Introduction
Lucius Modestus, an ancient Roman architect, finds himself job-hunting due to having trouble coming up with new ideas. As his demeanor and personality become dismal, his friends try taking him to a bathhouse for him to relax. Unable to unwind in the bustling and crowded bath, Lucius dips his head in the water. Down there, he finds a secret tunnel that transports him to a modern-day Japanese bathhouse, providing him the inspiration he needed to make a new creation.
Loaded with what seems to be knowledge way ahead of his time, Lucius does his best to try and recreate his findings, usually inferior in quality due to his circumstances. However, the sheer ingenuity may be just enough to gain the attention of the citizens and regain his reputation as an architect.
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Audience reviews
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AJ2814
This thing is barely a slideshow, and it might actually be stronger for it. The amount of background gags and non sequiturs they snuck into these three episodes is astronomical. Is it as good as the remake? Absolutely not, its too short to adapt much of the manga, and this lack of time means that the adaptation cannot delve as deep into Lucius's imposter syndrome and despair, and cannot spend as much time legitimately teaching the audience about Japanese bath houses and bathing culture.
In general I don't care about the sub vs dub debate, they're cartoons, so it generally doesn't matter. But in this case, David Wald is firing on all cylinders, treat yourself, no preening about "artistic integrity" and "how it was supposed to be seen", watch the English dub. Be floored by the majesty of a…
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I picked this anime up as a quick palette cleanser amongst all the seasonal anime I watch. I like weird, ridiculous, and dumb humor so I figured this was right up my alley. And I was right!
Throw an Ancient Greek into modern day Japan and watch how he uses their modern day technology for his financial gain in his era! That's basically the gist of it.
But the difference between what I watched and most reviewers here is that I actually watched the dub. I had no idea that Crunchyroll had just recently dubbed it until I saw the lack of comments on said dubbed videos and became so curious I googled it.
Plus the words 'clout' and 'flex' were used..which was the real trigger in knowing that this shit was dubbed recently.
The dub is actually decent and they put some modern day slang in it to…
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Here am i, in the middle of the night. Dreading the next school day and feeling lethargic about life.
When i stumble upon this godsend of an anime. It was just what i needed to feel better.
The story is about this Roman architect who travels to the future and copies bathroom ideas from Japan. It slowly progresses in scale of bathroom implementation, HILARIOUS subtle jokes and wonderfully relaxing calming tone.
The art, out of the hundreds of animes i've seen. This is truly my favourite art, during the first episode it felt awkward and rigid to get used to. But by the second episode i really really liked how it complimented the story and it just felt comical and calming at the same time.
The music in this anime was 10/10 and did something that has never been done before for me. It made…
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I love to watch weird, ridiculous shit. There is no hiding that fact at this point. This is one of the reasons I'm so drawn to anime and always will side with anime over American comics. Believe it or not, American comics used to have detective stories, horror, romance, and categories besides spandex wearing super heroes back in the 1920s-1940s. The diversity of American comics was murdered forever in 1954 with the passing of "The Comic Code". It was decided by the Eisenhower Administration that comics should only be for little kids and comics aimed at older audiences would make Americans gay! Thanks Ike! All genres besides the costumed hero were instantly banned. The costumed heroes became more kid friendly and we got the "golly gee willikers" bullshit known as The Silver Age.…
Read at the sourceProfaneValkyrie
The "I-Should-Not-Be-Entertained-This-Much-the-Anime" XD XD
this is a very very niché anime and to be honest I like to watch random shit especially if it is about something that I have never watched before and short animes because then I can more easily manage to complete them in my busy everyday :)
I went into this series with an ultra lowered bar, expected it to be somewhat like "inferno cop" or other very ultra silly animes like this...
but I became overly pleasantly surprised and I did learn some historical and culturally facts, WHICH I DO NOT MIND :D :D :D :D
so yeah... do not expect it to be a great historical and autentic anime like "Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin", Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, "grave of the fireflies", etc etc.
And do not expect it to be great time trave…
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_Thermae Romae_ is very much a one-note gimmick anime, from its basic plot style to its animation-style and Lucius's hilarious reactions to everything (I'd call the series a bit like _Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei_ or _Yakitate! Japan_), but it suits me at the moment, and the historical accuracy is sufficient to not bother me. Really, where else are you going to get any thing like this sort of historical fantasy but anime? The diversity and weird gems like TR is one of the reasons I love anime.
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It’s not every day you run into shows that are just plain eccentric, especially one that's centered on baths. Well, that’s exactly what happened to me, thanks to a little TV special I stumbled upon called Thermae Romae, based on Mari Yamazaki’s award-winning manga of the same name. It may seem like just another low-quality show with no point whatsoever, but Thermae Romae is a fairly humorous show that has a surprising amount of depth to it. Set in ancient Rome, it follows the bizarre, time-trotting adventures of public bath architect Lucius Modestus to modern-day Japan.
Despite the seemingly dumb premise, Thermae Romae’s story is entertaining in its own right. Using time travel as a plot device is a pretty unique and comical way to teach people some casual, though intriguing facts about b…
Read at the sourceYemi_Hikari
I am not sure where to start my review for this one. The storyline compares and contrasts Japan and ancient Rome in regards to their bath culture. I applaud the attempt to make the subject matter interesting but I am also glad this lasted only the few episodes that it did. The two flaws in the story line are the fact that it is repetitive and the fact that despite the fact it makes the subject some what interesting I doubt very few people are going to remember that many historical facts from the show.
I loved the style of the artwork but hated how this whole thing was animated. The animation made it seem like they did cheep tracings from the original material and story boarded it without any real smooth transitions. One thing I liked was how certain characters showed up in different place…
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