No Game No Life

I don't like No game No life.

Art: The anime doesn't look good. It still is my personal opinion, but the colors are too bright and it's pissing me off. Seriously, these anime make you regret digital animation.

Sound: The opening is really good! Don't remember the ending and the ost did fit the anime.

Characters: The two main characters are two gamers that are super smart and can't stand to be separated. Shiro is just a cute loli, and Sora is a perverted introvert guy. Shiro has a super good memory and to offset that, Sora is a strategic genius. Their relationshop doesn't get ... more developed in the anime, nor their personality. They are just awfully managed throught all the show. Other characters are just used as oppenents for the game or fanservice.

Plot: A god transport them in a world called disboard, where everything is decided in games like chess. Sixteen races inhabit that world, and Humans are the weakest because they can't use magic. Sora and Shiro will try to save humanity from the other nations that have more territory and ressources and that are more powerful than humans.

While I do think that the concept is pretty interesting, and that the races aspect was enjoyable, the games between the characters are awful. The main characters are just too intelligent for you to predict their move, and most of the time the oppenent is just straight-up cheating. It's like watching kakegurui without the unique animation, over the top reactions and crazy characters. There's plot twist every 5 minutes, and because it's magic, everything can happen and the duels become hard to follow. Not because they're complicated, but because the games are not realistic. You're not invested into Sora and Shiro, because they're already super smart and don't need to train their brain or anything like that.

So yeah, I don't like No game No life. Sorry, english is not my native language!
I said a lot of awful things to no game no life, but don't feel dumb or bad for enjoying the show, it still is my opinion!

hi i never write reviews ever! but im here to tell you why i think you should not waste your time on no game no life!!

the overall story, the universe, the concepts, art, and music? all fine! even good!
i think there's a lot of potential for the series! i found myself invested in the story and i can understand why people might praise NGNL...

*BUT.*
the never-ending stream of incestuous ecchi makes the series completely unwatchable!

personally, im not a fan of harem, fanservice, or ecchi in the first place, but i can absolutely look past it for an otherwise good series. (some of my fav animes ... are chobits and kill la kill! both very guilty of these things, but i love them anyway.)

personal preferences aside, for how much praise the series gets, this is a huge, glaring flaw!! the show is excessive in reminding you that shiro is the 11 year old younger sister, and then takes EVERY opportunity for panty shots, bathing/undressed scenes, and sexual jokes towards her. it feels constant. have you forgotten for even a moment that sora and shiro are unhealthily close in a creepy sexual way? no worries, the show will remind you again with dialogue about how jealous shiro is of all the other girls stealing sora's attention! they try to play it off as sora and shiro "being shut ins", which might excuse their dependent relationship. but the anime absolutely could have explored an overly dependent sibling relationship without sexualizing it. shiro's age is very apparent yet she's sexualized right alongside the other harem support characters, as if she's just another romantic interest. even by anime standards, it's unbearable.

i really wanted to like NGNL!! the games, the fantasy universe, and some of the characters are really cool in concept!! but overall it was such a disappointment. i sat through so many uncomfortable and annoying scenes hoping it would get good. there are other, more average flaws with the show, which doesn't help its case. the story doesn't accomplish much with its one season, some of the other characters feel flat and sexualized to the point that it takes away from their personality, and emotional character development is nonexistent. i haven't bothered watching the movie because i can't imagine it's able to do much to fix the issues and further the plot of the whole series in such a short time span. i can't speak for how the manga handles these things, but as far as the anime is concerned, it is very flawed and incomplete.

tldr: really pretty art, designs, and concepts - but you have to hurdle a 12 episode wall of intense loli sister ecchi and there's literally nothing on the other side except probably all your friends judging you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

No game no life

Because of the many positive comments and his hyps, I finally decided to give him a chance. However, this turned out to be a fatal mistake.

Genre: The genres were poorly implemented and are emphasized too weakly. In addition, the "humor" in the anime is not even there if it is intended for pedophiles with sister complexes.

