Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Total_Saikou
Listen, I am coming to this anime as a die-hard fan of the Visual Novel, and I am willing to play defence against any detractors. It is an incredibly well-written vn with many hard-hitting action sequences, intriguing themes and a good balance between tragedy and heartfelt moments. The anime, however... Well...
Let’s talk about the things I liked first. There are some nice sequences, particularly during the fight scenes. They're very hard-hitting and keep a good balance of stylishness and realism. Shiki's in particular were very captivating, I can tell that my little emo princess was lavished with most of the budget :/
All the characters end up becoming really Flanderized, though to differing extents. Rin gets the brunt of this with a lot of dialogue that develops his character being cu…
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This review is kinda biased. I played the original game and even own some figures of the characters. And I must say that I had so much fun watching this.
Let's start with the story
A story of a multiple stories visual novel is always hard to adapt in an anime format. But here ? It was great. They tooks scenes from each characters routes, changed a few things and it made sense. They also added new scenes (mostly around the end) that go well with the flow of the game.
It's maybe still a bit complex, I wished they spend more time explaining the situation of Akira when he was still a bl@ster player and more time on the ending.
The art is the thing I can't stand up for
The art is very inconscistent from one episode to another. I must say that aroud half of the anime I kinda liked it. But at t…
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Okay. I went into this anime with very low expectations. I'm currently writing this because some of these reviews make it seem like this anime is awful. It's not btw. It isn't some jaw dropping show but I enjoyed it.
Quick Review: If you want a quick dystopian anime to watch, I recommend it.
To start off, I played the game. The anime does a pretty good job at including parts of each of the games character routes (there are 5 in the game) and making it a coherent story for the most part. Some things were left out, but it's understandable being a 12 episode anime. If you're only watching the anime and haven't played the game though, I'm sure its going to cause some confusion while watching.
I personally liked how it focused on the story more, but there are very little elements of BL. The…
Read at the sourceDragonKestrel
I thought that Togainu no Chi is a very interesting series for those that are interested in genres such as post-apocalyptical and dystopia. For me being a person who's interested in history and the growth of a country and region developing overtime, this anime was right up my alley. I liked seeing the concept of Japan being split into two different regions such as Toshima after the third division. It made a huge impact on me to reflect and be grateful that we are not in another world war. It really does remind me of a "what if theory" and a decision on if other countries such as the U.S, Britain, Germany and many more, who were involved in World War ll, were to be in a third world war that actually happened in todays modern day society. How would it shape us as humans and the harsh problem…
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This is a show that is best enjoyed going in blind. So I’ll do my best reviewing this anime without spoiling anything by putting my thoughts on it as brief as possible by saying you NEED to watch this show!
It has a lot of twists and the story is unpredictable and it gives you a rush and engages you like very few anime can nowadays. Many anime these days play it safe and don’t take risks by being as dark and bleak as shows from the 80s-90s.
If you are an oldtaku or are someone who enjoys older anime, this anime captures the rush that anime like Kite and Violence Jack did.
The only issue I can see putting people off is that the animation isn’t the best (the worst of it is at the final episode, but it holds up well till then. It isn’t as bad as the final episodes of Neon Genesis!), but do…
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I came to this anime expecting BL, and instead found a lot of misery, death, bloodbaths, more misery, senseless character deaths, quasi-existential yammering, more death, more blood, and a feeling of dissatisfaction and pointlessness.
I haven't played the BL game or read the manga and I suppose I should have checked the reviews before watching this so I could have avoided this exercise in anime-watching masochism.
There is literally no emotional pay-off to watching this. At all. The good guys don't win. The bad guys don't lose. The bad guys also don't really win. Nobody really wins or loses, everything is miserable. The one character development arc that had a little potential gets cut short (haha... ha..) with some more senseless death. I keep trying to care about the characters, but t…
Read at the sourceElucidatorB
I enjoyed this anime a lot, I wish there was a second season. The characters and the designs were quite satisfying. Entering this some what dystopian world, it was most intriguing though the protagonist's eyes. The plot isn't that sophisticated but still introduced elements that may be further developed in the manga and ideas that can be further explored in-game. It felt short with only 12 episodes to watch but was enjoyable and interesting nonetheless. I did not read the manga or play the games, but I like this genre; however for those who did, some have been disappointed with the anime. I believe the fact that they even made an anime for it was great, it brings their characters to life and provide them with something of a genre to their liking at the very least. I rate it as very good. A…
Read at the sourceScarsoftommorow
So first off I'll say that I never played the game or read the manga unlike a lot of people who have left reviews on this anime.
