Famous writers throughout history find themselves being reincarnated by a mysterious, unseen entity known as the Alchemist. With their souls confined and bound to an expansive library, they are tasked by the Alchemist to jump into books to purify the pages of monsters called Taints. Along the way, they must also rescue and recruit fellow authors trapped within the very stories they themselves had written.
Although the writers take on new and powerful forms for this endeavor, some still maintain a semblance of who they once were, while others struggle to remember their pasts and the works they had penned. Despite there being no apparent end to their grand mission, they remain committed to the cause in hope of resolving the mystery behind their collective resurrection as well as questions that have haunted their former lives.
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Comentários
KissTheShadows
It's definitely not an anime for those who are used to generic works that the industry has produced. The low number of reviews x the low rates that the anime has received shows how much of the audience only watched a few moments of the show, did not understand the narrative proposal and took their judgment. It's a pity to see something a bit out of the box being rejected immediately But for those who want a different experience, who are moved by the act of writing or creative production, just watch. This anime has definitely made my day's moments a lot more comfortable. -English is obviously notmy native language
Definitivamente não é um anime pra quem está acostumado com obras genéricas que industria tem produzido
O baixo número de reviews x As notas que o anime tem recebido, mostra o como boa parte dos expectadores apenas assistiram alguns momentos do show, não entenderam a proposta da narrativa e tomaram seu julgamento. É uma pena enorme ver uma proposta fora do eixo ser rejeitada imediatamente
Mas pros que querem uma experiência diferente, que se sentem movidos pelo ato da escrita ou produção criativa, vejam. O anime definitivamente tem feito os momentos do meu dia serem muito mais confortáveis.
RokudoRena
A good anime that isn't for everyone. I found it very disappointing to see such low scores as 3 and 4... because imo the characters and animation itself are very well done. I have read few works and my bachelor degree was about Dazai Osamu, that's why I was very excited to see that he was in the main cast and I found the portraying done extremely well! The stories which were taken from works are shown shorty and with main point. This anime made me remember all of the authors and works I have read and made want to read it again, that's whyfor me this anime reached it main purpose. I think the way it revived japanese literature is fine! Colorful animation and great seiyuus is a pleasant bonus. The only minus here is story because we never got to see alchemist himself and storytelling about saving literature was a little bit confusing. Also, never got fully explain how their world work, only few phrases covered that. The only thing I would justify is why there were two Akutagawas - I think the writers referred to Akutagawa having hallucinations at his late years. But overall for me it was a good anime and I enjoyed it!
Ashed_13
To be honest this show was a pain in the ass to watch. The story-3/10 Before I say anything let me preface this.The concept is really interesting and unique.You have these historic Japanese authors all going into novels to fight supernatural creatures from destroying literature.So good so far right?Well it went pretty good for the first 2 or 3 episodes.The pacing was solid and actually really interesting but its after the first few episodes that it fall apart.After the a fore mentioned first few episodes begins the shitstorm. They have a episode about farming for no damn reason then have a weird yaoi romance arc for anepisode where the writers go to the real world or something.I am not sure as to whether that was a in a book but I do believe it was not and literally just took place on Earth.They constantly add new characters out of nowhere,something that mind you was an important part of the cohesion of the story.In 2 episodes they somehow managed to cram around 20 new characters all without descriptions.The pacing was almost like someone was forcefully trying to fit over sized gears into a complex clockwork mechanism.It all just fell apart from there.Although I say that I must admit the last few episodes were very good.The psychological and character drama was well represented and honestly carry the show.
Art-8/10
This is probably the place where the show really manages to shine.The character designs are really unique for the main cast.Specifically the designs of Akutagawa and Dazai were some that stuck to me.The contrasting colors between the two were a very pleasing aesthetic which means quite a bit because the two show up almost every episode.This doesn't apply to the sub cast.The designs at that point got really similar to the point of me constantly mixing them up.The weapon designs were over embossed and complicated with pointless decoration but cool I guess.The the side characters felt way too similar to each other.Besides that the only other shortcoming I feel was the overuse of flashy cuts and transitions during fights which is a damn shame.The animation is smooth and pretty.The fights are really well choreographed as well.All in all this show had some really amazing artwork that really grew on me.
Sound-6/10
The OST is really good.The sound direction and foley is very well done and there isnt anything I can call out the show for.The voice acting for the anime was also well done and gave the characters much needed life.
Characters-2/10
Oh boy.Theres just nothing to say here.The authors themselves were stereotyped to death,felt boring,were unoriginal and nothing worth remembering.Beyond all of that there is also the overly concentrated sub cast.Theres wayyyyyy too many side characters and they dont even get properly introduced properly.Some of them were extremely annoying too and the bromance was unnecessary.I swear the only good character is Akutagawa.
