WHY is &#039;No Game No Life&#039; SO POPULAR?

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So overrated!Nowhere near being the best anime ever.Shouldn't even be #17.Disgraceful.It's higher rated than most actual GREAT anime out theere.
Yeah the opening was great. I also liked the fanservice and the episode where shiro lost sora [if I remember correctly] but still this show didn't have the same effect for me as my favorite anime series.It's not the worst I have seen but it's massively overrated.

also the main character:I didn't really like him.How was he even a hikikomori? The show is getting away with a lot.

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Jun 30, 2014 3:02 AM

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Because Jibril

Enough said...

Facts are for the unimaginative.

Jun 30, 2014 3:13 AM

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It's a pretty good Anime Yes... but almost a 9? Never.. over 21k People voted 10 for this which i really don't understand at all

Jun 30, 2014 3:28 AM

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It's mindless entertainment for me similar to SAO and Shingeki. And well all know that stuff usually gets popular (keyword: wish fulfillment..)
I think madhouse helped a ton with its colorful/fantasy-like animation as well.

Jun 30, 2014 3:37 AM

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Why is NGNL so popular?
Well, most people like it because its entertaining.
Its important to understand that popularity =/= quality.
Just because the majority of people likes it, doesn't mean that you have to like it too.
I can only speak for myself and i must admit that this series hits a spot which made me addicted.
Its not even the fan service, which i kind of find annoying at times, but more like the genius lvl of the MCs and the plot itself.

Jun 30, 2014 4:22 AM

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jfturku said:
So overrated!Nowhere near being the best anime ever.Shouldn't even be #17.Disgraceful.It's higher rated than most actual GREAT anime out theere.
Yeah the opening was great. I also liked the fanservice and the episode where shiro lost sora [if I remember correctly] but still this show didn't have the same effect for me as my favorite anime series.It's not the worst I have seen but it's massively overrated.

also the main character:I didn't really like him.How was he even a hikikomori? The show is getting away with a lot.

He is not even a hikkomori... They are NEETs not hikkomoris. So u can't judge the show by that, when they have told u, that they are NEETs. I understand that Sora for some people can be dislikeable.

Jun 30, 2014 4:36 AM

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So, is their going to be a thread like this every week now. Its popular because people like it, the high score because a lot people enjoy it. Plus, Mal scores mean nothing if it is overated. If this show sells like hotcakes, and was not that enjoyable (like Naruto, and Bleach), then it is overrated.

This shows just hits the right parts to make it enjoyable.

Jun 30, 2014 5:12 AM

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Here is why:
BECAUSE SHOW DELIVERED
Other shows didn't:
Black Bullet - shit adaptation due to time constrains and lame studio
Mahouka - boring, unispired and vapid
Mekakucity - terrible animation, adaptation
(Sidonia - was good but CGI dispirited a lot of potential watchers)

Jun 30, 2014 5:22 AM

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It's a 10 in the entertainment department if you turn your brain off and don't expect anything deep (story wise or character wise). It provides nothing original or special for it to be so highly thought of,it doesn't deserve to be in top100 but that's only my opinion cause I expected intelligent games and story and got disappointed (so yea I might be biased).

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Jun 30, 2014 6:42 AM

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BigSimo said:
Because it has all the factors that draw in masses of anime fans:
- "smart" protagonist, who is also unbeatable and "badass" and overly confident and "cool" and over-the-top. Oh, and don't forget that he's a NEET hikikomori, so otaku can relate to him and be 'inspired' by him
- relentless twists and turns
- boobs/fanservice
- reminiscent of MMORPGs (which, as luck would have it, is the latest trend) games
- loud sound effects

that said, it is a well-directed show (except for the sentimental parts), and it is very light viewing, easy to watch.

Outside of Blank's introduction in the first episode, I fail to see the relation to MMORPGs.

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deanzel said:
It's about time. To bring in the... HYPE TRAIN!! CHUUUUUU CHUUUUUU

the hype train is dead mang

8.87--> 8.86

RIP

OT: Fun things are fun.

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Jun 30, 2014 6:56 AM

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soundscape said:
It's a 10 in the entertainment department if you turn your brain off and don't expect anything deep (story wise or character wise). It provides nothing original or special for it to be so highly thought of,it doesn't deserve to be in top100 but that's only my opinion cause I expected intelligent games and story and got disappointed (so yea I might be biased).

