#AFTERSCHOOL DICE CLUB FUNIMATION SERIES#
Cultural Cross-Reference: The series likes to point out the country of origin of the board games it showcases in each episode.Conveniently Seated: Miki sits next to the window in her class, to further her isolation in addition to her headphones.Comically Missing the Point: Aya thinks Kinjo has a crush on Midori when who he really has a crush on is her.But Not Too Foreign: Emmy is from Germany and her mother is Irish, but her grandmother is Japanese and taught her the language.(Miki does improve for at least half the episodes, but she’s often plagued by self-doubt or bad memories that slow everything down.) Even with the obnoxious characters, I don’t regret watching. Worth watching? Yes if interested in board games and you can stand a really whiny, wimpy 10th grader. But the backgrounds are beautiful, and show many real spots around Kyoto, where it’s set (Crunchyroll has a blog post HERE comparing the anime visuals with real spots), and as noted above, the games themselves get beautifully illustrated. Visuals: Characters a fine, nothing flashy.
(How nuts? I spent half an hour searching Youtube for actual Germans speaking English just to remind me what it actually sounds like.) Actually, most of the voices are fine, but blue-haired Miki has a thin, high-pitched voice (that fits her character, but her character is wimpy), and part-German Emmy has the same pseudo-German accent that drove me nuts with Momiji in Fruits Basket. (Her dad also has a not-super-great German accent, so.)Įnglish dub? Yes, and it’s OK. Later, a part-German girl shows up and I was like is there an epidemic of bad German accents going around because FIRST MOMIJI SOHMA and NOW THIS but it turns out they’re voiced by the same American voice actress, so that explains it. Rules-loving Midori is pretty inflexible, but is mostly a nice character, actually. Blue-haired Miki is terminally shy and I just can’t like her as a character. The downside of the show is…the main characters. It was also fun spotting games in the shop and wondering if they’d make an appearance (after yelling “PLAY BLOKUS PLAY BLOKUS PLAY THE FRIKKIN BLOKUS” at the beginning of every episode, they did, in fact, finally play the Blokus game I’d seen sitting in the background at the beginning, in episode 10).
The games get a basic explanation–probably not enough that I could play right away, but enough that I think I got a a decent understanding of whether I’d enjoy the game, at least.
Also going on my list of games to obtain is Kaker Laken Poker/Cockroach Poker, a card bluffing game, and I’m also interested in playing Incan Gold, a strategy game, and The Island/Survive: Escape from Atlantis, where players try to move pieces off a sinking island. Each episode is a different game, and no game is played in more than one episode. No, they’ve beautifully illustrated actual real-life games you could play right now.Ī game gets played in every episode–I can honestly say I now want a chance to play Marrakech, a game in episode 1 that involves strategically moving a rug merchant around and trying to cover more of the board with your rugs than another player’s. One of the first things you’ll notice when the game shop is shown for the first time is they’re not just drawing generic boxes.
Premise is simple: two 10th graders discover their classmate works at a small board game store, she teaches them to play a game, and they are introduced to the amazing world of board games, which apparently are not super popular in Japan. My impression after watching episode 2: I will put up with obnoxious high school girls only so I can see more cool board games. My impression after watching episode 1: this is an interesting premise I want to see more of, with the most annoying characters I would like to see all struck from the face of the earth.
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