Audience reviews
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MAluser35642
If you've watched or read kingdom, this is the complete opposite. All of the characters are complete muppets. They have no motivation or reason for existing. Briefly, some grasp at the old, shriveled up and dry remains of a goal or motive, however the plot takes them, ties them to a string and makes them dance butt naked in a huge circle. That is what this show felt like to me.
As far as being randomly dropped in another world, it's good. The main characters aren't in a videogame and they do not have cheat skills or knowledge of the far future. Literally their only power is to scream like lost puppies and go home.
I'd like to mention that the writing is atrocious. Never before have I thought that whole episodes of a show sound like the demented monologues of the author(usually all it t…
Read at the sourceAlexanderT3HGR8
Strange dawn, the name is oddly fitting.
It's a show which has it's own take on fantasy stories, and invokes memories of shows similar to "Made in abyss", but perhaps without the story to back it up.
In modern lingo this would be named an "Isekai", or "in another world", as the show follows the meandering adventures of two high-school girls trapped in a medieval, low-magic world. It's shows like these which I aspire for their to be a "world building" category on MAL.
I can also appreciate this for how untainted it is by the modern anime industry, the characters are far from the stereotypical Isekai power fantasy cast. For my tastes, I thoroughly enjoyed the world and have been sufficiently engaged by it's whimsy, as well as realism, to give it a re-watch.
To be clear though, the story…
Read at the sourcePotathomas
Was quite surprised to find the overall rating to be on the lower side of the scale. This was the first anime I watched that actually sparked my interest. Despite there being so many alternative world-themed anime out there, this one managed to keep me interested and left me at the edge of my seat every single time.
I didn't understand this anime when I first watched it as a primary schooler, but I picked it up again during my middle school years and I was so happy that I did. I gained a lot more understanding how they use the two main characters as a vessel/vehicle to understand better the culture and what happened in the world that they were summoned to. There were a lot of both subtle and straightforward criticisms on taboos and cultural expectations, and it was a great choice to pick…
Read at the sourceTyblazitar
Strange Dawn is a surprisingly good show for how obscure it is, but has some crucial flaws that prevent it from being great. In this case I think the flaws are more interesting to look at, so that's primarily what I'll be focusing on, but keep in mind that I think it's an overall good show worth watching.
The writing is mostly solid, with a well-paced and engaging plot tackling interesting themes. The characters are well-rounded and seldom completely good or evil. The animation is also well-done, especially considering it's a 2000 show. The background music is charming and appropriate to the tone, and the voice performances are generally good.
The art style, however, is one of the major problems. Except for the two main characters, all the characters are drawn in a super deformed style,…
Read at the sourceggultra2764
Perceptions can be deceiving when one sees promotional artwork for Strange Dawn. What may seem like a children's anime on the surface with its tiny human characters and the two high school girls whisked away to their world actually offers a surprising maturity that you don't typically find with many titles aimed at younger viewers. Focused on high school girls Eri and Yuko being whisked away to another world and worshiped by its inhabitants as gods, the two girls find themselves at the center of a war between two kingdoms with both sides desiring to exploit the status of the girls for their personal gain.
The strongest strength that Strange Dawn has to offer up is the surprising depth it offers up with exploring its world and characters. The series believably explores the hostilities that…
Read at the sourceArboria
Came across this when scouring around '00 for cute anime girls. It's actually pretty good, randomly. Doesn't look like anyone really watched it. Old-school isekai with two cute protagonists getting caught up in these little chibi people's war, and yeah it's real war they kill each other and use comfort women and such. I laughed for a minute straight when the little chibi guys made their initial appearance and just started murdering each other, but they've got a little wartime plotline with lots of interpersonal drama going on that is a little more sophisticated than you might expect.
When it comes down to it, I mainly like this show because Yuko is hot. She's also got a personality you don't see often, particularly in main characters. I recommend it purely for her if you watch stuff for q…
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Very obscure anime that I saw all of one time as a kid Arabic dubbed on TV and finally found again after years of wondering if I'd imagined it. And it is beautiful. Children's rating though? That's a lie - the only reason anyone would have to believe that this is a children's anime is the fact that the characters look like little Teletubbies. But it's an anime with lots of blood and violence, themes of war, love triangles and melodrama - heck, there's even (somewhat...) an attempted rape scene! If there's one major problem it's the very abrupt ending, as if the show had been cancelled or something - but given that the beginning was just as out-of-nowhere and abrupt, it seemed kind of fitting.
The story talks about two high school girls, Natsuno Eri and Miyabe Yuko, who find themselves los…
Read at the sourceMimi_Taylor
If you quickly pass by Strange Dawn thinking that it’s just a happy little kid’s adventure, then I’m afraid that you’re missing out on some interesting drama and political, bloody battles that are packaged in a simple, yet very unique design. If you’ve ever seen Kaiba or Shadow Star Narutaru, you’d know not to judge an anime by its cover. Strange Dawn is one of those anime—it’s warm and childish on the outside, but thoughtful and serious on the inside.
STORY
At first glance, the story of Strange Dawn doesn’t sound very unique at all. Two high-school girls get sent to another world and are expected to save it; we’ve seen this concept before in popular shows like Fushigi Yugi, Inuyasha, Escaflowne, Magical Girl Rayearth, and so on. However, there is something special about Strange Dawn tha…
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