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The ultimate episode for No Game No Life season one is in the air and it is closed with a bang. After activated her warbeasts power, Izuna turned into a monster with a faster and stronger physic. Both Sora and Shiro was stormed with a ridiculously fast attack from the berserk Izuna and with the games getting closer to the end, could you imagine how they could turn the table?

 

She's careless and clueless to anything. She is Stephanie Dola

Ultimately, Izuna shot Sora and Shiro and it seems this is the first time blank lose in a game. Out of nowhere, Izuna was shot by none other than Stephanie Dola!!!!. My jaw was drooping when I saw she turned out as the one who got the winning shot. Seriously, I did not see it coming and with a very anti-climatic end nevertheless. It turned out that Sora’s spell from the previous two episodes was an order for Step to obey the written order from Shiro. With a very calculated strategy, Blank made Stephanie moved undetected from Izuna and when she was on the firing range, she shot.

 

Just few episodes before you made your Sister naked in front of us -_-!

I have to admit that Sora and Shiro are extremely cautious individuals and they check their steps just even before the game started. In reality, they keep winning the game because they know attacking the other races head on would be impossible due to their weaknesses. So, the best bet for them is putting traps and plenty of insurance and making a trick to made the enemies forget about the least important member (in this game it’s Stephanie)

 

Facepalm is too ordinary nowadays :D

The episode also introduced another female representative from eastern federation, the shrine priestess. She was completely pissed off with the loss of warbeast territory to the Elkia and she threatened Sora that the eastern federation would take revenge for their loses. In order to ease the tension, Sora challenged her to a coin toss to determine who should take over the continents. Still, the ever-cunning Sora moved the tile before the coin dropped to make the coin toss end in draw. With the result, Elkia won the territory of warbeast but they remained independence and the alliance was formed between the two countries.

 

Once a troll will always a troll eh Sora?

Blank sibling announced that they intend to challenge the god, Tet, and in order to do that; they need to gather the entire race piece from the game’s world. Just before the episode closing, sora revealed the shrine priestess’ true nature as an old Deus (Deus was an equivalent words for God). And Madhouse definitely wants to torture us mentally by ending the first season with such a big cliffhanger as the Blank sibling prepared to play the game with the shrine priestess.

My impression for No Game No Life in this season was very good. I know that it is one of the anime that have no shame to ridicule itself to the utmost level. I could see that behind it hilarity and naughty theme, NGNL has it share of solemn moment plus it made me laugh and cringe for many of it jokes. Not to mention, NGNL tried it best to ridicule the main characters as gamers without any need for social life. As a gamers myself, watching NGNL made me laugh countless time due to weird and extravagance both Sora and Shiro personalities because of their love for games. I know I would like to wait for the second season and I was hoping more intricate storytelling and more fun jokes and exaggeration comedy. That was my opinion regarding the first season of NGNL. Now what is YOURS opinion regarding to the anime?

No game no Life episode 11 continued last week episode when both Imanity representatives discovered themselves in our current time. With the Blank sibling still frozen due to the stress of coming back to their real world, million life of imanity were at jeopardy. The funny thing is when Ino announced that the world is just an illusionary world; Sora regained back his composure and complained about how cheap the warbeast clan for using psychological weaknesses against them ;D.

The game for this episode was the mixed game of First Person Shooter, love simulator, and tag match. The rules for the game: NPC Gals would try to catch the players while they shoot them with Love-Love gun and made them disappear leaving trail of hearts. In addition, should Izuna shot one of Sora’s teammates, she would become Izuna love slave until she shoots all of them. In short, whoever shoots all of the other team members became the winner of the game

The Warbeast clan only had Izuna as their representatives against the Imanity that consist of Blank sibling, Stephanie Dola, and The winged Flugel Djibril. Yet, she was a very capable opponent and she could bring more than trouble to the imanity representatives alone. In addition, her inherent six senses enabled her to sense a danger from very far places. For instance, when Sora tried to snipe her, she could sense the incoming bullet and use her robe as the shield. In contrast to Izuna, Stephanie Dola was more or less became the but monkey of the episode. Really I did not know why she should enter the game while her presence only worth as an experiment for Sora to test the Love-love gun. As for the spell that Sora put to her in last episode, we still could not see how it would affect the outcome of the game.

One joke really got me hard when Sora realized that his love-love gun could make the clothes disappeared. As any “healthy” teenager would react, he tried shooting one of the NPC girl panties only for the girl to disappear right away when the panties start vanishing. Sora reactions afterward was priceless and it made Izuna felt angry with how he could still enjoying the game while his entire kingdom was in stake.

