Sekai Seifuku: Bouryaku no Zvezda

Asuta Jimon, a runaway, is wandering the streets at night when he has a chance encounter with a young girl collapsed beside her tricycle. After he offers her some food, she is moved by his kindness and asks him to join her organization, offering him a face mask and a sweet bun. In need of a place to stay, Asuta decides to play along and accepts her offer, adopting the nickname "Dva."

Little does Dva know, this cute girl is Kate Hoshimiya, the leader of Zvezda, a secret organization bent on world conquest. However, he soon realizes the true weight of her words as peculiar happenings rope him deeper into Zvezda and its eccentric members—the samurai-like vanguard Itsuka Shikabane, tech-genius Natalia "Natasha" Vasylchenko, troublesome Yasubee "Yasu" Morozumi, ex-gangster Gorou Shikabane, and multi-purpose robot Roboko Tsujii.

With "White Light," a powerful organization of justice, and the entire Japanese government against them, can Zvezda really dominate all humanity and let their light shine throughout the world?

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Hoshimiya, Kate Main

Kuno, Misaki Japanese

Shikabane, Itsuka Main

Ise, Mariya Japanese

Vasylchenko, Natalia Main

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Jimon, Asuta Main

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Shikabane, Gorou Main

Hirota, Minoru Japanese

Tsujii, Roboko Main

Yamazaki, Erii Japanese

Morozumi, Yasubee Main

Toriumi, Kousuke Japanese

Komadori, Renge Supporting

Ichimichi, Mao Japanese

Shirasagi, Miki Supporting

Kotobuki, Minako Japanese

Shikabane, Tsubaki Supporting

Kobayashi, Sanae Japanese

Kananiwa, Kozue Producer

Maeda, Toshihiro Producer

Furukawa, Shin Producer

Kashiwada, Shinichirou Producer

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Jul 19, 2022

Zilchbiades

Recommended

I first saw this in Crunchyroll in 2020 but decided to watch and finish the whole thing today (July 20, 2022). This is a Question and Answer format review.

First question: Is Sekai Seifuku mainly a kids show?

Answer: Well, with the uniforms of some of the characters, it is definitely not for kids. One thing I'll do say is that the show really felt like one.

Second question: Should I watch Sekai Seifuku?

Answer: I think you won't gain much from finishing this show. There's so many cliches but I still enjoyed watching majority of the show. There are some waifu tier characters in this show which might ... mean something to others.

Third question: Should I watch the Special episode?

Answer: I didn't feel like watching it after the main series. I guess you could and I guess it's also a mini sequel.

Fourth question: What is there to like about Sekai Seifuku?

Answer: I'm able to handle the cliches since I've been able to watch so many anime but there are a few things to like about this show; The music (I personally prefer the ending song), as I said from the above the waifu tier characters, the voice acting for most of the characters was actually enjoyable that I want to hear their voices again, and lastly the designs of these characters as in their uniforms and stuff.

Fifth question: What is there to not like about Sekai Seifuku?

Answer: Well, cliches, cliches, and cliches. The story, well now that I noticed, they pretty much combined a 3 volume manga and two short manga at the same time and the result (the anime) for me is a decent experience but I think it's something that is not good pretty much. Also the age difference is like "NANI?" but at this point who cares about it anymore.

Summary: Sekai Seifuku is a show for teens pretty much unless some adults happen to have the same humor of this anime, a show that happens to get it's story misled or confusing but enjoyable, a show with enjoyable characters and somewhat nice voice acting, and a show that is overall a decent teen yet kids-like show that anyone can laugh with some of the jokes in the show.

This is pretty much an anime where if you want to reach a milestone like watching your 100th anime and such, this can be the show although there are way better options out there (compared to this show) like Shimoneta and Prison School.Just watch it if you just wanna chill, just watch it if you wanna see some hot highschool girl do some cool stuff, just watch it if you just wanna understand the usually unrecognised, unpopular, or anime that people don't usually watch and yeah that's all I gotta say about Sekai Seifuku. 7/10 and Itsuka Shikabane is my waifu from this show.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jun 3, 2020

BLP_

Mixed Feelings

Sekai Seifuku is an interesting one. The middling score I'm giving it isn't a reflection of the number of things I dislike about the anime, but instead, comes down to the things I did like about it just not being substantial enough for me to properly sink my teeth into it.

The show is about a ragtag band of misfits and their attempts on conquering the world, lead by a young girl and helped by a runaway boy who gets more than he bargained for when he joins their organisation. The characters are eccentric and the premise is an immediate winner. Which brings me to my ... one main all-encompassing criticism - there's just not enough of either of these things.

I really enjoyed the various characters, they're all very unique, well designed and fun to watch, but sadly they don't get enough attention. A lot of time is spent on the comparatively more normal and less interesting main character, while the other small cast of characters are in the side-lines. When these other characters are given their moments, they're often very brief, or sometimes snippets of backstory that feel a little out of context and not very fulfilling. They're interesting enough to catch your attention but not fleshed out enough to keep hold of it.

Similarly, for a show about conquering the world, there's just not enough conquering going on. The characters are often decent and passive, with no real criminal behavior for much of the series. Almost all episodes focus in on fairly banal and pedestrian plots that don't deliver on the much grander premise. I really don't need to see these characters idling, going to school, having dinner or going to spa's so often, when what they should be involved in is action, fights and subjugating the human race. As a result, many of the episodes feel inconsequential and meandering.

All in all, I just would have liked more. Of everything. More plot progression, more conquering and more reason to care about these characters. Unfortunately it feels like another case of wasted potential. A grand plot with wacky characters gives you a lot of creative freedom to take a story in a variety of directions but sadly it's squandered here and the series as a whole is all too mundane.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Mar 27, 2017

Streecer

Not Recommended

For all of it's interesting character designs and potential, Zvezda can't seem to translate it into something watchable. The premise is an immediate attention grabber, a comedic story about a organization out for world domination from the perspective of one of it's low level grunts. Unfortunately A-1 seem to have stopped at the premise and character designs, forgoing writing an interesting narrative.

On several occasions I was left with the feeling that I'd missed an episode or two, plot points are introduced and dropped fast with little explanation. Some story beats completely miss the mark, and the level of narrative convenience on display is unmatched ... by any piece of media I've ever watched. Things happen in Bouryaku no Zvezda which is the nicest thing you can say about it's plot, but it's unlikely to explain why.

There is little to no consequence to anything that happens during these 12 episodes. Many of the characters do not get their time in the sun, instead the show assumes that we know them already by introducing characters from their past and forcing us to fill in the blanks. In one particularly insulting instance, the climatic episode of the series is a hot spring episode. The characters return from their vacation to discover that the final act of the story has started without them present. Why?

Of course the character designs are interesting, but you'll be given very little reason to care about many of them. It's impressive that in a show with such an out-there cast they still find time to have anime requisite filler in a 12 episode show. What's the opposite of "tightly paced?" Zvezda is exactly that.

The animation is fine enough, and the voice acting and soundtrack is a particular highlight for me. But otherwise this is a show with very, very little to offer the viewer. In fact it doesn't seem to have much to offer to itself. With a bit of effort with it's narrative this might have been a highlight of the season, instead it's easily forgettable and in some cases obnoxious to remember.

Zvezda isn't interested enough to have a coherent story, return the favour and avoid this one.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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