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| Lmaoo danji getting his ass beat was hilarious. Such a ridiculous episode, but after the break last week it’s nice to be back. |
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| let's go ace!!!!! |
| Stupid as hell, but easily the most fun episode so far. |
| TEN COMMANDMENTS: 1) If Evangelion and Psycho-Pass are his only 10s, he probably also worships Tool and smells like cheesy puffs 2) Freudian psychosis =/= good writing 3) Moe blob art style is only ok in pure slice-of-life comedy 4) It's ok to enjoy shounen. Having fun is allowed 5) It is not ok to enjoy isekai (jk, it is, I just fucking hate it) 6) Creator breakdown =/= good writing 7) A story does not have to be wrapped up with a bow. Life is messy, why would a good story need to be tidy? 8) InuYasha is proto-Twilight 9) Ecchi CAN be good, but is almost always an abomination 10) If God is real, They allowed Super Kid to happen, so fuck Them |
| What a strange but fun episode. As a lover of Vanguard, and wrestling in general. It was pretty wild haha. |
Sterben0022 said: Episode was pure filler. I didn't hate it but it certainly didn't do anything to change my feelings on the show so far. If anything I'm just getting more and more frustrated with this "aimless" direction. Just what the hell is this show trying to do? What is it trying to accomplish? I don't see any kind of clear vision/direction here. There is no compelling hook and we are already near the halfway mark of this first cour. Do the scriptwriters even know how a story works? Do they even know what Vanguard is? Seriously, just take the Cardfight Vanguard moniker out of the show already because this show feels ashamed of trying to address it. I feel the staff behind this anime hasn't watched a lick of Vanguard anime and instead were just told to appeal to the BL crowd and the non-TCG playing crowd and throw in a bunch of popular tropes/cliches and sprinkle in the product they are trying to advertise here and there. And you have a soulless anime so far. Yeah I don't like using buzzwords like that but I can't help but feel this is the case. OverDress is just a pretty exterior with nothing inside it at the moment. There is no identity, no balance in the storytelling. Just a lot of wasted time. And no I'm not dropping this show just yet. I'm a big fan of the Vanguard franchise. I've been following it since 2011 and I am an avid player of the card game and spend a lot of money building decks I like. I want this to be better and I'll keep giving it a chance but my patience is starting to wear thin. It really depends how the later half of the show goes, or the next season. As far as I can tell, the aim might be currently to use the first season as more of a slice of life, to get us used to the characters, and their Vanguard styles((Even if it should be more shown in terms of the plays.)) Then maybe go into more of a story focused driven kind. If it doesn't, then it'll just be an anime about characters who just chill and go out, while coming back to a club were they play card games. Which for a concept, isn't bad honestly. Don't really need a 'danger to the world' plot like most Card games have. We had so much of that in G lol. |
| another quite ???? episode but a bot better this time, my poor danji's gotten beaten to a pulp but card-wrestling game seemed quite interesting, i wonder if chess-boxing is also a thing in real life as they said, ALSO THEM BEING TOGETHER MADE ME SHOOKETH i did not expect it from zakusa-san |
Sterben0022 said: And you have a soulless anime so far. If you want soulless, just take a look at Shadowverse(TV). This show has plenty of soul and love put into it. The problem is that it can't make up its mind on what it wants to be, fully. It looked like we were going to get an experience more focused on the sort of "gang warfare" cardfight fights in the first three episodes, with Yu-yu becoming the new champion of the team, but then 4 and 5 have shifted focus entirely into a more slice-of-life direction. It's not really a tonal whiplash, since it has been consistently light hearted from the start, but you could compare it to one. |
Sterben0022 said: Ammokkx said: If you want soulless, just take a look at Shadowverse(TV). This show has plenty of soul and love put into it. The problem is that it can't make up its mind on what it wants to be, fully. It looked like we were going to get an experience more focused on the sort of "gang warfare" cardfight fights in the first three episodes, with Yu-yu becoming the new champion of the team, but then 4 and 5 have shifted focus entirely into a more slice-of-life direction. It's not really a tonal whiplash, since it has been consistently light hearted from the start, but you could compare it to one. Shadowverse at least knew it was a cheap YGO ripoff and wore it proudly on its sleeve. It's bad but I can respect that it knows its bad so it has some soul at least. overDress just looks nice and pretty on the outside