Servamp

This anime is takes itself too seriously by trying to be 'deep' on the premise of 'friendship'. It fails horribly and characters act irrational on a basis such as "you called me a friend". The characters themselves come off as bland and again try to be deep with their single layered backstory or motives which just makes it even more laughable. After four episodes out of twelve I couldn't even remember what the plot was and I didn't even care because it seemed like they didn't even care themselves. If you like staring at your screen as long as theres something moving then you could ... tolerate this anime.

Looking for a series that constantly likes to add characters and ideas, then let it all pile up and do nothing with them? If that’s the case, then “Servamp” is right up your ally.

To make things clear, I do not mind the ideas the show has to offer. I found the concept of Servamps and Eves to be quite interesting. The problem I had with it was how everything was presented. Each episode gave us new subplots after another where eventually we have a bunch of things happening at the same time with almost no conclusion. It then makes me question what the main plot ... is because when something new happens, that suddenly takes priority. By the time the series finished, many things were left discarded and unanswered.

Similar to the plot, the characters never go anywhere in terms of personality. They just appear and decide to be involved in the conflict like it was nothing. The main characters have zero presence and don’t even feel like main characters. I had a hard time figuring out who the actual antagonist was or if there even was one. It’s not an exaggeration when I say that we get two of more characters introduced each episode. We’re overwhelmed with all of these people who have little to no presence. There is one thing I would like to mention. Each of the Servamps represent one of the seven deadly sins, and two of them are disregarded save for a flashback scene way later into the show. It was to my surprise that these two had appeared within five chapters of the manga, which baffles me because I don’t know why that choice was made.

The only positive thing I can say about it is the animation. It’s actually not that bad. The character designs were unique and each episode was often consistent. The action sequences weren’t terrible, but still a bit uninteresting. I did like it when the style changed like when a Servamp was using its powers or we were inside their minds.

Although it had some good ideas and animation, “Servamp” is still pretty boring with nothing to it. If I may be completely honest, the only thing that I truly got out of the show was the opening theme. It’s one of the styles of music that I love, but what got me was how unexpected it was. I had known beforehand that this was based on a shoujo manga, so this opening surprised the hell out of me. Knowing there are major differences in the manga, I may give that a shot someday. Otherwise, I don’t plan on revisiting the anime.

TL;DR at the end

~Contains Spoilers~

Servamp is odd. Not the series itself, because it is by no means unique. Just the fact that it was actually published in a Josei magazine baffles me. Who thought it was a good idea?
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STORY: 2/10

What do you get when you add 'figthing for my freinds!!!1!!!' with vampires with a survival game? The answer is a clusterfuck of characters and battles with lame motivations who's names you can't remember due to horribly executed master/servant relationships. The plot is very hard to follow at points, but from what I did follow, it wasn't that good to begin with. The conclusion, ... to top it off, is satisfying. Like, very satisfying. Almost made me wish that the series actually had something good earlier so I could've gotten at least a bit of enjoyment out of it.
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ART: 4/10

Servamp's art and animation just scream 'bland'. The animation seems to avoid any difficult character positions which looks weird at some parts. The art is colorful at the very least, but still feels dried up almost, like it sat in the sun for too long.
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SOUND: 4/10

For the most part, the voice acting, though half of them were annoying, were unique, and it helped the terrible characters become a little more distinguishable. As for the rest of it... well if you like heavy metal blaring in your ears, this is for you.
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CHARACTER: 2/10

The characters are frustrating to me. Mostly, because even if they are all VERY sexualized towards a female audience, some of them still look pretty cool! Kuro especially, and that lobster guy. Oh, and the piano kid. I don't have a reason to look up their names; the show didn't give me one. Despite some having alluring designs, they're motivations are so lame, it's hard not to laugh as they yell the way only anime characters can.
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TL;DR: 3/10

+Satisfying ending
+Some good character design
-Everything else

Servamp isn't worth your time, honestly. Even if you are looking for an anime exactly like this, Owari no Seraph outclasses it in every way. And THAT should say something.

