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People: We have a new season of Yowamushi Pedal! Me: We have it - the home version, with an all-female cast. This show is Japanese conglomerate Mixi's mixed-media project, which focuses all about Women's Keirin a.k.a cycling (which is a real Olympic event and something the Japanese ARE really good at), this featuring an all-female-cast where it all starts from Izumi Ito: the daughter of the owner of an onsen inn establishment. The group of girls all hailing from the same online group supporting their players, there're other athletes as well to keep the culture alive through generations, and pressure is rather high to keep the races going. And this is felt by Izumi and her friends feeling the heat, who wants to try out cycling on their own, plus one of the girls experienced in the sport. A year's headstart for the girls to become potential cyclists despite their rather different dreams, it's a long way, and this is their goal, at least for izumi who joined the girls on a whim, and still is undecided about her future. However, she decides to give Keirin cycling a try, as a way to motivate for a goal-setting objective, not just being FOMO. To start with fanservice is just...weird, but "original" shows like these must start somewhere. |
KANLen09Apr 16, 3:09 AM
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| I'm a big fan of both Long Riders! and Minami Kamakura Koukou Joshi Jitensha-bu, so it's great to see more girls on bicycles. Nice start. I really like the OP. And we didn't have to wait too long for the hot spring episode. :P So far, I have no complaints. The animation looks decent enough as well. |
SerafosApr 16, 8:00 AM
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| Pretty accurate ngl, I mean cycling is a very competitive sport over here in Japan, no matter the gender. Don’t know if that was thanks to the war, but whatever. A solid pilot episode. We don’t get much cycling anime, so it’s nice to have one. I don’t usually have much faith when it comes to originals, or mixed media whatever these things are, but when it comes to original sports anime, Japan likes to snap, so I have faith. |
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kuroneko99Apr 9, 8:12 AM
| Will Izumi be a professional cyclist in the end? Yes, she will btw, The surnames of characters from this series came from the actual location of cycling tracks from all over Japan. For example, Itou Izumi came from Itou Onsen Keirin, Kumamoto Ai came from Kumamoto Keirin |
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Pretty basic first episode, it is what it is.  |
| Decent start I hope this series will be good. |
| I had low expectations of this and now i watched it feeling like it's very average nothing stood out on the other hand it wasn't terrible either. So i will just watch and see what this will bring us. We had some much character introductions this episode that it's hard to judge them. |
| Hmm, good start. Fine episode. Let's see how the story develops from here. |
| I need somebody who can love me at my worst No, I'm not perfect, but I hope you see my worth 'Cause it's only you, nobody new, I put you first And for you, girl, I swear I'll do the worst If you stay forever, let me hold your hand I can fill those places in your heart no else can Let me show you love, oh, I don't pretend, yeah I'll be right here, baby, you know I'll sink or swim |
| From the studio that adapted the GOAT of bicycle racing anime(yeah the competition is crazy I know) we get a completely different approach here. Unfortunately, not really sold on this one. Guess I will give it another episode or two before I decide whether it's worth finishing or not. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| Cute girls in bikeshorts, everything else is secondary. |
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| CG is rough to say the least, not much animation going on. I've never seen Yowamushi Pedal but I did catch Long Riders, the latter wasn't good so hopefully this is better. |
 All credit goes to Sacred. |
| I picked this one because in the past I have picked shows focusing on unique themes that I really enjoyed, three that come to mind is “Sports Climbing Girls” which was a wall climbing anime from Fall 2020, “Ippon Again” which was a judo anime from Winter 2023 and “The Way of Pon” from this recent winter season which was about mahjong, and upon seeing this one I figured it might be interesting to check out a bicycle racing anime, and this wasn’t a bad start but I don’t think this one will be as good as those shows I listed for a few reasons. The first being is that CGI during the racing is rough lol, I might adjust to it but it was definitely quite ugly. Another thing is that I wasn’t really a fan of how they came to deciding on becoming cyclists, the entire group of girls minus Izumi just immediately dropped everything to do it, Miko even dropped her YouTube channel which was sad honestly, I feel like there wasn’t even a point in making that her backstory lol. Izumi was definitely the smartest of the bunch in actually thinking about the decision and not jumping right into it despite the fact she was already good at biking, but of course by the end it looks like she will do the same even if the letter she got was vague lol. That being said tho, I do like the designs for the girls and the backgrounds look pretty good, and they do have me interested in seeing how these bicycle races play out, of course it will also be nice for fanservice sake as they’re wearing those tight outfits on toned bodies as we saw with Kurume in the bath scene, so there’s stuff to like for sure, I’ll be sticking with this. I really liked that OP as well, it was a great jam, it’s just unfortunate the ED will not be “Bicycle Race” by Queen lol, maybe one day it’ll happen. |
