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TarsTarkas
Joined: 20 Dec 2007
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Location: Virginia, United States
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Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:13 pm
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Started reading the translated manga first. Looking forward to the anime, glad the reviewer liked it.
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scowler
Joined: 30 May 2009
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Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:37 pm
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I have read the manga, but wasn't expecting too much from this adaptation. I was thinking it could even be another King's Game.
So, yeah, the first few episodes have been vastly better than expectation. The episode 2 scene, where the zipper finally comes undone, was near perfectly framed and executed.
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omiya
Joined: 21 Sep 2011
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Location: Adelaide, South Australia
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Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 6:00 pm
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Quote: | At three episodes in, the proverbial magic number when it comes to giving new series a fair shot, Gleipnir has barley concerned itself with the details of this game, or whether or not it can be considered a “game” at all. |
Sips the lemon barley water with barely a slurp.
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TexZero
Joined: 25 Oct 2017
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Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 10:09 pm
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Meat Mecha is my new favorite genre of mecha.
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Dr.N0
Joined: 04 Oct 2012
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 3:39 pm
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Quote: | It's like David Cronenberg saw Evangelion and decided to make Asuka pilot Shinji. |
Give Mr. Jones anything he wants. He earned it.
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jdnation
Joined: 15 May 2007
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:32 pm
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The show definitely has a hook, and the production is great, and as far as the fanservice goes... at least the majority of it doesn't feel 'lazy.' Fits thematically where it makes some sense. Despite it all, the story is pretty compelling, and doesn't shy away from brazenly killing a fool. The character drama is strong enough that I don't mind if the world building subtly takes its time. I'm committed to this crazy ride!
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a_Bear_in_Bearcave
Joined: 14 Jan 2019
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Location: Poland
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 5:04 pm
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I hope the show can keep being weird, crazy, sometimes moving and surprisingly interesting for the rest of the episodes, because I really liked this arc despite this being the "guilty pleasure" type of show. I hope the Mifune (the short one with lots of hair and bushy eyebrows) won't die horribly in the future, because she's sweet and this doesn't seem to be a good series for her to be in. Clair is really fun character, I'm usually not the fun of yanderes but she makes it work, by being really loyal to Shuichi once she took his fursuit virginity (sure she kicked him of the roof, and he almost raped her once, but what's that between BFFs that get really hot and sticky inside each other), and somehow being the saner one compared to her stalker sister and probably many more future characters from opening.
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Animegomaniac
Joined: 16 Feb 2012
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:17 pm
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Wait, when was it said Clair tried to commit suicide? I thought that was an outright lie as it doesn't match the character or the chain of events Shuichi found her in.
Anyways, the series is keeping my interest with a bare thread at this point as the whole "my manga is derivative because Mr Alien knows manga" explanation is a little too twee for my tastes, though the whole "must collect x number of y out of z" aspect of it is just awful. I'm getting flashbacks to Inuyasha's jewel shards and my naive thinking of "I can't wait until they get all those things so we can move on to a real story".
Coins of interdeterminable nature and unknowable number, yay. Most stories keeps macguffins to one, I don't know why manga...
Serialization. I hate this series.
Wow, that was fast.
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AkumaChef
Joined: 10 Jan 2019
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2020 11:17 am
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Animegomaniac wrote: | Wait, when was it said Clair tried to commit suicide? I thought that was an outright lie as it doesn't match the character or the chain of events Shuichi found her in. |
I haven't watched the anime yet but in the manga that's established in the first chapter. Clair set the storage building on fire intending to kill herself but ended up being rescued by Shuichi instead.
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The Scream Man
Joined: 01 Mar 2020
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 1:52 am
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Dr.N0 wrote: |
Quote: | It's like David Cronenberg saw Evangelion and decided to make Asuka pilot Shinji. |
Give Mr. Jones anything he wants. He earned it. |
Agreed. I just about spat my drink over the keyboard when i read that.
This is the most wildly weird and sexual charged grossness of a series i have ever seen. Its like anime in its most concentrated form; weird ideas, cool animation and a lot of fanservice.
Yet somehow its enthralling each and every week.
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Cyberphobe
Joined: 08 Jan 2012
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 7:52 pm
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I've seen and fired many many many different revolvers from vintage to modern, but I've never once seen a revolver that big. Either that's the biggest most impractical handcannon ever made, or that chick is the size of a toddler. Either way, her wrists will break and that gun is going right into her face the moment she pulls the trigger.
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MasterGhost
Joined: 29 Nov 2011
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 8:36 pm
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The "battle royale" genre died years ago with crap like Big Order and Ousama Game, but now it looks to be revitalized with Glepnir. The first five episodes were really a pleasure to watch. The setting is appealing, the characters are relatable, the animation and battle choreography looks gorgeous, and while the plot may not be the most creative or mind-blowing, it is executed with enough flair to hook me into the series completely.
I picked the series up at the start of the season hoping to find something to watch while I can keep my brain turned off, and it turned out to be quite the pleasant surprise. If it does keep up its quality, this may be AOTS.
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The Scream Man
Joined: 01 Mar 2020
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 10:01 pm
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Cyberphobe wrote: | I've seen and fired many many many different revolvers from vintage to modern, but I've never once seen a revolver that big. Either that's the biggest most impractical handcannon ever made, or that chick is the size of a toddler. Either way, her wrists will break and that gun is going right into her face the moment she pulls the trigger. |
...THAT'S the part that you find unrealistic??
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TheKillerAngel
Joined: 02 Mar 2018
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2020 5:08 am
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Cyberphobe wrote: | I've seen and fired many many many different revolvers from vintage to modern, but I've never once seen a revolver that big. Either that's the biggest most impractical handcannon ever made, or that chick is the size of a toddler. Either way, her wrists will break and that gun is going right into her face the moment she pulls the trigger. |
The show, in fact, acknowledges this. Are you watching it?
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a_Bear_in_Bearcave
Joined: 14 Jan 2019
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Location: Poland
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2020 8:09 am
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Mr Manly Macho Man's question about Shuichi and Clair's relationship and Shuichi's simple and correct explanation is one of the highlights of the show. I can only imagine the unasked further questions that appeared in his head. "Ah, so kids these days are into this...?"
Quote: | Either that's the biggest most impractical handcannon ever made |
It is part of the costume of a plush toy that is scaled up to size big enough for human to fit inside, why wouldn't it be big and impractical for a human? And, like previous poster mentioned, it was acknowledged that Clair would be killed or seriously maimed if she pulled the trigger, that was part of why MachoMan acknowledged them as winners, as they both wanted to sacrifice themselves for each other.
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