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

Hotel Manager Supporting

Yamamoto, Kanehira Japanese

Ruri Supporting

Nagano, Yuki Japanese

Ariake, Nagomu Supporting

Wakayama, Shion Japanese

Mutou, Akari Supporting

Koshimizu, Ami Japanese

Kaneko, Konomi Supporting

Toujou, Hisako Japanese

Mutou, Yui Supporting

Oobuchi, Nonoka Japanese

Kuromori, Yuria Supporting

Tsukiyama, Sonoka Japanese

Sotokawa, Akihiro Producer

Nouchi, Yasuhito Producer

Okamoto, Yuka Producer

Nakagawa, Shinobu Producer, Planning

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Mar 21, 2025

KANLen09

Recommended

Tasokare Hotel — Between the worlds of the living and the dead, there stands a mansion where its depiction...is anything you've ever otherwise imagined.

Why is it that in the 2020s, we're still getting anime adaptations of games, especially those region-locked to Japan that the West has yet to or didn't even get a chance to try them? If you're coming from a marketing executive's POV, then I can't quite have an answer to this rather bizarre gimmick of trying to market games through anime. Of course, if you've been in the AniManga scene these past few years, you've seen anime adaptations of CyGames IPs (from ... Princess Connect Re:Dive, to Uma Musume) being hyped adaptations from mobage players, which once their anime came out, blew up a new wave of fans towards the IPs themselves.

However, for the elongated title that is the mobage of Benoma Ray and SEEC's Tasokare Hotel that's been released worldwide since December 2017, there doesn't seem to be any hype going around for the show...that is, of course, until the anime dropped this season (to decency). Of course, I need not mention the fact that you don't need to play the mobage to figure out what this show is all about, but the clues within the anime are easy enough to spoonfeed you of its content.

Clearly inspired by Death Parade, Tasokare Hotel does the same regard, but as a hotel (or mansion) that is the only building of existence in a land of nothing, and this is for its sole purpose of being the gateway for people who died from circumstances both predicted and unforeseen to evaluate their lives before choosing to be given a second chance to either go back to the living world and mend their wrongdoings or, even worse, transcend down to literal Hell. And one girl stands as a testimony to her time at the mansion itself: Neko Tsukahara. An idol fan who unceremoniously got stabbed out of nowhere, she clearly expected death, but her arrival at the hotel itself gives her a chance to talk to other people who met similar fates against loved ones or people that simply have an ulterior motive, alongside the other hotel staff who have been there before him: the fire-headed Manager, the receptionist-cum-concierge Atori Haruto, the bookkeeper-cum-housekeeping Ruri, as well as bartender Menow and long-time guest monkey Kiriko.

One way that these people are known for arriving at Tasokare Hotel is based on items that depict their face, which usually are items that are what caused them to face certain death or are something that's close to their heart. These people are then escorted to what look like ordinary hotel rooms but which are specifically designed around who and what they are, as well as their features, to help them recollect their memories and, most importantly, their names, which are the gateway back to Heaven (which is Earth) or Hell. Some choose to atone for their sins, while others continue being reckless; you get the point. And it's this stage that Neko gets acquainted to how the hotel is run; the dos and don'ts; as well as the specific rules of the hotel which concerns the way back or down a.k.a check-in and out for the guests.

Still, with Tasokare Hotel being a supernatural mystery, there always seems to be the eerie air of incoming and outgoing guests suffering from a range of traumas, and Neko comes in obligingly to play the Sherlock Holmes detective role of the venue itself. Some stories are seen as typical, and the others are complex in their own right. But all hell goes loose when a sinister character comes to the hotel and sets off a chain of incidents that tests not just her newfound abilities but especially her reason as to why she landed in the hotel to begin with.

For its presentation, the show is nothing out of the ordinary, especially for a studio where its works are far and few in between, though its biography list shows that they range from bad to mediocre. Still, this is easily the best effort that studio PRA has given to the show, and it's serviceable for the most part.

For her first full-featured Anisong, I absolutely love Kayoko Yoshizawa's OP song, not just because of the song's thematics, but also because it's well-composed and thought-out music that fits the show in general. And in the sea of unimpressive OPs for the Winter 2025 season, this one sticks out to me the most in a captivating manner. As for Rib's ED song, yeah...that is just forgettable.

If you want to get into Tasokare Hotel without touching the mobage, try the anime...and regardless of what you do, ignore the 3-episode rule for this, because the show's pacing just does not fit into the theory's narrative. It's only on Episode 4 when there's a plot twist to the entire show's story, which brings in a much more compelling reason as to why this show gets a recommendation to begin with.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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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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May 30, 2025

worlddestroyer

Not Recommended

Tasokare Hotel – A Letdown Wrapped in Potential

Started off promising... but ended up mid.

At first glance, Tasokare Hotel sets a moody tone with strong Death Parade vibes—which honestly had me intrigued. But once the character Osoto Masaki entered the picture, I expected the story to take a deeper turn. Instead, it just became increasingly predictable.

What really killed it for me was the ending. It felt like they slapped on a forceful happy resolution with little regard for the buildup. No real explanations about who or what the bartender and the manager really were, or how this place even operates. Just a lot of emotional fluff ... and unanswered questions.

I know the anime is based on a game (as noted on its MAL page), but since I haven’t played it, I can’t speak to how much was left out. What I can say is the anime didn’t stand well on its own.

Animation: 7/10

Voice Acting: 6/10

Sound Quality: 6/10

Story: 3/10

Total: 5.5/10

A disappointing binge-watch. It had potential, but by the end, I felt more frustrated than fulfilled.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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