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| I didn’t like most of the characters’ designs but it was a good episode. It looks like the pink haired one is going to be my best boy. |
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| is this baiting? any shounen-ai? |
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| This first episode just feels like Yuri on Ice with less stakes, less homoeroticism, and worse animation |
| Honestly I do not think this shows choreography can top the likes of the Yuri on Ice choreography but will see where this goes. |
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| Not going to make waves but enjoyable enough. I'll watch the next few episodes to see how it goes but so far so good. I do hope it's not just vague fujoshi baiting though. Would like to see it actually go into Shounen ai territory. But not hopeful on that front. |
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| It was OK. Quite typical plot. It's giving heavy vibes of Number24, Try Knights and Prince of stride. Maeshima copying Reo's routine like how Yuri copied Victor in the 1st episode. Figure skating animation wise MAPPA did it better with Yuri on Ice in my opinion. Reo literally looking like a long lost son of Gojo Satoru ⊙_⊙ Now let's see how Bones does with SK8. |
| Reo looks like Atsushi from Bungo Stray Dogs lol I like the ice skating animation here better than in Yuri on Ice |
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Should've just called it iDOLs on Ice.. Is this going to be another one of those shows where they pretend all the guys are straight and unattached..  Dead parents.. Car accident.. How imaginative..  |
| I went in with pretty low expectations, considering this is from JC Staff who doesn't have the best reputation when it comes to animating anime with lots of action, such as the dumpster fire that was OPM s2. That and the premise seemed pretty mediocre. This first ep was better than I expected, but holy crap, that pacing. SO much was crammed into one episode. I guess better to get the plot going, but some parts were so jarring. Like why that other skater with the glasses hates the mc so much? Like chill dude. The mc is kinda cocky, but I'd honestly prefer that over him being a goodie-two-shoes, heart of gold mc, which would be pretty boring. With such a large cast, I'm sure most of them will get zero character development and stay one-dimensional. I hope the Mc's rival at least gets some character development. I hate emotionless rival characters that only act as a foil to the mc, but don't get any character development/growth at all. I don't like throwing around the term "fujobait" but this reeks of it. Like with that one effeminate skater with the long brown hair and the pink haired skater. I'm sure they'll all stay 1000% "hetero" though, which is also annoying, but you just gotta accept it with these all-male cast anime. the animation quality for the skating sequences varied from bad to average. Although the quads were decent looking. Honestly if it weren't for the fact that I really enjoy watching ice skating, I wouldn't even bother with this anime. I'll keep watching it for now. I typically don't drop an anime unless something happens in it that really pisses me off. Yet at the same time, considering how stacked the rest of the 2021 Winter season is gonna be, I might just lose interest in this one. |
| It was an okay episode. Normally, I'd talk about the stuff that stood out, both good and bad, but nothing stood out in this episode. This was very ordinary. However, I hope this turns into something amazing. This has Toboso Yana's designs, and I don't want it to be wasted in anything less than amazing. |
| It was better than what I expected, I will watch the next episodes. |
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The most interesting thing you can say about this is that they commit a major felony and competition violation that would get them blacklisted from any reputable sport and probably thrown in jail, and they just coast over it as a gag. The next most interesting thing is how messed up it is for your grandparents to be attending a 10 year old's sports competitions, holding up pictures of his dead parents. That's about the start and end of the list of interesting things though. Maybe the super weird news coverage of 10 year olds? Does that count? Because let's reflect on how deeply bizarre it would be to try to talk up personal high school rivalries, and then cut the ages in half. A lack of fidelity to or focus on the (fake) sport is far from the worst thing, but what else is there? Dude always loses to his rival. Time skip. Rival is still doing sport. Dude decides to rejoin the sport he apparently quit and instantly wows literally everybody with a single move. This isn't a made-up sport show like Keijo where everything is bonkers. It doesn't have a particular passion or affinity for skating like Harukana Recieve. It does the standard slight over-animation of the sport itself to try to show its chops, but that's about it. The dude rants about how he can jump and spin while skating. That's as tied to figure skating as it gets, and the whole team thing is not a part of this episode at all, nor the next one for that matter since I did quickly flip through it. |
| Why do I feel this whole Skate-Leading thing is just an excuse to have an Idol anime being advertised as a spokon? Anyways, okay start overall. I like Kensei as protagonist and the animation seems decent enough. |
