshiko from Yuru Camp voices the mc here. |
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| I CAN'T STAND SETH.. He's just like every other generic shounen character. His voice grates me so much. I like the interest of how the guy uses Magic tho. But unfortunately it's not enough for me to continue. |
JugoKun said: Crashmatt said: The original manga speak about : racism, xenophobia, islamophobia (the autor saw islamophobia when he was young), ecology, capitalism, social segregation and political corruption, and that only in the 10th volumes which are actually released. It's really not a generic shounenIn not a huge fan of Shounen series but this episode showed a bit of potential. There are some nice design ideas here but as with most Shounen it's hampered by generic character traits. MC want to get stronger, save the world etc. It's all been done a million times before. I just hope the show offers enough to rise above utter garbage like Boruto and Black Clover. My interest is piqued. Cool to see a foreigner's work adapted into an anime. Maybe Radiant will lead the charge for more. I like the character design a lot and I'm waiting for the cute girl with those giant curls to show up. |
| This show reminds me alot about Fairy Tails. But Fairy Tail got rated much higher but this one got rated much lower lolz. This show didn't do anything wrong honestly considering its target audience. Probably won't have the deepest plot but the presentation is pretty good. |
Ventus_SOct 7, 2018 10:59 PM
| This is really shounen-ish... Let's give it a try... 4/5. |
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| This anime gave me Fairy Tail vibes, with the art style and the magic/sorcery stuff. The animation is very decent as expected of Lerche. The cows look like elephants. :v And the bat looks like a pokemon (Golbat) but cuter. Nothing special about the story so far. I just hope it will be an interesting shounen that I would not regret picking up. |
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YorukaWaifu said: Meh, a generic battle-shounen for kids. I was expecting something better. Good thing that we have Goblin Slayer and SAO this evening. " a generic battle-shounen for kids" "Good thing that we have SAO" ho ok |
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YorukaWaifu said: ''Good thing that we have Goblin Slayer and SAO this evening.'' Oh, okay then.Meh, a generic battle-shounen for kids. I was expecting something better. Good thing that we have Goblin Slayer and SAO this evening. |
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Aria said: YorukaWaifu said: ''Good thing that we have Goblin Slayer and SAO this evening.'' Oh, okay then.Meh, a generic battle-shounen for kids. I was expecting something better. Good thing that we have Goblin Slayer and SAO this evening. Haha yeah I think pretty much everyone who's seen this quote laughed. |
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axel9546 said: Honestly is not like all other anime we love. From this first episode, i cant say i like it. They made a very good story manga into an anime kid! If you compare with naruto or mha you will see the difference. This seem really like one piece anime. The One Piece anime was pretty faithfull to source material, even the first episode was faithful to the manga while adapting the 2nd chapter first so that we could get to see Luffy in action as soon as the first episode and also teased Nami as an important character. Also the anime was enjoyable until the 2 years skip, I guess (even if I still enjoy it for the seiyuu performance and the openings and... that's all :/, the manga is way better paced). We'll have to see how faithful it will be to the manga for Radiant but since the author said the 5 first episodes will be different and that there will be fillers I'm encline to be ... huh... disappointed for the majority of the show as a faithful adaptation of my favorite manga until Rumble Town's arc I guess. Also introducing a complete filler character to the first episode and also making him a friend of a character who's supposed to struggles having friends in the manga is kinda low, adaptation wise. And I do agree that the show seems to be made for kids while it's totally the opposite in the source material and with a really different feeling in it's humor, it always has this first degree humor then a bit of a bittersweet aftertaste with a subtle critic for the characters or the universe they live in, in the manga. I still don't get what's the point in adapting something if it is to remove everything that makes it original. I don't mind adding stuff though (like I said previously the scene where Seth gears himself to go to fight is funny, Tommy isn't that annoying but he really shouldn't have been a friend that Seth made off screen since it is impossible with the universe Seth lives in, also the final rescue sceneS(seriously two in a row WTF ?) was so cliche that it hurts). Kinda like most movie adaptions of manga/anime are always a huge failure because they try too much to adapt the content of the source material to their own culture/countries to appeal a broader audience and it will always sucks because what's appealing people in those works is the exotism and fresh feeling of the stories for other countries as well as a solid work that even people from the same country can definitely approve and enjoy. I'm glad Tony (Valente, the author) is proud of having an anime adaptation and really happy with it, but I'm disappointed that he let the studio removing all the cool stuff (at least now from chapter 1), but I can totally understand why (having the first time ever japanese adaptation in anime from a french author must be quite a blessing as well as a heavy burden on his shoulders), and the choices made by Lerche already ticks me off as I already feared they'do it when I was watching the trailers. |
Batora07Oct 8, 2018 5:01 PM
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| Looks like I'm going to need to read the manga too-- it caught my interest :D I just hope it doesn't involve ecchi crap though... that'd be a bummer if it does |
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CondemneDio said: Well that was as generic as it can get. Yep. Is why I liked it I reckon. Good and simple story telling that will give me 25 minutes of fun a week for awhile. |
SovereignSky said: Read first 2 chapters after seeing the first episode....I VASTLY prefer the anime version save for maybe the lynching part. As for the glove thing I saw being mentioned somewhere, he says it's too slow using the gloves not impossible, so it makes sense given it took him like a full minute or two to charge the Fantasia for the fist. It'd be impossible if he JUST got the gloves, but both anime and manga clearly say he's been training thus it makes no sense for it to still be impossible. Also, I didn't find any humour in his stupidity so yeah no thanks. Like seriously I didn't find the him mistaking the cows for Nemesis funny at all........I'm probably just tired of STUPID protags because of harems and their denseness. Also, there won't be harem in the story (at least not in 70~ chapters), but yeah, sometimes characters can be pretty dense, just like Naruto/One Piece/Dragon Ball characters can be, that's where some of the fun comes imo. But since the anime will adapt 4 manga volumes in 21 episodes I can't guarantee the anime won't have some since 50% of these 21 episodes will be fillers. |
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| Definitely seems like a weird version of Fairy Tail, but I'm enjoying it so far. |
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SovereignSky said: Serious note; the manga doesn't really mentioned he survived the fall cause he didn't have the glove so they can probably just hand wave it. He had to use fantasia to survive, and he can't cast spells with his gloves (as shown when he tries a "repulse" spell against the nemeses with the hand that wear the glove), but we see remnants of fantasia around his body (or maybe it's just the "manga sfx" to show the landing, I don't know). But he definitely seems to be in a position of casting a spell, at least that was what I thought on reading the chapter multiple times, I may be wrong after all. There is comedic scenes at the beginning of some fighting scenes, but once things gets serious, it stays pretty damn serious, |
Batora07Oct 10, 2018 12:32 PM
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Batora07 said: SovereignSky said: Serious note; the manga doesn't really mentioned he survived the fall cause he didn't have the glove so they can probably just hand wave it. He had to use fantasia to survive, and he can't cast spells with his gloves (as shown when he tries a "repulse" spell against the nemeses with the hand that wear the glove), but we see remnants of fantasia around his body (or maybe it's just the "manga sfx" to show the landing, I don't know). But he definitely seems to be in a position of casting a spell, at least that was what I thought on reading the chapter multiple times, I may be wrong after all. There is comedic scenes at the beginning of some fighting scenes, but once things gets serious, it stays pretty damn serious, Well yes that'd make me read the manga......if I could find more than 4 chapters xD |
| The 2nd volume will be released next month I think, so it'll be much easier to find a way to read it :) |
Batora07Oct 10, 2018 3:56 PM
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| so it's based on a French manga ok let's see where this goes |
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