Story: The story is pretty simple. A sibling couple, another world comes to him and tries to regulate the whole anime with everything through games and to conquer everything until they can finally challenge God. Everyone has implemented it even more boring than it is and until ... episode 9 nothing interesting happened.

Animation / pictures: Definitely one of the few anime that I can criticize superficially due to its incredibly bad drawing style. In addition, the general animations are pretty bad and the brightness of the anime is far too high, it really catches the eye.

Characters: Well. The characters couldn't have been worse. Little kitten sister and a completely perverse big brother. Their relationship also suggests a sister complex of the manga.


Conclusion!

Definitely one of the worst anime that I've come across. The hype and its positive evaluation are not worthy of him. It is also a simple pedophilic ecchi that shows an extreme little sisters fetish and even offers a lot of skin from 11 year old children. No humor, no story, just boring.

I only have a well-considered 2 / 10-

This show has a similar set up to the typical light novel in that there's a gary stu main character transported to another world, gathering a harem of girls and showing off his OP skills to solve the problems going on in this world. Although, it sets apart from other series of this kind when regarding what that OP skill is and that's apparently that this gary stu, Sora, is supposedly a genius gamer in a world where games decide everything.

No Game No Life really tries to be smart and flaunt it in the many games the show features and I admit, it's at least ... fairly creative, no where near the most creative I've seen but still creative nonetheless. However, the creative ideas it has are not well put together to make satisfying mind games as the majority of the tactics the main character uses relies on his opponents being absurdly stupid in the most convenient way for him to win. Then there are the few games that don't fall under this problem, which are either really simple joke games or vague skimmed over games they never explore.

You can really feel the author's obnoxious arrogance oozing from the show. It's like if someone loads up a fighting game like Street Fighter on VS mode and plays against an empty second controller, beating the playerless opponent, record it and brag about how they won. It's really obnoxious and that's reflected in the characters of the show as well such as the arrogant gary stu MC and the cast of weak stupid girls who he picks on. The author only cares about showing off the most over the top tricks of the MC and nothing on how the rest of the game fits or even the opponent's perspective of what a rational person would do in their position.

It also makes it hilarious when you consider how the author got caught tracing as if he thought he could get away with cheating just like his gary stu MC. No, you're not Sora, who can magically make the rest of the world stupid just so he can look smart. It's actually pretty ironic how residents of a world where everything revolves around games can be so bad at games. But the author probably didn't consider that as neither did Sora he was never shown to research on their skills, he just plays and was conveniently better than them all.

Although a merit I can give is that at least it's not always Sora hogging the spotlight. He also has a cute sister who sometimes gets her shot at being the one to come up with the genius plan. Although her coolness is partly negated when she also failed so Sora could take over and be the one to show off again. The other characters are just the other aforementioned stupid girls who Sora beats and collects a harem like Pokemon. There's not much depth other than Sora complaining about how stupid people are.

I heard the series gets praise for the pretty colors although I think the red outlines just look messy. When it comes to the character designs, they're charming as usual for the anime aesthetic but still nothing special. There are a few good songs though and the show occasionally has funny references to other anime.

I know I mostly complained on this show until now but still, I at least appreciate that this show "tries" which sets it above the standard light novel that just copy and paste the same story with hardly anything else that's special. It's true there are many ideas poorly put together, but it's better than no ideas and it's true the main character has an obnoxious arrogant personality but that's at least better than no personality. There are of course much better light novels out there that not only try to have creative ideas but also use them well along with having interesting characters and drama.

No Game No Life overall is a dumb entertaining mess. It's not very good but at least it's better than boring even if just the bare minumum.

[SPOILER]

I'm gonna say this before you read this review (which no one would probably do) that I really hate this anime and you will get triggered by this if you like the anime.

Story: 4/10
We start of by a sibling playing games all day and dominating the whole game universe, they soon get this weird feeling and then get isekai'd for absolutely no reason. HOW GREAT!! I wanna watch this anime because it's another useless fanservice isekai with cute lolis in it. I don't think the premise of this anime is interesting at all. Their world is pretty interesting but that's really there is to it. ... Logic basically doesn't exists in this anime.

