Protocol: Rain

MitiKosta★ 8

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.

CZnoobzCZ23★ 6

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 itis. 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.