Hai to Gensou no Grimgar (2024)

PyraXadon

Not Recommended

Fantasy is a genre that can take on a number of forms. As fantasy can only be limited by the imagination, a whole variety of shows and mediums exist to satisfy the endless fantasy craze. And so, to go back to the dungeons and dragons kind of fantasy, we have Hai to Gensou no Grimgar. A show that would focus on the boring math and/or rules part of a D&D game more so than its actual fun, fantasy part.

Story: The world of Grimgar is wrought with danger. Upon being summoned to a a new world, a group of newcomers find ...

Fire

Recommended

CC9ers

Mixed Feelings

Grimgar was a show I had hovering between 4 and 5 at the halfway point of the season. It ended up finishing between 6 and 7, but closer to 6. It was a disappointment overall, but it finished much stronger than it started.

I'll start by saying that the show's biggest issue is its pacing. It does a great job with building up to key moments but then the moments it builds up for are just... lame? I don't know how else to say it. The first half is sluggish and boring. The one big plot twist it has wasn't even a twist, and it ...

DA_BEAR

Recommended

(no spoilers)

I havn't seen as much anime as many people here, so i'll give a different perspective.

To me, it seems this series was meant to a trial of a few different ways of anime creation.

1. The art

The art, in all but the characters, was closer to water colors rather than traditional animation. This turned out beautifully.

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LuchanHeartfilia

Recommended

With the anime ending today, I couldn't help but want to write a review for this masterpiece. Everything is 10/10.

Hai to Gensou no Grimgar is an anime adapted from the LN. It's about a number of people awakening into a fantasy type world, not remembering anything but their names. The strange red moon didn't help their uneasiness either. The rest of the synopsis speaks for itself.

However, as stated, the leftover team that was formed couldn't even defeat the weakest of monsters. Adapting to the world they were living in was a struggle as well.

But that's what's so great about this anime. This anime greatly displays ...

crisbeex

Recommended

I really loved this anime. The reviews aren't great but I feel there is a context with this anime that people aren't fully understanding.

It has a very realistic approach for an isekai. It's slow but it's supposed to be. The characters don't go from 1-100 in just a few episodes, they slowly build themselves up.

I especially enjoyed how they gave the monsters a bit of character to where you can even empathize with them.

The relationships the characters have with one another is also very wholesome. They all try to figure each other out, find the best way to talk to one another. It gave ...

Iro

Not Recommended

I thought this anime was going to be like SAO, Log Horizon, Vanadis or some such. You know, like an RPGish anime with a fantasy setting? With lots of action, some laughs and some interesting background story.

But what I got instead was a day time soap opera masquerading as anime.

Nearly all the episodes in this anime revolves around these characters walking around and talking about their "feelings". I'm not kidding. You got one girl who cries all time, 2.5 people playing tsundere (1.5 too many) and a main character who's got a whinny 'woe is me attitude' all day long.

Another thing is that ...

Meowsorz

Recommended

Myanimelist won't let me shove this entire show in a couple of sentences, so, i'll be as brief as I can.

The story is okay, starts off slow and makes you think the show is going to be terrible and then starts rapidly throwing you emotional scenes and dialogue out of nowhere making you interested. Then slows down again and picks back up. This process repeats itself multiple times. If you can't stand that, don't bother with this anime. There's no real end-goal or quest, and kind of wants you to take it as it is. But due to the ending, there's a lot of open ...

dadnaya

Recommended

ryanxwonbin

Mixed Feelings

Boring. No other word encompasses the entirety of Grimgar than this word, a show that is incredibly slow, full of dull characters, lacks any interesting world or mechanical exploration, and brings up nothing new in the MMORPG anime genre. It's quite unfortunate as the trailers and first impressions of the anime advertised the opposite.

Grimgar's story is the same as the other “trapped in an MMO” plotline that follows. A number of people are brought to the world of Grimgar with no memories of their previous lives and they are brought forward to become adventures to survive. The story promptly ends there as Grimgar then focuses ...

Kye_xz

Recommended

"Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash" is a hidden gem in the world of anime, often overlooked but deserving of high praise. Set in a beautifully crafted fantasy world, the series follows a group of characters who awaken with no memory of their past lives, thrust into a harsh new reality where survival is a daily struggle.

