B: The Beginning

Netflix saving anime.

I liked it but they really should have had more fight scenes and more in the style and sound of the one where Kuku fights the white haired chick with the legblade, that entire sequence was fucking beautiful with the chase down battle to that brilliant lake fight. The others kind of dropped the ball.

>white haired chick
user doesn't know. It was a trap, mate. A boy dressing as a girl.

Marathoned the first epsisode, does it get better?

It gets stupider and more chuuni, if that's the thing you are looking for.

I mean sure I did actually think that too given her deep voice, but the younger version of her/him was wearing a dress so I thought maybe it was actually a chick. Could be wrong though, all I know is I dig the shit out of that fight.

I dropped it at episode 5.
I can handle the chuuni shit, but Jean or whatever going in to kill Brandon was so dumb it made me lose a few brain cells.

He felt he was born in the wrong body since he was little.

Yeah all the characters looked okay but then the Main kid looked like something 11 year old me would have posted on deviantart. Should have made him look a bit more persona like than some fucking "I am the black angel" looking nigger.

His memories were altered by the big bad, I'm not joking. There are more crazy reveals to come.

>Netflix
>Anime original
Garbage.

It gets worse with every episode. By the end it's a literal piece of shit.

I don't get it. What's so bad about this show? Seems like your typical seinen series maybe from like the 2000s. I dunno why everyone's making it out to be some ebin trainwreck.

Imagine taking all the worst tropes of American sub 90 IQ pandering detective shows.
Then take the worst chuuni elements and designs and take a big literal shit on it.

And throw a lot of money on it to give it really good animation.

This scene gave me a massive boner though.

It's not even a trainwreck. Watching this show is not fun at all.
The show has too much in it and most of it rips off other anime, like Guilty Crown, Psycho Pass, Tokyo Ghoul etc. The direction is bad. Important reveals lack impact, the expository dialogue is more often than not irrelevant to the plot (reminds me of useless babbling in Gundam IBO). The two plotlines (hunting down Keith's sister's murderer & human experimentation) don't mingle well together - it's like two different anime projects forecefully merged into one. There are plenty of idiocies unfitting for a (semi-)serious crime drama and tryhard chuunishit (for instance, the hacker woman). The show doesn't know any moderation - it wants to be a comedy, a drama, an anime about a merry team of detectives tracking down criminals, a supernatural horror, a SoL, but can't handle any of it well and transitioning from one to another is crude. Sudden mood shifts become tiring after a while. I get the feeling it's what an anime written collectively by Sup Forums would look like t b h. Plenty of ideas, but with no meaning behind them other than 'it's there', a plot that can't be fitted into 12 episodes and characters that were borrowed from other shows.

This is Fractale of our generation.

It should at least be as fun as some of the campier and sillier CSI episodes, right? Hell please tell me it has some Hawaii Five-0 charm to it and not Zankyou no Terror.

Zankyou no Terror was a good anime.

>marathoned one episode
Ok Norman

Yer kidding me.

Zankyou no Terror had some genuinely well directed sequences, like the airport episode probably because Watanabe produced it.

The storytelling was still total bollocks though.

At least the plot of ZnT was not overconvoluted and made sense, even if some elements were unrealistic. Also, great direction for the most part.

It’s so rare to see an anime of such high quality to take as many risks as B: The Beginning does. Sure it stumbles a bit along the way, but the final result is undeniably an ambitious and thoroughly entertaining ride worth watching.

The story is totally insane on paper but is somehow even more bewildering in action thanks to such lovingly crafted visuals by Production I.G. with a talented director at the helm. It is in one part a sci-fi police procedural similar to Psycho-Pass, but simultaneously a game of cat and mouse like Death Note. These wild ideas packed on top of each other in only a brief 12 episode season makes for slightly underdone execution and lacking development. In my opinion, there’s enough good in this show to outweigh the negatives, but to summarize them before diving into the analysis:

Pros:
-Fantastic Action Scenes
-Great Animation
-Nice Soundtrack and Dub
-Likable Main Characters
-Shocking Twists
-Emotional Conclusion

Cons:
-Underdone Sci-Fi Setting
-Large Cast of Supporting Characters are Underdeveloped
-Too Fast-Paced at Times
-Confusing Story at First

So what did Japan think?

You need to work a bit on the synopsis to make it more believable.

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Oh wow.

Why? Can't have an opinion yourself?

ITT: I hate anime before I even watch it because it’s associated with something I don’t like

god i wish i were him

It tries to mesh two plot lines that can't possible work together. The writing overall is shit, down to the dialogues which are pretty fucking cringe-worthy most of the time. It doesn't have any character development. The pacing is shit, there's a fuck tone of exposition. It has all sort of plot holes.

Seriously, it's shit, in every sense of the world.

no

>Marathoned the first epsisode
This is some high quality bait

Me too. If there is a second season. they will probably fuck.

This show went to fucking shit after the third episode. After that you slowly realize that the two plotlines have fuck all to do with each other but forcing chuuni shit into some pretentious CSI plot. Complete with a nonsense cliffhanger to set up an unnecessary sequel.

Lurk more, newfag.

>this fuckboi was the most interesting character out of this pos

Needs a TON more chunni girls

You two have a pic of a cute trap.

Voiced by Saiga Mitsuki. He sacrificed himself in the name of love. Cute.

What a waste of Kazuya Nakai.

I liked it. Probably because I like chuuni shit. Still, I can see why people would hate it.
I had a good time, though. Will watch S2 if they do it

How the fuck is he alive??

