Introduction
Waking up in a strange bedroom in a dream world, teenager Haruto Tsukishiro finds a strange app on his phone. When he activates the program, an odd woman appears and tries to drag him to her realm. Luckily, a mysterious, white-haired girl severs their connection and helps him escape, revealing that the woman is a witch; however, their conversation is cut short. As Haruto enters the realm again, he meets an anthropomorphic, talking cat named Katsumi Kanzaki. While the witch's minions pursue them, the white-haired girl opens a door for them to escape.
After their ordeal, Haruto describes their savior—which only he can see—and Katsumi, the leading authority on dream world research, realizes that she must be "Lily," a being that resurfaces repeatedly across multiple dreamscapes. Hoping to leave the dream world through a blue door, they enter the witch's realm once again. Finding themselves in peril, Lily reveals the truth to Haruto: witches suffer from "Sleeping Beauty Syndrome," a coma-like sleep state induced by torment in their real world lives. Thus, they cannot wake until they are defeated in the dream world.
After finally defeating the witch and locating the blue door, Haruto and Katsumi say their farewells, promising to meet up in the real world. However, when Haruto exits through the door, he awakens in the dream world bedroom once more. Seeking answers, Haruto and Katsumi try to uncover the mysteries of the witches, Lily, and Haruto's own inability to leave the dream world.
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Audience reviews
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MisakixUsagi15
This anime felt as if I was watching an alternative version of Alice in wonderland mixed with the movie paprika. At first I thought I was following the amines storyline, then things kind of got...weird, then I thought I knew what was going on. Finally I got to the end and felt the same way I did after watching that movie inception. The art work is amazing and bright, and I think I liked one of the characters, and I don't doubt anyone who watches it will enjoy it. Overall it was kind of cool and I'm sure this anime is perfect for people who like Alice in Wonderland, or anyone who prefers anime that is newer as opposed to the older art styles.
Read at the sourceZanryu1337
18if is a strange and indecisive anime. It came with an tie-in mobile game "18: Kimi to Tsunagaru Puzzle" and had 11 different directors for the 13 episodes. This constant change of directors led to a bunch of different art styles and stories. Thus it is hard to come up with a single genre type for this anime. But most of them would categorize under Psychological as psychotic issues and their after effects are a constant underline here.
The story, in broad terms, follows Haruto as he confronts girls is psychological needs in their dreams. He is assisted by Professor Kanzaki with his own agenda and mostly acts as a bridge between reality and the dream world.
It is hard to generalize what makes the anime, as a whole, good or bad, as, as mentioned earlier, almost each episode had a differen…
Read at the sourceNylonNeko
[*Contains little to no spoilers*]
I don't usually write reviews, but this time I kinda ended up having commentaries for every episode, so I thought might as well post them here.
First off, the opening and the always-different endings were really fitting and good. I'm not usually a person that gives bonus points for a good soundtrack, but this time the soundtrack was either so good, or the rest was so bad that I think the OST is the best part about the whole anime. Heck, I discovered this anime from listening (and loving) to the ending of the seventh episode called "Too late" by Nene, Inori Minase.
Rating this was a pain, since there were different directors and this anime was really "artsy" to me. So my rating is going to be the average of all my ratings for each eipsode combined:
1st…
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18IF ANIME REVIEW - 11-27-2018
OVERALL: 7.6
PLOT: 9
Have you ever try to write something you think is very interesting? Like you know that it really have that sense and concept which can hook the audience? At first, this series is kinda strange, and confusing. The first episode will make you question its entirety. Is it good? Is it worth the time to watch? But along the story, you'll find the things that the author wanted to tell. You'll find that its plot is kind of a whole other level. This anime shows different kind of stories that tackles about living, how different people are, their status, their goals, their desire, manifest in their mind and bring it into another world which we all really know of. I really feel that there's a deeper meaning the creator of this story wanted to tel…
Read at the sourceLegendAqua
18if is an anime adaptation based on those Candy Crush match three mobile puzzle games but that little tidbit isn't much to talk about as 18if has the unique trait of being those animes where a new director helms nearly every episode, akin to Mayoi Neko Overrun but in a fantasy setting instead of a romantic comedy.
18if has Haruto Tsukishiro voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki who wakes up in a dream world and is stuck in this plain of existence and each episode he helps a witches wake up from "Sleeping Beauty Syndrome" . Plain and simple.
Each episode focuses on the witch in question and as to how they got into the situation they got themselves in, mainly through bullying, personal trauma or a traumatic incident that lead them down becoming witches, now each witch and therefore each episode ha…
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So I started watching 18if because I heard it was artsy and had a different director for each episode. And while there are 11 episode directors for this 13-episode show—and there are even some episodes that could be considered . . . good?—this show is ultimately very, very bad.