Art: 1/10
The artstyle of this anime looks like the animators has been high on 3 pairs of cocaine, with chromosome inserted inside both of their eyes. Don't get me wrong madhouse absolutely did justice for the artstyle the fanbase wanted, but not for me.

Sound: 6/10
The opening is really catchy

Characters: 2/10
Ok, so you got sora the main protagonist of the series whose sole purpose is to only beat everyone with his big brain skills, we never really got to see why he is that smart but HE IS JSUT THAT SMART OK NOW LAUGH. We got another main protagonist that is shiro, a loli fanservice whose also sole purpose is TO BE SMART... and get panty shots. Stephanie Dola is also just some fanservice shit that authors think the fandom would like but they actually did and that's awesome. The only thing she does is basically get half naked everytime and try to be dumb. THe other characters are just the same but different name and costume. Everybody in this anime is A PATHETIC DUMBASS.

Enjoyment: 2/10
Never really found this anime funny whatsoever, this anime is really disappointing because I like videogames and chess but this anime made it worse and think everything is just a game. And I'm gonna say it again, everybody in this anime is A PATHETIC DUMBASS. Even if they are some high 200 iq intellectual albert einstein amongus sus detective, I don't think they are that smart at all.

Overall: 3/10
I don't recommend this anime, I only recommend it for crazy ones who wanna see some exaggerated scenes about something. Or if you like konosuba I would recommend this one because konosuba was also pretty shit.

this is going to be my honest review. people were saying this anime was great because of it's bright colors that caught peoples attention and the story. so, i thought why not give this anime a try. this is my opinion keep that in mind and don't come for me if you don't like i say.

story:

first, the story... the story is honestly so confusing. i understood it at first but towards the middle it got very confusing and it's all over the place. i had no clue what was going from episode 3 and onward but i still forced myself to finish the entire ... series. i have no other comment but to say that the story isn't organized for me to follow up with it.

art:

now that we got the story out of the way, let's talk about the art style. let me be honest here, the art style is AMAZING ngl like the colors were bright which i loved and it was so pretty. the color choices were definitely my kind of liking and tbh it was the reason why i didn't drop the anime. so the art style was definitely to my liking.

sound:

now for the osts.... it was okay. i loved the opening A LOT and i still do but the other osts were decent. i'd definitely listen to the opening from time to time but the other osts were eh.

character:

now let's talk about the characters.... i- literally hated the relationship between shiro and and sora. i felt SO UNCOMFORTABLE because these two siblings were TOO close and they made weird comments too like? just- no i hated it and i was so uncomfortable. that's it. and also why did they have to give all the females big boobs LMAO. LIKE?! ok whatever fan service but like stephanie dola got on my nerves with her moans and shit. she is so dam useless and her only purpose is staying naked every 5 minutes. like i just wanted exit the episode at that point.

enjoyment:

i can say that i didn't enjoy this anime PROUDLY. it's shit i'm sorry to the fans out there. it's honestly all over the place and the only reason why i stayed is because of the pretty colors and the jojo references.

overall:

overall, this anime wasn't what people were saying. i literally didn't see why it was so hyped 😀 it's shit. end of my review.

if we are talking about fan service seriously I am not the fan of Brother-Sister love stories or any other weird things between them.

what you see in this anime is totally foolish.
they had a great base story that is about games and peace and the world without war but adding weird things that we call them fan services ( i mean a relationship between two main characters and a half naked dumb girl that follows them ) is something that makes this anime so nasty.
it makes me uncomfortable to communicate with the anime.
I don't know about other fans but I am not watching anime ... to see how can a brother and a sister can have a weird relationship.

Pros :
Decent base story

Cons :
Sick mind Fan Service
Boring Art
Weak Characterization
Nothing special about OST

I was genuinely excited going into No Game No Life. It seemed to have a sufficiently interesting and distinct premise to rise above the mass of isekai we've have in recent years. Add to that its stunning and unique visual style and a banger of an OP (which for good reason is pushing 100 million views on Youtube) and the combined package seemed like something I could get into.

