Pac-World

Move over steins gate and clannad, this is the best video game anime ever made. arcane, pfffffffff that has nothing on the sheer complexity that is pacman's journey
This show was so good that after it ended I knew that I must spread the word on our lord and savior pacman

The Pac is back
Ghosts chomping at his feet
Pac's our hero
Pac just can't be beat, yeah!

Pac-Man yellow, Pac extreme
He's a chowing down machine
... Ghosts, monsters, ghouls, and only one can stop them
Pac-man rules!

The Pac is back
Ghosts chomping at his feet
Pac's our hero
Pac just can't be beat

The Pac is back!

This is not a good show. Not even a decent one. Instead of staying faithful to the source material, like other video game adaptions such as Mario and Sonic did, they went in a completely new direction and ripped off several shows in the process.

This is a prequel to the Pac-Man games, revolving around Pac-Man's teenager days instead of his usual adult self. The story is pretty much like Ben 10, but with ghosts. Pac-Man eats pellets with different super powers, but he never bothers to learn what each of them do. An evil ghost sends out other ghosts to get him, but fails ... every time. Pac-Man doesn't even need to take a power pill before eating ghosts, he can just eat them whenever he wants with no penality.

The characters are all stereotypical as well. Pac-Man acts like a teenager with an attitude (e.g. annoying), and he has a "smart" female Pac-friend for girl power reasons. And, of course, your usual sports jock shaped as a... bean? They also have a dog named "Packster" for comic relief. Then his ghostly friends... A stupid red ghost, a pink ghost in love with him. And, of course, there's a stereotypical bad guy who keeps sending ghosts after Pac-Man and his friends.

The music, however, is pretty good. It has a very "movie-esque" feel, with orchestrated themes and remixes of old music tracks from the earlier games. The English intro is one of the worst I've ever heard, with off-key singing and a slow-paced techno theme. But the Japanese version was amazing and really gets you pumped up for a very mediocre show!

The CG animation is also pretty good. The characters are full of facial expressions, they move around a lot and the frame rate is very smooth. However, the backgrounds are rather bland, as everything looks circular and like it was made out of plastic. Same goes for the props. Not many details either, as the town is pretty empty.

It's pretty much like a bad saturday morning cartoon from the 70's. Predictable plot, horrible bathroom jokes + unfunny word play, and a cast with mostly bland characters you've seen everywhere else. There is probably some enjoyment out of this for kids, but older people will hardly find anything to enjoy. There's not even any innuendo...

hello. this. is my first review.

I would suggest you stay away from this garbage. it's not a great thing to watch, as this is not really a decent show. yet it's still airing.

I don't even get why it's on anime sites, it's not even fully japanese.

don't even try watching this, it's awful.

first off, the art style. the cgi is annoying and way too colorful. if you wamt some real anime that isn't colorful, go watch something like another.

... second off, the story is the same thing each episode. it's annoying.

third off, the sound. the soundtrack is even more annoying. pac this world by hyadain was repetitive and so was the original english theme. the ost sounds like it was written by a five year old.

fourth off, the characters, the most annoying thing of the series. the characters act the same each episode, and it's super annoying. pac-man's supposed to be an adult, not a teen, and why are the ghosts his friends? just, avoid this piece of garbage.

fifth off, this is a really unenjoyable show.

sixth off, it overall, makes soul eater not look like a total maserpiece. like for real.
well, that's the end of my review, suggesting that you avoid this endless garbage.

Hi, I'm going to give this one a positive review since no one took the time to write one about it.

Personally, I think this is a great tv show for kids to watch. I have watched all the episodes on Netflix, and I think it's a great computer animated TV Show.

The Story is marvelous.

The CGI (or computer animation) is wonderful and the cityscapes are truly astounding.

The Sound effects are great.

... The characters are good and they're funny too. I actually like seeing Pac-man transform into any different forms whenever he eats those berries. It makes it look very creative.

First off, I enjoyed watching it and I think it's worth watching despite the negative reviews it received on this website.

Words cannot express how amazing this show is. It devlops what is normally a 2 dimensional character into an amazingly developed one.
The pac is back and this time hes mad
In season 3, episode 16 he eats a brain, but the brain is a power pellet and it makes him into a nerd. He's got a little bowtie and glasses and it's very funny i liked it a lot.
This is all well and good. It's got everything one may want from a anime, but there's one thing that puts it over the like of any other garden veriety anime, and that is skeebo
Let me paint ... you a word picture if you will. You're a simple blue round boy. You've got no shirt but what you lack in shirt you gain in sleeves and an amazing hairline. You're mighty hungry after a day of being at the maze high school which is the high school you attend. but as soon as you and your class companions gets to the cafeteria you realise oh no! that dang pac man has nommed all your ding dang food! now what are you going to do. Justice is dead. There is no good in the world at this point. He is the best character since Burgh from the pokemon black and white anime (due to the burghphoons of course), due to his high levels of character depth, tragic irony and blue-ness.

