Forum SettingsEpisode Information
Forums
New
What did you think of this episode?
DO NOT discuss the source material beyond this episode. If you want to discuss future events or theories, please use separate threads.
DO NOT ask where to watch/download this episode or give links to copyrighted, non-fair use material.
DO NOT troll/bait/harass/abuse other users for liking or disliking the series/characters.
DO read the Anime Discussion Rules and Site & Forum Guidelines.
Pages (3) « 1 [2] 3 »
Oct 4, 2020 2:02 AM

Offline
Dec 2019
12
idk what I expected tbh but it felt a bit underwhelming,,, I feel like its gonna be kinda like how I felt w tamayomi in the sense its not gonna get much better and I'll get bored, but hopefully not
Oct 4, 2020 3:09 AM

Offline
Mar 2016
506
Really enjoyed it! Much better than most of the anime out so far! <3
Oct 4, 2020 3:21 AM
Offline
Apr 2019
1258
Somehow I liked the show, though not the characters. Would be interesting to follow where it goes
Oct 4, 2020 3:45 AM

Offline
Dec 2018
3848
Pretty good first episode


It was so fucking cute! Jun really likes Konomi and they were flirting like crazy YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! Having there little love race and everything


I was a bit disappointed because I wanted even more delicious Yuri. But the flirting was definitely there, and the ED give me hope for more sweet Yuri in the future


Awwwwww my little lesbian lovebirds are sleeping tight together.Climbing walls then go home and climbing each other! Exactly like lesbians should do,,,,,,,YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES











Yuri-CrusaderOct 4, 2020 4:30 AM
Oct 4, 2020 3:53 AM

Offline
Dec 2010
864
That few seconds in the opening sounds so familiar... Then I noticed it's AINYA!!!!

I personally enjoy wall climbing so this anime interests me.
I haven't climbed in years though... sadly.

Nice to hear Sumipe
Also, SHINY!!! Ainya is back
Oct 4, 2020 4:48 AM
Offline
Jan 2015
754
VanishingKira said:
I know why I'm clearly watching this


The rest can be found here
https://imgur.com/a/aMWeYmM


A a fellow man of culture

Thanks for the link. I am saving it on my wall
Oct 4, 2020 5:34 AM

Offline
Jul 2017
44
this is definitely gonna be my guilty pleasure anime of the season lol. damn those muscles.

i wonder how many people will take up rock climbing because of this? xD
Oct 4, 2020 5:58 AM

Offline
Sep 2016
206
Okay, I really enjoyed this overall, but I fucking hate Jun so far. Like, jesus fucking christ, she's acting like on those gatekeeping assholes.
Oct 4, 2020 6:15 AM
Offline
Oct 2017
128
What a fun start! i'v never heard of a Rock climbing sport anime but im glad its not trying to do to much of an ecchi route but also go into the little details about rock climbing itself like techniques and strategy's for its puzzle like nature. Pretty normal character setup though. I hope this anime gets really good and also focusses on the dynamic the two main girls have. Nice first ep looking forward to this.
Signature removed. Please follow the signature rules, as defined in the Site & Forum Guidelines.
Oct 4, 2020 7:25 AM

Offline
Apr 2020
3231
Konomi's hairpin is a puzzle, it seems Konomi likes puzzle so much, Lmao.
Oct 4, 2020 7:38 AM

Offline
May 2012
6868
Score 6.55 ?? Really

I enjoyed this episode a lot
Oct 4, 2020 7:44 AM

Offline
Sep 2012
4
Holy shit Jun, calm the fuck down. Other than that I really enjoyed this.
Oct 4, 2020 8:07 AM

Offline
Mar 2018
1220
Still CGDCT, but it's "Cute Girls Doing Climbing Things" this time.

Came in thinking it'll be more fanservicey like Kandagawa Jet Girls but it's surprisingly more on a serious side. I don't mind it tho. It was entertaining anyway.

