Re:Creators

Humans have designed countless worlds—each one born from the unique imagination of its creator. Souta Mizushino is a high school student who aspires to be such a creator by writing and illustrating his own light novel. One day, while watching anime for inspiration, he is briefly transported into a fierce fight scene. When he returns to the real world, he realizes something is amiss: the anime's headstrong heroine, Selesia Yupitilia, has somehow returned with him.

Before long, other fictional characters appear in the world, carrying the hopes and scars of their home. A princely knight, a magical girl, a ruthless brawler, and many others now crowd the streets of Japan. However, the most mysterious one is a woman in full military regalia, dubbed "Gunpuku no Himegimi," who knows far more than she should about the creators' world. Despite this, no one knows her true name or the world she is from.

Meanwhile, Souta and Selesia work together with Meteora Österreich, a calm and composed librarian NPC, to uncover the meaning behind these unnatural events. With powerful forces at play, the once clear line between reality and imagination continues to blur, leading to a fateful meeting between creators and those they created.

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Altair Main

Toyosaki, Aki Japanese

Österreich, Meteora Main

Minase, Inori Japanese

Upitiria, Selesia Main

Komatsu, Mikako Japanese

Mirokuji, Yuuya Main

Suzumura, Kenichi Japanese

Kanoya, Rui Main

Amamiya, Sora Japanese

Mizushino, Souta Main

Yamashita, Daiki Japanese

Talker, Blitz Main

Ono, Atsushi Japanese

Chikujouin, Magane Supporting

Sakamoto, Maaya Japanese

Kirameki, Mamika Supporting

Murakawa, Rie Japanese

February, Alicetaria Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Aoki, Ei Director, Episode Director, Script, Storyboard, Series Composition

Aketagawa, Jin Sound Director

Katou, Makoto Episode Director, Storyboard, Assistant Director, Key Animation

Arai, Kazuto Episode Director, Storyboard

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Nov 9, 2023

ArchangelEST

Recommended

RE: Creators is a beautiful looking, amazing sounding, battle filled love letter to all the creators out there. Whether you're a manga or anime artist, writer or illustrator, this story is for you.


Animation / Art / General Visuals - 9/10
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The show looks absolutely great. Super clean art with cool designs. Top notch animations and visual effects. Battle scenes really take your breath away.


Sound / Music / Voice Acting - 9/10
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Absolutely ridiculously amazing soundtrack. They didn't have to go this hard, but they did. Openings, endings, battle themes, quiet moments. Every track is a certified banger. Listening to the full OST is a ride and a half. But I suppose this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone familiar with music in anime, Hiroyuki Sawano - also known for music in shows like Attack on Titan - is a certified genius who never fails to create S tier compositions.

Voice acting and secondary sounds are all high quality as well.


Story - 8/10
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Popular characters from video games, manga, and anime are suddenly materializing in our world. And they don't know how to stay quiet. With the world heading towards destruction, the creators responsible for these characters must work together to solve the situation.

That's the story in a nutshell, and it's quite the original one at that. It could have been some super corny comedy, but instead we get one of the most amazing fantasy/contemporary/scifi battle animes in history, along with a love letter to all creators, to keep dreaming, to keep creating.

The story doesn't bring many twists, and it does falter a little in the mid-point. I found that the mental manipulation and betrayal storylines overstayed their welcome. And our MC's actions were dragged out a bit too much into the unrealistic, considering the stakes.

But the story found its footing and finished strong. The build-up was strong, and the conclusion satisfying on several levels.


Characters - 8/10
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Outside of the MC who is a bit too standard of a shy teenager, the rest of the cast are amazing. They really sold it quite well that these are the super popular characters from their own anime and video game worlds. Everyone is well fleshed out with their own backstories and motivations. Secondary supportive characters are similarly on point. There is essentially no filler. Every character has a purpose.

The villain of the story is absolutely detestable and frustrating in their competence. It truly feels like the stakes are as high as possible, because her plans just keep going forward at full power no matter what our characters do.


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Total - 8/10

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RE: Creators is not only a beautiful battle anime, it's also a story that should give all creators plenty to think about. The stories we all create, the worlds we make, the characters we write. And above all, to never give up, even if we receive bad feedback. Nobody starts good, you have to fail before you can succeed.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Mar 23, 2023

Franktamas

Mixed Feelings

The premise was interesting, and the world building was more or less consistent.
The plot is dragged somewhat, which was weird in the way that there was enough for 22 episode yet some arc got rushed, while others dragged.
A couple characters were really interesting, but most were just 2 dimensional/cliché.

