11eyes - 01 October 7
OP Sequence
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OP: 「Arrival of Tears」 by 彩音 (Ayane)
Watch the OP!: Mirror 1, Mirror 2, Streaming ▼
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「赤い夜 Piros éjszaka」 (Akai Yoru)
“Red Night”
An adult visual novel turned anime yet again. How successful will this one be?
With the video game subtitled “The Girl of Sin, Punishment, and Atonement” 「-罪と罰と贖いの少女-」, I imagine this anime adaptation would raise at least a few eyebrows. I’ve been informed that some/most/all (?) of the cast from the adult visual novel has returned for this anime adaptation, which includes the likes of Ono Daisuke (lead), Gotou Mai, Asakawa Yuu, Takahashi Chiaki, and Mizuhashi Kaori among various lesser known ones. Since seiyuus use aliases for eroge/hentai work, this isn’t the most trivial thing to confirm outside of being into these type of games, which I’m not. In any case, the focus here is on the actual story and not the ecchi aspect, albeit they do seem to include the occasional panty shot fairly often. My immediate reaction while watching the first episode is that the series resembles Night Wizard The ANIMATION in both style and premise. The obvious indications are the character designs (to a degree) and the “Red Night” alternate reality. For comparison purposes, I’ve uploaded the opening sequence to Night Wizard.
Night Wizard OP 「KURENAI」 by Miyazaki Ui ▼
On the other hand, the overall dark ambiance in the series seems to mirror the relatively unpopular AYAKASHI. Having Ayane perform the opening theme here as well helps in that regard. (Ayane’s voice sounds freakishly similar to Mizuki Nana’s at times, but her music’s always a good listen.) Omni added that the opening sequence reminds him of CHAOS;HEAD, which I can see due to the presence of girls with special abilities in a normal city life environment. With that in mind, I guess it should come as no surprise when I say these three series are based on visual novels too. That’s not to say it’s a bad thing though, as visual novels have surprisingly good plots at times.
Speaking of plot, the story follows our heterochromia male protagonist Satsuki Kakeru (Ono Daisuke), who’s lived a fairly uneventful lifestyle for the past seven years after his sister attacked him for unknown reasons and committed suicide sometime afterward. Having lost his only remaining family member under these bizarre circumstances, Kakeru has only managed to maintain a normal lifestyle up until now because of his supportive childhood friend Minase Yuka (Gotou Mai), who was adopted into the Minase family. On their way to an outlet mall, Kakeru and Yuka are dragged into what seems like an alternate reality where there’s nobody around but hordes of monsters instead. They somehow manage to return to their normal world before they’re about to get attacked, but are traumatized by the whole ordeal.
The following day, a new transfer student named Momono Shiori (Hagiwara Emiko) joins their class and exudes absolutely no interest in any other class members except Kakeru. After school, Kakeru and Yuka try to go to the outlet mall again and manage to make it there this time by avoiding the bridge from yesterday. After spending some time there, the two of them have a run in with a ghostly-looking student named Kukuri, who’s been tailing them the entire time and looks oddly similar to Kakeru’s deceased sister. Before the two of them know it, they’re back in the “Red Night” world and being attacked by monsters again.
If you feel like you’re grasping at straws trying to figure out what’s going on so far, I wouldn’t worry too much at this point — things are pretty hazy for me as well. However, I’m purposely avoiding reading up on the game so that the anime can deliver the story in whatever way it deems fit. Over the course of episode, the only character that has shown any real indication that she knows what’s going on is Kusakabe Misuzu (Asakawa Yuu). She’s going to show up next time judging from the preview, so I expect she’ll fill us in then. Keeping the viewer wrapped in so much mystery with the very first episode feels like a cheap way to get him/her to watch the second one, but it’s worked on me. There are so many unanswered questions right now, so I’ll be watching a few more episodes at the very least. While far from masterpieces, I actually enjoyed Night Wizard, AYAKASHI, and CHAOS;HEAD, so I see myself taking a liking to this series as well.
