Gin no Guardian

High school student and gamer Suigin Riku attends the prestigious Shinryou Private Academy, a school for the elite and the children of the wealthy. But rich or wealthy are not words that describe Suigin; in fact, he is dirt poor and must work many part time jobs to pay for his tuition. During one such job, he dives into a pool to save his pet cat, fully aware that he cannot swim. Luckily, he is saved by Rei Riku, the beautiful and popular daughter of a game developer, and he falls in love with her.

He is also drawn to another girl: a new friend he meets in Dungeon Century, his favorite online RPG. But when the game is scheduled to shut down, he knows his adventures with her will soon end. However, the day after the game is shut down, he finds out that Rei and the online girl are one and the same. Soon after, Rei gives Suigin a new game meant to replace Dungeon Century—a tomb raiding game called Grave Buster. But when Rei is suddenly kidnapped, Suigin is pulled inside Grave Buster to save her.

Gin no Guardian follows Suigin as he plays through Grave Buster to save Rei, while uncovering the secrets hidden within the game.

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Lu, Shui Yin Main

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Lu, Lian Main

Saitou, Yuka Japanese

Fei, Bi Main

Mizuki, Nana Japanese

L Supporting

Akesaka, Satomi Japanese

Hua, Ling Supporting

Nishida, Nozomi Japanese

Collector Supporting

Wanchoi Supporting

Matsumoto, Sara Japanese

Littrette Supporting

Kageyama, Risa Japanese

Takeshi Supporting

Han, Megumi Japanese

Mikan Supporting

Matsumoto, Sara Japanese

Tang, Yunkang Producer

Ookura, Masahiko Director, Series Composition

Takakuwa, Hajime Sound Director

Andou, Ken Episode Director

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Feb 3, 2024

AgentHyPo

Recommended

Gin no Guardian or The Silver Guardian is a very specific anime. Whilst it combines elements of other anime it managed to create it's own atmosphere with nice characters and story. Though it takes a while for to pick up pace.

It is important to note the first season slowly goes from an ordinary slice of life with comedy elements to the real plot point in Season 2.
I personally adored Gin no Guardian, mainly since it felt fresh and nice to watch with it's characters but story too.
The story whilst clearly taking inspiration from other anime just has this charm to it that kinda makes ... it stand it out and then it becomes a shame it's not more popular. Yet, it's very specific as you need to watch the entire first season and half of season 2 to see if you like it but i think it's worth it in the end in my eyes. Also i would feel like it is important to say ,this ends on a cliffhanger and we are still waiting on Season 3.

So story is good, i liked the characters and i liked the general plot of it all and i can recommend it for sure if you like the synopsis you read on here. Though do take into consideration this anime is very, i would say niche in everything it does, as it does it right but a majority of people would not be able to sit through it until the end ,as it takes a long time for it to pick up and feel like it's special and it's not yet another anime set in a fictional video game. My advice is if you have time and want to take the risk since you liked the plot watch it until the end and see if you like it or not.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 17, 2021

tygram

Mixed Feelings

Starts strong with the first two episodes setting up what seems to be a great story. Unfortunately after that they just kinda forget about all that and start making entire episodes on random other people with nothing to do with plot set by the first 2 episodes. Honestly the MC is not even the character you see the most.

I give it 5/10 because I like the MC, art and animation is decent, but the story and plot are basically non-existent. Maybe this would make sense if it was the first 12 episodes of a 50 episode series, but with just these 12 I just ... don't get it. The plot literally doesn't progress AT ALL for the last 8 episodes. Not to mention the plot that's there has a lot of holes in it. It'll show random scene that seems like it's important to the story, not explain anything about it, then never mention it again.

I have ADD and this series seems to fit that kind of format. Starts telling a story, then LOOK A SQUIREL, then 4 min more of the story in an episode then LOOK AT THAT RANDOM DUDE ON A BENCH, then another 2 min of the story in a different episode. It's accurate to say that when I was finished I learned basically nothing about the story, had a LOT of questions, and felt like I had whiplash from how the episodes jump around without any rhyme or reason.

Finally the icing on the cake is the final episode of the season doesn't end with any cliffhanger, or having anything concluded or explained. It's just like any other filler episode. I was so confused after it was over and there wasn't another episode. I gave 5/10 overall, but for story I give 1/10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jul 21, 2019

ToxicMinimum

Not Recommended

This has no spoilers! But it does cover both seasons.

If you are looking for a show that has good anything really, you're in the wrong spot. This show was really bad and when I say bad I mean really bad. The story was forgettable and that in my opinion is one of the worst things an anime can do, Be forgettable... If the story was good maybe you could get some pleasure of some type from watching this but here is my honest statement please do not watch this without reading reviews first. Its painstakingly bad and from what I have seen its not even ... a complete show. It leaves you at episode 6 in season 2 and by that time I had already forgot what all of season 1 was about. This show has some major issues being that its incomplete and has next to no story but, to finish I have to say watch this show, the only reason behind that is its important to know what can make for a good show or a bad. In my opinion its just bad or mediocre all around at best and is overall a bad show.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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