Introduction
High school student and gamer Suigin Riku attends the prestigious Shinryou Private Academy, a school for the elite and the children of the wealthy. But rich or wealthy are not words that describe Suigin; in fact, he is dirt poor and must work many part time jobs to pay for his tuition. During one such job, he dives into a pool to save his pet cat, fully aware that he cannot swim. Luckily, he is saved by Rei Riku, the beautiful and popular daughter of a game developer, and he falls in love with her.
He is also drawn to another girl: a new friend he meets in Dungeon Century, his favorite online RPG. But when the game is scheduled to shut down, he knows his adventures with her will soon end. However, the day after the game is shut down, he finds out that Rei and the online girl are one and the same. Soon after, Rei gives Suigin a new game meant to replace Dungeon Century—a tomb raiding game called Grave Buster. But when Rei is suddenly kidnapped, Suigin is pulled inside Grave Buster to save her.
Gin no Guardian follows Suigin as he plays through Grave Buster to save Rei, while uncovering the secrets hidden within the game.
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Audience reviews
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AgentHyPo
Gin no Guardian or The Silver Guardian is a very specific anime. Whilst it combines elements of other anime it managed to create it's own atmosphere with nice characters and story. Though it takes a while for to pick up pace.
It is important to note the first season slowly goes from an ordinary slice of life with comedy elements to the real plot point in Season 2.
I personally adored Gin no Guardian, mainly since it felt fresh and nice to watch with it's characters but story too.
The story whilst clearly taking inspiration from other anime just has this charm to it that kinda makes it stand it out and then it becomes a shame it's not more popular. Yet, it's very specific as you need to watch the entire first season and half of season 2 to see if you like it but i think it's worth it in t…
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Starts strong with the first two episodes setting up what seems to be a great story. Unfortunately after that they just kinda forget about all that and start making entire episodes on random other people with nothing to do with plot set by the first 2 episodes. Honestly the MC is not even the character you see the most.
I give it 5/10 because I like the MC, art and animation is decent, but the story and plot are basically non-existent. Maybe this would make sense if it was the first 12 episodes of a 50 episode series, but with just these 12 I just don't get it. The plot literally doesn't progress AT ALL for the last 8 episodes. Not to mention the plot that's there has a lot of holes in it. It'll show random scene that seems like it's important to the story, not explain anything about it,…
Read at the sourceToxicMinimum
This has no spoilers! But it does cover both seasons.
If you are looking for a show that has good anything really, you're in the wrong spot. This show was really bad and when I say bad I mean really bad. The story was forgettable and that in my opinion is one of the worst things an anime can do, Be forgettable... If the story was good maybe you could get some pleasure of some type from watching this but here is my honest statement please do not watch this without reading reviews first. Its painstakingly bad and from what I have seen its not even a complete show. It leaves you at episode 6 in season 2 and by that time I had already forgot what all of season 1 was about. This show has some major issues being that its incomplete and has next to no story but, to finish I have to say watch thi…
Read at the sourceQichar
Gin no Guardian is not good. The art is average, the sound is forgettable, and there is nothing about the story or characters that make you glad you watched the whole thing. All in all, it's an experience that can be skipped.
I suppose on the surface this is a shonen anime in the same style as Sword Art Online. A boy is tagged to save the world via his loner video gaming lifestyle. His fate is star-crossed with an improbably attractive young lady who also happens to share a hidden past with him. It's quite trite and makes you wonder if perhaps this was cobbled together from the ideas of much better anime.
But it fails as a shonen battle anime. Fights scenes are incoherent and slap-dash. There are no clear rules of battle and abilities are not explained at all prior to just appearing out…
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For the producers: Just adding everything you need for a good anime, doesn't mean YOU CAN SKIP THE ANIME.
It had all the potential, art, sound, story,... to be a good anime. Why did you leave so many loose ends? Where did the anime go? It's like your just showcasing ideas for a possible anime.
Story: It's a total rip of from Sword Art Online, like totally... The more I think about it the more it resembles it. Also it's way to short and nothing is really explained. There are also real time skips and you really have to watch it in one go because it jumps from one scene to another.