Production-wise, Dogakobo’s animation quality for close-up shots are fine, but they seem to let it drop for distant shots whenever they can. I avoided taking screencaps of those cases, but you’ll likely notice it yourself if you watch the episode. It’s not a terrible, but it’s noticeable. That said, the broadcast on Sun TV doesn’t appear to be that great either.
* CrunchyRoll added 11eyes to their simulcasts today. What are they going to do next? Try and take over the world?
* Added AYAKASHI’s opening sequence for series and Ayane/Mizuki Nana comparison purposes. See below.
AYAKASHI OP 「cloudier sky」 by Ayane ▼
ED Sequence
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ED: 「Sequentia」 by Asriel
Watch the ED!: Mirror 1, Mirror 2, Streaming ▼
Havoc at 4:34 am on October 7th, 2009
Wow…this looks a lot like night wizard indeed. I wonder if it has any romance aspects?
Balgora at 4:34 am on October 7th, 2009
first XD
the beginning of the op reminds me of atelier iris @.@
Phosphatide at 4:56 am on October 7th, 2009
Nah, I think this is different enough from Night Wizard. If you want, you can keep going and say Rental Magica is like the two of them, as well.
Nebs at 4:59 am on October 7th, 2009
You’re not going to mention that this series is being simulcasted on Crunchyroll? =b
divine at 5:06 am on October 7th, 2009
Phosphatide:
I don’t find it that similar to Rental Magica actually. There, the main character is already aware of magic users and such and leads his Astral magicians-for-hire organization.
Nebs:
Christ, that’s news to me. It looks like they only added it today too.
Eri at 5:44 am on October 7th, 2009
Crunchyroll?
Does that mean no fansubber will be subbing this?
:((
garfield15 at 6:04 am on October 7th, 2009
I think that OP was kickass.
takanari at 6:19 am on October 7th, 2009
O:
kanzeon at 6:23 am on October 7th, 2009
Reminds me so much of Persona 3 for some reason…
Ken at 6:56 am on October 7th, 2009
Ayane is a good singer, you should hear the OP of the visual novel of 11eyes and it’s fairly better than the ones on the anime OP. I’ve been waiting for the anime version, since there has not been an english translation for the VN, just downloaded it recently. I’ll be looking forward for this.
Doodle at 7:01 am on October 7th, 2009
Crunchyroll subs suck and that’s a fact. I’ve seen them and one of the most noobies mistake was translating “yahoo, oniisan” as “Hello, cute boy”.. D:~
Plus the censoring was way over the top~! If they were going with a steam censoring effect, than it was an epic fail..
Unknown Voice at 7:16 am on October 7th, 2009
@Doodle
that certain occasion is not a mistake.
Using the direct meaning of that honorific would not fit the contest, thus it HAD to be replaced by english equivalent of intended meaning.
FF at 7:35 am on October 7th, 2009
> As often the case with adult-visual-novel-to-anime adaptations, they’ve ousted the adult cast in favour of anime seiyuus
I would suggest you do some research before saying something like this - the cast of the game and of the anime are, in fact, one and the same, they’re just using aliases.
Espada at 7:42 am on October 7th, 2009
i suggest playing the game first to appreciate this wonderful creation ;D
Anon at 7:44 am on October 7th, 2009
Exactly. Every seiyuu has a porn alias for doing porno voice overs. They do so because they don’t want to ruin their rep.
Phoenix at 7:48 am on October 7th, 2009
I love this series and have been waiting for a while for this to come out. The opening and ending are amazing.
Megas at 7:52 am on October 7th, 2009
CR is welcoming a new era of shitty subs. They’re so terrible I just had to fix them for my own right. Hopefully CR isn’t a tell of things to come.
Rei at 8:05 am on October 7th, 2009
Definitely get Night Wizard vibes. I might watch only for Crystal Girl (Kusakabe Misuzu).
CR IS TAKING OVER THE WORLD GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH———————-
Terror Of Death at 8:27 am on October 7th, 2009
Look its the main person from persona 3 lol
ShiroiRyu at 8:34 am on October 7th, 2009
Ayane & Asriel…
Ahhhh ! So good ! I need to watch 11eyes !
I like : Another “tears” on the name of the opening.