Seiken Gakuin no Makentsukai Episode 1 Discussion

THis series airing 8-10 years late

Episode 1 has been released, and the story is quite interesting

@mazz_opique Was the first episode quite ecchi too?

Well, been hearing a lot of mixed reviews for this one for a long time. The LN is one of the few fantasy stories that people say is just straight up bad and not worth reading. Heard many say that it only has fanservice and hot girls going for it, but honestly that’s more than enough lol and I think they’re being harsh.

Liked the first episode a lot. Yea it’s generic and I have low expectations from the story, but cmon. I’m here for waifus and fanservice. It’s passione. The MC and main girl have a fun dynamic as well. Mindless fun never hurt anyone. The story doesn’t seem that bad either tbh. We’ve seen a lot of reincarnated demon lords at school.. but not many as shotas lol.

They know what we wanna see]

Episodes air on Abema ahead of the TV broadcast so we’re actually on episode 2 now. I’m pretty hype from these first couple episodes. It’s a fun watch

First episode will be on Hidive next week but this premiere streamed on Abema.

This kind of garbage is only good for the ecchi shit yet they're censoring all of them. lmao who's the target audience of this ANIME? no one.

i have very high hopes for this show and its obvoiusly in my top 3 most anticipated for the season, so lets hope its not full of dudes im not disappointed in the end

@EcchiGodMamster unfortunately the ecchi is already heavily toned down in the first ep. Passione has failed us.

@Nucleus69

yea... just looked at the first chapter and a 1/2 myself... i'd excpect that at this point... they always do that shit now... then they cry that we don't buy the BDs

@EcchiGodMamster a lot of LN readers have been saying how lewd the series is. They were confident that the anime was going to be an ecchi especially after checking the studio. I've checked the manga too and it even had panty shots and torn off clothes right in the first chapter, but this first ep had nothing like that. What was the point of giving this to studio Passione again? Who is the target audience even?

@Nucleus69

ecchi/fanservice fans have been getting cucked heavily as of late.. im honestly pretty scared for Slave's adaptation

and yea... considering the adapations we've gotten from Passione, wtf is this???

@EcchiGodMamster funny how this same studio released Mieruko-chan in fall 2021 (that is, only two years ago) and that was so hornier than the manga that I remember so many people were complaining about the fanservice. The manga for that wasn't even an ecchi in the first place, but they still managed to tone it up in the anime whenever they had the opportunity. And now in fall 2023 we get this from them. What a downfall.

@Nucleus69

i guess at that point its about the director, right? how cultured are they?

@EcchiGodMamster definitely the director. If you check the director for Mieruko-chan it was Yuki Ogawa, the same guy who directed Interspecies Reviewers, Miru Tights, Tawawa on Monday. I really wanted him to be the director for Excalibur Academy, but instead we got Hiroyuki Morita directing Excalibur Academy, whose only roles as a series director have been Bokura no and The Cat Returns. Definitely not a director I would have chosen for an ecchi anime adaptation, let alone a Passione adaptation at that. Idk what they were thinking, cuz this type of anime doesn't suit the director at all.

@Nucleus69

I DON'T UNDERSTAND... THEN THEYRE GOING TO COMPLAIN THAT NO ONE BUYS THE BD's WTF???

the director for Slave doesn't do ecchi either, that really scares me

AbemaTV streamed the first episode today.

That was a bit awkward imo, at least the first meeting between Leo and Riselia. Looks like this show has some depth about its background story although we only know what happened some 1000 years ago. The show takes itself somewhat seriously but there were also cartoony moments that felt weak. Animation quality also seemed average, nothing groundbreaking. So far, they're establishing a main story so episodes are going to build off of that.

@EcchiGodMamster honestly, I think these companies don't realise who their target audience are. Excalibur Academy is set on a generic battle school harem setting that people watch as a trashy guilty pleasure to kill some time. It's also by the same author as Blade Dance of Elementalers. No matter how much ecchi you take out and how family friendly you make it, the people who aren't into these type of genres aren't gonna watch it regardless. Even the name and the key visuals for the show are as generic as they could get, so that's already a turn off for a lot of people. Fanservice and hot waifus are the only thing it would have going for it and the only reason people would be bothered to even give it a watch, especially in such a stacked season with so many other banger shows coming out. By taking out the fanservice, it's now no longer a good guilty pleasure either. Nobody is gonna give a damn about this anime now.

Also about Slave, yeah, not only does the directors not give me any confidence, but even the studio Seven Arcs is pretty mediocre and they don't have a good track record.

@Nucleus69

This is what happens when a country is full of old ppl who are out of touch

While I disagree with "trash" or "guilty pleasures", I know what you mean as far as casual audiences go... casual watchers aren't going to support the show whether or not they tone them down so why cuck the actual fans???

I mean, 7 arcs did do Sekirei, BUT that was obviously back when they weren't getting invaded by normies and fake social media feedback

Then when we DO get successful ecchi like Redo, Reviewers and Futoku, we don't get s2, yet people want to whine that DxD hasn't continued

@EcchiGodMamster BD releases have become such a joke too, a lot of times they aren't even worth the money. Goddess Cafe Terrace baited their audience so hard with all their steam and light beams and just kept them all in the BDs. The same studio made Kanojo mo Kanojo S1 which also had steam and light beams in the TV version, but in the BDs those got removed. So I don't see why Cafe Terrace which was supposed to be an ecchi couldn't get a similar treatment from them. The censorship is so jarring and annoying that I'm sure even the normies who dislike fanservice will be bothered with the censorship, and yet they don't bother to do any change at all.

Well, at least despite all that the anime still got a S2 regardless (tho I'm sure that's only because it was already planned beforehand), but now I'm sure as hell not looking forward to how they are gonna do a hotspring episode in the future. It's gonna be just as bad as the bathhouse scene from S1. Apparently the show is popular in Japan, but ig nobody there bothers to complain which is why the companies keep getting away with their thing.

@Nucleus69

Yea man, companies nowadays are probably just cowering at the thought of people complaining about fanservice on Twitter cause this didn't happen in the past at least not to the degree it does now

Japan's whole culture of allowing yourself to get cucked and not fighting back is exactly why their population is in such rapid decline hence the bigger focus on foreign markets, which inevitably leads to more censorship

@EcchiGodMamster if they really were so afraid of people complaining about fanservice then how the heck did Mieruko-chan turn out so horny? A lot of normies complained about fanservice in that show too. So how did the production committee allow the anime to turn out like that? It's not like the anime came out a decade ago or something, it aired only two years ago in fall 2021.