(CR) Deatte 5-byou de Battle (Battle in 5 Seconds After Meeting)

[scififan]

Originally Posted by serenade_beta

That means nothing, BTW. Just a way to lessen the risks. The committee format for producing anime is why so many bad or average anime are produced every season, but companies aren't bankrupting left and right.

The actual reason is the way committe's budget planning and execution. Depending on the contract, the funders may not have the authority on the direction of making anime. For example, the funders such as the Netflix want to make one animiation as cool as possible. So, it gives the committee 100,000 widgets. The committee has the tendency to buget 10,000 widgets per anime, so it breaks down the the funds for 10 anime. Each anime team only gets 10,000 widgets. Due to inflation, the budget is not sufficient. There is no budget to pay animators overtime, or hire additional animators. To avoid the deficit and meet the schedule, the quality suffers. The underpaid animators is the byproduct.

For another example, Cygame asked a studio to make Manaria Friends and promised fundign would not bet the issue. It was not clear if the committee gave the okay to the decision. The studio got used for the cost savings, so the quality is not satisfactory. So, Cygame wrote off the loss and terminated the contract with the studio. The anime project was rebooted with another studio.

Originally Posted by Funkatron

So basically, MC's power is based on hype/psyching the the opponent out. He has to hype up his ability so that his opponent can give him an awesome ability. Just imagine him facing someone who just thinks he is crap and doesn't buy into his BS

His superpower is not persuation. It is different form his trickery skill. He uses trickery to fight that Resient Evil 2 monster. He only acquires his superpower after he is transported to the building for battle royal.

The superpower to fool opponent is common in shounent manga. The oldest one I remember is Peacock King. Another one is Get Backer. Yet, another one is Bleach. The users do not need to convince their opponents with their words. The protagoni only says his ability has been seen before. Then, his protagonist got blasted away and bleeding, event he audience throught the survillance camera see the movement. They know the truth, but they still see the illusion.

[serenade_beta]

Originally Posted by scififan

The actual reason is the way committe's budget planning and execution. Depending on the contract, the funders may not have the authority on the direction of making anime. For example, the funders such as the Netflix want to make one animiation as cool as possible. So, it gives the committee 100,000 widgets. The committee has the tendency to buget 10,000 widgets per anime, so it breaks down the the funds for 10 anime. Each anime team only gets 10,000 widgets. Due to inflation, the budget is not sufficient. There is no budget to pay animators overtime, or hire additional animators. To avoid the deficit and meet the schedule, the quality suffers. The underpaid animators is the byproduct.

For another example, Cygame asked a studio to make Manaria Friends and promised fundign would not bet the issue. It was not clear if the committee gave the okay to the decision. The studio got used for the cost savings, so the quality is not satisfactory. So, Cygame wrote off the loss and terminated the contract with the studio. The anime project was rebooted with another studio.

*snort* Ahh, those two scourges of the anime industry.

[LG-MAX 2.o]

Originally Posted by serenade_beta

That means nothing, BTW. Just a way to lessen the risks. The committee format for producing anime is why so many bad or average anime are produced every season, but companies aren't bankrupting left and right.

It's just for the purpose of curiosity, about which companies are participating in the production or if there are foreign companies involved and of course, the number of them doesn't really matter as much as the best anime in technical quality need not a large number, but the right company, like Vivy, that had only Aniplex and Wit Studios behind.

The actual reason is the way committe's budget planning and execution. Depending on the contract, the funders may not have the authority on the direction of making anime. For example, the funders such as the Netflix want to make one animiation as cool as possible. So, it gives the committee 100,000 widgets. The committee has the tendency to buget 10,000 widgets per anime, so it breaks down the the funds for 10 anime. Each anime team only gets 10,000 widgets. Due to inflation, the budget is not sufficient. There is no budget to pay animators overtime, or hire additional animators. To avoid the deficit and meet the schedule, the quality suffers. The underpaid animators is the byproduct.

For another example, Cygame asked a studio to make Manaria Friends and promised fundign would not bet the issue. It was not clear if the committee gave the okay to the decision. The studio got used for the cost savings, so the quality is not satisfactory. So, Cygame wrote off the loss and terminated the contract with the studio. The anime project was rebooted with another studio.

Do you have the source on this? I like to read about this kind of subject.

[haseo0408]

This sure is going to be interesting, we have a protagonist that it is not really alright in the head and a power that you really have to know how to use your head to activate it, let alone be useful at all.

