Ange Vierge

Unlike most animes that are either based off manga or light novels Ange Vierge is actually based off a card game. This is unusual to say the least.

The main story revolves around a force of female warriors and soldiers who are drawn from the different worlds that are connected to the blue world that they live in fighting a war against an alien race called the Ouroboro's. As settings go this is actually pretty unique.

Saya is the main character of the show and the main protagonist.
A relatively new member of the exceed division that is tasked with defending the worlds ... against the enemy attackers known as Ouroboros Saya starts the series as an inexperienced member that aspires to get to the top. This stems for her wish to be accepted by others because before she did not have much of a presence as well.

Saya's dominant trait is that of determination in that she fights hard for
her dreams and aspirations in order to be recognized by others. Something that we can all relate too.

However, this first personality puts her at odds with others as she often rushes into things without thinking it through or waiting for backup. After what happened to Amane however and the regrets from that Saya's personality changes being more trusting of others and being true to them and to Amane.

The scene where Saya finally told Amane her true feelings though was a great scene and was well done. Saya is easily one of my fav characters on the show.

Amane is one of the main characters of the series and acts as the team’s main controller providing them with intel and special abilities via their links.
Amane is positive and upbeat by nature and generally happy to have around
however, her true self which forms a vital part of the second half of the series is anything but. One aspect of her character that I liked was he attempt to improve herself in that she can be of better use to the team despite suffering pain in the attempt.

Yukari Tamura who is the seiyuu for Amane deserves no small amount of praise for her portrayal of Amane in which she did a great job.

Almaria who I call Alma is a main character and a vampire from the black world. A capable fighter that fights with weapons created with blood Alma is the mother like character that holds the team together. Unlike most vampires who suck blood Alma sees this as embarrassing and refuses to do so but after a desperate action forced her to she has since accepted it. Her interactions with Saya afar that were especially funny.

Elel is a main character and an angel from the red world. Energetic and friendly and a bit overactive Elel usually acts as comic relief for the series. Due to here friendly nature she can make friends with just about anyone. Elel is one of my fav characters on the show due to he being able to remain positive in even the direst situations and her realization that she has hurt the feelings of some of her friends and subsequent apology was heartfelt.

Stella is a main character and an android from the white world.
Stella has a thing for speed and humorously enough when she does speed
up she sounds like a motorcycle. Being an android Stella has a limited personality that I felt could be expanded upon.

Nya is a main character and a soldier from the militarized green world.
Lazy and slothful by nature Nya nonetheless is a capable soldier that always
speaks her mind. Nya to me is the foundation upon the team anchors on.

Hinata is the student council president of the academy and the strongest fighter in the academy. Beautiful, Elegant and skilled Hinata is everything Saya aspires to be.

Hinata is kind, considerate to others and always willing to listen to others.
As the strongest fighter in the academy and with a keen mind her duals with the main cast in the end was particularly entertaining. Her seiyuu Yuka Aisaka deserves no small amount of praise for portraying her character so well.

Ramiel is an angel from the red world like Elel is and was her first true friend. Unfortunately, a misunderstanding caused her to feel that Elel has lied to her causing a story event. Ramiel served as the boss for Elels arc and despite a long road Elel was able to talk to her and tell her true feelings and from there rekindle their friendship. Ramiel was played by one of my fav seiyuu’s Aoi Yuki who gave a particularly strong performance here as Ramiel to which im glad.

Aurora voiced by my fourth fav seiyuu Saori Hayami is a support character that serves as a field commander for the exceed. Although not given much of a role Saori still managed to portray her character reasonably well as expected of her.

A support character and a member of the EXR class like Aurora and Ramiel.
While certainly a powerful character she isn't given much of a role. Yet her byplay with Clara was pretty funny.

The arts style I found to be pretty good and the environments were nicely drawn. The animation especially the combat scenes was pretty well done. For the character designs I felt that the characters were well designed.

The series had particularly good music as I loved the opening and ending themes that were used for the show. Konomi Suzuki is an amazing singer and her song love is my rail which served as the opening was amazing.

A great anime that had a great story, setting, cast of characters and voice acting. The series though had an unusual amount of bath scenes which i found unusual.

