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Jan 8, 2023 4:39 AM

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This show has incredibly good world building and pacing in just one episode. I was thoroughly hooked throughout, and wanted more when it ended.

Definitely one to keep an eye out for the rest of the season, for anyone wondering if they should check it.

Also, the little cat like Loli is adorable.
Jan 8, 2023 5:16 AM
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unsure about these oldschool designs mixed with Granblue generic rpg stuff. Basically Kumi like Lyria, Myaa like Siero, Jiro as Gran or Katalina.
Great music throughout tho.
That's a courteous foodie prisoner.
cat puns going 200%
Boar with borers called whopper, and the headless titan are certainly some unusual monster designs.
Jirou animation suddenly good.
Jan 8, 2023 9:20 AM

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…Cold open…

Hey, those two characters seem really cool.

..OP…

Hmm. No sign of them…

…Title card - 30 years later…

Womp womp. Oh wells. So much for the interesting adult characters. Cut to magical and meowy children. 

All aside, enough here to get me a bit hooked.  Setting's not bad, and maybe there’s some political intrigue coming in addition to all the monsters. Seems worth sticking around to see where this all goes.  
Jan 8, 2023 2:05 PM

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whaddahell was the Meownyan singing "Mewohappy birthday" over tha wall watching them  XDDDD 

>Quotes from AoB <
There is again! The ultimate technique: "It's all his fault, not mine!"
Goddess, High Bishop, you sure are popular!
まんが きけん      むがく -> Manga wa kikenjyanai, kedo mugaku desu.
漫画は危険じゃない、けど無学です。
-> Manga isn't dangerous, but ignorance it is.
Benno frowned as I finished listing off all the reasons why I didn't want to give the books leather covers.
Jan 8, 2023 2:21 PM

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Tacsk0 said:
What do you attack at the end of the Titans? Do you have time to create a copycat? Will you save us from production hell?
copycat! hehehe so funny 😂  yeah! there have over thousand copycat manganimes, once one made some difference ... there will always be 10 to 100 copycat’s  after it.

>Quotes from AoB <
There is again! The ultimate technique: "It's all his fault, not mine!"
Goddess, High Bishop, you sure are popular!
まんが きけん      むがく -> Manga wa kikenjyanai, kedo mugaku desu.
漫画は危険じゃない、けど無学です。
-> Manga isn't dangerous, but ignorance it is.
Benno frowned as I finished listing off all the reasons why I didn't want to give the books leather covers.
Jan 8, 2023 8:49 PM
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Pretty good so far. Animation above average. I like the multiple scenes giving pieces of the overall story. And also giving a quick summary of what the world is like.
Jan 9, 2023 1:15 AM
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>> What do you attack at the end of the Titans? Do you have time to create a copycat? Will you save us from production hell?
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> copycat! hehehe so funny

You don't get it. I was referring to the marked similarity of this anime's ep1 to both AoT and an older anime series / lightnovel known as WorldEnd in english (What do you do at the end of the world? Do you have time? Will you save us?) or SukaSuka in the japanese original (Shuumatsu nani shitemasuka Isogashii desuka Sukutte moratte ii desuka).
Jan 9, 2023 6:58 AM

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So far a basic fantasy anime. 
It raised many questions and answered little so it could get pretty exciting for later episodes.
Jan 9, 2023 11:20 AM
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confusing but watchable.
Jan 9, 2023 10:44 PM
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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills or something. everyone keeps praising the animation, but it's clearly awful. The opening is typically peak budget art of a show, as it's shown for every episode. They used a lot of scooby doo repeating animations, on the opening! lots of mostly static shots with nothing moving. when the two guys were sword fighting and lunged at each other, they just slid diagonally towards each other and their swords touched and it makes a clash sound, nothing much actually animated. the OPENING was full of lazy animation, that was already a bad sign.

I couldn't even make it 10 minutes in! the scenes often hide the character's mouth to avoid animating them, sometimes in goofy ways, and when the mouths do move, it's just a simple sloppy repeating animation, regardless of how the mouth shape should be for what they're saying, or even trying to match what they're saying, just lips flapping as sound is produced.

most animations shows were from the front (character facing the screen or background exactly), or from a flat perspective perpendicular to the viewer. no dynamic angles, no fun perspectives, just a flat view of things.

drunk guy on the ship when the guards were chasing the girl and met him, he doesn't move at all, just an arm slides up from behind his body, and the soldiers just powerpoint across the screen back and force.

the girl jumps on the ships, and they just statically dip, with the water completely static.

I haven't seen animation this poor in a while. there are some lazy ones this season, like the harry potter anime, but this one really takes the cake.

and unfortunately, the opening is very indicative of what to expect going forward.

like people saying the animation is great? what have you been watching until now? south park? I'd say that south park's animation trumps this anime anyway.

