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OrochiPL said: ^ But Hibiki will die at the end, that's a fact since the beginning of 1st ep. Oh right I forgot that scene. Then Hibiki will sacrifice herself to save Tsubasa who will then cry about not being able to save her friend again. |
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| I think Miku will die, no why not everyone just die. Series seems grim in that way anyway. |
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| Still don't like Tsubasa's attitude. Rather than saying it's bad or anything, it feels like the writers are overdoing the emotion that is became ridiculous. Ruins the fun more than even Hibiki's. Fave part in this episode is the pissed off Hibiki after her date is disturbed by those Noise. LightAndDark said: Like a TominoI think Miku will die, no why not everyone just die. Series seems grim in that way anyway. Off topic question, is there a move in older Super Robot Wars that looks like the one where Tsubasa is kicking her giant sword ? |
nseikaJan 21, 2012 6:51 PM
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzGUN84B0eg&feature=youtu.be Symphogear Quality O man... this anime... Is it so bad it's good yet? |
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| I've given this series the 3 ep trial, but I'm dropping it. Panaru said: Hibiki went full on retard this episode "HERP DERP I'LL TRY TO REPLACE KANADE". REALLY!? That's not something a sane person says to a friend who has lost a loved one. Exactly. She worked alongside Tsubasa for over a month, and not once has she asked what Kanade was like. Neither has she expressed any gratitude for being saved that day, or feeling sorry for Tsubasa's loss. So saying she'll replace Kanade comes across as complete BS and turns her from 'clutzy girl who tries her best' into an insensitive bitch in my view. Also, all the feeling of danger and urgency is completely blown away by the carefree attitude at the base. Especially the 'don't worry, have no fear' attitude of the megane-girl is totally out of place. It may be a clumsy deathflag, but I'm not gonna watch a series while hoping some characters will die. |
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| this show is actually a lot more boring than it seems. and the songs get irritating very fast..... |
| Yeah, the animation really sucks at times. But I kinda liked the berserk mode thing, and how it wasn't completely all-powerful just yet. I think the more Hibiki gets isolated from Miku and her normal life, the angrier she will get and the more crazy her berserk mode will become. I'd hate to say it, but this anime is getting sort of interesting... |
Fisico said: Bet you anything in the BDs it will be more fluid.Laurine_Andersen said: OMG that walk killed me I was like "oh... WHAT?" Let's watch it together once more http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzGUN84B0eg Just kidding -> cleo said: That's too bad I was thinking we may have spurred some discussions around.I've given this series the 3 ep trial, but I'm dropping it. cleo said: You missed out that it is being done to relief stress without giving out the signs of it. All the base knowns the Symphogears can die anytime with the Swan song so they try to cheer them up by not showing their worries.Also, all the feeling of danger and urgency is completely blown away by the carefree attitude at the base. Especially the 'don't worry, have no fear' attitude of the megane-girl is totally out of place. Furthermore Sakurai was being teasing because she knows that Hibiki is a virgin girl and may die anytime. Might as well as tease her a little with ecchi in mind. All of these add that all at the base know but do not show. cleo said: I will watch to figure out the ED. I have a feeling the deaths of it mean something. Like Madoka ED meant something, this one seems to hide something too.It may be a clumsy deathflag, but I'm not gonna watch a series while hoping some characters will die. |
Yumekichi11Jan 21, 2012 8:18 PM
| Woah, when did Yuno get here? xP lol |
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| Hold your horses and check this (just using a general expression): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehushtan the actual reference of what the enemy at the end was called as is an existent one of our world. Interesting read, does it mean other references of religious value will be used. Myth is for sure used so far from I have seen. |
| well the yuri overtones are pretty obvious, got a blonde and a darker haired girl then the cherry reference etc definitely some uniqueness points to this show |
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| Oh the hate xD I'm still enjoying this show. I love the opening, It's just too good lol |
| First of all I like 2 moments here: 1. When the the guy int red shirt appears and blast half of the street. 2.When Hibiki get's angred..it reminds me of my girlfriend when I'm late at the date with 1-2 minutes...:D |
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Yumekichi11 said: You missed out that it is being done to relief stress without giving out the signs of it. All the base knowns the Symphogears can die anytime with the Swan song so they try to cheer them up by not showing their worries. Furthermore Sakurai was being teasing because she knows that Hibiki is a virgin girl and may die anytime. Might as well as tease her a little with ecchi in mind. All of these add that all at the base know but do not show. I know they're trying to relief the stress and megane-girl is there for comedy purpose, but it doesn't work for me. And it's painfully obvious it hasn't worked for Tsubasa either, seeing how 2 years later she's still a mess. No-one at that base seems to care or (like that manager) notice that though. You'd think an organisation that uses teenage girls as soldiers, would have someone capable of helping her deal with death. Instead she gets silly yuri-jokes and is forced to work with Hibiki. The complete lack of empathy among most of the cast is incredible. |
