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| You know i started this episode completely expecting to hate it, but it wasnt bad at all... its not great but its pretty charming and unique Definitely sticking with it. |
| Animation felt very comic-like and choppy. Instead of bothering me, it felt like it worked, imo. So "the Reflection" is a phenomenon that happened a few years in the past and created "side effects" on some people. Three characters introduced: red-head girl, I-Guy, and X-On. I wonder how they will all interact. "You'll continue to protect New York, right?" "Sorry, I actually live in L.A" xD lol I liked it, so I'll be watching future episodes. I want to see how it will turn out :) |
KilikcliaJul 22, 2017 8:10 PM
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| More people judging an entire show from one episode. Typical MAL. |
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| Well, it sure was a pretty bad start. I dont mind the style of it but it was pretty choppy and the episode was slow af and uninteresting. Not gonna stop here tho, ill at least give another chance but if it ends up like this episode ill just drop it. |
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'Murica. .......... |
| Seems people have quite the split opinion about this one. Reflection was one of those anime I was somewhat interested to see. It's too early to judge the plot/writing of this show just from the first episode, but my main issue were the visuals. They felt very inconsistent and lacked quality, close up shots were somewhat alright but anything past that was fairly poor quality, the animation was choppy, the action scenes had no impact (almost felt like wet paint slapping together), the lack of texturing made it feel bland and the color scheme seems unnatural. Besides that, the first episode did not seem to offer anything exciting enough to overlook the main issue I have with it. |
dePuddiJul 22, 2017 9:23 PM
Suddenly, someone slaps you with a brick wall. |
| i started this with little to no information on this anime, and i kid you not but within the first 30 seconds, when all they had was the ongrange and black lines from the floating lanterns i said "why does this remind me of Hero-man?" then i seen the faces and the design the show was going for "oh its like those animes that's suppose to resemble American cartoon style. maybe thats why i thought of Hero-man." it was confirmed with the american flags literally everywhere five mniutes after i said that. then finally it all made sense when stan lee narrated the ending card. i see everyone complaining about the action scenes, and i too have to agree. i particularly didnt like when Xfaceman activated his hulk arm to punch the guy. it felt so anticlimatic. |
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| Really like the different & stylistic approach to the art style, but the animation quality is absolutely atrocious. It even affected the directing. Very disappointed. Nezperdian said: It has less FPS than Ajin. Wow... I have never though that could happen with a hand-drawn anime, yet you're right. CordingAlmond12 said: Yeah, no. Some of ya'll are off base. I'm no expert but there a a few things even I know about animation. Let's clear up a few things. The *artstyle* is fine. The Character designs are fine. The premise is fine. Some people here often mixed up things, especially art style with animation. Some even mention "animation style," which I do not even know what that means. Wow. |
| Meh, was expecting something decent for some reason, was really annoyed by how bad it was. Based on episode 1 i'd give it 3/10 which i feel is generous. ... Actually, fuck it, it was really bad, so i'll give it a 2/10 and drop it, if the score goes up for some reason after a couple episodes i might try watching it again, but i currently have absolutely no intention of watching episode 2 sadly. Most disappointing anime of the season... |
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| best anime of the season, maybe even the year, maybe even all time the ending is awesome too |
| I dont know how,but this show managed to make Metahuman fights boring AF,also those fights had to be the cleanest fights between Metahumans ever o_O Now, i dont need Man of Steel level of destruction,but c'mon one window and wooden stand... I really hope they up the "oomph" in a future. |
OnbuuJul 23, 2017 12:50 AM
| Ugly, stupid, lazy as fuck, slow, boring. This should NOT be viewed by anyone EVER. If you have 2 options, watch paint dry until you die or watch this watch the paint. |
| Shit, I downloaded some American hero cartoon by mistake. Seriously I don't know if I want to watch this. It's not typical anime but I kinda want to know what it's about, so two more episodes. But Deen why, you were making some good stuff recently, don't go back to shit now. |
