Shichisei no Subaru

"This anime is worse than the ones I saw 5 years ago, because I saw this one today."

There is no limit to the ripoff and plagiarizing claims in the current "critical" atmosphere. In 2011, we got AnoHana, an anime which originality was limited to its ridiculously long name no one to this date has been able to memorize. And in 2012, we got Sword Art Online, anime which originality was entirely limited to the fact that it had none. Apparently, this anime produced in the lord's year of 2018, Shichisei no Subaru, is a ripoff of both: Sword Art Online and AnoHana...... Great.

Story:

Party ... of friends is having the time of their life inside this MMORPG game where they rock. While normos go to work and school/whatever, these fellas are doing the enjoy your life thingy and it's beautiful. Unfortunately, this thing only lasts for half a lifetime before the servers need to go down (or something, I wasn't really paying attention because it was irrelevant), what happens is these fellas get separated for a long period of time until one of them logs in and finds out that a party member who was supposed to be dead is now a spooky ghost thing still living inside the game. This starts off a journey that is exactly like SAO because it takes place inside a video game and exactly like AnoHana because there is one dead person in the series. Kudos for figuring this out.

I also spotted a red colored door here which I'd claim is a ripoff of Shakesperian literature, but then I remembered it's a smart piece of literature, and therefore red door is actually a reference to it and not a ripoff. Or would be if this anime had psychological tag in it and some nerd was claiming it's full of obscure philosophical references. ... but in this case, the door just happened to be red. There was also a deja vu in this which makes me believe this entire story takes place inside The Matrix.... just how deep does the rabbit hole go? moving on.

The story is rather weak. Mystery elements are thrown from here and there like it's a middle age stoning in progress. There are memorylosses, and sudden "realizations" like it's that ending scene from Interstellar where Cooper's daughter ponders, and dead people being alive, and characters who teleport to the screen in the right time to give some "hints" on what is going on. Also, dragons. It's pretty cheap and essentially no planning or effort is put into making any of it believable or in any way logical. The best part is how the anime just doesn't care, so it's practically impossible to get annoyed by any of it.

Most interesting factor of the narrative centers around the subject regarding stuff like how much people and the world around them changes in 6 years. What occurs is practically a timeskip of 6 years that doesn't influence one of the cast member's virtual self but removes her from the current IRL timeline. Not to leave the impact what one person's death can carry unmentioned. This is practically the only reason why the story is worth of following at all, but I thought it was dealt pretty well with, mainly because it made me feel some emotions and I don't typically care for drama this shallow.

Characters:

Anaru.... I mean the girl with red eyes and red-ish hair has real cute reaction on everything that is related to romances and and deeper feelings. Otherwise her presence is almost calming.

Menma... I mean the girl who ded really likes hugging. Her voice is quite annoying, but otherwise it warms my haarto when she tries to be strong and more mature than she is.

The real mc is kinda Jesus especially considering how smooth he is with the ladies when it comes to understanding their feelings. I like he ain't embarrassed of no hugs.

No in-depth character portrays or strong personality traits will be found here. Almost the entire cast is really light-hearted and positive. This is a casual anime and the only way to enjoy it is to take it as one.

Conclusion:

This anime is spectacularly average. It doesn't do quite anything that is impressive in terms of negative or positive. Even the "negative" parts of the story are less meaningful due to them being "average bad". My reason for enjoying and thinking this series reached the common mediocrity level is almost entirely based to the character centric drama and happy hugging scenes that were also very mediocre but I really liked them.

The atmosphere of this show is close to charming. Smooth and very easy to watch. Works especially well as background entertainment.

*I actually was paying attention, but the real events are a spoiler, hence the alternative line

Shichisei no Subaru

The MMORPG game world called "Union" is a legendary party known as "Subaru". The party has seven members who are actually childhood friends and schoolmates. Because of an incident, "Union" was forced to turn off the server and make the Subaru party split up.

Six years later one of Subaru's party members named Haruto logged into a new gane and it turned out that he was reunited with his old friends. And one of them was the one who should have died six years ago.

Story (4/10)
from the beginning of the story I was surprised that the main character Asahi was killed in the dungeon ... that might be quite surprising, from this series it might be similar to anohana and sword art online series.

