/a/ - Animu & Mango

What kind of edge are we talking here?

How edgy is this?

>>743558

The everyone is a choosen one with their very special life philosophy and keikaku kind of edge.

>>743561

Very. The LN is up in Youtube, watch the first hour to get a taste. Everything is completely overdone to the point it's not even funny.

>>743574

But that's half the fun of it, anon.

It was edgy in a boring kind of way. Other than the fucking skull ship from a heavy metal album cover in the beginning, and one sided beat down at the end, I was really bored. I hope it at least goes over the top as it goes along. I didn't think it was possible to mess up Nazi's but Dies irae proved me wrong.

>>743593

The VN is so popular mainly due to being so overly 厨二 and poorly written/"difficult". Can't really expect all that much from mostly glorified porn game and their rabbit fans.

I first read the title as 'die Israel'. Watched it only seeing the cover art...grinned at points but it wasn't as good as Hellsing Ultimate.

>>743561

Edge folded a thousand times

>>743605

This. It was great seeing this stuff animated and all, but what the hell were they thinking in opening with this? It's not only going to make much, if any sense, to new viewers, they're giving stuff away.

>>743605

>that third picture

Ow.

>>743565

On a scale from Shinji Matou to Aleister Crowley, how would you rate the average keikaku level in the VN?

>>745097

Pretty high level keikakus. They need some high level stuff to explain how all this bullshit was created.

>>745754

>american movie adaptation

>japanese movie adaptation

I could only stomach the VN until the dream sequence, so the last third of the first episode is new to me. Compared to the original the anime is not that terrible. They cut out all the "overwriting", so you don't have to listen to an edgy teen going on about "muh everydays" for nearly an hour. The animation and art style are trash. The "blood song" was not bad, and it seems to be excellent compared to what the VN had. Also, senpai seems to be a cute autist, and that's nice.

>>743629

>>745139

>being this ignorant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_irae

>>745927

If that was a "kike on a stick" joke, it wasn't very funny at all.

>>745902

Wrong. The guy is Polish.

I would link his page (that I found via reverse image search, mind you), but I'm afraid of being banned.

The skipped over some of the introductory banter between Kasumi and Ren, which I felt was a mistake. They showed Kasumi's obnoxious, hyperactive side, but not the parts where she gets suddenly shocked or embarrassed, which are the parts that make her actually endearing. Those mostly happened when Ren was bantering at her, and they toned that down too, he comes off as more beta in this version. At least I feel they captured Himuro's character well enough. It's not too rushed (the major problem with the VN is that the author pads stuff out so it can take too long to read through stuff that could have been said in fewer words, in this regard the anime moving at a faster pace is a good thing mostly), but they did cut out some stuff, Ren's inner monologue as he watches Kasumi practice her kendo, that I feel should have been preserved somehow in the anime adaptation.

Instead of that awful episode 0 they could have just animated the VN's prologue at the beginning of this episode, and ended it with the guillotine scene. Which I don't think was handled as well as in the VN; why wasn't she all ghostly white when she appeared? I would have saved that scene for the end of the episode. Also, the part where Ren says he doesn't like knives they show a flashback there that gives a bit too much away in my opinion, they could have just shown a hand holding a bloody knife, without showing who was doing it, would have left it more ambiguous.

Overall a decent adaptation so far, nice seeing these characters animated with the great soundtrack from the VN, not really thinking this will hit all the heights the original did, hopefully it can avoid some of its pitfalls though.

>>746535

I imagine you would find nothing funny if you're that insistent to ascribe a religious statement to a joke based on misreading shit.

>>746727

It was really odd how swastikas were mostly absent from the VN in visual form, there's a certain swastika shaped magical symbol that's supposed to extend across the whole town but it's mostly only described in text. Also in the prologue of the VN there was a giant swastika in the sky absorbing human souls, but again described, not drawn. I was looking forward to seeing that animated, too.

Not really sure why they removed the swastikas though, Japan definitely doesn't have a prohibition against displaying them. Unless it's something to do with displaying swastikas in a WWII German context.

ep 0 was a bit dull, but holy fuck I loved the ep 1. totally different. I'm interested now.

t. never heard of anything related to Dies Irae before the anime came out this month.

