How to Recognize a Terrible Anime (in just one episode)

over the last two videos I've spent 45 minutes or so playing defense for some relatively unpopular opening episodes to some widely acclaimed anime series under the premise that I don't believe there's ever been a great anime which started on a bad first episode other than Gintama what I haven't really addressed however is the root cause of why these first episodes didn't click for those people who failed to recognize their greatness on the initial viewing there may be any number of factors which play into these reactions on a case-by-case basis but if I were to boil it down to the one prevailing element which I think blinds a lot of people to recognising the quality of a series right from the start it would be the premise you'll notice that the common thread in all of the episodes that I've talked about so far is that the premise was either unclear or seemingly inane and I think that this is where the whole idea of the three Episode test comes from because that's about how long it takes sometimes to figure out a show's premise but if you were to ask me what the absolute least important factor is in determining whether a show is likely going to be great or terrible it would be the premise not only has it been proven time and again that any premise can be made interesting if it's executed well enough but also that no matter how good a premise might seem it can make for a terrible series if executed poorly some of the best anime ever made have had some incredibly weak and boring premises his in her circumstances is a high school romantic comedy about two really smart kids who start dating that premise tells you absolutely nothing about the show's quality but watching the show tells you that it's one of the most impeccable directed and written romantic comedies of all time ping-pong is a show about highschool ping-pong you would have no reason to believe that it was any different from any other high school sports anime if you didn't watch it meanwhile say Alden oa0 is about a war between the citizens of Earth and the descendants of a group who colonized Mars which sounds pretty cool but the show is a bunch of dog [ __ ] for reasons that were pretty apparent right from the first episode if you were paying attention go watch turn a Gundam instead sources the thing about premise is that it makes for really good marketing especially if it can be understood immediately I don't think it's all that surprising that three of the most popular anime of the past decade death notes ordered online and attack on Titan each have an incredibly striking premise which is made clear from the very first episode of course the execution of the premise in each of these cases varies wildly and one of these shows is probably the worst popular anime series of all time in retrospect it's a lot easier to notice that the first episode of sword art online dedicates nearly 10 minutes to an exposition scene between a big floating cloak dude and a bunch of gormless noobs who were just standing around the whole time and that this was probably indicative of what most of the show was going to be at the time however the premise of a survival game set inside of an MMORPG was such a cool idea that I can't blame anyone for thinking it would probably be awesome that of course is why I'm here to help you to recognize the signs of poor execution before you get hooked into a show that's going to drag you through the depths of boredom and [ __ ] for 53 goddamn episodes so to start with let's take a look at a show with an immediately striking premise and one of the worst opening episodes that I've ever seen gate the premise of this series is that a gate opens up in the middle of Tokyo which leads to a world of classical swords and sorcery and the armies of that world end up going to war with Japan's self-defense force right away a premise this batshit crazy is bound to turn some heads and to excite the imagination how many Wizards does it take to shoot down a helicopter can a tank hold its own against a gigantic dragon just how many dudes in Armour can one turret mow down these are questions which man has toiled with for decades you might think of the possibilities of large-scale tactical battles involving the logistics of complex magic systems and super natural terrain effects against the power of modern technological night or maybe dream about the idea of a fleshed out set of fictional government factions trying to interact and come to terms with the real ones that exist in our world it's the kind of premise which really gets you wanting to see where the writer might go with it if you're anything like me then those hopes carried you about eight minutes into the first episode before it was pretty clear that the execution of this narrative would be lackluster at best the first 50 seconds don't seem so bad as a cold open teases at the hilarious premise that we're all waiting for a horde of fantasy creatures facing off against a bunch of military dudes with assault weapons the visual aesthetic is about as perfectly generic as it could possibly be but at least it seems to be going right for the jugular on putting it's campy premise front and center then the opening theme starts up and the part of your brain that remembers seeing the words light novel next to the picture of the show on the MAL chart starts groaning mother's basement wrote an entire video about how interchangeable the god-awful acabou she Rockets openings are so I won't get too into that but then we get our parade of equally interchangeable cute girls with candy colored hair and the illusions of a possibly gritty military or political drama starts slowly wafting towards the window the rest of the Opie plays out like some weird combination of a cheesy military recruitment ad and a sword on line trailer see if you can spot the split second of hideous CG dragons spliced in there is a subliminal warning once the opie is over we are taken into this weird bit wherein a narrator introduces us to the main character as an otaku who works to support his hobby at this point I've got sirens going off in my head