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| Aired on AbemaTV just now. We got a cute show of cute girls although I have to admit a lot of their personalities feel similar for the main cast. There's definitely some cute girl themes here and there and the most noticable cast member being Haizakura. Cute start even with some of the minor darker themes in this. |
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| ABEMA exclusive weekly pre-release 5 days before TV broadcast (a la Paripi Koumei). The latest Key and Visual Arts work, and probably the work that thankfully isn't connected to the once-famous, but now disastrous Jun Maeda. Girls whom are automata dolls (a la Violet Evergarden), but like Lycoris Recoil (and even GochiUsa), works at Café Kuronekotei (The Black Cat Café): pink-haired Haizakura (who's had her memory reset), white-haired Retzel, blue-haired Houkiboshi, yellow-haired Gekka and the normal black Karasuba, with butler-cum-doll craftsman Nagi Tooma. For a start, Haizakura helping out in the café operations...well that didn't turn out well. Instead, her conversing with Chiyo be reunited with her "sister" Yugiri (whom's now in a state of disrepair and most likely will never awaken again), and by perchance that Nagi actually repaired Yugiri to have her moment with Chiyo, it ain't that but a memory re-activated to purge for a temporal time while being in her broken state. Haizakura may look useless, but I got a feeling that she's an automata like no other. it just simply ain't a Key work if you never cried a small drop of bucket tears. I can't help but feel like Prima Doll hasn't shaked off Black★★Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall's production quality since it's Bibury Animation Studios back at it again with director Tensho onboard, which also involves a dystopian world and mechanica. Regardless, a Key work that's not Jun Maeda behind it, would be interesting to see how it all turns out. |
KANLen09Jul 8, 2022 9:00 PM
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| Gochiusa meets Black★★Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall. Cute and interesting combo. Good and very emotional first episode. Haizakura and Chiyo are so adorable. ^_^ <3 |
SerafosJul 3, 1:17 AM
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| This has to be one of the fastest rug pulls they've done, can't even get a whole episode of sisterly love without the rug of happiness being pulled suddenly by Key, the song makes it even more sadder. This is going to get way more sadder as it progresses |
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| who licensed this again, crunchy? cause I can't find it anywhere |
TheIsOtaku said: It aired early on AbemaTV, that's all. who licensed this again, crunchy? cause I can't find it anywhere |
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TheIsOtaku said: 8th July it will be anywhere else than AbemaTVwho licensed this again, crunchy? cause I can't find it anywhere |
KANLen09 said: ABEMA exclusive weekly pre-release 5 days before TV broadcast (a la Paripi Koumei). The latest Key and Visual Arts work, and probably the work that thankfully isn't connected to the once-famous, but now disastrous Jun Maeda. Girls whom are mecha automata, but like Lycoris Recoil, works at cafe Kuronekotei: pink-haired Haizakura, white-haired Retzel, blue-haired Houkiboshi, yellow-haired Gekka and the normal black Karasuba, with butler Nagi Touma. For a start, Haizakura helping out Chiyo be reunited with her older sister, it just simply ain't a Key work if you never cried a small drop of bucket tears. For Chiyo to enjoy her short time before she moved away from the war, it takes a form of song to "sing their troubles away". I can't help but feel like Prima Doll hasn't shaked off Black Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall's production quality since it's Bibury Animation Studios back at it again, which also involves a dystopian world, mecha and an army force. Regardless, a Key work that's not Jun Maeda behind it, would be interesting to see how it all turns out. Considering that Jun Maeda quit writing and sadly considered suicide because his 'fans' harassed him over writing Kamisama ni Natte Hi (which wasn't even horrible??), I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this anime isn't written by him. |
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| The characters are very cute, but usually Key's series will get very heavy later on, really curious about how the series is going to progress. |
