Bokura no Ame-iro Protocol

After an accident that killed his father and left his sister with a disability, Shun Tokinoya's mental duress has led to him refraining from online gaming. Now a model high school student who feels remorse over his past lifestyle, Shun works part-time in the cybercafe owned by his childhood friend Nozomi Inatsuki in order to support his family.

Despite this, an incident pushes Shun back into the world of online gaming. Following the sudden retirement of all players of FOX ONE—Nozomi's father’s esports team—Shun learns that the Inatsuki family is in severe debt. In order to repay the money they owe, Shun reluctantly agrees to participate in an online game tournament: Xaxerion Championship.

Joined by their classmate Akito Sendou, the three of them scout for talented players to rebuild the team. Although they are lucky to find two promising additions to FOX ONE, it is too soon to celebrate: if Shun does not let go of his guilty conscience, the makeshift team stands no chance at winning the tournament.

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Saegusa, Yuu Main

Amamiya, Sora Japanese

Inatsuki, Nozomi Main

Minase, Inori Japanese

Tokinoya, Shun Main

Ono, Kensho Japanese

Tokinoya, Mio Main

Asakura, Momo Japanese

Sendou, Akito Main

Kimura, Ryouhei Japanese

Inatsuki, Souta Supporting

Shingaki, Tarusuke Japanese

Naito, Mutsuki Supporting

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu Japanese

Nagamine, Ryuusei Supporting

Sugita, Tomokazu Japanese

Sakagami, Yoshiko Supporting

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

KAIZO Supporting

Matsui, Yuuko Producer

Sotokawa, Akihiro Producer

Endou, Kazuki Producer

Ozawa, Fumihiro Producer

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Jan 15, 2024

MitiKosta

Recommended

I really liked the anime.
I am a gamer myself and always wanted to become a competitive player.
Hope there will be a continuation of the series.
The story is unique if you like gaming and E-sport you will love it.
Unfortunately, not enough is said about the characters.
I would like them to give a longer backstory on all the characters in the anime.
The progress in the plot is at a good pace.
The art is very good and it's fitting the story.
The game design was also good it looked like a game I would like to play.

... I really recommend anyone who likes shooting games to watch this series.

The only thing that bothered me, as I wrote above, was that not enough was told about all the figures, even though there were figures that looked like they could have a very interesting life story.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jan 4, 2024

CZnoobzCZ23

Mixed Feelings

About this anime... on paper it sounds interesting and fun, but the other is true.

At the beginning show tries to make us care and everything other than the esport. The fact that esport and the weirdly named game aren't properly fine tuned in the anime really brings it down. Teams behave like normal players in ranked and not pros. Instead of communicating with their team they sqeak with each death and use tactics from ebay.

The game itself is just bad, idk in what universe such game would be popular. Its trying to be spin on counter strike and valorant, but that's all it ... is. 5 playable characters which can't be picked more than once. Graphics from ps1 (maybe 2). Game has serious issues with visibility where everything is just dark or black so some colourful characters are perfectly visible but others are almost invisible. Next them trying to run away from exploding objective. Why? There is nothing even remotely close to showing us there is any sort of disadvantage to dying. Guns... oh boy weapons in the game are capable of 1 shot but sometimes they just need to hit 20 rounds I to each other. No recoil. No reload. No variety. Each character gets its own weapon and you go. Also there exists some very bad system of switching sides where 1 team with 5 won rounds and then they go attack or defend depending on what they were doing before, but!!! After that sides dont switch until one of the teams reaches 7 round wins??? (In csgo you play first to 16rounds out of 30 and you switch sides at 15th round) I just wanna know what they were thinking when they came up with that. Anyway the fact its all cgi (the game, everything else is animated properly) wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't so plain. Anime about esports and game, where both take about half of the runtime, but esport is full of 8yo kids and game was made 20 years ago. Not fun to watch as a gamer.

Yes, I'm biased against the esport and game characters play. I was quite excited to watch some esports anime, but not enough effort was put in it. This show would probably work better with some battle royal if they wanted to keep expenses low.

Lastly if you like games or esport, just don't watch this anime. For casual ani.e lovers it might not be bad.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Dec 23, 2023

KANLen09

Not Recommended

Protocol: Rain a.k.a Our Rainy Protocol - When it rains, what can we do? Shall we play a game?

