Urasekai Picnic (Otherside Picnic)

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Japanese: 裏世界ピクニック

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 4, 2021 to Mar 22, 2021

Premiered: Winter 2021

Broadcast: Mondays at 23:30 (JST)

Producers: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Square Enix, Frontier Works, AT-X, Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures, Amusement Media Academy, BS11, Good Smile Film, Hayakawa Shobou

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: LIDENFILMS, Felix Film

Source: Novel

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Suspense

Themes: Isekai, Survival

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 6.62¹ (scored by 37,686 users)

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Ranked: #5755²

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Popularity: #1764

Members: 113,935

Favorites: 528

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The "Otherworld" is a vast and dangerous realm hidden from the knowledge of the common folk. It is also home to many creatures that threaten any human who dare visit it. To witness its desolate yet oddly absorbing environment, one must search for portals that could reside anywhere, from secret elevators to shrine entrances.

After a fateful encounter with a horrendous Otherworld denizen, Sorawo Kamikoshi ponders whether to keep going or give up in life. Meanwhile, Toriko Nishina scours the Otherworld in hopes of finding her friend Satsuki, who she believes is lost somewhere within the realm.

When the two cross paths, friendship blossoms. In order to acquire as much information about this obscure dimension, the two travel back and forth from the real world to the other. Sorawo and Toriko's bodies are soon influenced by the Otherworld, preparing them for the many horrors to come as both of them try to fulfill their goals.

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Kamikoshi, Sorawo

Main

Hanamori, Yumiri
Japanese

Nishina, Toriko

Main

Kayano, Ai
Japanese

Kozakura

Supporting

Hidaka, Rina
Japanese

Seto, Akari

Supporting

Tomita, Miyu
Japanese

Uruma, Satsuki

Supporting

Barker, Ray

Supporting

Ichikawa, Natsumi

Supporting

Shimabukuro, Miyuri
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Abarato

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Terashima, Takuma
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Cook, Justin

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Oowada, Tomoyuki

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Satomi, Tetsurou

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Ogura, Mitsutoshi

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Opening Theme

"Minikui Ikimono (醜い生き物)" by CHiCO with HoneyWorks

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Ending Theme

	"You & Me" by Miki Satou (佐藤ミキ)
	2: "Machi wo Nukete (街を抜けて)" by rionos (eps 12)

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Mar 22, 2021

SanaeK10

Not Recommended

Urasekai Picnic is proof that attaching a competent director to good source material doesn't necessarily result in a good adaptation. For whatever reason, the anime adaptation of Urasekai Picnic is plagued with issues through and through. From the moment the first PV dropped I should have been alarmed, the audio mixing was completely messed up, and the animation quality was subpar at best. Still, I tried to convince myself that it's just a bad PV, surely the actual show would be at least decent right?

I gotta start with the first thing that came to mind when I started watching the adaptation: Audio. The audio mixing ... is awful. I think I get they want to do a creepy vibe, but even that doesn't work and most of the time the whole experience ends up being uncomfortable, like having loud sound effects drown out important dialogue or background noise overriding the whole scene. Music placement is also baffling at times, not that the score is any bad, but the placement truly leaves much to be desired with the BGM sometimes starting too early or too late, or ending too early or too late. The OP and ED are fine though. Maybe a bit too cheerful for my liking, but the days of having an actually scary OP for your horror anime has long past. (Even Higurashi has some generic pop OP now) The animation is subpar at best. The monsters are all janky, but not in a creepy sorta way, more in an ugly PS2-era CG kind of way.

I honestly don't know what production troubles the studio was under (perhaps doing 4 different shows in the same season counted towards it), but some of the creative choices can't be blamed on a rigid production schedule alone. Very odd choices like rearranging chapters beyond their intended order, which results in many plot holes as well as strange lapses in character development and pacing, really make this such a mess. Especially since they've added a few anime original chapters to compensate (?) for the gaps in between. I don't know.

If there's anything that's salvageable in this mess, it's the voice acting. Not because the performances are particularly groundbreaking or anything, it's a thoroughly average performance from your usual gamut of A-list seiyuu, but it's because you can now imagine in your head how the girls would sound like when reading the novel or manga.

The reason I'm being generous with my score is because
1. Kozakura is super cute
2. The anime introduced me to the (far) superior novel and manga, of which I am currently enjoying.
3. Watching this and Tatoeba Dungeon and contrasting the mains is hilarious.
4. The end of episode skits where Toriko and Sorawo goof around in a bar is the sole good anime original thing.

There. 4 points. Done and dusted.

Thing is, in this relatively packed season, there is nothing Urasekai Picinic does that isn't already better accomplished by a different show. If I wanted horror-mystery, I have Gekidol. If I wanted yuri hijinks, I have World Witches. If I wanted something with weird monsters, I have that Yuuki Aoi Spider Anime. If I wanted comedy, I have Higurashi GOU.

If I wanted a show that airs on Monday night made by Lidenfilms starring Kayano Ai and Hanamori Yumiri as the mains with the former playing a more confident foil to the latter's lack-of-self esteem character and both being in a romantic relationship...I have Tatoeba Dungeon.

4/10

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Mar 22, 2021

MrBrawlz

Recommended

Fantasy animes in my opinion are crazy. Both in a good way and a bad way. There is so much the creator can do around with fantasies and can make it as "crazy" as possible.

Urasekai Picnic is an anime about traveling to an alternate world called "Otherside" where they fight off weird creatures while searching for their friend. I watched this anime since it has the "Shoujo Ai" listed in its genres because I love Shoujo Ai and it is one of my favorite genres and I expected somewhat romance but I didn't get it, even though I felt it. The CGI used here is ... somewhat decent, the studio made long-distance shots with the main characters in CGI for the first 6 episodes then stopped for 2 episodes and went at it again.