Character (6/10)
for my own character, I'm not sure in this series there are so many characters that change their character and can't be guessed just like that

Art (6/10)
from depictions might be good enough so I don't need to add more comments

sound (7/10)
from voice actors and sound effects is good especially Asahi's voice gives its own impression on the character of the effects of fighting is also no less interesting this helps the fight to be more interesting

enjoy (7/10)
I was bored to watch this series again but when Asahi was rediscovered from there I continued watching this series until it's finished.

It took about five minutes to label every character as cliche and entirely bland, but I'm getting ahead of myself.

I originally had some hope when I put this on my watch list; I know a lot of people are tired of Isekai, but I still sincerely love the genre. That said, that doesn't mean I want to watch the same stories and identical characters repeatedly reworked by various companies for pure profits.

The premise is very much "Anohana goes MMO Isekai", and although I haven't seen enough of Anohana to say just how closely the storylines match, the basis is known well enough that even I ... thought of it just reading the synopsis. I've seen a bunch of SAO references in the reviews, and certainly it seems like the same world setting if I'm honest, with the headset and log in for the VRMMORPG virtually identical, and there are a few similarities in the MC too, but I wouldn't compare the stories.

The art style is solid enough, but, as is immediately evident, there's nothing at all original or outstanding about it. It hints at cute, but is broadly mainstream; in short I'd say a decent staple that get the job done nicely, but generally forgettable. The noses kind of annoy me though. Probably just me.

The OP and ED are 100% idol, I'm not quite sure what's going on there - I mean they're decent, but I feel like it's the sound I'd expect from something like Love Live?
As for the overall OST, I can't recall it at all, but I guess it did the job, I don't have anything bad to say about it after two episodes at least.

As mentioned in the synopsis, at the start of the story, all the members of Subaru are elementary schoolers. And yet aside from the girl who dies, none of the characters act even remotely like children. What childish qualities they do have (like blaming you friend for causing your crush's heart failure) are entirely unaffected by the next six years. And for a supposedly invincible team, there certainly seems to be a lot of doubt and jealousy flying around, just saying.
MC-kun is entirely OP, until he's reset (he's probs still pretty OP, but I'm not waiting to find out); RIP-chan also has a ridiculously OP ability that clearly oversteps any normal game's bounds, but no one thinks that's strange - least of all her, because she legit doesn't think about anything for more than five seconds. Jealous megane-kun seems to be an obnoxious twat with a stick up his ass, and other than that he's just Mr. Megane through and through, while jealous oppai-sama at least seems to be somewhat understanding/considerate of others' situations - did I mention they're also both super OP? Then there's the Mr. foreigner-nice-guy, and super shy megane-chan who will probably have to overcome her feeling of being useless to the team later on, and have some kind of power break through, but that's just speculation.
I'd like to make a special note for the characters who drag MC-kun back into the game, who were so badly written they wouldn't have been misplaced in a parody anime like The Disastrous Life of Saiki Kusuo - like seriously, are those lines a joke? I swear they evaporated the moment the story no longer needed them. Who even were they, for that matter, that our emo MC suddenly makes his gaming comeback after 6 years because of a little nagging? I think I've made my point, but the other side characters aren't much better.

I could tell this was flat trash before the first episode ended, but watched the second because the story hadn't actually started, and I needed to A) reach some kind of resolution and B) confirm it was shit and was going to stay that way, because generally the rule is 3 episodes, but I kinda hate all the characters already, so that's not happening.

Try it if you want, it won't hurt you, although you may lose a few brain cells, if you've read this far then I've hopefully lowered your expectations enough for this to be watchable by now. If this didn't cut it, not much will.

Apparently today I want to write many reviews .

Well this anime The only thing I can say is that choose to SAO and Anhoana it mixed and came out this anime.
Here in LatinAmerica in really like this anime , i only see because it is interesting but apparently I think I will leave because I really do not find emotions when I see it bores me sometimes
I hope when I finish this anime keep quiet but for now is one of the worst that have left this season, I gave a 6 not to kill him so

well this i say this anime for ... now

There is to me nothing special about this anime; I knew that would be true before even starting episode 1. Though anything that makes me think of Anohana is worth at least seeing the start of the show.

The characters are annoying to listen to so I find myself skipping over scenes of dialogue when it falls into the classics. Though there isn't point that largely sticks out me and shouts, "Nah dog, in an anime the MC would never do that."

So why when everything about the show is cliches am I giving it a six?

The story intrigues me. I'm curious to see who the ... main character will choose. I'm curious to see how they explain Asahi being alive in the game. I'm curious if the tsundere will ever say her feelings by the end of the show? Okay, the last was rhetorical but I digress.

