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 Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou Desu yo? or Problem Children Are Coming From Another World, Aren't They? in english holy gently caress japan shorten your drat titles, is an action/fantasy anime about three jerks with ridiculous superpowers that get thrown into a foreign world, not unlike Dog Days. They then get roped into a series of games called the "Gift Games", games for people with gifts  . The difference here is, as I said before, that these kids are jerks and they know it. Let's see them! Izayoi Sakamaki (VA by Shintaro Asanuma) is the first of the bunch, and his superpower is to not give a poo poo. Was bored where he lived because he's incredibly overpowered, so he sees the Gift Games as something interesting to do.  Asuka Kudou (VA by Sarah Emi Bridcut) is the next. Her superpower seems to be mind control, or something similar. Incredibly smug and pompous, though she is nice to people that she respects (which doesn't seem to be many).  You Kasukabe (VA by Megumi Nakajima) is last. She loves animals (can you tell?), and her superpower relates to them somehow. Episode 2: She can use the abilities of animals that she's befriended. Neat. Is probably the least jerk-ish of the three, though that's not saying much.  Black Rabbit (VA by Iori Nomizu) is our heroes' guide to the Little Garden, which is the world the story takes place in (yes, her name is actually black rabbit). Is kind of a klutz and doesn't seem to be very powerful when compared to the main cast. With strong visuals and an interesting cast, it's looking to be a great show. Episode 2 of 10 was just recently released. Also watch this OP, it's neat. Check it out on Crunchyroll! KasaiAisu fucked around with this message at Jan 26, 2013 around 17:41 |
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This show is awesome and episode two more or less cinched it for me. "We got mad and did something without thinking of the consequences, we hold no regrets."  And oh man, that ED.  e: The set up is pretty good, we now know for sure that every situation won't be solveable through brute force but will eventually require clever application of their abilities if not in fact cleverness or knowledge above and beyond just their abilities. Since we see that the challenges presented can be pretty much picked at will if your community is resourceful enough to provide it (to the challengers). I wouldn't be surprised if at some point instead of a straight up challenge we get something like in episode one that nerfs them to not use their abilities; like a trivia game or a game of Raenir Salazar fucked around with this message at Jan 20, 2013 around 21:11 |
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This isn't the kind of life-or-death gambling that I normally enjoy watching, but it'll do just fine. Black Rabbit's only going to get more and more irritating, though.
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| # ? Jan 20, 2013 23:43 |
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Watched the first two episodes back to back, it got kinda dark in a hurry in the second episode, unless that was just used to establish our villain is really is massively evil. Also wondering if despite the efforts to establish Izayou as the powerful one in the trio if You's friendship based megaman power will end up working with people too at a critical moment
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 11:34 |
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KasaiAisu posted:VA by Sarah Emi Bridcut Wins the award for weirdest VA stage name.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 12:02 |
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Largepotato posted:Wins the award for weirdest VA stage name.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 12:10 |
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These kids are the best jerks. We're really only getting ten episodes.  Love that ED.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 12:18 |
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paragon1 posted:These kids are the best jerks. We're really only getting ten episodes. You better be joking, this show is too awesome to be restricted like that. Think we'll get sequels or we getting that weird "last four episodes RUSH RUSH RUSH and fiiiinish."?
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 16:07 |
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Raenir Salazar posted:You better be joking, this show is too awesome to be restricted like that. Think we'll get sequels or we getting that weird "last four episodes RUSH RUSH RUSH and fiiiinish."? Well it's based on a light novel that's still going, so there's probably a chance for a sequel or at the very least OVAs if it sells well.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 17:26 |
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Anime News Networks shows that there are 12 episodes. MyAnimeList shows 10. Is ANN not known for accuracy in these things? The official site is done in graphics and Flash, so Chrome doesn't translate it well. Birdcut looks like she might not be 100% Japanese. There are at least two pictures of her on the various sites for anyone with access to Google. This appears to be her first anime, but I think she's done other things. I can only imagine there are thousands of young Japanese wanting to become VAs and not that many roles. I'm planning to watch this anime too. They better be planting that water-tree they boy got from defeating the dragon-water-god. I want to see it in action.
