The year is 1989. After the nation of Hinomoto was destabilized during the past World War, the rise of new technologies has enabled its revitalization. Modern engineering has given birth to aircraft, gasoline engines, and geomagnetic technology—revolutionizing transportation. Railroads have been rendered nearly obsolete and replaced by more efficient modes of transit.
However, a group of lively "Raillords" aims to renew the railroads' former glory. The Raillords, personified as energetic and spirited girls, act as humanoid control modules for their assigned railways. They meet in Ohitoyo City for the Raillord Summit, headed by Suzushiro, a Raillord from Manoka Railways. Together, the group capitalizes on its teamwork to get the railroads back on track, ushering in a "new railroad age."
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dlxuniuniu
“I like trains” Got bad grades? I like trains! Awkward date? I like trains! (you know the music and the song!) Trains! Without trains, we would all have big problems. There are so many kinds of them, and we use it every day. So why not make an anime with cute girls being Raillords ("humanoid control modules") for different kind of trains? The idea behind it is certainly good, but unfortunately it was not implemented ideally. STORY: The general setting takes place in Hinomoto, where our main character Suzushiro and her stepsister Hibiki set out to search for Hachiroku's lost locomotive. She unintentionally awakened the Raillord Hachiroku and with this actionbecoming her owner. Now they are on a journey looking for her locomotive. That's basically the whole story...such a locomotive doesn't usually go missing on its own but where could it be? They travel around and meet other Raillords, together they come up with some business merch ideas for different occasions. The structure of each episode is similar and the plot isn’t that much.
CHRACTERS:
Due to the short duration of each episode, there is not much to say about the characters. Everyone has a different personality, our main character Suzushiro is known for her eloquence and adaptability. She is a calm girl. Anyway, they are all quite friendly and nice to each another. We also see from time to time how much they love and cuddle each other. Real trains “cuddling” would be inconvenient and problematic, but this kind of “locomotive cuddling” is noice to see!
ART:
The girls are shown cute, even if you can directly tell there are places that could be improved regarding the animation. The locomotive and trains are shown very well.
SOUND:
After each episode we get to hear an ending song. It's not a song that makes you hooked for days. The music and melody sound happy and everyone have fun together while the song is being played. That's the most important thing!
ENJOYMENT:
Although I was less interested in the facts about trains and locomotives, I found this series amusing. Our "train girls" are just too cute.
For a short series in between, this anime is suitable for everyone if you are a fan of the CGDCT genre. For people who are dieing for different types of locomotives and trains, this is almost a MUST watch. You cannot find such a combination somewhere else.
A second season for this was announced ahead of the ending of the first season already (after episode 11). There are certain series where we urgently need a second season, but our train journey will continue.
Finally, there is at least one more reason to say:
"I LIKE TRAINS"
Luubie
Another anime that uses girls with reference to some form of transport ... Have you ever thought how much locomotives can be a good attraction in your travels? Not? Well, I present you Rail Romanesque, the anime that will show you that learning more about railway lines can be cool. Rail Romanesque, or Maitetsu, is a short anime that doesn't have a need to watch episodes in the correct order. It features 9 characters, known as "Railloads" and which has the function of looking for a solution so that there are more tourists in its facilities. The anime itself follows this proposal until the end, wherebasic things of our day to day are used as tools to increase the popularity of the railroads. In addition, some pairs were created, so that they could think and work together during their walks in the city where they were.
I have to say that Maitetsu's idea is already quite repeated in anime with little screen time, since the staff needs to speed up or lengthen some story so that it still remains interesting. I think they preferred the second option. Instead of proposing quicker suggestions that would allow us to see something new, they chose to use half an episode to develop a character proposal and the other half to see what some other group would see. The show ended up making mistakes due to this factor and made it an authentic and proper proposal, in another of the anime that committed the terrible structural error, which aroused disinterest in those who watched. The very beginning of my review is doubtful because of this.
In addition, we realized that the show wanted to put a large amount of text in a very short space of time. The clearest example of this is when character house posters are shown throughout the episodes, with additional information, in addition to references to the real world and the personality of each one. For those who are interested, it is cool to pause the anime and read a little of what is written, but I see that it makes the same mistake as some standard isekais. Like? Well, this way of inserting long texts is common in animes that prefer to approach the concepts of their world and care more about the adventures themselves. And isekais use this type of narrative a lot to persuade and get the public's attention, although it doesn't work in most cases.
However, the show is not a complete waste of time. He really has his cool side and manages to create fun and interesting gadgets to be seen. How delightful it would be to see a new city in the style of the 18th century. Even I wanted to go on a train in my country. It is a pity that in Brazil this is not so accessible ... In addition to giving us a brief desire to learn about other ways of life, some cultures from certain places in Japan and China are presented, which made me happy with the show. I did not imagine the wide variety of locomotives in both countries, especially in the highly technological world in which we live.
Overall, Rail Romanesque is not a bad anime, but it is also not as good as I expected. He previously transmits the elements he wants and manages to interest us, even for a few seconds. He is weak compared to the longest anime and will one day be forgotten by most. I must say that I will not forget Rail Romanesque anytime soon. It was a new and unique experience for me, so no matter how you rate this type of show, give the anime a try and enjoy another different and innovative type of show.