The music is nothing special and is quickly forgotten.

The art is nothing special either and at points is goes into bad CGI.

It's a good casual watch don't expect the next Log Horizon but a budget fantasy Anohana.

Surprise, surprise, we have yet another Isekai on our hands this season. As per usual, a few questions would come to mind when dealing with this genre like,

Is this anime just Sword Art Online? No.

Is this a good Isekai? No, but it has the potential to be.

Is this a bad Isekai? At some times, yes.

Is it worth the watch? That depends on you.

What this series has shown us so far (being 5 episodes in) is that it has a unique gameplay element based on their visual reality headset that classifies users into roles based on their 'sense'. It truly is an interesting game quirk, partially ... the reason why this show has potential. If you are into the gaming quirks of a series, you will probably enjoy this show, as those elements are present quite often via. guild interaction, boss slaying, and showing off of the capabilities of different players 'senses' and their specializations.

However, if you like a well-grounded plot and a great character cast, this anime probably isn't for you. The characters are just bland and by episode 5 I really see no attachment to them at all and gives me absolutely no reason for me to care about them. We were shown in episode 1 that these characters have had previous interaction, and if the show had shown us more of their bonds and why their guild, Subaru, was so great due to their teamwork, then my opinion on the show would've drastically changed. But the show doesn't do this at all. It tries to build a cliche romance from the get-go and tries to gun for the romantic tension it just isn't ready to delve into yet. However, I really want to hold off on this series, as it is only episode five and I really have no right to judge the whole package of the story until the series is completely done.

So again, should you watch this series? Yes and no.

Are you stressed for time and can only watch a limited quantity of shows this season? If so, I would say no. This show is not worth your pleasure. There are plenty of other great shows for you to watch this season. If this show does get big, you can always come back to it after its rocky start is over.

On the flip side, if you do have enough time, I definitely recommend you take a look at this anime. At episode 5, it has a unique RPG element and guild interactions, but not a cast worth caring about yet. If this were to change, I would definitely recommend this anime to you, which is why if you do have enough time, stay with this series to see if this element really does change.

That's all folks, if you got this far, thanks for reading the review! I hope this was helpful in your decision

At first episode, I found this is interesting. Mainly, the ending of the first episode gave me shivers. Of course I also thought that this thing is kinda familiar, coz it reminded me vibes of AhoHana and SAO, but I just laughed it off and enjoyed the episode.

Second episode, I'm starting to think about the story. I mean, the concept is good, but the intro of the events are sucks that I will say only 3 points of 10. Wonder who's wrong at this, the author or the director?

Third episode, really, I'm disappointed about the increasing lacks of event introductions, even the story are getting ... too shallow that i will only give it 1 point of 10. It reminds me of my first time writing a script for a play in my class. And when the play went on, I screwed up. There is many lacks in the play.

Studio Lerche, I always watching your series except Hakumei and Mikochi. I am pretty impressed about the art improvement of animations each year. Danganronpa series are improving. Ansatsu Kyoushitsu also rocks. KinoTabi is interseting. Elite Classroom are the best so far. And yet...

Not only this anime lacks the evolution of Lerche, I cant even find what is 'Lerche'-ish about this. The sequel and prequel of Danganronpa are very well made, but not for this anime.

Okay, continue. The third episode clearly lacks MMORPG-style fighting, interseting dialogues, much more intro of events than before, the deepness of character's feelings, kinda monotone, and the thing that irritates me is...

Haruto's reawakening and Asahi's evolution. It really made my 'boy' heart beats. Yet I was dumbfounded how fool I am when Satsuki says "Asahi didn't die. You are alive here." just like that without any expressional intro like sighing and shading to make it more mysterious. It sounds so monotone, dang it! And, it ends.

If they can make the 'last events' so good, at least go review the previous scenes if you want to increase the ratings by the last scene. Well, to me, they failed because of Satsuki's lines and the vibes when she say it.

Yet, I'm still waiting for next episode. It is really awkward, but it somehow attracts me to watch more. Maybe my review is too harsh, but, I won't drop this series. I just want to express some crams I had thought of the creator team.

And above is my review up to the third episode.

Entering episode 4, I saw all the components are much much better and more convincing than the second and third episode. Thanks for the hardwork, creator team.

Hope this is helpful. Sorry for my horrible english...

