The story centers on Kaede Honjou, who is invited by her friend Risa Shiramine to play a virtual reality MMO game with her. While Kaede doesn't dislike games, what she really, truly dislikes is being in pain. She creates a character named Maple, and decides to put all her points in VIT to minimize pain. As a result, she moves slowly, can't use magic, and even a rabbit can get the best of her. However, as it turns out, she acquires a skill known as "Absolute Defense" as a result of her pumping points into VIT, as well as a "Counter Skill" that works against special moves. Now, with her ability to nullify all damage, she goes on adventures.
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This anime doesn’t try to be special, because the most special thing is all about having fun in this world...
*“Now to distribute status points? Everything I've got goes into defense!” - Maple*
~~~If you couldn’t tell from the title, Bofuri isn’t an anime that you should take seriously and expect anything crazy from. The characters are hilarious, the atmosphere is light and refreshing, and the storyline ce…
At first, this show looked like standard cute girls doing cute things show that come dime a dozen these days. However, after two episodes I realized this show struck a powerful chord.. as New World Online reminded me of the fun days I played in the real game Ragnarok Online. Reminded me all of the i…
One of my favorite things I used to do on a daily basis growing up is playing a lot of online-focused games. From the creative levels from Little Big Planet 2, the turned planning of competitive Pokemon the heavily social base Playstation Home to the addicting strategy first-person shooter Battlefie…
This anime is for those people who need their MMO craving scratched but don't want a serious story.
__VISUALS: 90/100__
They did a fairly great job in the animation for this. There's CGI used here and there, but I think they handled it well enough and transitioned from it to traditional and vice versa pretty smoothly. There are also really great scenes visually, like during the times when Maple g…
A show that never forgets it's ultimately about a girl playing a game with her friends, having fun
_~~~Urged on by her friends, Kaede joins VR MMORPG_ New World Online. _Not wanting to get hurt, she opts to be a shield user and starts putting every status point she earns into increasing her defense stats. Despite this leaving her with slow movement and no magic, her high defense allows her to end…
A comedic love letter to MMOs that focuses too much on the game systems and not enough on the player experience
In a sea of gauche power fantasies and wish fulfilment, it is easy just to pigeonhole Bofuri as nothing more than that. However, Bofuri easily surpasses this tragically low bar to be a show that is earnest about its subject matter: what it is like to play an MMO. While it still does have a superfici…
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In a world where a girl enters a virtual MMO game, and realizes she has a special skill, she now has a bunch of defensive attacks to rely on her adventures. This is story of BOFURI, an a…