Copellion’s setting is great. The first episode really had me sold with its atmosphere. The second episode unfortunately was a step down, but I’m still quite positive here.
I like the post-apocalyptic setting here, and how desolate it is. And what this episode did well was how it showed how the few people who still remain at Tokyo are coming by. That’s great, and it was done quite convincingly. This series has a knack for painting the whole area as this desolate environment in which hardly anything lives, and it did this much better than a lot of other post apocalyptic series in this area. Heck, I can even believe the reason for the main characters to be young in this series: they’re clones specifically designed for taking on the hostile environment. You can’t wait for them to grow up to be thirty or something. I’m not sure why they had to wear the schoolgirl uniforms though.
What bugged me about this episode was the drama. Dear god, please lay it off with the cheese, will you? In comparison where Nagi no Asukara tries to balance its heavy drama out with different kinds of drama, this was all crying about the same thing over and over, it was just constantly gloomy and characters out of nowhere would go onto huge emotionally charged monologues about why things were so sad, in a way that broke my suspense of disbelief. This really needs to be done better in the future episodes, but who knows what kinds of effects this will have in the future?
Oh, and on a side-note: after watching the first episodes of all of the new series this season, I can say this confidently now: Copellion has the best ED of them all. The song is also better than all of the OP sons that we’ve got.
Rating: 4.5/8 (Good)
So the plotholes didn’t bother you at all?
I didn’t mind them yet. They don’t need to get much worse than what they showed in this episode, for for now I’m fine with them.
This series just hasn’t grabbed me yet. It has all of the makings of a brilliant series but it just doesn’t do it for me. The plot (and plot holes, as pointed out) just hasn’t hooked me.
In a first for me, after I see the episode, I read the manga that was covered by the episode. GoHands cut about 50% of the story in favor of speeding things along. As a result, while the anime is fixated on “whom can we save today,” the manga clearly has a much larger picture here and mysteries to solve (which to be fair, the anime episode did touch those elements, but that’s it).
They did did a lot of cutting for the first episode as well, though not as severely. However, everything they cut gave a great deal more explanation of the crisis that happened.
Frankly, I think GoHands would have been better served doing a proper adaptation rather than trying to get through as much manga as possible in as short a period of time.