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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- I can't be the only one watching this show, now am I? I haven't seen the subs yet (just the raw), but the first episode seems pretty good. I like Koume, cuter than all of the K-ON girls (this show replaced K-ON, btw). It has some pretty comedic slice of life moments. Let's see if this show will be mostly on baseball or if it's just another slice of life anime using another topic to disguise it. |
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| Nope you are not the only one that watching it but seem like people not adding characters of this anime. That is the same voice from Amu in Shugo Chara, that girl with Kimono. Playing baseball for the first time lmao. |
Nothing ventured, nothing gained (Girls und Panzer der Film ) / from Nishizumi Miho |
| Yeah, what's up with this? No one has added the characters, and this show is played by all-star casts! This show also replaced the super popular K-ON, and so far, this is the only feedback? I'm a bit sad -_- Oh well, the girl with the kimono is the only voice that I don't recognize (I haven't seen Shugo Chara); I think everyone else are all-stars. |
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| Well, twrev-Doremi just subbed it; I haven't watched it yet but I'm thinking about it. In what way does this show replace K-ON? |
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| Well I'm only watching this show because Mamiko Noto has a role in it but.... :P I loved the musical opening. <3 It's cute to some level, but I was really surprised when the time of the anime was revealed. I guess I'm just so used to the anime in current times, but this reminds me of Natsu no Arashi on that part. My only gripe is that... Akiko looks sun-baked like 24/7. |
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Kurisu said: Well, twrev-Doremi just subbed it; I haven't watched it yet but I'm thinking about it. In what way does this show replace K-ON? Well, supposedly, it replaced K-ON's time slot, at least that's what the station TBS said. |
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| Even thought I prefer K-on then this :) |
Nothing ventured, nothing gained (Girls und Panzer der Film ) / from Nishizumi Miho |
| hehe wow. quite refreshing if you ask me. i didn't really know what this was about till she started talking about baseball. |
| Everything said on the title. Tashou Yakyuu Musume. |
Nothing ventured, nothing gained (Girls und Panzer der Film ) / from Nishizumi Miho |
| Enjoyable. This series will be all about the characters. |
| Looks great so far. Well, I'm gonna watch it all the way through regardless. |
| Really loving this for the past social commentary of how Japan (though really the entire world) treated women. They can't run? They're only meant to be housewives and thus their only purpose is for their parents to get their dowry? Yeah, I'm liking that this series is, in essence, the women's societal reform, symbolized by this at-first-incompetent baseball team. Also, I'm happy that they didn't stuff moe down our throats with this show, but they also gave us shoujo ai fans a good portion as well ^_^ 4/5 for the first episode. |
| Fun first episode with a nice cast of characters. Surprise, surprise...they want to start up a baseball team but (most at least) know little to nothing about the sport. Anyway, it will be fun to see then round out their team and learn the basics of the game. Interesting period in time where the story takes place. Look forward to learning more about that era and the difficulties/inequalities faced by women. |
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| the part where she sang & acted so cute..reminds me of italy singing in Hetalia...so cute |
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| What a.............okay, I don't have words for this. Calling this episode "awesome" would mean to severely underrate its quality. |
| since it is short I'll stick it out for now, since I am at the crossroads with this one at the moment. |
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| Was I the only one who thought that it was well.... crap? I have been loving everything J.C staff has been releasing for awhile but this just felt so weak to me. It may have had nice animation and the type of art style i really like that J.C use. But everything else just seemed to be lacking. The plot seems pointless and it just seems to be 'girls randomly deciding to play baseball in the 1920's'. It just seems like womens rights is a cover up for it. The characters were not interesting at all either, nor cute, nor funny, nor unique. And Koume's blushed checks have already gotten on my nerves. I can't really see this show going anywhere, but i will still watch and hope it will cause from my view, it has nothing going for it :/. But who knows it could get better, I just think this was a terrible way to start a show. |
velcomJul 4, 2009 3:41 AM
| I really liked it. Girls standing up against discrimination in 1925 is a rather unique and interesting plot. Random singing was a bit scary (though it fit the setting somehow), but art and music were ok overall. Good to have so many great CV in there and I really like that there are some more normal girls in this anime (contrary to your typical MOE K-ON type characters in nowaday's slice & life). I guess having a show like this without those usual over-the-top-comedy-scenes is good from time to time. Since it's not that long I will put it on "currenty watching". |
