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| Nice job Hibiki in looking pretty much identical to Kyouko from Madoka. Could've been a lot worse than it was. Will probably watch it now and then but won't be running out to get the new episode, especially considering how many other far superior things there are around right now. |
| What the hell did I just watch... |
| I definitely didn't like the first person approach to it. I like that in a game but not in a TV show. It really feels completely off and is on a new level of pandering. I can see people liking that approach to it but I personally don't. Having them "talk to me" is definitely out of my league. That being said, I'm sure the hardcore iDOLM@STER fans will enjoy this approach to it since it is like the playing the game. I bet this will easily be the best selling show of the season regardless of the format. |
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McRib said: I definitely didn't like the first person approach to it. I like that in a game but not in a TV show. It really feels completely off and is on a new level of pandering. I can see people liking that approach to it but I personally don't. Having them "talk to me" is definitely out of my league. That being said, I'm sure the hardcore iDOLM@STER fans will enjoy this approach to it since it is like the playing the game. I bet this will easily be the best selling show of the season regardless of the format. Seeing as how the producer was introduced at the end as the cameraman, and even talked, I'm sure that was only a 1st episode thing. |
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MrAddict said: havent watched this yet but wanted to ask should i watch iDOLM@STER Xenoglossia before watching this new one? will it be a difference or something like that? Its best to imagine that one never existed. It was a dumb spinoff where all of the idols were fighting with mechs and changed all of the girls voice actresses, and basically had nothing to do with the source material. A giant failure in every way. |
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| Don't know what to think yet, must see more before forming an opinion. I'm glad they ended the talking to the screen approach by the end though, that felt awkward. |
| I found it really boring. |
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| So basically this is MS Negima without the magic and stuff... |
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| I really like it. I did not expect them to show the producer face until the end. As expected its a megane guy. Overall the episode did not bore me at all, its quite nice. |
Diddles said: So basically this is MS Negima without the magic and stuff... Closer to K-on, if anything. Its a bunch of cute girls playing music. Easily gonna be the biggest show of the season, sales wise. |
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| not rly sure yet , but if it goes well i think i could rly enjoy it , anyway , will definitely watch the next few episodes |
| This could have been the first pure first-person POV anime, using the producer/cameraman as a surrogate for the audience. Now, it might end up as the harem version of K-ON! but there's more eps. to come. I personally enjoyed the way this episode was handled except the end. It's fine for now. 8/10 |
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| The threat is stronger than the execution. |
| oh kinda suprised that most here didnt mind the "slow" start. A nice way to introduce the 1st ep like a interview, showing lessons and schedules. As a Im@s lover I cant say anything bad about it <3 |
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| I sort of want them to pull a Xeno and make this shit go all EVA on us, considering all the people that joined to work on this. Deconstruction of harem/music/moe ahoy! |
| So many cute girls. It was pretty much what I expected it to be, although a bit more documentary-ish. I liked it. |
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| I can't really make my decision about this anime. I think I have to read the manga to understand it a little more. |
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| Introductory episode, yet I liked it a lot for some reason. So many girls haha, will be following this. |
| I felt like this anime has a feel similar to K-on. If the next episode has the same one sided dialog, then I'm dropping this series. I found the one sided dialog good for the intro, but it will be a major nuisance if it continues. |
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DaiTomodachi said: I felt like this anime has a feel similar to K-on. If the next episode has the same one sided dialog, then I'm dropping this series. I found the one sided dialog good for the intro, but it will be a major nuisance if it continues. It will probably drop the "one sided" dialogue, because the "producer" has his own voice and face. Just don't complain that this is bad because you don't like it. lol |
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Ousto said: 13man18 said: I can't really make my decision about this anime. I think I have to read the manga to understand it a little more. Don't, the manga isn't the original source. All the manga are just spinoffs and probably suck, as most manga adapted from games/anime do. The manga with the fresh producer who joins due to his grandfather's declining health and his struggle to "polish diamonds" isn't that bad actually. |
| i liked it -plus if anything i'll just watch this because i like the art,but for some reason i felt awkward watching this whenever they went to the first person view i know this was just introducing the characters but they keep that i dunno :/. |
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kaimax said: DaiTomodachi said: I felt like this anime has a feel similar to K-on. If the next episode has the same one sided dialog, then I'm dropping this series. I found the one sided dialog good for the intro, but it will be a major nuisance if it continues. It will probably drop the "one sided" dialogue, because the "producer" has his own voice and face. Just don't complain that this is bad because you don't like it. lol touché good sir, touché. |
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| I really hope that only episode one was in Documentary style, and the rest the anime is more right in there with the producer. I like it, but I wont like it if they don't change over from the Documentary style story. |