about where this is going I've seen approximately 60,000 different anime shows about self-defined otaku being overly adamant in their hobbies and more often than not I see those characters being defined entirely by the fact that they are an otaku and nothing else the fact that this show immediately hammers us over the head with the fact that this guy is an otaku only makes that fear more prominent he also just kind of seems like a lazy stupid [ __ ] bragging about how his hobby takes precedence over his job we're then told that it's 11:30 on a Saturday for no particular reason before being shown around a very bright and sunny Tokyo populated by jarring CG pedestrians weird rotating camera angles a totally random shot of a dropped ice-cream cone with a gross lens flare in the corner and finally a little girl so comically cartoonishly generically adorable that my immediate thought was what kind of terrible [ __ ] is going to happen to her just for the hell of it some of these shots have a random jarring and hideous split-screen applied to them for no discernible reason I have no idea of all of these shots are happening in close proximity to one another or if this is just random places in Tokyo or really what the hell the point of any of this is when we finally reconvene with our protagonist he has become determined to make me hate him as much as possible by having the single most boring and cliched imagination of all time what perplexes me the most about this scene is that the point of it is obviously to introduce us to the fact that this guy is an otaku who escapes from reality by projecting himself into his generic fantasy cell phone game but if they were going to have a scene like this then what the hell was the necessity of outright telling us that the main character was an otaku just a minute ago as generic as this imaginary segment is it's easily a more natural way of getting us into the characters head than just having him state to the fact that he's an otaku directly into the camera at this point it seems kind of redundant to include a scene like this and the fact that it's awkwardly paced in such a way that it feels way longer than it actually is only makes it that much weirder the pacing and editing of this episode and of the show in general is really the thing that bothers me the most about it even beyond all of the plot and characterization and presentation stuff that I'm going to talk about almost every shot in this episode seems to linger just a little bit longer than it needs to and as a result it feels unbearably slow and weirdly quiet the fact that everything drags on in this painful and ugly way had a lot to do with why I made it so little distance into this episode the first time through because it's not the kind of problem that I could imagine just going away as the series goes on just as the directing style of steins gate immediately intrigued me too that shows unique atmosphere in tone the directing style of regular gate immediately makes me want to locate the nearest kitchen utensil that I can use to gouge my eyes out next we learn that this show takes place in a world where in perfectly generic character designs can be popular enough to have ads on the sides of buses I know that might be the most pedantic complaint I've ever made but I have a lot of respect for a show that goes the extra mile in making the in universe fiction actually believable to go back to steins gate once again those little Oompa toys are something that I could easily imagine people actually collecting because they're unique and adorable I don't think that modern gamers are going to be wowed by monster designs which look like they were deliberately made to convey the idea of a generic video game I digress around this point is where the editing really starts to lose me we keep arbitrarily cutting back and forth between the place where the gate is starting to appear and the place where our main character is getting off the train with absolutely no sense of distance between them maybe if I could read these road signs and had a better knowledge of the layout of Tokyo then I could tell how close the main guy is to where the action is gearing up but as it stands I have reason to even think that he's heading in that direction except that it makes the most dramatic sense if things didn't feel random and disconnected enough already there's then a cut wherein the main character guy is on an escalator and then it cuts to black and then suddenly he's on the ground with an injury on his head it's quickly revealed that he hit his head on a pillar but the first time I saw this episode the sudden jumped from the escalator to wherever this shot takes place was so jarring that I legitimately wasn't sure what just happened the moment is timed like a punch line but it has no setup it comes out of nowhere at a moment when we couldn't even logically expect it which elicits nothing but confusion the weird timing of the guys groans as he lays on the floor ceasing out just makes it feel all the more gross and wrong then it cuts to some cinematic shots of the three cute girls from the opening and the only way you can possibly know that the main character is supposed to be seeing these shots is that we hear his voice offering reactions I really can't tell if these are supposed to be like visions that are being beamed into his brain or what the hell they might be because it just looks like the opie started playing out of nowhere rounding off this bit a random guy comes to make sure that the main dude is okay and recognizing the otaku [ __ ] stickered onto his phone asks if he'll be heading to the doujin event to which the main guy proudly acknowledges that he is once again I feel like this moment is trying to tell us something which was already spelled out in that opening piece of narration if you pulled that part out then it would seem like this episode is wordlessly building up to the idea that this dude is an otaku but since we were told that already at the start this entire thing feels about as redundant as this sentences to this video over the course of the next minute or so the tone of this episode