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5Loved it!
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6
4Liked it!
20.2%
17
3It was OK
44.0%
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2Disliked it
14.3%
12
1Hated it
14.3%
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Average 2.9
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Apr 8, 2019 6:14 AM
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Well that was usual Fujo bait trash nothing special and I doubt I will continue it. The art in it isn't all bad at least tho
Apr 8, 2019 6:47 AM
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i was thinking through the episode "i should drop now instead of finishing the episode" ... but at the end i'm not sure, i guess i'll check 1 more lol
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Apr 8, 2019 9:51 AM
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As I was watching the episode, I was debating all the while whether I should just quit it out, or not... But, it made me laugh a few times. Seems mostly like a calming, passive watch. I actually enjoyed it.
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Apr 8, 2019 9:55 AM
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That was a lot better than i was expecting! I really like that there's the slice of life and comedy aspects (much like Touken Ranbu) but also an action related sub genre. Also it really helps that there are so many perfect Bishounen! hahaha
Apr 8, 2019 10:12 AM
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Lel 3 I stopped at 3.21 sorry, not sorry.
Apr 8, 2019 10:13 AM
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I don't know what you guys are talking about when you say that this was trashy. If anything this was the most interesting first episode out of all I've seen this week and I've watched them all! The art seemed very experimental as it kept drawing my focus on it all the time and I wasn't sure if I liked it or didn't. It was just weird, weirdly polished, weirdly colorful, but it was very memorable.

As for character design, I despise those kinds of "I'm special" anime hairs. I can overlook them but they will always annoy me a bit. About "fujo bait trash", the atmosphere was there but I won't drop shows just for that since it won't make me uncomfortable if I'm not surrounded by countless females all the time. Heck, I think the atmosphere was relaxing and that's mostly due to the fine soundtrack played all the time.

There was one big critique I could find; the world felt so empty unlike a show like Kimetsu no Yaiba. It could be because this episode focused more on character introduction than any other and I expect the rest of the shows will do next week instead. Still, I honestly think that this start was exceptionally good for a first episode because it was memorable and I wanted to see more.
Apr 8, 2019 10:39 AM
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Normally I do a three episode Madoka rule and force myself to watch, just in case we get a total switch of genre/plot, but after 3.38 I've had enough. Edit: Ok, I watched another two minutes just to give it more of a chance, and it morphed into "cute bishie gods doing cute things", and I generally refuse to watch anything that doesn't go beyond that (even if the characters are cute girls). So I'll add this to my SOL discard pile.

I will say however, that the character designs are beautiful, and if you are looking for bishies to fantasize about, this is probably the show for you. I on the other hand, prefer shows that satisfy my carnal desires for romance, lust, and human emotions and I'm not convinced that I will get anything to meet those needs.

And if I'm honest about it, I just find the theological world view presented here, too much at variance with my own. When I go to Japan, I consider myself a pilgrim at the Shinto shrines but just a tourist at the Buddhist temples.
rodacApr 8, 2019 11:08 AM
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In my next life I want to collide at the corner with the cute transfer student
carrying a piece of toast in her mouth
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Apr 8, 2019 10:52 AM
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Seemed like a pretty typical slice of life with a bit of humor here and there. The plot was pretty strained. There were a lot of ideas, like the transformations, but the show didn't necessarily take much advantage of any of them. They were more like after thoughts. I guess it was really all over the place? The beginning made it seem like it'd be some kind of shounen action, but then it turned slice of life? Then the antagonist shows up randomly at the end? I didn't like the episode = ). Rough start. It could still go somewhere, but it was a very rough start and overall a bad episode. I only watched it because people were rating it 8 for some reason. 3 minutes in I thought I was getting trolled by MAL users, lol.
Apr 8, 2019 10:55 AM
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That was different. But I like how different it was. IT started with some divine intervention, and then expanding upon the vice aspect of mortal life was cool.
Plus there was enough comedy that I dont mind the whole bihonene aspect . So far, I am looking forward to this, and will give it a few weeks so I can binge watch it as much as I can. So far, so good. ^~^ NAmi Amida Butsu...OOOOOoommmm. :P
Apr 8, 2019 11:46 AM
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If I fap to my own religious figures, will I go to hell?
Apr 8, 2019 12:05 PM

