Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
kiner_shah
This was the first badminton anime I watched. It was a very good anime where it shows workplace where salarymen can play sport and participate in tournaments. It was really interesting, as it not only highlights the sport aspect, but also the work of the salarymen which they take as seriously as the sport. It also shows different aspects of badminton like how exhausting singles can be, how valuable is good teamwork in doubles, and how age doesn't matter when one is passionate to play. I really liked this anime. The only improvement I think could have done was to show the rallies more, but I think it would be difficult to animate that.
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I have no interest in badminton nor in sales, and I still watched this and enjoyed it.
This show was an interesting watch because it has both the spokkon characteristics, surrounding the badminton team and competitions, but also the more slice of life, adults at work kind of stuff.
There is nothing very surprising here, but it’s an easy watch with some uncommon touches here and there. Both the company stuff and the sport and personal trauma of the characters are enjoyable.
The “action” is good enough, with very decent animation and art. The characters have distinct personalities. A nice watch overall.
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I watched the series without much high expectations. I am not a huge fan of the sport Badminton but I do know the basic amateur knowledge. SO this review POV is from an amateur without much technical knowledge on the sport. If you are the same, then please read ahead...
In a nutshell, if you want to learn about the sport and it's technicalities, this is not the right anime for you. However, if you want to pass some leisure time, like sports in general and are a office worker, then I would suggest to try it out for the sake of it.
Overall, it's a one-time watch anime, so I would probably not think about this anime again in future. Which also means that the impact of this anime is not that huge.
Art- The art style was average for me. The strangest part for me was that they failed to make…
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I've got it at a 10. A personal 10. Do I know much about Badminton? Not really. Not at all in fact. Do I agree with others that the animation could use some work? You betcha. For me though, it's still a 10. Why? Well... simply put, it feels like corporate life.
I feel like what this anime captures so perfectly is corporate life, especially in a way that doesn't alienate western corporate employees. A lot of younger fans or fans in different industries might not get, but it feels genuine. Enough preamble, this show really gets down to the nuts and bolts of what it is like to be an adult who works a full time job, has outside of work commitments but still for one reason or another want to play sport. In a post-haikyuu age where everything is highschoolers (granted this was long before haik…
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This felt like a slower pace, more mature Haikyuu. I liked the tragic backstories and trauma resolution, as well as the inter-office drama subplot. It was something really easy to throw on in the background while I did other things. The animation wasn't particularly stunning and I could not pick the characters out of a line up if you put a gun to my head, but the storyline was gently compelling enough that I continued to hit 'next episode' whenever the last one came to an end, and effectively got through the whole thing in one sitting. I also appreciated that they didn't try to be more than they were; they weren't hoping for the Olympics or anything, so everything mostly got solved by the end. It was also refreshing to have an anime's cast largely be adults or close to, rather than high sc…
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As someone who played badminton regularly in primary school, Ryman's Club looked like it would do a good job at presenting the somewhat simple sport. I say somehwat because although on paper it looks simple, there is more than what you see on TV or spectacting a live match in the gymnasium. Ryman's Club job was to illustrate elements & rules of the game in layman's terms but it didn't, the show didn't even need to spend an entire episode explaining the basics of badminton but instead throws you right in. Someone who has no idea what Badminton is would have no clue what was going on screen, the lack of any actual badminton rallies further enforces that. If this was a purely Badminton sports Anime, this show would have gotten a much lower rating than a 6/10 and this is me being nice & lenien…
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This was a rather silly sports anime, especially because it involved a less popular sport (at least in the where I'm from). I thought it mixed the actual playing of the sport with regular life of a salaryman/badaryman really well. The character design is not my favorite, I'm still trying to figure out why and what I actually like lol. Oddly, the studio that made this, Liden Films, also animated Tokyo Revengers, a style I also didn't like but which looked different from Salaryman Club. Go figure. The depiction of movement, however was very good. There were, obviously, times when they took some liberties in less crucial moments, but overall the animation of action I thought looked really smooth. I wasn't even bothered by the super digital looking slow-motion close-ups of the birdie striking…
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As an adult, keeping up with your exercise arguably holds even more value than when you're a teenager. But being an adult, the toll life has already taken on your body can also show. You can get injuries you don't recover from as swiftly anymore, if you're gone from your sports for a while you may be gone for good. There also isn't any money in it if you're just doing it because... you can. No matter how good you are, it'll pretty much always be for fun only. Nevertheless, there is a lot of value to be found!
