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Jul 16, 9:49 AM
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Oh boy, raids and the undead. Where have I seen this before...probably at least once in most isekai or fantasy related shows these days.

Elymas wants to improve himself, or rather his adventure rank. I think this is standard for a main protagonist in this type of world, but he's definitely gaining more experience.
Jul 16, 9:52 AM
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The pacing is fucking horrible in this show, it’s fallen off since that great premiere episode so hard. Where is the blue haired girl with thick thighs? Why are we getting a recap of scenes we already saw for a third of the episode? Why are we spending two episodes on a basic group raid?

Like fair enough you wanna show Elymas leveling up so the isekai inevitability of him being OP feels somewhat deserved, but my God the last two episodes have dragged on. The spider fight last week was cool, but this week’s episode could’ve been condensed so much.

I did get a kick out of seeing Gowtan struggling after he talked all that shit to Elymas, but I’m ready to move on already😭
Marinate1016Jul 16, 1:45 PM
Jul 16, 10:16 AM
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Interesting how there's people talking about episode 3 when it hasn't even realesed yet.
Jul 16, 10:33 AM
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Interesting how there's people talking about episode 3 when it hasn't even realesed yet.
@robertino129 Raw has been out since 2 and a half hours ago, 1 hour before the usual release time.

The episode has been delayed by ABEMA for 2 hours.
Jul 16, 10:52 AM
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@robertino129 Raw has been out since 2 and a half hours ago, 1 hour before the usual release time.

The episode has been delayed by ABEMA for 2 hours.
@Marz666 Thanks for the info
Jul 16, 11:05 AM
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robertino129 said:
Interesting how there's people talking about episode 3 when it hasn't even realesed yet.

blame volleyball for that
Jul 16, 11:18 AM
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Unreal engine 3 ahhh artstyle textures assets and camera-work lol
Jul 16, 11:32 AM
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I hate the direction of this show, a lot of lost time
Jul 16, 11:41 AM
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About half of the episode was composed of nicely designed establishing shots, a ton of panning and reused grunting noises for the characters. The other half was nicely animated. I somehow doubt this is overall a worthy tradeoff tho.

I rather have a decently paced anime that looks okay than a render/cgi firework that's 50% filler because the studio cannot keep up with the schedule.
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Jul 16, 11:42 AM
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I hate the direction of this show, a lot of lost time
@Akiracr2 It feels like they repeat scenes for 1/3 of the air time and the first half of the episode is basically recapping what happened previously. But maybe I'm being too negative and just focusing on the repetition too much xD
Jul 16, 11:46 AM

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Why show so much of what we've already seen, this is an indication of them being late, I'm afraid of the next episodes
Jul 16, 11:52 AM

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holy shit 8 minutes were just the same scenes over and over again. RED FLAG
Jul 16, 11:58 AM
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At first I'm concern that the story will go nowhere because of too many recaps but I'm glad that this anime will get 26 episodes. This is studio GoHand's first ever two cours anime (excluding short anime).
Jul 16, 11:59 AM
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well, first part is a recap and the intro, then about half the episode is literally replayed, word for word, frame by frame, and I think there's only about 10 minutes of an anime in this one. Overall, disgustingly lazy episode
Jul 16, 12:08 PM

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Is the only reason they gave this 26 episodes because it has has One Piece pacing? Seriously, what the fuck.
If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that.
Jul 16, 12:08 PM
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@Akiracr2 It feels like they repeat scenes for 1/3 of the air time and the first half of the episode is basically recapping what happened previously. But maybe I'm being too negative and just focusing on the repetition too much xD
@Asterios404 I also felt same, story actually started from 7th minute, and even after that I saw lot of repeated scenes. I waited a week for it.
Jul 16, 12:13 PM
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It seems that shamelessly replaying long clips back to back is going to be the norm with this series. You can get away with that when the story is really good Like how fans begrudgingly accept the BS One Piece pulls, but this isn't One Piece. I'm getting more irritated with it after each episode. I'm nausea from the camera flying around everywhere and immensely irritated with how little happens in an episode. I can only see the goofy faces as a ploy to fill time now too so it's just adding to the annoyance.
Jul 16, 12:18 PM
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I like it but the episodes are far to short which is quite anoying. It's almost over when it started.
Jul 16, 12:39 PM

