Gleipnir

Shuuichi Kagaya is what one would consider an average high school student, but sometimes, he turns into a monster. He doesn't know how or why he got his abilities, only that he would prefer no one knows about them. One night, he finds a building ablaze with a girl trapped inside. Deciding to save her, he transforms and carries her to safety, but accidentally drops his phone.

The next day, the girl he saved—Claire Aoki—finds him and confronts him about his monster identity. She even goes so far as to push him off the school roof to prove her theory after Shuuichi denies her allegations. Desperate to save himself, he transforms, and Claire snaps a picture in order to blackmail him into telling her everything he knows about monsters, which, ironically, isn't much.

As it turns out, Claire has a secret of her own: she has been searching for her sister, who also became a monster. She enlists Shuuichi's help to track her down, but they aren't the only ones searching for answers.

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Aoki, Clair Main

Touyama, Nao Japanese

Kagaya, Shuuichi Main

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Yoshioka, Chihiro Supporting

Ichinose, Kana Japanese

Aoki, Elena Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Alien Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Mifune, Nana Supporting

Itou, Miku Japanese

Sanbe, Tadanori Supporting

Yasumoto, Hiroki Japanese

Hikawa Supporting

Ishigami, Shizuka Japanese

Kaito Supporting

Uchiyama, Kouki Japanese

Subaru Supporting

Taichi, You Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Furukawa, Shin Producer

Ogura, Mitsutoshi Producer

Mukaitouge, Kazuki Producer

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Mar 2, 2024

Connoisseur5910

Recommended

Can't wait for Season 2.
Well now that that is being said let us review it. Finally since a longer time, I found a nice Seinen Anime, which is just 13 episodes long. Sure it ends in a way, which leaves you expecting a sequel, there is some more to be shown.
Anyway, the plot is exactly as I like it, more of a dark one, just what a real R - 17+ Rating needs, Action, Mystery and Supernatural with a small flair of some Ecchi. To be Frank, do not get discouraged by the first episode cause it is just, well OK and the following second ... and third also leaves the Viewer Sceptical. Just like it said, it need time to kick in. After it every episode is more interesting than the previous, cause the plot thickens and more is revealed about Gleipnir. And last few Episodes are really cool. The plot itslef centers around some magical coins which when you find, give it to a alien and he will grant you a wish, of course downside is, you will want more, more wishes granted and powers gained from gathering the coins for the alien the less Human and more of a monster you become.
Now the wishes that are being granted are various, everything from new car, more money, sexy Bitches, to changing you form, gaining more power and eradicating all Life on earth. That also says a lot about characters, some want to have more arms to molest women, some just grow flowers and plants, others, kill without effort, manipulate minds. The Moral of Gleipnir, is I would say, Fear not the supernatural, fear the people that can use those mysterious powers.
I also must say, the OP song and ED song are really good, perfect matches for those sequences. In my playlist already.
What is left is season 2.
I recommend you all, give this anime a shot.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Aug 20, 2024

patkarunungan

Mixed Feelings

If I'll write my synopsis, I'll put it this way. An alien spaceship crashed on Earth, and with it are numerous objects that look like coins. A surviving alien created a game where if a person gathers 100 of these coins, he will grant extraordinary powers to them.

Stuff that I like:

The main male character started as the usual beta male, but there were wonderful changes that made him less insufferable.

The main female character is the most interesting. She is a complex character as well as her sister, who acts as an antagonist or perhaps an anti-hero. The main female character is not just smart but ... kind of a psycho and Machiavellian.

Even though I rated this as a 7, several elements might put off people.

*There's plenty of fanservice here:

It can feel kinky, and depending on how you accept or reject fanservice, it will give you different reactions. The target demographic is seinen after all, and it expects some maturity from its audience.

*The back story can be confusing because the full picture was only given at the 11th episode, a juncture that is too late for some people who might have dropped it.

*The plot is not complete:

Season 1 felt incomplete. It feels like a setup for a necessary, but unfortunately, it has been 4 years since season 1 came out and it's uncertain if season 2 will materialise.