Enjoyment-4
As mentioned before there were a few episodes I really enjoyed but the horrible middle episode really threw a wrench in the works.The humor didn't work well for me other than the Bungou Gourmet sections.
Overall-4/10
I do think this is worth a watch if you have spare time but I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend it to any body.There are way too many missed opportunities and much wasted potential which is really disappointing.All said and done this a below average show due to its crappy pacing and oddball humor.
coravline
This anime is specific. It definitely won't appeal to everyone, as you can see from the 3/4 star ratings. But in my opinion, this anime is really well made. First of all, people's feelings towards books, which I thought was the main message of the anime, is portrayed incredibly beautifully. As a fan of the books, I was captivated. I even cried at episode 4 where it was depicted. Secondly, the presentation of the authors. I haven't read much about Oda or Ango, but I got into Dazai. It was really well and compositionally presented. We didn't play around with making the author shallow. We had thewhole thing presented here.
The next thing, the animation and the line work. It was pleasing to the eye and the fight scenes were interesting and well done. The interior of the books and the landscapes in the nuch were beautiful.
It's not perfect, nor is it the best anime I've watched. There is a lot of ambiguity and nonsense, but in my opinion it doesn't deserve such a low rating. But well, like I said it's not an anime for everyone.
Balsamina
TL;DR -- this show's biggest problem is that it is boring. Art: 8 Best point of the show really. The characters are generally not poorly proportioned or poorly colored. The color palette is generally pleasant. There is even some level of depth to the shading. It hardly if at all qualifies for action but the action scenes in it are decent. Sound: 5 It's not terrible, it's not great. Nothing I will remember after the show but nothing that will make me watch the show muted either. Characters: 4 The idea is to take historical writers (of Japan) and take an interesting spin on them. Having knowledge of Japanese literaryfigures really help understand what they are talking about. Without them, you will be completely lost. Even having knowledge of some of the most prominent figures and their works, such as Akutagawa and his Rashoumon, however, I still feel that the characterization was bland at best. The characters didn't have any relatable growth. It felt like a shounen boyband.. . except without the coolness of a typical actual shounen boyband.
Story: 3
This was like a Sailor Moon of JP Writers and Boys. The conflicts were pretty much monster of the week, the final conflict not that far from just Big Bad at the End. We don't really see magical girl transformations but if it had that, it might as well be a Sailor Moon featuring boys. The sophistication of the the works by JP's classics writers were entirely not present, ironically.
Overall: 5
It's a show I can watch while I play some games on my PC or phone. In fact, mid way through this show, I picked up an investments book and just read that because studying finance was more interesting than the "plot", and since I understand spoken Japanese, I still was able to follow along.
[No who it's for/not for section because for once I'm not sure who this is targeted towards.]
KANLen09
In literature, there are a lot of quotes that become lifelong mantras that we live by, and whether it is a novel that moves us to tears, a play that intrigues or a poem that rouses our passions, a piece of well-written literature can have an impact on our emotions and behaviour that become value-added systems in life. But adapting this into a medium can be the hardest thing to swallow. Literature, like a play, when done right, it can be an adventure worth the long journey, and in the case of this show, it has a promising start and build-up, only to let thateffect relinquish more on the enjoyment. Love of hate this show, this is side-cheddar compared to better ones out there (a.k.a Bungou Stray Dogs).
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”
- Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr Seuss
This show has a base story but there is no substance towards it. I mean, to put it simply, to resurrect past famous literature authors (Osamu Dazai, Akutagawa Ryuunosuke etc.) to save their books from a possible evil of wiping out their existence on the face of the Earth. Now tell me if that isn't the most generic of generic situations that game adaptations suffer from it being a constant theme that just went somewhere but with no end in mind. And even if it has an end, it's largely unsatisfying. Blame it on Psycho-Pass 2 scriptwriter Jun Kumagai for this.
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
Personally, I'm not very acquainted with Japanese literature, but I have read some well-known literature in the past that truly puts me in a trance about living in such worlds like that. The thought of living in different environments is a wonderful fantasy that can always be wished in dreams. But back to this show, the only relevancy going for it is the interpretation of these famous Japanese authors and the works they've done, to "delve" into these books to rid of evil Taints decimating their mark in history. Again, very generic.
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
- The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein
I haven't really watched much OLM shows (other than Pokemon and the decent 12-sai), but this is pretty much a studio where like Madhouse and Gainax, the better team staff branched out to create their own studios (e.g. OLM Team Iwasa who founded White Fox). This show created by Team Kojima, who also created Mix (the baseball anime), is not half-bad either on the visuals department. But as best as I can put it, it's only decently good.
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
- The Tempest, William Shakespeare
The only good thing about this show is the OST, albeit with a very bias mindset, because while good music can't displace the shows negative points, as long as they're good for listening, it's all fine. Good songs for both OP and ED, but that's about it.
“The Answer to the ultimate question of Life, The Universe and Everything is…42!”
