Audience reviews
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Guts-Valley
Spoilers- I will try not to. The best way to describe this is by describing it as a more harsh version of Konosuba. This is not a isekai but the comedy and characters and very similar to it. Why do I say harsh, well in the moments it makes you laugh it brings you down and rather that is a mistake or not is you decision. After a serious moments it start cracking jokes after watching many today's moody anime I can give it a pass. The characters are wonderful, their design are questionable they look like children when are teenagers almost adults. You do fall in love with almost every character here even with ones you hate you like. There will be moments every character will make you laugh at least once. The story is great feels original even after all these years. The pace is indeed slow, slo…
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I love many varieties of levels of all genres, but this was a little bit of a disappointment. It's most disappointing aspect is how poor the storyline and character development is. It doesn't do a good job of explaining backgrounds or context, its is not grabbing or very engaging, and the character personality and skill development is terrible. It is mostly disappointing because the plot could have been a lot better, but the whole story line seems so ultra rushed it is impossible to get invested.
Small but necessary spoiler: the first episode is terrible, but you must watch at least to the end of the first episode to fully grasp or get a hint of the actual story. I dropped this anime once because I couldn't get through the first episode, but now that I have, I honestly wished I had watch…
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Welcome to my candid review. This is an adventure anime with elements of fantasy and tinged roughly equally with moments of light humor and dark violence. The first episode focuses only on humor and is NOT like the remainder of the anime, which is actually much more serious.
There isn't much complexity to this anime. It's fairly straightforward, blunt in its character design and writing, with standard-fare switch ups between serious and lighthearted episodes, young characters, as well as delivering a measured rather than ambitious plot, overall making it a simple anime that would fit kids well. The catch to this anime is that for all its simple design, it has enough violence to coat it in mature tones as well.
The anime is at a crossroad between many different styles. Due to its lack of…
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I enjoyed all the twist and turns that they put the main protagonist Jil through. There was always something hidden just out of reach or a new discovery about the characters that got you to connect with them more and more as the story played out. Most of all I liked the whole tale being told around a seemingly undependable, useless figure that acts so sure of himself but has absolutely no real goal for himself. It's always "just keep going," but to actually have there be much more to him then he or anyone else can even tell. That type of plot development is an old one but it never seems to get old.
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What is THIS THING?
Nothing to do here!
Im going to sleep!
I cant understand what is this!
Its enough internet for today!
This is a very funny anime!
I cant stop laughing and crying!
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TToD takes the generically vacuous premise of an 80's arcade game and attempts to make a good story with it. They partially succeeded. The narrative (discounting the dangerously misleading but brilliantly satirical first episode) starts out very light and often humorously, making for easy, pleasant watching in bulk when you're hungover or otherwise unable to cope with fast dialogue, complicated plots and frenetic action. For the amount of characters included they did a fair job of establishing them in this chunk and making all of them passable in their own ways. It's in the second half that things start to get more serious, with a good amount of mysteries to be uncovered and some interesting turns that venture beyond the conventions of most aventure-fantasy stories.
There are very basic t…
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I found the first season of Druaga to be a solid entry across the board. I was never overwhelmingly surprised nor bored with the series, and enjoyed a marginally original take on a fantasy anime.
Story follows young protagonist on an exceedingly standard quest for heroic glory. Along the way we meet a few few extra party members next to a few standard entries; none too tired to be irksome or annoying if you're willing to roll with some standard fantasy fanfare. The series does actually make a point of being slightly lethal which does prevent it from falling into the vacuum of awful cliche.
A good series to watch over the course of a week that keeps things interesting enough to keep you wanting to see the end result.
Particular note goes out to the opening for juxtaposing all the chara…
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Tower of Druaga...I cannot adequately explain why you were so enjoyable for a series which balanced comedy and drama so badly...this review may be very short. The story is about a rag tag group of people aiming to climb the Tower of Druaga and claim the glory that comes with reaching and defeating the demon, Druaga, at the top. Jil is our main character, a young kid who is deceptively strong and he is joined by other party members representing stereotypes from RPG games. By all accounts this series isn't perfect, it's a balancing act between serious story and comedy and it tries to hit both, it can however be very serious at moments and very funny at moments. Whats great about this series is the unique quirks and twists it provides the viewer, from pop culture references reflecting RPG's a…
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Av: Interesting looking box art there
NK: Ah, right. New anime I got a couple weeks back. It’s called “Tower of Druaga - The Aegis of Uruk.”
