Audience reviews
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IchUndAnime
(Note: Since I'm currently looking into the anime, I thought I could revise my original review from 2022 and upload it here in English.)
Tija is great. I watched this anime slightly overtired and had endless fun, because tigers are great.
"Grimoire of Zero" is about the mercenary Mercenary - yes, we don't know his name yet - and Zero. In a world full of magic, in a world of witches and witch burnings, an organization suddenly appears that promises to free the witches from the oppression of humans and avenge the death of a well-known and popular witch. But at the very end of the land, the tiger man and witch hunter encounters the witch Zero - an incredibly powerful witch in search of her book, which is said to have the power to destroy the world.
"Grimoire of Zero" has charm, without a d…
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The show is borderline between "it's ok, I can finish this" and "boring".
Grimoire has a couple of visible issues that make this into a mediocre show:
1. It's concentrated around a few characters with some support cast who only appear once-twice for a couple of minutes and disappear.
This means that we need to have some proper development of both the characters themselves and the relationships between them. Both parts are very limited and shallow simply following a formulaic path of an average plotline. There is nothing special here, at all. Sure, maybe someone will be amused by "uwu she is sleeping on a furry" part, but it worked mostly as comedy.
2. The bland experience.
Since the story doesn't have much comedy beyond the creepy tailor and some gags in the opening episodes, there are als…
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Zero Kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho is a production based off of a series of light novels. The novel were published in eleven volumes from early '14 to late '17. It has an ongoing manga adaptation and this anime that aired at close to its end. The anime was brought to us by White Fox, the studio that produced such colossal shite as Goblin Slayer & Katanagatari but also brought us some strong anime like Jormungand and Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka. Let's hope for the best but anticipate the worst with this one. Which is pretty much my modus operandi.
Story:
Our protagonist is a beastfallen mercenary, which basically means someone's white tiger fursona. One day he's escaping from a witch when he encounters a young looking witch named Zero. She persuades him to work as her bodyguard while she loo…
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Just writing because loads of people did a bad review.
This anime is not a masterpiece or something that will mark or change your view of the world. However, it is still enjoyable. I'm guessing the people who reviewed it badly had high expectations of this anime.
The whole setting its normal. Not a flawless universe, not characters doing the most intelligent action, it actually shows how real people would react because they don't have the capacity to be wise.
So, to who I don't think they will like it:
Anyone who wants stimulation.
Please who like skipping to the important parts instead of watching everything.
People who everyone needs to act or do or whatever like this or that because that's what they support to do mindset aka overanalyzing
People who want a perfect anime
People who wan…
Read at the sourcekawaii123456
1st thing you need to know about any Anime. It ends properly. There's no second season so having an ending is important.
Unfortunately the most important thing doesn't matter because it's GARBAGE and it's not just garbage it's jumbled nonsensical garbage.
From start to finish the show makes zero sense. It's not that there are underlying mechanisms to magic in the world that are slowly revealed, or there are hidden motivations to the characters, it's just that everything in the show is either outright stupid , self contradictory or both. Toss in a really good helping of "STFU IT'S BECAUSE I SAY SO", logic, and you have a story line that makes you want to hit your head into a wall until your brain stops working.
OK the world makes no sense, been there done that, hows the story line ? It's…
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To start off i enjoyed my time with Grimoire of Zero, while it is not an anime of the year let alone season it is a good use of time to watch.
Story:The story was fine, it starts with our protagonist the catlike "Mercenary" fighting a witch and stumbling upon another witch(Zero).
He joins with the lather witch do to necessity; and forms a contracts by blood. And the former(Albus) because of his contract with the Zero.
Like many high fantasy style animes/stories the plot follows resolve around the fate of the world. In this case the story follows the conflict between those who have magic and those who do not.
Story:The art is reminiscent of older works in the medium. Which while normally jarring fits with the simplistic plot commonly found in shows of the past.
Sound: The sound was nei…
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Hey. I'd like to leave a review here. My ranking system is explained on my profile.
Story -
7/10
The story was a typical conflict between different groups. The story had nothing very special to it. The main twist was decent but was predictable due to certain shots from earlier in the anime. The story was slightly better than most anime with the premise due to the involvement of Beastfallen, a certain race which is treated as inferior to humans (Revealing more about them would spoil the plot.). There was decent character development.
