Break Blade

Review to self:

Plot: the plot progression was so slow and almost tiring to watch. Nothing out of your ordinary mecha style story line. It would have been much better if it ended with zess reuniting but I guess there's probably another continuation somewhere on the Internet. There's so little detail about other nations apart from the fact that MC is going to war because his friends nation allowed another nation to pass through them to invade their neighbours. Shallow plot leaves more to be desired

Art and design honestly loved the quality added in this anime, animation was so smooth with characters being finely created. I ... would not have noticed the difference in this series (2014) and a series made within the last year based on art style and design. That being said many parts of the series were a single frame being panned or zoomed in, I guess it meant they had to focus quality on certain scenes more than others. Overall amazing art and design

Character development: dense character palette, personalities were decent but nearly none of the characters developed, not even MC. They were all rather slow if at all, definitely space to improve with character development.

Enjoyment: this was a neat watch for a 12 episode series condensed into 6 episodes at 50m each. Felt that there were parts missing like the high school back story all the main characters referred to, since opening ep 1 just shows MC near death in the desert.

Overall: not really worth the watch if other shows are lined up, I'm glad to have finally watched this series after putting it off for so long though. One more anime under my belt