One of the policies I like to follow while rating animes on this website is how much I enjoyed it and how much I enjoyed the plot. Some of the parts in this were scary. Even though there were monsters/ghost-like figures in the "Otherworld", it is almost weird that almost none of them completely creeped me out.

One more thing I noticed is how the US Marines in the anime spoke english in a Japanese accent, it felt very weird to hear them say their mother tongue that way.

The characters were really cute and interesting and they made the most out of working with each other. One of the things I would like to say is that the two main girls say that they're second years in college but they look like they are not even third year in high school which I found kind of weird.

The OP gave me a vibe of Naruto for some reason and the ED is amazing, my favorite ending of Winter 2021. The song used in the ending, "You and me" was very touching and pretty nice to listen to after watching a cliffhanger episode.

I'll summarize the main aspects of this in some sentences -

Story (8/10) - Pretty good pacing and nice episode cliffhangers. I love how they make it super clear - what they are doing, where they are going, and what they will do. The decisions taken by the main characters in this are agreeable and lead forward to a better story.

Art (7/10) - Pretty but I felt the long-distance CGI shots were a bit lazy but another CGI was pretty well made.

Sound (9/10) - As I said, my favorite ending of the season; this anime has good OSTs and music. Also, the voice acting is on point and pretty good.

Character (9/10) - Characters were very cute and super compatible and they supported each other the most.

Enjoyment (9/10) - I enjoyed this anime a lot and it was pretty fun to watch every week on Monday, starting my new day. Most episodes were enjoyable and very nice.

Overall rating - (8.4/10).

P.S. - if you like fantasies with a cute relationship in them, watch this.

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Mar 22, 2021

dlxuniuniu

Recommended

Without many premonitions what “Urasekai Picnic” is about, I watched the anime mainly because of the genre-tag "Shoujo Ai”, one or the other of you may have been magically attracted by this one too. I expected some action combined with sci-fi and of course a lot of Yuri. But I was completely wrong!

The series focuses on Sorawo and Toriko, two young women who discover the “Otherside” of their own world. It is a dangerous world where many monsters from ghost stories come to life. There is always a secret door or item that leads to the other world. Sometimes it could be in an old ... apartment or at other times the access can be made possible by pressing a certain combination in an elevator, even a special item like a hat could be a trigger.
Both of our main characters have different reasons for entering the "Otherside". Toriko, a very beautiful girl with waist-length gold-colored hair, is looking for her missing friend Satsuki. Since Toriko was taught everything about survival as a little girl, she is very good at handling weapons as well. She protects Sorawo in every dangerous situation when the ghosts want to pounce on them again. They met by chance on the "Otherside", but quickly realized that they are a perfectly harmonious team and should therefore undertake the actions together. Sorawo, our shy university student, has always had problems dealing with other people. The only person whom she is comfortable with is when she's with Toriko. She really likes Toriko and wants to be on her on side at all costs. Their relationship is very important for Sorawo who has always been interested in ghost stories. With the curiosity in mind, she also wants to find more what the "Otherside" is all about. Besides their own interest in the "Otherside", both have their hearts in the right place and are ready to save other people who are stucked there. Due to their special ability (Sorawo can detect glitches, while Toriko's left hand allows her to directly "touch" the true forms of the “Otherside's” entities) they are the only ones who can save these people and are even ready to put their own lives at risk.
In addition to our two main characters, there are two other friends of theirs who play an important role: Kozakura and Akari. Kozakura is a young researcher who is very interested in the "Otherside". She buys every interesting material that Sowaro and Toriko bring back for her as a “souvenir”. Before Satsuki disappeared, she and Kozakura used to do research together on the other world. But after a while Kozakura gave up because it was too much for her to handle. Therefore, she also wants to find out what happened to Satsuki. Akari, on the other hand, attends the same university as Sorawo. She is a lively, friendly and energetic personality who is also carefree and sophisticated, not worrying what others think about her. After being relentlessly attacked by ninja cats, she came to Sorawo for help. Later it was also found that Satsuki used to be her tutor.

The art is very nicely designed, especially when it comes to the transition between the two different worlds. While on their "real" world the sun is shining and rather a light color appears, everything is very dark and gloomy on the "Otherside" in terms of color. The contrast is displayed very well. The ghosts are also portrayed in a high quality, their movement and the effects are clearly visible. But I would particularly like to emphasize the few Yuri moments between Sorawo and Toriko. Their special moments always stand out, be it through the light, the background or even the sound, their relationship is definitely something unique and wholesome.

Urasekai Picnic's OP is very energetic and powerful. It is about one of the most important things in our life: friendship. CHiCO with HoneyWorks is a perfect combination, which is also very successful here. The ED "You & Me" is a bit calmer and more relaxed. Back from the dangerous journey from the "Otherside", you just want to end the day. This song is also about another very important topic in life: love and feelings.
Despite the good OP and ED selection, it is again the small details that stand out here. In the scary scenes ghost noises can be heard in the background, in the decisive scenes the tension is built up by the sound or even the up and down of an elevator scene, the sounds are very suitable everywhere.

As already mentioned at the beginning, I went into this anime full of enthusiasm because of the many Yuri scenes I had hoped for. I was disappointed from this side, but the story and plot grabbed me tight. Almost every episode is about a new encounter on the "Otherside". Unexpected things often happen there, but that's exactly what makes this anime so special. You never know what to expect on the other side of the world. Perhaps we also have glitches in our world that lead somewhere else…who knows? Our world is mysterious and so is Urasekai Picnic with all its open questions. As someone who has not read anything from the novels, it would be great getting a second season that could answer all these things. Then it wouldn't necessarily be about the Yuri moments, but what more exciting things we can expect on the "Otherside"!

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