[Frontier]

We finally get to know our female lead, Yuuri, and she seems like a fairly normal, if tough and kindhearted, high school girl who has had to suffer under the worst kind of random chance for most of her life...be it being stuck with a mother that blamed her for all their problems, to having to take care of a little girl who her mother and said girls father basically abandoned, to finally getting trapped in a "lover's suicide" with some creep she helped out but then proceeded to stalk her and try to take her with him, all because she was too good a person to just let him die in front of her. Animals apparently hate her too. Yuuri's had it rough .

Forget about Yuuri's huge boobs for a second, but was that shot of Riria's body supposed to imply she had been abused by her father? Jeez, these poor girls .

Even her choice of opponent ends up being the worst when she gets stuck with a creepy old man who exposes himself to her and had a fondness for high school escorts, both sleeping with and then killing them. Boy was it satisfying to see her slug him .

So Yuuri basically has the same ability as Wild Tiger and Barnaby from Tiger & Bunny where she can enhance her physical abilities to the point where she's super-strong and super fast, and it's more pronounced the stronger her emotions are. Seems like a pretty useful and versatile ability .

Yuuri probably has the best motivation to win and leave this horrid game so far, having been forced to endure hardship after hardship by "random chance" and having a little sister relying on her back home. I'm now super invested in seeing her succeed and get to go home .

I thought Mion was coming onto Akira in bed, but it turned out to be a nightmare. Was she completely messing with him when she said their abilities are killing people in real life though ?

I was wondering when our leads would come together, but it looks like the next stage is team battles which is gathering our main cast together. I'm looking forward to seeing Akira and Yuuri interacting with each other .

[EroKing]

Dear kids, stay away from weirdos, high places and ending up at high places with weirdos...

Feel pretty bad for Yuuri, she seems like a pretty good person. It almost turned into a hentai for her. She also has a legit reason to return back but can they even is also an important question.

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by EroKing

Dear kids, stay away from weirdos, high places and ending up at high places with weirdos...

Feel pretty bad for Yuuri, she seems like a pretty good person. It almost turned into a hentai for her. She also has a legit reason to return back but can they even is also an important question.

Yuuri was too nice for her own good...

[FlareKnight]

Yeah, Yuuri really is too nice for her own good. Can't simply look the other way and it lead her to a great deal of trouble. At least I can sympathize with her and the goal she's got. It isn't like she cares about getting to see her mother again. That person has devolved into such a sad state there's no reason to care. But even still, she's got a reason to get back and someone that is worth the effort of doing so.

There are a lot of questions to be sure. And fair enough to question how the heck these powers work and where they draw energy from. Certainly is possible they are killing people to activate these abilities. At least as possible as these abilities themselves are in the first place. Certainly won't be easy to crush this organization.

At least Yuuri has a pretty straight forward and cool power. If she can get a good handle on that...she'll more than be able to handle herself. Honestly I half expected her ability to connect to random chance considering how central it is to her backstory. But this works too.

[BWTraveller]

Really strange that they censored the little girl there. I've read the first few chapters in the manga, and it seems really stupid to do. In the manga, her back is covered with bruises (so yes, it's meant to imply severe abuse). Did they feel they couldn't show ugly bruises? That's a real absurd thing to censor, especially when it has such significance to a major character's motivations. Or were they trying to censor her chest? If so, they should've adjusted the angle slightly or just drawn her chest in a way that no one would see reason to censor.

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by BWTraveller

Really strange that they censored the little girl there. I've read the first few chapters in the manga, and it seems really stupid to do. In the manga, her back is covered with bruises (so yes, it's meant to imply severe abuse). Did they feel they couldn't show ugly bruises? That's a real absurd thing to censor, especially when it has such significance to a major character's motivations. Or were they trying to censor her chest? If so, they should've adjusted the angle slightly or just drawn her chest in a way that no one would see reason to censor.

I assumed they were censoring wounds her father had inflicted on her, but I guess they couldn't show her naked backside because she's a child character ?

[LG-MAX 2.o]

Originally Posted by BWTraveller

Really strange that they censored the little girl there. I've read the first few chapters in the manga, and it seems really stupid to do. In the manga, her back is covered with bruises (so yes, it's meant to imply severe abuse). Did they feel they couldn't show ugly bruises? That's a real absurd thing to censor, especially when it has such significance to a major character's motivations. Or were they trying to censor her chest? If so, they should've adjusted the angle slightly or just drawn her chest in a way that no one would see reason to censor.

her bruised back appeared in japanese raw:

Spoiler for raw:

Or are you implying that manga is much worse?

Yeah, I've confirmed here that the crunchyroll version is censored, but the Japanese one isn't. So now we have Tokyo Revengers and this one?

