Introduction
Mai Otonashi, Rina Godai, Nozomi Mitaka, Sayuri Ichinose, and Nanase Nikaidou are all members of their high school's bowling club. The captain, Mai, can effortlessly land a "turkey"—three strikes in a row—yet her next delivery always ruins her game. Each girl struggles with the sport in her own way, but that never stops them from having fun.
However, amusement is not enough for Rina. As the newest member, she is furious about the others' disregard for their failures. After an argument, Rina decides to quit the club, but Mai refuses to let her leave. During a match to determine if Rina stays, a strange incident occurs after Mai's turkey: the girls are sent back in time!
The group discover that they have landed right into the middle of a battlefield in the Sengoku period. They soon realize that recreating the match between Mai and Rina is the key to returning home. As the girls decide to enjoy their time in the unfamiliar era, Mai must prepare to score a turkey when it matters the most.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Audience reviews
11 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Otaku_Senpai
Right from the start its going to be another generic "cute girls doing cute things" anime. But as I watched more episodes I found its actually better than most of that genre anime. Its not generic. Yes at first I thought it was going to be sill and it is in many ways even to the end of the anime it had really good moments. This is a time travel anime and I thought it was very silly how the whole time travel thing happens but at the same time characters, even though they are young girls seem to be aware they shouldn't screw up or interfere with the past so that future is changed. They are afraid if the change the future they may cease to exist.
The characters they meet in the past and their interactions with them is really nice. I was invested in their friendship and their future. Because…
Read at the sourceOneeSama
The story setup is fun: a school club of bowling girls gets sent back in time to the Sengoku period in the middle of a battlefield.
Scenarios played out are what you'd expect from a group in a time travel situation: bewilderment, shock, cultural shift, technological differences, and linguistic issues.
Watching the girls navigate a new, or rather old, world is entertaining as they try to cautiously avoid any actions that might affect the future.
Overall, the show is silly, yet it weaves in moments of reality that remind the characters and viewers where they are. Politics and morals contrast, and heads get chopped off, rolling around like a bowling ball.
Unfortunately, the show progressively gets worse. While there are dilemmas and mysteries, the solutions and reasons often feel cheap. Aki…
Read at the sourceJohmiascle
10/10 anime do not skip out on this one! I’m so glad I didn’t skip this anime like I originally was about to nor did I drop it like it thought I should have during the second episode….. This anime was an amazing adventure it made me think and feel so much it might be just a anime about bowling but it’s definitely not… and all the twist and turns especially the one on the last episode were so good… it made me think back to why I watch anime in the first place it was a good reminder of what makes a masterpiece… it was such a good story… it was really thought out and creative it deserves everyone to experience it at least once❤️
Read at the sourceSen_NkA
I never took anything this stupid so seriously. So... I am going to try and do justice to this show, because I cannot believe the reasons people are trashing this show for.
"In bowling, there's always a second throw."
This is not just a repeated quote from the show, but it's also a life lesson that they're giving us, opening our eyes with. It carries with us the whole time and the story's conclusion is so perfectly sweet, much like goumi.
👍Isekai??? Then why is it entertaining?
No, this show is a hidden isekai. In most isekai shows, you know exactly what they're selling you. A guy dying and being transported into a magic world where underage girls see him as a god. A girl dying and becoming a game character, ready to save a hot guy or her waifu from certain death.
Turkey is nothing o…
Read at the sourcePaolo1350
As an avid league bowler, I was of course very excited when I first learned about this show last year. I am not an isekai or fantasy watcher by any means but as long as I can still follow the plot, I will keep watching a show even after the major swerve none of us saw coming. Some may have been put off by it but I'd argue a sport like bowling needs a hook like this to grab people's attention.
A straightforward sports show like say Ooi! Tonbo from last year (which I also thoroughly enjoyed) are abundant. An unconventional story at least makes it stand out.