IrrelevantGuy
As a person who isn't familiar with Maitetsu whatsoever, I didn't think I would enjoy Rail Romanesque. But surprisingly, I kinda did. To put some context to it, Rail Romanesque is apparently a short spin-off to the fairly acclaimed visual novel Maitetsu. But one thing should be made clear: I don't think having prior experience of Maitetsu is needed to watch or enjoy this short. And that is coming from a person who knows almost nothing about the original visual novel but still enjoyed it. The plot of Rail Romanesque is very bland. Simply put, it's about a bunch of "Raillords" (or "cute train-girls", if you will)trying to come up with ideas to make the railways more advanced and popular among the tourists. As you can see, there's not really a proper story here, and the characters aren't great either. Besides, considering the entire anime is around only 40 minutes long, any kind of character development is almost nonexistent.
Even on the production side, Rail Romanesque is quite mediocre. The character designs are quite decent, but the visuals are rather ordinary. While the ending songs aren't bad and the voice is acting is actually decent, the background music mostly consists of generic cheerful tunes that are easily forgettable.
So, if everything about Rail Romanesque is so unimpressive, why should you watch it?
Well.... Because it's pretty wholesome.
Despite its simplicity and mediocrity, Rail Romanesque kept me entertained for the entirety of its span because of how cute it was. The characters of the anime, despite being very generic, are honestly entertaining. Watching them do cute things together is pretty fun. There are occasional Shoujo Ai moments as well, that will probably warm your heart. I'm very disappointed that this anime is so short, though, as I actually would like to watch a full-length TV version of it.
Rail Romanesque is nowhere near being remarkable, but I would say it's worth a try nonetheless. Everything about it is very cute and adorable. You may even learn a thing or two about trains after watching it. It's only around 40 minutes long, too. Also, if you are into train-girls for some reason, it has plenty of them.
SgtSalamander
Do you like trains? Now, do you LIKE like trains? Then have I got the anime for you! Rail Romanesque was an odd experience, and while it meets most standards of production quality, it's just so specific. It serves as a testament to the sheer variety of anime out there, and proves that if there's a niche to be filled then there's going to be something to fill it! Then when I found out this is a spin-off of an eroge visual novel, it felt as though I briefly lost my grip on reality. There are countless rabbit holes inthe world of anime, a great many of them weird, and this is indeed one of them. It's a train waifu anime, presented to the viewer without a hint of irony. Beginning with the story, if you can call it that, there's not much to see really. It's a barebones concept, with the girls going on little adventures and coming up with merchandising ideas for their various trains and rail lines. It is unclear if the Raillords (the train themed waifus in question) are themselves biological or mechanical, since they seem to eat coal and are once referred to as 'manufactured', but in the interludes they write about them being assigned to rail lines in order to save them from diminishing ridership and there is a bath scene where they appear completely human, so it's hard to tell.
The art is the strength of this anime, but not a particularly impressive strength. I was drawn in because the uniforms seemed interesting and hinted at unique worldbuilding, but once I was in there was no reason not to stay for the other 36 minutes of the season. It's colorful and fun, but nothing out of the ordinary.
The sound is similarly boilerplate, with simple, light music throughout and standard quality voice acting.
The characters are a little simple and I had no real investment in them, but if I had to choose my favorites, they would be the bug-obsessed Riiko and the group tsundere Beni. Overall, I can only really recommend this if you like trains to the point of deriving joy from their mere essence being distilled into waifu form.
Manu404
Ohh Yes Japan At It again Making waifus Out of something That will Sound literally hilarious to, Guess what the culprit this time is No need to go far thinking its in the name of the anime itself they are trains. The characters as depicted in the anime does not seem very old(what we call legal-loli smh) But these are Very experienced girls Who work in The rail field or what we say related to trains. As we know this is a short anime so the content explored is little so don't go expecting a plot In this anime. This anime depicts A railsummit Conducted in-order to Increase the sales Regarding the Area of each raillord(the main characters are called this cause they are girls which are trains).We have a great moderator who handles the summit she is extremely charming and cute Not to mention she handles them well and handles her puns really well. And finally What happens in these short placed episodes is Interaction of other raillords to create a Sales method to increase sales in their area. They are divided into teams of two( total 8 members so 4 teams).This anime somehow concludes after their Cute discussions and finally some good ending scenes depicted elegantly. This anime dont have an opening song just an okayish ending theme .Anyway that concludes it it was a good watch Depending on how you see and its full of trains wheeee
FreiaMyName
well, here we go, Would be nice to see an actual story to this anime, that would teach you a little about these trains than a pop-up text that lasts 1 second. Most of this anime was just about merch, which made the story confusing And also half of this was about a girl looking for bugs So we can conclude there was no real story for engagement. The characters were not really developed but brought on a history of being a train, That's kinda it. For real honesty most of the time watching this, I was spacing out That is not a good pointer for this. But In a positive factor, thecharacters look cute with their kinda looking traditional outfits
Overall would I recommend this Nope, not at all
NextUniverse
(TLDR Review at the bottom) Hey Vsauce, NextUniverse here. Anime fans. If you do a quick google search on "how many anime fans are there in the world". You may find that the first answer you get is 50 million. You will find this stat on Quora with the answer posted by Anime Motivation. Now for argument's sake, let's assume this is true. That is a lot of anime fans. That is 0.641% of the world population. And with this huge amount of fans around the world, there comes the culture that has been made within the community. One particular topic that will be focused on todayis waifus and the theme "cute girls doing cute things" or "CGDCT".
