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| I thought that was a great first episode. It did everything I expect a first episode to do: set the tone, give necessary background, and acquaint us with the characters. Throw in a twist to get us hooked, and you're golden in my book. Could it have been done better in a perfect world? Certainly, however, it's patently obvious that we don't live there and thus can't expect that. |
| Every day you can read a book or watch some anime is a good day! |
Vader_ said: Is that Charizard and Rhino? wtf you make me want to watch it Lmao |
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TheGratefulDead said: Rowan_F said: Think that's a 'dropped' from me, bruv. I dunno, it was doing alright until Elaine pulled a gun on Hank then all my hopes just fell, off a cliff, into the sea. I kinda liked Hank at the start. A kind and compassionate leader who's a bit of a dork but ultimately ultimately worth following, except when it contradicts with his "if you go out of control I have no problem killing you" motto. Elaine was alright to until she pulled a fucking 180 and tried to kill everyone. I hate Cain, but I can't quite figure out how to verbalise why, because it has a lot to do with what I don't like about the show's premise. I hope they find a better solution in the end that doesn't involve killing all your friends, and I hope Nancy turns out to be an interesting character. I really hope so, because I'm not gonna watch it. Elaine killing everyone wasn't a 180, she literally was doing it to save her friends. Plus, about your comment on Hanks' "I have no problem in killing you if you are out of control" motto, we don't know how much has passed since he became a Beast Hunter. It was two months. It said in the show he was in a coma for two months, and I'm presuming there wasn't much of a gap between him waking up and him fighting lizardman. As for Elaine. She said she'd been trying to find a way to stop the madness from taking over, but she failed, and this is something she'd kept only between her and Cain. We never see her telling anyone else outside of Cain or Hank, so we can presume no one else knew. So, isn't it a bit extreme to jump immediately to killing everyone before they go mad instead of, like, telling them. Or finding more people to help find a better solution. If we knew more about Elaine, maybe I could buy it, but with how little we know, I'm sorry, all I see is bad characterisation. |
| This first episode is underwhelmingly average, I'll watch the next, but unless it improves on several aspects, it'll be a drop. |
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nightcrawlercyp said: Nice episode. But the name choosing makes me wonder if the writer is trolling us: patria - literally means homeland henrietta- female name Cain - the only proper name killer of Abel Somnium - Sleep -ium Renescastle - Rennes Castle I this trolling or just bad name choice? Not to mention Cain's lastname is...Madhouse You know, the studio from which studio MAPPA originated from. |
| I wasn't really into the first half, but the second half was actually great. Some of it was predictable, infact a lot, but Hank is bad ass. This should be a good revenge story if it's done right because the idea of the beasts turning bad is pretty interesting. 5/10 first half and 7.5/10 second half so I guess 6/10. |
| Gorey but not overdone. Decent plot but not unique really. Decent animation. Mamiko Noto sold me though. Hopefully she comes back somehow lol |
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| I thoroughly enjoyed pretty much every second. Sure, it could've been better directed, but the concept is cool and some character designs/names made me giggle, dunno if laziness or on purpose. Decent start. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| I'm quite surprised on this one, setting looks interesting. I'll give this a try after all.. |
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| Seems good enough, why was that blond woman wearing a provocative dress when everyone else were wearing their combat uniforms? that scene BTH was pretty funny. |
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| wow that was absolutely terrible up until the last 5 minutes, which surprisingly makes me want to give it a few more episodes. Hopefully this doesn't become the 1st Mappa produced show I drop |
TheGratefulDead said: Kiraly said: This was disappointing. Half the episode was just a slideshow, what will the show look like in 8 more episodes? And the storytelling pacing was so bad. They thre us into this huge battle, which was too short, then showed a lot of scenes celebrating and someone turning into a monster and dying and a motivational speech in like the first 15 minutes. No context, no reason to care about these people suffering or being happy. Just the first episode and there's already people who are bitching about everything for the sake of bitching... First impressions are important, it isn't that hard to notice how bad the pacing were and how it hurts its potential. If this was presented in 2-3 episodes it would have been way better than the sorry mess they did. Its not bitching for the sake of bitching, we have our reasons to think it wasn't a good start as you have your reasons to think it was, that doesn't mean we are wrong. |
