Audience reviews
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NinaNikiforov
I really enjoyed this anime, especially because of its characters. The sport itself isn’t explained very much, so if you’re looking for a detailed sports anime, this might not be for you. But the interactions between the characters feel surprisingly realistic and mature. You can really get a sense of what goes on in the mind of an athlete—the pressure, doubts, ambitions, insecurities, and relationships. I also really liked how the characters grow and change throughout the story, and how their personal struggles affect their relationships with each other. For me, this made the anime much more interesting than the actual diving. And personally, I found the ending quite emotional. Definitely underrated!
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I'd like to recommend an anime that doesn’t get much love on MyAnimeList, but that I personally really enjoyed: DIVE!!
The Mizuki Diving Club (MDC) is on the verge of being shut down. To turn things around, an American coach named Kayoko Asaki is brought in, with one clear goal: get at least one of the boys to qualify for the Olympics.
The anime gives us a real glimpse into how challenging the sport of diving is. It’s not enough to perform clean dives — athletes also have to choose high-difficulty and visually impressive dives to catch the judges’ attention.
The club dynamic is also interesting: the boys are friends, teammates, and rivals, all competing for the same dream.
The main characters include:
Tomoki, sensitive and sometimes insecure, but deeply passionate;
Yōichi, the team’s…
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So I was looking through the "Summer Stack Challenges" and saw Dive!!, I like diving sports so I took a shot at this anime. It's missing everything that the other sports animes have, for example, there's a lack of energy and adrenaline that the characters give off making them forgettable and a bit boring. Additionally, there's a lack of information about the diving techniques, scoring, and difficulty levels. Furthermore, in other sports animes, there is competition and we get to see the teams progress in order to beat the other teams, in Dive!! there are hardly any competitors shown; it makes us (the audience) question what pushes these characters to improve and train harder.
Additionally, there are moments in the anime that build tension, however we don't get to see anything come out of…
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I watched Dive!!. Here are my thoughts:
So, as you might have guessed, this is a fairly typical sports show that is focused on diving. Much of the show revolves around the preparation, and selection, of athletes for the Olympics. Going to the (Tokyo) Olympics is certainly relevant to recent world events at the time of my writing this. Overall this show has a pretty amateurish feeling and seems low budget.
Considerable attention is paid to the technical aspects of diving, certainly moreso than I expected. This is a very unique feature of this anime and one of the main reasons I stuck with it. It was interesting to learn about the sport of diving through this medium. In fact I would have liked to have seen even more focus on the details of the sport (maybe I should've just watched a docume…
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I binged the show I think it's a good show, but not a masterpiece and not many people may like it because the anime has some negatives in my opinion which can be a huge turndown for some people.
Let's start with the negatives:
- Rules of diving and the scoring system are not explained. This is a problem because not everyone who will watch the series is a fan of the sport and it's not famous or intuitive enough for people to understand the sport.
- While I think the main cast is good enough, the secondary characters are in my opinion not well developed and/or serve just to drive the story forward and put struggles to our protagonists.
- We don't know enough about the personal lives of the three main characters except for Shibuki. We do see some bits like Youichi being the son of one of…
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This is definitely not the best sports anime by a long shot but it was interesting enough to binge and be somewhat engaged with. I was intrigued with the plot and actually wanted to know what was going to happen. However, it definitely had its boring, generic moments and everything felt contrived, from the fan service, to the dialogue, to the "convenient" ending. You'll know what I mean if you watch this...
I think you should watch this if you like sports anime and enjoyed Free, but expect way less entertainment value. It's a low-budget version of Free tbh.
I thought the art was nice, but there was less emphasis on the actual diving portion of the show. Other sports anime actually go in-depth on the sports and explain the scoring, and take you into the inner psyche of a character before…
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anime felt pretty boring to me to be honest, i don't think it really focus on the main plot which is "Diving". there isn't much explanation about the sport related topic as well.
additionally, the characters' drama seems to overshadow the plot. too dramatic for my liking to be honest.
even though, i like watching "diving" sport during olympics etc., i think there should have been explanation on their points grading during competition because not many people would have understand how they are being graded.
but in general, can't really expect much from anime that ends in twelve or thirteen episodes as many things will be squeeze into such little episodes and a lot of explanations are left out which always keep people guessing when the anime ends.
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I recently finished this anime and all those reviews made my question all this false marketing. I see a lot of critique about the relationship being forced and I do see where everyone is coming from, however, you can still understand the main character. Do I see this anime as I masterpiece? Absolutely not. Is it worth watching? Yes. It is a good anime that shows the struggles of someone trying to achieve their dream. Yes, it's lacking a lot but we're talking about a 12 episode anime. It's not all that easy to wrap a whole plot in 12 episodes without rushing the story.
People also compare it to Free! which really isn't the thing here, yes both of them are about shirtless men in swimming pools, but Free had more focus on the relationship between each and every member while Dive!! was focusi…
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I suggest to those who love sports anime, please take this as just another sports anime. If you're here to watch and compare Dive to other sports anime like Haikyuu, Yuri on ice, Free!, you'll be sorely disappointed. But if you take it as a normal sports anime, without holding any expectations or benchmarks, this is a very good anime that you can take quite a bit from.
The character development was great. I can say that this was pretty realistic in showing the diving industry in Japan especially if you're not very familiar with it. The characters all managed to change and improve in their own ways. They're not super flashy about it but if you pay attention, you'll definitely see them grow.
The art was simple but beautiful and the OP and ED suited the anime very well, in my opinion.
I w…
Read at the sourceCheesypi
Dive!! is a sports anime that isn’t. Just a few glaring flaws:
- Not enough energy / adrenaline
- No explaination of scoring / scores
- Hardy any explaination of techniques + why they are difficult
- Lack of development of rival oragnizations
BUT I Dive isn't a sports anime. It is a character-driven story about the coming-of-age of our main characters – and it does this very well. Instead of a focus on one main character, the show introduces, and heavily develops multiple characters, showing them experience new things together and alone, growing as teenagers. It is a brilliant coming-of-age story with unique, no cliché characters, using competitive diving as a prop for development. I see it quite similar to Yuri on Ice. It is not about a sport, it is about the characters playing the spo…
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Ok, this is my first time writing a review so..
Well, where do we start? I guess from the begining. Dive!! is an anime about, you guessed it, diving, but it does little to nothing to get you exited for it. As we all know, at least the ones that have already watched an spocon, you don't have to like the sport that the series is about, you don't even have to know about it's very existance to like the anime itself and that is one of the many things this show does wrong. The anime fails in selling you the sport, they barely explain how the scores work and how the judges judge, and what the difference is between a good and a bad dive, an so on. So, having failed with one of the most important things of this anime genre we naturally proceed to take a look at the next most important thing, the c…
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It's pretty hard to imagine that there would be a way to make an anime about competitive diving interesting. Dive!! does nothing to change your mind in that regard. What you end up getting is a very average, typical sports anime.
The story itself is okay but any efforts to add dramatic or comedic elements fail for the most part. The art is good although I do have a little gripe with how the reflection of light off the water's surface looks on the divers bodies. The best chance the anime had of drawing me in I thought would have been the way they chose to animate the dives. With the exception of the final episode, I thought the animation was just about average. The soundtrack was good and it was utilized well throughout the series. The characters were okay for the most part although they we…
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