| glad there was no CG on this one! 5/5. |
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Yuri!!! On Ice is a more superior ice skating anime, but this have its own good point, and a team sport. This is quite interesting.  |
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| Very good start. I like the characters. |
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| Only one i've watched in the new season but its already my favourite |
| Echoing everyone else who said that this wasn't that good. There were a lot of characters introduced and only like 3 stood out: the red-haired guy with a typical "I'm going to stand at the top" motivation, the white-haired guy who's the cold type, and the orange-haired guy who was smug. The animation wasn't that impressive outside of a handful of skating shots, and I didn't like how they interrupted the skating routines with cuts to other characters. Any skating scene was basically 10% skating, 90% shots of another character. A lot of shots where the camera just moves around a still (or with minimal movement) image. I guess the funniest part was the red-haired guy being INTENSE the entire episode, then that other guy just tells him "no" when he comes up all eager to join their club. Will probably give this 1-2 more episodes to see how it goes, but it didn't grab me at all. |
| "Oh, this is a Yuri on Ice knock-off." Nah. For one thing, it has decent animation direction. pandemonium91 said: Any skating scene was basically 10% skating, 90% shots of another character. A lot of shots where the camera just moves around a still (or with minimal movement) image. This is true, and I can see how it might put some viewers off, but it's also what no doubt saved the animation. YOI tried to be way too ambitious with animating its figure skating sequences so fully on such a budget/time crunch and ended up making them all choppy and made the way characters narrated how they put their souls into their performances drawn on fives laughably awkward. This show's director, on the other hand, seems to know how to work on a limited budget and focus skating routines on a few sakuga shots interlaced with cutaways to other, less animation strenuous content while keeping an emotional arc going. It doesn't have the budget to animate everything, and it knows it, so the director figured out what is most important, and it keeps the whole show looking clean. That's not just to slam on YOI - it's exciting to know it's getting a movie that will presumably have the budget to finally make those animated skating scenes look like how the characters feel - but it's obvious this show learned from a few of the original YOI anime's failures. |
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| @Netbug I guess it comes down to what you're expecting. Going into this, I wasn't expecting YOI 2.0 or a cheap copy of it at all; what I was expecting was something to make it stand out from other shows where the MC is hyper and chasing a goal. Usually, shows pull out the sakuga at the very start, in a few key moments, and at the very end; here, there were like a few seconds of sakuga. And we weren't even allowed to see most of the skating! We're TOLD how awesome it is, not shown, and I personally see this as a mistake. And again, interrupting the skating routines with uninteresting cuts to random characters commenting on it, in an anime about skating, is weird. This is the MC's big moment and we can't even see most of it. To me, this wasn't a good first/introductory episode because there was too much information dumped all at once and you don't get a chance to just breathe and take it all in. MC is at a competition in middle school, then he's in high school, then he wants to join a club, then he struggles with his dream, then 5 other characters pop up - too much all at once. About the YOI movie...who even knows if it's going to be made at all, haha. I wish! |
| I'm glad it wasn't bad, it's interesting to watch something about skating and also Kamiya Hiroshi is here, so automatically a must-watch for me:) I'm kidding, I wouldn't bother if it was too cringy but it's not, so that's a good start. And I don't mind the idol-anime resemblance, it can be relaxing as well to watch all these cute boys working hard to achieve their goals. They were quite diverse, although very recognizable types from any other similar anime, but oh well, it could be worse. |
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| A group type of a figure skating called a skate-leading? Intriguing concept. But some art and animation in a certain parts kinda bugged me. Its quite bad. Fortunately the mock show between the two main rivals seems decent enough to be continue. Moreover with that manipulative Shinozaki younger half-brother. He sounds interesting. So, yeah, i can say that i have enough motivation to go on. Still, this is not a highly anticipated show like many over-the-top shows. The art and animation look very average in this first episode, i don't even find any catching-breath moment beside the last and only scene near the end, and the casts are just full of bishounen, not my fullest expectation. However, as the concept of skating already intriguing me, i can say that i will watch this one till the end. Beside another fact that its already on my ptw xd. So, yeah, lets me see the second one! |
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