3-gatsu no Lion

Having reached professional status in middle school, Rei Kiriyama is one of the few elite in the world of shogi. Due to this, he faces an enormous amount of pressure, both from the shogi community and his adoptive family. Seeking independence from his tense home life, he moves into an apartment in Tokyo. As a 17-year-old living on his own, Rei tends to take poor care of himself, and his reclusive personality ostracizes him from his peers in school and at the shogi hall.

However, not long after his arrival in Tokyo, Rei meets Akari, Hinata, and Momo Kawamoto, a trio of sisters living with their grandfather who owns a traditional wagashi shop. Akari, the oldest of the three girls, is determined to combat Rei's loneliness and poorly sustained lifestyle with motherly hospitality. The Kawamoto sisters, coping with past tragedies, also share with Rei a unique familial bond that he has lacked for most of his life. As he struggles to maintain himself physically and mentally through his shogi career, Rei must learn how to interact with others and understand his own complex emotions.

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Kiriyama, Rei Main

Kawanishi, Kengo Japanese

Kawamoto, Hinata Main

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Kawamoto, Akari Main

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Kawamoto, Momo Main

Kuno, Misaki Japanese

Shimada, Kai Supporting

Miki, Shinichiro Japanese

Nikaidou, Harunobu Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Hayashida, Takashi Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Kouda, Kyouko Supporting

Inoue, Marina Japanese

Souya, Touji Supporting

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Noguchi, Eisaku Supporting

Ueda, Yuuji Japanese

Ooshima, Miku Assistant Producer

Oota, Kyouko Assistant Producer, Publicity

Shinbou, Akiyuki Director, Series Composition

Nakura, Yasuhiro Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Layout, Setting, Key Animation

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Jun 5, 2024

ivY_OoO

Recommended

Its one of the most underrated shows , the story is bittersweet it has wholesome moments and sad ones , perfect for people who enjoy drama the art style is unique and it has personality unlike the other shows who have the typical style , its one of my comfort shows <3 i remember watching it when i was going through tough time and i guess the main character was so relatable to me . the story shows different characters story/back story but it wasn't long or anything , you dont need to understand shogi to enjoy the anime since ... it relays more on the drama and they actually explain to you some terms and showcase the pawn roles in fun way.


story : 10/10
artstyle: 10/10
storypace; it was good i didn't felt too slow or fast .


IM BAISED.........coming from big fan

its my first time writing a review :D

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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May 25, 2024

Peyta12

Mixed Feelings

March Comes in Like a Lion is a frustrating show that often sacrifices it's plot and impact for comedy with no relevant audience. It demonstrates an above average ability to write complex characters and emotional struggles, however uses it so little that it calls into question who the target demographic even is. The comedy seems written for nobody older than 12 but the weight and subject matter of the drama falls much more into the seinen category it is marked as. The music is perfectly adequate for the show and the OPs and EDs are very good, both in tone and overall quality. It also ... has Studio Shaft's trademark directing, which is personally jarring with its erratic jumps and framing, but this is far more of a subjective comment. The art style is also unique, but is not inherently bad, and everything is well animated enough that there isn't anything to complain about.

Overall, March Comes in Like a Lion is inconsistent in its quality where the good parts are very good, but there are so few of them that by the time they come around, you are so withdrawn from the show that they barely have any impact.

Score: 6/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Dec 9, 2023

Slime_Shady

Not Recommended

I sadly watched the entire 1st season of March Comes in at 1.25x speed due to a friend's recommendation and truly I could not tell you one remotely interesting aspect the whole way through... I've seen some tedious ass shows I can get through with maximum binging efficiency, but that genuinely felt like maybe the most excruciatingly painful slog a singular piece of media outside of Evangelion has ever put me through. What is the incentive everyone is drawn in by please do tell me? It's literally a whiny ahh dude moving Shogi pieces for mf 22 eps in between 20 second long drawn out ... shots that feel like they are meant to be deep or something. It doesn't even go into Shogi, the one thing that sets it apart from other shows. Like whatsoever! They just play the game. You can go watch two senile people play chess in the local park with more entertainment, plus actually maybe have something happen :○ (I know, shocking). Because seriously name me 3 even relatively important events within this series. To be honest I struggle to name one. I quite naively smashed through the whole season in hopes there was even potentially some kind of actual character progression or perhaps maybe surely one redeeming event that made everyone rave about it, but it ended literally exactly the same as it began, with what felt like absolutely not a speck at all of substance whatsoever in the middle. (I am aware of the genre that is slice of life btw 🧐🎩) I love deep stuff, honestly I do, but it felt like it was just trying so damn hard to be meaningful with every sentence/shot it delivered, with no reason whatsoever to be doing so at all. Almost exact déjà-vu with Evangelion ngl. With an accompanying equally annoying orchestra of cicadas to boot as the entirety of the wholeass soundtrack. Thankfully I can't quite put MC on the level of Shinji's over-privileged grating, infuriatingly b*tchy unprecedented whininess, but god damn it boi is it close. My hoemies & I have all been through substantially worse on a daily basis i swear that, and in real life the more sobering fact is that you'll be ostracized instantaneously for being anything like these aforementioned genuinely depressing characters. I feel like I'm missing something because all my friends on MAL rate it so highly too. I can say without a doubt top 3 most monotonous troupe ass shows I've ever had the misfortune too come across & its not 3rd. There are thousands of shows with actual events out here fellas/gentleladies and we're watching 22 episodes of other people's deadass backs playing a board game. Sh*t is wack.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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