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My first review...
Beginning of the show started out strong (first couple episodes) and showed some promise.
The shorter episodes left a bitter taste. I didn't even know anime episodes could be this short.

Story line jumped all over the place and was full of holes not to mention continuously adding new characters out of no where.

I'd like to know how if the new game just started and Suigin was the first to get the console/game how he could be the most amateur/newb out there with no knowledge of this game compared to everyone around him...like wtf. Not to mention he started out ... OP and competent and now is just a floppy wet lame towel.

With so many flaws and holes in this anime at least it has some good potential, perhaps the creator can acknowledge the failures and improve upon them. Honestly there is no where to go but up.

[SPOILER FREE/SHORT REVIEW]

This is currently the worst thing I have ever added to my list, though I wouldn't say it is the worst show I have ever watched. This is because I don't even consider this a show.

It has been two months since I watched this and I have already forgotten 90% of what happened in it, mainly due to its lack of substance. Nothing matters in this show; there are no stakes, no meaningful character motivations and the show just forgets about its own plot line halfway through.

The first episode opens with a scene that has no context that seems to be set ... later in the story. Basically a guy massacres a bunch of 'undead'. As someone who thoroughly enjoyed steins;gate, this scene gave me expectations that this scene would come up again as some plot point later on that would explain what is going on. This is never seen again.

The main plot line is a 'kidnapped damsel in distress' story, but they just forget about it as our main characters dives into a video game to help some kid win a tournament. It feels like a series of short stories that don't have endings; they just move onto the next one without wrapping anything up.

I can't even say the animation and sound is average. Half the time you can't even tell what is going on and the only decent piece of music in the entire sound track is the ending song.

OVERALL: Don't watch this. I didn't have high expectations and it still disappointing me. 10 minute episodes made the experience slightly less painful, but there is zero merit to this 'show'.

"will probably write a full review once it's done airing"
Silver Guardian tells a story of a poor and orphaned high school student who also happens to be a pro gamer since he basically spends all his free time gaming.
inside his favorite game he meets a girl who turns to be his irl crush "how lucky" he saves her from a weak boss since he's so op she decides to look up to him and adventure with him "in the game ofc"
and from there starts the busy and unfortunate life of Gin-san.
The anime has an easy go happy feeling but is gonna throw down soon, ... characters are quite interesting and funny.
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Animation is pretty good if not amazing
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Great OST
A hard to skip Opening and Ending
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if you're worried that since it's a manhua adaptation the voices won't be Jap. or would suck don't worry we Jun Fukuyama to the rescue and he's doing top notch job.
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well if u wanna watch something good this season i guess u should give this one a try.

STORY: 6/10
CHARACTER: 5/10
ART: 9/10
SOUND: 9/10
ENJOYMENT: 8/10
OVERALL: 7/10

‘Gin no Guardian’ is an anime that resorts to ‘Not overexerting itself’, meaning they go ahead with everything they are comfortable with while leaving out the rest for later! The story is a little confusing in the beginning since the show makes a point of jumping around with their narrative. You start at a strange place with the MC, who’s in this ‘Cool and OP’ stage, as he’s wiping out enemies left and right after which the story jumps right back to its opening where the said MC is just another typical student! These ‘Jumps’ aren’t used a lot, ... but they are pretty jarring! The biggest complain everyone had is the freaking run time of the show, for they are about 13 minutes long including both the OP and ED! Yeah, I am not kidding! This leads to the anime trying to cramp so much due to its short run time, thus resulting to a very rushed and incomplete experience! By not taking time with their content or their characters, it’s hard to care or emotionally attach to something. Sadly, even the plot isn’t particularly unique, so it becomes that much difficult for the anime to make any kind of impact! You have your archetypal ‘Game’ genre situation where the MC is somehow stuck inside a game and must survive by playing as a guardian in order to save the world and the girl of his dreams.

