Introduction
It's the night before the fair celebrating the Kingdom of Guardia's one thousand year anniversary. When the humans have gone to sleep for the night, excited about the next day's celebration, the monsters come out to play.
Nuu and Mamo are two little monsters itching to have their own adventure in time and space, and their adventure group Nuumamonjaa is recruiting new members. Since neither is particularly strong in the brains department, their adventure turns into a disaster as they get into one mishap after another.
A fast drinking competition, a close encounter with a robotic cat, and a high-speed car chase—this might be more adventure than the tiny duo bargained for!
Audience reviews
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Disapeared_Ghost
So this anime is based around one of my personal all time favorite jrpgs in existence chrono trigger and the story is about traveling in time in various periods to stop lavos.
Now the art by Akira Toryiama as always is incredible and the animation it hasn't aged exactly well and i personally prefer toei's version since even then it still holds up well to this day.
It also has voice acting too and the voice acting was servicable enough. The music as always its incredible as ever and glad to see golsvalves theme is still there.
Yeah since its an ova ofc the pacing is going to be rushed here and not everything is going to be covered which is a shame and yeah i think it would have been better if it was a full 26 series by TOEI imo and yeah do play the original game as well too.
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I love Chrono Trigger. It's one of the greatest JRPGs of all time. Akira Toriyama's art, the musical debut of Yasunori Mitsuda, writers like Masato Kato, it was a dream team that only comes along once in a lifetime. It has an immense story spanning eons and a cast of memorable characters with a soundtrack that will live rent free in your head decades after you've played it, and was one of the defining games of my childhood. The PlayStation version even added some fully animated cut-scenes, which is the closest thing to a proper Chrono Trigger anime you'll ever actually get because this OVA is garbage.
That may be overstating it a bit, but I was so disappointed watching this. None of the main cast show up, just a bunch of the monster characters from the game. Not even important ones. It's…
Read at the sourcektulu007
Chrono Trigger is one of the best 16-bit games out there. Hell, it's one of the best games out there. And there's an anime based off of it. A sixteen minute, one episode one from 1996. Let's look at it.
Story:
The tale is set on the eve of the Millennium Fair. At this point, a bunch of familiar monsters come out to play and celebrate since many of them will invariably be killed once the game starts and everyone needs EXP. Especially best character Lucca. Our main monsters are Nuu and Mamo. The pair of them are trying to recruit other monsters to join their group. This, naturally, leads to shenanigans.
As a comedy, this isn't bad. It has some funny moments and some sequences that work pretty well. It plays off of the two bumbling henchmen trope with Nuu being the fat dumb one and Mamo…
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This is a fun little short meant for those who've played through Chrono Trigger. It stars some minor characters in a spoof/parody comedy. It was really wacky and quite fun!
Don't go into this expecting an epic OVA covering major events from the main game. For those wanting that, should just play the PS1 or DS version of Chrono Trigger, as it contains some beautiful anime cutscenes depicting some of the major plot points in the game. But chances are you already have, if you are reading this.
I personally enjoyed this short OVA a lot! It brings more life to these characters in which only so much could be accomplished of a 32-bit game.
Nu and Mamo (also known as Kilwala in the US version of the game) were the main characters of this OVA and they were fun while they lasted. Mamo does have a…
Read at the sourceReubenBlackbird
The only good thing of this anime is the music. Is the same music of the game, that's why it has a ten of mine. The rest is like "Ha...haha...haha...NOPE" Gonzalez is the best character and the rest are so derp as Carls @BSTCloud. If you wanna insult him, I will appreciate it. That's all I've gotta say, OST 10, the rest meh.
Read at the sourceArancil
I use the following system to calculate the final score:
In each of the five categories (Story, Art, Sound, Character(s), Enjoyment), a score can get 2, 4, 8 or 10. 2 for something I find truly bad, 4 for something that just isn't good enough, 8 for fairly good and 10 for outstanding.
The sum of the score is divided by 5 and the score is rounded to the nearest integer (More than or equal to .5 rounds it up, less than .5 rounds it down).
STORY (4):
Very, very simple. Some monsters from Chrono Trigger do some stuff. 'twas rather boring.
ART (8):
The designs are, as anyone who has played Chrono Trigger would know, great. The animation was so-so and monsters seemed to differ somewhat from what they should look like.
SOUND (4):
I really don't think the voice actors did a great job. Well, ex…
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First I have to say: Before watching this anime you should have played the game. Without knowing the game you don't get most of the jokes in the anime.
Story: Well ... this anime is like a special for the game. There isn't actually that much of a story that is told. The whole anime seems to be a little homage to all those monsters and strange creatures in the game which isn't really a bad thing.
Art: The Chrono Trigger anime is now 12 years old so the quality of the animation is not really up to date. Nonetheless I rated the Art rather high because of the great character design of Akira Toriyama which I really like.
Sound: No real Opening song is the first sing I have to say. The BGM sounds a lot like the original BGM of the game. It is ok. but old fashioned midi sound.
Character: Even…
Read at the sourceVirgil
This is actually one of my favorite comedy-based OVA's. There are parts within, such as Gato screaming the same thing over and over, or Johnny's inside humor. If you're looking for the original characters of the SNES video game, you won't find them until the very end. Actually, you will only see the back of their heads. This OVA's characters are completely two different creatures that are traveling through time trying to get anyone to join their club. It may seem a little boring at first, but the second half will really make you laugh with Gato's yelling and running wild.
Try it out, I know if you at least enjoyed the game, you will understand most of what happens throughout the OVA.
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