My excitement abated fairly quickly. I think the first alarm bells were the introductions of the two main characters. I was not five minutes in before I was getting distinctly concerned about where these characters would ... be taken. Certainly, at this point it was obvious that Sora was not going to be nearly as far removed from your run of the mill isekai protagonist as one might have hoped. And with Shiro, I wondered, were we going to get a one-note support act along with some wholly unwanted Loli fan-service and incest themes? Well Sora has perhaps even less character depth than the much-maligned Kirito, while the entire supporting cast seems to exist purely to praise him on how clever he is. Meanwhile, I wasn't off the mark on Shiro either. Our protagonists are of course not blood-related so we have that wonderful trope at play, but one trope we don't have at play is the, "Yeah, she looks like a Loli and all, but she's actually 800 years old." Because, no, Shiro is actually just 11. And sure enough there are multiple scenes of sexualised (sorry, 'comedic'/'entirely justified by the not-at-all wildly improbable context') nudity from this literal child. Gag.

Anyway, I suppose I should offer some commentary on the other characters. We have Steph who exists to lose her clothes and be the butt of jokes and for seemingly no other purpose. The writers occasionally make a half-hearted attempt at demonstrating her relevance, but these are dubious at best.

Then there's Jibril who always steals every scene she's in. Indeed she's probably the only remotely memorable character in this show. It almost seems like a shame she was wasted here - I think it could be genuinely interesting see a character like her given a more interesting cast of characters to interact with. Oh well.

Kurami fills out the main cast and is... fine. She's marginally more compelling than our two protagonists, but not by much and is not nearly as memorable as Jibril in her somewhat vacillating role in the show's narrative.

So what of the show's setting? Well as one of the elements that initially intrigues me it largely stands up, at least in the big picture. An uncharitable critique might be that it is overly formulaic and doesn't feel very real, but given this is a world entirely based on games, rules and structure are essential to making this premise work and it is interesting enough to facilitate the suspension of disbelief. This is not a world intended to be realistic, but if one engages it on its own terms, it genuinely works.

The problem comes with the minutiae of the world-building. The world doesn't feel very big or lived-in. Despite frequent crowd shots and references to the three million citizens of Elchea, there are so few actual characters that these all just end up feeling like NPCs at most. The other issue, that exacerbates this is the pace with which the show escalates its scale, leaving the viewer with no actual time to get a sense of the place before we are forced into the bird's eye view the characters soon adopt.

The races in this fantasy world are derived from the usual millieu of Tolkien/D&D types, but they are given enough distinctive traits for them to feel relatively fresh. This also means each new encounter is genuinely interesting, when the viewer gets to discover more about the world's inhabitants.

The narrative is where things are truly let down. It is staggeringly predictable and provides for very little suspense, moving clumsily from one set-piece to another. Early on there were some indications that these set-pieces might be constructed in a genuinely intriguing manner to take maximum advantage of the show's games gimmick. Instead, however, we are rapidly presented with 'brilliant' game-winning stratagems from the protagonists that couldn't possibly have been discerned by the viewer from the information given by the show before they are revealed. Many seem to rely on wildly improbable luck or frankly suspension of disbelief-defying levels of super-human mental acuity. This latter aspect puts a lie to the show's recurrent theme of overcoming weakness with ingenuity, since the protagonists' successes never really come to them through any genuine ingenuity, rather they come because they essentially have magical powers that no human could possess.

As said before, a significant part of the role of the supporting cast is to praise Sora for his brilliance. This is how the show tells the audience that they too should be impressed. But it really does nothing to earn this. If it gave the audience a sufficient understanding of the games to begin with, it might be possible to appreciate the strategies at play, but after dabbling with this idea early on, it soon abandons it. After that it seems to mostly make up the rules of the games we're shown as it goes along. There are some exceptions, but they are few and far between.

The series ultimately seems more interested in keeping up a steady serving of fan service that ranges from the ho-hum to the downright icky, than building on its characters, creating an engaging story, or further fleshing out its world. There's a lot to look at here with its beautiful animation, but that wears thin when there's no substance underneath.