I guess this is an excuse to pick up the VN after learning it was translated. Any enlightened Moon readers know if the English all ages version is missing anything important to the plot?

Gotta save that budget somehow

>>743610

>At least use the right kanji for chuunibyou

厨二 is the chuuni way to write it.

>>746800

It's probably because foreign markets. Japs may not have a law against swastikas, but some European countries, such as Gremanistan, do. It'd be damned hard to market it there if it's literally illegal.

>>749193

Himuro's cuteness is a miracle of the universe

>>746800

They abandoned the swastika for a new symbol because reasons. It's justified to some extent not just lol no Swastika. All the same the VN is very specific that yes they are nazis.

Where the fuck did the super nazis go? Is this anime not going to be about supernatural nazi shenanigans and more supernatural highschoolers?

Fucking hell japan why

>>746596

It's not my fault people love to repeat that false meme.

>>747807

But couldn't they just region lock it?

>>750837

Is it not an omibus adaptation? Assuming they are doing kendo route now, at some point >>749193 route will begin.

>>743555

>Soon zero will turn into one, and then...

1488?

>Watch ep. 0

>The subs put in some random German words even though they aren't actually said

>At the end Edgehard Edgerich says "sieg heil" and the subs translate it to "may we have victory"

>>750876

So they deliberately spend the bare minimum of money on worst girl? That's great, but then why did they start with her route?

>>751043

Translating the ranks from Japanese to ww2 German is a nice touch actually, especially because they use the SS ranks. But yes, if they go out of their way to do that, then they should really leave Sieg Heil in the subs.

>>751048

>Translating the ranks from Japanese to ww2 German is a nice touch actually, especially because they use the SS ranks.

I think this was done to avoid offending sensitive people. The names of actual SS ranks from WWII are fine, but I guess that German war time victory slogan is scary, or something.

>>750650

They have to fight the MC to the death in specific locations for their secret Nazi magic to work. Exactly how many of them he fights to the death varies from route to route.

The only good of this shitty anime adaptation is the OST.

Fuck J-pop! We need more metal in anime.

>>753845

it shows you he really respects women

>>751043

For what it's worth, that's pretty much what Sieg Heil means.

I have honestly no idea who's who anymore or to what "faction" they belong to.

>>754122

See:

>>743565

>everyone is a choosen one with their very special life philosophy and keikaku

>>754122

There's a good reason for a lot of things like the infighting among the L.D.O. and why Spinne left Kasumi alive.

>>753810

I miss having gore and metal in anime. Everything is so "sugarfied" nowadays.

>>756817

Someone call the magic nazis

>>756817

Is blonde girl the main girl? Is it Kasumi? Is it going to be a harem ending? What happened to the white haired classmate? Feel free to spoil me. Haven't played the VN and have no intentions to because no loli

>>756820

Don't ask me. I don't understand a single thing about this show

>>756793

I already hate him. How the fuck could a gun-toting motorcycle punk with a hot-headed attitude and no special powers take on magical soulsucking nazis?

>>756820

blonde girl is the personification of the guillotine the MC uses as his weapon. She just showed up this episode because the MC finally realized how to somewhat control his powers. Kasumi is the childhood friend who was killing people to collect souls for the MC at one point without realizing it, basically being brainwashed to do so by the blonde girl / the real .... whatever guy the MC used to be? idk

>>756820

white hair is still around somewhere just wasn't in this episode.

>>756826

I understand that the OST is fun. And I'm mainly watching it for the overtop edgyness. I wish that they were real nazis though and not some weird nazi-but-not thing.

>>757079

VNfag here. Shirou is a regular guy but he isn't 100% normal because when he's on drugs he feels no pain and he's affected by Mercurius' sorcery from being close to Zarathustra so he knows he's destined not to die yet.

As for them not being real Nazis, the order was basically a secret club of high ranking Nazis with no superpowers involved until Heydrich got longinus and went rogue.

