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

Heim, Barlux Supporting

Takatsuka, Masaya Japanese

Kagerou Supporting

Hoshi, Yuuki Japanese

Lindotte, Celica Supporting

Takahashi, Minami Japanese

Bayreuth, Rionne Strail Supporting

Lynn Japanese

Avis, Wilhelm Supporting

Hiruma, Shunya Japanese

Aoi, Hiroyuki Producer

Ishiwatari, Akihiro Producer

Ozawa, Fumihiro Producer

Oogami, Yuuma Producer, Episode Director

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Sep 27, 2024

magraobl

Recommended

[09/27/2024]
I loved the season finale of The New Gate. The anime is good and I'm looking forward to the second season.
I wasn't expecting anything and I was surprised.
The New Gate is a very good Isekai style anime that proved to be good throughout the 12 episodes.
Shin proved to be a very charismatic protagonist and so did all the other characters.
The season finale surprised me a lot and I liked it enough.
I'm waiting for the second season if by chance there is a second season.

The story is not unique and yet it surprised me even though I am not a big fan of this genre of ... anime.
Yes, the art style is appropriate for the story.
The protagonist is a complete character and he has no flaws and many strengths.
The characters did not react realistically, after all, we are talking about an anime and it is not realistic at all.
Although I liked it, I think others will also like this anime...

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jul 11, 2024

brianthao102

Mixed Feelings

Having watched this show, while it's fresh on my mind. There is alot going against this show.

Based on my opinion, the negatives could be based on the fact that the animation could've been a lot better. I don't want Demon Slayer or Fate levels of animation, that would be a bit too much considering that this show has very few fight scenes. On top of that, the fight scenes themselves are rather short when they do happen. The story is another flavor of Isekai but those are bound to happen just about every season because Isekai Mangas/Light Novels are plentiful yet too boring due to ... the same formula. Trying to pay attention to the story, it feels like there is a hint of inspiration from Sword Art Online with the twist that the story starts the same way that "In the land of Leadale/Leadale no Daichi nite". I don't mind that, but Leadale does it's story better albeit the animation is far worse in that show but the story keeps bringing me back. Compared to the manga, it's obvious that The New Gate really tried to capture the feel but ultimately loses it's essence or spark that would bring me back the same way that Leadale does.

On the positive side, I think that the story from the manga is adapted in an okay sense. The effort is there but there still isn't as much of a spark. Still, the story is well adapted despite it not being a 1-1 adaptation. The stopping point for the show is left off where there could be more, so that's a plus incase you enjoyed it like I did. The voice acting of the characters is projected decently(from a subtitled point of view).

I know the negatives outweigh the positives, but I still stand by my 8/10 score due to the fact that the show's story is decently adapted compared to the manga. This is a big bias but I do enjoy reading the manga and despite the animation being mid, it's still something I would like to see adapted nonetheless.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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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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