Divine Gate

The legend of the Divine Gate is a story told to young children that depicts the merging of the living world, the heavens, and the underworld. "Adapters"—people born with unique elemental abilities gifted to them from the union of these worlds—formed the World Council, an organization which controls the chaos of the Gate by portraying its legend as nothing more than a myth. These Adapters train in a special academy owned by the World Council that allows the students to hone their skills.

Aoto, a teenage boy with exceptional water powers and a tragic past, rejects the offer to join the academy numerous times—until he is successfully pressured by the energetic wind user Midori and stubborn fire user Akane. Together, with the World Council and their mysterious leader Arthur, they seek out the Gate in the hopes of uncovering the truth. But in order to reach their goals, they must unite and overcome their own despair while dealing with behind the scene mischief.

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Aoto Main

Saitou, Souma Japanese

Akane Main

Kakihara, Tetsuya Japanese

Arthur Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Yukari Main

Amamiya, Sora Japanese

Hikari Main

Taketatsu, Ayana Japanese

Midori Main

Itou, Kanae Japanese

Ginji Main

Yoshino, Hiroyuki Japanese

Loki Supporting

Yusa, Kouji Japanese

Oz Supporting

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Breunor Supporting

Murase, Ayumu Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Oda, Motohiro Producer

Kohama, Takumi Producer

Matsui, Shouji Producer

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Apr 25, 2021

kosmonavta

Recommended

In my opinion the real problem with this anime is the lack of plot, the lack of storyline. The explanation of how their things work and what the characters are doing is also not portraited well. Simply put the storyline is not interesting. The usage of CGI in some of the battle scenes also gave me bad impressions. Although the characters, the animation and the theme songs gave me very good impressions. There ware only a few characters i actually disliked. This anime has such potential of becoming soo good but the problem is the lack of events happening. Like literally there ware just ... a few fights and the mc reached the gate, he even decided not to go into it. Basically if the anime had a little bit longer story(like 50-100 episodes), then they reach the gate and for example the mc finally is happy and shit like this. This anime has great characters, great art style, great music and a bad plot.(IN MY OPINION)

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Dec 1, 2020

CurryxSake

Mixed Feelings

Divine Gate was an average sci-fi fantasy watch, until the ending rendered it unsatisfying. The characters clearly had an objective, but they never solved anything in the end. All the build up was wasted and essentially the story went back to square one.

The characters were fine, but not groundbreaking and the premise seemed fun at first until it reach generic territory. The trio were typical: we got energetic boy, slightly serious boy with a traumatic past, and happy girl with friendship issues. Together they fight to fulfill the goals they will fail to accomplish anyway.

The villain was also typical and the adult characters were typically ... like anime adults with too much time on their hands. The artwork and animation weren't special and the OST was forgettable.

Overall, it's not an awful show but rather a forgettable show that could've fleshed out its story.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jul 5, 2018

nightcrawlercyp

Not Recommended

Now this shows promised a lot but failed to deliver.The main problem with this anime is how it tries to be phylosophical and deep although being just a typical shounen anime. The first annoying thing you will notice is lot of narration describing what characters feel instead of showing this to way in other ways. The other big problem is the last episodes. They fight to the end to change their fate and break free from destiny and then give up and accept being controlled by the Council. This looks like NWO propaganda. They could have changed the world so that there is ... no more superpowers and that all the effects of the gates were gone, the council and the so called gods destroyed and no more gate, but no they decided to change themselves even though as long as they leave their fates to be controlled they cannot. This is bs. Is like running a race and when winning declining the prize. Who does that? The whole is all about the journey so prevalent in buddhist phylosophies is the biggest piece of bs ever.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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