Shachou, Battle no Jikan desu!

Long ago, a goddess descended from Heaven and blessed the desolate land of Gatepia. As a result, gigantic gates appeared, leading to dungeons abundant in "kirakuri," crystals containing the energy needed for the foundation of the world. This led to the formation of various companies of adventurers who would harvest kirakuri from the dungeons.

Following his father's disappearance inside one of the biggest gates in Gatepia, Minato is urged by his childhood friend Yutoria to become the president of his father's treasure-hunting company—the Kibou Company. He reluctantly agrees and meets with the other employees: the priest Makoto, the soldier Akari, and the accountant Guide.

Thus, Minato begins his tenure as president. As he and his comrades strive to fulfill various missions and other assorted tasks in order to keep their small company alive, they will uncover the mystery behind their former leader's sudden departure.

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Yutoria Main

Ichinose, Kana Japanese

Minato Main

Horie, Shun Japanese

Akari Main

Waki, Azumi Japanese

Makoto Main

Aoyama, Yoshino Japanese

Valmi Supporting

Uesaka, Sumire Japanese

Guide Supporting

Horie, Yui Japanese

Raiba Supporting

Yashiro, Taku Japanese

Marika Supporting

Takahashi, Minami Japanese

Mineko Supporting

Fujita, Akane Japanese

Sabat, Christopher Producer

Cook, Justin Producer

Kikushima, Kazufumi Producer

Ogata, Mitsuhiro Producer

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Jun 28, 2020

dlxuniuniu

Recommended

Kibou Company - The Hope Company

Do you like your like boss at work? Do you have to work too much and getting paid too less? Luckily this is not the case in this company, they are the hope for all employees. We have a president (boss) who thinks of precautionary about his employees, a president that you really like.

STORY:
A new boss in a company always means various changes. But how do the employees feel about the new boss? That's the question every Shachou will ask himself. Our main character has the honor to take this place in a company because the old boss ... (his father) cannot be found. He quickly realizes that it is not easy to run a company. There are many things to watch out for. Above all, in the financially part, the Kibou Company is pretty badly positioned at the beginning. Nevertheless, our boss is a positive person, he is very nice to his employees and they also have fun working under his orders. Together they manage many different and dangerous dungeons, which are often stored with crystals, and those are associated with a lot of income. One day our little group wants to collect so much crystals that they have the opportunity to find the old boss again.
Their journey begins...

CHARACTERS:
In addition to the boss Minato, the employees naturally play a major role. Each of them has their own function in the company. In addition to a secretary, a fighter, a healer, we also have other important positions that are filled. At the beginning with only four employees [three women, one man] (plus boss), the company enriched itself with two more [cute girls]. The seven of them have a very good harmony and they can also master a lot. We also experience a little romance between our boss and his childhood friend Yutoria, who asked him to come as a boss, and she is also an employee of the company. Even if that part is certainly not the focus of the action, a little love is never wrong.

ART:
The most convincing part of all. It is a little strange that our two male people in the company also have long hair and could therefore go through as women, but the characters are still very well animated. It is a colorful anime that uses many colors from the bright area. The dark dungeons are also well represented. The most important thing is, of course, that the female characters are presented in a cute way and this is definitely the case here.
What is extremely cool to look at is the font that is used. It looks like an old font (you can still recognize the letters, of course), but here you notice that a lot of effort was given for this part.

SOUND:
The OP and ED are both solo songs from the seiyuu of the female characters Akari and Yutoria. They are not special, but they give a fitting impression of the anime. Both have sung OP and ED in other anime before and their voices are nice to hear. As in almost all anime, the OP is rather loud and happy, while the ED is a bit quieter and more relaxed. Other noices in the anime (such as battle swords during a fighting scene etc.) are present, but relatively average.

ENJOYMENT:
Even though the story is progressing very slow, this aspect didn't bother me. I had fun watching this anime. There is too little said about the characters in my opinion and you'd like to know more about them and the old boss, but I still like the characters. As already mentioned, I find the long hair of the two men a bit strange, but after a while you get used to it and don't mix it with the cute girls in the anime. In addition to these things, this anime shows us how a boss can get along well with his employees. Nobody should feel like the robots and monsters in this anime: only overtime, too much work, no overtime pay etc., everyone should feel like the employees in the Kibou Company: happy and satisfied.

I have already read many negative comments about this anime and I can only agree on many points. I never heard of the mobile game of this, so I only referred to the anime. Nevertheless, everyone should take a quick look at the first episode whether this anime suits them or not. In terms of type, it is somewhat similar to Konosuba, Priconne and something like that. Certainly not nearly as good, but you can relax quite well and experience a nice little company and its adventures!

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Apr 26, 2020

Ellenwitch

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (4/12 eps)

I dunno what to say about this personally. While the characters, some of them are cute. But that's pretty much it in some sense. I don't know, this show just feels generic, despite an interest premise. Cause running an adventures guild? That seems fun right? But so far from what it's presenting, it's kinda eh honestly.

The art style really is colourful however. That and it's sound is pretty OK in my view. Nothing bad about either of those two things, but that's basically one of few good things about this show that don't make it sound out as if it's boring.

The story follows the club ... getting a new pres, someone who is new, and we'll just have to see if he does well or not. Simple right? Not that is bad, it's just not executed in an fun and interesting way in my opinion. Which might be down to the bland characters that we have as leads. I could be wrong and something might happen that changes that, but for now, it's not looking good in my view.

There is interest in some of the cast members, due to their personalities, but again they also come off bland or not interesting due to the show's pacing sadly.

Hopefully it can get better, but for now, wouldn't push this past a 6 so far.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jun 28, 2020

KANLen09

Not Recommended

OH GOLLY GREAT...another smartphone game anime adaptation. Look Japan, I know these are quite popular over there, but if there is some heart in making one, please at least make a decent story/plot a.k.a Princess Connect (from the same season).

What happens if you combine generic game characters and gave them overly boring, tropey and cliche personalities? A male protagonist (more like a support protag I suppose), the childhood friend (who's vying for some love), the ACTUAL support characters, and some very tropey enemies (that are always garnered to the good side), all these is what you get with the generic fantasy package. NGL, this formula ... is very rampant on 99% of smartphone anime adaptations, whilst the mobile games themselves are just "pick-and-choose/play" characters whilst following the usual plot to level up and such nonsense.

As far as the settings go, an adventurer's guild is most likely the "playing on safe ground" option, because it just showcases the main cast of characters on their merry ways, doing the things they love to do in their spare time a.k.a fighting to earn money, experience and whole lot of nuance. It's an action-adventure for God's sake, and thankfully not a whole lot of Slice-of-Life-ish. The plot however, give or take, just give it away, pretty please. With such bland characters, and I re-emphasize this again: how can you expect at least a decent story plot?

The only thing that draws me in is studio C2C's nice artwork and visuals, but that's more of an enticement that would've been too easy to fool you if not for the overarching plot, which isn't all that interesting to begin with. Same with the music, it's cutesy and peppy, but it absolutely does nothing for me to draw in what this mediocre adaptation to ireness.

This show is just too mind-numblingly boring for the most part, I'd suggest heavily to skip on this, you're not missing out on it much unless you've played the mobile game (which is a sad denomination). The marketing teams for games in Japan, please buck up your efforts.

To quote somebody the best: TL;DW; Its boring AF.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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