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| That wasn't bad at all, In fact that was quite a decent start. The world seems interesting and as a prologue this episode was quite good. The animation and fights look great and even the CG wasn't bad at all. That dragon was so cool, The eyes reminded me of Sauron XD I might buy the game later xD |
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| The art in this show looks amazing. Poor Alisha that she had to lose her comrades due to a cyclone which somehow awakes a dragon (I don't know but it sounds kind of cool). It is a nice prologue. Can't wait for the show to properly start (OP song was amazing). |
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| So this is new and not a continuation of the prologue? Ufotable never fails to impress when it comes to blending CG its absolutely beautiful.I never expected them pulling off a UBW kind of episode at first.I can't wait to see how they'll use armatization(Similar to magi's djinn equip). |
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| I'm glad Ufotable is resuming this after the special they released a couple of year ago, because we already got a sample of the awesome fight scenes. with Alisha's spear fighting. We can always expect top notch quality animation from them. Too bad tragedy has struck already for the minor characters accompanying Alisha. They seemed interesting enough in their own right--that is, for such a small role in the short amount of time that they appeared. |
| Goddamn that was fucking incredible Can't wait to see the main series!! |
Tyrel said: Kindara said: Anime will have a different story apparently, so we can both pray and hope it's better than the game.The game is definitely worth the $20, although it is probably one of the weaker titles in terms of Tales games. Not sure if you've played any of them, but they are all relatively fun for the most part. I didn't find the story to be that great though, but hopefully people enjoy the anime. Ufotable always handles Tales very well. Better be, cause the game's story was ehhhhhhh |
RockerXD said: It will. I mean they even got the crossover of berseria potentially coming into play.Tyrel said: Anime will have a different story apparently, so we can both pray and hope it's better than the game. Better be, cause the game's story was ehhhhhhh |
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Tyrel said: It will. I mean they even got the crossover of berseria potentially coming into play. |
astroprogs said: Yohimo_asakura said: I mean, I was like - "whaaa are they getting to Pixar level water animation?!...". Beautiful. :) The water is a definite step up from UBW's mercury water/skeletons, yeah. Too bad that was at the ost of the rest of CGI looking bad. Seeing very nice water effects running in location with buildings made out of cardboard was surreal. |
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| May quite possibly have a better story than the game lol.. tieing in aspects of Berseria with Velvet is probably to build up hype for the upcoming game, or may well be related entirely as they are both set in the same world, just vastly different timelines. Hoping Alisha will have more of a role in this anime than the game :/ |
| Whaaaaaaat? Don"r really know what was going on, but it was brutal |
| UfoBudget [x] Excalibur [x] Dragon [x] Arthur [ ] inb4 Saber Well, it was an alright first ep, let's see where this will go. |
| As a start, it's not as exciting as I thought, but I have to put in mind that this game, I do not know anything, then everything I've seen, I have very little understood us, if not the part of history that is often It was also used in many other stories as an excuse to start the plot, or that men being bad, have attracted to them despite of a higher amount and thus, it starts the slaughter of mankind. More than fair, the quality of the drawings, the opening ruined my surprise to discover all the new characters, how sad! 7/10 |
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| The animation was amazing, the action was decent and it was enjoyable. |
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| It's a shame ufotable's animating has to go towards something which probably won't have a great story considering it's a game adaption. |
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| Woah nice animation by ufotable lol. Ost is decent. Characters seem interesting. Hope the story goes well~ |
| This prologue episode was so freaking intense. I honestly didn't expect the episode to end so tragically. ufotable's animation is simply amazing though, the way they use CG animation is incredible. I haven't played the game myself but I know that Alisha didn't appear much in it. Glad to see the prologue focused solely on her though. This is already an amazing start to the Tales of Zestiria anime, hope it keeps up this quality. OP is pretty damn good too, based FLOW. Velvet from Tales of Berseria appears in the OP as well which I didn't expect. It looks more than a cameo, I'm excited to find out what her role is~ |
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| Can't wait for the anime ufotable are truly the gods of animation |
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| Tales of Endless Budget :D....I am wandering how will they connect ToB.....I was sceptical...but in the end i enjoyed it more that i thought i would :D |
| [center]If you aren't troubling the rest of the world, then there's no harm in being abnormal. |
| So a lot of things were going on here and nothing was explained. We have some mysterious black mist which starts wrecking things and blows away an entire town, we have some mysterious bishoujo trying to kill Princess Alisha, a henchman of sorts of that bishoujo helps Alisha when a mysterious loli attacks her while the black fog was destroying things, everyone around Alisha dies except for her, a fiery dragon comes out of the black fog. And then we have the legend of the Shepherd who will be the one to pull the sword out of the stone and guide all the sheep to wherever. Well, they'll probably explain all of this shit later on. But for now, this episode was pretty confusing since I had no idea what was going on. What I do know, however, is that ufotable sure did some amazing stuff here. The visuals are amwazing. The fight between Alisha's team and the attacking ninjas was pretty damn cool. Dem explosions though. The loli vs the long eared whatever guy was so cool. Whatever becomes of the story, at least this will be a feast for the eyes. |
| do i need to watch the zestiria OVA of 2014 before this ? |
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| I watched the 44 min OVA about a year ago and I can't remember anything from it. Is it relevant to this show? Cause then I should rewatch it. It sorta confuses me that we supposedly have two proglogues; this entry and the 44 min OVA. |
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DatRandomDude said: Literally no. This was all original and I would assume this happens before Sorey meets Alisha, which is why she went to the ruins afterwards. (If this were to be added like that in the story, but apparently this Tales of Z anime will be original from that of the game. So I think you're safe.do i need to watch the zestiria OVA of 2014 before this ? Samu-tan said: I watched the 44 min OVA about a year ago and I can't remember anything from it. Is it relevant to this show? Cause then I should rewatch it. It sorta confuses me that we supposedly have two proglogues; this entry and the 44 min OVA. Not to this OVA it ain't. Episode 1 next week will prob be somewhat similar to that of the OVA (Maybe). |