Note: review contains very minor spoilers.
TL;DR: Anime sourced from sh*tty mobile game is also sh*tty, but episodes 3, 7, and 10 are worth watching alone if the show’s premise tickles your fancy.
18if could have been good. There’s some real heart tucked deep down inside, and it tries to address big, relatable issues that real people face: bullying, disability, death, eating disorders—you get the idea. The problems with 18if arise when you consider how poor quality much of it is. It feels like every aspect of the…
Read at the sourceYemi_Hikari
Disappointing?
The only reason I stuck to the end was because I liked the main character and wanted to find out what happened to him, but the ending left a sour feeling in the pit of my stomach, meaning I find it hard to recommend the series on that aspect alone, particularly when I as a viewer found myself asking why. Nothing regarding the plot makes sense, but the series feels so much like someone took concept from Angel Beats, Little Busters or some other similar Anime series and spat it back out without thinking about what draws viewers to these series. It's just not there, and one might say that's a twist - but when you throw away the draw of the genre, is that really a twist? I don't think so.
The artwork in one regard I'll admit works - the changing of art styles, yet the person i…
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This anime depicts the various faces of life : love,hate,revenge,bullying and more.
Each episode could be considered a story of it's own, of the 11 first episodes, there is no need to follow them in order. The story has a decent story line but it is not the focus.
The highlight of this show is the difference between each of the episodes. It is a breeze for me, different from those action anime.
I have really enjoyed the intro to the anime, very interesting style it has. It has drawn me to watch curiously wondering what it would be. I also liked the fact that each ending changed, I was really surprised of this and it hooked me to finish the whole 24mins.
The characters are different from each others, their person are well drawn.But some may not like that the characters are dumped and onl…
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Though I found 18if entertaining enough to finish in entirety, I probably wouldn't recommend it to a friend.
The art is the most memorable feature, with episode ten being my personal favorite. Each episode varies in style, something that I genuinely and thoroughly enjoyed.
In terms of characters, I felt there was a lack of depth - even to our main, Haruto, in spite of having had plenty of time to flesh him out for the viewers. In fact, there were some major inconsistencies to his personality. Each of the witches' seemed to develop a near blind infatuation for him which, as a woman, I found particularly annoying.
The story itself was rather anticlimactic. Understanding though I am of the world having been dreamt up (anything can happen in a dream, right?), I still felt that some of the o…
Read at the sourceAkumo-sama
ENG-The story is good and bad at the same time. The main idea, the subject of this story is good, however, there are too many inconsistencies in the scenario. These inconsistencies unbalance the story.
On the artistic side, it's not bad, it's just passable. The animation sometimes has problems, although even so, some episodes are really beautiful visually. Episode 7 was really fantastic from an artistic point of view.
In my opinion, the sound effects and voices were good. The opening is pretty basic, neither very bad nor very good, just like the ending.
The characters are bad. I mean, they are interesting, but lack development. It's a little frustrating.
If I personally liked this anime, it is thanks to the story that is different from those of the more "classic" anime.
FR-L'histoire est…
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I've found this anime pretty boring, and I didn't like it at all.
The first episode seemed pretty good, and I really hoped for an interesting story. They showed a lot of things that seemed like an interesting story-line. And then, in the next chapters, the story was completely left behind to focus just in showing different characters, which I couldn't relate to because they just appeared for one episode.The drawing style changed tremendously from episode to episode, just like the protagonist's personality. Each episode seemed like from a completely different anime. Lily, one character that seemed really important in the first chapters, doesn't even appear in most of them.
All the plot is developed in the last four episodes, when they suddenly remembered that an anime episode's are supposed…
Read at the sourceTyrannicswine117
Warning possible Spoilers
From time to time, I do like a good mystery anime ranging from Death Note, Another, Death Parade, When They Cry or even Hyouka. However 18if is one of those mystery anime's that looks like it has no idea what it wants to be.
Story (4/10)
The story concentrates on Haruto Tsukishiro, who wakes up in a mysterious room and encounters a witch, defeating the witch he realises he is in the dreamworld and must save other people, who have become witches in this weird reality.
The gist of the story for the most part, is Haruto trying to save different female characters who have become witches, with a bit of help from other characters in the real world. I will admit, it was interesting to see how each witch was saved from the dreamworld, however getting to the end of each…
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There are a lot of different anime out there; most of them coming out now are generic slice of life anime. But every once in a while, we get an anime that fascinates me, makes me think, and has some rather interesting art styles to accompany it. Today, that anime is 18if. Now, I don’t know much about this anime’s origin. In the credits at the very beginning, it talks about a game that I never played let alone heard of but the wiki called it ’18: Kimi to Tsunagaru Puzzle’. Now since I never knew the game, nor seen it, I cannot say this show is strongly or loosely based on that game. For those who played it, you will have to just see if it’s close.
