Review of No Game, No Life: Zero

While people are still debating whether this movie is good or bad, for this movie is pretty acceptable if you are into that perverted jokes that No Game No Life had been notorious for. Well, as you can see this is a PREQUEL of No Game No Life so I have been prepared for the same recipe that No Game No Life had been lived for : Beautiful animations with very remarkable color palettes, lolis, fan service and perverted jokes that seemingly fits to the situation. And because that expectation has been fulfilled, this movie is an acceptable movie. The story really build from how theworld of Disboard is on a great war and humanity (or Imanity in No Game No Life's case) is on the brink of destruction. It was a very good start until I know that the characters are exact carbon copies of the No Game No Life recurring characters which is Sora and Shiro except they are not siblings so they can literally love each other without that border of being siblings. Something that made this story interesting that the main pair are not exactly overpowered like Sora and Shiro, they are weaker and not unbeatable so it's really unpredictable whether Riku and Schwi were going to win or not. This gambling situation really made the story really interesting in someway.

In terms of animation, I think MADHOUSE really did a great job. Different from how bright the No Game No Life series is, this movie takes a darker color palettes from the original ones and made a firm statement of how is the movie theme (that is about war) while not straying away from being No Game No Life. Even I noticed, after the war ended, the color significantly became brighter from before and became a mark that the war has ended and the dark times had ended. For me, it is very outstanding. Giving the feels of the war is dark yet painful to overcome and without war everything seemed brighter.

I may or may not been focused on listening to the soundtrack as its not what they tries to excel. There maybe few events that really played out with the soundtracks but it seemed that it is not very stand out and I would say it was an okay.

Overall, I enjoyed this movie and not disappointed at all. I don't know about the others but when I watched this, the whole audiences started to gave this movie a standing ovation after this movie ended. So, I thought that movie successfully giving the audience a good time. I am hereby giving this movie a fair 8 as acceptable yet outstanding animation sequences.

P.S. : If you are watching this movie with an expectation of JoJo reference, well either of I missed it or there's none of them, so good luck!