Introduction
Fifty years ago, malevolent stones known as Dark Brings brought about the "Overdrive," a calamitous event that destroyed one-tenth of the world. In the present day, the nefarious organization Demon Card seeks the Dark Brings' power for their all but innocent intentions.
Haru Glory, a sword-wielding silver-haired teenager, inherits the title of Rave Master: the person who wields the power of the legendary Rave Stones, artifacts capable of destroying the Dark Brings. However, the many Rave Stones were scattered across the globe as a result of the Overdrive, allowing Demon Card to continue their malpractices.
Groove Adventure Rave follows Haru, his strange dog Plue, the fiery blonde Ellie, and the infamous thief Musica, as they embark on a great journey that will take them around the vast world, searching for the Rave Stones that will finally end Demon Card's injustice.
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Audience reviews
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Jastereich
While I have been waiting for this show for quite some time, it was a nice surprise to watch engaging and proficient characters despite stereotypes.
The characters shown in the show were appealing, including Haru Glory and Elle. Though their design neither was revolutionary nor noteworthy, it had a charm in its simplicity and cuteness. With the mascots even, Plue and Griff added something special to the series, which offered character design creativity.
The show was pretty well animated with nice characters and wonderful surroundings rendering it a treat to watch. The action scenes brought out the spirit of the story despite some shortcomings. The plot itself was quite a twist – although similar to some shonen tropes, it had its own twists and turns that helped keep me interested.
In so…
Read at the sourceThorNN-heim7
Groover Adventure Rave, aka Rave Master is a hard one for me.
I have most of the Rave manga and have read it all, and it is one of the best mangas I've read. It's fun, action packed, nice depth to the story, a great variety of cool characters,, powers and backstories, and much more. It kept me entertained over and over, and I loved it.
The anime adaption has very little of this.
First off. They start the anime in the middle of book 3 of the mange (no explenantion other than the anime intro) and the pacing of the show varies wildly.
Second. The animation is sub-par at best, and is almost an insult to the great art that was in the source material. It is janky and simple. The sound too, underperforms. The music is mostly generic and low quality, and the voices don't really fit the characters…
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Did somebody say proto-Fairy Tail?
I found this a little while after I started watching Fairy Tail and realized that the author of both is really really good at recycling ideas. Credit where it's due, he keeps reusing theme tropes because they work and because they are what's expected from the genre. When executed well even the most copycat story line can still be fantastic. Just look at the way My Hero Academia is leading the modern shounen market, and it's ripping off a thousand other things.
I think where this show and Fairy Tail get a bit more scorn is the fact that they were written by the same person. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but when you're imitating your own past works it's just narcissistic. But hey this isn't a review of Fairy Tail. It's a supposed to be a c…
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Rave master
The work of Hiro Mashima before taking on Fairy Tail as a new project. I don't know the manga by Rave Master, so I just have to focus on the anime.
With the third work by Hiro Mashima, I'm already used to the fact that he not only takes over the design of many characters 1: 1, but also their personalities and all the mistakes. Rave Master was, as far as I understood, his first work and with it, his questionable story took its course.
Rave Master has a subtle approach to plot and background. And here I am already at the end of my positive words and cannot say anything more about it.
The characters had next to nothing in the work. In that sense, it didn't matter that the series became more and more sluggish, monotonous, and uninteresting in the course of the episodes, as ther…
Read at the sourceMrSpenfo
Groove Adventure Rave, or the English dub name, Rave Master, which is what I will be referring to it as in this review, is surprising in multiple facets. First off, something you might want to know going into it, is the fact that although it is 51 episodes, this does not cover the entire story. Secondly, imagine if Bobobo-bo bo-bobo had a child with Fairy Tail, and basically that's Rave Master. Might seem kinda weird as Fairy Tail is a later work Hiro Mashima, who created Rave Master, but Rave Master truly possesses a similar quirkiness to Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo in both the inhuman nature of some of its characters as well as their weird natures, but still manages to have similarities with Fairy Tail to the extent that Plue, the Rave Bearer, is also one of Lucy's celestial spirits, and that Sieg…
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Rave is more or less the spiritual predecessor to Mashima Hiro's later but better known manga / anime "Fairy Tail" and story lines do seem familiar even though this is a different show.
