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Gaming => General Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Sharky on January 07, 2016, 06:58:08 pm
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Episode 1 with subtitles:
https://kissanime.to/Anime/Phantasy-Star-Online-2-The-Animation/Episode-001?id=121766
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CrunchyRoll is going to have the series subtitled beginning tonight at 10PM PST: http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/01/07-1/crunchyroll-to-simulcast-phantasy-star-online-2-the-animation (http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-934225/winter-2016-announcements-continue-ojisan-and-marshmallow-tabi-machi-late-show)
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CrunchyRoll is going to have the series subtitled beginning tonight at 10PM PST: http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/01/07-1/crunchyroll-to-simulcast-phantasy-star-online-2-the-animation (http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-934225/winter-2016-announcements-continue-ojisan-and-marshmallow-tabi-machi-late-show)
Awesome thanks, I'll be watching!
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Can you point me to the Sega references. Dont want to watch
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I might do a post after I watch it tonight and will show off most SEGA references.
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Can you point me to the Sega references. Dont want to watch
There were a few, no big ones... The Schools courtyard had a giant picture of Sonic Teams logo. There were some billboards reading 'SEGA' around town... Also in the character creator as the main guy is making his character it shows a brief default character as the main hunter from the original PSO. (Guy in orange.)
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Why couldn't this just take place inside of the game the entire time or just have it be real instead? People just literally playing the game seems kind of stupid. It's not even VR or AR or whatever, they're just sitting there playing it and then it awkwardly transitions to in-game...which would be fine if this was a comedy series since it's a common practice for pretty much any show that plays around with games as a way to set up jokes and dumb situations and whatever. The way this is now it just seems a dumbass commercial, which I was fully expecting but they could at least try a little harder. I mean, the setting is perfectly fine to framework a story, why not fucking do it.
The Ragnarok Online anime is much better. Hell, Rage of the Bahamut was a retarded mobile card game and it had a fucking awesome 12 episode series based on the cardboard basic concepts of its world and characters. Straight up recommendation, by the way. You guys watch Rage of the Bahamut right now.
Although the Sega references were pretty neat, gotta admit.
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PSO2 is a game that doesn't shy away from the fact that it is a game... Which is why I don't mind at all the direction it has taken. I think there will be some kind of weird twist at the end where, in fact, it wasn't a game and it's all real... considering, game spoiler:
[spoiler]In PSO2 Episode 4 trailer, we clearly see am Ark's ship warping to Earth and meeting some of the anime's main characters in person.[/spoilers]
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Yeah but is that just your typical MMO crossover thing or is that a game storyline that will tie into the show? Cause that would be kinda cool for the game.
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Yeah but is that just your typical MMO crossover thing or is that a game storyline that will tie into the show? Cause that would be kinda cool for the game.
From what I can tell it is the main storyline of PSO2 Episode 4:
[spoiler]In the trailer below, you see the Arks ships open a portal as they always do, this time leading to planet earth, they go to Japan where the Darkers have taken over the streets of Tokyo and manifested in the form of 'nightmare creatures' from Human beings subconscious... So the kind of things humans have nightmares about.
There is a very clear storyline, where the Arks meet and talk to the humans from the anime:[/spoiler]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj49eS4sxeU
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Episode 1 with subtitles is up, link on the first post.
...or here:
https://kissanime.to/Anime/Phantasy-Star-Online-2-The-Animation/Episode-001?id=121766
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I've read some harsh comments about this...
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I've read some harsh comments about this...
It was absolutely fine... Pretty sure it did well in Japan too.
The issue is ultra ultra nerds who don't like the fact that it's set on earth and it's ruining there Phantasy Star cannon... Apparently a little magic girl in a sparkly dress, piloting a mech to defeat a giant evil toy in a space version of ancient Japan makes perfect sense... But set the Anime on earth and that's going toooo far.
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It was absolutely fine... Pretty sure it did well in Japan too.
The issue is ultra ultra nerds who don't like the fact that it's set on earth and it's ruining there Phantasy Star cannon... Apparently a little magic girl in a sparkly dress, piloting a mech to defeat a giant evil toy in a space version of ancient Japan makes perfect sense... But set the Anime on earth and that's going toooo far.
No, this was just bad. It was generic on top of generic. every single critic on ANN hated it as well
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/preview-guide/2016/winter/phantasy-star-online-2-the-animation/.97322 (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/preview-guide/2016/winter/phantasy-star-online-2-the-animation/.97322)
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I thought it was pretty good, didn't seem generic to me seemed like a pretty original concept considering I bet there aren't a lot of anime shows where the kids play the game... Then again I don't watch a whole lot of anime, none of it's /that/ good.