Av: That’s a mouthful. Wait, “Tower of Druaga?” I’ve heard that somewhere before…
NK: Tower of Druaga is an old video game by Namco. I played it a bit when I was a kid. That’s the reason I took a look at the anime.
Av: How’s the anime?
NK: Pretty good. Sure, it doesn’t follow the plot of the game, putting the events of the game at 80 years in the past, but it still has references to a lot of the game. King Gilgamesh, all the monsters. Heck, the main group actually goes to the old tower during one episode.
Av: Sounds…interesting. What did they do there?
NK: It’s actually an important plot point as to why they were there, so I won’t divulge all the d…
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Entertainment is not a difficult subject to write about since no matter what incarnation of it, either it be a music, a book, a movie or an anime, the main propose is to entertain. In that regard it can only either achieve it or fail, but in between those two there is what we call mainstream (don’t mix it up with ordinary or average), and there have been very few installments that represent the niche as well as Druaga.
Two things will remain constant in this review, first alphanumerical scorings will mean very little since we can only strictly classify an anime by its intrinsic values, when we are either flaming an abysmal show, or praising another gorgeous one. And second, people that tend to strive by exaggerating problems instead of praising achievements and balancing mistakes will mos…
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At first, i steered clear from any GONZO-affiliated show, but i decided to give Druaga a try. Well, i was, surprised in some ways, disappointed in others. (Which describes most GONZO shows anyways.)
Story - 6.5/10 (D)
Well, it's about a young hero who wants to rid the world of the evil Druaga, at the top of the Tower of Druaga. Sounds cliche? It somewhat is, but the first episode might be a miss for most, because it's mostly a "I had a really sweet dream" episode. Though i did like the funny parts, definetly episode 5, with the whole RPG-look, sex changes and the Roper Dance really made me laugh, in a good way. You can enjoy Druaga, though it does randomly change from plot-focused, to comedy relief each episode.
Animation - 9.0/10 (A-)
Well, at least Gonzo is rich, enough to make Tower o…
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GONZO sure started off very nicely with this release. The first episode was hilarious and had so little; yet so much to do with what has later to come.
Truly; it made me want to look at episode 2 with more heart and NEED of this Anime.
However, the more the episodes went on, the more disappointing it'll become.
I don't know what GONZO was trying to do; but a lot of stuff later in the series starts to get quite confusing and doesn't really add up to anything.
I see this happen in a lot of Anime; they try to complicate their stories more by confusing the viewer. But the only thing they are doing is putting unnecessary effort into unnecessary scenes. If only they'd put in more thought to the story and followed up from where they started, it would've been better.
However, it is what it is,…
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Tower of Druaga is a wolf in sheep's clothing. There are a lot of fast twists and curves which can and probably leave a more critical viewer saying wtf. If you can get over the small amount of build up there than you'll be able to like Tower of Druaga.
Story: Tower, fight up the tower= Dungeon Crawler? No don't worry about that. With only 12 episodes the show moves pretty fast and is excuted well. Though it doesn't score much points on originality I give it an eight because the development was good, nothing felt forced.
Art: The monster designs were pretty good and I also liked the way that the Climbers had light armor compared to the Uruk Army who wore heavy plate. It gives a sense of their weight and job. (Fighting style)
Sound: Nothing really that was great or horrible. Opening was o…
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Tower of Druaga is perhaps the finest example in years of a non-comedic series taking on all the trappings of fantasy cliché and making proper use of them, and, as such, turned out to be pleasantly surprising.
The series is based on an old and at the time successful arcade game in which you play a valiant knight entering a leveled tower to slay the evil overlord and rescue the princess. What made the game popular were the various almost random actions you had to perform in order to be able to ascend to the next level. The original game had a number of sequels, of course all involving some even greater evil and an expanded tower.