becomes completely incomprehensible I'm going to make the case for it now but if you have the time I would love it if you went and watched this scene for yourself and then try to describe to yourself what the tone of this scene is supposed to be before I can influence your opinion of it because I really am not sure if that's doable and I'm not just recommending that because I want you to sign up for a crunchyroll account by using my promo code and making me five bucks but I certainly think it would be cool of you to do that if you haven't already so a bunch of crazy monsters and dudes with spears come barreling into Tokyo the scene is brightly lit with the same flat daytime look that the show has had all along so maybe it's going to go for something like horrifying atrocities in broad daylight but then we get all these really goofy shots of monsters posing and yelling with action lines all over the place and people with silly expressions on their face while they run away the monsters definitely seem to be killing people though even if the camera keeps cutting away before we see anything so is this supposed to be dark or funny or what when the main guy notices that something bad is going on he yells about how it might interfere with his dodging event which obviously seems like a joke but then with total seriousness he picks up a knife and violently Gore's a guy it's not like they're playing the viscera of this murder against the goofiness of the character either because everything has that same flat directing an emotionless shot composition that doesn't communicate anything I don't think I need to remind you of how steins gate made the middle of Tokyo and broad daylight feel disturbing and hazy through just clever use of color and shot compositions but for a comparison to a show that I think was going for a similar tone and actually worked let's take a look at the first episode of highschool of the dead the opening scene of this episode is set in broad daylight and features a dichotomy between the goofiness of a bunch of high-school girls and uniforms with giant tits flopping around and the very serious threat of zombie action the camerawork here is kinetic and full of energy with all kinds of unique perspective shots and visceral moments of violence but more importantly than that the way that the characters move and demote gives the imagery a palpable sense of urgency even though the situation is hilarious to us as viewers it's clear that this is legitimately terrifying and serious for the characters which makes it tense and exciting there's a shot in gate we're in a bunch of terrified pedestrians are piling into the imperial palace while escaping from the attackers and their facial expressions are like if they just slipped on a banana peel in a comedy scene compare that against the looks of utter terror on the faces of the students being attacked by zombies in highschool of the dead and the depth of difference in the skills of these production teams to create a recognizable tone becomes apparent this was about where I stopped watching gate when the show first came out I could go on and on about all the little weird things like those terrible looking effects that they slapped onto the dust clouds or how awkward it looks when the main guy has that dude in a headlock and the guy just doesn't even seem to be moving or how it keeps telling us what time it is for no discernible reason but we could be here all day at that rate the point is that at this moment I realize that there was no way I'd be willing to sit through an entire show with this look and feel this awkward pacing this indecipherable cinematography and this obnoxious main character even if it somehow turned out that the rest of the series had a surprisingly interesting story and great writing I think I would have been pretty comfortable just foregoing the anime series in favor of the manga if need be just so I wouldn't have to put up with this god-awful presentation of course it wouldn't really help my point that you can't have a series that starts out bad and then gets good if it turned out that this show did get good so I eventually watched more of it for the sake of argument and it went about as well as I expected aside from the doubts which I was already given by the scenes which I've talked about already the rest of that first episode showed a lot more of what would be wrong with the show in the long run let's try and get through it quickly when the JSDF finally shows up to take care of the invading army they pretty much just mow through all of them without a fight we probably could have imagined that this would happen with the foot soldiers but all of these monsters and Dragons are instantly demystified as the soldiers make child's play out of wasting them the case could have been made that this was just a scout group or something and that they weren't fighting on their own turf and that maybe there's all kinds of crazy [ __ ] waiting beyond the gate but then in Episode two they go into the gate and mow down 100,000 men worth of fantasy armies and then in episode three they fend off a greater dragon so this is pretty much just par for the course if the show had any intentions of involving some kind of interesting Fantasy Tactics then it probably would have shown some of that in this episode to butter us up but it didn't because it's really just a show about making the JSDF look like overpowered badasses you know funnily enough there was a 1979 live-action film called Sengoku GI or GI samurai we're in a JSDF force got teleported into the Sengoku era and summarily got their balls rocked by samurai tactics they even remade it into another film and a manga adaptation in 2005 called samurai commando mission 1549 I don't know why I know these things over the course of this first episode we repeatedly see the main guy exhibiting exemplary military prowess as well as gazing affectionately at this lolly girl cluing us into the fact that he's got a big soft heart underneath that dumb ass otaku exterior considering how this episode goes out of its way to reiterate both the idea that the main character is an otaku