Divine Gate

hamletsmage Apr 15, 2016

5

Divine Gate is based on an app game by GungHo, which boasts about having over 1000 characters. This leads to the problem of which characters to animate, since the favorites would change from player to player. So, instead of choosing a handful and giving them all the air time, Studio Pierrot chose a couple dozen and made a mess.  Story: The first half of the anime actually had a comprehensible storyline. Got to open that Divine Gate! And then, a lot of questions pop up without a whole lot of answers. But when the game the anime derived from a connect-four style puzzle game, the story wasn't that strong to begin with. Still, the storyline is way better than some app-game anime.... (vampire Holmes) Animation: The animation is colored in a way that reminds me a dystopia. I think it's the thicker lines and stark color contrasts. The movement and elemental attacks are decently animates, as well. There are some times were the fluidity just isn't there, but nothing that shouts "bad animators". sound: I didn't watch the OP or ED, since I marathoned this anime, but I do know the OST seemed to fit well with animation. Characters: Here's the major hang up in this anime. There are only 3 characters with any sort of backstory, and it's jumbled at best. The rest of the characters all have varying levels of importance, and there are so many of them trying to get air time that it just becomes character soup. There's the Knights, the students, some cross-world plot points, some Norse gods without names... And Shakespeare is a little girl? But when your character base is over 1000, and everyone has a different favorite starting Pokemon...er... Person, it gets a little crowded.  Overall: Maybe play the game for a bit, get to know the characters, then watch the anime. Maybe it will make more sense that way. 

duchessliz Mar 19, 2016

3

Divine Gate is another game to anime adaptation ... something which rarely ever succeeds as a worthwhile production. Indeed, Divine Gate is yet another industry failure. Where the first few episodes were strong and lead you to believe that, for once, they were on the ball, instead, as the anime progressed the plot started to unravel at the seams until it completely fell apart into one massive jumbled mess. The pacing was simply horrendous, while the plot became confusing as hell! In addition to this, the characters were either annoying in the extreme ... or remarkably cliché. And, with the cliffhanger ending, I can only hope that the production company doesn't waste even more money by pouring it into this really crappy series (my opinion). The animation, on the other hand, was actually quite good and was very appealing to look at. And perhaps the most important part of the entire series was the OST, particularly the thoroughly addictive OP, which was, frankly, one of the best I've heard in the past several seasons, and the only thing about this series worth praise. Overall, I would advise everyone to pass on Divine Gate. Other than the animation and OST it has nothing else going for it. Don't waste your time on this. Just don't. -_-'

modicumcat Feb 22, 2016

5

Spoiler free! I really thought I was going to like this anime when it started. The premise seemed interesting and I really liked some of the characters. I also liked the animation style, it's different from a lot of animes. And the opening song is pretty good too, probably my favorite thing I'm going to take away from this anime. The story just seemed to meander though, without ever really explaining anything. And not in the mysterious good kind of way, where you can't wait to figure out what's going on, but more in the poorly thought out kind of way. The tag says it was based on a video game, which I have never played, so maybe that would have made everything a little more interesting? As it is, I dropped it at episode 7. I might finish it someday, if I see some good things about it after all the episodes were out, but it was getting to be a chore to watch every week.