My Top 5 Fandoms: 5 - No Game, No Life

Hello everyone, and welcome to a small new series I`m going to be running on this blog, with a new episode coming every monday.

In this, I`ll be answering a question I often get asked: "what do you like?" from a geeky perspective.

So wether it is anime, television, books, movies, video games... I`ll be counting it down over a 5 instalment course, and perhaps it might even help my "not in-house" family members pick a fun christmas gift at the end of the year ;-)

The first instalment, and ranked 5th on my list, is a pretty recent anime franchise, one I discovered by watching the series and have been in love with ever since, namely No Game, No Life.

Based on a 10 volume novel series, this follows the adventures of the hikokomori siblings Shiro and Sora, whom are known in our world as the urban gaming myth "the Blank", putting high scores on every game they touch.  This is due to the fact they have been together so long, they fill out each other perfectly, and one day they are challenged by a so-called God to a game of chess.

They beat him, and are transported to the world of Disboard, where everything is decided by games, and Immanity (aka, humans) are the lowest ranking power, on the verge of being wiped out from existence.  So the siblings set to rebuilding them, and climb through the ranks to make Immanity the rulers of Disboard.

Now, unfortunatly the series anime was cancelled after 1 season, to the dismay of many even, as it was not only colourful, but through to the source material and damn fun.  This means you can "watch" the novels up to the first chapter of the third volume, where the series ended as such.  Apart from the Zero movie, where Shwie's fate left me crying...

A great, and still with a loyal following, anime series, and definitly worth checking out!  And to answer the question, do I have a tattoo of it yet?  The answer is no... not yet, but it WILL come once all the current projects are done.  And finally get those Blu-Ray boxes!!!!

Aschente!