#Games shown in after school dice club for free#
#Games shown in after school dice club series#

It’s not the worst anime, but it’s definitely in “bad anime” territory. ConclusionĪfterschool Dice Club is a 4/10 from me. I’m just so much more interested in these games than I am in the girls playing them. I’m not sure we actually get to see any of these games played start to finish other than a quick card game. Yes, we get to see the games, and Midori frequently shows off the fact that she knows the rules and strategies behind them, but that’s it. But the issue is that in practice, the games don’t take up as much episode time as I would have liked. What I’m trying to say is that in theory Afterschool Dice Club has a good thing going for it - the games. Miki, Aya, and Midori playing a card game I don’t mean to brag, but that’s why I went undefeated the last time I hopped on the Pokémon Showdown gen 1 random battles ladder. But I am a huge fan of games which rely on strategy and memorization, and which have dynamic gameplay. Now, I’m not someone who plays board games often, maybe once per year. I don’t remember what it was called, or all the rules to it, but it seems like an engaging and fun strategy game that actually has the potential to be different every time depending on how the board is set up. And I thought this was a great thing to include because it actually makes a lot of these games seem like fun.įor example, I would totally play whatever that game was where the goal was to escape the island or whatever. Most of the games, with the exception of the one Midori creates, are real games you could go out and purchase. Probably the best part of this anime is seeing the games the girls play. And, like Midori, she hopes to one day be a game creator herself. I forget, but what matters is that she’s an exchange student from Germany, the analog game capital of the world. Emilia is either half Japanese and half German or entirely German. The final member of the group is Emilia (no last name given).

#Games shown in after school dice club for free#

Even as this anime shows, people tend to just play games in them for free without actually making purchases. Oh, and speaking of analog game shops, I never understood how these places make money. She works at an analog game shop, and dreams of one day being a famous game creator. Midori Oono is the next girl to join the group, and is the one responsible for introducing Miki and Aya to analog games. She enjoys just about everything except for losing, but she loses a lot because she’s not good at using her brain to win at games. Aya’s probably the cutest girl in the series, but that’s mainly due to the fact that she also isn’t the brightest. Miki’s first and best friend is Aya Takayashiki.

#Games shown in after school dice club series#

Her character barely develops at all, which normally wouldn’t matter too much in a series like this, but they make it a point to mention how far she has(n’t) come. Now, although she does gain a few friends over the course of the series, and becomes slightly more outgoing when talking to them, for the most part she’s the same from start to finish.īy the end of the series she mentions that she’s grown a lot thanks to her friends, but that’s not really the case. The protagonist of this series is Miki Takekasa, a relatively quite girl who originally had no friends. And unfortunately, the characters in Afterschool Dice Club are just bland - they’re not even that cute all things considered. There’s no real plot, as with many slice of life series, which means the characters have to do the heavy lifting. Sure, this anime is a CGDCT series, but even compared to other CGDCT anime it’s pretty boring. I get that a lot of people don’t like that anime, but when you compare it to a series like this there’s no contest. Maybe it’s just me, but the title Afterschool Dice Club makes it sound like an underage gambling anime - you know, like Kakegurui.Īnd I have to say, if this anime was more like Kakegurui then it would be better. So I don’t think that’s a very good title for the series. They play board games, card games, and maybe one of the games they played included dice as well.Īnyway, my point is that they play a bunch of games and barely any, if any, actually used dice. I’d say board games is closer to the truth, but it’s probably more accurate to say they enjoy playing analog games. Now, you’ll notice that I used the word board games, but the title of the series uses “dice.” These aren’t exactly the same thing, and in fact, neither accurately represents what the girls play. And this time around it focuses on a group of high school girls who enjoy playing board games. Afterschool Dice Club (Houkago Saikoro Club / 放課後さいころ倶楽部) is another anime which falls into the “cute girls doing cute things” (CGDCT) subgenre of slice of life.