#your apartment has like a 100 inch flatscreen tv and you drove a massive limo to school and rode a helicopter to the opening show

[intomybubble]

Just finished watching the first episode of the paradox live anime

i gotta say, visually it looks great. the cg is really good and blends in with everything well so that it’s not particularly off putting. so far i think it’s pretty good at setting up the story and following the drama cd plot - though it is rearranged to follow bae this episode (sorta wished that we had akyr in the crowd outside club paradox but w/e) - and adding a few extra things here and there to fill things out.

i really liked being able to see where everyone lives and their casual clothes apart what we usually see in the MVs and stuff. also its nice seeing how phantommetals are used since i had a very hard time visualizing it but tbh i have mixed feelings…

considering the after effects phantom metals are supposed to leave the user after use, it feels like they just… exist. like they just float around the user on stage and its not really incorporated into the song. maybe this’ll change when we see more performances, but i won’t hold my breath on that.

like when they were revealed for the first time a year + ago it was cool seeing what each character had, but I didn’t really get how they fit in with their stage performances. like hajun for example, his are masks. how would you fit in a bunch of masquerade masks when performing something like galaxy or fabulous. or how would you incorporate zen’s rajin (?) in with a song like call for familiez? shiki’s grim reaper in life is beautiful?

basically, is it really worth it to have a pstd episode after performing and having something equivalent to pretty lights floating around you? also, they didn’t really show anyone getting a trap response. like i get it bc it’s the first episode (i guess allen slept his off? but we’d probably see it after they went back to their room backstage at the start) but it’s sorta… weird. shiki had an episode after seeing nayuta, but just plot foreshadowing.

also, i shouldn’t compare but i will. although hypnosis mic’s animation isnt as nice as paradox live’s, they still made actual use of illusions when on stage which made it interesting to watch. like each member has their own mic and speakers to match their character, and things actually appeared on stage based on what they were rapping about. the formatting is different since one is a rap battle and the other is a round robin individual performance but still…