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shaadow82 said: KANLen09 said: ABEMA exclusive weekly pre-release 5 days before TV broadcast (a la Paripi Koumei). The latest Key and Visual Arts work, and probably the work that thankfully isn't connected to the once-famous, but now disastrous Jun Maeda. Girls whom are mecha automata, but like Lycoris Recoil, works at cafe Kuronekotei: pink-haired Haizakura, white-haired Retzel, blue-haired Houkiboshi, yellow-haired Gekka and the normal black Karasuba, with butler Nagi Touma. For a start, Haizakura helping out Chiyo be reunited with her older sister, it just simply ain't a Key work if you never cried a small drop of bucket tears. For Chiyo to enjoy her short time before she moved away from the war, it takes a form of song to "sing their troubles away". I can't help but feel like Prima Doll hasn't shaked off Black Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall's production quality since it's Bibury Animation Studios back at it again, which also involves a dystopian world, mecha and an army force. Regardless, a Key work that's not Jun Maeda behind it, would be interesting to see how it all turns out. Considering that Jun Maeda quit writing and sadly considered suicide because his 'fans' harassed him over writing Kamisama ni Natte Hi (which wasn't even horrible??), I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this anime isn't written by him. Wait, you mean Jun Maeda won't write any new stories anymore, not even for visual novels? And damn, I didn't know he felt that bad because of the harassment he received from Kamisama anime. That's so lame from the fans that attacked him. |
| There is a special kind of people - who are brought litter in a restaurant, but because of their hypocrisy they cannot say about it, and they say - Kawaii - this is the anime for you. For others, better watch Eve no Jikan. |
evawJul 5, 2022 5:25 AM
| Great episode! I have read the web novel of prima doll and it is great! Haizakura of course is sugoku kawaii nano desu! The epiosde starts different from the web novel surprisingly though. KARASUMA BEST GIRL! Very different from the web novel in fact. Looking forward to the next episode! |
Rem4lifexDJul 8, 2022 9:51 AM
| AISHITERU...REM! |
is it bad that I laughed at this? 💀 |
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| Kamisama turned out to be horrendous, but this newest Key work has potential in it judging off the first episode Now let's commence the first half introduction of each of the doll maid's abilities haha |
| Finally get to watch this and it was a great opening episode Haizakura is cute looking forward to the next episode |
| This was pretty interesting, i am guessing this falls under the steampunk genre judging by how everything worked. Anyway it seems these dolls have a big influence on humanity, as for the mechanical robots they certainly seem importuned for war. Let's just hope the girls won't be used for war. |
| Well, this first episode certainly has me interested to see where this show goes from here. The pacing was a little weird and it felt perhaps too on-the-nose at moments (primarily that scene at the very start), but it's already a strong emotional core we've got here. Plus, it's looking like it's definitely not gonna be as simple as it sounded, which has me all the more interested. |
| That's a bit unusual for me, this anime introduces several main characters then focuses on side characters and continues with sad scenes. This anime gives me vibes like Gakkougurashi. The slice of life genre with the tragedy background is interesting I'm looking forward to the next episode! |
| Back then looks like Automata were used as force multipliers. That sure was a close call with the out of control robots. Haizakura's training sure proved eventful if anything. Im glad that Chiyo's ok though. Looked like she had quite the strong bond with the automaton that Haizakura found. Yugiri though really had it tough. Im glad that she was able to awaken without any side effects though. It was so hearwarming seeing Chiyo spend time with her again. Its unfortunate that it was impossible to repair her but in the end at least they were able to have some nice time together before she returned to her dormant state. I hope that somehow they will be able to repair her. Overall an interesting opening ep that balanced out some nice heartwarming and amusing moments between the cast with some nice worldbuilding. The personalities of each of the dolls so far have been pretty nice and have a good range to them that i feel match well with their respective seiyuus' Given the tone of Otome's arrival seems things have took a more serious turn. |
