Audience reviews
13 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
sleekie
It's shit. Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
No really, this is dire. Whenever an anime comes out that's just an advert for a game, the expectation is always low. This anime embodies that expectation. The art sucks. The animation sucks when it even exists, which isn't that often. The music sucks. The direction double sucks. The choice to adapt the manga instead of the actual game makes it suck more. The choice to adapt the villain-of-the-week first six chapters sucks especially, because there are chapters of the game that would have actually been great if they were animated. Not by this studio, but you know.
There is nothing going for this show. If you're a Girls Frontline player, it's a disappointment. If you're not, there is no reason to even watch it. I rated it 3/10 and that's only because I…
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So first of all you dont have to play the game to understand this anime. I myself play the game and im big fan of it so I had great expectations for this anime and I dont know what to say. Opening song and animations are 11/10, ED too. Its one of the best OPs i ever saw and the song just hits the spot. Lore of Girls frontline is godlike in my opinion, you have everything from depression to making you kicking your feet. If you want full Girls frontline lore go watch [Girls' Frontline] Backstory, 2012-2062 by Dokutah Shikikan and 【Girls' Frontline】Story Collection by Shoul.
Art:
I dont know that to say characters and scenery and very good but GUNS LOOK LIKE MY DRAWINGS FROM 2nd GRADE. Its obvious that people without any gun knowledge where drawing these. 4/10
Sound:
Gun sounds are TERRIBLE…
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A decent gun action anime. It's no Lycoris Recoil, SAO 2 and SAO: Alternative. But, it's a suffice watch.
Although I've never played the game this anime is based on, at least as of typing this, I was able to follow along with the story, which while simple is effective.
The only disappointing aspect of this anime, is the animation. Compared to SAO, a lot of times, the characters are just standing still shooting at their enemies. Rarely do they run and gun to make the action more engaging.
But otherwise, if you want a military-themed anime or wanted a Call of Duty anime, this'll do just fine.
Read at the sourceEmperorThor
Some soldiers give their rifles female names. Here these rifles go alive as cute babes.
While this show has flawed plot and dubious battle system, I still willing to rate it high because rifle-waifus are cute waifu material.
Art is good and four main characters are rather likable. I particularly like M4A1. Other gun-girls are also mostly nice.
Antagonists are well designed and very creative.
Art is good, finally some good use for all this high quality art. It has similar over feel as Frame Arms Girl, but somewhat more cohesive and makes somewhat more sense.
Overall I can recommened it mostly for waifus. However these are good waifus.
Read at the sourcegarkon_icky
All-around not great but better than the rock bottom I was expecting. Starts at story chapter 0 in the game and works forwards chronologically. Extraordinarily slowly paced for the first 6 episodes or so, but it does get traction in the back half. Might be better in a season 2 (if it happens) since now the boring part of the story is out of the way and the crew making it seems mostly competent.
The good: I like the ED and OP a lot, both the songs and the OP sequence itself. The animation isn't standout but it's consistently OK. The voice acting is good to excellent with some fairly senior VAs all reprising their roles from the gacha. Yukari Tamura is a stand-out as SOPMOD II even if she's basically doing a more enthusiastic murder-themed version of the Rika voice (or maybe that's why it's…
Read at the sourcejieanteater
I honestly feel the anime was a hugely missed opportunity. The idea of gun packing waifus kicking ass is pretty appealing but the whole anime is sub-par.
The story was decent but it had way too many plot holes in it. Especially certain episodes where there were some new details introduced into the story, but it never really made clear how those details affected the story or it simply dropped it there. The animation during the fights wasn't the greatest but I personally didn't mind it, though it may bother some people, which is completely understandable. The characters were probably the only thing I liked, not necessarily because of their personality and all, but because of the idea of them being named after the guns they used, which is pretty cool and their definite waifu material as wel…
Read at the sourceTheDigitalDummy
This one hurts. As a massive fan of the game I was hoping the story would finally get the adaptation it deserves as it pertains to what might just be my favourite sci-fi/alt-history world ever created and anyone who's committed the (admittedly large amount of) time to the game would surely understand. It was inevitable that at first the show would not reflect this as the story only picks up at around Chapter 8 but that is no reason to drop the ball on the first part of a narrative that certainly requires multiple seasons to be told well.
