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| School idol huh!? Nice suggestion, Nonomi. You can save your school by being the school idol. |
真姫ちゃん！ 何が好き？ トマト よりも あ･な･た♡  |
| I watched the story until the previous episode in the game, and Serika seemed less agressive than she was in the anime. They are cutting out a bunch of stuff (which is fine, because it's not super important stuff, and I heard that they need to do this to fit Volume 1 into a 12 episode anime), but also adding a couple anime-original things (like everyone following Serika on her way to work, Shiroko talking to Serika near vending machines last episode, and a bunch of other stuff). Whether to sit beside Shiroko or Nonomi was the most difficult decision in my life. NAN DESU TTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Love them already. Btw the "BLUE ARCHIVE" at the end of the ED has the same font as YOU DIED from Dark Souls lol I really want Aru in the game. I rerolled enough to get both Iori and Shun from the tutorial gacha and was satisfied with that at first, but aargh. I know that she's farmable a bit later into the game, but it'll take a long time to get her that way right? :') |
EmbientApr 21, 2024 10:50 AM
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Abydos financial woes unending, and things are going to get more difficult in the future it seems. Real gacha gameplay |
| KUFUFU, in this episode we get to know the students of Gehenna academy, Aru's body is full but her brain is empty, aww i love Haruka she's so cute. The credit scene really MAKES HYPE, THE DESIGN LOOKS GOOD. Ayo nonton dan main Blue Archive.  |
| I thought this episode is the worst one yet. Episode 1 and 2 were very decent but this one suffer from a very weird tone. It should have been comedic but the scenes with the meeting was very poor. It lacked any climax (Ayane's table flip) and the music choice was very forgettable. Furthermore, the way they introduced P68 is a bit jarring with the original scene with the boat and Aru's iconic face appearing before the abydos meeting in the restaurant. Unwelcome school also only played during the boat scene, very weird choice. I also thought the battle was very poor. Blue Archive doesn't need that much focus on battle. The point of the battle was just to be comedic with the part-timer signing out. Instead we got a pretty serious battle with Shiroko vs Aru showoff until the bell ring and the part timer quit. That was honestly very bad. I think I also recall the abydos group thinking of capturing P68 to find out who hired them but that was seemingly skipped. That also clash with how the faceoff between shiroko and aru ended in the anime where abydos just let them go scott free. Overall this was a very poor episode in many way. The game has a very simple and short story telling for the first chapter but somehow the anime makes it feels a lot longer and less entertaining with a lot less details. I'm hoping that it get better and that this episode was an exception but if you can't even hit the SOL scene properly in the anime, who would even care about the characters? The OP and ED are doing a better job of showing the characters bond than the actual anime so far. Really they need to tone down the fighting. You can skip it. I know the game has a lot of fighting stage but there's no need to show them all. |
| 10/10 oghhhhhhhhh |
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| They should of rob that bank or the bus jacking |
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| Gotta love the Problem Solver girls. Mainly Aru's adorable dorkiness and Kayoko's ASMR voice. Fun episode. Now it's time for the show to become more plot-oriented with Black Suit's arrival. Nice voice selection, by the way. |
| @LotteWeiss But if I start from the beginning again, I will miss out on rewards from the first and second anime episodes, and I don't want that. |
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| Favorite episode so far. Problem Solver 68 are always fun to watch and the meeting at the beginning was pretty funny. Aru is such a lovable sexy dork <3. Hoshino's noises give me life. I don't like the bgm, it's just so bland. |
| So 😭😭😭😭😭 |
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| My favorite dorky girlfailure Aru is here!!! 😭 Nice to see the problem solver 68 girls finally. |
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| The ironic lolicon twitter immigrants latching onto this anime and spamming sob emoji are getting really annoying. |
| Black Suit got a voice before Seia 💀 |
Reply to Thai777
I thought this episode is the worst one yet. Episode 1 and 2 were very decent but this one suffer from a very weird tone. It should have been comedic but the scenes with the meeting was very poor. It lacked any climax (Ayane's table flip) and the music choice was very forgettable. Furthermore, the way they introduced P68 is a bit jarring with the original scene with the boat and Aru's iconic face appearing before the abydos meeting in the restaurant. Unwelcome school also only played during the boat scene, very weird choice.
I also thought the battle was very poor. Blue Archive doesn't need that much focus on battle. The point of the battle was just to be comedic with the part-timer signing out. Instead we got a pretty serious battle with Shiroko vs Aru showoff until the bell ring and the part timer quit. That was honestly very bad. I think I also recall the abydos group thinking of capturing P68 to find out who hired them but that was seemingly skipped. That also clash with how the faceoff between shiroko and aru ended in the anime where abydos just let them go scott free.
Overall this was a very poor episode in many way. The game has a very simple and short story telling for the first chapter but somehow the anime makes it feels a lot longer and less entertaining with a lot less details. I'm hoping that it get better and that this episode was an exception but if you can't even hit the SOL scene properly in the anime, who would even care about the characters? The OP and ED are doing a better job of showing the characters bond than the actual anime so far.