Overall, if a second season ever does get released (and word seems to be that it's finally happening), I'll probably watch it because I still feel there's potential burrowed deep down in this premise. But it'll have to make some pretty drastic changes to build on this incredibly lackluster first season.

No game No life is a good looking show, with a good looking art style that's suprisingly unused in animation. However, I dropped it on the first episode the moment it started sexualizing the MC's 11-year-old sister. Still don't understand why this shit is acceptable for mainstream anime. It shouldn't be this hard, just don't show the 11 year old's panties. A pretty simple rule, yet NGNL can't even wait 22 minutes without breaking it. Why Madhouse. Why did you feel the need to sexualize the child? Why is the 11 year old is attracted to her brother and horny? Why is there apparently ... another loli later on in the show that joins the MC's Harem? Why a lot of things Madhouse.

I was so excited to watch this. The colours and the style... what was not to love? I mean the colour palette... I have NEVER seen something like this.

Then again how is this SO perverted? I mean, come on. I felt like a 48 year old perverted man watching this.

It had a basic story line. Something done so often it should have bored people. I suppose not in this case. Probably because of the colours ;-;

I didn't like the characters. The only character I liked the main protagonist and everybody else just sucked, not including Shiro of course. They were all so daft and ... it made me question how the ex-princess bet everybody at games.

I really... Really hate those animes, such Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu and No Game No Life gained such popularity between the anime fans. Arrogant protagonists in animes are yellow card for me (if I like football, despite of I'm not expert of it), but when they blame the humanity and they think, they are above of every other people, that's red card, and those animes don't deserve even mediocre points at me.

Well, No Game, No Life is like this. Sora is a super intelligent guy, who doesn't find his own place in real life, so he becomes a hikikomori (or "officially" NEET) and closes himself ... out of the world, and just play videogames all day and all night with his younger stepsister, Shiro. She's the only one, whom he loves (if you ask me, he loves her too much...). One day the Step-siblings get into a game, which have rules. With these rules, they need to defeat Tet, the god of games. They meet with many characters, and what I can say, Sora and Shiro together are really genius and foxy, and they always find out the trick of the opponent players. Their logic is brilliant.

But logic and intelligence is not everything. This might be really great anime (because of the complex gameplay), but arrogancy is unforgivable sin at me. I understand, why such animes, like No Game No Life are very popular: Sora and Shiro might refer to those anime fans, who can't find their place in real life. Because they count unique between "normal" people (We should talk about who counts normal...) and they think they are exiled from real life. Well, I feel it, I also felt like exiled, because people generally hardly accept me. But virtual life is not real life. And I appreciate those stories much more, which shows, how can an "exiled" human find their way in real life. Because everybody has its place in life. And those animes, which give that feeling, it's good to reprobate people, place them in an "alternative" world, or virtual world, that unforgivable to me. I will never ever accept the popularity of this anime.

The music also rather awful to me. I don't like Suzuki Konomi's voice, because I never heard emotions in her voice. Her singing ability is relatively ok, but every time, when I hear her singing, I feel like, she's a cosseted girl, who has been raised in shell (as we express the protected children in hungarian), but doesn't know much about the real life. Singing ability and beauty is one thing, but the lack of emotions underrates singing career to me.

Well, this is a hateful and disgusting anime. I don't care of the protagonists are smart and foxy, if they are arrogant as well, and if the anime shows it's ok if you want to hide in the virtual life, that's unforgivable at me.

Having only seen two episodes, the characters intrigued me in the first episode, and I lost all interest in the second. I came into this anime knowing it would be filled with fanservice, and if my 9 score on Kill La Kill is any indication, I have no problem with fanservice. My problem comes when it becomes shameless. You write two very interesting characters dependent on each other only to turn the brother into a hopeless virgin that longs to get his dick wet. I get that the joke is that he can't get with his sister because incest, and she's like 12, but it ... just wasn't funny to me. It came off as loli incest pandering, rather than any sort of comedy. The story's concept isn't bad, and the art and sound are definitely above par, but the characters just killed it for me. The princess came off as overbearing with her repeated "I'm bound by the Covenants to love this guy but I don't want to" joke. It was actually pretty funny the first time, but it had already gotten old by the second time and was basically unbearable for me. There's only so much you can do with a single joke, at it wore out the second time she began slamming her head against the wall in frustration. I love the opening song. It gave me hope for the show when I first heard it. I don't know, I just hated the characters.

