Grimgar #05 — Crying Into Your Beer

February 7th, 2016

 

For almost the entire episode.

Impressions:

All right, Grimgar, this may be it for you and me. This was your chance to show how his death totally changed everything, or at the very least, have a couple characters do something stupid that changes their relationship based on the spur of the moment and emotions, and you instead chose to squander every possible opportunity at every turn to simply wallow. And wallow. And wallow some more. Why isn't the story following High Five Guy? He seems like he's got stuff going on in his life. I bet his story doesn't blow ass and go nowhere. Didn't even have any animation this week, and given A-1's tendency to massively frontload the production for their shows and last week's utter budgetary collapse, I have my doubts it'll ever come back. That's all you were even slightly good for, show.

They didn't even really show the replacement priest girl. Just had them sitting in the bar bitching about her and continuing to wallow. And this is after the entire second half of the previous episode was spent wallowing. We've now had close to half an hour of pure wallowing. About a character who did nothing but sip tea with one other character. I couldn't even say if he ever interacted, period, with a couple of the still-living sacks of warm flesh. And we skipped the OP even to make more time for angsting around. 5 episodes means about 110 minutes of show so far, and a third of them have now been spent mourning this schmuck who was barely above NPC.

Next Episode:

You bore me.

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10 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Moondrag says:
    February 7, 2016 at 10:38 am

    So, 5 episodes out of 12 and so far NOTHING HAS HAPPENED! How the hell do you do that? Also, someone mentioned the Light Novel having twist early on…if the twist was that guy dying then that is pretty weak.

    Now that I think about it, has there been a Light Novel where the main character ISN’T a high schooler/age of a high schooler, and/or male?

    • SwordsmanK says:
      February 7, 2016 at 3:28 pm

      Wasn’t GATE a LN? Itami is definitely not a high schooler

    • algorithm says:
      February 9, 2016 at 4:28 am

      “5 episodes out of 12 and so far NOTHING HAS HAPPENED”

      I pity the people watching this.

      “Now that I think about it, has there been a Light Novel where the main character ISN’T a high schooler/age of a high schooler, and/or male?”

      There’s Tatakau Shisho. Which is about as well written as Dimension W.

  • Anonymous says:
    February 7, 2016 at 11:55 am

    As expected, an angst-filled ep. I can only hope some badass guy will join the party so that I can root for him instead of these losers. But since this LN is for virgin otakus, it’s almost guaranteed that the new member will be a pretty girl who will go dere for the twink thief guy.

    @Moondrag
    There’s actually quite a few out there if you know how to use Google

    • Germanguy says:
      February 7, 2016 at 12:10 pm

      perhaps this new Cleric will teach them how to play as an Party, how they should. the Warrior is the punchbag and hold the aggro, Archer take over the adds and support with dps. Mage is behind Archer, support with big maggic guns. in emercengy cases she use the archer as meat shield, and in the back the healer. keep them all alive. and the dark knight and the thief stay beside the Tank!.. where the Dark knight must learn to play the 2nd tank..

      Yeah, perhaps the new Cleric teach them their roles in how an Party should work

      the weak point is that.. when enemys come from the back or side lines… then there will be Chaos… protecting the weak ones.. Mage and Cleric…
      Spear formation. but with the back out of trouble

      but i think, they will not show much of Actions scenes. because they do not have the Budget for that, so that the VA’s must compensate it with their “Soul play”

      hand drawn backgrounds, water color paintings.. this is all expensive

      • A.Nagy says:
        February 7, 2016 at 9:26 pm

        She does, but this anime has dragged everything out to such absurd degrees that I have zero trust in them anymore and I’m dropping it.

  • Germanguy says:
    February 7, 2016 at 12:18 pm

    http://tenka.seiha.org/images2016/grim5/17.jpg

    I get a feeling this Guy, was in the Army in the RL world. He created a Plane from wood, and his behavior.. Strong Body, want more to be told things. but when it comes to the point, he stand Up and do his thing!

    • Sanjuro says:
      February 7, 2016 at 3:06 pm

      Do they teach you how to make planes out of wood in the army? Sounds like a nice time. Maybe I’ll take my next holiday in the army.

  • The Phantom says:
    February 8, 2016 at 5:40 pm

    This kind of thing just break immersion, they just lost somebody to the MENACING common goblin, whats next? o yea they just wander in with a bitchy priest and flaff around them like if nothing.

  • Longing says:
    February 9, 2016 at 12:08 am

    I feel like there was no real point in making this an RPG world that real people were thrown into. It really hasn’t affected the story much thus far.

    This could have just been a fantasy anime rather than an underwhelming MMORPG-style mess.