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

Atori, Haruto Main

Sakai, Koudai Japanese

Oosoto, Masaki Main

Shirai, Yuusuke Japanese

Ruri Supporting

Nagano, Yuki Japanese

Ariake, Nagomu Supporting

Wakayama, Shion Japanese

Hotel Manager Supporting

Yamamoto, Kanehira 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 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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Apr 6, 2025

Khashishi

Mixed Feelings

A promising concept held back by mostly weak characters and bland execution. I almost dropped this during the lackluster early episodes. But it does get good near the end.

The structure is mostly episodic, with one or more new guest characters coming in at the beginning, with information revealed about them during the span of the show, finally revealing their fate. A weakness here is that the information is just handed to the audience, mostly through unearned notes that are found in books or randomly fall from the sky or similar. It would have been better to tie the reveals to some kind of character catharsis, ... or to some completed task, which would give it some more emotional impact. So, for the most part, these guest characters are bland.

Things become interesting with the character introduced in ep 3. He is the most interesting character, and adds some necessary spice to the show.

The rest of the characters are not great. The major characters are largely described by some cringe behaviors; for example, the director is lazy and sleeps on duty. It's not just a character trait he has, but rather a trait that he is fully modeled around. The MC has some weird obsession with the cooking girl which just keeps getting displayed.

The tone is inconsistent, with the goofiness of the characters making it hard to take seriously, but the story getting darker near the end.

There are some excellent musical performances in some episodes, with some nice jazz saxophone.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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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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