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Dec 21, 2016
WARNING: SPOILERS. DON'T LOOK IF YOU WOULD RATHER RISK TORTURING YOURSELF BY DIVING INTO THE SCARY UNKNOWN.
Here's the big question I need to ask all of you reading this, including me: Why on earth did you watch this piece of pointless money-grabbing garbage of an anime? This anime is insulting to the highest degree, and is just one of the prime examples of how bad a job you can do with an anime. Not sure what I'm talking about? Get ready to get schooled, my dear otakus.
Let's start with the story. Bland? Check. Makes no sense? Check. Dreadful? Ohoho, big check there. Bottom line is,
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this story makes me sick, and here's why: This series had potential. I didn't expect too much when I first found out about it, but it had the potential to be at least somewhat half-decent of a story. Enter Tokine, a bland, Mary Sue otaku who is adored by everyone for seemingly no reason at all, other than the sole reason that the plot demands it for, again, seemingly no reason. Makes sense? No? How do you think I felt watching this? Anyway, Hacchin appears, which I like to call a severely watered down Kyuubey. He randomly for no reason transports Tokine to a world called Quizn, where she is forced to solve puzzles (oh, did I forget to mention they shoehorned a chosen one cliche?) to pleasure his Pringle ears. This would be cool, except for the part where they make no sense. AT ALL. The puzzles range anywhere from so easy that you can figure it out in two seconds (yet Tokine can't figure it out for almost the entire duration of an episode, so I suspect she has the brain power of a walnut), or so overly complicated that the five minute time limit that Pringle Pig gives you is ridiculously unfair. Due to this, there is no fun to be had from watching Tokine solve the puzzles. With something like this, you'd expect Death Note or at the very least No Game No Life-level cleverness to it, but instead you get boring puzzles that make even a MgRonald's cashier more entertaining to watch, and it's less depressing too, surprisingly enough.
Lastly, let's talk about a couple of other huge problems the plot created. Firstly, in episode 9, they introduce a twist to the story (I'll leave it out for those who are offended by spoilers). It would be an interesting plot twist, except they introduce it so late into the story to where it just feels underwhelming. Even worse, they drop that plot twist entirely in the last two episodes. Another problem, Tokine clearly hates being sent to Quizn, yet for some reason in the last puzzle, she's suddenly enjoying being there with no transition that justifies it?
The music is pathetic at best. The background music in each episode is generic, and the opening theme is so godawful-sounding that it makes my ears bleed. The ending theme is decent at least, but just one "decent" song will not save this category by any means.
The artwork is where the real shame comes in. Here's the problem: The artwork is beautiful......until the characters move. At that point, you have choppy animation, royalty-free flame gifs, reused scenes over and over and over and OVER, and constant smiles. I'm not kidding, half the time when characters are talking, they're staring almost right at you, smiling. I would almost call this series a Horror series just for that alone. Additionally, when they're moving, their heads rarely move, creating some awkward positions at times.
Overall, Nazotokine is a low-budget, lazy, severely underwhelming series that fails at everything it tries to be, and does nothing to redeem itself. I'd even go as far as saying this is by far the worst anime of the Fall 2016 season, and I just seriously wonder why anyone in their right minds would let this piece of crap air. With that in mind, I cannot in good conscience recommend this to anyone, not even to those who love to torture themselves by watching bad anime. I could give you a long list of horrible anime for you to watch, but this is one series that must be locked away, never to be touched again. I do have to admit, though, it's pretty cute how it thinks it'll get a second season. Unfortunately, if Asterisk War can get a second season, then anything can get a second season, so I'm not looking forward to the future.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Nov 6, 2016
I don't know which is weirder: the fact that someone thought this was a good idea or the fact that Sega gave the go ahead to do it. Sega must be on drugs. However, this is Japan, and one of the first laws in anime based on real things is "if it's an inanimate object or an animal, it must be turned into a cute high school girl." I really want to actually see what that meeting was like when this was pitched. The creators come to Sega and are just like "Hi, we wanna do an anime based on your consoles. We were thinking
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it would be about a high school where kids play different Sega games in order to graduate." Then we just have the president of Sega stroking his chin knowingly and nodding, and then responds with "Yes, that's great, but you know what this really needs? Cute high school girls who look suspiciously like Vocaloids." I guarantee you that's how it happened. Anyway, I've wasted enough of your time. On to the review.