Have you ever wanted to watch an anime that was the mediocre parts of both Anohana and Sword Art Online combined? Or how about the lower-tier Isekai version of Log Horizon? I bet both of those sound enticing to the ears!

All facetious commentary aside, Shichisei no Subaru is well... Mediocre for an anime. With every single season comes a new Isekai anime (within this era). Sometimes the Isekai anime are really good, sometimes they're really bad, and sometimes they end up like this anime.

I don't feel like wasting much more of your time reading my preliminary review, but just know that this is an ... anime that isn't worth following Week-By-Week. It's fairly slow with paper-thin characters that I find unlikable. When this show ends, if MAL gives this show a 7.2 or above, then something happened that is definitely worth looking at. If it stays anywhere below that, there are better things to watch than this anime.

To be honest, this isn't a wonderful anime. So far, I have come to completely dislike Satsuki. But first, I'll talk about the others. Haruto is someone I have sympathy with. All at once, he lost his friends in the heat of a game. I think it's good that he is trying to help Asahi as much as he can, even if his motivation is mostly guilt. Takanori is honestly just a guy who had his crush taken away from him because she chose to protect Haruto. Of course he would hate him. Now that she's back, he is trying his best to protect her ... and prevent losing her again by keeping her close. Of course she has other motives like reviving Subaru. Asahi didn't even know she died in real life. I'm glad this hasn't completely changed who she is. Now... Satsuki. She is just horrible. First of all, I don't like her shitty tsudere act. Secondly, I cannot believe that she has the nerve to be mad at Haruto for being concerned about Asahi and her situation. For years, he had the burdern of being blamed for Asahi's death and now he can redeem himself. Satsuki is actually, JEALOUS. I don't understand how a boy could be more important to you, than helping your somewhat dead friend. SMFH.

Shichisei no Subaru feels like a show that is trying to copy Anohana, but in a mmo setting.

The main characters at the beginning of the show were six friends playing together in harmony until one of the six members dies, then they broke apart. Eventually the emergence of the dead member in the game starts the adventure of the story of the main character, Haruto, who to tries gather up the gang back together. Some of the members of the six friends felt a poor version of the characters in Anohana.

The setting for the show is generic, it does not differentiate from other ... anime game’s setting. They should have added some unique gimmicks to the setting in order stand out from alternate
anime’s environments.

The music and animation is bland, but not terrible.

Overall, a very lame ripoff of Anohana in a generic rpg setting.

Please note that I am writing this review as someone who hasn't read the light novel. This is purely coming from my experience as an anime-only watcher. BE WARNED! THERE ARE SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING OF THE SERIES AHEAD!

Shichisei no Subaru caught my attention first and foremost for one thing-- being an anime about an MMORPG and having a character who died in game and, as a result, also passed away in real life. My first thought was of my favourite anime, .hack, but I wasn't expecting a clone of it or anything. It's hard to come up with something original in this day and ... age. SnS managed to put an interesting twist on this now commonly used plot-device with the motives of the antagonist group-- to use the powers from the online games Union and RE:Union in the real world. Unfortunately, this isn't brought up until about mid-season and we go through too much drama to get to that point.

This brings me to my first score, the story, which I give a 5/10. There was an original enough spin on the stuck in an MMORPG to get me to finish the series and also hope for a localization of the light novels so I can see how things end. The bad part of things is the romantic drama. There isn't a love triangle in this anime-- it's much worse. There's five different characters and a lot of unrequited love and jealousy and it drags on and on. I'm not sure if this is true to the original LNs or if it was just to prolong the story enough to go through 12 episodes without making an original ending since the novels are still ongoing. There were too many fights and misunderstandings between the group of friends until they were all brought back together on the FINAL EPISODE. Yikes.

Next is the art. I rated it a 7/10 because it was decent. I think they kept up the production values and I don't remember any parts where I was brought out of the anime because the art had taken a sudden turn for the worse. The character designs are rather simple and generic, but they're nice on the eyes and they easy to tell apart.

I gave the sound a 6/10. It was nothing remarkable nor was it horrible. I don't recall anything sounding off. There's clashing of swords, casting of magic, etc. and it all sounded how I would expect it to sound.

