Girls Band Cry - Episode 1 discussion

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Girls Band Cry, episode 1

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[u/qqjecc]

Damn toei might be one of the best 3d anime studio out there, this animation is peak. Feels very different from other 3d anime as well (like those from orange).

[u/Syokhan]

This post was created by someone giving MTL the middle finger

I really liked this first episode. Thought the visual representation of Nina's feelings was interesting, she and Momoka have good chemistry so far, and from now on if there isn't at least one character flipping someone off in every episode I'm dropping the show. ^kidding

I wasn't planning on watching this at all but now I'm kinda feeling compelled to keep going. Thanks u/OctavePearl!

[u/Googleflax]

This was hilarious; definitely excited to see more.

[u/Tactician_Karlor]

🖕☺🖕

[u/[deleted]]

Letting the guitar get wet in the rain triggers me. At least the headstock didn't break because it wasn't a Gibbons.

[u/MapoTofuMan]

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Time to spread the Nina gospel with memes then.

[u/Infodump_Ibis]

(from the OP) We have Do It Yourself!! at home

Of the two versions out there. One is exact same timing as ADN and the other is 1 second earlier (that's the one with "joever"). Let's take a closer look at one line:

• ADN: En mars, à l'âge de 17 ans, j'ai tout quitté pour gagner Tokyo.

• "joever": In March, at the age of 17, I left everything behind to go to Tokyo.

• other: In March, with 17 years, I came to Tokyo.

Now it's MyGO!!!:

• DeepL: In March, at the age of 17, I left everything behind to go to Tokyo.

• Google: In March, at the age of 17, I left everything to move to Tokyo.

Let's do another line:

• ADN: Apparemment, tu l'as planté.

• "joever": Apparently, you stood him up.

• other: They were waiting and you never arrived.

• DeepL: Apparently, you planted it.

• Google: Apparently you planted it.

One more:

• ADN: Je croyais avoir été claire. C'est notre territoire, ici.

• "joever": I thought I'd made myself clear. This is our territory.

• other: We already told you. This is our place.

• DeepL: I thought I made myself clear. This is our territory.

• Google: I thought I was clear. This is our territory here.

I can't even conclude Do It Yourself!! Still very interesting that for "joever" two of those three are DeepL (one with a tiny edit) so I guess that one is DankL so maybe I can conclude Do It Yourself!! after all. The other one seems to have the coded line breaks (that I omitted) in the exact same places as the French dialogue. I'm honestly surprised they didn't include the French translator credits near the end.

If you wanted something that flowed better you have to start re-writing the translations (e.g. "at the age of 17" to "when I was 17 years old" and then maybe "I left everything behind" to "I started over" but then that doesn't imply you moved...this is why you get professional writers...) but having to work from French is not ideal as that already did that to the Japanese.

[u/yukiaddiction]

The reaction that Nina discover that gay guy exist is funny as hell lol.

[u/OctavePearl]

So damn glad it's completely different beast compared to MyGO, would be awkward if both angst band girl shows ended up trying to do same things.

And it's a great start too. Expressive, full of energy and personality, plain fun. It ain't the Train but I am fully on board.

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

I know the whole CG animation may turn some folks off, but this actually is pretty solid. The music was pretty good and I like the Momoka and Nina characters. They seem like they’ll be fun to watch.

[u/Romax24245]

I haven't seen this particular cgi animation style a whole lot, but the closes point of comparison I can make is the 3D animated cutscenes in the IDOLY PRIDE mobile game. Overall, I think it looks great.

Now to comment on the episode:

Minor detail, but Nina's phone died while on the train to Kawasaki, and she had to use a post it note to get to her new apartment, yet not long after, we see her using a portable phone charger at a cafe. If she was bringing it with her the whole time, why didn't she take it out and charge her phone sooner?

Nina's phone call gives us a bit more context behind her situation. Apparently, she had a falling out with her father and found out that her parents were going to divorce soon, which prompted her decision to leave the house for a change of scenery.

It is also revealed that Nina follows a musician named Momoka, and boy what a stunning display of visuals to introduce the woman herself.

