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0Unknown0
I'll keep this review as short as possible.
I recommend this to those who are curious or bored. This is a straightforward story with simple characters and some character development. A bit of romance for those who are wondering. Everything about this anime is just simple. So, don't expect something from this anime, for example, a bright and cool MC. No such thing. MC is just your ordinary high student that got dragged into otaku stuff. There is no "cool" scene. Just simple and easy to enjoy. Don't overthink. Just enjoy and keep the question hidden. Overall, it just a bit average.
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This anime, the story and everything about it screams to me.
"How to get blacklisted by every company on the scene and how to lie for personal profit for a living"
Yeah, the characters are interesting.
The design and art is also interesting.
What is not interesting is the story based on lies and just clear misunderstanding.
I get it, the writer of this series wanted it to be unique and refreshing.
But, this is what you don't want to do at all costs in life. I do not understand how the story goes from the deception to wholesome and then fundarmental lies and then again wholesome
It is all over the place
Hard pass.
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As someone who has been in the wasteland creating a fan-made game and other projects. Shoujo-tachi wa Kouya wo Mezasu hit it out of the ballpark in its symbolic depiction of the difficulty in doing that.
Making a doujin game. Gathering talent, keeping talent, and making sure all the talent works. Look at all the failed Kickstarters to get an idea at how hard that is. The main female lead speaks from a place of experience. There's a lot of real world advice compressed into the story.
The characters are rather distinct from each other. A bit archetypal but fleshed out. Strong egos. Friction. Hidden motivations. Procrastination. The pressure of hitting milestones taken visual form and creating conflicts. The pressure of wanting to do their best and being self aware. Comparing themselves to…
Read at the sourceBanjoTheBear
(This review has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
Shoujo-tachi wa Kouya wo Mezasu features a cast creating a visual novel (often denoted as “VN”). And it’s the perfect opportunity to (briefly) talk about my first (and only) VN that I have ever completed: the famous Katawa Shoujo.
For those that don’t know, Katawa Shoujo is a VN created by a random yet passionate group of people from the Internet (mostly from 4Chan). It’s about a boy discovering life, learning about himself, and finding love along the way. The twist? He and the other girls have a specific handicap.
Without spoiling anything, I will just say that the whole experience is wonderful. In fact, I technically consider it the best VN I have ever played.
While Shoujo-tachi has some strengths and it’s not…
Read at the sourceZaku88
While traveling through Japan this April, I noticed a lot of manga and game shops featuring this work (either in VN or manga form). Thus, I held perhaps a tad too much expectation for this work from Minato Soft (whose prior works include Majikoi and Kimi ga Aruji). Shokomeza is about a group of high schoolers coming together to create a bishoujo game, not terribly differentiated from another show with the same theme a few seasons back- Saekano. Again, we start with a protagonist with a seemingly hopeless future, who through meeting a girl decides to do his best to make a game. In this case, Bunta is not a fluffy stuffed animal but rather a writer who makes scripts for the drama club. Will he and the rest of his soon-formed club successfully "master up?"
Don't be led astray by the Minato S…
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I started well-knowing that it was the quintessential cliche harem anime, but was blown back by just how bad it actually was.
Story 2/10: Quite possibly the most contrived part of the anime is the story. Plenty of animes can get away with copypasta characters, but stories not so much. This basically just went straight-forward with a downright silly, improbable path despite trying to be more or less a slice-of-life.
Let's just say you can tell it's based off a Visual Novel, because of all the "romance" options in the harem, it decides to go nowhere for any of them specifically for the sake of flaunting it to try and get you to buy into it. And by the way, that's all there really is to it. There's a subplot about the MC deciding what to do with his life after school, but you could guess wh…
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So on last nights episode of Keeping Up With the Winter Season: Shoujo-tachi wa Kouya wo Mezasu.
Short review: Have you watched Saekano? If no you can watch this. It makes it look better. If yes skip this. It's worse than Saekano.
Even shorter review: It's not as good as Saekano.
You may have noticed I just compared the show to Saekano. Which I did.
Story: A group of highschool kids want to develop a visual novel. Saekano also did that. This time around the character that wants to develop the game is a girl that is also a closet otaku. Convenient. As you know she recruits others and they begin to work on the game. The huge problem will this story is it's forced drama. What causes this forced drama? Well.