Really they need to tone down the fighting. You can skip it. I know the game has a lot of fighting stage but there's no need to show them all.
I also thought the battle was very poor. Blue Archive doesn't need that much focus on battle. The point of the battle was just to be comedic with the part-timer signing out. Instead we got a pretty serious battle with Shiroko vs Aru showoff until the bell ring and the part timer quit. That was honestly very bad. I think I also recall the abydos group thinking of capturing P68 to find out who hired them but that was seemingly skipped. That also clash with how the faceoff between shiroko and aru ended in the anime where abydos just let them go scott free.
Overall this was a very poor episode in many way. The game has a very simple and short story telling for the first chapter but somehow the anime makes it feels a lot longer and less entertaining with a lot less details. I'm hoping that it get better and that this episode was an exception but if you can't even hit the SOL scene properly in the anime, who would even care about the characters? The OP and ED are doing a better job of showing the characters bond than the actual anime so far.
Really they need to tone down the fighting. You can skip it. I know the game has a lot of fighting stage but there's no need to show them all.
| @Thai777 pre much my reaction. The combat doesn't feel well executed so far so the focus on it drags it down. They could have emulated Jormungand or even Upotte!! for the camera angles and effects (minus the blood, of course). I almost wonder if the OP was done by a different studio based on this and the fact that the color palette is completely different (the OP has one more akin to the game). |
| I been thinking this this since episode one, but now that we're 3 episodes in, I'm talking about it. As someone who's played the game before (not that long, the anime was announced only like 2 months after I started), I've gotta say I'm pretty disappointed in the anime. The fight scenes are genuinely boring. The slice of life and drama stuff are the BA story's strong points, so when I heard it was getting an anime, I was excited to see how they would do fights. I think they did the money-making ideas scene and the ramen scene just fine, but the action scenes barely have going on in them. I know Kivotos students are impervious to bullets, but that doesn't mean the guns should be completely unimpactful. Also the choreography is silly and the animation looks low-budget. This appeals to nobody except people who are already Blue Archive fans. Very saddening, because I doubt we'll get a Volume 3 anime now. At least Haruka is very cute. <3 |
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| The anime version adds such a rich layer of detail to the fights, especially between Abydos and Problem Solver 68. It’s one thing to play it in the game, but watching it unfold with all the dynamic animation is another level of satisfaction. |
 ㅤㅤ I love Nao Tomori ♡ ㅤㅤ友利奈緒のことが大好きです ♥ |
Reply to Tiau
@Seeker1995
It is indeed a bit delusional to cut the fights, not like these fights also demand top tier animation, they're minor fights but fights that are apart of the story, I more-so applaud them for being majority accurate
It is indeed a bit delusional to cut the fights, not like these fights also demand top tier animation, they're minor fights but fights that are apart of the story, I more-so applaud them for being majority accurate
| @Tiau You can show the beginning and skip to the end of the fight. How the fight happened doesn't matter, what matter is the conclusion. All I got from watching the fight (that lasted 3min!) is that sensei once again made a weird kinda useless plan and that kayoko is somehow skillful at CQC. Everything else felt pointless. Every bullet are dodged not even showing how resistant everyone is, no fanservice of any EX skill. They might have tried with aru and mutsuki but it looked hella goofy and pointless. I didn't mind the first 2 fight because it was setting up that sensei help the student with his "genius plan" but it got very repetitive and the plan looks awful most of the time. It's also getting very tiring that abydos looks weak which is not what is usually shown in the game. It seems like they are nerfing them or making the opponent stronger to "raise the stakes" when there are not supposed to be any. The game also has a few fight in some animated PVs and they looked way more dynamic than whatever is shown in this episode. If they are not going to do dynamic fights like those PV why bother? It's very boring. If they are keeping a more dynamic choreography for more important fight, why even bother animating these unimportant fights? |
| somehow managed to be worse than last episode |
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Reply to Tiau
@Thai777
Respectfully disagree there, all they did was use the fight to establish Problem Solver's characteristics.
I honestly wasn't even shocked about Kayoko being good at CQC considering the dress variant basically being a spy and it's not really like her EX skill does much outside of gameplay, having her trick them alongside Mutsuki is a good idea
The issue with this fight in particular is that Abydos technically speaking outside of gameplay never actually 'win' in this encounter, they fight from after they eat till when the part-timers clock out, I would argue that Abydos isn't established to be particularly strong until much later on in the story.
While yes they could change things, but for the most part all they've done was adapt things straight, even if they made changes and cut the fight shorter, to what gain? As far as I can tell they're well in pace of the story and that's with added scenes if you cut out all the fights but the "important" ones its not like they need the extra runtime, least not currently anyways. I also don't think it's realistic to compare it to PVs since those are pretty different from pacing out an entire season with an animation team that might not be capable of doing sakuga every episode, and if that is the case theres better fights to use your best animators on than this.
Respectfully disagree there, all they did was use the fight to establish Problem Solver's characteristics.
