One-word-review: Garbage.
Are you a fan of adventure anime?
Do you want to be entranced by a fantasy?
Are you looking for that cool and strong main character with interesting side characters?
Hate to break it to you, but you're in the wrong place. The more I watched, the more I thought that it was complete trash. That is, until about episode 8. Then it picks up and becomes a slightly below average series with a bunch plot conveniences EVERYWHERE for the last 5 episodes. I have seen numerous anime and usually give high ratings. I think that this is actually not worth wasting your
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time on. Adventure and Fantasy tend to be my favorite genres, but this...
To emphasize to you how bad this show is: Take a typical cool and strong main character of your choice, remove all of his coolness, strength, intelligence, skills, charisma, and ALL other good qualities. After you're done, take whatever bad characteristics you're left with and add in the personality of a whiny 3-year-old. In fact, might as well make him a Jinchuriki like Naruto while you're at it. Finally, after He-man descends to help and train the main character, you have this series' protagonist who still ends up being a failure.
Story: (2/10)
The show introduces the main character as this mysterious apparently strong guy. Despite training, he gets almost nowhere in terms of individual skill.
Here's a synopsis of what you're getting into:
Dad: "We gotta seal away this ultimate beast, OH NO IT'S TOO STRONG! I... must save my 6-year-old son.................... WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO BE ON THE BATTLEFIELD!"
Son: "Mom, Dad---- NOOOO!"
Dad:"Don't worry, I'll make you a 1-dimensional spoiled knockoff of Naruto before I go!"
Everybody dies and the 6-year-old is now driven by revenge to kill the ultimate beast and most likely has some sort of secretly powerful skill or ability or something, or at least that's what we are all hoping for. (Sound familiar? That's because it's the overused cliche.)
Unfortunately, the reality is that the main male character actually is one of the least attractive main characters that I've seen since school days' Makoto. He's similar to the main character from Tales of the Abyss before he recognized how terrible he really was and changed for the better. I originally dropped this series at episode 7 but decided to give it another chance since my original review painted this series as pretty terrible. Luckily, it did pick up slightly, but it's very boring and slow. The main female character has trouble speaking complete sentences and is very aloof, weird, and illogical. I was hoping she would be some sort of mysterious beauty with a deep background story, but it didn't end up that way.
Art: (4/10)
I only began watching this show because of how interesting the characters looked visually. But the art itself is not that great, it's on the below-average side of standard for newer anime. Battle scenes are kind of dry. Background art is pretty good, though. The animation is absolutely terrible. Welcome back to the early 2000s. Just bad. Overall, the art is on the not-so-good side of average, but since I like the character designs I bumped it up to a 4.
Sound: (5/10)
I must say, I think the music is most satisfying part of this anime. That says a lot about the anime since the music isn't really that good at all. There is nothing special about the sounds. Battle scenes are fine and the music is fitting for a fantasy-styled anime. Character voices are fine as well. But the music is pretty good. To be honest, I'd rather listen to the music on repeat than watch this poor excuse of a show.
Characters: (2/10)
1-dimensional zero-effort characters. No character is interesting or has any real backstory. The main character is a spoiled 3-year-old in a cool-looking older body. All of the characters are pretty bad. As the series progresses, it only gets more unbearable. However, you may start to get attached to them if you watch it until the end.
Development? What development? Let's just make the characters do random things and have a ton of plot conveniences.
The main human villains look very weird and are psychologically just strange. The main girl is pretty bad as well. The side characters are all pretty bad and I don't feel any interest in any of the characters in this show, so I didn't bother to remember any of their names.
Enjoyment: (2/10)
I most likely would've dropped this show around episode 4-6 if I weren't writing a review on it. It's really not worth the time. Towards the end, it wasn't COMPLETE trash, but it was unbearably slow. It could've been worse, but it's nowhere near good or decent.
Overall: (3/10)
The first 7 episodes of the series were very dry and boring. It started to pick up a bit after episode 7, but not anywhere near close enough to a point where I would watch it if I weren't reviewing it. First 6 episodes 2/10, the last 6 were probably around a 5/10.
Alternative Titles
Synonyms: Seisen Cerberus: Ryuukoku no Fatalite
Japanese: 聖戦ケルベロス 竜刻のファタリテ
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Type:
TV
Episodes:
13
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Apr 5, 2016 to Jun 28, 2016
Premiered:
Spring 2016
Broadcast:
Tuesdays at 01:35 (JST)
Producers:
TV Tokyo, Genco, Pony Canyon, Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, Children's Playground Entertainment, GREE
Licensors:
None found, add some
Studios:
Bridge
Source:
Game
Duration:
24 min. per ep.
Rating:
R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
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One-word-review: Garbage.
