No Game No Life

No Game No Life
is a Japanese light novel series by Yuu Kamiya. It is published under the MF Bunko J imprint with twelve novels released between April 25, 2012, and February 25, 2023. The author and his wife, Mashiro Hiiragi, adapted the novels into a manga series for Monthly Comic Alive in 2013. Later that year, an anime adaptation of No Game No Life by Madhouse was announced. It premiered on AT-X between April and July 2014, and was simulcast outside Japan by Crunchyroll. An anime film adaptation of the sixth volume, No Game, No Life Zero, premiered on July 15, 2017. A spinoff manga, No Game No Life, Please!, focusing on the character Izuna, ran from May 27, 2015, to November 27, 2017. The No Game No Life franchise was localized in North America by several companies: Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the manga, Sentai Filmworks the anime, and Yen Press the light novel series.
The series follows Sora and his younger stepsister Shiro, two hikikomori who make up the identity of Blank, an undefeated group of gamers. One day, they are challenged by the god of games to chess and are victorious. As a result, the god summons them to Disboard, a world where stealing, war, and killing are forbidden, and all matters are decided through games, including national borders and even people's lives. Intent on maintaining their reputation as the undefeated gamers, Sora and Shiro plan to conquer the sixteen ruling species and to usurp the god of games.
The series began receiving recognition in 2014, when it appeared in Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! and had its volumes placed as one of the top thirty selling novels in Japan. It was reported in May 2017 that over 3 million printed copies are in circulation. The English localization of the manga and anime were also well received: the manga adaptation appeared on The New York Times Manga Best Sellers; meanwhile, English reviewers were generally turned away by the first episode of the anime, though reviewers who have completed the series generally praised the character dynamics, game strategies, and animation, while disliking the fan service featuring the underage Shiro.
Plot
Sora and Shiro are two hikikomori stepsiblings who are known in the online gaming world as Blank, an undefeated group of gamers. One day, they are challenged to a game of chess by Tet, a god from another reality. The two are victorious and are offered to live in a world that centers around games. They accept, believing it to be a joke, and are summoned to a reality known as There, a spell known as the Ten Covenants prevents the citizens of Disboard from inflicting harm on one another, forcing them to resolve their differences by gambling with games whose rules and rewards are magically enforced. In-game, rule enforcement only occurs when the method of cheating is acknowledged and outed by the opponent, allowing players to cheat through discreet methods. Sora and Shiro traverse to the nation inhabited by humans, and befriend the duchess Stephanie Dola. Learning about Elkia's decline, the two participate in a tournament to determine the next ruler; after winning the crown, they earn the right to challenge the Disboard's other species as humanity's representative. Their next goal is to conquer all sixteen species in order to challenge Tet to a game; as of the sixth volume, five of the sixteen are under their control.
Characters
Main characters
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Sora and Shiro are the main protagonists of the series and are stepsiblings. While Sora is an eighteen-year-old boy who excels at strategies and cold readings, Shiro is an eleven-year-old girl who excels at calculations and logic. The two form the undefeated gaming identity due to their trademark of using only spaces as their in-game names. After their parents died, the two no longer had emotional ties to society and eventually became agoraphobic hikikomori. When the two are separated from each other, they begin to suffer panic attacks. After Sora and Shiro are summoned to Disboard, they decide to uphold their undefeated reputation as Blank by defeating Tet. A 2014 poll by Charapedia ranked Shiro and Sora as two of the most intelligent anime characters of all time.
Supporting characters
Stephanie is a teenage girl and granddaughter to the previous king of Elkia, the nation inhabited by humans. She has a lot of explicit knowledge. Unlike Sora and Shiro, she lacks the intuition to win games. Her grandfather was infamous for recklessly losing games and giving up almost all of Elkia's land for seemingly nothing in return. Consequently, Stephanie strives to restore the honor of her grandfather and humanity. When Sora and Shiro are crowned king and queen of Elkia, she becomes their assistant and handles Elkia's economics and politics behind the scenes. They later discover that her grandfather kept hidden records on the other species' games. These records become critical to their victories. Eventually, her experience with Sora and Shiro improves her skill to the point that she can win games against almost all normal humans. She has a pivotal role in the game between the Commonwealth of Elkia and Holou, accompanying Sora and Shiro throughout the entire game and risking her life alongside them, even through the minigame with Jibril. However, it is revealed that the Steph accompanying the two of them in that game is actually a clone, created by the Old Deus to be passed off as a "traitor"; the real Steph waited in the Eastern Union through most of that game before delivering Laila to the side-game between Ino Hatsuse, Plum, Chlammy and Fiel. Although she takes pride in the fact that Sora and Shiro only prevented her from playing in the Old Deus game due to her trustworthiness, she still feels jealous that she had to miss out.
