2017 · adventure · animation · drama
No Game No Life: Zero
Directed by Atsuko Ishizuka1h 46m2017
Six thousand years before Sora and Shiro were even a blink in the history of Disboard, war consumed the land, tearing apart the heavens, destroying stars, and even threatening to wipe out the human race. Amid the chaos and destruction, a young man named Riku leads humanity toward the tomorrow his heart believes in. One day, in the ruins of an Elf city, he meets Schwi, a female exiled "Ex Machina" android who asks him to teach her what it means to have a human heart.
Our read: No Game No Life: Zero (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, surreal adventure · animation · drama entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured adventure / animation, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- surreal
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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