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Unreal engine 3 ahhh artstyle textures assets and camera-work lol
@NiJaS Welcome to the World of GoHands, where they GoHam on animation
Jul 16, 12:41 PM

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So they think a tank is weak? As someone who was saved by my party's tank a few times, I don't see it 😂
Jul 16, 12:42 PM

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Half the episode was a nothing burger. What a let down
Jul 16, 12:46 PM
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my bet is that next week the first 15 minutes will be an Attack on Titan recap
Jul 16, 1:02 PM
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Oh no... I had high hopes for this episode :( It feels like there was only 5 minutes of new material. I mean, wtf are the show runners thinking? Did they really think that the flashy montage of sick animation in episode 1 was going to keep people interested through all of this shitty filler and repeated scenes? It's mind boggling. Surely it would've been better to spread the budget out a bit more. Really disappointing
Jul 16, 1:05 PM
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literally just a waste of time lmao
Jul 16, 1:12 PM
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Hmm.. so if he was actually competent wouldn't he just kite it? It doesn't have ranged. It's melee only. Sure it jumps around, but they have some kind of utility to slow it right? He grabs agro, they hit it in the back. It'll take awhile but that seems to be the lowest risk. Unless there are anti-kiting mechanics? The adds are gone so I don't see why they couldn't kite it. Is this encounter more complex than I am making it out to be? Its level isn't even that great of a threat. The level doesn't even really matter. Just makes it take longer. If they could summon pets that'd be even more OP. If it can't be slowed that'll be a bit of a problem.. but if he keeps parrying it.. that's very high risk.. but then it just turns into a tank 'n spank :/. Being able to just parry anything is OP by itself. He has the animations memorized right? So he could just do it that way. Higher risk, but ultimately if you are invincible you can technically fight anything as long as it doesn't have spells/aoe/adds, which is the case here.

Way too many unbalanced broken mechanics. There are 101 ways to take this baddy down lol... he could literally solo it unless there's a stamina mechanic and it doesn't regen in fights. or his skill take mana. like soloing large bosses in Vindictus. If you've got iframes you can solo anything.

I'm more caught up in the MMO side of things than the story =P.

How would you have tackled this encounter?

His rampart skill does damage, but it also does a knockback + cc, so he could just draw agro, have them all get knocked back, and his party could just pounce on them and take them down by maxing DPS. For the adds earlier. He doesn't have to solo any of it. Could buff the party to increase movement speed, attack speed, DPS. The healer could buff mr. heavy knight to increase defense and increase damage. If they could increase CC that'd be even better.

Also our MC is a terrible leader. He didn't utilize his teammates. He didn't coach. He didn't help. He didn't guide the raid at all. He just soloed everything. Bad player. He supposedly knows all of the classes extremely well. he should have utilized them to min/max, improve everybody, and improve the clear speed. He could have easily supported on the raid boss too. As soon as he saw the skill activate he could have interrupted it. The boss was stuck in an animation. They could have spammed damage and interrupts to stop it. Guy is just bad lol... but he's supposedly good.. so this would be what they call a plothole then for the sake of having a "cool fight" :/.

I'm enjoying all the MMO stuff because I love MMOs. They are my entire life. but ... the players are bad and some of the choices don't make any sense given their experience.

Plus doesn't he have some kind of Fear? He does, I recall it. Fear + snare is an incredibly powerful combo. Could dot it and chill. Yet another overpowered broken combo. If they had charm it'd be gg. I know they don't because if they did then that would be the broken class, not heavy knight ;D.