I'm a gamer too. Maybe I should start this sport or something :D

rsc-pl said:
I don't know why 競 which is competition had "kei" reading here while usually it's "kyou" for competitive activities.
It's just another (obscure) form of onyomi reading. When will Japanese learners realize that there's a shitload of ways to pronounce kanjis, and anime takes a lot more liberty even beyond that?

Sorry, I had to.

Oct 4, 2020 8:29 AM
Offline
Feb 2012
707
as always female "sport" anime are always a joke they should delete the sports tag from this because we all know that ain't what people are here for
Oct 4, 2020 1:27 PM

Offline
Dec 2008
158
I started watching it hoping that it'll be something in vein of Hanebado (mostly due to its posterhere on mal) but I'm afraid it has potential of turning out to be another ecchi. I'll go with the 3 ep rule for it, but the amount of static panels and a complete noobie acig the wall doesn't bode well.
Oct 4, 2020 3:35 PM
fanservice<3

Offline
Mar 2012
12665
wow, this was alot more visually gorgeous than i expected and god damn the girls are sexy XD
Oct 4, 2020 7:09 PM

Offline
Jan 2008
18291
Didn't think I was actually gonna be disappointed in something I didn't have much expectation in to begin with.

I would probably have enjoyed it to some degree if most of the climbing wasn't a slide show. On top of that, I don't care for any of the characters, I guess you could say they all have a weak entrance.

The way main character was recruited felt so unnatural and off. Her visualizing the path is just strange. It's like saying I'm good at match 3 games so that makes me good at sports. Okay.

Fanservice was weak, which is honestly the only thing I think could keep me watching.
Oct 4, 2020 8:48 PM

Offline
Mar 2019
949
I was waiting to see how this anime will be....

Kind of interesting and kind of dissapointing...

Time will decide if i continue/drop it...

Nyan-Pasu!... [ Ara Ara ] [ Waifus ]
Oct 4, 2020 11:01 PM

Offline
Jul 2014
1925
Well, that was pretty fun and exciting. Fanservice was also pretty nice with those nice camera angles. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

That ED with the sleepover... YES!
Oct 4, 2020 11:38 PM

Offline
Aug 2008
2039
I actually do rock climbing, so I enjoyed this episode more than others. I really liked the rock climbing scenes; they were pretty intense.

However, as a real rock climber, I have some bones to pick:
1. A beginner would definitely not be as good as Konomi. Rock climbing is exhausting. Everyone I know who climbed for the first time become so sore and tire, that they are unable to even pick anything up. I'm not even out of shape, but the first time I did rock climbing, I couldn't even type on a keyboard afterwards.
2. In the competition scene, Konomi was given a 2 minute head start. Unless you are incredibly strong, there is no way you can be climbing for at least 2 minutes straight and not be tired. I've done problems that were long (still less than a minute), but by the time I'm almost to the top, my muscles are just so worn out that I would just fall to the ground, even if I'm just two steps away from the top.
3. For someone who tried rock climbing for the first time with no tape on her hands, the underside of her fingers should be bloody and completely scraped.
4. Basically, combined with all of the above, there's no way she would be ready for tomorrow's competition. She would probably need at least two or three days of rest just to recuperate.

But yeah, I'm only nitpicky because I love rock climbing... and I miss it dearly (Covid has shut down my rock climbing gym for months)

Thanks, person who gave me this on another site a long time ago, lol.
Oct 5, 2020 12:08 AM
Offline
Jan 2013
5
So I actually really enjoy bouldering as a woman, and was addicted to it for a bit. It's been a long time since I've climbed for various reasons so totally out of practice now. Fun fact is that one of the best (if not the best) female climbers is Japanese so I wonder if the writers were influenced by that.

Can confirm that puzzle-esque nature of the wall, and honestly is the reasons why bouldering is the only sport I've really stuck with (like you just zone out with running and lifting so it gets boring really quickly, or maybe it's more like the puzzle nature of it distracts me from the pain??).

I was hoping to be surprised but given the trailer and poster it's hard to expect more from it. Lotta cliches right off the bat. You def don't wear shorts while climbing, (1) the wall is rough as hell and you will scrape the fuck out of your legs unless you got long pants and (2) if you're going to wear a harness you want more coverage.