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| Really liked it. They're doing well on the period aspect. No slang and one forein word was used throughout the entire episode when the father said "image". If the hook will be the girls fight to win acceptance for their playing baseball, the plot will be rich enough. |
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velcom said: It may have had nice animation and the type of art style i really like that J.C use. The animation wasn't that good actually. It's almost never being good in J.C. Staff shows, to be honest. Doesn't mean that's a bad thing though. The plot seems pointless and it just seems to be 'girls randomly deciding to play baseball in the 1920's'. It just seems like womens rights is a cover up for it. It's a slice of life show. Randomly playing baseball and doing other random stuff is enough for that. The characters were not interesting at all either, nor cute, nor funny, nor unique. That's called "realistic". I guess most viewers already got used to the fact that most anime shows are abusing character stereotypes lately. You can see that usual pattern everywhere - one tsundere, one tomboy, one airhead, one really polite rich girl - voila, we have a cast! And those characters won't show any emotion that would be out of their character stereotype. In Taishou Girls, you won't see anything like that. Forever said: I really like that there are some more normal girls in this anime This. It's not necessary for a character to be unique, but it's necessary for them to be believable. And a believable and realistic "normal" character is always better than "unique" but unrealistic one. |
| The time period is interesting and you don't see an anime on women's rights very often, especially one that's not necessarily for the shoujo audience. I think this show certainly has potential. Too bad I found the first episode boring and I don't really like the characters, whether it's their design or their personality. seishi-sama said: That's called "realistic". I guess most viewers already got used to the fact that most anime shows are abusing character stereotypes lately. You can see that usual pattern everywhere - one tsundere, one tomboy, one airhead, one really polite rich girl - voila, we have a cast! And those characters won't show any emotion that would be out of their character stereotype. In Taishou Girls, you won't see anything like that. Koume seems to be the typical airhead and the class president is the always polite and helpful girl. I've also noticed another girl in their class who'll probably be the quiet type. |
| How was Koume shown as being an airhead? I watched it late last night, so I might not have been paying that much attention. She just seemed like a girl that was very loyal (and perhaps a bit infatuated with Akiko as well) |
| Gives me Mahoraba vibes. Awesome voice cast. |
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| Seishi-sama, you understood me wrong because all the things you were pointing out are the exact things i hate these days. I have found the slice-of-life genre to be terrible these days because they always seem to use some cover-up plot and then just have the characters do almost nothing for the entire series (eg. K-on) and then completely ignore everything else a slice-of-life is meant to do like develop characters (eg. K-on again). I won't judge it yet though because there is plenty of episodes left of this series. But if it goes of on the K-on pattern I will probably drop it. I understand the characters are realistic, and i usually love it when they are. But when the characters are completely uninteresting (like in this they were introduced with nothing appealing or to grab your attention at all) it just becomes are snorefest. I think they were poorly introduced and none of the characters managed to even appeal to me. I think realistic characters should stick to the romance genre where it actually works. Slice of life should be realistic normal characters but when it's fanbase has turned into what it is these days, I don't see the point :/ Oh and I hate that typical pattern of characters. |
| Didn't really catch my interest either. I'll hold on for a few more episodes in the hope that the seinen tag on the original work is worth something, though. |
velcom said: I have found the slice-of-life genre to be terrible these days because they always seem to use some cover-up plot and then just have the characters do almost nothing for the entire series (eg. K-on) and then completely ignore everything else a slice-of-life is meant to do like develop characters (eg. K-on again). Then why in the world are you watching slice of life anime? In fact, name one slice of life series that does NOT fit with what you've said, because as a fan of slice of life anime, I don't think I've seen one. Also, it seems to me it's you're on a crusade to bash every single slice of life anime on MAL. |
