Bungou to Alchemist: Shinpan no Haguruma

Famous writers throughout history find themselves being reincarnated by a mysterious, unseen entity known as the Alchemist. With their souls confined and bound to an expansive library, they are tasked by the Alchemist to jump into books to purify the pages of monsters called Taints. Along the way, they must also rescue and recruit fellow authors trapped within the very stories they themselves had written.

Although the writers take on new and powerful forms for this endeavor, some still maintain a semblance of who they once were, while others struggle to remember their pasts and the works they had penned. Despite there being no apparent end to their grand mission, they remain committed to the cause in hope of resolving the mystery behind their collective resurrection as well as questions that have haunted their former lives.

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Dazai, Osamu Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Akutagawa, Ryuunosuke Main

Suwabe, Junichi Japanese

Nakahara, Chuuya Main

Kakihara, Tetsuya Japanese

Oda, Sakunosuke Main

Onosaka, Masaya Japanese

Hagiwara, Sakutarou Main

Nojima, Kenji Japanese

Shimazaki, Touson Main

Tachibana, Shinnosuke Japanese

Sakaguchi, Ango Main

Sugita, Tomokazu Japanese

Tokuda, Shuusei Main

Watanabe, Takumi Japanese

Shiga, Naoya Supporting

Maeno, Tomoaki Japanese

Murou, Saisei Supporting

Oosaka, Ryouta Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Kojima, Hiroaki Producer

Beniya, Yoshikazu Producer

Fukudome, Shun Producer

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Aug 16, 2020

KissTheShadows

Recommended

It's definitely not an anime for those who are used to generic works that the industry has produced.

The low number of reviews x the low rates that the anime has received shows how much of the audience only watched a few moments of the show, did not understand the narrative proposal and took their judgment. It's a pity to see something a bit out of the box being rejected immediately

But for those who want a different experience, who are moved by the act of writing or creative production, just watch. This anime has definitely made my day's moments a lot more comfortable.

-English is obviously not ... my native language

Definitivamente não é um anime pra quem está acostumado com obras genéricas que industria tem produzido

O baixo número de reviews x As notas que o anime tem recebido, mostra o como boa parte dos expectadores apenas assistiram alguns momentos do show, não entenderam a proposta da narrativa e tomaram seu julgamento. É uma pena enorme ver uma proposta fora do eixo ser rejeitada imediatamente

Mas pros que querem uma experiência diferente, que se sentem movidos pelo ato da escrita ou produção criativa, vejam. O anime definitivamente tem feito os momentos do meu dia serem muito mais confortáveis.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Aug 20, 2020

Balsamina

Mixed Feelings

TL;DR -- this show's biggest problem is that it is boring.

Art: 8
Best point of the show really. The characters are generally not poorly proportioned or poorly colored. The color palette is generally pleasant. There is even some level of depth to the shading. It hardly if at all qualifies for action but the action scenes in it are decent.

Sound: 5
It's not terrible, it's not great. Nothing I will remember after the show but nothing that will make me watch the show muted either.

Characters: 4
The idea is to take historical writers (of Japan) and take an interesting spin on them. Having knowledge of Japanese literary ... figures really help understand what they are talking about. Without them, you will be completely lost. Even having knowledge of some of the most prominent figures and their works, such as Akutagawa and his Rashoumon, however, I still feel that the characterization was bland at best. The characters didn't have any relatable growth. It felt like a shounen boyband.. . except without the coolness of a typical actual shounen boyband.

Story: 3
This was like a Sailor Moon of JP Writers and Boys. The conflicts were pretty much monster of the week, the final conflict not that far from just Big Bad at the End. We don't really see magical girl transformations but if it had that, it might as well be a Sailor Moon featuring boys. The sophistication of the the works by JP's classics writers were entirely not present, ironically.

Overall: 5
It's a show I can watch while I play some games on my PC or phone. In fact, mid way through this show, I picked up an investments book and just read that because studying finance was more interesting than the "plot", and since I understand spoken Japanese, I still was able to follow along.

[No who it's for/not for section because for once I'm not sure who this is targeted towards.]

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Aug 10, 2020

Ashed_13

Not Recommended

To be honest this show was a pain in the ass to watch.

The story-3/10
Before I say anything let me preface this.The concept is really interesting and unique.You have these historic Japanese authors all going into novels to fight supernatural creatures from destroying literature.So good so far right?Well it went pretty good for the first 2 or 3 episodes.The pacing was solid and actually really interesting but its after the first few episodes that it fall apart.After the a fore mentioned first few episodes begins the shitstorm. They have a episode about farming for no damn reason then have a weird yaoi romance arc for an ... episode where the writers go to the real world or something.I am not sure as to whether that was a in a book but I do believe it was not and literally just took place on Earth.They constantly add new characters out of nowhere,something that mind you was an important part of the cohesion of the story.In 2 episodes they somehow managed to cram around 20 new characters all without descriptions.The pacing was almost like someone was forcefully trying to fit over sized gears into a complex clockwork mechanism.It all just fell apart from there.Although I say that I must admit the last few episodes were very good.The psychological and character drama was well represented and honestly carry the show.

Art-8/10
This is probably the place where the show really manages to shine.The character designs are really unique for the main cast.Specifically the designs of Akutagawa and Dazai were some that stuck to me.The contrasting colors between the two were a very pleasing aesthetic which means quite a bit because the two show up almost every episode.This doesn't apply to the sub cast.The designs at that point got really similar to the point of me constantly mixing them up.The weapon designs were over embossed and complicated with pointless decoration but cool I guess.The the side characters felt way too similar to each other.Besides that the only other shortcoming I feel was the overuse of flashy cuts and transitions during fights which is a damn shame.The animation is smooth and pretty.The fights are really well choreographed as well.All in all this show had some really amazing artwork that really grew on me.

Sound-6/10
The OST is really good.The sound direction and foley is very well done and there isnt anything I can call out the show for.The voice acting for the anime was also well done and gave the characters much needed life.

Characters-2/10
Oh boy.Theres just nothing to say here.The authors themselves were stereotyped to death,felt boring,were unoriginal and nothing worth remembering.Beyond all of that there is also the overly concentrated sub cast.Theres wayyyyyy too many side characters and they dont even get properly introduced properly.Some of them were extremely annoying too and the bromance was unnecessary.I swear the only good character is Akutagawa.

Enjoyment-4
As mentioned before there were a few episodes I really enjoyed but the horrible middle episode really threw a wrench in the works.The humor didn't work well for me other than the Bungou Gourmet sections.

Overall-4/10
I do think this is worth a watch if you have spare time but I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend it to any body.There are way too many missed opportunities and much wasted potential which is really disappointing.All said and done this a below average show due to its crappy pacing and oddball humor.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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