No Game No Life: Zero - Manner Movie

[A 2-Minute Guide about Manners in the Movie Theater]

Before the movie “No Game No Life: Zero” began, this 2-minute theater animation was created to showcase what manners you should and shouldn’t be doing in the movie theater.

To demonstrate these manners, cute Chibi art style versions of Shiro, Sora, Stephanie Dola, and Jibril narrate, and perform outrageous and funny skits to highlight them.

The voice actors, particularly Yoshitsugu Matsuoka and Ai Kayano, who play Sora and Shiro, respectively, do an excellent job informing us of these manners. Also, a special mention to Yukari Tamura and Yoko Hikasa, who play Jibril and Stephanie Dola, respectively, for providing ... additional comedic moments.

The animations are somewhat choppy, but for a 2-minute theater animation, this is negligible and has no effect on the overall message that this theater animation was trying to convey.

These are the Ten Rules (i.e., manners) for watching “No Game No Life: Zero”:

1. Mute your mobile phone
2. Any conversation during the watching are forbidden.
3. It’s forbidden to use fire in the building of the cinema.
4. It’s forbidden to use magic in the building of the cinema.
5. Carrying dangerous things is strictly prohibited.
6. Do not disturb people around you.
7. Recording is strictly prohibited.
8. Dispose of garbage in the trash cans
9. All the above rules are binding. In the name of the Blank.
10. Let’s enjoy the movie.

This was a great instructional video about manners in the movie theater, and it makes me wish more movie theaters incorporated something like this.

This is one of the best manner movies I have actually seen. For those of you that don't know, a manner movie (or manners animation) is a short animatic of what is shown in the cinema right before the movie, telling you the rules you must abide by whilst there. This includes turning your phone off/putting it on silent, no conversations, no fire or weapons and other factors included to match the style of the movie.

In this case, we are being told this by Sora and Shiiro, who display their own characteristics before presenting this movie to you. We also see Jibril and Steph showing ... their personalities and representing what you should not do, and getting scolded by the siblings.

I mean it's a theatre manner animation like any other.

Story (2/10):
The presentation of the key points is pretty standard, but long and exhaustive to get across points that I'm sure any self-respecting movie-goer should already implicitly know. A simple list without the comedy would have done the job better, but I appreciate the effort.

Characters (6/10):
It's Shiro and Sora being Shiro and Sora. What more could one ask for? Steph and Jibril don't really add much. While the short was "faithful" to their characters, I don't know if I can say they stayed "true" to the characters' personalities the whole way through. Sora and Shiro should ... still be in shock.

Art/Animation (8/10):
The animation could have used a bit more work, but it's sufficient to get the job done. The real treat here is actually the attention to the character designs adapted into a manga-esque chibi form.

Overall (5/10):
One of the better ones in terms of manner shorts. But I still found something like the KnK manner shorts to have been more enjoyable and just better executed overall.

Who am I kidding. It's just a one-off, single purpose, 2 min short. Just watch it if you want.