Audience reviews
14 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Sailormoonwins
Pride of Orange has a good story of rising to the top of Hockey especially since it adds in development of its characters.
The characters are pretty likable and funny and are easy to get attached to and see them change.
The music and animation are just a big hell yea to the audience showing how not only are the characters great but the music and animation are something entirely.
The development of its characters and pacing were enjoyable and so were the moments shown.
Not much of a hockey fan but the show was pretty enjoyable making me wish I played hockey too and it adds something new to the sports genre with a lesser known type of sport shown in anime but with more realism.
Story:7/10
Characters:8/10
Sound/Music:7.7/10
Enjoyment:8.4/10
Overall 8/10
Read at the sourceBenx2019
The animation is fairly decent, but rather uninspired. Action scenes are decent, but not all that impressive. There are some decent backgrounds and the characters are drawn fairly well. However, everything feels stale and uninspired a lot of the time. The characters are pretty bland and cliche, don't expect to really like any of them. Story is bland, boring, and extremely linear. Pacing was fine, but not enough to make the anime in anyway exciting. Voice acting was fine in terms of casting. However, the actual performances were shrill, annoying, and unimpressive. Soundtrack is really what pulled the show and many scenes together. The intro and some of the outros are cliche, but decent. The normal outro is pretty good. The soundtrack is pretty flawless though, very impressive. Thanks MONACA…
Read at the sourceEvilTactician
This anime was almost as difficult to watch as it was to find the 'write a review' button on this website.
It's a sports anime, but there's barely any actual playing involved.
I have no idea who the characters are or what makes them tick. They have no character development whatsoever, other than "yay power of friendship, we're having so much fun" with zero substance.
At one point I thought this was going to turn into a 'ice hockey team also is idol group' affair, but even that doesn't really come to pass. There was a character who left early in the series and later came back, but I had entirely forgotten they even existed as they didn't add anything useful to the non-existing plot.
Overall, the whole series feels like a set-up to sell their game, which subsequently failed shortly after…
Read at the sourceFirechick12012
In an industry as saturated as anime has gotten, it's a given that not every show can stand out from the heavy hitters, or even stuff that's similar to it. There are shows that stand out for the right reasons, shows that don't quite stand out, and then you have those that stand out for all the wrong reasons. Sadly, the latter is the case for PuraOre: Pride of Orange, an anime that basically tries to combine three things: ice hockey, the everyday slice-of-life adventures of cute girls, and idols, all while failing at not only balancing them out, but executing any of them in a compelling manner. The story follows Manaka Mizusawa, a chipper young girl who one day finds out her town Nikko is holding ice hockey classes held by the Nikko Dream Monkeys. She convinces her younger sister and other…
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Would have made more sense if they beat the Leafs ... rather than born&raised hardcore Canadian highschool girls who likely played hockey from the time they could walk. Game would probably have had more penalties too lmao
It's a CGDCT series - lets not pretend any differently. That being said the CGDCT content surrounding hockey actually genuinely made me chuckle.
The Hockey scenes were surprisingly well done, I actually got pretty excited watching the hockey bits.
And even in their training segments, it actually gave me flashbacks to my own childhood hockey training.
Idol stuff to target domestic japan - I mostly skipped that kind of cancer. Though it was absolutely immersion breaking as it would be insulting to the players to a) make them do a little dance routine, and b) insulting t…
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After I search it on goggle maybe Puraore is the only one anime that bring ice hockey to the plate. It is original, short, a bit different from your usual sport anime, have a bunch of cute girls and dedicated anime to promote their game.
But the real question it is worth your time to watch this series or not? Do I enjoy watch this series? Yes I enjoy but I almost drop this series. Do I understand ice hockey from watch this anime? No I don't really understand it. Do I enjoy watching these girls perform their victory dance? Actually no it is really short. But if we comeback to first question maybe the answer is not worth it. Unless you are new to watch anime.
Let's talk the good point of this anime. This anime is not your usual school sport competition that aim to national. This is the st…
Read at the sourcebuggaboo1021
I thought this was a sports anime, and realized a few episodes in that it's actually more of a "Cute Girls Do Cute Things" anime, which was disappointing because 1) I love sports anime and 2) I have yet to see a good sports anime with a girl team. The (tl;dr) problem with this is that the girls look and sound cute but aren't very interesting, and the "cute things" they're doing have no stakes.
The characters are pretty one-note, and the show gives each of the main girls a conflict, but there are only 12 episodes so this results in their conflicts being shallow and getting solved very quickly.
