The military fantasy series begins when a gate appears in Tokyo's Ginza district sometime in the 21st century. From the gate pours out monsters, knights from middle-age Europe, and other fantasy-like beings, and they kill many of the citizens of Tokyo. This event is known as the Ginza Incident.
The government sends a small group of soldiers from the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (a replacement for Japan's military) to the alternate world beyond the gate. Led by otaku soldier Youji, they find that the villages in the world are being attacked by a dragon. An elf girl who is a survivor from the dragon's rampage joins the group in their travels across the dangerous new world.
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best anime ever because Japanese nationalism, but also the worse cause split screens
Warning This review may contain spoilers.
First impressions, so we got modern Japan meets fantasty world with the help of an magic inter dimensional gate that appears out of nowhere sounds interesting enough.
Story, 4/10
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A show promoting deeply distasteful ideas whose only benefit of the doubt is its inane attempts to pander and titillate
GATE is fundamentally a show that wants to be treated seriously but catastrophically fails at even an inkling of that. While some people can rightly find this show offensively bad, reeking of militarist and ultra-nationalist ideas, that may ironically be giving GATE too much credit. To put forward a…