I was very excited when Shiro single handedly battle Izuna in a one and one shooting match. Even if she was not blessed with extraordinary physic like the, her perfect calcu

Another series grew closer to the end, and I could not resist the temptation for another season. NGNL got back to its root as more fun and hilarity abound in this episode. Last episode we seen how Blank have won the match and gain the trust of Kurami and Fil. Now, the episode started with Sora asking all of them to do introductions. It was not just proper introduction though since the producers added many fun gags along the way. 

For instance, Fil said that she would not introduce herself to Jibril because the later purposely killed her race while flying across the elves’ territory only because the put the no flight zone warning. Instead of protecting Jibril, Sora asked her to apologize due to the fact that they need to solve all dispute when they work together. In regard to the punishment, Fil asked for Jibril to lick her feet while apologizing. The funny thing was how the producer used the censored picture, like when the television shows have internal problem, when Jibril did that. In addition, Steph wanted similar treatment to Kurami, because she did cheat her before. To her surprises, Sora said that it was Steph self-problem for being careless.

Again we are watching Sora, who regained back his inner perversion, told the ladies to do mixed bathing to strengthen their bond. The funny thing was; In order to persuade Kurumi bathing, Sora asked Jibril to explain about Japanese mixed bath tradition and how the process took no less than 30 minutes. Imagine how tired Kurami was hearing her lecture ^O^

Less Hilarious, More Essences I Love it

No Game No Life Episode 9 Review

This week of No Game No Life truly entertains me with its creative storyline and motivation parts plus some interesting effect.

The episode was started with little Shiro, who in her childhood was sent into the orphanage. She was a natural born genius at games and while many persons taught her different games, no one could really entertain Shiro. One day Sora and his parents entered the orphanage and adopted her. Then, Sora greeted Shiro for the first time asking her to join him in the game.

Continuing last week episode, Shiro woke alone in her chamber and she knew that Sora was missing. Later, she asked Stephanie Dola and Jibril about who is the imanity ruler, which they said that she was the single ruler of Imanity. Knowing very well that Sora was real, she told them about the missing brother and how they could forget him. Jibril asked her to play chess and lose and purpose so she could forget about her brother.

Just when she was about to lose, the imaginary of her brother told her that no matters what Blank never lose. Shiro won the game by changing her knight movement. After realizing about the game from the last episode between Blank against Kurami and Fi the elves, Shiro deducted that her brother was losing in purpose. Afterward, Stephanie Dola suddenly tripped over three othelo pieces that scattered in the floor. Shiro realized that the game from last episode was not over and Sora entrusted her with the three pieces to finish the game and to save his existence.

Shiro played the last three piece of the othello and won the game. Her winning reanimated her brother as well as making Kurami lost her memories. Sora told her that he apologized for disappearing suddenly. Then, Sora gave Kurami’s memories back and finally they reached an agreement and the loser party would become the winner’s spy.

The episode truly gives important info during the airtime, which truly captivating me. Have you ever noticed why Sora and Shiro have different hair color? They are not related by blood or in other word they are adopted sibling. Their bond forged through communication with each other and their love for game; which accumulated over time.

This episode was using a unique color palette to show how Shiro’s world turns into a black and white world without her brother. It reflects Shiro’s lost of spirit and the fear of losing Sora. After Shiro regained her hope, and with the sudden realization that Blank never lose any games, Shiro winning move turns the entire imanitys continent back into a colorful place. This reflects how Shiro’s regained back her spirit and motivation to move forward.

No Game no Life, while usually hilarious and filled with comedy, can also make an episode that is serious but full with motivation. For example, Sora said that even if we were born without wing, we should create one to fly. It implies that even if our life stays the same, we shall never give up to create our own future. The wing embodies our passion, our dedication, or even our creativity while the sky embodies our hope and dream.

Sora’s speech about how people could not change themselves but their ways of doing thing truly captivated me. As an Individual, we are born with our own set of values that our family and friends give to us and then later the communities where we live reshape our way of thinking. As a unique individual, we can’t easily change our behavior or personality over night.

However, No Game No Life, in here represented by Sora, emphasized that we CAN change how we do thing. Even if we have wrong methods to solve problems, as long as we can change them, we can avoid repeating the same mistake over and over

The episode was finished with again another exaggeration moment between the sibling and the best friend. However, I was truly satisfied with the episode since I watched not only another fine episode of No Game No Life but I also learn some life lesson along the way