Bye Bye Earth #01 — My Deer Kraken

July 12th, 2024

 

Told you. Invasive species.

Not slow this morning for any particular reason. Just distracted. Though I did glance at 2.5D Seduction's second episode. His spurned childhood friend shows up, immediately strips naked, and accidentally pulls him on top of her. Yuuuup.

Impressions:

I feel like the core premise here is pretty confused. Everybody's racist against non-animal people, so it's up to you to find a place where you truly belong… somewhere else. With people like you. At the very least, aim for both. Overcome racism and prove the racists wrong, AND find a place of people who aren't racists. Instead, we get a flashback to her bonding with a giant magical German sword she steals, so they lock her up with it, which strikes me as a massive lapse in security protocols, but what do I know about magical swords and centaur police? 

It's definitely going for that high fantasy schtick where it blasts dozens of nonsense words and hopes that the audience can cobble together something that makes at least some sense, which isn't great. It got especially bad towards the end when the dude started going on about how you need curses to travel, and curses are part of bloodpacts, and his curse is vaporizing himself or something, all as a way to end the episode. I'd far prefer intros like Rage of Bahamut or Horizon's with a lot of high octane stuff around the blathering nonsense, but from the fight against the deer kraken, I'm not sure that it has the budget for that. Still looked better than most of the cheat power things this season on the animation front, but it's a lot closer to Shy's budget than Bahamut/Horizon's.

 

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3 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • kenuran says:
    July 12, 2024 at 9:45 pm

    Not the most well put together first episode but at least it decently presents itself as a proper high fantasy show. No dumb RPG mechanics or a main character dropped in from Japan to serve as an audience proxy for how much they hate their own life and want a new one that hands everything they would ever want to them for no reason or though any sort of effort. Ten years ago I would have been meh on this show but nowadays its almost refreshing.

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  • residentgrigo says:
    July 13, 2024 at 3:01 am

    Bye Bye, Earth released in late 2000 as a 2 volume novel on the same day. It was a book and not a LN. Ubukata should have still been at Sega at that point. The Twelve Kingdoms was a few years old when he typed the first sentence and novels like it and the Tomino´s Byston Well series (he wrote a ton as this is his 2nd main body of work after Gundam) were the market he was responding to. I am not here to comment too much on the novel and its adaptations but I guarantee you that we would talk about the anime as a hidden gem or foundational work (it isn´t) if it came out in the mid-00s in the form of a 24-26 ep show, as that would have been its natural habitat. But here we are, 2 decades later, with only a single cour overseen by Liden Film but the music is great.

    Tow Ubukata is one of the most adapted Japanese novelists of his time without counting his many scripting gigs. There is a non-zero chance that his Chaos Legion LNs will be adapted one of these days, as Capcom´s forgotten game was a mixed-media project. Eulenspiegel is too weeby to not get an anime (it got manga) and Pilgrim Jaeger is dark fantasy making a show easy to market. He also writes a novel a year these days and was ahead of a bunch of trend explosions.

    When there’s no more room in hell, the Ubukata adaptations will walk the Earth.

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  • xvid2014 says:
    August 12, 2024 at 1:03 am

    Bye Bye, Earth best anime of this year 2024

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