Reign of the Seven Spellblades (light novel)
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| Now, another series to look forward to every week. |
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| You’re telling me this prestigious magic school is throwing a parade in town with zero security? That could have used some more workshopping |
| The first volume definitely was a lot to get through when I first read it, and this introduction episode definitely showcased that since it did feel really slow to get through. The first volume isn't awful but boy did it have a ton of exposition and shit going on and the anime's premiere had to burden with the novel's issues here too. There is actually some decent elements to this series to come that should somewhat improve reception of this show at least with providing a hook to the story, since the first episode I can see why it could fail to leave much impressions on viewers besides maybe the ending portion. |
| good start, very nicely animated. Let's see how this progresses |
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OP_Rider said: Let me tell you a solid bro, don't ever judge an anime with it's author (maybe do judge it but) judge it more as individually only the anime itself. A lot of guys like you new generations make this mistake I see. Bro as a Human being you are not omnipotential. As you are not good at every subject test you take or in every sports, authors are the same. They are also human and not good with every genre they make..... So don't judge it only with that alone. And I don't know Bokuto Uno, never heard of him (sorry). And it's probably better if the main characters died, they should've died in the 1st ep, then it would've been interesting. Before commenting on #42 I read all the previous ones thought I might be wrong for not Liking this anime but after reading them turns out I was right. Majority of them didn't like it. Thats 90 out of 100, only 10 enjoyd (maybe less). Liking the anime is totally up to you, you can like the LN or the anime, not judging your preferences. But telling people their individual opinions don't matter that is not right. You can't survive like that. Better believe it. Everybody matters bro. And who is Koala12345? Tell me the truth, it's your background 2nd account, isn't it? Oh don't worry, I'm judging because I've read THIS novel too. Up to all of what is currently available in Japanese too (11 vols). I was talking in general terms about the author in order to not spoil anyone, NOT because I don't know where this story will be going. Death without purpose and weight can be useful to set up a tone, but killing one of the main character before she could get developed or without purpose is almost always bad writing. Killing another student instead of Katie in that incident could have been an okay choice (though the whole point here was to keep it "light", to contrast to some of the stuff coming later), but killing Katie would have been such a massive loss of potential. This authors does kill main character, but not like an incompetent author that kills just for the sake of killing and the edginess. This author knows better and properly use important character death. Also about being of the "new generation", my first anime was in the 80s. I'm quite probably your "senpai" both in life and anime rather than you being mine. So speaking of giving advices to the "younger generations", I'd just like to remind you that this is a novel adaptation. And that regular novel's regular writing, is to have a fairly decent sized prologue. Especially for multi volume series like this one. And during a prologue, you do not know yet what will be the story about, it's building the initial situation, setting, and the characters. It's the NORMAL WAY to tell a story, and the way manga, original anime and WN for example tells the story in way that often almost fully skips the prologue to jump into the main part of the story. That's because they are published chapter per chapter, so they need to hook readers/viewers before the end of the first chapter/episode. Whereas traditional novel writing doesn't need that. They're published by full volumes. Which translates in prologues potentially taking several episodes. Right now, no anime only (unless they've been spoiled) know what's this story about. You don't either. Magic academy is not what's the story is about, it's the setting. You don't really know any character, let alone their motivations or anything . In other words, while you may not like it even after knowing what's about indeed, I would warn you about deciding that BEFORE reaching the end of a story prologue. And this, in every single story, unless you don't like the setting or the main genre itself for example (but in which case, you should have probably known that before starting watching and just avoid that anime altogether, so I'll assume that it's not the care here ). You do you, but I'm certainly not impressed by peoples that are judging the story (in both way) by the end of this episode (or even worse, half way through it for some peoples rofl). Not sure why especially some peoples were so proud to announce to the world that they couldn't even have the attention span to make it through one 20 min episode just because it was written the regular way and had a decently long prologue, NGL. Now I'll give peoples this though : Considering the length that this prologue is going to be, this is a case where a double episode for the first episode would have been really, really useful to tell peoples more about what will be that story. They should have really done that ImO. Oh and PS : I don't know that person obviously. I don't even have a second account on MAL anyway, never had.x) |
ZefyrisJul 12, 2023 10:44 AM
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jessi_phantom said: Softhenic03 said: Knowing JC Staff I know they gonna fumble going forward.. I mean that's just how they work. Though kind of a generic art and plain setting to be honest, so I wouldn't really care if this do get the short end of the stick later. Watchable for now, but that's just it. Nah I disagree Marinate1016 said: FINALLY. The REAL anime Harry potter is here. Man I wish I could’ve streamed my reaction to this first episode because I’ve been waiting for and pushing this Light Novel for so long. Tears in my eyes man. J.C staff did an amazing job introducing you to this incredibly complex and intricate magical world as well as the characters. This series has one of the most detailed magic systems ever and I can’t wait for people to really experience all it’s got to offer. The art, animation and pacing were all very solid. When it comes to JC Staff you just never know but this time it seems they got it right. They been on a roll since Railgun T and it looks like this could be among their best.. I just pray the quality stays this good throughout. Pacing is going to be the big test for them here. The first volume in particular is quite thick and has a lot of world building. I hope they don’t pull an Index. Cautiously optimistic. Lol Tf are you saying lol for |
