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| Not a fan of this CGI - compared with stuff in Aikatsu or Precure (well I know it's unfair compare it with what Toei is capable of) while it moves okay, it's bit too sharp for me to like. Both of mentioned have faces that feel softer and more pleasant. As for story, well all those bands were a bit confusing but glancing through Wiki gave me all I needed to know so it should be fine. I know there is game and it's in English but too many things to do, not enough time. So it should be fine. |
Kazuto_kun7 said: Please don't full 3d animation it's very bad. Please back to 2d animation. Kidani should just call David Production, Passione, or A-1 instead.. (as long as JC Staff didn't involved) |
| Poppin Party is back! That was good, the first episode turned out better than I expected. And I don't mind the animation, I'm used to it thru the game and I watch the MVs as well. |
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| Meanwhile at CiRCLE Marina is too busy managing onsen resort. |
 Kickstarter for Rokujouma is fully funded. Good work everyone. Lets wait for the result of our hard work together. |
| Still getting used to the new CVs and CGI, but loving it none the less. I'm just happy to see the girls back again |
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NeoAnkara said: Meanwhile at CiRCLE Marina is too busy managing onsen resort. Lol imagine that is canon, Pico was great so it's nice to see Bandori doing well in the anime department now. |
  Ascended Taste I only came back to this site for the forum sets and to promote my RYM list... Anilist ftw still :dab: |
| Wasn't expecting the CG but I guess it makes sense. The SOL moments feel super stiff now though, and it seems the seiyuu were trying harder to compensate. Will continue to watch but it makes the whole thing way less endearing. |
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| Performance by Roselia was much better than Popipa's. Afterglow's was also better than Popipa's! Popipa is more like a pop idol group rather a band, even their outfits say so. I for one wasn't impressed by the episode, particularly the animation style. It is different from the previous season and I don't like it. Bad episode, |
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| Having not played much of the game, I'm missing the intros of the other bands, but I didn't feel too lost. I wasn't sure of the all CG at first, but it grew in me. Some of the best I've seen, and def better than the live scenes of season 1. I really liked getting to see all of the different bands perform. Best girl: O'Tae-chan Best Band: Roselia |
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| Great first episode! So happy to see Poppin' Party again! The music was really great and I hope they keep it going all season long. The girls have improved a lot and it was great seeing them perform again! |
| So glad that I'm not a huge manga reader, because the manga readers WHINE WAY TOO MUCH and have to RUIN every adapted anime for the ANIME ONLY WATCHERS! |
SkyLETV said: Anime-only here. I really liked the first season; the story of the Poppin'Party girls, their interactions and their path to their first concert. Besides, it was my first and only approach to the music genre (until ZLS). So when they announced a second and third season I was very happy even though I was skeptical with the change to full 3D CGI. And it's finally here, but I have to say that I have mixed feelings with this first episode, like I'm glad to see the girls again but: First, the full 3D CGI. It's not bad at all but there are parts where you definitely notice it more than in others and that makes it a bit jarring, I really would have preferred them to keep the 2D for everything that wasn't concerts. Second, a lot of bands appeared that I don't remember seeing before and they all know each other and I feel so freaking lost. I remember Roselia (although not much but that's my fault because I didn't realize that almost 2 years had passed since the first season and I should have watched it again) but what happened to the other bands of the first season? where did these new bands come from? Like it's great to have new characters but don't throw me in the middle of the story and make me feel so lost :/ Anyway, I guess I'll try to watch the first 3 episodes and then I'll decide whether to watch it until the end or not, which is a shame because I was really excited about this second season. But what I'm sure of is that Arisa is best girl in 2D or 3D <3 This is why u should the game a little bit and watch the series Garupa Pico. Anime only watcher will be confused and not used to it, so it is advice to at least play the games just a bit. |
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| really, really cute and good. i've been a fan of the game since it was released worldwide and im really excited to see Everyone Here. i've never seen the first season, but i don't really plan to watch it for several reasons. can 100% deal with the cg because i'm used to the MVs and i think it just works better overall. they look pretty close to their ingame live2d models. favorite part of the episode was kaoru randomly posing. god i love her. (P.S. also watch garupo pico and play the games- it'll help a lot with context) |
goldenkamuyJan 5, 2019 11:44 AM
