Blue Archive the Animation Episode 1 Discussion

3 points in first episode, fluid animation, colorfull world, and good opening, i hope shun will appear in this show

@Renkini
Pretty sure he meant Vol3 Ch2. I personally interchange both of those term with my friend too so I get it. He is most likely referring to .

Also to give my personal opinion. I really don't think starting with vol3 is a good idea. Vol 1 IS the introduction. Without it you don't really get introduced to Abydos which are all important for the payoff of vol 3. You're risking diminishing one of the best payoff of the game.

Also I don't get everyone saying vol 1 is the worst. I get it that vol 2 ch2 had some good scenes near the end but its a giga bore before that unlike vol 1. It's not that bad. I've seen many people read the story on youtube, it's a very good volume to start the story with. Just enjoy the ride.

Well, that was certainly anime.

I don't think I've seen more bullets being fired and missed any target since probably B-Train's Noir. By the looks it feels like it doesn't even make an effort to introduce the audience into this post apocalyptic world and most likely it's entirely aimed towards the already hardcore fan of the original game.

I'll give it 2 more episodes, I'm sure the whole desert world, girls with guns and the need for a teacher that will magically improve these girls marksmanship will come in the long run. I'm just testing the waters to see if I can handle whatever BS they will throw in 2 more episodes to decide if I should watch it all the way.



This is the most superfluous show don't tell. They just showed that some girls are somehow as hard as titanium to some low caliber bullets, but it makes absolutely no sense outside cartoon/videogame logic. If they were wearing heavy bullet proof gear it would make some sense for those of us who don't eat bullshit on daily basis. Same with the girls wearing helmets, even a low caliber bullet would had been a fatal wound on any of them.

@Kimurah

Episode 1 isn't going to give you the breakdown on immediately everything, first thing they did was tell you that the girls are bulletproof during the gunfight. This is a fictional world but even then the literal halos should at least hint that they are not normal girls, hell the ones with the helmets are revealed to not even be using them for safety reasons, but because they want to hide their faces.

It isn't a desert world as told before, infact the anime literally calls it the desert district and specifically states that the district is suffering from desertification.

@Tiau

I'm not asking for a breakdown. I'm asking for sensible storytelling, not dumb gacha weeb bullshit designed for pigeons.

Yeah, no shit sherlock, their halos already tell they aren't normal girls, so what? That doesn't introduce anything interesting, just a cheap promise that it might be detailed way later on, so the dumb audience will be kept on the list of "how to keep an idiot entertained".

This is the problem with already brainwashed customers that already know the whole deal because they played hundreds of hours and gave their paycheck to gacha developers. No different than manga readers that will keep saying "keep watching, it will git gud when they reach 200 chapters and everything will make sense". Why can't they make titles that are good from the very beginning?

I am really looking forward for the Eden Treaty to be animated but I think for that have to wait for long time😅

@Kimurah

I don't think this has anything to do with gacha games at all, and I see no reason for the aggression.
I do think however that you completely passed over any explanations that are there while demanding more, this has nothing to do with telling you to watch hours of anything. They told you the girls are bulletproof, you want to know why then keep watching, Just like how in Gundam the first thing they do is tell you what Zeon did to earth, want to know why? Keep watching or Index/Railgun introducees espers or Dragonball introduces how strong Goku is and so on, if it doesn't interest you then its fine to drop it, if the hook doesn't work for you then it doesn't.

@inorichi the music you like arrives in the final chapter of the game, even if it's ost 59 look at that release date, it will arrive much later. (and probably not in the anime)

@Tiau

If we're talking about the OG Dragon Ball, we didn't get such a jarring introduction to Goku's over the top strenght in the very first episode, it was something that was seamlessly embeded on a very long running series even before it reached Dragon Ball Z.

My point is that there's a world of difference between introducing a key element that only serves as "dressing" for a bigger plot line, than placing an element that's blatantly ignored and put in the back burner for a possible cheap plot twist down the line, like a lot of these mobile game adaptations go for.

I'm really not demanding more explanations, quite the opposite. Introduce less cheap mottifs that only serve as cheap foreshadowing for future events and give the audience more tangible story and character motivation in the early stages.

Something like Cowboy Bebop is a great example of good story development (even if it's very episodic). The early episodes gave a really consistent picture of the characters and the setting. It was until episode 5 when a bigger antagonistic element like Vicious showed up and expanded the long running story.

I thought this was just porn

@Thai777

Yeah, I get it. People have their own opinions about why Vol 3 shouldn't be adapted first. As long as they're civil enough, I don't mind accepting their opinion and I have no intention to go "REEEEEEEEEE VoL 3 MUsT bE adaPTed FIrST!!!1!!1!" kind of attitude. I mean, the user @LotteWeiss pinged me about this too but I just read their opinion and didn't reply cuz they seem civil. But the above user's comment almost seemed like they're gaslighting me saying "You got the whole squad laughing bro" so I just asserted my dominance, that's all. (Not to mention the account seems like an alt.) This is not my first time discussing about this either.