Jibril is a a powerful angelic race known for their ruthlessness. Jibril is over 6,000 years old and is the youngest and most powerful of her species. Towards the end of the ancient Great War, she encountered and fought an Ex-Machina named Schwi, whose strange actions she was unable to comprehend at that time; due to this, she overexerted herself and thus was not present for the final battle. Since then, unsatisfied with Flügel's stagnation and curious about many things (such as the strange happenings at the end of the War), she fled her homeland; she won Elkia's library from Stephanie's grandfather and uses it to store her books and as a home. After losing to Sora and Shiro in a game of materialization word chain, she becomes their slave, but is treated as an equal. She often provides magic or transportation for the protagonists. Later on, she begins publishing novels based on Sora and Shiro, which makes them famous among the Flügel. Although she continually rebuffs her elder Azril's affection for her and claims she considers her a nuisance, she risks her life to attempt to get Azril to understand the true reason for Flügel's loss in the war, even bluffing for the first time in her life. She enters the game against an Old Deus alongside Sora and Shiro, intending on using the game's unique rules to force her masters into a simulation of the Great War; however, she panics and becomes desperate upon realizing that a quirk in the game's rules is causing her to lose her memory, even forgetting entirely about Sora and Shiro. Distraught and terrified, she forces the two plus Steph into her game with a penalty of death for the loser, intending to discover the secrets behind the end of the War before her death, although she despises herself for doing so. Still, Sora and Shiro outmaneuver her in her game, convincing her that it's okay to be afraid but not acceptable to sacrifice someone, and accomplishing a default - losing the task in the Old Deus game by timing out in Jibril's game, and leaving Jibril vacantly happy yet mostly memoryless for a time. Since her game with them became Blank's first true loss in a game, she has doubled down on her efforts to be useful to them, being remorseful of her actions and insecure about her place at their side, although they do not blame her, only having chagrin at losing.
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Chlammy is an eighteen-year-old girl and considered the slave of the Elf, Fiel. Chlammy appears cold and cunning, but she is actually a bit of a crybaby. Though Chlammy's family were the Nirvalen family's slaves for generations, her relationship with Fiel is similar to daughter and mother. Meanwhile, Fiel is considered a failure of a magician but is secretly highly skilled. She is willing to betray the nation inhabited by Elves, for Chlammy's sake; the two conspire to have Fiel obtain a political position of power in order to abolish slavery. Chlammy attempts to take control of the human nation of Elkia as part of this plan, although despite employing Elven magic to cheat, Sora and Shiro still defeat her to take the throne themselves. Upon hearing that Sora and Shiro plan to bet the human (a chess piece representing all of the rights of a race under the Ten Covenants) in a game, Chlammy challenges Sora to another game with their respective memories on the line; Sora wins, managing to convince Chlammy to be his ally by sharing his memories with her. After striving to undermine a single state of Elven Gard, Chlammy and Fiel blockade the Eastern Union in order to interfere with Elkia's game with Holou. They attempt to use the Shrine Maiden's temporary absence to take control of the Eastern Union, although Plum turns their plan to his own benefit for a time, and ultimately they are forced to enter a game at a disadvantage due to the timely arrival of Laila forcing Plum to cooperate with the Eastern Union. Plum's magic, temporarily uninhibited due to Holou, overpowers Fiel's while Ino defeats Chlammy with his Blood Break in their game. Due to their loss, Chlammy and Fiel's state of Elven Gard comes under control of the Commonwealth of Elkia and Sora reveals that he betrayed their treason to the Elves, causing the two to join Elkia.
Werebeasts
The are an animal-eared race with high physical abilities; their nation is known as the .
