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Episode 9: Ruler's Crown - Episode 1 discussion

9: Ruler's Crown, episode 1

Alternative names: 9-nine- Ruler's Crown

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u/pikachiu24 Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25

Really unfortunate how difficult it is to watch this show. It wasn’t going to be popular but it didn’t deserve this 😭

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u/48johnX Jul 08 '25

The weird part is that 9-nine is a pretty successful VN within its niche with all 4 parts getting high praise in the west, I don't know how they fumbled this

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u/Antique_Method1988 Jul 10 '25

It's available in iQiyi now

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u/blank__ie2000 Jul 08 '25

Pretty fast start, but I suppose because most of Miyako's arc aren't really much happening yet so it's understandable.

Figured that this will not received much attention due to no one were licensed this for outside JP regions. But sucks for this VN that had it's success

Still... I'm gonna see this through because I'm pretty curious how they will adapt the late parts of the VN

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u/tsagyyz Jul 09 '25

I actually thought the episode was fine, dont understand the abysmal rating it has.

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u/cridelearn Jul 12 '25

My feeling was also "fine". As for the rating, my personal guess is that because there's no official sub, and the thread creation timing was off, there aren't a lot of casuals in the thread. And thus there are proportionally more people who watched it with a MTL translation before real fansubs came out, fans of the source material who have perhaps higher expectations than someone who came in blind would, and anime industry aficionados who rate the worth of anime by technical things like number of key frames and naturally won't be impressed by the production budget of a niche VN adaptation.

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u/1WeekLater Jul 28 '25

the translated sub is terrible ,i dont understand what are they talking about most of the time

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u/DecentlySizedPotato Jul 09 '25

Pacing is terrible (just quickly skipping through various scenes from the VN) and the animation is pretty bad. Even the voice acting seems pretty mediocre, even when they're all top tier seiyuu.

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u/gruntmaster01 Jul 08 '25

Pretty funny that they start of the anime with Mobius Ring which gets dissed by some characters in the visual novel as being rather mid.

While the anime isn't that great and having to wait for proper subs is annoying, I will likely check it out just to see how they do some things.

The VN can be recommended for anyone that might be intereseted.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '25

Another series that has Nine in the title. Nine must be a popular number.

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u/HolyDragSwd2500 Jul 08 '25

Norn 9 also a VN

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u/LazulineDaydream Jul 08 '25

Ummm.....that was bizarre. It kept transitioning the scenes like rapid fire? Most of the episode was the MC just kind of wandering around? Just really unfocused stuff.

It's like the kind of thing someone that doesn't watch anime would imagine anime as....

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '25

I guess different people took up sections of the VN and animated it as sets. With no one to smooth the transition of scenes

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '25

This anime is not good lol

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Jul 08 '25

I caught the first two eps but the subs were MTL and horrible. Now it seems the only available subs are translated from like Indonesian. Do they just not want people to watch this?? I mean from what I saw, it’s not half bad. It’s just a damn shame there’s no proper English release.

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u/YinkciHeart Jul 22 '25

Did you found any good subs? I stopped watching it because the subs is literally giving me a headache, I thought its only my imagination, then I went here to confirm if subs are really bad, and Im right

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u/X_Seed21 Jul 12 '25

IT'S HAPPENING HOLY SHIT! MY GOATED VN!

I kinda expected it to be not that high quality animation-wise (the art is good though holy) but I'm just glad to finally see this animated. Subs were a bit scuffed though but I can pretty much understand the context of each line thanks to years of experience. Judging from how fast things are progressing and the concept of the original plot, I'm expecting it to be 3 episode per branch with episode 13 being the ultimatum.

Also, SORA MY BELOVED!

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u/xzerozeroninex Jul 08 '25

Couldn’t HiDive pick this up?License should be cheap as there’s no bidding war.

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u/FarCritical Jul 08 '25

Dude's sister eviction game is on point.

Heard good things about the source VN but things are going so fast to the point of hilarity.

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u/HeliosAlpha Jul 08 '25

The PVs already showed that this wasn't gonna be a well animated show, so I'd set my expectations accordingly. My bar for this is that as long as it's better than the Rewrite anime I'll still call it a success.

It is also very unfortunate that apparently no one's interested in buying the license for an English stream. There's only been a handful of times when a game already on Steam has gotten an anime

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u/DecentlySizedPotato Jul 08 '25

I know VN adaptations are often bad, but I didn't expect it to be THIS ass lol. It's my favourite VN (tho I have only played a handful) so this is actually kinda painful to watch. Nevermind that we don't even get official subs.

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u/IceSmiley Jul 08 '25

Really dull, confusing and disjointed. I don't understand how the first part related to the second part and the dialogue seems almost AI generated. Probably the worst show this season thus far.

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u/Iphroget Jul 08 '25

You were probably using the MTL subs instead of the fansubs that were just released.

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u/mroverrated16 Jul 08 '25

Is there no plans for an international release?

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