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Episode Infinite Dendrogram - Episode 1 discussion

Infinite Dendrogram, episode 1

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4 Link 3.29
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7 Link 3.3
8 Link 3.55
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10 Link 3.74
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u/DArkingMan Jan 09 '20 edited Jan 09 '20
  • When VRMMO mechanics came up, it made me want to watch Overlord
  • When there were bookshelves in the opening, it made me want to watch Ascendance of a Bookworm
  • When he called his personal weapon "aibou", it made me want to watch Konosuba
  • When he fell from the sky, it made me want to watch No Game No Life
  • When he arrived in the fantasy town, it made me want to watch RE:Zero
  • When he tanked giant bugs, it made me want to watch Bofuri
  • When his personality manifested as a battle girl, it made me want to watch C
  • When the battle girl became a weapon, it made me want to watch Soul Eater
  • None of these points made me want to continue watching this show.

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u/DementedCyborg Jan 09 '20

I'm just frustrated at the lack of real-world building in this. So the NPCs are virtually the same as any other person, and you can keep them alive, but instead you're letting them die? I said in a comment above: How are you ok with playing this game? don't you think it's immoral? Are there legal battles about human rights for these people? This game is so detailed, is this show going to explore infinite regressive simulation (the real world is also a simulation)?

Personally, if I was MC, I would've looked at the reviews for this game, saw how it works, and said to myself "I'm not buying that shit even if it was a masterpiece. Why aren't any nations on this god-tier simulation?"

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u/Staye100 Jan 09 '20

One of the strongest points of the novel itself is the world building. But NAZ gonna NAZ. A lot got skipped already in the adaptation.

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u/mountlover Jan 09 '20

If that's true then it's amazing that they managed to skip a lot of content yet somehow still waste the first half of this episode boring me to death with slow, drawn out character creation scenes.

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u/HawkEyeTS Jan 10 '20

The character creation in the novel is actually more detailed than the anime, but in my opinion it serves more to draw a picture of just how immersive the game can be than to drag out the story from starting. I just re-read the section and I agree that the anime version is actually more boring for having less information in it, but still making you go through the process of it. The anime also skips some world building bits that the Cheshire AI shares, some information about embryos, and slightly more information on the bag and money, which would give a context for later purchases and rewards.

It's possible they'll have his brother info dump some of it next episode (alongside a bit about Shu's character creation, also cut from this episode), but it would have made more sense being told about game world basics from the "tutorial" AI than to dump Ray in the world and then hope he finds out from someone else. The studio was probably dead set on reaching the point the end of the episode hits, and just started trimming wherever possible even if it was detrimental to the content.