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
All in all, a really poor show that with the Bungou name attached, it sounds like it'll be a decent one, but nope. Even with the COVID situation delaying this show, it's in no hurry by anyone to catch. Even more baffling is that game adaptations usually are 12 episodes, and this has 13, so to spend another 24 mins watching a boring show that's as sluggish as molasses, I have lost hope for this show.
But not to persuade you to skip this, 'coz try this for yourself and see how you'd feel about it. Experience, not opinion, is the crux of this show and it is as every bit as sleeping on a couch and forgetting what even happened in the first place.
alasitar
I'm probably being biased because I watched this when I was in the hospital and it was one of my only sources of entertainment at the time. When I watched it first I didn't really get a lot of it but i really like all of the characters and the concept so I rewatched it once again and this time i looked more into it I liked how there were small details relating to the actual authors and stuff like that since i also like reading japanese authors books, my personal favourite author/poet being Chuya nakahara. After reading alot of reviews here i realizedthat this anime is not really for those type of anime fans if you know what i mean.... I overall give this anime a 8/10 not the best anime I watched but still one of my favorites !
(Sorry if i made any grammatical mistakes i suck at spelling really)
Firechick12012
Over the course of anime's existence, every few years or so, depending on the current landscape, anime likes to explore trends or capitalize on what's popular. Back in the 2000s, this was visual novel adaptations and ecchi stuff. In the 2010s, isekai stuff began saturating the market, and still does to this day, and as of recently, the newest trend comes in the form of cellphone games. Naturally, anime is made to promote the source material they're adapted from, be it a manga, game, or a light novel, with Bungo and Alchemist: Gears of Judgment being no different. Mobile games have gotten immensely popular asof late, bringing in millions of dollars, so it's no surprise corporations would want to capitalize on this success and adapt some famous games into anime, even if said anime are just glorified commercials for the game in question. There are some mobage anime that I like, such as Kemono Friends and Granblue Fantasy (Still waiting for the second season to get dubbed!), and there are just as many that are good, bad, average, mediocre, or just...dull. Unfortunately, Bungo and Alchemist has mobage game adaptation written all over it, and I don't mean that as a compliment.
The story takes place in a labyrinthine library where the world's greatest writers are reincarnated and...basically made into pretty boys. Their mission is to delve into the stories of old in order to protect them from evil beings known as the Taints. Yes, that's the name they went with, and it's as stupid as it sounds. The Taints corrupt books and intend on either changing the stories completely or outright erasing literature forever, so it's up to the authors to put a stop to them. The premise of jumping into books and saving their content is nothing new, but is actually one I like. There are even some books I've read that have used this to great effect, such as Anna James' The Bookwanderers series, and some that don't do it as well, such as James Riley's Story Thieves series. I've always been of the mind that it doesn't matter how unoriginal or cliche your story is, as nowadays it's impossible to make something original, so long as you create good, deep, interesting characters that can drive the story and are passionate about what you create.
But passion project, Bungo and Alchemist is not. All the characters save for one are just static archetypes that you've seen in pretty much every other anime before this, all made to look like generic over-designed bishounen made solely to make girls squeal. None of them change or grow over the course of the series, and the show itself is fairly formulaic on principle: Characters go into a book, find the author of the book, fight and purify them, bring them to the library, rinse and repeat. There's just no reason for me, and by extension the audience, to really care about them as characters other than what's on the surface. None of them really stand out, nor do the writers really try to make them interesting and three-dimensional in any way. Not helping matters is that the cast itself is pretty large, and if there's one thing Lapis Re:Lights taught me, is that if you want to have a show with 20-something characters in it or more, 11-13 episodes is absolutely NOT the best length for a series with that big a cast.
That being said, Bungo and Alchemist does have its good points. For one, the animation is solid, but nothing to really write home about. Would you believe that this was actually done by the same production company that worked on Pokemon, OLM? Seriously, I had no idea until I looked it up. Also, it seems like the show's budget went into the opening at the expense of everything else, because not only is that opening theme really creative in its animation and imagery, it is amazingly well done. Why the hell is this better animated than the entire series?! Why couldn't the entire show been as creative and fluidly animated as the friggin' opening?! Don't have much to say about the soundtrack, other than that it really likes to abuse one particular instrument that I don't even know the name of. You'll know it when you hear it. As far as good things go, there is one thing that I really liked about Bungo and Alchemist: A certain revelation behind one of the protagonists and his connection with the villain. I really liked the twist about him, and it actually made the final two episodes somewhat better...though not by much.
In the end, Bungo and Alchemist just comes and goes, yet another mobage game adaptation that's just there to promote the game and not much else. It's not offensively bad, nor does it really reach any highs. It's fine if you want a nice little time killer, but you're not going to find anything groundbreaking with this one, and there are lots of other things that tackled the same ideas and concepts much better.
