Kyoukai Senki (AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline)

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Japanese: 境界戦機

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Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 5, 2021 to Dec 28, 2021

Premiered: Fall 2021

Broadcast: Tuesdays at 01:30 (JST)

Producers: Bandai Spirits

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: Sunrise Beyond

Source: Original

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi

Theme: Mecha

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.32¹ (scored by 10,762 users)

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Ranked: #7953²

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Popularity: #3892

Members: 32,687

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Futuristic post-war Japan is divided into four military regions, each led by conflicting nations trying to gain complete control over the country. While the Boundary War—fought with the help of humanoid mecha weapons called AMAIM—has long been over, the rivalry between these factions is still ongoing, and, as a result, the Japanese are heavily oppressed.

Amou Shiiba, a 16-year-old orphan boy who is secretly rebuilding an abandoned AMAIM named Kenbu, stumbles upon Gai, an autonomous AI in need of battery power. By choosing to help one another, Amou and Gai find themselves at the center of a disaster, and Amou is labeled a terrorist and cast out of society. Even so, Amou refuses to remain idle in the face of injustice, and he embarks on a long journey rife with struggle and companionship. His aim transitions from leading a peaceful life to liberating the Japanese people.

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Dec 12, 2023

Tactician

Recommended

Kyoukai Senki, or AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline is another one of those Anime I have stumbled upon just by listening to one of my friends rant about something in the Mecha modeling world ironically. While I wouldn't consider this one of those hidden gems as I did for the likes of World Trigger, I am happy I came across it and I look forward to watching the second season.

As with any Mecha themed show it has what you would expect. BIG robots piloted by humans with the action that is generally coupled with it. As a casual Mecha watcher I can say I enjoyed ...

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Jan 9, 2024

Deago

Mixed Feelings

The mecha genre has undergone significant evolution, raising questions about its current relevance. While some detractors dismiss AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline as a cheap Gundam knockoff, a closer examination of modern mecha titles, including Gundam itself, reveals how the genre has transformed to cater to the preferences of a new generation. Traditional tropes and elements have been reimagined and reshaped, aligning with the changing tastes and demands of contemporary anime audiences. This observation is not solely based on personal claims; even Takuya Okamoto, the producer of Witch from Mercury at studio Sunrise, acknowledges that classic Gundam titles no longer resonate with modern viewers. ...

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Oct 22, 2022

amf85

Not Recommended

The animation is fine, the voice acting is fine. It looks and feels very Gundam-ish.

Where is all falls apart is the plot and the characters.

The characters are annoying and one-dimensional. Honestly, the best characters are the AIs, but the writer decided to make them glorified virtual secretaries for the teenage pilots, despite it being incredibly clear that the AIs are far more capable than humans.

The main character is a whiny, crying idiot for most of the show. He's in the middle of a war, yet he doesn't actually want to fight or hurt anyone and cries constantly any time they take even ... minimal losses. Ironically, there is a short period where he gets pretty gloomy, which the show tries to portray as a bad thing, but that's the only time he actual stops being terrible.

Probably the worst, however, is the combination plot/character which is "the resistance." The entire show revolves around the struggle of the resistance to free Japan from the oppression of the poorly written, ludicrously over-the-top evil foreigners. Except...it doesn't really. Sure, the show constantly TELLS you that's what the resistance is doing...but it's not. The ENTIRE SHOW, the resistance doesn't do a SINGLE THING to overthrow foreign rule. Instead, they run around playing hero and acting like a glorified relief organization. There are entire episodes devoted to helping 5-10 refugees at a time with their daily lives. Most of the show is just them "rescuing" one group of refugees after another from conflict zones, every time spending valuable resources and combat-trained lives to protect helpless civilians who contribute nothing to the war effort (and who in fact constantly are draining them of food and slowing them down). Animes LOVE those scenes where heroes act like crossing guards, telling witless civilians to continue going in the direction they were already going. Now imagine that, but in a giant mech, instead of using the mech to actually fight. No, I'm not kidding, they actually do that. This idiotic hero complex the entire resistance seems to have is made even worse by their reluctance to kill anyone, even enemy combatants during active combat. They want to fight a war without hurting anyone. It's ludicrous...except they aren't actually fighting a war at all, because...

You know what the resistance DOESN'T do? Actually attack the foreign military forces or do literally anything to throw them out of Japan. Not. Even. Once. Not ever.

The combat is also super lazy. Sure every anime gives main characters plot armor, but this show literally just makes main characters invincible until it's time for them to lose, and then the exact same attacks that previously didn't even scratch them suddenly chop through entire mechs with not explanation or justification.

This anime feels like it was written by a child. Not FOR children, BY a child.

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