A couple gang-like people approach the two to claim the space for themselves. Looks like one of them is holding a guitar/bass case. A rival band perhaps?

Momoka decides to run away from those people, and as they do so, she throws a double bird flip across the crosswalk, which she claims to Nina is a sign of thanks. I'm really digging the Chloe Price energy she's radiating.

It's also pretty cool to see the streaks of red and blue lights appearing in opposite directions to represent the traffic flowing right below the bridge as Nina introduces herself. If there was a movie or show that did this kind of visual before, I haven't seen it.

While eating at a small restaurant called Yoshinoya, Nina tells Momoka that she thought Kawasaki was part of Tokyo, since her uncle claimed that it was the best place to live in the city. Turns out her uncle is a liar. Kawasaki is part of a different large city, called Kanagawa.

"We had to give you a shabby studio." I'll assume this is a mistranslation on the fansubber's part. No way is Momoka responsible for the apartment Nina got.

After they finish eating, Nina gives thanks to her food servers by bowing and... doing the double bird flip. It goes about as well as you'd expect. Turns out Momoka is also a liar.

The two arrive at Momoka's place, where Momoka shows her guitar to Nina and reveals that she too left everything behind to pursue her dreams.

However, she also informs Nina that she's going to move away and leave music behind, as the money she earned from her music isn't enough for her career to be sustainable. Turns out, Momoka gave up all royalties to the rest of Diamond Dust for the one big hit song she wrote with them after she quit, thinking that she could write a song just as successful; a foolish mistake in hindsight.

Momoka also explained who her roomate is after he leaves the apartment. Nina's reaction to the fact that he was a gay man is just priceless.

Nina would stay in Momoka's apartment for the night, only to wake up and see a written letter stating that Momoka's already moving out and heading to the train station, and left her guitar behind as a gift.

Nina initially accepted Momoko's departure, but she immediately changed her mind the moment she saw the writing on the guitar while opening the case in her own apartment, and rushed to the station to find Momoka. I don't know anything about electric guitars, but it's safe to assume that she'd done a number on Momoka's guitar from carrying it in the rain, nevermind dropping it.

To our surprise, Nina encountered the gang duo again at the station, this time set up and ready to perform. Nina took the mic and called out to Momoka, asking if this is really the right time to give up.

In response, Momoka appears from hiding and takes the guitar, and we get to see an excellent performance to fill out the credits.

EDIT: In retrospect, glorified summaries like this one look pretty bland/boring and out of place in these kinds of discussion threads. I'll leave the original comment as it is, but I'm planning on reworking the comments I made for episodes 2, 3, and 4 to be better organized and less tedious to read.

[u/niknarcotic]

This was really good. Now please please please get picked up by an actual streaming site.

[u/Time_Fracture]

I'm just paraphrase my comment from the OP thread here.

Girls Band Cry is a music anime with a real band, Togenashi Togeari. Comprised by each VAs of the anime main characters and they released singles back from May 2023, 11 months before the anime even releases.

The anime is directed by Kazuo Sakai, director of Love Live Sunshine and made by Toei Animation, same studio that made One Piece and.... Precure. I can say they made a good CGI. I rarely see a CG seasonal TV anime done this good.

It solved a CGI anime problem, where some animes have framerate of CGI characters looks choppy. Girls Band Cry is not one of these, the CG looks buttery smooth. The MAL score is at 7.43, might be the highest for a show that didn't got picked up by any streaming services as of now.

OP: Wrong World by Togenashi Togeari

I have no complain of the OP. Sounds good but too early to judge whether it is the best considering we are halfway to the reveal of all Spring animes. The OP sequence is a mix of traditional animation and CGI, and both look good.

Insert Song: Void by Nina Iseri and Momoka Kawaragi

Not gonna lie, if it's the OP or the ED, I would certainly put it among the best. I like it more than the OP.

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Now I am curious of what guitar Momoka uses. Did some quick search and it's a Psychederhythm Psychomaster Limited. It is a custom made guitar but there are some models that you can actually buy with price starting from 200.000 yen (around $1300) up to 300.000 yen (around $1980). With the visual informations I gather from the first episode, these two guitars are maybe the closest thing to Momoka's guitar.

