The New Gate

Trapped with thousands of people in The New Gate, a virtual reality game, the elite player Shinya Kiritani resolves to clear the game and finally return home. However, after he manages to single-handedly defeat the final boss, Shinya is transported to a new world—seemingly indistinguishable from the one he just escaped.

Shinya discovers that as long as the game menu and his skills are unchanged, he cannot leave this oddly familiar world. In his search of a way to break out from this new dimensional prison, Shinya encounters Tiera Lucent, a hotel receptionist who happens to be a protégée of Schnee Raizar—one of Shinya's former party members. With this glimmer of hope, Shinya strives to reunite with Schnee and find out the truth about The New Gate.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Raizar, Schnee Main

Seto, Asami Japanese

Kiritani, Shinya Main

Ono, Kensho Japanese

Lucent, Tiera Main

Hondo, Kaede Japanese

Yuzuha Main

Okasaki, Miho Japanese

Estaria, Girard Supporting

Mikami, Satoshi Japanese

Bayreuth, Rionne Strail Supporting

Lynn Japanese

Lindotte, Cilica Supporting

Takahashi, Minami Japanese

Lindotte, Celica Supporting

Takahashi, Minami Japanese

Heim, Barlux Supporting

Takatsuka, Masaya Japanese

Kagerou Supporting

Hoshi, Yuuki Japanese

Aoi, Hiroyuki Producer

Ozawa, Fumihiro Producer

Ishiwatari, Akihiro Producer

Oogami, Yuuma Producer, Episode Director

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Jun 29, 2024

PanzerIV-J

Recommended

“The New Gate” has a somewhat rushed story, very budget animation, and pacing issues. That said, this anime had a lot of potential, but the studio just didn't do it justice.
However, even with its flaws, I still very much enjoyed it. I think that if you like anime with overpowered fantasy main characters and simple romances, you'll probably like this one too. Just be ready to overlook the bad animation and weird pacing.

Let's start with the issues this anime has: a low animation budget, rushed story pacing, the studio's poor adaptation, and character development. I'll go through each of these problems to make things ... clear, and then I'll move on to the positives.

1. Horrible animation quality for 2024:
The animation quality is so poor it feels worse than a good deal of anime from the 90s, despite being released in 2024. “The New Gate” by far doesn't have an animation made with nearly the same soul as classics like NGE or Cowboy Bebop, but it also looks way worse than those animes. The decision not to keep a similar art style to the manga or light novel's cover has to be one of the worst choices ever made. I mean, you can technically see that the studio tried to copy the design of the manga, but it is so abhorrently bad at mimicking the style that they should've just tried something different.

2. Studio's impact on making this not as well adapted: (bit of a continuation from #1)
We already said that the animation is one of the worst released in the last decade. If a better studio had handled it, a lot of the issues like animation quality, pacing, and not adapting all the LN/Manga's content would probably be fixed. This is probably one of the most disappointing adaptations for fans of the light novel and manga because it doesn’t cover all of its content and feels rushed.

3. Rushed Pacing & Adaptation Issues:
“The New Gate” tries pushing a lot of content into 12 episodes, stuff that would regularly be put into 2 or 3 seasons for other anime like “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime,” is shoved into a 12-episode season. Next, the adaptation seems to not be done very well considering it skips scenes that are in the manga and LN, which is disappointing since this anime sometimes feels lifeless. This is an anime that feels like Overlord mixed with That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (calling it “Slime” from now on), with the characters kinda seeming like characters from “Slime” put into a world similar to Overlord. I personally really like this aspect, and it should come out as interesting, which it does, but the countless other issues I have stated hold this anime down from what it could be.

4. Characters:
The characters are pretty decent, but they could've been better if the anime gave them more depth. Shin, the main character, is well-done and likable, and even without a detailed backstory you end up liking his characterization throughout the series. He is not a stupid and nonsensical MC who does ridiculous actions that don't make sense. Other characters, however, seem to lack the characterization Shin has. While you can understand these other characters actions, they constantly feel like they are missing some scenes to properly give them the characterization they deserve.

Here's the kicker, the story is actually good. I just believe that when people are focused so much on the issues an anime has, they miss the good parts. If you can look past the bad animation and pacing, you’ll find more than just a basic isekai with dumb characters. I would just say the main issue here is that the adaptation doesn't do this anime justice for what it is.

🗿 7.5/10 – I know I’m rating it a bit high, but I really enjoyed it overall and think it’s worth a try. 🗿

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jun 29, 2024

SirRosr

Mixed Feelings

overal compered to the manga the story feel extrmely rushed with alot cuted seces and missed details eexspicaly last episode of the show. a generic isekai that resemble in charter to sao with twist of overlapping to new world insted of goinng back. even when the charter is one of the most powerful charter in the show its still painted as shy nervuse boy wet behind his ears and not seasoned vetarn player. the feeling the show give are of the generic kaind of the isekai ganer with over powered main charter definlty worth it for passing the time but aint a ... master pieace. for me at last this show is kaind of i may rember it or may forget it buta month or 2 afther the last episode aired its mostly will be forgoten from the hype

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jun 29, 2024

KANLen09

Not Recommended

The New Gate — I know what you're thinking: a show ripping off both SAO and Overlord? Hear me out first. 

