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Stark700
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This is actually one of my personal favorites this season. The comedy is just so fun to watch and I think the studio captured the magic of the characters in particular Tooru and her character chemistry with others.
Can't wait to see more of this show every week. I'm really glad this got a full adaptation unlike some of the author's works. |
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zrdb
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I've read a lot of the manga and so far the series seems to be conforming to the manga. I find both to be quite amusing.
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meiam
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Fun show but I doubt I'll remember any of it after the season ends. The comedy is decent but few jokes are laugh out loud and there are long stretch with few if any jokes. The opening is very good trough.
I can't help but feel like kyoani is a bit wasted on this, or maybe there holding back and doing something more demanding on the side. I get that there sticking close to the original, but I don't see why they would bother doing that, look at k-on, they deviated quite a bit from original and they made something far better than it. |
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zrnzle500
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^It depends on how much source material to work with. As mentioned in the Sound Euphonium 2 episode review thread, for K-on, there was a lack of enough source material to adapt so they had to make new stuff. This I suspect is not the case for this show so they did not do so, even putting aside that it is individual staff that make such decision not KyoAni as a whole. I don't think they are holding back, at least on animation, if this episode is evidence, but their next project does seems to be demanding to say the least, from what I saw of the PV
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steelmirror
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I'm glad someone else found the Crane Wife joke funny! I laughed at that harder than I have at anything anime for a while. The timing helped immensely, this show is masterful with the hilariously paced edit.
Also, is it only me, or do those fight scenes look fantastic considering how low-key and soft the rest of the show is? There isn't much of them, but when they are there, Dragon Maid looks better than most fighting anime. All around a real strong show, and absolutely unexpected (to me, at least). If it ends up delivering some feels that's icing on the cake. |
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Punch Drunk Marc
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I agree. That fight scene in episode two was amazing. I think the best part for we was that it came out of nowhere. I expected Tohru and Kanna to roll around and play tag or something in their dragon forms, not a full blown DB-esque fight scene. It was even funnier that when Kobayashi started freaking out the mood shifted right back to how it was before the fight happened. |
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steelmirror
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So far the show has basically been what happens when a studio that knows its business takes a project and just executes at a high level on every aspect of the production. It's not a mind-blowing premise, the animation is fantastic but hardly experimental or distinctive, the character designs are fitting but highly conventional, the personalities are refreshing because of how they hew to the monster girl stereotypes while flipping a few details on their head. It won't set the world on fire, but I'm hard pressed to find any detail of the show (other than that uncomfortable stripping scene, which I also didn't enjoy but mercifully it was short) that isn't delivered with panache. Though the gross out dragon jokes have been fantastic. This is a funny show, made funnier by the fact that everyone is on board to make each joke land as well as possible, from VAs to director to animators. |
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Zin5ki
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I cannot say this shamelessly, but the minor imperfections to the first episode were all but forgotten during the final scene in which Tohru is comforted after awakening from a nightmare. How sweet an exchange it is! If gentle intimacy of this fashion continues to occur, I'll have no reservations about watching additional episodes.
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Shaterri
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steelmirror mentioned this in passing, but I really want to call out the VA work here and particularly Mutsumi Tamura as Kobayashi. Her deadpan delivery, especially in things like the office scene in ep 1, is just spot-on to me and it's a critical part of the show really selling itself.
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#844391
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This series is by the same author that wrote "I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying" that had two series of short episodes. He's written several manga series now and they're all pretty enjoyable, usually having lots of cute, funny and sometimes touching moments. Definitely enjoying this series, there are several good ones out this season.
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Rederoin
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Here is hoping his monster-girl manga and the one with the numbers/'mute' girl also gets adapted. |
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ChibiKangaroo
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I will probably have no choice but to watch this show purely due to dragons. Yea, it does have the trappings of another monster girl harem. I pray that I am not disappointed.
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Jayhosh
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I thought that episode 2 was a lot funnier than the first. I was iffy initially, but after seeing the second episode... yeah, I think this show is really cute and charming. It puts a smile on my face alongside Konosuba, so I'll keep watching.
Maybe Miss Kobayashi is just a tomboy, I don't think it really matters. I wasn't big on the drunk scene either. Not because it made me uncomfortable or anything, I just found it to be painfully unfunny and out of nowhere. |
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Jose Cruz
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So now Kyoani finally went back to its roots and begins to adapt seinen otaku Manga again!
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#844391
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ep 3,
I want to see more Fafnir, he's like the neet version of Sebastian heh. Watching him fail at dark souls (or was that demon souls) was pretty funny. I guess Kobayahi's friend has sort of accepted the existence of dragons now. |
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