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| Excluding sequels and spring leftovers, this is the best summer anime in my opinion. The characters aren't stupidly annoying and the MC is funny and tough Great pacing for a first episode, with character intros, explanation on the demons and the beast spear, and a great piece of action. This had more volumes than Parasyte, so the adaptation might be rushed or have more episodes. I will watch this for the next 38 episodes. |
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| As a fan of the manga (and of any of Kazuhiro Fujita's other series, actually) I'm completely satisfied with this first episode. Kind of sad we'll "only" have 39 episodes, adapting 300+ chapters, but since the chances of Ushio & Tora EVER being made into an anime were basically non-existent in my opinion I'll just shut up and enjoy what we've got with all my heart:) |
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| Fujita worked on script, there'll be small changes to fit into this 39 episodes. There were a talk that they actually wanted to fully cover the manga, but the author itself was good with the idea of cutting some things. He decided what will go into anime and what not, so this should be a quality adaptation nonetheless of the length. Love the metal opening, love Tora also great visuals and ost. This is some pretty badass retro shounen action here. Looking forward to more. |
| HOLY FUCKING SHITE! This Anime. Man, this Anime. What can I say? I got freaking goosebumps watching this episode. Reminds me of the good ol' days when I used to look forward to watching Hokuto no Ken, Yu Yu Hakusho, Samurai X and others. Great stuff! Can't wait to see more. |
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| That's one charming anime I have to say. Really, really liking the art style & the old anime vibe to it. Though the writing was not that great. Flawfinder said: The action kinda sucks. They cut away from showing Ushio and Tora actually hitting anything, going straight to the aftermath in the final climax, and the monsters went down too easy for my taste. I know this is just the first episode and all so the latter can be excused, but the former? Yeah...no. I was kind of disappointed too about the fight scene. I thought it would be so epic & full of purple blood splattered all over. But seeing the opening, I think we can expect a much cooler enemies & action in the future. |
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| I praise MAPPA for sticking with the 90's style. Since it's difficult to make new character designs for temple themed anime. The OP song and animation was good and it's retro and I really miss those styles once in a while. And the ED song was just fine. It's really good they adapted chapter 0 for the first episode without rushing. And I'm definitely looking forward to watch it every week. It's just too bad I won't be watching it same day as Japan because fucking CrunchyRoll delays it for 2 days!!! |
| Haters always gonna hate. |
| Wow! Im really glad i decided to give this a chance, this first episode was amazing! :) 8/10 |
| Enjoyed the episode, though I feel a little annoyed coz of Ushio's voice, but he definitely suits the role. Looking forward to the next! |
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| Based MAPPA. Still, being a newfag I hope this isn't episodic. |
| So old school! I love it!!! |
| that was so incredibly retro. Felt like those early shounens which is waht I suppose they were going for. Gonna keep watching this one a bit longer to see where it leads. I hope it has a decent story. |
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| oh god i'm in love with the old art style it's so nostalgic of old series |
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| Pretty good start, This is very shounen-y (though it is from a shounen manga from the 90s afterall). Generally dislike shounen anime,but actually liked this so far. |
| I really enjoyed this, and the choise of art style is spot on, and that ED is great :D |
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| Much better than expected and the art looks nice too, clean looking retro style. Super excited for the rest of this season's comedy lineup as this and the others have really impressed me. |
| Amazing first episode. I love how nostalgic this anime feels, way different from the generic moe art style a lot of anime have these days. This anime may not be popular, because people don't respect series like this anymore. They love ecchi/school-life/harem anime, with lolis, boobs and pantsu. Very refreshing stuff this anime gave us. Can't wait for One-Punch Man to also show up these generic otaku anime |
| That was awesome ! Can't wait for the next ep ! |
| Love everything about this. The opening gets you pumped af! |
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| Finally! After all this years we got solid, action packed shounen, without pantyshot every second take, and titshot in between. |
| oldschool feeling...liked the first episode. art wasnt that bad like some ppl say.. but it wasnt that good either like some ppl praying ..... |
babymimi said: r0ykun said: To be honest, this doesn't seem that outdated as some people are saying. The action scenes were extremely fluid, loved it. The character designs are a little ugly but I can deal with it cause this was very HxH. Ushio looks more like an Hajime no Ippo character imo. I'm glad that I'm not the only one who thought so. I was thinking that the entire time. |
| first time ever hearing about this the art style is a little ugly but watchable kinda reminded me of HxH just not as cleaned up,in fact it's really just Ushio that's ugly as fuck looks like a middle-schooler with the face of a 30year old. but hey i ant got nothing wrong with some old school anime i liked it glad it's gonna be on for a while all i could think watching the op was I AM SHOCK! from gintama just because it's so 90s |
