D_Cide Traumerei the Animation

When he was little, Ryuuhei Oda witnessed the death of his caring older brother, along with a mysterious mark that was left near his body. Now a second-year high school student, the outgoing and impulsive young boy spends his days doing what he loves most—kickboxing.

One night on his way home, a peculiar creature bites Ryuuhei's leg and causes him to have a strange dream filled with odd entities. When he is attacked the next day by the same creatures in the real world, Jessica Clayborn and Aruto Fushibe come to his rescue, claiming that Ryuuhei is their new recruit.

Faced with an imminent threat, Jessica urges a confused Ryuuhei to transform into a "knocker-up," a person with the ability to confront the monsters hailing from the dreamscape. Using his talent for kickboxing to his advantage, Ryuuhei awakens his powers to save the city, only to come across a familiar mark—a mark that he could never forget.

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Clayborn, Jessica Main

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Fushibe, Aruto Main

Horie, Shun Japanese

Tris Main

Momono, Haruna Japanese

Ibusaki, Eri Main

Kouno, Marika Japanese

Oda, Ryuuhei Main

Azakami, Youhei Japanese

Mouri, Rena Main

Itou, Ayasa Japanese

Furukata, Randou Supporting

Suganuma, Hisayoshi Japanese

Oda, Junpei Supporting

Suyama, Akio Japanese

Amami, Eru Supporting

Sakura, Kaoru Japanese

Murase, Yoshichika Supporting

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu Japanese

Saga, Hayato Producer

Kon, Yoshikazu Director

Kameyama, Toshiki Sound Director

Suzuki, Daisuke Episode Director

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Oct 5, 2021

Siraatarip

Recommended

This review contains no spoilers

Story - 5
About the story, it's slowly developed, almost following a pattern: A traumerei case episode followed by a episode where they talk about the story. It's pretty simple, they want to "conquer" to world and the Knocker-Ups gotta stop them; The church uses hidden desires inside of people in order to bring "monsters" out of them. It gets rushed as the ending closes in, but it was still a nice turn of events. Gotta point that episode 6 was my personal favorite.
Gotta point that they touch some pretty touchy stuff when talking about the "desires", it's pretty interesting to be ... honest.


Art - 9
I really like the characters designs, they're not exaggerated, neither too simple, I personally liked all of them. I don't have much to say, I simply like it. Their "Knocker-up clothes" are all pretty neat, aswell as for their weapons.
All of the effects mix pretty well with the environment, they're really well made, aswell as for the scenarios.
The monster designs are pretty simple, they reuse the models lots of times, but still they really looked cool, especially the last one and the one that got a really long neck (?). It's cool how they all look a bit technological, really liked this.

Art - Animation
I've never been much of a fan of CGI, but, this one really catched my eye. As said, The effects are looking good; The movements are pretty smooth, I was actually expecting something more "laggy". The fights are really well animated, although sometimes they're short, but it's worth it. And the last episode was ACTION PACKED, and I really mean it, I loved the animation on it from the start to the end.
Have to point out that I loved the expressions, especially on the episode 6 and the last one.

Sound - Voice Acting
The voice acting is REALLY REALLY good, you can see it by taking a look at the cast, you'll be welcomed by Yuuki Aoi and Yoshitsugu. There's also Itou Ayasa, I personally really like her, so this might be a little biased haha. IMO the voices fit pretty well with the characters. They all managed to portray their characters really well, even the minors ones, like Kazuha.

Sound - Music
Ok, now I gotta say, I LOVED the soundtrack. They're incredibly pleasing to hear, mixing pretty well with the ambient, and the mood of the environment.
Now for the OP and ED, GOD, I love them both. The opening is really really good, Tokyo Jihen did a NICE work. I gotta point a fact that really catched me: The opening is pretty chill whille the animation playing in the background is pretty lively, gives some nice vibes.
I'm amazed that they brought Rondo for the ending, I simply love this group, banger song.

Characters
Each character is pretty simple but well defined, Ryuhei being the "quite" aggressive protagonist who wants to help people, Rena almost being his sidekick, Ibusaki being the quiet and intelligent, Jessica the cute, yet scary. Anyways, the main characters each get one ep for a little development, or at least some background info about them, that's pretty cool. Ryuhei can be a pain in the ass sometimes (especially when it comes to talking about his city) but overall, they're still good.

To conclude this review: The anime was actually pretty enjoyable, at least I enjoyed it a lot. The story is not the best but not the worst, I gotta say it's pretty common, but still surprised me when getting closed to the end. Pretty good for a promotional anime, I highly recommend giving it a try!

Sorry for any grammar errors, English is not my first language.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Oct 3, 2021

JiangHaoyi1979

Recommended

D_Cide Traumerei the Animation, well not bad from something taken from the game, TBFH, I just have a lot of mixed feelings about this Mobile Game turned Animation.....btw, here's a disclaimer, MY REVIEW IS FOR THIS ANIME AND ONLY FOR THIS ANIME ONLY, AS FOR THE GAME I'VE YET TO SEE IT AND PLAY IT, so I hope we're clear about that, so let's get down to brass tax:

Story-Mediocre 5: Cu'z this anime's story plot was just plagiarize from similar anime that has a mystery, cyberpunk, action, sci-fi and comedy genre like that of "PERSONA" franchise and Darwin's Game, what studios always did like ... studio SANZIGEN was to simply modify it a little bit just to make it different, it just like Coca Cola that you repackage it as Pepsi but transferring to another container.

