The New Gate

Trapped with thousands of people in The New Gate, a virtual reality game, the elite player Shinya Kiritani resolves to clear the game and finally return home. However, after he manages to single-handedly defeat the final boss, Shinya is transported to a new world—seemingly indistinguishable from the one he just escaped.

Shinya discovers that as long as the game menu and his skills are unchanged, he cannot leave this oddly familiar world. In his search of a way to break out from this new dimensional prison, Shinya encounters Tiera Lucent, a hotel receptionist who happens to be a protégée of Schnee Raizar—one of Shinya's former party members. With this glimmer of hope, Shinya strives to reunite with Schnee and find out the truth about The New Gate.

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Raizar, Schnee Main

Seto, Asami Japanese

Kiritani, Shinya Main

Ono, Kensho Japanese

Lucent, Tiera Main

Hondo, Kaede Japanese

Yuzuha Main

Okasaki, Miho Japanese

Estaria, Girard Supporting

Mikami, Satoshi Japanese

Lindotte, Celica Supporting

Takahashi, Minami Japanese

Heim, Barlux Supporting

Takatsuka, Masaya Japanese

Bayreuth, Rionne Strail Supporting

Lynn Japanese

Lindotte, Cilica Supporting

Takahashi, Minami Japanese

Kagerou Supporting

Hoshi, Yuuki Japanese

Aoi, Hiroyuki Producer

Ishiwatari, Akihiro Producer

Ozawa, Fumihiro Producer

Oogami, Yuuma Producer, Episode Director

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Jun 29, 2024

PanzerIV-J

Recommended

“The New Gate” has a somewhat rushed story, very budget animation, and pacing issues. That said, this anime had a lot of potential, but the studio just didn't do it justice.
However, even with its flaws, I still very much enjoyed it. I think that if you like anime with overpowered fantasy main characters and simple romances, you'll probably like this one too. Just be ready to overlook the bad animation and weird pacing.

Let's start with the issues this anime has: a low animation budget, rushed story pacing, the studio's poor adaptation, and character development. I'll go through each of these problems to make things ... clear, and then I'll move on to the positives.

1. Horrible animation quality for 2024:
The animation quality is so poor it feels worse than a good deal of anime from the 90s, despite being released in 2024. “The New Gate” by far doesn't have an animation made with nearly the same soul as classics like NGE or Cowboy Bebop, but it also looks way worse than those animes. The decision not to keep a similar art style to the manga or light novel's cover has to be one of the worst choices ever made. I mean, you can technically see that the studio tried to copy the design of the manga, but it is so abhorrently bad at mimicking the style that they should've just tried something different.

2. Studio's impact on making this not as well adapted: (bit of a continuation from #1)
We already said that the animation is one of the worst released in the last decade. If a better studio had handled it, a lot of the issues like animation quality, pacing, and not adapting all the LN/Manga's content would probably be fixed. This is probably one of the most disappointing adaptations for fans of the light novel and manga because it doesn’t cover all of its content and feels rushed.

3. Rushed Pacing & Adaptation Issues:
“The New Gate” tries pushing a lot of content into 12 episodes, stuff that would regularly be put into 2 or 3 seasons for other anime like “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime,” is shoved into a 12-episode season. Next, the adaptation seems to not be done very well considering it skips scenes that are in the manga and LN, which is disappointing since this anime sometimes feels lifeless. This is an anime that feels like Overlord mixed with That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (calling it “Slime” from now on), with the characters kinda seeming like characters from “Slime” put into a world similar to Overlord. I personally really like this aspect, and it should come out as interesting, which it does, but the countless other issues I have stated hold this anime down from what it could be.

4. Characters:
The characters are pretty decent, but they could've been better if the anime gave them more depth. Shin, the main character, is well-done and likable, and even without a detailed backstory you end up liking his characterization throughout the series. He is not a stupid and nonsensical MC who does ridiculous actions that don't make sense. Other characters, however, seem to lack the characterization Shin has. While you can understand these other characters actions, they constantly feel like they are missing some scenes to properly give them the characterization they deserve.

Here's the kicker, the story is actually good. I just believe that when people are focused so much on the issues an anime has, they miss the good parts. If you can look past the bad animation and pacing, you’ll find more than just a basic isekai with dumb characters. I would just say the main issue here is that the adaptation doesn't do this anime justice for what it is.

