Sacred Seven

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Synonyms: Sacred 7

Japanese: セイクリッドセブン

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 3, 2011 to Sep 16, 2011

Premiered: Summer 2011

Broadcast: Sundays at 02:28 (JST)

Producers: Bandai

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: Sunrise

Source: Original

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi

Themes: School, Super Power

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 6.59¹ (scored by 33,473 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #6465²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #2412

Members: 78,533

Favorites: 81

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Synopsis

Alma Tandoji lives a lonely life. One day, Ruri Alba, a girl accompanied by her butler and maids, visits him. Knowing the power of Sacred Seven is latent within Alma, she asks him to lend her his powers. However, he refuses and drives her away since he injured many with his unusual strength in the past.

Meanwhile, a fiendish Dark Stone creature suddenly appears in this peaceful town in the Kanto region. Only Alma's power of Sacred Seven can fight against it. But Alma just lets his power run amuck and things begin to get worse. Ruri raised her gemstone in order to release his true abilities, My Soul I give to you.

With Ruri's wishes engraved in it, will Alma be able to defeat the Dark Stone?

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Adaptation:	Sacred Seven
Summary:	Sacred Seven: Shirogane no Tsubasa

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Characters & Voice Actors

Aiba, Ruri

Main

Nakajima, Megumi
Japanese

Tandoji, Alma

Main

Terashima, Takuma
Japanese

Kijima, Knight

Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko
Japanese

Hellbrick

Supporting

Ookawa, Tooru
Japanese

Kagami, Father

Supporting

Miyake, Kenta
Japanese

Itou, Wakana

Supporting

Itou, Kanae
Japanese

Risa

Supporting

Hayashi, Saori
Japanese

Shiori

Supporting

Mikami, Shiori
Japanese

SP

Supporting

Takabe, Ai
Japanese

Akasaki, Nanami

Supporting

Akasaki, Chinatsu
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Maeda, Toshihiro

Producer

Oohashi, Yoshimitsu

Director

Aketagawa, Jin

Sound Director

Hayashi, Naotaka

Episode Director, Storyboard

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Opening Theme

	1: "stone cold" by FictionJunction (eps 1-6)
	2: "Kiseki (輝跡-kiseki-)" by Yuuka Nanri (eps 7-11)

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Ending Theme

	1: "Kiseki (輝跡-kiseki-)" by Yuuka Nanri (eps 1-6)
	2: "stone cold" by FictionJunction (eps 7-11)
	3: "Tsunagaru Made (つながるまで)" by Megumi Nakajima (eps 12)

Reviews

Jul 18, 2011

Bugsquasher

Recommended

When I wrote this review originally I only watched three episodes and gave it an 8. I'm going to be honest: it went a little downhill from there. But then I saw the final episode. And I sat back on my chair thinking of the awesomeness I just witnessed. Seriously, if you start this anime you have got to finish it till the end. I mean that.

In the opening we see Tandoji riding his tiny motorcycle in the most badass way possible and FictionJunction singing a fitting song. First impressions are important, and this show managed to give a good one.

About the story; ...

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Nov 5, 2011

Archaeon

Mixed Feelings

"Haste makes waste."

Entertainment is a cut throat industry, and while every studio and publisher scrabbles around in a desperate search for the next big thing, they must continue to make ends meet in some way. When it comes to anime this is usually achieved by creating a one season adaptation of an existing manga, game or light novel, and the aim of these shows isn't simply to generate revenue, but also to test the market for potential franchises. There are other methods though, one of which is to string together several well known base concepts, add something resembling a story, and release the finished article ...

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Jul 8, 2011

Nyron

Not Recommended

Okay kids, time for some more real talk. Scryed came out 10 years ago, that's a whole damn decade. That show was a masterpiece, it took every aspect of its genre and executed them perfectly. The story was straight to the point and didn't have any bullshit to weigh it down. No titties, no robots, no girlymen, no school setting, no overelaborate art direction, no holes, no filler, no extraneous characters, etc; it was a super power fighting show about people who beat the shit out of things and were proud to have that privilege. It was truly Sunrise's greatest work of its kind.

That's one ... reason why they're re-releasing it for its 10th birthday.
The other is to show how secretly ashamed of themselves they are for what they're making nowadays: Sacred Seven.

>>>This is a review of my impressions from the first episode. If you have gripes akin to "oh man, you can't review the merit of a whole show from one episode!", well I say "The hell I can't." First episodes are important. They set the tone for series and generally give a good idea for what you're getting into. Have some great shows had bad first episodes? Yeah, but this show is not Baccano, or DRRR!!, or Gungrave. It's another vapid and shallow merchandising action series by Sunrise.

Sacred Seven is a superpower fightan' series for the new decade, and it's a piece of shit. It takes all of the genre-polish Scryed applied a decade ago and does away with it. The show's about a 10-foot tall, YuGiOh-haired, noodly wuss named Arma, who spends a majority of his day staring out the generic Japanese classroom window from his back-right desk and eating on the school's rooftop. Everyone thinks he's dangerous, because none of the tertiary characters in this show have the perceptive abilities to tell what a loser he is. When he gets all mad he turns into a really lame ripoff of Knight Blazer, and then some loli uses a plot device to turn him into a really lame ripoff of Megaman.

Joining him is the aforementioned otaku hug pillow model Ruri, a mysterious, wealthy, secret organization-leading magical lolita who changes into a new fabulous outfit in every scene. And she's an exchange student who pops up in the student council too, truly a jack of all pandering. She has a generic butler guy with glasses and a clunky mecha who'll gratefully accept the role as the series' jobber. And then there are the copy/pasted worthless schoolgirl characters, the wisecracking mascot thing, the rival that looks like Soul Taker and an army of French maids to increase the show's DVD sales.

Basically the story is "So there's this kid with superpowers that he doesn't want because he's a pussy, so some magic chick makes his powers heroic and then they fight monsters while dealing with school shenanigans on the side." It's really sad how poorly thought out and boring this is, it's like something that a B-company would've released in the 90's that everyone immediately forgot about. There's really no reason for a show this bland to exist today, especially when it's coming off the heels of Tiger&Bunny, a far more refreshing and interesting show by the same studio that's in the same damn genre.

The animation is smooth, but not impressive. There were no particularly memorable or striking scenes, which is horrible for a big budget first episode. The characters are drawn very CLAMPy, and pretty much all of the designs are boring and forgettable. The main girls boobs vary greatly in size depending on the scene, outfit and camera angle, I guess that's Sunrise's way of appealing to all kinds of deviants without introducing more than one important female character.

The OP sucks. The ED sucks. Both are generic-as-hell synthy J-pop tunes that don't bode well for the show ever developing a serious or masculine tone. The opening animation is basically Star Driver's first OP without any decent art direction. The rest of the audio is just as underwhelming, there are no catchy badass action BGMs here, and nothing uses any instruments or sounds that are out of the ordinary. The voices are lame, everyone sounds basically how you'd expect them to, except for Arma who's less intimidating than Star Driver's "GINGA BISHOUNEN!".

To sum it up, Sacred Seven:
-Shits on everything Scryed did for the genre.
-Is basically Code Geass with no hook.
-Is directly competing with Tiger&Bunny, a similar show that's better in every way by the same studio. Not to mention the upcoming Scryed OVAs too.

I don't have much hope for this series. If it turns out better than a unanimous 6/10, I'll be very surprised.

Update of 2014: It should be noted that this series has a median review score of 6/10 and below. Damn I'm good.

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