“Three high school girls unknowingly train in crane games to save Earth from asteroid collision using their hidden potential.”
Crane Game Girls
美少女遊戯ユニットクレーンゲール Crane Game Girls
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Synopsis
Three high school girls unknowingly train in crane games to save Earth from asteroid collision using their hidden potential.
One day, Saya, an agent of the World Space Association, receives a sudden message that says a large number of asteroids are on a collision course with Earth, and it is her mission to stop them. Unfortunately, the only way to save the Earth is by having three people with extraordinary potential demonstrate a new skill on a crane game, which will create a beam of energy able to divert the asteroids. The only three people with enough potential are three high school girls—Asuka, Mirai, and Kyouko. In order to harness their energy, Saya tells them that she has scouted them as idols and has them work at an arcade where she can monitor them. She says to the girls that all successful idols are good at crane games, and that building their skills is their first step in idol training. As the girls learn new crane game techniques, they begin to doubt Saya's intentions but are nonetheless unaware that the fate of the Earth lies in their hands.
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Derived from 6 sampled reviews
What 6 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.29 · split reception
6.3 pts
Recommenders 7.3 · others 1.0
↓ 1.50
Running avg · Jul 2016 → Jan 2021
- 7 “The voice acting is surprisingly better than expected and the music is decent, but the story is a complete dumpster fire with virtually no animation and underdeveloped characters. Despite being...”
- 7 “Despite its undeniably silly premise about girls saving Earth from meteors through crane game mastery, there's a bizarre charm that makes this short series oddly enjoyable. The repetitive plot...”
- 8 “This flash-animation style anime succeeds as a cute, weird 4.5-minute palette cleanser between heavy series marathons, though its deliberately amateurish Newgrounds-inspired art style and childish...”
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A Tv Production · Spring 2016
Kyotoma.- Format 13 × 4′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 52m all episodes
- Aired Apr 2016 – Jun 2016 Spring 2016
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG Children
- Ref. BS-11240 catalog