(CR) Bye Bye, Earth

[Stark700]

Crunchyroll, alongside WOWOW and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, is announcing today that a Bye Bye, Earth anime adaptation is officially in production. The series will stream on Crunchyroll in more than 200 countries and territories, as well as WOWOW in Japan as it airs in the future. Additional details about the anime, such as staff, cast, and release date are yet to be revealed.

Crunchyroll source

https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-ne...ime-adaptation

[Last Sinner]

Mardock Scramble and Le Chevalier D'Eon is enough of a track record to have some faith in the potential of the source material. Hopefully it gets a deserving adaptation.

[Stark700]

Crunchyroll streaming it. PV is up

[Last Sinner]

No date set yet but confirmed 2024. That was quite an intriguing PV. Very slick visuals, protagonist is quite appealing on multiple levels, Kevin Penkin (huh, this guy is Australian - nice) music was a good match. Guessing it's latter half of 2024 at this rate.

[Stark700]

Coming July 2024

https://twitter.com/BBE_animePR/stat...72196593193455

[Stark700]

PV 2

[Frontier]

How many big-name seiyuu can we have in one fantasy show .

[Blaat]

Looks like female Guts in a typical isekai setting. Considering the guy who wrote this also wrote Chevalier d'Eon and Heroic Age I'll definitely check it out.

[MisaoFan]

Episode 1 aired today and it'll run for 2 cours

[Nachtwandler]

Also, the LN is finished with 4 volumes. Hard to say if the plot here will be good or not yet. But the setting reminded me of SukaSuka a bit and I have hopes for it.

[Ragashingo]

The main character reminds me a little bit of Fran from Reincarnated as a Sword. The show seems... ok. Not top tier. Not trash. I'll give it another episode or two to see if it can kick in a decent story.

Oh.. and is that Earth in the sky above them? Are we dealing with parallel planets or some such thing?

[Keila]

Watched 1st Episode, love it, regret having to wait / not being able to binge it.

Hoping it won't betray expectations (know nothing about the source)

[serenade_beta]

Spoiler for first impressions:

Uhh... I'm not really sure why everything happened, but I get that the girl needs to travel and her teacher can no longer be part of her life... and I guess if you understand that, you're good
We weren't exactly given enough time to be emotionally attached to her teacher or care about her relationship with him, so... yeah, I couldn't care less about the whole "Forget about me and do whatever" sequence

She came out of a rock and is not on Earth, so it can be speculated she was sent into outer space by humans on a round space pod and landed on a fantasy world planet (I mean... I guess maybe there is some planet out there with fantasy stuff...?)
And I'm gonna guess the conclusion is gonna be like Planet of the Apes


To be honest, it wasn't a strong first episode with mediocre production values, but I guess the strongest part of this anime is that since the original source completed with only a few volumes, the anime definitely will animate to the end
Well, if you are gonna animate a fairly old series like this one, you might as well animate it to the end, since there is no part in advertising it

...Yeah, the original source was written in year 2000. How deep is the anime industry digging, man?

[HandofFate]

I was rooting for the tentacle monster in the fight in the first episode.

[Xiyon]

I know death of the mentor is a common trope to kickstart a hero's journey... but I do hope the show eventually does explain why Sian had to get deleted beyond drama for the sake of drama.

Overall, intriguing first episode. Decent enough world building without giving the mystery away. Excellent music. Dunno much about the show (is this an anime original?), but somehow feels like a throwback 90s fantasy series, and I'm all for it.

[frubam]

Originally Posted by Xiyon

I know death of the mentor is a common trope to kickstart a hero's journey... but I do hope the show eventually does explain why Sian had to get deleted beyond drama for the sake of drama.

Overall, intriguing first episode. Decent enough world building without giving the mystery away. Excellent music. Dunno much about the show (is this an anime original?), but somehow feels like a throwback 90s fantasy series, and I'm all for it.

Yeah, harboring similar sentiments. I could understand being "deleted" happening because Belle was too attached to Sian, but she was pretty resolved to leave him after the flashback. And since he can't do anything but teach, his role would be essentially over after this episode, so no need to kill him. I suppose an advantage of the memory erase is that we'll be able to see her think for herself, and not harken back on "what Sian would do" or how "he'd be better than me" in various situations.

The segment of when she was young was rather abrupt as well. Its clear she was ostracized as a child, but I felt that the segment was not thorough enough. It didn't allow me time to sink into her feelings enough to make an impact. This is one of those shows that could have used an extended length/double-length episode to give those events time to breath.

I also wished they didn't spoil the "fight" by previewing it at the beginning. It became obvious that when he brought up a "trial" what it would have entailed when paired with the opening segment; but I think it would have had more emotional impact to be presented that fact in the moment.

All in all, pretty solid airing. I'm not too concerned with the mysteries of her origin this time, surprisingly to myself. I'm more interested in seeing her seek a place of her own, and what trials and tribulations she'll have to endure to reach it =03.

[magnuskn]

Yeah, I also got strong Fran vibes from the MC, using a buster sword didn't help that.

A lot of the concepts of the show are just thrown at you, so it makes for a bit of a disorienting experience, but it's still really nice to look at. I'll give this one a pick-up, because very cute girls with big swords tickles my fancy. Not to mention all the cat-ladies around.

[serenade_beta]

"How much terminology do you want?"
This anime: "Yes"

Seriously. Like, half of the lines use unique terminology, and I don't even think there is a need. Also, why is the outside of the city evil and the inside good?
Why does that even matter if she is gonna leave this place anyways?

[frubam]

Hmm... here I was expecting the memory wipe to prevent her from reflecting on moments she was with Sian, but ends up doing that all the same =0v.

The god stuff kinda went over my head honestly. It feels unnecessarily complicated. I'm getting lazier and lazier trying to understand stories these days. I just want to see her journey, like The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye. Hopefully she'll defeat the horseman next episode(ofc she will) so she can do that.

[Alchemist007]

The ED was nice.