Anyway I'll start with my thoughts on the sound. At certain moments the sound seemed delayed or didn't fit the scene which annoys me to no end. At times Akira's voice acting seemed overdone or like the actor was trying too hard.
I've noticed that a lot of people called the plot confusing. I don't understand that at all. I was able to follow the plot just fine and I don't necessarily follow most anime plots well. There were really no sudden twists or anything left unexplained.
I know people say the characters aren't well developed but I disagree. The only characters who didn't really have a background were the "villians" and it wouldn't have really fit in with t…
Read at the sourceNikoMatsuoka
I do not understand the previous reviewer's because these BL animes (especially Nitro+Chiral) are based off BL mangas and computer games. The anime adaptations are made for popular (regular) TELEVISION in Japan. They cannot show explicit scenes let alone BL explicit scenes.
So of course they are not going to show the explicit yummy stuff we find online/game and in the mangas ... it is not "an embarrassment to the BL genre" because they are not doing explicit scenes in the anime; they are actually doing the BL genre a great service! They are expanding the audience for future BL customers. ^___~;
If you like the storyline and/or characters from the anime, then you would want the explicit stuff they expect you to purchase via the computer game or in the manga. The anime is to get you inve…
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I like Togainu no Chi. I've played the game. I've read the different iterations of the manga. And now, I've watched the anime.
I really wish I hadn't.
[Story] [3/10]
The story was, well, a joke. A twisted, convoluted fusion of each different path from the game, yet at the same time not following any actual path at all!
My other gripe was the lack of BL. The game was BL. Aka, Boys Love. Yaoi. Etc. To remove it is like having Final Fantasy 7 without Cloud or Sephiroth. Like 'Tales of' games without Apple Gels. It just isn't right!
And to add insult to injury, they left Arbitro and his creepy shota perverseness in. Why? To make gay people look like creepy paedophiles?
Seems legit.
[Art] [3/10]
I've seen many comments on the art style. It's a bit of a 'love it' or 'hate it' thing.
Per…
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So I've seen many horrible reviews for this anime and despite all the warnings to avoid it and/or at least read the manga I thought I would jump in and then give my opinion on it. Now keep this in mind, I have not read the manga yet (but I plan on it), and I have only glanced at it for the visual comparisons.
Story: 6/10
At the beginning of the series I was first enthralled by the prospects of Toshima and how the protagonist was going to go there after being falsely accused of murder. However after watching it all the way through I found it to be rather vague. Akira was sent to a battleground called Toshima after being falsely accused of murdering his opponent from earlier that day. His mission was to defeat Il Re, but after his friend Keisuke arrives things become a little more complica…
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My first advice is, if you haven't played the game or read the manga yet, don't do it until you've finished watching the anime.
Togainu no chi is a good anime to watch for me, not wonderfully but an OK one. As long as you don't compare it to the game or manga version, the story is quite interesting, I even continued watching all 12 episodes without pausing. The ending was disappointing though, I don't think that's how Akira would have responded in that kind of situation considering his personality, and the story was left unclear in TOO many parts.
Now, compares with the game ..and that would make the anime become worse, like others said, they just combined all of the paths as much as they can, which resulted in diluting every path ..and even the character's personality. Shiki seems to be m…
Read at the sourceTydus
Skimming through anime series as I usually do to watch, I decided to watch this after reading the brief synopsis of it, not to mention that with a name like this, I thought it was going to be an excellent series. However, just as looks can be deceiving, the same can be applied to the names because although the name oozed awesomeness, the series itself was a total disappointment.
STORY 3/10
The story follows a young apathetic man named Akira who is blackmailed into participating into a tournament to defeat a drug lord and stop the spread of drugs in Toshima. There was no actual fighting in this tournament which was supposed to be a focal part of the anime thereby it defeated the entire purpose and was uninteresting and dull.
ART 8/10
The drawings were very detailed and the background ani…
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When Togainu no Chi was first announced, I can honestly say I was incredibly excited. What more could I possibly ask for? There is nothing quite as satisfying as watching attractive men fighting each other and engaging in a wide array of homosexual actions.
