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Sep 7, 2025
Watched this at the request of a friend, and genuinely cannot even believe anyone has ever found this trite to be good, let alone enjoyable.
Sora and Shiro are hikikomori who never leave the house and never do anything but play games. After defeating a god from another world in an online game of chess, that god isekais them to his world, where violence is strictly outlawed, and everything has to be decided by playing games and wagering results. After figuring out exactly how the rules work, Sora and Shiro set out to take over the human kingdom, and then the world in a bid to
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challenge the god of games yet again.
As I said, I honestly fail to see what anyone sees in the abominable series. This thing is a joke. It's one of the all time worst, most heinous series, not just anime, I've ever seen in my life. I know people have different tastes and some people like different things, but this is genuinely and honestly such utter, contemptable garbage that no one should have ever liked it, let alone lament that it wasn't continued.
First of all, the main characters its all about are just irredeemable scum. Sora and Shiro are condescending, superiority complex driven, codependent narcissists, unrepentant perverts who don't give a damn how creepy they are, and sadistic bullies to top it all. They have absolutely no regard for anyone but each other, and refuse to show even base respect to anyone else. There is not a single thing about them that's fun, entertaining, redeeming, or even base likable.
As to the story itself, the omnipresent stupidity of the writing is awe inspiring. They might not have powers, but this is the most overpowered isekai nonsense that I've encountered in my life. The two of them are so ludicrously, impossibly, godly intelligent that after a couple of games, there's no point in wondering whether or not they'll win. Even if things seemingly go awry, that's just part of their plan to set up the win. It allows for absolutely no buildup, suspense, or any kind of tension, and the plot armor in this thing is atrocious. Anyone who thinks Dragon Ball fights are just written for the good guys to win needs to watch this to see what plot armor really looks like. Their first big victory, against the girl named Kurumi, was the dumbest, cheesiest thing I've ever seen in my life. It's literally just written so that they'll win, and Kurumi will spontaneously lose, and it's asinine. Not a single victory in this felt like it was actually earned or deserved.
Also, this thing has Shiro, who is an eleven year old girl, literally a child, frequently have panty-shots to the camera, and sometimes her bare butt. Anime or not, that's pedophilia, and it's disgusting.
Worst of all is that literally the only likable character in the whole thing is Stephanie Dola, and she's treated like trash. She is the only character in the entire thing with any real sense of dignity, integrity, morality, or just plain decency, and she's constantly derided as a bimbo for no other reason than she doesn't think at the superhuman level as the two POS main leads. What's more, the time she proved that she, in fact, is not a bimbo and is quite intelligent, it so threatened Sora and Shiro's preconceptions about her, that first they mocked her, and then they used the terms of a game to thoroughly and horribly humiliate and demean her in public for all to see. Again, how is it even possible that anyone could like two such thoroughly awful and irredeemable characters?
“No Game No Life” is a series that, if you haven't seen it, you should do yourself a favor and keep up the good work. It's a joke, it's a waste of time, and thank god they canceled it when they did.
Final Score: One out of ten, and if I could rate it in negative numbers, I would.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Mar 10, 2025
If you want something good, stay as far away from this as you can. I started it simply because I love the sci-fi genre, but in spite of not being fantasy, this is as generically low-brow and low quality as isekai gets. The main protagonist is given from the start, and then gains every single tool needed to make every challenge that comes up a walk in the park. There's no difficulty to anything, and no point to anything that happens. No character has any real issues or problems to overcome that can't basically be brushed aside within a few sentences, and then there's nothing
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more. There's no character development right across the board.
It's also bloody terrible sci-fi. It's about as cheap and as lousy as sci-fi can get, because there's no effort whatsoever to craft a proper sci-fi universe. Every piece of tech there is given a name that's so generic, it just has to work. The author went about this as cheaply, with as little effort as is humanly possible, because any time any piece of exposition even comes close to an explanation, the generic protagonist just sites how he didn't know how some things worked in his own world, but he could still use them, so he wouldn't bother to try and understand now.
That goes for the writing in general, being as lousy and as slovenly as any writing could. Every relationship quote/unquote "progresses" faster than a boulder falling out of the sky. Not that anyone actually changes or has a semblance of development. Just like almost all isekai, this one goes out of it's way to glorify how the guy is a one-dimensional, transparent hound dog with all the depth of a puddle.
If you like sci-fi, or are just looking for a quality story, then avoid this like the plague.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Nov 3, 2024
This is an absolute abysmal joke of an adaptation of Ranma that you should avoid at all costs.
The pacing of this anime is so unbelievably heinous and detrimental to the quality of the story that it reduces it from something that would be merely alright for a remake, to downright dreadful. This remake has so far condensed almost half of the first season of the original, namely, the first eight episodes, into just four episodes. It isn't done evenly either, as no less than three episodes of content of the original are squeezed together to make just one of these.
The appalling amount of context cut
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out of the episodes in this remake hamper the story greatly. It's removed entire sections of insights into Akane's character, why she is the way she is, the earliest moments of her bonding with Ranma, and none of the moments they've deigned to leave alone make up for what isn't there. Not to mention, there is so much missing context and character insights, that when one certain major early event happens to Akane, it falls horribly flat, because this joke of adaptation has provided none of the significance as to what that means to her. It leaves the Ranma series thus far as nothing but an inferior shadow of what the story really is, and a dull one at that. This is without even going into the fact that about half the characters sound horribly miscast.
Do yourself a favor and watch the original, because this isn't Ranma.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Feb 21, 2023
This is a movie about a time traveling love story between two teenagers. Mitsuha is a girl with a dull life in the country side, and Taki is a boy with a fast paced life in Tokyo, and one day, they find themselves inexplicably switching bodies.
This movie does some things well, and a lot of things poorly. The plot itself is well paced and deftly crafted, if a little flighty at times, but the issues are with the characters themselves and what they do. Individual character development is pretty solid, but their interactions with each other at times are not. There's really not much of
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any preamble to the main pair possibly falling in love, so when it starts, it kind of comes out of nowhere, and you just have to go along with it. Also, some of their actions are a little unbelievable. Such as Taki never managing to learn the name of Mitsuha's town despite all the switches they go through.
This is a movie that's supposed to make you really care about the characters, but to me, it fell flat. Even within the confines of a movie, it didn't properly develop enough for me to care and root for Taki and Mitsuha to make it in the end. It would have been a better vibe for the story if they had left out the more explicit notes of love, and left that as an implied connection at the very end. It's not a bad movie, but there are definitely better love stories out there. You can watch it if you want, but you really won't be missing anything if you don't.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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