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ChoiDalDal said: gust11 said: Wait what? So Tokyo ESP takes place in the same universe as Ga-Rei: Zero? Didn't know that, I was so confused when I saw Yomi and Kagura, looking forward to more about Rinka~ Not the same universe. This is only a reference, a cameo. And there are plenty of them from many others mangas,comics, TV shows, movies...in Tokyo ESP Ah gotcha, thanks for the info, but man am I glad to see Yomi and Kagura alive and well together~ |
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Amarrez said: Kerozinn said: pretty intense first episode with some sweet fights but i couldnt see SHIT in a bunch of scenes because it was way too dark..like the whole episode. It was perfectly fine for me. Adjust your video settings. my videos settings are perfectly adjusted for watching anime and this is the episode that was this dark. i watch over 30 eps a weak of 30 different anime and its not my player or any plugins. it was just a fucking dark episode. |
Um, can anyone explain why Rinka has brown hair here? Everyone was going on about White Girl, White Girl, but it turns out she's light brown hair girl? :/ |
| Wasn't expecting an action-packed episode. Once the action started, it didn't stop until like around the middle when the citizens were talking about the "White Girl." I mean I liked it, but I guess they did this just to hook people. Sourire said: Darklight0303 said: as someone who didn't read the manga... LOLSo they pretty much showed the end of the manga in the first ep? Woooooooow Okay well, now this makes sense...meh, hooks are always difficult I guess. It was the same thing with Tokyo Ghoul when they started with an intense scene. But I still liked the episode, it was definitely interesting :) Will probably start reading the manga too. Also, really liking the bgm so far. Kerozinn said: it was just a fucking dark episode. I agree, I was thinking that too while I was watching it. Probably because the whole thing happened during the night and outside where there aren't too many streetlights :/ |
kikohunter said: Do I really have to watch Ga-Rei: Zero before watching this? Because I really don't feel like doing so. You should, though, since GRZ is great. |
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SalemWitch said: Um, can anyone explain why Rinka has brown hair here? Everyone was going on about White Girl, White Girl, but it turns out she's light brown hair girl? :/ Think its just the lighting or something |
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| WTF is wrong with those espers ? I read the manga, and i don't recall seeing any fancy tools over their bodies when they use their powers. And it's ugly anyway, so why ? SalemWitch said: Um, can anyone explain why Rinka has brown hair here? Everyone was going on about White Girl, White Girl, but it turns out she's light brown hair girl? :/ Yeah, she's supposed to have white hair. Well, the chara design is totally fucked up anyway. |
| Didn't expect them to start with the end lol, I was scared they were going to straight to the '2nd Generation' arc. Thank god it was just a tease. Woulda lost my shit if they did. Though it was a good decision from them to do it, In order to draw the non manga readers from the get go. As the beginning does start of really slow imo. I like how they used this episode to set up the audience's expectations of Rinka and what she will become. They did Minami and Kobushi justice so far<3, still undecided on Rinkas 5 sec appearance. Hopefully they'll do Azuma well to. For the confused non mang readers: About episode 1. It's based on manga chapter 23 (though changed a lot), but from the episode 2 preview title, They will go back to the beginning - manga chapter 1. |
AsakurabakaJul 11, 2014 2:24 PM
| Wow, that was bad, really, really bad. I didn't get anything but ''White girl will save us'' I don't even know the name of the main character, it feels like I've just watched the 5th episode of an anime I've never seen before. |
| I always feel at a loss when a story suddenly starts at the middle and then goes back to the "proper" beggining. Loads of characters and unexplained stuff, but it sure did a good job making me want to know what happened beforehand, so I'll have to stay to see it. 4/5 |
| So this is like Gungrave in that some idiot director thought a flash-forward towards the end would be a good idea for a first episode, but then the later episodes flash right back to tell us how we got here, ultimately rendering the premiere completely pointless? It didn't even have the slaughter at the end that made Ga-Rei Zero's first episode awesome despite the confusion. |
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| Most braindead special forces I've seen. Their commander gets stabbed right in front of them and they say "how dare you?" and don't even raise their weapons? Seriously, what the fuck. That's just one of many immersion breakers. |