>>757079

>How the fuck could a gun-toting motorcycle punk with a hot-headed attitude and no special powers take on magical soulsucking nazis?

He does have a special power, he's cursed with foresight that allows him to perfectly know what's about to happen next. He foresaw every one of Bey's attacks, so was able to dodge them, though only by pushing his body to its limits. Though Bey wasn't fighting anywhere near his full power level in that battle.

I wish this show were better animated. The VN has its problems but there's some genuinely awesome stuff that happens there, it would have been cool to see some toptier, best of BONES or Trigger tier animation. They shouldn't have wasted any budget on that weird episode 0. Hopefully they're saving their resources for the major climactic battles.

This shows so stupid but I kind of enjoy it anyhow.

So I haven't been keeping up with the anime, but are they still doing Kasumi's route now? Or have they moved on to Kei?

>>761330

>>761341

>Chuunis become wehraboos because of this

>Walking around in SS gear and thinking the nazis were pretty cool looking

>Use that to give them redpills and makes the nazis look even cooler

>SJWs and their degeneracy becomes even harder to bring into Japan

>the jew fears the samurai.png

Sounds pretty alright if you ask me.

>>761752

Those scenes are all from the Marie route, so it's safe to say that this adaptation's just all over the place.

>>761631

Seeing decked out SS uniforms at Comiket isn't uncommon as is.

I don't know if it's the writers fault, or if the problem lies with the source material, but they just can't hype up anything that happens in this show. They try to end every episode with a cliffhanger, yet they immediately diffuse all the pent up tension at the start of the next episode. And when something actually happens, it happens so suddenly you can't care. And what happened so far to begin with?

>muh everyday life with some asshole who beats the shit out of me

>suddenly ghostgirl

>then pedopriest

>then the secret organization Nazis Sans Swastikas starts some shit

>Spinne is kill

>asshole is here again

>everybody wants to sing Déja Vu, but nobody knows the lyrics

Most of the show is just exposition, and that is just boring. I fear that they will realize this when it's way too late, and try to cram everything into the last 2-3 episodes. Not to mention that the VN has multiple endings, and that gives them a good chance to fuck everything up even more.

Man, what a bad adaptation of the VN. Looks like a crappy chinese webcomic anime.

When and how did he pick up Kasumi at the end?

He was just suddenly carrying her.

And when do we get our giant skeltal fight?

>>772268

It looks neat, even though I have clue what is happening with the story

>>772440

>It's pretty much Occult Chuuni Nazis fighting one another with a couple waifus sprinkled in, no?

There's some fun dialog when the characters are just talking with each other like pals, there's a few really nice dramatic highpoints. But yeah it's mostly battle, a lot of it is pretty fun but the author is a terrible overwriter and has a tendency to try and stuff too much into a climax to make it the most epic and over the top thing possible, when scaling things down and maybe not having three or four cataclysmic magic battles going on simultaneously, and just focusing on the one, would be better. Also too edgy for its own good, especially early on when the story feels all gloom and doom, it actually lightens up the further you get into it. I'm just starting Himuro's route now but I've read the other three and I can say it was worthwhile for me and the highpoints were good I doubt I'll reread it any time soon, not for a decade at least, because of how overwritten it was. Were I a slower reader I don't think I would have enjoyed it half as much as I did. The soundtrack at least is excellent.

>>772445

>the author is a terrible overwriter

thats the translator

Did the project crash and burn, or what?

>>776270

I guess 'overwrite' is the wrong term, I wasn't referring to the quality of the prose, overall it's nice and can be quite good in places. I meant in terms of length, there are lots of unnecessary paragraphs, and even scenes, that could have been cut, that would have made the story flow more smoothly. And I think for a VN of this scale that it not be any more longer than it already has to be.

Bumping with this question again: >>780894

>>782058

So basically, Japanese Lovecraft?

>>785680

It seems like episode 11 was the end but some places are saying there should be 18. Since nothing has aired in weeks 11 is the right number. However 11 weeks is the length of the TV adaptation. Apparently the story will continue until episode 18 but only be available online as a single OVA released in July.