The story follows Haruto Tsukishiro, a young boy trapped within the world of dreams and the scientist who meets him there, Katsumi Kanzaki. Thro…
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5/10
Growing up is never easy, we all have our struggles along the way. Knowing that it will all be worth it eventually is what gives us the courage to persevere to adulthood.
18if tells the stories of multiple teenagers struggling with real-world problems in a very abstract fashion. Emotional turmoil is depicted through young women struggling to find happiness in the life they've been given; whether it be bullying, the weight of parental expectations, ostracizing, etcetera. These stories are played to resonate with the audience across 13 episodes, with varying degrees of success. The times it succeeds are rare but worthwhile indeed; even if as a full package it does not come together into a cohesive whole. Each episode of 18if has a different director and focuses on different themes; so…
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There's 3 things this anime has:
-different art style ( didn't dislike it or love it)
-good sound
-The capacity to make you want to kill yourself trying to understand why you're still watching it
Just, don't watch it, for your own sake, it's one of the worse 24 minutes per ep anime I ever saw, I watched it cause I was bored and ended up even more bored so had to write this to feel a little more alive
You are left in the dark to what are all those different stories till the end, maybe I wanted to know what was going on, but the finale is just bad and the true reason behind it all is horrible
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Not shitty, but not the best either
I can tell from the earlier episodes, this anime was made by acid trip. The episode explains the trip they're having.
Art is excellent. Color play, LSD trips i've never done before (i'm not on any when finishing this) Impressed.
MC is kinda interesting. A special-condition everyman. You don't find it too often. But he's too complacent, too laidback, it kills the interest. The others were too aloof, too scripted. The MC wins at the end of the day so they're following the text all too well.
Story, cliche. Good guy wins. Theme is interesting but when you know the ending there's not enough thrill to watch. Like others have phrased it, boring.
Music is different tho. Different ED each episodes. And the music is great too! Kudos for the score director. Lovin'…
Read at the sourceFircoal
When I saw the first episode of 18if it felt like the show would turn out just like how I predicted when I first saw it. Terrible. But outside of that episode, there was a strong episodic story that lurked deep in it.
18if used multiple directors and it used them well. Each episode had its own style to it and its own way of expressing itself. Interesting ideas were brought out in each of these episodes and they all had a good message to say about people. At its heart, 18if is about accepting the things that happen in life and getting over the things that bring us down. As each girl has a different affliction there is a different moral that one can learn from each character. While the morals may be obvious I think the way that 18if communicates them can be quite powerful. The show does a…
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+The stories is quite interesting but I will say it just a 8/10 cause some part drag it down
+The art style really fittable to plot and the very main stories of this anime so call "Dream" cause everyone see things differently so the art shouldn't be the same thing cause it won't be call "dream" more like "What the creator think of the dream" so 10/10 for sure!
+The sound, music and voice are surely a 10/10. I listen to the lycans every time and it never gets old because the lycan are so good! The voice really fit the characters too! So 10/10 for that for sure!
+It seem this show didn't have much time to show us about the characters. They seem to only just have one episode to show all that but they did manage to do that but I do think they need to do it more slowly like 2 episode to introdu…
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Anything can happen. It's a dream. One minute you're on a date, the next you're in some type of fairy tale world.
The concept of 18if is interesting. People are stuck in their dreams and the main character, Haruto Tsukishiro, has to find a way to help them. In a way, the dreams are sort of like delusions. The "witches" - who are the people stuck in those dreams - only want to see what they want to see and it prevents them from seeing the way things are. (Up until the main character shows up anyway) But the show also makes you wonder, "What's the difference between right and wrong? Who decides what choice you make is the right one?" It's hard to say how often this happens in the show but it's a bit self-aware. The way each episode comes to a conclusion feels weird at times. Some where you'…
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People say 18if is like a box of chocolates: there are both good and bad parts and you won't know which one it is until you try. While I agree, I would rather compare it to an expensive box of luxury chocolates: all the flavours are exotic combinations, with ones such as broccoli-mango or truffle-chili. Initially you are turned off because you can't imagine these crazy combinations can possibly be good, but once you try some it becomes clear that they taste much better than they sound. Of course, there will always be some you dislike, but overall it's undeniable that a lot of well-placed effort and experience has been put into them, and that they're certainly worth the expensive price. (Not that the price part applies to this anime.)
18if is a mostly episodic series, where each¹ episode i…
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