Campione! Discussion Thread

[Buckeye]

Originally Posted by superdry

Supposedly the first novel was crammed into the first episode according to some people over at ANN (you probably read the same thing too). I didn't get the feeling like the episode was super rushed, but it was moving at a fast clip to establish how the MC got his power and the whole gods thing. I was also paying more attention to Erica than anything else in the episode.

I thought that something was up when things got into the nitty-gritty in the first minute of the show. While most shows that I watched take time to establish things before getting serious like that. And it turns out that is what it is.

[ookamigirl]

Wow! This looks interesting.
Kusanagi Godou seems like a typical forced-to-be-a-hero type.
Erica & him sure make a nice team ^^
The comedy parts were fun to watch as well as the action scenes.
So far the story is pretty good.
Will be watching this one.

[something]

Episode 1:

Pros:
- Erica and Arianna are fun drunks.
- Erica's boobs.
- Actually Erica's everything.
- No characters are particularly annoying.

Cons:
- That godawful narrator.
- I have pretty minimal interest in anything that happened.
- I expect male protag will be fighting all the battles by episode 3. Wait, make that 2. Erica has already been reduced to support.

Probably won't get back to this.

[Fencedude]

Hikasa Yoko has a funny drunk voice.

...uhh...stuff happened, don't really care. Whatever.

[Buckeye]

- Back in Japan, something snuck into Godou's bed.
- Godou's sister has quite the temper, seeing how Erica has become too close.
- Erica has transferred, and has declared her love for Godou.
- Erica, come outside for a minute. Wait a minute, why is Mariya here?
- So Mariya is a miko and a popular student.
- Somehow, Godou is back in Italy.
- Time to test out Godou's Campione powers, against Erica steel lion.
- The power of the boar sure looks powerful. It bulldozed the Coliseum.
- So the powers can only be used once per day.
- Looks like Liliana is watching him and ready to strike.

After a solid first episode, this show looks like it is falling back to earth with all that typical harem stuff. Shizuka is sure upset about Erica, while it looks like Mariya is starting to develop something for Godou (and probably would not have noticed him if he were not a Campione). At least for a harem, this series is showing some promise with the fights against gods and all that other stuff going on. I'll give it a couple more episodes before making my decision.

[FUNiOP]

It's very harem anime in here. Still, all the god-fighting business is very epic, and the harem elements aren't overwhelming yet, so I'm still enjoying it. Still not a shred of originality, but hey, it's fun enough for me so far.

[ookamigirl]

Back in Japan.
Erica sure is glued to him all the time.
Godou will not get rid of her anytime soon.
Her being a new transfer student didn't help with his classmates ^^"
Erica vs Godou power match pretty awesome.
Guess he's now officially one of them.

[HitokiriShadow]

Hmmmm, I have mixed feelings on where they went with Erica in this episode. I was highly annoyed that she just started throwing herself at Godou for the first half of the episode. They showed that the her that I liked so much in the first episode is still there though, so the stuff at the end largely mitigates it.

Yay of Hanazawa Kana but Yuri's rather bland so far. Need to see more of Liliana before I can evaluate her.

The show is still very mediocre, but I'll watch more. It's at least somewhat enjoyable.

[superdry]

Originally Posted by HitokiriShadow

Hmmmm, I have mixed feelings on where they went with Erica in this episode. I was highly annoyed that she just started throwing herself at Godou for the first half of the episode. They showed that the her that I liked so much in the first episode is still there though, so the stuff at the end largely mitigates it.

I still really like Erica, but, yea, the 180 in personality in the beginning was definitely weird (I did find it cute). Its like we missed something between becoming a god-killer and going back to Japan. I thought the same thing as the dude at the temple thinking she was out to get something. At least the end ties it up though.

The rest of the episode is we meet girls who will join the harem and Godou uses his powers and get an explanation of them. Yea...like episode 1, I was paying more attention to Erica than anything else that happened.

So, ill continue watching the show.

[FUNiOP]

I'm kind of disappointed in myself for liking this show so much. Still, I feel like it's really going in the right direction considering how much of a standard harem show it could easily be at any time. There's hardly any of that, with most of the content being plot-driven, with lots of nice action scenes, and not much in the way of fanservice. Obviously the kissing plot element is there for the harem/fanservice aspect, but even with the way they're going about it, it doesn't seem too bad to me.