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| Misha died too killing is sometimes a necessary evil for the greater good Amiya sad that she is down but she must know she cannot save or protect everyone i would given this a higher score if it has a lot of sakuga action but sadly for a suppose action show its lacking badly on that factor |
degDec 16, 2022 10:41 AM
| I guess is a miracle that Amiya didn't killed anyone, until last episode. Misha overestimated the good in someone that called himself Skullshatterer. Well, now wait the next season. Even if my snow stage trauma may kick in. |
BlichoBoyDec 16, 2022 10:56 AM
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| Misha fulfilled her role!!! Regulars series in general!!! 4/10 kekeke |
| that was devastating, but i still would like to know where this is going. i am interested in doctor's development. overall i liked the show but was disappointed in some of the main progression. |
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| Amazing episode ending with Misha. can't wait to see more |
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| Was anyone else disappointed that none of the Penguin Logistics girls were penguin girls? Also, since penguins make me think of a chilly environment, should Texas instead be named Alaska? This has been bothering me for a while, and the ending didn't help lead me to any conclusions. |
Gsarthotegga said: Was anyone else disappointed that none of the Penguin Logistics girls were penguin girls? Also, since penguins make me think of a chilly environment, should Texas instead be named Alaska? This has been bothering me for a while, and the ending didn't help lead me to any conclusions. Their leader is a penguin named Emperor. He's a rapper, and he wields a gun. Yes, this is real. Google it if you're curious. |
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ShinodaChan said: Gsarthotegga said: Was anyone else disappointed that none of the Penguin Logistics girls were penguin girls? Also, since penguins make me think of a chilly environment, should Texas instead be named Alaska? This has been bothering me for a while, and the ending didn't help lead me to any conclusions. Their leader is a penguin named Emperor. He's a rapper, and he wields a gun. Yes, this is real. Google it if you're curious. LMAO I really wasn't expecting that. |
| Is this some type of plot no jutsu where misha asks amiya "why did you kill my brother" and she didn't answer "he was trying to fucking kill us"? Which Misha literally saw with her own eyes in the last episode. Misha died? thank god. |
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| haha serves Misha right to be killed and I hope Amiya suffers only more and more. |
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| Prob one of the better game adaptations honestly. Really well done, and cannot wait for more. |
| And thus, Prelude to Dawn comes to an end. Banger from start to finish. Also, to that one LGD dude who got caught by W... THIS IS OUTRAGOUS, IT'S UNFAIR! IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME, NOT HIM!! |
| "Such honors may please a weakling, but I am strong." "There are two kinds of people in the world: those who are (me), and those who are not." "The Sorcerer King is Justice and weakness is a sin. All hail Ainz Ooal Gown!" "Arrivederci." |
| Episode 4-7 Chen: We need Misha alive at all cost! Episode 8 Chen: Nah, changed my mind. Gonna kill her even if I have the chance to just knock her out from behind lol. They changed a small detail in the intro. Amiya has a terrified face instead of a serious one in the fight against Skullshatterer in ep 8 intro vs the other ep intros.  |
| I’m happy they changed up the animation for the final fight. If the show had that style consistently throughout, it would have been a lot better. |
Yaggamy said: That is a great detail. Foreshadowing one thing that everyone expected. Episode 4-7 Chen: We need Misha alive at all cost! Episode 8 Chen: Nah, changed my mind. Gonna kill her even if I have the chance to just knock her out from behind lol. They changed a small detail in the intro. Amiya has a terrified face instead of a serious one in the fight against Skullshatterer in ep 8 intro vs the other ep intros. |
| Cool setting. Terrible series. Poor decision by whomever thought it was a good idea to make a video-game into an anime but make the anime feel like a video game. |
Halofan1997 said: I’m happy they changed up the animation for the final fight. If the show had that style consistently throughout, it would have been a lot better. I think so as well. If only the other episodes were at the same level as the last two. Still thing is. They couldn't. This is the adaptation and the slow beginning is like it is. The story gets insanely better after initial success of Arknights and studio hiring great writers but the start remain as it is. So ultimately, while this anime is an enjoyable watch for Arknights players, I still wouldn't recommend it to people unfamiliar with the game. Second season will change that but before it comes out not really. At the end of the day this is 8 episodes long series. Just too short. But in any-case, this was really great episode. |
| One of the better shows this season, genuinely. This final episode is more or less what I saw coming, the tragic ending that was a blast of reality for Amiya and Rhodes Island. The moral ambiguity in a world of discrimination and hatred made for quite the good watch, and as well done as this was, it's just the beginning. A sequel being announced is quite the good news as well. |
