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6.70 is crazy for such a good show. And it ain't even justified. Lemme explain
Bucchigiri is a great short fighting anime inspired by middle eastern culture, about regret, friendship and loneliness (as surprising as it may sound given the first episode).
(Resposting this review for the 156th time since the original was removed. So I had to censor myself in the name of "correctness")

Story : 7.25/10
Story is quite fine. Of course there are flaws I'm going to talk about, but it's overall a quite solid story.
The reason why people hated this show and rated it 6 or even 5 (which is horrendously low) is only because ... the MC is flawed. Yes you heard me right, there's quite a lot of people out here hating on the show just because the MC dares to be human and have flaws.
A MC being flawed, until the opposite is proven, doesn't make a manga bad tho. I've seen mangas about literal criminals (Mushoku Tensei and Shamo) and yet they're finely written so the MC being a simp just ain't a valid argument to call the show trash.
The worst part in this is that all of this is justified if you follow the whole story without the attention span of a tiktok user.
There's a reason behind all of the MC's arguable actions, there's a reason why he ghosts his best friend to simp on some girl, there's a reason why his best friend nevertheless stays super attached to him. The story overall is completely coherent whether you like it or not. That's an objective fact, and if you don't believe me just check my post in the ''horrible mc'' discussion of the forum (spoiling the show)

It's also kinda funny, I liked a lot of its comedic aspects, even the MC simping on a girl that ain't even giving a dang about him, or the mom (especially the mom cause ngl she kindaaaaaa🥶🥶🥶). It ain't hilarious but it's enough to bring a good mood to the story.

But don't ever listen to these sanctimonious people down there in the comments, Mahoro, the MC's love interest is fine in her own way. She's a perfect mix of being absolutely horrible, cute and funny in the same time. Needless to say, most people hate her since most people don't like imperfect characters. In my opinion that just says more about them but ok

However there's one major flaw to the story, and it is that as weird as it sounds, the final part lacks an episode.
I mean I'm not saying there's literally a plot hole, but I rather mean that what the conclusion lacks is an additionnal episode before the very last fight in order to flesh out Matakara and Arajin's past more (same for Sen'ya and his homie), since even though we get to know about their past, it just didn't feel "meaty" enough.
Like, I know they've done a good job at suggesting and telling you things without necessarily having to show them right in your face like a baby.. but I still think they could've done more. Because adding more content, details and screentime to these flashbacks would've been a perfect way to solidify the themes of the show, and make the characters even more touching and likeable. So in the state the scenario ended up being, it totally works in theory, but in practice, development feels super dry.
This still can be resolved with an additional OVA, even though that'd be no different than a day one patch for a video game. However, given Mappa CEO's greed I highly doubt they'd dare to add another single episode, even thought that could be benificial for the show.

This is why it is a quite good story, but not an exceptional one. Which I regret because it really wasn't that far away from excellence, it was all set up for it.
Nonetheless, that's still a great story about flawed, likeable and human characters. .

Visual : 9/10
Art direction looks insane straight up and give to the show an arabian looking aesthetic through the chara design and backgrounds, making it objectively stand out among the anime market since there's almost no other show going for this kind of art direction, with the sole exception of Magi. Needless to say, animation is globally top notch for the entirety of the show making each fight a pleasure to watch

Musics : 7.5/10
Music in the anime industry are most of the time the result of professionals' work. So even by staying the less subjective possible about it, it's very hard to find an anime with objectively bad music (by ''objectively'' I mean technical or purely theoric points regarding music theory, arrangement or production). So that being said, what makes an anime's soundtrack better than another isn't the technical aspect of it but rather its individuality. And I think that on that point, Bucchigiri does a fine job, since there's a handful of soundtracks you couldn't mistake for another anime. But that's not the case for the majority of the soundtrack like with Bleach's soundtrack or even Hunter x Hunter for example. Hence my 7.5, I only give 8 or more to literally exceptional soundtracks.

So overall, even though rating an anime is quite complicated.. Bucchigiri is a 7.65/10. Not a masterpiece, but it wasn't that far. What's sure anyway is that it deserves everyone's chance because it's not only great, but also super interesting aesthetically speaking.
(I gave it 10/10 on my account but don't mind that, it's just a desperate attempt in balancing out the horrible rating)

To conclude I ain't English, so if there's any weird phrasing here and there you'll know why that is

It was actually quite good, despite what edgy lads can say about it.

Story : 6,5 - The story features really good games, and the mc only makes them more interesting. He's quite shady at first and that's why he comes out to be quite unpredictable until the very last episode (for a reason I won't spoil). So watching him resolving seemingly unsolvable situations never fails to be satisfying. I won't criticize character developement yet tho, because the anime obiviously didn't even cover half of the manga yet.
It's kinda complicated to criticize this point.. I'm gonna give a 6,5 to the story for the moment ... given its potential, since we didn't even see yet what the whole story has to show. It wasn't bad at all until now, I'm confident about what will happen next

Art : 7 - Backgrounds were pretty, chara design looks fine, drawings are incredible during certain scenes and the art direction in itself look really great. But when it comes to the animation, it is terribly average and limited. It is, however, forgivable considering most episodes didn't need crazy animation scene (except the last one), after all, it's a story driven show. So yeah, animation is globally the only flaw, everything else is done fine, so hupefully some scenes will be fixed for the blu ray version.

Musics : 8 - The whole soundtrack is really good, as a music producer myself, I can tell that it's a really good work for sure.. so why do I give it a 8 instead of a 9 or a 10 ? Well.. Despite the OST being incredibly well done on every point, musics are not memorable. And I think what makes the cut between very good composers and phenomenal composers is how memorable their soundtrack is. So I'd say it's very unlikely that you will remember these soundtracks despite their quality. I'd give them another listen tho


Overall, it's a staight 7/10. Tomodachi Game is extremely enjoyable and got many qualities. It obviously isn't perfect, but as long as you're not an edgy anime fan hating on anything popular, you should give it a try.