Rolling☆Girls Episode 1 Discussion

skudoops said:
For people unclear on the story

- There was a great tokyo war
- When recovering from the war all the wealthy people and ruling class (assumption is government, tribal, heads of powerful households etc) disappeared essentially leaving people to themselves.
-10 new states were formed and they divided their territories using the guidelines of the old prefectures.
-However (and this is unexplained) they gained independence
- Each region started becoming nationalistic
- As a result of this conflicts with other regions began to arise
- The Twin Tower Declaration was created to solve conflicts. Essentially conflicts could be settled through negotiation but if they can't a representative of each vigilante group from the respective states would battle each other (a best) and the winner wins the conflict. It's likely there are states that do not follow the twin tower declaration given the wording.
- The fight we are seeing at the start is because apparently people who were once tokyo were forced to leave due to the expansion of a company named "Always Comina" (I am assuming this is a company) and want to reclaim the land through force.

Of course I may be mistaken on somethings, but I'm surprised so many people have no clue what's happening at all.

skudoops said:
For people unclear on the story

- There was a great tokyo war
- When recovering from the war all the wealthy people and ruling class (assumption is government, tribal, heads of powerful households etc) disappeared essentially leaving people to themselves.
-10 new states were formed and they divided their territories using the guidelines of the old prefectures.
-However (and this is unexplained) they gained independence
- Each region started becoming nationalistic
- As a result of this conflicts with other regions began to arise
- The Twin Tower Declaration was created to solve conflicts. Essentially conflicts could be settled through negotiation but if they can't a representative of each vigilante group from the respective states would battle each other (a best) and the winner wins the conflict. It's likely there are states that do not follow the twin tower declaration given the wording.
- The fight we are seeing at the start is because apparently people who were once tokyo were forced to leave due to the expansion of a company named "Always Comina" (I am assuming this is a company) and want to reclaim the land through force.

Of course I may be mistaken on somethings, but I'm surprised so many people have no clue what's happening at all.

TripleSRank said:
- There was a great tokyo war
- When recovering from the war all the wealthy people and ruling class (assumption is government, tribal, heads of powerful households etc) disappeared essentially leaving people to themselves.
-10 new states were formed and they divided their territories using the guidelines of the old prefectures.
-However (and this is unexplained) they gained independence
- Each region started becoming nationalistic
- As a result of this conflicts with other regions began to arise
- The Twin Tower Declaration was created to solve conflicts. Essentially conflicts could be settled through negotiation but if they can't a representative of each vigilante group from the respective states would battle each other (a best) and the winner wins the conflict. It's likely there are states that do not follow the twin tower declaration given the wording.
- The fight we are seeing at the start is because apparently people who were once tokyo were forced to leave due to the expansion of a company named "Always Comina" (I am assuming this is a company) and want to reclaim the land through force.

Of course I may be mistaken on somethings, but I'm surprised so many people have no clue what's happening at all.

AaaaaaKun said:
But what I don't like is that the lack of effort from the creator to actually help viewers to be familiarize with the story. From everywhere all I can see is that people keep saying they don't know what happened in the story, and that is already a failure on the story-telling department to me. I did come cross some anime that just didn't give a fuck about viewers, like Serial Experiment Lain, but this seems like a pretentious move given the light-hearted nature of this anime. It's like the The Idolm@ster, you want viewers to give a damn about your characters and story but you never gave the chance, or offer anything to them. The first impression is pretty important, and the production team is just going out of their way this time.

AaaaaaKun said:

If you actually pay attention these should be quite apparent, and thank you for organizing all these information for the ease of anyone on this site.

But what I don't like is that the lack of effort from the creator to actually help viewers to be familiarize with the story. From everywhere all I can see is that people keep saying they don't know what happened in the story, and that is already a failure on the story-telling department to me. I did come cross some anime that just didn't give a fuck about viewers, like Serial Experiment Lain, but this seems like a pretentious move given the light-hearted nature of this anime. It's like the The Idolm@ster, you want viewers to give a damn about your characters and story but you never gave the chance, or offer anything to them. The first impression is pretty important, and the production team is just going out of their way this time.

AcidPunk said:
People who say that this looks like KLK need to watch more anime xD
I liked KLK but so far this was better for me.

AaaaaaKun said:

If you actually pay attention these should be quite apparent, and thank you for organizing all these information for the ease of anyone on this site.

But what I don't like is that the lack of effort from the creator to actually help viewers to be familiarize with the story. From everywhere all I can see is that people keep saying they don't know what happened in the story, and that is already a failure on the story-telling department to me. I did come cross some anime that just didn't give a fuck about viewers, like Serial Experiment Lain, but this seems like a pretentious move given the light-hearted nature of this anime. It's like the The Idolm@ster, you want viewers to give a damn about your characters and story but you never gave the chance, or offer anything to them. The first impression is pretty important, and the production team is just going out of their way this time.

Dsrtstorm said:
What is this all about? 20 minutes passed and I have no clue.

Takuan_Soho said:
The only thing this show and KLK have in common is that they are parodies of superhero manga.

pakoko said:
As for the background story, they provided a pretty clear explanation at the beginning, so I don't know how you perceived a lack of effort from the production team.

pakoko said:
It's just the first episode too and no first episodes will ever fully explain everything from the get-go. I was able to deduce enough information from just rewatching the explanation scenes, so I wouldn't go as far as call the show pretentious for not "giving a fuck about its viewers," when it did.

pakoko said:
If people were distracted by the background song, the flashy fighting effects, all the while they were explaining everything, I can understand that sort of complaint. The reason I didn't understand the first time was because I was too busy focusing on the pretty light shows from the fight. But a "lack of effort" and "pretentious?" I don't necessarily think so. Rather, those phrases would usually apply to the viewers, myself included, and not the production team.

pakoko said:
[edit]I forgot to acknowledge that you indeed, understood the story. Regardless, I don't think you have to complain for others when you yourself understood it pretty well. It's just like any other show that chooses not to spoon feed its viewers background info.