who cares more about his hobby than his work as well as the idea that he's actually a natural at his job and totally cares about people I began to suspect that these were probably his only defining character traits and that the show was going to be reminding me of them over and over again ad nauseam without adding anything new to his personality I was right when the rest of the episode isn't continuing to reiterate the points that it's already made it's just flat-out wasting time there's almost an entire minute dedicated to a gay joke wherein the joke is that the main guy is getting too physical with this other guy and therefore is making him uncomfortable because he's not gay riveting stuff later on there's about a minute of just gratuitous shots of tanks driving through the gate set to completely unfitting epic music there is seriously no point to the scene other than to show off the tanks but I guess that's a pretty good indicator of the show's priorities considering the massive amounts of each episode which are dedicated to [ __ ] around in military vehicles the only thing this episode doesn't prepare you for is all the cute girls and fanservice [ __ ] around yet to come oh and also that the slight subtext of nationalism is eventually going to blossom into full-blown main text insane jingoism now look I know that a lot of people like gate and that they probably don't care about none of that [ __ ] I think for most viewers the episode probably didn't really start until the main character guy stabbed that soldier dude and in that same moment they were completely sold on everything else and that's fine the people who liked this show probably didn't even think that this episode was bad unless they only liked it because of some specific character or plot moment that came later on I'm a lot more of a complete package guy myself if my entire channel hasn't made that obvious not only am I at risk in that using this episode as an example might alienate a lot of this videos audience but considering my reputation for not liking anything that a 1 Pictures has put out in half a decade there's probably already a comment on this video about how I went into this episode expecting to hate it because I'm biased and my videos aren't very objective and I can't believe you spent 15 minutes just reviewing the first episode of gate I thought this video was about something other than what it's obviously about etc so for the sake of argument let's also take a look at what I thought was one of the worst opening episodes of the spring 2016 anime season which happened to come from the show that I was actually the most excited for going into it Joker game when it comes to the seasonal chart test Joker game passed with flying colors the premise was on point a historical spy thriller set on the cusp of World War two something I've never seen in anime before in which I could easily imagine being badass the character designs are sleek and stylish yet realistic and serious giving the impression that maybe this was going to be a fairly ambitious gritty and adult oriented product studio production i.g has always been setting the high-water mark for animation quality with a history of having produced some of the best high concept mature anime in existence from Patlabor ghost in the shell' Jinro and psycho-pass to Eden of the East asagi dropped Serina mordabito and real Drive even when they handle Shonen and shoujo manga adaptations they bring some of the best production design in modern anime to the table as with haikyuu community okay and Kuroko no Basuke none of that is to say that production i.g haven't produced their fair share of clunkers over the years like blood sea but when I look at a show with visuals like this and a plot description like that being made by this studio then I've got to be a little bit excited I wasn't familiar with any of the directors past work and the writer has an even split of shows that I like and dislike so those were all a gamble but the cast list even included a number of my favorite actors such as takahiro sakurai tomokazu seki and Kazuya Nakai this one really looked like a winner the earliest cause for concern was the very first line of dialogue spoken in English by an American character with a voice actor who is very obviously Japanese I've never done anything bad why can't it do such a ridiculous thing I won't forgive your visibility I'll contact my country immediately Kokua des Ivanova [ __ ] eagle one is me I don't want to be too harsh on this point because it's very common practice in anime and the actor they found has better English pronunciation than the vast majority do I could understand everything that he was saying even with the goofy vocabulary choices but it was pretty obvious when he switched over to his foreigner voice for the Japanese lines that he's definitely not an American guy speaking Japanese it's not that I think this is a huge knock against the show but if this was going to be a seriously all-out production like the kinds that production i.g have been known to pull out in the past then they would have actually hired an American actor for this role from this point it's easy to conclude that this ain't going to be no ghost in the shell' or even no Eden of the East the opening song and video are pretty fun and have that jazzy vibe with period-appropriate iconography but there obviously isn't nearly the level of vision here that we got in something like the Baccano opening whereas that show went for an actual jazz song and one of the most brilliantly edited character introduction sequences ever conceived this one is really just a pop song with a bit of jazzy sounding instrumentation involved in a video comprised of more overdone visual effects than actual character again this isn't so much to say that this is a bad opening theme as it is to say that it doesn't speak to the kind of vision that you'd find in the opiez of any of the first four shows which I talked about in this series our first dialogue seen between this episode's important characters presents a very immediate and straightforward ideological conflict this guy is a spy and this guy