Audience reviews
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mouthpiece
Here we are with another show with a very interesting setting and a very dull and randomly written plot. The premise is about God abandoning the world, which in the context of the story means no more people can be born. It also means no people die when they are killed *smirk*. They turn to zombies who act normally for awhile and only those with special powers can put them to eternal rest. Enter Ai, our heroine, an oblivious loli traveling the world looking for answers to all this mess.
… And that is literally all there is to it. It is one of those slow burner shows of the likes of Cashern Sins or Kino’s Journey where the atmosphere is more important than plot or characters. And for the same reason it is quite boring too if you expect action, suspense, or shocking revelations. It is also q…
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For an anime that treats the disappearance of God in the world, it certainly seems so figuratively speaking, because "Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi" or in its english title "The Sunday without a God" it looks like God decided to leave this anime to its fate after a few episodes, and it didn't develop in a satisfying manner. This is because it started with an alluring premise, yet failed miserably in its progression, deviating from its original storyline, alongside with an uninteresting heroine.
~Story~
The story if the anime is centered around Ai, a 12-year-old girl who is a gravekeeper despite her young age. While it may sound simple, there is a gist to it: God left the world to its own fate, where people are neither born or die. This is the reason of the presence of these gravekeepers, t…
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Kamisama no inai Nichiyoubi which is translated as "Sunday Without God" just as the title suggest is an anime that is set in a world where there is no God or more like a world abandoned by God.The reason i started to watch it was because of the name and that kawai~ protagonist (i love her ^^ ).
STORY [8/10]:
The story starts with the arrival of "Humpnie Hambart" at the village of our protagonist grave keeper "Ai Astin".The story gradually develops from Ai leaving her village, going to the outside world, learning and discovering more about the world and deciding to save the world God has abandoned.
You should not judge this anime without giving it a try, since as usual as it seems it will give you a one hell of a good experience.
ART [9/10]:
In anime I give a huge preference to how the ar…
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What would you do is one day God abandoned the world and made it so that birth and death no longer existed? No longer would you age or have babies. The only thing waiting was eternal life, even if you never wished for it. Then, one day, people called Gravekeepers come to bury those who have died, making death an option again, but also making it harder for those who wants eternal life. That is Sunday Without God.
Okay, let's get down to business. The story of Sunday Without is very interesting to say the least. It's original, exciting and just full on fascinating. We follow a young Gravekeeper called Ai on her journey to see the world. Along the way she meets many different characters who each have a role they must play in order to live. This story had me from the beginning. It felt like…
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A world in which nobody can be born, but nobody dies either. The only way somebody can truly die is by being buried by a Gravekeeper. All of this because God had abandoned the world on a Sunday.
An interesting concept, is what I thought to myself when I read about Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi (or simply "Sunday Without God") and I decided to watch it and I wasn't disappointed in the slightest. As always, let's start off with the story.
Story: 7/10
The story of Sunday Without God both starts and ends interestingly (I won't be spoiling anything). The story opens up with a twelve year old Gravekeeper by the name of Ai, who takes over as the town's gravekeeper after her mother dies. Then two mysterious men show up and Ai gets caught up in a series of events, but she has a motive of her own: t…
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Sunday Without God is a title set in a post-apocalyptic future where the concept of death no longer exists in the world as those who die are no longer able to pass on and those known as Gravekeepers are the only ones who have the ability to allow those among the undead to be put to rest. Ai is one of those Gravekeepers as she learns things in her small village home and a mysterious white-haired man are not as they seem on the surface, being connected to the unique phenomena that has plagued the world of this series.
Before I go on with this review, I would like to comment on this show's major weakness in that it doesn't really do much at addressing major elements to its world. It is never explained how the phenomena within Sunday Without God takes place or how particular people are able t…
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Story:
Overall Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi (Sunday Without God) has a very premise. What if god left and people can no longer give birth and, while they can still be 'dead', can no longer be at rest without the help of a 'Gravekeeper', special individuals who have the ability to make the dead move on. And as a show involved with helping various character find peace in order to move on, it can get very emotional.
The pacing for the most part is very good, following 4 mostly self contained arcs over the course of 3 episodes. The arcs are mostly character driven, delving into aspects of how society would react to this change in the world.