Suigin (MC) is your plain looking, basic student who’s enrolled into an expensive school and makes ends meet by doing multiple jobs. Nothing about him really stands out whether it’s his expressions or his hairstyle, though his red scarf becomes very interesting once it’s seen in action despite the fact it is very distracting at first! The other main character, Rei, is even more generic and cliched than Suigin because she just happens to be side-lined to the one note role of Girlfriend 101! Literally nothing stood out about her! Her display of emotions, personality and expressions were all standard which is sad since she’s the other main romantic lead. I mean you are told great things about her, like how’s she so and so but we never actually see it to believe any of it! And how can you when they have less than 13 mins to demonstrate everything! And I guess the cat is cute so it has that thing going for it.

The art style is very bland and boring with nothing striking, whether it’s the background settings or the character designs. But the animation is a whole new story! I liked the depiction of his scarf even though it doesn’t suit with Suigin’s overall getup. But I liked how it changes colour based on Suigin’s emotions. And if this show succeeds anywhere, it’s the way the action scenes are illustrated! The latter part of those fights is pretty good but the opening battle with that army is simply Spectacular! Despite its use of 3D in the opening, I was blown away by it! You never got that lagging effect, rather the 2D was perfectly incorporated with the 3D which resulted into one smooth Badass fight as Suigin goes dashing into the Army of Skeleton! The OST is another achievement worth mentioning, especially the ED, which was simply Amazing! It’s not just another great music set piece, Nope! It also perfectly sings the overall main arc of the anime’s story! Yes, you heard it right because it harmonizes about the dream and struggle of romance for the characters of this show!

The short yet epic battle at the beginning get your hopes up into believing this will be an exciting anime, unfortunately it never manages to surprise you like that again! The common complain are the short length of episodes which really sucks but what I found frustrating was the direction of the story! It seems to move in one track at first but then suddenly changes course towards the end. Initially the story’s about Suigin and Rei finding each other in real life and a start for romance but then the last few episodes introduce a whole lot of new plotlines and characters which I found annoying. I understand they need to set up for the next season and further expand on the story but with such short episodes, I kinda wanted more closure. The other thing I would like to mention is the unfair kind of reaction this anime is receiving because it seems like people had insane expectations which the anime couldn’t deliver! Totally fair since the 1st episode almost blows you away with how good it is. But in my defence, it also becomes quickly apparent the rest of the anime won’t be following the same route, so people should really tone down your optimisms as well, after all the episodes are only 13 mins long! Since this is made by a Chinese company, I am willing to ignore its faults for now, but they better make big changes for the next season because now they have our of what we liked and what we didn’t like! In the end, I liked the simplistic approach towards ‘Gin no Guardian’ and despite its flaws, I am willing to encourage others to give it a try!

STORY: First, it takes place in another world where it contains an explosion and fleet of monsters are battling against Riku Suigin. There is also a flashback on how Suigin & Rei met one year ago. In the anime, you can also see Suigin working in multiple part-time jobs in order to be enrolled in his school. There is also another side to him where he is playing an online PC game called Dungeon Century during his free time. Things become more interesting once the gaming company announced the game will shut down. It became Suigin's mission to save Rei from her abductors.

Riku Rei: ... One of the popular girls in school, smart student, her family are part of the God Grave Tech Company and created Dungeon Century & Grave Buster, gamer, kind and has pink hair.
Riku Suigin: Gamer, works in multiple part-time jobs to make ends meet, has a cat named Wanchoi.

OVERALL: This anime is from the same creators that brought you BLOODIVORES. (Japanese anime with Chinese Influences). First episode doesn't explain a lot. The plot can be quite confusing at times too. Personally, I think the first 5 episodes are fillers. It does have its sweet, romantic moments, and action scenes. The episodes are 13 minutes long for this series.

Overall captivating,
This takes a common "Dragged into a video game" trope but gives it a fresh new take. The main characters are easy to project yourself onto. while also fulfilling normal anime tropes that we have come to know and love. The only negative is the fact that it has a poor first episode. The plot is awkwardly conveyed but if you can make it to episode two you will be hooked.
I've only seen three episodes but i'm already searching all over the internet for the source material since this 10 min episode doesn't quench my full craving. Hopefully they will release the full ... manga later or go deeper into the plot since i believe this could easily be a 30 min, 24-27 episode series.

