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Spice and Wolf II - Episode 1 Discussion / Poll

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2chan link with screenshots for this episode ... (deleted)

Ep. was cute and refreshing, this is why I hate drama.... With all that physical contact and flirting and that's all they've progressed :mad:. OH, gotta LOL at the hang-over!

It's kind of touching to finally see an anime that honestly impressed me with its first episode... Lots of average first episodes this season that it's kind of sad... tohohoho...

Very enjoyable! As expected.
It wasn't too eventful, but a few new characters are introduced and the atmosphere is as nice as ever(?). It seems an arc starts next week? Some black-haired woman...

I wonder if it is my imagination, but Horo and Lawrence have been surprisingly close (in a lovey-dovey meaning) ever since the 2nd season... It's fine with me though, but just something I felt...
Horo... So adorable... Awargh... Kawaii!
Her face during her hangover was hilarious! :heh:

The sadness of the life spans of different races... (´；ω；`)
Happens all the time (in anime)....

OP was... rather disappointing, considering the previous season's great OP. The matching of the song and visuals was slightly bad, and I'd prefer if they showed the new characters more clearly...
ED was also worse than the 1st season's, but it was nice.

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I think that, actually, it would be a lot more apt to call this "Episode 15" than to call it Episode 1 in a lot of ways, because except for a few aspects, it doesn't really feel too much like any sort of "Episode 1". They do make some little gestures to reintroduce the story and some short flashbacks, but they didn't waste much time in introducing the new characters and some of the main issues. It seems like this story arc is going to focus on nature of the connection between Lawrence and Horo. It was particularly noteworthy that, this time, he introduced Horo and specified that she was not his wife, earlier he had made a comment that she was "not his type", and near the end he made a comment referring to when it would make sense for her to move on her journey on her own. So they're definitely setting up some distance between the otherwise amicable couple, which I'm assuming will serve as a way of actually defining what their relationship is. That actually plays right into the concept they introduced in Episode 0, so I think it's really pretty essential that anyone who didn't check out that "connecting" episode give it a look if they haven't already.

Other than that... the new character designs seem to have carried over just a bit of the "big mouth" of the original novel illustrations, even if it's only visible in a few scenes. I didn't notice it as much in Episode 0, but it was more apparent here. All in all, it'll take a little getting used to still, but I think it's not bad at all. Otherwise, the storyboarding for this episode is, as you might expect, very similar to the first season, with the same director at the helm. It all felt very familiar. The only other thing is... somehow Lawrence's voice sounded a bit more "forced" than I remember it being, even in the OVA. Perhaps it's because this episode is a little bit more weighty at times?

I really liked the new OP. The ED doesn't have the same quasi-awkward "catchiness" as the first season, but I liked it. It seems fitting for the slightly heavier feel of the episode, anyway -- like the story's getting a bit more serious (though it was never really silly either).

So anyway, as a first episode that's really more of a second episode that's really more of a fifteenth episode... I think everything pretty much felt as it should. It wasn't a spectacular intro, but it didn't have to be either -- it's setting up the plot to come. Looking forward to next week!

Oh, we back bitches! :D

OP/ED resembles OP/ED of ZEGAPAIN. I thought that the first season's OP was better.

It seems that there is no striped noise of the outline which was a problem of the first season.
By this, I can buy Blu-ray without anxiety.

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Originally Posted by Blank-Mage (Post 2501114)

It's out?!?!

My thoughts exactly, I forgot about the time difference with Japan.

The raw looks good, but I'll refrain from voting until the subs are out. This episode covers exactly one chapter in the novel, and volume 3 has six chapters if you include the final, so I'm guessing this particular arc will run for five or six episodes like before?

Well, so far, one of the best op for this season's anime.

Very good episode too, with some good scene:

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And the alchemy between the two is, as always, a real pleasure.

Ps: also first post on animesuki so "hello guys" :D
You will see that english is not my birth language so, be prepared for some "engrish" that will hurt your eyes :heh:

Need subs posthaste.

They're out already.

Mazui released some subs. I've never heard of Mazui before, though.

Ah! excellent episode ... This summer is really something else, too many good shows :D

The only minor problem I have is that Horo's got lolified ... I preferred the more mature character design from the first season.

On all other fronts the first episode was between good and perfect; especially what I loved in the first series remained the same, the alchemy between the two main characters and their witty dialog! The whole damn episode is a shinning example of good writing, quite rare these days.

Also music was really good and most importantly fitting the show's atmosphere. Animation was OK, without some actions scenes it's hard to rate it, but none-the-less it was not just "moving mouths" :heh: VAs also did a great job to convey the feelings of their characters.

Overall as I said it lived up to my high expectations despite the changes. Nice work!

It entered also my list to transcode for a certain mobile platform that I use :D

Spoiler for Ep.1 ending scene:

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Originally Posted by Masanori Ota (Post 2502719)

Mazui released some subs. I've never heard of Mazui before, though.

They're fairly new... but they've been doing the SHnY "this season" episodes.

They're not flashy - very basic fonts and no karaoke. But the translations are not toyed with or slanged up. I'll still look forward to S&W done by a couple of other groups :)

Wonderful episode, it's great to get back into the flow of Spice and Wolf with such a good episode. Interestingly they seem to be tackling the lifespan differences as well as their relationship in this arc. Looking forward to seeing how's covered, loved the OP and ED combo just like I did in Zegapain. I probably prefer Arai's OP here but ROCKY CHACKY'S Zegapain ED is better, one of my fav EDs period. Thankfully Spicy 2;s ED resembles that one more so than their spicy 1 ED.

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loved it. theres gonna be more dancing ;)

hmm I guess the ED is now japanese again, but they kept the same person