Jikuu Bouken Nuumamonjaa

It's the night before the fair celebrating the Kingdom of Guardia's one thousand year anniversary. When the humans have gone to sleep for the night, excited about the next day's celebration, the monsters come out to play.

Nuu and Mamo are two little monsters itching to have their own adventure in time and space, and their adventure group Nuumamonjaa is recruiting new members. Since neither is particularly strong in the brains department, their adventure turns into a disaster as they get into one mishap after another.

A fast drinking competition, a close encounter with a robotic cat, and a high-speed car chase—this might be more adventure than the tiny duo bargained for!

Nu Main

Chafurin Japanese

Gato Supporting

Uchida, Tetsuo Producer

Kawasaki, Itsurou Director

Toriyama, Akira Original Character Design

Okamura, Tensai Key Animation, Animation Director

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Jan 14, 2010

Arancil

Recommended

I use the following system to calculate the final score:
In each of the five categories (Story, Art, Sound, Character(s), Enjoyment), a score can get 2, 4, 8 or 10. 2 for something I find truly bad, 4 for something that just isn't good enough, 8 for fairly good and 10 for outstanding.

The sum of the score is divided by 5 and the score is rounded to the nearest integer (More than or equal to .5 rounds it up, less than .5 rounds it down).

STORY (4):
Very, very simple. Some monsters from Chrono Trigger do some stuff. 'twas rather boring.

ART (8):
The designs are, as anyone who has ... played Chrono Trigger would know, great. The animation was so-so and monsters seemed to differ somewhat from what they should look like.

SOUND (4):
I really don't think the voice actors did a great job. Well, except Gonzales.

CHARACTERS (10):
Outstanding, due to Gonzales being present. AAH, GONZALES! I'M STRONG!

ENJOYMENT (10):
Finally, hearing Gonzales song being sung. Several times. This is the one thing that truly makes this worth watching.

FINAL SCORE:
36 * 0.2 = 7.2, rounded down to 7.

RECOMMENDATION:
If you've played the game, why not? It's short anyway. No point if you haven't played it, though.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Feb 28, 2022

lamaraptor

Mixed Feelings

I love Chrono Trigger. It's one of the greatest JRPGs of all time. Akira Toriyama's art, the musical debut of Yasunori Mitsuda, writers like Masato Kato, it was a dream team that only comes along once in a lifetime. It has an immense story spanning eons and a cast of memorable characters with a soundtrack that will live rent free in your head decades after you've played it, and was one of the defining games of my childhood. The PlayStation version even added some fully animated cut-scenes, which is the closest thing to a proper Chrono Trigger anime you'll ever actually get because this OVA ... is garbage.

That may be overstating it a bit, but I was so disappointed watching this. None of the main cast show up, just a bunch of the monster characters from the game. Not even important ones. It's a neat little animation, but the quality leaves a lot to be desired. It could just be the version of it that I found but the audio was so scuffed it was barely intelligible, and the animation looked like something out of one of those 80's Saturday morning cartoons. Gato singing his signature song would have been more charming if he didn't do it like 20 times at increasingly annoying volumes. There was no polish, nothing about this had the level of care and detail I would have expected from such a beloved game. The whole thing just feels like a cheaply made promotional video to get kids to buy to game... which is exactly what it is but is it so wrong that I was expecting more?

Anyway, 6/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jan 2, 2023

Disapeared_Ghost

Not Recommended

So this anime is based around one of my personal all time favorite jrpgs in existence chrono trigger and the story is about traveling in time in various periods to stop lavos.

Now the art by Akira Toryiama as always is incredible and the animation it hasn't aged exactly well and i personally prefer toei's version since even then it still holds up well to this day.

It also has voice acting too and the voice acting was servicable enough. The music as always its incredible as ever and glad to see golsvalves theme is still there.

Yeah since its an ova ofc the pacing is ... going to be rushed here and not everything is going to be covered which is a shame and yeah i think it would have been better if it was a full 26 series by TOEI imo and yeah do play the original game as well too.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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