Moumoux8 said: Was it only me or the sound was weird & “reverberating” in this episode with Crunchyroll? No, this was a common issue according to Reddit. Something went wrong on CR's end. |
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Moumoux8 said: Was it only me or the sound was weird & “reverberating” in this episode with Crunchyroll? Not just you. The audio is definitely scuffed for the last episode on CR and it's a big shame. |
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| this was fairly decent, only watched it to pass 20mins of time weekly before my classes began and it didn't feel wasted so W |
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Someone pointed out the focus on Amiya's eyes during the OP sequence but I want to add to that by saying at the end of EP 1, we saw the Doctor and Amiya walk into the tunnel together. Then in the last episode, we see them walk out of one. I just thought that was very neat.  IMO, it really shows that a lot more attentions were put into the last 2 episodes and were fully produced in-house by Yostar Pictures. I personally wasn't expecting much actions out of this season. The base material was what it was and AK was never really about action... However, it got labelled with that genre so I don't blame people for coming in assuming to see flashy sakuga. lol While earlier fight scenes could have been much better, I can also understand how they didn't want to allocate too much on fights with some regular mobs. I have a couple non-player friends that watched it and said they liked it a lot. Their only criticism was that there were too many characters and they still know very little about all of them which makes it hard to relate. That's a fair point in itself but I think each character still had their own personality bleed through the way they talk and behave. But yeah, player bias I guess. Overall, I think this was a solid adaptation. Could it have been better? Definitely. But I'm quite happy for a small studio's first proper series. I was a big fan of the character drawings, the background/scenery, some of the composition and excellent job from the VAs. While it didn't have too many flashy actions, there were plenty of other things to enjoy. I look forward to season 2 and hopefully they will have a bigger team and budget to tackle that one. |
iSupercellDec 16, 2022 5:26 PM
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| This was the last episode for this Story part, it's already over huh? Well 8 episodes are not much, no wonder they went by so quick. It's not the best adaption but it's easily good enough to make me look forward for the continuation. W low effort gaslighting poor Misha, her Death most likely could have been averted otherwise.... At least Alex and Misha's Deaths were not it vain. They helped Amiya to grow, same as other necessary Events which lie ahead for now. It's no good that my poor little Bunny has to suffer as much though.  And that's the End of Act 0: Hour of an Awakening They already confirmed the anime will be continued though, that's nice. Next is |
| just because I’ve gotten weaker, doesn’t mean that you got stronger, does it? |
| Definitely ain't many people's cup of tea, but this was easily one of the best things to come out from this year for me personally. Honestly, I wasn't trying to get my expectations too high with this series due to the notion of it being a gacha game adaptation and how most of those end up in the dumpster (FGO included, sorry), but this has been a pleasant surprise for me, even if it's almost completely overshadowed by the likes of the more popular titles from this season. While the middle part was admittedly a bit meandering at times due to outsourced episodes, the first two and last two episodes being produced in-house were amazing. Yostar Pictures is quite a small studio and they're still relatively new in terms of anime production, so this was quite an impressive job they did to make what was otherwise the weakest story arc from the game into a wonderful adaptation. Sure they don't have the resources like Mappa, A1, and Bones, but they seem quite dedicated to what seems like quite a long-term project to come. Helps to know that we got the immediate confirmation for s2 at least in terms of it being greenlighted, and hopefully it won't take too long. |
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Animorphimagi said: here are some questions as a og game watcher(with a bad memory?): 1. In the game didn't no one know that Skullshatterer was actually Misha until the battle was over and they had killed her already? also didn't Ch'en feel guilty because her objective was specifically to bring Misha in alive only? 2. W wasn't in this arc at all was she? could've sworn she has her intro in ep2 and that was it until after the Frostnova arc 3. why is this portrayed as the first time Amiya had killed? I don't think it's necessarily contradicted in the game but she certainly didn't act like it was her first kill. In the game she seemed said that it was unavoidable, wants to not have it happen in the future, but realizes sometimes it can't be helped, I thought. 4. Penguin logistics didn't stick around this far right? they left after the events of last episode in the game right? 1. Nobody 'knew', but they might have guessed it from conjecture (in the game and anime). 2. W did basically the same stuff she did in the game, so no, she was in the game too. 3. It never said it was the first time she killed, but she usually avoids killing, so it might have been, or it is just a rare occurrence, in both cases shock is to be expected. 4. Penguin Logistic left and joined up again multiple times in the game, the way the anime handled just made a bit more sense. |
