Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
LeaderTGW
Really interesting and straight-forward title if I do say so myself.
Let me start off by saying that I really liked Chaika -The Coffin Princess- It reminded me of a video game so much with it's action sequences. A JRPG to be more precise. The intense amount of action made me feel like picking up my controller (yes controller, JRPGS should only be played via console!) and mashing buttons! The story is pretty simple. I really like that Ichiro Sakaki didn't add unnescary and complicated details about certain events or characters. I like that everything naturally builds upon from the foundation. Like first we're introduced to characters, then the story, next the back-story and so on, which is why I say it's straight-forward. I like seeing simplicity in shows with settings placed in older time…
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The action genre may have been the genre that pulled in many anime fans, such as those long running shounen series that is widely known in the West. Growing up, those were the sort of things found on mediums like Toonami and introduced the medium of anime to the West. Being someone that falls into this category, I wasn't fond of the long running series, but always have a guilty pleasure of finding enjoyment in the action genre. I have been watching action/adventure series recently and stumbled across this which had a not so interesting premise but a promising first two episodes. Well this show certainly left a mark on me, a deep wound filled with venom that gives me nightmares just thinking about.
The plot is simple and its good that it is, anime series that expand upon the simple plot s…
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Hitsugi no chaika, an anime I thoroughly enjoyed up until the end
The story and art is what I really appreciated in this anime, because unlike some anime that was released in 2014 this is one full of vibrant colors that complements many scenes in the anime itself.
On the other hand Chaika's companions ( Toru and Akari ) are kind of annoying, saboteurs are supposed to obey their masters at all cost, but at some point Toru was just an immature dude who couldn't understand what was going on in Chaika's mind. And Akari a glorious imouto like no other. She's hilarious and beautiful, although I hated it when she cockblocked Toru.
So in conclusion Hitsugi No Chaika is a great watch, but be sure to watch it carefully (You'll understand when you finish it). It'll make you want more.
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Hitsugi no Chaika focuses on Chaika, the main character, who only has one meaning in her life that she knows of: to collect the remains of her dead father. If you're told you are nothing more than a tool involved in a larger plan, what would you do?
Story: 8/10
The story might strike you as that of a typical fantasy-adventure genre show, but it's not. It gives you a sense of mystery, as questions are left unanswered at first, to be answered later. The plot is not overly complicated and new ideas and plot twists are introduced not too suddenly. The one good thing is that there are perspectives from different sides. We don't just get to see a one-sided perspective from the main cast, but also views from other groups of characters, which was handled with enough care. The story might not be a…
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Hitsugi no Chaika is easily classified as a standard issue, steam punk style fantasy adventure anime, but it possesses enough quality in production and story to make it something you don't feel guilty about watching.
The first thing that stood out to me about the series was that the battles were actually animated. No reused scenes of stock “moves” or fading to a screen of flashing lines while the hero screams as an attack. People actually swing swords, move, duck, dodge, and maneuver. Amazing isn't it? The “guns as magic” aspect is a little boring, but it is what it is and doesn't take too much away from the otherwise enjoyable fight scenes.
Getting an engaging story is the other difficulty in adventure anime. Series tend to get dry with repetitive themes, boring fetch quests, or stere…
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It’s always difficult to review shows like Hitsugi no Chaika - ones that are clearly enjoyable to watch, but not necessarily of high quality. The characters are nice, though flat; the world is mysterious and intriguing, though it doesn't remain so; and the politics and ideologies are interesting, though simple. It’s the type of show you might marathon some lonely weekend, enjoying as you watch it, and then completely forget about.
The show takes you through the adventures of Chaika Trabant, Toru Acura, and Akari Acura to recapture the remains of a deceased, tyrannical king - Emperor Gaz. The king was a “bad guy” who loved war, and thus the question throughout the series is whether war is a positive or negative good. Don’t expect this to be investigated too much; this is not one of the be…
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Suprisingly good.
As a girl, the overdone harem vibe didn't do much for me and there were times in the beginning that I found Chaika annoying. The characters are not particularly deep, they are a bit like stereotypes, and some episodes seem to have no point or impact on the story. Despite all that, by the end I was reluctantly impressed.
