When looking a bit more closely at the That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime anime I started wondering if there were any other anime by the same studio I liked. Turns out, not really, but I did manage to find enough for a list. While I will admit 8bit studio doesn’t have quite the catalogue of some studios, as I scrolled through the titles I couldn’t help but note that even the anime I’d watched from the list weren’t ones I had particularly fond memories of, with one or two exceptions.
Still, I have been wanting to look more at the studios, directors and voice actors in anime for awhile so this seemed like a good place to start and as always I’d love to know what you would have put on your list.
My top 5 anime by 8bit Studio.
Honourable Mention: Comet Lucifer
Alright, if you ever read my review of this one you know I didn’t much like it so I was kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel to have an honourable mention. On the bright side, it isn’t unwatchable and I did finish and review it so I guess that gives it a win. The set up is actually kind of interesting, its just that the story takes a lot of weird twists and turns. Still, Comet Lucifer isn’t exactly high level.
Number 5: Knight’s And Magic
Here it is, the title that doesn’t quite understand how apostrophes work or really get pacing or plot development. On the other hand, much like Comet Lucifer from the honourable mention, Knight’s and Magic does have a really good core idea it is just the execution of it that doesn’t end up panning out. I think a lot of us watched the whole season just hoping it would pull itself together and it just never did and I’m still not quite over the flying mechanical dragon they pulled out for the climax.
Number 4: Tokyo Ravens
Now this is an interesting title. I haven’t actually reviewed it at this point because I’m never very certain how I feel about it. Again, very cool concept and a fairly decent cast of characters on display. Where it falls down again is on execution with the pacing going from incredibly slow to skipping over things and tripping over itself sometimes within the one episode, but more than that, the main character is one of those ‘chosen’ one style characters who isn’t half as great as he’d like to be and he seems to be angry at the world because of it. For all the things I like about Tokyo Ravens I find him fairly hard to get into.
Number 3: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
Another anime I’m very on the fence about. At the story came to a close last week I’m really thinking through where I stand on this anime. I can’t deny it was fun, because I definitely had some fun watching, but even now, when there are still extra episodes to air, I’m struggling to remember any particular detail from the story because nothing other than the main character is a slime, is really sticking out. Still, a well made production and very relaxing with a few laughs and a few decent fight sequences so it would be hard to say that there was anything actually wrong with it.
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Number 2: Shounen Maid
Now this I actually really liked. While not an amazing anime by any means and certainly you could make the scenario a lot creepier than it is with the main character moving into his relative’s house and working as a maid, but the series is actually just kind of cute and charming. The relationship between the two main characters is more heart warming as they both help the other to become more rounded people, and it is all just sweet. The plot doesn’t go anywhere particularly fast but if you just want something that is sweet and a bit of fun, Shounen Maid will definitely work.
Number 1: How To Keep A Mummy
Another anime without much of a plot but it makes up for it in sheer adorableness. I actually didn’t realise this was made by 8bit but just seeing the art for it again made me smile. Yes, cute is the rule of the day, but there are some tender moments for any pet owner to enjoy, not to mention some laughs and a few more serious antics with the supernatural creatures. All and all though, this one is just a lot of cute bliss and one that is well worth taking the time to watch.
So those are my picks but which is your favourite anime from 8bit studio?
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Karandi James
Honorable Mention: Comet Lucifer, is the only anime which I haven’t watched from this list….
Seems like I should put it on my hold list…
I wouldn’t rush for it. It isn’t terrible but it doesn’t exactly do anything unmissable either.
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Man, out of this entire list the only one I’ve seen (and should finish) is How to Keep a Mummy. It was very cute and fluffy.
It was adorable. I was stretching to get to 5 series I watched all the way through from this studio. Again, they don’t have quite the catalogue of some of the other studios, but still, of the titles they’ve produced the number I didn’t finish is fairly high.
Yeah, I can’t say that I’ve seen/finished a lot of serials from them either.
Definitely Grisaia series for me. Damn they made s trainwreck on the first season and redeemed it with the third.
I haven’t watched beyond the first season of that one.
For me with 8-bit, it’s Encouragement of Climb and everything else. The rest of their shows I’ve watched have either been entertaining trainwrecks like Comet Lucifer, or stuff I ended up dropping like Rewrite.
Comet Lucifer was a bit of an entertaining train wreck. It was odd to see that I’d watched a lot of the anime from this studio, but with the exception of the first couple on this list, most of it hasn’t really stuck with me.
“For me with 8-bit, it’s Encouragement of Climb and everything else.”
Agreed!
Plus for me a goodly amount of that everything else was drops…