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Rhaegar_T
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Ga-Rei-Zero (TV)
I just watched the first episode of "Ga-rei-ZERO" in veoh, and it had nothing to do with the Ga-rei manga. I mean that there is a different theme, different characters, different story... So I'm wondering, is it actually an adaptation from the manga? or maybe they tricked us at veoh? 
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darkchibi07
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I heard it's going to be far different from the manga. Now that I checked out episode 1, we got ourselves a ragtag special ops team that exterminate ghosts (and obviously, this team does much better than the regular military
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Now I'm curious of where this is heading! 
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zanarkand princess
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I'm really wondering how things will go. Dream sequence maybe?
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HitokiriShadow
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I'm hoping for something more interesting than that, but I fear its likely to do that or something similar. Most of the episode didn't really hold my interest, but holy crap, that ending sure grabbed it. The blatant censorship was highly annoying though. |
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zanarkand princess
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yeah the action scenes in general managed to keep my attention but the dialogue was pretty boring
another show with those butterflies though. |
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shouteha
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Well, the characters do look similar, BUT in my opinion, are not the main character. Their name aren't even the same and for those who read the manga, the first episode is most likely spoiler[ showing the past when Yomi betrayed and killed the organization then it will lead up to Kagura and Kensuke [yomi arc] ]. So yeah, it does have relevant to the manga if my view is correct. |
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zeth006
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Never saw the anime, but after saying "What is going on here?!" at the ending, I went back to the anime summary on animenews and figured the same thing. I'm now mildly interested in this anime now that I'm down to watching the same old dry Naruto, Bleach, and getting a refresher through Gundam 00 and One Piece.
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frentymon
Forums Superstar
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Eh, first episode was pretty mediocre. The story just doesn't grab you. It's formulaic, tastefully so, but still formulaic, and was really boring. The dialogue was convoluted and didn't make all that much sense; take out the subs and essentially you still understand nearly as much as you do without them. Due to the nature of the ending and purely the fact that first episodes suck, especially in these types of series where they purposefully don't tell you what the hell is going on in the first episode and explain it later, I think this one still has a lot of potential to be really good later on. Still, judging by first episode alone, it wasn't impressive at all, even with the ending, which only spoiler[kills off characters you never cared about in the first place.]
Other things: - My god, the soundtrack is excellent! Didn't expect this from the MagiPoka composer, but it has just the right blend of epic and pleasant listening and was one of my motivating factors to actually finish the episode. - Led Zeppelin? It'd actually be a cool name for the thing if it weren't such a blatantly obvious reference. - Natsuki kind of reminded me of Mai HiME's Natsuki Kuga in terms of looks, voice, and name (Natsuki Kasuga vs. Natsuki Kuga). Probably just coincidence here, but was interesting nonetheless. |
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Frankenstein
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Was I the only one who saw that coming? Lack of character importance/development, meaningful dialogue, and plot. I could write a better opener on acid! They should have introduced/involved a single character from the group, expanded on his background and used an emotional tie to grab the audience, then have survive the brutal who know what...and move on...then again, who knows whats to come? On the plus side though, OST = yay.
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zanarkand princess
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I thought led zeppelin was just some stupid answer that meant like "I don't want to give you a straight answer."
spoiler[Sure I didn't care about any of the characters but it was still strange] The music was great though. I thought the character designs were pretty standard though like "I've seen this before".It also makes me wonder if no one can come up with different realistic characters I mean if it's not some over the top fanserivce or moe show and it's not fantasy then everyone has to look like these people? I guess they run out of ideas when they have to stay inside the natural hair/eye color spectrum
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bullmaster107884
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I think the way they will probably play this show out is going to be the way Gun Grave and berserker's first episode was like the way they show a later episode first then how that episode came to be
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HitokiriShadow
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I pretty much agree with all this except the ending was impressive purely for what it did. I'm willing to give the series another chance just to see how they explain that. Hopefully they will make me care about the characters and story in the process. Otherwise, I agree, the episode was pretty boring. It was combination of trying to do too much and trying too hard, I think. They had some nice music that just seemed like too much for what was actually happening. The plan to take down the creature could have been interesting... if we cared about the characters, had any idea what was going on, or it was built up decently. |
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Westlo
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Impressive bait and switch, the website now reveals who the real main characters are.
http://www.ga-rei.jp/top.html |
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G-mofactor
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I wanted to take a look at the second episode before I start posting here.
The first episode was pretty thrilling and filled with jaw-dropping action. The introduction of the characters in the first episode gives of an appropriate quick-first impression of a tactical operations team without hesitation. Even though, putting me in the action of what going on where things are already heating up, the intro still gives some kind of description of the characters roles by observation. However, with the intense music and action-filled choreography I couldn't help getting off my seat and yell, "That was awesome!," and then the episode caught me off-guard by spoiler[killing off the characters that work so hard pleasing me throughout the whole 30 minutes (approximation)]. With the first episode in my mind burning with the question, "What just happened?" I waited until I saw the second episode of Gai-Rei-Zero. The second gives the recap of the spoiler[WTF moment] in the first episode, and again, spoiler[introduces a new batch of characters], which has a similar fashion but gives a whole new method of getting-things-done. This episode is a bit less intense than the first, because this series needs to give some room for the plot for the main characters in the series to go ahead and move things along. Even though, there is still some holes that needs to be filled, I think this anime has potential. I'll see what happens next. |
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furizaa
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Just saw episode 3, and while it was heart warming, I do not have a great liking for spoiler[flashback episodes] of any kind of show. I think I'll give this show one more episode to redeem itself, or else unfortunately, I'm out.
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