No Game No Life Specials

This is a short series of ecchi fluff nonsense and fanservice, so if you don't like that then I wouldn't recommend this.

On the other hand, if you do like that... well boy howdy do I have the thing for you. I wasn't expecting to enjoy this, especially with the many negative reviews. But it was surprisingly entertaining for the most part, though got a bit too rediculous even for me a couple of times. The episodes are pure storyless silliness, which normally I would criticize. The main reason I am not panning this is because the episodes were all 3 minutes long, keeping them from ... dragging on. This entire series of shorts will only take you as long as watching one episode of a normal anime would.

For the majority of the episodes, the animation was more towards a storybook format, with mostly still frames panning across the screen to vaguely give you an idea of what is happening (or provide fanservice). The actual art looked fine, though was mixed in with real photos occasionally which was mildly odd.

The sound was as silly as the shorts, but it worked. You are essentially listening to the story, and the sound effects and music connect to the dialogue ably.

I rated this a 7 because for what it is, I think it fulfills it's purpose well. If you want some brainless fanservice absurdity starring the NGNL cast then this is for you. If not, steer clear.

These OVA’s are just fluff and fan service. They don’t have anything to do with the plot or characters.

The art style is mostly the same as the rest of the show, but it has less camera changes and less time all together, with each OVA being about 3 minutes long.

Additionally, these OVA’s obviously had a much lower animation budget than regular episodes, as the characters mouths don’t move, and, as I previously mentioned, there is less movement and camera angles.

Overall, I wouldn’t recommend this to people who watched No Game No Life. It doesn’t contribute anything to the series, and might degrade your opinion of ... No Game No Life.

No Game No Life Specials (2014)

I understand the need to produce extra content for things but this was not worth it.

It is a picture drama with some slight animations for extra service. It was pretty awful which I hate to say because I love this series so much. It shows at least that they have strength in the work they usually do. I will say episode 4, 5 and 6 were the better ones and that is only because of episode 4 and 5 focus on Kurami (Best Girl) and Feel with her cute elf voice and actions of a pervy nature. Episode 5 ... and 6 having the cute Izana being herself and Jibril being a masochist respectfully.

Art is all over the place, it is OK I guess. It is good where it is good but bad when it is bad.

Sound is pretty standard.

Characters don't develop just get shown a bit more exclusively in their personality. We all know Feel is a pervert for Kurami but this at least did bring that out extremely clearly.

It is pretty bad overall not worth watching. It shows to me that the team are at least experts in making the proper show/movie as opposed to a funny side note style extras.