The show doesn't show you that they learn hockey and struggle to better themselves - they just do. The idol song/dance gets even less screen time. Actually, a LOT of the screen time is taken up by s…
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We have had many things turned into anime, such as badminton, tennis, table tennis, volleyball, and so many others. Now, it's hockey's turn. Puraore! Pride of Orange is an anime all about hockey, and I thought it was rather well done given that it is a slice of life with light CGDCT theme. Given that hockey is not that popular in Japan, I appreciate the producers trying new things to try to appeal to the general Japanese audience.
***Minor spoilers ahead (?) ***
Story/Character (6/10)
To put it simply, this is a decent sports anime. There's tension, character development, and story progression. Of course it's not hardcore development with intense personal emotions (e.g. Hanebado!'s Ayano). It is more like "I didn't like this. But someone or something motivated me so I will try my best" k…
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Now, first of all, I'm a huge hockey fan, so I know enough about hockey to understand hockey terms. Let me just say, I appreciate that hockey got some love and got some kind of anime for people to enjoy. Maybe Canadians got into this anime because of their love for hockey. However, this show wasn't ever advertised as a "Slam Dunk" or "Haikyuu", so I never had that kind of expectation.
My grading criteria: Story: /25 Art: /10 Music: /10 Characters: /20 Enjoyment /15 Comedic/Romance themes /20
STORY: 5/25
Felt very messy and lacking in many ways. Not enough development of opposing hockey teams, and not enough hockey moments in general. The idol moments, while unnecessary, just added to the moe aspect, and that was fine, but still took away from the theme of hockey, which should have been…
Read at the sourceCataOrShane
The reason why I decided to watch this anime is because I love sports and any chance I get to watch a show about a sport I'm not familiar with, I get really excited. Such was the case with this anime.
The visuals seem pretty at first but then the animation doesn't keep up with what a game of ice hockey should feel like. It's not fluid and it lacks the impact and excitemente of a sports match or event.
I like the soundtrack but the sound effects during the matches needed to be way better. It's a sports anime, it needs to make you feel the puck hitting the stick and it honestly felt like I was watching this on mute.
I found the characters to be very dull. It took me half the season (I wish I was joking or overreacting) to memorize some of their names.
As I said in the beginning, I lo…
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Short Review!
This show had very strong start but after 6 episodes it start to fell off, the story just like other sports anime (a newbie become a champion) i mean they didn't even try to hide the winner in the very first episode
it would be really great if we didn't know who's going to win in the final but they decided to play it safe and gave us mainstream ending.
it's still enjoyable to watch, the characters friendships is very strong and yuu development who became more open after meeting with dream monkeys members Story: 7/10
Art: 9/10
Sound: 10/10
Characters: 9/10
Enjoyment: 9/10
Overall: 9/10
Read at the sourceGud91
*Minor spoilers*
I feel bad for Puraore.
As the ultimate representative of the whole Canadian community and a pretty big defender of the main sport from the same country, I’m shocked to see this anime with a rating that low. As much as I like my CGDCT, it’s kind of a surprise to see it being that stable during the whole season. Never did it get over a seven, the least this kind of anime can get with how little it can work with.
Jokes aside, I don’t particularly like Puraore because I’m Canadian myself, otherwise it would sounds stupid for other people to see an anime that is only enjoyable for a Canadian audience, with some being Japanese as well. Yet, it would sounds even more stupid to consider myself as the ultimate representative of my homeland. By still going that way, people might…
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After 12 eps I can tell you that if you’ve seen the poster you know what to expect, it isn’t really Slam Dunk on ice but it also never advertised itself as that. This is aesthetically a “CGDCT” anime which in my opinion isn’t the best match for a story about hockey but it might just be strange enough to work. If the idol part of the show puts you off, first of all don’t worry i understand it but please also understand that it isn’t a bad strategy. This show isn’t made for a tradicional overseas market and seeing the success of Uma Musume you can’t fault them for trying to appeal to a larger Japanese audience in a similar way and after 12 eps it only plays a small roll (for an idol show it sure has few and far in between “idol moments”)
This anime was made in collaboration with the Nikko I…
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PuraOre!'s the very first anime to have the distinction of featuring ice hockey, and yet still, fail to hit that mark, much less intentionally butt-hurting the one sport that Canadians are most famous and can be proud of. The progenitor anime that did anything and everything wrong from the get-go, marred from yet another CyberAgent and DMM Games' mixed-media project who's trying too hard to match the brillance of CyGames's Uma Musume, only to then ask: "May I copy your homework? Not to worry, my expertise is in ice hockey, nothing will be similar alike!". Look where we are now, and I wish I can forget this show to nothingness that left a sour taste in my mouth.
This is yet another CGDCT show that features ice hockey and idol segments, written by the abominable writer Touko Machida, becaus…
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