Originality -
5/10 Not Original. Plus points for the Beastfallen though
Animation Quality -
7/10
It had a decent animation quality. Nothing too special.
Sound effects/Music -
6/10
Same for the sound. Standard
Profound message -
6/10
There was a…
Read at the sourceBanjoTheBear
(This review has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
I hope to one day write my own novel.
While writing reviews, analyses, and essays is my forte, I have always had a keen interest in fiction. Whether completely imaginary like the Harry Potter series or closer to realism like 1984, the approach involves a different mindset that is fun to indulge. Creating witty dialogue. Describing scenery. Forming logical plotlines. It’s much different than articulating how an anime accomplished its goals or basing events off a personal set of ideas.
Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho features a novel of sorts – the Grimoire of Zero – written by one of its characters. In some sense, it contains the purely fictional (to us at any rate). Sadly, it doesn’t contain the solution for the…
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I think many reviews didn't do justice to this piece of work. Hence I created an account to write for this review.
My first thought after I finished the show was : It makes me remember Spice and Wolf.
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There is a reason why this show has a rating 7.2 or above 7 while the reviews has mixed feelings about it.
1) The plot and characters are standard and nothing special. (Rating : 7 standard)
----- True , but it doesn't mean is has no depth. The whole story has a simple and VERY BASIC background settings.....
but the depth is there hence you don't see shitty rating of 6.9 and below.
*** Trust me , you will find similarities between this show and other big names simply because it has good basics. Just like how all good romance genres has certain similarities with each other.…
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So, the first (wrong) thing this show did was to overestimate the capacity of people to make the difference between Mahō(魔法) - Magic and Majutsu(魔術) - Sorcery. While they are kind of synonyms they have the same difference as normal Alchemy and Alchemy with a Philosopher's Stone. The top review of this series makes this (retarded in my opinion) mistake and makes a lot of comments on the fact that the series is stupid because "how could witches exist before magic if magic was invented by a witch only recently" (Jaden Smith anyone? No?). Well, it is stated, SEVERAL TIMES, that they used sorcery, not magic. Damn, the white tiger (I'm bad with names) even says: "This magic is very convenient because until now you had to draw circles and make sacrifices". Also,(this is not a spoiler) regarding Z…
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I really wanted to give this show a better review because I was loving it...for the first 3/4. I think it suffers from the same things a lot of the 12 episode series out there do. Basically, the world was fairly well developed, the characters seemed interesting and had room to fill out their history. The plot was intriguing, with mysteries to solve. Then you get to the last couple episodes, and the whole thing kind of vomits up all of the answers and exposition you never wanted, combined with a rushed ending that magically ties up all of the loose ends but really leaves a lot of holes in logic. It even feels like the writing takes a hit in those last couple episodes, like they either didn't have time to polish the script, or they were too rushed to cram in exposition and it hurt the dialog…
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In short note:
Beauty and the Beast, Fantasy anime version
Story: 8
It seems like a typical fantasy world adventure at first, but the plot thickens in the middle with several twists behind another twist. Although it feels a bit off in the end, this may or may not be the best point of the show.
Art: 7
Standard LN adaptation art style, and Character Design. But the city in medieval age portrayal , Beastmen model and landscapes was looks nice too. The battle scenes and the spellworks were decent even without that spectacular movement. This is a show about mage after all and mage doesn't move that much. The spinning bottle scene was hilariously real.
Sound: 6
Standard BGM during fights, nice ED. Nothing much to say in here.
Character: 6
Aside from MC and Main Heroine, all other Character a…
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Spoiler free!!
This anime is kind of well what should i say (kind a cute!!) has lots of kawii!! moments ...well has a decent plot so...if your looking for a fantasy anime it fits the bill...and might get a bit plain in the middle and in the end so dont expect too much from it the chemistry between MC(the tiger ) and zero is nice some thing very similar to beauty and the beast .....but with different bonds. So if your having a hard time finding a decent anime you should watch it...dont expect to much...has fine not too good action ...and sometimes things go way to positive..
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My first thoughts were: "Oh, seems like someone is short of ideas how to name shows".