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First ep didn't really convince me, but the second seemed more promising. I'll probably at least give it another couple to see how it develops.Dan7el posted:Anime News Networks shows that there are 12 episodes. MyAnimeList shows 10. Is ANN not known for accuracy in these things? The official site is done in graphics and Flash, so Chrome doesn't translate it well. ANN tend to list everything as 12 episodes until someone provides accurate data. Moon Phase doesn't list an episode count, but looking on Amazon.co.jp, there are 5 BD/DVD volumes, each with two episodes, so it does indeed seem to be 10.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 19:12 |
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When I searched it came up that Bridcut is half Aussie.
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| # ? Jan 22, 2013 00:07 |
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Raenir Salazar posted:"We got mad and did something without thinking of the consequences, we hold no regrets." Yeah, both those were pretty amusing. I would say the show is moving at a reasonable pace, but having only 10 episodes is probably going to be a problem. Hopefully it does well enough to warrant a second season, I like what I've seen so far, and would prefer a continuation of a decently-paced (if short) first season.
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| # ? Jan 22, 2013 01:50 |
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The ED is loving outstanding, reminded me a little bit of the the one from Dragon Half. The show itself so far is surprisingly fun, glad I saw this thread and decided to give it a watch.   
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| # ? Jan 24, 2013 05:19 |
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After that snoozefest Dog Days, I was hesitant to look at this one, but I'm glad I did. These kids are the best jerks. I know they're going to learn the power of friendship or whatever, but hopefully it takes awhile.
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| # ? Jan 24, 2013 14:04 |
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For kids with such big egos, it is nice how easily the three of them get along. You'd expect a lot of bickering, but I guess that just goes to show how isolated they were before.
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| # ? Jan 25, 2013 00:43 |
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GloomMouse posted:After that snoozefest Dog Days, I was hesitant to look at this one, but I'm glad I did. These kids are the best jerks. I know they're going to learn the power of friendship or whatever, but hopefully it takes awhile. The Power of Friendship mean something totally different when you and your friends are jerks.
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a kitten posted:The ED is loving outstanding, reminded me a little bit of the the one from Dragon Half. The show itself so far is surprisingly fun, glad I saw this thread and decided to give it a watch. ...any chance you could make an avatar out of this one? I figure it's finally time for me to get one.
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Six Of Spades posted:Black Rabbit's only going to get more and more irritating, though. I believe you meant to say more and more entertaining.  Show is pretty neat so far. Confident but not annoying main characters, nice visuals, and oh man that dance off ED. Easily one of my favorites this season.
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Doctor w-rw-rw- posted:...any chance you could make an avatar out of this one? I figure it's finally time for me to get one. I would like the one on the bottom right too if it isn't much trouble. 
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This just keeps getting better. Ep 3 shows Izayoi being not just all brawn, he's certainly got the brains too. And some expansion on Asuka's power, and neat fight scenes.
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I guess it is now confirmed that all these kids you mess you right the gently caress up.
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| # ? Jan 25, 2013 21:50 |
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Good episode. I like how the main guy, despite having "just" a bit of an ego, makes a plan which has somebody else getting all the fame. Also, after watching the ED again, is it wrong that I want winning a dance-off to be the victory condition for a gift game? Also thinking about asking for a new avatar, for the dancing chibi army.
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| # ? Jan 25, 2013 22:28 |
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Doctor w-rw-rw- posted:...any chance you could make an avatar out of this one? I figure it's finally time for me to get one. Ah crap, I just
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| # ? Jan 25, 2013 23:37 |
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      This is actually pretty challenging. I tried to get all the most interesting poses. These should be within the size limits. Edit: Adding the following:  I can only squeeze in about 6 frames. The whole "stomp" she did was about 100 frames. So, I chose six. Then, I still have to reduce the colors to get it from 43kb to under 30kb. Dan7el fucked around with this message at Jan 26, 2013 around 00:17 |
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drat, this was hard. I tried to go for smooth movements:    
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| # ? Jan 26, 2013 02:04 |
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Decided to give this a shot and i'm very glad I did. Really like the girl with the megaman-like abilities... if Megaman made friends with instead of destroying enemies. I'll be keeping up with this. And, drat, those gifs look tempting for an avatar. Especially your first one AnacondaHL. e: Which was spoken for already. Darn  return of e: I just noticed the OP doesn't have any links to the show. It is available on Crunchyroll. Alpha Kenny Juan fucked around with this message at Jan 26, 2013 around 17:16 |
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I'm looking forward to the left side of this thread being covered in breakdancing. Maybe next episode Izayoi will actually do something! Considering it's already been two episodes since he beat up a god. e: Ah thanks, I couldn't find it when I wrote up the OP. Added! KasaiAisu fucked around with this message at Jan 26, 2013 around 17:40 |
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So let me see if I've got this straight (Ep 3 spoiler): Asuka's Gift is Authority, and it allows the user to impose their will on the world (this might have alignment restrictions). She's been unknowingly putting all her points into the Control tree. Now she can will a sword to be a magic weapon (Enchant). Black Rabbit said something about controlling other Gifts though? Also, how does You have super-strength? Did she befriend a bear or something?
