(CR) AntiMagic Academy "The 35th Test Platoon"

[Stark700]

Episode 1:

Lol, even in this series, it's not immune the "boob grab" scene.
Ah, action was actually decent but the story feels flat. The character designs obviously reminds me somewhat of Nourin because of the character designer.

[RDNexus]

So... Is it gonna be simulcast in any of the known channels?

[KnightShade]

just watched the first episode raw, their keeping the meat of the story but cutting out some of the exposition. action was great in spite of the gore being toned down(though at least still present), and the VA's were all pretty good fits (the mc's in particular), but the pace was a bit too fast. the scene where they go from mc tending to ouka's wound to them raiding a warehouse was a bit too big of a jump. the plot itself is pretty good in that it's a military academy trained to go after magic users, so it's definitely the most original in premise of the current school battle adaptations. it just needs more room to breathe. overall a pretty good start.

for anyone who's read the LN, what are your thoughts on the adaptation currently

[MisaoFan]

Spoiler for Episode 1:

Fast pacing aside, it was pretty decent for a premiere. Its premise was executed into something with potential of ending up darker than it seems, the cast had its own quirks and the mission scenes were at least interesting. Even better, I actually loved how stylishly catchy the visuals were executed and the ending theme song was good. Will still need to judge its overall initial quality into few more episodes.

[KnightShade]

Originally Posted by MisaoFan

Spoiler for Episode 1:

Fast pacing aside, it was pretty decent for a premiere. Its premise was executed into something with potential of ending up darker than it seems, the cast had its own quirks and the mission scenes were at least interesting. Even better, I actually loved how stylishly catchy the visuals were executed and the ending theme song was good. Will still need to judge its overall initial quality into few more episodes.

agreed.

Spoiler:

so far the 1 volume in 2 episodes thing could have been a lot worse than it was and the animation style was on point. come episode shit gets real dark so i'm banking on huge spark of interest for this show

[AceTrigger]

No one licensed this yet? Because then we have to wait for a fan group to sub it and that would take a long time..

[Izumo]

Overall was a decent first episode, nothing too impressive but still fun to watch. The animation looks cheap sometimes but at least the VA's plus OP and ED help to fix that detail.

Just wait for 3 more episodes to have a better idea.

[Esebian]

Originally Posted by AceTrigger

No one licensed this yet? Because then we have to wait for a fan group to sub it and that would take a long time..

According to this list animelab took it up for simulcasting.

For some reason though it doesn't appear in their actual simul schedule, so it seems some sort of problem occured...

[Seihai]

No doubt, the 35th platoon looks very weak. lol I'm definitely interested in seeing the characters improve their skills. It's also a good sign that the first episode already includes some rather dark elements what with that dismemberment(?) and Ouka's tragic past.

Also yeah, obligatory "trip over something and get a lucky sukebe moment by landing on the girl in a suggestive position". I think I will stop commenting on these from now on as they've become part of anime like girls running to school with a piece of toast in their mouth. Or people breathing.

[APNki]

Crunchyroll picked it up.
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-new...to-fall-lineup

[cyth]

I stopped watching at the boobs part.

[KnightShade]

Originally Posted by cyth

I stopped watching at the boobs part.

you're going to miss out, just saying

Originally Posted by Seihai

No doubt, the 35th platoon looks very weak. lol I'm definitely interested in seeing the characters improve their skills. It's also a good sign that the first episode already includes some rather dark elements what with that dismemberment(?) and Ouka's tragic past.

Also yeah, obligatory "trip over something and get a lucky sukebe moment by landing on the girl in a suggestive position". I think I will stop commenting on these from now on as they've become part of anime like girls running to school with a piece of toast in their mouth. Or people breathing.

this shit is going to get dark yo!

[serenade_beta]

*facepalm*
I don't even know how many times I've seen this pattern... I don't even want to count how many times I've seen it this season... I don' t even have the energy to bother saying anything.

And it doesn't matter how good it supposedly gets later. Your audience has a limited attention span and within that span, you need to catch their attention. That's entertainment. You fail that, and it doesn't matter what happens later because they won't be watching it. The audience can choose to use their time watching any anime. However, the creator's wallet depends on his work.
That said, I'm on the audience side and don't care what the staff is deciding, just what I see.

PS: The bunny was good

[BladeMancer]

Originally Posted by serenade_beta

*facepalm*
I don't even know how many times I've seen this pattern... I don't even want to count how many times I've seen it this season... I don' t even have the energy to bother saying anything.

And it doesn't matter how good it supposedly gets later. Your audience has a limited attention span and within that span, you need to catch their attention. That's entertainment. You fail that, and it doesn't matter what happens later because they won't be watching it. The audience can choose to use their time watching any anime. However, the creator's wallet depends on his work.
That said, I'm on the audience side and don't care what the staff is deciding, just what I see.

PS: The bunny was good

To be honest, they're missing out. I'm sure they'll come back once they hear better reviews about this work that's not on MAL

[Kismet-chan]

Originally Posted by serenade_beta

And it doesn't matter how good it supposedly gets later. Your audience has a limited attention span and within that span, you need to catch their attention. That's entertainment. You fail that, and it doesn't matter what happens later because they won't be watching it.