| "We could make the world better, but it's easier to just shut our eyes." ~Blackwall |
| Quick and to the point, nice intro ep |
| I really liked it, that was an awesome start! Got me hooked instantly. |
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| Was that wolverine or something???? Oh man, another beast meets historical military!!! Is this going to be our regular season thing? Can't say I liked the episode, but hey I know the rating will be hitting 6 soon. Poor anime! |
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| Even if I liked the episode, it felt a bit rushed to me. It is highly understandable since they needed to present the war, the super soldiers and then show the after-war with the sort of treason & the new role of Hank. It still caught my attention, the idea of becoming a supernatural beasts reminded me Terra Formars, particularly with the originality / diversity of creatures used as model. For example, there was in the first minutes a woman who gained some spider legs as well as abilities to draw some webs : that pleased me, considering the soldiers were not just bestial creatures based on strenght. I'm curious to see how it will go, but for now they got my attention. |
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| This was an interesting first episode. Time will tell. |
| bloody roar meets fairy's gone or even killing bites for more recent references , this was quite violent but i'm glad the part of showcasing these gods as monster became the plot point ,while at the moment i seems like it's a revenge story about killing all your war buddies gone rogue ,i'm curious to see where it goes and not just a monster of a week seeing as though we hardly know any of em the attachment compared to hank will hardly be there. no CGI was a plus will see if this becomes anything more than i what we've seen |
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| This seems it might be enjoyable... hopefully better than Fairy Gone. But I have mixed feelings. There were a lot of weird-ass and trashy moments. Obvious discount U.S. Civil War. The way the Incarnate squad just casually strolls to the front of a losing battlefield was weird af. The opening battle scene was at least really cool tho. The two random war montages of looked awful and were pointless. We get a blatant and awkward "Im the bad guy" evil laugh. MC powers up with white hair, because reasons. Anyway, the story doesnt really start until ep2, so at least all of that was just done to speed along the intro. So Ill give it a fair try. Yeah, i dont think Elaine is dead. They said she was "missing" |
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| well, i went in expecting nothing and left quite pleased, def coming back next week |
| the animation is good, and the way they present the story is kinda rushed, but that’s not the point. i just wanna know where is Nancy!?? why they setup the first episode with the flashback first:(, i dont wanna wait a week to see Nancy:( i need my elephant gun girl akiraic said: facts, people really need to enjoy themselves more |
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HereticHunter said: TheGratefulDead said: Just the first episode and there's already people who are bitching about everything for the sake of bitching... First impressions are important, it isn't that hard to notice how bad the pacing were and how it hurts its potential. If this was presented in 2-3 episodes it would have been way better than the sorry mess they did. Its not bitching for the sake of bitching, we have our reasons to think it wasn't a good start as you have your reasons to think it was, that doesn't mean we are wrong. I agree. I think they're trying too hard to make a first impression like Shield Hero did. |
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| First episode in and we already have a lot going on. The first episode was really intriguing. I hope it stays that way until the end |
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| Fairy Gone 2.0 lol. but seriously this much better than Fairy Gone. And a lot of stuff happening this episode. |
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mpdissonance said: ziad1419 said: Last scene was amazing Plot have potionl How you could say weak anime of 1ep ??? I don't understand you I didn't say the whole anime is weak, I said "weak first episode." I'm still not passing judgement on the whole thing. As a side note, you can actually tell quite a bit about a series from the first episode, but that's beside the point: I'll agree the plot has some potential, that's why I started watching this series in the first place: because the premise is reasonably compelling. I'll also agree the last scene was better than the rest of the episode (although the interest I had was waning because everything else was so meh). But that doesn't mitigate the fact that the pacing and writing during the first fifteen minutes was really bad. Maybe I just have unreasonably high expectations from MAPPA after Dororo and Banana Fish, their last two projects, both made my favorites list and BF even had even the same director as this, but still... That digibro video you posted is bullshit. FMA:B has a horrible rushed 1st episode that introduced too many characters (and non canon too the manga, all filler) yet people claim as a masterpiece 🙄 |