I for one cannot understand the need of "turn your brain of to enjoy the show". Sure NGNL isnt that deep, but it isnt that shallow either. In fact, you need to think a bit to understand some of the things that was happening in the show. So yeah, I don't get why you need to "turn your brain off" to enjoy this show

Jun 30, 2014 6:59 AM

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Anime doesn't have to be deep to be enjoyable for me but this anime wasn't enjoyable enough to get a 9-10 rating.

Jun 30, 2014 7:25 AM

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jfturku said:
Anime doesn't have to be deep to be enjoyable for me but this anime wasn't enjoyable enough to get a 9-10 rating.

*Shrugs* maybe, but then again I am somehow baffled by people who gave NGNL a rating of 1, when the only other shows that particular person gave 1 is Deadman Wonderland and Boku no Pico. Sure NGNL may not be a masterpiece, but to give it a score of 1 to counter those who gave it 10 is beyond my understanding

Jun 30, 2014 8:37 AM

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People like it because it was well executed, the anime is just pure fun to watch. There are a few weak points in the voice acting. But the kinds of characters and their interactions were amazingly well executed. Does anyone not love the interactions between Sora and Stephanie? I'd say the voice actor behind stephanie dola deserves an award for her performance.

Can anyone tell me that they didn't enjoy the shiritori game between Sora and Jibril? If you didn't enjoy that episode, then let me just say you don't really understand that No game, no lifes popularity is all about how well everything was executed. It's an anime made to be just pure fun and nonsense, if you don't understand that - that the creators are aware of anime tropes and anime viewer stereotypes and they just take them and make them over the top.

We have plenty of serious anime like Monster and more laid back thoughtful stuff like Mushishi.

No game, no life is an 'over the top' anime, if that's not apparent to you, you don't have the brainpower to review this anime.

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Jun 30, 2014 8:54 AM

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There are different ways to rate different anime, you shouldn't take MAL ranking as anything other than a recomendation.

No game, no life is made for the audience that enjoys pure fun over the top anime. Which no game, no life is. It isn't a serious anime. People rate anime on the kind of pleasure and emotions they received from it.

The problem is some people want 'serious' anime and others are more flexible. A good thing to do would be to go over your own tastes and figure out what are the main qualities of the kinds of anime you watch, what would you consider in your top 10 list?

Jun 30, 2014 8:55 AM

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Because it was the most entertaining anime I've seen in fucking forever, at least episode 6 and onwards

Jun 30, 2014 9:07 AM

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the hype died, it went from rank 16 -> 17 a few days ago

Jun 30, 2014 9:13 AM

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cuz it was entertaining

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Jun 30, 2014 9:53 AM

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Because people loved it? Because it's intense? Because it has vivid colors? Because it is Comedy Gold? Because it has Great Fanservice? Because it's plot is awesome? Because the characters are Epic? Because MadHouse animated it? Because The VAs are awesome? Because the char designs gets ur attention? Because its full of references i don't understand but still laught at it? Because of Sora? Because of Shiro? BEcause it is a Masterpiece? Because elitist fags hate on it just because it's rated so high them i go in the forums and make fun of them? (I'm not reffering to u OP by the way) . Anyways, It's an Awesome,Fun,Delicious and unexpected surprise this season, and the rating speaks for itself.

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Why am I a Berserk fan? All I ever experience is pain.

We are in the eclipse and Miura has sacrificed us

Jun 30, 2014 9:54 AM

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Because it was one of the better shows this season that wasn't a shit adaptation.

Jun 30, 2014 10:12 AM

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bastek66 said:
Here is why:
BECAUSE SHOW DELIVERED
Other shows didn't:
Black Bullet - shit adaptation due to time constrains and lame studio
Mahouka - boring, unispired and vapid
Mekakucity - terrible animation, adaptation
(Sidonia - was good but CGI dispirited a lot of potential watchers)

Pretty much this. Except for Ping Pong, which was brilliant.

Forgetfulness said:
OBVIOUSLY, ACCORDING TO MY CALCULATIONS, JIBRIL WILL WRITE SOMETHING THAT ENDS WITH A 'C', SO I CONVENIENTLY WROTE "Coulomb's Forces" LONG BEFORE WE GOT INTO DEEP SHIT BECAUSE WE'RE JUST SOOOOOO SMART!!!11one

That's not even a valid complaint. I'm not saying NGNL is a deep and serious, because it isn't. But in this case it was clearly shown how Sora baited Jibril by calling her an 'empty-headed academic' in hopes she'd use that term against him in anger.

