Hai to Gensou no Grimgar

Fear, survival, instinct. Thrown into a foreign land with nothing but hazy memories and the knowledge of their name, they can feel only these three emotions resonating deep within their souls. A group of strangers is given no other choice than to accept the only paying job in this game-like world—the role of a soldier in the Reserve Army—and eliminate anything that threatens the peace in their new world, Grimgar.

When all of the stronger candidates join together, those left behind must create a party together to survive: Manato, a charismatic leader and priest; Haruhiro, a nervous thief; Yume, a cheerful hunter; Shihoru, a shy mage; Moguzo, a kind warrior; and Ranta, a rowdy dark knight. Despite its resemblance to one, this is no game—there are no redos or respawns; it is kill or be killed.

It is now up to this ragtag group of unlikely fighters to survive together in a world where life and death are separated only by a fine line.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Haruhiro Main

Hosoya, Yoshimasa Japanese

Merry Main

Anzai, Chika Japanese

Yume Main

Komatsu, Mikako Japanese

Manato Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Ranta Main

Yoshino, Hiroyuki Japanese

Shihoru Main

Terui, Haruka Japanese

Moguzo Main

Ochiai, Fukushi Japanese

Barbara Supporting

Noto, Mamiko Japanese

Renji Supporting

Seki, Tomokazu Japanese

Chibi Supporting

Cook, Justin Producer

Saitou, Masaya Producer

Harada, Naoki Producer

Nakamura, Ryousuke Director, Sound Director, Episode Director, Script, Storyboard, Series Composition

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Nov 2, 2024

Rudolph-Mael

Recommended

Its not the greatest thing since sliced bread, but its pretty good.


The characters are tossed into a world with monsters and magic and our main cast acts like any other average group of individuals. Life is hard, people get injured and monsters are extremely strong.


Coming off several other 'OP' isekai this was definitely a breath of fresh air, I had the same vibe watching this as i did with Frieren but funny enough even though I think Frieren is the better piece of work. This stuck with me way more.


The characters acting like normal humans, the world developing and reacting to their change. Characters dying ... and everything being tossed into the fray. This was probably the first time I saw an anime that made me feel this way, Feelings of dread, loss, sadness all on a humane scale.

I thoroughly enjoyed this and was sad to hear that it won't be getting any more content but nonetheless I believe this is an amazing anime that everyone should watch.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Nov 6, 2024

paintpixie

Mixed Feelings

I will admit, I fell for this one because of the art style, which is gorgeous. And if it were an art book, I would definitely recommend it. But it was not an art book, and you need more than pretty pictures to make a good anime.

The story was very simple, but it lacked conviction. I think they humanized the enemies a bit much with cute little eyecatches of baby goblins being adorable, or monsters chilling out at home minding their own business when they are suddenly attacked by our main characters who need to kill them for...money. I was not convinced that the characters ... in the show were even justified in fighting or killing the enemies, and often found myself rooting against them.

The show also felt like it dragged on a lot. Many of the episodes involved discussing the characters' feelings for the billionth time, and awkward, overly-emotional music was a frequent occurrence.

It was also sortof cringe about the fanservice.

Overall, I did not enjoy watching this anime, and the only thing that saved it in my opinion was the art style.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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Oct 3, 2023

Areoxdeadeye

Not Recommended

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Painfully drawn out, uninteresting characters, uneventful plot all makes a boring show. Don't get me wrong a show can be slow paced and be brilliant but this just doesn't. The hook for this show is this is an Isekai where the characters are struggling to fight the weakest monsters. This could have been really interesting if it wasn't butchered by the execution.
The fighting is the best part of the show, the challenge of defeating a single small goblin by 6 people. They are uncoordinated, incompetent, the left overs.

Most of the show is an uneventful waste of time. Every scene is excruciatingly slow which would work ... if the characters were insightful and interesting but nope, all of them have the same goal, to be stronger so they can defeat monsters to get paid and survive. It is so dull, there are 7 main characters all bland with no unique character traits.
The "protagonist" is so generic that I honestly can't give you any information on his character other than physical traits. He's supposed to be the main "main" character and doesn't even have the basics: fear, desire, belief. I guess this is one of those insert characters for the audience to self insert themselves to. But these characters are just terrible for the story obviously as all other anime with self insert characters are awful.

The other characters: there is the aggressive guy who shouts gets angry with an inflated ego. He also sexually harasses the two girls who are just there for fan service. One is the shy one who has relations with the caring guy who coincidentally is a healer. The other girl just like the protagonist, has no character trait other than the fan service and that she uses a bow and arrow. Finally the big friendly "giant" who can cook with a ridiculously massive sword because he is strong.
Yeah those are all the 6 main characters with the stereotypical adventure character archetypes. Some people might enjoy the RPG elements the show is based on with the twist of being a difficult challenging world. Although it seems the characters are so bad at fighting for the sake of being a huge hurdle, it feels forced rather than being natural & believable.
There are some good points in the show where it starts off with them already in the world with an interesting premise where the characters forget their past lives and world but still have hints of it remain.

The world is the generic medieval fantasy setting with magic. There are monsters that attack humans, the humans fight back, they get rewards for defeating them. This is just an RPG with no unique thing to set it apart from all the other generic fantasy shows. In the anime there are just the humans and goblins, no other races. I'm pretty sure in the show it implies other monsters and maybe races but the part we see only has this. Which is not an end all be all if it wasn't so poorly executed.

So this was one of the earliest anime I watched and then having not experienced many anime I scored it 6. Recently rewatching the show I can't imagine how I managed to complete this dull, uneventful torture. I dropped during episode 4 as I wondered who was that person back then that could enjoy this. I gave it a 4, now a 3. The reason it's not lower is because of the concept, it had so much potential.

If you care about story, characters, clear goal, structure & plot than avoid this show. Maybe if you don't mind the slow pace with generic characters with no clear goal or urgency. This anime tries to have a serious dark theme but spends what feels like the majority of the time, at least in the first few episodes, on pointless shenanigan that went against the theme turning it into a mess.
So if value your time don't waste it on this there are millions of things that are more worth it and if you have a lot of free time well it's only 12ep. I think watching the first and maybe second episode is basically what the rest of the show is like.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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