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Guin Saga is a very interesting show. It gets you all pumped up with the action and fight sequences in the first half and plays with your emotions and keeps you guessing with complex political exchanges. As a preface, I have yet to see the entire show, I can't find the last two with subs, and the version I'm critiquing is a fansub, so dialogue and actual character development may, and probably will, differ from the official version. Needless to say, I am excited for official release.

Story: They do a pretty good job of introducing all the main characters in the first two or three episodes. If you have seen the first episode already and was really pissed about the male twin Remus, it's okay, he will get cooler later on. The overall story is almost perfect, the issues are namely:
1.Guin, Rinda, and Remus get captured all too often in the first couple of episode.
2.There is almost a sense of reality in the world of Guin Saga, but they don't explain enough. They show the two nations of Parros and Mongaul. Then they say there is the middle country and Nospherus and Aldros or something. Later on, when countries are joining up or betraying different counties it would be nice to know where the stand, both geographically and politically.
Like I said, other than those points the story is uniquely compelling.

Art: The art is fine. I'm not really picky when it comes to art style, as long as they pick a style and stick to it. And they did. I wasn't blown away by the animation but it didn't distract from the story the overall enjoyment of the show.

Sound: The sound was pretty good. The music adds to the scenes making the emotional scenes more emotional and the battle scenes more intense. The main theme is original and they don't play it so often it gets annoying.

Character: The most unlikely characters are the deep ones. Guin is your typical brute who smashes everything in his path, but he says somethings that are interesting. Most of the other main characters develop into something opposite I had originally expected. These are good points in character development. If the show is too predictable it gets boring. I was hardly ever bored during Guin Saga. However one character had to go and ruin that. Istovan, during almost every conversation you can guess he is going to swear something to or on “the gods.” This gets really old really fast and actually gets really annoying.

Enjoyment: I really enjoyed this series, at least so far. Most of the time it kept me second guessing people's motives or their intentions. Later on, they really get you, or maybe just me, to feel for the characters especially when they turn morality on it's head. They have like a thousand love triangles which gets to be a bit much but it seems to turn out all right.

Overall: I'd have to say an 8/10 for now. The end really seals the deal for me. I think the ending is the most important part, so depending on where and how they tie off the loose ends, this rating is likely to change. read more

I didn't see much of the story unravel, I only saw episode one, but what I did see was highly confusing. I understand in action scenes the need to change frames often, but even in the first fight sequence the frames change so much you can't tell whats going on. The writing is so awful and cheesy. Black Cat, "I'm here to bring bad luck." What, are you joking? Thats the coolest thing you could think of.
The Art style is probably the best thing about this show.
I guess the sound wasn't too bad, but nothing ground breaking here.
The main character, or the guy with the eye patch, seems like an interesting person at first but after using his lame power, he can see five minutes into the future, you might want to reconsider. He has this vision of somebody dieing and thinks that it is going to happen. If it's going to happen you may as well give up because you can't stop it. This happens all the time in other anime. The Black Cat character is your cliché short badass who has super powers and just kills everybody. Then after Black Cat, or Train Heartnet his real name ( which is a really dumb name by the way), gets a cut on his face, which also happens in almost every other anime, some Homo (He is clearly a homo because he says" Oh you scratched Train's beautiful, pretty-boy face, I'll have to kill you for hurting my lover) comes over and kills the other guy that cut his face.
Well yeah I know "I only saw one episode, How can I say the show sucks after only seeing one episode?"Considering how many other better animes there are out there why waste my time with this one if the first episode sucks so much? read more