Tasokare Hotel is a hotel that is engulfed in twilight all day long, with no distinction between day and night. It exists as a place between life and death, where souls unable to decide whether to move on to the afterlife or return to the present world can rest their wings. The protagonist, Neko Tsukahara, wanders into Tasokare Hotel without remembering who she is or why she's there. Guided by the hotel staff, she is led to her room. "There should be items related to the customer's memories in the room. These might serve as clues to help the customer regain their memories." While searching for a way to return to the present world and remembering who she is, she encounters a certain incident...
Other Information
Type: TV
Episodes: Unknown
Status: Not yet aired
Aired: Jan 8, 2025 to ?
Premiered: Winter 2025
Broadcast: Wednesdays at 22:30 (JST)
Previewed: Jan 3, 2025
Producers: flying DOG, Bushiroad
Licensors: REMOW Co., Ltd.
Studios: PRA
Source: Game
Genres: Fantasy, Mystery
Duration: 23 min.
Rating: None
As Remow has the streaming rights for this show, it's on Amazon and the It's Anime channel on Youtube.
Episode 1
Seeing that this show is based on a mobile game and that a low-budget studio is doing it that I'm not expecting much. So it sets things up here by explaining that the hotel is on the border of the afterlife where guests who check in don't know anything about themselves. Tsukahara finds herself there and realizes that she was going to a rock concert as she slowly uncovers pieces of her past. And then she deals with another customer in Hoshina, who has a tarot card for a head, as it turns out she's a big fan of a fortune teller influencer, but everything fell apart when he was found out to be a fraud, and Hoshina ended up being hit in the head by a crystal ball. But it turns out that she is still alive, so back to the world of the living she goes, all while Tsukahara decides to work there. Not much going on here, and I would like to know the full story of Tsukahara's life, but I get the sense that won't be coming until the end.
I wasn't initially thrilled since it began just like many low-tier Isekai Anime out there-- dying, waking up somewhere unknown, and easily get comfy to things. But fortunately, that kind of setup makes sense for this story's concept. It made sense for characters to easily feel comfy since they're all quite hazy and don't remember much when they get there.
Since it's a Mystery, the Isekai aspect isn't just a cheap bait but a necessary situation for the MC to remain in the place she's currently in.
Characters seems to be well placed so far. The Butler is seemingly teased to have some connection with the MC, and the maid somewhat treating the MC with disdain likely roots from somewhere so, that's something I'm curious about as well. The Manager seems to have died on his way to Fire Force S3. xD
While the initial case they tackled was basically just an introduction tutorial, I'm curious how the rest of the mysteries would go.
3-episode treatment for now. But I feel this has a good potential to remain entertaining anyway... fingers crossed.
Pretty boring for a first episode.
At first look is a mystery show except that there is no way to resolve the mystery because everything is subjective to the occupant of the room. This is more like Legend of Mana, and that is not a good thing.
Neko is now an employee at the hotel, and she is a hard worker there. Next guest of focus is a guy whose head is a pachinko ball as he's a guy with a gambling addiction, and his favorite food is hamburger steak. The man known as Atsuhiro Ando has been gambling and ended up falling deep into debt where he resorted to stealing from his parents adn harvesting coral with the loan sharks in order to pay off his debts, and then when he couldn't pay it off he was buried alive. He recovers his memories just in time to awaken from his burial before he suffocates to death. Ando sure has lived a bad life there, but at least he's determined to fix his gambling addiction. So that's two guests who returned to the world of the living after checking out of the hotel.
The next guest is Masaki Osoto, a so-called detective who comes in with a pansy for his head. He was looking at pansies on a rainy day, but he fell and was impaled by the fence around it. As it turns out, Osoto is not a detective, but is actually a criminal who was on his way to murdering the lady he claimed was his girlfriend before the accident. He tries to kill Ruri, which would have sent him to Hell, but Neko stopped him before he could do so. So Osoto checks out, but seeing that he still doesn't know if he's dead or alive that for now he's staying at the hotel. There's just so much to unpack about that guy, but it's clear that he's not like the first two guests and is evil unless the hotel visit has him changing his ways.
