Introduction
The world is about to be turned upside down for Hajime Murata. First, a strange alien ship appears over Tokyo, and then a mysterious new transfer student arrives at his school wearing an ancient school uniform. His name is Muryou, and with his arrival, everything begins to change. Students suddenly begin to display amazing psychic powers, a giant white guardian keeps appearing in the skies over the city to fight off gigantic alien creatures, and men with threatening weapons are haunting the shadows of the school grounds.
With all these strange events taking place around him, Hajime is determined to figure out the truth about a world he thought he already knew. This is his story: a tale of aliens and humans, starships and spies, and friends who are often more than they appear. Join Hajime as he uncovers the mystery of Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars!
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Audience reviews
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SibirPrizrak
Shingu is a relic of a lost era of anime and a hidden gem and pretty unconventional for modern standards both in terms of visual presentation and plot.
Despite an action-packed sci-fi premise, the core of this show is character drama and development and slice of life in the form of an isolated community of outsiders entering and integrating into it. Sci-fi elements in this anime are mostly a vehicle for character drama rather than the central tension, and we spend much less time on action than you might expect.
The weakest part of this anime is its ending and convoluted sci-fi narrative. The strongest part is its depiction of what these extraordinary circumstances do to ordinary people; it is very self-aware and comedic, and its characters are very well written with sometimes self-conta…
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Looks like I am the one of the few people to watch this show but that's a shame because this is one of the best shows I've ever seen. I was hesitant to give it a 10/10 but I realized that despite being somewhat low-key Shingu manages to achieve everything it sets out to do and doesn't fumble once even considering the fact that they had to rush the ending.
This show is just chill personified, watching it makes me feel like I'm biking around the neighborhood with friends on a late summer night in grade school, wrapped up in a blanket on Christmas eve, and enjoying a glass of wine with a lover on a crisp fall day all in one. It's relaxing to the nth degree and for that I will always be thankful for this show. It's also just incredibly well written. It's been a long time since I've watched a…
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Ooh. Where to start. Well, I'm bad at writing reviews, so let's just start somewhere!
Gakuen Senki Muryou.... is very interesting.
Scratch that.
AGH I just finished the series and I have so many questions!
Anyway.
Gakuen Senki Muryou has an interesting premise, and it has a mix of SciFi and Slice of Life. And lots of secrets. Aliens attack one day, or somewhere, while the main cast goes off to school and has their school shenanigans. It's a weird mix, but somehow it works.
The sound. Well. This is from 2001. The songs were nice, I found some a little cheesy, but overall, totally enjoyed it. The voice acting is great, very good.
Characters are varied, all have their uses, personalities, most get some form of character development throughout the series, etc. And they're all important so…
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Shingu: secret of the stellar wars is an absolute hidden gem that not very many people know about, it's hard to find anything about the show but despite that it's great, even though most old dubs are mediocre the dub for this show was good and i loved the whole thing.
The characters are amazing especially Muryou, I didn't really understand his past throughout the show but he is still my favorite character. Hajime was kind of a bland character but he wasn't the worst, I don't really think there was a "worst" character in the show because they were all very interesting.
The story is what hooked me in, The fact that in the beginning there was some alien thing and none of the towns people cared just seemed kinda funny but still odd.
All in all this show is a must watch and I think it's a s…
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This was quite the addicting little series considering it seemed geared for a younger audience. Shingu offers up a mix of slice-of-life comedy and sci-fi adventure focused on middle schooler Hajime and his encounters with a group of psychics that make up the student body of his school, as well as living in a town where its residents react with indifference towards alien ships that appear out of nowhere. While having its extraordinary elements, Shingu is surprisingly quite mundane in many instances as most of the town residents take these events as just a typical part of their everyday routine and focusing on the everyday routines of Hajime and the other students in the middle school. Instead of the former being around just for laughs, it also shows signs that things in the town are not as…
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Underrated and overlooked gem, it’s the type of sci-fi that’s relaxing to watch and anyone who likes slower paced sci-fi should consider giving it a shot.
Plot: 8
The plot can be a bit tricky to pin point, half the time it’s going all sci-fi on you with aliens and intergalactic police, the other half of the time it’s going slice of life with students on you. They’re both interesting parts that actually mingle pretty well with eachother. Upon going through this series a second time, it becomes more impressive that there really aren’t any wasted scenes either, they either go to plot or to characters. The balance between these segments is good too and leans a lot more towards sci-fi as the series goes on.
Characters: 8
This series could be considered to have two mains as defined by the seri…
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An incredibly underrated series that was considered to be another copy of Evangelion. Shingu was actually origionally released to be 40+ episodes, but since the following seemed to be small the company that origionally released it cut it down to only 26 (which explains how the ending felt slightly rushed, but it still made me wanting more).
Story:
The story development had to be my favorite part about it, it was told by the veiwpoint of Hajime who befriends a new kid at school who's a little more than what he bargined for. At first I thought it was going to be the average superficial plot, but it ended up being quite good--especially at the end, but I won't give that away.
One thing I liked the most was the almost comical way Hajime told his story, I loved how the charters would stop an…
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Shingu is one of those animes that comes along rarely that does what it intends to do and does it well. Shingu tells an interesting story and does it in a way that's enjoyable to watch, and somehow relaxing. Except for a few scenes Shingu doesn't resort to cheap tricks to suck the viewer in to the story nor does it try to play with the viewers emotions. It just tells a story, and not too bad a story at that.
Shingu has a wonderful old school feel to it, from the anthem solo at the opening to the wonderful jazz arrangement by Yuji Oono at the closing everything in between is a delight. The art is well drawn but not overly detailed and the background music is mostly well done jazz. The characters have the old school wide eyed look and one of the main characters is a mystery superbeing whose…
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