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| That was really cool. I loved the moody atmospheric music 4/5 |
| Time to read the manga. |
| Horrible animation and art + shonen ai = pass for me. |
 In every age, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same. |
shadowsword said: noteDhero said: Snowley said: Why you think animation is bad? I think it's decent, no moe-blobs or anorectic clampish guys, no ridiciolously lookin fights like in Naruto ( they're done nicely for me). Yes, a lot of close-ups, still images (low budget?) and fuckin' censorship, it may not be the level of Bakemonogatari, but it ain't the worst. In talking about the animation, I mean the actual movement in the picture. Not the art style, though it is also very bland and at times poor. This isn't really even the level of some mid-budget school harem. There's little animation, what is there is awkward and of a standard of almost 20 years ago. Exactly what noteDhero says. The Bl@ster bit at the beginning had veeeeery bad animation and it pretty much continued like that throughout the episode. I don't think it's a question a budget because as I said they used (more like wasted) loads of money on promotion and the ED songs. I think they decided to spent lots of money on these things instead of the actual animation. I really hope that the animation gets better... Maybe it's beacuse they wanted anime to look more simmilar to the original game (ok, now it sounds like fiding exuses for them). Hmmmm I like SHAFT very much so mabe I just haven't noticed little movement. |
| Compared to the animation in the game, this is poor animation BUT it is not bad at all. I actually think it was okay, and hopefully it will improve. |
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| That was pure sex. I've been waiting for this anime to come out for soooo long. :D I'm so excited! I'm not disappointed at all. Sure, the animation isn't the BEST ever, but it's not the worst either. I'm pretty happy with what they've done with it so far. I can't wait for next weeks episode! :)) |
| I really like it. But i knew i would. I cant wait to see more.:) |
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geyik said: correct me if i'm wrong but animation's supposed to be good on the first episode, right? Right. It then declines until around the 3rd episode which is about where it stays, save for certain climaxes. |
| Why are so much people complaining about the animation? I have seen só much "worser" than this :O I like the art style a lot :D But I have a question; how come so there's only 1 episode yet? I mean they've started to air it at sep 23th, right (that's what MAL says)? So why's there only 1 episode? Or am I just looking at the wrong site? -don't think so?- And Shiki (that guy in black witht he sword, I guess he's Shiki since I've read some other comments :P) is kinda cool ^^ But he does look like so much like Hei from Darker than Black! Except those eyes... but am I the only one who thinks that? :P And why is Akira the uke? I kinda hoped that he would be the seme, it's kinda "wrong" to see him as the uke since he's so manly -unlike the most ukes- or am I misunderstanding something now? (I haven't played the game/read the manga) but it seems like AkiraxShiki?... :P Can't wait till next week, I liked the first episode so far and the anime has an interesting plot and nice art :) |
| That was great. I hope they give the main character some backstory throughout the show. Animation was fine, it also didn't help that we haven't gotten a real HD release yet. |
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| @Orulyon: you are welcome! I enjoyed reading your posts a lot! *^.~* Monad said: You say you ain't crazy enough to just throw a 10 simply because you see bishies on the screen. Well if that is true then what is your problem? You shouldn't feel offended like you seem to be since obviously my comment doesn't involve you. Right? I didn't think Orulyon was offended by your first post, nor was I; we simply wanted to express our opinions and views, that was all. To be offended, a person would've used much harsher words and wouldn't have cared so much to be explanatory and respectful. However, even though your comments did not involve anyone here, it is not a polite thing to do to offend somebody out there. Just because you share different views and do not agree with something that other fans of anime do, that gives you no reason to freely and openly disrespect them and making such a stereotype. We should try to make MAL a peaceful environment where everybody feels comfortable to share his/her love for anime, no matter what kind of characters or what content the anime has. Monad said: Then according to you, 6 and 7 is from guys who think it's yaoi or people who didn't enjoy it. I believe you need to go and check the MAL rating. If someone disliked it completely it gives 2 and 3 not 6 and 7. There is no such a strict ratings system. I believe almost everybody rates an anime according to his/her own standards and likings. If one person disliked an anime completely, he might give it a 2 or 3, but in a different person's case, he might give it a 5 or 6. Personally for me, I have never given an anime or manga 4 or below no matter how bad or disappointing it was, because I appreacite the fact that the stuff took the effort to make it into an animation and the mangaka put in the effort to invent a story and draw it out. I believe Orulyon was just making an assumption based on her beliefs, and you were too. Nobody were really at fault here. Monad said: Goes check own rating of "Highschool of the Dead".....oh look it's a 7. Yeah am a straight male that loves seeing female flesh but it seems i still wasn't blind enough to give it a 10 just for