Thinking about the people who are on the verge of death, most of them must be drugged and/or seriously injured and/or very ill. The writer suggests that creating brainless characters. Is a very clever trick.
With how it's going, we're basically just waiting for the show to tell us a 'story of the week' than for the MC to uncover a mystery since there's not really much investigating required-- evidence just shows up when people remember things, and they remember things on their own anyways.
The new character did quite make things a bit curious. But for now, it's a fairly entertaining calm show to watch and that's it. Will keep watching though.
Yeah, that was my first thought how stupid could they be.
I wondered if they were actually going to have anyone end up dead. I wonder why they sent her to hell, since she didn't actually kill her friend. Was just having her hand on the blade enough to do it, or causing the girl to want to commit suicide.
This episode was kind of Hell Girl like
Seems weird that they just let the murderer walk around the hotel, guess they don't have any means to restrain him.
Antagonist-wise, this episode was great for Masaki to make him look like a lurking menace that the MC would have to keep in check, and to be wary about.
For someone who didn't even know they died and could've had the possibility of taking their death peacefully, seeing a somewhat patient and gentle girl go to hell for actions she only ended up committing due to Masaki's lies and manipulation really makes Masaki a very vile evil entity.
She was basically just a girl with a clean conscience who died in an accident in the real world but got sent to Hell solely because of her deeds in the afterlife. But I guess she did have a clear intention of killing her friend thinking she'd live if she does, Masaki's lie it may have been.
The hotel rule is quite harsh as well-- as Kiriko told Masaki, it's a literal rule: You kill, you go to hell. In a way, the girl didn't really kill her friend when she slashed her so, technically, that shouldn't have counted as her "killing". But since she had her hands on the blade when her friend pierced herself to death, it counted as killing, which sent her to hell.
Never mind the lacking 'mystery/detective' aspect of the show, this show now has my interest with just the hell thing alone; I'm curious whether Hell would take someone who's been manipulated by Masaki to kill someone even before they remember anything about themselves.
I think it would be good to explain the hotel rules when a new guest arrives. Better if it is done off camera.
And you have a useful tool but it is only used to create artificial conflict.
Don't use a telescope to see the sun. Well, if you are alive.
I was thinking after all the first episodes where the guest was really still alive, if they had the kid be dead, I was going to be pretty mad. Not sure I am happy about the cat being dead, but at least the kid survived.
Hmm a 2 parter. I wonder if they will explain the cracking sound we kept hearing associated with the idol. I wonder if she was murdered by her "friend"
The rules of this place don't make sense. That girl killed herself, but the friend was dragged to hell. Osoto was clearly holding the gun and pulled the trigger, so killed himself, but Atori is taken to hell.
Yeah, kind of ended up like a Hell Girl Light at the end. It was decent. I guess I feel somewhat sorry for Osoto the way his parents treated him, but he was a freaking psychopathic murderer, so not sorry either. Wish Neko could save the Idol and the high school girls as well. Also feel like Osoto's parents should face some hardship for what they did to him.
The confrontation between Neko and Oosoto in episode 11 were quite interesting, and I got intrigued as to how they'd go about the situation of Atori being sent to hell.
Unfortunately, they fixed all the problems through one of the laziest methods in story-telling history-- Time reset, and with the protag's memory intact.
I would've rather a usual kind of ending instead where Neko, and Atori, struggled around with Oosoto until she berates him enough to shoot either Atori- who's already dead in reality anyway- or Neko- who could have preferred dying with justice instead of getting back in the real world- which sends him to hell.
But what instead happened was, Oosoto got a desirable result by managing to send Atori to hell, and Neko had to use a cheat code to fix things but effectively lost the original battle.
6.5/10 (6 on MAL)
Oosoto as a villain made the show interesting by having a conniving psychopath around that could strike anytime, especially when considering the rules of the hotel which leaves vulnerable "Guests" susceptible to being manipulated into killing another to send them to hell or take their own lives even with them still being alive in the living world.
Without him, this is basically just a story-of-the-week story that's barely "Mystery".