Harp here, harp there...the Spring 2024 season is quite the incentive for a wide variety of shows that bring the past into the present. Other than the obvious great case being the remake of the classic Spice and Wolf, the unfortunate reality for Syosetu a.k.a Narou works adapted this season, and 3 VERY OLD classics at that (Re:Monster, Unnamed Memory, and this series), are all objectively stinkers at best. Be it from a slow and boring storybook-style telling, to rushed pacing that destroys any good ... out of the original source material, The New Gate suffers exponentially from being a combination of the two, having to be released as an anime a decade plus too late for the source work to catch any steam for possible newcomer fans, and having LN readers clamoring that the anime is the far inferior version compared to the source material, both in word (LN) and visuals (manga). And honestly, I don't doubt that.

Written by novelist Shinogi Kazanami, The New Gate would end up being his only long-running work, as the debut on Syosetu came out after Re:Monster and before Unnamed Memory in early 2012, making it a decade plus of a long run for the novel. Remind me, when did the anime adaptation of SAO come out again? Summer 2012, when the LN was released the next year thereafter, the Isekai genre has already garnered overwhelming popularity for producers and studios alike to cash in on the craze, and we are still suffering from this phenomenon to adapt EACH AND EVERY Isekai/fantasy work until there's none left, to this very day. Also, keep in mind that Reki Kawahara's SAO LN started much earlier in 2009, and Kugane Maruyama's Overlord LN started much later in 2012, which leaves Shinogi Kazanami's 2013 LN series in a state where, if you didn't know better, you would've thought that you were experiencing something special. In actuality, it is the same popularized (and now overused) Isekai tropes that fans from the classic ages of anime in the early 2010s to the new ones who've watched both series, can tell you that The New Gate is just nothing special at all, aside from its plot twist of a premise that doesn't sound as grand as it could've been.

Also, I'd mentioned in Re:Monster's review that if the anime adaptations for these early Narou works came out right at the height of the Isekai craze, they'd've done decently, even if they're forgotten in the passage of time. But nope, it took 12 very long years just to see 3 of Syosetu's classic pre-Mushoku Tensei era novels be adapted into anime, and I may not know what the circumstances are behind finding early works THIS late, but it certainly would not have helped to add more numbers into the Isekai/fantasy garbage trash, which, as a bona-fide trash connoisseur, even I too have a breaking point to find these works cringeworthy. But hey, getting anime adaptations is good, because trash can come and be thrown away quickly, so that helps!

So, what then is The New Gate all about? The simplest spoiler-non-spoilery TL;DR way is this: have the MC be in a situation where he's a bona fide Kirito, and then have the twist that like Overlord, he's now trapped inside the game, playing as the protagonist of his own story like Ainz Ooal Gown, but having a rather weird charisma of his own. That sums up Shinya "Shin" Kiritani to a T, where he is just your stereotypical Mary Sue of an MC who has the smarts like both Kirito and Ainz, but acts like DekiSoko's Allen being said, "The Banished Former Hero (who) Lives as He Pleases," who retains his memories after finding himself awakened 500 years into the game. Thus, Shin's unaccounted future journey continues as he unfolds his own chapter, in the life of an unsurpassed legendary player.

If you know your SAO and Overlord stuff well, Shin is a combination of the two, by just the premise alone. When it comes to the hard stuff, though, he's just exactly like Allen: living life and letting go, reunite with the party members that he once fought with (who also survived the same 500 years), and fight any enemies that he encounters along the way. Literally, Shin has no aim, or sense of purpose, and just does what he wants when the situations call for it. It's just a lot of plot convenience that Shin, alongside his former close aide Schnee Raizar, and Tiera Lucent (which she helps build their home alongside the both of them), but also being dense from their advancements to him as well. Shallow MCs force authors to think about what situations will be useful, and Shin is easily written on the cheap for the countless plot devices to lead him on, which sets the tone for the growing story (if you ever see it as one to begin with). Nevertheless, you won't be gouging your eyeballs just to see Shin do his OP work, because he's cool, calm, and collected, and the adoration of all with his gag comedy-infused smiling facial expression amidst his romantic over-denseness (that Rentaro from 100 Girlfriends will NOT accept).

Hoo boy, the production is a total meltdown right from the get-go. The affiliated studios of Yokohama Animation Laboratory and Cloud Hearts are essentially one company together, but they're clearly not ready to have to juggle two shows in the same season together, not to mention both this show and Sasayaku You ni Koi o Utau a.k.a Whisper Me a Love Song, airing on the EXACT same day and time on different TV stations. Even with SasaKoi's production hamperings, it's clear that both studios are stretched VERY thinly of manpower and resources, resulting in inferior and/or bad adaptations that are a major disservice to the original source material. Still, I'm not going to discount that The New Gate started off decently, but the writing was clearly on the wall not just in quantity, but in quality as well, and not just for a lack of refinement that constitutes consistency.

The music does not do the show justice either...though it just made its own statement that it's rather bland as heck. Sou's OP and Miho Okasaki's ED are just white noise, not great songs at all.

If the title says it all, please know that you're not watching the TRUE GATE show (which would be the "Gate: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri" series, which is actually really good), not this "New" (Old) Gate one that is as boring, bland, and devoid of any ideas as compared to other Isekai works. The New Gate is truly laziness to the extreme, unwilling to take risks and go the safe route that it's supposed to take. And for the fact that the LN is still ongoing 10 plus years later, it's unlikely that Shinogi Kazanami will have anything interesting in the series after the anime.

If you just so respite DekiSoko but want better, The New Gate is for you, which is as generically average as it can come, and offers some entertainment on the go. Otherwise, just don't care, you're not missing much.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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