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| Not even five minutes and already a pantishot? Wow. |
PR: After having another game streak, full nighter whatever in which the Kohaku brothers defeat a huge amount of other pro-players who were using cheats with their magical powers that are never explained, they recieve a SPAM-like mail offering them an invitation to another world if they beat a chess game. Honestly I wouldn't had downloaded an .exe file from such doubius source, but then again I don't get an anime.
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| For those who don't know it puts "Unknown: Hello. Wanna play a game?" |
Turns out it wasn't a scam, and it was actually Tet, the god of games, behind the table playing chess against the bros. They manage to beat him thanks to the Kohaku sister brute forcing the game by insta-visualizing all 10,123 possible moves simultaneusly at all times, you know your average "super smart" anime protagonist. If I had the processing capacity of a supercomputer and the coordination and respose time of a Delta Force soldier I wouldn't be spending all my day on some shitty apartment complaining about life I tell you that.
Well anyways, the so-called god of games that got defeated by some puny mortal girl, computer processing power or not, decides to teleport them into the world he reigns upon out of pure vanity to force a rematch. The world is more or less what you'd imagine of a dude that forbids war but allows life to be traded as a commodity in bets, while also allowing cheating as long as it's not detected effectively enabling the magic-casting races to legally enslave the less fortunate ones: utterly injust.
Really, seeing this self-rightous good-for-nothing God makes me breath out in relief we have no Gods here on Earth, what if they were like that? I shudder at the thought.
Anyways, the "plot" progresses with the brothers bulldozing through every game with their innate cheat abilities against opponents that also cheat in what can be summarized as a contest of whose cheats are better, in which the bros win every time since I quote "The kohaku know no defeat".
So they play rock paper scissors, they cheat and win, they play emotional "chess" and again cheat by "rallying" the troops using their "superior knowledge on war tactics" which in practical terms is just the guy shouting "Let's go plunder and rape, you bastards! For justice!", and then the guy pulling a 180° when he's about to lose and appealing to the morale of the enemy queen with his "dating sim knowledge"... The morale of the dude that was literally yelling that he came to plunder and rape two seconds ago, convincing.
Anyways, they later on play blackjack while again, cheating (card counting), and then they play "guess-who-passes" on a street while AGAIN cheating pulling some statistics crap, then they play chained-words game and... well, honestly the episode was rather confusing, but I think that foreseeing the very last play can be considered cheating. Plot-armored characters through-and-through, those two.
They also give a very "motivating" speech about how "Imanity" is the worst race, and now that the other better races have grasped sapience we're in an even more precarious situation than before, that we're shit-tier weak, but not to worry because we're going to defeat everyone with our weakness. Then he procceds to declare war upon the whole world.
To explain that madness he pulls a "Now that I've declared war upon all nations, none will attack us out of precaution since they don't know who's backing us up". No, dude. Declaring war upon the world is how you get preentive strikes! In reality, nations would start banding together and attack you just to prove they're NOT backing you. Guess is what you get when all the political decisions you make are stolen article bits from Wikipedia. Age of Empires academia, people.
Anyway, I didn't finished the season, but's easy to guess that the rest of the plot is the brothers cheating in made-up games that aren't even fun and having that obnoxious know-it-all attitude.
Narratively, the anime is atrocious. The premise itself was pretty basic, obviously trying to appeal to a gamer audience but forgetting that for ANY plot to work one needs proper character drive and real problems. The Kohaku lack any drive, they act by innertia, and it's pretty much garanteed that they'll win by pulling some half-baked stunt, so why bother?
Visually it's a bit better, the animations themselves are the forte of No Game No Life but the studio jacked brightness and color saturation to the maximum which may look good in a single picture but not episode after episode. Also, the ecchi scenes (of which there's a lot) are forced upon the plot and makes it impossible to take a single minute of the season seriously.
In summary: While passable thanks to good visuals, all the characters are sexualized 2D puppets with barely one cartoonish personality aspect, the Kohaku pretend to be smart but are absolute idiots, impossible to emphatize with and the "battle against God" which would be the ending is already spoiled by the first scene, in which they battle God and win. 2.5/10
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