Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~

[purplemo]

@Quizap: With regards to story, see below. I think it was you . . .

Well, I had to comment on Phantom given how long I've waited for this redo of one of Nitroplus' better works. So far . . .

Ein - Well cast and is better than the OVA's model, though I liked the OVA's voice more
Zwei - Okay
Claudia - Great voice, looks great
Lizzie - Looks GORGEOUS, especially compared to her original model
Scythe - Hey, they got his name right this time! He's okay
Issac - Not seen enough to call this one
Cal - It's Cal. What can I say?
Mio - Gorgeous

Overall, it looks like it's starting on an okay foot. Looks like BeeTrain hasn't strayed very far from the original (yet) and given this isn't an original BeeTrain property like the girls n' guns trilogy, they shouldn't be able to ruin it quite as badly. Right? Damn that annoying Ali Project getting into every BeeTrain work though.

This is supposedly only 13 eps, though I kind of wonder if there's going to be a second season. Given that I saw Cal and Mio, it can't be THAT short unless they really compact things. They will have to at least make it to Japan. And Cal's story should take more than one ep (she better get more than one ep). If it is only 13 eps though I wonder if they will significantly shorten or cut out Mongolia and Hong Kong . . . but I can't imagine they could since they will more than likely go with Ein's ending (can't imagine they would pick the other ones) . . . Who knows. I've been wrong so many times about what they can and can't cut from a story . . .

So far from what I've seen and the BeeTrain pedigree against it, this new Phantom gets a

For now.

[Quizap]

Originally Posted by purplemo

@Quizap: With regards to story, see below. I think it was you . . .

Well, I had to comment on Phantom given how long I've waited for this redo of one of Nitroplus' better works. So far . . .

Ein - Well cast and is better than the OVA's model, though I liked the OVA's voice more
Zwei - Okay
Claudia - Great voice, looks great
Lizzie - Looks GORGEOUS, especially compared to her original model
Scythe - Hey, they got his name right this time! He's okay
Issac - Not seen enough to call this one
Cal - It's Cal. What can I say?
Mio - Gorgeous

Overall, it looks like it's starting on an okay foot. Looks like BeeTrain hasn't strayed very far from the original (yet) and given this isn't an original BeeTrain property like the girls n' guns trilogy, they shouldn't be able to ruin it quite as badly. Right? Damn that annoying Ali Project getting into every BeeTrain work though.

This is supposedly only 13 eps, though I kind of wonder if there's going to be a second season. Given that I saw Cal and Mio, it can't be THAT short unless they really compact things. They will have to at least make it to Japan. And Cal's story should take more than one ep (she better get more than one ep). If it is only 13 eps though I wonder if they will significantly shorten or cut out Mongolia and Hong Kong . . . but I can't imagine they could since they will more than likely go with Ein's ending (can't imagine they would pick the other ones) . . . Who knows. I've been wrong so many times about what they can and can't cut from a story . . .

So far from what I've seen and the BeeTrain pedigree against it, this new Phantom gets a

For now.

Great news then! I'm looking forward to it now.

[Lan]

@purplemo
you are just making me want to watch the rest of it even more!

So far to me it looks fairly interesting without knowing all that ^
The music in the action scenes sounds like it was taken straight from the matrix movies. Apart from the action music the rest of the score so far sounds good.

[Scython]

Originally Posted by Zakiel

My thoughts. (some spoilers)

After seeing that the opening scene was a recreation of Scarface I knew it could only get worse. To me it seems to be an utterly generic "lolz guy has sum amnesia gaiz and now he's becum a assassin oh noes!"

It being done by beetrain certainly doesn't help either.

Yeah, and being generic doesn't happen that often in anime series.

[purplemo]

Phantom does work off of a very generic base story. What makes it good is Nitroplus' storytelling. Whether BeeTrain can pull off what Nitroplus did (in 13 eps no less) is still to be seen.

[Scython]

Episode 2 is quite good as well. Starting to like Ein more and more.
Hopefully she'll get some emotions throughout the story.

Something like ''why muzt ai do tis! nut fair! rebel tiem''

[Lyzl]

I think episode 2 was almost par with episode one. I need more if this series wants to be great... it just kinda felt "stable". It's following a decent plot, but that's all it's doing, just following it. The training scenes were exceptionally boring, I was starting to fall asleep.

Much better then a lot of this season, but I really wanted more tbh.

[azanimefan]

it's... not good.

I'm holding out faint hope... but a few more episodes like this one and i'll be dropping this crap.

[Grafted]

Originally Posted by Scython

Episode 2 is quite good as well. Starting to like Ein more and more.
Hopefully she'll get some emotions throughout the story.

Something like ''why muzt ai do tis! nut fair! rebel tiem''

Agreed. I'm also looking forward to seeing how Ein progresses and the relationship between her and Zwei evolves.

[Scython]

I even saw some nakedness in the preview, interesting n.n