No.1251
It looks like it's gonna be full of ridiculous stuff and I am very much looking forward to it.
No.1252
I wouldn't call it amazing, but it does look nice. I'm really hoping they come up with something more clever than "random object falls from the sky" for future unlucks or it's going to get real old real fast.
Also, boob-chan is ugly with short hair and that kind of ruins the rapeservice for me.
No.1254
I enjoyed the first ep a lot and am looking forward to the rest, though I agree with
>>1252 that the short hair was a mistake.
No.1255
Boobs aside she is certainly quite androgynous. Well, people do like tomboys so some variety in protagonist hair is good.
>>1253Huh, is it because of the anime release or is it just popular enough on its own? I've never heard of this thing before a few days ago, but the budget it got made me think it's quite beloved. According to anilist: "Couple years ago, a big chunk of Shaft's in-house staff moved over to David Productions". They worked on the Urusei Yatsura reboot before this, so damn, yeah, no wonder it looks amazing.
No.1256
>>1255She wasn't that androgynous... before her hair was cut............
WHY DID THEY CUT IT
WHYYYYYYYYYYYY
No.1257
her boobs are huge and short hair draws attention to that
No.1258
>>1256It's much better for action scenes imagine all the stuff it'd get stuck on
No.1259
>>1255You know what, she looks very cute with short hair and I don't see what's the problem with it.
>>1256That's too long.
No.1260
Really amazing show, I'm enjoying it a lot! It's so wacky, and yet there's some serious undertones to it and the animation and cinematography or whatnot is really excellent. I said it somewhere else on kissu, but there's some important ex-Shaft people at David Productions and their expertise really seems to be shining through.
https://anilist.co/staff/121223/Yuuki-Yasehttps://anilist.co/staff/121209/Mamoru-Kurosawahttps://anilist.co/staff/121205/Kazuhiro-Miwahttps://anilist.co/staff/121206/Hirokazu-Satouetc...
No.1262
>>1261It's interesting how short the fights are. If it were a different series each would be at least a couple episodes long, but here Undead's very quick to figure out what's going on and they're all over in no time. He's also extremely GAR.
No.1263
>>1262Hell yeah he is.
You know what's weird, there's
Undead Unluck and
Helck running right now- two shows starring two muscular protagonists. Normally the muscular guys are only there to defeated by the guys with the 13 year-old boy bodies to establish their strength. Yeah, Andy and Helck are both supernatural, but I think it still means something.
Andy is awesome. The end of episode 4 was really nice as well, showing a different side of him.
Ah, what a fantastic show. But, only 12 episodes is bumming me out. I hope they announce a season 2 because the manga is still ongoing and I'm certainly willing to see more of it animated.
No.1264
>>63298
lover of hags
No.1265
i just finished episode 4 and i'm fucking dropping it i'm so mad
>>1264shuttup
No.1270
>>1269It's likely that luck has some very broad implications since it's tied to the outcome of basically everything, and that it'll expand into negating bad results to make them good or neutral as opposed to its current narrow usage that causes randomly lethal events. Also, it looks like it'll be two cours long, which is great.
No.1271
>>1269>The outside universe will be created if the UN group fails the missions?I don't think it's quite like that. When talking about UMAs prior to that they were just negators like the rest of the cast. When talking about Sex, religion, race, and the like it used 'rules'. So my idea would be more like the addition of an extremely strong UMA that'd give them a rough time. As when I hear 'galaxy' I think Galaxia, and she's insanely strong.
The negators being able to ignore rules created makes some sense, although it does call into question what exactly the world was before some negators opposites were brought into existence. Wouldn't some of these like change or whatnot be essential for things to exist? So it's probably not possible for failure to have even occured to cause rules to be created if there were no way to complete them in the first place unless they just failed by default over the course of time until an organization was feasible. But then if they encounter a negator for time.... Probably not for the best to think too hard on these things.
Either way I like how bombastic and energetic the tone of the series has been so far, hoping it keeps it up for the remainder of the cour.
No.1272
>>1270>Also, it looks like it'll be two cours long, which is great.Is it? IS IT? YES! I didn't see an episode amount listed anywhere.
>>1271>what exactly the world was before some negators opposites were brought into existenceI thought they just did stuff locally? This rules thing sounds really confusing since there's 98 of them and they they've been happening every 3 months. So existence itself would be only be about thirty years. But, that one girl was older than that, and Fuuko has knowledge of stars while she doesn't. Bleh.
>Probably not for the best to think too hard on these things.Yeah, but there must be some significance to the stars thing in episode 3 since it was made a very obvious focus.
I wonder what it is...