The story is a typical shounen and if you like the genre you're gonna like this one, though "if you like shounen" is a key point here because it's not something unique among other shounen anime. We have a young hero named "Haru" who is the heir to "Rave", a special item which was created 50 years ago to rival "Dark Bring", its evil counterpart, which destroyed 10% of the world at that time in an event called "overdrive". Haru's goal is to rid the world of a group called "Demon Card", that is attempting to use Dark Bring to terrorize the world. The story begins when he meets a girl named "Erie" who suffers…
Read at the sourceMissionchaos
Truthfully this could of been a much better anime. If it had focused more on the villains and had less filers I feel it would be much better. The beginning was good and I started to really like it but it got boring (I also feel like it should of focused more on the magic and not on tools for special powers but this anime isn't really about magic that's just a personal opinion). The 5 ending episodes or so were amazing but left the story hanging. I think it's such a shame they didn't continue this anime I think it would of gotten much better.... ☹️Also i would of loved to see more of sieghart and his powers he seemed amazing! Generally I would have liked to see more of the villains them in action but also just their pasts cause honestly they were empty characters.
Read at the sourceFlaming7s
Story: 8/10
The story is fairly basic: Boy must find magic stones to defeat the villain. But man, oh man, does this Anime get it right. It starts off fairly slow, but picks up real quick. It stretches out rather well over the course of all 51 episodes, and does it's job. The ending, on the other hand, does leave a bad taste in ones mouth, for reasons that should be obvious if you've seen the show.
Art: 8/10
The art is fair game for a show this old. It's old, and you can tell, but somehow, it ages well. It's got the old-school hand-drawn element to it, but it does so with some flair.
Sound: 9/10
The music for the show suits it, in my opinion. It suits the moments that it plays in pretty well. Also, the [ENGLISH] opening and ending themes WILL get stuck in your head for a while, so be warn…
Read at the sourceFullmetaltitan
This series was really good. I would suggest it to anyone who likes action and comedy. But one reason I don't like this show is that it only had 51 episodes. It left me waiting to see what will happens next. This was one of the first anime shows I watched. I love plue and musica. Overall the rating I give it is a 9/10.
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I loved Rave Master!!! It was one of the most epic anime I've seen so if anyone who likes humour and action then Rave Master is one of the choices. Unfortunately the anime was stopped so you would have to read the manga.
Read at the sourceAnimewolfguy
After seeing most of the reviews of this show, not much is explain why people love it or hate it(but mostly people love this)with the exception of one that is top rated at the moment. Here is my review of rave master and hope this is helpful to you.
Story:7/10
The story is very typical as its just a certain boy who is destine to go and stop a great evil but must collect something in order to get stronger and stop it. So why is this enjoyable? I'll tell you why its because of its back story and how the plot progresses. There is so much back story that explains what going on and goes deep to make this not bland and shows a lot of time is put into this. As the plot goes on, the objective changes. Collecting rave stones is still there but its how they collect them that is change and that I'm…
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Basically, this anime is about good vs evil like many other animes. The leading characters are Haru and Elie and Plue maybe. Haru is a boy who has left the village with his so called dog Plue to vanquish dark bring(evil stone power) which is currently in the possession of Demon Card an evil organisation.
Elie has lost her memory and she is trying to retrace her steps to get her memory back. Both characters awkwardly meet and agree to help each other out.
The drawing is not all there but the story and gags kind of help in my opinion, as you will understand once you watch it that some scenes seem as though they are from dbz and some are just too far fetched.
All in all I give it an 8 and it is worth watching in my opinion. Just don't be too picky.
Read at the sourceAlkuma
I loved this anime, Haru is Amazing, Elie is sweet, nice, and kind cute. (For being an Anime character) There's like only one character I didn't like in the holy anime and that was "Ruby-Sama" I hated that penguin. Anyways the Dark Bring is cool, but I really like the Rave sword's. The "Ten Commandments" sword is amazing. I also like how it wasn't like "Oh the Rave master is dead. NOOOOO!!!! Who's going to fight for us now!" It's different then that, Shiba the original rave master trains Haru for a little while. Musica is like the greatest character, His parents died tragically but what he didn't know was... Na I'm not going to ruin it for ya. Anyways this is an amazing anime I so hope you watch it...
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Groove Adventure Rave is a 51-episode anime based on the manga with the same name by Mashima Hiro. It lasted between October 13, 2001 and September 28, 2002.
The genres include: shounen, comedy, action, adventure and drama.
Story: 8
Groove Adventure Rave doesn't have the most original story. It's roughly like this: Haru Glory, a 16 years old "Rave Master", must collect all five Rave-stones to prevent the world from being destroyed by the terrifying power of Darkbring, which caused Overdrive, a huge explosion which destroyed 1/10 of the world 50 years before. So, basically Groove Adventure Rave seems like your average collect-'em-all anime where the main character grows with every item he finds. And, yeah, that's basically it, but there are also very interesting back stories and under it'…
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