The Shrine Maiden is the nameless representative of the Werebeasts and ruler over the Eastern Union. She is a logical woman who helped the Eastern Union flourish for the past fifty years. She possesses a rare ability called Blood Break, which augments her physical abilities by taxing her body. She allies herself with Sora and Shiro, who promise benefits for humanity and Werebeasts. In her youth, Werebeasts inhabited disparate tribes and fought constantly against each other; her own name was lost forever when her Golden Fox tribe was defeated. Seeking to put an end to the Werebeasts' infighting, she tricked and bound an Old Deus (later her first friend and ally) inside her body, and went on to unite the Werebeast tribes into the Eastern Union; unable to wield the Old Deus's powers directly, she instead channeled them as a power source for the nation's advanced technology. Although she used to dream of creating a world without violence, as she grew up she became disillusioned and gave up on her dream until she meets Sora and Shiro, who she believes could actually finish her dream. Trusting in them, she tricks and defeats the Old Deus again, forcing her into a game with Sora and Shiro, in which the Shrine Maiden is apparently killed; however, the Old Deus keeps her alive throughout by maintaining her soul with magic. Although the Old Deus is defeated, joins the Commonwealth of Elkia, and yet still considers the Shrine Maiden important to her, the Shrine Maiden feels somewhat guilty and unworthy of the god in light of her betrayals.
Izuna is an eight-year-old child who is the ambassador of the Kingdom of Elkia. She has a childlike demeanor and mistakenly assumes the copula desu (alternatively, the adverb please) itself makes a sentence polite, and says it at the end of every sentence regardless of the sentence's actual politeness. She also possesses high intellect and is capable of using Blood Break. Following the alliance between humans and Werebeasts, she is a constant companion to Sora and Shiro, whom she adores and trusts. She aids Steph in discovering the true rules for Laila's game, using her enhanced senses and her Blood Break to quickly identify books relating to the Siren. While preparing for their next game, Izuna stumbles across Tet - collapsed on the ground in urban Elkia, under the guise of a human - and listens to him as he tells her the story of Riku, Schwi, and the end of the ancient great war. She is then a major player in the game with Holou and is actually the first to advance to the home stretch, although she is unable to answer Holou's question and thus is unable to finish the game.
Ino is Izuna's grandfather. He is a former politician and has been a key ally to the Shrine Maiden for many years, although he never realized the secret behind her strength until much later. He believes Sora has selfish ulterior motives, disliking and distrusting him; he also tends to be adversarial with beings of other races in general, especially Jibril, with whom the Werebeast race had clashed in the past. After the alliance between humans and Werebeasts, he works alongside Stephanie to formalize the Commonwealth of Elkia, bonding with her over their shared misfortune at the hands of Sora and Shiro. He provides assistance during the game with Laila at Oceand, utilizing his idiosyncratic ways with women to attempt to seduce her; however, he fails, falling under control of the Sirens. After being rescued from Oceand, he participates in the game against Holou, although once he sees that the Shrine Maiden has apparently died at the start of the game, he loses all control, failing to grasp the hidden points in the game's rules and instead going on a single-minded crusade against Sora, who he blames for her "death". He eventually realizes the extent of his failure, after which he intentionally loses in order to aid Sora, Shiro and Steph. However, losing does not kill him like he expected, but causes him to continue existing as a ghost; in this form he is accosted by Fiel and Chlammy, who threaten him into a game, staking a state of Elven Gard for the entire Eastern Union. Plum also intervenes in this game in order to win concessions for Dhampir, but his plan is overturned and he and Ino together achieve victory over Chlammy and Fiel, causing Ino to regard Plum as a proper ally for the first time.
Dhampirs and Sirens
are a species with similar characteristics to vampires: they drink body fluids from other species for nourishment; excel at transformation, illusion, and dream magic; and are weak to sunlight. Their weakness to sunlight can be spread through bites which deters the other species from sharing blood with them. Meanwhile, are an all female species with the body of a mermaid. They require the life of a male from another species in order to reproduce; their magic allows them to seduce anyone of their choosing. Both species live in a nation called . Centuries ago, the Dhampirs and Sirens used the Ten Covenants to create a mutual relationship between the two; the dhampirs were allowed to feed on the sirens and in return, a male Dhampir is to mate with the queen of the Sirens who can reproduce without killing. Eight hundred years prior, the queen went into hibernation and the mating rituals killed all but a single male Dhampir.