No.1274
it's a fun Shonen. you make jokes about it and stuff
No.1276
>>1275This looks familiar somehow, and not because of Andy, like this face was on a pack of candy or something.
hmmmmm
No.1280
keep laughing that they call him andy
No.1281
Maybe I'm spoiled from jjk this season, but I don't feel that much of an intimidating presence from Victor. He doesn't seem that unmanageable of a foe to defeat.
No.1284
>>1283But episode 10... HOLY CRAP! I'm going to make some clips of it later because so much of it was a truly beautiful spectacle. I want people to give this show a chance if they haven't already and this might be the best chance to convince people.
Also, anime sites are listing it as 24 episodes! anilist.co which is what I use to keep track of the kissu stream finally has it at 24 episodes instead of (?), but I guess it seemed unlikely it was going to end at 12.
No.1291
>>1288I really do love all the shaft-isms in this, having an actual direction does wonders for a series.
No.1292
these clips are great and worth rewatching, rip rocky the rock
No.1293
>>1289her power is interesting. I guess it's defined as the power to overwrite the unity of people?
No.1294
>>1272>This rules thing sounds really confusing since there's 98 of them and they they've been happening every 3 months. So existence itself would be only be about thirty years.Rules are only added if they fail. If I remember right, they mentioned Andy being 400 years old.
No.1295
>>1293I interpreted it as literally being "unjustice". The alien mentioned cooperation being one of the core tenants of their society, so negating that sense of cooperation led to immediate infighting.
No.1296
I suppose these rules come and go. At one point there might have been stars and the celestial calendar, as Victor and Fuko seemed to remember somehow, but the uma got killed. Perhaps some sort of cosmic cycle where Ragnarok represents a restart of the rules and everything being created from scratch.... saaaa...
No.1297
>>1295I actually rewatched it a few times to try and make sense of it.
She asked the alien "Is that your justice?" which she said to make it more apparent of what was happening. She had used her power on Andy in a previous episode and he immediately did
this so I assume it inverts your values (sense of justice) since it was his highest priority to protect her (which I also think means he's chivalrous and/or has feelings for her).
The alien said they were invading Earth and the humans needed to die so that his friends and family can live on it. The alien also mocked the humans earlier by saying that they're a race that is unable to cooperate enough to explore space, so presumably aliens have a strong sense of cooperation which was a very bad thing once reversed.
But, the singular alien lives and Unjustice quips that he himself must not have believed in it because it had no effect on him.
No.1298
>>1294This show reminds me of the time travel paradox stuff because everything is a Rule that was later added and it everyone that sits outside that table interprets it as always existing. I assume the people at the table, depending on the timescale (which seems to be very long) have knowledge of stuff that seems nonsensical, like a time before death was a thing. I hope the past is explored more because that sounds fun.
I'm so tempted to binge a manga for the first time in a long time, but I must resist and instead enjoy the visual splender of the anime. (and I can binge it after the 24 episodes end and S2 is in 2027 or something)
No.1299
>>1298>like a time before death was a thingyeah like spoil pretty much that was his role
No.1301
>>1300>The identity of the woman in the veil, though, hmm...My guess is that it would be his wife, maybe? At first he's in a flower-filled casket and she's clearly wearing black mourning attire, and then outstretches her hand to bring him back. I'm not really sure what it means. Andy died and then was somehow revived? Or maybe it's illustrative of how he longs for death, maybe to be with his first wife who he wishes to be reunited with in death?
No.1302
>>1300Andy does have something funky inside of him, and that's Victor, who's strong enough to fuck up Spoil without much trouble. But Victor himself doesn't look like a UMA, while Spoil had the ability to passively affect everyone around it Undead's power is tied to itself alone. It's possible that all negators are vessels of some sort in the sense that they are bound to what they oppose, we'll have to see how that goes.
Also, I'm thinking Andy's quest may actually be about killing Victor rather than simply being bored or life anything silly like that.
>>1301>Andy died and then was somehow revived?Something happened that led to his existence and the thingamajig he's got jammed in his face, that much is certain.
No.1303
Uhh when I say "silly" I mean in the lighthearted way Andy presents himself.
No.1304
Oh, huh. It was pointed out in episode 10 that
the UMA Galaxy penalty created the days of the week but this is in episode 8. I guess this is another situation like Fuko and the stars. Hmmmm.....
>>1301Yeah, and he was in a coffin. Funeral stuff, but it's hard to say if it's just a stylistic ED or not.
>I'm thinking Andy's quest may actually be about killing Victor Yeah, that makes more sense. Could be some atonement thing, too.
