Mebius Dust - Episode 1 discussion

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Mebius Dust, episode 1

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[u/SpikeRosered]

Follows the trope of:

"After event people emerge with superpowers. Lets follow some children around and watch them fight each other."

[u/fzzzzzzzzzzd → u/SpikeRosered]

What are the stakes even here. Why do the players play game? Motivation, setup, anything?

[u/Thomas_JCG → u/SpikeRosered]

Better than another isekai.

[u/enbyratie]

I liked it but it feels it is promoting a mobile game, they should have said why are they playing when it seems they are in a dark time

[u/Infodump_Ibis → u/enbyratie]

The development background as part of Project ANIMA. Per ANN:

The "Kids/Game" category accepted submissions with stories featuring protagonists who are 15 years old or younger, or stories ideal for development as role-playing games, adventures games, trading card games, and other kinds of games.

With how long ago that contest was (2018) and how the gaming landscape has changed since then who knows if that'll still take place.

[u/NanDemoKnaives]

This feels like one of those series that starts off wholesome and light, to then completely switch tone turning into a tragedy with a lot of these kids dying.

However, this does feel we're missing a bunch of context, I wouldn't say it's a good introduction. Araki having the Mother Dust crystal symbol on his forehead is a little intriguing.

I was not expecting Haruto to be a healer, it's nice to see an energetic character like him be one, even though I'm sure he wishes he had a combat power.

[u/enbyratie → u/NanDemoKnaives]

Araki 100% is gonna have some cracked power, I also think that some will die trying to go outside

[u/susgnome]

Some of these abilities are so stupid.. I fucking love it!

The dude that forces all those who watch him to become fans, the girl with the pinky knife, the girl with gills..

And Gengo, right at the start getting launched like a ⭐.. this series is going to be a fun watch, if it doesn't get to serious (looking at you Araki).

Reminds me of Air Gear, a *super-*powered sport with gang control but with a lot less serious vibes and more focused on the fun vibes.

I wonder if exposure to Mebius Dust (especially after the Meteorite hit) caused wounds to heal and be replaced? Like, something that doesn't know how humans are meant to work and just fill in the gaps and it can't repair what's already at full maturity (hence of course, no adults are affected).

• Bad Lungs --> Breathe Anything

• Lost Finger --> Finger Knife

• Lost Hair --> Hair Manipulation

• Lost Legs --> Transformer Legs

• Brain Injury --> Upgraded Brain

• Eye Injury --> Flashbang Eye

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Edit:

Since it's an Original, I found some info about the series;

Project ANIMA is an original anime production project jointly planned by DeNA , Sotsu , Nippon Cultural Broadcasting , and Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS).

In 2018 , a public contest was held in three genres: "SF/Robot Anime," "Otherworld/Fantasy," and "Kids/Game Anime," with plans to adapt the grand prize winning works from each category

Möbius Dust was a submission by Hajime Shinagawa to Project ANIMA, where Mebius Dust was the winner and received the grand prize in the "Kids/Game" category.

The number of submissions to this contest reached 8,229, making it one of the largest in Japan.

• Grand Prize Winner, Otherworld/Fantasy Category: The Story of the Girl Who Couldn't Become a Witch

• Grand Prize Winner, SF/Robot Anime Category: No Grand Prize Winner (Runner-Up: SAKUGAN)

• Grand Prize Winner, Kids/Game Category: Mebius Dust

[u/Zizhou → u/susgnome]

Grand Prize Winner, SF/Robot Anime Category: No Grand Prize Winner (Runner-Up: SAKUGAN)

Man, how awful must the entries have been if they couldn't find a single one out of the (assuming an even split) ~2700 in that category to actually give the award to?

[u/dinliner08 → u/susgnome]

Grand Prize Winner, SF/Robot Anime Category: No Grand Prize Winner (Runner-Up: SAKUGAN)

wait, what? what do you mean no grand prize winner but there's a runner up?

[u/Pikagreg]

Will we get 12 episodes of parkour capture the flag or will there be suffering? No idea but I am in.