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I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting a slice-of-life / school life type series in which Phantasy Star Online 2 was used as a social tool for students to interact with each other.
That being said, the characters did seem a tad generic (guess they were too busy laying out the premise of the show first). Though next week's preview seems to be a lot more interesting.
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I watched the first episode and it was so generic and lazily written that I feel like I can barely remember anything that happened. Except I guess this:
- The protagonist is a high schooler who is pretty much perfect and has no personality whatsover outside of being perfect.
- The first two thirds of the episode is basically just introducing the characters. Except none of the characters have any real personality outside of basic slice of life/school life anime tropes. It almost feels like the writers tried to make all of the characters as generic and uninteresting as they possibly could as some sort of challenge.
- The protagonist is told that if he doesn't play the MMO the anime is promoting that he'll be a social outcast. Subtle.
- I cannot tell if the Crunchyroll translator misheard Sega Academy or if the school is actually called Seiga Academy.
- In the last third the protagonist has to play PSO2 for the school council for... gauging social stuff or something? I don't know I long stopped caring about anything at this point.
- When the protagonist starts playing he is somehow amazing at the game and can fight high level enemies despite having literally just started.
- All of the action scenes consist of badly animated CG.
- The animation budget is so low that they used cinematic from the game to fill in time.
- By the way do you want to play PSO2 yet we sure hope you want to play PSO2 this is a good video game in which you do awesome stuff we swear please play PSO2 really its good.
Bad blatant informercial for a video game / 10
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- The protagonist is a high schooler who is pretty much perfect and has no personality whatsover outside of being perfect.
That reminds me of him :
(http://www.ludomedia.it/proxy.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.multiplayer.it%2Fthumbs%2Fimages%2F2015%2F10%2F08%2Fdbfci-pv_10-08-15_cropped_1_75_600_275_jpeg_1000x0_crop_upscale_q85.jpg&v1&d=64e3144c3405a63ec7f65047a6ccf08c)
But somehow they succeed to make Chiba Tatsuya as a cool and lovable character eventhough he's emotionless.
While this PSO2 main guy.... somehow still feel generic.
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Saw the second episode. A cut above the first episode. The characters are starting to feel a little more fleshed out and there are hints at something out of the ordinary is in the works.
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- I cannot tell if the Crunchyroll translator misheard Sega Academy or if the school is actually called Seiga Academy.
Maybe it's like the Sega Hard Girls anime where it was Seha academy or whatnot. Seems to be a running thing where it's always a play on Sega.
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Saw this week's episode. It was so bad. I can't imagine this getting any better. I wish they'd just done a cool Phantasy Star Online anime instead of this weird infomercial for the game.
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Finished episode 4. Amusingly called "Phantasy Star Offline". The series is kinda growing on me, the characters are starting to feel a little less generic, there's a wicked cool fakeout moment and after thar there's an interesting hint just before the end of the episode.
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They're through episode 9 now. As of episode 7 I decided this got pretty good. You should all catch up.
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is this available on CrunchyRoll?
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It's on Crunchyroll, but they are currentely not available for european viewers.
(http://i65.tinypic.com/142h81s.jpg)
(Mandatory Hot Springs episode is Mandatory)
The series suffered a little at first because the first episode pretty much introduced itself as a glorified Phantasy Star Online 2 commercial and not much else. But around episode 4, it started to get really interesting. And now, I'm really enjoying it ever since the big major twist two episodes ago. It still has a lot of slice-of-life in it (Itsuki's school life, duties as vice-president and implied romantic triangle with Aika and Rina in the mix) and I'm totally fine with that.
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Aaaand it's over. I ended up liking this a lot.
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F*** me! Only 12 episodes!? It's not fair, damn it! Give us a second season!
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F*** me! Only 12 episodes!? It's not fair, damn it! Give us a second season!
Welcome to anime.
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So wait, this got good-ish? I was really interested but I stopped watching around Episode 3 because it did seem that it was just going to be an advert for PSO2. I wasn't bothered that it was a slice of life thing set on Earth.
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So wait, this got good-ish? I was really interested but I stopped watching around Episode 3 because it did seem that it was just going to be an advert for PSO2. I wasn't bothered that it was a slice of life thing set on Earth.
Yeah by episode 7 you're actually engaged in it. I almost gave up when you did as well.
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Thanks, I might pick back up and binge now it's finished.