I agree with this (to an extent -- there's an exception to every rule, but that's a rare occurrence in the anime industry). I can count a number of series adapted in the past year or two with extremely cookie cutter premises, characters, and/or plot developments, that have each come with fans of the source material crying "wait until it gets good/dark/epic" or "wait until plot twist xyz happens!" or "it's not generic because this ONE little thing is ~different~!"

A series shouldn't start out generic and forgettable then get interesting and unique later. Happily suffering through punishment for a lackluster reward is more than a little ridiculous.

[TJR]

Originally Posted by Kismet-chan

I agree with this (to an extent -- there's an exception to every rule, but that's a rare occurrence in the anime industry). I can count a number of series adapted in the past year or two with extremely cookie cutter premises, characters, and/or plot developments, that have each come with fans of the source material crying "wait until it gets good/dark/epic" or "wait until plot twist xyz happens!" or "it's not generic because this ONE little thing is ~different~!"

A series shouldn't start out generic and forgettable then get interesting and unique later. Happily suffering through punishment for a lackluster reward is more than a little ridiculous.

In most cases, that twist is unlikely to be unique within anime as a whole (let alone other forms of storytelling). It's meaningless to those who are prone to dislike the rest of the material.

[MisaoFan]

Originally Posted by Kismet-chan

A series shouldn't start out generic and forgettable then get interesting and unique later.

Name one or two anime that does this.

[Esebian]

Originally Posted by Kismet-chan

I agree with this (to an extent -- there's an exception to every rule, but that's a rare occurrence in the anime industry). I can count a number of series adapted in the past year or two with extremely cookie cutter premises, characters, and/or plot developments, that have each come with fans of the source material crying "wait until it gets good/dark/epic" or "wait until plot twist xyz happens!" or "it's not generic because this ONE little thing is ~different~!"

A series shouldn't start out generic and forgettable then get interesting and unique later. Happily suffering through punishment for a lackluster reward is more than a little ridiculous.

While I generally agree with that (even though I am one of the readers of the AMA LN btw) by dropping it now you have no right to judge the show nor the people watching it.

The 1/4 (or 1/3 usually for 1 cour anime) of total episodes rule for watching anime is there for a reason: If sb watched the first episode of Madoka and then dropped it "as it is yet another generic Magical Girl show" it would be exactly the same.

The major reason why most people with that mindset didn't drop it was for Gen in the writing department. Don't you think that is slightly unfair?

An established writer can always write a bad story (that is the same for every kind of medium) then people will often say that he "had just a bad day" and will still read the next book - on the other hand new writers have to stick out of the crowd from the first book onwards, which something incredibly hard to achieve nowadays just because they started writing later?

If you give a writer no chance to show the full extent of his/her ability, how can you judge him/her or the book/anime he/she wrote (for)?

[Kismet-chan]

Originally Posted by MisaoFan

Name one or two anime that does this.

Those aren't my own sentiments. I'm saying that people who say the examples I gave in my post are essentially making that argument when they say things like "it only seems generic right now, wait until the twist comes later, then it'll stop being boring!" I know it's (probably) not their intention, but that's how it comes off to me.

Originally Posted by Esebian

While I generally agree with that (even though I am one of the readers of the AMA LN btw) by dropping it now you have no right to judge the show nor the people watching it.

I meant to mention that my post was mostly just my thoughts in regards to serenade's post. It was not aimed at AMA in particular.

[cyth]

Originally Posted by Esebian

While I generally agree with that (even though I am one of the readers of the AMA LN btw) by dropping it now you have no right to judge the show nor the people watching it.

The 1/4 (or 1/3 usually for 1 cour anime) of total episodes rule for watching anime is there for a reason: If sb watched the first episode of Madoka and then dropped it "as it is yet another generic Magical Girl show" it would be exactly the same.

The major reason why most people with that mindset didn't drop it was for Gen in the writing department. Don't you think that is slightly unfair?

An established writer can always write a bad story (that is the same for every kind of medium) then people will often say that he "had just a bad day" and will still read the next book - on the other hand new writers have to stick out of the crowd from the first book onwards, which something incredibly hard to achieve nowadays just because they started writing later?

If you give a writer no chance to show the full extent of his/her ability, how can you judge him/her or the book/anime he/she wrote (for)?

Anime is usually fine to be judged by the cover alone. The key visual is usually enough to know whether the show will pique your interest or not. Life's too short and there's enough of this shit to go around. You think some of us care that some guy is trying to prevent us from judging a series? With the anime watching experience some of us have under our belts, 10 minutes of the first episode was enough to know this won't interest us. This was the only show I dropped midway this season. It was so terrible. The lack of ambition showed in even the beginning stages of the work was quite underwhelming. From the animation to character designs to story composition. Terrible in every aspect.

One thing with Madoka was that it oozed with ambition from the very first scene. It was enough of an attention grab that it didn't matter who wrote it. There was enough cool factor to last you to the third episode. Please don't make this about star power alone, the show is much better than that, even though it has its problems.

The whatever-episode rules are all arbitrary. Never subscribed to them, but I'm still here, still watching anime after all this time. The countless suckers that put themselves through those torturous ceremonies ... I wonder where they are now?

Sure, I won't have the right to barge in again at a later time and tell you guys how bad this show is (this is forbidden by forum rules anyway), but for this episode I can. Enjoy this trash to your full content!