| Garbage. Only decent moment was the white guy saying "amazing" |
| it's amazing how bad this anime is. highspeed etoile was bad too, but this one is worse |
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| Them Cyclists legs bro |
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| i expected booty shot every episode too bad theyre using 3dcgi |
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| The fourth and final of the sports premieres I watched this season. And next to Etoile's futuristic style, Tonbo's unusual setting and Battery's gag comedy variation, it was certainly the most traditional one. But that is not a bad thing, because it was executed quite well. Maybe I'm a sucker for those kind of "chase your dream" stories, but I really enjoyed it! Of course, the CGI is trash. But that doesn't matter to me if the story works. Besides, if we talk about visuals, I gotta give it credit for Kurume actually being an athlete with muscles and not another beautified generic girl. |
| Very based of the producers to make the first episode have hot spring scenes, I approve. |
| As a cyclist and a fan of shows like Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling club. This was actually my most looked forward to anime this season. But I think it's probably one of the worst I've seen in a while. First of all it's about Team Pursuit Track Cycling which is the IMHO one of the most boring sports on earth to watch. They show 5 seconds of it, and then half of the episode is a hot springs scene in a failed attempt to try to make this show vaguely interesting. The animation is flat and cheap looking. And the characters a so generic they need to list who they are so you don't get them mixed up. Sadly I think this show is going to be a hard pass for me. |
| haven't checked this out yet was wondering why it was so low already and thought is it bad CGI? did i get baited again with nice visual art like highspeed that ends up just being CGI that's ugly?. |
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| this surely didn't grab me ... i'll probably keep watching, but like i said, i'm not a big fan yet the animation isn't the best, i'm not interested in cycling and half the episode was the main girl trying to decide if she wants to cycle or not lol i mean, it's normal to have those doubts, it's a big step and a big amount of time/effort needed, and it might even make her have bad grades on the big exam... but it's also something she likes to do, and her friends/idol support her on that i barely even paid attention to the girls, while i usually like looking at anime girls, i mean, 90% of my anime decisions are based on how cute the girls look in the preview picture from this, all i remember is one girl has pink hair with a nice hairstyle, and that their eyes look pretty wth many lines |
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| Bad CG aside, pilot was okay. Wish there was a better into to the characters than the info dump, though. Remember kids, it's okay to get input from other people but don't let someone else decide your future for you |
| Censorship is vandalism. |
Maybe 3d bad, but other 2d looks great. And it’s worth paying tribute to the creators of the anime, 3D is used only at distant angles, as soon as the angle changes to close-up classic 2D. And scene in onsen looks great. |
| This was a super fun first episode. I really enjoyed meeting all the characters and I am excited to see the journey they are all about to embark on in order to become pros. Seeing them fully suited up will be crazy. |
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Reply to MrHunterxHunter
no streaming service in the West for this is surprising
| @MrHunterxHunter its not that surprising. Crunchyroll didn't pick up like half the series this season. Big ball drop from them. |
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| This was promising coming from the makers of Yowamushi Pedal, but the animation left a lot to be desired and it just feels... drab. Very disappointed. |
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| Weird and unacceptable creations of CG in this time and age, appalling movements of the cyclists, and most of all, unnatural VAs' that didn't even try giving life to their respective characters... or didn't try enough. Nonetheless, the OP was cool. P.S. The eyes are staticly weird. |
CrazyButNot4UApr 30, 12:45 PM
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
| Yowamushi Pedal is a massive franchise so I thought I’d get an idea on what a cycling show feels like, but I hope it isn’t like this, lol. Animation was poor and the whole transition between scenes threw me off. I think I’ve had enough. |
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