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| Hibiki's eyes looked like monster's eye.Epic! |
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cleo said: Sadly it may be but they are trying at least. I do agree with you that Tsubasa was no fool of it but Hibiki might be a good thing since she is an airhead. Yumekichi11 said: You missed out that it is being done to relief stress without giving out the signs of it. All the base knowns the Symphogears can die anytime with the Swan song so they try to cheer them up by not showing their worries. Furthermore Sakurai was being teasing because she knows that Hibiki is a virgin girl and may die anytime. Might as well as tease her a little with ecchi in mind. All of these add that all at the base know but do not show. I know they're trying to relief the stress and megane-girl is there for comedy purpose, but it doesn't work for me. And it's painfully obvious it hasn't worked for Tsubasa either, seeing how 2 years later she's still a mess. No-one at that base seems to care or (like that manager) notice that though. You'd think an organisation that uses teenage girls as soldiers, would have someone capable of helping her deal with death. Instead she gets silly yuri-jokes and is forced to work with Hibiki. The complete lack of empathy among most of the cast is incredible. Regardless these are though times and despite wanting things to be done more for these girls, they are being tried. The base most likely gave out a OK for Tsubasa in singing for the public as a stress relief other than of course using her voice to try and awaken other relics. |
| I'm trying to like this show. I really am. The only reason I'm still around now are because of the yuri undertones, Miku (who I'm really feeling sorry for at this point), and my curiosity about that berserker mode. But the berserker mode came and went pretty randomly... And why are the Americans always evil in anime? =/ I know we aren't that loved by other nations, but we aren't so bad that we have to constantly be the villains. =( |
| Animation is amazingly awful. |
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Sir_Lexa said: I love the opening, It's just too good lol Heh, love the opening myself. This one and from Rinne no Lagrange are pretty much stuck in my head. ^^ |
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| I actually enjoy this anime...I feel like the only one. I think KNOW it would of been better if they didn't kill Kanade on the first episode. She was and still is the most interesting character. The quality was pretty good, until it got to that walking scene. Completely butchered! I like all the characters except Hibiki. Why did Kanade have to give her life to save something that annoying?!!? The first episode won me over. This wasn't a great episode, but I still have high hopes for this series. 3/5 for this episode. |
animegeek4life said: I actually enjoy this anime...I feel like the only one. I think KNOW it would of been better if they didn't kill Kanade on the first episode. She was and still is the most interesting character. The quality was pretty good, until it got to that walking scene. Completely butchered! I like all the characters except Hibiki. Why did Kanade have to give her life to save something that annoying?!!? The first episode won me over. This wasn't a great episode, but I still have high hopes for this series. 3/5 for this episode. Kanade was a pop singer and symphogear and the ultimate service to her fans is to sacrifice herself for a fellow fan regardless of how annoying he/she would be or already is, it's showing compassion and selflessness of the highest level. Appreciate Kanade more as a heroine and not complain about her sacrifice for a character you don't like. |
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Hoppy said: I do appreciate Kanade... she is hands down the best character. But now that you mention it, it is strange to sacrifice herself for one fan when tons of fans were also dying all around her. Even if she killed the noise in the process of sacrifice, it still didn't matter. There were no more fans around because they were logical and ran out of the stadium (Hibiki was the only one left and she was just standing around too confused to do anything). Kanade could of took her time and not sacrificed herself, but still defeated the noise. Kanade was one the very few who could fight the noise and judging on her little bit of fighting screen time, she was way more powerful then Tsubasa. She is could of saved tons more people if she didn't sacrifice her life to save Hibiki. animegeek4life said: I actually enjoy this anime...I feel like the only one. I think KNOW it would of been better if they didn't kill Kanade on the first episode. She was and still is the most interesting character. The quality was pretty good, until it got to that walking scene. Completely butchered! I like all the characters except Hibiki. Why did Kanade have to give her life to save something that annoying?!!? The first episode won me over. This wasn't a great episode, but I still have high hopes for this series. 3/5 for this episode. Kanade was a pop singer and symphogear and the ultimate service to her fans is to sacrifice herself for a fellow fan regardless of how annoying he/she would be or already is, it's showing compassion and selflessness of the highest level. Appreciate Kanade more as a heroine and not complain about her sacrifice for a character you don't like. But you are 100% right about Kanade being completely compassionate/selfless. She was a true heroine. My point was that it is a shame that such a great heroine had to go and be replaced with Hibiki. It wasn't any attack what-so-ever to Kanade, just questioning the plot of the show. |