Things are drawn pretty. the girl is very pretty, the scenery is pretty. the animation though?
Jan 9, 2023 10:45 PM
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ReePoopsi said:
Its too early to say anything but that the quality was great compared to anything I have watched this season thus far.

what on earth are you watching this season and what quality are you referring to?
Jan 9, 2023 11:01 PM
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Dreadogastus_F said:
Pretty good so far. Animation above average. I like the multiple scenes giving pieces of the overall story. And also giving a quick summary of what the world is like.

The average must be pretty low then, I didn't see anything with animation worth praising. the best animations where mediocre at best.
Jan 10, 2023 2:21 AM

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This shit got disrupted by the unnecessary teaser about the inner affairs of something Empire. Nohonjin should have spent those 2 minutes to make the action sequences more fluid and enhance the tension with a slower progression. Such piece of uninformative information could be saved for the following episode.
SgtBateManJan 10, 2023 2:37 AM
Help! I need somebody. Help! Not just anybody. Help! You know I need someone. Helpppppp!

Jan 10, 2023 3:57 AM

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Alright that was surprisingly good, although I hope it gets more bloody or add a little gore
Jan 10, 2023 1:57 PM

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Huh...

It's like futuristic yet not version of Attack on Titan but replace the Titan with Monsters... and has magic. LOL

Not to mention the Title is literally using the the same style as AoT... lol...

___ ___ ___

I sorta dropped AoT half way into season 1 cause it got too weird for me.

But this series looks a lot more interesting, maybe cause of the Fantasy aspects in it.

Even tho most of the setting is almost 1:1 of AoT... lol, the town, the special humans vs monsters, the secret/ evil organizations behind the scene, etc etc.
___ ___ ___

NYAA~~  (reminds me of cat merchants in some Gacha games... lol)
amlgJan 10, 2023 2:08 PM
Nothing Written Here But Us Anime Bunnies *boing boing boing*
Jan 10, 2023 4:04 PM
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wow! a very good first epi!! I hesitated before trying it, but seriously, it's worth it! First, the animation is superb! The story begins well; we have a strange girl, a super powerful old 'soldier', an old legend and royalty who seem to be doing anything! A great start, the story follows well and is captivating!
Jan 10, 2023 8:20 PM

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really goofy start but it was lots of fun and i'm intrigued. also i like the cat girl. they really shoved a lot of world building into this one huh?
Jan 11, 2023 10:55 AM

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It's not bad so I hope this will be good
Jan 12, 2023 9:46 AM

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I so, so desperately want this to be a game. Please make this into a game.

A very good first episode, probably my favorite with Revenger and Tomo so far. There were one or two nitpicks, but that's all they were, nitpicks. Let's see where this goes.
Jan 13, 2023 6:34 PM

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A pretty decent episode. The premise is interesting. Honeslty it's better than I expected.
Jan 15, 2023 2:47 AM

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Solid episode. THis show shows promises
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Jan 15, 2023 9:44 AM

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I knew nothing about this anime before I started watching it. It was a complete whim. I think this is going to be good! Interesting first episode though. I don't know how I feel about not knowing anything about the characters other than the little girl (sort of)
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Jan 18, 2023 1:28 PM
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The end of the episode has certainly piqued my interest. Will give it at least 3 episodes watched


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Feb 4, 2023 5:22 AM
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A lot of show and not much tell, not an isekai feels more like fantasy, but some of the scenes are very well drawn. Could be a hit, could be a bust. need more input.
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Feb 13, 2023 3:48 PM
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inconsistent drawing style at first, then seems to settle on a mix between everything, lots of influence of Ghibli, overall tends in the same direction as the pirate princess/kaizoku oujo, but less well animated. well, to be fair, Kaizoku was mostly 3D.
story is intriguing, characters likable. but story is also a bit chaotic and they introduce too many characters in the first episode, way too many. and too many plot points.

update: ep2 - dropping it at that point, the story telling is not good.
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Feb 21, 2023 12:16 AM
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It's not bad. it's not good either. I like the scene where she had a sword in between her booba. 7/10
Apr 11, 2023 7:25 PM

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Great 1st episode, I will just ignore the score MAL has for this series, FOR NOW!

The score will always be weird because the masses are weird... 😏 (I'm probably one of that)

The purring girl is annoying for some reason.

A deadbeat dude just living his life because he lost someone dear to him in the past 30 years ago.

A girl which has an unknown origin and being called as a prototype.

And lastly, something like a leader of a cult where he is probably a leader of a project who experiments something.

Interesting episode if I might say so myself.

P.S. I like that concept where the girl suddenly becomes your magical weapon or something...
CrazyButNot4UApr 11, 2023 9:32 PM
It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines
and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it,
is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service.
Dec 8, 2023 5:38 AM

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I expected the fight to be the last segment of the episode ngl, pretty average so far.
Feb 17, 5:17 AM
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fun little adventure, interesting start, decent animation bit nostagic
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