Foreword:

If you intend to watch this anime, please stop reading right now.

This anime sums up a lot of recently released "swort art online followers", that are equally as bad or worse as swort art online.
I will write down all the things that bother me about this anime, because there are basically no other things to write about, go watch it yourselfes if you don´t believe me.

The episodes are about 10 minutes long, and from my perspective thats the main problem. They try to do so much, with so little time, and end up with plot- and logicholes everywhere.


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The Story:
Classical, the hero is a underdog, the princess/girl gets kidnapped, he must do some terribly stupid stuff to save her (instead of calling the police). Most of the time in a digital world.
And most of the time, you don´t know what´s happening, or why it´s happening. The only one more clueless are propably the characters themselfes. They just appear where they are needed, do what they should do, and vanish.



The World:
I don´t know where to start, wait....I exactly do: "The basic system of the game"
They basically announce this fine peace of software as: "Who invests the most money, is going to be the most powerfull player." After that you see a chearing crowd. And we all know how this would play out in reality...a burning building, propably.
I mean that is some really bad game design (and some really bad realism as well), pay to win got 10 level ups, and the people are chearing...

I have seen almost the whole season and I don´t know how this game operates other than: "Pay to win" that´s the only thing you get in of information about "how its played".
No classes, no skills, just some items that do something out of context. We don´t even know what happens when players die or how the money they invest has an impact on the gameplay. And even if the main character knowing nothing about the game, the audience should.

The rules are just there when needed, and people in this world don´t act like humans. An example (sorry for the spoiler):

"The protagonist, his sidekick, and some boy drop in a filled arena during the finals of a tournament (money to start 50.000 Yen, pricemoney 10.000.000 Yen in real money, you can´t pay out your normally invested or earned money), while doing that, they kill one fighter, the rules say (and this is announced by an commentator): "If a fighter is killed by an intruder he shall fight in his place". For intruding there skills get halfed (whatever that means)."
And lets all the players in this game just want to get money, so every normal person would jump into the arena and just try to kill everyone "last man standing"-like right? The anime however sees it the other way, and nobody even trys...
And that´s how "rules" work for this anime.


We don´t get much information about the rest as well.



The Characters:
As I mentioned above, they just apear and vanish when needed, no depth what so ever.
To keep it simple our main character has no friends or family nearby, and just plays with this one girl (that gets kidnapped, what a surprise).
Summary of his personality: He has a scarf, is good at videogames, has a lot of minijobs, has a cat (for some reason), likes to play videogames at 2 AM (nightwatch-job) on his pc outside in a park, and posseses unbelievable luck (because it never rains, storms and nothing happens to make it seem like a bad idea to sit out with your pc at 2 AM (besides where I live you get fired for that)).
Besides this awesome luck he is just a really empty character.

To sum all the other "awesome" characters up:
They are basically like the protagonist, got no actual personality, besides "I need money for sick person Nr.293 that the audience isn´t caring about" or "I play this game to get rich".
Most of the dialog is a recycled version of all the anime clichés out there, and summoned physical pain upon me.
And of course the protagonist has a sidekick, but thats mostly a combination of cat/waifu/girl (with the big boobs) that has no actual role besides being a "cute" sidekick.



Sound and artstyle are solid but nothing special.


My suggestion:
Don´t watch it like an anime, watch it like a trash-movie, gather some friends, drink some alkohol, and have a good laugh while talking about what you just saw.