Animation is also pretty bad, and couldn't they have chosen a less annoying game animation for their analogy?

Depiction of proper techniques was a mixed bag, they showed some really good stuff but also they fucked up with some basic stuff.

I would've loved it if they really had taken the beginning slow and actually go in depth about techniques because there really is a lot that goes into it. I wouldn't even mind them boring me with like, going over different types of holds. Climbers like Konomi do come along with beginner's luck but I think the routes she was going on would still be too much for her, or at least I wouldn't be able to know since they don't allow the viewer any insight into movement. I don't know how they're going to do good ole sports level up progression if they don't even go over basics and she's already doing intermediate techniques?

Also it's people like Jun that I absolutely hate and is a reason why so many people are intimidated by climbing/just going to a climbing gym in the first place. I'm lucky that the gym closest to me is super friendly and chill and everyone's really open to beginners, but ofc I didn't know that at first and was terrified. People get hardcore fast, and I don't see her problem with not allowing "fun" or seeing it as a "game." Like baseline, it's a very injury prone sport so be careful, but beyond that, it really is just a real life puzzle platformer and there's actually a shitton of nerds at the gym.
Oct 5, 2020 12:24 AM

Offline
Oct 2007
3545
I guess having experience in ballet helped Konomi climb, as well as the tactical thinking of a gamer.

Jun-chan is such a tsundere. xD
Oct 5, 2020 12:35 AM

Offline
Nov 2018
13
Horn_dawg_2019 said:
Last time I've checked:


Female Sports climbers don't wear something like this for training, cu'z that obviously belongs someone who is into track and field or athletics .



They would usually be in legging, to keep prying eyes from guys ogling at their butt cheeks.
Also helps with things like using their knees while climbing. There's a type of move called a knee-bar that lets you rest on the wall. You basically wedge your knee and foot between two rocks tight enough that you no longer need your hands and can rest them. On rougher holds its nice to have something over your knees to keep them from getting too beaten up.
Oct 5, 2020 3:58 AM
Offline
Aug 2020
112
Well it's pretty meh, fanservice is niche not that good either.
Oct 5, 2020 6:24 AM

Offline
Aug 2019
102
first episode try so hard to become serious and wtf is the deal with Jun being an ass for almost the entire episode and the last minute being a fng tsundere
Oct 5, 2020 6:25 AM
Offline
Aug 2016
26
VanishingKira said:
I know why I'm clearly watching this


The rest can be found here
https://imgur.com/a/aMWeYmM
did they just censored her abs wit dark shading.. just why?
Oct 5, 2020 6:32 AM

Offline
Jun 2019
6665
Hey, that's a pretty interesting show. Don't know anything about Climbing. Hope to learn something about this sport. The girls are cute. Konomi and Jun already became rivals. Nice.
Oct 5, 2020 11:36 AM

Offline
Jan 2011
6555
came expecting maybe legit sports but also Keijo levels of fun? didn't quite get that but its clear as day that the fanservice is higher at the top of priorities but i know nothing of rock climbing so i can hardly judge if this show is spitting facts or not or how serious it actually will be at SPORTS.



but realizing she got censored and wasn't wearing leggings had me mad confused lol now i know why her outfit was bugging me it was a track N field outfit though at least their team outfit is a bit more tailored towards what you'd expect to wear while climbing
Oct 5, 2020 11:08 PM

Offline
Jun 2020
297
It's actually just ok. It's really interesting, the pacing seems to be pretty ok so far. The characters are just meh but this is the first episode and nothing important really happened that would really need a character's personality, so it's ok. The thing is, the artstyle or just the quality of the animation is really really mediocre. Like I understand that this show might have less budget but sometimes it's kinda bothering and it's setting up this amateur-ish mood. It doesn't look like what it was advertised as (the poster). Maybe the site I'm using is kinda shitty but if it's the actual quality, it's pretty disturbing. Well, so far it's just average. It's ok.

But the fanservice is just really cool, and that sleepover ED as well (don't mind my degeneracy).



5.4/10 or just 5/10 so far. It's ok.


