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Jan 3, 5:21 PM

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damn this already looks better than most battle shounen from last year, sick visuals and camera work. reminds me of fate in ways, even looks similar to strange fake. decent start and has potential to be better. i just need to like more characters, i can take a simple plot as long as it does that. and that final frame reminded me of gurren lagann lmao. also the ost when the goddess woke up reminded me of the op from the ghost in the shell movie.
Jan 3, 5:22 PM

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May 2015
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Yeah I dont get the hype, it was ok I guess.
Jan 3, 5:32 PM
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Sep 2023
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You know the anime is gonna be good when the first episode is an hour
Jan 3, 5:45 PM

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Apr 2020
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Great animation and interesting art style, I think I don't mind if it gets generic if the quality keeps this level.
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Jan 3, 5:46 PM
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Apr 2018
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peak raw fiction.
Jan 3, 6:00 PM

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Dec 2023
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What an incredible first episode, I can only hope the show manages to keep it up from here. If so, then this show is easily going to hold it's own and surpass JJK and the other "big" hits this season.
I like to watch some anime, I like to talk about some anime, I dislike wars over some anime, but more than anything I love to live my life, anime is an enjoyable and entertaining addition onto my life but it's not my whole life.
Jan 3, 6:00 PM
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Dec 2022
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😂an 8.42 is insane because the light novels are nothing special to begin with rather generic but rather decent but hey, the anime will at least elevate it so I don't mind
Jan 3, 6:05 PM
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Winter 2026 is starting off with a bang with this being my first anime of the season to begin, because holy shit this was amazing, nearly an hour long premier and it all looked amazing, not a single drop in quality from what I could see, Studio Kai delivered and then some, you can see the Mushoku Tensei in it as well because of certain staff members present. Now the story I can’t say too much for, it’s just episode 1 after all, but I do really like the concept of a crime sentence in a fantasy world being becoming a hero, it goes completely against the norm and it’s just really cool.

The revenge plot seems nicely set up as well, I thought it was predictable that Xylo wasn’t actually a bad guy and that his circumstances weren’t his own doing, and that turned out to be true, but I am interested in seeing how he gets his revenge (I doubt it will be this season but still), and how his future adventures with Teoritta go because I love her already, she’s absolutely adorable not just in design, but also because of her fixation on being praised, shit’s cute af man lol. And not even counting the production, I loved the action and the brutality in this first episode, they didn’t hold back at all, it really helped set the tone for this being more of a dark fantasy. Also, even if the knights were bastards, Captain Kivia was a baddie ngl lol, hope this isn’t the last we see of her, she may have wanted to lay her life down but I’m glad Xylo saved her ungrateful ass. And I liked that demon lord design a lot as well, looked cool and freaky to match its cool and freaky powers lol.

And apparently this is actually gonna be a Thursday show starting with episode 2 on 1/15, it’s unfortunate that we gotta wait a little longer for the next one than just next Saturday but it’ll be here before we know it. And no OP and ED yet, I look forward to hearing them in the next one hopefully.
TheColonel76Jan 3, 7:02 PM
Jan 3, 6:05 PM
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Jan 2024
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ts so peak...
absolute cinema
Jan 3, 6:13 PM