Thanks for your time, and have a good night.

okay, so... first off, the silver guardian is based off a chinese(?) manhua called the last gravekeeper. In of translation, the manhua was.... well, lets just say it needed work, but the anime that came out of it, this one, takes the manga and makes it SOOOO much better.

to start off, i guess ill talk about the story. uhm, mainly im not gonna spoil anything, ill do my best to keep things vague. the story talks about a silver haired kid who is working multiple jobs in order to go to school (dont i know the feeling). he's poor and is poorly regarded ... by his classmates in real life, but online he is a world class gamer due to his immense freetime. eventually various things happen that lead to a whole "sword art online" style experience of getting lost in a vast virtual reality world, but with a twist: he's the last of his particular play type. uhm, generally now, the story is very very good, and if it follows the manga it will be one to keep a close eye on.

art wise.... so, the art is very typical of anime studios these days, lots of sharp edges and pretty colours. i personally like this style very much but its nothing special.

the soundtrack is where the show really shines in my opinion, specifically the opening and ending. "TSG" is very peculiar to me in that it is one of the very few animes that i have watched that has a more memorable ending than opening, made even more memorable by the fact that it is almost entirely in english. ENGLISH. IN A JAPANESE SHOW. WHAAAA. lol
anyways, the opening is very chill and dulled and muted in some places and actiony and hyped in others, i quite like it, but it is nowhere near as good as the ed. the main soundtracks in the show do a very good job of setting the tone and vibe of the rest of the show too which is always a very good thing.

the characters are... almost a lower point of the show, though they are still good. the only really memorable characters at THIS POINT (NOTE THIS ISNT INDICITAVE OF THE REST OF THE SHOW ONLY UP TO EP 6. ONCE THE REST OF THE PLAYERS ARE ANNOUNCED THIS WILL JUMP TO A 10 IN A SNAP) are the mc and the love interest, with the rest of the people around them being very..... tropey, and dull. it feels too slice of life for my liking.

in of my PERSONAL enjoyment of the show, its a very faithful rendition of a great manhua, and it does a good job of the music and art style. i personally very much enjoy watching suigin's adventures through the world of gods grave.

overall out of 50 marks this show gets a 39, for a total of 3.9 out of five. rounded up to 4 of 5, that is a 7 overall.

Well, that's it for me, thanks for taking the time to read through this. sorry about the grammar, as you will find out as you read my reviews, i dont use it much simply due to it taking too long.

The best part of this anime is the outtro song.

"The story starts from a cupid game
I met a girl that day
She's the one controls the fate
I fell in love that day
I have to win her, have to win the game
Well, if you wanna win you've gotta play
let money pave the way"

... This is the most basic anime I've ever seen. Girl gets captured, and boy needs to save girl. Throw in some bs fight scenes with random powers, there you go.

I won't lie, the first 3-5 episodes had me interested. It's quitet practical the way the game changes from a skill/time based training game to a pay-to-win mobile game. HA. It's almost making fun of gaming companies that convert to pay-to-win and milk their players.

|| NO SPOILERS||

For the producers: Just adding everything you need for a good anime, doesn't mean YOU CAN SKIP THE ANIME.

It had all the potential, art, sound, story,... to be a good anime. Why did you leave so many loose ends? Where did the anime go? It's like your just showcasing ideas for a possible anime.

Story: It's a total rip of from Sword Art Online, like totally... The more I think about it the more it resembles it. Also it's way to short and nothing is really explained. There are also real time skips and you really have to watch it in one go because ... it jumps from one scene to another.

Art & Sound : It's really good so that's great.

Length: Why.. Why! Why 13 min episodes? Who told you that's a good idea D:

Character: The main character is okay, I mean he's a little to much of a 'typical hero' but besides that he's ok. Other characters are way to basic, they only seem to have one emotion, or at least that's all we see from them.

Overall it's sort of fun to watch, I finished it so... But it's missing a lot so wouldn't recommend it.

The premise isn't bad, the visuals are not bad, but the execution and story are what really killed this work.

Its somewhat of an isekai, ok whatever, but the isekai world is terrible. We're given an initial game world that is suppose to connect the characters, but I find that so hard to believe when theres no immersion factor in that game, its essentially a toddlers Runescape. Then theres some "plot-twists" that are suppose to build the story up, but the reason behind them is so flimsy.

I finished up to episode 4 thinking it would get better, then I read the caption synopsis for episode 5 ... and couldn't believe how ludicrous it was.