| Seems interesting enough. I never played the games, so this is my first experience with Idolmaster. |
| Hmm. Also, Unity strengoose. |
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| yea, documentary-style was probably only for episode 1. As someone said, if the the producer didn't show up I would have dropped this already.... Again, not a big fan of the game nor of the first person approach (I'm the RPG and turn-based strategy-type gamer, not the Japanese simulation game type....) Needless to say, I couldn't finish K-ON!! since it was too painfully boring to watch. |
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notsureifsrs said: make this shit go all EVA on us,.! The ED sure fits the NGE-outlook, so... Also, liked the first episode a lot. Looking foward to this. totally not biased. |
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| this was great, i am deeply looking forward to more :P it was like a mega moe party XD |
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llamaben said: ...that was pretty bad. I agree. If the whole anime is going to be interviews and crap then I will have yo drop this. Characters looked fun though. |
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| This is like The Office, but with idols! I like it. |
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| I was so about the drop this halfway though the episode. That first person crap pissed me off to no end but I'm lucky it endured it. If the producer wasn't introduced by the end I would've dropped this right away but other than that first person crap it looks like it can get better now. |
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| I don't really recommend this to those who aren't really familiar with the series itself.. so all of you guys that are complaining and hating on it should get your fists out of your asses. I love this though. This is the anime all of us iM@S fans have been waiting for! I heard that Xenoglossia was shit so I never picked it up but once the first news of this came out, I was ecstatic. The animation was amazing and directing as well. Not glad that the Producer's face was revealed. Would've been better if his face was hid the whole show. Really love how its like your playing the game, having P-chan's dialogue appear at the bottom of the screen (but I'm sure this will change since his face was revealed..) AAAaaa finally get to see the idols in all of their beauty. This is really living up to the series, a proper anime for such a great game. |
| I've always wanted to play the games, so this is the next best thing. I enjoyed this episode and meeting all the girls. Already deciding on favourites. :P |
| Watched about five minutes of it. I guess it will be quite enjoyable for the fans of the video game but for me it's just... bad. So... so bad. It's like a collection of everything retarded in this world. Thought that K-on with its retarded protagonists was bad and insulting? God, this one has 13 of them and from what I've seen their QI isn't that high either. Seriously, how can someone enjoy this? |
Ukyo9 said: I dunno, the fact everyone and anyone important jumped ship to take part in this shit? Lolol hoping for more Berserk? NOPE All of those awesome action scenes in Evangelion? It's all here bud TTGL? Get some GAR up in my moe, bitch If this pulled an eva on me it'd be awesome. |
Ukyo9 said: Seriously, how can someone enjoy this? Cute idol girls doing cute idol girl things. How can you not like it? HHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. |
| This was the longest episode in my entire life, it was horrible, just horrible. I would have dropped it if they kept that documentary approach for episodes to come. It was really boring, humor was pretty bad too... I'll just finish it for the sake of finishing it. |
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| I can already tell this is going to be the divisive anime of the season |
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notsureifsrs said: Ukyo9 said: I dunno, the fact everyone and anyone important jumped ship to take part in this shit? Good thing you put the question mark. But you did force me to take interest and look into all the people working on this series. It basically looks like a lot of the stand in episode directors and animators got together with some more underlings in some major studio houses (KyotoAn, Gainax, Madhouse, Whitefox...) and decided to work on this project. Maybe they met at a bar or something and decided it'd be cool to work together. I don't know how it happened. It could be that their art houses just didn't have any work for them so they jumped ship? I don't know but a lot of the comments in this forum have me wondering so I'm gonna try this series out and report back. Unfortunitely some of the older voices I recocogonize seem to think this series is a steaming pile. I saw the idea of deconstructing genre's was mentioned and a lot of third wall jumps are part of this series that could be interesting or crap. And to the fans of the series who think everyone else should just F off. Well you almost got me to do just that and not even give this series/franchise a chance. Play nice! (-_*) Edit: Update. |
Orion1Jul 9, 2011 6:46 AM
| Don't know what to say. The interview was a nice idea, but hopefully there won't be others anymore. Oh, and I really like Chihaya so far. |
| ^ interview is over, but I will drop this if they placing 13 idol singing in one single episode . Anyway, I am curios how this anime will work out. |
arigajoe said: Not glad that the Producer's face was revealed. Would've been better if his face was hid the whole show. I'm kind of sad his face wasn't just a giant P. That would have been better. Also, Here's a pretty cool video that mixes the anime ED and footage from the game, so you can really see how the ED was taken directly from the game. |
OustoJul 9, 2011 8:46 AM
| For me, i kinda new on The IDOLM@STER, my 1st experience on it came on the Xenoglosia series (I stop it half way cos is getting bad and worse, as 'idol' hate 'idol' that kind of situation). But the REAL IDOLM@STER anime really shows is a fun thing to watch as idol together fulfill their dream, the PV then episode 1 really won me over with those girl in it: The rest of the other cast: This is my fav next episode scene: |
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