| It was pretty awesome, and I like what I saw, but am I supposed to understand what's going on at this point? O.o |
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| Intense first episode, I bet they're going to go back in time back to the actual start next episode! |
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| It's not a good idea to start series with a reminder of utter crap like Ga-Rei Zero. Anyway, with all these expositions instead of dialogues, bland characters and boredom seeping from every minute, this episode not only failed to entice me to continue watching, but actually made me want to not watch it. |
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| Rly nice episode. Now I have t9 watch gai rei zero...too much watch to do haha. |
| A Story will always come to it's end. The thing is, will you move on after it's over? |
| Should I watch Ga Rei Zero before? I've read that it's the same universe but is there more in common between this and Ga Rei? |
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| Kagura? Yomi? I was quite suprised to see them here ^^" Didn't know it was in the same world and so same author oO Seems like it happened before the events in Ga Rei Zero though since the guy with motorbike girl is alive... |
| I've been told that this is like the x-men anime, and so far, i'm loving it. Girl who could teleport reminded me of the main chick from Kara no Kyoukai (just her appearance though) I think white girl's going to be best girl, dunno why, just have a feeling >_< and honestly, I was getting BIG yozakura no quartet vibes. WHICH IS GREAT. Will defo be keeping up with this show, man this summer's great :D |
YumeNoMonogatari said: It's just from the same mangaka, simple fanservice for those who've seen Gai Rei Zero. Has nothing to do with these characters or plot wise.Should I watch Ga Rei Zero before? I've read that it's the same universe but is there more in common between this and Ga Rei? @ponygon123 Even though I support that kind of thinking, and I'd have a similar reasoning for such things, I managed to turn my brain off and not question much just enjoy the shallow action and explosions. Because this is a battle shounen with x-men flavor lol. |
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T3hSource said: YumeNoMonogatari said: It's just from the same mangaka, simple fanservice for those who've seen Gai Rei Zero. Has nothing to do with these characters or plot wise.Should I watch Ga Rei Zero before? I've read that it's the same universe but is there more in common between this and Ga Rei? Ok, thanks. I'm gonna like this anime version of X-men :3 |
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| Yeah I was reminded of X-Men too with people hating the Mutants Ahem "espers" , there being "Good" espers that try to defend humanity and "Bad" ones trying to attack humanity. They also seem to have a good variety of special powers, and according to what one character said Espers are humans too, so that again reminds me of something like mutants haha. Okay I'm done with x-men comparisons.. That dual wielding teleporter girl is cool as fuck, and the esper villan group leader dude looks has some interesting powers, like illusion powers or some such. Overall a very fun episode, even if there wasn't really much explanation, character building in this episode. Guess we'll find out more about what's going on in future episodes. |
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| Can't wait to see how this episode will pan out! Wow... so many flying fish hmm... Lol, the parliament house is flying because of espers XD. At least there's no censorship (at least for now) and we can see blood gushing out /o/ They have some pretty interesting powers there. White Girl hmm? The captain really lasted long and did a lot of useful things lol. Special defense division 4 hm? Another division that will get obliterated right away? They at least seem to more competent that the last bunch. Halfway into the episode and still no sight of the main characters lol. So only 3 good confirmed espers besides Rinka hm. Oh look, Rinka finally appeared and executed a cool named kick on that dude lol. A rather weird start since I don't know anything about Rinka and the world just seems to have plunged from the start into chaos lol. |
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| I liked it, but I feel like I would have been really lost if I hadn't read the manga. I suppose they did it that way to try to pull in viewers who haven't read it, but without any context it was all over the place. Why should anyone care about these characters if they don't know them? And they even brought up the Esper containment area. If they wanted to have an In Medias Res first episode, they should have started with manga chapter 11. I probably would have stopped halfway through the episode if I didn't already know what was going on. But I really like this story, so I guess I'll watch a few more episodes. |
