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extra notes: Episodes 9 and 12 had scenes referencing Hoshino's senpai, the previous abydos Student council president, Yume. iirc there was only a brief mention of yume in the game story for Volume 1 Ch1&2, so these scenes are either original or pull from Volume 1 Chapter 3 story, which only the JP servers have atm as of now. They arent spoilers though, and they're good additional scenes.
I've seen reviews and comments mention lack of info on the girls halo's as a negative, but tbh the game doesnt give any information on them either. its meant to be a mystery, the most we know is halo's are what give the girls their durability. they also vanish while the girl is unconscious(sleeping or knocked out, but its effects dont go away). Halo's can be broken, if the girl dies, which takes an extremely excessive amount of force, so much so that there's only 1 confirmed student death in the story. and that happens before sensei shows up, so there is not a lot of info on that.
- ep11: Black suit got a good VA. Sensei did not pull out the meta credit card in the anime during the black suit scene. Sensei and the abydos girls personally visiting trinity to ask hifumi for help is a nice addition. in the game, hifumi just asks the tea party for a favor without being prompted(at least not on screen). we also catch glimpses of Koharu, Azusa, and Hanako which is a nice addition though i doubt we'll get an adaptation of Volume 3 anytime soon, if ever. Nagisa tells hifumi she needs time to think about helping abydos, but in the game she immediately gives hifumi access to the Tea Parties artillery, hoping to get sensei to be in her debt. The abydos girls meeting with Ako and chinatsu of the prefect team when asking for help is a nice addition, only sensei showed up to gehenna to ask for help in game. I can't believe Sensei stuck iori's toes in his mouth, the madman.
- ep12: Actually good battle animation in this episode, which is nice. this is the most important fight of volume 1 ch1&2 after all. We get to see a lot of the reinforcments from Trinity and Gehenna actually doing stuff on-screen instead of off-screen like in the game, where they showed up and their part in the battle wasnt really shown. Hoshino's flashbacks include stills of her first meeting with shiroko, which is not something you see until volume F(technically 5th volume in terms of release date, but not actually volume 5 which is its own story after volume F) in the game. The building hoshino was being held in didn't explode in the game.
- ep8: aquarium scenes were anime original and good, wished the aquarium scenes were in the game story unironically. Good character moments that lead well into the next episode. Yuuka's thighs got nerfed, and Noa was shown earlier here than she was in game. The scenes after the aquarium were in the game
- ep9: anime had no skrimish with Kaiser PMC before interest was increased unlike the game. Kaiser PMC director claimed to be Kaiser CEO when he isn't, which may have been a subtitling issue, idk because i don't understand japanese. addition of flashbacks of Yume. (see extra notes)
- ep10: the pmc director piloted the mech unlike the game, and it was very stupid(why is he punching with cannons?). Problem solver entrance was good. Mutsuki had a weird web grenade she doesnt have in the game, but it fits her character to have something silly like that. other than that, some useless dialogue that didnt exist before, that kind of drags out the PMC invasion.
--individual episode notes--
1-7: pretty simple mostly accurate adaptation of game story (vol 1 chapter 1, beginning of chapter 2). i'm not going to rewatch them to refresh myself for this write-up, but i remember most of it, and how i felt watching them. They were mediocre, but so was Volume 1 chapter 1 of the game st
ok here's my review-ish thing for BA anime. spoiler tagging based on pika's current MAL progress lol
--BA Anime Overall review and notes--
As someone who really loves the BA story, i decided to rate this show based on how it did as an adaptation. For this reason i gave it an 8/10 on MAL, but if i was a stranger to BA a
for BA anime, i wrote down a... review? write-up? of the adaptation, which is my first time doing something like that, because i really do like BA. It's not really a review as much as it is me writing down the differences between the anime and game, with a couple critiques. I intended to post it here but idk if you guy