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Feb 2020
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THIS EP WAS SO PEAK DAWG 😭😭😭🔥✌️
Sakuga fest or smth, also the soundtrack kinda kicking me 🔥🔥✌️🐙🧍‍♀️
Jan 3, 6:33 PM
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Feb 2016
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The animation is great, but the sheer number of main characters alone already makes me want to drop it. Watching it was an experience filled with frustration, and I only endured a few minutes. I get a headache with every scream and every out-of-order explanation. The script is amateur, as usual. I’d say the story and soundtrack would have to be excellent just to keep me from feeling bored or angry in the first few minutes. This honestly feels like something written by a 10-year-old who just wrote too much. When there’s no comedy, the action without any seriousness becomes unbearable, and in the end it’s just another adventure and fantasy limited by the same tired elements
@LucasDoragon What a fucking bore you are if you really came to this conclusion after only a few minutes and acting holier-than-thou before you've even absorbed the plot. You wouldn't survive a second of the peak that is Baccano! if more than two main characters gives you an aneurysm.
Jan 3, 6:35 PM
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Jan 2023
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Beautiful 1 hour episode
Jan 3, 6:41 PM
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Dec 2022
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holy mother of generic revenge story and amazing animation. 😂😂😂😂✌🏾
oh well, I knew it was gonna be a revenge story and while I do not like it, the animation and voice acting (English dub) are magnificent. this was like watching Rising of the Shield Hero or Arifureta all over again, lmfao. I love those 2 so I don't mind getting generic revenge stories once in a while as long as they are done well, executed well, and have the animation to back it up.
Xylo is rash, brutal, and kinda hotheaded but I don't hate him. it's like seeing Naofumi or Hajime all over again so that's fine.
Teoritta, oh Teoritta what a cute loli goddess you are. a lotta people be complaining about how annoying she is. maybe it's because I watched the English dub and I love her VA (Emi Lo who voices Maomao in the Apothecary Diaries Eng dub) but she was just so cute, funny, and powerful!!!!! hahahahah.
the story aside, which I hope shapes up to be well done and executed, I am definitely gonna be sticking with this.
11 more EPs and I do hope the animation stays like this and nothing happens in the longrun.
for the first episode; animation - 8.5, story - 5.5.
Jan 3, 7:04 PM
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Aug 2023
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I do not remember the last time I had this much fun watching a pilot. No idea what comes next, but this is brilliant :D
I wish there was more anime with this animation style, it has a certain quality to it - like 90s anime but in proper HD (or "as we remember it" ;)).
Jan 3, 7:10 PM
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Aug 2019
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What a great 10/10 movie !
Jan 3, 7:20 PM

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Apr 2022
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Absolute banger of a first episode!

First of all, I gotta say that even tho this is marked as 58 minutes, IT DID NOT FEEL LIKE IT AT ALL. Secondly, THE ANIMATION OH MY GOD! ITS SO GOOD!? Like it's really impressive and I AM PRAYING THAT IT STAYS CONSISTENT! Like I don't want banger animation only in the first and last episode. It doesn't have to be as flawless as this all the time but at least keep the consistency with good animation. Thirdly, I really enjoyed the story being told here, I like the characters, and I really like the weapons or system they have here, its very interesting. I'm very looking forward to see how this continues. Again, hope its not just a one-hit-wonder type show.
Jan 3, 7:28 PM
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Feb 2023
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amazing first episode, excited to see what comes next !!
Jan 3, 7:30 PM
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Jan 2022
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We are so back!

P.S. This is the slap in the face we deserved after getting OPM S3.
Jan 3, 7:37 PM
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Jun 2019
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This was a good one hour premier that didn't put me to sleep so I watched it to the very end. We have a revenge story in the form of a massive cover up from the government that set up Xylo and his knights to their deaths along with their goddess. I just hope they don't rush through the story if they are planning on adapting the light novel. Hopefully we will get a sequel soon.
Jan 3, 8:22 PM
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Jun 2016
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First Clevatess, now this?

Dark Fantasy is BACK
Jan 3, 8:28 PM
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Aug 2024
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It was an amazing first episode. 58 minutes of high quality content.
Jan 3, 8:41 PM

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Jan 2024
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Incredible first episode. Really hope they can keep the momentum going! I am very invested
Jan 3, 8:43 PM

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May 2016
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Production: 10
Story: 2
Unfortunate
Jan 3, 8:54 PM
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Jun 2023
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best first episode ive ever seen
Jan 3, 8:56 PM
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Jan 3, 9:26 PM

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May 2021
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Wow, what a great start. This is awesome! A great introduction to this anime I am going to enjoy learning more about this world.
Jan 3, 9:45 PM

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Oct 2019
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WHAT AN INCREDIBLE EPISODE! I was impressed from beginning to end by how good this anime is, my god, I'm definitely going to keep watching, AMAZING!
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Jan 3, 9:53 PM
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Dec 2025
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Strange how a massive amount of effort was put into making something that is so incredibly boring.
Jan 3, 10:15 PM

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Now that's how you stat a series and set up a world. Let's see where they go. That was very well done.
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Jan 3, 10:21 PM
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Strange how a massive amount of effort was put into making something that is so incredibly boring.
@NinEatsWorms Totally agree, this show is getting a lot of love and as far as what the artists and animators did -- I get it, it's fantastic. But pretty much everything else? Mid AT BEST -- the soundtrack is shockingly unmoving, it did absolutely nothing to enhance the action. I honestly can't think of a modern anime with a budget this large that produced such a putrid soudtrack.

