First Squad: The Moment of Truth

This might come as a surprise, considering how nearly all reviews here seem to be so negative, but I actually enjoyed this anime.

First of I decided to watch it because the art appealled to me, I adored the art of this anime. I am generally drawn to this kind of art in anime so this is really a matter of taste. I do agree that considering the potential this had to be something great, it settled low on the bar and didnt live up to the potential. The characters lacked developement and the story was not as interesting as it could hve been.. However ... I did enjoye it nontheless because character developement and story is something A LOT of anime lack in, but this was visually and aurally pleasing

I watched the music video with Legalize ( wich this anime is inspired by) and thought it looked extremely cool. Like possibly the best anime ever.
Watched this and it completely sucked. Spoilers might be included:

The story is boring. The characters are boring. It completely lacks emotions. The main character is not even too ovely excited to meet her dead friends, c'mon. Very bad how they tried to put i "interviews with soldiers" or whatever. Nah, not something I would recommend at all. I remember it as dull and without it giving me any further impact except that I felt scammed because it was presented ... as inspired by the music video.


The music video is absolutely stunning but it is nothing alike this anime.

Really, this Anime is bad.
I expectd a nice short World War 2 Anime, with russians point of view, since there are already Anime sided by Germany or Japan.
But this was more a weird "middle aged magic with zombie" Anime, wich reminded me of some old Disney trickart films.
Don`t expect cool magic like in Youjo Senki, here everything seems a bid weird and random, like a bad fairy tale and a "hospital crucial experiment Frankenstein" mix.
Really, how can you create a world or a story like this ?

There were only 2 or 3 war scenes, and even they were bad, since they were only there, to ... bring the story on, but not to bring cool action into the Anime.
The story was bad, and the caracters just average.
I really didn`t liked any of them.
Normaly i would side with Germany in world war Anime, since i am from Germany, but here i hated them and also the russians (wich i normaly like, but here they where portraied as ugly as the germans)

But i think you still can watch the Anime for the weird experience.
Since it only takes around 55 minutes to watch, it shouldn't be a that big waste of your time...

This is the very first anime that I have ever watched, that was based of the events of world war two, and I have to admit, out of all the gory and dark anime that I have seen before beyond this point, that I have to say I am most definitely quite surprised that anime creators could have came up with something such as this. This was bother schocking and honestly, if you ask me I didn't think it was that great after all, but it's the basically the last frontier with mechanics. In time there will no longer be a need for them as ... they will all be obsolete. .

Before I started watching this movie I had high hopes for it because of the art and the character designs but also the fact that this takes place in Russia during the WW2. As a fan of history and especially modern that attracted me a lot. This movie could have turned out way better if it was a series (wich would let us know the characters better) and if it wasn't that supernatural (I only liked the fact that Nadia can see the future ). You might get to know some things about the main character Nadia but what about her friends? The story ... should focus more on the characters background and the historical events in my opinion. I was kind of disappointed after watching this movie because it had a lot of potential. What I dysliked was basically the supernatural part since I'm not really a fan of those things unless the story has a message to pass to the audience. Well atleast the colors and the animation are fine but a good anime doesn't always mean good art, what makes an anime good is the plot , the characters and anything else it has to offer wether it's positive messages , funny moments or action. If you don't agree with me that's completely respected and I would like to hear the opposite opinion too.

this is the first review i have written and i wish will be the only one
so the anime tried to do something it just couldn't i mean i am new to anime but i did accept crazy stuff and its not the crazy stuff . i hate but its the way the story is told the story is told in exposition dumps followed by a brief moments of something else followed by exposition dump . but to be fair the plot was would have been hard to explain in the given screen time. but what made it an even huge let down was the ... end fight it was just boring and cliché the entire films was built up to something which was nothing . but the sound was good and the art was okay.. what even sad is that it was edit from this anime what got me to watch anime in the first place