Valkyria Chronicles

[Pandadice]

so I just watched Valkyria Chronicles.

I have to say, maybe it's just because I've been super anticipating this series, but this came across as the best first episode premiere of the season so far.

The character development and the story explanation were both spot on. not too fast, but not too lacking. I got a good feel for the characters, and I was also able to comprehend what was going on. It also has a very soothing atmosphere to it, what with the calming background music and OP.

The artwork was fantastic. I was hoping that they'd keep it similar to the video game's art, and I can tell they tried. There's a subtle water-coloring/sketchy coloring effect over everything to give it a real awesome look.

If the episode itself wasn't good enough, the ED was amazing! it started up with a dudes vocals, and right away I could hear the auto-tuner type effect to the song. It's the first time I've heard that applied to a Japanese song, (maybe it's actually common?) and I thought it was awesome. It was just like Kanye or T-Pain.


ohh, and you have it as 13 episodes, but MAL says it's 26. and I was expecting this to be a longer series. whats your source for the 13 episode length/ do you know MAL's source? i guess it doesn't really matter either way, because i'll keep getting the episodes every week until they stop regardless of how long it goes on.

[Kraco]

If the episode itself wasn't good enough, the ED was amazing! it started up with a dudes vocals, and right away I could hear the auto-tuner type effect to the song. It's the first time I've heard that applied to a Japanese song, (maybe it's actually common?) and I thought it was awesome. It was just like Kanye or T-Pain.

I thought the OP is pretty nice, but the ED terrible. Well, we all got our own tastes...

What comes to the episode itself, I was satisfied with it. I don't even think the decision by Alicia was a bad one. At that point it was pretty clearly to me she didn't really anymore believe he's a spy, and with the imperial soldiers around, she surely found better things to do than worry about him too much. It's not like she's a real soldier (it was told she's actually a master of bread baking), no matter how brave she occasionally was, so following the dude who seemed to know what he's doing, was more or less natural. Besides, if those two are to become a pair, the sooner the better...

It might have been cliched, but nine out of ten rpgs are cliched from head to toe, so what can you do? Rewrite the script?