Jun 30, 2014 10:24 AM

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dirtyuncle said:
in hopes she'd use that term against him in anger.

And if she didn't? Surely by predicting so far ahead, they must've thought about that scenario as well.

It is still the writer excusing their wins, but my god does it have to be done in the same exact way every single time. For once show us your plan step by step instead of dumping it on the viewer at the last possible moment.

Game theory, strategies, theoretic scenarios, psychological analysis, cold reading(those are certainly NEET traits indeed), you have all the time explain that stuff instead of making up a conclusion before the actual conclusion.

It's a one trick pony illusion, the more times its used, the less convincing it becomes.

Jun 30, 2014 10:37 AM

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Because there'll always be more plebs than elite.

lmfao coming from a pleb

Jun 30, 2014 10:40 AM

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I donno. I dropped this anime so fast lmao

Jun 30, 2014 11:26 AM

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*Shrugs* maybe, but then again I am somehow baffled by people who gave NGNL a rating of 1, when the only other shows that particular person gave 1 is Deadman Wonderland and Boku no Pico. Sure NGNL may not be a masterpiece, but to give it a score of 1 to counter those who gave it 10 is beyond my understanding

Well I don't think NGL is worth 1/10 I only gave it to make this show have a lower ranking.I will now change it to 7 or 8 because that's how good I think it was.

So yeah I don't think this show sucked or anything,I just think it's overrated.Same thing goes with deadman wonderland.Deadman wonderland was good for the first couple of episodes and the rating for it would probably be around 5-6/10

Jun 30, 2014 11:26 AM

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Forgetfulness said:
Well, to me some of the other games (such as the last) felt a lot like what I just described and it certainly becomes less impressive when they continue to use this "Oh my god we're so smart we calculated everything from the start" when a lot of these "predictions" are random things and not like, actual numbers

You have to understand the purpose behind the anime, there is *zero logic* in this anime and most entertainment if you're going to pick it apart even "well thought out" explanations have huge gigantic plot holes in them if you analyze further, you just pick a different place to stop than other people. The whole point is the ideas that they are super smart are just used to have 'cool things and interactions happen'. The writer/directors set up the scenes in NGNL to be fun and entertaining to watch (convey emotions), they were not going for any kind of consistency. That should have been obvious due to all fourth wall breaking with using the stereotypes of the anime watchers as a main character and then having the main character drop all sorts of references - aka a perverted shut in with social issues with little experience with girls gets his wish fulfilled by being sent to a fantasy world.

i.e. this anime is purposely nonsensical and over the top, that's why during the chess match sora could tell the queen she was beautiful and have all that stuff happen. NGNL is pure adolescent wish fulfilment and it's obvious from how its directed that's how you should understand it.

Jun 30, 2014 11:51 AM

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I'm trying to stop caring too much about ratings but NGNL's score is stupidly high.
I gave it an 8/10 because I really liked it but this anime has so many things people keep complaining about in forums. I'm almost flabbergasted by this score.
I'm talking about things like :
- Onsen/Bath scenes (and 4 of them in 12 ep!)
- Harem vibes
- Incest vibes
- Lots of Ecchi and other kind of fanservice
- Overpowered and overconfident MC's
- Deus Ex Machina ways of winning (this can be a bit subjective but that what it felt like to me)
- probably more...

Mask it with a nice execution, good OST, talented seiyuus and original art and voilà! People forget about their complaints. At least that's what it feels like to me and it's like there's a lot of hypocrites.
I won't go as far as saying that NGNL isn't a unique anime because it sure is one and I like fanservice. But it's like SAO's fanbase all over again, rating it 10/10 because "it's entertaining and funny.. LOL". N-not that they can't do that but it still bugs me :(

I liked the score it had at the begining better. It was 8.45 I guess...

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He is not even a hikkomori... They are NEETs not hikkomoris. So u can't judge the show by that, when they have told u, that they are NEETs. I understand that Sora for some people can be dislikeable.

Well, it clearly written in the 1st episode that Sora has a "Communication Disorder" and that Shiro is a "Hikkikomori".

