Thermae Romae Novae

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Japanese: テルマエ・ロマエノヴァエ

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Type: ONA

Episodes: 11

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Mar 28, 2022

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: NAZ

Source: Manga

Genre: Comedy

Themes: Adult Cast, Historical, Time Travel

Demographic: Seinen

Duration: 29 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.18¹ (scored by 12,376 users)

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Ranked: #3427²

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Popularity: #4381

Members: 25,460

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Lucius Modestus, an ancient Roman architect, finds himself job-hunting due to having trouble coming up with new ideas. As his demeanor and personality become dismal, his friends try taking him to a bathhouse for him to relax. Unable to unwind in the bustling and crowded bath, Lucius dips his head in the water. Down there, he finds a secret tunnel that transports him to a modern-day Japanese bathhouse, providing him the inspiration he needed to make a new creation.

Loaded with what seems to be knowledge way ahead of his time, Lucius does his best to try and recreate his findings, usually inferior in quality due to his circumstances. However, the sheer ingenuity may be just enough to gain the attention of the citizens and regain his reputation as an architect.

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Modestus, Lucius

Main

Hondo, Kaede
Japanese

Hadrianus

Supporting

Isobe, Tsutomu
Japanese

Regulus

Supporting

Hino, Satoshi
Japanese

Pietoras, Marcus

Supporting

Tamura, Mutsumi
Japanese

Narrator

Supporting

Kubota, Hitoshi
Japanese

Apollodoros

Supporting

Mugihito
Japanese

Titus

Supporting

Watanabe, Akeno
Japanese

Annius Verus, Marcus

Supporting

Enoki, Junya
Japanese

Modestus, Cassius

Supporting

Souma, Kouichi
Japanese

Yoshida

Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro
Japanese

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Suda, Yasuo

Producer

Tatamitani, Tetsuya

Director

Tanaka, Ryou

Sound Director

Méyère, Bruno

Script, ADR Director

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Opening Theme

"Tougyuushi no Uta: Onsen Manner no Aria (闘牛士の歌～温泉マナーのアリア～)" by Paolo Andrea Di Pietro

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Mar 28, 2022

issa_labshat

Recommended

Bathtub, onsen, hot springs, Thermae.
"Thermae" - a public bathing establishment of the ancient Greeks or Romans.

This series is about that.

This show was really big on the cultural appreciation of Japanese bath culture. You get to explore how sophisticated and wonderful culture. Lucius, our MC, sure did have a great time appreciating every bit.

Every episode, you get to learn some rules and quirks about Public Bathing (like drinking Fruit Milk after a bath as an unspoken rule and maintaining etiquette inside the bath). You get to see Lucius explore and get inspiration from these modern-day inventions to bring to his fellow Romans. It's beautiful.

There are no ...

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Mar 29, 2022

Rehaanc

Mixed Feelings

Very basic comedy with like an isekai type twist with honestly barely any link to roman civilization like you could substitute any old civilization and wouldn't change much at all. At the end of each episode we get a clip of the manga artist visiting the hotsprings that inspired her to make it. very basic story but i liked the art. there was some use of cgi it was quite out of place but its wasn't totally disorientating.

SPOILERS!!!

Basically MC gets isekaied then steals aspects of function and design from modern Japanese bathhouses, has a funny interaction with the Japanese, solves the problem of the ...

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Apr 9, 2022

PixelB

Not Recommended

Netflix does it again: another terrible show. And as true Netflix style, this show is animated quite horrendously, to say the least. That, however, is one of the many host of flaws that this show has.
Sure, the CGI that's ubiquitous, the lack of fluid movement, scenes of walking or monologuing dragging just a bit too long is bad, but how about adding a 3-5 minute live action sequence about baths in Japan? I don't really care about how the author of the manga is the host, or how "informative" it is. It's just lazy, and of course, more importantly, makes it so that the show ... does not need to animate that much more. Hey, better package this live-action sequence as a unique "feature," rather than cutting corners.
Okay sure, the animation and live action sequences are bad, but that's not all. The general episodic format of Lucius going into a different Japanese bath and experience its culture is also terrible, too. First of all, you're stuck in the perspective of Rome for half the show, and the Rome portion of the show is extremely lackluster. There are absolutely no characters that matter other than Lucius himself. Sure, he technically has a couple of friends that are recurring side characters, but they just are husks of a real character that just make small talk with Lucius, but really, anyone would have been fine, as long as Lucius gets some conversation in.
In fact, this show could have been good if the show actually cared about Lucius building baths. The format is that Lucius isekais to Japan and implements the bath culture into his own baths in Rome. However, none of the build or design process is actually shown, and you're just shown the of course, successful finished product. It would have been nice for the show to have Lucius struggle to get ideas approved, or trying to replicate the bath culture from Japan. But nope, you kind of just see his finished product. Other than that, the time the show is in Rome is pure boring exposition that sets up how Lucius needs to yet again, implement a new feature in a bath, serving not much purpose.
Ok, the time in Japan is probably the best part of the show, but it's still not that good. I definitely like the culture shock, and it depicts someone of Lucius's time period well, thinking that the Japanese people are slaves. However, it's still not very funny. Is it relaxing? Um, not really? you're kind of just seeing Lucius react to how different baths work. It kind of gets really old real quick, not that it was particularly good to begin with.
So yep, should have guessed that Netflix would butcher another show.

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