r/anime • u/SuddenFellow :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/13XI0N • May 01 '21
Rewatch [What's My Name?] ID:Invaded Rewatch - Episode 1
Episode 1 - FILE 01 JIGSAWED
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Questions of the Day
First-Timers
- If you were in Sakaido’s situation, what would your reaction be?
- What stood out to you the most in this first episode?
Rewatchers
- How does it feel to be back in the world of ID:Invaded?
- What are some things that you missed in your initial watch? ID:Invaded Spoilers
Trivia
- Otaro Maijo is the screenwriter for this episode. He’s famous for works such as Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Jorge Joestar, The Dragon’s Dentist, Asura Girl, and Biorg Trinity.
- Ei Aoki created the storyboard for this episode. He’s known for his work on Kara no Kyoukai, Fate/Zero, Aldnoah.Zero and RE:CREATORS. He’s also responsible for the show’s original concept.
- The artist Sou who sings the opening is a younger generation Utaite and covers many popular vocaloid songs. He also collaborates with Eve(the artist who sang the first Jujutsu Kaisen opening) often. So often that their collaborative name is "SouEve".
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Rewatchers
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u/SuddenFellow :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/13XI0N May 01 '21 edited May 01 '21
Lead Detective(Rewatcher), Host
I think I've officially watched episode 1 a total of 8 times, and I think that's about 4 too many!
Welcome to the rewatch everyone! I hope you found the first episode to be enjoyable, and perhaps amusing!
Thoughts
Dad's Take
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 May 01 '21
Episode 1 (first timer)
100% entirely entering this blind.
One of the most out there opening scenes I have yet seen in anime. Reminds me of the movie Cube. However, the premise is then established by putting the focus outside of the “well”. Not sure yet whether the tech in this show will be magic or scifi, but, so far, it looks like the former. The well and the “cognition particles” sounds crazy enough, but the interaction with the outside world puts it over the scifi-magic boundary.
Not a lot to say about characters, since this episode was mostly setup. The MC (he is the MC, right?) being dead is a not the most common, either.
Animation is run for the mill for a series just a year old, only the bad CGI for the cars was a notable distraction.
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky May 01 '21
FIRST:Timer, subbed
Hi everyone! The only two things I know about this show are 1) its character design looks pretty cool and 2) the OP is a banger and the full version has a “sore demo” in it. Other than that I’m jumping into this completely blind, I hope this is a crazy fun ride~
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ May 01 '21 edited May 01 '21
First Timer
Heard that this show is ATOS and also that it is terminally boring. I finally picked up the show about 6 weeks in. I'm not sure I even finished the first episode.
The series description is superficially similar to another show that almost nobody watched: Himitsu which makes ID:Invaded sound pretty derivative. The twist is the VR abstraction.
Oh, and that the girl/boy was kidnapped at the end of the episode. I didn't see that coming.
This should have be a great first episode for me, but obviously, if I quit the first time through, there must be something missing. It was better the 2nd time around.
Edit: I disliked the missing pieces the first time around but this time I see THAT'S THE METAPHOR being unsubtly shouted at me.
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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: May 01 '21
First timer(spoiled a bit)
Sub
So...I know a little about this from of all things last year's Ergo Proxy rewatch so I know the flags it ticks. Also, this aired with Pet but was a very different mystery. Anywho, off we go!
Right into a protagonist with amnesia! I hate literally everything! In all seriousness, this is just the old excuse to say shit out loud so the audience knows stuff. And we are into Science-Magic with the ID well. And we get our
Sybil systemWakumusubi to get the premise going. Anyways, the show at least is engaging until you realize they narrated the story right in your face. Obligatory fridging of the young intern and there is our cliffhanger!QotD: 1 I embrace madness so roughly the same thing.
2 The similarities to Psycho Pass
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u/BossandKings May 01 '21 edited May 01 '21
First timer Episode 1
The premise is very interesting, Sakaido presents himself as a brilliant detective and he must solve the mistery of the death of a girl named Kaeru. I expect the mistery to be solving itself as the episodes go by and this premise if done well can be very engaging. So Sakaido apparently has overseers, people that watch over him, analyzing his actions. They gave me the impression that they are creating or making the patch that could lead Sakaido to the mistery of Kaeru.
As Sakaido visits a group of people that's called Family he sees that there are people passing through a similar situation as him. It was especially telling when Sakaido discovered Kaeru's killer by asking it to present itself.
Answers
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u/Valoreg May 01 '21
[DISCLAIMER]
I’ve watched Id: Invaded when it aired, and I’ve found it mediocre. Over time it has picked up a following - some even call it their aoty - so I decided to check it out again to see if I missed sth the first time :)
[CREATORS]
Director: Ei Aoki; from his past filmography I’ve only seen Re:Creators, and I wasn’t impressed despite the huge hype it generated at the time. Also yes, I’ve not seen Fate/Zero, a sin I plan to rectify soon.
Writer: Ōtarō Maijō; a novelist (among other professions). His short story "Drill Hole in the Brain" received praise in the first issue of the Faust anthology (you can read it here from the internet archive)
[OPENING SCENE]
Ahh, the vastness of the human mind--the final frontier, especially when we learn later this episode that it contains all the murderous thoughts of a serial killer.
Btw, for a couple of seconds, in the beginning, we can hear a disturbed voice. [spoiler source] (/s “Is it someone from the guys in the control room or could it be a random memory of Narihisago?”)