I am not a huge anime viewer and choose to watch it casually, however this was one that was brought to my attention via a club in high school (ahh the great high school anime clubs). I binged the whole series and was quite entertained until the final episode.

It felt like through the entire series we were constantly forced to switch lights between different characters to uncover their unique backstories, however, everything had to be cut off in a strange way, due to the lack of time. The conclusion is absolute garbage and I felt like reflecting on the show as a whole, I ... know nothing interesting or unique about any of the characters with the exception of Lawless (who gets his own episode).

The characters are all boring and flat and even the characters with some depth like Sakuya and Licht, they have a couple moments before receding back into their boxes. Its all very cut and dry until the last episode where you hope for some satisfaction only to be severely disappointed.

As someone who watched the anime with rose colored glasses, I can only compare it to the currently ongoing manga. The manga and the anime are two completely different entities with the anime missing dramatically important character development points, plus the villains' whole motivation. If you seem intrigued by the concept (which I think is awesome), definitely save the hassle of watching the show and instead pick up the book instead. It has way more character points and develops the story much more naturally than the rushed anime.

Overall, read the manga instead.

Now whoever comes here talking about the manga, GTFO, this is servamp ANIME, not manga, the manga doesn't play any role here and i'm basing my judgement only on the anime because it would be ridiculous to make the watcher read something else to get the full feel of your work.

So what is my beef with it? Guessing you have already seen it then it's the freaking vampires. Why are they called vampires? They don't need to suck blood, they are immortal and are created by a human. So considering that, why make them obey after you have given them a name, your blood and ... an item. If you make some awesome creatures, you wouldn't want them to obey someone else and go after you right? that's a pretty stupid mistake to make.

Also you can only kill them buy destroying the object, if you just attack them they turn back into their little "cute" state which in itself is kinda bullshit. But when they are in their "cuute" state, they don't even have objects on them so they are pretty much immortal by that time. AND objects are given by masters so if they don't have a master they can't die ever????

This is just a little part why I really disliked it other than missing main characters, boring plot developemend and other stuff that you can conveniently find on my channel on YouTube if you search for MudanTV. I even throw some funny sketches in there, freaking 10 hours of work on a video and only 20 people see it, such is life.

Servamp has an interesting premise, but its execution manages to be too dull and too fast-paced at the same time. It relies too heavy on a single villain, whose maniac laughter becomes repretitive already during the first episode. Other servamps turn up too easily and too fast.

I think the series would've benefitted from the main character Mahiru having more on-screen relationships with humnans. They drop most of them after the first 1-2 episodes, which makes it difficult to understand Mahirus driving force of protecting those he like (aside from his vampire friend).

Due to the focus on a single villain who attacks again and again ... for vague reasons, I simply became bored. The introduction of a scary human(?) organization came too late to save my attachment to the show. I will not see the rest.

I seriously picked this anime because of reccomendations and due to its not being some romantic shounen series. However, I'm really disappointed with the protagnists who just want to be the good guy and bad guys well bad guys just for the sake of it, like there is no character development or anything like that happens. Besides that no other supporting characters have much support, for example during any fighting scenes only the protagnists stay their and doesn't even do anything. I seriously couldn't take it anymore, thus, couldn't force myself to watch it further. Moreover, the entire series doesn't even have any eyecatching or ... interesting plot, the only good thing in this entire anime is it's seiyuu and their hard works.

the anime is okay, not the best but something fun to watch if your bored and wanna watch something with abit of action. However I did not really like the ending and how anti climax it was, how suddenly he doesn't want to fight anymore and lets everyone go and go everything is back to normal? Beside that wierd and wacky ending the character and enjoyment were the only thing keeping this anime going. How some scenes did make me laugh and kept me going, aswell as the characters and how different they are. But also very similar with goals! In the end if you ... want a good action vampire story 10/10 this is def not the best one but is alright :)