Bokura no Ame-iro Protocol

After an accident that killed his father and left his sister with a disability, Shun Tokinoya's mental duress has led to him refraining from online gaming. Now a model high school student who feels remorse over his past lifestyle, Shun works part-time in the cybercafe owned by his childhood friend Nozomi Inatsuki in order to support his family.

Despite this, an incident pushes Shun back into the world of online gaming. Following the sudden retirement of all players of FOX ONE—Nozomi's father’s esports team—Shun learns that the Inatsuki family is in severe debt. In order to repay the money they owe, Shun reluctantly agrees to participate in an online game tournament: Xaxerion Championship.

Joined by their classmate Akito Sendou, the three of them scout for talented players to rebuild the team. Although they are lucky to find two promising additions to FOX ONE, it is too soon to celebrate: if Shun does not let go of his guilty conscience, the makeshift team stands no chance at winning the tournament.

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Saegusa, Yuu Main

Amamiya, Sora Japanese

Tokinoya, Mio Main

Asakura, Momo Japanese

Inatsuki, Nozomi Main

Minase, Inori Japanese

Tokinoya, Shun Main

Ono, Kensho Japanese

Sendou, Akito Main

Kimura, Ryouhei Japanese

Inatsuki, Souta Supporting

Shingaki, Tarusuke Japanese

Naito, Mutsuki Supporting

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu Japanese

Nagamine, Ryuusei Supporting

Sugita, Tomokazu Japanese

Sakagami, Yoshiko Supporting

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

KAIZO Supporting

Matsui, Yuuko Producer

Sotokawa, Akihiro Producer

Endou, Kazuki Producer

Ozawa, Fumihiro Producer

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Jan 15, 2024

MitiKosta

Recommended

I really liked the anime.
I am a gamer myself and always wanted to become a competitive player.
Hope there will be a continuation of the series.
The story is unique if you like gaming and E-sport you will love it.
Unfortunately, not enough is said about the characters.
I would like them to give a longer backstory on all the characters in the anime.
The progress in the plot is at a good pace.
The art is very good and it's fitting the story.
The game design was also good it looked like a game I would like to play.

... I really recommend anyone who likes shooting games to watch this series.

The only thing that bothered me, as I wrote above, was that not enough was told about all the figures, even though there were figures that looked like they could have a very interesting life story.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jan 4, 2024

CZnoobzCZ23

Mixed Feelings

About this anime... on paper it sounds interesting and fun, but the other is true.

At the beginning show tries to make us care and everything other than the esport. The fact that esport and the weirdly named game aren't properly fine tuned in the anime really brings it down. Teams behave like normal players in ranked and not pros. Instead of communicating with their team they sqeak with each death and use tactics from ebay.

The game itself is just bad, idk in what universe such game would be popular. Its trying to be spin on counter strike and valorant, but that's all it ... is. 5 playable characters which can't be picked more than once. Graphics from ps1 (maybe 2). Game has serious issues with visibility where everything is just dark or black so some colourful characters are perfectly visible but others are almost invisible. Next them trying to run away from exploding objective. Why? There is nothing even remotely close to showing us there is any sort of disadvantage to dying. Guns... oh boy weapons in the game are capable of 1 shot but sometimes they just need to hit 20 rounds I to each other. No recoil. No reload. No variety. Each character gets its own weapon and you go. Also there exists some very bad system of switching sides where 1 team with 5 won rounds and then they go attack or defend depending on what they were doing before, but!!! After that sides dont switch until one of the teams reaches 7 round wins??? (In csgo you play first to 16rounds out of 30 and you switch sides at 15th round) I just wanna know what they were thinking when they came up with that. Anyway the fact its all cgi (the game, everything else is animated properly) wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't so plain. Anime about esports and game, where both take about half of the runtime, but esport is full of 8yo kids and game was made 20 years ago. Not fun to watch as a gamer.

Yes, I'm biased against the esport and game characters play. I was quite excited to watch some esports anime, but not enough effort was put in it. This show would probably work better with some battle royal if they wanted to keep expenses low.

Lastly if you like games or esport, just don't watch this anime. For casual ani.e lovers it might not be bad.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Dec 27, 2024

MidniteAndBeyond

Not Recommended

Um... So this show was kinda whatever. I liked the premise from what I heard of it; a guy who had a gaming addiction in the past gives up gaming entirely to take care of his family after a tragic accident takes place. But surprise surprise, he gets back into gaming in an attempt to become an MLG pro gamer that can support his family with tier 3 subs and Raid Shadow Legends sponsorships! The game in question is a generic MMO FPS, aka a game that I have NO nostalgia for. I'm sure if this is a type of game that you enjoy, you ... might find it fun to see it being represented in an anime like this. But constantly having to look at the mediocre graphics of the gameplay wasn't really interesting for me. I feel like they could've used this setting as an opportunity to show the characters literally within the game world, AS their characters, or something cool like that. Instead of just... people sitting in chairs and reacting to the 3D models on the tiny screen awkwardly shuffling around. The show also just doesn't care about any of its cast. It's really just the "Shun and Yu Show" from beginning to end. And even then, parts of their storyline don't even get resolved in the end. The "villain" if you can call him that is really dumb and makes NO sense whatsoever. I kiiiiinda get what they were going for, but it was just done in a very awkward and nonsensical manner, in my opinion. I get the message they were going for with the main story and I think it had potential to be very dramatic and heartrending. But it just kinda feels very awkward and uncomfortable with a lot of forced drama and conflicts. It also just feels very "Big Bang Theory-esque" in its portrayal of gamers, streamers and their fans. So don't expect much positive representation in that department, other than the obligatory "and then everything worked out with the power of friendship and gaming and they all lived happily ever after!"

5/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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