No Game No Life Episode 3 Discussion

tingy said:
Lastly, just have to mention that Matsuoka Yoshitsugu's voice acting is amazing. lol

zaharel said:
If u don't get caught cheating u are fine. but HOW can someone get caught ? i mean she says its fine to use magic cuz Sora can't prove anything..

Isn't it obvious that she is cheating ? what more proof do u need, i mean turning the enemy pieces into your own.. something must be wrong!!

LazyFox23 said:
I'm surprised by how many fans this has ! Is the LN really that good ?

zaharel said:
If u don't get caught cheating u are fine. but HOW can someone get caught ? i mean she says its fine to use magic cuz Sora can't prove anything..

Isn't it obvious that she is cheating ? what more proof do u need, i mean turning the enemy pieces into your own.. something must be wrong!!

Takuan_Soho said:


Ah, see that is the catch, they know she is cheating, they even know how she is cheating, but they can't prove how she is doing it yet. What you cited wasn't "proof".

The rule isn't there to punish cheaters, it is there to punish people who can't cheat well, it actually rewards good cheaters by making it easier for them to win (bad cheaters will avoid even trying, leaving the good cheaters at an even bigger advantage). Remember, the God of this world is a trickster, tricksters aren't interested in being fair (this is not a spoiler btw, just conjecture based on the animation). The ultimate question for this series is "why" the god invited the pair here in the first place. I have a pretty good guess on that.

If the chess pieces could talk, then they could probably prove she was cheating, because then the pieces could say that something was influencing them outside of "charisma", but short of that, I can't see how they could prove it yet, though I think we may learn next episode.

tingy said:
Lastly, just have to mention that Matsuoka Yoshitsugu's voice acting is amazing. For some reason, I really liked the part where he intercepts the queen on the chess board and then gasps at the sword that stopped at a dangerousy close distance to his face. I replayed that part like three times lol

Uber_Dewber said:
I think that this episode is the separator; the people who like the comedy/serious mix type of anime will stay, the ones who prefer a more serious/less random outlook might drop this anime after this episode.

idungoof said:

I'm on the borderline now. Not because I can't enjoy a comedy/serious mix type of anime but because my expectation was for the more ridiculous comedy to be outside of the games rather than an integral part of them. I'll give it another couple of episodes though, maybe it'll grow on me.

AzuStar said:
i'm guessing no one realized that the Phones they have can detect if the opponent is using magic. that is why they were snapping so many pictures.

YumeHunter said:
I seriously had no expections because of the tags. But then I saw the PV and it looked good so I decided to watch this. Best decision of my life. I actually enjoy the randomness and it's really entertaining for me. I just hope that this does not get repetitive since I do want different types of games and different ways to play them. Pretty sure this will happen. Also I'll probably check out the light novel.

This. I really like his voice. I'm sad though that some people only remember him because of Kirito. I think he has done way more better roles than Kirito.

Patureau said:
Yeah i think we can officiially call this the best anime of the season... Again, it saddens me it will be just 12 episodes

sirwence said:
fantastic to watch... but with it taking 4 to get the crown I wonder how much they will cover.. its another 'gem' sort of like mondaiji was .. with less than 12 for the season -_-

Kimiarasu said:
To be quite honest, I find myself very disappointed with how this show seems to turn out.
I was ultra hyped for this anime after the first episode. I adore the art style (probably my favorite style ever) and I love the setting. I wanted it to become my favorite anime of all times, I tried so hard. But ever since episode 2, I just sit there and think "This shit is retarded".

I was hoping for a very intelligent series, with mind games, sudden twists and two characters whose brilliance would leave me in awe. Unfortunately, there is nothing intelligent behind the games. They seem to have no strategy or rules involved what-so-ever and the viewer is unable to follow anything logically. They just randomly throw in some cheating mechanism or "rules" for the heck of it, but there's nothing brilliant behind it. Sora tries too hard to be bad-ass and it starts to bore me, since despite the horrendous randomness of the games, Sora is sure to have figured it out, looking bad-assy at his opponent and throws out some quotes that somehow most of the audience seems to deem "cool". I don't even. And then the series completely stops to take itself seriously, throwing some moe-shit and bizarre, unfitting comedy into the mix, which leaves me embarrassed while watching the show that I wanted to love.

The show definitely has its moments, and those are the reasons I will try to keep on watching, but I feel it gave away the opportunity to become something magnificent - in order to become a mindless spectacle that wants you to switch off your brain.

lolijandro said:
Utterly dissapointed; its like the game system to solve problems is not interesting anymore when someone can just win with random bs.

Takuan_Soho said:


Uhm, why do you think it was random. There was most certainly a logic to the game.

Kurami was cheating, she didn't want to play a straight "chess" game, so she pretended that the game had the element of the pieces have volition to explain away why her pieces could do things that they shouldn't be able to do in a normal chess game. Once she made that "rule" up Sora took advantage of it, if the troops had volition, then they would respond to motivation, so he gave an epic "General" speech, or appealing to a female character through what he learned from a dating game.

Of course his explanations were mostly done for comedic effect, but the game was most certainly "logical", based on the logic of this world.