Never saw originaal Utawarerumono.

Onii-chan said:
It's worth, but if you can't endure watching horrible animation, don't watch the previous one.

Onii-chan said:
I didn't mention its story. Just the old-animation style and repetitive scenes.

Fai said:
Look at statements made by people who have not played the games as something people full of nostalgia would say.

The first anime had a lot more frantic and incoherent plot due to adapting a visualnovel twice as long into same amount of episodes as itsuwari. As a result the pacing is beyond awful(going at breakneck pacing and then suddenly stopping for two episodes of the cast playing in the garden) a lot of crucial information is skipped and the worst girl in the series, Eruru, is stuffed into every single plotline even if she had no fucking business to be there.

The first show adapted the "basic" story well enough, but treated the rest of the cast like shit. And skipped most of the main character's backstory. Evert character not named Erurshit(who got wanked to no end despite having no personality) gets treated like a sidestory(which already created plotholes for Itsuwari). Which resulted into the last confrontation (and the last few episodes) being extremely hard to comprehend without outside info.

So while UTWR1 will enrich the experience of watching this and add lot of depth into the first half(a lot of decisions or scenes will be seen in new light), expect to have A LOOOT of questions.

souledge94 said:


To be fair people are judging it by the anime since well the anime should be judge by its own merit not soly what its taking an adaption from. Now you can hate how they adapted it,but thats another discussion entirely.

Whip1asH said:


I would disagree. Especially animation-wise as the first series wasn't so bad with it, while this series had pretty much fuck all to animate aside from bath scenes.

Now if I were to really compare the 2 series, I would mention that I'm a big fan of the first one and only following the second one in hope of more cameos of the old characters. Reason is, in the new series they spent about 13 episodes just introducing characters who at this point can all, with perhaps the exception of Kuon, be summed up in 1 word: a girl with a dumb accent, a fujoshi, that general's little sister and some other girls I honestly can't even remember. In my opinion, if your characterisation stops at just giving your characters a cliche gimmick and no depth whatsoever, you fail as an author. The directing is even worse so don't get me started on that.

Now what the first series had to offer were interesting characters, each with their motivations and agenda, a story that hooks you in, although, you could argue it got weird towards the end (which was explained a lot better in the game but it's no excuse for the anime, really) and action that wouldn't stop longer than 1 episode, by when you can really appreciate a lighter tone as well.

So, what I mean is, if a slife of life show, with gratuitous amounts of fan service , with a completely unlikable, lazy MC, who never does anything, is your thing, the first series is probably not for you.

-pericles said:
I like them both but Hakuoro is by far a more strong character, in the beginning of the first uta he was already a calm guy with a natural tendence to leadership, he start the history without any memory and yet don't seem afraid to take the lead in most part of the situations.. he seems to be more like a paternal figure taking care of everyone and becoming the leader of tsukuru, while haku still just...lazy.