And here's the red flag I shouldve picked up. At the intro to the series, episode 1, the character is on top of a Mayan-esque pyramid (four stairs going up, you get the picture) and a horde of skeletons surround him all going towards him-- and then he leave the pyramid. Why was he on the pyramid? Its laid out as though he's suppose to protect it, or something at the top, why'd he just let the skeletons behind him take the pyramid? He goes hack-n-slash on them, but couldn't he do that up there? WHY WAS THERE A PYRAMID??

As I had seen many different opinions about this Anime I decided to write my review. It is spoiler -free so, if you want to know, if it is worth or not to see - then I'll try to tell you. Also I'm gonna tell something about opinions that I've seen because it's connected to each other. Let's start then!

First of all, if you are looking for a ambitious story - then you should watch something else. If you just want an addictive story, then you can watch it. The plot of the anime is "simply complicated". First season of Gin no Guardian is ... something like an introducing to the world. It's like an tutorial in game, not really more.

Main characters are not intricately, but it's easy to like them. Main protagonist is typical and definitely not an unique, but he is kinda goofy and can be reason to smile. His heroine is kind and innocent, but we don't know much about her just after 1st season.

As I said, story is simple, but for the most of anime we are wondering what is really happening. Didn't I tell you that whole first season is an beginning? It is also beginning of plot. So we need more than 8-9 episodes to realise what are actually watching, but to be honest, for me it was a reason to watch next episodes immediately after previous one.

This anime is something, that you can watch for fun, if you are not such demanding anime - watcher, just like me. I really liked that simple but addictive story. I liked main character and I'm curious what is going to happen next, since second season is now officialy confirmed.

For me, definitely the most important feature of Anime is to let it make me want to watch it at "one breath" - next episodes just after previous ones due to curiosity about what is going to happen, and Gin no Guardian really made it. Because of this I don't understand pretty negative reviews. I can't get it why someone is saying that he "wasted his time with it" and rate it with 5, or even said that it is "worst thing he have seen in his life" and give it f.e 4. I guess that these guys just expected anamazing and breathtaking adventure or experience, but with this anime it is like expecting an outstanding plot in Mario or Fast and Furious, it just not it's role.

Does it have any disadvantages? Yes, it does.
- 13 minutes long episodes - it is not bad to make short episodes, but with such big world that is going to be shown here I'm wondering if standard 22 minutes of about 20 episodes would make it clear, definitely not just 12 episodes for and 13 minutes each.
- Due the upper one, sometimes while we are watching an episode we can feel like someone just cut some scenes. We are in some time and doing something, and next scene can be whole different without saying what happened between those two actions
- As i Said earlier, after 12th, "final" episode, I just felt like i end up an tutorial. Same knowledge about world I had for less then 2 episodes of SaO f.e.
- It doesn't have so much action, since it's just presentation of the world. If you wanted to see many epic fights than you should watch something else, or wait for the 2nd season (it is going to have much more of these propably)

So, if you are looking for something not ambitious and just entertaining then you should watch Gin no Guardian. BUT, if you are looking for an serious story about sense of life, overcoming adversity of life, power of love/friendship, then you definitely won't find it here. It's short, entertaining story to watch for fun or because of boredom.

Gin no Guardian is not good. The art is average, the sound is forgettable, and there is nothing about the story or characters that make you glad you watched the whole thing. All in all, it's an experience that can be skipped.

I suppose on the surface this is a shonen anime in the same style as Sword Art Online. A boy is tagged to save the world via his loner video gaming lifestyle. His fate is star-crossed with an improbably attractive young lady who also happens to share a hidden past with him. It's quite trite and makes you wonder ... if perhaps this was cobbled together from the ideas of much better anime.

But it fails as a shonen battle anime. Fights scenes are incoherent and slap-dash. There are no clear rules of battle and abilities are not explained at all prior to just appearing out of nowhere. In the second version of the game, apparently money = power. (Clearly, the people behind the game are Evil because it's pay to win.) That's about the only rough guideline the show provides. It doesn't help that each episode is only half the normal length (roughly 13 minutes each), so there is little time for ability development or growth.