To clarify a bit more on my side, it's all fine and dandy they adapted Vol 1 for 1-cour anime season, cool. KYH also said he wants to adapt Vol 3 into a movie if the current anime is a success. But too bad I'm not such a positive thinker so I can't help but worried BA anime will end with adapting only Vol 1 half-heartedly and never heard again like Azur Lane anime. Then the anime-onlys will be all sarcastic like "Where is this amazing BA story its fanboys are praising to sky-high? lol" etc and I don't need that.

And about this seemingly possible Vol 3 movie, you know how long is Vol 3 so it's nearly impossible to cram it all into one tiny movie. If they did, it'll be a disaster. It needs at least 2, or 3 at best for movie format. Or 2-cour for TV anime format. And I sure as hell don't think they have such budget. Not to mention the game is currently encountering some problems in JP like slow update schedules (only 1 episode for story update, 2-weeks rerun, etc) and translation issues, if you've heard. Not sure how much of these problems are related to anime but it's still suspicious that they started when anime starts to get in groove so it makes you doubt if devs are biting more than they can chew. With matters like these, hoping for another anime season reeks of copium tbh.

well, as someone who plays the game, i love it
but if i didn't play, it probably would have felt a little worse lol

can't believe they showed Terror at the start, wtf ( i d'dn't even read that part of the story but i played the event fight)

well, not much to say apart from... it's lovely to see charas we liked for years get animated
also some fun references to the game outside of the story stage... like Nonomi's credit card or Arona's sleeping animation at the end

well anyway, no matter if the anime does well or not, i'm gonna give it a 10 regardless :p

@Renkini

Honestly it is just how anime is. It sometimes adapt the first part and never get to the best part because there is no sequel. You just learn to live with it. Is one solution adapting right away the best part? I don't think so personally. I had seen some anime try it and I've never seen it succeed. I personally think that adapting the first vol and going linearly is the best case scenario. You either never get eden treaty or you get eden treaty with previous build up. I personally prefer that. Adapting vol 3 first become very weird if they plan to make more season.

To be honest, your only argument is that you're worried that anime-only will mock the story. So what? Honestly just disregard those opinion they don't matter at all. You can't give an opinion of what you haven't seen, if they mock the anime it's vol 1 not vol 3. The other concern you show is just adapting by movie. I get the concern but nothing is even planned yet, there's no need to be doom and gloom. You also seem to be worried with current JP problem which I understand too but this is a normal thing. Most anime with supervision from the original author/team always get delayed. I've seen it happens in manga all the time where the manga just kinda goes on hiatus because the mangaka is working on the anime. Just chill and relax.

I respect your opinion but I can't help but think it's a very selfish view, it's all based on your satisfaction without any other external factor. You want eden treaty adapted no matter what at the detriment of the story and other viewer. Why not just relax and just watch how vol 1 fare? Don't torture yourself with anxiety whether vol 3 is gonna be adapted or not, just enjoy the anime for what it is and not what it could be.

@Thai777

"your only argument is that you're worried that anime-only will mock the story"

That's not my only argument. My other arguments are like I said in my previous comment, I think it's possible to skip Vol 1 and adapt Vol 3 because they are not cohesively connected and only have some loose reappearance like Hifumi. I mean, FGO adapted only the last 2 Singularities and Final arc. Why BA can't do the same? But you already disagreed that point above so let's just agree to disagree for that and move on.

"I respect your opinion but I can't help but think it's a very selfish view"

Thanks for the respect but I'm not sure I'm selfish when I'm the one who's worried for the reputation of BA anime and thinking what'd be best for it to avoid being a mediocre anime but okay...

*NEVER PLAYED OR HEARD OF BLUE ARCHIVE BEFORE IN MY ENTIRE LIFE*

but since it's a game adapted show .. i can see how discouraging it will be ..
so the show's circle most likely will be ...
1st 1/3 of episodes a slice of file
2nd 2/3 of episodes is cooking some stupid romance between the teacher and his students
3rd 3/3 of the episode is gun fights ...

and every episode will be 85% legs and feet shots .. for some stupid reason.. the studio keeps high lighting legs and feet nonstop..
so .... blue archive is nothing more than a legs and feet fetish fest with girls using guns as a side dish??
5 minutes in already fighting myself to remain awake .. around 10 minutes in .. i paused the episode to write this down ..
nothing worth while is happening...
i doubt i'll be coming back for a second episode.

did anyone notice in the opening yuuka, hatsumi, and the starting character?

@Kurtadam13 you know nothing