Note: this impression is based on the first season of the show.
A shogi anime that’s more about its realistic, profound characters and fancy SHAFT animation than the actual sport. It has some stuff going for it, but the lack of clear goal and extremely slow pace bored the hell out of me.
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Unique and artistic SHAFT animation
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Dull plot
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Realistic, profound characters
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Extremely slow pace
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Characters aren’t all that interesting
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Fails to make shogi any interesting, or even explain it properly for that matter
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Visual novel & other stuff impressions 
And I thought I was the only one that didn’t see anything special in that anime. I couldn’t motivate myself to watch the second season because the first one just doesn’t go anywhere.They shouldn’t have wasted their time with this halfhearted attempt to explain shogi in the middle, when their portrait of the shogi matches doesn’t require or use any knowledge of shogi anyway. The matches where boring to watch, because you had no inside of what was happening. The protagonist relationship with his “sister” was the most interesting part for me in the end.
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I agree 100%. That relationship is definitely the best thing the show has going for it, but it’s not worth sitting through boring shogi matches.
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