Houkago Saikoro Club


After School Dice Club

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Synonyms: Houkago Saikoro Kurabu
Japanese: 放課後さいころ倶楽部
English: After School Dice Club
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Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 3, 2019 to Dec 19, 2019
Premiered: Fall 2019
Broadcast: Thursdays at 01:15 (JST)
Licensors: Funimation
Studios: LIDENFILMS
Source: Manga
Genre: ComedyComedy
Themes: CGDCTCGDCT, SchoolSchool, Strategy GameStrategy Game
Demographic: ShounenShounen
Duration: 23 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.711 (scored by 2216122,161 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #59242
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #3274
Members: 53,077
Favorites: 94

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Preliminary Spoiler
Dec 18, 2019
Friendship through the power of board games - a board-gamified review of Houkago Saikoro Club

(this review is structured and meant to be read as if it was a board game manual)

-- General game info --
> game idea and concept by Xiaraith
> inspired by LIDENFILMS
> original story and art by Nakamichi Hiroo
> for any player count, age 13+
> Playing time: 5 minutes, potentially leads to another game of 276 minutes
...
Oct 24, 2019
Preliminary (4/12 eps)
Underrated Gem of the season. Wholesome, the anime.

Houkago Saikoro Dice club is not an anime that will blow you away in terms of quality, plot, direction, etc. However, what it excels at is being a very relaxing and enjoyable time, which is why it earns a 10 from me. I base my ratings on my overall enjoyment of a series, I don't care about super complex things that you may see in other reviews. Now that that's out the way, let's get into explaining the series.

Dice club starts off with Aya having recently moved to Kyoto and looking for new friends, she ends up encountering ...
Dec 18, 2019
The foundation of Houkago Saikoro Club (Afterschool Dice Club) is based on tabletop games in the form of card games, board games, and of course, dice games. Chances are that you played a tabletop game at least once in your lifetime, whether it’s between friends or family. Hiroo Nakamichi manages to create a manga about tabletop game culture and to my delight, this is a slice of series I can recommend to just about anyone.

To start off, you don’t need to be a fan of tabletop games to really enjoy the show. I haven’t played tabletop games in a long time but had no problem ...
Dec 18, 2019
Houkago Saikoro Club is a simple show that manages to succeed with its accurate representation of playing board games along with the character development and heartwarming interactions that are brought on by these games. There are lots of fun moments that can happen during a board game and the show does a good job of communicating these moments and showcasing the fun, glory, and growth that they get from playing these games.

The characters in Saikoro Club are generally well developed and showcase a good example growth that is tied in well to the subject matter that is being focused on. In the case of ...
Oct 31, 2019
Preliminary (4/12 eps)
Surprised this isn't higher than it is. While sure it's not an 8, a 9, or a 10. But it's certainly a 7 in my books. A simple concept of board games can be real interesting.

Again, it could be just tastes. But this is a lot better than the rating it is given. The characters are rather cute with how their portrayed and look. With relatable characteristics you see in every day life honestly, that aren't annoying in any stretch that could ruin the experience. As it doesn't here. From shy and timid, to one that is energetic and so on. Great characters overall.

It ...
Dec 20, 2019
On the surface, this may seem like another one of those usual shows where you have cute girls doing cute things for club activities at school. I mean, I get it. If the show was only about girls playing board games and nothing else, you’d probably get pretty board of it early on, right? Okay, that was a bad one…

But, anyway. It isn't, it's better than the usual ones. And I’m here to briefly convince you guys that it is. So let’s jump right into it.

As the synopsis mentions, Houkago Saikoro Club begins when three girls meet and come together by chance to start ...
Dec 18, 2019
Board games is probably not the most mainstream hobby out there but in my experience, it is one of the best social experiences you can have with your friends. For the past 5-6 years now I've regularly hosted board game nights at home with my former high school classmates and it's one of our most regular ways to hang out and reasons to meet. Board games are a great way to interact with each other in a fun, intelligent and rewarding way which also offers flexibility and versatility, and just in general it's one of the most social experiences you can have. I just wish ...
Dec 2, 2019
Preliminary (7/12 eps)
I’m kind of disappointed by both the current reviews (except the first one - “wholesome” this show is, indeed) and the LACK of ‘current’ reviews. Thing is: ‘topping off’ at the 4th episode, why isn’t this show garnering more attention and reviews further than that? I’m very confused by this, and you can bet I’ll darn-well explain why:

So, firstly, I don’t expect my review to change between this point in the season and ‘by the end of the season’. It has been extremely consistent and, frankly, I’d almost bet my life that it’ll continue to uphold its standards of storytelling, animation, (mediocre) sound design, whatever ...
Dec 28, 2019


Story:
I missed some parts in it. There was this feeling like something more should be made of it but then the Anime was over. It still got a 9 from me, because it was still a little but nice story and I loved the concept a lot.