| wow they really enjoyed playing just 5 seconds of that one "sky show" song over and over. that totally wasn't annoying at all! <-- sarcasm :DDDDDD you'd think that they'd be able to animate this show a bit more fluidly because of how simple the art style is, but i guess it is fucking DEEN we're talking about, after all. this was one of the most painfully slow episodes of anything i've ever seen. there were multiple times where it would just sit on a single frame for what felt like 30 seconds or extended sequences where it would change frames once every 2 seconds. the couple of times there was actually more than one frame per second, it was legitimately difficult to tell what was going on because of how choppy it was combined with the complete lack of detail in the art. i don't even hate the art style outright, but it doesn't really work here... i feel like i just watched 3 minutes of animation and storytelling stretched to 25 minutes. why? WHY DEEN? DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA  pictured: roughly 7% of the total run time of the episode |
| I hope they improve the animation next episode, the fight scenes felt light like no impact at all. I guess I'm watching for the soundtrack. Ninja Slayer was better. |
AntagonizedJul 23, 2017 2:03 AM
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| I was gonna give this a few more episodes but a mate told me it's by some guy Stan Lee who writes Marvel and I just insta nope'd and now it's dropped. |
101mariofreak said: the ending has better animation than the actual show I can't tell if you are aware of it or not, but if you mean the movements of the girls in the ED, that's because it's not animated, per se. Those are real people. |
| This was pretty bad. The style reminded me of a colour in book. I did get half a chuckle when iguy totally rejected the town tho. |
| Holy shit ... that was really bullshit. I don't care about animation. But the art/style was crap. Faces and stuff. Not enough details. Felt like someone colored a few rough sketches from a manga and used that. I managed to watch about 6 minutes. Then I skipped through the remaining stuff and it didn't seem to get better. So I dropped it. The fight at the beginning without talking seemed boring. (No info.) This felt like an american boring generic superhero crap. Then I looked at MAL. Saw somethign about a "Stan Lee" - thought ... "that sounds like similar to Jackie Chan - is some Kung Fu guy involved here?" ... then I googled and saw it was a guy involved in superhero crap. No wonder the anime is crap when they try to be like superhero stuff from the US - that only really young people can enjoy. It's been a long time since I have been that young. Not adding it to my list since I haven't watched more then half of the 1st episode and it would be 0/x episodes watched. Score I guess would be 1-3 somewhere in that region. |
| Without a doubt, it is a brave direction to take, and will not suit many people, myself included. The animation reminded me of a cross between an Animatic and the flash animation I saw 20+ years ago. The premise sounds interesting, I'll give it that. And as for a protagonist painting media screens with comic book effects during combat seemed quite ludicrous. Some will persevere, but for me, it ended at the pilot episode. |
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| leave anime alone with this "kow pow" bullshit. |
| Does anybody know what was the band that pkayed that 80's song about the sky show? |
Luthandorius said: No wonder the anime is crap when they try to be like superhero stuff from the US - that only really young people can enjoy. It's been a long time since I have been that young. Really Young people must be why Superhero movies sell then! Really Young people also must be why half the superhero movies released have been critically acclaimed...wait what. |
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FiraDeviant said: I do not think you have seen more recent cartoons like Young Justice, Steven Universe, Gravity falls and even the new Teenage Mutent Ninja Turtles. Yes animation is a bigger deal in japan. But its production value is no longer that big a difference anymore. The one major divergence is still location of origin and with shows like Space Dandy that is also slowly disappearing. The western world may not appreciate animation as much yet. But It is getting there. And what we have is pretty on par with your avarige anime. Def agree. See, this is what I meant when I said I would much rather refer to Western animation for superhero series (but of course everyone was quick to jump me for 'divining' western and japanese animation). There have def been some quality stuff in recent years. Young Justice is amazing. Has anyone seen the new Voltron (Legendary Defender)? That is epic af. |
| heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey it's actually not that bad as people said.. it's only have different artstyle and animation but the story is passable for me, since it's episodic gonna watch next episode |