How the fuck is Yuna still alive at the end? Bitch was beaten and stabbed multiple times and had her stomach sliced open too. Whatever their race is, they have some insane fucking durability.

As long as the heart and brain aren't damaged, they can live and regenerate (the special moutain ruins negate the healing factor).

They got their normal hair colors back.

How the fuck is Yuna alive after strangling if it took less time to kill the pink haired twin using the same method? How can you die immediately after several seconds of strangling anyway? Do writers even know how bodies work?

Why didn't Gilbert kill Lily for that matter? Keith trying to explain that one but it was nonsense all the same.

*tried

Kick the bitch like a boss!
I'll never complain about cartoonish, paper-thin, plot-device villains in anime after witnessing Minatsuki.

From what I remembered he had no time as Keith was getting close. At least that's what I understood from watching the ep. If they explained it further in the last one idk because I completely skipped all dialogue on that one.

So the kids all played dead to fool Koku or what? And he didn't notice?

Yuna's not a Reggie.

this one can be explained. Keith knew Gilbert for a long time and could predict his behaviour patterns. This goes the other way too: Gilbert knew Keith well and had a good grasp at his character. Killing Lily would throw Keith into a rage fit and he'd hunt down Gilbert and tear him to pieces. Leaving a composed Keith behind gives Gilbert a chance to turn the situation into his favour.

>From what I remembered he had no time as Keith was getting close
That's what Keith said but it makes no sense because Gilbert had the time to carry her across the room to the pile of corpses. It would have taken less time to just kill her and leave her on the table.

>Leaving a composed Keith behind gives Gilbert a chance to turn the situation into his favour
Gilbert's 'plan' was to be killed by Keith all along though.

Reggies are weaker than humans now? They sure don't look like given they can fight Koku on equal grounds. This chap survived stabbing through his chest with a spear, by the way.

He wanted Keith to kill him. Killing her off to enrage him would make a lot of more sense in that context.

The director didn't give a shit. They put her in the pile for dramatic purposes. The car wash scene makes no sense either.

Plotholes: the anime.

2DEEP4U?

>two shit anime from Netflix so far

Bravo. Next two look slightly more interesting but they will probably fuck them up anyways.

I don't get why this was just a police procedural show about a squad.

There should be a word for when a show ignores the better plot for some crazy and inane bullshit plot.

Crybaby was good, though. This was worse. Still enjoyable for me, though
Still, linking shows because of Netflix makes as much sense as linking shows because they air on BS11.
No one working on B worked on Crybaby.

Because the police part was dog shit by itself. The tank hijack and disappearance inside the tunnel immediately rang fucking big, red alarms.

Yuna isn't a human either, she's the same kind of being as Koku, and the only other successful experiment.

What I find stupid is how RIS didn't equip Lily with a chip that IS NOT on her clothing. You know, something you can stick into your mouth, vagina, anus.
They got played like elementary school kids. Keith the brilliant detective, my ass.

You fix that doing re-writings to make it more interesting, not pulling supernatural bullshit out of your ass.

>two
You have no fucking idea what you are even talkiing about, do you?

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Why didn't Keith just shot Gilbert in like the arm or the leg. Or simply punch him?

Crybaby is not a Netflix original. It was produced by Dynamic Planning, Netflix only bought exclusive streaming rights.

Dude, it seems really obvious that the police part was only an afterthought. The trailers and promo made it out to be more CSI than the complete chuuni shit this show actually turned out to be.

I don't get it. Why didn't anybody stop them? There was nobody who read the outline and said 'these two don't work well together, split them into two separate shows'?

No it wouldn't. Gilbert was playing against himself here, so if he killed Lily, he'd signal all other personalities that he wants to be killed.

Crybaby was literally the first Netflix original, every show of theirs before it was either Western made or they simply bought streaming rights outside Japan, Crybaby was fully funded by Netflix.

t.netflix

The only good things about this show were Keith and Lily. All of the chuuni stuff was horrible and felt so disjointed.

Who is supposed to stop them? Netflix? Have you seen the rest of the shit they put out?

>Netflix only bought exclusive streaming rights.

yeah, let's just conveniently forget how it was tailor-made to be streamed on netflix.

>Crybaby was literally the first Netflix original
Show me the proof, smartpants. I'll be waiting.

>Lily
>not a chuuni plot device

first episode was great.
I had to skip most of episode 7 because it was awful. don't play overblown music the whole way through a 20 minute flashback

You do know Netflix isn't an actual studio right? They simply pay other people to make series exclusively for them.

See I'll be patiently waiting for a proof.

You didn't answer my question. Answer it.
Do you even know what a producers does?

>Netflix
I don't need to watch it to know that it was garbage.

Say what you will about CR, at least they don't have the audacity to say they created anything.

You're the one who has no idea what "Netflix original" entails, they don't produce shit they just comission it.

The director. The producer. The official website tells me it's Rui Kuroki.

Crybaby was not commissioned by Netflix. Show me your proof and stop evading.

He's the one who approved the script in the first place.

10/10 chuuni moments.

It is available ONLY on Netflix, Netflix OWNS Crybaby.

>what a producers does
Manage finances of a project.

>we live in a world were CR is actually a lesser evil

What a hack.

Sup Forums memes belong off Sup Forums

That's how exclusive streaming rights work. Netflix does not own the property.
You still have not backed your claim which reads
>Crybaby was not commissioned by Netflix
with any evidence.

Sup Forums memes, formerly Sup Forums memes

*was commissioned