Forum:S01E01 Discussion

Episode 01 is out! Thoughts?

I was apprehensive about Episode 1 to the point where I was preemptively embarrassed for a few reasons. The foremost reason is that I am personally invested in this anime going over well because I need it to prove that Narita's original IPs are still profitable and was/am therefore worried it wouldn't be up to snuff. I was also very concerned about the potential fanservice. The first PV moreover exacerbated the manga beginning's edginess (and included a fanservbice shot) to the point where I was dreading the first few episodes being overwrought teenage edge.

In context, however, those clips featured in the first PV are...way more palatable! Whew. The episode also excluded the underwear shot that I feared it might include; thank goodness it was excluded.

Inserting Arase and Iwanome in Episode 1 is not a bad idea. It's such a brief inclusion that I don't think it will lessen the punch of their introductions proper, c.f. Chapter 5. Arase's voice is deceptively non-threatening, at least in that brief shot.

I genuinely laughed at how quickly Corpse God's yell fades when Misaki throws Polka around the 14:02 timestamp.

CGI crowds was something I resigned myself to, but it was still a little disappointing to see CGI people used in closer-up shots. I had no doubt that CGI was going to be used for major necromancy scenes involving a lot of bones; we definitely got one of those with the skeleton army. It was neat seeing the skeletons articulated.

One choice I really like is the color accentuation of souls with purple (purple in most cases; that blue-lined skull at one point was also neat. The colors help distinguish the soul's features and the souls from each other, of course, and the way the souls are animated is very satisfying.

I never thought they would tease a certain mother in the OP like they've done. I look forward to the anime-onlies' speculation on that end.

In a similar vein, the last thing I expected to see when I opened the Crunchyroll DMDP hub was my own synopsis for the show: the one I wrote for and is still available on our home page. User Joshay12 copied and pasted it in a review they titled "Actual synopsis as once again, Crunchyroll has a stupid one."

Well, gee, I'm sort of indirectly flattered. Ah, Joshay12, I'm afraid the 'actual synopsis' you've copied-pasted is some text written by a rando fan by which I mean me. A rando. Joshay12's "review" is the most upvoted one by a mile as of April 10, 2023. Wild. Wild.

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