Quick review:
Do you guys like competitive "sports?" Do you get excited about seeing people compete with different ideologies and aspirations? Well look no further, you may or may not find that in Nana Maru San Batsu (which I will now call FFF)! It depends on what kind of taste you have. I personally would compare it to Chihayafuru because the concept of being the fastest in both respective sports is reflexes and finger speed. FFF surprised me with how well executed the journey is and how interesting a quiz bowl could be. I personally wouldn't do this at all, but I can see it being
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Alternative Titles
Synonyms: 7O3X, Nanamaru Sanbatsu
Japanese: ナナマル サンバツ
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Type:
TV
Episodes:
12
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Jul 5, 2017 to Sep 20, 2017
Premiered:
Summer 2017
Broadcast:
Wednesdays at 01:59 (JST)
Licensors:
None found, add some
Studios:
TMS Entertainment
Source:
Manga
Demographic:
Seinen
Duration:
23 min. per ep.
Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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#62362
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#2642
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Your Feelings Categories Sep 20, 2017
Quizzes and more quizzes. They could be fun if the watchers feel the same interest in both the questions and the participants. If you don't like quizzes shows, then you immediately will consider Nana Maru San Batsu (Fastest Finger First) as a total waste of time, and the only fastest finger that you will end seeing is yours when you "change" for other show.
I had been thinking how to rate this anime. Should I evaluate the questions, should I rate the quizzes modules, should I rate the characters? After a lot of thinking, I considered there is nothing to measure here. The story is the typical ... Jul 30, 2017
Nana Maru San Batsu or Fastest Finger First is an cliche anime similar to many school-based, guy joins a club'esque type of anime. It's about quiz bowl which is basically a competitive Jeopardy, with the main focus of answering the questions quickly and correctly.
Initially, I was expecting like an average 6 rated show, archetype characters, cliche story and so forth. Well, it turned out to be a lot worse. Story (3). Basically, a nerd joins junior high, during the club ceremonies he is picked to join the "Quiz Bowl" team for a display game. "Now even though he is new to the game, he is extremely ... Jul 25, 2017
Hit the buzzer first. The difference in facing victory or defeat may depend on a single second or even less. The adventures of a boy who has the talent, but now needs to apply that talent into competitive quizzing against other people.
Fastest finger first was on my "Meh" watching list. I was kinda hesistant. But after watching 4 episodes, I probably will continue. One of the things many people talked about regarded the main Female Character and her voice actor. I'll be honest, I wasn't a big fan of it when I first heard it. Not because it was bad, but because it did not seem ... Sep 23, 2017
I personally love the concept of discovering something you love and truly being passionate about it. This show is exactly that.
Story: Good story, I love seeing characters strive to become better. The idea pf animating something like quiz bowl is definitely unique. There are certain stories are not concluded which I find annoying. 7/10 Character: KOSHIYAMA: An intersting character, like i said I love seeing pasionate characters so I really liked him FUKAMI: Honestly I didn't care much for her. She was really only there for the main female character appeal and her brother's backstory SASAJIMA: Calm cool and collected, there could be more back story to him MIKURIYA: His rivalry ... Sep 2, 2023
I'm going to ask you a question. French for "a flash of lightning," this chocolate-topped dessert that got its name because it is eaten quickly is called what? The answer would be "eclair." However, for characters of this anime, the moment the consonant cluster "fl" for "flash" is pronounced, they have already pressed the buzzer and gotten the correct answer. Okay, one more. The three great festivals of Kyoto are Gion Festival, Aoi Festival, and what? The correct answer would be "Jidai Festival," and you might have already guessed that once the "A" part of "Aoi" was spoken, the correct answer
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Sep 19, 2017
It's not often you'll see an anime based around a quiz game. This is what initially brought me to try Nana Maru San Batsu. To quickly summarize some of my thoughts on the anime, I though the art and animation were average at best, and apart from the amazing opening song, the same thing can be said about the soundtrack.A lot of the characters were either annoying or uninteresting. The way the story is presented, it feels more like a shounen rather than the seinen it actual is. The major positive I can say for the series is that when it got to doing the
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Sep 24, 2017
Fastest finger first is over.
Finally, it was pretty bad. The concept at the beginning was cool. I don't know much about quiz bowl or even heard of the subject of it. Which is the premise of the show by the way. And I was semi excited to learn more about it through this anime. And from the anime's view on quiz bowl presented to me. It wasn't very exiting. It was about these trivia super geniuses that can answer a question without hearing the entire answer through various techniques. And apparently that is realistic to the actual thing. ... Aug 2, 2017
Press the buzzer before anyone else does!
