(L+CR) Rail Wars!

[MisaoFan]

Original creator (light novel): Takumi Toyoda
Original Character Design: Vanilla 600
Director: Yoshifumi Sueda
Series Composition: Masashi Suzuki
Character Design: Makoto Uno
Color Key: Hitomi Sano
Art Setting: Hiroki Matsumoto
Art Director: Yukihiro Watanabe
CGI Director: Yuushi Koshida (Orange)
Music: Yoshiaki Fujisawa
Animation Production: Passione

Plot summary: The "dream railway paradise entertainment" story is set in a parallel world where Japan did not privatize its national railways. Naohito Takayama is an ordinary high school boy who dreams of a comfortable future working for the top-rated Japanese National Railways. He is assigned as one of four high school trainees in the Railways Security Force. Also in his group is Aoi Sakurai, a female troublemaker who hates men. On top of his sudden transfer, an extremist group called "RJ" plots to privatize the Japanese National Railways.

Official website

Nice to see more SoL anime that doesn't take place in high school. The designs by Vanilla 600 and the ones by Uno are awesome, will give a shot.

[kyuudere]

I got info from otakomu regarding this anime...

ZAQ's will should be in charge of TV animation "RAIL WARS!" ED artist! Right now, songs ♪ ED became a presented at the 1st album launch event of ZAQ's so pretty cool to enjoy ♪ (publicity in charge Mattsun) http://railwars.jp/ # rw_anime

■ZAQ
中二病でも恋がしたい！OP
ささみさん＠がんばらないOP
直球表題ロボットアニメED
ハイスクールD×D NEWOP
勇者になれなかった俺はしぶしぶ就職を決意しました。 OP
中二病でも恋がしたい！戀OP

Chūnibyō demo koigashitai! OP
Sasa mi-san@ ganbaranai OP
Chokkyū hyōdai robotto anime ED
Haisukūru D×D NEWOP
Yūsha ni narenakatta ore wa shibushibu shūshoku o ketsui shimashita. OP

Chūnibyō demo koigashitai! Ren OP

http://otakomu.jp/archives/92492.html

[Izayoi Sakamaki]

Originally Posted by Izayoi Sakamaki

Apparently , cast released this Friday
http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv181584627

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-24460.html

Fukuyama Jun as Main Character
Manami Numakura as Sakura Aoi

[Marcus H.]

Completing the cast...

Naoto Takayama - Jun Fukuyama
Aoi Sakurai - Manami Numakura
Haruka Koumi - Maaya Uchida
Sho Iwaizumi - Satoshi Hino
Mari Sasshou - Hiromi Igarashi

[Izayoi Sakamaki]

new PV

YouTube

https://youtu.be/R7HUSYrXp8s

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[bastek66]

More character announced
Mai Nakahara as Hitomi Gonō, the fiendish instructor and commander of the Tokyo Security Force's mobile units


Yui Horie as Nana Iida, the leader of the Fourth Guard Squad

[bastek66]

New PV

YouTube

https://youtu.be/4RIgcVxyyW4

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[MisaoFan]

Spoiler for Episode 1 Pre-Air:

Just watched the NicoNico pre-air. It doesn't show all of the scenes though as it serves mostly a onlooker test for the viewers whether or not they will continue watching. The episode itself was fun and the railroad lessons were rather educationnal if not too deep. The animation isn't as good as I expected, but then again it's Passione's second work (the first one being Haitai Nanafa if anyone has seen it which I didn't unfortunately) so the budget has yet to get progressive as it goes on. The visuals were very impressive on the other hand, cannot expect anything less from Makoto Uno and there's brief fanservice scenes though they were mostly relegated to the dumb blondie of the group. My main drawback is Aoi: although her body is gorgeous, I really dislike her personality with a passion, she had a major hatred against men for some reason and then beat them up without knowing why. I really hope she needs to overcome her problem and have Takeyama teach a lesson for her on how to not fall into a homophobic trap anymore. Will continue watching though.

[Tenzen12]

Did you get see whole episode or something? Because I can't see any major issue with Sakurai, she is quite snarky, but not violent and actualy makes pretty good team with Takayama.

