Rail Wars!

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Japanese: RAIL WARS! [レールウォーズ]

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 4, 2014 to Sep 19, 2014

Premiered: Summer 2014

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Lantis, Pony Canyon, TBS

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: Passione

Source: Light novel

Genres: Action, Ecchi

Themes: Harem, Workplace

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.39¹ (scored by 93,198 users)

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Ranked: #7646²

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Popularity: #1143

Members: 211,658

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Rail Wars! takes place in an alternate universe where the Japanese government remains in control of the nation's railway systems. Because of the stability afforded by the leadership of the government, the railway system is allowed to flourish.

Naoto Takayama aspires to become an employee for Japan National Railways because of the comfortable life that it will enable him to live. In order to accomplish this he enters its training program, where students must demonstrate their knowledge of trains as well as their ability to be ready for any challenge that might arise.

During this time period he will encounter other students such as the athletically gifted Aoi Sakura, the constantly hungry Sho Iwaizumi, and the human encyclopedia Haruka Komi. Together they will work towards surviving their trainee period, all the while taking on purse snatchers, bomb threats, and the looming specter of the extremist “RJ” group who wants to privatize the railway system.

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Background

From June 6, 2014 to July 6, 2014, the first episodes of Rail Wars! were streamed on Niconico. The regular TV broadcast began July 4, 2014 (July 3rd, 25:46) on TBS.

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Kouno, Marika
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Sueda, Yoshifumi

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Gou, Fumiyuki

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Sasaki, Tokihiro

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Sanpei, Hijiri

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Opening Theme

"Mukai Kaze ni Utarenagara (向かい風に打たれながら)" by Minori Chihara

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Ending Theme

"OVERDRIVER" by ZAQ

Reviews

Sep 21, 2014

Jayko

Recommended

Rail Wars has much to offer anyone who is interested in the Japanese way of life surrounding Public Transportation Systems and as an added result can provide some history about the industrialization of the country. It is an average anime that is surprisingly entertaining with some flaws of course. Nevertheless here's my review, continue to read and see if this show is for you.

Story: 6/10

From what is clear by the synopsis, one can probably tell they're not going to get an epic or an incredibly heart throbbing romance out of this show. You do however get a satisfying slice-of-life feel from it as ... each episode takes you along a specific story arc, with an occasional arc spanning a couple of episodes. This being said a couple of cliffhangers may stand in your way, but not in the dramatic sort of sense. That being said there is no grand conclusion, it's a casual story for people who are looking for an anime to get them past a depressing Key based anime that left a gap in their soul. If this has happened, you know what I'm talking about.

Art: 7/10

As the title would suggest, there is a lot of trains in this show, and with a show that has so much emphasis on trains the animators and artist did a good job on providing extraordinary detail on all mechanical entities within this show. Along with this is near flawless integration of 2D and 3D animation. The show was also fond of creating some weird angles for character interaction, this is mainly due to the ecchi elements that are present within the show, which can be more distracting than pleasing.

Sound: 8/10

There is not too much that an anime can mess up with sound. As for this one I'm sure there are plenty of trains locally available to get good sound in for this show, and the malfunctions and action that comes with it plays well too. Some dialogue is not synced with animation. As for the soundtrack we see very good OP and ED, as well as fitting music to accompany the shows current mood.

Characters: 8/10

The protagonist of the show is a slightly fanatical foamer that clearly has a lot of knowledge about trains. Other from this fact his dreams and motives are normal, which are good for a viewer to relate to. For the more fanatical side of our protagonist, we have a group of fairly normal friends to accompany him, that react a way most 'normal' people would with a foamer. The slice-of-life elements of the show also provide good character development for most characters and springs some interesting romance as well. Likewise their are some very predictable characters that one may wish were more developed.

Personal Enjoyment: 9/10

I like this show! Although I imagine there are many people that would have a hard time trying to keep interested if they're not at all interested in Public Systems or Criminal Justice. Even if a viewer did hold such interests, it is still possible they would not be satisfied with what was offered.

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Sep 20, 2014

earnshaw30

Mixed Feelings

Right first review so be gentle please though feedback is welcome.

Rail wars...so lets get one thing straight right of the bat this is a HAREM ECCHI anime if you don't like those genres stay the hell away from this show.

so moving on the lead characters are all pretty generic we have Naoto Takayama your typical dense harem lead and his co-workers Aoi Sakurai the typical tsundere heroine who has a particular fondness for guns Koumi Haruka the big breasted gentle character and lastly Shou Iwaizumi who serves as the stupid best friend as well as some other minor harem members.

story....well there wasn't much ...

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May 25, 2015

Blood_Diver_A

Not Recommended

(At Studio Passione, a meeting between the director and the animators)

Director: Okay. Thank you for coming on such short notice. I just wanted to discuss some minor changes that I thought would be appropriate.

[Animator A and B both nodded their heads and said, “Okay.”]

Director [smiling]: Great! Okay. Animator A, you are charge of animating most scenes involving Haruka Koumi, right?

Animator A [nodding]: That is correct.

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