Art-Fair 6: Thought, the illustration were in somewhat in 3D was good and the characters were pretty much fashionable , I can't help but facepalm myself as to why 3 of the characters like Ryuuhei, Eri, and Rena whom were suppose to be a in High school don't wore their school's uniform, now Eri at first wore her school uniform but after that dreaming sequence and her being a Knocker Up, she changes her style from a Kokosei to a very Fashionable Yankee, Ryuuhei on the other who was suppose to be in his school uniform dresses up like a delinquent/ Gangbanger , Rena ,well, I can't fathom the fact that she looks like whore with her get up....let's not for get Aruto who for a middle schooler , sports a kind of K-Pop attire which is good, except he's still a student with a side job as a hacker, and we have Jessica a foreigner and an Army Vet, seriously a girl like that who can pass as a 6th grader was an Army Vet, who did a lotta special ops for the US military???? Now who is the wise guy that did her illustration, she would have been better off as a hot MILF with big boobs and a body to die for than an adult in a kid's body???. So far only Rando and Eru were really dressed properly as Kokosei's....Now Tris...oh Tris she or he , maybe it is cute as a interdimensional Avatar.

Sound-Poor 3: Cu'z the character's voices don't sound like teenagers , but more like grown up adults......plus the fact , that I hate both opening and Closing themes.


Characters-Mediocre 5: Given that the story plot was plagiarize from other anime with similar genre, same too with the characters like Ryuuhei who plays the usual leader who acts first a thinks later, Rena a dere dere osananagimi of the main character who fights along with him and Eri who is a Kuudere that wasn't calerif she has feelings for Ryuuhei or not, an Asskicking Loli/ Adult like Jessica, and a smart ass kid in Aruto. Pretty much that there isn't much to say about the characters. cu'z even if we see their backstories there is that one whose backstories was just skipped and that's Jessica's backstory, all we know is that she's a US Army vet, but how she got into the Army with a kid like stature, that was the plot hole. Also given that this anime was taken from the game , how that so called Traumerei started was just a little bit vague.


Enjoyment- Good 7: Pretty much enjoyable with it's graphics and illustrations, how ever there is that one episode that you should skip if you got a problems with them LGBTQ and that's episode 10, cu'z it's too gay.....Jaz saying.

Overall-Good 7: Well, despite of it's short comings, it was still worth watching, so for this to have a season 2.....hummm, maybe, but given that the anime itself has shown that there were other knocker ups, then maybe studio SANZIGEN should consider using different characters, jaz saying.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Oct 2, 2021

KANLen09

Not Recommended

Welcome to yet another mediocre Bushiroad game adaptation just made to promote the upcoming mobile game in Japan, and D_Cide Traumerei is no exception to that promo rule.

I will spare as little effort as possible to tell you that you SHOULD avoid all game-to-anime adaptations, unless those ones made by Cygames like Princess Connect Re:Dive and Uma Musume. Cygames' anime adaptations are light and leap years beyond those made by other companies that only focus on the games side of business and leave the anime to rot, just like this one. How's that for money "well spent"?

Again, story and plot in the synopsis (thank you ... MAL Rewrite team, once again), and it's just that: characters combine together like Pokemon masters ready to take down an "Elite" team of barebones evil, and there's not a lot of characterization other than the characters are all one-note walking tropes 100% copy-pasted into any action-themed game adaptation. Yeah, power of friendship trope with forgettable characters? TOO EASY for Talk no Jutsu, it's so blatantly stupid but it works lol

The only thing I can commend D_Cide Traumerei for is in 2 areas: its fully 3DCG animation, which Sanzigen (give or take) has already mastered the craft of handling CGI, like most other fully 3DCG production studios like Shirogumi. It looks vibrant and is really nice to look at, especially the transition scenes of the Portals between the real world and the supposedly otherworldly world of the Traumerei. And because it's a Bushiroad IP, the songs definitely come from Bushiroad themselves, especially with the ED coming from one of D4DJ's group, RONDO (which is kinda meh). But guess what, the OP isn't from Bushiroad, and it's a low-key certified banger that's actually really good, I love it a lot! I was pleasantly surprised that Tokyo Jihen's OP is also used for the mobile game being its main theme music, so that is a plus.

Overall, if you feel that the anime has compelled you to play the mobile game (which will only come out in Japan), then go for it. The anime only sells the aesthetics on it actions because it mimics what the game is all about to full detail, without the character nonsense that's just to service a wedged mediocre story with its plot. For me, the OP was the only reason why I've stuck through this mediocre adaptation, and I just come out of that never-ending loop to say that it works as clickbait worthy as usual.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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