Senki Zesshou Symphogear

Let's just hope that a) that flash forward was just deceiving us somehow or b) if there will be a Deus ex Machina, it should at least be either awesome or thematically consistent or something.

Or, y'know, we're just looking at a last-episode Heroic Sacrifice.

Or, it's like Baccano, where we knew from the first episode where every major character would end up.

Just watched the first episode. I liked it, but the time period used at the beginning confused me a little.

The present showed Miku visiting Hibiki's grave, then they flashback to the past where Kanade died and Hibiki got injured, and then they go to the present again to show Hibiki alive and well.

Does this mean she will die within the same year or something?

Either that or the government plays a part and pretends she's dead. I don't know.

Feel free to look around.

Episode 2: mostly light-hearted (aside from the rather creepy ED). Which is good, since they're better at than the dark stuff

This has possibly the strongest Les Yay I've seen in something that isn't actually yuri, which is fairly impressive, considering some of the shows I've seen

Oh, does anyone recognize the symbols in the elevator?

edited 13th Jan '12 7:13:31 PM by Hylarn

Really liking the series so far.

Only complaint I have is that the ending's corpses feel out of place.

Also, I see the two years have already passed by the point we're being shown... which means whatever's gonna happen to the protagonist will happen within the year.

edited 13th Jan '12 6:49:25 PM by burnpsy

While I like the show's premise, all I can see are plot holes. For instance, I don't see the point in hiding their identities. The noise not only didn't show any sign of sentience to be able to exploit this knowledge, but if they had sentience they would already know their identities. This is not Spiderman, Hibiki is not a lone heroine like him.

Also, if physics don't fail me, waves of a particular amplitude are not songs, they are sounds at a specific volume. They did say you need to be attuned though

Maybe someone's sending the noise? Maybe there's sentient noise?

We have no info on what exactly the noise is yet.

edited 13th Jan '12 10:11:40 PM by burnpsy

Just watched the first episode and, eh..., not too optimistic. Think it ruined itself*

by going straight for the grimdark. That, plus production values that make me think this is something Pulled Out Of The Archives, means that I'm probably gonna wait on this one.

Episode 2 put me in a pretty good mood.

Hibiki can be really sweet, the stuff she said wouldn't have been out of place in a romantic confession at all.

And Tsubasa is so gaga over Kanade that she won't let other people wear her armor. I've always wondered about that line of logic...

Here's a bunch of answers for everybody's questions:

@DL: The actual episode went like: Future, Past, Present.

@Hylarn: This is just a thought, but maybe they're the Noise? The very first symbol in the elevator you see is suspiciously identical to that huge green Noise they fought just a few minutes ago.

@Nessad:

It feels stretched out I know but hey, what do I know about politics?

So it seems Japan has finally figured out a way to get around Article 9 of their constitution - create a militarised division of Idol Singers.

That sounds a lot like Idolmaster Xenoglossia

I just watched episode 2. It was... better.

Estimated shipping time: 2-4 weeks.

Does anybody know what this is?

I can't read Japanese, and I don't know whether it's official or not.

Feel free to look around.

It's official

Oh, okay. Is it a prequel of sorts?

And while they were going down the elevator, I felt a strange sense of deja vu. It kind of looked like a witch's lair.

Also, I wonder what kind of role that white-haired girl will play if she's so prominently featured in the ED.

edited 17th Jan '12 1:50:38 PM by DL

Feel free to look around.

Well, we know what happened the last time we saw an ED of a silhouetted girl girl walking accompanied by disturbing imagery...

And then we considering the main character's voice, and the way a mentor-ish figure dies early on in defiance of promotional material, and the les yay-ness…

And then it reaches the point where I start to think it's intentional.

Madoka promotional material focused obsessively on Madoka and Homura from the word go

Nitpicks aside, probably. Though I'm fairly certain there's strong Xenosaga influence

That girl makes a deal with the devil and becomes God as a result?

I know it's only been two episodes, but really now.

And speaking of uncanny resemblances, tell me this doesn't look somewhat like Toyosatomimi no Miko.

Feel free to look around.

Comparison◊

Headphones, technically-not-ears, short hair that spreads out at the bottom...

Miko is grey instead of orange, though

I know, but just the overall design/shape/silhouette in general. My mind immediately jumped to Touhou when I saw her all Symphogear-ed up.

Feel free to look around.

Too many people are claiming shows are copying Madoka. At this point, all I have to say is "that's irrelevant". Anime has been copying ideas off each other for ages - the only reason you noticed the similarities to Madoka specifically is because Madoka was and is extremely popular.

This is why I hate people who are basically "Anime X is anon's first anime of that genre and thus is the BEST!"

FYI: Alien Nine did it first. Madoka is small time.

Well finally decided to watch this because of that cute picture and what the hell? Not even five minutes of the show and the main girl is already dead...But she got better because that was the future or something and definetely episode two has the whole les yay feel in it.