thinks that spying is a cowardly business coming from a show that's about spies it's kind of jarring to have our first conflict spelled out in such clear terms but then it would be possible to think that this is a deliberate misdirect which kind of defeats the point of a misdirect when you can see it coming not that it matters because it's not a misdirect this show is just always embarrassingly ham-fisted about its messages and the entire episode is going to be like this over the next few minutes we receive an exposition dump explaining the nature of the spy organization concluding with an introduction to our nine-man spy team when I first watched this episode I was immediately struck by how strange it was that all nine spies apparently underwent the same training all have their identities removed and their minds imbued with the exact same skill set and that all of them basically look the exact same aside from minor different is in height hair and hilariously enough the hues of their suits immediately following this introduction we see all of the spies moving in a cluster and over the course of this episode of the next we only ever see them operating as a group as if they were some kind of hive mind this would all be well in fine but it really clashes with the presentation of the characters in the Opie and later in the entire structure of the show as nine different cool guys with their own names all of the spies are completely interchangeable with personalities that do not extend beyond is a spy we will get to this scene in a minute but the moment that really drove home to me that this show was never going to characterize these spies at all was when all of them laughed at the same time for the same reason it's one thing for all of them to have the same skillset but at that point they were all just basically the same guy after a few more minutes of rattling off exposition and really hammering in the idea that this military guy thinks that spies are dumb and weird we finally arrive at what I would consider to be one of the most laughably badly handled scenes in anime this year the Joker game itself the stage is set when the military guy finds the spies all playing poker down by a bar and he decides to join them what follows is several minutes of the least dramatic poker montage I've ever seen we don't really see enough of the game to follow it properly so it's not engaging on the level of watching a tense poker match we don't get enough sense of what the characters are feeling or what kind of tactics they're using so it's not engaging on the level of human drama and most of it consists of lifeless panning shots of everyone just kind of playing the game while unfitting the energetic music plays over it so it's not engaging on the level of entertainment the only thing worth getting out of the scene is the result that the military dude lost you could just as easily have smash cut from the moment that he decided to play the game to the moment that the last of his chips were being taken away from him and you would lose absolutely nothing in the narrative but here's where it gets idiotic as the military dude is leaving the room one of the spies informs him that what he lost wasn't really the poker game as everyone else in the room was cheating but the Joker game which is a chaotic roundabout of signaling wherein the spies try to form alliances and dupe one another until achieving victory as a viewer you probably figured that out since it's a show about a bunch of [ __ ] spies playing a game which is already about duplicity in the first place but the real icing on the cake is when one of the spies says that it's just like international politics because I don't even know what a metaphor is first let's consider the actual logic of this Joker game if the game was actually a complex battle between all of the spies at the table then why is the military guy the only one who lost how much more interesting would it have been if he had actually won only to learn that the reason he won is because some of the spies were working in his favor in an evolving competition against one another maybe through that we could even get an idea that there's a gradient in skill among the spies or that some of them may have [ __ ] up along the way leading to their loss The Joker game which the spies are describing could actually have been massively interesting but what actually seems to have happened is just that one guy was reading the military dudes cards and then everyone collectively [ __ ] him over even though he wasn't even competing next let's consider the presentation of this Joker game during the game we see a few characters fumbling around with objects which we could possibly assume was some kind of signalling in the middle of the spies explanation of the game we are then shown a bunch of other signals which apparently were used during the game which weren't even shown to us so we couldn't have ever assumed that those signals were happening while the game was being played even at this point we are not invited to any context as to what any of these signals actually mean we are only shown the fact that signaling was happening now imagine if this scene had been written and directed in such a way that we could have watched the characters actually acting out the Joker game and then tried to pick up on who was doing what we could try and decipher the signals ourselves and to figure out who was on what side and what they were trying to accomplish it wouldn't even have been difficult to clue the viewer in to what was going on even without explaining the concept of the Joker game to us first we already know that these characters are spies and that poker is a game about duplicity so we would probably catch on immediately that something was going on and then try to decode it for ourselves as the scene went along then when the characters finally explained what each of them was up to we would either experience the satisfaction of having our suspicions confirmed or the satisfaction of learning the truth that we've been aching for along the way instead we get an explanation of the incredibly obvious fact that