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guyklc said: velcom said: I have found the slice-of-life genre to be terrible these days because they always seem to use some cover-up plot and then just have the characters do almost nothing for the entire series (eg. K-on) and then completely ignore everything else a slice-of-life is meant to do like develop characters (eg. K-on again). Then why in the world are you watching slice of life anime? In fact, name one slice of life series that does NOT fit with what you've said, because as a fan of slice of life anime, I don't think I've seen one. Also, it seems to me it's you're on a crusade to bash every single slice of life anime on MAL. If your a fan then you would know that slice of life the characters grow throughout the series. They start of with problems and grow and resolve them by the end of the series. The genre has been warped into 'girls acting like mindless idiots and being the same idiots they began as' though i don't think this show is going to be like this. But I hate it when they pretend to be something when it is pretty much ignored or is a way to grab attention even though it plays no vital part. One that comes straight to mind is Azumanga Diaoh, the characters grow a ton and you really connect with them. It also doesn't pretend to be something else. It sticks to it being the lives of these schoolgirls through their senior years of school. The reason i watched this was, 1. to see what it was like, 2. because it's by J.C Staff and they make very good series. And though this series may stick to it's idea really well, the characters may grow tons, I may start to really enjoy it. But I can't judge that until I have seen more episodes. This episode was weak, and i can't see much going for this series at the moment. And I aint on a crusade to bash, I just can't say positive things about series I think are bad. |
| I really enjoyed the fact that it was set in 1920's Japan. I think that blending the sports and slice of life should work really well using this time frame. It will allow them to explore both without one having to overshadow the other. If they had picked a more modern time it probably wouldn't work as well (they would have to focus more on one or the other). |
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velcom said: One that comes straight to mind is Azumanga Diaoh, the characters grow a ton and you really connect with them. It also doesn't pretend to be something else. It sticks to it being the lives of these schoolgirls through their senior years of school. I agree with the Azumanga part, but I fail to see how Azumanga is different from K-ON in the most important ways. Characters DO grow in both of them. If I were a mindless hater of slice of life, I can make the argument that none of the girls in Azumanga grew. Sakaki is still the animal lover; Chiyo-chan is still a genius; Osaka is still the academic failure but the smartest girl when it comes to riddles, etc. This is of course, a very shallow argument and a very shallow way of looking at the series. The character growth can be said of K-ON. In K-ON, the girls grew and developed through friendship and forming a club. Their relationship and experiences further grew when Azusa joined club, where each of them learned that the most important thing is not to join the best band possible, but rather, join the band where you fit it and have fun the most. Cliche? Maybe, but you can't argue that isn't character growth. As the co-founder of the chess club back when I was in high school, I can solemnly attest that making a club with your friends DO build character (I even wrote that as my topic for my college application essay) I think your problem with slice of life anime is that none of them seem FRESH anymore (in which case, to a certain degree, I do concur). There's not much innovation with a story about everyday life without sending the same cliche messages. Ever since Azumanga Daioh, so many slice of life anime tried to imitate the "everyday school girl" plot. It's similar to the classic horror, "Psycho"; pretty much every slasher film is an imitation of Psycho. I, myself, cannot imagine why people would like seeing slasher films, being carbon copies of Psycho; but hey, I have no right to criticize the fans, as I have no problem with slice of life anime starring school girls doing the same thing and sending the same cliche messages. |
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| You lost me at K-ON having growth -_-..... The characters started as retards, they stayed as retards. Their friendship didn't grow because they became perfect friends instantly. And actually the series had the opposite of growth, the characters turned into bigger idiots rather than into better people. Tsumugi was a great example of this, she began smart, and nice and happy and just turned into a character who pulled stupid faces in the background. This is the opposite of growing. They even tried to have some drama to build the characters and failed terribly at it because it was so badly done. It was like super over the top and then they made up without even making up. You said Azumanga doesn't have much growth and your evidence was things they liked/were good at to begin with. So what if Sakaki was an animal lover to begin with? She began as a shy person who was not very confident, and though she was still shy by the end she became more brave, she made more friends. She learnt how to become more open to people. Chiyo-chan was always a genius, but that wasn't the point of growth that was the reason why she was in that setting. She became more mature, she made a big group of friends in a high school. Osaka was never smart, but they showed that she was able to work hard and be able to pass her exams towards the end. Tomo was like this too. But Tomo also learnt to calm down and become ore serious when she had to. Those are just a few things in their growth. If i went a rewatched it I'm sure i could list a ton more. (It's been quite a long time) And with series not being 'fresh' these days is a perfectly fair reason to not enjoy something. Who wants to watch the same thing that has been done over and over and over again? Look at the latest episode of Haruhi for example :/. I haven't seen it yet but i know what happens and everyone has told me not to watch. Why? Cause it merely repeats itself. This surprises me though since half its fan base (probably way more) loved k-on and that was the same stuff pretty much every ep. Hyprocrits i say. |
