/a/ - Animu & Mango

But.. is it good?

>>939202

Seems worth checking another episode, but it's edging on pushy irl themes.

>>939202

It's okay. Probably going to get very edgy near the end.

>>939202

It's a buddy cop anime with a loli elf princess. The buddy cop element is pretty by the numbers so far (criminal informants, old partner dies, cop doesn't want new partner, new partner doesn't understand how they do things around here) so the deciding factor on the plot will be how they develop it from here on out. Visuals and animation are pretty good, only the typical car CG stood out to me. I think it could be good but it's hard to tell so far. Watch the first episode for yourself.

The art looks like Range Murata. Is it?

This is one of the few shows this season I'm remotely interested in. Buddy cop stories can always work, no matter how ridiculous they get.

>>939222

The LN artist is Range Murata and the author is Gatoh Shoji who wrote Full Metal Panic. Director is Itagaki Shin who did Teekyuu and Berserk.

The first episode wasn't outright awful, but it was awfully boring. Cop Crap gets one more week to get it right.

OP is best thing about it .

>>939202

So far, so decent. This season is weak anyway so this is probably the most watchable thing.

I like Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo‘s OP the best so far this season, but this one was pretty great too.

>>939311

There's an American Flag in the office.

>cop watches his partner gets his fucking neck snapped

>gets told to go home and get some rest

>calls the dead guy's wife and tells her he's dead over the phone

>right back to work the next day

>taking fire from an SMG

>stands up and returns fire with his peashooter without waiting for the reload

Nope, I'm out.

Pretty good adaption from one of the studios that helped produce Berserk.

>>939354

Zankyou no Terror might scratch that itch, though it does err on the josei side of things.

>>939363

The elven ship design is pretty cool; it's like a mashup of a catamaran, a trireme, and a schooner.

The question is, are there orc mobsters?

>>939389

>>italians

>>organized, clever crime

I mean the direct stereotype of the mafioso man; Godfather style. If we were talking reality, Minotaurs would probably be closer.

I think this show has potential if they keep it roughly to the same quality as the first episode was. I think this show is pretty hard to fuck up, I really want to be hopeful that it will get even better. The animation isn't high budget, but they appeared to have put their money to good use overall, nothing has struck me as flat out QUALITY yet aside from using the CG cars for a bit too long.

Using the fucking phone to call his partner's wife to tell her he's dead was dumb. They should've written that better.

OP was great, really liked that. Music choices seem to be pretty nice overall.

>>939389

In most fantasy media orcs basically are niggers who have nothing but tents and big axes, though. There are many grand elven cities on the other hand.

The loli is cute. Almost to the point where she doesn't fit in the otherwise brutal and dystopian modern day reality world. Overall the first episode got me interested but I hope that they don't step up the modern politics. Speaking of which...

>>939389

>Also fucking tired of people comparing orcs with niggers.

They do it because orcs are very obviously their fantasy stand-in. The whole "but they built a society haha" retardation is a pathetic excuse. Yeah, they act like stupid, violent brutes that can't think ahead, but they managed to build a civilization because the fantasy author said so, so it's totally different. You've completely fallen for the propaganda meant to make you view negative qualities as positive. Being physically strong is a good quality; being a retarded brute that needlessly uses it for violence is not.

>>939392

You know that could be said about slavs too.

>>939391

>Using the fucking phone to call his partner's wife to tell her he's dead was dumb. They should've written that better.

I'm gonna be lenient since it is early on in the show and say that is part of Kei's character and meant to show that he doesn't give much thought on being nice. His boss did offer to speak to the wife instead and I am assuming will be taking care of that situation off screen.

>>939388

>Surely Vampires would be a better fantasy race fit for The Mob

The Russian mob, maybe. European Vampires come from slavic folklore, and can you imagine being an Italian vampire?

>no sunny days at the beach

>no more garlic'd food

>can't stand the sight of crosses

>no more staring at yourself in the mirror

Truly a fate worse than death.

>>939389

>Also fucking tired of people comparing orcs with niggers.

Orcs really are the niggers of fantasy though. No one should dispute this unless they themselves are a nigger in denial.

>>939437

Nah, the russians would be gobbos

>cheeky breeki

>most of them are literal small fry, with 1-2 larger boss gobs

>industrius, but without health+safety nor any real idea what they're doing

>still manage to get shit done through sporadic ingenuity/straightfoward engineering

>ramshackle chemical plants for making speed etc

>most things made out of what hey can get their hands on

>goblin ale=vodka

>'humanlike', but with offputting, strange faces

>ususally unintelligable laguage to anybody that isn't them

>larger, boss gobs are ususally a bit more serious, take things slower. Not particularly smarter, but more careful

Vampires still the better mafioso

Have some thematic music to listen to while you 'disagree' with me incorrectly (because I'm right and yuo smel, and your face) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFlW5WwlxGE

>>939427

Just sit back and enjoy yourself. None of that matters. It's just checking off the silly cliches of a buddy cop sorry.

Don't sweat the small stuff. Partner is dead.

