Hai to Gensou no Grimgar (Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions)

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Alternative Titles

English: Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions

Synonyms: Grimgal of Ashes and Fantasies, Hai to Gensou no Grimgal

Japanese: 灰と幻想のグリムガル

Information

Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 11, 2016 to Mar 28, 2016

Premiered: Winter 2016

Broadcast: Mondays at 00:30 (JST)

Producers: TOHO animation

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: A-1 Pictures

Source: Light novel

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.69¹ (scored by 279,845 users)

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Ranked: #1059²

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

Popularity: #216

Members: 540,318

Favorites: 4,890

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Synopsis

Fear, survival, instinct. Thrown into a foreign land with nothing but hazy memories and the knowledge of their name, they can feel only these three emotions resonating deep within their souls. A group of strangers is given no other choice than to accept the only paying job in this game-like world—the role of a soldier in the Reserve Army—and eliminate anything that threatens the peace in their new world, Grimgar.

When all of the stronger candidates join together, those left behind must create a party together to survive: Manato, a charismatic leader and priest; Haruhiro, a nervous thief; Yume, a cheerful hunter; Shihoru, a shy mage; Mogzo, a kind warrior; and Ranta, a rowdy dark knight. Despite its resemblance to one, this is no game—there are no redos or respawns; it is kill or be killed.

It is now up to this ragtag group of unlikely fighters to survive together in a world where life and death are separated only by a fine line.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

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Background

Episode 1 was previewed at an event at TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills in Tokyo on December 26, 2015. Regular broadcasting began January 11, 2016.

Hai to Gensou no Grimgar has been licensed by Funimation and is scheduled to be streamed in both Japanese and English in North America starting in January of 2016.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Yume

Main

Komatsu, Mikako
Japanese

Merry

Main

Anzai, Chika
Japanese

Haruhiro

Main

Hosoya, Yoshimasa
Japanese

Manato

Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga
Japanese

Ranta

Main

Yoshino, Hiroyuki
Japanese

Shihoru

Main

Terui, Haruka
Japanese

Moguzo

Main

Ochiai, Fukushi
Japanese

Barbara

Supporting

Noto, Mamiko
Japanese

Renji

Supporting

Seki, Tomokazu
Japanese

Chibi

Supporting

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Staff

Nakamura, Ryousuke

Director, Sound Director, Script, Series Composition

Shimizu, Kenichi

Storyboard

(K)NoW_NAME

Theme Song Performance, Inserted Song Performance

Terui, Haruka

Theme Song Performance

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Opening Theme

"Knew day" by (K)NoW_NAME (eps 1-4, 6-11)

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Ending Theme

#1: "Knew day" by (K)NoW_NAME (ep 1)
#2: "Harvest" by (K)NoW_NAME (eps 2-7, 9-11)
#3: "Harvest" by Shihoru (Haruka Terui) (ep 8)
#4: "Cultivate" by (K)NoW_NAME (ep 12)

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Reviews

Apr 1, 2016

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

dissipated (All reviews)

890 people found this review helpful

This is a spoiler-free review.

Hai to Gensou no Grimgar is a rather unique watch. Shows throughout time have had a tendency to force characters from 0 to a 100 in an unrealistic time frame. This often pertains to the widespread demands of instant gratification. Hai to Gensou no Grimgar challenges these demands by emphasising the natural growth of characters: step by step characters are built through every interaction with the plot. Closely observing this and the plot is paramount as to not miss the abundance of implicit detail dedicated to their development and characterisation. Due to this profound nature of the show, reflection is commonplace read more

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Mar 27, 2016

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 2

Captain220 (All reviews)

403 people found this review helpful

The occasional RPG setting within an anime isn't some new, revolutionary trend. Popularized by the underwhelming Sword Art Online, they seem to be popping up a lot more frequently than before and that isn't something I'm particularly fond of. This is mostly due to the lack of originality that comes with these works. To a novice, this idea may seem spectacular on it's own, but at this point, the same thing has been done over and over again and not once did I consider one of them to be good.

With that being said, I believe that this is quite close to the epitome of read more

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Apr 4, 2016

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

Cinnamon_Pramma (All reviews)

195 people found this review helpful

Moderator Edit: This review contains spoilers.
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(If you couldn’t give a tuna glass about this review and just want to know if you should watch this, skip all the way to the “What to expect and enjoyment” Either way, read this review if you want an insight of the flaws it had. This is my first review so don’t judge and give me a break lol. My usage of words might come off as wonky so sorry for that)

Grimgar is an anime that doesn’t necessarily bring anything distinctive to the tables. I personally believe that Grimgar was just an anime of progression, where we would read more

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Apr 6, 2016

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

Heldengeist (All reviews)

149 people found this review helpful

--The review contains spoilers--

The show of it's season that everybody likes despite it's pretty bad. We have a group of teens who gets into a world based on RPG ruleset and shortly after this, they forget their previous life... and that's all. We won't get to know who they are, why did they get there, what is that place anyways, why does it operates like a video game, what should they do there. They just live their everyday life, learning some new skills, killing the low level creatures for the loot which they use to cover their living expenses and equipment.

There are some conflict, they lose a teammate, hire a new one who lost her team and slowly move on after their loss, but this doesn't start a real character improvement. It's trying, but doesn't goes anywhere. During their fights, because of this is a team, we might expect it'll be shown from a strategic point of view. They build up the tactics of their ambushes, comment how the teammates use their class' special skills to effectively operate as a team, but no. They just show their newly learnt skills without any deeper concept. We could think that after these they focus on giving the world some depth, who are these goblins and kobolds, are there any relation between them, what kind of society do they live in, why must they fight with them, why are they hostile by nature, by the way what kind of society do humanity live in this world. But no, we wont get to know anything about these either. The main issue with this show is NOT the slow pacing. The slow pacing can not be an excuse for the lack of world building and plot improvement. At the end there were some improvement in the representation of characters and the fight choreography, then, SLIGHT SPOILER, it ended with a terrible plot armor execution, END SPOILER.

The art design is correct. The character design follows the typical A1 Pictures design. One of the main characters looks exactly like a brown haired Kirito. Not quite unique. The environment and backgrounds are a bit better. With this sketchy looking, hand drawn like appearance it's easily distinguishable from the other series of the studio. It's a matter of taste if you like it or not, I found it a bit self-serving, but a creative way to work with low budget, the main issue isn't this. The animation seems really cheap. The fight scenes are dull, there isn't any tension in them at all. It's nowhere near UBW or even SAO. Oh, and SAO, do you all remember the fight against the first boss with Asuna and Kirito? It was a good fight, they were working together, they looked like a team. I'm not an SAO fan, but that scene was alright in concept and visuality. Don't expect anything even remotely like that from Grimgar.

To summarize, when I've seen the first promotional image, I knew I have to have low expectations. And thus fortunately or more like sadly I couldn't get disappointed. Not even pleasantly though. It sticks out downwards from average quality. Maybe the light novel was decent, I didn't read it, but there never were a moment when I felt the anime could be any better than a mediocre fantasy shounen. You won't lose anything if you skip it.

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