Oct 6, 2020 6:55 AM
Offline
May 2016
1942
Meh Jun and the seriousness ruined it for me, took any fun right out of it, though also kind of boring to think it's just going to be them climbing every episode.
Oct 6, 2020 7:02 AM
Shalltear

Offline
Apr 2018
34677
Wow really liked this first episode to be honest, + all the Puzzle Bobble mechanic for the climbing part xD
Oct 6, 2020 10:13 AM
Offline
May 2016
1
As someone who's been bouldering for about 5-6 months now!(I'm still a beginner of course) The climbing terms and technique in this anime are accurate which is something i'm pleasantly suprised about. I personally love it, but maybe because i'm so hyped to see my new hobby in an anime.
Oct 6, 2020 10:54 AM
Offline
Jun 2020
1
I had pretty low expectations going into this, but I will watch anything sports-related. However, this was underwhelming and the art was lackluster. Will give it a couple more episodes though.
Oct 6, 2020 4:45 PM
anime pervert

Offline
Apr 2013
500
Muscular women disgust me so I hope Konomi's body won't change too much.

So far I liked it, surprisingly enjoyable actually.
Guess I'll keep watching if they refrain from showing female abs all the time.
Oct 7, 2020 5:54 AM

Offline
Mar 2009
8123
Girls with abs? Thank you for the feast.
Oct 7, 2020 7:56 AM
Offline
Jul 2018
562355
What is up with the standard "I trained all my life in this sport, how dare you call it a game! How dare you have fun!" trope in this sports anime... Seriously just made me hate the character from the start. And then the club president and vice-president didn't even say anything to correct her, agreeing with the match that could make them lose a potential new member? Besides, it is inferred that the 2 seniors have fun/enjoy rock-climbing as well, so Jun has no problem with them?

I think I will drop this anime...luckily, there's still alot more to choose from this season.
Oct 7, 2020 10:20 AM

Offline
Jun 2013
4853
Jun is so fucking annoying
Oct 8, 2020 5:38 AM

Offline
Apr 2018
423
Just okay, not a very good first impression, but I still continue watching to see if the show has something to offer later on.
 
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain
 
Oct 8, 2020 7:56 AM

Offline
Oct 2008
13718
animu wall climbing!? what a refreshing sport!
5/5.


Oct 8, 2020 8:52 AM

Offline
Jun 2016
2107
i enjoyed this tbh !!

looks promising
Oct 9, 2020 12:24 AM

Offline
Aug 2010
11
Another fellow long-time climber and I really enjoyed the first ep, but I admit I’m probably biased because climbing is an under-represented sport in anime. :P

Good and accurate use of technical terms without boring non-climbers, and they even showcased a decent amount of technique (like new girl climbing arete).

To nitpick, agree with others that it’s improbable for new girl to pick up climbing that proficiently that quickly. Like she learned how to lead climb and clip into the anchors so easily after a few climbs???

As a quick counterpoint, climbing in shorts is totally fine if the person doesn’t mind that their legs/knees get scratched, which would probably already be the case for hardass girl since she’s been climbing since a child.

unbournx said:
did they just censored her abs wit dark shading.. just why?


I don’t think it’s censored because her abs weren’t shaded in the earlier part of the ep.

My best is the dark shading is some sort of under-garment/fabric to keep the climbing harness from rubbing directly on skin, because that’s a pretty uncomfortable feeling. It makes sense because club captain also has the same dark shading when she wore her harness.
Oct 11, 2020 7:43 AM

Offline
Apr 2012
519
That's a very cliched set of characters. Can't say I'm a fan of Jun's type who gatekeeps the sport just because "it's not supposed to be fun", but we all know how that type will develop anyway.