>>939427

I actually liked it, it may not have been intended but imagine how difficult it would be tell your partner's wife that he's dead to her face? When you still have your own internal grieving to do? Extremely inconsiderate but believable.

>>939389

>I'm assblasted atpeople correctly making note that green niggers are the niggers of fantasy

>>940826

Not everything can be cgdct.

This is the good kind of westaboo anime. More of this and less Carole and Tanisha. Story and worldbuilding aren't particularly engaging or interesting, nor are any of the characters introduced so far outside of the main duo, but the two of them have managed to somehow keep me watching so far.

>>940826

>>940830

What did you think was edgy about it? I didn't really get an edgy vibe at all.

>>940834

The whole deal scene, even the concept of fairy bombs is pretty edgy.

>>940835

It teetered on edge a bit but it didn't feel like it was deliberately trying to be edgy like a lot of really edgy anime does. I just took that as elf guy being a dick, and the fact that the guy buying the fairy bomb was there to act shocked kept it from wallowing in its own edginess.

>>940834

>I didn't really get an edgy vibe at all.

It really isn't, they are just using a buzzword because people died without getting entire melodrama arcs dedicated to them.

>>940852

Why do you do this to yourself, anon? Just dive into a literal dumpster and make friends with the local raccoons.

You'll be better off.

>>940852

I have no words for how that makes me feel, except maybe that I hope that that person finds a way to integrate into society at some point.

Second episode was pretty good, I liked the random bits of alien language and the wordplay with the cat. Also we got an explanation for why he wears the mask so that's nice. Plus it gave us more character development of our cop hero. Plus, her leaving her sword for the fairy, you know that it's personal with her. Looking forward to what happens next. I'm assuming she's going to end up at the club, in trouble, and maybe he'll save her this time.

>>940895

It's probably the shadows on the bolice being wrong.

>>940837

Possessing someone's body and making them kill their partner and dance around before committing suicide is pretty damn edgy. The only reason it isn't here is because they technically die before being reanimated. If they were conscious while it was happening it'd be far worse.

I still think it's a bit edgy though. But it being set in America makes me not care as much. They've already show the city being full of degeneracy so it's not as if they only doing it for a shock factor.

Every cliche played straight and true. Now we just need the chief to order Matoba to hand over his badge- and he does, but he'll keep the gun.

>>940943

No, they just animated her a lot because she's the main appeal of the anime. If you look at it frame by frame, they're all distinct.

>>940834

>Carole and Tuesday

The focus has shifted a little from making the duo into a band and more into building their characters. Depending on your perspective its better now than at the start. I dont understand how Cop Craft is a "westaboo anime" just because the setting is outside Japan.

>>940953

>I dont understand how Cop Craft is a "westaboo anime"

It's an oldfashioned Hollywood style buddycop movie complete with all the cliches, including the police complaining about how their budget is being cut. Combining buddycop with kawaii elf girl is actually a really good idea, I hope there are more scenes of them arguing.

Loli girl becoming the bachelor protag's live-in maid wasn't what I expected. I expect ample fish out of water humor a la Helpful Fox Senko-san. I'm not expecting it to be a serious cop drama anymore, but it still has potential as 'Senko-san but with a plot to keep it interesting.'

>>943176

>Including the police complaining about how their budget is being cut.

A policeman that isn't bitching about budget cuts is a dead one.

I can guarantee 100% that it isn't something typically western, you could field patlabor level mechas, police aircraft carriers while and annihilating shop-lifters with orbital strikes and cops would still bitch about not having enough money spent on them.

I'm sure you can find a 15th century town guardsmen from Holland, Japan and China bitching about not having enough budgets.

Hell I'm sure you can find a rock painting from Africa made by a cave guardian depicting him not getting enough offerings, that he made last week.

It's a buddy cop thing with two unlikely characters bonding over a same goal but it's not really something Hollywood invented (as it did existed in literature before. Straight shooting hero + cunning servant exist in mythology even).

Also one of the first and most well known Kurosawa movie is a cop noir/buddy movie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stray_Dog_%28film%29

Which, you know, predates by 20 years the first US one that Hollywood "totally invented"...

The state of /a/ in 2019...

>>939354

That and CG animation

I don't like seeing these creatures of darkness sexualize the loli. Both the pacing and animation were really bad this episode; the fencing looked like some gag from a SoL series. And, of course, they had to go with a really obvious "diversity is good" message, even though everything we've seen of this world is a disgusting mess.

Another okay episode. I'll keep watching but the jap westaboo diversity message is kinda shit. I hope the next few episodes won't be as disappointing because I might drop this.

>>944447

It's pretty obvious where it's going.

>OP talks about what a beautiful diverse metropolis it is

>bad guy wants to divide humans and aliens via terrorism

>loli elf alien is love interest to cop

It's a pretty blatant allegory and "racism bad" message.

>>944458

The whole "he's a negro who commits crime but I can't seem to hate him" thing was a bit of a giveaway.

>>944463

It really feels like the guy who made this loves to think of LA and San Fran as the best place in the world with abundant wealth and peaceful diverse coexistence but they haven't actually ever been there in their life.