Some parts of the story however can feel rushed and skimmed over and while the ending was very enjoyable and satisfying, it does leave a lot of the world un…
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Sunday Without God is one of those animes I watch and I am like, "How would it be if this actually happened." What if this world was one without death, birth or true life in general.
Story 6/10
The initial story, in a world where god abandoned it may sound really interesting but as far as the anime went it didn't feel like they really touched on the topic that much. It was more about the adventure about the young grave keeper Ai. It is as short anime so it is hard to develop a great story but ehh, it could have been expanded upon much more.
Art 9/10
It is by far one of the more artistic looking animes I have seen. Though its style does not really fit in with the tone of the anime. The anime has a morbid and touchy topic story so you would think think it would look a little darker than wh…
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Usually I dont judge a story only for their ending but for the whole story. For the whole story...I'd give it a 5 (for reasons you can find here a bit later). But...this ending totally crossed the line for me and I can't be honest with myself if for once I don't give an Anime's overal rating based on the ending... A 1.
First the good sides, WATCH IF what you care about is :
-pretty art
-pretty soundtrack
DON'T WATCH IF : -you use your head when watching Animes
-dislike plot holes
-dislike rushed stories
-dislike incoherent characters
-dislike the Deus Ex Machina
(Deus Ex Machina has the negative connotation of an utterly improbable, illogical or baseless plot twist that drastically alters the situation)
Because that's the main problem with this Anime... The story has a very good…
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Starting notice: a sudden desire urged me to try a different kind of review. So the following stream of words consists of two completely separate reviews, segregated by The Wall. Read it your way and enjoy it, for this is the main reason I guided some additional trains of thought through my brain.
"The world is no longer the same it was."
So, I immerged again... right into a new anime world going by the meaningful name of "Sunday Without God". Yes, God has literally left this world, bereaving humanity of its most essential abilities, namely giving birth and dying for good. In order to prevent the bodies of people who would actually die, but cannot anymore, from rotting away, the so called gravekeepers are capable to grant them their final rest.
And one of these gravekeepers is Ai, a 12-…
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What's the worst medium to adapt into anime? There are, of course, good, average and bad examples of every form of adaptation, but it seems to me (and you may or may not agree with me) that for the most part, light novel adaptations are the ones that seem to fail most often. I'm talking stuff like To Aru Majutsu no Index, Date A Live, Sword Art Online and, most recently, the subject of this review, Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi. Let me just state that this rule is not, of course, universal. Simply general.
Why is this? Why do LN adaptations seem to struggle? My suspicion rests on the structure of the source material: the one-book, one-subplot, one-climax system that works well for a series of small novels. However, in the case of anime adaptations, a strict adherence to the source material…
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If God suddenly decided to abandon the world, what'd happen to its people? If no one else can be born however, no one else can also die, what'd happen to Earth?
I'll try to keep the review as spoiler-free as possible but if I do post one, it was an accident and I apologise in advance.
Story [8/10]
The plot is actually, in my point of view, really complex. God abandoned earth, in this "new earth", people can no longer be born however, people cannot die as well.
However, before giving in to the world, God left behind "Gravekeepers", gravekeepers are the only ones capable of actually killing, or to be more specific, "put ease to the souls" of the dead by burying them.
The story begins with a girl named "Ai Austin", she's 12 years old and she belongs to the last generation of borning humans…
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Sunday Without God is definitely the "surprise masterpiece" of the Summer 2013 season. I picked up this anime at the beginning of the season not because I had heard about it a lot previously, but just because the plot synopsis seemed interesting--Very glad I did.
The anime focuses mainly on "Ai," a girl who is attempting to find her path and purpose in life. She lives in a universe where god has abandoned the entire world, which has left some adverse side-effects, naturally. Humans can no longer reproduce, and even if a human dies he is not really dead--He/she still functions as a normal human, but they can never be at peace. Before his departure, however, god appointed "gravekeepers" to preside over the dead. If you are dead, and you can get a gravekeeper to bury you, you can truly die…
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“You shouldn’t have wishes,” when Alis Color mentioned something like this, at first I didn’t understand. What’s wrong with having wishes? But after his reasoning was explained in a later episode, I realized the meaning of those words. Actually, it was at that point I finally realised what this anime was all about. Working hard to make your dreams come true, is what makes life interesting, right? To find the reason why I say this, you should watch Kamisama no Inai Nichyoubi for yourself.
Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi or Sunday Without God is set in a world where God abandoned the world 15 years ago on Sunday. The result is a world where nobody dies. This ‘eternal life’ has it’s consequences: people can’t reproduce and the only way to die peacefully is to be burried by a so-called Gravekeepe…
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First off, I'm not here to write some 3 chapter review, these are my quick thoughts on how I think this series played out, enjoy.
Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi, an anime I was quite looking forward to this season, but like many others, it has let me down.
Now in saying this I can't say it's all bad. This series has some of the best art and sound that I have seen, the characters are all extremely well designed, beautiful background and scenery and everything blends very well.
But that's where it stops for me.
Series like this just try to jam too much into there short time frame. Our heroine, Ai, had plenty of character development, but there is only minor character development for the rest of our cast, which we are introduced to 20+ over these 12 episodes.
As far as story goes, I didn't…
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In the world we live in today, religion is a very big thing. It shapes the minds and the ideals of most, if not all, of the beings on Earth, whether they realize it or not. It's been claimed that the American founding laws were based upon Christian ideals and still plays a key part in the society that America believes in. So when God suddenly abandons the world and leaves the inhabitants of Earth to fend for themselves for all eternity, it's safe to say that chaos would ensue. This is the case that Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi presents to us, and expects us to fill in the pieces in between as the story begins twelve years after God's retreat.
The story begins with a girl named Ai. She is the central character within this entire series. She receives the most screentime out of any other char…
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Sign, that was beautiful, totally a very nice drama fantasy, so I'm not gonna f*** around and just present my ratings for this anime:
Story: fair 6.
I kinda like the drama fantasy thing that this 12 episode anime presents, but I find it hard to accept the concept of God abandoning the world, and the people of the world stopped giving birth and the dead becomes zombies that still functions like human and have to be brought down by grave keepers, let's face the story's logic really does contradict itself, In reality if God were abandons the world, then the end result is Armageddon. But in this anime/manga, the said God here is presented as this lazy landlord who just lets his grave keepers do the dirty-work and doesn't give a thing as to how things turns up. However, the drama supernatural…
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You'll be forgiven for thinking Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi just glorified loli show with superficial theological issues thrown in just to seem deep and intellectual. That's certainly the attitude I went into this anime with; but what I discovered behind its veneer of gaudiness was a genuinely decent plot taking viewers through well thought-out settings populated by characters who, barring the odd few, all had a clear purpose in the story. So before you turn down this anime upon seeing its seemingly pretentious opening, read on; and afterwards, go and finish the first few episodes before deciding whether or not to drop it.
First things first. Kami-inai is adapted from a series of light novels, all of which are practically self contained stories revolving around the protagonist, Ai, and th…
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There are seven days for a weekend. There's Monday through Friday where people work fruitlessly to create a better world. There's Saturday where people gets a chance to enjoy the world where we live in. Then, there's Sunday where there's a chance to relax as the cycle begins all over again. Well if there's God exists, we know that he created a world for us to enjoy. But on Sunday, he decides to take a vacation. Sounds like fun right? Well, maybe for him but definitely not for us.
Welcome to Sunday Without God, a world where God decides to forsaken the world.
Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi (also known as Sunday Without God) is a series adapted from the light novel of the same name written by Kimihito Irie and illustrated by Shino. The series tells the story of a young girl named Ai living…
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After reading the latest Kami-no-inai light novel and following the latest anime episodes (no manga read unfortunately), I've got only one thing to say about this.
Magnifique!
Gorgeous artwork done in all of the medias of this series, a very different storyline than your average booksale, characters that you would always remember. And god the music, wonderful effects alongside the animation effort done.
Oh wait, God should be gone in this anime (haha).
As somebody very kindly told me about it, I will edit the review and add this SPOILERS AHEAD, TURN BACK IF YOU DON'T WANT ANYTHING SPOIL!
for the first chapter of the anime.
(It is awfully hard not to spoil absolutely anything in a review, how could I explain anything without a tiny little bit of plot? OTL)
Story 9/10
As there canno…
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