The world-building was admirably done. It's taken the stereotype of a fantasy kingdom and inverted it. The princess carries a coffin and causes trouble, the unicorns are wild and dangerous beasts, and the system of magic is - like our modern fossil fuels - based on powering the present with the remains of the dead. I also found it interesting that they've done away with the stereotype of all the regular people desiring peace and prosperity at any cost -…
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Today i decided to do a review on a very underrated anime called Hitsugi no Chaika:
Story:
While the story and the premise arent very original (Scrapped Princess, Akatsuki no yona had a similar story and setting) the way its presented is godly something that many anime wouldnt be able to achieve in years, the execution was done perfectly, it was never predictable and in troughout the episodes they gave away a little piece of the puzzle, it looked has if you were trying to solve something that seemed awfully perdictable but it wasnt at all. The setting is generic has its presented in a world of magic with some kind of energy or "mana" (magic fuel) like in any other generic fantasy show.
Art:
A very light novel-esque art, quite generic however the fight scenes were done really well, the…
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I turned to this anime, with the thought it would turn into a story about bloody fights, lots of blood, and creepy things, coffin anyone?!
Moving on, the very first episode hinted to that way with some gore. But this show isnt what I thought it was.
For starters it is not something that will blow your mind, there are far better anime outhere.
Chaika, Coffin Princess is a light novel adaptation animated by Bones, and while the animation was nothing outstading, it had quality to it, it was vivid and colourfull.
The story focus on Chaika and her search for hers father's remains, to make him a funeral... it may sound blant and void, but at first you dont even know this, as you wander who Chaika is and why does she want those remain...it even comes to a surprise to the other main cast, Too…
Read at the sourceMortalMelancholy
So recently, a lot more light novels have been adapted to anime (as well as manga), to varying success (They didn't do it much before because of how poor the adaptations were, like Densetsu Yuusha). Most of them add a lot more fanservice than the originals, probably to give them some value in the case they turn it into complete garbage (ideal example of this is the second season of Infinite Stratos). Hitsugi no Chaika is another one of these adaptations, though it is quite different from its peers.
Story: 9
While it's nice that the synopsis doesn't really spoil anything, it doesn't actually tell you anything either. The premise (settings, backgrounds, and such) isn't particularly unique, but the story is interesting and not too cliched.
Art: 9
The art is of a much older style than what i…
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When you make a mystery oriented anime, an important thing to keep in mind when making an overarching plot is to never reveal the anime's mystery too quickly or the story will get boring, as well as never make the plot to convoluted or risk attention from the viewer. But when you have a story that has to do with palette swapped girls in addition to a very peculiar overarching plot, well, now you've got something. Hitsugi no Chaika, or, The Coffin Princess Chaika.
Story (7.20/10): In a postwar magical world, the land of the six allied nations is at peace, having had dealt with a big sort of world war that ended a few mere years ago. The story follows our main protagonist Toru, a sort of mercenary for hired work known as a sabetour. One day, he meets Chaika, a strange white haired carrying…
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Chaika? Yes, Chaika. Chaika.
Created by the author of Scrapped Princess and Outbreak Company, this light novel adaptation is part of Studio Bone's trio of shows in the Spring 2014 season. Surprisingly, I felt that Hitsugi no Chaika was the strongest out of the three with its quirky and well-constructed elements in the storyline, characters and action department. These things help create one of the more memorable fantasy adventure anime in recent years.
Set five year after a war, which resulted in the dismantlement of the Gaz Empire, the world is now in a peaceful state much to the detriment of Toru, a saboteur who is capable of performing the ironblood transformation. Without any meaningful civilian employment skills, he spends his days, along with his sister, Akari, rotting away and wai…
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Hitsugi no Chaika is based on a novel written by Sakaki Ichirou, whose "Outbreak Company" made a hit in the fall season last year. However, if you're expecting a moe comedy with big-chested kemomimis you will not find what you're looking for in Hitsugi no Chaika!
The story of Chaika and her coffin starts off with a BANG, we only get a few seconds to get to learn the protagonist Acura Tooru before the heroine makes her entrance with a bloodthirsty unicorn after her. Right here, the big adventure has already started.
The story follows Chaika, Tooru and his sister Akari with yet another companion on their hunt for body parts. Yes, you heard me, body parts. These body parts happens to be leftovers from a late emperor, and of course these are very valuable and powerful. However, our lovable…
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A standard JRPG story usually involves a group of heroes rising up to fight a large and evil empire. The group grows stronger as they journey across the world and find new allies and weapons along the way. Their final goal is to beat the evil boss, be it the powerful emperor or some supernatural force lurking in the shadows, to restore peace to the world. Their actions are glorious and heroic, and ultimately, their epilogues are ones of peace and happiness.
