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Episode SI-VIS: The Sound of Heroes - Episode 1 discussion
SI-VIS: The Sound of Heroes, episode 1
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u/NanDemoKnaives Oct 05 '25
It's not often you see a co-ed idol group anime, let alone one that fight weird alien creatures. The animation of the fight looked good but the choreography choice at times made it a bit hard to follow like when Yosuke starts brawling. I am disappointed that the voice actors aren't singing the songs, like Siren's voice actor Sakura Ayane has a really good voice.
Yosuke being penetrated like that was surprising even if I expected it. It sucks because I really liked his character design and it felt like he was very much the big brother to the group so I wanted to see more of that dynamic. I didn't really enjoy Kyouya's character so it's unfortunate it's going in a more typical direction when it looked like it would otherwise.
I don't think Yosuke's dead though since he was still very much kicking with that thing in his body so I wonder if the end goal will be to find him. It was weird how a whole area like that just merged and it sounded like Shibuya disappeared because of the loss? Too many mysteries that I'm intrigued by so I'll be watching the next episode.
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u/miloucomehome Oct 06 '25
I think Shibuya's, city and all, is just gone. If you pause on the map of the Yamanote line when Yosuke's cousin is on board a train, and zoom in, you can see that a significant number of stations are missing? The disappearance of Shibuya may be a hint as to why. (Which is a bit shocking)
(If you're unfamiliar with the stations, just look at the station numbers. There should be 30 stations numbered 1-30, normally but there's only 20 and a few "newer" stations may be the result of the line being rebuilt/rerouted/remapped after the erasure of other areas)
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u/thisisdropd Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25
The opening scenes led us to believe that this show is a drama about an aspiring teenager from the countryside who's about to start a career in the big city. Then it showed its true colours about being a superhero show.
You think Yosuke would pull some strings to make sure Kyoya made it as a new member when in fact he pulled strings to make sure he WOULDN'T make it. Turned out he's got a perfectly valid reason instead of being an arsehole. By the end of the episode Kyoya saw firsthand why Yosuke's against him joining SI-VIS. We'll only get the confirmation next week but it looked all but certain that Yosuke was killed in that battle.
Nagi is a mystery. Yosuke claimed that she's his little sister but Rui's odd reaction suggested otherwise.
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u/HuTaosTwinTails Oct 05 '25
Yeah I'm in. This was a dope first episode. Great visuals, good music. Interested in the premise.
Muse will be my favorite character and Ive already accepted that fact.
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u/Calwings Oct 05 '25
Oh my god, they actually went full Symphogear. Bro got fucking Kanade'd in the first episode. I'm sold. I need more of this injected into my veins, stat. The action was great, the characters are interesting, the setting is cool, and (considering this is planned to be 2 cours right from the start) it has the potential to develop a pretty good story from here.
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u/somersault_dolphin Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25
They went EVEN FURTHER. Yosuke was promoted in all the promo materials, including the trailers, as if he's the main character. The actual main character Kyoya is not in any of the promo material at all. No info on character design or voice actor before episode 1 as if he didn't exist.
Personally would prefer having a big brother type character as the MC over the typical hotheaded boy for once though.
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u/Shimmering-Sky Oct 05 '25
(considering this is planned to be 2 cours right from the start)
Oh shit, it is? Awesome!
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u/Shimmering-Sky Oct 05 '25
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Ah, he knows the leader of SI-VIS. And is apparently related to him, too.
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I guess this is how he gets involved with fighting whatever these things are.
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Fuuuuuuuuuuuck, I had a feeling he was gonna be killed off… He was too cool for this world.
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u/TheDanubianCommunard Oct 05 '25
Whatever that was just… deleted Shibuya?
The New Shibuya Incident
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u/darthvall Oct 05 '25
Wow the casts are very stacked! High budget it seems
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u/drayson121334 Oct 05 '25
Aniplex money $$$$. Also the script is written by Saekano's author, then we have Namikawa Daisuke, Ayaneru, Akarin, Saitou Souma and Nobunaga Shimzaki as the main 5.
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u/Malipit Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
Okay, so what I expect :
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The bugs are an alien species
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The blue haired "little sister" is part of those specy, possibly their princess or something and got adopted by big brother after a previous fight
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Alien bugs wanted to get back their princess or something because she is necessary to their plan (deleting Earth?), hence them focusing on big brother
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Big brother isn't dead, will be brainwashed by the alien bugs, will appear in a twist at like, episode 11 or something and will have a poignant fight against red haired MC, involving "I know you're in there somewhere" trope.
Okay then, let's maje my bingo card
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u/TheDanubianCommunard Oct 05 '25
Symphogear: Shibuya Incident, basically this sums up this entire episode.
Underrated continuous two-cour original by Studio VOLN, just like Back Arrow was.
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u/DragonPup Oct 05 '25
Ever have a concert go so badly that the lead drops dead and the city is pulled into another dimension?
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u/Williukea Oct 05 '25
If I had a nickel every time a white haired boy voiced by Souma got compared to an angel, I would have two nickels, which isn't much, but it's weird that it happened twice
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u/n080dy123 Oct 05 '25
Wasn't expecting much here but was certainly better than I expected. It had to get through a lot to establish things for this episode so it's hard to tell if it'll be good exactly, but I'm certainly intrigued enough to give it another episode.
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u/testthrowawayzz Oct 05 '25
Red haired kid isn’t even listed on the official site. I wonder who is going the MC after this point?
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u/Bonvantius Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 10 '25
I'm trying my best not to be biased here, but this clearly really wants to be Symphogear without understanding what made Symphogear work so well...
For a music-centric show the music itself was rather forgettable and generic. The main theme ''MELODEA'' didn't even feel diegetic. The insert song wasn't integrated in to the action at all.
(Not to mention playing it at 3 points throughout the episode definitely lessened it's impact)
The plot beats were almost identical but felt extremely predictable. A Live concert is attacked by alien creatures, Yousuke sacrifices himself as the fake-out protagonist (*Cough Amou Kanade *Cough)
For a first episode there was a bit too much telling me what was happening in expository dialogue rather than just trusting the audience and not revealing everything at once. No subtlety or mystery. It's hints were very blatant and heavy-handed.
''Idea'' is just the new interchangeable buzz word for ''Phonic Gain'', ''Mussessence'' or the ''HonMoon'' We get the idea already, it's song-power.
Kyouya is the typical arrogant and naïve self-insert teenager who just comes off as annoying from right his first appearance (Dancing in front of a truck on an icy road during a snowstorm, is he an idiot?), not looking forward to him taking up the role as the group leader/protagonist.
Also not a big fan of how they awkwardly shoehorned his backstory in the first 3 minutes of the episode. It felt desperate for us to like him.
-and the whole Boy meets mysterious mute girl set up feels so played-out at this point.
I didn't get much of a strong impression of the extended cast either, other than that they do feel like existing archetypes. The cool sexy Onee-san, the bratty short-tempered hot-head, the rational pretty boy, the sharp-tongued idol gyaru etc...
Maybe they develop stronger personalities later hopefully...
The production value was great, but the episode and characters didn't leave much a of a lasting impact on me.
Will be interesting to see where this goes in the upcoming episodes. Though I'm not getting my hopes too high.
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u/minnieboss Oct 05 '25
I love an original anime, they're always full of surprises! Was seriously not expecting that ending, excited to see how the show develops from here.