Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars

In terms of the story I think its a pretty poorly written mess of "hey, I'm sure this will make sense in a few episodes..." Nothing ever really comes together in a way that makes sense

The antagonists motivations are never explained. Only a couple characters get any sort of actual development and all the others are basically just there for cute loli scenes.

The animation is okay at best and early two-thousands at worst.

The OP is pretty good but a majority of the soundtrack sounds pretty generic and OH MY GAWD, the sound effects are so terrible! They use the same "wind against the microphone" sound effect for so many things in the action scenes!

Overall I enjoyed the short bursts of action scenes here and there but I certainly wouldn't recommend it or ever watch it again for that matter. Basically just kind of boring.

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LA had ALOT of questions after finishing off Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars, like "What are the Regalia's really?, are they humans manufactured to transform into mechs? (or vice-versa)", "Why is Rena and Yuinshiel so special?", "Why is Yuinshiel the only person defending her own country?" and "What WAS Sara and Tia's deal in all this?", some are explained...most not so much.

Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars right off the bat, LA might as well get to what was wrong with Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars in the first place. If LA would frame Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars' development across the board, from character development, relational and world building, it's either "not much explained or put into immediate context because of it" or "fragile". Character development wise besides the main characters of Rena voiced by Ayane Sakura and Yuinshiel Asteria voiced by Kaede Hondo and their relationship together, along with maybe Ingrid and Kei Tiesto voiced by Asami Seto and Nao Touyama respectively, the character development is extremely flimsy and your just expected that something is making them develop. Rena and Yui's (Yuinshiel's nickname which LA will stick to for the rest of this review) development has strands from both world building of the Regalia as well as their own incest-not incestuous yuri relationship, but even then it wasn't enough for LA to get invested into both of these characters and mind you their the central focus main PROTAGONISTS of this anime. Ingrid and Kei does have their own arc and development to them in some respects but that's rushed and they too become similar to Rena and Yui's relationship.

World building in Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars at best will throw a bone in maybe 3 episodes tops but the world building executed can't even explain the SIMPLEST of matters...like ohh LA doesn't know the MECHA'S THEMSELVES, it's a mecha anime and they don't explain ANY OF IT (Ok, maybe LA is over-exaggerating but telling us the backstory of a HUGE Regalia war is fine, not telling us how these mecha's function with the human "avatars" is just basically ignored or are there different vers. of the Regalia, because some of the "mech of the week" shows up and they don't have ANY human avatars...these are NEVER EXPLAINED). There is also political tension between the two countries of Rimguard and Enastria Empire but besides the few first episodes, this plotline gets quickly dismissed as it leads into Ingrid and Kei's arc. Really LA's irritation from Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars comes from how vague it all is without a semblance of focus and for what LA has explained quite clearly is a major problem in the anime. The next problem comes in form of the blatant obvious villain of Johann voiced by Megumi Ogata, he is OBVIOUS from the outset of his intentions during Ingrid and Kei's arc and he just gets hammier from there, his "major evil plan" later on is just soo god damn cliche a la "world domination" it's laughable LA couldn't take him seriously, mind you HE'S the one moving the plot forward the majority of the anime. Johann is also the one character that kinda knows the lore LA wanted to know about the Regalia, but him being such a vague smug bastard he is about it that it just felt like it was a way to piss LA off even further with his blatant villainous intent, ohh and his resolution is utmost unsatisfying by the end of it as his "true intentions comes into play" and his motivations to all becomes cheesy and cliche. Finally how about we get to the least developed, underwhelming characters in the entire series, Sara and Tia Kleis voiced by Yurika Kubo and Yui Ogura respectively, they are essentially cheerleaders towards Rena and Yui but aside from being "backup" they really have no impact or development to them until the final 3 episodes but that once again like Ingrid and Kei's arc...is rushed or once it's over merely forgotten about.

Seriously LA kinda sees the opposite problem with Sara and Tia towards Rena and Yui all things considered, as they have personality, but have no backstory or impact to the anime where Rena and Yui have almost bland to no personality outside the defining trait and have involvement in the plot. Really with the major hero duos of this anime, individually, they have really bland stereotypical archetypes we've seen before, but together they have some semblance of development but just not enough for LA to care about ANY of the main cast, heck LA's favourite character was Yui's friend Retsu Narumi voiced by Hisako Kanemoto, because at least she had constant personality in which she didn't need character development anyways because she's a minor character.

Holy crap, LA talked lots about the character and narrative problems.......one last grip though, because of how much of a hodgepodge of elements Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars has, LA also needs to take a flaw to the battles, yes due to the amazingly shiny and detailed animation by Actas, the mech fights are probably one of it's biggest strengths, but because Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars tends to emphasis more on fighting than developing ANYTHING besides whatever it can pander to the audience (yuri undertoned context on characters, cute characters etc.) and it just feels like almost HALF of the anime is nothing but mindless mech battles. At the very least mecha fights in other mecha animes such as Code Geass and heck VALVRAVE THE LIBERATOR had the common decency to explain how the mecha's were manufactured or functions or found and the fights DEVELOP the characters on both sides to both develop the world or political problems at the same time if need be, Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars?...doesn't do EITHER of these well.

