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The four of them are a pleasant group of characters to watch and explore new, different games with. Although not in the first few episodes, Emilia is a welcomed edition to the group of girls when she transfers from Germany and befriends Midori, Aya, and Miki. Where their backgrounds aren’t explored, their personalities make up for some of that lack of substance. We learn little to no background to any of them.

Both the OP and ED are equally adequate, but unimpressive.Įxcluding MINOR ones, nearly all of the MAIN and SECONDARY characters are underdeveloped. It’s nothing exciting but nothing out of character either. This is one section I do not have much to say, other than audio appeal is satisfactory, especially for this particular anime.

One potential way to make simple, slower paced anime more enjoyable is to animate the heck out of it! Disappointingly, LIDEN FILMS failed to that like Studio Pierrot did with Hikaru no Go. What do I mean exactly? Simply put, for simple show such as this, there are too many times throughout where still scenes were being used with just some noise and music playing in the background. However, the animation is where it doesn’t do justice nor does it make up for the simplistic art style, whereas the anime, Hikaru no Go, does. Arguably, it feels Episodic after the first few episodes with very slow pacing and undeveloped characters, albeit likeable ones.Īrtistic elements and designs are kept simple with no significant richness in color, but the characters and backgrounds are clean looking with enough definition to them add some charm and appeal. However, that’s all that After School Dice Club is really about three friends playing a new type of game each episode. I applaud LIDEN FILMS for taking a non-typical plot and making it into an anime. From here, the plot centers mainly on their friendship and the discovery of fun while playing these games, which, according to the anime, are not typical fanfare in Japan. Shortly thereafter, they realize that they are in a magical place of various board and card games. Intimidating to the girls at first, things change when they find out that Midori works part-time at this particular establishment. The characters were also mostly bland, with Miki being the only one who really showed any signs of development.This lighthearted story is about three unlikely friends, Midori (the determined one), Aya (the Eternal Optimist) and Miki (the Shy one), who form their bond of friendship through unlikely means…games! One day late after school, Aya and Miki somehow find their way into this little gaming shop owned by a large man named Takeru. The episode where they played Gokiburi was easily the best for the exact reason that it drew on these threads of familiarity that anyone who has played board games can empathise with in this case new and somewhat unwilling players being converted. None of the girls took their cards to the bathroom with them for fear another would peak, and not once did we have someone exploit any part of a game. For anyone who plays a lot of board games, there are any number of shared experiences that this anime could have drawn on to involve us in the narrative, such as arguments over a dice roll that has fallen off the table, or someone pulling out the rule book mid-game.

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We are explained the rules, and then get a series of stills before one of the girls leans back, evidently having won. This is largely due to the constraints on animation, but I also felt like the viewer was wholly underestimated in almost all of the episodes. When it did get to game of the episode I really enjoyed the introduction of the rules, but always felt horribly let down by the actual game play. The vast majority of the episode's non-game time felt very strained and entirely superfluous. The story was in itself a bit too shallow and despite the first few episodes being pretty enjoyable they failed to set up a strong plot, or make me care particularly about any of the characters.

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It was my favourite of the season in fact! That said, I couldn't give it close to full marks, and in reality would set it down at around 5/10. I'm a really big fan of tabletop games so I was going to love this show regardless of how good or bad it was - and I did.

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