This show just makes me want to play a good MMO :'(. Not one with rotations and scripted events. One with lots of emergent broken combinations that can easily exploit a variety of areas and situations ;D. Just like this MMO. It reminds me of EQ1 so much haha. That time when a party of level 7s took out a 20 + 25 named pair + 40ish adds that continued respawning. Or that time when a party of level 18s took out a level 50 named monster :O. Really fun times. This show makes me so nostalgic and makes me want to backseat the MC. The hardest challenge was a room full of level 40 wizards as a level 12. Entering the room made them all instantly attempt to nuke you or snare you, so it was insta death. There was a very specific way to draw them out and split them apart. Took a lot of wipes before we figured it out.
nestharusJul 16, 1:27 PM
Jul 16, 1:13 PM

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The pacing of this episode felt sluggish at best... and I wonder: if Elymas noticed the zombies were getting in the way of killing the boss, why the hell did he spend 3 hours reflecting on it instead of doing something? He just watched all that shit unfold... like... wtf?!

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Jul 16, 1:20 PM
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Gods, the pacing of the show is just godawfully slow
Jul 16, 1:29 PM
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Well it’s clear now here on Episode 3 that the only real problem this show has is the amount of recap/reusing of scenes, it’s not so bad that it’s gonna hurt my score any but it is noticeable, I’m guessing it’s to pad the runtime, but then I wonder why this is 26 episodes and not 24 if that’s the case, I saw it mentioned that it could be because they aren’t finishing episodes in time but the production itself doesn’t show any sign of that, still looks as good as it did when it started imo.

That aside, I thought the content of the episode was good, I liked that it showcased everything wrong with this raid, from the arrogant leader that won’t teach the noobs, to the cowards that are too afraid to do anything, it’s starting to remind me more of Destiny raids by the second lol. W Elymas for trying to help the noobs, but unfortunately those goober right hand men of Gowtan’s shut that down, then proceeded to be scared bitches themselves lol. So of course Elymas had to take charge in leading the noobs into battle, although they didn’t have to do much because Elymas’ add clearing was too good, and while things were looking good as Gowtan nearly finished the boss, then it went and not only healed, but evolved into an even uglier and stronger boss, Elymas may just have to carry here since he is pretty much smurfing after all.
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Jul 16, 1:39 PM
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phantomfandom said:
At first I'm concern that the story will go nowhere because of too many recaps but I'm glad that this anime will get 26 episodes. This is studio GoHand's first ever two cours anime (excluding short anime).

Given the pace of the anime. that's just like 18 actual episodes.
Jul 16, 1:46 PM

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I guess that's how they plan to make up for the over the top animation... Have 10 minutes of recaps/reused scenes every episode + OP and ED
Jul 16, 1:47 PM
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That was so blatant and in-the-face. MC is all-knowing Mary Sue, everyone else is absolute idiot, nobody understands concept of tanking or group roles even. Dudes bad-mouthing MC piss themselves after seeing zombies, ehhh
Jul 16, 1:48 PM
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I am the only one thinking this anime is MOSTLY AI generated !?

It doesn't feel right, lots of incoherence, like the background is changing and some character in it are disapearing, rollbacks to previous scene, pace is awfull, facial expression of the character are also a big miss, looks more like is having a diarrhea problem...

VERY weird and disappointing !
Jul 16, 1:50 PM
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It's way too slow. About 1/3rd of the episode is just recap.
Jul 16, 1:54 PM
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I am the only one thinking this anime is MOSTLY AI generated !?

It doesn't feel right, lots of incoherence, like the background is changing and some character in it are disapearing, rollbacks to previous scene, pace is awfull, facial expression of the character are also a big miss, looks more like is having a diarrhea problem...