Is life really so simple? Hitsugi no Chaika presents itself as the unofficial sequel to these stories, taking place a few years after a large war that involved 8 heroes and an evil emperor. Its setting is relatively standard fantasy, with melee combat, diverse magic, and medieval architecture. Magic can be used for a multitude of purp…
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Well, that was an...average anime. Pretty much the definition of meh-ness, the meh-est of meh, so to say. Hitsugi no Chaika, or Chaika the coffin princess a first looked to me like a fairly typical adventure anime in the style of FMA or even Berserk without all the rape and robot arms, if you get what I'm saying. Just some colorful people on a journey with a magical objective. And that is what you get with this show, just not to the extend of the aforementioned shows. What's left is, at least after the first season, a pretty fun, at times boring and overall very generic kind of little show you will certainly forget about rather quickly.
At first though, let me talk about setting, characters and the like. The show is set in a fantastical world, filled with magic bullet spells and animals…
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First and foremost, I went into Chaika without greatly high expectation as I hadn't heard too much about it, it was one of the least hyped shows airing at the moment.
And it turns out that it was also one of the most underrated!
So let's begin...
Story - 9/10.
The story of this anime may not look particularly original if you only read the synopsis, but getting into it it provides a really satisfying adventure-filled romp through various places. I didn't find the story either too simple or too complex, it was filled with just the right amount of twists and turns and didn't overcomplicate itself with overly wordy explanations, but you'd be doing yourself a disservice if you didn't pay it full attention, as it's full of little details. What also made this enjoyable to me was the lack of fans…
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With the obvious big shot of the season being No Game No Life, a lot of otherwise also decent and sometimes even better shows get pushed in the background, while I think some of these deserved a bit more attention. One of these titles would be Hitsugi no Chaika (Chaika, the Coffin Princess) by Bones.
Just like many other titles every season, Hitsugi no Chaika falls under the category of light novel adaptations and it has many things which indicates this, such as the medieval setting with a magic system. But at some points this anime was a bit different from usual light novel adaptations. For example we have no teenagers as protagonists, but fully grown adults. Well, except for Chaika Trabant that is. But Toru and his half-sister Akari are both adults and saboteurs who were used in war. Bu…
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Every season there are a handful of shows that are overlooked and underrated. Hitsugi no Chaika takes this fact, and shoves it down peoples' throats by making itself even more underrated. Before the Spring 2014 season began, I had mediocre expectations of Chaika. But sooner than later, I found myself as one of the lucky ones to stay with it all the way through.
Story: 8
At first glance the plot of Hitsugi no Chaika may seem "dull" or "cliche", but Chaika ultimately stands to deliver a fresh, new kind of plotline that is rather unprecedented in my opinion. It's not often you find adventure shows with three characters traversing the Earth and having badass fights every episode. Personally, the story saves Chaika from mediocrity and adds a lot of originalty.
Art/Animation: 7
Okay, yes, the…
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Hitsugi no Chaiki a fantasy anime where Chaiki attempts to find her dead fathers body parts to give him a funeral.
Actual Score: 8.4
Story: 8
The story follows Chaika, Tooru and Akari as they search for Emperor Gaz's remains while invading multiple enemies and fighting those who guard the remains; the story in itself is rather simple and does kind of repeat itself but each new hunt for a remain will add more characters some important and some you will see again sadly.
Art: 8
The art is normal for an anime with magic and scenery being the better parts rather than the character art which nothing special.
Sound: 9
The opening and ending of the anime are one of the better parts of series with opening being nice to listen to as I never skipped the opening; the ending was okay not as good as…
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At first glance, Hitsugi no Chaika (Coffin Princess Chaika) may be interpreted as a cheesy adventure. We get a trio of characters traveling on a sort of journey across the continent in a fantasy realm. And one of those characters is a young girl named Chaika with mysterious origins while carrying a coffin almost twice her size. As peculiar as all this sounds, the show has an alluring premise filled with mysteries and charming moments. From these moments also draws forward an ability to make the audience follow its story. And trust me, it’s worth every single minute.
First thoughts coming into this show is adaptation. After all, the show is based off of a light novel of the same name. The show isn’t unique or a solitary premise considering the idea of traveling and adventure. But what rain…
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