Characters: I love red heads, which large breats, and glasses. I can't like this…
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This review is solely base on anime.
So as you probably read the synopsis you start to guess whether they focus on finding oneself, developing a game or romance.
But frankly speaking the pivot of this story is the game developing process which includes a lot of details, and how characters go through this. Despite that it is set at school, all the problems they have to face make you feel the serious attitude of the game creating, as if when something is missing you can't release the game and there are just two options either you give up or go till the very end bearing all the troubles. This shows the adult world where you make decision and then live with the result of your decisions.
And this leads to the main idea of finding oneself. Through the story they show how every characters' tale…
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Any time a visual novel gets turned into an animated series, I tend to sign up for it. I mean, not only do I thoroughly enjoy the medium, but it intrigues me to see how a director and studio can condense a good thirty hours of material into like...four. Sometimes the outcome is great. However, sometimes it gets a little messy. But that's fine. It's cool. I can look past messy to a certain degree. I mean, all anime has its flaws. Well, okay, not all anime -- but you get the point.
Girls Beyond The Wasteland, if you couldn't guess by now, is based on Minato Soft's visual novel of the same title. The impressive part of this lies in the fact that the game came out several months into 2015 (March, to be exact) and was animated less than a year later, premiering in January of 2016. Woah, that f…
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Well here's a show that I think got a bit of a bad wrap for no real reason.
But I do have some reasons for why people wouldn't like it so much.
Firstly Saekano came before this show, and the novelty of it had already worn off for many people.
Secondly people set their expectations too high for something that never really tried to be anything special to begin with.
--Actual review: minor spoiler warning.
-Presentation(visuals & sound)
To me nothing looked visually out of place, which isn't weird considering this isn't a very action heavy show requiring lots of animation.
Sound vise I like the OP and ED, I actually think they were some of the better ones of the season, I like just how bombastic the singing was.
But even then none of the background tracks stood out to me.
-Story
I basicall…
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Well, first of all this is not exactly a review. Here you are not going to find the good of the bad points of the show. Now I'll try to explain why I don't like this show and the trend it represent.
The point is: Has this show something in its story that wasn't in previous animes? The answer is no. Almost everything you are going to see here was copied from another anime, manga or novel. It haves a similar plot to Shirobako, but poorly written;the main character is indistinguishable of over a myriad of other generic MC; the side characters are also copies or mixures of other popular characters, you have from Yukino going by Rias Gremory mixed with a fujoshi and finishing with a member of the FFF inquisition; the dialogues about visual novels or anime-related terms are a shame, You get the…
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Well, I guess you should aim for the wasteland when you're creating a big project, like a bishoujo game? I'm sorry.... I just can't come up with a good way to start off this review. After all, this anime is just NOT GOOD. I only picked this up because I wanted to watch a visual novel-based anime this season, and when I read the description, I was expecting another Saekano. Well, what I got was Saekano if Saekano was less interesting.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my review of "Shoujo-tachi wa Kouya wo Mezasu", known in English as "Girls Beyond the Wasteland".
Shoujo-tachi wa Kouya wo Mezasu follows Buntarou Hojo, a.k.a. Bunta, who has no idea what he wants to do in the future. One day, he writes a script for the drama club and ends up being approached by a girl named Sayuki Kuroda. Sa…
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Oh goody. Another anime written by a visual novel writer. Or to be more accurate, it's adapted from a visual novel written by a visual novel writer (aware of the redundancy, thank you). And we all know how much I love visual novel anime, what with their cliched characters, excessive dialogue, blatant fanservice that doesn't further the story in any way, and overall bland approaches to serious subject matter. Oh, and what's this? It's another anime about a bunch of people making a visual novel? Let me guess, it's going to be completely self-aware about its cliches, do nothing interesting with said awareness, have a very imbalanced gender ratio of females to males, and have no actual stakes or motivation for the character to make the visual novel beyond "I want to do it". Boy, I'm loving thi…
Read at the sourceAllenHavens92
Girls Beyond the Wasteland could have been something, but ended up being a dull time.
The plot where high school kids develop a game is actually something that has been done before. Last year, there was Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, which had the exact same premise. Because of that, many will wind up comparing both of them. If I may be honest, Saekano had a better execution.
