Saiyuki Episode 1 Discussion

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Apr 29, 2010 11:09 PM

MusashiRose

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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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can't believe i'm making the first posting.

SO far...pretty good. The pacing is excellent, the story interesting..

For a series with 50+ episodes... I'm excited to see where it goes.

Sep 24, 2011 2:35 AM

merle_noir

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I'm rewatching this... :D I enjoyed it when I first saw it... Whoa, six years ago now? Anyway, yeah. The first time I watched it, I was watching it on TV and obviously couldn't catch each episode every day, so I never saw all of the episodes. At least this way I'll fill in the gaps of what I missed.

Liked the first episode, of course. Despite the fact that most people find Goku annoying... he's my favourite. XD

Apr 1, 2013 11:30 PM

stand

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There's hardly any discussion posts for this.

"You won't die even if you're killed."
Golden phrase as always.

Nov 15, 2013 11:05 AM

Zorocia

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This series has had many prequels and sequels that are much better than this original piece. But I still enjoy it.

Right off the bat it starts with a Journey to the West, to defeat the evil that waits.

Apr 24, 2018 4:11 PM

Ulquiorra

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And the journey begins.

Nov 16, 2019 3:37 AM

lihle808

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First mission from the get go, fast progression!

Can't wait for the next episode.

How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb --- Dr Strangelove

Jan 20, 2023 7:36 PM

velocitysynth

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I am watching every anime with a above 7.50 starting with my birth year. This is the anime that I'm starting at. The first episode was meh, but whatever. Casually seeing Zeref's voice actor took me by surprise, but I suppose he's been in the industry for awhile.

velocitysynthJan 20, 2023 7:40 PM

Nov 8, 2023 11:37 PM

Allwynd

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I'm watching it purely for the story, but this is the first time for as long as I can remember where the animation bothers me. Everything that involves motion feels so bad. Every fight scene looks so static - just a character sprite that's frozen, a background effect for "action motion" and some shouting. I'm currently watching episode 4 where the guys fall into a river while driving and the animation for the jeep/dragon falling into the river was just a picture of the sky and a splashing effect appearing.

I've never seen such cheap and poor animation before. I've only seen it in the recent Chinese animes that are appearing, where I was interested to watch some of them, but after I saw how cheap the animation is, I decided to skip them.

I wonder if this gets better since it's 50 episodes.

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