The character setup is humble enough, and although the poor-student-among-rich-kids shtick is nothing new, it does make the MC sympathetic. However, what little good will this engenders is quickly squandered as the MC and the leading lady are tossed into crazy plot points with little transition or even time for explanation. Things simply happen, so don't go looking for niceties like character development or romantic suspense.

About the only good thing I can come up with is that the half-length episodes at least ensure you are only wasting half the normal amount of your life should you choose to watch this even after my warning.

Hey guys, i kinda feel like a hater writing this, but i feel the need to write a review.

First of all, the episodes are only 10min long, so if you want to,then just watch it.

Basicly just 6ep.

Ill start with the best thing about this.
The art is quite nice, it feels and looks like a well produced and drawn anime.

That's it.
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Everybody probably has that (atleast) one friend who doesnt watch anime, and you try to make him watch it, but he says: "Nah dude, Anime is that Tentacle stuff and its just dumb, because of how chars look and big boobs, ecchi and stuff, the storys dont make sense, to much clichee and cringe"
If you experienced that kind of situation, you probably disaggred with lots of statemants saying otherwise.

To get to my point, ill try to make this short.

Watching the first 5episodes as an Anime fanboi i innerly screamed "somebody please kill me", cuz the drama aspect between the MC's was so horrendously stupid.

Playing a fucking seemingly 2D Game, with onsided dialogues, then he fucking starts to cry because he couldnt save her ingame.
Bruhhhh.... then "dramatic" plot twists, she gets kidnapped, like srsly
its way to cringy.



Ok i know. In Anime everything is possible, what is prob. the mostliked aspect of Animes, but this is just .. Bruhhh.. to silly even for Anime.

Well enough complaining.
The sound is pretty much average,
story horrible,
characters kind of likeable MC( Works alot, outstanding, cool style, progammer) makes him symphatic but personality garbage and heroine is pretty cute non-tsundere(srsly cant see anymore fucking tsunderes),
enjoyment is also average due to short episodes, fast pace storyline without much content and well shit story.

Overall: 5

You might think im hating to much, so i recommend everybody to watch so you understand why im pissed off by waisting my time on this.

Arigato gozaimasu

This has no spoilers! But it does cover both seasons.

If you are looking for a show that has good anything really, you're in the wrong spot. This show was really bad and when I say bad I mean really bad. The story was forgettable and that in my opinion is one of the worst things an anime can do, Be forgettable... If the story was good maybe you could get some pleasure of some type from watching this but here is my honest statement please do not watch this without reading reviews first. Its painstakingly bad and from what I have seen its not even ... a complete show. It leaves you at episode 6 in season 2 and by that time I had already forgot what all of season 1 was about. This show has some major issues being that its incomplete and has next to no story but, to finish I have to say watch this show, the only reason behind that is its important to know what can make for a good show or a bad. In my opinion its just bad or mediocre all around at best and is overall a bad show.

The only review that I will probably ever write.

You all need a warning for this show because, sadly, the cover art can easily deceive you into thinking that this anime is worth a watch, just as it deceived me.


First off, the episodes appear to be 12 minutes long, but it includes a less than needed opening that takes out about a minute and a half of the actual episode, leaving you with about 10 minutes.

The excruciatingly painful part of this is that the story is so messy and disappointing that even within the first 5 episodes you can tell they tried so hard to ... jam-pack extra story elements that just bring the anime to ruins.

Also, the characters are so stale and overused. Popular gamer-girl develops feelings for Gamer nerd-boy? *yawn*

And don't even get me started on the cringe factor this anime displays. They're legit playing video games and crying about the "tragic" happenings in the world even though they know that outside of the video game everything is fine. Over dramatic much?

Due to these factors, I found the first five episodes were so bad that I dropped the anime.

I couldn't do it.

Since I did only watch the first 5 episodes, take my review with a grain of salt.

Although, since the first 5/12 episodes(41.6% of the anime) were so bad, i don't believe it could have possibly gotten much better...

If you're looking for a sweet, yet action-packed anime like I was, I wouldn't recommend this one.

Starts strong with the first two episodes setting up what seems to be a great story. Unfortunately after that they just kinda forget about all that and start making entire episodes on random other people with nothing to do with plot set by the first 2 episodes. Honestly the MC is not even the character you see the most.

