Audience reviews
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RESOLVING_POWER
I watched all 12 episodes of Time Travel Shoujo: Mari Waka to 8-nin no Kagakusha-tachi. Here are my thoughts:
I have very little to say about this anime. This is basically the Japanese equivalent of an educational TV show that a school teacher might throw on when they're feeling lazy or something. It literally aired on Saturday morning and is targeted to a child audience. I mainly just watched it while I was eating breakfast.
The educational focus of the show is on electricity and magnetism. There are various relevant experiments that get incorporated into the show, and there are also some short educational segments at the end of each episode. For me, the most amusing aspect of the anime was the incorporation of various western historical figures into the cast, like Benjamin Franklin and…
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Time Travel Girl functions as both educational adventure and mystery as high schooler Mari finds a pendant and book belonging to her missing father that somehow causes her to travel back in time and encounter several historical inventors famous for their major contributions to scientific and technological advances. Outside of Mari's encounters with famous inventors like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison, the series adds to the education theme by having segments at the end of each episode that demonstrate the means by which each of the inventions function.
In regards to the historical exploration from Time Travel Girl, the series believably depicts its time periods from the fashions to the societies to how technologies are utilized. The series aims to show the challenges that each invent…
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This is a great anime to get your child to watch. It's full of very important scientists and it shows good morals all around
Story 8/10
While the story is kind of sketchy on the start )read- how the hell can they do that), it develops really nicely in the end. The scientists that they show us are very inspiring people and every time they introduce a new one, they show an experiment or two that they're holding at that time.
Art 8/10
The art is a good mix of 2D and 3D, as is usual. The characters are very moe (probably due to the age of the target audience) which limits their face details. The dresses and uniforms that they use are very detailed and accurate for the times which is nice as well. The animation is fluid, especially around the time travel parts. Also, damn all the male chara…
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Time Travel Girl at the start was a pleasant surprise among the Summer anime season. By the end, I have some major criticisms, but still, I enjoyed the ride. It had a likeable set of characters and interesting premise. It was strict to formula, but was never overly ambitious. Each episode left me feeling satisfied and a want to continue, for the first nine episodes at the least. Then, I just trekked through the rest.
The formula is usually one episode focused on one of the eight scientists, though sometimes two for a certain few of them. There's a certain situation or issue happening that concerns the protagonist Mari in the present. Her issue will "coincidentally" match with the scientist in the past, even sometimes with the scientist giving her words of wisdom, providing the lesson of t…
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Kids Show. well, adult may be able to relate it because it's basically about the history, specifically on how the Electromagnetic waves or electricity was invented. (woo)
Characters are well-made. but i hope the focused more with them, ...(T_T) like, they put more importance to them.
story line - 7/10. they just focus on the story of those inventors on how they created their inventions. (just read your history/science books then .. lol :D) though ,it's kind of a refresher for me either, well its been a long time since i read my science book., i dont even remeber their works.
voice actors --- well since i love Toyosaki,aKi, (sphere group -all of them), thumbs up :D
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History of physics - the anime. An edutainment show through and through on magnetism and electricity.
Story - 7
Girl's father went missing. Girl discovers father's time travel machine and goes back in time to find her father with the help of her neighbours. Evil organisation is hunting down her father as well. Not the most original plot, but it's a mere device to explore the history of science in every episode, with a real life explanation of how the theory works at the end of the episode after the credits.
The writer made it as close to history as possible, and kept the small details (Things you never knew you never knew) like Michael Faraday forgetting to credit Davy and Wollaston for his thesis, Ben Franklin arguing with the local pastor over installing lightning rods on churches, a…
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MariWaka is not i.) a dark, unsettling anime produced exclusively for Fuji's infamous Noitamina block, ii.) a story about emotionally unstable teenagers, iii.) something relying on the emotional buoyancy of tragedy to keep its story afloat, and/or iv.) a work with outstanding animation, so it will ultimately be forgotten.
And that much is not fair.
It's not that any of the above traits are bad qualities for an anime to have, but MariWaka is at a disadvantage for being itself and nothing more; being an edutainment anime that is primarily geared towards children and their parents. For the same sick and twisted reason, it is also suitable for people who are tired of the medium; it has some tropes you'll undeniably be familiar with, but nothing worth giving up hope for.
At worst, it is an…
Read at the sourceTentaculat
Literally a Saturday morning show ( airing at 7 AM JST ) it tells the story of Mari, a middle schooler, and her friend Waka as they travel to different times in our history and meet some of the most influential inventors in human history while trying to find Mari's dad.
The show is aimed at children so don't expect any mature themes from it, but it's still well made and fun enough that it can be enjoyed by everyone. This also means the show avoid the usual anime cliché tropes and instead gives us a very likable cast of characters who are very fun to watch and easy to like.
As I mentioned above the show revolves around Mari a middle schooler who's dad has been missing for three years. Before leaving, her dad gave her a necklace that, as it turns out, is a part of a time traveling machine.…
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Time Travel has been a bit of a craze in 2016, but this anime takes things to a weird degree. Time Travel Shoujo: Mari Waka to 8-nin no Kagakusha-tachi is essentially an edutainment anime, mostly focusing on science by a Japanese highschooler time traveling back to eras of important scientists like Graham Bell and Benjamin Franklin.
As a basis for an anime focused on entertaining kids about the "beauty" of science, for the most part, they do it decently, making the entire time traveling both playful and "educational", but oddly enough there is a subplot that seems more serious than the genre gives us (secret organization after the main protagonist' father and his time machine comes to mind).
In terms of characters, we got our typical highschool girls of Mari Hayase voiced by Aki Toyosak…
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