PSO2 Animation - (Anime Topic)

[max_cady]

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.

[TimmiT]

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

[Berto]

- 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  :



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.

[max_cady]

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.

[Mengels7]

- 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.

[Mengels7]

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.

[max_cady]

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.

[Mengels7]

They're through episode 9 now. As of episode 7 I decided this got pretty good. You should all catch up.

[crackdude]

is this available on CrunchyRoll?

[max_cady]

It's on Crunchyroll, but they are currentely not available for european viewers.



(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.

[Mengels7]

Aaaand it's over. I ended up liking this a lot.

[max_cady]

F*** me! Only 12 episodes!? It's not fair, damn it! Give us a second season!

[TimmiT]

F*** me! Only 12 episodes!? It's not fair, damn it! Give us a second season!

Welcome to anime.

[Sharky]

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.

[Mengels7]

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.