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| Well, on one hand, it doesn't shy away from its premise of there being a war and whatnot as much as these things usually do. There is a war still going on, random omnics are plopping into cities to shoot up the place, and it's all not just swept under the rug to make more time for chirping imbeciles to serve each other tea. On the other hand, there's still plenty of time for chirping imbeciles to serve each other tea, and most of what the premise is being used for is to crank the melodramatic music up to eleven and have the characters weep about how much they want to be friends with each other but can't because they have robo-anime illness from war-ing too hard. Yes, yes, Very tragic. Such loud music. So many fields of flowers. And all they want is to be friends. That is when they're not also doing the thing where they sit in a circle and explain the basics of the setting to each other. Did you know that you're a robot? Robots are robotic people who are made by humans to serve them. We humans are huge racists against robots, who are second class citizens, which is why we use them to fight our wars. Not a whole lot of respect for the audience. It's hardly the first time we've seen this episode or this show, and it certainly won't be the last. Perhaps I'm too cynical, but this crap always comes off to me as insultingly insincere. Instead of telling a compelling story, it goes straight to cloying characters, too perfect and good for this world. Not even Disney princesses are this flawless in all ways. It's corny, and playing very, very loud sad music and slamming the cherry blossom-o-meter to eleven is manipulative. That it doesn't make a lot of sense to make WMDs that are little girl robots in frilly dresses, and would make much more sense to put retired spider-mech AIs into new bodies. |
| Can't stomach this and it's not due to cgdct or the dark side of war or even the cliche of making war machines shaped like teen girls, what ticked me off is that it seems the only reason they made the girls robots is to objectify them with no drawbacks, meanwhile they're 100% girls that eat, cry tears and are warm to the touch with the added benefit that they don't grow old and instead of taking them to the doctor you take them to the mechanic, oh and since they're objects you can literally own them. |
| beautiful well done visuals and art. I already love the characters |
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| So bascially Violet Evergarden but instead of CGDCT it's more like cute girls going through depressing things. The visuals are great as well. |
| I enjoyed the first episode. This episode reminds me of Violet Evergarden, but in CGDCT form. I also enjoyed the animation and visuals. ED is also very heartwarming. I'm looking forward for the next episode. |
GG-WPJul 8, 2022 6:15 PM
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| This anime has a bit of an Is the Order a Rabbit feel to it but with kick ass androids lol. It also has a bit of a solemn feel to it too. I mean these dolls are built for war. They can get damaged like Yugiri. She’ll never be fixed now because she’ll basically be resetting herself entirely. Poor Chiyo… I like what I see so far in this anime, but I did feel it sort of ended too abruptly. Hopefully we get to see Chiyo again. All in all, a decent first episode. Nice bits of action and a balance between cute and serious. I’ll watch a few more episodes to see if this is gonna be a weekly or an end of season binge. |
| Yea this is great eats already. Gives off vivy and VE vibes with the girls being dolls both literally and metaphorically. Really really cute first episode. Very much looking forward to ending my weeks with this on Friday. Love the art style too! Hopefully maeda Jun has learnt from kamisama ni natta hi |
Marinate1016Jul 8, 2022 7:35 PM
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| @Ace_Entertainers Not gonna quote the whole thing. Jun Maeda can still do good in everything else, it's just that his writing has become subpar at best and worst. |
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It's just a coincidence but this show has some similarity with Lycoris Recoil.