Jun 30, 2014 11:54 AM

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super88 said:
There are different ways to rate different anime, you shouldn't take MAL ranking as anything other than a recomendation.

Words of wisdom.
I'm trying to reach this state of mind and stop caring.

Jun 30, 2014 12:10 PM

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YumeNoMonogatari said:
Well, it clearly written in the 1st episode that Sora has a "Communication Disorder"

Well there goes our amazing Lelouch-like mind game master deceiver.

But you are clearly on the right track mate.

Jun 30, 2014 12:16 PM

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Because its awesome :) thats a subjective opinion btw.

Rank 17?? Lets aim for number 1 and kick FMA to 2nd place.

You want to throw down?

Jun 30, 2014 12:27 PM

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Forgetfulness said:
Well, with ^ in mind and all the people on MAL screaming "10/10", "5/5" and "Masterpiece", I expected NGNL to actually be written with enough effort for things to make sense and not just be mindless entertainment. But as you said, perhaps my expectations were wrong

People's ratings reflect their own personal feelings and enjoyment. The reasons why someone gave a certain score will be different from person to person. Not all '10's mean the same thing to the same person. Hence the problem with MAL rankings. Say someone wrote an anime about physics and to get the jokes you had to know high level physics, that anime wouldn't be able to be understood unless you were sufficiently educated. Many kinds of animes are similar in the same way in that certain groups of people share certain likes/dislikes that other groups won't understand.

I could easily pick apart the premise of the anime. It is actually fundamentally flawed like most entertainment.

The idea that you could challenge an all knowing being is a contradiction in terms. i.e. if we define god to mean omnipotent, then that would mean TET can't be 'the one true god'. He's some quasi demi-god like figure because the idea of beating gods and becoming god is a contradiction in terms (aka by definition a traditional god is unbeatable because he/she/it has control over all possible states of all possible universes). It is a being that is not in anyway part of the universe in the sense that it is bound by its laws and how the logic of understanding works within that particular universe. AKA theoretically a real god would not in anyway make sense to us, because we forget that our understanding works according to rules that govern our particular universe.

Jun 30, 2014 12:41 PM

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I think MAL should keep the rating system as it is atm but make it more detailed ?

Jun 30, 2014 1:29 PM

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Why ask the obvious? Because of Shiro of course. There's only 1 right and justice in this world, that is Kawaii-ness!

Jun 30, 2014 2:24 PM

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jfturku said:
I think MAL should keep the rating system as it is atm but make it more detailed ?

What do you have in mind? I think it's working fine as of now, as long as you realize that the rating only shows how much people like the show and nothing else.

ON-Topic, kind of: I really didn't like the first 3 eps of this show, I found the comedy to be really annoying, same goes for Sora. Is there something to enjoy for me later on, or if I don't like the first 3 eps, will I dislike the rest of it too?

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Jun 30, 2014 2:33 PM

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FateYuno said:
ON-Topic, kind of: I really didn't like the first 3 eps of this show, I found the comedy to be really annoying, same goes for Sora. Is there something to enjoy for me later on, or if I don't like the first 3 eps, will I dislike the rest of it too?

Wow, that's the best part for me really. Drop it, you don't have to suffer through this sleazy garbage.

Jun 30, 2014 2:37 PM

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It's okay OP
It's already dropped from 8.87 to 8.85

Jun 30, 2014 2:39 PM

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kami_desu said:
It's okay OP
It's already dropped from 8.87 to 8.85

Still above Mushishi Zoku, damn.

Jun 30, 2014 2:47 PM

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modsoulz said:
Why ask the obvious? Because of Shiro of course. There's only 1 right and justice in this world, that is Kawaii-ness!

I support this

FragOutFire said:

Why am I a Berserk fan? All I ever experience is pain.

We are in the eclipse and Miura has sacrificed us

Jun 30, 2014 3:02 PM

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People like what people like, and it just so happens that a lot of people like NGNL.

Jun 30, 2014 3:51 PM

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Venustas

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This thread

Jun 30, 2014 3:55 PM

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Because a lot of people like this anime, and if you don't agree with it then just stay quiet

Jun 30, 2014 4:02 PM

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I don't envy anyone with an obsession for how popular or what the cumulative score is for something on MAL.

Jun 30, 2014 4:03 PM

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