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The iDOLM@STER Anime Ep: 01 discussion

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Scotty:
The hoops I had to jump through to watch this episode!

Right then, so how was that for a first episode, huh? Discussion and opinions on the first episode go here!

I honestly found it a bit of a mess! In my opinion, a show with this many characters could only open in one of two ways. Either intro all the characters in one go, or slowly intro a couple every episode. I'm sure you can tell which option was taken.

A good third or so of th episode was spent introducing each idol, and then perhaps the rest of the episode went on interviewing each one. I'm pretty sure it could have worked a little better if we had gone straight into the interviews. Instead, I saw a jumbled, messy scenario that packed in all of the idols as if the show were to end any minute as soon as it started. What's the rush? There's plenty of episodes.

As a fan, it was alright. Nice nods to little character quirks here and there. If I weren't a fan, and this were my first time seeing anything imas, then this would have come off a bit cheesy.

Animation was....well. I don't know. Aything in the foreground looks nice. Vibrant colors all around, which is great, just try not to pay too much attention to the background, it looks....well. I don't know. Animations were sorta fluid. But I couldn't really tell, I had to watch this from my iPad, which is streaming from my pc.

So yeah, this is exactly what I envisioned the show to be. Except for the producer reveal. That was handled pretty well. I give it a 7/10!

Ghift:
The website I watched the subbed version on had a stream of comments pretty much going "wtf this is lame" and it made me realise that unless you were a pre-existing fan half of it wouldn't even begin to make sense.

It is, afaik, made for fans primarily, but if they want to grab new fans I guess they'll probably have to hope they hang around to watch the next episode.

I liked the format personally, I found it really interesting and I'm not sure if I'd sad it won't be going on for some more episodes, but I get why. I lol'd a fair few times but it was at references that probably wouldn't make sense. Also Haruka nutting the train door;lsdfk;sa

I think, if you watched it without knowing anything beforehand, Makoto the reverse trap flailing around at "cockroach" probably wouldn't make sense, nor Yukiho trying to dig her way out of the kitchen and freaking out at the camera.

I love the expressions and everything, but the tl;dr is it makes no sense if you don't know these things and it pretty much as-is limits it to fans only and alienates anyone else



though as a fan i love it sd;flalskgj

animagic4u:
Agree that it only makes sense to fans.
Non fans would find none of the character's personality quirks as funny.

I like the animation style because the characters seem pretty bright and cheery, a lot like their game character, and they're always wearing cute clothes.
Some parts of the animation were a little slow...maybe it was just the version I was watching, but it seemed kind of low frame rate.

I look forward to seeing more, but by no rate do I think this is the next big popular anime, more like a homage to the fans and a little more indepth look at 765 productions.

BT2:
Trees and hedges in front of office not in game, capital "I" in "THE iDOLM@STER", people didn't do their homework. Horrible animu.

KIRBYSIM:

--- Quote from: BT2 on July 08, 2011, 06:48:27 pm ---Trees and hedges in front of office not in game, capital "I" in "THE iDOLM@STER", people didn't do their homework. Horrible animu.

--- End quote ---

Eh? They used a capital I? That's a really huge miss!

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