Ok, besides LA aforementioned brilliant animation, is there ANYTHING else that could be counted as a strength?. The character designs by QP;Flapper who did Gi(a)rlish Number's character designs were pleasing to the eye and because of that the characters themselves were all distinct because of that. The voice acting was decent overall though there are some squeakers (in the form of Yui Ogura's Tia and Yurika Kubo's Sara), though LA at one point thought that Yurika Kubo's Sara sounded much like Yukari Tamura at one point...so that was a plus?. The OP and ED were actually caught LA's fancy and were catchy to say the least. The mecha designs were slightly off to LA but yeah along with the great character designs, the mecha designs were "exotic" to say the least and at the very least the mecha designs didn't clash with one another as was easy to notice who was who, though LA would just commend the color palette for that one as they are all color-coded. For as much bitching about the characters LA said above, LA WILL have to say that at least Rena and Yui's relationship and even a bit on Yui's mother was welcoming exposition LA wanted, so some backstory or character development from the both of them was a good bonus to it all. Finally LA would say that anytime there actually WERE Regalia lore thrown out here and there was a bit satisfying. LA really is grasping at straws to find anything good about the anime but this however.

Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars' multiple plotlines, with it's elements of mecha, yuri undertones, slice of life, political struggles and stopping a psychopathic villain, Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars feels like a bloated yet lacking mess of ideas and elements that went in and for an original anime, there's no one to blame but the anime itself. LA could see the potential here ONLY if Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars could throw us a bone into getting us into this world of mecha's and it's political problems and it's character motivations, but Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars seems to care more about it's mindless but fluid mecha fights and pandering to it's yuri fan demographic than it does wanting to build the world and bring focus to it's characters that they created which could easily be resolved or at least "helped" by GOD DAMN EXPLAINING THINGS TO US . LA felt like knew what Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars' intentions were and it really could have been a good decent mecha anime but failed in execution to it's bloated multiple plotlines that go nowhere and lacking in areas of character and world building it could have done to make it better. LA can quite honestly say that "context matters" and quite clearly Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars didn't get the message, as if the audience can't fully understand the basic machinations of the world this anime is in and how it functions and how it works into the story or characters, what makes you think the audience will start to care about any of it?.

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Another series I started wacthing because the OP was supposed to be great. And it´s no joke, the OP "Divine Spell", the ED "Patria" and the OST (although there was just one good song) were absolutely incredible. They were hiden gems coming from an unknown series. But now I know why it remains unknown, and it´s for society´s good.

It´s no surprise MAL says "Broadcast was interrupted at Episode 4 because of the series´ quality", even though it was fully broadcasted then. Strangely, up to Episode 4, it seemed to actually be a great series. But what happened after that can only be described as one word: "Incoherent". History did never make sense, most battles were pointless and the final battle, apart from being a completely shameless Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann copy (they suddenly used DRILLS and copied the last Simon scene, come on), had absolutely no sense and the MCs suddenly got a massive buff, revived from death and became almost inmortal (basically Kirito with mechas)

Animation was actually fine. Among with the sound, those were the greatest part of the series. Visual effects were actually great, and if the story would have been good, they would have been even better.

Almost every character was cardboard. Ingrid and Kei? Cold and pointless. Sara and Tia? Charming but still pointless. Rena and... whatever that Rena with brown hair was? No sense and pointless. This was a clear and solid 1. But you know why this section actually has a 6? Because of the MC, Yui. She was literally the only reason I kept watching this. If you enter my profile or read my other reviews, you may know I like those sweet/deredere characters that make everyone´s day happy. And Yui? Well, she was on my profile´s top characters for like a week (had to change to Shouko from Koe no Katachi, sorry). Cute, sweet, happy, charming, beautiful, strong, determinated, caring and pure. She had everything I like or I would like to have in a person near me. I´m sorry for her because of the dull plot she was given.

I somehow enjoyed this, and that´s why this doesn´t go to a 4. But it was so close. Like a 4.25 or 4.50. I have seen worse series and less enjoyable series, but this one is still down there fighting for relegation in the last fixtures.

Story: 3.5/10
Art: 7.5/10
Sound: 8/10
Character: 6/10
Enjoyment: 5/10

Overall: 4.5/10 --> 5/10
Should you watch it? Not really, just if you are too into mechas and/or girl MCs. Still, listen to the OP and ED, they are worth it :)

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This show wanted to be everything, and failed at all fronts. This show wanted to be a mecha anime, wanted to be cute, wanted to be """"""""political"""""""", wanted to be SoL, wanted to introduce some mythical """"""""lore"""""""". Unfortunately, it failed at all of these (except for being cute, thanks QP-Flapper).

The premise seems to be good in paper. Unfortunately, the execution is terrible, the plot development is terrible, the script is terrible and the characters are underdeveloped. Aside from Yui, Rena, and Ingrid, I barely knew any of the other characters, and they barely made an impact on the show. The worst offender of which are Tia and Sara, which have no personality beyond some assembly of tropes whatsoever. At points during the final confrontation with the villain, the protagonists are spewing cringe-worthy shit, whatever the villain is saying stopped making sense and the I stopped caring about the whole thing.

Since the name of this show is "Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars", I'm going to give this show a 3 stars out of 10.

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