Audience reviews
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Zu4ohi
One of the best anime i've seen with supernatural theme and highly linked to Japanese folklore
The development of characters in highly noticeable if we compare the the beginning and end of the story
The story takes the protagonists through a plot full of adrenaline and unexpected surprises, always playing with the suspense that something worse could happen, the touches of yuri that she has are in the right measure
The protagonists sometimes have very human reactions and other times, of complete psychopaths
In the manga it has a very interesting continuation that further enriches that aura of mysticism that surrounds the course of the story
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Urasekai Picnic is an isekai where Sorawo is a broke college student questioning her existence when being sent into what appears to be her own world; Ready to give up on life, she lies there until a surprised Toriko finds her. The two are at odds with their situation as aggressive supernatural entities approach them - Sorawo finds out Toriko is in the other side so she can find her mentor Uruma Satsuki and she spends time helping her out and drowning out her ordinary life's worries. Despite the calming environment in the other side, it is actually home to many supernatural phenomenon seen in traditional Japanese folklore, the duo experience what the other side has to offer and meet some interesting people. Will they be able to reach their goals?
Story & Character: 4/10
Urasekai Picnic is…
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The whole time I was watching this series, one thought kept rattling through my head, "I really miss Manglobe." The rich atmosphere and meticulous design that Manglobe brought to Ergo Proxy and Witch Hunter Robin would have been a perfect match for Otherside Picnic, but sadly that studio doesn't exist any more.
While I haven't read the source material, the Otherside Picnic anime feels like a competent adaptation. The problem is that some stories demand something other than off-the-peg anime aesthetics. I'm aware that the novels and manga used the same character designs, but they just don't fit the story. The animators do manage to pull off some eerie moments in places, but for the most part the bright colours, poorly judged use of stiff CG for mundane scenes, and overall look of the serie…
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I initially skipped over Otherside Picnic as it aired because I'm not really into anything horror. Not because I hate it or anything, but I just never really found it interesting. But I was bored one day and had nothing to watch, so I decided to try checking this out. It turned out to be better than I expected, though I do feel more could have been done with this. The story centers on two girls—Sorawo and Toriko—who meet in the mysterious realm they refer to as the Otherside. It's a vast and dangerous realm that hardly anyone knows about, filled with all manner of horrors straight out of ghost stories. In order to get more information on this strange world, Sorawo and Toriko travel back and forth to it from the real world, though one incident alters their bodies in ways that actually manag…
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This was probably the best fantastical show I have ever seen. It's worth noting that I have not watched a ton, but of all the ones I have seen, this is the best. The concept is very unique and it has heart, whether it's with others that are fighting together or with just the protagonists. It moved along nicely and the world building was fantastic.
The portrayal of all of the weird things there are is done so well. The visuals are great but a big round of applause for who scored the music to go along with it. It set the perfect mood for each experience and helped you buy into what happened and the foreshadowing of what was coming. Visuals are key for me and based on the subject matter, it was done well here.
I could see how this might not be everyone's cup of tea, though I am disappointed…
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I have to write this review with the Mixed Feelings recommendation for one main reason, the Girls Love tag is absolute lies. Is one of the MC girls harboring a crush for the other MC Girl? For sure, and maybe that'll be enough for some of you, but when I read GIRLS Love that reads as a promise of romance, not just one sided subtext (MAL even defines the tag as such). I hate that mislabeling here on MAL and it's 90% of the shows labeled GL....label them subtext like they should be ffs.
As for the other things about the show: It's actually fine to good. The story is cool, nothing completely original, but it still holds it's own. It promises horror, but never gets beyond mildly disconcerting (could scare the heck out of some folks made of less stern stuff if I'm being honest). The sound is o…
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Thought this is an anime that takes itself very seriously which is very story driven? Nah it ain't... sorta. Urasekai Picnic's title somewhat says it all, the two mc's go into an unknown world being all happy go lucky looking like they're just going for a picnic. Although with what I said earlier, it's not to say that Urasekai Picnic is an sol comedy anime, i'd say it's a balance of sol comedy and them experiencing the horrors of the so called 'other world'. Oh the shoujo ai genre is very toned down so if you came because of that, sadly it isn't really that much but it is somewhat there I guess. And lastly the music is really good, the op reminds me of ops from shounen anime. The ed and the post ed scenes are also a good change of pace from the episodes.
