I really need subs for this too. Luckily, my craptastic Japanese combined with my knowledge from the manga makes this understandable but it's gonna be hard once they go past those 9 scanlated chapters. If a fansubing group with decent shougi knowledge subs this I will thank the gods
.
Overall, the episode was very good. As expected of course. Most of the stuff was the same except for a couple of things:
Spoiler for Manga VS Anime events:
-The introduction was different. No police, no foster parents, no Shion standing in front of everyone in a blood-soaked room in the anime. The anime added a drill for no reason either.
-With Shion's very first match where she powned that one nameless character, the nameless character
thought she heard Shion speak. Obviously, this is important because you should have figured out by now that Shion lost her voice.
-In the manga, you find that Ayumi is a TRAP (man) when he changes in the bathroom. His mentor didn't rip off his clothes like that
.
-Shion's instructional match wasn't shown. It wasn't super important but it did show Shion getting
pissed at her opponent just from first glance. So yeah, that's rather important. Of course, we could always see this later.
-The stalker aspect is much more clearly played in the anime rather than the manga. There was no room with Shion's pictures everywhere, we didn't see anything from the stalker's POV, and most importantly the stalker never actually touched Shion. Ayumi just told the stalker to stop in the manga and the stalker dude left. Oh and Shion was walking home from her instructional match in the manga.
-I don't think there were as many instances of murder flashbacks in the manga as there were in this episode. But that's just me.
The animation disappointed me a little when compared with gorgeous manga artwork but it's passable. The OP sucks but I thought the ED wasn't that bad. BGM is okay at the moment.
So yeah I'm glad that my most anticipated anime of fall has come. And yeah it's my favorite anime of the fall at the moment.
And on another note, I will do my best to blog this. Just because it's probably gonna be forgotten and I wanna pimp this show out.
Edit: Here's the
link for my blog entry on the first episode with a detailed summary and my thoughts.