Waifu is a term used by the anime community which has the meaning of "A fictional character, usually in anime or related media, that someone has great and sometimes romantic, affection for." According to the waifu definition. It is easy to find a waifu or two in Rail Romanesque, due to the theme of CGDCT being played, logically meaning that cute girls exist in the anime. Therefore concluding that waifu material happens to be in the anime. Rail Romanesque seems to have given itself this identity that it is well, an anime based on CGDCT with a ton of waifus. Yeah. That is this show. Is that a bad thing? Of course not, and I will get to why?
Getting into the narrative of the story you can see that there is just, well, cute girls just doing cute things. Nothing more, nothing less. Memorable cute things? I wouldn't say so, I believe half the anime was just the girls preparing some merch for their train lines, maybe their YouTube channels too if they had one, idk. But cute things nonetheless. And who cares. In the anime community, even if it doesn't make sense, cute things are loved anyway because they are just nice to look at. Some use anime like so, as sleep fuel, whilst others just like loving fictional characters. And it works. Not to a groundbreaking level, but it does the job in a decent fashion.
Audiovisuals side… wasn't the best, very stiff and choppy movements used throughout, this does mean that the anime isn't too hot in reeling in fans of the CGDCT theme. However, the character designs are sensible for the anime. Meaning that the "cuteness" if you well, was executed correctly. Thereby allowing better endorsement into this anime. Sound side of things, the only thing this anime has going for it is the EDs, OST is pretty much non-existent or my memory space is full. The character sounds were what you expect of it too. Normal waifu sounds are normal.
Enjoyable? Yeah, as said, who cares if it is just waifus doing cute things that don't have much meaning. I mean, this isn't the most plot-heavy written thing in the world, or the most beautiful eye-candy Shinkai would probably sell his soul for. But it is just that. Simple times of which you can look at waifus do things, you could probably fish out one or two of these girls to remember, set your wallpaper as, idk, you can do you. I mean, I took quite a liking to two of the characters, being Riiko and Shirogane. Really, this is just here to pass the time with the medium 50 million people seem to have taken a liking to. No complaints there.
Overall - 5.2 (5)
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TLDR Review:
Story - 5: Cgdct you won't remember, but it is cute nonetheless.
Visuals - 5: Stiff visuals but character designs make up for it.
Audio - 6: Non-existent OST, but EDs are pretty well made.
Character - 5: Simple and loveable characters are simple and loveable.
Enjoyment - 5: An option if you want to pass the time with anime.
Overall - 5.2 (5)
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So what did we get out of Rail Romanesque? Well, just watching people, particularly that of the animated 2nd-dimensional female, is indeed, quite worth the while to watch, regardless of what is going on. 3.5 mins per episode. That is 42 mins of your life you can spend just passing the time. Also, I have never played the VN of this, which I believe may cause some minor difficulty in understanding absolutely everything. But having watched this, I don't think it is too bad even though I haven't touched the VN. I am not too sure why MAL has a tendency to downgrade everything that has <5 mins per episode, but I assure you Rail Romanesque isn't as bad as it seems. It is basic. Very much so. But it reminds you of the basic things in life that are still pretty cool to watch.
And as always, thanks for reading.
stmwg01
Rail Romanesque has very little positive to present, and that's it's biggest fault. The story to Rail Romanesque follows several girls who've become conductors for their locality's trains. They meet to form a plan to revive the use of rail. The story is stupidly simple and presented over 12 - 5 minute episodes. Be expected to be shocked by what you get, as it's quite different from what you're thinking. Art is average all around and there is nothing worth noting. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't memorable either. The same goes for sound. Acting is perfectly fine, but there is nothing worth noting. Music is completelyunmemorable. The same applies to characters as well.
If you like trains, you'll find very little of it in this anime. If you're looking for a new Waifu, you may find it here, but that's about all you're watching. Each girl does have a unique personality and style.
united1175
Before I began, I have not played the Visual Novel Maitetsu, however, this doesn't take away from my enjoyment of the 'series.' As an avid railfan and buff, this cute little digestible show gives neat little tidbits about different railways and trains in Japan, China, and even Russia. Now as a 'series' as I keep putting in quotations, there isn't much here to digest. Each episode is just 3 minutes long and is usually about 2 or more of the girls at the railway summit to find a way to attract more passengers. My major problem with the series is that it is so short. All inall the 'series' is about 36 minutes not including opening and closing. Now that the series is over, it's easy to watch but If you really want a train-centered anime, I recommend Rail Wars.