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Kept debating whether or not to drop it during the episode but I guess I'll give it another episode. Kind of interested on the Ashura issue. Thought it was going to be more like Noragami where the MCs focus on cleaning vices but it turned out more to be an average slice of life. Think they could have used the human disguises to more effect.
Apr 8, 2019 12:23 PM

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Too straight to enjoy this. pass
Apr 8, 2019 1:29 PM

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Man, either I enjoy this or they've desecrated the Buddhist faith.
Apr 8, 2019 2:17 PM
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It is OK, but a lot like a copycat of Touken Ranbu Hanamaru. It needs to add some excitement.
AlexPrimeApr 9, 2019 2:25 AM
Apr 8, 2019 2:23 PM

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Abysmal translation as expected (bosatsu=bodhisattva, shaka=shakyamuni, etc) but at least this bishounen fest will allow to brush up on my Buddhism.

Plus I liked all the naff comedy like Acala vacuuming or Jizou browsing the webs on his phone.
Apr 8, 2019 4:35 PM

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AlexPrime said:
It is OK, but a lot like a copycar of Touken Ranbu Hanamaru. It needs to add some excitement.



This,it just a copy of Touken and its boring I like my cute boys doing cool things but one Touken is enough for me.
Apr 8, 2019 6:04 PM

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That Ashura guy is a bit interesting, I hope it will be better though. I liked this opening episode a bit.
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Apr 8, 2019 7:02 PM
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Some interesting moments at the beginning and end, plus lots of eye candy. ;) I’ll give it a few eps before deciding to continue or not, and I certainly won’t rate it based on one episode.
Apr 8, 2019 7:19 PM

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It's just cute Gods doing cute things, I doubt that this is going to change direction anytime soon.

That's fine, looking at cute Gods is nice, but the lack of background music is killing me.


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Apr 8, 2019 7:57 PM

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Not terrible by any means but it felt really stiff. It was like the creative team had no joy in making this. Dropping this one but hope it works out for the rest of you.
Apr 9, 2019 1:14 AM

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Well I lasted four minutes and decided I'm not gonna like this lol.
Apr 9, 2019 4:27 AM

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Watched this by accident... well, the animation style is nice. But I'm not the target audience for this.

Dropped like a rock, and leaving with red hot 1 score to keep the anime warm.
Apr 10, 2019 1:16 AM
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If you can't stand it, there's 5:53 for Dumbo and 10:33 for trap.
Art quite clean tho.
Apr 10, 2019 6:49 AM

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Reminds me of Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru






Apr 10, 2019 7:59 PM

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So many ikemen deities and top class Male VAs!
4/5.


Apr 12, 2019 12:38 AM

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This show is absolute garbage IMO.

dropped within 10min into the show.

grown up machos acting like little anime girls or like little kids... like WTF? !

all the jokes were lame and crappy.
Apr 12, 2019 4:30 PM
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Really wanted to like this for the Buddhist element, and I've watched "Free!" so I don't mind the boyishness, but there's something missing here... I like the rapport between the main two characters, but the jokes all fall flat for me, and I don't see any reason to watch. Almost certainly going to drop.
...but then again, I unironically like Warau Salesman.
Apr 12, 2019 10:26 PM
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I love me some cute anime boys, so I will at least stick with it for episode 2.
Apr 14, 2019 7:56 AM
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Do we have any information about whether this show is adapted from a DMM game or not like Touken Ranbu?

As for the show itself, it make a weak impression, but I think I will stick with two more episodes.
Apr 14, 2019 8:04 AM

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False_Prophet said:
Do we have any information about whether this show is adapted from a DMM game or not like Touken Ranbu?.
It's from a game yes, not sure what DMM is.
Apr 16, 2019 4:13 AM
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EratiK said:
False_Prophet said:
Do we have any information about whether this show is adapted from a DMM game or not like Touken Ranbu?.
It's from a game yes, not sure what DMM is.
Yeah it's a not yet released game from DMM GAMES. Initially it was supposed to release this past winter but their twitter page says Spring 2019 now.
https://twitter.com/namuamiutena_PR
http://pc-play.games.dmm.com/play/namuami_utena/ (region-locked, need a vpn to view)

This anime is even sillier than I was hoping for and it just makes me want to play the game even more once it's released~ ヾ(・ω・。)シ From my first impression, as much as I love Hanamaru there wasn't much of a story line, but this anime looks a bit more promising in that regards!


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