The one I would underline is Magane, she started as interesting, but became really boring in the second half. [Also even the anime is forgot about her existence, as she just stopped getting included in the episodes and nobody reacted at all, about searching for her whereabouts.]

The ending was great (especially the emotional beats), even with the ... lackluster preparation, if the other parts would be just as good it would approach a strong 9.

The animation was lazy at times, especially with the backgrounds and masking.

All in all it's a 7.5/10, for the ending I would say it is worthwhile to watch it.

Also it is frustrating how the anime forgot to even mention, about the lack of free will it implies for certain characters, and how those characters just never deal with the fact that basically they gained sentience and they will probably lose it and could become mindless pawns again.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jun 2, 2023

ThatAnimeSnobRE

Not Recommended

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Re:creators used to be the highest rated and most hyped series of the season it aired in, after the obvious three 99% of viewers were watching (Attack on Titan s2, My Hero Academia s2, Dragon Ball Super). Gradually, the interest in the series kept dropping to the point more people were talking about garbage tier light novel adaptations (Akashic Records, Eromanga Sensei) which were nowhere near the catchy premise of Re:creators.

This is extra strange when said premise is basically Fate/Stay Night all over again. No, seriously, they are the exact same story.
A bunch of famous personalities, each one using superpowers, are brought into modern Japan, ... where they are having a battle royale, with the winner getting a reality warping wish. Most of the plot is short skirmishes, followed by ridiculously long monologues where they are infodumping rules, discuss philosophies, and have cockteasing moments regarding a bland self insert lead being surrounded by pretty chicks.

On paper, Re:creators should have been regarded as a thought provoking masterpiece, just like that porn game adaptation. And yet it wasn’t. In fact, it was being mocked for being exactly that. What happened? The answer is, Re:creators was not tapping into as many layers of pandering as Fate/Stay Night did. It followed the same formula, but didn’t have the same ingredients. And by ingredients, I mean:

1) The pretty colors
Studio Troyca was nowhere near the level of Ufotable. Without jaw dropping animation, the sakuga audience didn’t care about it, and thus found reasons not to like it. Meaning, Re:creators didn’t have the illusion of making itself seem way better than what it actually was.

2) The source material
It didn’t have one. Unlike Type Moon which had a huge fanbase of porn gamers overhyping its bullshit for over a decade, Re:creators was an original work. Nobody was blowing out of proportion what it was all about, it had no fanatic fanbase attacking anyone who dares to speak against it, and thus it was open to all forms of criticism. As it should be the case for any title.

3) The archetypes
The fighters of Re:creators were essentially representations of typical heroes and villains from well known genres. This made them monolithic, dry, predictable, and one dimensional. The heroic spirits of Fate/Stay Night were based on historical figures, which were giving off the illusion of being multilayered and with a rich backdrop story, even if we didn’t see it and it was all implied. Meaning, the fan fiction nerds didn’t care about the cast of Re:creators, because they were just bland archetypes. In Fate/Stay Night, when they were hearing characters talking about ideologies and philosophy, their imagination was having an orgasm by seeing people across history coming together to have a fight with cool superpowers. In Re:creators, when characters talked about ideologies and philosophy, they just saw a typical magical girl talking to a typical medieval knight.

4) The competition
It came out at the worst possible moment, since the other 3 shows 99% of anime fans were watching, already had everything Re:creators failed to tap into. Pretty colors, a fanbase from the source material, and characters who did not feel like bland archetypes, because of how they were fleshed out from previous seasons.

5) The pacing and the infodumps
The above reasons explain why Re:creators fell from grace, in comparison to other shows of that time. They don’t explain why as a stand-alone show it was still not a very good watch despite sounding really amazing at first; so lets clarify that as well. Most of the duration was comprised of really long and boring monologues about the concept of the show, instead of its execution. The audience was constantly being told what was going on instead of being allowed to see it. The characters were mostly sitting on a table and talking about what they will do, instead of doing something about it. It was a really big chore to get through the constant talking, and the pacing was snail-slow.

The final episodes were filled with the battle royale action we were promised, but even then it came down to everyone versus one, instead of an actual “all for themselves” type of deal. It was hollow and insignificant, since nobody was actually dying but was rather returning to his fictional world. There was nothing really at stake and all the blame was thrown at the person who initiated the whole fuss. Nothing was grey or thought-provoking as it seemed to be at first, since it demonized an individual and deified everybody else, thus losing the grey morality it was going for.

So yeah, it’s not nearly as good as it sounds and it makes sense why it was quickly dropped by most. Its concept was interesting, but the execution came down to a dull line of endless monologues and tensionless battles.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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