Ange Vierge: Final Review

Ange Vierge is an anime very loosely associated with a Japanese TCG. At the time of this review, there's also some manga material available for those interested.

The idea behind AV is somewhat simple. There are 5 worlds, each that produces a fairly typecast sort of person. For example, the Black World has lots of dark atmosphere, wizards, vampires, etc. There is a fairy world, a human world, a cyborg world, and so on. At some point, these mirror earths starts being in danger of colliding, and its up to magical girls to save them

Story: 7

Around the time the 5 earths started ... being in danger, girls with special abilities were discovered and treated like rock-stars. "Progress", is what they are called. They are basically girls with powers that could kick super ass and fly. "A drivers", another type of special girl, are girls who lead the teams of Progress from a command center, and link with girls from their squads to increase their powers.

These girls are assigned missions to fight weird Ourobouros, who kinda look like big black wangs. Between battles, they laze about naked and complain to each other or have soapy fights in the showers. There's also something over an over-plot concerning them sparring and fighting, as it releases energy back into the universe, which keeps the worlds from colliding somehow.

There's also an acceptable amount of Shonen-esque melodrama about getting stronger to be special.

So we have a few simple steps.

1. Take military girls, angel girls, robot girls, fairy girls, gothic girls, and angsty teen girls, throw them together and explain that they are all from different earths, and use them to form battle groups.

2. Give them a rank up system so there is a clear pecking order.

3. Make them naked a lot.

4. Once everyone settles in for a fan service Yuri fest with wiener monsters, you bring out the plot twists, when an event happens that turns the group on it's heads.



Art: 9

This has great art.

It's really nice to see all the different girl flavors blend together. The character designs are really good and the animation is solid. Usually, in a B list title like this, they draw you in with good art for a bit then slowly let the "sliding screens" take over. Not the case here. It's been solid every episode.

That said, in the first 2 episodes, Fan Service was everywhere, and they handled the censorship really poorly. It's the only reason I don't rate the art a 10, even though it has all the deep saturation, color palettes and softer lines I like in my anime.

Sounds: 8

Good music and VA. I have no complaints here. End song is great.

Characters: 7

So far, the characters are what they are on the surface. Robot girls are cool and calculating. Fairy girls are cute. Military-planet girls are hard-ass battle freaks. Black Magic girls are showy and sultry. Earth girls have determination and grit and plucky resolve.

There's a good relationship or two here and there, and the younger girls are attached to their Senpais in a neat way, each of them reflecting the unique relationships that likely occur on their home worlds.

Enjoyment: 7

The first episode was annoying because they were naked with boob-mist the entire damn episode. The second was much better and by the 4th you realize they are wasting no time setting up the end game already.

The show suffers from a bit of lazy writing. As of episode 6, the new plot direction is a bit predictable. It's still good to watch, as the animation is exciting and the va's are good. I don't think it's a bad premise, and it's certainly not the worst offering of 2016.


Overall. 7.2

It's good, because the art and slightly different take on a battle-tribe works. It's rating has increased slowly over the last two episodes. The show has a definitive ending, which is always nice.

I personally liked Ange Vierge. It had really well done character development, minus one or two of the main group of characters. The art was a nice mix of cute, gothis and then the typically anime sexualization of womans' bodies and outfits. There were some finer points of the plot that it would have been nice to have explained but overall it was a good story line with a sastisfying conclusion.
I wouldn't mind seeing a second season though this is probably one of those shows that you're better off leaving it at one.
The show is a cross between My Hero Academia and Yuki Yuna is ... a Hero. It's not too big on romance seeing as it's an all-female show, but of course there are little hints of it here and there.

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What does it mean to be special? What is true potential? Well let me tell you a story about a wonderful anime about female love friendship and heroines,about growing compassion and other importance in life .This is Ange Vierge and one of the finest gems I have come a crossed and in my meaning the most underrated anime ever!!