The anime has some sort of flow and predictability of what the format of the next episodes are going to be like. The anime is about Koshiyama, a first-year student who was invited and convinced by Fukami and Sasajima to join the Quiz Study Group where they participate in regular quiz competitions against other schools. The aim of the game is to press the buzzer before anyone else and answer within five seconds. You can press the buzzer at any time, even before the announcer has completed reading out the question. Now this anime isn't for everyone. From a title ... Oct 12, 2018
I agree with the rest of the reviewers of this show that the show can be a bit lackluster in some episodes when compared to highly-rated sports anime. However, this show still has the potential to set itself apart from the rest, due to the underlying concept of the show: how do you deal with information? The world is full of information and as humans there is a limit to what we can take in and what we leave out. I like how this show tantalizingly explores how an individual's interests can influence how he or she treats the information. If the show had more
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Aug 7, 2017
Starter for 10 was a film i think i saw a few years back but memories fade and by the rate mine are fading I will be in an assisted care home by 2021. But that film is about quizzes, more importantly the true king of the "Sort of after The One Show" slot for the BBC, University Challenge. I've always complained how I don't think its fair that most team members are mature students who really take the title to its extremes. They roam these isles, bouncing from Anthropology of Dragon Dicks post graduate courses to Four Dimensional Town Planning at the University of
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Mar 30, 2018
I was not expecting Nana Maru San Batsu to be good. Going into it, I though I was probably going to end up dropping it and giving it a 5 or possibly a 6. Though as I watched each episode, I just kept wanting to watch more until I'd finished all 12 episodes and thoroughly enjoyed it.
You might notice a marked difference in reviews on this site between those who watched 4 episodes and declared it to be cliched, and those who actually bothered to watch the whole show before giving it a full review. Not just in term of score, which we'd expect to ... Dec 11, 2019
Look, it doesn't really matter how amazing of a show you have if you start off with the most horrendous openings known to man. I can't actually believe a mangaka storyboarded this manga, got it approved by an editor, serialized it, kept it going enough for it to get an anime adaption proposal, and it actually getting adapted. It's crazy. This start is just that bad.
When you have a show be about a shy MC joining a quiz bowl club, how would you expect the first episode to go? Oh, how about looking at a hot girl's panties and getting convinced by that very girl ... Aug 12, 2017
This review comes with no prior knowledge of the series as a manga.
Nana Maru San Batsu, Fastest Finger First, is a series about quizzes which, in itself, already makes it sound boring to start. Although it does do a decent job of making the subject slightly more interesting by emphasis of quizzes through Quiz Bowl competition, there still feel to be areas that are just lacking. Story: 6 The premise is a bit bland but not something I have seen before, give a little praise where due. The story is a bit scattered for my liking with it feeling more like a slice of life that just ... Sep 11, 2017
Engaging. Entertaining. Elevating.
I've had a falling out with anime over the past year. Nothing was interesting. Nothing was new. This show isn't necessarily either, but it gives a new dimension to the hackneyed shounen dynamic of an underdog undertaking a new challenge in his life as a matter of circumstance which he found he is surprisingly apt at dealing with. But this show isn't just finding itself going through the 12 banal steps of the hero's journey like Bleach or Naruto. Such series become trite with repetition. Powers become bigger and larger and we lose the intimacy associated with smaller scale story-telling which ends ... Aug 2, 2017
All the cliches you hate, wrapped in subculture you probably know nothing about, that will do little to make you care further about that subculture.
Story (3/10): Shy Main Character gets wrapped up in the "Quiz Bowl" club. His backstory is that his mom was a librarian and he's spent a lot of time in libraries so he's awkward af. He then proceeds to like quiz bowl club and the friends he makes in quiz bowl club. He's also the potential to become Jesus-kun at quiz bowl, so it's got that going for it I guess. That's it. Nothing more than the boiler plate stew of ... Sep 20, 2017
LA has a strong affinity when it comes to liking "weird tournament sports anime", from mahjong to jousting to flying tag to freakin' boob and butt wrestling.......time to add quiz bowl to the list.
Nana Maru San Batsu falls under the typical underdog character who goes into a field where he knows ALOT of and finds his interest in trying to be the best by learning the ropes...such is the case of Shiki Koshiyama in competitive quizzing. Nana Maru San Batsu somehow made competitive quizzing to be addrenalined pumping, something as mudane as quizzing and to be honest in the early episodes of Nana Maru San ... Sep 27, 2017
This show follow in the same line as many sports type anime, where MC comes to fall in love with a sport/hobby just from experiencing it first hand.
Don't get me wrong, im not trying knock the show down a few pegs cause of this cliche. Stories about being passionate about what you love is all great. I think what this show suffer from in my opinion is this feeling of slowness even during the actual quizzing (show depicting real time instead of super slow or fast). Story in the anime doesn't go into a grande tournament only just few matches here and there and competition between ... Jul 30, 2017
This is a show where we watch kids take quizzes. I don't know if that sounds like a good thing or not. our main character is a nerd that loves reading and when the popular girl notices him and realizes how smart he is she drags him into the world of competitive quizzing. the plot is meh and the writers know it due to the unneeded fan service they use to keep your attention. there is only so much you can do by having people being asked halved finished questions.
the art isn't the most modern thing you will see but when you put that ... |