Unfortunately, the only thing this anime has to offer is mind-numbing direction and plot, as well as the most uncreative and dull color palette seen in anime since Death Note. If you ever feel the desire to watch this, you had better have an unnatural love of the colors red and gray.
To be honest, I feel a bit ashamed giving Togainu no Chi the generous score of 2. The only good thing this series had going for it was Jun Fukuyama, although it is sad that his career will ever have to carry the red and gray shit stain of this anime.
You…
Read at the sourceAmadio
Ok. I will start of by saying the I have not read the original novel for this series. I just kinda happened upon this show wile looking through different shows here on MAL. Now another thing I want to say is... I don't understand why this show has so many bad reviews... It literally baffled me when I saw how hated his series was.
Let me start with the music. The soundtrack for this anime has to be one of the best I have ever had the pleasure to hear. The music is hard and raunchy as well as soft and melodically at times. They know what music to put where and when.
There is a different song for the end of each episode and I never heard one that I did not like. The ending music did a great job of wrapping up each episode with a mood that matched with the mood of the episode.
I saw a lot of…
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I can understand the criticism coming from the anime lover population. Yes the story was lacking. Yes the art was choppy at times and yes the characters were pretty basic. The story wasn't horrendous just lacking. It didn't have the essentials or the time to tie it all together. I have to say I had zero expectations for this anime and completely loved it. The theme is what any anime/gamer fan girl could want. Violence, hot guys and some hinted BL. I would definitely suggest this to people who are looking for something more then just BL with either rape or sappy romance. I can enjoy hot guys kicking ass any day. If you don't go into this anime ready to chop it into little pieces I'm sure you'll enjoy it, because now that I've turned around to review I've realized that it really was lacking…
Read at the source3MeowMix3
To those who read and enjoyed the manga (which is a thousand times better than the anime), then you might want to think about avoiding this. I loved the manga, so I was really excited about watching the anime. As I finished the anime, I was annoyed at how awful it was.
What they did wrong:
They basically made everyone a pretty boy, even the guy that was supposed to be an old hairy man (though technically the BL game has all the characters very feminine). While the manga had a plot, in the anime they just like threw it all around. I was able to understand what was going on since I had read the manga, but I feel for those who didn't they were probably very confused. They basically butchered the plot, and didn't even really develop the characters all too well. I was just very disappointed a…
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When Togainu no Chi was announced, I was put before a tricky choice either to watch it or not. On the one hand, this anime is based on a visual novel created by Nitroplus, the company I mostly like. But on the other hand, it is BL. Well, I considered this issue carefully and finally thought: “Bah, I bore with relationship between von Lohengramm and Kircheis from Legend of the Galactic Heroes, so I have some ‘just do not give a thing’ skill. Let’s roll this party!” Yep, I decided to cross the border and take a light step to the dangerous territory of fujoshi. I’m telling you all this just because I want you to understand, that I don’t belong to the target audience of this anime, so my review can be a bit out of place. It’s probably more like a random passer-by telling other random passers-b…
Read at the sourceAmaranthyz
I have to say, Togainu No Chi really got me hooked at the first two/three episodes but as it went along, the storyline and everything started to fall and I have never hated a finale of an anime so much than TnC's episode 12.
At first, I really liked how they introduced Akira and the beginning of the storyline. It was decent and could be caught up quite easily for those who have never heard of the game or visual novel before. When Shiki appeared, I had a good feeling that the anime will be a great hit. The first episode got me so interested and thus, I really supported the anime. After watching around, 6 episodes I saw that the storyline had gone a little…out of control. Well, it’s like it is too fast at one part and it wavered too slow at another. I started to doubt the success of the ani…
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Togainu no Chi is an embarrassment.
It is an embarrassment to Nitro+, the producers of the source material. It is an embarrassment to A-1 Pictures, who have proven with titles like Birdy the Mighty DECODE and Ookiku Furikabutte that they can do better. But the most tragic part is how horrifyingly embarrassing it is to the BL genre and its fans. The genre, despite its booming popularity and flourishing diversity in manga and doujinshi, suffers greatly somewhere in the transition to animation—for some reason, the anime industry doesn’t like the genre very much, and even hugely popular titles are treated to adaptations with cut corners and tight budgets. This does nothing to improve the reputation of BL, whose detractors dismiss it all as shallow, pandering garbage, insulting and even offens…
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