I give it 5/10 because I like the MC, art and animation is decent, but the story and plot are basically non-existent. Maybe this would make sense if it was the first 12 episodes of a 50 episode series, but with just these 12 I just ... don't get it. The plot literally doesn't progress AT ALL for the last 8 episodes. Not to mention the plot that's there has a lot of holes in it. It'll show random scene that seems like it's important to the story, not explain anything about it, then never mention it again.

I have ADD and this series seems to fit that kind of format. Starts telling a story, then LOOK A SQUIREL, then 4 min more of the story in an episode then LOOK AT THAT RANDOM DUDE ON A BENCH, then another 2 min of the story in a different episode. It's accurate to say that when I was finished I learned basically nothing about the story, had a LOT of questions, and felt like I had whiplash from how the episodes jump around without any rhyme or reason.

Finally the icing on the cake is the final episode of the season doesn't end with any cliffhanger, or having anything concluded or explained. It's just like any other filler episode. I was so confused after it was over and there wasn't another episode. I gave 5/10 overall, but for story I give 1/10.

Gin no Guardian or The Silver Guardian is a very specific anime. Whilst it combines elements of other anime it managed to create it's own atmosphere with nice characters and story. Though it takes a while for to pick up pace.

It is important to note the first season slowly goes from an ordinary slice of life with comedy elements to the real plot point in Season 2.
I personally adored Gin no Guardian, mainly since it felt fresh and nice to watch with it's characters but story too.
The story whilst clearly taking inspiration from other anime just has this charm to it that kinda makes ... it stand it out and then it becomes a shame it's not more popular. Yet, it's very specific as you need to watch the entire first season and half of season 2 to see if you like it but i think it's worth it in the end in my eyes. Also i would feel like it is important to say ,this ends on a cliffhanger and we are still waiting on Season 3.

So story is good, i liked the characters and i liked the general plot of it all and i can recommend it for sure if you like the synopsis you read on here. Though do take into consideration this anime is very, i would say niche in everything it does, as it does it right but a majority of people would not be able to sit through it until the end ,as it takes a long time for it to pick up and feel like it's special and it's not yet another anime set in a fictional video game. My advice is if you have time and want to take the risk since you liked the plot watch it until the end and see if you like it or not.

English:
What a mess...
A really cliché script stuff with a non-sense reality that the protagonist lives (with the anime story in mind, this comment makes sense)
The only thing that saves this anime is the good animation. If you want a good history, good characters, somenthing good instead of just mixing game + graphic and awful script holes between virtual and real worlds, go to an another anime. Don't give a try. Trust me...
At least, the reactions are clean and loyal at their context ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think that the new spectators of this anime will not enjoy it as good as 90% of another animes with a similar ... thematic. However, it goes by your judgement to see this before reading me.

Português:
Que bagunça...
Um real clichê as coisas do roteiro com uma realidade sem sentido que o protagonista vive. (com a história do anime na cabeça, esse comentário faz sentido)
A animação é a única coisa que salva o anime. Se vc quer uma boa história, bons personagens, algo bom além de só misturar jogo + gráfico e furos de roteiros horrorosos entre mundos virtuais e reais, vá pra outro anime. Não tente. Só confia
Pelo menos, as reações são limpas e leais a seu contexto ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

acho que os novos expectadores desse anime não vão se divertir tanto quanto 90% dos outros animes com temática parecida. Porém, vai a seu julgamento ver isso depois de me ler.

I am so tired of people hating on this show; this show has basically just started. I really love this show mostly because I love the characters and the mystery behind the male character's past and future.

I believe there something more than meets the eye, it's a show where you have to piece things together. Which I really enjoyed and the characters are lovable; I'm not sure why but this show makes me want to keep re watching it over and over again.

The psychology behind the villains and protagonists fascinates me. The only thing that bugged me was when they have a bunch ... of perv jokes, I'm still not sure how the story is going to play out.

I hope they will be able to tie up a couple of loose ends