Angolmois: Genkou Kassenki

As if the story and characters were written by a bunch of kindergarten students before their afternoon nap, considering it's nothing but a mish-mash of a bunch of nonsensical but "cool" ideas.

Some island at the end of Japan is in the way of a Mongolian invasion, thus the Mongols want to take control of it; locals think otherwise. That is the gist of the story.
Sounds good enough, right?
So I expected a bit more serious war-story, with reason I'd like to think.
You know, plans, tactics, mind-games, stealth, trickery, sabotage, top 10 anime betrayals, grim reality of war and death...serious things.

Yeah, you get none of that, really.

The ... conflict is between two teams of most unique characters, one on the side of the Mongs, one on the side of the Japs.
I say "unique" but they're really the typical "special" kind of anime characters, sticking out like a sore thumb in every way possible.
Wearing ridiculous outfits, being the only blonde/white haired character, being 120cm short anorexic midget
or being 250 tall bull on a steady steroid diet, or being the beautiful, compassionate and determined flower of a princess whom everyone wants to shag at first glance...no, not even kidding, it's a thing here.

If they stick out, they're important.

Their abilities are similarly anime-esque. Night vision, inhuman swordsmanship, casually hopping a hundred meters, wearing plot armor and defying logic like some godline beings.

Now, let me just quickly remind you all it's a ~~historical~~ show with no "magic" involved. They're perfectly average human beings who break world records with ease. FYI the record of distance jumping is just shy of 9 meters, so doing ~200m in armor is about 22 times that.
If that's historical, then so is The Lord of The Rings.

Anyway, they'll all massacre countless faceless, no-name troops who are really only there to be killed and let these Uniques stick out even more, and their actions will be justified.

Speaking of actions, at some point I thought there will be a couple of characters, the "heroes" who'll play the role of the genius tactician and save the day in the face of overwhelming opposition, and well, I was kind of right.
Just kind of, because the show does try to portray them genius even though their actions are anything but.
In fact they are just as idiotic as the actions of their polar opposites, the first antagonists the "heroes" had to face: the arrogant, possibly retarded figureheads who think they know literally everything better because reasons, like being "royalty", or not being on death row. Except Patrick Star levels of retardedness.

However, lucky for them all, no matter how stupid they might be or how much they screw it up,
as long as they really believe in their actions,
as long as it comes from their hearts,
as long as they give it their best shot,
their actions will be justified, forgiven, described as bravery, they will be hailed (or remembered) as heroes.
Even if they kinda just pointlessly lose, say, half an army in like 10 minutes in an obviously suicidal and wholly unnecessary engagement.
*HE BE A HERO WOHOOO*

Visuals...
Someone decided to try and make the visuals look more "authentic" by adding a crumpled, brown paper-like static overlay.
Someone should be out of a job. It's a headache inducing eyesore, really, nothing else.
Otherwise the animation's okay-ish, art style is just meh, but it shouldn't make-or-break the series.

Sounds are OK-ish at best, too much shouting when not necessary in a fairly unbelievable tone but otherwise VAs did fine. Music was utterly forgettable.

In the end, I feel like I've wasted my time spending 4 episodes on it when one would've been plenty enough. Unlike Sponge Bob which is obviously meant to be a stupid joke, this show tries to be serious, without giving up on the stupid nonsense, so it fails spectacularly.

But make no mistake, I do not hate this show.
That's not because I'm willing to forgive its atrocious stupidity, it's inconsistency, its generic nature, or any other of its many flaws.
It's because it made no attempt to make me like, care, or be curious about any of the characters, or the story. At the end of the day, I walked away simply not caring about any of it.

I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone over 13 or so.

