Viper's Creed

Viper's Creed stands out as an anime that skillfully navigates intricate human interactions, racial tensions, and immigration challenges within a futuristic context. The series captivates with its well-written plot and engaging exploration of real-world issues.


The incorporation of racial and immigration problems adds depth to the narrative, elevating the series beyond the typical kind of post-apocalyptic fare. By addressing these real-world issues, the anime not only entertains but also prompts reflection on the parallels between its fictional world and our own.


The anime introduces viewers to a world filled with futuristic weaponry, showcasing a vision of technology that is both awe-inspiring and intimidating. However, this is where ... the show encounters one of its significant flaws—the use of CGI weaponry. The execution of these animated elements falls short, appearing lackluster and, at times, detracting from the overall viewing experience. The clash between the captivating hand-drawn characters and the less-than-impressive CGI weaponry creates a visual disparity that may leave you disenchanted. To be honest, the CGI-heavy fight scenes fall short, hindering the overall excitement. The battles, crucial to the story, suffer from lackluster visuals, making them a less-than-thrilling watch for people anticipating dynamic and visually striking action typical of the genre.


Despite this flaw, the main plot remains a driving force that may keep you invested. The narrative unfolds with precision, maintaining a delicate balance between character development, world-building, and overarching themes. The well-written storyline offers a compelling reason to stick around.


In conclusion, Viper's Creed succeeds in delivering a thought-provoking narrative that explores the complexities of human interaction and societal struggles within a futuristic and post-apocalyptic context. Despite the anime's visual shortcomings in the CGI weaponry department, its well-written plot and exploration of real-world issues make it a worthwhile watch for those seeking a unique blend of drama, action, and societal reflection.

Viper's Creed was made in 2009 by AIC Spirits (A company with some good stuff but a pretty questionable history overall.) It was was created by Aramaki Shinji. It aired briefly in America, but was quickly canceled due to low ratings. Honestly, given the stuff that gets popular in America, I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad sign. So let's take a look at Viper's Creed and find out.

The story is pretty simple. Air and sea travel has been made impossible by a large-scale war. Cities have been isolated and contractors called Blademen have been hired by a foreign business to safeguard ... the city from bug mechs. A terrorist group with really nonsensical ideas called Hound is also causing problems and the Viper team finds itself in the middle of a conspiracy. The story does some things well. The setup is pretty interesting and, when you find out the nature of the conspiracy, a lot of the seemingly nonsensical elements do end up making some sense. But the story still has a couple major issues. Instead of developing their characters naturally in the narrative they have several episodes that barely connect to the main story in which they inundate you with backstory. Because that's much better than learning about a character naturally. The story is also pretty minimal, when they do get to the main plot what you actually get is a lot of action sequences with short bursts of story. The ending is also a load of crap, but I can't go into details about why without spoilers.

Let's move into the characters. To Viper's Creed's credit, they do try to develop the six major characters and it works, they are three-dimensional characters. The major problem is with the supporting cast, which is composed largely of one-dimensional characters and the antagonists who barely get any motivation. Another problem is that some of the major characters are just unsympathetic. The main example of this being Haruki who goes beyond naive and into the realm of being a complete moron. The worst part is that his complete idiocy is barely questioned.

Let's talk about the art for a moment. The machines in this look really good. The action scenes are really intense and well done. That being said, they do some bizarre things with faces and the backgrounds are pretty lazy most of the time.

The voice acting is good. Toyoguchi Megumi, Kuroda Takaya, Minagawa Junko and several others do well in their roles. The one real exception is Akiyama Nana who gives a rather uninspired and flat performance. I haven't heard her in anything else so I couldn't tell you whether this was the direction, inexperience or just a lack of ability at expressing emotions. I'm not even going to bother speculating on it. Then there's the music, a lot of it just doesn't work with the series. It's just too soft and serene for the action-packed content.

The yuri factor is a 1/10. There's no yuri in this.

My final rating for Viper's Creed is a 6/10. It does have some major issues, but it also has some great characters and great action scenes. If you can handle the story issues and the more minor issues then it is a decent watch.

I've not seen many bad anime in my lifetime but this is for sure one of them. While it's for sure not the bottom of the barrel by any means it's easily the worst anime that I have personally seen.

The story makes no sense. Nothing is explained. The main characters and organization just fight generic robots on highways in their mech-cars/bikes. It's like the show can't decide if it wants to be post-apocalyptic or be futuristic sci-fi so what we actually get is something generic and uninteresting.

The artstyle and soundtrack is fine for its time. The OP is the best thing about the series and ... even then you'll barely remember it after the years pass.

The characters are absolutely bland and dull. You don't have much of a reason to care about anyone or anything in this universe.

Overall I only watched the show one day when I was really sick and didn't really care what was on the television. If nothing else it's at least memorable for being bad. Not like that is a good thing. 3/10.