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| I enjoyed this show for the first 6 episodes but this ending fucking sucked. It certainly hasn't made me want to play the game. I know it's far from the end of the story but this just felt pointless. They went through that whole fight for literally nothing. The person they were supposed to find and protect turns against them and gets fucking killed. I lost interest in it as soon as Misha started believing Skullshatterer last episode tbh (as a side note why did they not just use Skullshredder like in the JP?). I get that she didn't deny what he was saying because she felt guilty about her inaction when he was taken away as a kid but it just felt stupid. I said it before but she should have tried harder to convince him Rhodes Island were good people - I can't think of a reason why she wouldn't think so at the time. Also, I find it hard to believe Rhodes Island weren't killing the reunion soldiers before because it damn well looked like they were. Amiya has been sniping them from the rooftops for ages and you're only telling me now that they weren't dying that whole time? I'll probably still give season 2 a try, I gather from other comments that this was only the tutorial story, but I don't have very high hopes. |
| I think this was a really solid introduction to the series, for me personally, as someone who wasn't played the game and someone who has no plans to play the game anytime soon. Such is war, trying to avoid killing in war is realistically extremely difficult, it goes against her ideals, but even Amiya accepts that it's unavoidable sometimes. Being Amiya is nothing but crippling pain. Rest in peace Misha and Skullshatterer, they were simply victims of an unfair world. Don't know about W's circumstances so far though, she do be gaslighting and then there's Mephisto, who just seems like a dick lmao. Honestly, I ended up really being a fan of Ch'en, she's neat. I heard this first arc is pretty much the weakest of the series, so I am really looking forward to Perish in Frost and further arcs. 7.5/10 One thing I really love about the show though, is how consistently pretty the visuals are. |
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| This was unbearable arc for me, glad this arc was over. W is so cute man, I want to hug her. Super excited for next season can't wait to see our Amiya alter. |
Why do we have to live in such a cruel world?  |
| Well that was an ending. I keep thinking things could've gone better had everyone known how to convey anything. But then I remember Amiya is only 14 years old. They change the opening for this last episode. Kinda cool ngl, I always love these. All in all a good anime. As someone who doesn't play the game, the anime explains everything quite well. Even I can follow the story. I'll give this a 7/10 as a whole. Anime is too quiet. |
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Gsarthotegga said: Texas Codename here refers to the Extinct Texas Wolf or Canis Lupus Monstrabilis, because She's a Lupo originally from Columbia (which is Terra's counterpart of United States). And also because it's her own Surname which was revealed in one the newest Arknights CN Side Story Event. And sadly, This is the last time you'll see Penguin Logistics appears in Main Story so you wont get any lead about them if you only read the Main Story.Was anyone else disappointed that none of the Penguin Logistics girls were penguin girls? Also, since penguins make me think of a chilly environment, should Texas instead be named Alaska? This has been bothering me for a while, and the ending didn't help lead me to any conclusions. As for the Penguin you mentioned. Its leader is an Actual Penguin that could talk and rap named 'Emperor'. And might be the coolest character in Arknights for me, no pun intended. Also 'Holy Knight Light' OVA featured him alongside Texas and Exusiai as Main Characters btw. -------- As for the Episode, I might be a bit biased on this one because of how good the adaptation is comparing to the actual game story imo... But I'll give it 5/5 for this episode alone. My disappointment is just that because of PRC Censorship, they cant really show blood and murders much for the whole season cuz when Ch'en stabbed Misha, It's quite bloody in the game from what i remembered. But still, cant wait for Season 2. Where the title is already a spoiler. |
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| Okay anime. Great soundtrack. Might actually try the game at some point so I guess it did it's job. |
| solid first test run for the weakest part of arknights glad we got a season 2 confirmed right off the bat was always worried how the pacing would be due to the sheer amount of info dumping would be needed they did good sadly the middle parts of this arc which could've been saved by some good action were weaken but these last 2 were really good 8/10 those 7/10 for prelude to dawn Flanka and Apple Pie were some serious vibe boosters so this anime did it's job by giving me great Voice acting to characters i love and next to princess connect and a few others (fgo ,uma ROB) i think this is one of the few actual good gacha adaptations |
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| Most boring and weakest story part of Arknights is finally over. It still far in the future but they better play this song during the final fight. |
| Hyped to see the rest of Amiya's character arc |
Wow look at that forums are kinda cool uwu  |
| meh anime. not recommend |
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