This series is bad. If I start with that, you might be wondering to yourself: "Flare, if it's bad, why are you giving it such a high rating?"
In a nutshell, this series is bad in all the right ways.
First, let's start with the actual art style. It's pretty easy to tell right off the bat that this series is low budget, and the series itself tends to make comments on that fact, nullifying any doubt you might have on the series' budget. Now, I will concede and say that the animation is VERY awkward most of the time. It's good for the most part when the characters are in Chibi Mode, as I call them, but when it comes time to transform Magical Girl-style, it starts to look very awkward with the lip flaps and movements.
The characters themselves aren't much to write home about, given this is an 11-per-episode series, so you can't expect some kind of tragic backstory that'll bring the main characters even closer as friends. Despite these facts though, I at least thought they were pretty good (though this may be me acting relieved at the fact that none of the characters were like Toradora!'s Ami in terms of personality). Going over each one, Dreamcast is kinda ditzy and kind of a Cloudcuckoolander (I hope I spelled that right), Sega Saturn is kinda the butt of the joke (which I'm sure is done on purpose due to the Saturn's commercial failure as a console), so she tends to be the unluckiest one of the three, and then Mega Drive, who is the intelligent bookworm who takes the logical approach at things.
The music itself can range anywhere from catchy to annoyingly catchy, but what's really cool are all the callbacks to classic Sega games. Not much else to talk about here.
The story is decent at best. You have Dreamcast, Mega Drive, and Sega Saturn all in a high school called SeHaGaga Academy, where they must play games in order to earn medals. After they've earned 100 medals, they graduate. Ultimately, it's a lot of fun seeing the characters go inside different games and participating, but the major complaints I have with it stems from the awkwardness. Only twice do their appearance change to match the game's graphics themselves, and it would've worked to their advantage if they did that for all games.
All in all, this series is bad, but it's so bad that it's surprisingly fun and charming. It's got a really campy feel to it and I just can't bring myself to hate that. I can completely understand why people would hate on this series, but if you're someone who enjoys the campy stuff, you're more likely than not to find enjoyment within this series.
Real quick before I end this review though, I feel the need to point something out. This series came out back in 2014, two years prior to this review. This series is obviously product placement, but it's product placement for extremely outdated consoles that are ranging anywhere from 20-30 years old. Weird but hilarious business practice there, Sega.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Aug 22, 2016
I'm pretty hardcore about anime, especially ones based on video games. Because of this, I try to give just about every anime I find a chance, including this. I've never played the game, so perhaps I'm not being entirely fair with this review, but these are just my honest opinions with the anime which may or may not change over time.
First thing you need to know is that these episodes are only about 3-4 minutes long, so you can knock all of the episodes out in about an hour. May or may not be for the best in this case.
The art style and characters were
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actually pretty charming, though due to the shortness of each episode, they can't and don't use much time to flesh the character development out, instead just adding more characters we know even less about. In turn, we know very little about them and leave us constantly wondering "who are these characters and why should we care?" For all those pervs out there, they DO label the girl's measurements, so that's something, but don't expect much fanservice if you're here for that. You'll have to look elsewhere.
Ultimately, this is where things start to fall apart. Also a consequence of the episodes being so short, they always move from one plot point, almost rush it, then move on to the next. At the very least, they make up for it by being somewhat humorous, and the comedy can be pretty charming too.
All in all however, the lack of character development, plot points, and run time makes it seem like one thing to me: an advertisement. Essentially, it's just one big advertisement for the video game. At the very least, it does succeed in grabbing interest in the game, but the anime however I felt could've been better, especially since other anime adaptions of video games have proved to be more enjoyable while still grabbing interest for the game.
The ultimate question though is "Should you watch it?" Well, it's not terrible, it's at the very least decent. If you're a veteran of the Onigiri game or if you just love that genre, it would be worth your time, but if you're looking for something considered a masterpiece, this isn't what you're looking for.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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