I was thinking about it for a while, but what if all these cop shows are because of that Detective Pikachu live action movie? Wasn't that a big hit in Japan?

>>944435

>>944402

>>944429

I was hoping this was not going to be the case but if this is really some Hideo Kojimbo style westaboo fagwanking I won't even pick this up.

>>944491

>the pacing this episode was tragic

It seemed like they were desperately trying to cover everything this episode which makes me think they are trying to fit in more room later on. This episode would have been much better if it had been divided into two episodes, the first ending at around when Kei arrives at the old church and then covering the rest in the second episode. Basically every scene needed more time to play out.

Way too much plot happened this episode. Learned the motivations of everyone, killed off (not) a significant character, had three battles that were important, and a slide show of avoiding traps. I wasn't expecting to reach more or less the end of the fairy bomb story so quickly. What comes after this to justify suddenly ending this story?

>>944512

>>944524

I agree, it felt like two episodes crammed into one, as well as the build up to the climax of the story. Was this the part just before where the LN ended its current arc? Since it was so rushed and the magic traps scenes were skipped over in seconds, I don't understand why they didn't just skip the traps entirely and use those precious seconds to make another scene longer. Unless they were setting something up with the magical lung fires. The sword fighting was rushed too, of course. While I wouldn't want it to be some drawn out shounen affair, it wasn't much better like this anyway. In the first duel she just falls over, somehow, for no discernible reason. Nothing about it shows that the guy is a better combatant than her. If anything, he seems to just be swinging wildly. The second time, it's even less unclear, thanks to the terrible and out of place animation. She gets a kick in and seemingly goes for a killing blow, yet it just goes back to the ridiculous flailing until the guy suddenly gets cut for no clear reason. It's as if they were trying to portray what I assume was fighting that was written to be hard to follow for Kei in the LN, but botched it completely.

Even the fanservice was confusing. They do show her panties at a few points, mostly briefly, but in the combat scenes the guy comments on how he can see her panties and almost see her beasts, but it's not shown to the viewer.

And then there's the fairies in the hideout. There are a lot of them, but Tilarna doesn't seem to be concerned with saving them. I understand that she cares mostly about the bomb fairy, but she doesn't seem care about finding out if any of the jar fairies are alive or if she can save them somehow. Are they alive? Some of them seemed to be whole while others were just floating body parts. Then they start turning red and exploding. Tilarna doesn't seem to care. Are they exploding because of the heat? If so, why just random ones and with such a quick change? Why the noise that seems to be vocal? Was it something magical happening? The scene was unclear as to what was going on.

And finally, Tilarna says that Dennis the magical fantasy elf is "no longer human". Was he human to begin with? Wasn't the point that they came from the fantasy world and thus aren't human, setting up the main conflict of the setting?

I would like to think that they rushed through this to have more time for the rest of the show, but it's hard to be that optimistic considering the budget also disappeared.

>>940852

I agree with the screencapped guy unironically.

>>944491

>the pacing this episode was tragic

The scene with Kei and his boss was given way too little screentime. Also I know they mentioned Kei being in the military before, but I don't think his squad being annihilated by an alien had been mentioned, and the suddenly realization on Kei's behalf that the red wizard was the one who killed them came out of nowhere, and felt more than a little comical. Other than that it is a good show, but these poor pacing problems are something lots of LN adaptations suffer from, with the publisher demanding x amount of volumes be adapted in y amount of episodes, usually not enough episodes relative to volumes to give the story enough room to breathe. When will they realize this is not the way to go about it?

I’m interested to see how Q U A L I T Y this can get by the end now.

>>944905

My optimistic side says that this is the lowest point it will get, so next few episodes will possibly be a tad better. I guess they just had very little time for this one. My pessimistic side tells me that never happens.

>>944376

The anime is literally set in a multi racial American city. Its westaboo shit. Its not even the decent westaboo shit but just straight hot garbage.

>>940860

Because it's funny.

>>947231

They've finally hit the most important cop movie cliche. Loud and foul mouthed black chief of police who is tired of your shit every day of the week. Bubblegum Crisis had one too.

>>946988

>I'm getting too old for this shit

>>947393

Seems like they're real but ancient, sort of like bubonic plague to modern civilization.

That episode was really nice. A bit of drama. Elf couch potato. Ancient evil awakens (the panic of the elf realizing what it is, was really well timed).

We get the police chief cliche but heh it works, I mean you have the elf straight up cutting people up and beating suspects like it's still the good old days, so they have to get yelled at for the cultural shock, might as well go the whole way. If you have to do it execute it well I guess.

>>947393

>if I say that its a vampire and the bitch makes fun of me I am going to kill her

>better be silent than

>>946987

>Pacing is a lot better

The first half of this episode should have been its last half, ending with Kei discovering elf had returned, which would have given a whole other half an episode for the first arc, with the events of episode 3 stretched across an episode and a half, giving them more room to breathe. It does seem to have improved though, and so I'm cautiously optimistic that ep 3 was just a blip, and things will smooth out from here.