Anime fans another dubbed show has finished airing and this is one that I hope gets a season 2 because of how good it is and it's also a show where I watched the first episode subbed before the dub was announced but i'm choosing to review the dub because I forgot about the show when the subtitles were out.
So then the plot of the show is the anime centers on Minoa Asagaya, a new high school student in Sakaneko Private High School. Despite being a novice to anime Minoa's classmate Arisu Kamiigusa invites her to make an "anime research club" at school. Through conversations with her classmate Miko Kouenji, as well as various anime-loving upperclassmen Minoa gradually gets hooked on anime. While they stand against the student council's continuous efforts to disband their club and they ignore the impending end of the world they talk about anime whether in Akiba or in real-life "sacred place" anime settings or the hot springs. Now i don't know if you noticed it or not but the plot summery mentions something about the end of the world and that's where things get insane i'm not even sure if i can tell you what happens or not but the show's worth it just for the final episodes alone.
The dub was done by Funimation and it stars Alison Viktorin as Arisu Kamiigusa , Dawn M. Bennett as Minoa Asagaya ,Elizabeth Maxwell as Miko Koenji ,Alejandro Saab as Kai Musashikai ,Brad Smeaton as Neko-sempai ,Cris George as Masato Gomon ,Felecia Angelle as Erika Aoyama ,J. Michael Tatum as Toru Ropponogi ,Jamie Marchi as Tsubaki Akabane ,Jeannie Tirado as Ayame Ozaki , Jordan Dash Cruz as Kouki "Aurora" Nakano , Kristen McGuire as Yui Obata ,Megan Shipman as Matsuri Toda , Trina Nishimura as Bei Bei Yang ,Katelyn Barr as Maya Asagaya , Kyle Phillips as Shugo Asagaya and finally Natalie Hoover as Ai Asagawa. I want you all to know that is every single listed actor on the show and as is to be expected from a Funimation dub the dub cast are actually really freaking good and all of the characters actually sound like how you think they would.
I have to say that even tho the series does get really meta near the end it kinda has that same meta humor all throughout the series and i think by taking that approach it allows them to explain anime better to non anime fans or people who don't watch anime that often all though i will say the references do get a bit much.
The actual production was handled by DMM Productions while Wao World handled the actual animation and given that Wao have worked on things such as Accel World , Beezelbub , Btoom and many many many many more I have to say that for their first time being in charge of the animation they did a really good job on all the shows i've just mentioned they were either doing in between stuff or 2nd Key Animation work so it's nice to see that when they have the chance to really prove them selfs in the industry that they can actually step up and do a good job.
Also regarding the story the show is for the most part pretty self contained apart from episode 8 on wards where you need to have seen the previous episodes to fully get whats going on but it's still interesting enough to keep you coming back for more.
Now as you might have guessed by the title or the plot summery the show is all about anime fans and i like the fact that the show actually does a good job of painting anime fans in a positive light since if this show was made America all of the main cast would be cast as the typical loser. In this show however we get to see what die hard anime fans enjoy doing like visiting locations from shows they watch or staying up late to watch the latest episode heck there's even an entire episode about anime conventions.
I touched on it briefly in my last point but I want to go into more detail here because again if this show was made in the west in would have all the cast be the same typical loser / nerd / geek character and that would be it but in this show however it goes almost out of it's way to give the main cast their own personalities Minoa is the newbie who just wants to fit in, Arisu is the rich girl who at first thinks money will solve everything on the other side of that coin we have Miko is a light novel reader who's not afraid to tell Arisu of , Erika is the groups leader and like Kai can give an impassioned speech when called upon now i'm not going to mention Nakano because of spoilers but even he has some character.
The opening theme is done Garnidelia and is called Aikotoba and I have to say that I actually really do like the opening theme for me it sets the mood for the series perfectly it's a fun little number but what i found most interesting is who's performing the ending theme GATALIS who consist of the Japanese voice actors for Minao , Miko and Arisu all do the ending and that was something i never knew.
Overall i'd say that this show was an underrated and hidden gem and it's worth checking out and if you want to get someone into anime this is the perfect series for me the show gets a solid 7.5 out of 10.
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