I'm not sure where to start with this, so let's do from the beginning: Shiro and Sora are NEET siblings extraordinaire. (In)famous gamers and shrouded in legend under the name "『 』" (blank), they get challenged by the Physical God of Gaming from another reality named "Disboard" to Chess and WIN. That happens in the first 10 or so minutes of the show. After that they get teleported to said alternate reality, make a name for themselves, become the rulers of the local human race named "Imanity" and start to battle the other races (all in all 16 total including Imanity) by playing progressively more awesome, risky and, let's be honest, BATSHIT INSANE games from Chess' RTS brother to word games that make stuff (dis)appear at will (they start with a Hydrogen Bomb!) and finally engage a race of Little Bit Beastly people who developed a Video Game in a kind-of Medieval European Fantasy.
Make no mistake, they always have to give absolutely everything and pull all tricks of the book to win this while using their cunning and absolutely excellent teamwork to make it do. That alone compels me to recommend the series because it just all works so great. Shiro is presented as a lonely Child Prodigy whose one and only bright spot in life was meeting her older brother Sora, who himself is just as smart (in a different way) and both form a perfect team. Again, they really need to because the series makes the dangers of the world they found themselves in crystal-clear. Failure cannot be accepted.
The series is, in a word, breathtaking. It's incredibly well animated (as expected of Madhouse), no scene is pointless and even the few instances of Fanservice are well played (generally for laughs and never just "there") and I have to add I don't really like Fanservice to begin with. The audio is also great; the voice actors of everyone just fit so well. So does the music. Need proof? Just watch the opening.
What actually bothers me is... I don't know, I can't come up with anything, really. Maybe the fact the parents of the protagonists apparently didn't care about them, not that this matters once they are in Disboard. Ok, one thing does bother me: lack of a 2nd Season so please Madhouse, do us the favour.
One of the best anime of recent memory if not decade? I totaly agree.
Absolutely revels in Crazy Awesome (anime S1)
I'm not sure where to start with this, so let's do from the beginning: Shiro and Sora are NEET siblings extraordinaire. (In)famous gamers and shrouded in legend under the name "『 』" (blank), they get challenged by the Physical God of Gaming from another reality named "Disboard" to Chess and WIN. That happens in the first 10 or so minutes of the show. After that they get teleported to said alternate reality, make a name for themselves, become the rulers of the local human race named "Imanity" and start to battle the other races (all in all 16 total including Imanity) by playing progressively more awesome, risky and, let's be honest, BATSHIT INSANE games from Chess' RTS brother to word games that make stuff (dis)appear at will (they start with a Hydrogen Bomb!) and finally engage a race of Little Bit Beastly people who developed a Video Game in a kind-of Medieval European Fantasy.
Make no mistake, they always have to give absolutely everything and pull all tricks of the book to win this while using their cunning and absolutely excellent teamwork to make it do. That alone compels me to recommend the series because it just all works so great. Shiro is presented as a lonely Child Prodigy whose one and only bright spot in life was meeting her older brother Sora, who himself is just as smart (in a different way) and both form a perfect team. Again, they really need to because the series makes the dangers of the world they found themselves in crystal-clear. Failure cannot be accepted.
The series is, in a word, breathtaking. It's incredibly well animated (as expected of Madhouse), no scene is pointless and even the few instances of Fanservice are well played (generally for laughs and never just "there") and I have to add I don't really like Fanservice to begin with. The audio is also great; the voice actors of everyone just fit so well. So does the music. Need proof? Just watch the opening.
What actually bothers me is... I don't know, I can't come up with anything, really. Maybe the fact the parents of the protagonists apparently didn't care about them, not that this matters once they are in Disboard. Ok, one thing does bother me: lack of a 2nd Season so please Madhouse, do us the favour.
One of the best anime of recent memory if not decade? I totaly agree.