Despite this not being the first one I’ve reviewed, I’m always kind of impressed when I hear a gacha phone game got an anime, especially once it’s been out a bit rather than as a launch or pre-launch outing like Takt Op Destiny. Perhaps I shouldn’t be – I know that an anime outing can be more of an advert than a culmination, and I know that even a phone gacha game can be used as a storytelling medium, potentially creating something at least decent to work off. But games in general are a source that has struggled to find success in adaption and phone games are a particularly troubled subset. So when I see there’s an anime of Girls’ Frontline (also called Dolls’ Frontline), I both feel some appreciation for the fact that something with such an inauspicious beginning managed to go the distance, and deeply worried that the final product is going to hurt.
Unlike Azur Lane, I haven’t played GFL, so I’ve gone into this completely blind as a new viewer, arguably the kind of person that the show wants to attract and be appealing and memorable to. Why? Because I’m a glutton for punishment and people like it when I review something I should have dreaded watching. Is it really all that bad, though? Let’s take a look.
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