I honestly wasn't even shocked about Kayoko being good at CQC considering the dress variant basically being a spy and it's not really like her EX skill does much outside of gameplay, having her trick them alongside Mutsuki is a good idea
The issue with this fight in particular is that Abydos technically speaking outside of gameplay never actually 'win' in this encounter, they fight from after they eat till when the part-timers clock out, I would argue that Abydos isn't established to be particularly strong until much later on in the story.
While yes they could change things, but for the most part all they've done was adapt things straight, even if they made changes and cut the fight shorter, to what gain? As far as I can tell they're well in pace of the story and that's with added scenes if you cut out all the fights but the "important" ones its not like they need the extra runtime, least not currently anyways. I also don't think it's realistic to compare it to PVs since those are pretty different from pacing out an entire season with an animation team that might not be capable of doing sakuga every episode, and if that is the case theres better fights to use your best animators on than this.
| @Tiau I disagree. The fight barely show any characteristics of the P68, whether it's their fighting characteristic or personality. For example, we know that Haruka is very merciless when fighting via the game and the manga. Nothing of that was shown, instead we have shown that she uses bombs, which is to be fair, one good thing that was established but still feel very boring. Mutsuki and Aru has the same problem. I don't need Abydos to win but they need to stand their ground otherwise why would P68 even run away when they lose the number advantage? Why would they willingly fail when they are in uninjured? Here's another scenario. You can have a scene where P68 fight Abydos and get surprised by how strong they are and think that it will take longer than she thought. Then you have Aru starting to get the advantage and then get surprised when the chime end and the worker clock out. It will show that they are very tenacious and that it might be a losing battle without the number advantage. Instead none of this happen and you have the awkward Aru vs Shiroko confrontation into their weird retreat. Also kaiser at the end is saying they are stronger than the data suggest but nothing show that. They are getting pushed back all the time by every mobs, when canonically, mobs are fodder compared to Abydos. The fight are also very repetitive. Abydos is in trouble->sensei come to the rescue with his plan. It's just extremely boring. Fights need to have reasons to them or show something new otherwise it's just a waste of airtime. It would be forgivable if it at least look good visually or has good choreography but it doesn't. One reason why I criticize this episode so much is that nothing new is shown. In ep 2, we have shown that Ayane can drop bombs, Shiroko has her EX, Ayane can drive. There's a lot of thing. Here I cannot name you a single thing new that wasn't shown in episode 1 except for a few P68 thing (Kayoko CQC, Haruka's bomb, Mutsuki bomb) which could ALL be shown later because of how basic they are. The extra run time is not needed if they get the fighting right. If we go with the premise of cutting the fight, that extra airtime could be used for anything. More original stuff (like ep1), more foreshadow, slower SOL pace, relationship story, ANYTHING. I'm not asking them to have good animation like the PV, I'm saying that they know how to make a fight choreography that is actually NOT boring since they made the PV. So why are they making these fight super boring? It's literally stand still and shoot and miss everything. Once in a while have Shiroko do some acrobatics that end up doing nothing because she just stand still after. One can argue its like the game but it's super tedious to watch in anime and is a valid criticism when it takes a lot of airtime by virtue of having fights in every episodes. Like I'd take a badly animated fight with some inkle of choreography over gun shooting but missing for half the fight so you don't even show how durable a student is. |
| It's been a year or two since I read the story but I feel like the pacing is moving in super speed. Animation is nothing to write home about. As I said in the first episode, it's so Yostar Pictures. I actually like how they don't put a lot of the focus on Sensei for now and just letting the girls speak their mind. It's very refreshing hearing the girls speak complete sentences since in the game they only have a few repetitive lines, especially Haruka and Kayoko who I sound quite different from how I imagined them to. Also, is this the first time we hear that black suit guy's voice? Problem Solver 68 is my favorite bunch other than the Rabbit Squad. |
"Nobody could laugh at someone who's trying their hardest" -Machio- |
| They didn't show Aru's huge monologue... 😭😭😭 |
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
| This anime is so random and doesn't have any specific rules set, I actually thought they were going to rob a bank xD I bet this whole mess will be explained at the end with "this is the afterlife" or some shit like that. Even the action here is pointless, these mercenaries are shooting from a distance, it's unclear why, since everyone here is immortal and the girl shot in the head many times at close range, normally got up and left xD To win, you just need to wait until your opponents run out of ammunition (since they are idiots and shoot senselessly) and then shoot them at close range until they give up due to the pain and trap them, of course this stupid anime ignores this fact and the characters fight as if it was a fight to the death and life. The strategy of "we just try harder" and we win by going to the middle and shooting, what is this supposed to be? who wrote it? Something that works in the game is completely hopeless in the anime. 1/5 |
| What's the freaking point of having gun fights when no one gets hurt? This is so stupid, gotta be one of the worst anime airing this season. The girls are cute and all but seriously, are they using paintball guns? 2/5. might as well be a slice of life anime |
| @LotteWeiss Genres >action >fantasy yeah I guess it's a fantasy if anyone expects this to have any real action. if there's no damage, there's no action. bluds be shooting paintball guns at each other |
| nothing about that battle made any sense at all. cute I guess, but I still don't really understand this universe at all. |
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