Ryman's Club is clearly made by someone who loves sports stories, but may not have loved that most of them end with a high school graduation. In those stories, the characters spend years together, growing as a team, chasing their dream of competing in a big torunament, if not the nat…
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as an Indonesian, we support badminton expecially the mansdouble the 1 ranks world Kevin Sanjaya & Marcus Gideon the longest 1 ranks in the world.
story: 6
art: 8.9
sound 7
character 7
enjjoyment 7
overall 7.4
about the anime knowledge i give a 7 point that's a good lesson for a common people, and i shoock for the exchange player it's like the reallife i give a 8,5 point. about allure story it's normal like the drama of story in main character just like normal people, that's different for the star in realife, but still good to watch.
the middle story it's give me little shoock for the duo brodther and little brother was in the duo like not in real life professional, but for show it's maybe normal to do that duo,
about entering the ending its the incident senior, miyazumi and staff and th…
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Ryman's Club was just the right amount of episodes and the perfect mix of sport and.. well, lessons. I'll admit, it's your typical sport anime, with life lessons and character development and tense moments. You'll find the same character tropes and the same kind of drama.
But, it still does it well. In just 12 episodes you'll find that you actually like pretty much every single character. They speed run some things and at times it'll feel rushed, but the attachment was still there. There were some moments I wouldn't have been able to predict even if I tried, so it kept me guessing until the end.
Watch enough sports anime and you'll pretty much have watched all of them. But that doesn't take away from the enjoyment of good, well-developed ones. Ryman's Club feels like it's targeted at a…
Read at the sourceGleefulViolin
This is a grown up sport anime! That's what I like to say.. Not 100% true, but isn't wrong either.
First of all, this is the first badminton anime I have ever watched. Being a huge fan of badminton sport (I used to play it when I was in elementary and middle school, but growing up I kinda stopped playing since I had to focused on something else) that I follow any badminton tournaments on TV. So, when I found out they finally made a badminton anime (I know this isn't the first, but this is the first I'm interested in), I have to watch it.
To my delight, this anime also set up in workplace instead of school, unlike most sport animes. I mean, I like sport animes so much but most of them are setting up in school (which I could relate to 10 years ago), but now I'm a working adult so I feel ki…
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Overall: 8
I can see there was quite some investment to make this anime, the quality is quite good.
Story: 7
Good for an original anime, with a blend of sports and SoL elements.
Art: 9
I really don't have any complaints about the animations; maybe I'm a bit lenient in this aspect. At least it suits my personal taste and I can't point out what's unpleasing.
Characters: 8 Likable ones. Good.
Enjoyment: 9
Pretty nice, I enjoyed it, the animation was good, especially the matches, they’re entertaining. It’s like a typical sports show, but not boring. Well, and like many sports shows, somehow the last boss opponents would conveniently have a mental issue and not perform their best. Personally I don’t really a fan of that type, it decreases the fulfilment a lil bit. It reminds me of how Han…
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Ryman's Club is an interesting sports anime, both because it isn't common to see professionals playing their sport instead of high schoolers, but also because these are Badaryman, badminton + salaryman who play in leagues and are on contracts attached to corporations, and work their day job with the company. The team is a point of corporate pride and there are some contract bonuses for the employees who do it. I guess badminton is the right mix of skill but relative low impact on the body for players who are at least 22 and not getting pro-league contracts. Seeing that balance play out for Tatsuru and Mikoto is fun to see, as while the sport has more focus that the work-related episodes, their job does define the context for everything else, as well as where they talk with each other.
The…
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Maybe i'm too lenient with my anime ratings lately, maybe not, if I am, maybe that's a good thing. Or maybe there's just too many good anime lately. I've been trying to be less stingy with my ratings and more personalised so that's probably why. If I adored an anime, there's no need to be *so overly critical that I give it a 9/10 instead of a 10/10". No I adored and loved this anime, it was incredibly made. I should just give it a 10/10. The music choice and a lot of the scenes and personalities and so many things were just so good.