One of the anime's strongest points is its character development. Each character in the party has a distinct personality, backstory, and set of motivations, making them feel like real people rather than mere archetypes. As they face various challenges and hardships, they grow not only in strength but also in ...

derped_whale

Recommended

Hai to Gensou no Grimgar, or Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash isn't your typical "trapped in a game" anime. Behind the magic, combat and fantasy of Grimgar lies the simple everyday struggle to survive and adapt that other anime of similar genre neglect or skim over. Those who immerse themselves in this slower paced anime and pay attention to minute details will find a complex and thoughtful work of art that is Grimgar.

STORY
I can write ten pages about this. I'll keep it as short as I can.

While other anime of similar genre focus on a main character becoming the best/strongest/smartest player out there (e.g. SAO, ...

NJ_animeluvr

Recommended

I actually wanted to see an anime with action and romance, I dont think I got the whole package I bargained for but nontheless the experience was truly one of a kind.

The artwork was really spectacular in its own way and gave a fresh tinge to the anime. The story is not much to work on , and I find anime that dont give the complete details of the story irritating. But this managed to keep me interested in the storyline and not wonder about the obvious trivial questions which were unanswered till the end.

I really loved the hint of romance between Mary and Haruhiro, ...

TzKal-Zuk

Not Recommended

"I pity the fool..."

This quote encapsulates everything Grimgar is about. It's a poor attempt at engaging an audience with oversaturated "emotions." Anime as a medium is known to depict emotions that otherwise would be impossible in live action series or tv shows. It's through the artwork and animation that gets through to the viewer, not overly dense scenes. Dense is somewhat of an understatement for this series, as EVERY scene seems to take AGES for it to progress because a group of what I assume to be adults can't move on from a certain scene. It's incredibly cumbersome to have everything revolve around this one ...

Hartifice

Recommended

NO SPOILERS* Animes watched: 300+ mean Anime Score: 5.56

Because of other anime that share similar backdrops/setting, this show gets a lot of viewers expecting action/adventure and a classic hero saves the day motif. I wrote a review of this anime because I felt it gets a lot of undeserving low ratings from those people whom were expecting SAO and got salty when they realized this was something very different. Myself: I love getting something different, I love being surprised. Which is partly why I keep reviews short (+Lazy)...

Anyway, For those that want to know more; ...

Shenmehua

Recommended

Within the world of fantasy, with its magic and goblins and heroes and lore, is another world -- the world of the people who live in it day by day, who struggle to survive and fight to not only live, but belong. Hai to Gensou no Grimgar is a story about six people in this world within a world. This group of people is dropped into a life or death situation and as they survive and grow, we get to see how they adjust to killing for a living, work with people who are very different, deal with massive loss, and much more.

I really enjoyed ...

dirtyuncle

Recommended

The story is simple and straightforward: a group of people get transferred into an MMO-like world where they spend their time killing monsters. The only way Grimgar stands out from other similar shows is is that it is darker and more realistic. Every fight is a struggle, and there's a very real possibility of death.

The problem is, whoever wrote this forgot to provide a compelling reason for the characters to risk their lives every day. At first, they do it to survive, but later on the party keeps grinding mobs just because that's what you normally do in an MMO.

No one cares about ...

2LongDidntReview

Not Recommended

To summarise it simply, Hai to Gensou is basically a story that doesn't know what audience it's trying to target and what genre it's trying to be in.

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*Spoilers henceforth*

Story: 2

First of all, if it wasn't for all the combat and amount of fanservice I would have thought the story was targetted towards women, given the amount of emotional drama that keeps going on. People keep crying about the guy that died earlier throughout the series, along with all the whining about how incompetent they are, as well as some blame games going on. They don't seem to properly resolve their emotional issues as they just ...

Areoxdeadeye

Not Recommended

Funny

Painfully drawn out, uninteresting characters, uneventful plot all makes a boring show. Don't get me wrong a show can be slow paced and be brilliant but this just doesn't. The hook for this show is this is an Isekai where the characters are struggling to fight the weakest monsters. This could have been really interesting if it wasn't butchered by the execution.
The fighting is the best part of the show, the challenge of defeating a single small goblin by 6 people. They are uncoordinated, incompetent, the left overs.

Most of the show is an uneventful waste of time. Every scene is excruciatingly slow which would work ...

fastghosthunter

Recommended

Ever since SAO there has been many trapped-in-an-MMO spawned as a result in recent years. The main appeal of these type of shows comes in the form of high stakes. A death in-game is equivalent to dying in real life.

From episode one this show sets itself apart from it's spiritual predecessors. The cast of characters are afraid of their environment but are also incompetent in fending for themselves. They fail at killing a low-class goblin multiple times! This works insofar as character deaths are logically believable because the protagonist and his group of friends have no idea what they are doing.

To be honest, ...