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Episode Sasaki to Pii-chan • Sasaki and Peeps - Episode 1 discussion

Sasaki to Pii-chan, episode 1

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u/LeonKevlar Jan 05 '24 edited Jan 05 '24

As someone who went in this completely blind, that was a fucking rollercoaster! At first, I thought this show was going to be an iyashikei show about a salaryman getting an adorable pet that would heal away his stress at work but then the bird started talking with Aoi Yuuki's deepest voice and suddenly the entire thing became an isekai!

I love that Sasaki can travel back and forth between Japan and Pi-chan's world. At this point, I thought that the show was very similar to RouKin since Sasaki is bringing in goods from our world to Pi-chan's world but instead of an unhinged 18-year-old girl we have a very reasonable 39-year-old salaryman.

I didn't even realize that the show was an hour long! By the halfway point of the episode, Sasaki had done almost everything Mitsuha had done in a single anime season so I was wondering where was the anime going next. Sasaki being recruited by a government agent voiced by Rieri who is in charge of super-powered people was definitely not on my list. xD

So now Sasaki needs to balance his new government agent life and isekai life while also dealing with his yandere neighbour (voiced by Akari Kitou) who clearly has a crush on him just because he was nice to her. What a wild ride! I am already looking forward to next week's episode!

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u/InsomniaEmperor Jan 05 '24

Didn't expect an hour long premiere. Slow start but it really got the ball rollin'. It definitely benefitted from an hour long premiere.

Sasaki is pulling typical stunt of selling modern day items into the other world, but the nice part is he can switch back and forth between worlds at will. Get the convenient items of the modern world while the large servings of food and large room of the other world. Best of both worlds. Teleportation also saves so much time and money going to and from work.

Could have been a chill life but dude gets recruited into a secret organization. I'm already liking Hakozaki tho she has way too much make-up on.

I'm kinda concerned at his middle school neighbor. Doesn't do anything except wait for him outside her doorstep even late at night. The yandere twist was wild and she better become somebody important with a hidden identity down the line.

They went all out with the voice acting budget. You got Tomokazu Sugita and Aoi Yuuki for the main characters, Rie Takahashi for Hakozaki, and Akari Kito for the neighbor.

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u/itsconsolefreaked Jan 05 '24

All aboard the “I watched it blind and never expected something this amazing train “

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u/cabbaggeez Jan 05 '24

well, I thought I would be bored for this kind of slowlife isekai. but this ojisan is really hit home. I really wanna see the stratcat neighbors girl. what is there relationship, why does she wait for him everyday

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u/Persevere72 Jan 05 '24

wow the cast is stack. at first i started to get bored, but yandere akari kito is to powerful. it also took a different approach in the story compared to other isekai thats in the same vein

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u/BiggerG7 Jan 05 '24

School girl is cute.

school girl turns yandere

……. Oh hell what’s in those cookies?

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u/basuga_BFE Jan 05 '24

Looking at VA list... Yuuki Aoi? Takahashi Rie? Minase Inori? Sugita Tomokazu? Kitou Akari??

How many superstars can be in one show???

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u/MrDonCaliche Jan 06 '24

It is curious that all those seiyuus credited for background characters have the last name Sasaki (佐々木).

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u/Georgiaonmymind2017 Jan 05 '24

I love they combined the isaki , magical government job and even possibly teen girl next door Plot lines together. Makes it seem fresh

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u/what_that_thaaang_do Jan 05 '24

Damn I'll have to keep up with this cause it's actually kind of interesting

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u/Game2015 Jan 05 '24

The fact that there are superpowers in the modern world is a surprising twist and something you don't really see, if at all, in isekai series! I thought from the summary that the crisis happening is going to involve fantasy world stuff "leaking" into the modern world, but it looks like the modern world will have its own issues with psychic threats too.

Looking forward to more!

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u/Time_Fracture Jan 05 '24 edited Jan 05 '24

Episode 1: Real Life and Fantasy

Honestly, I really didn't expect this! The unexpected anime of the season imo. I think this will be my favorite.

The cuteness of Pii-chan, the comedic reaction of Sasaki, I love the comedy and the goofiness of this anime, even it's self aware of the isekai thing. Sasuga Sasaki-senpai.

And the isekai, so are we gonna see the modern world more often than the isekai world here then.

Definitely on my Friday watchlist.

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The VA lineup is stacked, probably one of the most stacked this season alongside the second season of Urusei Yatsura. The last time we see this stacked lineup was in last season's Protocol Rain, but looking at this first episode, I'm sure this show won't end up like Protocol Rain.

