[Story - 4/10] The anime disappoints right off the bat by failing to inform the watcher why the hell the main character is destroying all the shit he is. All we know that he's the main character and he's supposed to be the good guy, but it never tells us why. Furthermore, it never goes into depth about what powers people have, and where they originate from. The prime fields are another example out of the dozens of random stuff that are in this anime. You have to have either read the plot summaries on the wiki page or have actually played the game to understand any of this. A similar comparison would be Danganronpa, which aired earlier this year. Despite both games coming from a video game background, Dangan actually manages to explain what's going on in the anime. Granted, Blazblue is a much more complicated world, but at least one episode spent on explaining everything would've been nice.
[Art - 7/10] It's actually pretty nice, but there's a large lack of diversity in the characters, and nothing outstanding.
[Sound - 6/10] The OP and ED are alright I guess, but each of the character's voices sound waaay off from what they should be (Jin sounds like a 15 year old girl sometimes).
[Character - 4/10] As far as I know, none of the characters are explained at all, and thus it's hard to base any changes throughout the anime on what they were in the beginning. Why does Jin want to kill his brother? Why does Ragna hate Noel's face despite her looking like his long lost sister?? None of these things are explained well, and it hurts the anime as a whole.
[Enjoyment - 6/10] Despite this harsh criticism, I still watched the anime to it's completion. However. If you truly want to enjoy the anime, I highly recommend reading the wiki page and spoiling it a bit, otherwise you won't understand a thing.
Overall the anime isn't terrible on it's own, but coupled with the lack of information about the world they're in, as well as the backgrounds of all the characters, it loses out on many of the animes that came out this season. However, if you ever have time to burn, try this anime out, but be ready to be confused as hell unless you read the wiki.