Plum is the last living male Dhampir and their leader, and he disguises himself as a female as a result; his magic skills are considered above average within his species. After consuming Sora and Shiro's sweat, he becomes fond of their taste. He makes a deal with the Sirens to lure Sora and Shiro in an attempt to have one of the two races enslave humanity. Sora and Shiro deduce his deception but decide to save both races regardless. Since then, he has sometimes accompanied Sora and Shiro on their adventures. Alongside the two of them, Ino, Izuna, Jibril and Steph, he visits the Eastern Union capital to challenge an Old Deus to a game; although he becomes unable to finish the game due to it requiring extensive travel across open terrain in broad daylight, his soul is maintained by the Old Deus and thus he does not die from losing, instead persisting as a ghost with unlimited access to his magical powers. He uses his magic to intervene in the side-game between Ino and the team of Chlammy and Fiel, forcing both parties into the game despite also upping the ante in an attempt to gain a foothold for the Dhampir race from which they might seek emancipation from the Sirens. However, then Laila arrives at their game, forcing Plum to retract his demands and fight with Ino for the Eastern Union, since he is unable to sacrifice Laila without dooming his own race. Despite his plans being crushed by Sora and Shiro's machinations once again, he fights for the Eastern Union and is victorious, overpowering Fiel in a magic battle.
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Laila is the queen of the Sirens who used the Ten Covenants to put herself to sleep without revealing the requirements to wake her up. While Laila sleeps, Amila takes her place in leading the Sirens. Realizing that Laila is a masochist who desires an unrequited love, Sora's immunity to the Sirens' seduction magic allows him to awaken her. Subsequently, Laila used Sora's hair to create a Siren daughter. Laila later lends Sora the Siren Race Piece to bet against Holou in a game, during which Laila herself is smuggled into the Eastern Union and introduced to Ino, Plum, Chlammy and Fiel; her mere presence overturns their planned game, causing Plum's self-serving plan to collapse.
Other characters
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Tet is an a magical entity born from wishes and prayers. During the era when the sixteen species were at war with each other, a human named Riku Dola and his wife, Schwi Dola, imagined the existence of a god of games; this resulted in Tet's birth. Due to Riku's efforts, Tet comes into possession of an object known as the , allowing him to become the god of Disboard. Using its power, Tet cast the Ten Covenants on the world, ending the war and making the world centered around games.
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Azril is the first Flügel and their leader following the death of the Old Deus who created them. Since then, Azril has become despondent towards life and tries to give meaning to the Flügel's existence to prevent their suicide, although she continues to adore her youngest surviving sister, Jibril. She is able to converse with the Flügel's homeland, a sentient floating island called Avant Heim which is part of a species called the Following her loss against Sora and Shiro, her powers are reduced to the levels of a human which gives her a new perspective on life. She later willingly lends the Flügel Race Piece out for Jibril to bet in the game against Holou.
An Old Deus and apparently the God of Doubt, she was the first and oldest conscious being in the world and thus had no name. She was born to question everything but never found any answers, not even after creating a race (the Ex-Machina) to help her quest for knowledge. Eventually she denied everything including herself and gouged herself of her (her quintessence as a god), which came loose. Instead of killing her, this rendered her inert until the modern era, where she was found by a young Shrine Maiden who tricked her and beat her in a game, binding her Ether in the body of the Shrine Maiden. Since then, she has unintentionally become a source of inspiration and support for the Shrine Maiden. She occasionally interacts remotely with Tet, doubtfully questioning his motives and intentions. Sora, Shiro and company utilize the Shrine Maiden's cooperation to unbind the Old Deus and challenge her to a game, wherein she emotionlessly imparts the rules at the start and then vanishes. Holding the soul of the apparently-deceased Shrine Maiden, she reprimands her for apparently having deceived a god, not understanding what the Shrine Maiden sees in Sora and Shiro. During the game she appears before players who reach the game's final task, to show them the futility of the game and to emotionlessly wait for their answer; in doing so, she betrays her doubt in Sora and Shiro and her frustration at their progress. After their victory she reacts with visible emotion for the first time, frustrated and confused, and attempts to hide herself from the world. With her Ether coming loose again, Sora and Shiro watch her past through her ebbing powers; they convince her that she is not actually the god of doubt, proclaiming her instead the , and naming her Holou (from "hollow", a pun on their own names and of Blank). Finally accepting herself and her lack of knowledge, she joins Elkia and makes amends with the Shrine Maiden; she intends to cooperate with Sora and Shiro's plan to make her into both an idol and the self-declared representative of the Old Deus. She then declares her intentions directly to Tet, who thanks her for being born (her being the creator of Schwi's race), but he also makes her properly angry for the first time by defeating her in chess.