spies are sneaky riveting stuff once the game is over the leader of the spies comes into the room and launches into what I can only describe as an explanation of what each of the characters metaphorically represents he basically tells the main character that his values are representative of the attitude of Japan in the world of international politics over the last few years and how the spies represent the nation's realization of the Joker game that they've been made a part of I can't help but feel like there were plenty of ways that this episode could have been written which made us realize for ourselves that the military guy was supposed to be an everyman representation of Japan's military attitude but instead the leader of the spies very literally spells it out aside from having no faith whatsoever in the viewers intelligence the worst part about this entire scene is that it's just [ __ ] boring it's nothing but obvious information being related to the viewer by characters who are just sitting and standing around in a room doing nothing the rest of the episode is a pretty straightforward set up for a cliffhanger ending leading into the Joker game that the main guy will have to stake his life against in the next episode you don't need to watch it because you can write the thing in your head the main guy is going to use what he's learned so far to get himself out of this predicament and come to understand the spies the end I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if I saw someone claiming that Joker game was a perfect candidate for the three episode test because the real nature of its premise only becomes apparent in the third episode whereas the first two episodes are mostly about framing this ideological conflict between Japan's moral attitude of the time and the tactics by which they would try to become a world power from there on out as a backdrop for the setting the other episodes each focus on one spy at a time in episode ik thriller scenarios around the world if you watch any further though as I did you'll find that every single episode suffers from the exact same problems in their writing and presentation the morals are always ham-fisted the plot twists never have any proper setup and just feel pointless and out of nowhere the characters never have any personality and the cinematography is always wooly flat as characters sit around dumping uninteresting exposition on one another for minutes on end if you had the same problems with this episode that I did then you will not enjoy the rest of Joker game when you stop to think about it it doesn't make sense that any creative person worth their salt would let their series get off to a bad start the opening act of a story is by far the most important in establishing its nature and hooking in the audience and every professional writer and director is very very acutely aware of that you're not going to find someone out there whose goal in creating a story is to have people say that it gets good later not every creative project is going to come out good and some of them may run into problems when they get rolling for presenting a good start to a series is bound to be the top priority especially of any producer who's working with an expensive mass-market property like a TV show yes it's very possible for a series to hit its stride as it goes along and in some incredibly rare cases it's possible that something might change so fundamentally between the first episode and the rest of the show that maybe in some freak accident the first episode isn't all that great but I really don't think it's even slightly common for a great show not to display a lot of its greatness right from the very beginning or for a show which starts off with lots of huge obvious problems to suddenly become amazing at some point I know that a lot of what I've talked about here won't have any applicability to a lot of you in the audience to some of you watching the first three episodes of everything seems like an easy enough trade-off for making sure that it's a good show so why not do it well the reason I don't do it is that I know there are hundreds and hundreds of excellent worthwhile anime out there in existence and I want to watch them all even though it's my job to watch and talk about anime I don't have unlimited time to consume everything that I want to see and I certainly don't want to be wasting my time on a bunch of [ __ ] instead I don't trust anyone else's opinions enough to only watch the consensus masterpieces so the only way that I can be sure that I'm going to see everything that I'll like is to watch absolutely everything and if it's possible to figure out whether I'm going to like a show before the first episode is even over and that's going to help a lot in saving me time in the long run it's not like every show is clear-cut great or terrible right from the start there's a lot of shows out there which seem like they could go either way at first and I might spend a little bit more time with them to see how it goes but if a show has an episode that's shitty enough that I can't imagine myself liking it later then I'm not going to sit through another two episodes because the collective anime fandom has our Cheerilee concluded that that's how long it takes to understand the least indicative aspect of a shows quality its premise I hope that this series of videos has been helpful for those of you who wanted a better way of identifying a shows quality from earlier on and gratifying for those of you who already felt that way about watching new shows if it was and you'd like to help me in bringing you more content like this then consider supporting me on patreon to keep the channel going subscribe to my podcast let's play in vlogging channels if you want to hear my voice so much that it plays in your sleep and as always thanks again for watching I'll see you in the next one

Channel: Ygg Studio

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Keywords: anime, analysis, review, commentary, episode one, gate, joker game

Id: G30xZxJLR8U

Length: 31min 13sec (1873 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 10 2016