| You didn't read my post at all, and it's clear that your hatred against K-ON and its fanbase has clouded your better judgment. You completely ignored my facts about Asuza being a great addition in character growth AND my own personal experience as a club co-founder. The character growth is in the fact that they BUILT A CLUB AND GAINED EXPERIENCE THROUGH IT! You sir, have obviously never start a club and obviously have no idea what it is to be a club leader. Otherwise, you will know how incredibly BS your arguments about K-ON not having character growth is. velcom said: And with series not being 'fresh' these days is a perfectly fair reason to not enjoy something. Who wants to watch the same thing that has been done over and over and over again? Then don't watch slice of life anime. It's apparently draining you of your sanity. Stay away from it. |
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| I liked it, it is more serious than K-On but very enjoyable. Alhtough I'm not into sports anime this one deserves a try^^ |
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| I'm trying to find the time to watch the new anime, which includes this. I'm including this anime because Makino Yui's character is part of the anime. |
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| I pray for more comedy... the first episode could have been much better if they added a little more. I mean, what would K-ON! have been without comedy? Pretty boring of you ask me. So far it severely lacks in that department. |
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| I thought the scene where Akiko hugged Koume for not "abandoning the baseball club idea even after seeing a brutal massacre on the boys team" was pretty funny |
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Forever said: I really liked it. Girls standing up against discrimination in 1925 is a rather unique and interesting plot. Random singing was a bit scary (though it fit the setting somehow), but art and music were ok overall. I pretty much jumped into this after seeing a couple of promo pictures (im a sucker for moe) and i have to say I liked it. I do like the time period and the fact that the girls (well just akiko right now) have decided to take a stand against sexism. Now sure, this show is only 12 episodes and is a moe comedy, so they aren't exactly breaking the surface on the issue, but still its a nice topic to introduce from a unique point of view. And.. Random singing? Yes Please! :D |
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| I really liked it, and this series is unique and interesting so are story and plot. The art looks good, and it seem to have many characters, but I don't mind. |
| um..didnt't really liked it =/ girls all seemed like same (personality and voices) and their overpolite acting all the time was just getting on my nerves, but i guess that's 1925 year for you..so i'll just keep watching for now, since i'm interested in to see how they gonna play when they dont know about baseball anything at all, and hopefully it will turn out more interesting later.. |
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| Maybe not much things happen, but the Tokyo song is made of pure win. And I love shows set in the interwar period. |
| Seemed like a pretty decent episode. The Tokyo song was epic win tho. Koume was really cute when she was singing it. ^_^ |
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| What a charming first episode - I'm hooked. If they can successfully combine compelling characters with a great story grounded in history - it could be a truly classic anime. |
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| Hmm, quite interesting. Want to see how this turns out :D |
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| It was one of the animes I was most looking for this season, and I must admit it disapointed me just a little. The art, animation and overall atmosphere were not as good as I expected, but still, the setting of the 20's and the musical that started the episode were both totally fantastic. Well, I'm a musical and a baseball enthusiast, and on top of it, the theme of feminism somewhat interests me, so I must say it has everything that should please me, but it's not well directed enough and a bit too generic to really catch me. Still I'll continue to watch of course to see how they'll progress in their goal to create a feminine baseball team and defeat the boys ;) |
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Amex_Yohko said: I believe this show may be a seinen, as its have lots of girls and no guys at all, like K-On!. Well it is a seinen, but seinen isn't generally characterised by an all-girl cast with no guys at all. Mushishi and Monster would be an examples of seinen shows as well. |
Amex_Yohko said: I believe this show may be a seinen, as its have lots of girls and no guys at all, like K-On!. The portrayal of 1920's Japan was pretty accurate though. Well you still have the father and the cook that works under him. |
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