Elsword: El-ui Yeoin

I'll start this review by saying this: I really LOVE the game. I have played it for years and I'll never stop to love it. But I really can't say the same about the anime.

The story is really simple, perfect for a game where you have to kick lots of ass, but not so perfect for an anime serie. It's too predictable and it makes it boring.

Characters are simple, but the problem here is that, ok, this anime is for Elsword players, so the public already knows their background, but even though they talk a lot, and I mean A LOT, they have absolutely no ... depht, their conversations are all so poor and boring that they're even impossible to be listened (mostly because the voice acting is the worst thing every human on this planet would like to hear).
We see that Chung, Add and Ara are just introduced to the team, but they act like they have been knowing each other for an eternity, in the beginning Elesis tries to seem suspicious about Add, but it fades almost istantly.
And it is appropriate to mention that if you know that someone you love and care about is in danger, probably injured, I don't think you would just think "well, whatever, she has been through worse, she'll just be okay even if we don't try to search for her and help her, let's continue our adventure like she has never existed before!"

Now, the art. At the beginning, it was good. Nothing special, but good. The more we approach to the end, the more it gets worse and less detailed.

Sound is pretty appropriate for the battles, but battles are boring and rare, they just have to hit demons one time and they explode for no reason, there's not even the need to use skills (in fact they almost don't use them).

I really love the game, so I think this anime is just an insult to it. Just a gigantic tornado of fanservice for shippers and for a great part of the huge fandom.

I understand that the point is for hardcore players of Elsword to enjoy the show, I am not a hardcore player but I played a lot of Grand Chase and then a bit of Elsword when it came out ... I was vaguely familiar with the characters and world, not enough that I'd say I'm knowledgeable but I could follow the basics pretty well.

That being said;
This is completely unwatchable.

The voice acting is terrible, the pacing is UNBELIEVABLY BAD and there is no characterization or depth. I could not watch past a single episode.

The only thing this could have offered was good fight choreography which ... it most certainly does not have. It's terrible all around, I have never seen such a flimsy attempt to adapt source material. It's bad.

There is not much to tell, I know the game, because I like it a lot but it is not that because I like it, I take it as a very good story, if I can say it in a particular way, it is that history is quite simple

But the anime ..... Well, I'll talk about it

History: Everything begins with the search for the stones of the EL, although what the anime shows is another arc between the mix that is to end the demons, I should read the story again but as I said, it is very simple, what it may be true is ... that at the beginning the story is boring but then it becomes "something" exciting, but the anime tells it in a rather boring way

3/10

Art: As far as the artistic section is concerned, the drawing is not bad, I like it, it's a pretty good anime drawing sincerely, although I've seen better

8/10

Sound: I really do not know what to say, the opening and the Ending are good, but I was never attracted to their soundtrack, if it were not for the opening and the ending I would give it an even lower one

6/10

Characters: Well, what we can see is that the characters interact constantly, but the topic of conversation is so poor, it's so ... Little information is more to entertain you with their uninteresting chats. They hardly even talk about it

It's boring, seeing Aisha's Tsundere face all the time comes to a point where you're left wondering "Did not they know what another face to give her?"

It is good the idea to ask yourself what would be based on the real enemies or the heroes of an anime, but it is base, it is not the same

3/10

Enjoy: Well .... The truth is super boring, see how the fights are just a few blows little potentiated, its lack of special effects, its short duration, the conversations of the characters with lack of dialogue
In the game as you go forward is not to change the dialogue, but at least interact with more characters and is a little more alive the feeling that there is about an anime .... Despite having bad comedy

You do not enjoy almost seeing it, it's more a commercial thing than done for people to enjoy the anime, if this is an anime, I spend it all the time recostando my head in my arm of boredom


1/10

Overall: It's a pretty ugly anime, if it catches your attention, better play the game, rather than showing you some pretty poor things in the game does not work

As anime it's almost a shame, but as I said your drawing is quite nice, look at it if you do not have anything to do and you want to see something because you're bored, because this serves to bore you even more

2/10