No.1305
>>1302>It's possible that all negators are vessels of some sort in the sense that they are bound to what they oppose, we'll have to see how that goes.That would maybe make sense as to why they seem to either intentionally kill or capture other negators, but there's no mention of rules being taken away for doing so, other than the example in the most recent episode where all of the languages were unified to English as a reward for completing one of the quest thingies. But... They
can die, so it would make more sense to me that what they're doing is a kind of survival of the fittest meritocracy: those that are stronger ascend to the table, and those that are weak will die and succumb to other negators. Those not captured could pose a threat to other people and should be eliminated. I mean, Fuko literally caused an asteroid to fall on her parent's plane, killing them. That's pretty big reason to get rid of her, especially since it seems like all the nations of the world work together to deal with quests from the Apocalypse book.
Dunno, but it's fun to think about in a chuuni kind of way and apply this warped logic like any of it is supposed to make sense.
No.1308
>>1307Weird if you're the same person that didn't want to watch Monogatari, it's basically this done perfectly.
No.1309
>>1308Yeah, I am.
It probably would have helped if I liked how those shows looked in general, but I wasn't a fan. The skin looked sickly and the faces had an uncanny ugliness to me that I can't really explain. The same guy that did those unfortunate Higurashi shows. It is unappealing to me and I can't really explain it in a way that would make sense to other people.
I just couldn't get into them. Well, it's not the first and won't be the last time my opinions deviate from others for some inexplicable reason.
No.1315
>>1314not bad
I personally prefer them less kidney-shaped but it's not bad
No.1317
>>1313Cute retard Iruma-kun! Pet! Pet! Pet!
No.1318
>>1317>Pet! Pet! Pet!Pat! Pat! Pat!
Hug hug hug, love love love.
NOT retarded though, just vulnerable to suggestion.
No.1320
>>1275hate this face
hate the whiny girl
No.1322
the episodes in this are 10% recap, but I still like the action and dialog
No.1327
>>1325The rest of the show is crazy good but the 3 minutes of recap every week definitely does grate on me.
No.1328
>>1327Yeah, there's no way to sugarcoat it. Actually it was about 4 minutes for that episode since they did it later on.
But, well, the show is still absolutely gorgeous and my brain forgets the recap parts. Time goes by too fast when I'm watching it.
No.1334
Technically mostly recap, but an explanation that ties it all together. The last part that relates to the guy's negator ability and the words said earlier really is a fantastic end to it.
If you don't understand it, watch
>>1331 again.
No.1336
The people sometimes look wonky but I appreciate them experimenting with perspective
No.1337
dumbdead dumbluck
No.1338
>>1333>>1335yeah what a banger ep
definitely best backgrounds for the season
No.1340
>>1339I bet Urisei Yatsura did this! Damn you, Lum! David Production, why did you take on the two most beautiful shows at once?!
(the episode was pretty nice, though
it was sort of an intermission)
No.1342
>>1341Does that have a meaning? It was a genuine typo since it's one romaji word I can actually type!
FUKO CUTE! FUKO SO CUTE!
No.1343
Is the people sometimes looking odd a stylistic choice?
No.1347
>>1346I'm guessing you're referring to
the way it hints at this not being the first go around of killing god for the Round Table. With this scene it's nearly confirmed, and if you assume that Andy's immortality somehow spares himself in a universal reset it makes sense how he could have lived 400 years with the timespan of the apocalypse only seeming to be around 30, especially when you consider that Unjustice seems to have been around when the round table was first created. Although with the way people's memories in this series works it does make me wonder a bit what's going on exactly when they reach Armageddon, since it doesn't seem like things are perfectly reset. The artifacts themselves most likely bits and pieces of that stored up information of past events like Andy most likely does without his chip. Also she hasn't spoken all that much about the past or really exposed much about herself yet, but Unjustice seems like a key piece of the puzzle for figuring out this stuff. Everything that's been shown off seems to be very deliberate and I really like that about this anime. Having former SHAFT employees working on this must be a match made in heaven since they're the best at sprinkling in those subtle details.
As for Billy,
despite his ability seemingly being to copy others, the move by him to try and recruit Tatiana, saying that he "needs" her ability calls into question just what are the conditions he needs to satisfy for his copying to take place. I wonder if the reason for him having some of the powers of the Round Table members and not others has something to do with the past as well hmmm. No.1352
>>1348thumbnail made me think this was washu and ryoko lol
No.1353
>>1352Now that you mention it...
Anyway, bad news. This episode was like 60% recap. I'd say it qualifies as the dreaded
recap episode. If each episode didn't have two minutes of recap I could forgive it, but... yeah, this is unfortunate.
No.1354
>>1353Hmmm, and you can't cut it out well given that it'd interrupt the music. 0:20-1:20 is fair game though, that one would work.
No.1355
I think I might have to just drop it and pick up the manga at this point, I can't deal with this anymore.
No.1357
might read some things after the season ends
No.1358
it's not like the recapping is abrupt and unexpected
No.1362
>>1361agreed it's really good stuff
No.1365
I'll bump it now tehe
No.1372
>>1371Too far North. No one would notice anyways.
