Audience reviews
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SubZero321
As a proof of concept, Shinsei Galverse EP.1 is a cool short OVA with a lot of potential to please new and 90’s anime fans of a similar style. The music and voice acting in particular is great, the character designs are fun. Unfortunately, there was way too much crammed into the 22 mins runtime to work out a coherent plot but it serves as a preview for what may yet to come from this passion project. Hopefully they can secure funding for a season and flesh out the stories and characters because I’d like to see more of this world.
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Shinsei Galverse launches with anime's rebellious 90s spirit headlong into 2025, soaked in raw, unfiltered passion that seamlessly merges retro-cel aesthetics with audacious sci fi world-building. Bold in both conception and execution, this 22-minute ONA isn't without its flaws, but delivers a vision so spirited, so steeped in retro-futurist verve, that its rough edges feel less like oversights and more like deliberate brushstrokes on an ambitious canvas. This indie, homegrown anime is both time capsule and manifesto: proof that authentic, crowd-funded anime can channel the aesthetics and soul of 90s icons like Outlaw Star, Martian Successor Nadesico, or Saber Marionette J without drowning in nostalgia.
Full disclosure: I am a longtime member of the Shinsei Galverse community, a close fri…
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I thought Shinsei Galverse was very interesting. I loved the aesthetics and character designs in the OVA. Most of all, I loved the premise of there being 8,888 unique Gals that could be discovered in the future. I'm left wanting more but, at the same time, I feel like we were given too much? My boyfriend and I joked that we got a whole season's worth of anime in just 22 minutes, and I think that's a very accurate description of the OVA.
If this were ever made into a series of some kind, I'd want the pacing to slow down drastically. There's a lot of potential here though.
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Shinsei Galverse is a turbo-charged blast of 90s nostalgia that somehow feels both lovingly familiar and radically new. It aspires to do a lot in one episode, maybe a bit too much, but you're left with a piece that owns a bold visual identity, an intriguing world, and a cast of gals you immediately want to spend more time with.
The visuals are extremely opinionated, leaning hard into retro anime aesthetics-bold lines, saturated colors, a near-perfect mix of shoujo flair and shonen energy-and nails the tone with confidence.
You can see the team was opting for this to be a self-contained pilot, but the final scene also leaves the door open to something much bigger, teasing a larger galactic mythology that could easily support a full series.
The voice cast is kind of insane for an indie pr…
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This Shinsei Galverse OVA was really fun to watch, and left me curious for more.
Before watching the anime I didn't really know what expectations to have, as this is artist Ayaka Ohira's first big project as a director and there was very few reference material of the Shinsei Galverse artwork in motion, aside from the Tove Lo - I Like U music video, and the trailer itself. However, the recent revealing of the high-profile voice actor cast and the behind the scenes footage on their YouTube channel really got me excited to watch this.
Watching Shinsei Galverse, the art didn't disappoint: the characters look crisp and vibrant, with some beautiful background shots in there as well. Obviously the anime was made to please 90's anime fans, but it does so while looking modern at the same time. T…
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Shinsei Galverse was a retro nostalgic masterpiece! And it's free to watch on YouTube which is wild. It's short, but for an OVA, it did an amazing job at introducing the world and characters in a pretty short time frame and the end scene left me wanting to see more.
The voice acting cast is incredible and they brought their A-game. In particular, I love D.D.'s journey and how she evolves and changes over the course of the episode. I would love to see an English dub and of course more episodes too. Zero's character is fun - jumping between serious, funny, and pretty misty eyed at times. If you speak Japanese, there's a tonne of gyaru language and slang references which are cool. I also liked the classic yellow subtitles on YouTube.
The last minute is probably the most intriguing, hinting…
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As a Proof-of-Concept/Pilot, I thoroughly enjoyed this anime. Firstly, the VAs did an amazing job!! If I closed my eyes, you could immediately tell their personalities apart from one another. Favorites being Fairouz Ai as D.D., Yui Horie as our MC Zero, and Mutsumi Tamura as Ring. Even in the smaller moments of the side characters, like Ootani and Yukari's, you can tell they were having fun with their performances. Secondly, the style is immediately eye-catching. I've seen others note that they have reservations about the facial structures or the fact that the outlines are so thick and appear over their hair, but I find that as a well-done implementation of the artist's artistic style (you see the same things in her other works). I didn't mind it at all. The music that paired with the figh…
Read at the sourceSilcaria
Short ONA that relies too much on memberberries and that falls short across the board. Its runtime is only 22 minutes, which I assume is the reason for all its shortcomings. The characters are one note since there's no time that can be spent developing them. Every relevant piece of narrative gets info dumped, not in the worst of ways, but still. The conflict gets resolved through talknojutsu. The world building is as barebone as it gets. The setting lacks depth. Etc, etc...
It's not uncommon for shorts to fall prey to the flaws listed above, but at least, they often make up for it with great rule of cool and awesome visuals. So, how does Shinsei Galverse fair in that regard? Well....
Visually speaking, it's extremely average with the usual tricks associated with eastern animation being e…
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Before I begin my review - yes, this anime was initially crowdfunded with NFTs. The anime itself never mentions NFTs, crypto, or blockchain. If an association with NFTs is a dealbreaker for you, please don't watch it. The modern trend of hatewatching needs to die already.
This is pretty clearly a proof-of-concept/pilot, so my review is from the standpoint of this not being a finalized, fully polished work. For what it is though, I'm impressed.
By far the best part of the Galverse is the art - it's simply gorgeous. It has a distinctly late 90's/Y2K aesthetic that I personally love. The art style, while being heavily reminiscent of late 90's anime, is also distinctive in its own way - it's impossible to mistake it for anything else, and is a refreshing change from an industry that leans to…
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I'll be blunt: This was likely the longest 22 minute anime I've ever seen, to the point that I started to wonder if I hadn't misread "One hour and 22 minutes" instead.
It's premise is simple, it's trying to got for that 90's aesthetic: That Slayers/Saber Marionette J artstyle, a Sci-Fi setting, bishoujo, etc
Likewise, it has a nice background art, a nice artstyle, top tier seiyuu and some of the character designs are cool... but that's kinda it.
Oh boy, for something that's trying to emulate 90's bishoujo, there are some character designs, like D.D. with her mix of dreads and baldness (In fact, the way foreheads are drawn kinda make it seem that half of the characters are balding... and then there are the ones who are actually bald), in a way that sells it like this: A copy, mimesis, a s…
Read at the sourceDeyhtyi
Honestly, I am out of words for this.
Shinsei galverse has everything needed in anime: original arstyle, creative character design, amazing voice cast, and great accesibility.
So first, its arstyle is referencing to '90 anime arstyle, which is extremely good. You might have thought 'Oh no, they don't make anime like those from '90 these days, nowadays all anime look the same', and shinsei galverse proves you wrong. It gives hope, that it's not the last anime like that.
I'm really suprised that animators not only drew characters in creative style, but also each character has original design. Even if it is short anime, there are plenty of characters with different fashion sense, different skin colours (which is not so common in anime), variery of colours. And all of them look just awesome.…
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