10/10 would pac again.

Yes I watched this when I was a kid, and not only did I enjoy it, but I watched the entirety of its two seasons on Netflix. In the back of my head I thought it was very corny and dumb but I still watched it out of love of playing Pac-Man on my Xbox as a kid. I owned the 3DS game and rewatched the series over once. But there not only is nothing here but it feels so textbook besides being super out there with ideas such as, bear with me, Pac-lantis. Enough said, it's got the episodic premise of a sitcom and ... doesn't even try to do its own thing besides basic Pac-Man like gimmicks. It's nothing incredibly awful, it's your average kid's show with no room for anything else.

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this might be my longest review yet. i don't care if no one finds this helpful, i'm writing this for me.

i had very odd tastes as a child, and this happened to be one of many crappy shows i watched religiously when my house still had cable. when i saw that it had a listing on mal of all things, i felt equal parts confused and liberated. confused because it only fits the loosest possible definition of anime (animation from japan), and liberated because i now had an opportunity to discuss it at least once.

i'll go over the most obvious issue first: the ... character designs are abysmal, but this isn't exactly surprising considering the designers were asked to translate tiny shapes with less than 2 facial features per shape into serviceable character designs. even so, everyone looks considerably worse than shapes with eyes.

they all have these stubby, PVC pipe lookin' limbs with a visible border around where they're attached to the body, molded on eyebrows- yes, some characters including pac-man have separate folds of skin akin to horns on which the eyebrows are attached- and little to no clothes (crotch fully out), just shoes, accessories and the sleeves of whatever piece of clothing they would've been wearing if they weren't just shapes. they get worse the longer you look at them.

that being said, the designs of most of the ghosts aren't nearly as bad, most of them are actually kinda cute. they also look fairly consistent across the species with a few cool variations. i'll elaborate on them later.

but it isn't just that they look bad, because the voice acting is what makes them completely insufferable. every single performance (besides betrayus) is ridiculously whiny, squealy and grating on your eardrums, no matter what character is talking or what emotion is being conveyed. the main theme also sounds terribly disjointed and poorly written.

even still, the low design and sound quality is actually the least of this show's issues, because all it really comes down to is the dialogue. pac-man's one trait is that he likes food, cylindria's one trait is being smart, spiral's one trait is being not as smart, skeebo's one trait is being the worst... this trend continues until you have a cast with as much personality as a stick of celery, all of which are only there to spout the most overused, formulaic sentences imaginable with an occasional burp joke thrown in.

there is no character development and no important lessons are learned because that could upset the status quo for all the tiny tots watching, and i assure you that's the only audience the writers ever had in mind. i wouldn't put a show like this in front of any toddlers, though. that's what fortnite is for.

oddly enough, the thing i mentioned earlier with the ghost characters having been spared of awful creative decisions also applies to them writing-wise. the ghost quartet of inky, blinky pinky and clyde are still fairly annoying thanks to the voice acting but are considerably more entertaining and sympathetic compared to the main cast. they're basically just mischievous, morally grey little turds that can't decide between helping pac-man or trying to murder him, so they always end up doing both. i'd describe them as having two character traits per ghost instead of one, which is technically a 2x improvement! and speaking of the ghosts...

betrayus is the only good character out of the entire cast and is the only reason i subjected myself to the mediocre sludge that is everything else in the show besides betrayus. i remember myself back then, an innocent, impressionable child of the age of 10 or so, lighting up whenever the camera cut away from all those losers to focus on whatever moustache-twirling shenanigans he was up to.

simply put, he is the absolute epitome of the villain archetype. if you've ever thought of a typical villain before, whoever comes to mind first is probably a watered down version of betrayus. he's like the joker if he wasn't a miserable beta-male reddit user, he's like megamind if he never found love, he's like dr. doofenshmirts if he was actually evil.

if killstar was canon in the pac-world universe he'd buy their entire stock, and in a better timeline he would've been written into a show half as good as himself and received the appreciation he deserves. if everything else about the show stayed the same but he was the protagonist instead of pac-man, i would've given this no lower than a 6/10 overall. he's just that iconic.

similarly to everyone else his design leaves a lot to be desired, but i think that'd be an easy fix if he was less bean-shaped and more dilf-shaped.

ok im tired of writing this, believe it or not i still have more to say about this so maybe i'll edit it later, maybe i won't. wouldn't reccomend unless you can find a compilation of betrayus scenes on youtube

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