Art:
I have nothing to complain about it but it also wasn't outstanding or something special. It was nice, but that's all. (Not that that's a bad thing)

Sound:
It was ok.
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Dec 18, 2019
Houkago Saikoro Club, or After School Dice Club, was a refreshing anime, and an overall nice change of pace. I love serious animes with life or death stakes, as much as the next guy, but, I loved having a show this season where the biggest stakes at hand, were simply who would win the board game the girls were playing that episode.

Past that though, Koukago Saikkoro Club is something more, there appear to be a lot of life lessons embedded within the simplistic nature of this anime, leaving you feeling good and refreshed, and even at times, looking up from something that might be bothering ...
Apr 16, 2020
Follow along the tranquilizing story and learn about different types and kinds of board games with a group high school of girls! This is Houkago Saikoro Club ( Afterschool Dice Club ), an anime about high school girls playing board games!

As simple as the anime may sound. After School Dice Club actually holds a strong sense of Slice of Life despite not being categorized as one. It could also be reckoned as a CGDCT & Soft Yuri due to how much moe and insignificant teases the show gives off in spite of the fact that the characters look mature and "friendly".

This anime shows ...
Jul 4, 2023
Who knew that an anime about friendship, happiness and board games would keep me entertained for 12 whole episodes.

A simple anime and perhaps with the aim of commercially popularizing board games, Houkago Saikoro Club explores the adventure of Miki, a girl who seeks to find and understand what happiness means. And the answer appears when she comes across Aya and Midori, two girls who will eventually join the main cast.

I felt immersed in the games many times during the course of the work, trying to understand how the game worked as if I was waiting for my turn to play.

From episode 6, the anime unfortunately ...
Jun 6, 2020
I'm going to miss this show a lot. I wish a lot of people had seen this to make the company have a will for making a second season of this! especially since the manga gives the enough story to make 2-3 more seasons.

So many things good about this anime:
1. the characters! I loved the characters.

-Even though there were some that I didn't like, it was me not liking them for a good reason. For that reason, I like them in their own way, also. All the characters have a purpose in the story.

2. The story!

-The story in general was really ...
Nov 10, 2022
Will charm you more if you are a board game player. Not so much if you aren't.
Calm, relaxing. No stupid cliches. Gets straight to the point - presenting you the most popular and fun board games. Story isn't very unique, the plot is simple and characters have little personality, as is typical for such a short anime, but they are not annoying.

Well, maybe slightly towards the beginning and the end. The beginning is really rushed as the anime does not want to waste time on introducing these simple characters, which is actually a plus. The ending is typical secondary school anime melodrama, yet made short ...
Jul 1, 2020
if only there's more execution in the story I would give this 9-8

Let's make it simple.
This Anime gave me a slight interest in Tabletop games. I like how they briefly explain every game they play, and yes the games they played are real. so you could actually play it with your friend (in real life, if you have any)

but it isn't only about school girls playing tabletop games. I really love how they put a splash of romance, flashback, a blonde foreigner (like always), and anxiety~

it's like when the first time you cook, you just put and mixed everything up. And it didn't turn out ...
Dec 18, 2019
Asobi Asobase's more tame Board Game variant.

Houkago Saikoro Club is by the by a very wholesome anime about an afterschool board game club, wherein Miki Takekasa voiced by Saki Miyashita being extremely shy and anti-social due to a childhood trauma keeps to herself, until Aya Takayashiki voiced bu Marika Kouno sweeps her away as she befriends Midori Oono voiced by Miyu Tomita the class rep of their class and works at a board game shop. With these three they inadvertently play games after school and deepens friendship with board games.

Houkago Saikoro Club does two things, character growth and board games. So first let's talk about ...
Oct 20, 2020
The show spoke to me personally. Every episode I was rooting for Miki, and as the show went on it seemed to get better. It might seem a bit boring in the very beginning, but as it goes on a few things become immediatley apparent

1) A new character is introduced roughly every episode. It's a great opportunity for us to meet new people and see how they interact with our main characters

2) The show is so god damn wholesome. Holy shit, I love it so much, the show just makes me happy when I watch it.

3) Characters develop over time. Progression is a huge boost ...