ZetaZaku said: The biggest salt mine that the world has ever seen lolLooks like a salt mine in here. I think that the art style is indeed pretty simple but that's kind of the point here given the theme and especially considering who the creator is......Back in the day, we never had the amazing art styles in comics that we have today and the ones in this show screams and really pays homage to how comics looked in the 60's, 70's and 80's etc It's hella different from anything that we've seen and imo that's very refreshing for once......And that whole "Ruin Hollywood not anime" thing is the most weebish thing I've seen in a while @Moodie lol you need to chill As for the story, it's pretty typical within the superhero genre except it's only recently where the breakout of heroes and villains have begun, so it'll be interesting to see how this is all handled - It feels a lot like Marvel too which is cool The characters are okay so far but I'm REALLY interested in X-On.....That guy has a broken ass ability lol. Seems like he'll have a nice dynamic with the photographer girl too so hopefully that whole thing ends up being a fun ride to see develop Decent start overall and I LOVE the ED (Pretty cool how they used actual people for it) |
Fai said: Why'd you even bother responding to an uneducated comment like that lolLuthandorius said: No wonder the anime is crap when they try to be like superhero stuff from the US - that only really young people can enjoy. It's been a long time since I have been that young. Really Young people must be why Superhero movies sell then! Really Young people also must be why half the superhero movies released have been critically acclaimed...wait what. |
| Mind as well check this later.. |
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| The problem of this anime is simple, not the art or animation... IT IS JUST SLOW AS f*CK I use often the x1.5 speed, but here even the x1.5 is so SLOW, finally x2 is way better |
moodie said: Screw traditional looking anime, regardless I can see why you wouldnt quite like something that looks like flash but anime looks boring as shit most the time so im glad it tried to be different. Ya this isnt for me. A shame that this is what the director has to work with. Why couldnt he make more traditional looking anime smh. Also fuck stan lee, please ruin hollywood not anime. |
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Vacu0us said: it's been a while since i saw something that bad thats 25 minutes of my life I will never get back 25 minutes you watched the whole thing i gave up after he called himself "I-GUY", this show was horrendous, the pacing is soooooo slow, the art style its like someone gave up half way through development and was content with what they had. This has to be the worst anime this season, even the Shounen Ai stuff is better than this. |
ghostinthezoid said: Vacu0us said: it's been a while since i saw something that bad thats 25 minutes of my life I will never get back 25 minutes you watched the whole thing i gave up after he called himself "I-GUY", this show was horrendous, the pacing is soooooo slow, the art style its like someone gave up half way through development and was content with what they had. This has to be the worst anime this season, even the Shounen Ai stuff is better than this. I just kept trying to convince myself something was going to get good and make it worthwhile even though I knew it wasn't going to be the case but I love me some shounen ai xxXxXxxxx |
moodie said: A1-Picture style fuckery and Otaku Fanservice pandering culture is doing a good enough job ruining anime for yearsYa this isnt for me. A shame that this is what the director has to work with. Why couldnt he make more traditional looking anime smh. Also fuck stan lee, please ruin hollywood not anime. |
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| This anime was utterly baffling ... But that's exactly why I'm gonna keep watching |
| The animation is forgivable as I can see what they were going for, but this was so painfully boring that I only just managed to force myself halfway through the episode before giving up. |
| Wow this really takes me back to 90's, feels like the first time i read a marvel comic as a child, lol, the sky show bgm was good stuff thou |
| A life is a history with no end...it continues to be told by others endless. We do not own lives, we own histories! |
| I came here expecting something possibly psychological involving a mirror or something. It's called "The Reflection" and the picture looked kind of cool... What I got: X-Men with jpop Not complaining. I actually liked it. Good soundtrack. Unique art style. Cool. |
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| Yeah I'm not gonna progress any further than the first episode tbh. When you use the exact same song more than once. or even twice, MINUTES apart from each other, you know that's a bad sign off the bat. Animation was too weird for me, didn't flow right. The ending theme is cool but it doesn't fit??? This is super heroes, not idol trash. Boring..boring..and boring. Slow paced and not enough dialog. I was so damn hyped when I watched the PV cause the PV actually made this look cool? Idk what happened..and because it was Stan Lee. But not my cup of tea. This is just bad, so I'm dropping it. |
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| The Reflection was... bad, really REALLY bad. The animation was lazy AS FUCK, but not only that, the pace is horrendous it doesn't help this in any sense, it didn't started that bad, it had somethings interesting, but it wasn't enough to keep my interest. i will give it a chance of 3 episodes, but for this start, i was dissapointed |
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