First episodes that captured your attention

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Wait a minute, did you just summon a bunch of ninjas in one turn?!

First episode of the aot anime

>inb4 "aot anime is trash read the manga"
Dropped the manga because its trash, it anime is so muvh more better

If they can duplicate themselves and clothes... couldn't they duplicate food and solve world hunger? Or duplicate gold?

Cross Game.

I ended watching the entire 50 episodes because of the first episode. FUCK

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oh shit i remember watching that when it aired, first adachi's story i read watch at the time wasn't prepared for the feels

Fucking GE999

Kemono friends ep1 captured my attention by how horrible it was.
>why is this shit popular?

Naruto's clones poof into smoke when they so much as stub their toes, and Shadow Clones are (ironically) noteworthy for being autonomous and fully solid. Basically Sadow Clones are the best thing they have, with the closest similar things being elemental clones, made of water or earth for example, which also dissolve into their base material when struck.
I don't want my sandwhich vanishing into smoke or reverting to dirt whenever I try to bite into it.

Did you watch more? It took me until halfway through episode 2 for the show to hit it's stride, episode 1 was abyssmal.
I still don't understand why it's so popular, however.

Kill la Kill, obviously.

One Piece when Luffy came out barrel and knocked those mofos out

I did watch it trough, its just bizarre. Some machinima maker using an existing games assets makes better looking series than an entire anime studio.

Sword Art Online

Yeah, so?

Well, that's against the ninja rules, isn't it?

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Absolutely, it looks like ass. But I haven't seen anyone praise the visual aspects; all of its merits are in other factors.

Screw the ninja rules i have lung cancer!

The anime is good, but the mango is better, trust me, the shitty art really adds to the ambiance.

>you now hear this in LittleKuriboh's Naruto voice

Isayama pretty quickly gets better at the art, and although it retains a similar style to his early days, that's really all it is at this point - a distinct style.

Too bad everything went downhill from there

Sword art online is why I refuse to watch any isekai

The Re:Zero opener is great.

Konosuba?

Higurashi

Code Geass has an amazing first episode. Even people who really dislike what it became tend to agree.

I, personally, love every single episode more than I have loved any woman in my life.

It's good but I don't think it deserves exceptional praise.

Moeshit garbage. I want more stuff like Log Horizon.

coincidentally I think Log Horizon's first episode is awful and does a terrible job at establishing what the series and its characters are about

I judge a first episode on how it sells the setting, premise, and characters. The CG opener does that really well, especially with the cliffhanger of the first geass and Lelouche starting to make deliberate moves againt the regime. If seen as a two parter it just gets better.

ga rei zero... I didnt expect that ending. Yomi...

Well most series do that and open with something to hook you, and CG's first episode isn't exceptionally well done in that regard.

I must have been the only person in the world to have seen Gai Rei Zero's first episode and be so completely turned off from ever wanting to see anything to do with that show ever again. Everyone else praises it as an amazing first episode I thought absolutely nothing in it was redeemable.

Why do people pretend trash horizon isn't moe shit? You have dome dumb ass loli love triangle and then stupid kids taking a whole long ass arc for themselves

The kid arc is enjoyable and whatshisface turning into a human is the high point of the show for me.

Avant-garde animation.

>4 years old
i changed the channel when i hear someone come to the room
i thought they ain't gonna let me watch it

original order best order

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What is best order
Someone tell me pls

Chronological order also has a great 1st episode.

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Broadcast order, otherwise there is no narrative structure and buildup, and all plausible mystery and intrigue is ruined because chronological order has the infodump episodes at the very beginning, followed by the climax at like episode 4, followed by 8 episodes of SoL meandering.

That's not fair, all Haruhi episodes are great.

Zankyou no terror had an amazing first episode and was amazing until the faggot five had to come in with her fucking engrish

It's funny because you are 100℅ correct

I knew a guy that used to do this in Magic: The Gathering
>playing M:tG in highschool in the days before internet
>rules only known through word of mouth and vets teaching newbros how to play
>"That Kid" is supposedly the best in school
>uses Swamp Rat card
>1/1 creature, costs 1 swamp
>ability is Tap to gain a 1/1 rat, or something
>he claims that you can tap and untap it unlimited times in your turn
>mfw he said "Ok i tap/untap this card 1million times and attack you, you take 1million damage, I win" every damn time
>mfw people defended this

I bet he was also cheating so that Swamp Rat was always in his opening hand.

>that kid who thought "flip" a card meant to flip it like a coin and if it lands face up it activates
>everyone agreed with this theory and defended it

I remember when my whole friends group thought that Trample activated when the creature is defending, meaning the attacking player takes face damage. Boy that was broken for a while.