EDIT: Oh, and feel free to take this with a grain of salt since I only just barely made it through two episodes. A lot of people follow the "three episode rule," but I find no value in that. Most anime that I hated on the first or second episode never turned out to be any good after three, but that's just me.

I watched the first episode a few years ago out of curiosity and just never followed up due to the nature it seemed the story was going.

Then all I heard was how people loved this anime, so I gave it a second try. And I honestly can't seem to understand how people *love* this anime. Its decent at the start. I find it hard to watch the brother and sister interact together. The overall premise of the show isn't horrible - I typically love isekai animes, but this one fell short. The story does not do a good job of making you feel good ... about their wins. You never really experience them lose. So you always know the outcome, which just isn't entertaining to me. There is no one that is smarter or stronger than them in the anime - so you just always know that even though they are in a tight situation, they are going to win. There is no growth in their character. It's underwhelming.

The art is beautiful. Lots of colors and creativeness.

But I cannot understand the love that people feel for the story, it just came off really boring to me. I kept watching waiting for that "oh this is why people love it" moment and it never came.

As other review I read said it feels like a self insert for neets, traveling to a video game world to escape reality and then lust after all this h0t girls and his 11 year old sister *vomit*, obviously Sora is this OP Gary Stu he can just outsmart every magical race at the final second of the game, and he’s always so cocky, Kūhaku always win I didn’t even feel relieved when they won like it just happened that’s it. Also the “hate” towards Steph felt like a self insert imo, like damn the MCs got jealous of this girl when they discovered she ... went to school and was a top student and has a lot of friends and connections wth, and they punish her for it making her a dog for a whole day, even after that the MCs are so arrogant they keep humiliating this girl in any way. The constant incestuous relationship with his little sister was really uncomfortable to watch, the ecchi shots of this 11 year old girl are weird too, she gets jealous when she thinks other girls want to steal his brother, they also have a weird codependency relationship having like a panic attack when they’re not together.
Tbh I’ve watched a lot of other ecchi anime, it’s not a problem for me, but then a lot of y’all try to sell it as this deep profound anime, the story is really superficial, in a magical world even the games are basic af, really they couldn’t come up with something more original??, the MCs are too perfect you don’t feel invested in them, there’s no character growth because they’re already perfect there’s nothing to change, they’re just pretentious. I also feel like the majority of the ecchi scenes of Sira with another girl are with his 11 year old sis, like damn couldn’t the author at least pair him with a girl his age (he’s 18 btw), other ecchi scenes are when they make fun of Steph and of course Shiro is a perv too like touching her and making weird comments, and sexually embarrassing her.

Conclusion: Should you watch it? I mean it’s bad and there are boring moments, like you could watch it while having lunch just to have something to watch lol, but don’t expect this deep plot, the art is good is eye catching ngl, but yeah the incest aspect of this anime is just uncomfortable, sometimes I found myself moving the cursor just to see how much I had left because it was getting boring. If you just want to watch an ecchi there are way better ecchi out there, you want to watch a good isekai? You shouldn’t be here then.