fanservice when it was a 6 or 7. So you see the problem here isn't if you deserve your fangirl moments, it's about considering them as a masterpiece of 10 and if am not mistaken that's what we were talking about. The rating. I'm glad that you gave "Highschool of the Dead" a rating you think it deserves. Again, you are using harsh words and making negative comment against other people here. Please do not say that somebody is BLIND when she does exactly the same thing you did. Saying such things may only make you sound less intelligent than you can be. Please don't say that people are blind enough for doing something differently from how you do. People rate the anime they watched however they want, that includes you, me, and the people who give 10 to an anime with a lot of bishounens. Like I said, we have our individual standards and likings, you prefer to give an anime with a lot of fanservice for guys a 6 or 7, and there are others who prefer to give 10 to an anime with fanservice for girls. It is ultimately the same thing. A masterpiece of 10 to a person might not be masterpiece to another. An anime with a poor rating from a person might receive a farily high rating from another person. Since MAL does see ratings as a significant part of measuring how popular or "good" an anime is, it is inevitable that you are going to encounter ratings from people that you may not totally agree with. Every user has to accept that. Therefore, don't make bad comments when you do see things like that, or you may not enjoy being in this community as much and hurt people for doing things they have the right to do and enjoy to do. Monad said: Since as you say this is an anime and not a yaoi show then it's score should reflect it's quality as an anime. I can understand a yaoi show getting a 10 for being full of awesome bishies and all that, since such a show it's judged by the levels of fun male fanservice it provides and the score it gets reflects a completely different way of scoring that a normal anime. But an anime that's supposed to not fall in the hentai category has to be compared with a normal scoring system that reflects other anime and getting a 10 simply for the bishies is ridiculous. BTW before i close the post, you do realize that boys are physically incapable of being wet and getting multiple orgasms since it's strictly a girl thing, right? Was your brain shut off when you where writing that "girls are not like boys" comment? Can you give me an anime that is yaoi, receives a 10, and is full of awesome bishounens? Indeed I have such an anime in my mind that comes close to that, and it is Fuyu no Semi/Winter Cicada if you care to know. But the main reason I gave this yaoi anime a 9 is definitely not because the two main characters are gorgeous, in fact that is not a reason at all. I like that anime so much is because of its sorrowful story, the tragic love between two people who lived at a wrong time, unique historical setting, colorful animation, great seiyuus, beautiful music, even the poetic lyrics. Just like the title wants us to realize, a cicada should have been born and lived in the summer, but if it is born in the winter, it can only have a very short life and die soon after birth. Even right now, I feel bitter upon thinking about that anime. The reason I said all these is I want you to know that girls actually do consider a lot of things about a shounen-ai or yaoi anime when giving it a very high rating such as 10 or 9, just like any so-called by you "normal anime". There are only an extremely few yaoi anime that would receive such a score from the vast majority of female fangirls. Please don't make assumptions about a group of people who you don't know as much as you think you do. Just so you know, the word hentai refers to sexually explict or pornographic animation that involves boy x girl action, or hentai can simply mean sexually perverted in general terms. Among fans, yaoi is mostly used to refer to anime or manga that involves boy x boy sexual action. Shounen-ai is mostly used to refer to anime or manga that does not contain boy x boy action at all, but an light and often pure boys love. I suppose you meant yaoi in your comment, for hentai in this case is terminologically incorrect. I do not want to get into the differences between female and male sexual responds. Every human can have orgasms and there is fluid when having orgasms. Please do not extend this topic any further, for you were the one who first brought it up. For not being a girl, please do not so confidently say what kind of reactions girls have when watching yaoi anime because your comment about "being wet and getting multiple orgasms" just further proves that you are a boy indeed. |
Orulyon said: Monad said: You say you ain't crazy enough to just throw a 10 simply because you see bishies on the screen. Well if that is true then what is your problem? You shouldn't feel offended like you seem to be since obviously my comment doesn't involve you. Right? Then according to you, 6 and 7 is from guys who think it's yaoi or people who didn't enjoy it. I believe you need to go and check the MAL rating. If someone disliked it completely it gives 2 and 3 not 6 and 7. So the users that give 6 and 7 are users that saw flaws but definitely aren't in any hate spree just because of the bishies. So yes they are the most logical viewers. Goes check own rating of "Highschool of the Dead".....oh look it's a 7. Yeah am a straight male that loves seeing female flesh but it seems i still wasn't blind enough to give it a 10 just for fanservice when it was a 6 or 7. So you see the problem here isn't if you deserve your fangirl moments, it's about considering them as a masterpiece of 10 and if am not mistaken that's what we were talking about. The rating. Since