Rating the characters in this anime was hard for me. I know that this isn't an original, but an adaption from a light novel, so I'm just grading from how the characters were presented here with a 7/10. Haruto, the main character, seems to be your generic self-insert character with next to no personality. The main girl, Asahi, was your typical happy-go-lucky young girl and didn't leave much of an impression on me. All of the characters seem to come from very common tropes. The only reason I'm not giving this anime a lower score is because of Takanori. He started off as a cold jerk who was constantly fighting with Haruto over Asahi because he also loved her. This was very irritating because it took up the majority of the time in the anime, but by the end his personality changed. He went from only thinking about his own feelings to being able to consider those of not only Asahi, but his other friends as well and became a better person for it.

Enjoyment for this series I gave a 6/10. There was enough action between the drama to keep me watching the series to the end. I think if things had been a little different, I would have enjoyed it a bit more.

Overall I think this anime is settling at a "fair" here on MAL with a 6/10. I don't think that this is something I'd go back to watch again, but if there was a second season I'd be more than willing to give it a shot. There were a lot of things left unexplained since things stopped, perhaps having caught up with the light novels, but I feel like this could be the start of something very interesting if it is written right.

Non spoiler section: This show starts out ok but quickly it becomes clear it is just another mmo anime cash grab and the makers don't actually know much about mmos and the bad writing/plot holes become obnoxious. I suggest giving it a pass.

Spoilers: The characters are actually interesting if not the most original and there are actually some complicated relationships going on and not just your typical every girl is in love with the main character because he is the greatest player of all time story. But sadly other than the characters not being complete trash and the game world looking fun to play in ... everything else is dumb.

In an mmo levels matter because otherwise people wouldn't bother to train at all and what would be the point of having levels to begin with? In this mmo a new player with almost no leveling can take on one of the best guilds in the game single handedly. That's just a terrible lack of understanding how mmos work. Also a bunch of other things like players can make their own bases wherever they want and yet we only ever see one base and if that were a mechanic the game world would be completely overrun with bases. A ring can fall off during combat and will remain on the floor for 11 years and get ported over to a new version of the game for the same player to find because no one else ever went into that area and picked it up or the data that it was there was ever lost because a system reset happened or anything(which would have had to happen at least once when the game was ported to the new system it is running on).

Then things get totally laughable when it turns out that the special skills in game are usable in real life. How the hell do you expect me to believe that because you played a vr game people can now freeze time, change the past, summon magical elementals that shoot out fire, and all kinds of other crap???? At least give some kind of explanation like the powers are all physically manifested and because such a small population of the world can use those powers a method to unlock them was hidden as a secret government project in a super popular mmo to expose as large a population as possible to it. But instead they are just like "yea the game makes you magic irl" with no explanation behind it or fake science talk.

Overall a very superficial show and just not worth watching but not particularly painful to watch either.

On first glance, the story is indeed a combination of AnoHana and Sword Art Online, though at a downgraded premise of both shows.

I love Lerche's animation coming that I've repeatedly watched Assassination Classroom and parts of Classroom of the Elite but this anime doesn't give me that kind of enjoyment.

Also, for the music producer's fault, I hear this kind of background sounds on parades. Seriously, Always.

Well, as I've only seen the seven episodes this time, I look forward to any twists in the story that would rather make it amusing. If not, then, I'd pray that there will never be a 2nd season adaptation to ... be announced in the near future.

anime similar to successful sao, although with variations and additions to their world, I consider it a series cliche the isekai rarely show something, I like how they develop people give more charisma emotion empathy and strength something strange in the genre, the anime It goes with an interesting but not common direction, if the anime takes big steps without fear without a doubt it will be a more than decent series and maybe it can reach (re zero maybe considered the best isekai), I would recommend it, well, it would be more than person taste if you like the genre, the series itself is ... not gold is closer to bronze but does not get boring, as if the study is encouraged to put better charisma on the characters as re zero the series will certainly be great

This is not a MASTERPIECE nothing we can do...

Plus, it is way too childish for an anime with action
Oh well they started playing as a kid so we can't remove that fact..
And but the romance I can't accept it since it is way TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
childish and mature at the same time I mean its mature the fact that
They like someone so much that they'd control their feelings
at first that is... and IT IS GODDAMN CHILDISH they are crazy and a certain
female is a psychopath I mean she didn't even got raped and she acts like a bitch. WATCH THE ANIME SO YOU'D KNOW WHO IS THAT ... PERSON
I WOULDN'T WANT TO SPOIL e.e

P.S: This is my honest thoughts and my bad for such review.
Still liked it because of the genre so Its actually not bad aside from what I pointed out.