Art & Sound : It's really good so that's great.
Length: Why.. Why! Why 13 min episodes? Who told you that's a good idea D:
Character: The main character is okay, I mean he's a little to much…
Read at the sourceKactoos
As I had seen many different opinions about this Anime I decided to write my review. It is spoiler -free so, if you want to know, if it is worth or not to see - then I'll try to tell you. Also I'm gonna tell something about opinions that I've seen because it's connected to each other. Let's start then!
First of all, if you are looking for a ambitious story - then you should watch something else. If you just want an addictive story, then you can watch it. The plot of the anime is "simply complicated". First season of Gin no Guardian is something like an introducing to the world. It's like an tutorial in game, not really more.
Main characters are not intricately, but it's easy to like them. Main protagonist is typical and definitely not an unique, but he is kinda goofy and can be reason to…
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STORY: 6/10
CHARACTER: 5/10
ART: 9/10
SOUND: 9/10
ENJOYMENT: 8/10
OVERALL: 7/10
‘Gin no Guardian’ is an anime that resorts to ‘Not overexerting itself’, meaning they go ahead with everything they are comfortable with while leaving out the rest for later! The story is a little confusing in the beginning since the show makes a point of jumping around with their narrative. You start at a strange place with the MC, who’s in this ‘Cool and OP’ stage, as he’s wiping out enemies left and right after which the story jumps right back to its opening where the said MC is just another typical student! These ‘Jumps’ aren’t used a lot, but they are pretty jarring! The biggest complain everyone had is the freaking run time of the show, for they are about 13 minutes long including both the OP and ED! Yea…
Read at the sourceKawaiidingo
The best part of this anime is the outtro song.
"The story starts from a cupid game
I met a girl that day
She's the one controls the fate
I fell in love that day
I have to win her, have to win the game
Well, if you wanna win you've gotta play
let money pave the way" This is the most basic anime I've ever seen. Girl gets captured, and boy needs to save girl. Throw in some bs fight scenes with random powers, there you go.
I won't lie, the first 3-5 episodes had me interested. It's quitet practical the way the game changes from a skill/time based training game to a pay-to-win mobile game. HA. It's almost making fun of gaming companies that convert to pay-to-win and milk their players.
Read at the sourceMowse98
[SPOILER FREE/SHORT REVIEW]
This is currently the worst thing I have ever added to my list, though I wouldn't say it is the worst show I have ever watched. This is because I don't even consider this a show.
It has been two months since I watched this and I have already forgotten 90% of what happened in it, mainly due to its lack of substance. Nothing matters in this show; there are no stakes, no meaningful character motivations and the show just forgets about its own plot line halfway through.
The first episode opens with a scene that has no context that seems to be set later in the story. Basically a guy massacres a bunch of 'undead'. As someone who thoroughly enjoyed steins;gate, this scene gave me expectations that this scene would come up again as some plot point later on that woul…
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STORY: First, it takes place in another world where it contains an explosion and fleet of monsters are battling against Riku Suigin. There is also a flashback on how Suigin & Rei met one year ago. In the anime, you can also see Suigin working in multiple part-time jobs in order to be enrolled in his school. There is also another side to him where he is playing an online PC game called Dungeon Century during his free time. Things become more interesting once the gaming company announced the game will shut down. It became Suigin's mission to save Rei from her abductors.
Riku Rei: One of the popular girls in school, smart student, her family are part of the God Grave Tech Company and created Dungeon Century & Grave Buster, gamer, kind and has pink hair.
Riku Suigin: Gamer, works in multiple…
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My first review...
Beginning of the show started out strong (first couple episodes) and showed some promise.
The shorter episodes left a bitter taste. I didn't even know anime episodes could be this short.
Story line jumped all over the place and was full of holes not to mention continuously adding new characters out of no where.
I'd like to know how if the new game just started and Suigin was the first to get the console/game how he could be the most amateur/newb out there with no knowledge of this game compared to everyone around him...like wtf. Not to mention he started out OP and competent and now is just a floppy wet lame towel.
With so many flaws and holes in this anime at least it has some good potential, perhaps the creator can acknowledge the failures and improve upon them. H…
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