The available RAW is still on very little volume, so I don't really suggest to watch it if you really want to know the meat of the story.
Spoiler for Episode 1 Impression:
-Oh Masaomi, you and your lame joke...
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Holo and Baccano! cameo lmao
-The action scene with Celty's appearance. As much as it's really goes fast, I am impressed with how much she kicked ass. <3 New favourite character spotted easily!
-Simon's introduction doesn't impress me but his Jyapanishche... Is fun to hear ~
-Heiwajima Shizuo= AWESOME. His first not on-screen introduction is pretty much Masaomi talking about him being someone Mikado don't want to make enemy with, and just in the middle of Masaomi talked...
A VENDING MACHINE FLY TO THE SKY.
-What is wrong with the slice mark? Is it Celty's mark? Or is it something else? Being the pilot episode, no hints were dropped but one can make guess that comes from Celty's schyte. If so, did and why she attack the woman? And why is the woman freak out easily after the two boys see the mark? I guess that's one question raised for me.
-Dollars... Hmmm... Not even an ounce of hints except it is a shady group is there :< So can't comment much!
-BB doesn't do the prologue, but either way the prologue chapter in the novel only serve to me as "what the heck is this stalker? D:' fun anyways.
-ED image: Can I expect some relationship to be formed by Shinra (finally I can spell his name properly!
) and Celty? <33333
I have no complain for the BGM music but so far they have yet to grow on me especially since my stream is pretty low in volume
As for the VAs, Mikado is portrayed as a meek, '
normal', '
uninteresting' (for now) character pretty good. Definitely love Masaomi's portrayal though xD His tone alone make the lame jokes funny lmao
I'm not going to compare this to the novel since I am pretty much still reading it (albeit very slowly
) and not to spoil myself a lot for the anime, I decided to put it on hold (I'm still in the middle of chapter 1). But definitely I see changes on the chronology. Don't ask about the dialogue changes though : D
Small joke, but who the heck is Dotachin?
OP is better than ED imho, but people's taste might be different. ED is a rather slow but upbeat tune for me, so I can't say I hate it :3
Overall, the pilot episode flow pretty good. It definitely raises a lot of curiosity for me
It's kind of like Baccano! but with
much less "WTF JUST HAPPENED O_o" since it doesn't do the same style as Baccano!, but it still grabbed me with Celty's appearance alone <3 Mikado and Masaomi just pass to me as 'those ordinary boys' for now, so I'm waiting for them to develop from now on. Oh and Masaomi's quartet friend/aqcuintance.
I personally suggest not to think of this as Baccano! Mk II though, since it is not really confusing people, but rather make them curious with the revelation.
Too bad nearly none screen for my favourite characters though ;; Izaya, WHERE? D:
I am biased, thank you <3 And yes, we are only introduced very few characters.
I have a suspicion that this episode is not going to grab people yet, as it is really the introduction episode of sorts.