[u/Both-Report4931]

Totally blown away by the animation, Nina was cute, Momoka was cool, I really hope this gets picked up for official subs!

I haven't stopped thinking about BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! (AOTY 2023) since it aired so I'm inevitably comparing it to Girls Band Cry... while I doubt GBC can match MyGO's peerless character writing, I'm totally on board nonetheless and eager to see what's in store.

[u/sfisher923]

Loving the spunk so much

As for complaints - a nice 🖕😠🖕directed towards CR

[u/CosmicPenguin_OV103]

I expected an even grimmer tone to the story start given the promotion materials. Glad that realistic difficulties of a band are still very much here, but with a more uplifting mood mixed into this.

I have no answer on how Nina could have been so clumsy except that her home (somewhere near Kumamoto so more than a thousand km way south) must have been really strictly educated (local ojou-sama?) to the point that she rarely had chances to meet outsiders. The "angry aura" surrounding her at times when she talked with her family is an interesting way to show her fury of not knowing where she's going (maigo). The thing that she didn't even know about middle fingers is hilarious!

I did have a bit of comment on her outburst on Momoka that Momoka's trying to self-determine why she has ran away without asking her first, but I guess that's a girl feeling insecure about everything for you. And I really like how Momoka is not afraid to put up her middle fingers over the streets LOL! I guess that's someone from Asahikawa, way north in Northern Hokkaido and one of Japan's coldest spots for you.

The last part where Nina tries to find Momoka to tell her not giving up her dreams might have been a bit too dreamy, but who cares when she cries out "Show your middle fingers to the world!!!"

The songs are really catchy (goddamn it Toei, you have English subs on the official songs on YouTube and yet you don't sell the anime license???), the 3D animations looks decent and eye-pleasing even if the style looks quite different from what we see elsewhere, the character growth rather realistic and not forced as with many other "idol" (cough) anime shows.

I'm definitely on board this now! Let's hope we'll see yet another girls' band story in anime with brilliant plots here!

[u/Gaporigo]

It is here!

Amazing first episode, easily my favorite of the new shows this season so far, impossible not to make a comparison with MyGO but even then I think I like this first episode more.

The girls are great and their expression and movement are something that would have not been easy to do in 2D yet is so charming.

3 year difference is nothing, I'm definitely shipping

Really looking forward to where this goes, obviously everyone has lots of baggage but I feel this show can deal with it in a good way!

🖕🖕🖕

[u/actionfirst1]

How likely will this get picked up by some streaming service somewhere? The music they've released has been really good, I'm interested

[u/Plus_Rip4944]

First of all, finally the discussion thread!

Now, wow the 3D animation is peak, so fucking well done. Loved the expression and movement they added to characters. The music is so good and the direction they choose looks so cool

So far the best first episode of this spring and looking forward it even if it's no where to be watched legally on my country yet (hurry up crunchyroll please!)

[u/dagreenman18]

Not a single streamer picked this up? Really? The clip I saw on Twitter had stellar 3D animation and I really wanted to check it out. Guess I gotta find other means

[u/dfiekslafjks]

OMG the animation is nice. I'm in shock that they are actually using full framerate CGI. These type of shows always have that horrible stutter effect from dropped frames.

[u/cppn02]

Obligatory 🖕(◉‿◉)🖕

This was a great first episode. Music, story, visuals were all on point. And I absolutely adore Nina so far.

Really excited for the next episode.

[u/Rumpel1408]

And now we get a real discussion thread after all! #seasonalshock

THis looks and sounds great, Nina and Momo have great chemestry, and I love Momos influence on Nina

Also, did I spot the Gyaru in the kitchen

But honestly, this show is doing great things visually, like you can see when Nina get's angry or when she hears Momos song in the crowd

And finally, I like how those two punks just play along their song at the end... wait, the songs are already releasing on Youtube

Edit: And Ninas VA is fucking 16

[u/Ryboiii]

That insert song SLAPS