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| Gonna start with my complaints to get them out of the way. My eyes are sensitive to detail. It's a real shame this is being streamed by HIDIVE. 2.8 Mbps is FAR too low for any anime. Should be 6Mbps minimum with a max of 15Mbps for performances in the dark. Normally I'd say 20Mbps for max but I don't suspect this show would need that much. HIDIVE is simply the worst when it comes to compression. This episode went down to 500Kbps at times. This show looks better than most of theirs though, despite all that. A lot of their other shows just look plain disgusting. The beginning of Roselia's scene specifically was pretty bad. The CG looks really.....weird. They walk pretty stiff. Concerts look great but everything else is awkward. The face reactions are weird too. Even more when is when there's 2D things (especially background characters) mixed in the same scene was CG ones. Really jarring. A lot of random movement also stop too abruptly. I also noticed some aliasing issues. I would've preferred it more like S1 with CG just for the performances. Subs are still stylizing Poppin'Party incorrectly as Poppin' Party (there's not supposed to be a space). Peeves me. Why are they subbing "konnichiwa" as "Hiya" ? Wtf? I understand localizing things but that's not even close. If she said "Osu!" I could understand translating it as "hiya!", but "konnichiwa" is no where near the same as "Hiya". As for the plot..... this kinda sucks for anime-only people. Rather large time-skip (S1 ended in July, this is April because new school year) and a bunch of characters we never met in S1, the show acts like we should know them. This was it's biggest downside by far. 90% of the characters I have no idea who they are. The performances were awesome though. ------------------------------ So despite my complaints, overall it was a solid first episode. Most my issues lie with Sentai. the CG is a really minor complaint since it looks good MOST of the time. The performances were awesome Lastly, they got Marshall on board this time!!! In season 1 (i just watched it today), the amps all said "Marshmallow". Now they actually say Marshall! Yay! |
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Alfa7077 said: Ok, the first thing that i realize is, the Seiyuu of Rinko is not Akesaka Satomi, I think this gonna be the first debut to Kanon for voice actressing Can you submit a correction to MAL then? The cast page still says Akesaka Satomi... |
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Maruko-san said: This is why u should the game a little bit and watch the series Garupa Pico. Anime only watcher will be confused and not used to it, so it is advice to at least play the games just a bit. I could, but among many other reasons, I just don't like it when an anime assumes you've played the game or read the manga and skips important information. Like in this case, I wouldn't care if what they had left out were the backstories of the other bands since it is a good incentive to check the original material and doesn't really affect the anime but instead they have made a big time skip where many things have happened and I personally don't like it. LyraAnime said: - So another series new season having the same fate of ruining CGI (like the new High School DxD ...the fuck? Where? |
SkyLETVJan 6, 2019 7:23 AM
Kougeru said: Non-chan still doesn't have her MAL page yet since this is her debut work so the page still only show Ake-san since she still voicing Rinko till the end of Pico.Alfa7077 said: Ok, the first thing that i realize is, the Seiyuu of Rinko is not Akesaka Satomi, I think this gonna be the first debut to Kanon for voice actressing Can you submit a correction to MAL then? The cast page still says Akesaka Satomi... |
| Kickstarter for Rokujouma is fully funded. Good work everyone. Lets wait for the result of our hard work together. |
| Welcum back Bang Dream S2! but now I'm having a hard time adjusting to CG...oh! a different studio! how could I not notice that!!!?! SANZIGEN, the ones who made Bubuki Buranki...that's why it feels similar! All the different girl's band performance was purely breathtaking! But Roselia's the best! 5/5. |
matias067Jan 5, 2019 10:45 PM
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| It's not bad but I prefer the previous animation style 2.5 out of 5 |
| PasuPare performing Shuwarin☆Drea~min at the beginning was gold~! And Aya's dancing was also spot on with how Amita dances when she sings live >///< Also, I'm not the biggest fan of Kokoron, but gosh, she's sooooooo adorable live on stage~!!! NeoAnkara said: Meanwhile at CiRCLE Marina is too busy managing onsen resort. I totally forgot. So that's why she's not here, ahaha >.> |
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| The CG, I do not like it at all... As for the rest, not bad at all |
| Finally was able to watch it, damn that 24 hour stream baited me to in the end the episode be Japan only. It was nice to see almost all the bands together, I think RAS will be come to be in the next few episodes. NeoAnkara said: Meanwhile at CiRCLE Marina is too busy managing onsen resort. I wonder how they will manage that, Galaxy is the new live stage or CiRCLE will make it's appearance? I hope CiRCLE will apear because I like Marina. |
