Tasokare Hotel

Situated within an endless twilight, the Tasogare Hotel welcomes anyone stuck between life and death. Unaware of their fate, guests must regain lost memories through mementos hidden in their designated hotel room. Most guests pass on or return to the world of living within days, while few others find themselves staying at the hotel for much longer than usual.

Neko Tsukahara, a young woman with an expressionless face, finds herself at this hotel. As she is guided along by the staff, Neko regains enough of her memories to become invested in the plights of the other guests. Solving the guests' affairs and the mystery behind the hotel turns out to be too interesting of a situation to pass up; Neko decides that simply being a guest is not enough to satisfy her curiosity.

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Tsukahara, Neko Main

Momokawa, Rika Japanese

Oosoto, Masaki Main

Shirai, Yuusuke Japanese

Atori, Haruto Main

Sakai, Koudai Japanese

Ariake, Nagomu Supporting

Wakayama, Shion Japanese

Hotel Manager Supporting

Yamamoto, Kanehira Japanese

Mutou, Akari Supporting

Koshimizu, Ami Japanese

Ruri Supporting

Nagano, Yuki Japanese

Mutou, Yui Supporting

Oobuchi, Nonoka Japanese

Kaneko, Konomi Supporting

Toujou, Hisako Japanese

Kuromori, Yuria Supporting

Tsukiyama, Sonoka Japanese

Sotokawa, Akihiro Producer

Tsutsui, Kazuo Producer

Nakagawa, Shinobu Producer, Planning

Nouchi, Yasuhito Producer

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Mar 26, 2025

patkarunungan

Recommended

Tasokare Hotel is one of the most interesting anime that came out recently. It has been compared to Death Parade, which I haven't seen, but good to note.

Tasokare Hotel itself is akin to purgatory. It's a place where souls temporarily reside as they try to remember if they are alive or not. If they remember that they are alive, they may go back to the world of the living. If they are dead, they either go to heaven or hell. There are some actions that they might do that will send them to hell.

We meet our main character Tsukahara Neko, who starts working for the ... hotel. Eventually, we meet Oosoto Masaki, who provides an interesting counterpoint to Neko.

The format is guest of the week, and the staff of Tasokare Hotel is tasked to guide the guests into remembering who they are, whether they are alive or not, and other things. Sometimes good things happen, and sometimes bad things happen because of the villain, Masaki.

My favourite character is Masaki, and he is compelling despite his evil deeds. Others may prefer Neko. Whichever character you may end up liking or at least prefer, most of them have interesting backstories.

One unfortunate reality of adapting the source material, a mobile game, is that the pacing and character development may feel rushed. The anime is very good, but it could have been better.

Another point of criticism is the fuzzy rules of the afterlife, which can be unfair. The rules are rigid without allowing for nuance and determining if there was intent to harm or not. If you can ignore this fact, it may surprise you.

For an anime with a low budget, it doesn't feel like a cheap anime. You feel like you're watching something good to great. The opening song sounds great.

If the anime has made some people start, or at least be interested in, playing the Tasokare Hotel game, it's a success in my book. I know I will.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Mar 25, 2025

maoginko

Mixed Feelings

Tasokare Hotel - in a place between life and death covered in constant twilight, there is a hotel with many mysteries.

I don't play the game, so this was a blind watch. However, i did really enjoy the show and characters. my biggest complaint was that the mystery aspect fell a bit flat to me. Doing weekly mysteries to establish a pattern is normal and i enjoyed it! however when it came to the big mystery, it was fumbled and just plopped in the viewer's lap. We didn't get to solve anything! There weren't any easter eggs or clues, just plopped the whole answer in our ... laps for the last 3 or so episodes. Part of why i love mysteries is because i can solve the problem with the characters. However, through weird deus x machina situations and pure plot convenience, the main mystery was solved without the viewer doing any work for it which is a bit frustrating. I found this to be very unsatisfying and just kinda put a sour mood on the rest of the show for me. Overall, I'm iffy on if i should recommend this. On one hand, the characters and weekly mysteries are fun and interesting. The concept is fresh and i would love to see a second season just based on the weekly side character mysteries of finding out what happened to them. But on the other hand, if they were to do a grand storyline again they need to pace themselves and make it more interesting to the viewer.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Feb 11, 2025

Salvatierra21

Not Recommended

Preliminary (6/12 eps)

Tasokare Hotel is the example that every game, whether console, PC or mobile, that has popularity should not have an Anime, not because the game is bad but because the plot and the concept of the game does not work visually, here we can see a mystery plot where we find our memories to get out of a type of limbo that has special rules, there we will see different cases that we will solve, a simple but well executed plot, but in the game, now that there is you, you will have to look for clues, solve puzzles or other mini games plus special ... events, on the other hand, with the anime you will only read the boring dialogue while the face focuses on the possible clue or they show it quickly to ring the bell, the scriptwriters should have been more subtle and made the mysteries more difficult to entertain the viewer more

One problem with the animation, the character designs are unique, the personalities are simple, many times the typical tsundere, the serious one, the unpredictable boss and the Eccentric view but they are not annoying since they are not exaggerated and the soundtrack is very good with those OP and ED x as I said the only problem is the script that does not know how to entertain the audience, it is better with the game

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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