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Lemonchest
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From memory, what made the limited fan service still feel a bit iffy was that it was almost entirely focused on the one girl they find in the shopping centre, who spent quite a bit of screen time in her underwear & not because it was hot. |
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TymersRealm
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@Jose Cruz
Much like I commented to someone on another forum about My Hero Academia's first season, School-Live! doesn't do anything groundbreaking. The Anime does a decent adaptation of the Manga up to where the Anime ends. Sometimes you need a good story told well. The Anime of School-Live! does that. |
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Cam0
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I always found it odd that she wears garter belts (suspenders in correct English). Those are usually seen as sexy and erotic which conflicts with her shy personality. I've heard they are a pain in the ass to put on/wear anyway (don't quote me on that) so it was just odd. |
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DuskyPredator
 Posts: 15545 Location: Brisbane, Australia |
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I think one of the good points about the anime is that it did make differences from the source material, not that I am all that familiar with the manga. The anime's story feels like it was made for an anime, with properly fitted foreshadowing and well made symbolism that fit the structure of the show.
On the music front, one of the parts I really enjoyed in the show was the track "music box", which tended to be used for a sort of melancholic feel, and the show has a really distorted version at a very important feel for setting up the tone. Or that great work with the scene with the stereo, where the music starts to break leading up to the line spoiler["Who is Megu-nee?"], along with the changes in the scenery. A lot of the things can be kind pieced together from paying attention, so often reveals really were not coming out nowhere, but there was this kind of awesome use of all tools for making big scenes as impactful as possible. The dog is an addition, but it creates a very satisfying arc for the show follow, also. It does not need to perfectly follow the source material to actually tell a good story. |
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Angel M Cazares
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I strongly agree with this. Miki in garter belts never felt sexy or fanservicy; it was super weird and out of place. |
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killjoy_the
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I've read the manga after watching the anime but honestly I prefer the anime. Probably just a simple case of "whatever was experienced first" but I didn't feel the changes in the story were for the worse, and the next arc in the story isn't being as interesting to me as Yuki is/was.
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relyat08
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I'm continually surprised by how many people say they were surprised by the reveal in episode one. I thought it was super well established before the season even happened that the show was going to be exactly like that. It is Ntiroplus afterall, and the synopsis on most places I looked literally explained they lived in a zombie infested world. Not to mention manga readers exist to spoil things as usual.
Anyway, I wasn't super impressed by this show. I appreciated how it was put together, ultimately. It felt like a very meticulously and thoughtfully constructed plot. But like meiam, I found the contrast between the slice of life and the zombie stuff to be a little too incongruous, and as a big fan of slice of life stuff, it was pretty bottom of the barrel, cliche, and boring. I still gave it a decent score mostly just because of the craft, but it was kind of just a boring show to me. |
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Razor/Edge
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I knew it was actually a zombie show going in, but I didn't expect the first episode twist. I figured the first episode or two was just going to show their normal lives before shit hit the fan and there were suddenly zombies running around. I didn't suspect that the entire first episode was just Yuki's PTSD-induced fantasy and the zombie outbreak had already happened. |
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Red Fox of Fire
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The changes were for the better. I don't like to generalize and say that fans will hate changes just for being changes, but that's really what it feels like with this. I don't recall spoiler[the helicopter crash] seeming like a big deal, but it has been a while since I read it so I might have forgotten some details. |
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Jose Cruz
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I had the impression My Hero Academia was a more special achievement than this one, at least compared to the manga of School Live. Although both are well crafted stories My Hero Academia was a truly exciting watch for me. Well, I guess I might like those action shows more than horror. |
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maximilianjenus
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nah, the anime is really better than the manga. |
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ajr
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If you invert the colors the green/purple come pretty close to swapping with each other. |
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TymersRealm
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That's the thing. Your view on School-Live! mirrors that commenters views on MHA: Kinda cool show, but I don't get the hype/praise. And that is true. The Stories are decent, but not necessarily groundbreaking. It's the overall execution both stories deliver, weather Manga or Anime, that's light a fire among their respective fans. Now I'm not a big fan of either genres that make up School-Live!'s setting. But the way they are blended makes it work. Much like how the over-the-top action action, fan service, and teen angst makes High School of the Dead a bit more interesting. |
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