Monster Strike

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English: Monster Strike

Japanese: モンスターストライク

Information

Type: ONA

Episodes: 51

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 10, 2015 to Dec 3, 2016

Producers: Ultra Super Pictures

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Studio Hibari

Source: Game

Genres: Action, Game, Fantasy

Duration: 8 min. per ep.

Rating: PG - Children

Statistics

Score: 6.45¹ (scored by 4,182 users)

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Ranked: #6186²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #3621

Members: 20,636

Favorites: 31

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Synopsis

Ren Homura has just moved back to his hometown of Kaminohara, but he isn't able to remember much about the time he spent there other than vague flashbacks. When he retrieves his cell phone which he had sent to a shop for repairs, he finds that a mysterious game titled “Monster Strike” has been installed on it. Unaware of its purpose or how it got there, Ren decides to open it, an action that will change his life forever as he finds himself suddenly attacked by a strange man.

Now trapped on the roof of his school which strangely has been designated as a "stage," Ren is shocked to see the man summon a realistic monster from the game, one that is more than capable of inflicting damage on a human. His only chance of getting out of this situation alive is by summoning the dragon Oragon, who tells Ren that he will crush the opposing monster for him. Unfortunately, it turns out that Oragon is a tiny dragon that is completely useless!

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Side story:	Monster Strike: Mermaid Rhapsody
Prequel:	Monster Strike The Movie: Hajimari no Basho e, Monster Strike: Rain of Memories
Sequel:	Monster Strike: Zoku Saishuu-banashi - Pandora no Hako
Spin-off:	Hanasaku Kizuna no Romantan
Character:	Gintama: Monster Strike-hen
Other:	Hallelujah: Unmei no Sentaku

Tsuda, Kenjirou
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Staff

Ichikawa, Kazuya

Director

Aketagawa, Jin

Sound Director

Kimura, Shinichiro

Episode Director

Miyajima, Yoshihiro

Episode Director, Storyboard

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Ending Theme

#1: "We Will Rock You" by GLORIA (eps 1-12, 14)
#2: "Anata to Juushin Sai" by MON & STER (ep 13)
#3: "Strike" by WHITE ASH (ep 15, 33, 51)
#4: "Knock On Doors In You" by WHITE ASH (eps 16-24)
#5: "Mad T. Party (1865-2016)" by WHITE ASH (eps 25-31)
#6: "Drop" by WHITE ASH (eps 34-50)

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Dec 23, 2016

51 of 51 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

Cooltaff12 (All reviews)

9 people found this review helpful

Story:
The story is not interesting and almost looks like less inspired version of other pocket monsters game anime in that genre. This may not be as disappointing if you came to this anime through the original game, which had a very flexible premise that could lead to many different designing principles. Seeing them play it safe and take the most standard can be rather insulting. Even by ignoring this, the anime does not represent the game well and gives out false impressions of some mechanics.

Art:
The design and art style is very similar to the game, which can go from decent to great design. Thanks to the design and style, it does render 3D models better than other monster based show with CGI like Berserk. However, it does not go far than that and the animation only peaks in fights that does not last long.

Sound:
The audio department has only two aspects that remotely stands out: The voice actors and ending theme. The voice actors have done a decent job and try to make the character sound less inspired that they already are. The Ending theme is decent, but it’s every rock ending theme you heard. The cover of Queen’s We Will Rock You is not my favourite. Maybe it’s because I’m too fond of the original.

Characters:
The human cast is underwhelming. Those character that starts interesting lose their touch and those who did not becomes at least entertaining. The only one that I could think up that does not fit in either side is Minami. Minami is the equivalent of the 90s kid who kept shooting out catch phrases and pop culture references in any chance she got. Or in other word, a character that is likely to piss off old anime fans.
The monster cast is more interesting and they are probably the reason why you come back to this show.
The villains are mostly generic as they come. Nothing more to say about them.

Enjoyment:
When the focus was on the monster, it was entertaining. When it the focus was on the humans, only some supporting characters could hold entertainment to some degree. The humour was entertaining when it went meta on the first episodes, but it disappeared afterwards.

Overall:
Monster Strike is a decent anime series that plays as any adaption of a popular social digital game. If you don’t regard the script, execution of said premise, the references, boring soundtrack, the misguided direction, the false impression of the source material, the shallow protagonist and even more shallow antagonist, you find that this is decent enough for you who wants to watch a 10 minutes’ episode anime on YouTube. I mean the design and action was good, or pretty much when the series focused on the monsters.

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Jul 4, 2017

51 of 51 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

wolfwing (All reviews)

3 people found this review helpful

This is a really decent anime, not the greatest, but enjoyable on many levels, it's based on a phone app that is kinda like marbels but with monsters and different powers and effects. It quickly becomes less about the actual game, and more of a anime, but it worked for me.

Story: New kid comes to town and finds out about a fad game in the area, but for some reason it feels like he used to live there, but he can't remember it. The story works, it has mysteries involved in it that slowly get revealed though some things read more

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Oct 15, 2018

51 of 51 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

Sensei_Jaq (All reviews)

1 people found this review helpful

This is by far one of the dorkiest shows I have seen. For the first few episodes, you have absolutely no clue what is going on. And it really doesn't get much better.
First of all, the episodes are only 8 minutes long (though in all reality the episodes are only 6 minutes long. 2 minutes of nonsense). Due to this, there is little time for character development. There is no real story until you hit about episode 12. This anime feels like a mixture between Pokemon, Digimon, and Yugioh, yet the episodes are a 3rd shorter than they should be! (Average is 24 mins long. read more

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Dec 26, 2020

51 of 51 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

CandleNekra (All reviews)

0 people found this review helpful

Story: It felt way too rushed. I don't understand why they didn't just make a 20 minute episode instead of creating a 8 minute episode if they are going to make 51 episodes. The story was terribly explained and the problems were fixed half-assedly. The mechanics of the game weren't even explained so basically, you had to figure out what the heck is going on. This anime made me more tired than satisfied watching.

Art and Sound: Pure laziness. There are some parts where I thought they animated pretty nicely or the art quality looked amazing. But then they bring in the awkward CGI that doesn't read more

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