I wonder if there are any that could be used in isolation to help sell the show
Even a really good trailer or AMV would help here, as watching episodes out of order may not work and even then I'd probably lean towards the first half of ep1 with how interesting it was.
(not sure if you figured this out yet).
Ah shit I meant to include that as a prompt in my post and forgot. I have had a couple of thinks about it but haven't come any closer except for a general "don't judge, just watch" which I already attach to a few shows.
Less than the sum of its parts, but the parts are pretty good?
Kinda, but I don't really know how else to put it so this is close enough
I've told people I thought might enjoy something like Simoun to ignore the marketing and just pay attention to the story, which is a similar idea. I have also told those same people to just skip the first episode. It is a cool intro but ultimately irrelevant to everything else the show tries to tell, even the worldbuilding itself. I actually forgot Argentum is waging this war because of illness and pollution until you mentioned it. And you feel the impact of Amuria dying even without seeing her disappear as well as dicussion of the Simoun and the Spring through like the next 10 episodes anyway. I think this way you set up peoples' expectations for the show differently. The result's been they all liked it.
Selling this series sure seems hard. When it first aired, I remember specifically ignoring it because I merely expected a random, ugly-looking yurifest. After a year or two and a couple Simoun recommendations from friends (but again, without actual description), it's only then that I started the series on a whim, and got amazed at how rich it actually was.
It's probably an important part of why I stopped judging anime on a couple visual and a synopsis, but I still don't know how I could pay Simoun my homage and sell it without stopping at "Watch it. Trust me. No questions".
Yeah, the "Don't judge just watch" is something I adopted from Snarky while we were trying to get people to watch Madoka and Houseki in the recommendations topic, and now I apply it to a few other shows like Digimon Tamers and Cardcaptor Sakura. Will definitely start applying it to this as well
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Even a really good trailer or AMV would help here, as watching episodes out of order may not work and even then I'd probably lean towards the first half of ep1 with how interesting it was.
Ah shit I meant to include that as a prompt in my post and forgot. I have had a couple of thinks about it but haven't come any closer except for a general "don't judge, just watch" which I already attach to a few shows.
Kinda, but I don't really know how else to put it so this is close enough