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GloomMouse posted:Also, how does You have super-strength? Did she befriend a bear or something? She did befriend a dolphin and they can kick shark rear end. They are the  of the ocean. Maybe that? vv
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GloomMouse posted:So let me see if I've got this straight (Ep 3 spoiler): It's probably lack of knowledge of the Inverse square Rule. The thing about certain smaller animals/insects having strength disproportional of their size, it's wrong when scaled up but there you have it. I believe "Authority" is actually probably more akin to Western style "True Name" magic, like from the.... Earthsea Novels? Except being even more OP in that she seems to skip the needing to know the True Name requirements in exchange for having to deal with Spell Resistance/Saving Throws. So she True Named the sword to unleash its full power and give her the skills to use it.
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GloomMouse posted:So let me see if I've got this straight (Ep 3 spoiler): I wonder if she can command someone to do something outside of their capabilities? Like, command some average nobody to throw a boulder or something equally ridiculous. Would they try and fail, or would her command gift give them the ability to do it? That's sort of what i'm guessing the Sword's deal was.
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I interpreted it as her ordering the sword to impart its knowledge to her. Sort of like Saito's Gandalfr ability in Zero no Tsukaima lets him know exactly how to expertly use any weapon he touches.
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| # ? Jan 29, 2013 23:21 |
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According to an ANN news bit, sales for the light novel of Problem Children quadrupled after the anime started airing, which can only help the possibility of getting another season. Also, dancing chibi army recruit reporting for duty! 
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Mason Dixon posted:According to an ANN news bit, sales for the light novel of Problem Children quadrupled after the anime started airing, which can only help the possibility of getting another season. So it was unknown rather than unpopular? Since light novels have been dominated by Kawahara Reki(Sword Art Online/Accel World) I find this easy to believe. If it continues an upward trend I could see a small extra season happening. Just hope the anime keeps the hype train going.
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Ep 4: I could've done without the shot of the naked loli, and just when I was thinking that they were keeping the fanservice to a minimum. They better start putting some limits on Izayoi's Gift soon as well, or this show is going to get boring.
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| # ? Feb 1, 2013 20:46 |
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Well I'm glad to see that Izayoi is back to murdering things. Looking forward to the fight next episode; obviously a straight 1v1 is impossible, since the MC would win hands down.
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| # ? Feb 1, 2013 22:38 |
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GloomMouse posted:They better start putting some limits on Izayoi's Gift soon as well, or this show is going to get boring. I dunno. Once his card pulled up ??????? I figured conceptually he was a +1. Kind of like Superman or Goku, no matter how tough you are, he's your number Plus One. If they embrace it and really run with it, it could get pretty interesting on how they'll hamstring him for the games. Sort of like how the writers of Doctor Who have to separate him from his TARDIS or they don't really have a show. I'm surprised this show isn't way more popular. It's got a solid cast and a giant blank canvas to really go nuts with the setting. If some of the later gambles get near Kaiji caliber I would take back all the terrible things I said about this season.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2013 02:23 |
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KasaiAisu posted:Well I'm glad to see that Izayoi is back to murdering things. Looking forward to the fight next episode; obviously a straight 1v1 is impossible, since the MC would win hands down. Pretty sure a "duel" just means a Gift Game so they can make up some rules to restrict him.
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This show is pretty neat. It reminds me of Dog Days except instead of everyone being disgustingly nice everyone is kind of a jerk.
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