Publication and conception
No Game No Life is a light novel series written and illustrated by Yuu Kamiya. It is published under the MF Bunko J imprint; twelve volumes were published by Media Factory between April 25, 2012 and February 25, 2023. In August 2014, Yen Press announced No Game No Life will be one of its titles published under its newly launched imprint, Yen On, in 2015. Non-English localizations include Brazil, Taiwan and Russia. Distribution in China was banned due to the government viewing the series as a threat to communism, while the Australian Classification Board banned the selling or importing of volumes 1, 2, and 9 in Australia for containing content that is "likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult".
No Game No Life was conceived during the serialization of A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives. Kamiya's original idea was a fantasy setting with battles; since he disliked drawing battles, he replaced it with games. He had intended to turn the idea into a manga series, but an unspecified illness made him unfit to handle the workload. While hospitalized for treatment, the author imagined how his idea would work as a light novel, and settled for that medium instead. Kamiya began writing the first volume and was advised to break it into three parts due to its length. In the middle of writing the second volume, Kamiya moved to his home country, Brazil, for further treatment for his ailment; in order to meet the volume's deadline, his wife drew some of the illustrations in the novel.
After the third volume, a new editor was assigned to the series. Kamiya noted the third volume contained a lot of plot progression, and was going to balance it out in the fourth volume with more lighthearted and carefree events. Volumes four and five were written as a single volume; since volume four lacked a climactic ending, Kamiya had to restructure the story. This, along with communication problems with his new editor, and other problems in Kamiya's life caused a month delay in volume four's release. After completing volume five, Kamiya was asked to submit volume six's manuscript before 2014 for the anime adaptation, and to complete the volume before the anime's premiere.
Manga adaptation
After reviewing the drawings made by Yuu Kamiya's wife, Mashiro Hiiragi, in second light novel volume, his editor suggested the two collaborate on a manga adaptation of No Game No Life for Monthly Comic Alive. Due to Kamiya's work on the third light novel volume, the manga serialization was delayed by a volume; the volume it was supposed to premiere in contained an apology page illustrated by Hiiragi. The series premiered in the March 2013 volume of Monthly Comic Alive and since then, is published irregularly in the magazine. Media Factory collected the individual chapters for the tankōbon release. In March 2014, Seven Seas Entertainment announced its licensing of the manga series and released the first tankōbon volume in October 2014; the title is stylized as No Game, No Life. The series has also been localized in Brazil, Taiwan and Russia.
A side series, titled by Yuizaki Kazuya, began serialization in the July 2015 issue of Monthly Comic Alive on May 27, 2015. The final chapter was published on November 27, 2017. It focuses on Izuna Hatsuse and her daily life. Yen Press announced their license to the manga on October 28, 2016.
No Game, No Life
No Game No Life, Please!
Anime adaptation
On July 27, 2013, Monthly Comic Alive announced the anime adaptation for No Game No Life was green lit. It is directed by Atsuko Ishizuka and animated by Madhouse. The series premiered on April 9, 2014 on AT-X; it was later broadcast on five other broadcast stations and several streaming networks. The final episode premiered on June 25, 2014. Media Factory released the series in six DVD and Blu‑ray volumes between June 25 and November 26, 2014. The opening theme for the series was "This Game" by Konomi Suzuki and the ending theme is "Oracion" by Shiro's voice actress, Ai Kayano.