Conclusion:

It's good enough for me, but it's not for everybody.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Dec 4, 2021

Konatose

Not Recommended

This had so much potential to be a very good anime and when I say that I mean it, think of how good Parasyte was, this could have been at the tier, but of course, the main character is too wimpy for that. Do you love wimpy shrimp main characters or, aka the Shinji syndrome, do you love a show that keeps on making you question every decision? Then “oh boy, do I have a show for you”. I can see why some people liked this, but after finishing it, I have a lot more dissatisfaction than anything. Have you ever wanted to like ... something, but it keeps on disappointing, well that’s what I felt watching this all the way through.

This anime had a fascinating and eye-catching beginning, the concept of the show I really loved; with the whole collecting coins for wishes, but as I saw more and more, the whole thing left more to be desired and questions than a coherent story. Now, it’s hard to know where to begin with a blog of an anime that makes you so frustrated, but I guess we can start with Shuuichi Kagaya. There is one thing that annoys more than anything in anime, more than generic isekai, more than lolicons - which are wimpy ass characters. Shuuichi is one. I do believe that sometimes the troupe can work in certain anime like Evangelion, but Gleipnir did it terribly and for me ruined the enjoyment, even ruined the anime too. What really was lacking in this “action anime” was action, well… There was action, but it was a weak excuse for one, as our “not main character” Shuuichi was so shrimpy that it couldn’t provide a full fight, which is what I disliked because the fights felt very lacklustre.

This disaster, known as Gleipnir, had a concise start to the anime; a good mystery element to his past, which I was invested in, interested in the Elena character, on board with the goals and hoped to see it pan out, but it started to decrease in score when they met the group. This is when the brain-dead decisions came from the plot that baffled me. Firstly, Chihiro the furry is shuuichi but even more annoying. What really annoyed me was weird sexual overtones of this anime which I felt killed enjoyment and become weird as hell after a while. Some scene they go into extreme danger and are willing to die from the enemy's way stronger just for something like a wallet. Then, plot armor saves them and gets the upper hand, but don't get satisfaction of actions as something always cucks it.


Shuuichi not having an exciting fight except for the first episode, I could come to terms that won’t happen halfway through, so it was still annoying to experience, but I’d put that aside to get onto the other priorities of the anime. You know, when people said they hate overpowered characters; I think this show took it literally and made our main characters extremely underpowered. Our main character is the most useless character I’ve seen as they get pushed around by everyone and the show is even self-conscious about it too which just adds to the frustration. During the later half it felt kind of random and half assed; ideas out of nowhere that have make no sense.

The story doesn’t feel coherent after this because they were progressing to their goal, right? But after this, they go back to the school, of all things? I don’t understand why they would go back to school to go back to normality when it seemed like they were missing school, anyway; it felt unneeded and irrelevant. It was just an excuse to segway the story along. Only thing i really enjoyed was the backstory, which was a breather from the stupidity that had occurred through the show. I feel like out of all the episodes, only four of them were actually good and half of it was a backstory. Every other one, I felt, had plot holes, terrible troupes and meaningless or dumb storytelling. I liked Youta’s storyline and where he is now, but the future of the anime seems to me. It had locked itself for disaster and would be an awkward start for season two.

What stands out to me, especially during the end, is how they are going to get there final goal. As, mcs are too weak to even try unless he blacks out or merges with the blonde girl but enemies seems like in a way different league from anything else, even with the buffs he could get there is no way he could beat him. Then the ending, which half the timeline is full of holes. After going to some random ending that was probably rushed, saying they are not the main characters; I felt like even who made this was self-aware at a shoddy job they did so made light of it in the end. The end made me just lose my mind at how bad it was and how disarrayed the whole show was, the uneventfulness that took place throughout the anime was remarkable at how much of nothing it came to; the laughable dubstep bgms, the annoying mc, all over the place plot. In conclusion, don’t bother with the anime. Read the manga if you want. Biggest disappointment that you will get if you finish this or have. I’m sorry on behalf of everyone who actually faith when this aired, me included!

Thanks for Reading! coma out

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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