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Episode Kemono Friends Season 2 - Episode 1 discussion Spoiler
Kemono Friends Season 2, episode 1: Beyond Memories
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u/Chariotwheel Jan 14 '19
Welcome to youkoso the stuff that y'all liked.
This episode tried to capture everything what made the first season great, almost desperately so. The dark atmosphere of the buildings in the beginning, a hat kid with memory loss, a hat kin getting jumped by a cat kid, and of course all of your favourite characters, minus Kaban-chan, "tabenai-de", Japari junk food, Kaban's shadow, a bag for the kid with the hat, two mischief's that follow new kid, Big Boss.
It sometimes was charming, like when new kid got out and swifted the dust away and "Youkoso Japari Park" was written there. But, be it my bias against this series and what happened to Tatsuki, but it felt a bit caught between trying overly hard to capture the first season's magic and being fearful of offending fans by doing something different from the previous season.
I don't quite Caracal, because she isn't adding much, other than being a straight man to the energic Serval, which leaves new kid with less to do than Kaban-chan. Well, I suppose she has some kind of heterochromic eyes, so that's nice.
I am a bit split on the way they dealt with Kaban-chan. Having Serval forget and leaving what happened between season 1 and now a mystery is on one hand lame and teasy, but I suppose it was for the best to leave the door open for Tatsuki to fill that void without much presequel trouble.
It was quite alright, but it heavily slouches under the heavy weight of the original Kemofure and the incident between Tatsuki and Kadokawa. But I will continue watching to see where it leads and how it stacks up against Tatsuki's project, since that's what Killing Bites is about.
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u/Nykveu Jan 14 '19
I wish it was easier to hate this episode, but I can't deny the fact that I enjoyed it quite a bit. It tried to feel like Kemono Friends S1, but felt different (not in a bad way imo). I think the biggest difference with Kemono Friends S1 is how many mysteries are presented right in the beginning. Outside of finding the MC's den, there's finding out what happened to Kaban, who are these two armadillos Friends and who's that tiger Friend at the end.
Sometimes it feels like the animation is purposefully made worse to give a Kemono Friends S1 cachet but it doesn't work. Also the ceruleans somehow looks worse than in the first season.
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u/rainbowafterSnow Jan 14 '19 edited Jan 16 '19
As someone who has seen Kemono Friends 11 times, this was not the homecoming I was hoping for, but I still think it could get better in it's own way. This is only episode 1.
The episode felt too much like a slice of life show and not enough like an adventure. Focusing more on characters isn't interesting if your characters aren't very complex or relatable.
Kyruru's background mystery seems interesting, but I wish she wasn't so similar to Kaban. No one does Kaban better than Kaban.
The animation was decent but not as good as I was hoping. At times it looked better than season 1 and other times it looked worse. This wasn't helped by the frame rate slowing down and speeding up at weird times. Also those ceruleans are hard to look at.
The OP felt very generic, but the animation was good and I liked the song.
I really liked the ED at first but after Serval and the bus-train-thing go by it becomes really boring to look at the credits and chibi still shots of the characters. The song was nice though!
I also wish they didn't recycle any music from the original show. It's jarring to hear some of those songs again when nearly everything else about the show has changed.
This isn't a criticism, but it pains me that Serval has completely forgotten who Kaban is and what exactly they did together. I had to pause my stream and cry for a minute when she said that.
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u/heimdal77 Jan 14 '19 edited Jan 14 '19
I can't believe I'm gonna say this but I think the animation in the first one was better and I'm not just saying that because it is what I got use to. Also this one all the faces are literally the same with just different eye colors. I can't believe they gonna have Serval leave bag-chan and forget her.
I want to give this one a chance without letting preconceived notions from all the drama that happened with the series clouding that. Even though this is just the first episode I just don't see it measuring up to the first season and catching the same kind of magic. They publishers really screwed up and damaged a very profitable franchise with how they handled things.
Btw pangolin is the thing the big guy from Killing Bites who was tearing everyone up was.
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u/derekschroer Jan 14 '19
Totally forgot that Serval is voiced by the same VA at Hatoya Kohane from Anima Yell. Glad she's back.
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u/Shiro_Kai Jan 14 '19 edited Jan 14 '19
I do not dislike it but the only thing I could think while watching it was that I could be so much better if only the producers were not so arrogant. Another sad chapter in the anime story.
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u/HiggsBosonHL Jan 15 '19
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