Turkey certainly wasn't everything I wanted out of the first major bowling themed anime but watching it also gave me an experience I didn't know I needed as well. I may come off a bit biased since I am a bowler but I truly felt emotion…
Read at the sourceinfinitecheese
If I told you there exists a "time travel bowling drama anime," would you believe me? Turkey! is a strange, one-of-a-kind show (in the best way), and if you want to see something unique that makes you think, "How did someone even come up with this?", this is the anime for you.
I don't usually watch seasonal anime, but this one caught my interest (see the username), and I thoroughly enjoyed this bizarrely amazing anime. Unlike many viewers, I went in with some expectation that this was not a normal bowling anime: the change in poster and genre tag after it started airing tipped me off, but I didn't know what kind of show it would be nor where the plot was headed. I believe this is the best way to experience this show: it maintains the shock factor of getting to the end of episode 1 while…
Read at the sourceTheEasternModie
I want to make a thing clear in the beginning: I do recommend the series overall, but I can also totally understand why someone would not want to watch it. The show is by all means not perfect and has a lot of things one could point out. And depending on what you value in your story, this can make or break the show for you. Easily. However, the reason why I chose to "recommend" the series instead of using "mixed feelings" is that I want to appreciate the boldness of the authors. Turkey could have easily been your typical CGDCT show that you already saw a million times. Just with bowling this time around and not [insert sport/band/idol title here]. And I do think, it would have been received better overall by the people watching. However, in this day and age, where most studios like to play…
Read at the sourceDoctorEmo
This show is bad, but it's fun to watch and try to figure out what it's supposed to be.
It's not a secret that this is a show about time traveling girls who bowl. It's just as dumb as it sounds, and it gets dumber. The show has a tone that bounces all over the place between lighthearted and fun, to serious and grim. These shifts can happen multiple times per episode, leaving the viewer confused and a little upset.
At the end of the day, this is still a show about cute girls doing cute things. The girls are cute. They have nice chemistry, defined personalities, and they're mostly fun to watch. Rina is an exception to this. She spends the first half of the show being moody, annoying, whiny and unpleasant. Everyone else is fine.
The show looks alright. It has a very standard anime style an…
Read at the sourceJebidor
Turkey! is a pretty interesting anime, it has more drama than a relaxing SoL anime, and if you really want to look for something to de-stress, maybe with this show, then this will be the one to trick you in the first few episodes.
The concept of time travel is not something so strange, but Turkey! uses it to convey a lot of messages, some of which may be successful but some of which are not, it depicts outdated dogmas in an extremely extreme way that the Japanese feudalism were, at the same time showing a very bold solution but not entiretly something that can satisfy the viewers, although it is a lame thing and sometimes intertwined between childishness and over-dramatization but at least it still keeps the direction and does not deviate from what was intended.
I quite admire the concept,…
Read at the sourcejustinharsey
A bowling time travel all-girls drama. That is the simplest way to describe this series. Synopsis alone, it's a hard pill to swallow, but it somehow works. By no means is it perfect. Time travel alone is a hard enough premise to pull off - how does it work? What makes it work? There is no DeLorean in here to explain it. It just happens.
Frankly putting, the plot devices to make events move forward are a bit convoluted, like the main time travel looking thing to look like a lane sweeper in a bowling alley. In a way, the bowling aspect is played up to hammy ways. If you came looking for good time travel, this isn't it. If you came looking for a good sports anime, this isn't it.
Is this unwatchable? No.
Out of everything that goes on, the main focus of the series is the character journey o…
Read at the sourceLoid_Forger_8002
It all began as a typical sports anime, highlighting the intense competition and camaraderie between athletes. At first, I was drawn in by the familiar tropes— the rivalries and the inspiring underdog narratives. However, as I continued watching, I noticed something extraordinary happening with the storyline. --[just ep 1 lol]
Each episode seemed to veer off into a different genre, keeping me constantly on my toes. One moment, I found myself immersed in a heart-pounding suspense thriller, and the next, I was swept away into moments of comedy that had me laughing out loud.[mosty confused] The show expertly wove in elements of mystery and even fantasy, transforming what started as a straightforward sports narrative into a multifaceted experience.
The plot twists were genuinely impressive,…
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