It's spring in Kyoto, Japan, and shy, reserved Miki Takekasa is heading home from school on her usual route towards the Kamogawa River.
AFTER SCHOOL DICE CLUB EPISODE 5 SERIES
Given that all of the other games in the series are real, I checked.Afterschool Dice Club (放課後さいころ倶楽部) is a slice-of-life manga written and illustrated by Hiroo Nakamichi, which was serialized in Monthly Shonen Sunday from March 2013 to June 2021. That slightly cringey part of episode 1 notwithstanding I was using Saikoro as my hashtag on twitter. Question of the Post: Which of the games listed above have you played? Are there any that you’d recommend in particular? There’s no sign of a season 2 as yet, but I’d cheerfully watch one if it emerged. However if, like me, you’re in that subset, Saikoro is a fun show that I can strongly recommend. OK, I admit it, Saikoro probably only appeals to a particular subset of anime fans who are also board gamers. To resolve it by formally founding the After School Dice Club so that they can keep playing games at school as a club activity felt right, and wrapped the series up nicely. Then she discovers that in 2 nd year of high school they’ll be scattered to different home rooms, Emilia is heading back to Germany at some point, and Midori is planning to head to New York to take up Bad Dwarf’s offer at some point.īy this stage Miki is sympathetic enough that this should resonate with you, it certainly did with me. Overall though the strongest part of Saikoro is watching the isolated Miki come out of her shell and discover friends through the joy of boardgaming. I’d be willing to give at least the later iterations a try. That said, I do kind of wish Midori’s game One Room was real and could be played sometime. I think this is fairly close to how Whisper of the Heart handled it.Ĭompared to the earlier episodes with the Bad Dwarf founder, this was downright gentle and encouraging.
Midori didn’t win but did receive a hand written letter inviting her to visit Bad Dwarf to see how games are produced.
In this case Bad Dwarf ran a competition for a new game. This is something that anime has dealt with seriously before – Studio Ghibli’s Whisper of the Heart dealt with this as well. There was also an element of “The Bad News: Right Now, Your Writing Sucks” and why that’s OK so long as you keep writing. The way this is tackled by the brusque founder of the American games company Bad Dwarf is perhaps a touch on the nasty side, but arguably necessary. There’s a whole bunch of topics being tackled here from the need for playtesting to perfect a game to the imposter syndrome effect of “it’s not ready, I can’t show this to anyone”. One fascinating subplot was Midori’s efforts to become a game designer herself. Another game that would be fun for me to watch, and horribly frustrating for me to play. Episode 10 (again): Ladies and Gentlemen.Would not object to playing it again sometime. I think I might have played this once, years ago. A speed game that I would suck at so badly. Episode 7: Island aka Escape from Atlantis.Episode 6: I didn’t note any game in particular, but see Midori’s Game below.I don’t think I’ve ever played this, could be fun I’ve played two versions, the show had the less interesting one. Usually Midori as the games fanatic is the one to explain the rules, and there’s a limited amount of game play shown for each.īased on my twitter thread for this series the main games played were: Much of the fun for this show is looking at the games played, whether I’ve played them before, or would want to. Saikoro is very much a cute girls doing cute things show, albeit with relatively little fanservice and with some really nice character work as Miki comes out of her shell into a circle of trusted, and trusting, friends. This in turn leads them to the Saikoro board games shop where class rep Midori Ono is working to complete the core trio. From this an unlikely friendship is born. Then the exuberant Aya Takayashiki almost crashes into her due to faulty bike brakes and ends up in the Kamogawa River. Miki Takekasa is the lonely girl who doesn’t have any friends, nor does she appear to be looking for any. Yes, Saikoro is that much fun if you’re a board gamer. I noticed on Friday 28 February that Anime Lab had picked up After School Dice Club and had finished it by the following Saturday night.
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