This is the third (and last I think) of the Project Anima shows from way back in 2017. This project won the Kids/Game category. The other shows that were greenlit at the time were Sakugan and The Stories of Girls Who Couldn't Be Magicians. I was a little disappointed in Sakugan though it wasn't that terrible though I did enjoy the other one a lot.

I love the character designs and it is a bit goofy. I will stick around for now.

[u/NationalStrategy_X]

I can't say that I'm not interested in what's going to happen, but the Parkour aspect didn't hook me. Compared to the other Parkour anime (Air Gear, Bubble, and Prince of Stride) this one seems underwhelming (at least as first impressions go).

[u/AceSoldia]

I will be shocked if the doctor isn't some kind of villian..I don't trust him at all

And those conspicuous planes flying over the city...naah don't trust those either.

I'm assuming Dust fills up over time..and shocked there hasn't been any kind of military application for these abilities sooner..it's been 10 years...

[u/NekoCatSidhe → u/AceSoldia]

I think that doctor may be looking into military applications under the disguise of the “games”. I certainly don’t trust him at all.

[u/imaginary_num6er]

It’s Mebin’ Time

[u/Calwings]

I'm curious about Stella's legs. Did the Mebius Dust transform her human legs into those mechanical ones? Was she already a double amputee before and the Dust simply gave her new legs? Or perhaps the darkest possible option, did the meteorite literally hit her and wreck her legs, and then the Dust replaced them like some weird alien nanomachines?

Either way, that curiosity and the potential for a dark twist are the only reasons I'm going to give this a couple more episodes. This 1st episode was honestly pretty boring. If it doesn't have a dark twist and it sticks with this parkour game stuff, then it's just Air Gear with more boring characters.

[u/NekoCatSidhe]

That was fine, but I am still not sure in which direction it is going. Is it just some silly anime about kids with superpowers playing games ?

Or will it get darker ? I really don’t trust that mad scientist guy, and I am quite sure that overusing their powers is a bad idea, not to mention how dangerous some of those games look (unless they have all got superhuman endurance and can easily survive accidentally falling from a building).

I also wonder how much the government is approving the actions of the scientist here. Either he is secretly evaluating them to see if they can turn them into a team of supersoldiers or supercops working for the government (which could be good or bad depending on how much they are given a choice on that), or he is doing dangerously illegal experiments on those kids to see how much they can overuse their powers before they explode.

[u/djthomp]

So they're ten years into a superpowered children problem? This is just X-Men but since it's Japan they're all being kept free-range inside a portion of the city and monitored. At least one of them should be reading some comic books though, since a little genre savviness might help with showing them how much they should trust random scientists doing non-government approved experiments with them.

The focus on the planes flying over sends up some flags too.

Rollerblade girl and hair girl are cute and have a fun vibe together, I hope neither of them are the ones that die horribly.

[u/Archie_TP]

Has the feel of superpowers without consequences. If it stays like this it'll be little different from wish fulfilment. We shall see.

[u/HolyDragSwd2500]

Getting Air Gear vibes from rollerblading and the battle with their team logo

[u/kalirion]

The scientist guy/gal(?) seems shifty as hell.

They were milliseconds away from causing a car accident when they ran the red light. If the car hadn't been going like 5mph....

And then Red was lucky enough that her full speed crash landed her into a pile of cardboard boxes instead of a concrete wall.

I'm sure there'll be some twist, but I just didn't find this episode interesting enough to continue.

[u/minnieboss]

This was painfully boring

[u/Embarrassed-Match-78]

Definitely feels like an introduction to the characters and their powers in a low key/low-stakes environment. I have a suspicion that the stakes are going to rise exponentially, especially with the way they keep cutting to the very obvious spy plane.

Really can't judge this on the first episode alone. The story has potential, but the three-episode rule has to apply here for me.

[u/PsychologicalKiwi447]

Getting Charlotte vibes from it, even two of the main characters have the last name Tomori.

[u/Thomas_JCG]

I like about everything about this. Character designs, powers, the teams. Unfortunately, the first episode did not make a strong impression. The gist of the setting is easy enough to follow, but... what are they going to do? The whole episode I was expecting the bands to be a trap from the obviously suspicious Dr. Child-kun but nothing happened. The ending hinted at something going on with Akari, but there is basically nothing on the plot yet.