| I certainly don't think this is awful like some people. I'm still hopeful that this will go Ga-Rei dark, though so far it's looking to be Mai-HiME at best, which isn't that high a bar. Lapses in animation quality and some less than ideal characters (though the latter is pretty bad) aren't what's dragging this down for me so much as the unwillingness to dive in and really explain anything. Why do they only sometimes sing while fighting? Where did Hibiki's warmth song come from? Why bother to maintain Tsubasa's career? What's with Hibiki's dark mode? How the hell do they explain Genjurou's strength? There's so much just being done for flare, and I'd really enjoy it more if they tried to make some sense of it all. |
Onii said: Shittiest berserker modo. Haha! Yeah pretty bathetic berserk mode right there. This series is really becoming kind of disappointing. I couldn't even say exactly what is bad(well except the animation that was horrible) but everything just felt not correctly made. Btw what the hell was it with that guy and his super strength? Is he Goku or something? He didn't sing so obviously is not sym-whatever. |
| God damn Hibiki is annoying as hell...she also said "I just want to live an ordinary life!" Bitch! No one forced you into this...you could have declined... |
Nocturcity said: God damn Hibiki is annoying as hell...she also said "I just want to live an ordinary life!" Bitch! No one forced you into this...you could have declined... I don't much care for Hibiki either, but that's pretty easily justified. Not really wanting to be a savior yet feeling obligated when you have the power is reasonable. Course, before she was all gung ho about protecting, so it could be seen as a gap in her character development. Still don't really see it as one of her issues. |
Bio said: I wouldn't be so certain about "not" being forced or are you forgetting the fact Tsubasa had her arrested and dragged back to their HQ in handcuffs? I hardly think they'd left someone who can control one of their precious "relics" just walk away, especially when they even have foreign countries trying to steal the technology from them. I think Hibiki is a special case as it seems the deceased Kanade and Tsubasa herself were found and trained for the job, probably both to evade third parties they have no control over taking possession of their Relics and to ease them into battle. As such, I don't think Hibiki had a choice at all. They'd likely just detained her if she had refused.Nocturcity said: God damn Hibiki is annoying as hell...she also said "I just want to live an ordinary life!" Bitch! No one forced you into this...you could have declined... I don't much care for Hibiki either, but that's pretty easily justified. Not really wanting to be a savior yet feeling obligated when you have the power is reasonable. Course, before she was all gung ho about protecting, so it could be seen as a gap in her character development. Still don't really see it as one of her issues. |
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| The first episode made me add it to my favorites. This episode made me take it out in a instant. That epsiode was like a big middle finger to me. So I walked away from it. And by walked away, I mean my body moved back and forth like I was on a boat. It contagious apparently. Horrible animation, repetitive soundtrack that I first fell in love with, a ridiculously annoying and stupid main heroine, and a seemingly dying story. Its one episode away from being dropped, I hope they get their heads out of their butts. |
Soshintsu said: Okay, I now officially hate Tsubasa - congratulations. Being pissed at Hibiki is perfectly understandable, but actually trying to kill an innocent rookie just because she happened to get Kanade's gear and fails to read the atmosphere is beyond redemption. And like others already stated: It's not like Hibiki had a real choice in the first place. I know a large part of the audience will forgive a girl anything if she looks good enough, and it looks like the writer(s) and director totally count on that. So I guess one day Tsubasa will be remotely nice for a moment and I'm supposed to completely fall for her then. Thanks, but I'll pass. I still like the Hibiki-Miku subplot very much, but I don't think this will pull me through the rest of it. In fact, I should probably drop it before they mess this up, too. I'll just sleep over it before deciding on that. I'm with you on all points except that I think the HibikixMiku subplot is already messed up because we know Hibiki is going to die. Unless you're a fan of the whole "happy for a brief moment then dead" type scenarios. I know I'm not. |
| Damn, she fucked stuff up when she went into that state! I wonder what causes her to enter that "mode" like that. Tsubasa blames herself ans still doesn't accept Hibiki. I think she needs to prove herself to her more before she'll ever do that. In the end we see what seems to be a commander of the Noize? I wonder what she wants!=O |
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| Oh good gods.. the walk at 14:00 cracked me up XD |