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Stryfm said: Nothing was explained and everything was open ended. Most of the flashbacks had zero tie-in at all. So basically it's setting things up and preparing the story without any explanation of the events (but explanations on settings elements), like any well written prologue would do. As for flashbacks, is it me or there was three very short ones, they were all less than 10 sec long, and one was clearly tied in to the exact same pose between Nanao and that person, another flashback was tied in to Nanao talking about why she came to this school, and the last one was tied to the idea of Pete and Oliver sharing a room? All of them very simple and straight forward tie in that anyone would understand instantly? Or did I miss some elusive longer and less connected flashbacks somewhere lol? |
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Huntee1999 said: Not bad… but not great. With proper world building it could be alright. Not really in love with the characters especially the main protag. It’s hard to know how this one will turn out but it’s got 2 more episodes to pull me in before I drop it. 3 episodes test does not work on long running series such as battle-shounens, sports anime, etc. There are rare cases like Gundam ZZ which takes 20 episodes to start. For Reign Of The Seven Spellblades, it currently has 12 volumes and they are at fourth year, which is estimated to end at around 24 volumes, making it a long series. I tend to recommend 12 episode test if the LN is expected to exceed 15 volumes. 2 episode test if LN exceeds 5 volumes or 4 episode test if LN exceeds 10 volumes. And to tons of people who are using one episode test: As mentioned by post #171, one episode test does not work for long series. I only recommend one episode test for short series that has 12 episodes or less than 4 volumes of LN. |
| The first episode was incredibly generic and mid. The only good part of this episode was fanservice at the end. |
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| A fine start with Jc Staff in helm, i guess. I doubt it at first but turns out the seven spellblades actually doing a basic prologue job to the whole stories ahead. If that was suppose to be the prologue. The introduction of the whole group member looks pretty on-point so far with our boy already doing a massive job saving the new girl which, somehow reminds me of some character that i can't tell basically whom. Not to mention there's also a cute waifu samurai there, which honestly manage to distract me like the mc.... Tho idk about the settings of the academy so far. Its looks basic at this start, especially with the headmistress that looking very similar, somehow. However i really don't want to judge too fast so let me just end my comment right there and let just go to the next already... |
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| Doesn't really feel like a "first episode" to me idk. I mean, the animation and everything seems good to me, feels like we could've gotten a better beginning. Welp, another magic school anime to watch ig. It feels like everyone knew everyone and were already friends from the beginning lmao. |
 Never ending plan to watch list... |
| A weird choice to make the world map a badly drawn copy of Earth with Africa missing. I'll give it a couple more episodes because I'm still looking for a magical school to actually be done right in media, and the show seems to be taking itself seriously. |
| Yea... so... the show starts out literally with one of the girl explaining how the troll is actually innocent. In fact, the troll was just walking normally and only hit things that gets in his way, he didn't go rampage everywhere at all... (even during the fight, the troll was literally just standing there waiting for the humans to attack him after being told to stop... lol) And they decide to attempt murder the troll, but apparently the troll's skull is sturdy and didn't get sliced in half. Then afterwards everyone thinks what they did was right, but then again... this whole series seems to be about humans being the actual evil of the world huh... . I can see why the other threads are talking about the rating of this series... . Also, the school intro started out with something out of Harry Potter where they summon seats and tables out of no where, LOL. Actually.... there's quite an amount of things that is most likely inspired by Harry Potter... . Also, apparently the Japan-based section of this Fantasy world is still in the "warring era with next to no magic and everyone is still using sword and spears" while the European-based section of the Fantasy world is also using swords and medieval era stuff, but they got magic and fantasy creatures... huh... |
amlgJul 18, 2023 11:49 AM
| Nothing Written Here But Us Anime Bunnies *boing boing boing* |
| Felt really rushed. I hope that it gets better down the line. |
| An ok first episode. The magical world looks pretty enough. The characters feel a little cliche with their introductions. At least Oliver looks like he has some hidden background of some kind. 20% fatality rate is crazy rate for a school. Although I doubt anyone from the main cast will die anytime soon. |
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| Surprised for such low ratings... This was a pretty good first episode. Art is superb and OST seems original and so so good. Yeah, just like Mash, there's strong "Harry Potter" vibes. There's even chance of students dying, like in HP lol. Characters don't seem too annoying. Anyways, definitely intrigued. |
| The visuals are very clean, well animated throughout. What irks me about this start is the introduction phase, not that it is one but how it was done. Extremely dry and formulaic. Most intriguing part of the episode for me has been clearly this conversation.  |
| I can't finish the first episode it's so boring. DROPPED 4/10 |
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| Interesting first episode |
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| Honestly, I was expecting a bland cast, but I actually like how the cast interacts. Peter's annoying though. Nanao is a little weird too though in a kinda like... "did you only do this because this is an anime" type of way. I just hope the anime doesn't become a kill 'em all or anything. |
| The aesthetic is as generic as it can get, PVs had some cool stuff. So, I wouldn't mind going through more of it. Nothing much to say about the characters or the academy. |
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