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I'm surprised how poor some of the reviews for Urasekai Picnic are. For me, this is a pretty strong series.
Many reviewers have picked out faults that I really can't argue with: there are times when the audio mixing lets it down, the animation is decent but unspectacular and the story about two girls who can cross into a supernatural world does relax into a monster-of-the-week pattern that would benefit from a little more time spent in the real world in order to draw a brighter contrast with the strangeness of the 'other side'.
With all that said, the show has strengths which make it very enjoyable. The world-building is mostly excellent and the show creates an attractive and cohesive reality.
There is always a trick to bringing the natural and the supernatural together in a way that do…
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Urasekai Picnic is an anime from Lidenfilms & Felix Film. You may recall Liden from Arslan Senki and that dumb anime about cockroaches from Mars. It's based off of an ongoing series of novels by Miyazawa Iori. Let's open shoujo ai month with a look at Urasekai Picnic.
Story:
We open with Sorawo, a young University student, thinking about death while a monstrous creature looms nearby. She's rescued by another young woman named Toriko. Turns out, Sorawo stumbled upon a strange place referred to simply as Urasekai. Toriko is there in search of her former mentor Satsuki. Toriko convinces Sorawo to explore the Urasekai with her. The pair encounter all manner of strange creatures and circumstances while deepening their bond.
The worst I can say for the series is that it gets a bit cheesy at…
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the story is more of a love letter and spinoff of Strugatsky's book: Roadside Picnic and the stalker games that followed. with a strickingly similar envirnoment as in the book.
instead of an anomalous zone in chernobyl, in this show its some parallel type world which mimics the zone seen in Strugatsky's work. the beartraps are a direct reference to some of the anomalies seen in RP and Stalker.
the setting differs in the way that most anomalies are based of inworld scary stories, takes place in japan, and in the way charactors interact with the zone.
funnily enough the first guns the characters find are the same as in the stalker games.
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Urasekai picnic has one of those stories where if you buy into the idea, you will watch it or else you'll drop it right off the bat. And sadly as the show progresses, it makes the watching harder, even for those who bought into it in the first place. The story isn't too bad but bringing in urban legends after urban legends, it starts to get boring. Characters are not that well written. For example, they try to set up a relationship dynamic between the two main characters but then they shy away. It's too unclear and inconsistent. It's a weird experience altogether. Special mention to the music, they did get the sounding right, to match the weird set-up. But the tunes just don't stick. At the end, it's enjoyable, for the most part but chances are you will get bored once in a while. I heard t…
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Every now and then, I'm okay trying something a little different and weirder than what I'm used to watching. Otherside Picnic... should not have been the one to try.
Story: Our story in Otherside Picnic starts out with us seeing Sorawo in the middle of nowhere when another character, Toriko, finds her. They escape seemingly dangerous situations and return home with some supernatural items over the course of the first few episodes that they want to sell off for cash. Soon after, we learn that Sorawo stumbled upon this place by chance where as Toriko is looking for a friend of hers, Satsuki. This is essentially the basis of the story and isn't the worst setup in the world.
This place that the girls were in is then dubbed "Otherside" and it seems to be a world entirely separate from the rea…
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i found this anime while looking for a cool yuri anime. everywhere I looked it said it's filled with action but is also shoujo ai.
unfortuantely that isn't true. If you're a gay girl looking desperately for lesbian content, you can interpret some of the exchanges as "romantic"? but the gayest thing that happened was that they were blushing. I have no idea how this got cathegotrised as yuri, it's one of THOSE animes where you think somethings gonna happen right until the end, but it doesnt.
The anime was great (other than the fact it was not shoujo ai), I liked it, it was kinda horror/fantasy/thriller thingy but i wouldnt say it was too scary, so if you aren't very into horrors i think you could still watch it.
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Yeah, this is a pretty underwhelming anime.
At first, I was quite intrigued by the mix of sci-fi along with yuri on the sides. The world design, at first glance, was actually quite cool. I kind of liked the post-apocalyptic elements of the Otherside. The soundtracks that played when they were in the Otherside also pretty much sold how eerie and intense the exploration is gonna be like....but that's not what happened.
