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MFrontier
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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2024 3:49 pm
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So far I'm liking it, Frieren as Tinasha is stellar casting and for an ENGI production the animation and action have been pretty on-point so far, and Oscar and Tinasha's chemistry is palpable.
I only worry they're rushing through the material because they jumped pretty far into volume 1 already.
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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:33 pm
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The comparison/contrast between Oscar and Tinasha became clearer with episode 2, and that definitely makes the series more interesting to me. It's a wholly different dynamic between the co-protagonists than what we see in Spice & Wolf, but it has its own appeal.
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Multi-Facets
Joined: 15 Oct 2019
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:49 pm
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It's interesting to see the differences between the initial impressions and ratings, and then see a more in-depth article so soon. They've both been handled fairly so far, with good points for both strengths and weaknesses in the plot, visuals, and genre. I'll be looking forward to see how all of this holds up as the reviews go on.
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Iron Maw
Joined: 29 May 2008
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:56 pm
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Its a shame that they are skipping the side material. It offered a lot of a lot of nice lore and more character building. I guess that staff doesn't a whole lot episode slots to work with. Besides that the 2nd episode was quite good.
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MFrontier
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:10 pm
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I definitely feel like in focusing so much on the plot the show has kind of lost the appeal of Oscar and Tinasha's slow burn romance...by removing the slow burn.
Definitely feeling like an ENGI anime now...but hey, Ayako Kawasumi!
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Gina Szanboti
Joined: 03 Aug 2008
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:44 pm
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Yeah, the animation does leave something to be desired. Aside from Lazar, Lucretia's boob physics are a marvel of bad something (don't know the terms) where her breasts move while the clothing they're (barely) contained in does not. You know it's bad when I notice that sort of thing.
I'm glad you pointed out the rushing. In the first part of the episode Tinasha and Oscar seemed normally prickly with each other, then suddenly they're in a tender romantic hug at the end. The whiplash made me wonder what I'd missed. Apparently a lot, but for once because it wasn't shown to me rather than me missing it.
Valt and Miralys made me wonder if the Time Retrograde Army from Touken Ranbu are at work here too. Looks like he's disintegrated toast while she was transported somewhere? Of course, if they're timeline travelers, I guess he could still be a player somewhere. You don't hire Yuuki Kaji for a role to kill him off after a dozen lines of dialog.
I still get a kick out of the pet dragon hitting the high note in the ED. And it's so cute curled up around the big dragon's core. Speaking of which, if they have it, what was it that Valt and Miralys recovered? Or maybe my question should be what does the chibi-dragon have?
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