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Monkemon:
My favourite first episode so far this season, rather funny start. The face flashing, where Kou comes to a realization, reminded me of Sayonara zetsubou sensei, kind of threw me off (Shaft referencing themselves or something.) other then that had no problems, going to watch the next episode for sure.

bobjoe:
I caught a few references here (Phoenix Wright for one), but that isn't the point.
I came away from the first episode with an immensely SHAFTy feeling. This feels like something of a return to classic SHAFT screenplays after Vampire Bund (although the evolution of the visual effects is clearly there, having been effected by Bund).
As far as I can tell, this is probably reminiscent of SZS, but of course, I haven't actually seen SZS, so I'm unfit to make that sort of judgement myself. Objectively, though, it is clearly a character driven comedy gag, so I'd say it has at least that in common with the Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei series.

This was one of the titles I was most looking forward to in the pre-season, and although I really enjoyed the first episode, I'm going to need this to "go somewhere" to get anything out of it. I need to see some actual romance or some character development or some plot or something. Luckily, I already detected ample hints of those sort of things, so it seems as thought the writers aren't averse to any of the sort of things I have in mind. It would also be nice if it didn't turn into something completely obtuse like FLCL, but yeah, once again, it's already making more sense than that did, so I don't think that will be a huge problem. It already has a clear direction, or so it seems to me, anyway.

SeventyX7:
Saw the first ep of this one, wow this is pretty good.  If SHAFT doesn't cop out with crap animation starting at episode ~6-9, this will be pretty good.

(click to show/hide)The Kappa suit guy was just so pure win.  For a second I thought there would be real supernatural beings by the riverbed, then the kappa turned around and you saw his zipper.   :D
Also, anyone else feel that Ko is crazier than Nino?

Xiong Chiamiov:
SZS-y, but slow enough (and without crazy signage) so that I can actually parse it.  Makes it funnier when I don't have to take so much effort to watch.

kanavazk:
First episode impressions:
I didn't like the BG music at the beginning of the episode, but I guess it fit the moment.
This is quite a bit like SZS and BMG, character/pace-wise.
I don't like the direction SHAFT is going with their art style. It was one of the reasons why I didn't enjoy VB (I dropped that around episode 7).
This is funny.
Actually I guess it isn't very much like SZS character-wise. The characters are a bit more (normal?) than the characters in SZS.
I guess Ichinomiya Kou is a bit like Itoshiki Nozomu in terms of his obsessive-compulsiveness, but any character could be compared to any character, so I guess it doesn't mean much.
I don't find it too interesting (some jokes are good, and others not so much) but I'll keep watching it to see how it develops.

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