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| by far my favorite episode ever in any anime, holy **** i found my 1st 10 of the season haha seeing this after playing the game, is so much different from what i felt when i 1st watched the 1st season All the bands were so fun to watch, but Roselia is still the best band tho =D Yukina <3 Ako <3 Kasumi x Arisa <3 Kokoro <3 Kaoru <3 Moca x Ran <3 |
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| Hmm... A lot of this was rather dull, with stiff and boring interactions (making me wonder at times if the writers have ever had friends), except for the part where Hello, Happy World! showed up. Even without showing their actual backstory and in-depth adventures like the game, with just a few seconds of participation it becomes painfully obvious they're the best band seeing how colorful, wacky, and full of life they are compared to the rest... and I do like the other bands! It's just they're missing what HaroHapi has in spades. The same happened with GaruPa PICO, where most of the funniest episodes were the HaroHapi-focused ones. That said, this still was a better watch than expected, and I came here with no expectations whatsoever just in case. Could do without the sloppy 3D, but 2D animation made sloppily is just as cursed, so whatever. I'll keep watching. At least, unlike a certain older girl-band anime, it doesn't indulge in making all of its characters unbearable moeblobs that don't even feel like people... Side note: Seems like they're going for a Noto-Mamiko-like feel for Rinko now that her old seiyuu is gone and I'm not sure I like it so far. I think it's because this kind of voice makes her sound too gloomy and serious when she's just shy. |
| Change the animation completely to CGI = how to downgrade a note to a series. |
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| nice first episode, i like cgi :D |
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| The cgi isnt terrible this is amazing (i actually mean it) |
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| So CGI. I thought it was going to be really bad but turns out it didn't. In fact its really good. Its like I'm just watching a longer episode from the game itself. :3 Well done~ Looking forward to watching the rest of the episodes~ |
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| huh... did not expect it to be CGI it's not bad, but it also felt kinda weird since I was used to season 1's art... |
| Nothing Written Here But Us Anime Bunnies *boing boing boing* |
| So nice to see a little of all the bands. Roselia it's amazing!!! |
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| Right after watching the first season i haft to admit I'm not found on the new style, it looks like a video game and well i want my anime to look like anime and not video games But maybe it gets better if you get used to it, and the first seasons was so fucking awesome it doesn't matter really |
Yuri-CrusaderJan 28, 2019 1:33 PM
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| Yeah.... nothing special. I know the CGI is really good. But, its not my preference. I kinda feel reading story in the game. And bombing all the cast in one episode isnt good idea i think, anime-only watcher must be 100% confused. |
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| 5 band performance in one episode. I'm satisfied |
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| Ahh, I'm so excited, the CGI is not so bad, I thought it would be hard to watch but it is actually pretty nice I had a smile on my face pretty much the whole episode and I wasn't expecting all girls (kinda?) to be introduced in first episode. Seeing Kokoro move and dance is such a nice feeling, as she is my favourite character, hope she won't disappear ;_; |
| I take a bit of Nox---'s review that tells exactly my thoughts about the series so far: "In short, it is basically a compilation of advertisements for multiple virtual bands Bushiroad tries to promote. Don't look for any story, any development, or any sense. It's just a huge mess." The animation is horrible and the story is just for the sake of advertising (I thought it was weird a 3rd season was announced before the second aired, now I see why). I liked this series but as I see this is going to be NG. |
| I like to post in manga forum when I feel it is worth it, so people will think. "Shit, is her again" or something. People asked me where I read certain thing but the rules say no telling where did you read so maybe I am too boring for not saying? Or salty because you didn't check my profile that says don't ask because I hate people to ghost me after that. I love learning languages so maybe I did not read the manga in English. |
| Finally getting around to watching s2... hmm... I wasn't anticipating it to be all 3dcg.. As always probably my biggest gripe with 3D is that they never use good enough shaders to actually make it look 2D, it just looks like a game with cartoon lighting. And other biggest gripe is that they do even the 3d at 8/12fps... This doesn't work. 3D should at least have a constant 12fps or even 24. The 8/12 with various characters and objects in scene moving at different times works for 2D animation, but not 3D. It needs to stop. Please consistent framerate. Plus ofc there's the stiff body movement and lack of easing in the inbetweens. It looks fairly good when it's actually smooth...  |
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