Saya Is flying fast like an angel through the clouds. The sun is high up on a beautiful day with glittering blue skies.The enemy ... threatens the tranquillity and are going to bring death and destruction to the world.Backup is on the way. But Saya is a proud hotheaded girl who don't listen to reason are keen to prove how special and strong she is! The heroines draw her lightsaber and fearlessly engage the strong foe! The enemy is superior by number and gain the upper hand,,,,Then all the sudden the foe is being ripped to pieces Elel have arrived and quickly comes to her dear friends aid.Stella Almaria and Nya joins in and now all the girls are gathered! My girls are fearless lionesses that have the strongest of bonds. And if one of them are attacked the rest will come to her aid, and fight as a strong pack of female warriors! And their grand adventure have begun! Combat and glory, But must importantly friendship and love!



Story 7/10


Five world exist: A black world of darkness magic and mystery.A red world of gods and wonders. A white world of science and technology. A green world of military and weapons. Finally a blue world Earth itself and its beauty . Their worlds have been connected and are now on collision curse! And need the strongest power in the universe to save them all .That power is my girls,,,It's not the most impressive story but it have to do!



Art 9/10


This anime looks really good.Love the warm colours the character design,The combat animation flows really nice multiple things moving in and background. And I especially like the design on the black world,The girls are cute and it all comes together extremely well



Sound 9/10


Love the music everything from calm slow sad to fast pulsing combat ,Happy music comical tones and everything in between. its hits perfect to the scene itself



Character 10/10


Here its this anime strongest point. And especially Almaria .Before I watch this anime I thought all vampire where animals beast predators evil beings soulless monsters that only care for themselves, but Almaria show me how wrong I was .She is not a predator she is a lovely delightful carrying girl who love her friends. And she is in love with a other female .She would never hurt anyone, she is not a beast nor a monster. Almaria is a kind lesbian vampire with a compassionate soul and the biggest of heart!!! She is the selling point for me and most prodigious reason why I love this anime so much. And we have other strong characters. Like Saya she grows and learns what is important in life! We have the lesbian android who learn to love herself.And so much more. Characters is everything for me I need my girls. And this anime have one of the most lovely sets of character I have ever seen



Enjoyment/Yuri 10/10


This anime is full with lesbians warm females and their strong love for each other .The combat is good I get really invested .But most important it take it time to build the characters so i can love them and cheer for them even cry with them.You can not slap a pretty girl in my face and expect that I will care for her just like that! You need to build the love with back stories and everything else. You need to cherish it not just slap it in once face, that doesn't work for me. Do that and i'm not enjoying myself .Words are cheap i need to believe it. And this anime have one of my favourite scenes of all time my first ever lesbian vampire bite. That have a huge impact on me and is one of my most cherish memory ever in anime!!!



Overall 10/10


This is my Yuri heaven .Its not only full of lesbian's its full of females that love each other to eternity and beyond .And they show it.And it have good fighting interesting side story extremely good character development .But mostly it have so much love that is so warm and drags me in to it. I watch all episode in a row I couldn't put it down. And the best part for me personal is how I went from having prejudiced hateful opinions about vampires. And then Almaria educated me show me a new side ,and she became my most loved waifus of all time.She helped me grow. For a Yuri lover this is huge and something I can't recommend enough!!

I dedicate this review to my beloved Almaria!!

Pick your Favourite Waifu: The Anime turned Valkyrie Girls Saving the World?...

Ange Vierge being based on a mobile card game, you'd think LA would be furious about it, it would have been an easy target...well no for LA. Sure it's a typical card game anime adaptation with an all girls cast, but the one thing Ange Vierge had was a bit of self-awareness and no LA doesn't mean it in the meta-sense...it more like the anime feels like it's REALLY is based on a mobile card game with the character rank from C, UC, R to EXR with the plot coming in as something the ... character interact and develop them one at a time along with the Progress "Amane Ayashiro" voiced by Yukari Tamura might as well be the player and best of all, the story doesn't take itself TOO seriously.

LA is taking several liberties as LA does see what's wrong with this anime but really see what's good about it.

Well lets start with what's bad about it.