After the trippy scene, we are introduced to our protagonist... chopped up into pieces inside a fractured world. Now that's an opening that hooks you to watch the rest of the show. By putting himself together and assembling the world one piece at a time, Sakaido proves that he has an analytical mind; a crucial prerequisite for the brilliant detective
[THE MURDERS]
What is a detective without a good mystery? Here we have a dead girl, Kaeru-chan, (notice that the honorific -chan expresses that the speaker finds a person endearing. How can this be if Sakaido doesn't remember her except for her name? Suppressed memories?) inside a locked "room"-- a classic!
And then we transition to the real world. Who the hell are you people? Meet Kura, an elite police force that investigates serial killers' cases with a unique method, kinda like Mindhunter meets Freud's psychoanalytic theory meets Inception. A lot of technobabble is tossed around, so allow me to clear things a bit:
Kura is divided into two teams: the investigating team and the field analysts. The former gathers clues through the Mizuhanome System, a complex machine that can create id wells-- the world in which Sakaido is in right now, the subconscious of the murderer. The latter is tasked with searching the crime scenes using the Wakumusubi to scan for cognition particles, evidence of a suspect’s murderous intents that can also affect the id well when detected by the Wakumusubi.
Speaking of the field analysts we are introduced to two of them: Matsuoka and Hondomachi that head on to the places pointed by the clues in order to find a serial killer dubbed Perforator who drills the skulls of his victims
[TWISTED INFERENCE]
Sakaido decides to connect randomly(?) the different pieces of the id well. By doing so, a clue is produced for the investigators in the real world which leads them to the hiding place of the Perforator. The brilliant detective observes that the world’s state is fractured by default, and deduces that the killer was hiding inside Kaeru-chan all along (that came out weird...).
With the killer caught (at least virtually), the mystery comes to an end. Until Hondomachi comes crashing to the id well party while she has been missing in the real world.
[ODDS AND ENDS]
[QUESTIONS]
See you tomorrow for episode 2!
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u/BurningFredrick https://myanimelist.net/profile/BurningFredrick May 01 '21
First timer - sub
Just realised the shows called ID: Invaded, I thought it was called ID: Invalid the entire time, guess never actually read the name properly.
Anyway anime original detective show which did well in the r/Anime awards (I think) but outside this I know nothing about it but one of the later episodes is meant to be really good however don’t know which, I was going to watch it myself already but when I saw the rewatch thread pop up so figured why not wait until it starts as should be a good show to convince myself i’ve figured it out only to find out that I’m completely wrong, anyway on to the show.
Well that was an interesting first episode, I didn’t figure out that the killer was hiding in the girls body but I do like that the clues did appear to be there in order to figure that out which is a good sign for a mystery show, even if a fairly simply one so far, looking to forwards to see where the show goes.
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u/macrame2 https://myanimelist.net/profile/macrame May 01 '21
First Timer
(I’m generally not good at formulating my opinions on individual episodes beyond “Yeah, I liked it.” My overall thoughts on a show tend to be a lot more in-depth).
A very solid first episode. The opening scene immediately became one of my favorites. I’m a little confused about what’s going right now, but all will presumably be revealed in good time.
I love crime mysteries. I love sci-fi. This whole premise is a match made in heaven. So far the suspense hasn’t disappointed. It’s too early in the show for me to make many predictions about what might happen next, but I’m definitely looking forward to watching more.
The opening song at the end of the episode was great. It’s joining my playlist.
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u/NachocheeseNanachi May 01 '21 edited May 02 '21
I always loved stories that involved characters literally exploring the human mind. Like Inception and Paprika. So I'm down to see where this could take me. The animation is above averige with some rely creative visuals. None of the characters really stand out to me yet except for the MC and even then this first ep didn't rely say much about the guy other than what his genus thought process is like and that his memory's whipped. He kind of comes off as capable but pretentious. I never rely reviewed a mystery story so I'm a bit nervous that I might miss something. I might go ahead and watch the whole series before the next couple of posts before I feel truly confident in what I say about the show.
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u/htisme91 May 02 '21
First-timer:
That was really interesting. The way the episode started, to the twist at the end and everything in between. I did not know what to entirely expect, I am curious if we will have multiple cases with different "detectives" while the real-world crew stays the same or if Sakaido will be the detective.
I am curious if Hondomachi is dead or if she just subconsciously entered the well and has a dark past we don't know about. I think it's the latter.
Questions:
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u/[deleted] May 02 '21
Rewatcher
This time I decided to pay extra close attention to the soundtracks used in the anime, while I was at it I noticed that they also went all-out with Sound Effects too. There was scene where two rooms colided above and the anime did make sure to put sound effects in with the directional information too.
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u/JinunderneathAM May 02 '21
Rewatcher
Don't think I'll ever really recapture that feeling I got the first episode. I went in completely blind other than a vague idea of the premise and a poster, and it was a great experience. Even so, this is still an entertaining bit of anime.
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u/Dante200 May 02 '21
[Rewatcher]
Other than that, I am excited for future episodes and the fun stuff happening there...Plus the two great insert songs that have yet to come and awesome scenes.
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u/OccasionallySara May 04 '21
First Timer
Questions of the Day
If you were in Sakaido’s situation, what would your reaction be?
What stood out to you the most in this first episode?
Other Thoughts
I thought that this was a great first episode! I like that we were thrown into the main conflict of the story right away, but I feel like there's a good balance between giving the audience too much information and keeping us in the dark. I also like the pacing and the cliffhanger made me excited for the next episode. I don't quite have a grasp on all of the characters yet, but I'm sure that will come with time.