Comparisons aside, I did like the first episode. I felt the establishment of the characters was great, and it was funny. However, as the series went on, it started to get a little boring. There is also something about the heme (being the world is a "wasteland") that's bothering me. I'm finding it difficult to write anything about it as it's not utilized that well, despite it's occasional mentioning.
Con…
Read at the sourcePyraXadon
Making a game is never easy. Especially due to the fact that the market for entertainment these days is so large, getting your name out there on a game and doing well is rather difficult. So, what show tackles this wasteland of a market where only the strong will survive?! KOUYA! A show that will...ironically, end up into obscurity itself give it a couple of months...
Story: Buntarou is your average high school boy. Well, not really average, but you get the idea. He likes to help people with their problems, works hard to the pint that everyone knows him and has a good impression of him, and likes to write for the drama club to aid them in their productions. However, on one faithful day, a beautiful but cold girl by the name of Kuroda asks Bunta on a date, assessing him before finally decl…
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12 series of stupidity, bad writing, no, horrible. I'll try to describe how bad it was. General ratings:
Story - 1 "Pathetic."
Art - 6 "Fair." (But story's so bad it kinda makes you want to score it lower. Story's so bad it influences other things too look bad.)
Sound - 6 "Fair." (Same with art, the rest of the stuff is so bad you wouldn't even
notice if sound or art was done badly.)
Characters - 1, but I wish I could score lower. Like, -1? Too bad I can't.
Enjoyment - 2. Most enjoyable part: thinking about what I'd write on MAL review when this was over.
Overall - 3/10.
I only watched this to the end so I could write a full review, truly seeing how bad this is, I can recommend you: do not waste a single minutes on this crap. It will leave you wonder why the fuck are you wasting your…
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A rushed version of trying to do ''SHIROBAKO'' with the visual novels instead of anime but just without the passion and dealings with the visual novel industry....ohhhh dear.
Yeah...remember what LA said at the start of this review...ohh yes it happens, not only is this anime for almost 8 episodes is unfocused, rushed through fluffing around, thin character developments through the industry hardships, without any passion and showing us the visual novel industry and it's baffling that there is already an example of doing this correctly, it's makes it even worse when this anime is pretty much an advertisement for the actual visual novel that's connected to this anime and will be released soon...as LA said again...ohhh dear.
LA will note it does get better by episode 8 but seriously by then…
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Short review: Who would I actually recommend Shoujo-tachi to?
If I had to say, then I might go with someone that is really into visual novels, but honestly, I’d be hard pressed to actually want to recommend this show just because it does so many things wrong in my opinion.
In a little nutshell, this thing is just outright boring, and with that I’ll go into my longer review.
Long review: (Contains light spoilers)
I went into Shoujo-tachi like with most of my series not knowing anything (I didn’t even bother to read the plot synopsis with it just because others were getting more hype), but the first episode gave me quite a bit of hope. The characters appeared pretty interesting and quirky, most of the jokes paid off and it even seemed like there was going to be a nice disjointed romance…
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If you were like me, you are probably thinking about watching this show because it looks like another Saekano. Surprise: it’s not!
Girls Beyond the Wasteland is a series about a group of friends/schoolmates getting together to make a bishojou game. They all bring a different skillset to the table and serve in different positions: Buntarou is the script writer; Andou is the coder; Yuuki is the artist; Yuuka is the voice actress (voiced by the amazing Kana Hanazawa, mind you); Atomu, the assistant and member-at-large; and Sayuki, who basically checks over everything and takes care of everything else.
Girls Beyond the Wasteland is a show that takes a slice-of-life approach. What I mean by this is that most of it (emphasis on most) occurs on an episodic basis. Whenever you want to incorporat…
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Please don't tell me this is any indication of Romeo Tanaka's future as a writer.
It should be said that I had a lot of anticipation for Kouya when the visual novel was first announced a couple years ago. Being the first big project from Romeo in quite some time--- the man responsible for Cross Channel, arguably one of the best and most well-written visual novels-- I had expected something more than the nonsense it actually turned out to be. It seems Romeo may have gotten jealous of Maruto, a fellow, former (?) VN writer's success with Saekano, and felt the need to also get a piece of the tired 'high schoolers making eroge!!' cash-cow of a genre. Yawn.
And that normally wouldn't be such a bad thing if it was coming from someone other than Romeo, but the bigger issue is that Kouya is a h…
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