Houkago Saikoro Club

Miki Takekasa is an introverted high schooler who does not socialize with her classmates. However, she wants to know what "fun" really is, waiting for someone who could help her understand its true meaning. One day after school, she crosses paths with her classmate Aya Takayashiki, who takes her on a little adventure. Miki discovers wonders she had never seen before, opening a way to change her withdrawn life.

On their way home, Miki and Aya see their class representative Midori Oono entering Saikoro Club, a store specializing in board games. After trying out a German board game, Miki soon understands the kind of fun she had been looking for: playing various games after school along with the friends and acquaintances she makes from her newfound pleasure.

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Takekasa, Miki Main

Miyashita, Saki Japanese

Oono, Midori Main

Tomita, Miyu Japanese

Takayashiki, Aya Main

Kouno, Marika Japanese

Emilia Main

Ichimichi, Mao Japanese

Kinjou, Takeru Supporting

Kuroda, Takaya Japanese

Yoshioka, Ryuuji Supporting

Horie, Shun Japanese

Maki, Kyouko Supporting

Matsui, Eriko Japanese

Tanoue, Shouta Supporting

Amasaki, Kouhei Japanese

Beresford, George Supporting

Ueda, Youji Japanese

Aoshima, Yuuto Supporting

Yashiro, Taku Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Sasaki, Reiko Producer

Maeda, Kenta Producer

Nakao, Yukihiko Producer

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Jul 4, 2023

OMusicoNerd_

Recommended

Who knew that an anime about friendship, happiness and board games would keep me entertained for 12 whole episodes.

A simple anime and perhaps with the aim of commercially popularizing board games, Houkago Saikoro Club explores the adventure of Miki, a girl who seeks to find and understand what happiness means. And the answer appears when she comes across Aya and Midori, two girls who will eventually join the main cast.

I felt immersed in the games many times during the course of the work, trying to understand how the game worked as if I was waiting for my turn to play.

From episode 6, the anime unfortunately ... ends up getting a little lost with the main objective of the work and with the presentation of a new character

The end is also a little rushed, I believe it could be 24 episodes and it would fit perfectly with the story's purpose.

The characters are shallow, but enough to make you care about the main cast.

A fun anime that held me from beginning to end, even with its small mistakes.

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Pt/Br

Quem diria que um anime sobre amizade, felicidade e jogos de tabuleiro me divertiria durante 12 episódios inteiros.

Um anime simples e talvez com o objetivo de popularizar comercialmente os jogos de tabuleiros, Houkago Saikoro Club explora a aventura de Miki, uma garota que busca encontrar e entender o que significa felicidade, e a resposta aperece ao se deparar com Aya e Midori, duas garotas que eventualmente participarão do elenco principal.

Me senti imerso dentro dos jogos muitas vezes durante o decorrer da obra, buscando entender como o jogo funcionava como se estivesse esperando minha rodada para jogar.

A partir do episódio 6 o anime infelizmente acaba se perdendo um pouco com o objetivo principal da obra e com a apresentação de uma nova personagem

O fim também é um pouco rushado, acredito que poderiam ser 24 episódios e encaixaria perfeitamente na proposta da história.

Os personagens são pouco aprofundados, mas suficientemente para que você se importe com o cast principal

Um anime divertido que me prendeu do inicio ao fim, mesmo com seus pequenos erros.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Sep 8, 2024

Destron

Mixed Feelings

After School Dice Club is one of those anime that I didn't hate, but at the same time I found myself slowly losing interest as the longer it went on for. Not enough to stop watching it as I try not to drop anime but enough to feel like each episode felt like a slog to get through sometimes.

The main premise of this anime is helping an introverted girl who doesn't feel like she can fit in with anyone, by playing board games with her new friends that she's meeting along the way (Basically she was adopted by an extrovert) Each episode will have ... them do something be it go to a water park, or just hang out with each other. Nothing out of the ordinary. However, the main gripe I had with watching this was the board games which was the entire point of the show. I felt increasingly bored and not caring when the game started and found myself either putting ASDC on 2x speed (which I have never done that video any video before) or skipping the segment completely because after a while they felt so dull to watch. The animators could have made it more visually appealing like visualizing the girls in the game itself or something like that but they chose to just have them playing normally. It's not even games you know or well established ones so half the time you don't understand what is going on. For the first few episodes I didn't mind it, but around episode 5 is when I just didn't care anymore for the games. Only 1 more after that I ended up watching the game in full (forgot which one)

The main interesting points of this anime came from... well pretty much everything else. The plot with Miki was just ok. Just your typical girl that got bullied and felt alone until she gets friends. Nothing special. I did find the final episode interesting with her feeling upset because she feels like she's losing her friends because they want to go separate paths in their future careers, I feel like that was a nice touch that I haven't seen touched upon in anime that much.

The art style of the show was beautiful, the characters were lively, none of the characters stood out as unlikable really with the exception of the pink haired girl Ren. I found her to be pretty annoying, fortunately you didn't see her much and she wasn't ever really a main focus other than 1 episode. I really enjoyed the German student that joined the group. I can't speak for the English subbed version as I watched it dubbed but I loved her voice and her personality. My favorite episode was the Christmas episode which I'm slightly biased towards because 9 times out of 10 they primarily are my favorite.

Overall, I don't think the anime was bad, but it's one of those anime I'd never want to re watch and if season 2 dropped I just wouldn't watch it as it just wasn't super interesting. It was just bland for the most part. I feel like it isn't the animators fault because an anime focused around board games is a tough thing to make interesting but I feel like they did good never the less.

5/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Apr 15, 2023

Moonalice

Not Recommended

Nothing New.

Cliché characters and an extremely boring protagonist. The girl with the glasses has more motivation and a better storyline than the protagonist. It was annoying when the protanist constantly repeated that she was lonely all her life in the beggining of most of the chapters. It's like I already understood girl!- And it was very forced that in the first chapter she managed to have friends and a new hobbie all at once. At this part of my life I can't stand anymore the genki characters like the girl with two ponytails.
Some table games were intereting but I don't care about table games ... as much as the girls in the anime.
Even the opening is forgettable, not bad but it's a meh.
In general, I don't recommend to waste your time in this anime.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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