Ange Vierge even from the first episode to the end of the anime has HUGE amount of fanservice especially the first episode with bare naked ladies in a spa-like tower HQ with censors out the wazoo because of it and yes it does keep going with it but being slightly less egregious and blatant with it later down the line where it becomes more to yuri fanservice and shows slightly less skin..emphasis on "slight". Now you'd expect Amane to be the main protagonist right?..what with the analogy of her being the player as well as controlling her Exceeds partners...well we quickly find out it's Saya Sougetsu voiced by Minako Kotobuki and already LA needs to point out that early on, Saya becomes vastly whiny and annoying and the entire "wanted to be stronger, blame someone else" motive to her and became grating, thankfully even she gets better from the early episodes as the anime starts focusing on the other cast member's backstory and personal problems. There was also a bit of filler scenes with military sisters Ageha Sanagi voiced by Sumire Uesaka and Mayuka Sanagi voiced by Nozomi Yamamoto be nothing but filler and created a bit of comedic dissonance when it wasn't needed (or it's timing was off..when it was, it...it was ok to say the least). Lastly, people might think that the "sudden dark turn of events quite early" came out of nowhere, but for a better defence, LA will say that it was more of a interesting turn in the plot which leads it into the character development arc episodes and really it could have easily of been a much worse turn, bottom line, the sudden turn that made half of the main cast turn evil and they all have personal beef to the good half of the characters that weren't brainwashed is a better plot than just a plain good superpowered girls fighting boring evil monsters MUCH better.

In terms of animation...well done by Silver Link, the character designs and background work of the 5 worlds with all varying degrees of background and aesthetics to them as well as the battles are pretty decent fair for an action/all girls anime, but the animation overall just felt halfway between "decent", even with the flashy battles (the final battle being the best) and new worlds we get to see and character designs, but gets rather mundane and typical in really everything else and really the fanservice DOESN'T help with the animation.

Really another problem is due to the huge cast member count to this anime, not EVERYONE is going to get developed, such as the desk-ladies of Aurora voiced by Saori Hayami, Clara voiced by Saya Satou, Dr. Michael voiced by Mai Aizawa and Ruby voiced by Yoshiko Ikuta and most of the de-brainwashed EXR members hardly get any screentime afterwards...really LA can say that with this huge cast count, LA can't blame them if they couldn't develop every single character.

Ange Vierge however has some good points though that make this anime for LA a bit of guilty pleasure...and not from the gratuitous fanservice...

Ange Vierge once it gets into the character development arcs, they do develop the core cast (including the brainshed members) as well due how they focus on them. Probably the best character arc goes to Almaria voiced by Yumi Hara and Sofina voiced by Mai Ishihara due to the episode length, backstory to their relationship as well some good old blood battles (their vampires so) and was the best wrapped up in terms of Almaria's character development (and quickly became LA's favoruite character on the good side), Code Omega77 Stella voiced by Rika Tachibana and Code Omega46 Xenia and Code Omega33 Carene voiced by Kana Hanzawa and Minori Chihara were ok but a bit cliche with the entire "robots knows human emotions" schtick, Elel voiced by Aki Toyosaki and Ramiel voiced by Aoi Yuuki at best was an anticlimax of an arc building up the "friendship theme" (well in defence they both ARE Angels...so non-fighting? and talking makes more sense of a climax?), Nya Lapucea voiced by Sarah Emi Bridcut and Eins Exaura voiced by Ayane Sakura's was the quickest to finish but gave a better reasoning and a bit more of a backstory as to why Eins have a personal vendetta against Nya while making the battle rather impactful (as well as FINALLY stopping the inept Sanagi sisters' comedic filler). Shizuka Ito's character Aoi Mikage is a special case as, well firstly it's Shizuka Ito doing an evil femme fatale role, what's not to love, secondly she was LA's favourite villain because of that, thirdly, she effectively with Miumi Hinata voiced by Yuuka Aisaka during the early episodes of the anime developing Saya, but Aoi's role was pretty much is a proxy "final boss" and although the true "final boss" really comes outta nowhere, it for LA just meant that Aoi's role diminished quickly as her villainy (and Shizuka Ito's hamminess and just LOVING IT by the way) was a shame, but nonetheless helping to Saya's other character development of "friendship" for her and the anime's finale. The best character development character really goes to Saya as even after her development episodes finishes, she really becomes the glue that makes her group of friends stronger and she helps resolve their problems, be it indirectly or not and Saya changes quite quickly from an annoying whiny character to a pillar of support of the main good cast and she too develops along with other characters, it even got to the point that even her "group" wants her, no seriously Almaria and eventually the majority of her "friends" becomes infatuated with Saya once their arcs concludes...(as well as other characters relationship which is blatant *cough* Carene & Xenia *cough*)...the yuri undertones in this anime gets strong pretty quick for that reason alone. The least developed character really goes to Amane ironically, sure she still appears in the anime "after the dark turn" in the form of flashbacks, but she along with Saya is more to develop the "certain character in their arc" more than anything. The character development is slightly all over the place even if it is focused on a certain character but LA thinks that the character development is one of the more strong points to Ange Vierge even as corny of a meaning behind the character arcs were.

