Hai to Gensou no Grimgar


Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions

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Synonyms: Grimgal of Ashes and Fantasies, Hai to Gensou no Grimgal
Japanese: 灰と幻想のグリムガル
English: Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions
German: Grimgar, Ashes and Illusions
French: Grimgar: Le Monde des Cendres et de Fantaisie
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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
Genres: ActionAction, AdventureAdventure, DramaDrama, FantasyFantasy
Theme: IsekaiIsekai
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Statistics

Score: 7.651 (scored by 388494388,494 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #14012
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #274
Members: 758,472
Favorites: 6,427

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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; Moguzo, 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]

Characters & Voice Actors

Shihoru

Main
Terui, Haruka
Japanese

Moguzo

Main
Ochiai, Fukushi
Japanese

Barbara

Supporting
Noto, Mamiko
Japanese

Renji

Supporting
Seki, Tomokazu
Japanese

Chibi

Supporting

Staff

Cook, Justin
Producer
Harada, Naoki
Producer
Saitou, Masaya
Producer
Nakamura, Ryousuke
Director, Sound Director, Episode Director, Script, Storyboard, Series Composition


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Ending Theme

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

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Reviews

Dec 10, 2024
Captivating show. Slow burn.
It's slow because you will witness character relationship, world building, and progress in a realistic way.
None of the character is OP right from the start.
Grimgar is like a novel, but animated. You have chapters, intros, build-ups. It takes you through the steps of becoming more familiar with a foreign world. Grimgar's concept of isekai is self-respecting. Unlike modern isekais, where the author expect you to come in knowing the genre and "how things go". Grimgar is not a meta narrative, where everything is dumped onto you, or you can immediately expect something to pan out one way or the other ...
Nov 6, 2024
Mixed Feelings
I will admit, I fell for this one because of the art style, which is gorgeous. And if it were an art book, I would definitely recommend it. But it was not an art book, and you need more than pretty pictures to make a good anime.

The story was very simple, but it lacked conviction. I think they humanized the enemies a bit much with cute little eyecatches of baby goblins being adorable, or monsters chilling out at home minding their own business when they are suddenly attacked by our main characters who need to kill them for...money. I was not convinced that the characters ...
Oct 3, 2023
FunnyFunny
Painfully drawn out, uninteresting characters, uneventful plot all makes a boring show. Don't get me wrong a show can be slow paced and be brilliant but this just doesn't. The hook for this show is this is an Isekai where the characters are struggling to fight the weakest monsters. This could have been really interesting if it wasn't butchered by the execution.
The fighting is the best part of the show, the challenge of defeating a single small goblin by 6 people. They are uncoordinated, incompetent, the left overs.

Most of the show is an uneventful waste of time. Every scene is excruciatingly slow which would work ...

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