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| Well, i really like the idea and premise that this show is telling, and is very promising tbh, but there is something that bothered me on this first episode. I don't know if this has any source material or if this is a completely original anime, but i felt it really rushed, on a moment i thought i jumped to another chapter by accident, but they really told that girl Chiyo's story on just one chapter, which on my opinion could have started on the next chapter and ended on the third. It felt really fast paced that it hardly made me feel something on some scenes. I don't know if im the only one that thinks this though. |
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| This Chiyo girl's story felt like some mid-season filler instead of anything important. It went by too fast to have any impact. |
| Murase Ayumu sounded so feminine in his first scene it had me confused for a second. I thought the cafe was going to be a lot more popular so seeing only a couple of patrons was unexpected. don't expect this to be some cutesy wholesome show, there's gonna be a hell lot of action.. Beautifully drawn, a bit on the sweet side. Feel good, funny, sad, philosophical, military, war..war.. it'll be wonderful to watch cute machine girls. |
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| anyone have extra ninja onion cutting repelent? |
RayReynolds said: Well, on one hand, it doesn't shy away from its premise of there being a war and whatnot as much as these things usually do. There is a war still going on, random omnics are plopping into cities to shoot up the place, and it's all not just swept under the rug to make more time for chirping imbeciles to serve each other tea. On the other hand, there's still plenty of time for chirping imbeciles to serve each other tea, and most of what the premise is being used for is to crank the melodramatic music up to eleven and have the characters weep about how much they want to be friends with each other but can't because they have robo-anime illness from war-ing too hard. Yes, yes, Very tragic. Such loud music. So many fields of flowers. And all they want is to be friends. That is when they're not also doing the thing where they sit in a circle and explain the basics of the setting to each other. Did you know that you're a robot? Robots are robotic people who are made by humans to serve them. We humans are huge racists against robots, who are second class citizens, which is why we use them to fight our wars. Not a whole lot of respect for the audience. It's hardly the first time we've seen this episode or this show, and it certainly won't be the last. Perhaps I'm too cynical, but this crap always comes off to me as insultingly insincere. Instead of telling a compelling story, it goes straight to cloying characters, too perfect and good for this world. Not even Disney princesses are this flawless in all ways. It's corny, and playing very, very loud sad music and slamming the cherry blossom-o-meter to eleven is manipulative. That it doesn't make a lot of sense to make WMDs that are little girl robots in frilly dresses, and would make much more sense to put retired spider-mech AIs into new bodies. Whu do you keep copypasting text from Tenka Seiha? |
Luxeraph said: Can't stomach this and it's not due to cgdct or the dark side of war or even the cliche of making war machines shaped like teen girls, what ticked me off is that it seems the only reason they made the girls robots is to objectify them with no drawbacks, meanwhile they're 100% girls that eat, cry tears and are warm to the touch with the added benefit that they don't grow old and instead of taking them to the doctor you take them to the mechanic, oh and since they're objects you can literally own them. Twitter moment …… |
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Ace_Entertainers said: Well this is a MAL moment I have seen more messed up people here than on Twitter. Yeah true some of the things I have read on here have given me permanent brain damage |
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| Well, didn't expect to see Key listed there at the start. I guess there will be another addition if Kaginado ever gets another season. And really should have known I'd be in tears by the end of the episode once I saw that name... |
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| I'm a bit surprised, I thought this is gonna be another KonoUsagi but looks there's more to it than meets the eye |
| this looks promising !! |
Cute  The paradox  She said with a beaming smile on her face. Seems like a mix of Shadows House, Vivy, and Lyrocis Recoil. Anyway, the pretty cute first episode, but you can definitely feel a much darker undertone brewing in the background. Don’t let the cutesy art style deceive you. The pacing felt pretty fast, and I don't know whether or not we were supposed to feel sad for Chiyo, but I just couldn't. We weren't given enough time to connect with any character, especially Yugiri. I could sympathize with Chiyo, I guess, but nothing further than that. Hi Sakura Hai Sakura |
Joey-XD19202Jul 9, 2022 1:09 PM
Graduated High School in May of 2022. Summer vacation has finally arrived. I have once again regained the power of a new anime fan, being able to watch multiple anime episodes in a day. Time to binge-watch every single anime I can into the night until college arrives. SADGE. SUPER SADGE... College has begun as of Monday, August 30, 2022, so you won't be seeing me much around these parks. See you on weekends, I guess... School me is back. Sigh! I'll at least try for one anime a day with all this course load. |
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