Unfortunately, what we were instead met with was a lazily-made, half-baked excuse of an adaptation where its only redeeming quality was its intro. It's a mess confused by what it wants to adapt (i.e. including the most 'controversial' element of the manga…
Read at the sourceNekobachu
HI THERE.
Are you interested in the Girl's/Doll's Frontline franchise and want to know the story with out the need of playing the game and the pain it comes with it? then LET ME EXPLAIN WHY TO WATCH AND WHY NOT
Reasons to watch it:
1. YOU LIKE WAIFUS
2. YOU LIKE GUNS
3. YOU LIKE WAIFUS AND GUNS !!!
4. You do not have any knowledge of the game and the story itself but are interested in it
5. U are lazy and just want to know the general plot direction of the story. Reasons not to watch it:
1. U dont wan't to see inconsistent scenes that don't make any sense and may hurt your brain because of the oopsie woopsie the studio made. (Just poor quality for short)
2. U are a veteran player of GFL or atleast have read the manga.
3. You are an anti who doesn't like the franchise .... *sad noises*
S…
Read at the sourceWeeblords
This is my first review I will write on MAL. I’ll try to put little to no spoilers as possible. This anime really had a lot of potential, but its expectation is now long gone. The animation is just shitty low budget quality, and the plot couldn’t be explained more shitty. Now, let me explain in detail what are the issues.
Story: 5
In the beginning, the battle started without any further introduction. The attack tricks were somewhat decent, but could of been done better. The game lives up to its expectation, but the story was not executed the best.
Art: 4
The animation/art is very poor and probably was a big mistake for them. The details are not as bad, but overall feels bland and boring. I wouldn’t be exaggerating if I asked for Trigger or Wit studio to try animating this since it’s pro…
Read at the sourceNamenloserHeld
As a massive fan of the mobile game this show is worse than disappointing; it is utterly abysmal.
Story-wise, the anime is an adaptation of the early chapters, of which the story isn't good, yet they managed to make the general writing and the pacing somehow even worse. The game's biggest strength is the lack of exposition dumps and that is just the opposite with this show. It dumbs down characters to explain (poorly thought out) tactics.
The opening and the ending are the only positive things about the show, and maybe the art style that is heavily inspired by Gunslinger Girl. The animation itself is average at best, but it has a lot, and I mean a lot of gun errors from M4's infamous "bull-pup" to even simple things as reversing the metal and the wood parts of a G43.
The sound design is…
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Game adaptations work for various ways, but it's main objective would always get you to try out the game, which is its biggest selling point. And it's by no small means that MICA Team's KanColle-inspired crew of anthropomorphized firearm moe waifus is a small franchise, OH NO. Girls' Frontline is a massively popular mobage RPG that's insanely loved by its fans ever since its release in China in 2016, that year after year, expanded to more territories, and gradually released to English and Japanese players in 2018 as Dolls' Frontline due to trademark constraints. So, think of this as the equivalent to Yostar's Azur Lane and DMM Games' KanColle.
Usually, game adaptations will have their own story and plot that's conceived by the writing staff team in the anime's production, but you would be…
Read at the sourceAmerikaner
Yeah so... the Opening intro music 10/10 , the anime ...not so much , i actually missed a few episodes and dint care to watch, because nothing hooked me to keep watching. towards the end the betrayal and the double cross, was something that u could see miles away ... i mean even if they added fan service and made it +17 rating with boobs and guns, it still be a very disgusting adaptation.
I just dint feel the characters, i know they are war dolls, and not human, yet this anime tried at the same time to pass their emotions if you call "emotions" as human.
what a disappointment , they should just have left it a peasant tier mobile game with freemium incentives and move on...
6/10 OVERALL
No actual story to keep track off
No hook
Predictable situations
Story 4/10
Animation 8/10
Voice Ac…
Read at the sourceslavemaster_1991
I'll be honest, I never expect much from anime that is a game adaptation. Sadly, once again my scepticism was totally justified. So what do we have on our hands?
Story. To be put bluntly Girls Frontline, the source game, can be divided in two parts in terms of plot: horribly boring, dull and uncreative start and OH BOY WOW second part. And while it is to be expected, still going for the story from the start in a 12 episode show is a bad call - the whole story is so dull it makes me yawn and the season ends before the actually good part begins.
Art. Ok, so you have no real plot - at least give us some cool action, so we can atleast enjoy the show? "Lol, lmao" was the answer. The art is simply horrible. All the models are potato faced, basic and lack details. The animation is not lacking - t…
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