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| Shingeki no Bahamut, Garo & now this, MAPPA continues to impress! Don't mind the old school style, nor would I mind if it'd be more modernized. Not gonna objectively praise it nor look down on it simply because it's old school. I'm way more interested in what it has to offer content-wise. But there seems to be some hidden gem potential right here, so I do hope it reaches it. For now, looking forward for some good dynamics between Ushio & Tora! |
| This might be first MAPPA anime that I enjoy. Watching this makes me feel like I'm 12 again. |
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| MAPPA makes it happen again. They seem to be striving to be the most experimental studio right now, and so far they haven't let me down so I'm strapped in for this one. I love the feel, the backgrounds, the OST, the crisp art. Animation I thought was fluid but the action did feel a bit lazy. Not worried though, since it's three cour we could see some Garo/Bahamut level fights. |
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| Hmm, i could see myself watching this every week. the start was good enough. |
| Solid episode. Love the old school feel, it's nice to see more manga from the 90's getting anime adaptations. |
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| Good first episode. Does anyone know how much of the manga they plan on adapting through these three cours? |
| Big Order (TV):great anime or greatest anime? |
| Really nice artstyle, looks like Ippo merged with HxH 2011. Does someone know how much chapter they poured into this first ep? I liked a lot HxH 2011 by MADHOUSE, well, you can't dislike it with this story and those characters, but I felt like the pacing was a bit too fast to my taste, like "this is a pure adaptation by madhouse, yes, US, who gave you Death Note, so watch this super long shounen without filler and without slow pacing !!!" except that the slow pacing can sometime helps to convey feelings, same for Parasyte, it was very rushed, the part that shocked me the most was with so since those are the old madhouse guys who did the awesome adaptation of Ippo and the guys from DN, FMA and DBZ script, I hope he understand that being too fast paced is not that good. |
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Harrymanhunter said: HOLY FUCKING SHITE! This Anime. Man, this Anime. What can I say? I got freaking goosebumps watching this episode. Reminds me of the good ol' days when I used to look forward to watching Hokuto no Ken, Yu Yu Hakusho, Samurai X and others. Great stuff! Can't wait to see more. ^^^^ + 1 Thiss , And This episode made me laugh so mcuh too . Really Solid episode .... |
Eremes said: Just the prologue, chapter 0, with a bit of school stuff added for padding.Does someone know how much chapter they poured into this first ep? |
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| This was a really good first episode. In manages to introduce all importan plot points while still being fun and exciting. |
| 90s anime-style ftw! Clearly better than most of the series aired in this season! Awesome OP song! Character design may looked weird, but have its own charm! This one's a keeper! Also, how refreshing to hear Koyama's voice in non-charismatic way in Tora! I didn't even realized it was him the first time watching this! Inoue looks more attractive in this too. Dat lovely voice! |
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| I loved the manga ( it's one of my favorites of all the times ) and this first episode looks awesome, the retro feeling is perfect and the art looks great ( they have mantained the style of Fujita-sensei! ). I'm really hyped for this, it's one of the few manga that made me cry at the end 15 years ago and that still moves me every time that I read it. For those who are complaining about the art I have only one suggestion: watch this anime till the end, trust me, it's not the usual shounen, the story behind it it's unique and if you love Japan it's impossible to hate it. |
| I started reading the manga and watching the new anime simultaneously, seems kind of silly but so far I have much enjoyed both of them. I'll go on reading the manga while waiting for the anime weekly. And just my two cents regarding the (mis)usage of the (buzz)word "edgy" to describe elements from a 90's manga negatively - It's fucking stupid. |
Eremes said: Really nice artstyle, looks like Ippo merged with HxH 2011. Does someone know how much chapter they poured into this first ep? I liked a lot HxH 2011 by MADHOUSE, well, you can't dislike it with this story and those characters, but I felt like the pacing was a bit too fast to my taste, like "this is a pure adaptation by madhouse, yes, US, who gave you Death Note, so watch this super long shounen without filler and without slow pacing !!!" MAPPA is working on this series. Not Madhouse. |
| Really loved the first episode! I thought it was refreshing, I really love the whole 90s vibe into it, and I understand that some people here don't like that. |
| Because its different from the usual modern anime we'll get a whole bunch of whiners trying to shit all over it no matter how good or bad it really is. Some people just can't accept that not every anime will cater to them. Just the way it goes. |
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LayedBack said: Because its different from the usual modern anime we'll get a whole bunch of whiners trying to shit all over it no matter how good or bad it really is. Some people just can't accept that not every anime will cater to them. Just the way it goes. And we will also have a whole bunch of people come in and praise the shit out of it just because its different from the usual modern anime no matter how good or bad it really is. Some people just can't accept that everyone can have their own preferences or voice their own differing opinions. Just the way it goes. On Topic: Decent first episode, not willing to commit just yet, will give it 2 more episodes. |
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