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Introduction
Dreaming of a magical world every night, the young Toramizu Ginta yearns to be able to go there. With only his friend Koyuki believing in his dreams, Ginta remains positive despite the slander he receives from others over his dreams. But his wishes are answered, as one day a large door appears in front of Ginta, summoning him to the land of MAR Heaven. In this land, the weapons known as ARMS exist. While initially Ginta greatly enjoyed the discovery of this magical world, he soon learns of the terrible wars that have once plagued MAR Heaven and the upcoming war that may soon appear.
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 7.26/10 · 22801
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Audience reviews
6 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
AnimeEnjoyer420
MAR is a series that embodies a lot of the worst qualities of shounen anime and brings nothing new to the table. Almost immediately, the story steers itself into a ditch with an interminable Tournament Arc that lasts well over half the run of the series. While there are a handful of decent moments in the 70 or so "X vs Y" episodes that follow, most of it is an agonizing waiting game, slogging through one utterly predictable fight after the next, with no sign of plot progression for dozens of episodes at a time. When the end of the Tournament Arc blessedly arrives though, the story fully goes off the rails into an extended denouement that is totally confused, full of questionable narrative choices and other decisions that make it apparent that they had no real plan for where to take this st…
Read at the sourceAllwynd
It reminds me of Yu-Gi-Oh! and Shaman King - shows I watched when I was about 13 and really enjoyed, back then I didn't even know what anime is and I'm no sure I was even aware of the shows' origin, but I still enjoyed them.
I picked MAR for the sole reason to relive that excitement and since it had 102 episodes I expected to have tons of fun with it, alas, the reality was different.
The show started well, the premise of the main character being transported to a fantasy world he has longed for was interesting. The first few episodes, where he still figures out what goes on and characters are being introduced were the more interesting ones for me.
After that, the majority of the show is about a tournament, but that's where I started skipping just to get through and say I've finished it.…
Read at the sourcecameron_iacono
I know there are people who'll say this show is unoriginal and dosen't do anything new or ground breaking or exciting, but the problem with anime is that there's so much different anime and manga out there that it's hard for a any show to stick out unless it's so big name or some new trending show like Mob psycho 100 or Twin star twin star exorcists, witch both of those are great but there do exist anime that is good just get shoved of as unoriginal and meh because critics don't want to be bothered with having to review them because they don't do anything new. However it's not also something new that makes your show stand out it's the execution of it and Mar dose good execution. Ginta, Babbo and the rag-tag group of friends they team up with and fight along side with are interesting, enjoy…
Read at the sourceIshwar101
To be Honest I did watch up to 70 episodes then just started to skip the whole series is based a kid who goes to a world where he has to protect it from evil guys.
If your are thinking of watching this don't, unless you like battles. The whole series from around episode 10 to 102 all involve continuous battles over and over.
I think there wasn't a lot of development of the characters in the series. The story over all they were really easy to figure out. Its waked up, the series is OK for kids under 8 but to my experience I didn't like the story repeating things over and over. There was no sense of adventure the story mainly focused in three or four areas excluding battle area.
Read at the sourcexAwakeAlivex
Okay so I have been a fan of this anime since a long time and since I think that the anime is underrated i am doing this review so Enjoy :)
10/10 STORY: Okay so I guess the plot isn't that original. You know the whole "going into another world to fight evil and save the world" but it isn't your typical story too since it does have some detailes that just make you go "wow i didn't see that coming for sure"
10/10 ART: I usually really like it when in an Anime the art is clean and in really huigh quality while the more old animations aren't exactly my cup of tea. With that said ,the art of MAR isn't anything new It's basicly your typical anime art but it still has that effect on the viewer , it just gets you really into the story
9/10 SOUND: I liked the openings and Endings as well as the…
Read at the sourcepandapaws
Now before i get started this anime was base on the story and art of Nobuyuki Abzai and was licensed by Viz media and with that in mind i throughly enjoyed this anime it was the first one i watched and even though only (i think) 52...maybe 53 of the episodes are dubbed i did watch untill the end.
-ARTWORK- If you know that mar was created by the same person as 'flame of recca" then you may or may not be disappointed with the change of style; i actually liked the change -it's almost chibi but it keeps the same realistic side as flame of recca - i also enjoyed the mix of cgi; such as babbo's transformations.
-STORY- Now i have watched quite a few anime with people being sent in to other worlds but this one does have a certain charm to it- while saying that it can be a little predictable at…
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