What we got were mostly boring fights that I'm pretty sure 99% of them involves running away. The most effective way of fighting ofc. And when it DOESN'T involve running away, it usually ends very quickly and easily. That's just not a good fight writing.
The yuri relationship pretty much didn't go anywhere by the end of it all. Sorao's character is pretty half-assed, and CA…
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Urasekai Picnic was pretty fun to watch.
It's not the most visually stunning thing, but it's decent. The one specific thing I'll say now is that there are some static shots of things like our characters among people standing in the city where the complete lack of motion in the people standing around just doesn't look right at all. There's one other visual thing I want to mention but I'll bring it up later.
The OP and ED are both fun songs, though only the OP is actually memorable to me. The sound design within the show is pretty standard suspenseful horror fare for the most part, but it's competently executed for what it is. The main audio-related complaint I would give is about the marines in the episodes where they show up. These guys are supposed to be native English speakers and they…
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I liked this anime fine but I kind of find it hard to recommend. I watched it for the yuri and it's definitely yuri but don't expect anything conclusive, it's in the category of 1-season LN adaptations that can't really go anywhere with the plot or characters. I would basically describe it as being like Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation trilogy but with drunk college student anime girls instead of scientists.
As for the quality of the show...it's uneven to say the least. It feels extremely low budget. There's a lot of CGI here: most of the distance shots are fairly ugly CGI, and many of the monsters are fairly pathetic CGI. With the exception of a handful of strangely well-animated fight scenes, most of the animation is pretty weak, although the characters do stay on-model consistently.
Th…
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Mild spoilers - no specifics, but some general issues.
Urasekai Picnic had the potential to be an elegant "picnic" indeed: ice-cold lemonade, artisan bread, cold chicken, and fresh berries. Instead, its fear of committing to what could have made it great left us with lukewarm drinks and lackluster sandwiches.
Let's start with the anime's strongest point: the characters. Sorao and Toriko both feel pretty fresh, neither so hyperbolic nor so bland that you can't imagine meeting them in real life. The start of their relationship feels a little improbable, though at least that problem is addressed in retrospect. By the end of their relationship, they really do make a great pair (both as friends and romantically.) Yet, despite the good start and decent relationship progression, the characters…
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If you're a fan of adventure/horror media such as the STALKER games or the SCP universe, you're likely going to love Otherside Picnic. Otherwise, chances are it'll be a mildly entertaining but unmemorable show for you.
I watched the anime first, liked it enough to read what has been translated of the light novels, then re-watched the anime. Aside from shifting around a couple chapters with some necessary plot modifications, the anime was a close adaptation of the first two volumes of the light novels. I think a good arc was picked to serve as a central plot to this show, with a very satisfying ending which still leaves plenty of questions and room for a potential future season.
The relationship between the main characters is well developed, but I wouldn't say the "shoujo ai" tag should b…
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My review may be biased from me not having yet read the novel or the manga, but in my opinion Otherside Picnic is a greatly underrated anime that deserves a much higher score and more praise than it currently has.
-I thought the story was interesting and was excited to watch each episode. It felt like a mix between Girls' Last Tour and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. with some Japanese folklore and internet/urban legends mixed in, which I thoroughly enjoyed. The anime had a good mix of action, horror/suspense, and humor. What more could you want?
-The art was decent.
-The sound was decent, and I especially enjoyed the OP and ED.
-The character development was really good. As I watched the anime I saw a friendship form between Sorawo and Toriko from their adventures together, later also including Kozakura…
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Otherside Picnic deserves a higher score on MAL. Don’t let the rating deter you from watching a cute and slightly scary shoujo ai anime!
Sorawo and Toriko explore another realm called The Otherside Picnic in search of items they can sell in the real world and Toriko’s friend (maybe girlfriend) who got sucked into the Otherside Picnic. During the 12 episodes, the show involves some urban legends from Japan I think. I hear that a lot more happens in the light novel which means more content for a potential 2nd season lol
Significant stuff***
Opening song is amazing. The mixing/mastering of the music throughout the series is so crisp. Voice actors’ performance were top notch. Art style’s great even the little bits of CGI here and there. The closing song is cool, too.
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