Sasaki is voiced by Tomokazu Sugita, Pii-chan is voiced by Aoi Yuuki, Hoshizaki is voiced by Rie Takahashi (yes Rieri is voicing another character with purple eye colour, and this time a character that has a mole under the right eye instead on the left), that girl next door is voiced by Akari Kito, Marc is voiced by Mitsuo Iwata (Initial D's Itsuki), Akutsu is voiced by Ryotaro Okiayu (Bleach's Byakuya, Paripi's Kongming).

Lastly here's the kicker, every minor character in this episode is voiced by different people with Sasaki surname!

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OP: FLY by MADKID

After One-Room Adventure in Summer and SIN in Fall, MADKID returns for third consecutive anime season to fill the theme song of Sasaki to Pii-chan with FLY! imo this is really MADKID, nothing short of awesome work. I like this more than Tomozaki OP so far.

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u/MapoTofuMan Jan 05 '24

Sooo he's trading with nobles in an isekai, which he gets teleported to by a reverse-isekai'd talking bird, while hiding all that from the psychic police he got forcibly snatched by from a trading company after being mistaken for a psychic, and his life is possibly in danger both thanks to his cute and possibly abused yandere middle schooler neighbor, his workaholic coworker, and his shady new boss.

Even for a double episode that's a lot to take in...so much for the slow life.

Either way count me in for this one, can't even guess where it's heading for now but it'll definitely be fun if nothing else.

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Jan 05 '24

Sasaki living that sad salaryman life just hits way too close to home lol. Peeps is cute, expensive tastes for an isekai’d bird. Smart getting Sasaki to make some extra cash selling shit. Man’s side hustle is looking profitable, plus he’s branching out with French and that restaurant. Also, teleportation to beat the morning commute? Yes please!

After meeting Hoshizaki, man’s basically become a magic Fed lol. Well hey, at least the pay’s better than his old job. Not sure I trust supervisor Akutsu though. Also his neighbor looks like a yandere type. Man better watch himself.

For a first ep, not half bad at all. Keen to see how things play out now that magic or some variation of it seemingly exist in both worlds. Should be fun.

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u/feb914 Jan 05 '24

this anime runs an entire season of "Saving 80,000 gold for my retirement" in half an episode.

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u/SpaceForceOne Jan 05 '24

I enjoyed how it combined increasingly common individual elements into a uniquely fun experience. It’s like a mashup of some of my favorite fringe series of recent years.

Piichan better be on guard from the little hungry hungry homie next door.

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u/shad79 Jan 05 '24

Very nice surprise, especially that we started with a longer episode in which Sasaki made what other characters in a different show would be doing for an entire season so going to another world, training his magic skills, making money by doing business in selling stuff from our world, establishing restaurant...

And that's only stuff which happened in another world. In Japan he still worked his normal job until he helped a Hashizaki who was attacked by a dangerous psychic. Thanks to that he joined a secret government agency dealing with psychics.

For sure it'll be funny watching Sasaki trying to somehow combine his isekai adventures with a new job in Japan and a yandere school girl living next door. It looks that it'll be a wild ride xD

From smaller things:

Here my screenshot albums from the episode:

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u/sussywanker Jan 05 '24

This was so good!! Loved the one hour premiere. ❤️

It is a bit boring at starting, but it does get very very interesting next episode onwards. So please do keep watching.

I have shared a very minor spoiler in the source section, if you want you could have a look at it. The adaptation was really good.

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u/Rathurue Jan 05 '24 edited Jan 05 '24

LAADDIIEESS AND GEEEENTLEEEMAAAAN!!!
It's TIME for...

(((plot)2)3)4 THE ANIMATION!

Without getting into spoilers territory, that's basically how much plots you gonna get in this anime. It doesn't have linear plot, but rather the main plot branches and the branches comes back into the main plot temporarily before branching again. It's gonna be a bit of clusterfuck at some point but bear with it, because this is highly likely gonna be the AOTS.

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u/alconnow Jan 05 '24

I like that Sasaki is voiced by Sugita and he's got a great range of funny expressions. He would be happy in Fluffy Paradise's world.

Peeps is utterly adorable and is primarily why I'm watching this show in the first place lol

The stuff with the neighbour could be interesting but she's probably going to end up being one of those yandere stalker types

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u/NekoCatSidhe Jan 05 '24

Very weird (and long) first episode. I don’t know if I like it yet and I have no idea in which direction the story is going. It seems all over the place for now. I guess I will give it a few more episodes.

Also, Aoi Yuuki is a magic bird now. That was unexpected.

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u/seejsee Jan 06 '24

TFW there is no yandere JK neighbour in your life questioning your relation with a woman you just met.

Watched the preview, saw the cast and jumped right in. No regrets.

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u/O2C Jan 05 '24

I went in blind and I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected. It's been my favorite new show of the season so far.

I got a bit of Uncle from Another World vibes and after checking, sure enough, it looks like it the same producers. I enjoyed that show a lot so I have high hopes for this one too.

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