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| I really hope the story will focus more on dragons than the game did. |
| im playing this game. but will this anime cover game story ? or become another story that wont adapt the game ? |
| I literally have no idea what was happening in this prologue. Who are these characters and why should I care about them? |
| i never played a Tales game but i'm planing to play them all if i could and this was a nice prologue |
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indraluc said: im playing this game. but will this anime cover game story ? or become another story that wont adapt the game ? Its not adapting the game story since there's nothing to adapt(its an incomprehensible mess). They are remaking it(jury's out on if they will manage to make it better) |
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| Amazing visuals. Thank god for Ufotable! Story is confusing but the visual will keep me watching this. |
| Nice opening, enjoyed the prologue. Really liked the animation, hope it continues in future episodes. |
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| Was this part of Alisha's DLC? Or something they just completely thought up out of nowhere? |
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| Never before have I seen an episode this brilliant, goddamn that was nice to look at, nice animation, nice action, nice soundtrack, nice characters, stunning ED. This episode alone deserves a 10/10, can't believe this is a prologue. |
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razisgosu said: Was this part of Alisha's DLC? Or something they just completely thought up out of nowhere? The show is not adapting the game(thankfully). It is (trying to) make an anime original storyline, which hopefully does not suck as much as the game. |
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| How to spend the whole anime budget on the first episode... The visuals are amazing, they are good enought to make me continue the anime despise the fact that I didn't understand a shit regarding what happens. I was about to give up in the first half, but the second got me hyped. |
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| As expected great graphics from ufotable. Played the beginning of the game so didn't expect this prologue, and it was pretty dark. |
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Fai said: razisgosu said: Was this part of Alisha's DLC? Or something they just completely thought up out of nowhere? The show is not adapting the game(thankfully). It is (trying to) make an anime original storyline, which hopefully does not suck as much as the game. Are you sure about that? I've been hearing this piece of info around and I've been wondering where this was said. Remaking the story completely would put into question which storyline is the canonical one. This is especially important as Berseria is a prequel set about 1000 years past. If there are conflicting story points between Zestiria's game and anime, players diving into Berseria would be kind of confused. I'm hoping that they decide to stick to the same story, but add exposition and explanations for many things. They kind of did that here in this prologue, which would explain why Alisha was stranded in the ruins when Sorey found her. |
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| I love this so far not many animes manage yo capture my attention in 5 minutes. I hope it keeps going strong |
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| UM DID NO ONE SEE VELVET AT THE END FROM TALES OF BERSERIA!?!?!? |
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| Finally, i've watched Tales of Budget the Unlimited ! Could be interesting but for a prologue it was meh I feel bad that i've actually laughed at that little girl getting sucked up in the tornado and the tornado being on fire immediatly after. That was overkill. |
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| Amazing production value. This is how you do CG, Berserk. |
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Asurada said: EpicCh33se said: Are you sure about that? I've been hearing this piece of info around and I've been wondering where this was said. Remaking the story completely would put into question which storyline is the canonical one. This is especially important as Berseria is a prequel set about 1000 years past. If there are conflicting story points between Zestiria's game and anime, players diving into Berseria would be kind of confused. I'm hoping that they decide to stick to the same story, but add exposition and explanations for many things. They kind of did that here in this prologue, which would explain why Alisha was stranded in the ruins when Sorey found her. I've been hearing that the anime will adapt the original story that the developers of the game wanted before the massive heroine shift between Alysha and Rose happened during the game's development. Not sure if true so take it as a grain of salt. Oh boy, that'd be something. If they push Rose off as a side character, they'd have to push Dezel off as a side character as well. Those two have a lot of backstory, much more story content than Alisha. |
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| God, I wish they would use the opening from the game. Probably not going to happen, since the anime is taking a different approach.. It's really good, though. Without the lyrics, the guitar riffs are sick. The production is awesome, as expected of ufotable. This is CG done right. I was hoping to see the MC in the end, but I guess it is called a prologue for a reason. |
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| I felt like watching a movie there. Lol |
| Some people just don't know what a prologue is. *sigh And it's the one person who's hellbent on trashing ufotable for ruining his eroge. Why am I not surprised... |
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| I know that X will be different from the current Zestiria timeline, but I would at least recommend people to watch the OVA to get some more details of the Zestiria world. (also adding each other to their anime pages as "other" might help too.) That aside, I never understood the hate that Zestiria got. I enjoyed the hell out of it and the characters, grant Sorey could have used a bit more work as a character. It's a very nice change of pace that Vesperia and Xillia/Xillia 2 (and I love those three games) gave us. Maybe it's because I'm a simple (also not very smart) man. I also don't understand all this CGI hate people throw out at every sighting of it. The CGI in this was hardly terrible. If Berserk (2016) is the worst, then it'd be at the bottom of sea level. Most CGI I see that people complain about would be put around the base of to the middle of Mt. Everest. The tip of Everest would be for when we see the super godly CGI (the equivalent would be UFO's normal animation quality), which probably won't happen for a good amount of years. Anyways, onto the the actual episode. That was quite something. I wasn't actually aware that this was the prologue episode so I was quite confused on what was going on. But with all the animes I've seen, the death flags for those knights were waving around everywhere. I was hoping I was wrong cause it would've been nice to see Alisha do her own things with her knights (since this was supposed to be separate from the game). :( Where will the story really start for episode 1 then? How much of the game story will they keep/change? Where does Velvet come into all this? Will we see the other Berseria characters? WHAT IS GOING ON?! |
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