🗿 7.5/10 – I know I’m rating it a bit high, but I really enjoyed it overall and think it’s worth a try. 🗿

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jun 29, 2024

SirRosr

Mixed Feelings

overal compered to the manga the story feel extrmely rushed with alot cuted seces and missed details eexspicaly last episode of the show. a generic isekai that resemble in charter to sao with twist of overlapping to new world insted of goinng back. even when the charter is one of the most powerful charter in the show its still painted as shy nervuse boy wet behind his ears and not seasoned vetarn player. the feeling the show give are of the generic kaind of the isekai ganer with over powered main charter definlty worth it for passing the time but aint a ... master pieace. for me at last this show is kaind of i may rember it or may forget it buta month or 2 afther the last episode aired its mostly will be forgoten from the hype

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Aug 2, 2024

ChouunShiryuu

Not Recommended

The problem with a lot of these isekai adaptations is that while most of the these isekais out there getting an adaptation are uninspired, there are some of them that have some specific fun elements aside from the setting and plot that the adaptations fail to comprehend more than with non isekai works. What made new gate likable was the characters and their behavior and the sentimental drama relating to them most of all, which the adaptation gloriously mangled to move the "plot" along.

The show starts with a scene where a bunch of people are dragging away one of the main heroines, the black haired ... elf in the poster, to idk struggle snuggle or sell her as a slave or whatever, doesn't matter, and our MC comes to the rescue. Dere dere moeblob GET! said elf is now suddenly pretty friendly with our MC. But there's one problem now: to move the plot along you need to get back to the plot. Seeing how in the original there was no kidnap squad to save moeblob from, she didn't warm up to the MC immediately and was quite skeptical of him and his intentions as well as seemingly more mature and cheeky. So the next thing they do after they make the moeblob look like a dere dere moeblob is to insert some of the dialogue from the original and manga adaptation back into the scene, which felt weird to see as the dere dere moeblob now seemed a tiny bit rude as after being a dere dere moeblob (adaptation original) she starts saying things that her original cheeky self said to her benefactor, the MC (rescuer in anime only). "hey buddy, i just met you, who are you to ask about where the owner of this establishment is," roughly something like this in spirit which kind of works with her original personality , looks, and considering she never got saved in the original.

The above scene, taken from near the start of episode 1 itself, is to illustrate what the quality of the adaptation is like. Speaking of characters first, the characters in the anime adaptation look much more childish with the faces being much rounder than either the LN or manga art, as a result of which, the personality of one of the heroines, the black haired elf, feels incredibly different as shown above. Her personality while still bubbly also had cheekiness and more maturity to it which is no longer true in the adaptation, this is a result of both her being a moeblob in the adaptation and the adaptation cutting dialogues and events to rush the plot. The same is true for the other silver haired main (the elf schnee) with her character in the adaptation not being able to express her wistfulness in general and her feelings of melancholy as the MC will one day return to his world again, feelings which are an important aspect of the title and her character. The silver haired elf/schnee's reunion with the MC was much more of a tearjerker moment in the manga, but that's again true for most of the moments.

Now the core issue that actually butchers the adaptation, it's that you have these blob charas act out the rushed plot whose selling point was supposed to be its big sentimental scenes with some okay slice of life scenes in between, with the sentimental parts being bittersweet moments and moments of mildly melancholic happiness (like the feeling of nostalgia). Like the schnee (silver haired elf) reunion scene. It's already obvious a rushed plot doesn't even begin to work for a title like this, like it's not going to make you sentimental when it's not slower paced and making you sentimental is the core pull of the title before anything else, but then you also have moeblobs acting out those sentimental moments along with the rushing. Just look at the manga's chapter 2 page 20 onwards till the end of said chapter and compare it with ep 1 9:40 onwards for a few minutes.

Similar to the scene just above, a lot of other scenes were spoiled in the adaptation. The generic, poorly written kirito-lite parts of the work ie the "plot" only matters if the stakes matter to you. The stakes matter to you if the character and the world matter to you, with the world ultimately dependent on the characters. It's all about the people. The generic kirito-lite activities matter as far as how the characters react to it when you do them, whether you care about those activities affecting the charactes, whether you care about how they'll perceive you etc. Essentially, do you care about the characters and if they're worthwhile. Guess what makes them so.
finally, there's nothing creative in the technical side as well to maybe try and salvage it, and then there's the extremely Substandard script that miserably executes buildup scenes to sentimental ones, thereby effectively reducing the emotional impact of the final sentimental scenes.

Maybe it isn't that bad of a show and it's the expectations of manga readers and the lack of comprehension of the work's appeal by certain others that play a part in its bad rating, so a 6/10 is a safe bet, but it's certainly not a recommendation worthy show. No "mixed feelings" here since there isn't any substantial element worth picking it up for, If the title is to be recommended, it should be the manga. A 6/10 but with " not recommended" for it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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