The story is a big question mark so far, it's got some cool elements but it really feels like a potentially tasty recipe that needed more time to cook/better story editing. This anime so far is 10/10 looks but 4/10 everything else. If I'm going to watch something that's a bit vapid with sick animation I'd be more entertained by Jinwoo doing his thing on Solo Leveling.
Jan 3, 10:26 PM
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Dec 2025
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DID IT JUST CASUALLY RELEASED A MOVIE?
Jan 3, 10:27 PM
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Feb 2021
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Interesting concept and great production so far
Jan 3, 10:36 PM

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Nov 2019
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okay Liam Kneeson chill, this is just another Clevatess, similar themes, anyway it's boring, throws knives explodes, boring, and the MC is so edgy and pretentious

and I'm willing to bet Senerva is alive as a corrupted demon and will be the final boss, like come on now, textbook predictable
Jan 3, 10:39 PM
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The animation quality was unironically top notch. I loved the sequencing in combat especially in the very beginning where we went from that one guy cowering underneath the tree stump to the First-person-POV kill. It looks like there is a lot to uncover here and from what I've seen so far it doesn't look tropey.
Jan 3, 10:44 PM
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Jan 2021
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The setting is like its the same world of Mushoku Tensei. Early anime of the year.

5/5
Jan 3, 10:50 PM
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Jan 2019
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confused if expressed in words
what is certain is that the first episode was truly amazing
Jan 3, 10:57 PM
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Apr 2021
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HOLY FUCKKKKKK THE CHILLS AND GOOSEBUMPS I WAS GETTING FROM THIS PEAK ASS FANTASY SHOW WAS UNREAL BRO!!!!!😩🔥😩🔥😩🔥😩🔥

Art and animation straight up giving me Mushoku Tensei vibes🔥🔥🔥
Jan 3, 11:00 PM
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Dec 2013
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Ho Lee Fuck. What a first episode.

Hopefully it doesn't pull a Oshi No Ko or Ninja Kamui after an amazing extended premiere. And please don't have the story end up like Shield Hero.

However, my main criticism is of the goddess. Need's to have some more personality, instead of being some generic character with the addition of a praise kink.
EvolKarmaJan 3, 11:14 PM
Jan 3, 11:21 PM

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Mar 2021
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Didn't even know this was coming out today, I saw it was a long episode and already knew a minute into it...this is going to be good.


Jan 3, 11:35 PM
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Sep 2020
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Will this anime be good? Because the manga rating is pretty unconvincing
Jan 3, 11:42 PM

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Dec 2022
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interesting but not really for me
will probably drop after 2nd ep
Jan 4, 12:11 AM

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Jan 2023
338
I was locked in since the first scene. This is at least a great start.
Jan 4, 12:47 AM
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Aug 2025
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The aReplynimation style was clean and the plot is great
Jan 4, 1:11 AM
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Apr 2023
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100% contending for Anime of the Year (may end of besting Frieren) if the animation, sound, choreography quality stays throughout the entire season

My weekends will always be exciting for the next 3 months
Jan 4, 1:54 AM
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Oct 2024
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Awesome animation and the pacing was alright though I don't like how the story is going. It is slowly going downhill for me, but hopeful it's just the first episode. 6/10 so far for me.
Jan 4, 2:21 AM
🥊 CHAMPION 🥊

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Apr 2016
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Nice and intense first double episod!!!
Jan 4, 2:29 AM
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Jun 2025
537
Great, and thanks for the long premiere (like 3 episodes?) which set solid groundwork for the characters and story. The character dynamic really was the best, and I start noticing that I'm not against some gore as long as the art is great overall.
Jan 4, 2:33 AM

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Apr 2015
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Best premier episode Ive seen in ages, I've been away from anime for a bit but this was just what I wanted. I'm sold!
Jan 4, 3:16 AM

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Jun 2025
178
i hope they hold on, to let this loli be veiled for the anime version after seeing her LN design.


anyways very interesting anime, if it hold on to be this good and interesting, i'll catch up to the LN.

Jan 4, 3:23 AM
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Apr 2023
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ain't no way ts anime is good af bro😆
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