Still pretty enjoyable~ Looking forward to learn some more wall climbing terms and techniques.
Oct 11, 2020 10:59 PM
Offline
Feb 2020
256
Well, there's gonna be plenty of fanservice just based on the camera angles available

I wish there was a 'like' option here, some of the other posts are good
I'm thinking the 'uniform' in this episode is the school one and they have a more professional one for competitions, they did mention that the club is only a year old, so the school doesn't want to invest too much into the gear yet

I would like to know why I'm attracted to these style shows while not even remotely interested in things like Kuroko no Basket and the volleyball one
BastionoOct 11, 2020 11:38 PM
Oct 12, 2020 8:11 AM
Offline
Oct 2019
7506
Never thought that Climbing Sport could be this entertaining....

One thing that got my attention is Ishikawa Yui are in this anime yay

But for real, Waifu with Muscles
davidyodo24Oct 12, 2020 8:15 AM
Oct 14, 2020 8:05 AM
Offline
Jan 2017
705
ugghht .. i feel complicated of this anime,
umm just like listen enterprise voice but in different different form..
yui ishikawa wtf the jun chara voice its very similar with enty, its make me feel really weird..
Oct 14, 2020 5:47 PM

Offline
Oct 2012
5844
Interesting show but I already hate the tsundere.

I hope this show features not only their climbing and preparation but also some other moments from their life (the fact that the main heroine is a game was interesting fact).

Also, I don't know how to feel about the main heroine who almost win without any prior effort or training.
Oct 17, 2020 6:30 AM

Offline
Jan 2008
3058
Was looking forward to a female led sports anime. The OP was horrible and put me right off. The Op gave me generic friendship and slice of life vibe ( with lazy visuals and a forgettable song) which is something I avoid vehemently. So I never even got past the OP.

I might give it an actual proper go again but I've got other anime I've enjoyed from the very start and would rather spend my time on them. I'll follow on reviews and response from other viewers before I decide though.

What I want: Competitive sport treated properly with female leads but no ecchi.

What I expect it will be: Ecchi with emphasis on rivarly and girly friendship
UberBatOct 17, 2020 6:36 AM
Oct 18, 2020 3:15 PM
Oct 19, 2020 4:06 AM
Mob Character C

Offline
Oct 2009
5346
I mean, I don't expect much, but it's fine and I'm in.
Some odd decisions. Not sure if they reeeally want us to take the rock climbing aspect seriously or not or if it's just there to move things/be there. We'll see how they treat it after this episode.

Enjoy your anime! | Witch Cafe Wisteria
Oct 24, 2020 4:25 PM

Offline
Sep 2008
4300
after watching the 1st episode, this was the weakest everything I've seen.
I was expecting the polar opposite, hanebado tier muscle animation.

the girls look bland.
the opening music and visuals were incredibly lazy.
the same can be said for the show, there's barely anything moving.
the artstyle is unappealing
they rarely even draw characters from the front, and I don't mean the climbing parts.
it looks cheap. 0 effort stuff. I'll give it a few more episode but this looks like the one show I'll surely drop this season. a shame because I hunger for muscles.
馬鹿げた倫理 全部ガラクタで
Pages (3) « 1 [2] 3 »

More topics from this board

Poll: » Iwa Kakeru!: Sport Climbing Girls Episode 12 Discussion ( 1 2 )

Stark700 - Dec 19, 2020

77 by HiljainenSipuli »»
Nov 4, 2024 8:51 AM

Poll: » Iwa Kakeru!: Sport Climbing Girls Episode 11 Discussion

Stark700 - Dec 12, 2020

33 by HiljainenSipuli »»
Nov 4, 2024 8:23 AM

Poll: » Iwa Kakeru!: Sport Climbing Girls Episode 10 Discussion

Stark700 - Dec 5, 2020

37 by HiljainenSipuli »»
Nov 4, 2024 8:00 AM

Poll: » Iwa Kakeru!: Sport Climbing Girls Episode 9 Discussion

Stark700 - Nov 28, 2020

34 by HiljainenSipuli »»
Nov 4, 2024 7:34 AM

Poll: » Iwa Kakeru!: Sport Climbing Girls Episode 8 Discussion

Stark700 - Nov 21, 2020

32 by HiljainenSipuli »»
Nov 4, 2024 7:11 AM
It’s time to ditch the text file.
Keep track of your anime easily by creating your own list.
Sign Up Login