When there is something that has historical, one can be sure that it ain't that accurate if we're talking about being in an anime or manga, cu'z the historical accuracy doesn't make it at all, it has to have something that can be entertaining and as usual plot has to have a character that is seemingly terrifying that by just a glaze the whole army would froze. Also we talk about something that has a historical genre meant that it isn't the whole story though such thing did happen in October 5 1275, where it was set in some island of Tsushima where it ... was rule by a lord named Sou Sukekuni and his clan and somewhere along the way some unexpected visitors came by via prison ship where it was transporting a group of prisoners that includes a disgrace shogun name Kuchii, Jinzaburou who would lead a last ditch effort to defend the island from invading Mongols, which by the way won in the end, but in a small island where they used it in a practice run before going to the mainland of Japan...Being an anime this was just some fictional part of what really happened when Japan was invaded by them Mongols that only lasted a day where the villages hardly put up a fight and yes them Mongols did pillage and raped women so how do I rate this anime????Here's how:

Story-Good 7: It did have some historical facts in it but the accuracy isn't that whole thing since the invasion only lasted a day in reality at the island of Tsushima Island.

Art-Decent 4: Since this is an anime whose setting was in the middle ages in Japan don't be expecting a lotta fanservices around , though a certain character Kano spots the quintessential Zettai Ryoki as Teruhi-hime Bodyguard / Shinobi, dang I would have wanted to see her uncensored rape scene.

Sound- Very Good 8: since the VA don;t have to mask their voices as being teenboppers, they can speak an act according to their mature voices.

Character-Very Good 8: Cu'z the Mongols won in reality where the battle only lasted a day, and quite frankly I just have lots of love for them being the bad guys. Thought I wish them Mongols should have finished off Kuchii, Jinzaburou.

Enjoyment - Good 7: It may be a good Historical anime, but I kinda hate the fact that they have to do some exaggeration of the real battle of Tsushima, and I kinda hate that Jonzaburou is alive after being near the explosion where the shock waves could really kill and the presence of JAWS who wa supposed to eat him turn out to be the one who save him, now that is shit cu'z he was SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!!!!!!!

Overall-Poor 3: Cu'z it was just too exaggerated as to how the battle of Tsushima did occurred, and this wasn't much about the battle rather it was about a man Kuchii Jinzaburou. So, basically this don't need to have a season 2.

Enter Studio NAZ, an up and coming studio fresh off of making uh... Hajimete no Gal. This'll be fun won't it... I only made it through 3 episodes of this, so you can kinda take this as my reasons for dropping it. Not spoler free.

I was immediately drawin into this show by it's premise, and clearly the studio was too. They seemed to have read "The Rule of Cool" and that that it meant that good ideas were an excuse talent and effort. The characters absolutely fail to be interesting. They're dragged along by the plot with no real motivations or stand out personality outside ... of basic traits that anyone could have. These losers are easily the worst part of this story, especially the main character. I know nothing about him whatsoever and I have no interest in learning it. Not to mention the princess seems to be falling in love with him for yet another unjustified reason.

In fact, nothing is happening for any reason. We're supposed to root for these guys cause.. we're supposed to. We're supposed to care that people died cause..: we're supposed. None of the characters are interesting enough to hold an emotional scene.

Speaking of scenes, those fight scenes though. I'll get it out of the way, the occasional 3D in the fights is absolutely abysmal. The choreography is sloppy and the motion isn't bery fluid. AND THAT DANG FILTER. The unchanging paper filter is over everything, and is at its worst during bright and fast moving scenes.

The filter works at its best during dark and still shots where it occasionally looks pretty great. The guys doing the background work for this really need to find a better studio to work with.

There's not much to say about the story. A very interesting point of history with some crappy OC's. As a devout lover of history, I appreciate all the detail, but I almost feel like I could get the same experience on Wikipedia.

maybe i will like it if i am kid

the begging of the story is something like "next Esp will be better " but it will not

all strategic and tactic used for that anime can be written by only one kid .

if we will talk about art , i don't want to explain the meaning of "war" for the Producers , it didn't make any sense ,they are fighting like "we are going to play killing" not "we are going to kill each one of the another side" .

i don't want to mention any another anime which I can called it "historical " and ... "Military" but one of the most thing I like them is "reality" ,"Action" and "psychological" but none of them are mention here