This anime made me cry, this anime made me laugh, this anime made me smile. Not many shows can do that. I love the characters, I love the story, I love the art, and I love how much of an emotional rollercoaster this show is to watch. Loved Ryman's Club :D
Read at the sourceBehindtheSpace
I have watched many sports anime, and played many too, especially badminton. Although, I absolutely adore the sport, when another badminton anime gets announced aside from hanebado, I was excited. But to my point of view, ryman's club is just like your typical sports anime, but they added the workplace system to makes it more unique. Aside that, they really have nothing much going beside, but somehow it is more enjoying to watch than hanebado because most of the characters here are more mature. However the animation is mediocre, they animated the movement very strange in some parts and to my eyes, some even look identical moves and they somehow bluffed the whole dynamic movements thing a little overboard I'd say. At the end of the day, the skills and movements are not the huge things portr…
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I love badminton. I played it at a highly competitive level for almost 7 years of my life, commuting an hour to my club 5 times a week where I dedicated buckets of sweat and even more hours to a sport I loved. Unfortunately, many people frown upon badminton. It’s a tricky sport to play, which makes it trickier to understand and appreciate. So it doesn’t come as a surprise that of all the sports out there that anime could cover, badminton is one of the most underrepresented. That’s why I’m grateful for shows that push badminton into the spotlight, because it’s truly one of the best sports out there.
But that’s also why I’m very disappointed with Ryman. Just like Hanebado, there was a lot of potential it could live up to. But unlike Hanebado, it fell flat on its face much more quickly and m…
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Salaryman's Club is simple but it does so much with it's story, characters, and art. Combine that with a sport like badminton and the determination and conviction Mikito, Tatsuru, and the other characters have, it makes the show all the more enjoyable.
Is this the most accurate rep of badminton? No, not by a longshot. (the same can be said with other sports anime) Is it enjoyable? Yeah, I would say so if you throw your suspense of disbelief out the window and enjoy it for what it is.
When I first heard about it, what intrigued me the most was that it's a sports anime with a cast of adults. And not just adults, but salarymen. And both Mikito and Tatsuru gave me good impressions at first glance so I stuck around and I'm glad I did.
What makes Salaryman's Club stand out to me was the comb…
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"To Succeed In Life You Must Learn From Failure"
why is this quote used in my review? Well it relates to the theme of this anime which I'm going to make an opinion on so that answers your question hopefully.
This review is going to be divided into 4 sections that correlates to the Story, Art, Sound, Character and Conclusion:
PLOT
When it comes to the conventional idea of sports anime there is always that one main idea of reaching for your goal or to become the best in the world. Well the plot in this case is somewhat in that line but let's just say it's a bit more... unique per say. This is a badminton anime which of course is rare to the sports genre as it has been a very very long time since we ever got one. The plot is overall really compelling because the main character, otherwise…
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What do you think of when you put badminton and animation together? Do you get bad-ass badminton with fast-paced action and pristine quality at its best? If this is what you're thinking, then welcome onboard, because studio Liden Films is back at the badminton animation game once again with Ryman's Club a.k.a Salaryman's Club, a portmanteau of the corporate work life and the actual sports club that actually exists in Japanese culture. Combined with the impressive work of Liden Films that badminton is the ONLY sport that this studio does produce right.
But in order to understand Ryman's Club, you have to first understand how it works. The Island of the Rising Sun is no short of unique things like these, and this is integrated in Japanese culture as the so-called "Club Badminton" that is in…
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If you liked Hanebado or Run with the Wind, you will like Salaryman's Club.
All the main characters are likeable and have something memorable about them.
In Japan, corporations ofttimes have sports-arms, and this anime covers a Badminton team at a beverage company.
The dual role of being a Salaryman and a badminton player is very exciting to see, since this is the first anime I've seen that covers this dynamic.
In one episode, they're in an intense badminton match, and in the next episode, they are doing a SWOT analysis for a business proposal.
The pacing is perfect. The episode will be over before you know it, and have you craving for more.
Subs, especially typesetting is god-tier for CR subs. Whoever is in charge for TS this anime is a G. If only more typesetters followed his examp…
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