Nice suprise was Haruka, I expected her to dumb, clumsy and being there only for fanservice sake, but her encyclopedic knowledge about anything conected to railway will be valuable asset and she knows where it's needed while not spaming it around. Well she is clumsy and provide fanservice though.

Overaly Whole team work very well together and it doesn't seems to be one of shows where protagonist can hog all fame for himself. Plus railway settings is cool and nicely elaborated. Rail wars seems like very good replacement for these who liked Nanana treasure and I am looking forward second part of episode.

8,2/10

[Flower]

Hrm... Must admit that was kinda entertaining, a bit over the top and silly, maybe even dumb, but kinda engaging in an unexpected way. For some reason (I have no idea why) I am reminded of Ben-to's feel....

Anyway, will definitely watch the next ep.

Curiously this was the premier today that caught my interest the most, and while nothing profound I could see it even becoming a guilty pleasure series at worst and maybe something on the silly action level at best.

Wonder where they will take it from here? For now at least it seems the charas (whose dynamic and introductions I also kinda liked) have completed their training and are on the right track.

Sorry, sorry... I could not resist!

Edit: Btw, CR picked this one up too: http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-new...ail-wars-anime

[NinjaRealist]

So far this show is everything I hoped it would be. It's stupid in all the right ways and moderately intelligent when it needs to be.

[DevilHighDxD]

First Ep Impression:

-Was initially scared MC being some what useless but I'm assured by this episode that he is competent at least.

-Look like Haruka and he share the same role of their respective gender being the intell type, leaving fighting to Sakurai and that other big dude.

-Ship teased with Haruka but I'm fine with either girl, also Haruka being competent and not just an innocent fanservice girl is much appreciated.

-I like how the train/railroad aspect isn't like a backstory but integrate into the main story/plot. Usually anime's priority is more boob bouncing than story, I like it.

-I keep my hype and the hype deliver.

Follow for me!

[mangatron]

NSFW

ACHTUNG BOOBIES

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[DevilHighDxD]

Originally Posted by mangatron

NSFW

ACHTUNG BOOBIES

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I demand that thing blocking the delicious melons to be remove ASAP!

The rest is much love~ <3

[RJ TAYLER]

Well they 'are' standing behind 'the yellow safety line' so 'NSFW' might 'not' quite be accurate in this case.....well at least according to Queensland Rail safety guidelines.

Nice series, reminds me of 'Cop Shop', the 1970s drama program, with Trains!

[MisaoFan]

Spoiler for Episode 1:

Well it wasn't as bad as I believed out to be like the pre-air, however some of the boring aspects remain. It's good to see that after having some answer from Tenzen12, it seems I disliked Aoi less and less. Haruka seemed a very capable girl besides ber dumb personnality and big breasts, so that's a plus. Most of the other characters are respectable and while Naoto seemed above average at best, I emitted some of the worst things to come from him latter on as judged by some fanservicey mishaps with Haruka. I hope the fanservice isn't going to be prevalent throughout the show despite the arguments between the creator and the producers, so it's best for me to expect it to be a rather pleasant surprise with the right amount of adventure and not wasting its potential too much.

[Kaengel]

I don't know what to think about this first episode.

There were great thing lke the action scene, and Sakurai as a character.
But the MC is so boring ! His passion is so boring ! The first episode didn't make trains interesting things at all.

I hope this will change.

[Baldurkai]

This reminds me a lot of Library Wars, which to me was a great anime, so i'm hoping this to follow a similar path. As for characters, i guess its early days to place them into categories but the Mc feels rather blank otherwise a promising anime. the animations look good as well done I'll be keeping an eye on this

Originally Posted by MisaoFan

I hope the fanservice isn't going to be prevalent throughout the show

I have to agree with you there MisaoFan, i too hope there will not be so many fanshots, Id much rather they focused on the story/plot.

Spoiler for episode spoiler:

Why did they need all four of them to chase the two robbers?? what about the poor lady shouldn't someone of tended to her lol ?anime logic

[xizro345]

Well I kind of liked the episode, all the characters are interesting in their own way. It did have some odd drops in animation quality though.

[Guardian Enzo]

OK, so silly question but - why do we not just pick up the phone and call the conductor's car and Ootsuki station to tell them there are bad guys on the train?