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but heres my list

i think first impressions, Maougun and Giji harem were the weakest

someone else fansubbed the last ep cuz phren went missing

"incest"

i dont count that

as incest

it didnt impress me, ep1. but those other 2 were definitely notably less interesting

the art for that show looked odd

it wasnt something i was gonna pick up initially either

If i had a show i think had a really good 1st episode, that nobody else is watching, its this

idk if the isekai element is really necessary here, but other than that the episode was very nice, and setup the show really well

i imagine it's the case, but is anyone else watching the meme deer show this season

wdym it's 100% totally balanced. especially the part where only 1 person in an MMO can get a skill and then everyone else is locked out of it

wit

[plana]

bruh

CR is only dead because they dont like their own industry, and piracy websites offer far better service than they do

the only vtuber show i need is hologra

the studio said they completely finished production of that show all the way back in mid-july

which is an interesting note

"defeat donald trump"

this should not be the goal, the goal should be to put forward the best leadership of the country you can

what a stupid thing to say

also he should have dropped out

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 guys (pika and polu) care, and i also thought i should wait for you to finish the show. its also way longer than i thought it would be when i started writing it.

my favorite girl is hina fyi

Aru is a fun character

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 and rated the show on its own, it would have been a lower score. What I wrote here are some critiques and praises based on that premise. Important introductory prologue scenes skipped(rip wakamo's and rin's intro). It's weird that the abydos girls had to explain basic information about the city to sensei, instead of Rin from the GSC doing it when sensei first starts working under the GSC. Fight scenes not really animated well other than a couple exceptions. nobody ever actually hit the main girls with any shots. Kivotos students are very durable, they regularly get shot in the game and shrug it off. why did the show avoid having them get hit at all? only iori from the prefect team landed hits but only in melee and her strikes were somewhat blocked. Sensei being in the anime is good, but with the fights being the way they are, and with the lack of game mechanics, his participation is sidelined. Volume 1 chapters 1 and 2 are not the most interesting part of BA story by a long shot, the anime was never going to fix that, but there's a lot of good about it like expanded scenes and the original episode 8 scenes which were quite nice and enjoyable to see. my biggest issues are the battle animation, the prologue skip, and The OST. Which had a couple nice tracks but overall falls short of the game

--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 story. some expanded scenes and a couple unimportant scenes left out(an extra skirmish with the helmet gang for example). strange but unimportant changes like the method serika was kidnapped with(smoke and knockout gas instead of shooting her with anti-aircraft guns). probably because they didnt want to show the main girls getting shot for some reason. The bank robbery was and still is the best part of chapter 1. Fight with iori and the prefect team was decently animated for iori's initial attacks, and pretty close to how it went in the game. Hina's thighs buffed.

• 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.

• 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.

---- 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.

there it is

read if you want

that is about what i would have scored it i think, if i wasn't familiar with the source

i said in more detail in the "review" but they added stuff that was good to the later episodes that i really appreciated, but would not be recognized as something new and good if you didn't play the game story.

why did you ping me in this channel

also grats

that is not a small amount lmao

the drinks

i like their fries more than a couple places. like i hate the waffle fries from chick-fil-a

the Sonic near me just changed their fries and its really really good though

like, the best fast food fries around here is now sonic

partnering with sony is... a choice

I would never want to live in germany

they ban and censor so much foreign media

I don't think i'd want to live in europe at all, actually