[BWTraveller]

I hadn't seen the raw, only the CR version. I think the manga was slightly worse, the bruises slightly bigger, but pretty much no real difference.

[LG-MAX 2.o]

Well, even though they're not the same, there's still a plethora of difference between a scene censored by steam and one without. Well, anyway, since there was censorship in this episode, there might be in the next ones, it's good to keep an eye on raw.

[BWTraveller]

I just found it weird that they'd censor it in any version, stream or otherwise. Not just because it's the first time I've seen mere bruises getting censored, but because those bruises were so significant to the character's behavior and desperation to return.

On a different note, I kind of doubt she can return. It kind of feels to me like these people are probably not just legally "dead", but actually did die. Unless they were already there to grab her when she fell she'd have almost certainly died, and the hero suffered injuries that you couldn't survive. So they weren't just picked up and fake-killed, they died and were then somehow brought back for the experiment.

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by BWTraveller

I just found it weird that they'd censor it in any version, stream or otherwise. Not just because it's the first time I've seen mere bruises getting censored, but because those bruises were so significant to the character's behavior and desperation to return.

On a different note, I kind of doubt she can return. It kind of feels to me like these people are probably not just legally "dead", but actually did die. Unless they were already there to grab her when she fell she'd have almost certainly died, and the hero suffered injuries that you couldn't survive. So they weren't just picked up and fake-killed, they died and were then somehow brought back for the experiment.

I guess it's possible Yuuri was grabbed right before she fell and the stalker died but we also saw them do extensive medical work on Akira...

[Anh_Minh]

Originally Posted by BWTraveller

I just found it weird that they'd censor it in any version, stream or otherwise. Not just because it's the first time I've seen mere bruises getting censored, but because those bruises were so significant to the character's behavior and desperation to return.

It's not like we couldn't guess what was hidden by the censoring.

On a different note, I kind of doubt she can return. It kind of feels to me like these people are probably not just legally "dead", but actually did die. Unless they were already there to grab her when she fell she'd have almost certainly died, and the hero suffered injuries that you couldn't survive. So they weren't just picked up and fake-killed, they died and were then somehow brought back for the experiment.

Or they have some kind of resurrection power.

[shmaster]

Why am I totally not surprised that they messed up on Akira's eyes again?
I guess I can remove all my expectation on this show.

[Frontier]

I guess I'm not surprised that Akira is still keeping up the ruse of his real ability around his new "team" since Kirisaki is there and he doesn't know if he can really trust anyone, especially if there's a chance they'll have to fight again...which makes me wonder if Yuuri might be the first person he ends up opening up to .

Kumagiri seems like a really good guy, honorable and noble to the extent that he'll take issue with this whole farce and not even bother using his ability or when his teammates show disrespect to a dead comrades. He honestly seems like the most heroic character in this show next to maybe Yuuri .

Poor Sawatari was a walking death flag. He's not shown as a main character in the Opening, he's a bit of pervert, and his power is useless. No wonder he died in the first match. But he didn't deserve to go out like that, and even Yuuri had the most dramatic reaction to his death when she seemed to dislike him the most .

Perks of Yuuri disliking her last name is Akira is already calling her by her first name...and him being so practical ends up getting her to flash her panties with a tall jump and earning him a slap. What a way to kickstart the leads' relationship .

We get to better know Rin who now wears what looks like bedsheets to cover up her lingerie look (they can't give her some new clothes), but while she looks sexy and seductive and has a pleasant personality...she's actually pretty cruel and sadistic, and what we see of her power is pretty brutal as well. Even her teammates are afraid of her .

Ringo seems like a smart and logical girl with a strong poker face, and she has the power to copy one-tenth of someone else's power, which actually seems like it could be pretty useful in the right situation but was a bad match against Kumagiri. No wonder it looks like she's destined to join the main characters going by the Opening .

Akira knows how to look at things logically and strategically to make sure his team doesn't freak out and turn against each other, but by "later" did he mean resolving it when they inevitably had to fight each other again like he assumes might happen ?

I feel bad for Saeko. She seems like a genuinely nice and pleasant girl, and her power is actually pretty cool, but it seems like she has the worst choice of opponent in Kirisaki. I kind of hope she does win though .

Judging by the next episode preview...it looks like the other team loses and penalty for them is the girls have to dress up as Bunny Girls? Maybe Kirisaki loses his match, Akira wins his, and the last guy forefits rather than fight Yuuri ?

[LG-MAX 2.o]

Did we have any scenes censored this week?

[Marina2]

Sawatari's design is clearly base on Lupin the 3rd's MC