I'm sure you've heard of the term eSports; it has become a global phenomenon from games like Counter Strike:GO to Fortnite, with international championships that are a high-stakes fame and fortune roundabout way of saying that this is the job of professional gamers.

Well, I'm sorry to tear your gamer card: Take one look at Bokura no Ameiro Protocol, and what you see is what you get. Props to the studio for trying to create their inept imitation of Counter Strike, but it looks janky...and also programmed like ... you ought to know what is happening in real time. The answer is: WE DON'T!

I could've just directed you to watch the greatest eSports series ever made, which hails not from Japan but from China, and you might even have heard it before: Quanzhi Gaoshou a.k.a The King's Avatar. But hold your controllers first; let us understand what this show is all about.

The show, in a nutshell: It's basically Quanzhi Gaoshou, but dialled WAY down to 1 (or even a BIG FAT ZERO), incorporating what the former series had ignored to make its star stand out: its characters engrossed in the games and getting better at it. Think of whatever tropes you can use to describe this "anime": annoying, overused anime tropes such as stupid love triangles, a high school setting, anything. Whatever you can think of this show has it all.

Basically, you have this character who's at the centre of the game: Shun Tokinoya. He was more than just your typical high school sophomore: he's once a pro gamer of the show's lazy-ass Counter-Strike imitation of the Xaxxerion game working at the "highly acclaimed" Team Fox One eSports cafe, that is, until his world came crashing down with an accident that ripped the family of their father and crippled their sister Mio for life. As if that's not enough, the cafe that Shun is working in is experiencing a prudent level of debt that the old team could not muster. So, together with his friends Nozomi Inatsuki, Akito Sendo, Ryusei Nagamine, and Yu Saegusa, along with Nozomi's father of Souta Inatsuki being the cafe and team owner, they establish the new wing of the Fox One team to participate together in the Xaxxerion championships to win and pay off their debt, with Shun experiencing a turning point thanks to an gamer who goes by the IGN Bakuretsu-kun, who helps him move forward in life.

First off, this show...it's a mess. Shun has to take care of a lot of things in his life: his family that's now left with their mother and the crippled sister, whom the "prodigal" son wants to work hard to bring to rehabilitation, leading up to the Xaxxerion game, where the newly minted Team Fox One has to find capable members to form a team to win matches and win hard-earned prize cash. And in the process, the not-so-hidden romantic fight develops an interest in the MC: Nozomi, Yu, and even Mio (who developed a severe bro-con status). Much so in particular that Yu is a full-time actress that Shun has been crushing on for quite a while, and this gets exacerbated in the face of the fight between siblings, where Shun and Mio feel like they're each responsible for the deadly outcome. If that isn't enough, one of Shun's competitors is a literate red flag for being an IT-ceptive stalker who forces him to forge his own path and forget about the outside world. Even worse, the other characters are really one-note at best. Par for the course for Team Fox One's members, but having its two loyal fans, Seshiru Sato and Emiko Takanashi, supervise them in their playing, then what's the point of playing when the fans have a better receptacle than the gamers themselves? This just looks and sounds so wrong on all levels.

I never had faith in this rather "new" old studio Quad. Their only 2 shows, from Winter 2022's Kaijin Kaihatsu-bu no Kuroitsu-san a.k.a Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department, to this Winter's infamous Inu ni Nattara Suki na Hito ni Hirowareta a.k.a My Life as Inukai-san's Dog., they are adapted decently, but still have a part to play in the downfall of the anime overall. Add this show to the studio's mediocre showing, and what else is left to salvage, giving the 30-year-old studio a chance to redeem itself? It looks like there's no one willing to.

Not even the OST that has the SawanoHiroyuki[nZk] treatment is able to save the show overall. If anything, this show didn't need to have the acclaimed music composer's work here; it just tarnishes all of the effort that he's put into the show, which is just uncalled for. SennaRin's OP and somei's ED, easy skip.

Trust me when I say that Bokura no Ameiro Protocol is just plain bad. Everything about it just screams amateurish or even to the point of false advertising, not to mention the game elements, which, by intentionally hiding them in the PV trailers, should have been a red flag that the anime was D.O.A. even before it began.

Let this be a warning: Just skip this show; you'll be wasting your precious time.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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