as you say this is an anime and not a yaoi show then it's score should reflect it's quality as an anime. I can understand a yaoi show getting a 10 for being full of awesome bishies and all that, since such a show it's judged by the levels of fun male fanservice it provides and the score it gets reflects a completely different way of scoring that a normal anime. But an anime that's supposed to not fall in the hentai category has to be compared with a normal scoring system that reflects other anime and getting a 10 simply for the bishies is ridiculous. BTW before i close the post, you do realize that boys are physically incapable of being wet and getting multiple orgasms since it's strictly a girl thing, right? Was your brain shut off when you where writing that "girls are not like boys" comment? First of al, i wasn't offended, i was simply sharing my thoughts the same way you shared yours. ofc, you could have been more gentle and not mention the part of the getting wet and orgasms. Like i said, (and u should read it again), i wouldn't give it a 10 just because im a yaoi fangirl, and i wont give it a 10 at the end, probably. It takes much more than hot bishies to give a 10 to a show, and like i said before, probably the persons who rated it 10, rated it because they also enjoyed the plot. i cant even rate it now, because i wont rate an anime in the first ep. and also, if someone decides to give it a 10 only for the bishies, that´s the persons opinion, we shouldnt CRITICIZE. So, are we talking about anatomy now? because i dont need lessons about what a girl or a boy are able to do or not, i already know, thanks. Since you were talking about the reactions that a fangirl has, which are not quite like you described, i was referring to the fact that boys get much more carnal while watching a fanservice than us girls, otherwise there wouldn't be like 90 % of the animes with half naked girls running around, while there´s only about 10 % of shirtless guys in the animes. Im not against it, i dont criticize the fanservice, boys are actually lucky, for having so much of that, while girls have almost none, lol. Anyway, now its my time to ask, why do you feel so offended? We are only sharing opinions, so you shared yours, i commented, that´s all, i wasnt offended, but there are hard yaoi fans out there who could have been, so it was not very nice of you to share your opinion in such a crude way. Anyway, its only my opinion, and i apologize if i made you mad. My opinion will remain the same. and im here to enjoy the anime;D P.S- This and my other posts are not made to offend anyone, in return, i hope to be respected too. Well good that you ain't offended and no am not offended in any way ether so don't worry. So you seemed to disliked my aggressiveness with the "orgasm" comment, about what i thought the people behind the huge number of 10s was. Well fine but it's my right to be aggressive in my speech if i want to. And i can criticize as much i want, free speech and all. And you have the right to respond as much you want and criticize back. It's nice being free to say what you want to say. You believe they gave the 10 because they enjoyed the plot too, i believe after seeing the numbers of ten and how quick they where thrown (Some of them before even the episode aired actually), that is some stupid teenage fangirls with shits for brains that melt just because it's a show with bishies. Each of us obviously has different assumption and is nothing we can do to change that. The problem with you is that you believe you are a part of them and that's why you felt you had to respond. Well let me tell you, just because you like yaoi and your bishie fanservice doesn't mean that you are. Comments like the one you made about not giving a score from just the first episode, shows that your way of thinking is different and more logical. Just because you share a common interest or age with the specific category of females doesn't mean you think the same. I like hot anime girls and fanservice too but i don't think i have the same brains with every shithead male that sees a show full of female ass and boobs and throws a ten only for that. Now if guys are hornier that girls or not is a big discussion but i don't think you are gonna get your answer through the statistics of anime. Why some anime is made reflects only on profit in a specific market and nothing more. I believe now we understand each others opinion and we have basically come to an understanding even if we don't see exactly eye to eye. ae-i said: My conversation was with Orulyon that i still see as a relatively logical human being despite our disagreement and not with you. I have no wish to engage in a conversation with you because frankly i believe it's impossible to have one. Yeah my personal opinion for your person and your words that i see as a bunch of incoherent mumblings is low enough to believe i can't even engage in a disagreement with you. Feel free to dislike me if you want. So please stop replying to me. |
MonadOct 9, 2010 7:38 PM
| Hhmm... i see... Well from what i heard i though it'll be a lot worse, but despite 10 years old animation, rushed story and cheesy fights(bishes omitted since it was obvious they're gonna be here) it wasn't that bad. I was quite close to falling asleep two times watching it though... |
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| What the FAIL? watched it ...and just as i thought the art were bad .. T.._..T |
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| It is a crap in many ways. On the other hand, it is a crap in many levels. Which mean this is a crap. And plz don't quote me for this. I didn't call it crap because it is a BL but rather it is a crap. |
 "A Legend is but a tale of a beautiful lie." |