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| If that berserker girl becomes black from the shoulders up next episode, I'll throw a bucket of feathers on her. |
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| The animation quality sure took a dive in places this episode. What the heck was with that bouncy puppet walking? The whole 'mcguffin monster explains all our old monster stories' trope made no sense with the noise. I just don't think so. |
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| ppor miku D: she didn't get to go with hibiki! |
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| Tsubasa <3 is the main reason why I still like this anime a lot, lol I was like damn it when that guy appeared at the end and stopped Hibiki from getting dropped. At least she got that last slap in, good enough I suppose. Looks like she went through a really depressing time of her life after Kanade and started blaming herself about what happened. Then seeing someone like Hibiki all carelessly and joyfully come in to replace Kanade, I can see why she would act so cold. Tbh Hibiki does get pretty annoying sometimes. Hmm so whenever Hibiki rages, she goes berserk and turn black. I think that'll probably change as she gets more used to the symphogear. Looking forward to this new character, wonder if she's a good char or villian. She's in the OP and is using that relic from the first episode. :o Nehushtan/Mephista? Wtf happened to the animation when they were walking?! -_- Just jumping and bouncing around I lol'd. |
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| This is like Guilty Crown with extra sprinkles of goodness in it, in the form of poor animation, ear-splitting music, characters that make you want to gouge your eyes. Berserker girl was so overdone it wasn't even interesting. It's bad when I don't remember the main character's name 3 episodes in because I was my attention was diverted away from the episode because watching my sleeping fish tank with the lights off was more interesting. |
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| lol certainly the animation is not the best , besides the fail while tsubasa was walking, when she was coming from the sky to kill the grape-like thing that scene looked awkward too... Anyway this anime is entertaining for me u,u |
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| After this episode i feel like dropping it. Back to the first episode i thought it was ok, i read a lot of people comparing it with madoka and a lot of positive comments, but still i found it...just ok to watch. I'll give it 1 more ep. Positive thing about this show is the music is of my like. |
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| Yea, that animation was derpy. Other than that I still find myself interested in what's going on. To say that the "wow" factor has dropped is correct, but I don't think any show can keep that "wow" through and through. I'm losing the "Madoka" feel I had from the first, but that's not saying its completely gone. Still have quite a few eps left. Like Mai-Hime, it took about half the show for stuff to go dark and I was happy to have kept on. I'll give this the same go as well. As long as I'm not "Kill Me Baby"-ing after the 4th and 5th episodes. -.-;; |
Not a bad episode. I was getting a little bored in the middle, but berserker Hibiki made things interesting again. I'm interested to see how the world expands with this new character showing up. |
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| omg lol at the walking scene ahaha first when i saw her and her manager walking from the side it was like "lol that blue hair movement is kinda annoying", and then the camera switch and we got to see them walking from close up front and i was like "OMG LOL WAHAHAHA FAIL" but i still enjoy this episode more than the first one, but if only i was Hibiki, i would go berserk to Tsubasa and kill her! WHAT DID SHE EXPECT? WHAT AN EMO SLUT, she only hates Hibiki because Hibiki is so cute and happy, not some grumpy ugly shit with ugly shit hair like her please die. |
| The meteor shower thing was kinda obvious, I wonder how much Hibiki's new life will strain her relationship with Miku, not to mention she herself went to the Dark Side later on in the episode. 3/5. Also, that walking scene, holy God... |
| I was seriously thinking about dropping this throughout the episode, then she went beserk and I thought that I really shouldn't drop it (yet?). |
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| another character should help... oh the coolest character so far was the cool old guy stopping her with his fist. badass old guy > angsty girls! |
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| Man despite hating so mch on the first episode the past 2 episodes have made me change my mind. Even though the beeping of her (phone?) was obvious when (Hatsune) Miku went to take their bags. Everything else was fairly interesting. I didnt really count that as a berserk mode though. I mean meh you made her break her promise. So shes probably pissed . But not that angry. Normally people that go berserk is because of death or some other horrible reasons. But this would not drive a person nuts. In fact i found it pretty funny when she tore the noise apart with that dark look on her face. |
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| Wow really Hibiki, you don't say stuff like "I'll try and replace Kanade". So stupid, you never say stuff like that. |
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| Another good and entertaining episode. Of course Hibiki is stupid. |
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