Jun 28, 2016
OVERALL:The show overall was decent. The story and how characters reacted to the situations that were presented made sense for the most part. I wasn't left thinking, "well that just made no sense whatsoever" as tends to happen in most anime. It was pretty strong. No obviously major holes. Pretty much all the questions that needed to be answered in a first season were answered and just enough was left unknown to make you want to watch the next season. Though it wasn't an anime that had me hooked from the get go, leaving me needing to watch the next episode, it did hook me
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into the next season.
STORY:The show is fairly predictable, which doesn't make it bad, it just makes it safe. I don't think safe is a "bad" thing, it's just a bit boring. The thing that I felt saved the show from being totally boring was the last episode. It was the only point in the series where I felt really invested in the characters and felt the need to see what happened next.
ART:I liked the art style. It was a little bit different, creating a rounded and soft look about the characters, but with a subtle sharpness. It gave the male characters a very "pretty" kind of feel. The female characters were a little typical though.
SOUND: The music is pretty good. It sounds a lot like the soundtrack for Kill la Kill though. The music for each show was done by the same person so it makes sense, but a unique soundtrack can really help make an anime and when an iconic sound from another show is playing it can be a little distracting. Naruto is a good example of iconic sound. The music from Naruto is uniquely Naruto and, for many fans, hearing those sounds can really amp up the mood for a fight or set the viewer up for a tearjerker.
CHARACTERS:The characters are really not great. They're very average. The supporting characters are very typical and very few of the characters are actually developed. My two main issues were the main character, Inaho, and the princess. Inaho is what I would call an extreme case of the "composed type." Most of the time he seems like an emotionless lump. I think there were only a couple moments where he seemed to have emotions, and some of those moments weren't even directly from him but from the words of other characters. Yet somehow it was just enough to cause me to become somewhat attached to him, attached enough to care whether he lives or dies. Even though I wish there was a little more emotion from him, they did succeed in giving him an underlying sense of emotion. They managed to paint the picture of an incredibly emotionally challenged genius.
The princess was my possibly my least favorite character. This is mostly because she filled the part of the delicately adorable love interest. I hate these characters. They're like the magikarp of anime. If you pick an anime randomly and then go watch it nine out of ten times the main love interest is going to be meek and cute little girl with a sweet little high pitched voice to go with her incredibly strong moral compass. Princess Asseylum is that character and fits the role perfectly. I'm a little tired of these characters and it almost annoys when I end up liking the character, though that usually has to do with the character of the male love interest and how they interact with each other. Though a review is based mostly on opinion this particular part is purely my own opinion and I apologize for the rant. Looking at it technically there's nothing wrong with the princess' character. She's just so... *sigh* typical... On a side note I think her dress is a bit ridiculous and would probably work better on a magical girl, but that could just be me.
ENJOYMENT:I think the best way of putting this is that I didn't not enjoy the show. Yeah. I did;t not enjoy it. I think it's a good show to put on if you want something playing in the background while you wash the dishes or something. Something that you don't have to fully pay attention to.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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