| The premise is interesting. The art is bad. The music is decent. I enjoyed it. |
| Like many have said, the art was a really huge disappointment. But being a long-time fan of the series, I'll still follow it. |
mimilineOct 13, 2010 2:43 AM
| Just a question: Keisuke is gay or something? I don't know anything about the manga, but he's weird. The episode was... decent, the animation is not really god, but, oh well... It seems interesing for now. |
Laurine_Andersen said: Just a question: Keisuke is gay or something? I don't know anything about the manga, but he's weird. The episode was... decent, the animation is not really god, but, oh well... It seems interesing for now. Do you want me to answer as a person who played the game or as a person who read the manga? Either way, I say he's gay. But since they warned us there wouldn't be any gay stuff, I say he just likes his best friend at little bit too much. |
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Orulyon said: About the "getting wet and having multiple orgasms", im sorry to disappoint you but girls are not like boys, it takes much more to stay like that. Also, if we girls have to see all the damn ecchi scenes with huge boobs and other stuff, in almost all animes, (not to mention Highschool of the dead) which is like WTF for us and we dont say a word, so we actually deserve to have our fangirl moments watching animes with hot guys, since they are very rare. i actually think this is an anime that can be enjoyed by boys as well, since it has good action. I... I think i love you ♥ |
| This is quite horrible. I expected a lot of it, maybe even too much. I don't know where to start about how crappy the art is. But maybe I'm just too spoiled with Nitro's art from the games. I'm just deeply disappointed in this. Though, I still have some hopes up because of Gunji. Can't wait to see him! mimiline said: But being a long-time fan of the series, I'll still follow it. +1 |
| You know what...IDGAF about quality of animation.As long as it doesn´t make me cringe i am ok with it. I was quite captivated by this ep...i didn´t even pause it while watching.And that´s something,because usually i am like..."is it ending already?"...and the 20 minutes feel like forever.Didn´t happen now:) And what is not boring to me get "loved it" in poll:D |
| Akira is such a tease...... D: |
| I liked this show better when it was called Jyu-Oh-Sei. |
| I was expecting it to be stupid but I was surprised with it. :3 |
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| This has my interest peaked so I'll definitely be watching it, the only thing I have a problem with is that the blood is so bright red. It looks really fake. |
| Only noticed that it's a Shounen Ai just now after watching it. Was wondering what was up with the two guys >_>. Also explains the fangirls on the first page... |
Day2Dream said: Also explains the fangirls on the first page... I like how a lot of people don't know what this series is based on. |
| I liked it. Loved the fights and I think that the animation is decent imho so im gonna watch this. |
| So was there any actual shounen-ai in this episode? Or is it just "subtle/indirect" like Kuroshitsuji? |
| Whoa, it's the Campanella of the season? Dropped. |
Sarukah said: So was there any actual shounen-ai in this episode? Or is it just "subtle/indirect" like Kuroshitsuji? It was subtle-indirect, but with even less than Kuroshituji. |
| it seems weird... like i dont know... i watched it, but it didnt really hold my interest... DAMN IT, i had hopes for this -__- |
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Lind_L_Tailor said: Sarukah said: So was there any actual shounen-ai in this episode? Or is it just "subtle/indirect" like Kuroshitsuji? It was subtle-indirect, but with even less than Kuroshituji. Okay good (didnt want to see if it had actual shounen-ai), I'll try it then, but with low expectations since it seems to be getting some not so great feedback here. |
Sarukah said: Lind_L_Tailor said: Sarukah said: So was there any actual shounen-ai in this episode? Or is it just "subtle/indirect" like Kuroshitsuji? It was subtle-indirect, but with even less than Kuroshituji. Okay good (didnt want to see if it had actual shounen-ai), I'll try it then, but with low expectations since it seems to be getting some not so great feedback here. Personally, I'd say it was pretty good... just irritatingly similar to Jyu-Oh-Sei. The only major differences were that this has an urban setting, and that the main character isn't one of two twins. |
| my expectations were high due to the pv which ... looks nothing like the animation i watched. i thought the opening would be more epic but it was boring nonetheless~ its sort of awkward to watch the whole time me and my friend were poking fun at it and laughing |
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TrueUchiha said: anyone else thinks Shiki looks somewhat like Noctis from FFXIII VS? I do!! I had never read nor played Togainu before. But when Shiki showed up, he somehow looked familiar! haha I do expect something better from the studio, as the trailer showed me and I fell for it. Anyway, I'll still watch the next episode to see if anything gets fixed. |
| That's sooo gay |
| HOLY SMOKE'S th-th-there m-m-m-oving... GOSH IM HYPER :DDDDD the anime is so gayer then the manga , like that ;) |
| Eeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It was just okay. Laughably bad at some parts. Decent towards the end. Might stick with this for a few more episodes. |
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| That was a very big skimped episode =\. It looked good, but just a little bit more? I don't like dropping animes, looking forward for more >.< |
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