すばらしきこのせかい The Animation S1

Just play SubaSeka instead

This is the anime adaptation of the DS game すばらしきこのせかい / The World Ends With You, made to build hype for the decade-plus-overdue sequel game and familiarize a new audience with the basic premise. To be upfront about my bias, TWEWY has been my favourite game of all time since it was released; the story and characters of the original game deeply influenced me the first time I played it and have remained important to me for over fifteen years, so I hold the anime to a much higher standard than it c

A surprisingly decent adaption of the game

I picked this up as a huge fan of the original game wanting something generally easy to watch, and that's basically what I got. The original game is smushed into 12 episodes, leading to a somewhat breakneck pace, but I felt like the important bits were generally covered well.

The voices are easily overtaken by the music, unfortunately, but otherwise the actors are fairly clear. There's a decent bit of game-specific lingo considering the episode count, you'll probably be able to pick it up fairl