Fanservice has always been relatively easy-ish for me to bear, and there are even animes in which I affirm that without it, it’d lose a lot of its essence. This is mainly due to how it’s implemented in the plot and if it really contributes something or not. Although in general I prefer that there is no fanservice at all, with this show this happened: If there are shows in which I can bear the fanservice, NGNL is the opposite; not only I didn't like it one bit, it’s one of the main reasons I didn’t enjoy the anime as much as I could ... have.
- Story: 5/10
The plot isn’t necessarily bad, in fact in the first chapters I felt that it could become interesting (anyway I always tried to keep in mind that it wasn’t going to be adapted in the future so much more than these 12 chapters I wasn’t going to get). Something to distinguish about the plot is that it’s an Isekai that turns around several typical aspects of the genre, for example the fact that the protagonist isn’t weakened at the beginning but quite the opposite, although that’s an important problem that I had with this anime, and it's that no game really felt like a challenge, especially since the middle of the show. And while I understand that this may have been part of the purpose of the plot, I personally felt that the games were getting more and more boring. Finally, what makes it mediocre is basically its execution: I felt it with an unnecessarily slow pace, a comedy that made me laugh once or twice and with a use of very disgusting fanservice, unnecessarily sexualizing practically all female characters with no apparent purpose for the plot. In some animes I have been able to handle these things a lot more, but in this one for some reason it irritated me a lot. Parts that I liked about the story are for example the past of the previous king of the Imanity, the game of chess (because of how they managed it in an original way) and also the plot of Tet, the god of games
- Art / Animation: 8/10
Well, in this section I have nothing to complain about, the animation of NGNL is quite good, it was in part one of the reasons why I was able to continue watching. It’s quite unique due to its very varied and intense color palette, highlighting the red and violet colors that gave a feeling of being in a video game, strange as it may seem, plus this gave a lot of personality to the stage and the characters. If you are looking for great animation, you should definitely check out this show from Madhouse, they did a great job regarding that aspect.
- Sound: 6/10
It was okay, I didn’t feel that it stands out either, so more than 6 I can’t give it, it just worked well enough that I don’t have much to complain about. Personally, I didn’t like the opening at all, although I did like the ending (obviously, like the totality of the review, although especially this last aspect, it’s quite subjective)
- Characters: 4/10
This is the really bad point of NGNL, their characters are definitely some of the worst I've seen. Based on what has already been explained in the Story section, a character who stands out for being sexualized and only for that reason is Stephanie Dola, since although she counts as one of the co-protagonists, she has no other purpose than that. She functions as a comedy and fanservice target and that's it, it doesn’t serve any other remarkable role. Moving on to the protagonists, they're basically 2 extremely smart siblings who love to play video games: Sora, the 18-year-old older brother, and Shiro, the 11-year-old younger sister who apparently has a brother complex. The duo doesn’t work at any point of the plot because it becomes very predictable due to the basic premise of the anime that they never lose. I can understand that this may be entertaining for a lot of people but I found it irritating. The only character that didn't seem totally bad to me was Jibril, especially because of the drastic difference between her past and what she was doing now after the creation of the 10 commandments of the world, and she is the only character that made me laugh at least once(the wings scene was pretty good actually)
- Enjoyment and Overall: 4/10
I don’t think I'll ever recommend this anime to anyone, unless I know the other person's tastes very well and know that they might like it. You should see it? Maybe, I can't recommend it as I already said but I can't say that no one should see it, it isn't totally disastrous and clearly it had enough success in the community to earn its spot (8.15 at the time of this review) and popularity. Regarding my experience, No Game No Life, although it had a few good moments that I partially enjoyed, most of the time I didn’t have a good time watching it, reaching a point that I only watched it for the animation and also because I try not to drop anything always that I can. Anyway I understand that No Game No Life was well received, it has games that can be interesting and entertaining, but that doesn’t mean that its execution is good, in fact it's very badly managed by the fanservice that a lot of the time overshadows all the good things that this anime could have had.

So No Game No Life, it has an interesting concept and was a isekai before this kind of anime were popular as now, but what I didn’t like was the execution as I felt the main characters were just a Gary stu and a Mary sue who could do anything they want without anyone stopping them, and it felt pretty boring as it felt that there couldn’t be any conflict, you could say that the anime is more about seeing how our protagonist are going to kick this character’s butt without effort and take some clothes off if there’s a chance because they are so ... cool, as for the characters, they are just archetypes that you have seen on millions of animes before, you have: clumsy punching bag girl, quiet loli and cool otaku pervert, there are more characters but they are almost irrelevant, except for fox loli as she is a "threat", I would say that the only character that I liked was tet, but even him is not an actual character, and by that I mean that he almost has none participation in the anime as he is just the plot device to bring the characters on the game world.

