Thermae Romae Novae

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Japanese: テルマエ・ロマエノヴァエ

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Type: ONA

Episodes: 11

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Mar 28, 2022

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: NAZ

Source: Manga

Genre: Comedy

Themes: Adult Cast, Historical, Time Travel

Demographic: Seinen

Duration: 29 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.19¹ (scored by 12,526 users)

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Ranked: #3508²

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Popularity: #4376

Members: 25,644

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Lucius Modestus, an ancient Roman architect, finds himself job-hunting due to having trouble coming up with new ideas. As his demeanor and personality become dismal, his friends try taking him to a bathhouse for him to relax. Unable to unwind in the bustling and crowded bath, Lucius dips his head in the water. Down there, he finds a secret tunnel that transports him to a modern-day Japanese bathhouse, providing him the inspiration he needed to make a new creation.

Loaded with what seems to be knowledge way ahead of his time, Lucius does his best to try and recreate his findings, usually inferior in quality due to his circumstances. However, the sheer ingenuity may be just enough to gain the attention of the citizens and regain his reputation as an architect.

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Modestus, Lucius

Main

Hondo, Kaede
Japanese

Hadrianus

Supporting

Isobe, Tsutomu
Japanese

Regulus

Supporting

Hino, Satoshi
Japanese

Pietoras, Marcus

Supporting

Tamura, Mutsumi
Japanese

Narrator

Supporting

Kubota, Hitoshi
Japanese

Apollodoros

Supporting

Mugihito
Japanese

Titus

Supporting

Watanabe, Akeno
Japanese

Annius Verus, Marcus

Supporting

Enoki, Junya
Japanese

Modestus, Cassius

Supporting

Souma, Kouichi
Japanese

Yoshida

Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro
Japanese

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Suda, Yasuo

Producer

Tatamitani, Tetsuya

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Tanaka, Ryou

Sound Director

Méyère, Bruno

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"Tougyuushi no Uta: Onsen Manner no Aria (闘牛士の歌～温泉マナーのアリア～)" by Paolo Andrea Di Pietro

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Jun 24, 2023

whiteflame55

Recommended

An ancient Roman man who designs baths for a living falls into a bath and ends up in modern day Japan. He proceeds to learn from their bath structure and brings those learnings back with him to become a success in ancient Rome. This happens every episode with him going to different points in time and different locations in Japan to find the thing he needs to solve a problem back in ancient Rome.

It's a series that probably shouldn't work, but it somehow does. The MC can't speak Japanese and no on in Japan can speak Latin, so miscommunications do a lot of the heavy ...

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Nov 3, 2023

Gameboon

Mixed Feelings

Thermae Romae Novae is an unusual series that I can’t quite recommend despite enjoying it to some extent. I watched it with my partner and we enjoyed it enough to finish it, at least.

In this series our main character is a bathhouse architect named Lucius Modestus. Every episode, he finds himself stuck on a certain aspect of his work, like writer’s block but for architects. Without fail, he manages to fall into a bath, moat, pond or similar and gets transported to a bath in Japan. Upon his arrival he does some exploration and examines everything that is foreign to him. With this fresh inspiration ...

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Apr 9, 2022

PixelB

Not Recommended

Netflix does it again: another terrible show. And as true Netflix style, this show is animated quite horrendously, to say the least. That, however, is one of the many host of flaws that this show has.
Sure, the CGI that's ubiquitous, the lack of fluid movement, scenes of walking or monologuing dragging just a bit too long is bad, but how about adding a 3-5 minute live action sequence about baths in Japan? I don't really care about how the author of the manga is the host, or how "informative" it is. It's just lazy, and of course, more importantly, makes it so that the show ... does not need to animate that much more. Hey, better package this live-action sequence as a unique "feature," rather than cutting corners.
Okay sure, the animation and live action sequences are bad, but that's not all. The general episodic format of Lucius going into a different Japanese bath and experience its culture is also terrible, too. First of all, you're stuck in the perspective of Rome for half the show, and the Rome portion of the show is extremely lackluster. There are absolutely no characters that matter other than Lucius himself. Sure, he technically has a couple of friends that are recurring side characters, but they just are husks of a real character that just make small talk with Lucius, but really, anyone would have been fine, as long as Lucius gets some conversation in.
In fact, this show could have been good if the show actually cared about Lucius building baths. The format is that Lucius isekais to Japan and implements the bath culture into his own baths in Rome. However, none of the build or design process is actually shown, and you're just shown the of course, successful finished product. It would have been nice for the show to have Lucius struggle to get ideas approved, or trying to replicate the bath culture from Japan. But nope, you kind of just see his finished product. Other than that, the time the show is in Rome is pure boring exposition that sets up how Lucius needs to yet again, implement a new feature in a bath, serving not much purpose.
Ok, the time in Japan is probably the best part of the show, but it's still not that good. I definitely like the culture shock, and it depicts someone of Lucius's time period well, thinking that the Japanese people are slaves. However, it's still not very funny. Is it relaxing? Um, not really? you're kind of just seeing Lucius react to how different baths work. It kind of gets really old real quick, not that it was particularly good to begin with.
So yep, should have guessed that Netflix would butcher another show.

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