The background explains why the series plays out in an enormous tower of multiple levels, each with their own hazards and enemies. As a fantasy series, this is as…
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Tower of Druaga - Going into this show i wasn't sure what was going on based on the first episode but at the start of the second episode things quickly started to improve. You follow Jil as he tries to climb the Tower of Druaga to make a name for himself as a hero. Hes not your typical annoying male lead character and while he wants to save everyone as many leads do he comes across as believable and genuine. In fact all the characters are not your average band of cookie cutter party members and all have their own reasons for climbing the tower and their own distinct personalities.
The animation is of a good level throughout and while they may use some CG here and there such as the large army of Uruk it actually meshes pretty well and isn't your typical rubbish Gonzo CG. The show as a nice…
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I am sorry to say that this anime has been quite confusing, and I couldn't predict anything. Not like I must have control to enjoy something, but without having some solid ground, you don't know where GONZO's gonna throw you next. The series started out brilliantly, but as it went on, it felt like GONZO split up its team into sections. "OK, you make episode 4, and I'll make episode 5, and..." yeah, you get it. You can feel the disconnection between episodes, and GONZO is having a hard time finding the fine balance between comedy and serious plot movement that makes sense. However, it wasn't horrible and not worth watching at all, and it seems GONZO's gonna try this again with a new season next year.
STORY: 6/10
Not the most inventive thing you've ever heard of. A guy wants to be the hero…
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I'll make a short review for your convenience (if you haven't seen this anime yet).
Tower of Druaga ~The Aegis of Uruk~ is an adaptation of an old namco game with the same name. This anime is just like any other typical adventure anime engulfed with wacky antics that will leave an impression to you.
The story is somewhat generic. Basically it includes a group of climbers with the desire to obtain the Blue crystal rod (an item which is said to grant its bearers wish). It can be obtained after defeating Druaga who is located on top of the tower that is named after the evil lord Druaga himself. Certain plot twists were also present which sets this anime apart from most adventure anime titles. The animation company "Gonzo" is the one who's responsible for this one. I personally disliked Gonz…
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This spring season completely changed my opinions toward Gonzo. Blassreiter is already a very solid series and I have always been a CG-hater. Druaga, on the other hand, came as a wonderful surprise.
Druaga is not a masterpiece by any means, otherwise I wouldn't give it an 8 only. But it does have the potential to become a masterpiece. I was rather disappointed after the first episode because it was not funny at all (the Urua episode was much better IMO). In the next 11 episodes, I did see some interesting ideas and the writer did not drop them either. Unfortunately he didn't go on and explore them. Of course, one may argue that Druaga is a comedy anime in nature, and I'm perfectly fine with it. All I'm saying is that Druaga could be much better if the writers were more serious about thes…
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It would appear GONZO seem to think they can use their unique release format to gloss over the fact this series is riddled with flaws. There are three experiences to be had from Druaga, a hilarious comedy one, a somewhat below average action one and a dire fantasy one. It is literally a lottery as to which genre will be dominant in each episode.
The storyline couldn't possibly be any more generic; explore dungeon, defeat evil boss, find legendary treasure etc., its not even well executed. When its not being generic, it's being downright predictable, major plot points are seen coming a mile off. The pacing is atrocious, the characters will spend multiple episodes in floors relatively close to each other then magically be much further in the dungeon just so the series can finish within the…
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This is my first review, so hold up on the critics. :P
60 years after King Gilgamesh defeated the evil god Druaga, the tower that Druaga once resided in returns. The story follows rookie climber Jil, who got kicked out of his brother Neeba's team after failing miserably. Refusing to give up, he decides to look for new teams mates to again climb the tower to defeat Druaga and claim the prize for doing so, an artefact said to be able to grant any wish, the Blue Crystal Rod.
STORY:
Making use of a legendary name of "Tower of Druaga", fans from that age and generation will be very interested in watching it. They will be sorely disappointed. The references to the game are so lousily done, it made this almost a parody of it, which I highly doubt that was the intended motive. Even the overall p…
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