Saturday, 2 April 2016

Review 53: No Game, No Life (ADORABLE)


The only way to describe this anime is just plain bloody adorable... But is that enough to rule over the Imanity race?

Basically, these two siblings remind me of me and my older sister when we where younger. Our first gaming system was a Gamecube from my mum and then my DS... But my dad on the other hand was all Atari and sega megadrive, things like that. Which is one of the reasons that I quite like this anime.

This brother and sister duo are mad video game players who just can't take their eyes off of the screen for five minutes. None of them have any friends, from what I've seen they don't have parents that live with them, they never leave the house and are surrounded by screens in their room that are always lit up with different games or profiles for their characters. Everything is just so brigh in this anime it's practically blinding.

We follow the lives of Sora an 18 year old, virgin male who can't talk to girls to save his life... And his younger sister Shiro (who must be about 11 or 12 years old). They are inseparable, they can't be a certain distance away from each other otherwise they freak out and have these mini panic attacks and then run to each other like some romantic movie.
Together they form the team known as "blank", and every time they play a video game they leave the name space blank, and that's how the "blank" became this weird urban legend that are currently un-defeated, most people think that they are cheaters or hackers of some sort that cheat their way through games to beat everyone else.

We join them as they're fighting in an online game, they're controlling four different characters in-between the two of them and are literally destroying every other player who approaches them, then it cuts to them both... An older brother and younger sister bored out of their minds sat in a room surrounded by screens, its deadly quiet and they look about half dead and malnourished. Well, they kick ass anyways and never want to lose. Then they get challenged, to a small game of chess from an unknown player who knows who they are... Then their screens get taken over, and arms come out, some weird techy stuff happens and then BOOM!! They're in another world! A little boy called Tet who claims that he's a god lets them live in this new world, but they have to follow the rules. There's a sort of spell that's cast over the world, and everyone has to live by the ten pledges and it's almost impossible to break one of the funniest ones... But if you want to know them, then go and watch them cause it's kind of weird and their falling from 10,000 feet above the ground whilst theirs a little kid telling them the rules.

In total there are 16 different species that live in this world called "disboard" the top species are actually the gods and the bottom species are the humans. The reason being is that the ranks are done in ranking of magical ability, so humans are just right down there at the bottom. However, there is only one civilization of humans left in the world, a city called Elkia who currently has no king. They enter this new world and old fashioned city and there's a tournament going on for the next king, however everything in this world is decided by simple games... So people are playing poker to become king, it's very strange! I'm going to add a little spoiler here, but it happens in the 4th episode anyway, so it isn't too far in to the series; But Sora and Shiro become king and queen and they are trying their best to save Elkia in the most casual way possible.

They have to be the most laid back characters I've seen for a while, they're in a completely new world and don't even give a damn! The only thing they're deadly serious about are the games that they play, and probably cute naked girls. They're pretty cool though, Shiro is a twisted cute girl who doesn't speak that much and wears cute little dresses that love! And Sora is a horny virgin who just needs a cute girl to hug, but instead he just enslaves them and they give him information and cook for him and just look all cute.
Yeah the girls in this are just adorable and I want one as my girly best friend, but there is quite a bit of fan service with them and even with the younger sister! Shiro, the sister, is the most twisted and makes one of the girls undress and pretend to be a dog at one point, she just does weird R rated things that even her brother finds a bit weird, and then when he does something R rated she just finds it perfectly normal. Now I hate fan service, the panty shots are quite annoying now but the girls have quirky and stupid personalities that I quite like so I don't mind;  think if there are any more I might be put off quite a bit, and I'm almost finished with the series now... I've put up with too many oversized boobs and too many striped panties!

Everything in this anime is beautifully designed and is put together perfectly, the designing is gorgeous and everything you see is brightly colored. The scenes around the city are bright green and yellow, and gorgeous and oh my god I love it. I think that's the main reason I like this anime, just the designing for the whole show is amazing and It completely suits the theme of this being a new world with completely new species of people/animals. The storyline is lacking something, probably because we don't know that much about the characters or the back story of these characters... Then there isn't a lot of detail into the backstory of everyone else, sometimes things like this can get confusing and seem rushed and then I just lose track of what's going on.
To me, it does seem rushed in some ways, like how the characters don't quite question anything around them because they "like it" was a bit absurd. It may just be the fact that the series just jumps into exactly what it wants to be, it seems to be lacking back bone and it seems to be missing some pieces of information until later on. I think in the first few episodes they just go with the flow of what they've planned for the series, then later on their appears to be something that they've actually carefully planned out. Like the previous king and his secrets, the tactics for overcoming the other races and then them restoring humanity in this new world.

So I guess the beginning put me off a bit, it seemed to me like they rushed into it and It even took me some time to sit and think "right, there in a new world, they like it and everything is hunkey dory at the moment". Then at other times it had a gradual build up that made perfect sense for that kind of scenario.
Then there was the constant panty shots and squeezing of breasts that put me off hugely! It's an anime about going to a different world, living with fantasy creatures and trying to restore humanity... So why does there have to be panty shots and stuff all of the time? I know some perverts who play online games have to give the woman a pair of little panties and some nipple protectors, but to enjoy an anime, and I mean REALLY enjoy an anime I prefer to not have something that has been purposely placed to draw in a specific kind of audience... This one must be World of Warcraft men who pretend to be kinky women when online kind of audience.
I enjoyed the anime, besides the story problems, so why do they have to add fan service! Surely it was enjoyable and funny to watch without it!? Right?

Give me your opinions! I want to know if anyone actually enjoys fan service stuff!

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