Introduction
Neo Kyoto is a place where everything is decided through the card game "Build Divide." From resolving personal conflicts to determining social status, success in Build Divide means success in life. The biggest ambition of every player is to become the King, whose peerless skills grant them near-total rule over the city.
One day, a young man wakes up in Neo Kyoto—with the knowledge of just his name, Teruto Kurabe, and carrying only a deck for a card game he no longer knows. Teruto soon encounters another player, Sakura Banka, who helps him remember both how to play Build Divide and his original mission: that no matter what, he must meet the King. Teaming up together, Teruto and Sakura find that their best chance for a royal audience is with the Rebuild tournament, where the one who collects twenty-one tokens from other competitors can challenge the King for their throne. However, as Teruto continues to play, he begins to regain his lost memories that call into question the very nature of Neo Kyoto.
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Audience reviews
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_Bubassotto_
"Damn, what awesome visuals, I'm going to watch it" - _Bubassotto_ was terribly misled.
Looking back, it's almost ironic how this phrase perfectly summarizes the experience: an expectation inflated by a visually stunning trailer that doesn't hold up when the work is viewed in its entirety.
The first contact with the anime is truly captivating. The trailer delivers a vibrant aesthetic, with vivid colors, stylish framing, and a promise of something different from the industry's usual fare. That's exactly what hooked me: the feeling that I was about to watch something with its own identity, that would bet both on visuals and above-average execution. Unfortunately, this promise doesn't materialize.
The character designs even have their charm at certain moments. There are scenes where the li…
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Wow, what a bizarre show. There is a pretty decent story in this show but unfortunately the show was also tasked with trying to sell you a card game and you are forced to watch it. I can't honestly say that this anime is objectively good but it still surprised me. Most people will drop this show while watching it but I'm glad I at least watched it to the end for the good parts.
Another thing about this show I can say for certain, at the end of this show you will either feel like your time was completely wasted or like feel like the plot slammed you from the tightropes or came out from the side and hit you with a chair. My preconceptions of it blindsighted me a bit which is why I was pleasantly surprised the show had some substances to it.
Its just a show about card games, right?
Read at the sourcePlyc
Would be interesting to fans of the TCG and people who like unique plot twists in non-psychological anime. Might be boring for a bit for those uninitiated with the TCG as they don't explicitly/fully explain the rules.
Story - 7
Worldbuilding - 6
Characters - 7
Production Value - 7
Story:
Average, bland even; but greatly picks up near the end. The pacing felt okay; probably because they were skipping half the battles and most of the encountered characters didn't have much significance to the main story. It's a very lean story. World Building:
Almost non-existent until near the end. After that, it was pretty good. Could have used better pacing, e.g. with ominous foreshadowing throughout the earlier parts. A small number of plot holes throughout that felt really hard to explain away, even g…
Read at the sourceunik90
might contain (spoilers) probably one of my fav animes
Wow when I started watching this anime I was expecting some low quality, yugioh card game anime rip off but what I got is one of the best animes in this season,
Story is really good its follows of our Mc who lost his memories but only remember one things to defend the king no matter, he meets some friends along the way but the world around them is very believable and the story is very interesting every episode you discover something new and it's never gets old
Art
Is a banger I love the art and fan services done right, the animation is pretty smooth considering the budget of this anime and they done some amazing job with it so good job on the animation studio
Sounds is outstanding
Is shorts words it's amazing I really wish I could d…
Read at the sourceInosenso
Its fun.
The characters are extremely basic except for the antagonist -for once a yandere measured out to perfection. She's obsessive but they don't go psycho yandere face with it. Its a more subtle take on it that makes the terror seep into your skin. Like all card game shows its a barebones advertisement for structure decks and clans with zero application to reality but part of the fun is trying to figure out the mechanics as they don't really explain them much. Worse they straight up skip whole duels and into new ones with no context. I honestly thought I skipped an episode but whatever. As for a scifi setting its relatively visually distinct but a lot of characters look like traces from someone's deviant art account. You have Abec characters and even Kisuke Urahara and a Dogs: Bullets…
Read at the sourceSpirit_Chaser
Redemption. Master and teacher. Teacher and student. Finding your path. As banal as that all sounds, Build Divide: Code Black excelled in executing great story telling behind those ideas. Teruto is the loveable and fun main character whom the viewers can't help but constantly laugh at how awkward and funny his mannerisms are. He definitely became my favorite protagonist of the season. Having lost part of his memory and personality, all he can think about is the king and finding his path towards that. As a result, he has lost the ability to function as a normal human, and for whatever reason develops a hilarious obsession with bread as well. Blasted into a digital city, he wakes up and takes up shelter in a tent by a river, battling his way to the top to earn enough chips to fight the King.…
Read at the sourceAmmokkx
Build Divide: Code Black is weird to judge; at least when it comes as an entry into the general "card game anime" genre. Speaking of that: This is a show about card games! I'd say "don't dismiss it out of hand" but whether or not you can suspend your disbelief as to all kinds of fights in the universe being resolved through the power of trading cards is pretty make-or-break for a lot of people. I can say that Build Divide: Code Black at least tries to do a slightly more mellow, less adventurous and overall slightly more serious plot than your average Saturday morning cartoon, but it's still about card games in the end. Consider this your formal warning.
You follow the story of one Kurabe Teruto, an amnesiac waking up in the mysterious city of Neo Kyoto. He meets with a girl his age, Banka…
Read at the sourceYeeYeeAss
Fun concept but fails to deliver
It has been ages since I have seen an anime with card games as the main concept. Last was Yu-Gi-Oh which was great. Where this show fails to capture the fun that card games really are. I think it is mainly because the mess this show is.
Let's see. When I was watching the first episode it certainly seemed like a fun idea and it was good for the first episode because we got to see how the world works and how the game itself works. It had many unique ideas but the games kinda just over used them. Like with Shot Triggers and burst triggers which can alter the games quite heavily. But after the first few fights, all the fights were just identical. The same shit happened in every fight which made it boring.
Story could be better. We just followed our MC Teruto…
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