but has nothing on the inside. It's not a good card game anime nor is it a good Vanguard anime. And at best it's a forgettable SoL anime so far. As a long time fan I get the feeling the writers misunderstand the essence of Vanguard, and generally speaking like they don't even know the proper fundamentals of storytelling. We're already at the halfway point of the season and you can't even grasp what the story is really about. To be fair, some of the past Vanguard series have had that issue too but still. It's mostly been a bunch of scenes that the writing staff thinks sounds cute or cool without concern for scene to scene tone or putting them in a stringed coherent order which isn't surprising given the Series Composer for this anime has done A LOT of bad anime. I don't disagree the anime is mediocre at best. I just find it a bit strong to call it a "soulless anime" when it's at least trying to be interesting, even if it's not going well. You can tell the writers are having fun coming up with these scenarios and characters, and there's a fair bit of genuinely good humor in here (see: Danji rolling up in the pink tank out of nowhere). Contrast it to something like Shadowverse, who didn't have a single original idea and every bit of dialogue was phoned in. Shadowverse didn't even try to be good, it's just a pretty blatant and shameless bit of advertising, which is the definition of "soulless"- made without any soul or love. Point is, I'm saying there's a difference between "tried and failed" and "didn't try at all". This is the former, SV(TV) is the latter. |
| They really did catch x Vanguard...???? well the idea was funny at least xD |
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Sterben0022 said: Episode was pure filler. I didn't hate it but it certainly didn't do anything to change my feelings on the show so far. If anything I'm just getting more and more frustrated with this "aimless" direction. Just what the hell is this show trying to do? What is it trying to accomplish? I don't see any kind of clear vision/direction here. There is no compelling hook and we are already near the halfway mark of this first cour. Do the scriptwriters even know how a story works? Do they even know what Vanguard is? Seriously, just take the Cardfight Vanguard moniker out of the show already because this show feels ashamed of trying to address it. I feel the staff behind this anime hasn't watched a lick of Vanguard anime and instead were just told to appeal to the BL crowd and the non-TCG playing crowd and throw in a bunch of popular tropes/cliches and sprinkle in the product they are trying to advertise here and there. And you have a soulless anime so far. Yeah I don't like using buzzwords like that but I can't help but feel this is the case. OverDress is just a pretty exterior with nothing inside it at the moment. There is no identity, no balance in the storytelling. Just a lot of wasted time. And no I'm not dropping this show just yet. I'm a big fan of the Vanguard franchise. I've been following it since 2011 and I am an avid player of the card game and spend a lot of money building decks I like. I want this to be better and I'll keep giving it a chance but my patience is starting to wear thin. Sterben0022 said: Ammokkx said: If you want soulless, just take a look at Shadowverse(TV). This show has plenty of soul and love put into it. The problem is that it can't make up its mind on what it wants to be, fully. It looked like we were going to get an experience more focused on the sort of "gang warfare" cardfight fights in the first three episodes, with Yu-yu becoming the new champion of the team, but then 4 and 5 have shifted focus entirely into a more slice-of-life direction. It's not really a tonal whiplash, since it has been consistently light hearted from the start, but you could compare it to one. Shadowverse at least knew it was a cheap YGO ripoff and wore it proudly on its sleeve. It's bad but I can respect that it knows its bad so it has some soul at least. overDress just looks nice and pretty on the outside but has nothing on the inside. It's not a good card game anime nor is it a good Vanguard anime. And at best it's a forgettable SoL anime so far. As a long time fan I get the feeling the writers misunderstand the essence of Vanguard, and generally speaking like they don't even know the proper fundamentals of storytelling. We're already at the halfway point of the season and you can't even grasp what the story is really about. To be fair, some of the past Vanguard series have had that issue too but still. It's mostly been a bunch of scenes that the writing staff thinks sounds cute or cool without concern for scene to scene tone or putting them in a stringed coherent order which isn't surprising given the Series Composer for this anime has done A LOT of bad anime. This has to be the worst Vanguard season by far. It’s just sooo bad in every way besides decent animation and music |
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