The voice acting with THIS huge voice cast line up, LA is in voice acting heaven with this anime, LA will more or less focus on one or two voice actors with this anime however, as the rest of the voice actors, they did pretty decently. So which voice actor is LA gonna focus on, Minako Kotobuki as Saya and Shizuka Ito as Aoi. Minako Kotobuki had a rather rocky start in voicing Saya mainly due to her whininess during the start, but as Saya gradually developed and her whininess disappeared with her involvement with the other main characters, Minako Kotobuki got better and it made more sense as Saya had the most screentime overall. Shizuka Ito, what can LA say, LA just knew that Shizuka Ito just loved hamming it up in voicing a villainous character and seriously all due to her hamminess, Shizuka Ito was a clear favourite for LA's favourite voice actor, with Yumi Hara as Almaria coming in in second.

The ending was pretty grand and LA was greatly satisfied by it with nearly the entire cast helped with this "final battle" as well as FINALLY bringing Amane herself her own character development as well as Saya and sure the finale "fixed everything" from taking care of the threat, but LA didn't care...this ending had a great payoff, the build up of the character development of Amane's group cast members helped it immensely and they really went all out with the final battle.

Ange Vierge is a guilty pleasure anime as it does strike some of the boxes to make it manageable to watch and not as aggravating with all it's faults that LA listed above as this anime is focused for the better part of the anime as it goes along, it's character development is a welcome sign to get invested in some of the main good characters and although this is a mobile card game anime adaptation, Ange Vierge being on the nose about it helped LA get invested albeit with LA's prediction goggles on. LA gets its not the anime for everyone, hell the first episode is enough to get the non-ecchi anime fans to run for the hills, but for a bareboned anime about a literal mobile card game where characters are trying to evolve to their next rank by trying to de-brainwash their far superior ranked friends...LA still liked Ange Vierge flaws and fanservice and all.

First of all, I had high hopes for this anime. My first thoughts were like this. Some badass girls from different worlds fighting against a common enemy who wants (yeah you guessed it right!) destroy them. All of them got awesome powers, there is no male character to see, maybe some drama and a good yuri romance who knows? Well, nope, nope, nope!!!

It's sad, because they could easily make it a good story. You've got everything you've got, but in the end you kinda disappointed me.

Still, I will be fair it isn't ALL bad! The opening song is awesome, the fighting scenes are nice enough ... and different with each character. They all got to express their own little story and reasons in an episode or two.

But no real romance, just some hugging and naked girls in a bath (most of the time actually...) If you want you can divide this anime in 3 pieces: one the fighting, two the bath scenes and last a little bit of drama/past scenes. Sad isn't it?

Overall, it was fine. But sadly nothing more. If you want naked girls and a little bit of yuri on the side, this anime is the right thing for you! Over and out captain!

This anime I felt was over all good. The plot was confusing at times when going into character backstories and then to the present. However the episodes were consistent when focusing on one character. Unlike in longer anime how 5-10 eps can be about one character or sub plot. There are also some really funny moments which break up the serious plot and character growth which adds to the enjoyment.

As for the art it very colorful and yet was able to maintain a sense of realism. And the characters all have different reasons for why they are the way they are which is explained and ... in a way resolved so you don't get that unresolved feeling.

*Please note there was a LOT of fanservice (bath) just so you know.