Crunchyroll simulcast No Game No Life and made it accessible to several regions. In North America, Anime Network broadcast the series on their cable network and made it available on their website, while Sentai Filmworks released the series for home media in July 2015. In the United Kingdom, MVM Entertainment licensed the series for distribution and in Australasia, Hanabee Entertainment licensed the series for its video on demand website. In France, the series was also simulcasted on Anime Digital Network and is broadcast on Viacom International Media Networks' J-one channel. In China, the series is made available on PPTV.
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka and Ai Kayano, the voice actors for Sora and Shiro respectively, hosted an internet radio show on Hibiki Radio called No Radio No Life. It was broadcast weekly between April 8 and July 29, 2014 and switched to a biweekly schedule since then. Twenty-six segments are planned and three CDs were released between July 2014 and February 2015. A special cross over featuring No Radio No Life and the radio series from Bladedance of Elementalers and Lord Marksman and Vanadis was broadcast by Hibiki Radio on January 1, 2015 and released on DVD on May 13.
An anime movie adaptation of the sixth light novel was announced on July 17, 2016 at the MF Bunko J Summer School Festival 2016 event. The film, titled No Game No Life: Zero, premiered on July 15, 2017, with the staff and cast from the anime series returning. Based on the sixth volume of the light novel series, the story is set 6000 years before the events of the series, with most of the original cast portraying ancient characters related to their present counterparts. The theme song is "There is a Reason" by Konomi Suzuki. The song was included on the album "No Song No Life" on July 12, 2017. Sentai Filmworks released the film theatrically within the United States from October 5, 2017, and has licensed the film for home video distribution. Madman Entertainment premiered the film in Australia at the Madman Anime Festival in Melbourne on November 5, 2017.
After the acquisition of Crunchyroll by Sony Pictures Television, the parent company of Funimation in 2021, No Game No Life, among several Sentai titles, was dropped from the Crunchyroll streaming service on March 31, 2022.
Episode list
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Reception
It was reported in May 2017, that over 3 million copies of the light novel are in circulation. That same year, No Game No Life was the top ten selling light novel series with several of its books appearing in the top thirty selling volumes list. Starting in its 2014 pool, the yearly magazine Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!, listed the light novel and the protagonists of No Game No Life beginning in its polls; in addition, the series ranked fourth in Sugoi Japan 2015 polls. Seven Seas Entertainment's localization of the manga was able to reach The New York Times Manga Best Sellers and ICv2's charts. The anime series saw similar success and its home media made appearances on Oricon's weekly selling charts. In April 2014, No Game No Life'' was one of the top recorded anime series on Sony's Torne; a poll by AT-X ranked the series as one of 2014's top anime series.
Anime News Network had four editors review the first episode of the anime: Carl Kiminger, Rebecca Silverman, Theoron Martin, and Hope Chapman. Opinions summarized: Kimlinger enjoyed the premise and the concepts of games as battles; Silverman and Martin disliked the characters; and Chapman expressed absolute disdain, writing "nothing has made me roll my eyes, gag, or feel more irrationally angry this season than this insulting self-insert pandering trash heap". Carl Kimlinger continued the series, and published a positive review for the anime. He wrote that the premise presented many flaws but were balanced out by other aspects: Sora and Shiro's "over-powered hero" archetype is balanced out by their flawed lifestyles, motives, and their "visible delight in crushing their enemies"; Stephanie Dola's mistreatment with gags and Sora and Shiro's growing respect towards her; and the harem aspect with Sora's apathy and interesting female characters. Regardless, Kimlinger praised the plot's "big games", calling them the reason to watch the series and described them as "steeped in trickery and strategy"; he added that despite knowing the protagonists would win, the fun is seeing how they do it. Kimlinger wrote the over-saturation art style will be an acquired taste for most viewers and praised how the animation really shines during the "big games", calling it an impressive display of fluidity and timing.
Kotaku's Richard Eisenbeis was also positive towards the series, praising the protagonists' dynamic, echoed Kimlinger's sentiments about the games, liked the animation, but noted his dislike for fan service featuring Shiro. He also ranked the series as one of the top five anime series of 2014, and recommended it for viewers who like smart characters and gamer humor. IGN praised the character dynamics and questioned the amount of fan service.
Notes and references
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