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ponygon123 said: Hence the appeal of Slice of Life stuff. You don't need such convoluted explanations for something fictional to make it believable, but then it wouldn't be as entertaining seeing a guy kick a bus into the air just for sake of it.and blah good guys with power saved us even though we wouldn't need them if the powers did not exist. I managed to turn my brain off and enjoy this shallow entertainment, which I knew it was going to be exactly that and nothing more. |
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T3hSource said: ponygon123 said: Hence the appeal of Slice of Life stuff. You don't need such convoluted explanations for something fictional to make it believable, but then it wouldn't be as entertaining seeing a guy kick a bus into the air just for sake of it.and blah good guys with power saved us even though we wouldn't need them if the powers did not exist. I managed to turn my brain off and enjoy this shallow entertainment, which I knew it was going to be exactly that and nothing more. Given that its goal is entertainment I don't see the point in approaching this as anything other than an entertainment source. Anime does not necessarily have to convey moral and philosophical questions meant to make you rethink things or to be so utterly beautiful that it appears art. As long as it entertains it has done its job, so why do you make it sound as if it being "nothing more" was a bad thing? |
| Oh wow. Exciting way to start off the anime. Curious to see what Rinka is capable of. I guess they'll start from the beginning - how she got her powers in the next ep. |
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| For the time being the anime bears a strong similarity to X-men, with the difference that the espers wear more preposterous clothes than Xavier's menagerie. |
| iffy premise/story, but loving the superpowers. Really feels like X-men, Marvel stuff. Me likes. Digging the OP |
| Ok I paused at minute 16 because I have no idea what the fuck is going on, which chapter of the manga is this? I only read up to chapter 13... Well since I'm here, I am liking how this is turned out, I'm specifically talking about the powers. I wanted to see them animated and Xebec did not disappoint. I was also surprised by the lack of comedy and all the violence because the chapters I read where almost the opposite of this. Pretty cool episode 4/5 |
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| And thus, one of the worst adaptations of a manga has begun... |
| So this is basically Ga Rei: Zero's equivalent of Soul Eater's Soul Eater NOT. |
| It's not a good thing when the canon plot escalates quicker than Black Bullet. I figured it was starting at the end, since I really felt like I was thrown into the story like a fire. It was like they couldn't decide whether to add exposition("White Girl will save us, she always does"), or just make you figure everything out on the fly, so it ended up an awkward mixture of both. I could definitely get into the story, but the direction was pretty bad. Just not a good choice to make the entire first episode an intro into the final battle, especially with the way it was executed. |
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| Im liking the fact that they didn't take the censor-heavy route like Tokyo Ghoul Also great to see Kagura and yomi again |
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| Yomi ;_; so happy to see her again.Kagura too. |
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| i know nothing about the manga.. but i believe it is a right decision that they made it like this for the anime only viewers.. why? the true beginning of the story might attract less attention because it would sound like another shounen LN or manga adaptation where boy meets high-powered girl which seems to be overdone in the past seasons and usually devolves into harem fodder (given the number of girls around good esper dude, it could be).. and from the way manga readers describe it as having lots of SoL moments on the early parts, that misconception might become more apparent.. this one, however, gives us something to expect of in the latter parts of the anime.. a large cast of characters duking it out ala X-Men.. and that's a good kind of entertainment to look forward to.. but of course, the disadvantage of this kind of presentation is that it's not for those used to watching things not in chronological order.. but having ties to Ga-Rei -Zero- kinda gives it the excuse.. |
Thkoory said: Can anyone tell me what is the name of that guy with a scar on his face ? Hokusai Azuma maxiliban said: So this happens before Ga-Rei Zero, right? No.These scenes are anime exclusive, only fanservice, references and cameos. Not the same story, not the same universe and not the same timeline. |
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