| HACKs! 🤢🤮 |
| The first five minutes were pathetic, nothing was understood. Transformations (ridiculous) from nothing and at the most (in)opportune moment of the battle... I wonder, what need to send an entire armed troop if they already had the "Incarnate" who possess superhuman powers and who are capable of eliminating an entire army? Many deaths in vain so that then the battalion of Pokemons comes to eliminate them as if nothing xD Another thing I found strange is the choice of names: - Cain: What is this, the Bible? - "Patria" ? Literally means "homeland" in Spanish lol - Bancroft, Nancy Schaal: Bancroft by Anne Bancroft? Nancy + Shaal don't fit much, do they? Since Shaal is apparently a Jewish name ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaal_(surname) ) and the above are Anglo-Saxon. - Hank: Just hank - Somnium: I already want to sleep I don't know what to expect from this anime, but this first chapter was pretty loose, though not as much as Fairy Gone. |
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| Watched this on a whim with no expectations or knowledge of the source material. It's loud and violent and batshit crazy and I'm gonna watch all of it. |
| I'm no Weeaboo I'm Katsura |
Kroko23 said: Gotta say did quite like this, somewhat rushed but I think I can guess why they did it like they did. From what I know the whole during the war chunk was not in the manga (haven't read it) and i think they did that so we could see the whole brotherhood the incarnates felt with each other to, if not really cause us to feel for each soldier, at least see what Hank has gone through before he has to go around killing his comrades. And to see where his hatred of Cain came from (if that's a thing in this series). Action was good quality during the large scale battle, if kind of bland but definitely loved the explosion fight with the lizard, if that is how it goes for the season this is gonna be awesome. The still frames and crazy laugh were rather boring and what the heck respectively, but I was not expecting Elaine to shoot Hank and then Cain to betray her (though i should of with him having the name of the first murderer) If you don't like reading long drawn out comments like i do, short version is a couple of blunders but a good deal of good with a couple of points to hook me. yes it is. the manga never mentioned the war at all, at least not explicitly. i think the only canon thing in this episode is the scene when Elaine called Hank in the last 5 minutes. instead, the backstory is delivered through occasional dream or flashback from Hank telling his story to the main girl Nancy, and the backstory is getting clearer on each every beast soldier they met and slain because each of them has their on story. so it is weird that they shown us these absolute beast fighting, and then couple of jokes, tragedy, and slideshow later they won the war, and then Cain laughing. i can’t blame them for saying this is bad, it is bad. MAPPA should’ve just put Nancy in the first episode and let Hank flashback draw the backstory, just like what manga do. for the one that read it, it’s probably fine for them, but for anime watcher first impression, not so much i guess |
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| The manga isn’t the greatest, but the way it begins was better than this... this was just mediocre to be honest. For whatever reason(s), they decided to have most of content of the 1st episode be anime-original... They should have just followed the way the actual manga started instead. It is what it is... |
 We ultimately fear what spawns from within us ~Shinsekai yori Music is freedom. ~Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso |
| Sooo...first impressions: Fairy Gone 2.0 with plot and setting, hopefully it picks up pace. The start with the "tragic" war, with beings called "Incarnates" as war weaponry human tools (Hank, Cain) with creator/doctor Elaine. However with the decent intro setting, which was different from manga (mostly anime-original), it felt half-hearted. As per the case, MAPPA visuals less than usual but good for now, no 3D monster visuals as compared to Fairy Gone. Plus with lots of information, pacing all over the place and forced drama that had mostly just shocked me, that's the only impact I have felt. Looks like Cain Madhouse (as per Biblical context) is just the same context in name: a betrayer, the Devil "Incarnate" beast even. Get it? Next episode, judging from the post-credits, the main girl from the manga comes into view. So by then we can get the full adaptation proper and this will hail the start of everything. |
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| Much better than Fairy Gone starting. |
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