Jul 20, 2014
The most well known tenant of psychology is that human are tremendously social creatures. The most powerful motivation to see an anime is that you're friends and all the people in MaL are seeing it. Consequently, word-of-mouth is the most important marketing tool. There is no question that for this season NGNL was the most talked about anime of 2014 thus far. It was more than a show. It was an event that could not be missed. A second tenant of psychology is that viewers want to relate to the protagonists situation and see him 'suddenly change/succed'. Sora (the protagonist of the show) is depicted
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as honorable, independent, moral, selfless, sensitive ~ positive traits that appeal to audiences. Also he is uneducated, socially anxious, burdened and a NEET. Wait, what?? Where did this traits come from? I'l tell you. These traits came orientated towards the second tenant I mentioned. From the description of MaL any Grade 6 can articulate the fact that this show transforms a NEET into a hero. It provides an 'escapism' to the users telling them in any hole you are in whether your a NEET, beta or alpha, there will be a place where you can expose your untapped potential (granted this place doesn't exist).
A true "underdog" story.
This review is directed towards anyone who is planning or considering on watching Madhouses' new production 'No Game No Life' AND WHO HAVE READ THE SYNOPSIS. (I capped it because it is crucial for this review) I won't include spoilers or leak plot lines, nor make it my personal mission to convince you to/not to watch this show.This is a completely unbiased neutral review.
Take a second and press Ctrl-T and head over to Google. Press images and type in "No Game No Life." What do you see from those neon over-saturated pictures? You see the hype everyone is talking about. Do you know what I see. Pictures resembling other pictures of anime that are ranked from 1000-5000 on this site. So why is this anime #19? Let me answer this. It certainly isn't the background art that took 30 minutes to make for the first 3 episodes, it isn't the soundtrack that splintercell or Origa isn't making.
It's what I call U~ōrusutorīto' [ウォールストリート]. When you take an underdog and grant him the ability to to the impossible. No Game No Life works on the two tenants I mentioned with an added element. It surprises the audience by the sheer intelligence/gambling the protagonist makes. NGNL involves a protagonist who bets large objects, and when shit hits the fan and he is about to lose a suddent element is added that makes him win.
//Formula Program for No Game No Life
#include
#include //deprecated. Need larger breasts API
int story()
{
int harem = 0; //girl count
Person protagonist = LightYagimi;
protagonist = protagonist - success;
protagonst.name ('sora');
realityworld.throwin(protagonist);
harem.add();
while (more_episodes == true)
{
harem.add();
harem * 2;
harem = (bigint) harem; //convert int to big integer to allocate more memory storage for bigger number
*//NOTE TO NEWMAN - QUALITY/ASSURANCE CODE TESTER///////
Upon program runtime a buffer-overflow for variable harem
may occur due to large population on vector 0x80. Avoid Stack Trace.
*//2014-21-05
}
}
Jokes aside you will enjoy this anime.
Not because it is good...
But because it uses the best practices for production both emotionally and physically.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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