Elsword: El-ui Yeoin

Before u watch this anime I just want to tell u that this is just a "SHORT" animation to entertain the game fans that kept asking the game to be animated. Yep this anime is from a game. So some people might actually dont know the whole plot unless they played the game. So here's the review for eps 1. The negative things are first the coreography isnt good like what people usually watch in other anime, second the plot wasnt explained perfectly because they skip some part. But as I said to u, u guys should consider that this anime was created by ... a GAME company that never had any experience making an anime before. The good things from this anime I should say that the art and the character were drawn well and also the animation is not bad for a company that never make an anime before. Altho the coreo is bad but is still enjoyable and I kinda enjoyed it a lot. And as to remind u, they never want to make an anime for this game but they DID IT because some fans kept begging for it so rather than complaining, why u dont try to enjoy it a little bit.

This anime adapt the latest game update (Ain's update), at the same time the story take place from Hamel Arc.
So if you guys (the non-player) wondering about the previous story, just read it (webcomics) at Elwiki/watch it (every cutscenes from the game) at youtube or from the very game. The cutscene itself tells you guys from the beginning of the story until the latest story that have been made.

So don't watch the anime if you don't understand the story :v
But whatever... it's your own choice.

EDIT: For you guys who want to see the anime but can't find it in any website, just watch it ... on 2nafish channel on youtube.

SPOILER (?)
Okay then, the story itself seems to be from the video that tells about Ain, but from different perspective and some editing. Well, seeing the first episode made me realize that the start of this anime is from the Hamel Dungeon Quest. It's cool tho. I like how they immediately engaging a fight and................ wait, is this a spoiler? :v

For anyone who watches and wondering why I give a good score is because I already play and read all the story of the game. And if you want to understand more about the anime then I suggest you to play the game first and read the story of the game rather than watching this anime because the start of this anime is actually the mid story of the game.

I'm sure some of you who haven't play the game might be wondering on the first episode if it really start out like that or not (and the answer is no, there's more MORE story before ... that). They also skipped how they saved the wind priest lol.

Overall, yes, I think they should do better with the story. But aside from that, the music, character, VAs, and the animations are brilliant, or as I can say, better than most anime nowadays. Let's just hope there will be another season for this anime and will do the anime with full story in the future.

If you never play the game, DO NOT watch this for the story starts in the middle part of the game story. I do write a small synopsis before the events on the very last paragraph.

The first thing I want to comment is the art. I surprisingly very pleased with the design and animation. I thought it would look not as good as the pictures, but each character is very amazingly created to life. Of course, not all characters made it into the anime but still, it is understandable.

I was also shocked how the voices are pretty good, considering it's a Korean anime. If you ... never watch Korean drama/movie/songs/cartoons, you may feel a bit odd hearing it. But since Elsword itself is made by Korea, of course the anime most likely to have Korean voice.

I am pretty disappointed of how everyone except Lu & Ciel are shown in their special class. Each character's chosen class for this anime if very fitting along with their background. I do wish they also give Lu and Ciel's appearance in their special class, which I most likely think its going to be Noblesse. Maybe its just me, but even seeing them fight makes my heart says that LuCiel are "weak" for they are not in their chosen paths while others have. If you play the game you might understand me.

Now, for the small synopsis. BEWARE SOME SPOILERS THOUGH.

The anime itself starts in the middle of Hamel arc and continues until Lanox arc. Not surprised since that's where most characters finally gathered, excluding Rose and Ain.

Elsword is a boy who trains sword. At first, its only him, Aisha and Rena who travels Elrios for the El. They are called El Search Party. In the early Altera arc, they met Raven who joined them and Eve in the end of Altera arc. They soon meet Elesis and they goes on until Hamel which where the story begins. Just play the game in my suggestion~

Well I never played elsword, I'll give my opinion about this about the animation
Beginning with the Korean animation, well it is with excellent quality the expressions and gestures of the characters are very natural
The story is based on a group of "Heroes" who help themselves and face monsters, I really enjoyed the interaction between them
I do not know much about the game but I think it's based on "Lore"

If you like fantasy animes, basically "games" can be up to a great choice depends on the point of view of each, the story has a fairly "basic" development and aspect of games, catch mission, reach the ... place, kill monsters .

It does a pretty good job being a faithful adaptation of the story Hamel-Lanox. There isn't much they did differently compared to the game's story dialog.

The voice acting is fine too, if you're used to hearing the game voices, then you'll probably be fine with the voices here too. The only complaint is the over-acting of some bits, but it's not the worse.

The art isn't bad at first but, overtime the characters have weird distortion to their faces. It can be pretty distracting at times but it's also funny to watch.

The biggest complaint with the show are the characters, in the game ... they all usually have equal amount of attention in the story, but here characters like Rena and Raven are hardly focused on. The presentation of the character's base personality comes off as typical clichés. The forced shipping is also in full force. The overall fanservice they have feels like too much, it should have been cut in half. I would of liked if they spent more time on the characters (other than shipping), considering they're the biggest part of Elsword.

Overall I was surprised this got a full 12 episodes to it. If they were ever to do this again the story would probably be Atlas-Elysion, which in my opinion are much more interesting regions to focus on. I would only really recommend this to people who've at least played the game, other than that, it would just feels weird to people that haven't

A non-gamer's take on episode 1
I rarely write reviews, but I keep seeing reviews telling those that haven't played the game not to watch this and I think that's ridiculous. I've watched plenty of anime based on games without having any problem. If you need background, it's easy to find. Had the reviewers not said it starts in the middle, I never would have even thought about it because many animes seemingly start in the middle and unveil past history as they move on. So, if you want to watch it, then WATCH IT! With that being said episode 1 was good ... and the story seemed solid. The art work was ok as were the characters. The only thing that stopped me from fully enjoying this was the voice acting. The Korean voice actors have a lot to learn about emoting. Many times it felt like they were just reading aloud, especially one character that seems to be the lead. Sorry, I didn't bother to learn names. I won't be watching this because I can't get pass bad acting. The subs were oddly low on the screen in the player making them difficult to read at times.