VERY weird and disappointing !
@ombreg The moving leaves in the background are definitely AI generated. I have a feeling the background in camera pan shots are also majorly AI generated and retouched later on.
Jul 16, 2:03 PM
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Oh, phew. I was afraid I was going to have to remember what happened 7 days ago. That's forever!

Goddam recap bullshit.

"Search!" then 30 full seconds of just the camera panning past him from different angles as nothing happens.

They spend several minutes just standing in front of their leader before going into the raid before finally moving forward so that they can...spend several more minutes just standing in front of their leader before going into the raid.

And then a full 30 second repeat of right before the break after the break.

They're pretty much stretching every episode into two.
EmposterJul 16, 2:26 PM
Jul 16, 2:06 PM
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last 2 episodes could have easily been 1 episode. the promising first episode is fading away very fast and we will be left with medicore if this continues.
Jul 16, 2:10 PM
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The pacing of the show is just so slow. I had to skip a lot and it feels like there was only 5 minutes of new material. I'm getting so irritated while watching it.
Jul 16, 2:11 PM
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There is a lot of recap for no reason... I have a feeling the manga version of this is far superior.
Jul 16, 2:40 PM
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God I sure hope, that they aren't going to keep spending 2-5 minutes each episode on flashbacks from the previous episode. Maybe they should have spend a little less on the hair animations, so that they didn't have to re-use so much.
Jul 16, 2:45 PM
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I agree with @Marinate1016 the pacing was horrible, unnecessary recaps and pause to watch an out of frame picture mid episode for like 5 seconds.
Honestly I know the type of anime this is and in fact I like the isekai op troupe but common, when I was at the 15 minute mark I could not believe how little the story had progressed, even if they wanted to make the group raid span across 2 episodes this was a horrible way to do
Jul 16, 2:46 PM
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I agree with @Marinate1016 the pacing was horrible, unnecessary recaps and pause to watch an out of frame picture mid episode for like 5 seconds.
Honestly I know the type of anime this is and in fact I like the isekai op troupe but common, when I was at the 15 minute mark I could not believe how little the story had progressed, even if they wanted to make the group raid span across 2 episodes this was a horrible way to do
Jul 16, 2:47 PM
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I agree with @Marinate1016 the pacing was horrible, unnecessary recaps and pause to watch an out of frame picture mid episode for like 5 seconds.
Honestly I know the type of anime this is and in fact I like the isekai op troupe but common, when I was at the 15 minute mark I could not believe how little the story had progressed, even if they wanted to make the group raid span across 2 episodes this was a horrible way to do
Jul 16, 3:07 PM

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With the way the pacing is handled this could've been just 13 eps if you cut out the recaps, repeat scenes and shorten the long ass cgi background shots.
Jul 16, 3:09 PM

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It makes sense that unlike with a game when you can die at any moment then it is better to peak early with whatever easy fighting class you can use, while I'm enjoying the show I won't deny it is getting old how many shots they keep re using and those empty ones with just the background but most importantly it is about time the clownwife shows up.
Jul 16, 3:10 PM
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I was expecting something completely different from this show, it was supposed to be a praised show with pretty decent animation... But damn, besides the pacing, does it even have that? The amount of recap scenes is ridiculous, there's so much wasted fluid animation, and the characters are exaggerated and cartoonish. It's somehow worse than a lot of isekai slop.
Jul 16, 3:11 PM
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[always yapping]
Jul 16, 3:17 PM

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they showed that scene TWICE in its entirety wow what a fail
Jul 16, 3:30 PM
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this is unwatchable
Jul 16, 3:40 PM
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man this show really loves to waste as much time as possible, just look at how much screen time they gave to npc n°1 n°2 and n°3, the pacing continues to be as slow as possible with a nothing burger in the middle to squeeze more of the little time we have in this mortal plane, I'm sorry guys, but I can't with this one, easy drop
Jul 16, 3:51 PM
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The music, and the art and everything visually is AMAZING, but the PACING IS FUCKING HORRIBLE WHYYYY!!!!
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