The story takes us to a magic world filled with witches... and beastfallen. Okay, from the very beginning it doesn't proclaims itself as something totally new. The setting is meh. The show manages to convey world's history in a poor way. How many times did you see a world with witches (magicians, special ability users, ninjas, gamers, hamsters) and those who hunt them? One way or another... I've encountered it myself dozens times. Overused troops are present here in quite a number. I had a vague sensation of secondariness in everything.
It begins with an union of the beast and the girl. I have to admit this part is quite cute and pleasant to observe. The anime should have concentrate on a relationship…
Read at the sourceDunkjoe
Initially, I enjoyed this series since it portrayed a "godly" character and there was undoubtedly a lot of potential, but the last 2 episodes were, if anything, reversing its potential in the earlier episodes.
Story:4
Well, the story had a few twists along the way, but it's along the way of an adventure and trying to resolve a conflict. Basically it's about a war going on between sorcerors and non-sorcerors and how Zero wishes to find her book, but really, it's kinda cliched and predictable at times.
Art:8
Kinda standard but smooth animation.
Sound:8
Kinda standard as well. Character:3
This is the category that is really subpar. Apart from really scant character development and background along the way, some of the characters seem to be inconsistent in their behaviour, thus making the w…
Read at the sourceSeadragongamv
So this series is nice and it is kinda great to see a new anime series with races like beauty and the beast
My complain is just this anime is too pushed and eventhough it takes 1 novel in 1 anime which is freakin slow, they should have been more detailed
I mean like when that wolf and 13 turned into super ally and kind after doing horrible things like mass killing & slaving(btw I still hate that wolf for slaving womens)
Also what is the reason for albus to like mercenary? Why she kiss mercenary?
Ah btw for me mercenary x Alb... *cough* I mean MERCENARY X ZERO FTW!! XD
We do really need some more romance if there any season 2 :3
Read at the sourcePyraXadon
These days, witches are regarded as practitioners of magic and act as the female equivalent of wizards in what would be considered as the pop culture norm for magic. While their original existence no longer has any place in society today, the history of evil witches, people who have made deals with the devil and practice witchcraft still lingers in the ugly recesses of history. With that said, what would happen if you put both of them together? To create a world where in a sense, both the meaning of witches in history and pop culture come together?
Story: The Grimoire of Zero story starts us off in the land of Wenias, a place plagued by those who practice magic known as witches and men who born as animal known as Beastfallen. It is here where we meet a certain beastfallen simply known as…
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I'm kind of mad because I had my review started and than I accidentally closed the browser. I guess I'll be writing it again. Luckily, I wasn't that far.
Grimoire of Zero certainly has brought out mixed feelings among the viewers. Many people really like or even love the show, while many others, like myself, just like it. There are also the people who just don't care for it that much. It's good either way, but it does have its ups and downs.
The story is simple. Zero and Mercenary meet unexpectedly after Mercenary falls from a hill top above where Zero was camping out when he was being chased by witches, I believe (I actually forget the details concerning his fall from weeks ago). She forms a contract with him than and promises to turn him into a human, as long as he helps her find the G…
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This review will contain significant spoilers to illustrate several lapses of logic within the show.
I thought I'd put in my two cents to this show to help contrast some of the more positive views. Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho (or GoZ as I'll refer to it) is in every sense a mediocre fantasy show. It does very little to distinguish itself from it's peers of the fantasy genre and has multiple lapses in logic and commonsense.
GoZ is a action magic fantasy that follows the story of three characters. Two witches, named Zero and Albus as well as a unnamed mercenary. Zero is a somewhat special witch as she is the author of the titular Grimoire of Zero that has spread magic into the kingdom in which the GoZ is set. Zero is searching for 13, (and her grimoire) we do not know her reasons for s…
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Like many shows relating to fantasy, magic, and witchcraft, I can’t say that Zero kara hajimeru Mahou no Sho looks any unique compared to the rest at first glance. I mean, if you look at it carefully, the show’s premise is pretty standard that involves a conflict between human and witches. The additional aspect of beastfallen (cursed humans with animalistic appearances) adds some slight intrigue to the story. But is this show really worth investing time in? Or is it just a show that panders to fans that wants a dose of fantasy in their life?
Adapting the light novel of the same name, Zero kara hajimeru Mahou no Sho (Grimoire of Zero) takes a very high fantasy approach with both its characters and story. The most noticeable character is a beastfallen dubbed as “Mercenary” by the witch Zero…
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