Mayoiga

A bus full of eccentric individuals is headed towards the urban legend known as Nanaki Village, a place where one can supposedly start over and live a perfect life. While many have different ideas of why the village cannot be found on any map, or why even the police cannot pinpoint its location, they each look forward to their new lives and just what awaits them once they reach their destination.

After a few mishaps, they successfully arrive at Nanaki Village only to find it completely abandoned. Judging from the state of disrepair, it has been vacant for at least a year. However, secrets are soon revealed as some of the group begin to go missing while exploring the village and amidst the confusion, they find bloody claw marks in a forest. As mistrust and in-fighting break out, will they ever be able to figure out the truth behind this lost village?

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Shimizu, Ayaka
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Maeda, Toshihiro

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Ishiguro, Tatsuya

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Kojima, Hiroaki

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Fukuda, Jun

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"Gensou Drive (幻想ドライブ)" by Ami Wajima

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"Ketsuro (結露)" by Rina Katahira

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Nov 27, 2023

Allwynd

Recommended

I initially decided to watch it after reading both positive, mixed and negative reviews making my mind to watch it and find out for myself if it's really as bad as the majority says it is and it being only 12 episodes made it quite easy.

After watching several episodes, I can understand some of the complaints of the negative reviews that they expected more, because it can feel lacking at times. But in defense of the anime, I will say that those who were expecting more, most likely are used to everything they watch to be of epic proportions and their senses are so dulled ... from "epicness" that they can't appreciate smaller and humbler things. What comes to mind is Mushishi - largely regarded as a very good Iyashikei about feeling good, healing, etc. I liked Mushihi, but can I explain why it was received better than Mayoiga? I can't. To me they both feel more or less the same thing, just depicted differently.

At times, I also had doubts if the story was good and interesting and while I got bored here and there, I had an urge to see what happens regardless and conclude it. Which I think it makes the anime a good one - if you are motivated to see it through to the end. If you can't, then it's clear sign of a bad anime.

I think the anime is a decent depiction of people dealing with the scars of their soul or others who want to avoid dealing with them. I've read multiple reviews and comments and and the ones that are negative or complaining come off as if their authors are cringy edgelord kids or cringy emotionally stunted adults displaying the characteristics of cringy edgelord kids who expect everything to be some fantastic experience of epic proportions that made them feel like, for example, the first time they watched One Piece or Naruto or something else that left a great impact on them and they've been chasing the dragon since then. In other words, I think the people who rated in negatively can't relate to the message, because it's foreign to them.

I read complaints like "I was not made to care about the characters" or "why didn't everyone choose to get saved?" or "the characters aren't acting realistically". I think that's pretty realistic - we don't care about everyone around us and not everyone around us cares about us, we don't like or care about all of our coworkers or classmates or all of the people on social gatherings we attend. Not everyone chose to get saved, because this is a common happening in life - not everyone can or is willing to face their problems and solve them, some will choose to run away from them until the end and you can't help them or convince them otherwise. Characters were acting unrealistically, because that's how some people act in real life, you can call them awkward little siblings or the weird kid with the 8th Grader Syndrome or just some adult who's just weird or not 100% sane, there are people like this all around us.

IN CONCLUSION: I think the anime is serviceable enough, complaints can be found about the depictions of things, the pacing of the story, the personal traumas of the different characters, because after all we can't put ourselves in everyone's shoes and that's OK, but it's a good allegory about facing up your problems, accepting them and learning to go on with them while trying to not them hold you back anymore. Don't expect some masterpiece, it's a simple message conveyed into figurative signs. It's very similar to the anime Sonny Boy.

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Oct 14, 2022

Neoncat910

Mixed Feelings

The first episode is great. It really does it job of luring you in and making you curious. Unfortunately the rest of the show, especially the later episodes, don’t pull their weight. It really starts to grind to a halt around episode 8. It sort of just loops round in circles with exploratory dialogue thrown in but unfortunately I didn’t feel like the explanation was actually helpful or really satisfying. There are so much more ways this could have ended and we got a very banal one. It’s still an interesting show up until the later episodes but I think the wheels came off the ...

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May 17, 2023

Rukazinha

Not Recommended

Think of a regret I had when I completed this work. I ALMOST give up halfway through.
Every time I go to watch a work, I never expect anything. Especially because - "if you don't expect anything, you won't be disappointed". And that's when I wasn't disappointed with anything, I repeat, WITH NOTHING.
Starting with young characters already gives me that "pathetic" look. There are hardly any works like this, which work well in the chosen theme. Horror. Horror? To watch? LOL
The pathetic progression with pathetic characters, made me learn to cook. Ironic I would say.
If you're going to watch this disgraceful anime, take a tranquilizer first, ...

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