An "Isekai" story with a realistic approach to life and survival. No unnecessary cliché, no overpowered protagonist, no harem. It was an unique watch and I enjoyed every single episode to the most.
The story is definitely slow paced so I'll only recommend it to those who love these kind of shows.
Simply beautiful. Not great action scenes, it doesn't need them. I highly recommend to watch it with headsets.
Very nice artwork, especially the sceneries. Great character development for how short the series is. An easy recommendation.
The struggle felt real in this one. More adult than your average crossover isekai. But I didn’t like the lack of motion in the animation style and the story was slow going, so much they would add music overtop to montage the development. The backgrounds were basically painted on and stationary, with lighting effects and filters to assist movement. It didn’t match the characters animation style either which was pretty standard compared to the scenery.
One of the best isekai imo. This show is solid, good plot, no stereotypes, characters have a personality and they evolve. The fights are average, nothing crazy, but that's not the focus here and it didn't bother me at all. The 'reality' of this isekai is original and gives a different feeling.
This show really deserves to continue.
A very simple and slow isekai story, but very serious that feels a bit like Goblin Slayer with beautiful art and awesome soundtrack, You will enjoy the show. The first arc is great but then the show becomes slow and simple. I don't know about the light novels but maybe a second season would be great to the show with a more complex story.
Like a previous reviewer, I really like that the tone was more serious. It might not be fast paced but it makes up for it with some character development.
One of the very best anime I've ever seen.
Quite slow, but the animation is pretty and there are some awesome momments. Average show.
I'm dropping this show as of Episode 7. I gave it a chance but especially with the last two they only made it much worse.
Taking the now age old concept of people being trapped in video games, these folks wake up with no recollection of their pasts and little desire to change anything about that. This setup however is only a cheap way to help with self-insert as it hardly plays a role in the show (just to pad the time with sometimes lengthy expositions about boring abilities). Instead Grimgar is focused on keeping everything as mundane as possible within it's fantasy setting: the protagonists are poor, suck at fighting, spend their time cooking and dwelling in teenage drama. The only enemies they fought so far are goblins, goblins, goblins... and goblins. Everything proceeds at snail pacing and that with only 12 episodes in total. There are other people that woke up in this world too but they all progressed much further in rank in the same time so there is no excuse to keep them as trashy as they are.
The problem however isn't just that it's slow but also that it's presented quite badly. Instead of ranting about the immature dialogue here or other shit they pull it is probably best to point to the production side of this show: it's further ruined by the urge to get money. Grimgar wasn't exactly a popular light novel and it seems they added in quite a lot of ways to generate revenue (kinda similar to how MARVEL markets it's universe). The edgy as fuck traumatic episode featuring a fight to death with a poor, lonely goblin ends with the boys trying to peek at the naked girls bathing. It was totally out of place and guess what, that part is sold as a BD special with the first volume.
In similar ways the insert songs work for the show. You get whatever plot in the first half and then montages of whatever mood the cast is in overlayed with insert songs. It totally fails but figure what; the band belongs to the production company of the anime and they're releasing the OP and ED discs...
While there were enough reasons to drop this one earlier I was kind of hoping for something unique. The visuals did that in a way with lush water color backgrounds but the animation ended up being mostly absent in many scenes further hinting at the lack of dedicated talent to this show.
After the last two episodes of truly autistic teenage problems I can safely say that this show has no potential at all and you're better of watching something else.
Shout by ChrisBlockedParent2016-04-01T11:36:29Z
It was slow but I really liked how serious the story is. It's about life and death. No kiddie-videogame-like story, where nobody dies und everybody is safe and happy. I hope it get's a second season to give us more background informations.