Are you a fan of adventure anime? Do you want to be entranced by a fantasy? Are you looking for that cool and strong main character with interesting side characters? Hate to break it to you, but you're in the wrong place. The more I watched, the more I thought that it was complete trash. That is, until about episode 8. Then it picks up and becomes a slightly below average series with a bunch plot conveniences EVERYWHERE for the last 5 episodes. I have seen numerous anime and usually give high ratings. I think that this is actually not worth wasting your ... Jun 27, 2016
Have you ever watched a show that was just so bad that it was actually enjoyable? Has there ever been a time that the entire runtime of the show, the series just simply did not give any fucks as to how or what it was actually doing? Well, let me tell you the tale of Cerberus, a Spring 2016 anime that looks like it was made in the early 2000's with a plotline so bad that it can't decide whether or not it wants to rush to the end, or drag shit out longer.
Story: The continent of Kuna'ahn is a place ruled by ... Jun 27, 2016
If you don't want spoilers, I would stop reading this now, as a very minor one lies in this review. However, I would argue that the spoiler helps greatly with the enjoyment you'd get out of this show.
TL;DR: If you like unintentionally funny and have a good knowledge of tropes, you can probably enjoy this a fair bit. The characters have some incredible stupidity going on, which can actually end up being charming. Eventually, it can grow on you as well. If you don't like that stuff? It won't have much to offer you. Cerberus is not a great show, it's not even a good ... Jun 27, 2016
Seisen Cerberus: Ryuukoku no Fatalites...yeah "Fatalites" is right as in it's fatally BORING.
Seisen Cerberus: Ryuukoku no Fatalites is by far one of most boring by the numbers anime LA has seen in a while. Seisen Cerberus: Ryuukoku no Fatalites follows a typical "revenge" anime under a fantasy world...sounds similar to another horrible anime with that setting *cough* Chaos Dragon *cough* With characters who are extremely stereotypical and a hot-blooded main protagonist with NO combat skills in swordsmanship yet gloats about his "combat skills", well the main protagonist Hiiro is an annoying, whining main protagonist and to go with him is Saraato a mysterious girl who has ... Dec 27, 2018
The best I can describe the show in one word is "Mediocre."
The story is rather bland and there is not much character development. Everything the show has going for it has been done before with greater success. The character development wouldn't be as bad if they focused on the quality of characters and not the quantity. They would introduce and important character for the story in one episode and we would never see them again. The main character is stuck up and overestimates himself, Though unlike other stuck up anime characters he tries but in the end he is still weak until hes in danger, ... Oct 2, 2016
And here I thought I could not find any anime worse than konosuba. Boy, was I wrong.
Let's start with the title. "Seisen" means holy war in japanese, and I assume that they call it cerberus because it's a war between 3 countries. But seriously, there's nothing holy about this war. The reason the armies were about to fight each other is because all of them heard a RUMOR that the other two countries are exploiting the power of an evil dragon. Naturally, this rumor was spread by our antagonist the weapon dealer so that he could squeeze out their money. Seriously? You should have bothered ... Nov 4, 2017
Tbh, after the start i just don't wanted to watch this anime anymore, because the main character is just so annoying. The only way the Anime could bring me on, were the story and the other characters. Especially "Saraato" <3 I love her character and i loved how she always motivated hiiro. I would have gave this Anime a 9/10, because of Saraato as character and the story, but Hiiro as main character was just too annoying.
It would have been more interesting, if Hiiro would be usefull in the normal fights and not when he gets angry and the dragon awakes in him. That's the ... Sep 2, 2019
Lemme tell you a story to put into perspective how trash this anime really is. I watched the entirety of the 2016 anime while they aired and this show stood out as one the worst produced, and close to the top in the shitty stories department, all this considering 2016 had some horrendous anime (endride and clones and also that blood anime about the people surviving in a lab with monsters idk). 0/10 but recommend watching just to laugh at how bad it is, for sure top 5 comedy of all time. The animation is TERRIBLE and i'm p sure I could have made a
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Jul 17, 2019
To tell you the truth i have no idea where to start on this but lets try.
Have you ever watched something so bad it was watchable but not more than once or ate food that smelled horrible but was palatable. Well this is like one of those choices. *The main character for him all i could think was what..no wait...nani kore? Ughhh okay whatever. *Liked the love interest kind of because her emotions actually changed in a good way. *Side characters mostly annoyed me (seriously he is so stingy and doesn't teach them just yells all the time) but with a ... Oct 20, 2020
Ok so basically this anime is about this person who has lost his parents in a fight with a dragon, so basically they failed to trap the dragon in eternal sleep or whatever so the boy seeks revenge. I don't really like this but at the same time I enjoyed watching it because of characters.
- Story - 3 - Poor - This was the wurst part of the anime why did they make it like this I do not know. The guy who has been training the main character hasn't achieved anything for 15 years and you know what he thought? He thought to continue ... Dec 15, 2020
Okay, so I literally just finished watching this anime a few minutes ago and I will just say that it is definitely very average. There's nothing really intriguing about it in my opinion. The creators barely even tried to make the storyline deep at all. I know it seems like I'm just bashing it for no reason, and its kind of hard to explain without spoiling the anime itself, but trust me when I say this anime isn't "horrible", but I can't see it being anyone's favorite either. This anime is what you would watch when you're bored out of your mind and have nothing
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