Also what's wrong with the quality? They used 3D instead of handdrawn?
No.1374
3D, yeah, but it was also used during the first major fight in the show against the UMA zombie guy. Basically they don't want to animate groups of stuff.
There's just a few moments where you get a real "huh?" feeling. I'd assume that having 3 minutes of recap would mean they wouldn't have to cut corners. Sometimes I feel like I'm more sensitive to random 3D than most people.
It's normal in other shows, but that's the problem when you have the bar set so high.
>>1373Nice.
No.1375
>>1374nice scaling animation
No.1376
>>1374>3D, yeah,Is it?
Is it not a perfectly flat image being scaled up panel by panel?
No.1377
>>1374>Sometimes I feel like I'm more sensitive to random 3D than most people.That's just called having good taste.
No.1382
>>1380yeah this scene really stuck out to me as looking excellent
>>1381and this too has top tier ambiance
No.1384
not hard to imagine, they'll kill Spring and then it will do a sort of montage of billy and such preparing to do something interesting, then "please buy manga!"
No.1389
>>1385it;s the journey not the destination
No.1395
>>1394(SPOILER VIDEO)
It was a nice episode, but it's hard to pinpoint specific parts to upload. Some great frames here or there.
No.1396
>>1395i like that they outright killed him just like that
No.1397
the spoiler
No.1398
>>1397you would have NO idea who it refers to if you hadn't watched it, he's present for about a minute and does nothing of worth
No.1406
>>1404I forget exactly how they did it in the anime, but what's really crazy to me is how well drawn the manga is despite being the author's first real manga. I thought that David Productions was really touching it up, but they had a good base to start with.
No.1407
>>1406Yeah, it said on the first page that his debut was a "one-shot" and this was his first real one and it was in Shonen Jump already. I'd say it's well earned.
It's VERY well drawn, especially at conveying motion. This is what CHAPTER ONE LOOKS LIKE ALREADY! Geez, this is he he starts out?
No.1408
>>1406>I forget exactly how they did it in the animeAnd that's a prompt for me to share more Undead Unluck anime footage!
Yes, here is how David Production did that page. This is at the very beginning of the first episode so by no means is it a spoiler.
No.1413
>>1402WE'RE ONE WEEK AWAY FROM THE ANNOUNCEMENT! I'm bumping this thread so I don't unremember!
What do you think it will be? A new season? A movie? Both? I'm hoping it's a season with at least 24 episodes!
No.1414
https://x.com/undeadunluck_anNothing yet. I guess they're not doing it until later in the day, huh?
Man, twitter is so awkward. I had to scroll past 6 posts just to see the most recent post that was in March, and when someone posts a picture of twitter I never know whether I'm supposed to read it top to bottom or bottom to top.
Well, anyway, I'll refresh that page every few hours...
No.1415
>>1414it's because they don't show you the chronological order anymore if you don't have an account, so now without being logged in you'll only see a highlight reel at best
if you were seeing a timeline correctly, it'd be newer above, older below
No.1416
>>1414if you look at an account using nitter.poast.org it presents the tweets in reverse chronological order (except for the pinned tweet)
No.1417
and you dont need your own account
No.1419
>>1418Nice! I was going to check in a few hours. Looks like the preview video has the same atmosphere as where the "to be continued...?" thing left off at the end.
So it will continue in winter, starting with a one-hour special? It's not saying the one-hour special IS the sequel, right? It's be weird for it to only be an hour long otherwise.
AWESOME!David Production will also be doing Fire Force in Spring so I hope they have enough people. But, I guess it will be the same situation as Undead Unluck starting one season ahead of Urusei Yatsura.
No.1420
The special is listed on anilist now:
https://anilist.co/anime/179930/Undead-Unluck-Special/I really, really hope this isn't the sequel entirely and there is a season attached.
It's weird for something to just be an hour long, right?
No.1421
>>1420probably is, but if you UNcut the recap and OPs 12 episodes probably came out to 160minutes. So for 60minutes you'd basically be getting a more compressed half season
No.1422
I figure they'd still cover the same amount of material as in a season as well.
No.1423
>>1421It just doesn't seem right... A movie special would be fantastic, but wouldn't they refer to it as a movie? And wouldn't people assume 'sequel' meant the same format? Bleh, this could be some lost in translation stuff.
Well, movies do generally look a lot better so if this is just a shorter stand-alone movie then it is certainly going to be absolutely gorgeous. Looks like the same director is involved, although maybe anilist is just making an assumption there. But, I hope it turns out to be a one hour special leading into a new season. Or, maybe a holdover as the studio focuses on Fire Force.
I hope anyone here that was holding out giving the first 24 episodes a try will do so. It's really good and you can skip past all the recaps! At least give the first episode a watch, and then the first 4 or so with Gina.