I think that’s all I have to say, I recommend it if you like ecchi fan service and flashing colors moving on the screen, the artistic visuals are cool, it has style.

Everything in this show is a wish-fulfillment fantasy that the audience it is marketed to can just insert themselves into, and feel very good about themselves, while being surrounded by cliched characters praising how "smart" and "cool" they are constantly. Nothing more than what would satisfy a horny 14-year-old boy at this point lol.

The fact that this is rated so highly and is so incredibly popular on this site tells you a lot about the demographics of this site. This low brow, cringe-inducing, "turn your brain off and watch" show is extremely popular, ranked over well-deserving media (stuff like Only Yesterday and Saraiya Goyou for ... example), and that is a wee bit embarrassing. Seems very pseudo-intellectual show and comes across as incredibly unfunny, along with being bereft of any real emotional, artistic, or thematic weight.

Also, constantly sexualizes an 11-year-old kid. Go out and smell the roses or something lmao.

The art, storyline/plot, and everything else is good but 1 thing ruins it for me. The incest and sexualization of minors. It would've been so good if the main characters didn't kiss each other and have some weird connection, especially when Sora is 7 years older than Shiro. People who give this a 10 are pretty messed up. This is the only review I'm doing for a reason because I can't understand y'all supporting the sexualization of minors it's not cute at all. I'm not going to try and write any spoilers since there's nothing wrong with the plot, but the fact that some people ... can rate this a 10 without blinking doesn't sit right with me. Not to mention, this was actually recommended to me?? The whole sexualization and incest could've been avoided and the plot didn't have to change, there's no reason for the author to put that in the story. Sorry this is a bit long, I would keep this short but MAL reviews have to be pretty lengthy.

Story

Nothing too special about the story. Main characters are transported to a new world where things are dictated by games. Unfortunately these are boring uninspired games that feel like second rate replications of better game anime. The games are shallow and lack a lot of depth as well. It also becomes quite apparent that the main characters cant lose due to their plot armor, that really ruins the tension of these boring games.

Art

The art style and animation is quite unique and is pretty to look at.

Sound

... The opening is pretty good, the rest of the music not as memorable.

Character

Probably one of the worst aspects of the entire show. The main leads are nothing new in anime and lack enough personality to lead a series. The main male lead's relationship with his younger step sister is also questionable as well. Supporting characters fare even worse than the main cast. I found it difficult to be invested in them.

Enjoyment

This series feels like such a second rate replication of other anime. The games are dull, uninspired compared to the games in better series like the first season of Yu-gi-oh. Some of these shallow games are spread way too thin as well. The characters are boring as well, I did not find myself invested in them at all. The ecchi elements are not very good either, there are too many panty shots of the younger step sister. Isn't she like 12 years old? If you want to watch better games, watch Yu-gioh, If you want ecchi, watch prison school. Everything this anime does, some other show does much better.


Overall

This is one of the most dull, uninspired series I have ever watched. The popularity is very puzzling to me. Found myself falling alseep several times. Despite it being 12 episodes, it felt longer. I do not recommend this series

The anime that made me finally write my first and hopefully last review just because of how painful it was to watch.

NGNL is just a subpar anime overhyped to the moon and back.

The story is somewhat interesting but is written poorly. Also, there is lots of fanservice so better be careful with where you're watching.

The characters are simply not likeable at all and/or extremely forgettable for me, with the exception of maybe one or two.
Main characters: A borderline insane guy with the sexual drive to rival that of a rabbit's and his loli stepsister who hovers like a drone around him. Both have some ... questionable chemistry between them. Good for the lolicons, probably.
Support characters: Most of them just serve as fanservice fuel.

The artstyle is okay, but the colors are way too vibrant for me. It feels like they cranked the saturation up to 11 on everything.

The sound is nothing outstanding either. It's like many other shows out there.