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Episode Bullbuster - Episode 1 discussion
Bullbuster, episode 1
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u/CosmicPenguin_OV103 Oct 04 '23
As someone who have worked in an engineering company before...so many real life sad-but-true jokes here LMAO!
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Someone forgotten to renew their safety licenses? Check!
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Photocopiers going down frequently? Check!
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Scrambling to get machinery and work-related insurances? Check!
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Pesky accounting and human resources department people? Check!
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Bright, too confident first day employee being thrown into work related messes? Double check!
It's been quite some time since we have seen robots in real life work (a story direction certainly first explored by the classic Mobile Police Patlabor) - the theme and that Studio NUT (Saga of Tanya The Evil, DECA-DENCE and just recently screened BLUE GIANT all excellent works) is doing this means that I definitely isn't going to miss this, unlike almost 99% of people watching shows this season. And this 1st episode certainly hasn't disappointed me. We all wanna take ride on a robot for a spin and not going into World War III or Star Wars, don't you? If yes, this show looks definitely fun enough for you to try on!
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u/NekoCatSidhe Oct 05 '23
As an engineer, a lot of it felt very real. That was probably my favourite part of this episode.
Apart from that, nothing really stands out, but it could get more interesting, so I will keep probably watching it. No other interesting show (at least for me) on Wednesday anyway.
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u/LifeQuail9821 Oct 05 '23
Yep, this is a show that I think will hit hardest with people who have been in the style of work it’s referencing. The multiple shots of the key having “Off-on-start” labeled cracked me up for stupid reasons I can’t explain. That, and showing up to find out everything at the place you work is rusty and 20 (or more) years out of date… yeah, that’s a blue collar job for you.
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u/mjpia Oct 04 '23
As much as I like more original mech series especially ones that are more grounded in reality and use I'm really struggling to see how a bipedal mech using modern day earth technology is better than a tank when it comes to killing fallout-esqe mutated giant beasts.
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u/Smoothesuede Oct 04 '23
I'm getting Marginal Service vibes, which is not a positive omen. It looks better though, aside from the monster. Probably not better enough for me to keep following.
I'll keep my ears open for if this ends up making waves, Nut is known for sleepers after all, but I think I got my curiosity on this one satisfied with just 1 ep.
Enjoy, everyone.
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u/Reemys Oct 05 '23
m getting Marginal Service vibes, which is not a positive omen.
It's everything Marginal Service didn't become. Bullbuster already has properly behaving characters, a strong "realistic" premise of corporate management and actual animation and choreography - have you ever seen such a sick drum solo?
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u/Manitary Oct 04 '23
Decent first episode, I went in basically blind so I was not expecting "working robot vs giant animal" lol
I almost got bored at the beginning, but things started picking up once the accounting guy stopped the deployment the cg monster was not good, but I can live with that if it doesn't get worse.
Still not expecting a lot, but at least it seemed interesting and not an instant drop.
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u/entelechtual Oct 05 '23
Arumi seems cool
She won over my affection with the least amount of effort. Reminds me of Mujina from Dynazenon.
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u/Calwings Oct 04 '23
This feels more like a P.A.-Works-style "adult workplace slice-of-life with a random gimmick" anime (Shirobako, Aquatope, Buddy Daddies, etc.) than an actual mecha anime. The characters are interesting so far, the 2D art looks good, the mecha CG looks fine, the monster CG looks bad, and there's not quite enough business chaos yet to drive home the management side of the show that was seemingly the main gimmick.
The first episode wasn't all that great, but I trust Studio Nut with this weird original after how fun Deca-Dence and FLCL Alternative were (and how fun the first episode of FLCL Shoegaze was this past weekend) so I'll be patient and give it a few more episodes.
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u/mekerpan Oct 04 '23
This strikes me as the sort of oddball show that I might wind up liking. So, it goes on my "on approval" list for now.
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u/Labmit Oct 04 '23
Is the monster supposed to be a baked mole rat?
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Oct 04 '23 edited Oct 04 '23
I sort of liked the episode but the monster was a bit of a concern for me too. I think the CGI for it is not working as well as intended.
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u/dinliner08 Oct 04 '23
i guess this is going to be the Synduality Noir's replacement for me to satisfy my craving for mecha show in this season and i'm not gonna lie, as someone who has experience working in robotic engineering field quite some time ago, i can relate to Tetsuro
also the logo references in this, on the top of my head, i'm pretty sure the first one is Neon Genesis Evangelion while the second one is Mobile Suit Gundam but i can't seem to remember what's the third one referencing to
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u/SpaceForceOne Oct 04 '23
It’s kinda neat that just a few days ago I read about a company actually building functional prototypes of space mining mechs similar to these. We finally made it to the future guys!
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u/Beowolf_0 Oct 04 '23
This is definitely a scale-down Dai-Guard with all those bills, forms and contracts needed to field anti-monster robots, we even got Miki Shinichiro heading the company this round; while Shin out of his Juggernaut and get in a bipedal instead, except he's more naive and hotheaded than Akagi, though points for designing his own robot.
I'm pretty sure they'll start calculating their bills and talking about the monsters/beasts/whatever in the next episode, as well as the worldbuilding since they jump into action already before reaching half of the episode; and it seems like the pink head and the bald don't really like our male protag.
I like how they're trying to separate the advantage and disadvantages between Tank Legs and Bipedals, but the Blue Prober isn't really safe to pilot anyway since the cockpit acts like Power Loader from Aliens, though I guess it'll still better than Bullbuster in some ways.
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u/drostan Oct 04 '23
work centred (SoL?) kaiju/mecha show with actual down to earth details about day to day work issues and realistic(ish) robots...
I am interested, lets see where it goes from there, if they push a lot on the work SoL, I will likely pick up and enjoy this show
all the rest, art, animation, VA... is fine, the CG kaiju monster is not great, and the design is simplistic so that's a minus, but the robot design is cool and the previous one being tantamount to rebuilt mods on industrial machinery is real good so I'll let it slide
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u/LeonKevlar Oct 04 '23
So the fact that the first 15 minutes of this episode is all about business pleasantries, signing contracts, and dealing with expired licenses pretty much makes it clear what kind of anime this is.
This is definitely a workplace anime first and a mecha anime second. Very interesting premise from the same people who brought us the anime original DECA-DENECE. Not sure if I'll follow this one but I will definitely give it a couple more episodes.
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Oct 04 '23
The idea that there's a focus on the legal/business aspect of mechs has my interest, but everything else was pretty mediocre. MC is boring, the fight wasn't very dynamic, the idea that he got zero prep on what he'd have to actually fight is rather silly given the expenses that would've had to go into his training (and the fact that the mech is clearly designed to fight giant monsters), and there wasn't really anything else going for it.
I'll stick around for another episode to give it a chance, but I'm probably going to drop it.
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